Tuesday, December 24, 2019

peev2c6 -post 2 of 2 today


PEEv2c6 ( post 2 of 2 today )
How Much Food Should You Store
Wow, you poor deluded fool. You are simply SO cute, sitting there all smug with your one years food supply, the shelves groaning under the weight of MRE's and canned meat. Which is fine, if you are old and going to die soon. If, however, your plan involves stocking enough food just in case you live longer than you think mathematically possible, one year ain't dingus or diddly squat. It is merely a trial run for a real stockpile. The problem with a one years supply is that it belongs to the early Cold War years where it likely originated.
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( Or, it could have been the Mormons fault, although I have no idea how far back their food storage doctrine goes. If it was back in, say, WWII, would church members have gotten away with hoarding food? Or, did the church just put a moratorium on the practice for those four years? Was it in response to modern social upheaval, nuclear war, or was it always a practice going back to the hostile attacks against members prior to them settling their current territory? Much is made of the Mormon Massacre of Union troops, but few mention the deaths by other “tolerant” religions in their prior settlements )
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Back in the 50's, there was a lot more reason to be all Optimistic Ollie, even with the scare of the rice eaters almost eating our lunch in Korea. We had just colonized nearly half the globe. We were importing oil instead of exporting it, but that was okay because the dollar really was the king, not like today where it is merely the de facto Least Worst ( for now-no guarantees as the petrodollar is rejected and supplanted ). It was actually feasible to think the Global Factory could rebuild after a nuclear exchange.
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Who needed more than a few months of food, in that case? If you had a year of food, you were REALLY paranoid. After all, the government did actually have surplus and could hire talent and intelligence as needed. A nation of factory hands could get 'er done. A nation under the rule of lawyers only knows how to steal and disguise and play victim. Not to say the embryo of today's problems weren't present then. After all, blue blood east coast asswhores were still in charge. They just didn't have to squeeze the turnip to get to the blood, as they do now. There was more than enough to go around.
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As the 60's saw the coup by the bankers, written in JFK's brains on the pavement ( the rich douches in Texas buying an admission ticket into the old British royals domain of rule, but quickly learning their state was to be sacrificed to the very bankers as Alaskan oil bankrupted them, and now today the Blue Wave ), the old generation of fallout shelter Yuppie Scum suddenly had economic competition from gold bugs and others who suddenly saw the possibility of longer term disruption and a discontinuation of the governments ability to fix things after a disaster.
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It is hard to remember today, but recessions used to actually be very serious affairs. The only reason they are ignored today is because EVERY day is a recession and when another one is “proved” mathematically, nothing changes from the everyday fecal sandwich we are already snaking on. Back in the Sixties, after almost twenty years of full employment and stable prices, the recession, or at least fears thereafter, was a HUGE motivator behind those turning into survivalists. Do you think American Blacks actually going full Mau-Mau during the Hippie Salad Days calmed them down after the economic scare?
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Does it need repeating that the fully televised war in Vietnam could have been seen as the actual colonial empire crashing, even long before the conflict was officially lost? Remember that 1959 date, where US iron ore peaked, and the newly built Korean and Japanese steel mills were already taking business away from our economy ( and the US gov helped not at all, by encouraging these investments in foreign factories, as an anti-communist measure )? Survivalism got a lot more real, economically. By the 80's, at the peak of global nuclear warheads, folks already knew a war meant everyone died. Look at the success of the dire TV movies on that subject, at that time.
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Nuclear war was only survivable by the rich kids, able to build a LONG TERM shelter ( as opposed to an expedient one prior-although plenty of folks still tried to sell the Po Boy shelter idea, you pretty much knew it wasn't feasible with the fallout from THAT many bombs ). But economic collapse? It was already here. It only took the 70's disasters to make everyone aware of it. The survivalists already knew before that. And yet. The myth, the fable, the legend of the Mighty One Year Stockpile Of Food persisted. Rarely if ever was there a deviation from this expectation. One year was simply the standard.
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Now, granted, back then the assumption of trapping and hunting and farming rural land was MUCH more realistic. There were far less people, everywhere. No immigrants taking the crappy little jobs you could still get at mom and pop businesses out in tiny little towns, before they died economically. You actually probably could find enough wild game, with less population. Outside the cities there was almost no crime ( ruined after crack was introduced, and I imagine it had some help ).
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( Remember the 90's and the Black Ghetto crack cocaine epidemic? You don't think that didn't have a little help, from outside forces, say, intelligence agencies? What makes you think it was natural for economically displaced Whites to suddenly, after decades of decline, turn to one of the most destructive drugs around? I think they got a “helping hand” also. War against the rural areas by the urban elite, because closing lumber mills and coal mines under ecological auspices wasn't enough )
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You probably COULD have successfully farmed unmolested back then. Something most Homesteaders don't have a clue about. Safe farming in the boonies ended with crack addicts and banks hemorrhaging money ( we are ALREADY in a bank liquidity crises. If you think this ends well, I have a bridge I'd simply love to sell you. Low money down, too! ). Its only saving grace is that is is LESS dangerous than the cities and suburbs ( despite the occasional rural home invasion where nobody can hear you scream, in my opinion. In the city, they CAN hear you scream. And do nothing anyway )
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Back then, I can forgive the sloppiness of ONLY having one years food stockpile. Not any more! I'll continue tomorrow.
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17 comments:

  1. Just about fully agree with all of Jim's doctorines here.

    At least with this information availability via internet and mobility of people, we holdout true disciples of 'Survivalism' (the unadultered non wussy watered down religion-lite version) have an advanced woke grasp of the never before dynamics occuring live and in technicolor, today and right now.

    The friggin one year fantasy time frame until recovery is bull spit. Simple war seiges in little corraled areas went on for years on end to this day and occur now. Fema and ngo volunteers on bus caravans are not coming to your redoubt hermitages at day #366 to nation rebuild your ass.

    "This time it's different" ain't some corporate motto.

    What part of frenemies eventually slaughtering family and others not be clear enough. What part of starvation with ribs and bones protruding from a rag wearing body not be indicative.

    This is not a scholastic based anti-drug scared straight program, it is a 'now' by ample evidence and clue bat strikes= reality.

    Plan really accordingly. Stay Frosty.

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  2. Woodpile Report:
    "The gathering storm, so long denied, is now so strong as to be uncontainable. The quarter from which it will break is in doubt, that it will break is not. We'll discover who the real preppers are after the first hard blasts roll across the land. In war this is known as "first contact with the enemy", the violent unraveling of faulty imagining that exposes the viable core, if any.

    When gentlemanly prepping doesn't cut it, and it won't for long, we'll find out if they can up their game to become survivalists. My estimate: each step will eliminate more than half, meaning fewer than one out of four self-proclaimed preppers will continue to master the maelstrom as competent survivalists. Then it comes down to how many survivalists will actually survive. I'm guessing most.

    Why most? The hard lessons will have been learned. Scarcity of resources is one thing, scarcity of will and skill another. The first is challenging, the second, fatal. Events don't select survivors, they select themselves.

    Those who believe prepping is tinfoil hat stuff have revealed they plan to fail. And fail they will. It's here the casualty list will be longest."

    http://www.woodpilereport.com/html/index-609.htm

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    1. You simply MUST love 'Ol Remus. He rarely opens his pie hole, but when he does it is something very important. PS-no, I don't feel bad for my verbal diarrhea. It suits me, and worse, suckers, it pays. Insert Dr. Evil diabolical laugh

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    2. There was also another Bison quote on down the Woodpile report. No surprise there though. I smile a little bit when I see the good ones quoted from out here. Whatever it is you think you might lack ( if anything? ha) you sho nuff make up for with consistency. I have really come to embrace and study the art of EVASION much more, thanks to you.

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  3. It looks like up to seven years of supplies were preached by Brigham Young, but apparently it did not become church doctrine until 1936. If you look at the story of Joseph, seven years should be what every person of faith (or common sense) should strive for.

    The civil defense doctrine of the fifties became a joke because their recommendations were based on the assumption that the mighty machine that won WW2 could rebuild itself in two weeks after an attack. Even Kearney only gave instructions to keep fourteen days of food and water. Most of his expedient shelter plans were barely three feet wide. Conventional wisdom said two weeks were long enough for the bulk of the radioactivity to dissipate. Two weeks, something repeated by FEMA all the way up to last year when they finally decided a month was better.

    DHS chuckled and sent a memo out to all it's members saying they better have six months worth. Those are people that will have the pick of whatever fedgov supplies are available long before it filters down to the average peon.

    I don't know what you have planned for tomorrow, but I hope it touches on The Alpha Strategy some. Money spent on long term supplies doesn't have to be accompanied with any more paranoia than knowing for sure inflation will occur.

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    1. Not even close to the Alpha Strategy tomorrow. Perhaps that is worth covering again, instead of arguing with folks over being paranoid enough.

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    2. Oh, and PS-much thanks on the history of church view on storage food-I was not aware.

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    3. Church doctrine , when I was a kid. A family should have no less than two years food storage. Then work toward the seven years worth.
      I'm told the current policy is only one year tho...

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    4. Thanks. Yeah, I imagine today's poor dears simply find over one year too frightening an economic ordeal. Long way from pulling carts and fighting Injuns

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    5. Naw , they're just so far up the Republicans asses. Totally sold on this growth forever doctrine. What could go wrong the church will provide to the worthy.

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    6. yes, for some reason the LDS church has de-emphasized food storage for at least the last decade. But about 10 years ago, it was reported that the LDS church had enough wheat to feed everyone in north america for 2 years, mormon or not.

      I'm mormon, and generally lean republican (because they generally don't support murdering babies), and am also not sold on the growth forever doctrine....although i have quite a few liberal mormon friends who believe in the growth forever doctrine.

      Very much liking your articles these days, Mr. Dakin.

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    7. 600 million in N America. One pound a day each. For two years. 438,000,000,000 pounds. 219 million tons. 736 million tons produced globally. That might be feasible. Might. That would be quite a few years of stockpiling. But what about the storage facilities? Welfare square silo holds 19 million pounds. So, 10,000 of those ( if my math is right ). Unless their figures are for far less than one pound a day, or they aren't including Mexico...???

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  4. I note you're all in on wheat. The grain costing more than flour I'm wondering why mot just buy the flour and save the cost of multiple grain mills? I vacuum pack my flour and have had no issue with spoilage for many years.

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    1. White Foods have no nutrients, they are empty calories. Nothing wrong with that, but they cannot be your sole storage food. You need fiber, enzymes from sprouts, and the nutrients only found in the wheat bran/hull. Go half and half, whole kernels and white flour. If you don't want to buy a mill, just get enough kernels for sprouting, but you better have a replacement for the whole grain. Like the Ornamentals eat a lot of veggies with white rice.

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