bad attitude strategy 3

BAD ATTITUDE STRATEGY 3

Americans anymore are pussies.  I’m sorry, but all we do is sit on our fat asses and complain.  The elite who completely took over the country and solidified their power by opening the Federal Reserve Bank used the first half of the century starving and bribing the population, very little carrot and a lot of stick.  But revolution was abrewing during the Depression and that introduced the welfare teet as pacification.  The Second World War was never about being the arsenal of the world or the line in the sand against evil fascists, it was simply the War On Terror of its day, a way to enslave the populace to profit the elite.  But it did win us half the globe colonially and at that time it became expedient to grant the serfs a bit more of a taste of the prize.  We were the factory of the world and Union wages didn’t hurt the bottom line too awful much, but that, just like the welfare payments of Social Security and Government Food, set a precedence.  They became entitlements, welfare and above starvation wages.

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Well, how quickly the Oil Age Surplus ended, which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given millions of miles of roads and tens of thousands of ships and planes littering the Pacific ocean floor, the car in every garage and the tripling of elementary schools in every village, burg and cross in the road ( all lined with power and phone lines ).  We’ve seen our overbuilt and prolific infrastructure our whole lives and never paid attention to it because it is just “noise”, but it eclipses the Egyptian pyramids exponentially by factors of ten squared ( or is that too much?  What am I, Bill Nye? ).  How could it be expected to last, let alone grow?  Yet everyone does expect just that.  But the butchers bill came due and the first casualty, a squealing pig manhandled atop the block and cattle prodded for good measure after bitch slapping it, was wages.  Kill the Unions, convince women working was liberating ( welcome to the concentration camp, bitches, ’cause work will set you free! ), and open the borders wide.  We were left with a social safety net and we retained the illusion of prosperity ( only at the cost of lifetime indentured servitude, quite the bargain ), the better to serve or lords and remain meek.

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And meek indeed we have stayed, even as the perks of being serfs are being withdrawn.  No more equity in your McHovel even as we speak molding away.  No more credit to buy toys, or even a McHovel.  You can get credit to buy a car, one which has very low quality and a very high price, but that is only because the government is backing the loan ( the only loans for houses are government backed, yet nobody is being allowed to buy houses anymore, so I can only conclude shelter is now Rental only so as to eliminate any tax breaks or other slim benefits of ownership.  No wonder Home Despot is so desperate for business and profits now, there is not enough home improvement left after increased property taxes and the owner-to-renter trend ).  Decreasing wages, decreasing hours, IF you can find or keep a job, and we all genuflect at the feet of the rich, please Sir, may we ‘av another?  No, bitches, you may not!  Grovel in the dirt as I go shopping for another granite countertop for my Aspen ski vacation lodge.

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Do you see many people all that pissed about these trends?  Or are they buying into the Fracking Fag myth, thinking the recovery is just around the corner?  When are they going to start getting mad enough to fight back?  Probably not until the food shelves run bare, because we have already been Divided And Conquered.  Because when only a lone voice of opposition speaks up, Federal Jackbooted thugs silence it by deadly dog pile.  The issue I have with all this isn’t the injustice per se, that is just fuel for rants which I actually rather enjoy, but rather our indoctrination by force into a passive attitude.  You let two brothers fight and scrape they turn into healthy men.  Force them to act like girls, fighting disallowed, sugar and spice only, they grow up into pussies.  The American public is like a pussyman.  We don’t know how to fight as luxury and fear have combined to neuter us.  It is all about the façade of fierceness, and that façade includes our defensive mindset.

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Defense used to be a justification ( we must defend the poor suffering non-democratic peoples or Iraq by killing them all ) for war and now it has become war ( we appear the bully and bluster to keep our empire, but we are afraid and desperate ) and the average citizen is armed and still afraid ( and not too smart.  A gun without much ammunition and no stocked cupboard ) because hope and pride has been beat out of him a long time ago ( what, you think a lifetime of diminishing hope and increasing hopelessness doesn’t scar the psyche much? ).  Defensiveness has become engrained.  Cultural elements still retain offensive outlooks, the marginalized and criminalized ones, but even they still retreat into enclaves of perceived defensiveness,  indoctrinated along with the rest of us in the Home Is A Castle myth.  They are offensive but their retreat between campaigns is as vulnerable as a Yuppie Scum Liberal Suburban Soccer Mom.  So while retaining animal cunning/Lizard Brain domination, they lack strategic understanding.

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You have to do better planning than everyone else.  That is the primary way to survive, not just having a closet full of MRE’s and semi-auto arsenals.  Not that those hurt, but you need to prep, then plan, not just plan for prepping.  And you start by beginning to think offensively with in depth defensiveness.  Be smarter than the average bear.

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HOW TO EAT WHEAT BOOK 4

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BUYING WHEAT

The last sections taught you how to cook wheat berries without using a grinder.  Spout bread, regular bread, flatbread, homemade yeast, cooking in the oven, solar oven, campfire, in cast iron.  You don’t need an individual recipe for a pancake.  You wait for the forming bubbles to pop and close and then flip it over to continue cooking.  Cooking with wheat is easy.  Crepes and popover muffins are just pancake batter with a bit of extra liquid and specialty bake wear.  A muffin is just pancake batter thickened with added ingredients and baked in its own special tin.  A biscuit is just a dry pancake in a compressed space.  Flatbread is just bread without yeast.  Every bread or wheat recipe is fundamentally the same.  The water or yeast added varies, as does the shape and cooking time, but once you have the basics you can experiment and increase your recipes.  Taste fatigue is a real issue ( even if it is usually more pronounced at the same meal, literally triggering your perception of fullness ), which is why you pick a grain you love to eat every day.  Altering the texture of the same grain tricks the mind into accepting eating the same food ( it is a species survival trait to seek and crave a variety of food ).

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So, while the first section seemed rather short, the fundamentals are rather simple and once you grasp them you can easily expand your recipes yourself.  Everything that follows is more on the logistics of storage foods rather than the recipes for wheat.  The simplest way to buy wheat is to go down to your Wal-Mart and see if they have an Emergency Food section.  A 26 pound bucket of hard red wheat from Augason Farms is $17.  If they don’t stock it, just order online and get it delivered to that store for you to pick-up.  You might have to place a minimum order like $50 or similar.  If you are an Amazon Prime member, they have free shipping AND a reduced price just for you of the exact same brand of wheat in a bucket.  And usually a buck cheaper than Wally.  However, that is not the CHEAPEST way to buy wheat.

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The cheapest is from the farmer himself, or from a wholesaler, but those options are limited geographically.  The next cheapest is if you have a Feed Store nearby.  Not some Yuppie gentrified dump that sells organic dog food for $50 a bag, but a place that sells hay for your horses.  A Feed And Grain Store.  They usually have whole kernel ( NOT split, or cracked ) wheat for people feeding it to their chickens.  You want, preferably, red winter wheat rather than white winter or white spring ( lower protein, makes worse bread ), but take what you can get.  It needs to be untreated.  NO vet medicine on it.  If it doesn’t state it is treated you should be okay, but when you open the bag and it is a red color ( rather than a natural brown ) then you know it has been treated.  I just paid $11 a fifty pound bag for a mere twenty two cents a pound.  Online is sixty-five cents, although that is already in a bucket.  Your own bucket doubles the cost but that still brings feed store wheat to a mere half the cost of Wally or Amazon wheat. 

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Personally, I wouldn’t care what wheat costs as long as I got it.  Even a buck a pound is still darn cheap food insurance.  Although, obviously, the cheaper it is the more you can buy and the longer your storage food lasts which means you live longer.  I wouldn’t dally, dink about or hesitate.  Crop failures and the coming Waterfall Collapse mean you could, with ZERO warning, see a repeat of the Great ‘08 Rice Shortage when the shelves were bare for months.  Buy in times of plenty and low price, and buy in a panic, to beat the real one.

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STORING

If you are really poor, you can beg, borrow and steal two liter pop bottles for wheat storage.  Two equal a gallon so nine to ten will equal a five gallon bucket.  Don’t stack them too high to avoid rupturing the ones on the bottom.  As you need four hundred pounds of wheat a year for a bare bones Better Than Nothing food storage plan, you need twelve buckets per year or 120 pop bottles.  You can buy buckets and lids from bakeries ( or better yet BBQ restaurants as everyone is in competition for the bakery ones ) usually at a buck or two each.  Or, you buy Home Depot buckets and lids for $15 a set ( a set of three holds an even 100 pounds of wheat ).  There is a question of toxicity from the buckets.  Although looking at the bottom of the bucket you see a “2” in a triangle symbol, denoting food grade, not all food grade buckets are created equal, and a Home Depot bucket is NOT the same as a bakery bucket.  Personally, I use them as I would rather die later of cancer than now of starvation.  But I also found that if you place the bucket in the sun, it starts sticking bad of chemicals.  It stands to reason that if kept OUT of the sun at all times you minimize if not eliminate the out-gassing hazard.

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You will need to put Diatomaceous Earth in your stored wheat berries ( berries, kernels, same thing, the whole seed of wheat ) to kill all insects.  I don’t recommend freezing, even with a block of dry ice.  A cup of DE in a five gallon bucket of wheat is standard.  Seal, roll around to coat everything.  You need food grade DE.  Do NOT use the stuff they use in pool filters or sell as insecticide.  If it isn’t labeled food grade, do not use.  Food grade, you can eat the stuff.  It is only a mineral and only kills insects, not humans or pets.  It is expensive shipped through the mail, so try to get it at the feed store or a health food store.  But even double the price online, it is cheap enough.  If you buy wheat and store it yourself, rather than buying in a container from a manufacture, you need to treat your wheat against insects for storage, and DE is the easiest surest way to go. Continued and concluded tomorrow.

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BAD ATTITUDE STRATEGY 2

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American military thinking since the end of the first world war has been modeled after the French Second Generational Warfare model.  Top down, absolute disciple, infantry holds what artillery wins.  Or visa versa.  And the reason we never could move on the Third generation was our absolute love of centralization and our rigid adherence to process over result orientation.  Vietnam and wars following ( and preceding ) couldn’t have been fought any other way.  Our little communist Brown Brothers fought in a far more centralized government yet their tactics weren’t defensive.  They wasted as many men, and had the same disregard for them, but at least they fought to win rather than to lose.  And as a survivalist, if you think defensively you will probably lose also.  You must think and act offensively, but be paranoid enough defensively, complimenting the two.  And please allow me to insert a delicate subject into the discussion, but if you are defensively offensive you will lose also.  In other words, if you are timid in your offense, you’ll lose.

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That is, in a nutshell, the problem with introducing pacifistic religion into military doctrine.  There is nothing wrong with religion to motivate the battalion whose side the grace of God rests.  As long as that religion is Old Testament fire and brimstone smiting.  New Testament timid, loving and caring?  Barf!  Now, I grant you, the whole charity giving love thy neighbor schtick the Christian Militia professes to might be a façade, a sham, a Potemkin Village to lull the unbelievers into complacency.  Those crazy Jesus Freaks might be stocking the ammo deep to take over the whole country west of the Rockies for all we know.  Instead of just for defense.  But as their doctrine dictates, on the face of it, if there are no ruses afoot, they are defensive in nature.  They do not wish to offend their god and so preach a hands-off attitude.  You leave me alone, I’ll leave you alone.  No tricks here, I won’t attack you offensively, pinkie promises, yo!  I don’t believe it, myself, but then I’m right next door and must be extra paranoid.  I’m pretty sure the rest of the flock believes with all their heart. 

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I submit to you for your consideration that you do NOT consider emulating this.  Rather, think back on the response to collapse the 99% had.  I’m armed and I’ll go get me some food.  Just don’t do it on an empty stomach.  I hope by now you’ve come over to the side of tribal thinking.  Every primitive tribe as well as modern nation state has the same attitude.  My tribe as The One True People, all others tribes are scumbag subhuman asswhores ripe for the slaying.  Come the collapse, your tribe is no longer American ( it isn’t now, pre-collapse, but we are forced by law to uphold the fiction ), or Texan or whoever.  It is the people you see surrounding you, usually no more than at platoon level of effectives with the same amount of dependents.  That is it.  You can form allegiances with other tribes, but you know that it is a conditional one and subject to change without notice.  So, in effect, the rest of humanity is your enemy.  And if you wait for your enemy to attack, you’re at a disadvantage militarily. 

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It is strange that so many prepper patriots wave the flag at such a frantic pace that they’ve herniated themselves buying  into the fiction of the US defensiveness.  Oh, heaven’s to Betsy, NOOOOOO!, the poor defenseless Kuwaitis have been attacked by an evil dictator, we must attack him at once!  Oh, for the love of all that is good and just, the North Vietnamese fired on one of our ships and we have proof from a report someone saw something on a radar screen, so we must avenge ourselves by sacrificing fifty thousand of our own men to teach those commie bastards to not hit or kill any of our navel vessels!  That will show them!  Oh, no, Mister Bill!  Saudi terrorists attacked New York city with Iraqi weapons of mass destruction from a command center in Afghanistan, or something like that, we must now attack!  Why do we pander to such pacifistic pussyness?  Why is defense seen as such a morally superior prerequisite?  I’m not saying that such Whiney Victim nonsense isn’t a typical government opiate for the masses.  I know it is standard operating procedure.  But when the public members buy it, then copy it, it is the beginning of flawed strategy for post-apocalyptic strategy. 

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You would think that the blatant obviousness of such Offensive Justification would be clear to any intelligent person, but clearly this is not the case.  I’d even wager most people want to be lied to.  Hell, I can already imagine the conversation up in Idaho.  “The Unbeliever, the Blasphemer, the Godless Heathen Lord Bison has been molesting sheep!  My brethren, my flock, must these unholy doings continue without an appropriate answer from His Chosen People?  Nay, I urge of you to right these wrongs.  Nay, a thousand times No, we must assume the holy mantel of Baby Jesus’ teachings and smite this oppressive Exemplifier Of Evil!  To the barricades!  On Donner, On Dixon!” and etcetera.  It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.  It’s what is expected of government.  That is just how they roll.  Work up everybody is some kind of sad sack Friday Night Football orgy of anger and team spirit and sally forth to die gallantly.  It just saddens me when the sheep so eagerly line up for the slaughter.  Far less of them would die if they weren’t serfs on the crusade for their elite.

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Don’t justify your actions by hiding behind defensiveness.  It isn’t becoming.  Just tell it like it is.  “Hump them, let’s go kill them and take their stuff”.  Think, so you can then act, offensively.  Looking through that paradigm lens will help think things through strategically and tactically.  As will thinking defensively, to your detriment.  Continued.

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HOW TO EAT WHEAT BOOK 3

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BREAD

Bread making is easy in theory but requires practice to make an edible product.  A simple bread is two and a half cups flour, three quarters cup water, and yeast.  Kneed that bad boy for five to ten minutes ( great exercise ), then let rise until doubled in size.  Throw it in for 45 minutes at 300.  Now, whether that makes a good loaf is contingent on the coarseness of the flour ( finer rises more ), the protein content and the effectiveness of the yeast.  You can wire mesh sieve the flour and keep the coarser flour for a flat bread.  Try to use winter red rather than spring or winter white for better protein.  And add sugar if possible.  Otherwise, make a malt for your sweetener.  Take wheat sprouts and dry them thoroughly, then grind.  One quarter teaspoon per loaf of bread of that powder is a great boost for your yeast.  Baking bread that is fluffier and tastier is an art, and shan’t be covered here.  This is basic wheat eating, not teaching of a craft or an art.  Damn, just read a few recipes and practice.  What’s the worst that happens?  Make dried bread for a trail food with the failed loaves.

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Yeast bread baked, sliced and then dried makes a great food for on the go.  It tastes much better than hardtack and won’t kill your teeth.  But, if you desire, hardtack takes up less room and lasts longer than fresh bread by having less moisture.  Make a stiff dough, roll as thin as possible on a cookie sheet and cut into squares.  Then poke the hell out of it with a fork.  All those holes allow a more uniform cooking and get more moisture out.  Cook in a hot oven until crisp. 

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To cook in cast iron breads otherwise cooked in an oven, get hot enough for that dancing drop of water in the oiled pan, and place bread in, adjusting heat down and when a fork poked in the middle comes out without dough you are done.  To cook dough over a campfire, take a stick and make your dough a long roll like a pretzel and wind it around the stick.  Roast over coals, not flame, as you would a hot dog.  Bread roll on a stick.

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YEAST

Sourdough is the yeast of choice for the survivalist as it is homegrown rather than commercial.  If you have a small amount of commercial yeast in your fridge, and then use that to start your sourdough culture from that, you make the whole process easier. 

( also, to substitute baking powder when your commercial supply is used up, try the old Indian method.  Take fresh dry sifted wood ashes and use in place of the baking powder.  Obviously, don’t use ashes from any burned manufactured items, such as treated wood or plastics or other trash )

Then you just add the yeast to an equal amount of flour and warm water ( say, two cups of each ) and let sit in a warm spot overnight and you then have sourdough starter.  That starter is added in half amounts to flour and water ( 1 cup starter, 2 cups each flour and water ) for bread and then replace the flour and water you took out of the starter to get it back up to the original volume the next morning. 

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If you can’t keep this starter refrigerated ( say, in a root cellar ) AFTER you’ve allowed the yeast to grow overnight, you can always dry the starter for storage.  Sometimes you can find wild yeast on wild fruits and berries such as the pioneers did.  They had a white film on them that was a wild yeast.  To get an airborne yeast, do the following.  Take two cups flour and two cups warm water with two teaspoons of honey.  Mix well and leave uncovered in a warm room.  Stir several times a day for five days after which you should have a wild yeast starter.  Treat as sourdough starter to replenish after use.  Store with a cover.  The initial exposure was to capture airborne spores.  Shake often, stored in the fridge. 

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WHEAT MEAT

Fake meat from wheat ( rather than soy, if you don’t have any ).  Take seven cups of flour and two cups of cold water.  Make into dough and then beat the hell out of it for ten minutes.  Like kneading for bread but as hard as you can.  Cover the dough in cold water and allow to sit for an hour.  Then, using hot water pour over the dough which rests in a sieve while kneading to extract the starch.  Capture this milky water and use in stew or soup stock or liquid for bread recipes.  Otherwise you are throwing away nutrients.  Continue until water runs clear.  Without a running tap it might be harder.  Just place in a bowl with as hot of water as you can stand and kneed, until you get clear water.  Keep the milky, toss the clear.  The dough you now have can be rolled and baked and is now a meat substitute, but without flavor just like soy.  From there you cook with it as you would TVP or dried soy chunks.  If it still tastes too much like wheat and not enough like meat, instead of  baking ( usually an hour or so on 300 ), simmer in salt water for another hour.  You then have a moist chunk of fake meat to add to recipes.  The moisture in the gluten improves the taste and the simmering alters the components chemistry.

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If you’ve ever eaten soy you know how it is a nice meat substitute but without taste.  I’ve eaten beef flavored soy jerky which would have merited its inclusion in my storage foods, or even as a off grid vegetarian diet ( no fridge, freezer or canning ) it tasted so good.  Alas, they loaded that sucker with salt, and you need to know if they process the soy properly so as to exclude those estrogen mimicking chemicals ( as well as release the proteins for the bodies assimilation ).  So, if you can get wheat gluten to closely approximate the soy’s performance, and can get beef/chicken/pork flavoring without the salt, you’ve got a great menu enhancer.  I personally had zero luck making the Wheat Meat.  I had three sources for the recipe, none of which were dissimilar.  So either I really screwed up or the original process copied from was flawed.  Supposedly this is an oriental diet staple so it has been done.  I would strongly suggest trying this today and not after the collapse.  Mine tasted so foul I threw away two pints of flour ( and I hate to waste anything ).  Continued

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BAD ATTITUDE STRATEGY

I have long maintained that guns are secondary and gun fags and Tactical Tommy’s and Super Ninja Carbine Commandos were all retards and while defense is important, food should be your all consuming focus.  I still think as much.  Now, ask yourself how odious of a task have I assigned you.  How hard is it to put aside a years supply of food?  A large bag of flour is $8, twenty five pounds.  Four of those bags fit in a $5 tote.  $140 will feed you for a year ( the bulk of your calories.  With the addition of a vegetable garden and some chickens you have an adequate diet.  You need vitamins and fiber and protein to go along with those empty calories ).  Last time I checked potatoes grow in stacked tires and a box full of chicks and a bag of feed are about $30.  Another $20 gets you about a years fat in the form of shortening which is BTN fat.  You were planning on spending more than that on AR magazines, I know you were.  Don’t lie to me!  Some people spend more than that per month on the family cell phone plan and all those do is give you brain cancer ( if you live in an area where you need a cell phone to report to the cops you are about to die at the hands of ghetto residents, you might want to think about moving.  If your eight year old has a cell phone and a ballistic backpack to get through the dangers of the school day, why aren’t you home schooling?  If you use the phones to call and ask which brand of Bok Choy the Little Misses wants you to buy, you are a pussy whipped Yuppie Scum with too much money to NOT have a food storage already ).

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So, having put the food issue behind us, as in, you are a flaming moron if you have anything less, let’s move on to defense.  Defense isn’t rocket science and it doesn’t take any tactical gear.  In fact, the hunting variety is preferable anyway.  But we’re not even talking about defense but offense.  How many conversations have there been about the poor strategic plan of “I’m well armed and I’ll get the food when I need it”?  It is self evidently moronic to be one of the many armed and hungry soldiers of the apocalypse.  Food is predicated on trade, not just force.  If your armed force isn’t sufficient to ensure trade, no food will replace what you steal.  It is a self defeating strategy.  And it is held by most people.  Don’t be fooled otherwise.  Most people ( outside of wealthy liberal households which have guzzled the Kool-Aid of their wealth generating masters ) have access to guns.  They don’t have much ammunition, nor training, but they have guns.  They certainly don’t have much food in the cupboard.  Given a day or three after that cupboard is bare, you’ll find 99% of the population is off to go shopping at the end of their barrel.

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So, there you are all stocked up on food and ammo, and you are defensively waiting to gently dissuade the unprepared from asking to share.  This is the default prepping plan.  Do you see anything wrong with it?  Let’s go back to the war that brought down an empire ( obviously, with a slight time delay.  Britain was still fighting to preserve its empire in the 1980’s at the Falklands but had in actuality lost it in the First World War.  It just didn’t know it at the time.  It didn’t even realize it had already lost WWI at the end of the nineteenth century as Germany and the US was surpassing them economically.  Just as the UK was fighting insurgents in Malaysia unconvinced their best days were long behind them, so we toil on atop the mountains of Afghanistan completely oblivious ) way over in Vietnam.  We tried to fool ourselves that we were offensively seeking out enemy units, but all that was were ineffectual spastic flailings about.  In effect, we were defensively huddled behind wire waiting to shoot noise or movement with machineguns or call in napalm runs to the surrounding area.

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Defense is rarely a good idea ( even defense with offensive raids used as tripwire probes, as the French also found out in Algiers ).  Defense isn’t even a good idea when you’re behind castle walls.  You can easily be besieged.  Butthole to Elbow deep in unwashed peasants, everybody just waits around to starve and contact the plague.  Defense is definitely a component of strategy, but it shouldn’t be the sole one.  And defense with a flawed offense is pretty much worse than just defense.  “Intelligence reports activity in sector A, send in a probing team”.  By the time anyone gets there, the enemy has already packed up ( if there was anyone to begin with.  “Intelligence” in a bureaucracy? ) and gone and can be anywhere from in the next country to waiting to ambush you to waiting to attack the camp after the patrol leaves.  I would think “offense” begins with an actual rather than a perceived target.  Patrols should keep the enemy out of your area, and sent far beyond that for offensive strikes.  But futile wandering with a civilian village as a target at the end of the day to justify your efforts?

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Now, the “strategy and tactics” in Vietnam, in quotations to denote their title without substance, can easily be explained if you can enter the mindset of our politicians and military leaders, which was unbridled contempt towards the lower ranks on par with Stalin’s view on Siberian conscripts he relentlessly fed into the maw on cannonades.  As I never tire of repeating, the Colonial rich viewed the poor peasants as bodies to absorb British lead, as Lincoln viewed the recent European poor immigrants, as FDR viewed the 10% of the population he drafted after meddling in the foreign affairs of Japan in China and Manchuria ( which constituted absolutely no threat to the US other than our profit line ), poor or not.  Draftees were scum to be used and abused and discarded.   That is why they were used as raw meat tripwires for the artillery.  They were a tool and used as such.  Deafened from continuous fire?  Shark bait?  Agent Oranged?  Sucking in depleted uranium or moving so slow under a hundred pounds of gear you are hit by fire?  Who cares?  Die for your country, already!  Yet even if the above was not the case, even if intentions were nobler, the effects would have been the same using defensive tactics.  So the same with the survivalist.  Continued.

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HOW TO EAT WHEAT BOOK 2

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COOKING WHOLE

I highly recommend a wheat grinder of course, but you don’t absolutely need one.  In fact, not needing one used to be the only way to avoid paying your local liege another tax as he forbade personal grain milling and charged you to use his.  Not that you paid as much tax back then in total, today’s sales tax alone in most states being a third of your total tax back then.  But not everyone is going to have a grinder because they were too busy buying AR clips instead.  So cooking without a grinder is a good skill set.  Sprouted wheat berries don’t need to be cooked.  Just sprouting them makes them edible.  The texture is close to cooked wheat.  To cook the berries, soak overnight.  Now boil until it swells and becomes soft, a process no different than cooking rice, really.  You can serve this way in place of rice dishes in a meal, the taste kinda close to brown rice ( if as “kinda” you mean how soy “kinda” tastes like meat ).  To make Thermos cooked wheat, soak overnight and then bring to a boil and throw in the Thermos for a few hours.  You’ll need to experiment with this, you might need to keep at a boil for a few minutes, or not.  If you have a pressure cooker you are on easy street.  A layer of wheat, followed by water above the wheat to the same height ( if one inch of wheat, fill water to one inch above wheat ), cook until the little pressure toggle deal chirps and remove from heat.  Allow to sit until it depressurizes and by then it is cooked.  Open and serve.

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You can make popped wheat, similar to popcorn but not like wheat puffs you see in the cereal section of the supermarket ( which are inexpensive and a fun/easy way to introduce the family to whole wheat.  I wouldn’t recommend them with milk, per se, but just munching on dry or drizzling with melted butter for a movie snack they are tasty.  I’d even consider carrying them rather than GORP or granola if you don’t like those tastes.  They are a bit bulky but taste better than a lot of whole wheat foods and can be eaten on the go ).  Just add your wheat berries to a VERY hot skillet and make like popcorn.  No oil is needed.  The roasted/parched berries can be eaten as is.  So, for cooking wheat without a grinder you have sprouts, sprout paste bread ( essence bread ), gruel, rice substitute or popped kernels.

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COOKING WITH FLOUR

All the details of buying wheat, storing it, adding beans for complete protein, grinders and the like are at the end of this book.  Those are subjects I’ve covered many times before and don’t take precedence here.  Let’s move on to bachelor food, wheat items that a typically clumsy male flailing about in the kitchen can easily accomplish.  My favorite is flat bread.  Think of it as a tortilla, but with whole wheat rather than white flour and without lard.  If you like white tortillas they are rather filling and if plastic wrapped well easily last a year in the fridge so they can be a good “bug-in” easy food for the initial die-off phase.  But flat bread is super deluxe yummy and filling and much healthier.  I ate them for lunch every workday for years at a heavy labor job, which is how good they are filling you up and giving you energy ( and being very easy on the food budget ).  You take your flour and add as little water as possible.  You don’t want them moist but as dry as possible while still forming a dough you can roll.

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Take the dough rolled in balls ( you’ll figure out how big after you make a few and see if they fit into your pan ) and dust with flour and roll flat with the board and the rolling pin dusted in flour.  Keep turning over and rolling until you get it as thin as you can.  Then, with your dry skillet so hot a drop of water dances on it, you throw in your flat dough.  Every thirty seconds or a minute you’ll be turning the bread.  The idea is to minimize the charcoal black spots.  Don’t worry, you’ll easily figure out a rhythm.  Have all your dough ready to go, if stacked dust with flour between each one to avoid sticking, cooking one after another.  You can squeeze the bread and tell if it is fully cooked or still doughy-and it doesn’t take all that long.  How many do you want for a meal?  A quarter cup of flour is 100 calories, and you’ll be adding butter ( and remember that whole wheat is filling ).  After about 400-600 calories in wheat alone, I’m usually past done masticating and full.  But of course, YMMV.

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As insanely tasty and addicting as flat bread is, you’ll usually spend an hour or two each week rolling and cooking and cleaning dried dough from every surface ( a failing in most wheat cooking ) and sometimes the extra taste treat isn’t worth the effort.  If this is the case you can make Nuke Bread much easier.  I invented this by happy accident when I didn’t want to buy my lunch one day and the break room had a bag of flour in it and nothing else.  I dumped some flour in a coffee cup, added water to a waffle batter consistency and spread the thing on a disposable plate and kept nuking until it looked done ( usually three minutes ), then flipped it over and cooked again.  It tasted like crap compared to flat bread but there was near zero prep time and no clean up.  I continued this practice for years at my last job, as I was living off grid and didn’t want to use my propane for cooking, and ate nuke bread every workday breakfast and lunch. 

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As I said, it doesn’t taste great.  I ate while driving in between picking up donations so my mind was elsewhere other than the taste.  The reason it tastes bad is because the moisture.  So here is a better method that takes a little longer and is a bit messier but radically improves on taste.  Take your flour, I usually do a half cup per bread, and add exactly one half that amount in water ( in my case, a quarter cup ).  In that bowl, use a fork to get all the flour wet.  It barely sticks together.  Place on a ceramic plate and spread out with the fork.  Nuke one minute on each side for soft bread, one and a half for harder.  Two minutes to a side usually burns part of it and makes it almost too hard to chew without worrying about dental work.  When you turn it you’ll need a spatula as it sticks.  And that is it.  It feels moist and gooey after a minute per side but as it cools ( keep off a flat surface to avoid condensation-I usually rest it on the electric stove coil ) the consistency improves.  As with flat bread, keep in the fridge until the morning you’ll take it to lunch.  Continued

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DERIVATIVES ARE GROSS 3

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Remember the fairly recent goings on in Cypress and Greece, where the banks “bailed-in”?  You might not have been paying too much attention, what with the Fake News about the European Union Failing Any Year/Decade Now or the equally silly War With Russia Any Year Now For X,Y Or Z Reason.  Remember, anything you hear or read from the Mainstream Media, or from Blogs getting their information from the Mainstream Media, must be ignored, reversed 180 degrees or assumed is a cover.  Our news is on par with Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Soviet level of state dictated propaganda.  If they say a drug is the latest miracle, avoid it as the probable toxic that it is.  If they say Russia is hacking our election, assume we are hacking theirs ( or, their satellite such as Ukraine ).  If Wall Street is doing well, assume the crash occurs tomorrow.  If you can’t take the exact opposite of what they say, then you know it is merely cover for something else.  Trust those bastards with your first born?  Hell no, not even with your red headed stepchild.

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A “bail-in” is where the bank takes a percentage of your saving account and uses that to bail itself out of a mess it got itself in without any help from you.  It is also known as a “haircut”.  And that percentage?  You don’t get it back.  Then there are Bank Holidays, withdrawal restrictions and ATM outages.  If you want your money, you are treated like a drug dealer, and that is in the best of times.  But of course, a bail-in is always just a “tax on the rich”.  Just like Social Security was only soaking the rich as you didn’t pay on the FIRST amount of wages.  Now you don’t pay on the LAST ( who besides the rich make over $90k, or whatever the amount is-I think it actually went up, the amount above what isn’t penalized and so the less you make the more regressive the tax is ).  Just like SS wasn’t going to be a national ID number and just like it wasn’t going to be spent but rather saved.  Just like the new telephone tax was only a tax on the rich ( the only ones with a phone at the time ) and only to pay for the Spanish American War ( I think we’ve paid off the war by now but 120 years later we still are taxed ). 

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When they play the “make the rich pay their fair share” card, the poor and working class had better hold on to their wallet.  The Bail In was only going to hurt the rich and the criminals.  And I’m sure it was even claimed to be “for the children” but I might have missed that one.  Anyway, history tells us that they are lying liars from the lying city of Liarville.  If you have a hundred bucks in the bank, say goodbye to it.  As soon as that derivatives market implodes, AGAIN, there is no bank account too small to freeze and confiscate, a de facto haircut of up to 100% as they first freeze it, then allow a smaller withdrawal amount, then issue you a Federal government bond for the amount they allow you to keep, which redeems in ten years.  And good luck redeeming that after hyperinflation.  I know it sounds paranoid, but how else do you keep the global financial system solvent, the one that pays for our oil that helps feed us?  The small suckers will pay, one way or another. 

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All this rather sucks since most of us need money in the bank.  I don’t get paid by Amazon without direct deposit, and if I don’t keep savings in my account I get docked a hundred bucks a year.  That might not sound like much to you, but when you are living on $150 to $200 a month, you don’t spend $10 on anything you don’t have to as that is 20% of your food budget.  In ten years, even without a bail-in, I’d lose the equivalent amount just in bank fees.  I consol myself with the fact that a grand won’t buy Dingus after hyperinflation.  Sitting under a mattress is nearly equally hazardous.  That is what I tell myself, but it still chaps my ass knowing the bankers will get my money.  The government takes 25%, every good or service you buy is at least 25% taxes, the banks take a 10% a year inflation tax, and then they want anything left of the remainder you actually can save?  But we are the freest nation!

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Hyperinflation and bank holidays are nothing new.  Been there since the beginning of money after the Agricultural Revolution got started, done that.  Nothing to see here, calamity, collapse or consternation wise, please move along.  My concern is that if the derivatives market is on such a foundation of quicksand as is thought, we will receive the amount of warning of impending doom as we did last time.  As in, zero.  We all already know any money in the bank is subject to confiscation.  But what we also all assumed is that there would be warning to withdraw it, like during Y2K.  If the global economy melts down and we get too little oil imported, we all die anyway and so money isn’t important.  But if the derivatives market collapses, and they somehow miraculously manage to limp along like last time, that money in the bank might mean all the difference to us afterwards.  I usually assume the worse case scenario, but assuming money instantly becomes worthless is a very dangerous assumption.  You might very well need it desperately.

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Cash stash is a partial answer.  In my case, however, my bank account is a large percentage of my total savings, as I imagine yours is.  This article issues forth few concrete suggestions.  They might not even exist in practical form ( if precious metals are saved, but then outlawed, the “haircut” from the black market guy to cash them is the equivalent of losing savings ).  Just beware the real derivatives issue and try to plan accordingly.

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