tribe one others none

TRIBE ONE OTHERS NONE

Yes, this needs repeating.  Like everything else we do here.  Your tribe is all that counts.  Nobody else.  If you don’t have a tribe, only family counts.  And only those that are worthy.  Family doesn’t automatically get a pass, because some are just begging to be shunned so that their malformed genes are cleansed from the pool.  That includes retards, cripples and mentally defectives.  Sorry.  Life is getting harsher.  Do you want to keep a defective alive, or allow a Normal that contributed in the tribes survival to retire?  Allowing ALL to live, regardless, will soon endanger others.

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I know that a lot of us males are gooey soft in the middle, marshmallow people.  I don’t necessarily exclude myself from that criticism.  I LIKE to think I’m not, but only time will tell.  Culturally, you neuter the males, most turn feminine.  A perfect example of that, BTW, is the new Netflix zombie TV series, Black Summer.  Strangely, I keep watching it, but it is simply chock-a-block full of Super Strong Fems as they always save the day.  Barf.  A better one is “Kingdom”, a Ornamental zombie series. 

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( I believe Korean, but all the gals are near boobless so I almost want to think Japanese. I’ve only watched one episode and was rather impressed.  “Shogun” meets Fast Zombies ).  There is a reason that PC shows fill the airways, and no, it certainly is NOT because the commies wish to lose money indoctrinating us.  They will however do so FOR a profit.  White Deplorable Males are 30% of the population.  We are not the ones funding those talking pictures.  Even if the majority of White Females are on our side, they act as if they are not.  They are following the Pecking Order.

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The majority of the population wants to think we are weak and easy prey.  Because THEY are NOT our tribe.  Starting with female Whites in the 70’s, we have been food.  That was such a great deal, the OtherColors jumped on board.  All humans are Self-Justifiers, and they literally HAD to believe we were evil SOB’s in order to steal our jobs and force us into living in tents.  70% of the population would rather walk over unsafe collapsing pedestrian walk-ways than admit they lied to themselves about us.  Culture always trumps intelligence, being the most widely used form of thinking.

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Look around you.  You aren’t even 30% of the population.  Most White Males working a corporate job or as a civil servant are under the control of an OtherGender or an OtherColor.  That means the military and the police, and your boss, they all will kill you or economically decimate you, on the orders of those who literally hate you and want you out of “their” country.  Since you won’t fight back ( no judgement, that is how human nature is.  And I won’t fight, so how can I expect anyone else to? ), you are food.

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That means that NO ONE is in your tribe.  Kissing the ass of your LibTard bosses, you are useless.  You might as well be one of them ( again, no judgement.  I’ve been there ).  And yes, that is depressing as hell.  But let’s look on the bright side.  It also means something else.  It means that since they are NOT of your tribe, they get no considerations.  Remember what I’ve told you of morality?  You are scrupulously moral towards your tribe members, but to no one else.  The Others are scum and you can kill them and steal from them. 

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If you want to roll out your Christian sensibilities on me, fine.  Don’t recognize how the state and the organized religions work together to control you.  They still WANT you to kill and steal for them, but you aren’t allowed to decide who is targeted.  They do.  If you wish to be blind to the danger of the rest of the population wanting to kill you, as you ONLY defend yourself, I can’t change your mind.  I’m only here talking to those confused and bewildered.  I’m making sense of identifying those wishing to kill you.  Which is everyone.

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Look, under normal circumstances, no one has to go through life pondering these things.  Who do I kill?  When can I steal?  No, we are safe just regurgitating our parents and our teachers guidelines.  Do unto others.  The police are your friends.  Two wrongs don’t make a right.  Normally I would agree with that.  But not now.  Not during a collapse.  Now, doing the right thing endangers you.  You might think staying philosophically and morally true to how the USA Tribe used to act strengthens you, but now it just makes you a victim.  Warriors need to do what needs to be done, and leave philosophy and moralizing to the weak.

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Now, It Is Only Illegal If You Are Caught.  Now, Those Not Of My Tribe Are My Enemies.  Now, you cannot wait for your enemies to attack, to justify violence with “defense only”.  I hate Shrub, Bush Junior.  He was a giant dingus ( under Bush, Patriot Act.  Under Obammy, Indefinite Detention Without Charges.  Under Trump, Red Flag Gun Laws ).  But he said two very useful things we would do well to remember.  He didn’t sugarcoat it when “this sucker is going down”.  And, he made defense offence. 

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He was okay with NOT waiting for an enemy to attack, but rather attacking if we thought they were a danger.  Sure, it loses you the case in the Court Of Public Opinion, but it wins you those depleting resources you need for your empire to live a little longer.  I know, defining us as an empire sucks.  But since we are no longer a homogenous tribe, that is all we have left.  And NOT being part of a tribe, you need to learn how to adjust your loyalties and fealty.  I’m NOT saying, act like a dingus.

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I’m saying, try not to act like a dingus, but if you must, you must.  It is either you or them, and since they hate you and want to kill you, why NOT them?  While they say, it is for the immigrant children, you need to say, screw those kids.  That is an easy conundrum, isn’t it?  Don’t most of us agree those kids are not our problem?  Yet, you need to take that logic and apply it within the continental US.  To ALL areas of your life and all people.  And that is where we continue tomorrow.

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NOT WHEAT

I understand that you are all uppity and hateful over my insistence that wheat is the best storage food ever grown.  I stand by that.  But, of course, no one listens to me until it is too late and so I’ll cover a Not Wheat basic food storage program here.  And before you go bellyaching and caterwauling about the subject, even you, yes YOU, Freddy Freeze Dried, can benefit from this.  Because almost all of you need more food.  It cannot hurt to get more food.  First, it never goes down in price.  Second, every second more mouths are born.

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The last I checked, they were not making more farmland ( and before I hear Dutch, Reclamation and White Intelligence, ask yourself how many Indonesian Indigs died to fund that ).  Every grasping greedy Turd World hungry mouth being crapped out in the dust is another person that will, 1) likely immigrate here to fill up a Democrat Sanctuary City and, 2) be willing to forcefully take food out of my mouth.  In case you missed the memo, comrade, population is the primary weapon being used against you.  You need ammunition, yes, but first you need more food.

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They might take away your precious plastic poodle shooters, but first they will take away your ability to eat.  Stocking food is THE best anti-government weapon you can own.  Even your deluxe short barrel all polymer upper AR weighing in at only four pounds unloaded will be far too much for you to lift up as you are starving.  Getting food is smart, and if you can get food as cheap as possible that is gravy.  And while you cannot beat wheat on price, I understand most of you don’t want it.  So, rice and beans.

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The next thing you do is reevaluate the amount of rice and beans you need.  Yes, you need a minimum of one pound of grain a day to keep your body from cannibalizing itself.  That is 1500 calories ( normal activity is 2,000 and a combat load is 3k ).  However, for those of you already stocking high dollar foods, this is JUST a supplement.  It is to stretch out those expensive foods much longer.  For those desperately Cash Savings Poor, this is a BTN, a Better Than Nothing.  It assumes you will be trapping squirrels and foraging wild plants.

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No, Virginia, that is NOT optimal.  But optimal is not in your budget, otherwise you would be living out in the boonies, with five years of food, self-employed and as far from a city as possible.  We rarely do Optimal here.  It is called “life”, you spoiled pampered ‘Murican.  You can’t always get what you want.  If you knocked down your minimum calories to one thousand a day, your long, long term food storage is a lot more attainable.  I do NOT recommend this.  But if your choice is less calories, or no calories, what is better?  At least it will deliver SOME energy to fight to survive.

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And yes, I understand there might be a lack of discipline allowing the storage food ration to be cut at that one thousand calories a day.  I can only lead the horse to water-I can’t make him drink.  I’m only trying to cover a fiscal issue here.  If you absolutely don’t have the money to spend, this is BTN.  I’m going to call rice 35 cents a pound ( white only as the others don’t store due to oil ) as you can get it so many places in large sacks. 

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The cheapest beans are probably at least 75 cents a pound.  Ever since California has had her agricultural issues, beans skyrocketed in price.  You are lucky to get it that cheap, and probably only for pinto’s.  Those SUCK trying to grind up when the beans get too old to soak, but hopefully your pressure cooker ( almost mandatory if you will be doing potatoes or beans-or, if you get lucky, cheap cuts of meat ) will handle the beans so you don’t have to grind the old ones.  Luckily, you don’t need as many beans as you do rice.

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You could try for a 5 to 1 ratio, rice to beans.  I would feel more comfortable with a minimum 3 to 1 ratio.  After all, that is protein and your nutrient replacement for the deficiencies in white rice.  So, one pound beans for every three pounds of rice.  $1.05 in rice and .75 cents beans, making an average of 45 cents a pound.  But you don’t need a full pound a day ( calorically, yes.  Less optimally, no.  We are supplementing this ).  Rice is 1700 calories a pound, uncooked.  Wheat is only 1500, but has twice the protein ( but I digress ). 

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Beans are 1600 calories a pound uncooked.  One fifth pound of beans is 300 calories and two fifths pound of rice is 680 calories.  I know, the ratio is off.  Close enough.  The beans cost 15 cents and the rice 14 cents.  Thirty cents a day at current prices, minus the storage containers.  Just the food costs you $109 for a years ( substandard ) calories.  Who cannot afford that?  Yes, storage containers COULD add to the cost, unless you improvised.  That is 73 pounds of beans and 146 pounds of rice.  How many buckets?

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You can get thirty three pounds of grain in a bucket with just a smidge left over ( I’m used to getting three buckets per two sacks of wheat ).  Forty pounds might be a bit too much.  Let’s just call it 33 pounds per, as I have no idea how much space the beans take.  I’ve heard forty, but without much conviction.  You’ll need six to seven buckets.  Call it $25-$30.  A total of $139.  You could add Mylar, or just hope for the best with potentially toxic plastic.  With Mylar, perhaps $150 total.

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Yikes.  It doesn’t seem so affordable now.  Best to improvise containers.  Or, spend $25 at a shot, one bucket at a time.  The sticker shock is almost non-existent.  One bucket, two months extreme emergency rations.  If you don’t have food grade diatomaceous earth, you could take small batches and leave them in the freezer for three days to kill all bug eggs.  If improvising, beg the neighbors for two-liter soda bottles ( or pay the kids a nickel each ).  If they ask, “water storage for the hurricane season”.  Ten bottles equal a bucket for storage.  Store where the cat can patrol for rodents.

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Now, I know you all buy guns without much thought to REALISTIC magazine or ammunition cost.  You JUST look at the gun price.  Well, here, it is JUST $109, when calculating emergency extreme food storage cost.  Easier on the decision making process J.

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YOYOF 3

YOYOF 3

I’m getting to your tribe being unreliable as a rescue vehicle, but I did want to quickly cover our food situation, so that we can eliminate “global bread basket ‘Murica” from that same Rescue Me wish list.  150 years ago ( a bit longer, it was 1856 ), to continue the already falling grain yields ( WITH expansion ), the federal government authorized citizens to claim ocean guano islands for the US.  A few years later, the War Of Northern Invasion And Genocide was conducted in no small part because of Confederate soil erosion and the need for expansion.  It was not the only reason, but it was a big one.

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I would stipulate that the causes of the fall of Rome were lesser in number than the reasons we fought the Civil War.  There was conflict from the South losing political power and their unease over paying far more taxes ( where did I hear “taxation without representation” before? ).  There was the megatrend of industrialization supplanting agriculture.  Lincoln was financed by Yankee industrialists.  But at core was the need to replace denuded land.  Slavery was worse than a machine driven system, demanding excess sales to stay profitable to recoup investments.

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The South saw extreme soil overuse, and land was quickly stripped of its nutrients.  The land was used and abandoned, in the sense that the bigger operations needed to keep moving west to better land and the farmland left behind was operated by lower and lower economic classes of freemen.  The slave agriculture system moved west to dry land, and then moved north following the rain patterns.  Where it met opposition, by the non-slavers.  They had run out of unexploited land.  The South was doomed BEFORE the War, but no economic exploitation system goes quietly into the good night.

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America had seen vast agricultural empires by the Indians prior to the smallpox epidemics which wiped out 90%+ of the population.  After that, the soil “rested” and was seen as wilderness by the time the Celts started moving inland.  Unrestricted immigration saw farmland continually “rediscovered” and overused.  Why?  Because poor people were immigrating and they farmed what they could for immediate survival, over-used land or not.  Next slavery took its toll on the land.  The northern farmers had to pay for the new industrialized equipment and over used the land.  Everywhere and everywhen, no sustainable farming was widely used.

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The Dust Bowl?  A big part of the problem was that the poor wanted immediate profits from the WWI commodities boom.  As all their ancestors had, they didn’t plan on long term use and conservation but immediate yield and profit ( some of this might have been influenced by the time limits on land claim validation ).  By then, there was no other area for the poor to farm but the undesirable dry areas between the 100^th meridian and the Rockies.  That was the end of affordable land for immigrants.  The Great Depression ceded all of it to banks and big business.

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We have had soil issues in this country for centuries.  Always, a very resource intensive solution was found.  By now, we literally must occupy oil regions to keep the soil fed.  Well, as I hope you all realize by now, oil is THE apex of energy compactness ( I don’t consider nuclear, as the fuel availability is in question.  Plus, it is oil reliant for its infrastructure ).  And we can only go down in energy solutions from here.  Yes, I understand we COULD transition to far more organic methods, with superior yields.  I simply doubt that we will.

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In case you missed the concert in the 80’s, the family farm is pretty much dead.  As in all things investment heavy, the big boys have monopolized the industry.  I don’t completely discount, but have doubts, that they will take land out of circulation to transition to more efficient less petroleum input based methods.  They could.  If incentives were present, miracles could happen.  My only concern is they wait too long and don’t have the luxury, needing every spare nickel in profit to survive an economic contraction.  I’ll do more research, but it rarely hurts to assume the worst.

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If we assume a soil fertility crises with a petroleum input contraction, we are in a situation akin to all other empires folding from lack of sufficient food.  Overpopulation leading to food scarcity.  Like our good buddy Malthus was trying to tell us before he was drowned out in a chorus of Growth Uber Alles fanatics.  You never go to your barber and ask him if you need a haircut, and you never ask some douche canoe on the payroll of the growth paradigm how to live sustainably.  We already rolled over to the right side of the oil bell curve.

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Why does this mean that you cannot depend on tribal organization to save you when your supplies run out?  Simple.  Like all organizations, you need a surplus to sustain them.  Let us suppose that you have a group-yourself and two buddies.  That is it.  A bare minimum for a group.  Every one of you has a wife.  Each couple has only one child.  That is nine people, and assumes no other family is going to show up.  Assuming you desire combat effectiveness, you need more food.  1500 calories is ONLY system sustainability, NOT operational fuel.

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At 1500 calories a day, your body will not cannibalize itself and there is no mental degradation ( it is not recommended you fall below this ).  But you can do pretty much nothing, or your body needs more calories.  You really need double the minimum for a nice force multiplier over adversaries.  You need that a LOT more than you need radios, FLIR scopes or motor vehicles.  Just saying.  Got four tons of wheat?  Because that is the minimum you need, two years of rations.  At a minimum assuming first year crop failures.  Realistically, I’d double that.

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Right now, assuming ZERO wheat failures from the Midwest floods, wheat is twenty cents a pound.  Forty cents a day is dirt cheap apocalypse food.  It is, literally, an Oil Age miracle.  It is so cheap by historical standards it is inconceivable.  If you don’t have a minimum of a IBC tote full of wheat ( 330 gallons of wheat is 66 buckets worth, just over a ton-assuming a $200 tote, that is barely over $400.  Five years short rations ), you aren’t serious about survival.  The problem comes when there are any dependents.  And they need multiple years of food.

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A tribe is made up of a LOT of dependents.  If anyone in your group cannot pull their full weight in food and ammo, they become a dependent, so odds are some of your fighters fall into this category.  That old saying, “if you want anything done right you have to do it yourself”?  That is literally true, as you won’t get other heads of households to agree on the minimum standards of preparation.  If you want the group to survive, you’ll need to provide the shortfall.  Because I guarantee their needs will meet their means.

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People do not prep for what they need.  They prep based on what they can afford, then justify that amount.  They lie to themselves.  “A year is WAY more food than I need.  I’m ALREADY being extra cautious”.  From your mouth to God’s ears, dumbass.  A minimum of seven years of short rations is a START.  Why?  Because you’ll need a double ration the first two years.  The first crop WILL be a total failure.  We are working with almost universally denuded soil, remember?  Plus, few folks realize a garden is JUST nutrients.  It is almost never calories.  Even with a good crop, it still isn’t enough calories.

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I still believe a die-off will only last about a month ( no room to argue that here ), but you NEVER bet your life on your assumptions no matter how rational they appear.  ALWAYS worst case scenario.  Always.  Assume there is combat far longer than you thought.  So, more food, more ammo.  After that two years, then you still have a three year short ration for raider caches and future crop failures.  And this is a MINIMUM, people.  Seriously.  Planting primitively, odds are good you never see another crop surplus that won’t be balanced by subsequent failures.

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This might be your only opportunity to stockpile condensed long shelf life calories.  Right now, your food preps are hard enough.  With a family, they become three times as hard.  With a minimal tribe, up to NINE times as difficult.  And that assumes you only, ONLY!, take two years to become self-sufficient in food.  You think that is easy?  How about when people are shooting at you to control that farmland?  How do you replace a fallen fighter?  Usually, by already having one on standby.  Who needs to be fed, as do HIS dependents. 

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Now that nine times as difficult figure keeps getting added to.  Do you see the problem with feeding this many people?  BEFORE you start getting crops in?  DURING crop failures?  Are you seeing the issue yet?  Four tons of wheat becomes overly optimistic as a minimum.  You might get up to double digits before you realize it.  Welcome to the REAL logistics of tribe.  Sucks, don’t it?

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YOYOF 2

YOYOF 2

A common aspect, nay, a REQUIRED and MANDATORY aspect of survivalism is that after a disruption all will be well.  This can take many forms, such as the government finally getting the FEMA trucks rolling and then as if by magic warehouse doors are thrown open and it is MRE’s and bottled water for everyone forever.  Of course, only people that think “logistics” means ordering crap from Amazon think this is going to work.  The government organization FEMA is not nor has it ever been about disaster relief.  It does ONE thing, and that is Continuation Of Government.  Period.

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The US military is not in the business of disaster relief.  They might show up after an Indonesian tsunami or a Japanese nuclear meltdown ( sometimes it is safer being an Army infantryman than a Navy Squid, what with your ship randomly hitting cargo vessels or sucking in lots of radiation from Fuki-at least as a groundpounder, if your officers don’t try to kill you, you can more easily dodge bullets since you can actually flee under your own volition ), but that is just public relations selling the “we love democracy, honest, we’re not colonists” brand of BS.

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Come a major disaster, be it the Year Without A Summer, Yellowstone, the New Madrid Fault, or whatever, the government is going to of course play like they care. A few stale MRE’s will be airdropped.  The other 99% of the supplies will be used for the government, not the citizens.  If you think or plan otherwise, you need to pull your head out your ass because it is lonely in there and that is NOT the preferred hair treatment, not even for Bush Bitches.  The gov will show up for YOUR food before it starts giving you any of “theirs”. 

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Another fable of survivalists is the Cozy Novel.  An old ( defunct still, I believe ) blogger I called Black Cat Dude did a really well done write up on that brand of apocalypse tales, mainly involving the masses being conveniently written out of the script so they didn’t bother the main characters.  It was a Happy Ever After sort of thing.  Sure, bad things happened and bad people posed as a character building device, but all in all it was Happy Endings for all and a land enchanted by glittery unicorns crapping Skittles.  They confuse New Normal with Happy Ever After.

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Humans are rather adaptable.  We are good at it.  We went from dangerous but free hunting and gathering to serfdom and secure agriculture.  We can live on seven thousand foot elevation mountains or the Arctic Circle.  As circumstances demand we can go from bacon and unmutilated genitals to vegetarian and circumcision.  That certainly doesn’t mean the changes are good or desirable.  Who REALLY believes dozens of virgins are better than an all you can eat breakfast buffet with sweet glorious bacon?  Even if “Lawrence Of Arabia” was mega-cool, are dates and camel milk really better than Big Macs?

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Sure, in a lot of respects post-apocalypse living is going to be an improvement.  Vendettas and a nomad diet, a return to masculine warrior lifestyles ( unless you are a Farmer John, broccoli hoeing back to Gaia puke type of survivalist, and then, well, welcome to OUR farm, serf ).  Yet, when we are dying of an impacted tooth, or a gutshot, or anemic and plodding from ringworm after the antibiotics and diatomaceous earth is all gone, it won’t be too much fun anymore.  It will NOT be better like all the books try to tell us.

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Having the knowledge doesn’t mean Dingus.  It doesn’t matter Hump All.  When you are in prison, it doesn’t matter if you know how to have a heterosexual encounter.  The MEANS are not available.  The ancient Greeks had a primitive battery.  That was knowledge, without the means to implement it.  Just because you know how to run a tractor on ethanol doesn’t mean you can, if the enemy is fighting you and all your food must be used by your soldiers and there isn’t enough surplus for the fuel.  You need surplus to spare nitrates for gunpowder.

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All of us in the western world have seen five centuries of surplus.  It was a wonderful thing, this colonialism.  Collectively, Europeans decimated more population and extracted more treasure than the Mongols ever dreamed of.  But just as an atheist cannot prove God does not exist to a Believer, the highest trained smartest guy in existence cannot prove to westerners that surplus isn’t forever.  Of COURSE it is, right?  It has “always been so”.  You hear, “you cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet”, and your brain translates that into “after I’m long dead, THEN the surplus runs out.  Sad Panda!”

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Quick question.  If surplus has ALREADY run out, if we have seen nothing BUT contraction of all resources, how do you return to anything approaching “normal”?  I don’t care if you get that precious Constitution returned, if you aren’t eating because the soil is denuded and there are no more artificial fertilizers, that piece of paper only makes one rather inadequate meal.  Knowledge and means.  Do you know what is keeping you alive right now?  It isn’t ‘Murica, Global Breadbasket.  It is globalization.  So be careful what you wish for.  America is incapable of feeding itself without overseas carbon fuels.

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Even assuming we divert our fracking natural gas from electrical generation and resident heating, easily done with draconian laws such as stuffing more people in fewer homes, the loss of overseas fertilizer also means the end of surplus financing which effects the fracking industry, and a large portion of transportation fuel.  We are using imported oil to supplement actual fracking operations.  Which is NOT surplus energy, as it needs surplus conventional oil and financing to survive.  It is more of a financial lubricant than a surplus energy.  Some think it is actually a minus net energy source.

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Even if that is hyperbole, natural gas does factor in heavily with electric generation.  With limited electricity, how well does your entire logistics delivery system function?  Do you still get those spare parts for the fracking equipment?  For the military equipment?  Even with diesel equipment, does the whole farming sector function without enough electricity?  Don’t confuse our past performance adapting to contraction with our ability to continue to do so forever.  All this worry about continued, forever, contraction?  It means you need to expand your timeline on your preps.  I’ll focus on our history of food, tomorrow.

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YOYOF

YOYOF

Yes, another idea rip-off from Survival Prepping For Normal People.  His video was “yo-yo”, which is You’re On Your Own.  The question was, how much/for how long should I prep for?  His answer was, as long as you think you’ll be on your own.  My addendum to that is, forever.  SPFNP Dude is way too optimistic.  He has far too cheery and happy of an outlook on life.  Wallow in your happiness, you bastard!  No, seriously, I’m glad he has such a positive outlook.  Me, I don’t see it.  But that doesn’t make him wrong.  Yet, you don’t come here for glittery unicorns.

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I didn’t want to do this article just yet, having just completed a SPFNP inspired write-up, but I was unable to see anything else that was an adequate idea out there.  Everyone is so busy celebrating Crony Capitalism, wishing a horrible and elongated death on all Venezuelans for having the audacity to embrace populism or socialism over Yankee beneficiary corporate rapine, all I’m seeing is yet again more Socialism Bad memes.  I get it.  I’m not a socialist.  And perhaps it is just communism light.  But if an indigenous population wants that over being colonized, it isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

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For them.  For us, it just might be.  But forget the US being embarrassed by yet another demonstration it has become a limp dingus empire trying to convince itself how great it is.  How about focusing on how embarrassing it is that YOU believe it.  I just read something I absolutely loved.  I believe it was Mountain Guerrilla.  He was saying that on his Southern Mountain, most houses flew the Confederate flag.  And they all also flew the American flag.   Thus was the power and effectiveness of Reconstruction demonstrated.  Only Kool-Aid drinkers celebrate their oppression.

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Regardless of the benefits of empire, the costs have been many.  Foremost, the end of the Bill Of Rights and the subjugation of the individual and once sovereign states by the federal government ( occupied and poorly run by the east coast blue blood Puritans, a seriously unfunny bunch of uptight arseholes ).  I love America, yes, but I don’t love the government that took over the country by force.  It is hard to wave the flag and excuse the empire.  Just as Soviet citizens could love Mother Russia but by no means the communists holding her hostage.

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Granted, as I’ve said, if we hadn’t become imperialists we might have been occupied by a foreign power.  The age of Industrialism was no friend to decentralized power.  But there was also no need to continue on trying to colonize the world for the profit of the very few.  Perhaps it is MORE patriotic to be an isolationist and an anti-colonialist than it is to support world domination.  We need to tend to our own knitting.  Let the rest of the world take care of itself, which includes rotting it its own mess and us cutting off ALL immigration.

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I’ll just stop right there on that subject.  Getting back to YOYOF.  If all we ever had to worry about was nature disaster disruptions, a small generator with a few five gallon containers of gas ( just running the freezer about four hours a day, then wrapped up in insulation ), a propane grill with a burner attachment and several tanks of gas, a few water containers and a break open shotgun to keep the wandering ghetto residents honest would be all there was to this preparedness business.  We should be so damn lucky.  Instead, we have system failures.

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Systems in place for 150 years are failing.  It certainly is NOT because of socialism.  Global Capitalism is responsible for most of Europe’s woes right now, with Politically Correct Diversity Open Borders and the sickening Muzzy Lovefest.  Socialism has little to do with it.  Socialism is not behind Internet censorship and the death of the First Amendment.  That is all crony capitalism.  This is all just survival inspired panic and greed, dismissing any long term consequences as irrelevant to immediate need of continuance.  The Deep State is seeing its Propaganda Arm endangered by Internet Independents, and Das Ist Verboten! 

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Look, I know, you know and Ross Perot, bless his little pea-picken heart, knows, that the Chicken Little “sky is falling” has been done to death and it is wearying beyond comprehension.  Fear Porn alone is worthless, just an advertising orgasm to enrich the few best able to throw as many graphics on a web page as possible to dazzle the simple minds ( looking at you, The Economic Collapse Blog lawyer puke ).  You all want solutions instead of problems.  Well, the problems are really just dilemmas so you don’t get Hump All in the solution department.

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Except to retreat and stock your lifeboat.  That is the only partial solution.  The only reason for identifying all the Fear is to get a bigger fire lit under your ass to complete that ark before it starts raining.  We all know the floods are on the way.  That is a given.  To continue on with well-worn tropes,  the USS Titanic has already hit the iceberg.  We are just arguing about how fast the water is pouring in.  Talking about how bad it will get not only moves you faster, it colors the amount of preparations you need.

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Fifteen years later, how much of New Orleans is still wet moldy piles of rubble?  Coming up on twenty years now, how much of Afghanistan do we control?  Bueller, Bueller?  What my millions of words and years of writing come down to is that things are far worse than you think, and you are not adequately prepared to be on your own.  Certainly not forever.  Even those that are sufficiently frightened still have the mistaken notion that the guys in white hats will ride to your rescue.  Balderdash.  Not even your beloved tribe will save you, let alone a benevolent government.

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The Constitution won’t save you ( it did, however, nicely enslave you all these generations ).  The Free Market won’t save you ( let me know if you find one, please ).  White Nationalism won’t save you.  Empire isn’t going to save you.  Empire has already failed you ( immigration, jobs to China or robots, culture Politically Corrected ).  I’m going to continue tomorrow, and I need you to keep in mind that all this fear porn serves the purpose of describing the “forever” part in YOYOF.  I’m not convincing you you need to prep.  You know that.  You need to revise How Much.

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cargo bug out bike 2

CARGO BUG OUT BIKE 2

I do not think bugging out is a great idea.  It is far better to be where you want to be, with hidden caches nearby that act like a backup to Home Invasion ( well, more realistically, Hovel Invasion ).  It isn’t always the best idea to trade bullets with others in a defensive position.  Sometimes it is preferable to run away, then come back and finish off the invader, ambush style.  “Bushwacker” might not be a compliment, but it is rather effective.  However, having said that, I know everyone’s situation is different.  It took me years to get off-grid.

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This I attribute to all those jerks who only advocated expensive property.  By the time I discovered property under $1,000 on E-Bay, only AFTER did I start reading a few authors on truly affordable land.  Then, of course, you can’t just drop everything and move.  You need to start investing and planning.  Well, if rent is coming due, there are no jobs and it is better to move now with some money left over, sure, you can go to your junk land on a wing and a prayer.  But usually, it takes some time.

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Some folks will never move, and that is fine.  One size doesn’t fit all.  Sometimes you are actually jumping from the pan into the fire if you move.  Hell, I’ve been Comfortable Enough plenty of times I had no desire to leave.  Everyone has their own pace on panicking.  Just because I holler, Da End Be Nigh, Yo!, certainly does not mean you feel the need to prep any faster.  I have the luxury of having already done the hard working panicking.  I can’t lose sight of how long it took me to actually get my head out of my ass and flee.

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So, realistically, it might be quite common that you are not where you want to be.  Bugging out might be the reality of your situation.  So here is one way to do so.  If you have a car, and you are ONLY planning on bugging out under an economic collapse ( NEVER!!! EVER!!! Do you bug out when everyone else is.  Too many cars and not enough fuel or freeway ), then this is no different than any other normal modern day move.  But if you think anarchy will descend quickly, here is your $70 BOV.

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A used bike, $20.  Two new Green Goop bike tubes, $15.  Two used duffle bags, $20.  Cords, bungees, pieces of pipe and misc., another $10-$15.  And that is the maximum you’ll be spending, more than likely.  You could get it for under a total of $20, if you find the bike at a give-away price and it has great tubes ( and you already own some of the other equipment ).  Then you just buy a can of Green Goop to add.  Just don’t cheap out on the tubes and tires, the heart of your system. 

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Now, again, this presupposes that you will need to carry a lot of weight.  I can actually see that, in my old situation.  I was living in Carson City, Nevada, and my land was in Elko.  Odds are I’d never need to Emergency Bug-Out, I would simply head up the hill into the Sierra’s.  But I did wargame the need to get up to Elko anyway, given the population down in my nicely watered location.  There were 60k population just in the city limits alone, and at one direction there was Reno just thirty miles away and the other direction Fallon Naval Base.

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The problem was I needed to get sixty miles between rivers. The stretch outside Reno up to the Humbolt river was where a lot of oxen died on the ol’ timey wagon train ( and furniture jettisoned ).  Not the most hospitable stretch to travel.  My travel-by-bike plans called for most of my weight to be water just for that one stretch.  It is where my Light Bike Traveling plans got into trouble.  But you also had the food issue.  Granted, beef jerky, peanut butter and Top Ramen will take you quite a way, but there always seems to be Too Much Weight there also.

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And what if it were winter?  You need even more food, especially fat, and you need a lot more clothes.  Suddenly, you can’t ride the bike, as there is just too much weight attached to it.  Yes, you could get a bike trailer.  The professionally designed ones ( not just a converted child carrier ) will hold hundreds of pounds.  And carry bulky items.  But now you are barely getting past walking speeds ( my long distance speed on a bike is 9mph.  Walking is about half that ). 

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And we wouldn’t want to be forgetting the passes you would need to navigate.  You need to go up several thousand feet getting over those.  Do you REALLY want to push a bike with trailer up those bad boys?  And, let us not forget, in this unfeasible but worried about scenario, I couldn’t drive because the VIPER teams ( remember those? click here ) had shut down transportation. I would be needing to bypass some checkpoints or other sketchy areas.  You cannot go cross country off road with a trailer.  And it would be hard to push just the bike, without modifications, off road.

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Better it was already set up to push by the handlebar and seat post extensions.  Millions of pounds of logistics pushed by bike with just these types of extensions helping to win the Vietnamese Independence War cannot be wrong.  They did the hard work of figuring it out for you.  Now, I understand how long it takes to pushing a bike, verses riding it.  And how much extra energy it might take.  But anything past about 200 miles and it gets to the point you are carrying far too many supplies to pedal anyway. 

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Unless you have the kind of body that can go long periods without eating while engaged in heavy labor, you will need a LOT of calories every day.  Even if you can replenish water every evening, you’ll still need quite a bit of that in your traveling time.  At least two gallons a day, which assumes NO interruption of refilling every night.  You’ll need a good three to four thousand calories a day food-the higher end if you are burning fat in cold weather.  A weeks journey and you are looking at twenty pounds of food alone.  Add another twenty a day in water.

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If any kind of stealth is required, or leaving the road, or getting around traffic jams, you’d be best off going with a bike as trailer.  If you are in hilly country, and assume half your time you are pushing rather than riding, a bike will still only get you 75 miles a day.  JUST pushing the bike will get you 40 ( ten hours straight travel, with time in between for breaks and end of day camp set up, plus extra time if hiding and detouring ).  JUST walking allows you an extra minimum of a hundred pounds of gear.

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We are all used to speedy transportation.  But that reliance also makes us vulnerable.  We are always on a choke point.  Granted, you are as well pushing a bike on a road, but you can leave that at will, easily.  In a car?  Impossible.  A car is also a lot easier to hit.  The engine area is a huge target, and something is easily damaged.  A bike is a smaller target ( although easier to acquire and track ).  But you can also dump the bike and hide a lot easier than you can de-ass a vehicle.

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Perhaps not the best way to go, Bike-As-Cargo-Carrier, but a cheap way, and perhaps YOUR best way, given circumstances.

( .Y. )

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