soft secession 4

SOFT SECESSION 4

I'm still running down to my bank any time I get a deposit, desperate to deplete the balance down to a minimum before the bank Bail In's me, and I know, beyond a shadow of any doubt whatsoever, even that podunk Nevada bank has already gotten a nice hefty bail OUT, as well. Where is my Orange Man Special? The way I look at it, they owe me at least $1200 just from the Obammy Insurance Industry Welfare “fees” I had to pay. Printer Broken? Would I join the other Grape Soda Rioters over such a small amount, given a reasonable chance of not being caught?

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Naturally! The bankers have got to be the world's biggest idiots. They are looking to be stealing the trophy from the politicians, at this point. I mean, okay, we can give you a Mulligan for 2008. You caused the problem, then profited off of it, but in your defense you had no idea the derivatives failure would actually go global. And a lot of people drunk off unrealistic house equity did deserve a rude sobriety. But this time? This time you have no excuse, no reason to be profiting as we all lose our jobs. Holding up those checks? NOT a great strategic move.

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Do you WANT riots in the streets? Because that's how you get riots in the streets. An executive order could have had those direct deposits done within the hour ( and don't quote the Constitution to me, as that bitch has been end run forever, and everyone does exactly as they wish. And there could have been another order freezing Amazon packages for three days, for the physical checks to get priority, for those without a bank account. If the checks STILL are not on the way, it is by choice alone ). Yes, I really think they want riots.

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Why is anyone even filling out unemployment claims in the traditional manner? Send out postcards. Check two boxes. Yes, this is me and I'm unemployed and yes, I understand if I'm lying it is a $5k fine. Done. The post office runs far more efficiently than the state Unemployment Office. I am astounded at the idiocy here. Unless it is just the flu, bro. I won't get into that, as it would be a series of articles. I'm a LITTLE skeptical, but not enough to go out in public all the time. But I will just say on a side note that they fake video all the time, and that just because I know a guy with cancer doesn't mean we are all going to die from it.

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Don't take that the wrong way-I just think we need to keep an open mind the entire time. If I'm naturally paranoid-relish and roll in it like a dog in stink-and I'm not whimpering in the corner over Beer Virus, doesn't that convince you to be alert for trickery? Anyway, either our Dear Leaders don't give two craps about us and don't fear us because most of these silly patriot bastards bought extra guns instead of extra ammo, or they are so incompetent that they cannot pour piss out of a boot. End result is that the public will start to lose their crap, soon enough.

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Once that happens, and I submit that by that time we really are in a economic implosion so checks wouldn't even work at that point, the more local a politician is, the more they will be pumped and primed to subvert higher control and assume the mantle of king. Or at least warlord. Again, they might play nice and be diplomatic and pretend to go along with federal control ( in some cases, counties pretending to follow state control ) but in reality they are leaking at the nipples at the prospect of total control.

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And how hard is it going to be, to organize an official militia? If the food is running, it will be rather easy to issue emergency orders putting a hoe in everyone's hands that cannot hold a rifle. No, I don't think the governors will do that in time. Right now, the only excuse they have is “social distancing”, so they can't organize for collective farming right now. If there is even going to be seed and fertilizer outside the Big Ag areas. So they wait too long, then the militia will ONLY be about stealing existing food.

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I'm not implying that will be successful, either. The ATTEMPT will be made though, you betcha. Politicians make poor military leaders, as they are far too insulated from reality. Meaning they make stupid mistakes ( just to REALLY piss off everyone, George Washington was a politician and rich bastard above everything else. NOT a good soldier. And no, Trumptard, I am NOT a socialist. I have no problem with someone being rich. Unless he humps me over because of it. Jefferson was a man of means, but also a man of the people. Washington was a petty tyrant and scumbag, the evil shrouded in myth and lies ).

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If your area has more crime than official control, most likely the gangs take over. Then they become like any other government ( just with more corruption-Turd World levels. And I'm going to say it-OtherColor areas WILL look like Africa ). If the government is beating on the backs of frightened Yuppies to comply and pay more, your police or sheriffs will take over control. I only focus on governors right now because they control most of the digital wealth. That COULD devolve rapidly ( depending on food distribution ).

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Whoever controls the food distribution IS going to be the new government. And no, I don't think this will take too much longer to manifest itself. It Is All About The Food. When the oil system starts shutting down, the food system ( centralized ) shuts down. And regional thugs take power to take control of the food. And NO, it will NOT be yeomen farmers as it was historically here. Which I'll cover next time, as I complete this series ( I'll take a break and cover other topics ).

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soft secession 3

SOFT SECESSION 3

Governors are busy being lawyers come politicians ( our last dingus slurping RINO governor was rewarded by getting a seat on the board of a giant Vegas casino after his term, and already has resigned as the Beer Virus shut it down, a rat jumping ship-right into the University system. I hope they close down that bitch next as the state loses money. God, the balls of these assclowns ). They don't study economics or resource depletion. They don't know anything but pure D greed. And so you can expect them to act accordingly. They will just Follow The Money.

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Before, they slurped at the public trough of state taxes and lobbyist kick-backs. Now, they are dutifully parroting the Federales lines, first with Just Wash Your Hands, Bro, and now with the Ten Deaths Is A Pandemic, Bro, Shut Down The Economy ( I don't mean to discount the possibilities, I merely point out they are acting on cue, with no real knowledge ), for no reason other than it pays the most money. You can obviously tell these are idiots of the finest order, thinking fiat printing will keep them in riches as everyone stays home.

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But this is my point. The governors will simply root for the wealth. All they need is to believe the Federal government will not pay them, nor punish them, and they will strike out on their own, pledging allegiance in their speeches but in reality running things exactly as they see fit. It will be a United States in name only. We will, very shortly after the money printer breaks, revert to state power. Number one, because as I've said a hundred times, resource contraction also shrinks political units. And number two, that is were the available wealth will be.

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Just as mobsters follow the new illegal substance ( alcohol, drugs, thirteen year old virgins on Pedophile Island ), politicians always follow the money. Now, I'm not going to unroll my Libertardian Flag and start spouting nonsense about individual freedom and how all tax is theft. I USED to spout that crap, but grew intellectually ( no offense to its rabid practitioners. I admire the passion and conviction. But, simply, you couldn't be more wrong ). All groups must survive behind force and violence. Politicians are peacekeepers. My only beef with them is when they get too greedy. Or remove a counterbalance such as with gun control or vote nullification.

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A quick aside. As the US Empire implodes, and we devolve our power structures, no other time in current history has been this pivotal. If you give up your right to be armed, you will become peasants. You either take on more responsibility wielding violence to keep the peace or you lose all rights accorded to warriors. If you want to continue tending your asparagus for your liege lord, don't fight back as they disarm you. If you want to retain some power, it only comes out of the end of a gun.

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Talking about rights only loses you those rights. You must pay for them, in blood. Your choice completely. Might makes right, bitches. The governor knows that. And just as the federal government lied and cheated to gain power over the states ( intellectually and philosophically I disagree with that, but geopolitically it was the only way to empire and our recent wealth. Remember that the next time you wave the jingoistic national flag celebrating our imperial military ), the states will devolve once they have the means and motive to do so.

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The first step will be soft secession. No one is going to risk a nuclear fireball over the state capital building. Remember, politicians are slimy lawyers in better clothing with better paydays. They are little ninja's. No bravery or code, just backstabbing and ambush. Which, really, is how wars should be fought. The only exceptions are when soldiers must sacrifice for their martial code. I suggest, as a guerrilla, you don't mistake yourself for a soldier. You must fight dirty just to survive, let alone win. By that point, there is no more honor being a policeman or official state soldier.

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Once states regain more sovereignty, they will become as violent and ruthless as the federal government is. Think Waco, and Ruby Ridge. The state version of the FBI will become more like the CIA with its dirty tricks. ALL governments act the same, from the tribal level on up. The only question is how much power the individual has. But to an enemy, all governments act the same. Underhanded, treacherous and without honor. If you ARE the government, it is all fine and dandy. Not so much if you are their enemy. This is easy to understand.

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If you own a dog, and are afraid of it, they will attack you. If you beat the dog after ANY challenge, the dog won't think of attacking. It is the same with people, or groups thereof. You must act disproportionately, with people or with dogs. The states will overreact to any threat to their organization and power, once the federal government stops overreacting to the threat of state independence. And the states WILL try to act independent, because the wealth is going to move down the chain. Right now, it is based on computer digits. Down at the bottom is agricultural land and water.

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Expect the wealth to move down, and those chasing after it. Right now, the states are still entrenched in the old wealth system. The former governor being rewarded for the laws he passed rewarding big business. Until those businesses are destroyed by lack of digital wealth. When will the Federal Reserve stop bailing out foreign central banks ( they aren't even hiding it this time )? They cannot, in a futile effort at supporting globalism ( which Russia and China hold the keys for, in oil and manufacturing. You'd be a fool to think they won't use this to their advantage ). What does this do to inflation?

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You can spend a gabazillion Zimbabwe Bucks, but you can never have enough to bid for vanishing resources. This is what we face next, dwindling supplies of everything as supply chains freeze, and the new fight for real wealth as that happens. Continued tomorrow.

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four storage plan book 9

FOUR STORAGE PLAN BOOK 9

Chapter Five

Collapse Plan

The collapse plan is basically wheat. Lots and lots of wheat. Four hundred pounds per person per year. The more years the better, like a minimum of three, better five and if biblical seven years. You might be choking on your coffee right about now, splattering the computer screen with a high velocity nasal mist, but five years of wheat is easy peasy and cheaper than dirt. What? You can't find $500 to eat for five years?

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Don't you think right now this very minute spending $500-less than most of you will spend on a plastic poodle shooter-for that kind of food security is the best thing you could ever conceive of doing? You might need to drive a few hours, to find a feed store ( the kind people use to buy bales of hay, not bags of hippie brewed organic dog food ). You might need to rent a truck, paying a bit more. But basically, you buy a ton of wheat-literally one ton, two thousand pounds-and put that up in a 330 gallon IBC tote.

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The only reason I recommend that size tote-and normally I like to decentralize things-is that it is the cheapest route, as low as $125 if you find a used food grade one. The wheat cost is going to vary. My eastern Nevada feed store charges $11 a fifty pound sack. $220 a thousand pounds. So, okay, you are probably looking at a more realistic $600-$800 food supply. But have you priced freeze dried? Even if it was available, that runs in the thousands of dollars. $600 for five years of calories. Two weeks of minimum wages ( if there were any jobs ).

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A pound of wheat is 1500 calories, which is what you need for a sedentary life, just enough calories your body doesn't start cannibalizing itself. Okay, yes, I know that may or may not be exact. I've seen plenty of people live a long time on far less calories than that. I don't entirely trust the body of research on calories and vitamins and related subjects. There is plenty we don't know that we don't know. But as a general guideline it is good enough for government work.

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The extra wheat is for sprouting. Your body will crave fresh foods. A can of freeze dried peas will NOT fool your body. Sprouts may taste like green dirt now, but you will come to love them on a survival diet. And to be clear, I'm not suggesting that you ONLY eat wheat. It would be much better to garden for greens and potatoes and corn, and to raise chickens for eggs. The wheat is there as a base calorie food, ideally not even used but set aside for crop failures. But for the most dire of circumstances, it will keep you alive. Have vitamin pills to supplement, just in case ( and shortening for long term fat storage ).

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If your feed store is unable to get so much wheat, as perhaps it is being rationed, or there are shortages at the wholesale level, or you can't afford to rent a U-Haul, a years supply of wheat is certainly better than nothing. You will need twelve 5-gallon buckets, about $60 at Home Depot. But I wouldn't buy at Home Depot. After buying there for a decade, the cheese dingus slurping whores cheaped out on the lid and they are now a waste of money ( I was so pissed, I refused to try a more expensive lid-but the orange lid now has such a thin inner lip they tear and rip and you don't get a secure seal. Do NOT buy the Home Despot orange units ).

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I always liked Wally Mart buckets, but they are perpetually out of lids. If you can get through their slow ass web site you might be able to order the lids and buckets so you assure yourself you get exactly what you need. As a bonus for all that grief, the white plastic is food grade ( whereas Home Depot may not be. I know if you put the orange buckets in the sun, they start outgassing ). I can't vouch for the quality, now, as it has been many years, so start out with one to test. But even though both companies play fast and loose with quality, Home Depot seems much worse.

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If you are paying much more than $26 a hundred pounds for wheat ( if the grain is NOT treated with vet medicine, it should be fit for human consumption. Red, or White variety doesn't matter so long as it is Hard variety. More protein and stores better. I think Red tastes better, but I store whatever they have at the time, not being picky. This is the apocalypse after all ), you can always buy half white flour and half whole kernels. I wouldn't go over half white. If the grocery store is out, check the local restaurant supply. I would store both outside ( out of the sun ) during the winter to kill any weevils. Or, bay leaves in the flour and food grade diatomaceous earth rolled around in the wheat ( if filling that big tote, I'd fill a five gallon bucket with one cup of DE and roll it around, then pour into the tote ).

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You'll need several grinders ( what? ONE grinder for ALL that wheat? I don't think so. One Is None, Buckwheat ). Start out with a Victoria brand ( $45 ) and a back-up Chinese knock off at half that price. Then I'd buy something that actually ground a fine pastry flour rather than the cheaper units course chicken feed. The cheap grinders are made for corn, not wheat, and you'll need to use them three times ( once on course, then medium, then fine, NEVER allowing the plates to touch each other or you'll get metal shavings ) and you won't get a pastry flour. A more course peasant flour. That is the price for budget.

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Good luck finding beans or rice right now. You will be lucky to even find the wheat. If you cannot eat wheat, you'll be spending Big Bucks eating an imported impostor grain ( I've had issues storing corn, with its high moisture content. Plus, it needs to be treated with lime, AND it is no longer cheap ). But believe me, it helps you sleep like a baby at night, and money will be worthless soon enough anyway.

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four storage plan book 8

FOUR STORAGE PLAN BOOK 8

Chapter Four ( continued )

Bug-In Plan

An obvious choice for bug-in meals is to can your own ready to eat meal such as stews or soups. I'm sure there are even ways to can pasta or rice ( it might warrant extra research ) with the meat. Remember, in an MRE there are no carbs ( one stale cracker doesn't cut it ), and your body will crave it soon enough. Better to have them to start with. The military just focuses on immediate performance, which meat and fat provide.

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If you don't have a pressure canner, it might be too late for that ( and I worry about their suitability long term after an apocalypse ). There are plenty of MRE substitutes in the grocery store. There is the kid favorite Chef-Boy-R-Dee, if you can stomach that as an adult. But they have similar, more palatable, meals in the plastic tray for the microwave types. To me, they are all nasty convenience foods, but to be realistic, “convenience” can be cheap, healthy and filling only if you make it yourself. Store bought is almost always lacking two out of three.

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Plan old tried and true for 150 years tin cans are getting added back to the shelves now. You can eat chili, stews and soups for an almost complete meal. I wouldn't recommend eating them cold unless you are a week into starvation ( not that a shrunken stomach could handle the richness, but you take my meaning ), but opening a can and heating it is still close to no work as you can get unless you go with the previously mentioned jerky and parched grain. Hot meals are really satisfying and elemental, anyway. Try to limit the No Heat meals to bare bones necessity.

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Now, here is one that I heard about that might work for you. The circumstances are limited, but it might be applicable. One guy knew of another in the military who hated government issue MRE's. So he made his own. He would cook up his healthy ingredients, his one pot meals such as stew and chili, then freeze them. Once frozen, he placed the chunk in a vacuum seal bag, then replaced in the freezer. On their four to seven day field exercise the foods didn't spoil as quick because the air had been removed. It wasn't a substitute for a real can or MRE pouch, but it was a short term replacement. I don't know if I'd trust that for a week, even if it took a day or two to thaw out, but I guess the guy never died from it.

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This would be more applicable if you envisioned a EMP massive grid failure or a two week long hurricane power outage ( keeping the freezer shut and wrapped in blankets, the food would take some days before beginning to thaw ). It gives you an extra couple of days before spoilage. I don't recommend it, just bring it up for your consideration ( and you may not even have the machine ). I think plain old air drying is the way to go. That way you get plenty of fruits and vegetables, along with meat and carbs. Dried meat used to be a lot easier, as the meat was generally more lean ( except pigs ) before industrial agriculture.

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But it isn't impossible. You can dry chicken and turkey, what little fat there is easily removed. Lean cuts of meat probably should still be refrigerated after drying, but once your power goes out it will be keep at room temperature for weeks if not months. I've dried hot dogs and suspiciously, they are still good years later. They cannot be beef hot dogs. Those have too much fat. Get the yard bird hot dogs. Now, I know, they are NOT a good value. They are full of fillers. But they are also full of salt and already cooked.

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This is more of a lazy boys jerky. Just cut about nickle coin thin and dry. To eat, let soak in water for five minutes. Drain, refill, five more minutes. Most of the salt is removed and they are still dry enough that their taste is completely different. I can't stand apricots, myself. But once you dry them, they taste completely different. It is same with tube steaks. I hate the taste of hot dogs. But once dried, they taste SOOO much better. But like anything air dried ( I don't bring up home freeze dried, due to cost-it IS a deal, but only if you are making years worth of food ), you can soak in water to reconstitute if you prefer the original form.

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Some store bought “instant” foods are oatmeal, peanut butter, Top Ramen ( although in scarce supply right now, unless you hit the Ramen Lottery. The stores keep getting more in but you must be there at the right time ). For the really lazy and those not diabetic, there is sweetened condensed milk. 1300 calories in a tiny three inch tall can. That might not be light weight, but it is condensed. A jar of peanut butter is about as dense. With a few packs of Top Ramen ( which don't even need to be cooked-you can munch on them raw ) along with either the PB or milk, and some Tang drink mix, you'll basically get all your nutrients.

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Really, if you think about it, there is little reason to actually ever buy an MRE. If you do eat those, at least have some rice to eat along with them. That will go a long way satisfying. But they are NOT needed. Freeze dried meat is almost superior to any other form of storage, but unless you buy the machine those are unavailable ( and at the old price of $50 a can, buying the machine was almost mandatory ). Even a tinned can of meat will last longer than an MRE. And is much cheaper. The only sacrifice not eating MRE's is convenience.

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four storage plan book 7

FOUR STORAGE PLAN BOOK 7

Chapter 4

Bug In Plan

This is where most people began, and then ended, their food plan. Easy to prepare convenience foods. There is nothing wrong with an MRE or three ( the issue comes from eating them more than a day or two, when your body starts to crave carbs and fresh foods, and then when you try to pass a massive turd after a week of constipation. And I'm not even talking about a loaf like you might occasionally impress friends and family with but one that breaks records both in length and girth ).

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Well, the price is a bit insane, so one doesn't want to get too crazy in how much they stockpile, but that is a minor consideration for a short term food. When you just buy a week or two of food, for bugging in or bugging out, a stealth food or a no cooking food, price isn't going to matter all that much. The problem today though isn't price. It is availability. Freeze dried foods are no longer available, as they've had their Ammo Drought moment. The crap is all gone and won't be coming back any time soon.

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MRE's are still available, but at surf and turf restaurant prices. And you'll only be able to find a few cases. Even my old “alt MRE's” are gone, which were instant rice and canned beans. Good luck finding any rice. I mean, you probably can. Most people just want a few pounds, and if the grocery store is out they give up. Few will go around to jobber suppliers or ethnic food stores to look. You MIGHT find rice there. You know what Minute Rice is, right? Cooked rice which is then dried. You can make your own.

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Bug In food doesn't need to be no-cook. It is nice, because the whole point of the food is to be quick and easy and ideally without dishes. My recommendation for that would be hardtack and beef jerky. Some people would recommend pemmican, but that is not something I'd care to mess with*. But it is an option. The thing is, jerky might be considered expensive, but it isn't if done yourself and even store bought is currently cheaper than an MRE. For a carb, I'd use whole wheat and make hardtack. White flour hardtack lasts forever, but I'm not sure about the whole wheat variety. It might need to be rotated, as you do the jerky.

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[ *pemmican is basically half ground jerky and half rendered fat. It is suggested that if you can't stomach that, make peanut butter pemmican. Ground jerky mixed with peanut butter. Just beware that today's peanut butter-at least the lower price generic brand-goes rancid a LOT quicker than it used to. The usual culprit is probably companies going cheap on product to increase profits. I used to get five years out of a jar. Now, it is more like one year past expiration date. So, while pemmican lasts many years, I'd rotate the peanut butter version yearly ]

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If hardtack doesn't float your boat, go with parched wheat ( or corn, which was the historical norm. Even brown rice should work. And you might actually find the whole grain rice for sale. Yeah, sorry, this whole book is Beer Virus specific. Sorry about that, but this is when I'm writing it ). Parched grain is actually a taste treat. I wouldn't eat it regularly, as I image it would be a bit hard on your teeth, but for a treat it is delightful. In a dry skillet, place your grain ( each kernel touching the bottom ). Heat to low medium. Stir on a regular basis.

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This isn't “Corn Nuts”. That is oil fried kernels. This is a dry cook. Some kernels will pop, but without a full fluffiness like popcorn. Most will just start turning brown. The more you cook it, the more flavor you get ( almost popcorn flavor-even wheat-but almost nutty flavor ). BUT. The more you cook it the more likely you burn it and then that is exactly what it tastes like. After you cook to your preference, let them cool. You can eat as is, but don't shovel them down too quick. It is very filling.

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If you take your parched grain and grind it ( you don't need a grain grinder. A coffee grinder works-it is a course flour, not a fine one ), you now have “pinole”. You can eat that raw, but I find myself chocking on it. I tried placing it in a glass of water, AND chasing with water, but that was a nasty almost greasy feel ( with a queasy stomach after ). Reading further, I find it was partially dissolved in hot water historically, if you care to drink it ( you must keep stirring and you'll still find a lot on the bottom when done, but it is much better than when cold. And better than Cream Of Wheat ), or used to thicken stew.

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You could also make corn cakes out of it ( hot water to thicken, fried in grease, but to prep that you must boil it down to get it to stick together. If not, just moisten with double the water as the pinole. Fry that up. It still tastes pretty darn good. If you want it to taste close to Sex On A Stick, add some pancake syrup over the fried crumbles and mix together. Dag! Also try sweetener in that pinole “tea”. That makes it slide down even easier, and it already tasted pretty darn good ) which tastes different than regular dried grain ground up for flour.

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You can even buy frozen corn ( if you cannot find dried whole corn anywhere ), then dry it in preparation for parched or pinole. If you don't own a food dryer ( I highly recommend, but your mileage may vary depending on how long you think the electrical grid stays up and running ), you can just dry in the oven, lowest heat with the door cracked. Just like you'd make beef jerky. The great thing about parched grain or pinole is that it is dirt cheap, delicious, healthy and a ready to eat ( mostly ) meal. It might not be a grease and protein bomb you get from an MRE, but it surpasses them in many ways. And as most of us survivalists are older, you need to baby your digestive system anyway.

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Continued tomorrow
( addendum: the day I wrote this I took some pinole from my BOB and played with it as I described, making the tea and fried crumble.  In 24 hours I was cleaning my innards out-and a good thing I'm using a bidet now or I would have run out of the TP.  It could have been a coincidence, because Conehead Junior had just visited and was getting over a stomach flu.  Or, it could be this course grind wheat is much more reactive than fine grain I normally eat.  Just a warning )

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four storage plan book 6

FOUR STORAGE PLAN BOOK 6

Chapter Three

Inflation Plan

I'm really surprised that the grocery shelves are mostly restocked. Mostly. I understand every location is different. But in GENERAL, we are back to normal where very few things aren't getting back on the shelf. You might have to shop around a bit, go to three or four stores now rather than one or two, but that shouldn't be anything too abnormal. A decade ago after Wal-Mart ( I saw “Mao Mart” the other day-hilarious! That was a first. I wish I could credit that someone ) went Full Retard, you no longer had a One Stop Shopping Experience anymore.

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For fifteen years I pretty much only shopped at Wally ( except books, obviously ). Good times. But nothing good ever lasts and now one must take more care, return to YesterYear when you had to shop at all the stores in town to get the best bargains. So, it should come as no great shock that we need to carefully search for places that still have what we need in groceries. But what might shock you, but shouldn't, is that absent any government type of back door subsidy, food should start going up in price again. Yes, we had mild “shrink-flation”, but that was mostly junk food, or highly processed food ( like I said, junk food ).

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Normal price fluctuations are not what I'm talking about. If a frost comes and wipes out strawberries down in Mexico, well, so sorry, but the price is going to double. You can thank all the morons in California who ruined the state for agriculture. Gee, who would have thought a few million extra illegals drinking water and flushing toilets and washing lowriders would take water away from irrigation?

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There was a seed potato crop issue last year and this year we might see continuing shortages. But price increases are good, for demand destruction. I'm willing to see a fluctuation between a buck and three dollars, just so there is always a bag of potatoes ready to purchase. So we are used to prices rising in perishables. But real food price inflation, all food? That was twelve years ago after oil went to $140 a barrel. No one went hungry, but you sure were sweating a grocery store visit. That is what happens when Oil Age Food meets high oil prices. No worries, you say?

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Wrong. Before, shortages were not combated with higher prices ( outside the perishables ). Every underemployed lawyer with college debt and a hooker and blow addiction was salivating at the prospect of suing any price gougers. And they couldn't sue Mexican peasants. The grocery stores they could, so the stores just run out and stay out rather than raising prices. At this moment, oil prices are low. But they won't stay that way. We are in for another Oil Price Shock, soon. This is your warning that food price inflation will start again, on the wholesale and farm level.

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I'm going to veer into Peak Oil territory but I'll keep it very brief. I know you all hate the idea of your SUV not wasting gas and time. You cannot accept Peak Oil because even for a survivalist you are a weak and spoiled bastard. I still love you. Fracking Oil, the butt buddy who saved you the last Greater Depression, peaked last year. That was a production peak. You cannot just throw more exploration at it, as even at $70 a barrel, companies cut back on that cost as they are losing money.

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They aren't finding enough, so they stop trying. In the ground or not, hidden or not, the money isn't there, even AFTER banker subsidized loans, to find any more. Fracking was crap to begin with. And, well, it just got crappier. The fracking oil is no longer there to support an INCREASE in production. It is Peak Fracking Fuel. When the US peaked in conventional oil in 1971, we had an economic decline a few years later. When Global Peak happened in 2005, a few years later we had an economic decline. Last year, Peak Fake Oil, and this year, an economic decline ( if not collapse ). The food prices WILL increase, as they did the last two times.

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Note that this wasn't running out of oil. It was just an end of increasing supplies of oil. End Peak Oil lecture. Expect food inflation. So, you buy now. And it really doesn't matter if you'd prefer the prices were cheaper. They aren't, and they are only going up. So you buy now. A little bit of pain now or a lot later. You know, the whole premise behind prepping. This Inflation Plan is nothing more than a Budget Plan, but with ALL food, not just that which is on sale. Because it IS on sale, compared to a year from now.

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You can always get rid of the car. I've done it, even living off grid. Granted, some of you are much further away. But in most cases, push comes to shove, you most likely COULD if necessary stop driving. You could also move, if you were forced to ( don't have that junk land yet? What is wrong with you? ). You could live in a van down by the river. But the one thing that is hard to do is to stop eating. The inflation plan makes it easier to eat. After the apocalypse, you can burn down the neighbors house for ash to condition your soil. And you can raid the farmers field, or take over the National Forest to graze your sheep.

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But for now, as civilization endures, you shop at the grocery store like the other citizens. To do that, you need to stockpile while prices are cheaper. None of us is made of money. You spend less on food so that you can more easily afford the other items shooting up in price from inflation. Like heat to stay alive in winter. Or to buy more ammunition, to combat the roving gangs. Or just to buy MORE food, in case of future shortages.

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four storage plan book 5

FOUR STORAGE PLAN BOOK 5

Chapter Two

Budget Plan

[ It has been three weeks since I wrote the last chapter here. I thought the whole concept was endangered by the grocery stores running out of food, from wall to wall, with only a few condiments and frozen goods remaining. So I stopped writing the book. Yet, I'm given some hope that we have a reprieve. The stores are no longer bare everywhere, but only in a few critical spots like rice and beans. Continuing this might have some merit, and I was enjoying writing it. I'll continue with the interrupted series on soft secession after I finish this book ]

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The Budget Plan was buying everything Loss Leader. It really wasn't much more complicated than that. You bought what was on sale, stockpiling. For instance, pasta. It hasn't been cheap for many years, the Wops having a Semolina flour shortage shooting up the price where it mostly stayed. Occasionally it went on sale. When it did, I bought $20 or $30 worth. I probably won't eat that in five years. It was fifty or seventy cents a pound, an insanely low price. Multiply that by every sale, on every shelf item. But frozen was the same.

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I started this plan simply. I bought chicken. That is what was on sale. Your mileage may vary now, as chicken was the first meat to run out. The cheapest went first, as most folks went cheap and raced to the budget foods in their panic ( you'll note that the first four chapters of this book were very prophetic. Which is par for the course. I KNOW the future because I'm paranoid. Of course, my timing sucks, as do the details. I'm a budget medium. Sorry ). But the point is, I started with the cheap meat. This cut my grocery budget in half, even if I only eat a small amount of meat.

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I got really friggin tired of chicken, let me tell you. I don't even like it five years later. Of course, I never liked it except for deep fried, so it was already a trend. But I accomplished filling up the freezer. Not the sad and pathetic freezer over the fridge. A dedicated stand alone chest freezer. I filled it with loss leader meats. Once full, I could wait to buy the meat I wanted. No more chicken. Just hamburger and pork, as they came on sale. In the meantime, since I had saved all the money buying in bulk AND on sale, now I could use those freed up funds to buy whatever else was on sale.

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It hardly takes much effort to stock the pantry shelves with dry goods. It was really easy in my case, since I barely eat out of cans. I'll eat the occasional beans in a can, and I think pineapple actually tastes better from a can than fresh, but other than that I only stock a few items in cans. I like enchiladas, because who doesn't? I could make the sauce, but don't bother. I have the occasional can of chicken noodle soup when feeling ill. But mostly, we eat potatoes and cabbage ( used for salads, both because cheaper and longer lasting ) and bread for a dinner carb, with rice only once in a blue moon.

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I always carry four large boxes of generic Minute Rice ( Bug-In Plan ), and the box currently open I bought two years ago ( rotate for freshness! ). I eat those noodles even less than rice. Butter is the only oil we cook with, which to my mind is healthier. You can even turn it into ghee if you want a higher burn point. I only buy that on sale, and have half a shelf in the freezer for it. I could go six months without buying any. Same with the meat. All this is food security, but it doubles as a plan to reduce my grocery costs.

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Nothing except potatoes and cabbage are full price. I spend so little on groceries I've had months of non-edible prepper gear purchases where all my food money went to that. Now, we are currently seeing all of the above endangered. For three weeks there were NO shelf stable carbs available. After the rice and pasta went, everyone bought up all the potatoes. Things are getting back to restocked ( although rice and beans are rare-you'll have to go to an ethnic neighborhood grocery or restaurant supplier ). Still no rice, but flour is showing back up ( everyone realized they couldn't bake an edible loaf, I imagine ).

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And there are really no good Loss Leaders right now, other than junk food and booze ( stock up on that, as the bans seem to be catching on. The same idiots who thought banning smoking in prison was a good idea seem to think taking alcohol away from stressed people when their Happy Pills were no longer coming from China is an equally swell plan-if we weren't surrounded by idiots we would almost be all alone ). BUT! The shelves are getting back to mostly normal and while the Budget Plan isn't as much of a bargain as it was, the principle can at least be applied to stockpiling so as to avoid future shortages.

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You still fill a freezer and your shelves, so you can hunt for bargains. And if need be, when the hunted items are gone you can wait for their return without panic. I'm starting a Po Boy root cellar for my potatoes, plastic coolers I keep wherever it is coolest or not freezing. I might bury them up to their lid down in the basement. Or, even outside if I have an extra insulated top ( I'll have to experiment. The basement is heated in the winter and outside it might not be down far enough in the ground. I have half a year to figure it out ).

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If things stay the same, shortages and lack of sales, the Budget Plan is not going to work as well as it did for me. But it WILL become the Inflation Plan, which we cover next. Still be on the lookout for Budget Items. You can buy in bulk at the restaurant supplier. Don't wait too long, as the eating out businesses have lost fifty percent of their sales. Their suppliers might be going out of business soon themselves. So if possible, buy years worth of each desired item. Just be low key about it. A month ago, nobody cared it you bought lots of food.

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Now? They are jealous and resentful. Since they bought too much house and too much car ( now both looking like VERY risky investments, what with no jobs and no spare parts ), they couldn't focus on food. So they hate you for being able to. Don't rub it in their faces. Be sneaky. OpSec is more important than ever.

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