rome or britain 3

ROME OR BRITAIN? 3

The thing about an empire is that when you go through all the hard work of getting one, some jealous bitch is all coveting your rightfully gained goods.  You stole it fair and square.  Yet, they can’t be happy for you.  No, they try to take it away.  Britain had a huge empire, largely an agricultural empire run on coal and rail, paying the elite in textile profits.  And everybody wanted a piece of that pie.  It was easy stealing the land from Little Brown People who had no industrial capacity, but much harder keeping other large powers away.

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As stated yesterday, the primary problem-not the ONLY problem, but a big one-was that Britain had used half of her coal gaining the empire and that her two competitors the US and Germany had just started using their energy stockpile.  Germany faced the same problem with Russia.  A century of coal had been used by the time they invaded Russia, and the Soviets were only twenty years into industrializing.  Worse, they had oil as well.  A lot of it.  A coal power cannot go up against an oil power.  As Britain found out while she surrendered peacefully to the US.

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Because Britain was already contracting energy-wise, the gold from South Africa didn’t help.  When you run out of energy, money just bleeds out faster buying it.  The Maxim machine gun didn’t help, as her true enemy was no longer Bush Bitches but other colonial powers.  Technology works great.  For a very short time and then you are back spinning your wheels.  And competing with other great powers no longer helps, because you are just hemorrhaging energy and treasure faster.  But what else can you do, right?  Surrender later or now, and most folks just pick later.

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And don’t make fun of the French surrendering.  While she controlled Syria and had some oil, as we found out invading Iraq it is almost impossible to produce oil in the middle of counter-insurgency fighting.  What energy she did have was used policing her empire, primarily rubber to bring in income ( we didn’t invent artificial rubber until about the middle of WWII ).  France just really didn’t have the resources to fight.  They had the equipment at home but her energies were focused on protecting her diminishing resources.  And to be fair, Germany got all the cold parts anyway J

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Britain had already lost the economic war by 1914.  It would have been smart to pour all her resources into protecting and exploiting the middle east, bypassing Europe.  To an extent they half assed that and placed a large number of Dominion troops in the trenches and the better home units in the middle east, but it was still a two front war.  Yet, Britain has used to defending her empire against the other powers.  She felt she always had to keep Europe weak in relation to herself as a preemptive measure and fought many wars to do just that.

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It wasn’t a bad strategy.  It kept her in power for some time.  But by fighting that one time too many, while weakened already, her demise was assured.  She was still fighting using a coal powered economy in an oil economy world.  She had an oil powered fleet, but that was protecting a coal economy.  What WWI accomplished was that the world’s largest supplier of oil, the US, became the premier oil economy and had all the old coal powered colonial powers defeat each other.  It was masterful, and makes you all tingly to be an American.

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Granted, the victory wasn’t complete.  The US then had to pit all the old defeated colonial powers against each other again so that Russia could be weakened enough for the US to best her in the new Oil Age war.  That is why we financed Hitler ( yes, I understand we did it for the profit of the banks.  But energy is wealth, ultimately ).  His only use to us was for him to drain Russia while we took over Britain’s colonies.  Everyone applauds Churchill as Britain’s savior, but he was just America’s bitch, dismantling the empire at our call.

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What did she get out of it?  The smallest part of the Rothschild’s pie, a toe hold in the new financial order.  That is what allowed Britain to remain Detroit East instead of another Portugal or Spain, Bermuda East, just a once proud colonial power acting to pamper the tourists coming in from greater economies.  The US used starvation as a threat against Britain to assume world leadership position.  And that was us being NICE.  And before you think we can use the Wheat Weapon as we did in both world wars, stop.  And ponder our ethanol issue.

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Let us recap the British Empire.  They used up their coal gaining an empire.  We used up our oil gaining ours.  When they started running out of coal, they were defeated economically if not yet militarily.  We lost the Vietnam War which was NOT a guerrilla war like Afghanistan.  It was a conventional war fought with total industrial production.  When we didn’t have troops to fight we just blew up the jungle or a bridge.  We used more tonnage of bombs in peripheral campaigns there than we did in WWII.  It was our last one, but it WAS an industrial war. 

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It was lost as our oil supply peaked.  The politicians didn’t lose the war.  Not the left protesters.  Our energy situation lost us that war just as Britain actually lost WWI ( the only real winner was the US ) because of her lack of surplus energy ( SURPLUS being the key word here ).  Technology didn’t save her empire.  There are some indicators that Britain might have been the actual developers of the computer age, just from a technological sector point of view.  But she had no economy.  The US is losing our technological sector as well.

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Britain had the Pound, the world standard currency.  And lost it all during WWI buying supplies from the US ( as we are from China ).  She had the Pound, South African gold, she had Peruvian nitrates for fertilizer and munitions, men and supplies from India and Oz, naval fuel from Iraq and did any of that save her?  No.  She was an old coal power, with diminishing supplies.  Her industrial centers were ruined before the bombs dropped ( just as Detroit was aflame before the riots started ).  War to preserve the empire just added another nail to her coffin.

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Why is Britain being occupied and defeated by the Muzzies?  Because Globalizing America has degreed it so, and she has no power to resist.  Only by acting as part of the American banking system ( do you think it was an accident that she sold all her gold reserves in the 90’s at their lowest possible value? ) does she survive above Craphole Nation status.  America’s rulers jam immigrants down its own populations throats, and the other White Countries must do the same so as not to gain a competitive advantage over the US.  They must join us in the slide.

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As the US weakens, mirroring Britain, we are using the last of our energy and power to drag down our allies ( with friends like the US… ).  Just as Britain drug down the other colonial powers.  To “compete” with our demise, the rest of the First World must have immigrant filled slums to destabilize the culture, gender wars to tamp down wages and religious wars to refocus the publics eyes away from the collapse.  All this crap we see in the PC Wars, is policy designed to divert us from the bankers losing their control. 

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The last of the oil cannot be used to build renewable energy to Soft Land us.  The last of the oil is being used to keep those elites in power.  The system would collapse with or without them, but their desperation over losing their hookers and blow is why you are seeing this particular flavor of collapse.  Why did WWI start?  Not because of an assassination or Germans wishing to bayonet Belgium babies ( sarcasm ), but because England didn’t want to lose her power and because the US wanted much more for themselves.  It is as simple as that. 

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Why will the US see civil war?  Not because Leftists or Statists or even OtherColors or anti-Constitutionalists.  We will see a very violent break-up of empire because our elite simply don’t want to lose their power.  Plus, other nations don’t want to lose theirs ( they aren’t going to be the new global power.  Impossible as the oil runs out.  They just want to survive ).  I’m done on the subject of the US mirroring Britain.  This is the end of this series of articles.  Tomorrow, I’d like to use the greed and sense of self preservation of the individual as a guide to how groups and nations act.

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ROME OR BRITAIN? 2

The Dutch pioneered the modern corporation, but the British perfected the modern economy with a central bank that was enabled, protected and enriched by the government.  When times are tough, and there is a war on, you don’t want some douche lick private bank  demanding gold as interest payment on your overdue loans.  Rather, during that war you want a bank that is more than willing to fall all over themselves extending the first loan, deferring interest payments and piling on MORE loans.  That is why successful empires are required to have central banks to survive and thrive.

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Did America NEED a central bank?  Of course not.  We had plenty of precious metal and we didn’t need to ship that overseas for trade items.  But if we wanted an empire, yes, we needed that central bank.  Don’t get me wrong, I detest the institutions ( both empire and central banks ).  BUT!  When the only rule of the jungle is eat food or be food, you pick the lesser of evils and that was empire ( here is a Fun Filled Fact. Prior to overseas empire in the Philippines, Hawaii, etcetera, we collected Guano Islands.  90+ of them ).

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Here is another Fun Filled Fact.  We had generally ignored those islands once the Fecal Treasure had been scraped off, but in 1935 your bestest buddy FDR sent an official on a double top secret mission to recolonize the waterless islands with “locals” ( Hawaiians were close enough ) and a heap of supplies.  A flag was flown, a small monument re-claiming the land, and any wayward Brits sent home.  These became radio beacons, refueling spots and the like in WWII.  Which OBVIOUSLY came as a total surprise to our glorious Krippled Kunt Kaiser.  

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Anyway, back to Britain.  They perfected the needed combination of private monopoly corporations doing the government and bankers bidding, bankers tying their survival to that of the state and the government whipping the population into line to do all threes peasant work.  If you were Doctor Evil, you couldn’t have come up with a better system.  Unless you perfected shark delivered laser weaponry.  But that would have just been a bonus.  Also, you know I have to add-“Capitalism”!  Yeah, that is what they really mean.  Since England perfected their empire building system.  Private banks, private profit, socialized costs.  Yeah, somebody has to pay the bills.

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We don’t want to accredit too much genius to the Brits empire.  There were ups and downs, learning periods, clueless flailing by inbred royalty, and all the rest.  But by and large in a big picture sort of way, the system cranked along in a generally upward trajectory.  Until it really didn’t any more after a few centuries.  I’m not enough of a hobbyist of the era so I couldn’t pinpoint the apex of the empire, but again, in general, both the Germans and Americans began to eclipse them economically and the handwriting was thereafter on the wall.

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And why were they eclipsed?  Generally, two other areas with less exploited coal reserves had stronger economies because of it.  The US was a strongly agrarian economy until the hydro powered Gott Damn Yankee Puritan Scum militarily defeated that economic power and ushered in an Industrial paradigm on the back of military conquest.  The same could generally be said of Prussia and the many Germanic states.  To this day we suffer from the Confederate defeat, but we also benefit from it in other ways.  It is a two sided coin.  But related to Britain, they suffered from using coal an extra century.

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It isn’t JUST about energy resources.  Russia had more energy than anyone.  But they didn’t have a central bank, nor much of a private corporate economy.  Along with the hardware ( ore and energy ), you need the software ( the best infrastructure using those ).  But energy does still matter a lot.  It can be a general yardstick.  When the US had excess energy, a fourteen year anti-guerrilla campaign in the Philippines does nothing to alter the national treasure.  When we have very little energy left, an eighteen year anti-guerrilla war drains us economically. 

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The First World War was kind to nobody except the US, which profited off the other sides economically, then stepped in when their corpses barely could stand upright and helped itself to the spoils.  But the end of the war did touch each country differently.  Russia was considerably weakened politically, but retained so many resources it was easily able to build a new empire.  It hadn’t used much if any building an Industrial economy, yet.  Germany still had decades worth of coal to rebuild, after it blew off reparations.  Britain though, was almost the weakest.

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Italy didn’t count.  Not then, not prior consolidating and not twenty years later.  They will never matter because Rome used all their soil fertility, and they have few energy or ore supplies.  The French didn’t have as extended or draining of an empire.  It returned less, but it demanded less as well.  Even with South Africa swelling the treasury with gold fifteen years previously, the First World War bankrupted Britain.  And that was mainly because she had already used up her energy stockpile, by and large.  As Rome discovered, money doesn’t help do anything but pad the demise when energy is lacking.

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Despite England producing a lot of hobbyist scholars studying Rome, nothing could have been sufficient warning for the new empire.  Because empires run one way.  Extraction and use.  By definition, that created the empire and sustained it.  Which also kills it.  You can’t stop using energy and conserve it, or you lose your empire a lot sooner.  By using up all your energy, which crashes your empire, you were able to stay in power just a little bit longer.  England’s fate was sealed long before the Great War.  All empires are the same in their growth and death. 

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rome or britain

ROME OR BRITAIN?

America and Rome are sharing some pretty scary parallels.  From the stupidity and immorality of its leaders, to bread and circuses, from the debasement of the currency to the barbarians manning its military in exchange for citizenship ( and the debasement of what it means to be a citizen ).  Big picture, what Rome went through, so will we.  To include, especially, its almost instantaneous flip from limping along to total collapse.  One year still projecting military might and the very next in complete retreat.  Obviously, this isn’t a mirror but a pretty good atlas.  They are our macro picture.

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But what about the micro picture?  I might argue that to get a better handle on the more specific aspects of our economic unravelling, perhaps Britain would be a better model of collapse.  How quickly their economy got into trouble, which lost them their resource base, which accelerated their demise.  Which is what we are already seeing with the US but which mostly delusion, hubris and wishful thinking conceal.  We don’t want to understand how far along the road to ruin we are because everyone’s rice bowl will be cracked.  After nothing can change, denial is the last refuge.

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First, understand that the Industrial Revolution had nothing to do with skin color or Christianity.  China was way ahead of the west in all metrics for a very long time, and the Arabs ( yes, those dirty goat humpers we think of as retarded and dogmatic ) advanced on a technological level while we were still killing evil cats while a plague was underway.  Europeans of yore could be some superstitious and bigoted morons when they made that their New Year’s Resolution.  Hell, how smart are they today, falling for Rothschild’s globalism and letting in Diversity Breeders?

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If you look at Europe PRIOR to letting the Muzzies overrun the place, who were the bright boys that started unlimited immigration?  That would be, mostly, the American’s bitches in power.  Back when we were still an economic powerhouse running roughshod over almost all other countries.  After all, if we hadn’t defeated them we had forced our way in economically or under the guise of saving them from evil Nazis or Evil Commies.  We were the big bully and we wanted things done our way.  We had the currency and resources to make it so.

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But what does that tell you about the collective intelligence of both the US and Europe, which stood by passively and agreed to bend over and get sodomized for our several pieces of silver?  That couldn’t be construed as a bunch of intelligence people, could it?  We allowed cultural disintegration for the profit of the elite, afraid to make any real waves ( I think the leftist peace movement was a false flag op, to disguise our military defeat ) least our piece of the pie disappeared.  We were greedy, not some mythical superior intelligence as we like to believe.

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It isn’t just about “national IQ” or “race IQ”, or a superior civilization ( the Persians and Mongols were pretty good empire builders, and no one would accuse Genghis of acting civilized ).  It is about resources in addition to those factors, and others.  The Industrial Revolution also needed, in one For Instance, to occur at a time of more decentralization as opposed to centralization, in order that a strong war economy stimulated demand and provided government investment.  That is one reason that China, having large coal deposits centuries before England’s discovery, didn’t have its own Revolution first.

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Besides being blinded by Race Superiority, we are also blinded by Philosophy Bias, believing that capitalism alone bestowed upon the West the Industrial Revolution.  I keep trying to tell everyone that capitalism as a religion was the justification sold to the peasants for their subjugation.  Protestantism was the way that religion grasped the economic sea change and divorced itself from the Papists, in order to survive and thrive.  That military conflict in which the Protestants formed their own economy out of the Papists empire was the driving force behind colonialization, which allowed the carbon fuels to kick start the Industrial Revolution.

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It had nothing to do with capitalism or free markets.  It has ALWAYS been about central banks, colonialization, resource control and government stimulus.  Capitalism as a myth, yes, that is a great driving force. It is a great way of turning Protestant religious control into banker, government and corporation control.  The Papists and those religions before them were direct population control for the state.  The new religion was secular or not, as demanded and was the control mechanism for the bankers.  Capitalism was the religion for the non-religious and Protestantism was the religion for the Believers.  Which still sold “capitalism” the religion.

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In our Capitalism mythos, “proven” not by faith but by “science”,  government is merely the corner policeman which runs interference for capitalism.  Which is always Good and Just and Perfect, like God used to be when we were killing off all witches.  Now Government rather than God was the judge, jury and executioner, and just like God was always on the look-out for Unbelievers.  If you don’t believe in Capitalism, you are evil and deserve to be burned at the stake.  Before, the king backed up God.  Now, Capitalism is God and the mob will bay for your death if you don’t believe.

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Which is why the True Believers label The Others as non-Capitalists and call for their blood, and why the non-Capitalists have no clue how retarded they are, being used as dupes by the bankers while they think they fight against the money powers.  It is all rather amusing, in a sad sack sort of way.  But strip aside the religious faith and we have ALWAYS been organized to benefit the elite.  Which invested in the system at the beginning.  Government, banking and the sundry elite have owned this bitch from the beginning, and capitalism was the mask they hid behind.

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And war, NOT capitalism, was the driving force behind innovation and growth.  It was Social Darwinism that enabled us to get to the point where we could actually utilize the brand new carbon fuels that allowed the Industrial Revolution.  Unfortunately, when America won the Second World War, we replaced competition as the new hegemon.  Which started us on the road to centralization.  Which is the death of competition and survival of the fittest.  And it certainly didn’t help that we used up all the resources in that process. 

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All of which is to say, don’t pray to false gods to save you as this collapse unfolds.  Continued tomorrow.

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wheat flour 2

WHEAT FLOUR 2

I should clarify something.  I started grinding my own wheat about two years ago.  It was so much better than store bought whole wheat flour.  Better, as in Tasted Fresh rather than Tasted Semi-Rancid.  But it did NOT taste better as in This Is What Bread Should Taste Like.  We are all used to talcum powder consistency flour.  With my cheap ass mill I was getting flaky and lumpy flour like a peasant with two rocks would get.  So, I loved and craved the freshly milled, but it wasn’t “normal” flour.  It was a chore to eat, and it was a bizarre taste.

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It is like when you go pick dandelion leaves for a salad.  It is loaded with nutrients ( as long as it wasn’t from oil soaked dirt on the side of the road ), compared to factory farmed food which is grown in dead soil and only sees artificial fertilizer.  You want to eat it as your body craves fresh food.  But you have to talk yourself into liking it.  It tastes too weird.  Even with unhealthy ranch dressing it just tastes “off”.  I still love my fresh ground wheat but I didn’t want too much of it every day.

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Store bought flour gives me that “normal” taste.  But it does NOT taste fresh, even milled just a few weeks ago ( okay, I’m ASSUMING.  I assume a one year expiration and that is three weeks shy of a year ).  And as I said, the price premium bothers me.  If I only eat one half cup of that flour a day, a five pound bag lasts me a month ( one quarter cup flour is an even 100 calories ).  But what happens if I go back to my old One Third Of Daily Calories wheat consumption? 

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Then I’m paying almost $4 a week for flour.  The feed store kernels cost a buck.  $2.79 a week cost difference means I waste almost $150 a year.  Who in their right minds thinks this is a good deal?  You are wasting good money, and for an inferior product.  One possible work-around is to substitute White hard wheat for Red hard wheat ( the hard winter wheat has the highest protein content ).  It is slightly easier to grind and delivers a slightly less course flour.  But I am thinking it might be time for an equipment upgrade.

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Now, please do NOT mistake this as an excuse to piss money into a black hole.  The Victoria grain grinder is $44.  When One Is None, you MUST have more than one grain grinder.  Even if it is only capable of delivering course flour, it is cheap enough to buy several ( Chinese versions are half the price.  I don’t recommend unless you are really poor.  Then, do NOT grind with the plates touching.  You will get metal shavings ).  If wheat is almost all of your apocalypse calories, you MUST have back up grinders.

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Come the collapse, if must be you will learn to love course flour.  However, if you are eating a lot of flour now, to free up prep budgets, to improve your flour quality might be necessary to save that money.  You might be forced to upgrade your grinder ( your back-ups can remain the Victoria ).  The store bought WILL increase in price.  Hell, your state might start or increase sales tax on food ( sometimes, feed store grain won’t be taxed-but if it is it will be on a much lower price ).  Should you buy a better grinder?

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Remember, this is for TODAY, pre-collapse.  It is a luxury item in one aspect, but if it gets you eating a lot more whole wheat flour it is an investment.  I hate expensive grinders for the apocalypse, but it could be just fine if you don’t need duplicates.  The best budget mill that gives fine flour is the Wonder Mill brand.  These have a good reputation and are $220-$250.  The manual model and the electric one cost almost the same, so your choice.  But the manual can be converted to bike chain or electric drill driven.

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For an extra fee, of course.  And the replacement steel heads are $50.  So, to get a mill you just use on-grid is $220, but one that can run past the pull date of civilization is more like $330.  I’m only going to be using this mill for a cup of flour a day, if my current use stays the same.  At a savings of $5.50 a month over store bought, it will take me a minimum of forty months to pay off my investment.  Ouch!  I think I’m better off spending just half that amount, for a luxury item.

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I have three Victoria mills and two Chinese knock-offs.  As these are pretty much a lifetime tool, I am only buying this mill as a treat to myself.  It certainly is not a necessity.  I have enough mills as it is.  Far more than enough.  But if I buy it, I’ll be eating more flour.  I won’t treat myself with a four year tool, but one that is paid off in just over a year and a half?  Sure.  The NOL has not one but TWO Kitchenaid’s.  And grinder attachment is only $110.  That I can afford.

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It has some bad reviews on how long it takes to grind flour, and how hot the machine gets.  I think this is people using the 300 watt version of the Kitchenaid ( Artisan model ) rather than the 600 watt machine.  No problem.  I’ll just pre-grind the kernels in my Victoria.  Two passes on course then medium on my manual mill won’t be as difficult as my regular three grinds.  And it will deliver much finer flour.  That is fresh.  The only way I lose on this bet is if the grid goes down prior to that twenty month pay-back.

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And yet, even then, I’m better off with a 300 watt Kitchenaid running off my 1,000 watt inverter and 100 watt solar panels than any other electronic mill needing 1,500 watts of juice.  The pre-manual grind is little more than what I’m doing now ( three grinds now, four grinds later ) and gives me improved flour.  And I’m immune from any grocery store price hikes.  And I’ve gambled comparatively little. 

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wheat flour

WHEAT FLOUR

Today you get a Back To Basics article.  I’m not going to make fun of your silly ass for choosing rice over wheat, or talk about storing wheat, but rather cover the time between now and the actual collapse when stores are still open but your money supply or purchasing power shrinks daily.  Like when I talked about the Air Fryer or other appliances that make bought food cheaper while the grid is still up.  A further exploration of Modern Living Frugally.  I know this won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m contemplating the subject so you get to share.

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To quickly recap, I’m a big advocate of eating whole wheat flour, and a lot of it.  Every day.  Your food budget goes down, your health goes up ( and you poop! ) as does your energy level.  I’ve both unloaded semi-trucks and loaded/unloaded donations for the Food Bank in the thousands of pounds daily, eating nothing but whole wheat for breakfast and lunch.  800 to a thousand calories in wheat is a lot of bread ( microwave bread is also cheap and easy ) and it gives you a LOT of energy.  Mostly because it is real rather than processed food.

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That makes a big difference.  Calories are NOT the same.  If anyone tells you that they are a vile crapsack with the educational level of a purple haired Gender Studies lesbian.  I didn’t want to say “a box of rocks”, as that would have insulted the rocks.  Okay, so moving on, the last couple of years I got a bit lazy on the physical as I delved deeper in the digital.  I concentrated too much on research and writing and not enough on keeping my former levels of Bomb Diggity Ready For The Apocalypse fitness. 

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I’ve turned that around, greatly expanding my cardio ( anyone can do it, just start walking.  Later, walk longer.  Then faster ) from just the exercise bike.  I stopped smoking.  At first I thought, meh, what harm is one cigarette a day?  Then, once I started that cardio seriously, smoking made me feel like crap, big time.  It was easy to quit ( I had smoked just one a day for the last sixteen years, so that made it easy as well ).  Also, I’ve started eating a lot more whole wheat as I once had.

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I’ve constantly improved my diet over the last few years, if for no other reason than my heartburn.  I just wasn’t eating as much whole wheat as when I was working physically all day.  Instead of two cups ( 800 calories ) I was down to a half cup of fresh ground, and then about an equal amount of calories in store bought whole wheat the NOL gets for free at work.  It isn’t the best for you, but better than most eat.  The thing was, I need butter to eat the toast as it tasted like crap with other toppings.

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But, again, heartburn.  I’m better off skipping butter first thing in the morning.  I started eating oatmeal ( yes, the fruit flavored ones.  Not great for you, but I can’t stand the plain stuff ) instead of the toast.  And then I started missing my bread.  Now, I crave and gladly eat my freshly ground whole wheat microwave bread, but only one serving.  The Victoria mill ( used to be “Corona” ) is designed for corn milling, and even grinding three times the end result is NOT fine flour.  It is still rough and lumpy, not pastry flour fine.

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It just doesn’t taste as good.  So I was eating Wal-Mart whole wheat flour.  Again, not really good for you.  You should, optimally, eat ground wheat within a few days.  I keep mine in the fridge immediately after grinding.  Store bought whole wheat has an expiration date of a year ( it used to be six months, then they changed it to save money ).  So, it is slightly rancid as a matter of course.  No where near as bad as brown rice, obviously, but not the healthiest.  It was just Healthy Enough.

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Wal-Mart used to not only sell whole wheat flour with a six month expiration, they also had really, REALLY cheap flour.  White was $1.50-$1.75 and whole wheat was $2.50 ( the brand was something like “Hungarian Mountain” ).  I was going through near a bag a week, and I didn’t worry about the cost as that was peanuts compared to meat or butter.  So, while working a job I used the store bought flour.  Yeah, grinding that much myself would have been a bitch.  And, it wouldn’t have tasted as good.  Whole wheat flour and water, microwaved, tastes bad enough as it is.

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A fine flour tastes completely different than a course flour.  It almost tastes like a different food.  I didn’t even realize this until now, eating one serving of each the same day.  I use the course flour for the fresh food and the store bought fine flour for calories and filler.  I just started doing this again, having procured a bag of flour at Wal-Mart.  It is a different brand, and much more expensive.  Almost $4.  They don’t carry the Hungarian brand anymore.  Sure, it is in plastic instead of paper, which helps.  And it was milled this month, which REALLY helps.

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But!  Four Damn Dollars!  What am I, Rockefeller?  Right now, this is no big deal.  $4 a month, okay.  Even though feed store wheat kernels would cost $1, the $3 a month difference won’t kill me except for the philosophical blow of paying someone for something I’m capable of doing.  And it is really only $2.79 difference, if I want to talk myself into it.  But what about later?  The cost already went up 50%, for the store bought ( the feed store cost actually decreased ).  Will it keep going up?  I needed to find a better way.

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Continued tomorrow

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is optimism a good plan?

IS OPTIMISM A GOOD PLAN?

If I asked you the question, “is wishful thinking a good prepping plan?”, you would probably chuckle right alongside me in deriding any deluded fool that thought a “I have a good feeling about today” attitude would help as the Four Horsemen were unleashed upon the land.  You would probably agree with me that Happy Thoughts don’t replace healthy skepticism and paranoid planning.  And yet, because Morons Is As Morons Does, most folks act-not jawbone, babble, daydream or plan-but they ACT like Gott Damn Optimistic Ollies.  You would think Wishful Thinking was their co-pilot. 

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I won’t even touch that crap about “if you could only have one book it would be the Bible”.  Hell, if I could only have one book I’d probably pick “Caveman Chemistry”.  Not to denigrate anyone’s faith.  As I’ve said many times before, I envy those who have religion to comfort them.  But to rely on God?  To think of him as “your co-pilot”?  God helps those who help themselves, and The Golden Rule, those are the only things you really need to know.  He doesn’t have time for your pathetic ass using him as a crutch. 

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Don’t think, hey, can you help me out here?  Give me the strength to persevere?  How about earning that, rather than begging for it?  Just saying.  I only bring this up because it seems at times that religion is used as a form of wishful thinking.  If your faith is strong enough, the way will be shown.  Well, call me a cynic or blind to your ways, but it seems to me that a better way would be to know The Way NOW.  And the way, my misguided pilgrims, is sweet paranoia.  What could go wrong, as long as you don’t burn bridges?

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Burning your bridges is kind of obvious.  Just go to YouTube and watch any episode of Doomsday Preppers.  Those idiots take a great thing in paranoia and turn it into Full Retard.  Actually, their bigger problem is that they are Yuppie Scum Preppers and so they overspend.  But they are so paranoid ( yes, I know, in a “fake, reality show” kind of way.  It is all scripted, or at least Propaganda Directed ) they want to be prepared for the worst.  Which is good.  But overspending, they can only pick ONE threat.  Over prepping for that makes them look stupid.

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Which seems to be the whole point of the show, in discrediting the movement.  Since they make money on it, helping out their comrades on the left is just a bonus.  Not that preppers need much help discrediting themselves.  They give the opposition plenty of ammunition.  Like, when they don’t have much ammunition.  The whole reason I flew off the handle this morning was after trolling Rawles and I came across one of his “prepper profiles”.  I actually love those, as it shows what huge fortunes are buying for survivalism ( the article was around the beginning of this month ).

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Just skimming, the retired couple was paying $3k a year in property tax ( you know, because in southern California that rural property tax is such a bargain ).  Under guns, it was “too numerous to mention”.  And then under ammunition, “$10k total”.  Wait, what?  Even if you only had twenty guns, which isn’t hard to do as I have nine and I’m both poor and almost never buy any, that is only 500 rounds per firearm.  Since my wager is on a lot of that being rimfire, most guns other than 22’s probably have about a hundred rounds each. 

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And this is a guy that has the retirement investments needed to pay California property taxes.  We won’t even talk about surviving in the state.  I wouldn’t want to do it, but it also cannot be considered impossible.  Just ill advised.  Even being a Yuppie Scum Survivalist, only prepped for an earthquake and absolutely nothing else ( I was so astonished with his ammo stats I didn’t even get to his food stockpile.  I shudder to contemplate ), just the fact you are living in California should mean you have a heck of a lot more ammunition on hand.

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The way that crap stain of a state is moving, ALL ammunition will be illegal or with a one thousand percent tax soon enough.  This guy doesn’t seem to have one paranoid thought bouncing around an empty skull.  Or, being Cali, he is so cowed by his Little Women threatening ruinous divorce he dared not prepare to any meaningful degree.  Most likely, though, he is simply reflected the soft skull thinking required to live there.  Hey, if you have plans, solid plans, to escape, no hate from me.  If the escape is just wishful thinking, consider me hateful.

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If you are just working one more year to your retirement, or have land elsewhere, no harm.  But most people who live there are brainwashed into thinking it is a great place.  I’ve known people living here in Elko working for the mines that whine and moan about missing California.  Thankfully, with the mine industry imploding ( did I already mention Newmont and Barrick forming a joint venture for a single operation here?  Next step, actual bankruptcy ) we will soon be free from those idiots.  Sure, I used to be them.  But in the 80’s!

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No one can possibly believe that 100-500 rounds of ammunition is good enough for one gun, and still be a prepper.  And no, I do not buy into the argument that you’ll never need that much ammunition since you’ll be killed right away.  If you think that way, you are NOT a pessimist.  You are NOT cynical.  Your wishful thinking HOPES that you die soon enough so you’ll be spared the expense of buying that ammo.  The ammo is just in case you don’t die.  You need to be paranoid enough for worst case, and that is, “I’ll need more ammo than I thought”. 

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And if you die?  In theory, a family or tribal member can use it.  And if not?  What do you care?  You’re dead.  But if you are still alive, against all odds, wouldn’t you feel pretty retarded with only a hundred rounds of ammo and only three hundred pounds of wheat left?  Renting, not buying but just renting on streaming service a brand new release movie can cost you more than a fifty pound sack of wheat.  Which feeds you over a month.  I know some of you are discretionary funds poor.

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I understand that.  I’ve been married to a ball buster that took my entire paycheck ( yeah, even when I was the only one working ), and I’ve been married to a whining shrew that would not shut the hell up unless I continued to shove alcohol down her throat ( thank all the gods for the current NOL.  We just had our fourth anniversary.  And I’ve never been happier.  Can’t you tell from my attitude? J ).  So I understand about being too poor to prep.  As long as you try your best and never pretend you have enough.

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Hoping for the best is the worst plan.  I know I am right about a total collapse, a 99.9% die-off and a centuries long Dark Age.  I have zero doubts.  The odds are good I might not live to see that.  But that doesn’t mean I HOPE that is the case and plan for that better outcome.  No, I plan for the worse case, which is it all falls off the cliff tomorrow.  Living in Nevada, you see an entire gambling culture.  It is pretty easy to see how often the house wins.  Don’t bet against the house.

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People bet they will have a job in thirty years, working at the mine to pay off a high mortgage.  Not as bad as California, as few places are.  But a starter house is over $200k.  To get under that, you buy an old ass mobile home.  Sure, it is on a foundation, but that is the most solid part of the paperboard house.  Yet they go for $150-$175k.  Talk about wishful thinking, both in the mortgage AND hoping that pig humper lasts as long as the mortgage.  People bet most of their paychecks that they will win playing slots in the casino.

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For those with me the longest, you recall I worked at that department fifteen years ago.  At first they had the old mechanical coin slot machines, but they quickly went to all digital.  We had access to player data as they used their rewards cards gambling.  Almost everyone lost money, big time.  My stepmom, doing better than most, winning prizes and bragging of her wins, was up a mere ten percent her best year.  That was on tens of thousands of dollars ( granted, she was replaying the winnings ).  The rest were losing.  The house ALWAYS wins.

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Don’t gamble, dumbass.

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