guest article-post 1 of 2 today

GUEST ARTICLE, post 1 of 2 today
*
Another wonderful one from John Wilder.  Thanks bro!
***

peev2c6 -post 2 of 2 today

PEEv2c6 ( post 2 of 2 today )

How Much Food Should You Store

Wow, you poor deluded fool. You are simply SO cute, sitting there all smug with your one years food supply, the shelves groaning under the weight of MRE's and canned meat. Which is fine, if you are old and going to die soon. If, however, your plan involves stocking enough food just in case you live longer than you think mathematically possible, one year ain't dingus or diddly squat. It is merely a trial run for a real stockpile. The problem with a one years supply is that it belongs to the early Cold War years where it likely originated.

*

( Or, it could have been the Mormons fault, although I have no idea how far back their food storage doctrine goes. If it was back in, say, WWII, would church members have gotten away with hoarding food? Or, did the church just put a moratorium on the practice for those four years? Was it in response to modern social upheaval, nuclear war, or was it always a practice going back to the hostile attacks against members prior to them settling their current territory? Much is made of the Mormon Massacre of Union troops, but few mention the deaths by other “tolerant” religions in their prior settlements )

*

Back in the 50's, there was a lot more reason to be all Optimistic Ollie, even with the scare of the rice eaters almost eating our lunch in Korea. We had just colonized nearly half the globe. We were importing oil instead of exporting it, but that was okay because the dollar really was the king, not like today where it is merely the de facto Least Worst ( for now-no guarantees as the petrodollar is rejected and supplanted ). It was actually feasible to think the Global Factory could rebuild after a nuclear exchange.

*

Who needed more than a few months of food, in that case? If you had a year of food, you were REALLY paranoid. After all, the government did actually have surplus and could hire talent and intelligence as needed. A nation of factory hands could get 'er done. A nation under the rule of lawyers only knows how to steal and disguise and play victim. Not to say the embryo of today's problems weren't present then. After all, blue blood east coast asswhores were still in charge. They just didn't have to squeeze the turnip to get to the blood, as they do now. There was more than enough to go around.

*

As the 60's saw the coup by the bankers, written in JFK's brains on the pavement ( the rich douches in Texas buying an admission ticket into the old British royals domain of rule, but quickly learning their state was to be sacrificed to the very bankers as Alaskan oil bankrupted them, and now today the Blue Wave ), the old generation of fallout shelter Yuppie Scum suddenly had economic competition from gold bugs and others who suddenly saw the possibility of longer term disruption and a discontinuation of the governments ability to fix things after a disaster.

*

It is hard to remember today, but recessions used to actually be very serious affairs. The only reason they are ignored today is because EVERY day is a recession and when another one is “proved” mathematically, nothing changes from the everyday fecal sandwich we are already snaking on. Back in the Sixties, after almost twenty years of full employment and stable prices, the recession, or at least fears thereafter, was a HUGE motivator behind those turning into survivalists. Do you think American Blacks actually going full Mau-Mau during the Hippie Salad Days calmed them down after the economic scare?

*

Does it need repeating that the fully televised war in Vietnam could have been seen as the actual colonial empire crashing, even long before the conflict was officially lost? Remember that 1959 date, where US iron ore peaked, and the newly built Korean and Japanese steel mills were already taking business away from our economy ( and the US gov helped not at all, by encouraging these investments in foreign factories, as an anti-communist measure )? Survivalism got a lot more real, economically. By the 80's, at the peak of global nuclear warheads, folks already knew a war meant everyone died. Look at the success of the dire TV movies on that subject, at that time.

*

Nuclear war was only survivable by the rich kids, able to build a LONG TERM shelter ( as opposed to an expedient one prior-although plenty of folks still tried to sell the Po Boy shelter idea, you pretty much knew it wasn't feasible with the fallout from THAT many bombs ). But economic collapse? It was already here. It only took the 70's disasters to make everyone aware of it. The survivalists already knew before that. And yet. The myth, the fable, the legend of the Mighty One Year Stockpile Of Food persisted. Rarely if ever was there a deviation from this expectation. One year was simply the standard.

*

Now, granted, back then the assumption of trapping and hunting and farming rural land was MUCH more realistic. There were far less people, everywhere. No immigrants taking the crappy little jobs you could still get at mom and pop businesses out in tiny little towns, before they died economically. You actually probably could find enough wild game, with less population. Outside the cities there was almost no crime ( ruined after crack was introduced, and I imagine it had some help ).

*

( Remember the 90's and the Black Ghetto crack cocaine epidemic? You don't think that didn't have a little help, from outside forces, say, intelligence agencies? What makes you think it was natural for economically displaced Whites to suddenly, after decades of decline, turn to one of the most destructive drugs around? I think they got a “helping hand” also. War against the rural areas by the urban elite, because closing lumber mills and coal mines under ecological auspices wasn't enough )

*

You probably COULD have successfully farmed unmolested back then. Something most Homesteaders don't have a clue about. Safe farming in the boonies ended with crack addicts and banks hemorrhaging money ( we are ALREADY in a bank liquidity crises. If you think this ends well, I have a bridge I'd simply love to sell you. Low money down, too! ). Its only saving grace is that is is LESS dangerous than the cities and suburbs ( despite the occasional rural home invasion where nobody can hear you scream, in my opinion. In the city, they CAN hear you scream. And do nothing anyway )

*

Back then, I can forgive the sloppiness of ONLY having one years food stockpile. Not any more! I'll continue tomorrow.

( .Y. )

( today's related Amazon link click HERE )

*
note: I can't believe I forgot the most fabulous two minutes in claymation cinematic history, The Predator Holiday Special HERE 
*

Please support Bison by buying through the Amazon links here ( or from http://bisonprepper.com/2.html or www.bisonbulk.blogspot.com ). Or PayPal www.paypal.me/jimd303 

*** Unless you are in extreme poverty, spend a buck a month here, by the above donation methods ( I get 4% of the Amazon sale, so you need to buy $25 worth for me to get my $1 ) or mail me some cash/check/money order or buy a book ( web site for free books, Amazon to pay just as a donation vehicle ).

*** My e-mail is: jimd303@reagan.com My address is: James M Dakin, 181 W Bullion Rd #12, Elko NV 89801-4184 ***E-Mail me if you want your name added to the weekly e-newsletter subscriber list.

*** Pay your author-no one works for free. I’m nice enough to publish for barely above Mere Book Money, so do your part.*** junk land under a grand *  Lord Bison* my bio & biblio* my web site is www.bisonprepper.com *** Wal-Mart wheat***Amazon Author Page
* By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there

guest post-post 1 of 2 today

GUEST POST
Dog bless you John Wilder ( his site is HERE )
***

peev2c5

PEEv2c5

Water Filter

Well, technically, water purification. Now, before I start, I want everyone to know, if you EVER write an article or do a podcast or film a video, for the love of all that is holy and just, please, I beg you, shut the hell up about “without water you'll die in three days, water is more important than food”. Ah, NO, no it is not, not in the way you are presenting it. There are only a few spots on Earth where there is going to be absolutely no water, that you cannot easily plan for it. Water is heavy and hard to store, but it is also much easier to get than food.

*

With food, you must fight all animals, to include your fellow man, to grab those calories. Water? It is rare it is fought over on a daily basis ( a generational basis, or the very rare war when a Fifty Year Famine happens, sure ). With water, even in the desert, you can easily store enough where there is no immediate danger ( never rely on a well that needs a pump, and never have only ONE storage container ). With water, it is everywhere, even if the rain isn't due for several months ( UBC totes are cheap and universal, they are your friends ).

*

Food? It can be several thousand miles away. Stop acting like a pussy, take a few precautions, stop wasting water like a middle class American in Phoenix watering a golf course, and water will be a non-issue. Having said that, you need to treat it. I prefer boiling and pasteurization, followed in preference by a filter. Last on the list is bleach which, yes, I drink everyday from town water, but which will also eventually runs out ( to my mind, a bigger consideration than the health risks ). I stock the equipment for all methods.

*

Back-up for your back-ups. Boiling, it is hard to screw up or to spend too much on. It is never a bad idea to have extra pots and pans from the thrift store ( as well as kitchen knives ). In the winter, the fire is probably always going during waking hours, and so this method is essentially free. My home in the high desert sees cold weather six to eight months a year, but it is also the high desert. Sage brush is the only fuel. Luckily it is also sunny a lot. If wood is scarce and it is cloudy, I have plenty of filters.

*

A note on boiling. Everyone says, boil away for X minutes per thousand feet of elevation. I've read research ( thanks to minion recommendation ) that suggests this is unnecessary. Just as with pasteurization-see below-all that needs to be done is for water to be hot enough long enough. The process of bringing the water up to a boil is hot enough long enough. Bring TO a rolling boil, no need to keep it going that way. TO a boil, and you are done. If this makes you uncomfortable, well, just stick to tradition.

*

Another tool for boiling is to pre-heat the water in a solar oven. No need to spend mega-bucks buying a factory one. Just look at all the advertisements to get ideas and make your own. They won't be as efficient, but they will be cheap ( and in my location, won't blow away in the wind ). Most days, the water will even be hot enough long enough to be ready to drink after it is pasteurized. This just means hot enough for a long enough period of time. Get yourself a WAPI.

*

A WAPI is a WA ter P asteurization I ndicator. It is a glass tube with soy wax inside that melts once hot enough ( there is a probe attached, the tube itself doesn't go in the water ). It is caveman simple. A bit high at $10 each, but they do sell a three pack for about $23 with free shipping at Amazon. And, don't break it and it lasts forever. There are no filters to clog or moving parts to break ( except a metal wire-which is why you ALWAYS have a back up ). I know there is a technique they advise in the tropics with a plastic bottle on a dark roof. Just buy the WAPI unit, to be safe.

*

Next up are actual filters, of which I recommend two. There are fancier and more expensive, but I don't focus on chemical treatment, just biological. To me, post-apocalypse, we are dealing with radioactivity from 400 nuclear power plants melting down. Other than a sand filter, I'm not sure what anyone expects to do to filter this out. It seems you would need a LOT of chemical filters. And they would be glowing in the dark due to the concentration. As such, I pretty much throw up my hands in bewilderment, shake my head at the futility, and just throw the dice.

*

I know this upsets you, and you want answers to everything. I just look at it like a bullet from an ambush. If it is going to get you, what can you do? Why worry? Okay, to the filters. Sawyer, because $20 each ( I've been told your Kroger might have them for $17, if they carry a camping section ), and not just $20, but 100k gallons. At this price you can easily afford back-ups. A better filter would be a Katadyn. Alas, $70 and “only” 13k gallons, but you can make a homemade Berky counter top unit out of it.

*

Nothing easier. Two five gallon buckets, one with a lid. Drill a hole in the middle of the lid, and in the middle of the bottom of one ( just enough to drop element nipple through ). Screw the filter element in place in the drilled bucket. Place on top of the other bucket which has the lid on it. Pour in water, it drips through the top to the bottom. Done. I don't see why you would actually buy a Berky, unless the wife insists on a nice looking stainless steel unit, for $300, instead of a redneck plastic version for $80. I've read that the Berky elements don't last as long, but also that they do indeed with regular cleaning. I just like Katadyn, because Swiss.

*

I've stored the Katadyn element through many cold winters and the rubber gasket is still good. However, replacements just in case are never a bad idea. You can use garden hose size rubber washers, so stock up on those as a back-up gasket. They sell a sheet of them for just a few bucks. Otherwise, your $70 investment is endangered.

*

I've read you can use an unglazed flower pot that does the same thing. If there is a hole in the bottom, seal with a coffee saucer from the thrift store ( silicon caulking should do it ). Yet, I've also read not all pots work. So definitely just buy one and experiment before stocking up. This now leaves the least desirable, but cheap enough it is silly to NOT have it ( worse case, just use it for topical skin disinfectant. I've had an infected dog bite I successfully treated with nightly bleach water soaking ), bleach powder. You do NOT want to count of liquid bleach from the store. It returns to salt water in as little as six to twelve months.

*

Basically, you use “pool shock” to make a concentrated solution that then treats water. I must give credit to Rawles for first publishing this ( his other great one was table salt from water softener. Just make sure it is sodium chloride and NOT potassium chloride. Of course, it lacks iodine ). You just need the right brand of shock, and the correct amounts. I'll just direct you to two web pages rather than repeating:

*

https://survivalblog.com/?s=pool+shock+to+purify+drinking+water

*

https://www.backdoorsurvival.com/how-to-use-pool-shock-to-purify-water/

*

In short, for $20 to $30, you have so many gallons of bleach ( always make fresh, as needed ) you'll think they will last several lifetimes. It is a Better Than Nothing alternative, and as I mentioned, medicinal. It can't hurt to have the stuff.

( .Y. )

( today's related Amazon link click HERE )

*

Please support Bison by buying through the Amazon links here ( or from http://bisonprepper.com/2.html or www.bisonbulk.blogspot.com ). Or PayPal www.paypal.me/jimd303 

*** Unless you are in extreme poverty, spend a buck a month here, by the above donation methods ( I get 4% of the Amazon sale, so you need to buy $25 worth for me to get my $1 ) or mail me some cash/check/money order or buy a book ( web site for free books, Amazon to pay just as a donation vehicle ).

*** My e-mail is: jimd303@reagan.com My address is: James M Dakin, 181 W Bullion Rd #12, Elko NV 89801-4184 ***E-Mail me if you want your name added to the weekly e-newsletter subscriber list.

*** Pay your author-no one works for free. I’m nice enough to publish for barely above Mere Book Money, so do your part.*** junk land under a grand *  Lord Bison* my bio & biblio* my web site is www.bisonprepper.com *** Wal-Mart wheat***Amazon Author Page
* By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there

looo, seeeeers 3

LOOO, SEEEEERS 3

War is what we as a species do. We do it not because we are evil or stupid, but because it is a survival trait. If some theory from some lame ass violates human nature or biology, it is BS. An agenda. Gore Warming? Man is tribal, and cooperation is a military strategy. You get along, to buy time until the next war. I could offer to suck my own ass on live TV if the globe ever cooperated on “reducing emissions”, and I would feel under no pressure I'd ever be forced into said compromised position.

*

Granted, we all WILL reduce pollution, except from nuclear power plants melting down, or nuclear war, but it will be because my brother by another mother Hubbert was never wrong and we are running out of oil. It won't be because of cooperation. Mankind WILL fight and die, over resources, forever. We are naked apes, and will always act like one. No amount of poetry or philosophy or scientific marvels will ever change that. To act as if we can evolve into non-combatants is stupidity, and I can tell you, the VERY proof war is eminent.

*

Here is the deal. A government uses citizens. That is what they do. Most of the time, citizens also use government, to avoid rapine from other governments, so it is okay. But once they start failing, from lack of resources, they always turn on its people. They never go quietly into the good night. Now, given that, what are you going to try to tell the citizens? Are you going to tell them they are double dry dog dingus humped, very shortly? No! They push the narrative about how we are civilized and evolved and conflict is no longer necessary, and they offer “proof” of such from their bought and paid for Opinion Molders.

*

It isn't JUST political correctness that makes the male castration, both culturally and chemically ( yes, dammit, I AGREE that soy is pure poison, I only make the case if that is the only protein you can afford, it is better than nothing ), so desirable. It underlies the propaganda that all is well, nothing to see here, move along. That is less bodies to oppose their turning upon the citizens, and lulls the potential warriors to sleep. If combat and aggressiveness are “unnatural”, you are trained to be meek and accepting of authority. The same authority trying to kill you.

*

This is the narrative that tells you, oh, so many wars are unnecessary. Why did we ever fight over a duke being assassinated. So unnecessary. We were so civilized. Look at all the poetry that came out of the trenches! Nobody waits until famine to go to war, if they can help it. By and large, WWI was fought because of the lack of growth, not any deprivation. The globe had been colonized. And Britain was already failing economically, having maxed out her resource drain ( the problem with a large central bank is near the end when they suck up more resources. But you keep using them because they do win you colonies ).

*

All the nations went to war because they needed growth to win, a repeat of the ages long agricultural empires growing or dying for six thousand years. They just had industry making the carnage higher. And the cost of losing or even winning far too high. The same is repeating now, on far more micro scales, as no one has the energy or ore to repeat a world war. WWII was a war to see who got to control the oil until it ran out. That was us, mostly. Russia got the booby prize. And now the oil is running out. Far later for Russia, as she has no empire to protect. Now, for us.

*

And when I say “now”, I don't mean the oil is gone next year. I mean that in a sense of the war over colonies. War PRIOR to running out of resources, BEFORE famine or other social breakdown. Not to say the oil will last another century. For the US, as soon as fracking falters, along with the petrodollar failure, we crash, hard. Guerrilla bands fight each other, to secure the oil areas, acting as the military to secure that oil for the Federals or foreign occupiers. Just as in Africa. But that isn't the point. The same happens to farming areas.

*

Do you think African Country X is full of citizens benefiting from Chinese food production? Of course not. The biggest warlord took over the country, and rented out land to the Chinese. If citizens starve, oh well. That is USA 2030. Or mines, or oil or whatever is worth the price to protect. You see, we are going to war PRIOR to the resource running out. That is how all wars work. So, you might be thinking, hey, no one is going to war over owning semi-automatic rifles, it is NOT about that superficial political issue.

*

It is about resources. Because they are diminishing, they must be fought over BEFORE they run out. Killing off half the population feeds the remaining half much better. But wars are always fought over superficial causes. The idiot masses need a simplistic reason. Their monkey minds just follow the lead ape, and any excuse will do. Even the lead ape doesn't need to know WHY now the fighting started, as he is just profiting. But greed is a survival trait. Greed is indeed good. It wins resources for the strongest. It is programming, and no one needs to be smart enough to understand the underlying mechanics.

*

The reason it is important for YOU to understand it is, you can more easily foretell the event. An “inexplicable” conflict is coming ( it has already started ) not because “reasons” stated but because we are running out of resources. We HAVE been running out, except no one wants to admit that because “energy independence” and “America Empire Uber Alles”. And yet, most of you are ready to go fight for “freedom” ( yeah, in a land of indefinite detention without charges ), against communists. Except a few smarter hermits, of course.

*

Every Latino allowed in, because “profit from reduced wages” and every Muzzie shown the red carpet because “profit from divide and conquer”, all guarantee a coming conflict. This isn't anything that needed planning. One day, simply, resource availability reach that magic X spot and conflict between opposing groups begins. Over any excuse. This isn't something you can time. Which is why you prepare in advance. And once it starts, it snowballs. You can't stop it.

*

Already, the police cannot keep Muzzies from breaking the law of OUR land. Already, the Feds cannot control the states ( marijuana, imigration, infectious disease control ). Already, group is pitted against group. The system is already overwhelmed just from crime and cultural breakdown. Outright insurgency? No hope in hell of containing it. And we all get sucked in. Then, because of centralization's infrastructure destruction ( it is already falling apart ), centralized food and fuel fail and we are all looking at mass casualties.

*

Interesting times. I tell you what.

( .Y. )

( today's related Amazon link click HERE )

*
note: If you go over to the Amazon Prime page, the movies and TV, scroll on down.  You'll see a category "IMDb TV".  It has TV shows to buy, or you can select "free with ads".  You'll find, amazingly, "The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season Two".  On a 45 minute show, there were 6 minutes of commercials.  I can't say I was as impressed as Season One.  The first one had a near identical vibe as the first movie, foreboding and dark.  This second season doesn't seem to have that.  For one, the background music clashed rather than complimented.  I could be wrong as I watch more episodes.
*
note: on Netflix, there is a PA movie "It Comes At Night".  It is NOT horror, although I think they were trying to market it as such.  Just the realistically portrayed hard choices during a plague.  Don't get turned off by the obvious head-up-ass directing ( no front sight on the rifle, in a very wet forest, the character is begging for water, they get a flat ON A PICKUP TRUCK and he asks "is the spare in the trunk?", the guns are in the safe, there is only one exit to the house ).  I thought the pay off at the end was worth the watch.  
*
note: free for today books, alien invasion, HERE 
*
note: yet another bank warning.  There was more than a few direct deposit failures in the big banks, such as Citi.  Could be hackers, could be something much worse-cough, liquidity, cough.  Use your own judgement-I won't leave more in my account than I can afford to lose. 
* 

Please support Bison by buying through the Amazon links here ( or from http://bisonprepper.com/2.html or www.bisonbulk.blogspot.com ). Or PayPal www.paypal.me/jimd303 

*** Unless you are in extreme poverty, spend a buck a month here, by the above donation methods ( I get 4% of the Amazon sale, so you need to buy $25 worth for me to get my $1 ) or mail me some cash/check/money order or buy a book ( web site for free books, Amazon to pay just as a donation vehicle ).

*** My e-mail is: jimd303@reagan.com My address is: James M Dakin, 181 W Bullion Rd #12, Elko NV 89801-4184 ***E-Mail me if you want your name added to the weekly e-newsletter subscriber list.

*** Pay your author-no one works for free. I’m nice enough to publish for barely above Mere Book Money, so do your part.*** junk land under a grand *  Lord Bison* my bio & biblio* my web site is www.bisonprepper.com *** Wal-Mart wheat***Amazon Author Page
* By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there

PEEv2c4

PEEv2c4

Grinding Flour

*

( please excuse this article. I'll continue with yesterday's series, tomorrow. I actually got a bit excited with the second and third part of this rewrite, seeing as how much better it is turning out than the original )

*

Once upon a time, there were poor peasants that needed to grind their own corn, but didn't have disposable income to buy junk that would fall apart, like the Americans buy. A company built a cast iron grinder, chrome plated, that was something that lasted a very long time indeed. It was called the Corona mill, not to be confused with the beer. Hippies back in the 70's got hold of this mill and started using it for grinding bread, in a desperate attempt at eating anything other than Wonder Bread ( it was wonderful. Tasting. Not so much healthy. It is fine, if you also get whole wheat grain in other products, but not as the sole source of wheat ).

*

As a wee lad, skinny as the fish wife's screed is long, I was grinding away on that Corona as part of my chores, so that mom could bake whole wheat bread. Yet, grown ass men, mighty and macho, FLIR mounted AR's ready to do battle with communist hoards, are deathly afraid of manual labor. They break out in night sweats at the prospect. Of course, being at the cusp of Frail Fricking Grampahood myself, I'll be nice and assume you are just too old and gimpy to use a manual grinder of the Corona variety and give you alternatives.

*

Now, as an aging prepper myself, I need you to understand something. Once you get TOO old, you are going to die. Not from old age, although there is that also, but from the apocalypse not being kind to old people under the influence of drugs. After a certain point, no tool is going to save you from yourself and your used up body. I'm not saying you should quit fighting, just that, surprisingly, we are all going to die. Have the grace to accept that, I beg of you. If you are so old that you are drooling through the gaps in your dentures, a motorized grinder is probably not enough to save you.

*

So, here, you get EASIER grinders, but you don't get electrical grinders. I'm not going to recommend them, because I've never used them ( I'm now using an attachment to the KitchenAid, but that is not viable after the collapse. I just use it now to get extra fine flour, as I deserve that after eating 25% of my calories in whole wheat. Eat what you store, store what you eat. BUT! I also grind manually in the Corona prior to using the attachment, to save wear on the motor. I'm still performing the manual labor ). If you want one, everyone else and his brother reviews them for preppers.

*

Spoiled bitches. Okay, back to the Corona. The thing can last a lifetime. But you NEVER have one of anything. One is none. You can stockpile lesser quality items, but never NOT have some kind of back-up. Thousands of pounds of wheat and you only have ONE grinder? Are you friggin insane? The Corona is now called the Victoria. And it is made in Colombia now rather than Mexico. Yeah, sorry, in a lot of ways their economy was better than ours, in growth and functionality, until their oil production failed one year too many ( it was declining 6-8% a year, for about a decade ). Workers in the US were returning to jobs there in 2009.

*

That is our future, however much the Fracking Fanboys insist, their faces going red as they begin to shake uncontrollably, looking like a dog trying to pass a peach pit. Reality is not destined to be kind to 99.999% of Americans as they die a horrible death based mostly on ignorance and wishful thinking. Now, here is the thing about the Victoria. It was designed, surprisingly, to grind corn. Not wheat. You must grind wheat three times. Course, medium and fine. Looking at your mounted grinder, close the wheels all the way. You NEVER use that setting. Grinding metal on metal, or stone and stone, you destroy a grinder.

*

Those plates touching is about 7 o'clock, visualized as a clock, a real clock, before digital. Unwind the plates, to 9 o'clock. That is your fine setting. 12 is your medium and 3 is your course. One grind on course, one of medium, and one on fine. That is your Victoria grinder flour. It is NOT a fine, pastry flour. It is a course flour. You cannot escape that. It is for peasants, not spoiled bitches. But the grinder is ONLY $42! And lasts a lifetime! You can buy $22 grinders, from the same place, Amazon ( adjusted for inflation, the Victoria's used to be a LOT more expensive. You SHOULD be thankful ).

*

But those $22 units are from China. Not a culture that embraces quality manufacture. Sure, buy them as back-up's, but I don't trust the chrome plating, myself. I got two or three when they were $15 each, plus a special on shipping, and at that price I won't complain if they are crap. But I also have several Victoria's for REAL back-up's. The China crap is probably more for barter, like those crappy plastic AR mag's. Or soy flour. Better than nothing, but not something to bet your life on if you can help it.

*

I swear by Victoria's, but they are a lot of labor, and they make marginal flour. To get a better flour, finer, with far less work, there is this mill:

https://amzn.to/2Pnb0Z3

It is a small skinny unit, easily stored, with a rectangle hopper, sometimes called the Victorio ( not to be confused with the above ), but here called the VKP1012. It has been near twenty years since I had one, but they were SOOOooo much easier than a Corona, with much finer flour. BUT!

*

When I used it, and I'm sure it is the same today, it contained a plastic washer that you could see dropping little shaving of as you were grinding. This might only be on the fine grind, rather than course, but I liked the unit because it was a ONE use grind. So, I had to worry about plastic washers being used up on a regular basis ( which is why I got rid of it ). Now, here is the page for the replacement washers:

http://www.victorioproducts.com/parts/grain-mill-vkp1014/nylon-washer

*

The unit is only $65 at Amazon ( more at the above site-make sure the Amazon unit takes the Victorio parts ), which isn't terrible for a one pass grinder and fine flour. And the washers are only $2 each. But how long do they last? That was an unknown to me, and worried me. Your mileage may vary. Moving on to a far more expensive unit, here is one:

https://amzn.to/35pcQyo

This is the Wondermill, one I've never used but recommended by others I trust. It is not for me, as I'll explain, but it is certainly better than spending twice as much.

*

It does come with a bicycle attachment as an optional extra purchase, to me a far more realistic option than electric power. And it is $260 instead of $500. BUT! The fine pastry flour seems to need the stone inserts. I hate stone for grinders. I don't trust them to last ( to my mind, more fragile ), and a replacement set is $60. More than an entire Corona mill. Now, if you want stone for the Corona:

https://www.nazko.com/corona_stone_kit.html

I've had readers point me out to stone inserts for the Corona at half that price, and I don't trust them. The company offering them looks shady ( why aren't you upgrading the web site from 1999? ).

*

But, again, your mileage may vary. I don't want to tell you NOT to buy the Wonder Mill. As I said, a trusted source uses that as a primary, with Corona back-up. I'm just sharing my fears. If you want bulletproof, you go with Corona ( now Victoria, but I stayed with Corona to avoid confusion with the grinder with washers ). NOT the Chinese knock offs, except as barter or back-up. If you want a better flour, for not too much more money ( and, far easier to use, grandma ), you'll need to deal with the replacement washer issue. If you want better flour at a price, but less robustness, and more labor than the washer unit, there is the Wonder Mill or Corona Stone.

*

If you JUST want pastry flour cheap, for now to Eat What You Store ( but it won't last through the apocalypse, because 12v batteries ), I recommend the KitchenAid attachment ( and duh, obviously you also need to first own a KitchenAid ), here:

https://www.ebay.com/b/KitchenAid-Grain-Mills/168754/bn_7542516

( I can't recommend this from Amazon, as they went from $115 to $150 )

*

( .Y. )

( today's related Amazon link click HERE )

*
note: HB in SC-most extreme generous snail mail donation, many thanks.
*
note: I was gifted a music CD which is of Bill Douglass.  I'm really not all that into music, but it seemed the guy was talented even if not my bag, baby.  Two songs that stood out were "Far Cry From Freedom" and, even more relevant to minions, "End Of The World".  Music is as subjective as books are, so check out the song for yourself to see if you'd like to buy the CD.  He is over HERE 
*

Please support Bison by buying through the Amazon links here ( or from http://bisonprepper.com/2.html or www.bisonbulk.blogspot.com ). Or PayPal www.paypal.me/jimd303 

*** Unless you are in extreme poverty, spend a buck a month here, by the above donation methods ( I get 4% of the Amazon sale, so you need to buy $25 worth for me to get my $1 ) or mail me some cash/check/money order or buy a book ( web site for free books, Amazon to pay just as a donation vehicle ).

*** My e-mail is: jimd303@reagan.com My address is: James M Dakin, 181 W Bullion Rd #12, Elko NV 89801-4184 ***E-Mail me if you want your name added to the weekly e-newsletter subscriber list.

*** Pay your author-no one works for free. I’m nice enough to publish for barely above Mere Book Money, so do your part.*** junk land under a grand *  Lord Bison* my bio & biblio* my web site is www.bisonprepper.com *** Wal-Mart wheat***Amazon Author Page
* By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there

looo, seeeeers 2

LOOO, SEEEEERS 2

European colonists likely would never have won a continent or two without biological warfare ( look how long it took to meaningfully conquer Africa, where we didn't have said weapon ). We tell ourselves all kinds of lies to make us look like winners. We tell ourselves capitalism triumphed over communism, and that was the reason the Soviet Union fell. Funny how that little island just south of Florida survived under communism. Most likely ( and no, we won't know for sure, as there is no freedom of the press anymore and it is all Pravda ), it was imperial overreach.

*

How did the US survive imperial overreach in 1965-1975, still viable, if barely, forty plus years later, and the Soviets imploded near simultaneous to their defeat at the hands of insurgents? It sure as hell wasn't because capitalism is superior ( hint: it was colonialism ). Before you go off all half cocked and start spewing your embedded Borg programming, I am speaking of capitalism as an economic system and NOT politically. Both America and China are presently capitalist, and I would argue that China is closer to laissez faire capitalism than we are.

*

One doubts China sends SWAT teams to take down lemonade stands run by ten year old's. And when politicians are busted there, for corruption, they are shot. What I prefer is America's set of laws, even if almost completely opposite of what we started with. But let us not confuse our oligarchy as being capitalist. Even when China is doing its worst “thought police” crack down, persecuting bad attitudes, there is a preliminary “advise and a chance to correct the oversight”. Only if after THAT do they persist, the state clamps down.

*

In China, social harmony is very important to the government. Here, disharmony is social engineered. For a profit. Do you really think that is capitalism? In China, ill mannered Muzzies are NOT welcome. Here? We fly them in from Africa and let them take over entire areas, and turn a blind eye to the imposition of Sharia law. Do NOT tell me how great our country is. I don't think there is a better one. I'm in no rush to leave. But I'm not blind, either.

*

Anyway, in most parts of the world, mismanagement of your country has severe side effects. As in, your government collapses a lot sooner than forty years. Russia, being Russia with a butt ton of resources made available after industrialization, especially with slave labor ( oh! Sorry, my bad! I forgot, Lincoln Lord Of Emancipation, ended slavery once and for all after Evil White Southerners kept the institution alive long after the rest of the world ended it because of “enlightenment” ), wasn't going to collapse any time soon no matter how poorly she was run, was still no where near resource depletion in 1990.

*

I think she was pushed over the edge, with our Color Revolution, but that is hard to prove with the complete lack of any discussion, the roars for 'Murican Capitalism deafening. How did she survive SEVENTY years of mismanagement? Resources to spare. Throw resources at any problem and you can be wasteful ( like filling up Hoover dam with poor Deplorables corpses, safety taking a back seat to deadlines or budgets ). WHY did she “collapse” after losing a ten year guerrilla war? She had the resources, including men.

*

One could surmise that, one, she didn't lose, and two, it was to defeat us. Again, I'm just spitballing ideas here. If we didn't color revolution them, was this a “controlled collapse”? Indulge my speculation here, for no other reason than it is amusing. What did Russia lose? Muslim colonies, which were mostly worthless other than mines. Surly Europeans. Granted, they were buffer states. But do you REALLY need buffer states, to slow down legions of tanks invading the Motherland, when you have intercontinental thermonuclear missiles?

*

By “giving up” communism, you stop losing the economic war. The legend has it that the US spent the Soviets into collapse. How? The Soviet Union was a capitalists wet dream, where ALL inputs were 100% free. FREE! Do you understand how much better your system does when there are no costs? Yes, I understand the lack of motivation with no profit. What YOU don't understand is that after a certain time, the profit motive also ruins motivation. Look at our present system of running companies into the ground, dismantling them and eliminating them, for profit.

*

Profit was destroyed our entire defense industry. ( Corporate ) Profit is why most workers today have zero motivation. Only self-employment motivates, and usually that has ZERO profit. JUST profit is no guarantee of success. A united culture goes a long way. Profit, collectively, for the social good, helps. Pure, naked, profits without responsibility, ruins a system. Communism's great fault is that it was politically correct, which destroys a culture. They had a faulty culture more than a faulty economy.

*

Russia embraced the strength of nationalism, jettisoning a dysfunctional culture of Marxism ( after they imported it to American colleges ), getting rid of under performing colonies full of cultures that hated Mother Russia. There was a price to be paid, moving to a more quasi-capitalist system such as we used to have, more fascist than socialist, and Russian mortality rates spiked. Kind of like ours is now, opium suicides and the like of substance abuses to purge society Darwin style. They used our system against us, Marxism eagerly embraced by our elite to Divide And Conquer, AND, for good measure, let us be the ones to “imperial overreach”.

*

If you buy into the “Muzzies against the world” argument ( and I'm not sure that I do, but let's just go with the “Muzzies made me invade Afghanistan” excuse for occupying the middle east ), then Bill Clinton bombing Somalia turned the Muzzy world against us. Or was it troops occupying Saudi Arabia to liberate Kuwait? Was it occupying Lebanon? Did Bill just get payback when The Blind Cleric bombed the World Trade Center the first time? These things are hard to keep track of. But be that as it may, it is hard to deny the First Iraqi War was our first blindly ambitious World Occupation Attempt immediately after the Soviets fell.

*

We RUSHED into imperial overreach, as if we couldn't help ourselves. Thirty years later, we are the ones completely out of resources ( if you buy the Peak Fracking argument, granted ), so broke coal powered China is our economic superior, groping and grasping to keep our nuclear deterrent viable as our military is shot, trying to garrison and occupy nearly every nation on earth as if we were still fighting a Cold War ( when we can't win an insurgency ), and with our overseas oil about to be withdrawn upon currency collapse. With extreme internal discord. Did we win the war, or did Russia? She is stronger than ever.

*

Way off topic, but I couldn't help myself. I'll get back on track tomorrow, our path towards depopulation.

( .Y. )

( today's related Amazon link click HERE )

*
note: an article HERE by SRS Rocco, an invaluable source, with a chart showing oil production on the top line and net energy the bottom line.  Hint-net is falling almost as quick as production rises.  Another hint-all the production increase GLOBALLY has been fracking, for at least ten years.  Super strong hint-fracking already peaked and some estimates have the industry crashing as early as next year.  Or, just call BS on the chart and go back to ignorant bliss.  Life saving hint-even if I'm wrong, it is always better to assume those making money off lying to you will do so. 
*
note: free for today books.  All Hail Our Glorious Sino Overlords!  Chinese language book, most common phrases HERE ( warning, probably does not contain such needed items as "Comrade Commander, I present to you our fittest buxom  blond" )
*

Please support Bison by buying through the Amazon links here ( or from http://bisonprepper.com/2.html or www.bisonbulk.blogspot.com ). Or PayPal www.paypal.me/jimd303 

*** Unless you are in extreme poverty, spend a buck a month here, by the above donation methods ( I get 4% of the Amazon sale, so you need to buy $25 worth for me to get my $1 ) or mail me some cash/check/money order or buy a book ( web site for free books, Amazon to pay just as a donation vehicle ).

*** My e-mail is: jimd303@reagan.com My address is: James M Dakin, 181 W Bullion Rd #12, Elko NV 89801-4184 ***E-Mail me if you want your name added to the weekly e-newsletter subscriber list.

*** Pay your author-no one works for free. I’m nice enough to publish for barely above Mere Book Money, so do your part.*** junk land under a grand *  Lord Bison* my bio & biblio* my web site is www.bisonprepper.com *** Wal-Mart wheat***Amazon Author Page
* By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there