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Physical Preps and Tools

8/19/2022

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This is the article about “stuff” you can buy. 
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What we are facing is not going to be short term, and it's not going to affect one small area. The duration is forever. It will affect literally everything, in progressively compounding ways. First we’ll go through ever-increasing, and unending, scarcity and downscaling. People everywhere are going to be disabused of their previous expectations of abundance within a few months. The decline of globalized industrial civilization will lead to a collapse of the global economy. We are at the cusp of rapid and severely disruptive changes. The infrastructure of our civilization will break down, giving rise to a predicament that will swamp the government's ability to manage. It will lead to widespread disorientation, anxiety, and social breakdown. Eventually within your area grocery stores won't exist, hospitals won't be open, firefighters and police won't come to your aid, etc. And this decline will happen far faster than people expect. 

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Prepping Priorities - Physical & Psychological

8/10/2022

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Adapting to a new world will test everyone’s limits. Managing the transition well means exposing yourself to the things you are likely to experience, as much as you can. The sooner you and your family accept that things have changed and will never return to the way they were before, the better off you will be. This mental acceptance must lead to physical preparatory action so that you can get yourself ready for the inevitable hard times to come. 

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Summer 2022 US Threat Assessment Part II

8/10/2022

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Part II: Expectations and Psychological Framework

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​Part I laid the case for the US, and the world, progressing into a HIGH threat level, with the implication that a SEVERE threat level would eventually emerge from it and/or override it completely due to a “black swan event”. Part II will focus on what we can generally expect at each stage, and the psychological framework that often gets overlooked.

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Summer 2022 US Threat Assessment Part I

8/10/2022

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​Summer 2022. Threat level increase from LOW to GUARDED.
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“To put it simply, we are facing a crisis on top of a crisis.” 
- Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director, Washington DC, 2022

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GONE Bag - Get Out Now Emergency

6/22/2022

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Let’s just start this off strongly by saying that if you google “bug out bag”, everything the search engine returns for you will be bullshit. That’s right, I said it. It’s a bunch of armchair fantasies coupled with capitalist marketing. I’ll even go so far as to say that if the article you’re reading about it contains a bunch of product links it’s almost certainly garbage. To be fair, no one seems to come at the subject from the standpoint of the staggered collapse of industrial civilization. In this rundown, I will. 

A Get Out Now Emergency is a reaction that occurs when you have no other options. If you have enough stability to make decisions, then this isn’t tailored for that. This kind of bag is distinct from others talked about such as a survivalist bag or a tactical bag. The armchair fantasies are plagued with unrealistic expectations - both in what to expect as well as what to carry. The more realistic and useful bag will include the things you actually can use and none of the things you don’t need - and the latter is a much lengthier list. Your home, especially if you’ve made any preparations whatsoever, provides far more comfort and security - and contains a whole lot more useful stuff than what you can carry on your back. ​

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Tactical Gear Considerations

3/30/2020

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"When Americans awake from the corona coma like millions of Rip Van Winkles... this will be a different country."
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- James Howard Kunstler

Welcome to the Seneca Cliff, folks. Coronavirus, the black swan that is ushering us off the cliff, has only just begun and already mainstream media is saying this'll be "worse than the Great Depression". Of course, while the quarantined masses follow the rabbit-holes of a confusing morass of information and vehemently scoff at those who disagree online, "the way things were" zooms ever smaller in the rearview mirror. 

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Interview with Derrick Jensen

11/26/2017

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My interview with Derrick Jensen for Resistance Radio aired today on the Progressive Radio Network.  

This was the first time I've ever been interviewed, so forgive the shaky voice and nervousness. The last half was better than the first half, and the last 10 minutes really ended on a particularly strong note I think.
For those who like podcasts, take a listen here: 
http://prn.fm/resistance-radio-guest-david-casey-11-26-17/

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2020: A Marker For Collapse

11/6/2017

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The issue of timing is a bit complicated. Asking when collapse will happen is way too broad.

When people ask when we will see serious impacts I start by telling them we have been seeing very serious impacts in a broad sense since the early 70's. Think about it. Since 1971 the only way the industrialized West has roughly maintained their standards of living is through massive accumulation of debt. I say "roughly maintained" because we have seen an epic gutting of the middle class and a huge trend towards being a service economy - rather than making more, better, stuff, we've added waitress and bartender jobs exponentially. Then there's the very serious impacts of the fact that conventional crude peaked in 2005. We've been moving to unconventional sources that have way lower EROEI and are fundamentally inadequate to provide for our growing demand, as well as economically not viable - and have only been able to be accomplished through huge amounts of debt. This is coming to an end. And then there's the fact that economies around the world are crashing and there are riots and austerity measures in nations across the globe.

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Firearms And Our Future

11/6/2017

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Let's change the narrative. The hard truth is that the next 10 years won't look anything like the past 10. Industrial civilization will fall, and any further delusions about it continuing are accompanied by circus music. All our conversations concerning firearms should revolve around that, rather than excluding it. My opinion on firearms shouldn't be controversial at all. I'm not a Republican or an NRA member or even a big gun guy. I just bought my first one a little over a year ago and had huge trepidation about it. But I think they'll be necessary in our future if we want to defend ourselves. ​

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Thermodynamic Failure: Phase 2

7/19/2017

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Most people aren't paying attention. Most people have no idea what's going on. Industrial civilization is already having serious health problems and heart palpitations. By 2020, industrial civilization is going to suffer a massive stroke. By 2025, it will be in hospice. By 2030, it will be dead.

Which catchy phrase best captures the pot of boiling water we find ourselves in? Time is running out. We are at the tipping 
point. The dominos are falling. Whichever one we use, one thing is clear: a fundamental shift in fossil fuel use is underway. Phase 1 was the peak of conventional oil in 2005, with the ensuing GFC (global financial crisis) in 2008, papered over by massive debt conjured out of thin air by the financial manipulator magicians at the Federal Reserve. Phase 2 starts with the growing ineffectiveness of these financial measures against stark net energy realities. 

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    Interview with Derrick Jensen

    2020: A Marker For Collapse

    Firearms And Our Future

    Thermodynamic Failure: Phase 2

    Firearms and Defense

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    Explaining Peak Oil

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    The Significance of Renewables

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    What Do The Experts Say?

    Hope is Complex and Fragile

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    Why Genesis 1:28 Doesn't Apply

    It's Not About Running Out of Oil

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