I was going to do a nice relaxed, non-panicked, non-paranoid piece today but then I realized that you are not worthy. You aren’t worked up enough and hence it is my sacred duty to try to get you riled, hopefully to the point of bolting from your herd. Remember, the herd does provide safety in numbers, which works out great for you. Until it is your turn to be on the edge where the lion ( The Lion
) is. Actually, this is going to be more like a big asteroid pulverizing the entire herd, as well as the hunting cat, but I like to give you a crumb of hope to cling to. Besides, if you are relaxed enough you will send me money instead of buying prep supplies so I’ll be prepared and you will be in the stew pot. Several times a week I meander over to the site Survival Acres to see what he has to say. A lot of times it is just links to news articles, such as “Mexicans cartels terrorize little old grandma’s this side of the border” or some such. News to grandma- get the hell out of the border areas. Mexico is a failed state due to a combination of oil depletion and overpopulation with a sprinkling of America using corn as a weapon. I think the original plan was for the masses of cheap workers to cross the purposefully porous borders to displace Union workers to keep the mega-corporations ( The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time
) off life support. Mission accomplished. But now we have a huge army on our border and it is just a question of time before they go from potential workers to refugees. *
Sometimes his articles are excessively long and the words tend to blur together. Other times, his natural doom and gloom coupled with his lack of time produce an article that is just right. Not too long in length, but long on panic. You should check it out.
http://survivalacres.com/wordpress/?p=1988
Yes, the collapse has already started. We are way overextended in population in relation to resources ( not just in the Third World but in this country also- especially with a few more tens of millions of refugees ( Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Camps, Civil War, And the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
). If you think the government was incompetent during Katrina, just wait for the refugee flood ). And, yes, the powers that be will keep up the business as usual. But I don’t think the collapse is being managed. The number one mistake conspiracy theory nuts make is to assign God like powers to those responsible for Kennedy’s assassination, or the Twin Towers ( What Really Happened: Inside the Twin Towers
) controlled implosion or for all I know the fake moon landing ( okay, it wasn’t faked- our reptilian overlords flew us there to take pictures as a cover for their introduction of high tech microprocessors ). There are conspiracies. Bob The Nailer ( Point of Impact
) himself couldn’t waste Kennedy with a hunk of crap Italian bolt action rifle from the book depository. There were other shooters, obviously. The central bankers paying for it didn’t micro-control the events, the cover-up, the killing of the witnesses. You pay the professionals to do all that, you don’t write the script. Plus, plain old greed for power motivates others. You don’t need to instruct them how to act, just dangle a carrot over them and hint at what you want. Conspiracy nuts try to act more intelligent by claiming knowledge but we are all just guessing. Just don’t try to make it more complicated than it is to make yourself look better.*
The collapse can’t be managed. You can’t control leaders or mobs once they sniff their own doom ( Doom
). Sure, you can introduce pandemics or divert food shipments or whatever. You just can’t follow through with the desired control after you initiate things. I don’t know if the big boys even really believe the collapse has started. They are engaged in business as usual to preserve and grow their fortunes. And The Tragedy Of The Commons assures the quickest draw down on resources without any thought to the eventual outcome. *
I said that the collapse won’t be overnight. But it also won’t be slow enough for you to escape unless you are over seventy years old. Months to a few years, with the possibility that it has already started. Tropical fish ( What Fish? A Buyer's Guide to Tropical Fish: Essential Information to Help You Choose the Right Fish for Your Tropical Freshwater Aquarium (What Pet? Books)
) dying of cold might be a one off event or it could be global cooling/warming ( depending on your location- that Atlantic conveyor stopping will make Europe and the eastern seaboard rather uncomfortable ). To name one example. But let’s just keep focused on economics since that part of the collapse has already started and most can easily relate ( and, no, it isn’t a false alarm like the 70’s since it is now global energy depletion ). Right now, you are either on the public tit or you’ve already seen one family member laid off. If you are on the local or state government teet you are screwed, you just might not realize it yet. Business as usual ( Business As Usual
). The bankers don’t think this is the implosion because just like the rest of you they can’t visualize energy being more important than money. Money is their whole universe. And they will survive by milking the states. Your state will get a loan, not a grant or bailout. Hence, your days as a civil servant are numbered. The states can’t survive by borrowing more. They can’t survive as it is now. Everyone has seen some pain from the economic collapse ( The Cooper Union 2006: The Coming Economic Collapse
). But we are just starting.*
You didn’t act soon enough, and you are trapped with a mortgage. You are upside down and can’t jingle mail without owing the bank the difference. If you can get out through bankruptcy, you still are stuck. You took all your assets trying to stay in the house. No more junk land is available, or you can’t afford to move the thousand miles there. And you can only live in your car so long before it is repoed. Nice move, yuppie. You called yourself a survivalist and never thought the economy would fail? You think the collapse is multi-generational because that’s how its been for forty years. Big mistake. Now you are living in a tent ( Living in tents
) in a national park. But you are soon attacked by roving criminals who are bolstered in their efforts by local police layoffs. You take the kid to the emergency room to treat the knife wound, but he dies after getting a contaminated dose of antibiotics ( the corporation was trying to cut costs ). Then your Food Stamps were cut because there is no longer a minor in your “household”. After a prolonged bout of malnutrition you are susceptible to disease and die of chorea after a camper upstream of you craps in the water ( his hemorrhoids don’t get inflamed if he sits in the water ) and your water filter is used up and you can’t find any wood for boiling water. *
I’m not claiming by following my frugal prep suggestions ( THE FRUGAL SURVIVALIST disaster preparations under $500
) that you will survive. You will increase your odds, but it is no guarantee. No, what I’m saying is that you had better start panicking now, and get a lot more paranoid. Your collapse could easily happen before the country’s. Even if it doesn’t, your ability to respond to events might be hindered by your insistence on living large up to and until folks are dying in the street. This isn’t a pulp novel of unlimited ammo after a nuclear war and the formation of a fantasy government in Idaho. This is your life on the line, perhaps seriously threatened by your inability to take outside events seriously. You think a nice house, a nice wife and a comfortable air temperature are your due and a requirement for happiness. You think the collapse is on your schedule and will allow you time to comfortably adjust. So you live in the city, and stay in debt, and keep putting off buying supplies. Good luck with that. When the collapse gets serious enough, it is every man for himself. And your friends and your distant family will screw you to survive. I want you to panic now, but I know I’m whistling Dixie ( Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South
). Well, at least it’s a nice tune.END
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17 comments:
Well said big man......
Great article Jim! But there always good.
Remember the commercial "This isn't your fathers Oldsmobile" The same could be said for the current collapse.
I love to stop 'n read the rays o' sunshine that you write here - keep up the good work Mr. Dakin!
I think you are one the money on Mejico going super nova pretty soon, there is some panic that narcos are truly the ones in control, and government is simply just hanging on by a thread.
I'm not sure how hard they can hit a moving target like the narcos, its going to take a coordinated effort (maybe buying off the drug lords like they use to buy Haitian / African leaders in years past?).
Keep on keepin' on dude.
Hiero. here ....
Good article.
The Collapse is on, and if we're to believe Kurt Saxon as I mentioned yesterday, it's been on for a while.
It's just happening one little pixel in the Big Screen at a time, so the overall picture just looks a little deteriorated, but is The Collapse when you're this pixel.
I would call falling from being a Prius-driving, credit-card-wielding, sushi-eating, small business owner to living out of a backpack, renting a COUCH, and panhandling to get by, a Collapse. I'd call being say a nurse or cop and then laid off, Oops to old/infirm/ugly to compete with the 20-somethings and thus looking at a life of No More Job Ever, a Collapse. I'd call working at Wal-Mart and getting 40 hours, then 32, then 28, then 14, then 10, then FOUR a week, then NONE .... and you were the last working person in a household of 5, a Collapse.
A good one (not in a good way) I've been going to an "established" garage sale for a couple of months now. Got a nice older 3-speed bike, few other odds and ends, buying something each time. Each time I'd get an update. Oh, we're between jobs. Oh, we're gonna move back where the folks live. The latest is, Oh, this is the last sale, we're gone tomorrow (!) we're going to go camping for a while. Camping! They may put some stuff in a storage unit (which like as not will get auctioned off for pennies after they throw money down the rat hole for rent for a few months) and they're going to have a go at camping - tent living - in one of the local parks. I'm not saying which one, but it's not one of the city parks, full of homeless folks already, they're going to camp in one of the ones further out from town, a state park I believe. Collapse has come, for them. No more moving back with the parents because the parents are probably in a homeless shelter (or will join them, camping).
And when you fall, expect your old pals from work, school, family, etc to turn their backs on you resolutely. Even the ones who said they'd never do that. Especially the ones who've always said they'd never do that. Count on it. I wonder if homeless folks talk about "The World" the way guys did in Viet Nam? At least the guys in Viet Nam had a World to go back to.
The only people I know who are prepared and handling the collapse well, are those who've been prepping for a while and I mean decades. Survivalists since the 80s maybe 90s. And living the life. You gotta be FAR ahead of the curve in this game.
"And, yes, the powers that be will keep up the business as usual. But I don’t think the collapse is being managed. The number one mistake conspiracy theory nuts make is to assign God like powers to those responsible..."
Sweet jesus, now I know the end is here. You have become the voice of sanity. Very well said.
Holy shit lord bison. You have succeeded to finally nail it and as in poker, call the bet, raise and nail the long ongoing bluff . My sks and packrat supplies and brain stuffed full of save your azz combat vet last of the mohicans knowledge will prolong my small
Families trip to the Ye old stewpot. Fellow Bosnian, that's it, its goin down. You have little time left, about six months. Fn good luck, see you in the apocalypse .
Wow, James, you're even outdoing yourself. Do you gaze in the mirror with the same reverence that us minions view you with?
Question: Do you even think it is worth waking people up to the doom that is approaching?
I'm just not sure that there is time/resources enough for people to get prepared beyond a "bandaid" type of preparedness that will only buy you a few weeks at most. Granted a few overachievers could possibly get the basics covered but most people aren't that motivated.
So is it kindler to let the sheep go peacefully to the slaughter or should you stress them out with reality?
And if everyone does wake up, what out-of-the-box thinking do you need to get enough supplies so that you can out-distance the herd and make it?
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Mr Dakin advises we get a cheap old van for a mobile shelter to carry people, tools, toys and food for a year. You will recall that he drove from Florida to Nevada with his bed on top of food buckets,
and lived in the bread van for months.
Craig's List has many older 2wd and 4wd suburbans. 72" from rear seat to the back. With rear seat down 4x8 plywood fits between wheelwells.
My 1991 3/4 ton 4x4 suburban has cargo doors vice tailgate. There is no inside door handle. I removed panel from the door, looked inside, locked and unlocked with key, pressed thumb button and learned to lock, unlock and open the door from inside. With mudgrips, and v-bar chains we can go where necessary in a mobile shelter that sleeps two safe from weather, crawlers and biters with necessities and food for a year.
I own house, land, 4x4 vehicles, five bicycles with airless tires and have no debt. How are you doing?
Jim you and anon 11:14, Have mentioned PTB business as usual after the collapse. I'm reminded of a story I read years ago, it was an account of another story in the paper around 1933. They were looking for a deer poacher, that a game warden encountered in the woods of central Montana.
The story is not as interesting as the suggestion that during the great depression the PTB were interested in arresting a person guilty of killing a deer to feed himself and perhaps his family.
The good news,they never found him. Bad news,now 80 years hence he is likely dead.
My point is even in the lowest points in mans survival, Law Enforcement will be an obstacle for those who only desire to stay alive. 'the letter of law till the bitter end'.
Like you said business as usual.
Minor Disagreement. I think many of the Bankers (the Upper Level ones, that is) know the End is Near, they're just trying to get the last penny they can steal before they Lear Jet it off to their "Vacation Homes", or "Coastal Retreats"or "Private Islands", where their PrePaid "Security Force" and Staff (Serfs) await their Masters return, each one hoping their 5-10-20 years of supplies will last them until "Things return to Normal". Otherwise, you are correct as usual.
So true. It is far more likely that many individual collapses will eventually lead to a large-scale collapse of society as a whole. Its kind of like boiling a frog. You can put the frog in a tepid pan of water on the stove and slowly turn up the heat...and the frog won't even try to save itself by jumping from the pan.
Jim what gives?
Are you taking kick backs from Gore?
I followed the link to survival pot puffer....He writes:"anthropogenic global climate change". This is AKA 'Man made global warming'.
He also mentions deforestation as a threat to human survival. Trees are NOT a problem. We have MORE trees now than we ever did. In nature entire forests would burn from natural ignition sources. Now man seeks to limit natural burn to preserve human habitat and property. Its a Hippy dippy doo day dream.
Buck: what you smokin'? Sure T'aint the old Mast quality oaks of England.
It once was said that a squirrel could make his way from the Ohio river to the great lakes and never touch the ground. Early white eye invaders would "bark" those same tree rats to make it sporting. In the evening the hunters would bunk out in the big hollow Sycamores that they used prior to building a home. Midwest trees big enough that parties of mounted men AND their horses used to shelter in them.
Yup; fire is sometimes natures way of keeping things moving along and un-natcherly preserved mature forests aren't super productive.....but "more trees" ????
Not getting hostile to you but we proper card carrying Bisonians try to get right with reality.
It sounds to me like you are quoteing some old Weyerhouser flyer.
Stopped clocks are right twice a day. Al may be dumb but I don't think he's super wrong re anthro warming.---- research {all]glacier watchs and sea ice maritime sites; note the grizzly interbreeding with polar bears; yada yada yada.
Man responsible?? You,. al and I can not know. The Numbers can't be made to read true. BUT; geewhizshuckydurn we HAVE been burning everything we can get our hands on since we figured out how to.....WOOD, oil, gas, black and smokeless powder; napalm; hydrogen,whale fat, [as Jim points out] our food....... damn; we've burned rocks,sand, and Jewish folk. There was even that river burning in Cleveland thing awhile back.
Seems to me that we just might be speeding up the process a little; especially now with over six billion of us wanting that our coffee be imported, roasted and hot.
We Sit in the middle between a sky @ six miles thick and desert @ six feet down. "Biosphere-World" might be smaller than you think.
Believe Whatever floats your boat tho'; as our supreme masterfulled clear sighted guru expounds;
----show is over----;
Gather your popcorn boxes and make your way to your exit as best you can. C57
Awesome article and good points about being abandoned by your friends and coworkers. I have seen this first hand. I knew a guy who belonged to one of these tightly bonded, ultra Christian sects that had a reputation of taking care of each other. The guy lost his job and none of the "bretheren" would let the poor bastard crash on a couch. A Wiccan family gave him rent free shelter for 6 months. I found it interesting that the Ultra God guy accepted help from a "Devil Worshipper" Must get cramped sleeping in your car. Help from others is good but do not be surprised if they fuck you over. Plan accordingly or suffer. HAIL DARWIN
There us alot of talk about guns, and it makes good sense; and how a bolt action makes the most sense for most people. We now have a Mosin Nagant and Ammo.
I have heard little about bow amd arrows. I bought a cross bow, and c couple of larger bows including a less sophisticated compound bow. These look like they could be quite handy for hunting game. In north Texas all we really have much of is lot of squirrels, and some rabbits. Maybe some pigeons. I would like to be be back in PA where deer are like vermin now, and would be delighted to poach some. Before moving to North Texas I do remember 3 men getting county jail time for poaching a deer the the mid 70's recession. Having a clean record has helped me find work over the years.
As the indians will attest a Bow is no match for a repeating rifle but still could have a place in defense.
C57,
All activity will have some impact. Even skipping a rock across a pond will have an impact.
Publish OR perish. Al will get funding to do research indicating negative impacts. If the research were to indicate impact is minimal and mother earth is absorbing the impacts of man. His research funding would end.
The changes in glaciers are likely a longer earth cycle.
Yes more trees. After every burn more trees are planted than were burned. Every logging operation plants more trees than were cut.
The forests in the west are so thick you cant walk through them. 150 yrs ago you could drive a wagon and horse team between the trees.
A thinner forest is better for the undergrowth such as grass for the deer and elk.
The Midwest was the great plains before white man got there.
The earth naturally produces more pollutants than man does. Its like 3% of all pollution is produced by man. The earth produces more methane gas than man or his farting cows ever could. Even every decomposing leaf produces methane gas.
And the desert was the desert long before we arrived.
Fact is Gorbal warming is a vehicle to drive up fees and add controls on people.Such as the tax purposed on cows, the fart tax.
Buck
While I won't disagree with your last para. the rest I think is questionable.
My advanced schoolin and personal observation tells me different than what you believe.
Doesn't mean I'm right. C57
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