The game is afoot! It’s a pretty sad day when the New York Times, normally the Pravda
of Big Government, tries to shine a light on the Central Bank Gnomes
busy at their printing presses. Although, more than likely this tidbit (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/business/economy/11fed.html?_r=1 ) isn’t meant for you or me but to sooth the jitters of international finance. Nothing to see here, move along, all is well with our one quadrillion dollars in derivatives. The part about saving taxpayers from loss is priceless. We’re paying a half a trillion a year in just the interest on what has already been borrowed in the past ( not counting the near future bill ), and you want us to believe you only have our best interests at heart? Kind of like using lube on the rape victim and acting surprised she doesn’t appreciate your thoughtfulness.*
Does anyone know if the Australia
flooding is impacting wheat growing areas? If so, being back to back with the Pakistan cropland flooding, this could be another nail in the coffin of international food trade ( except of course for our wonderful country which will ship out the last pound of rice for profit even as food riots rock the streets- god forbid we let the banks go without another interest payment ). Got wheat? Ten years ago wheat was $5 a sack retail, now it is close to $15. Go ahead and wait until it is $99 a bag so I can laugh my ass off at you.*
I’m not sure if I’ve covered this before or just skimmed it, but either way this is today’s drivel. Man belongs in packs, he must join others to survive. Yet man is also his own worst enemy in a survival situation and can easily turn on others. Your job, should you choose to accept it or not, is to figure out when to trust your fellow man and to know when they will turn on you. Long term, it is in everyone’s best interest to cooperate with his fellow tribesmen. Short term, it is in everyone’s interest to kill each other and be one of the few survivors. What brought this up, besides my inability to think of another subject, was Ranger
Man’s latest article on feeding beggars. http://www.shtfblog.com/a-shtf-scenario-what-would-you-do/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SHTFblog-AreYouReady+%28SHTF+blog.com+-+are+YOU+ready%3F%29
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This is mainly why I have a problem with charitable giving. It might sooth your consciousness, having raped and pillaged your way to upper middle class income, 99% of the time by joining the civil service and leeching off the taxpayer ( oh, except you, loyal minion reader, who is just simply wonderful and who does such a great job and who deserves every penny ), but it is, simply, suck ass tactics
. Or would that be strategy? Anyway, you can’t ignore the future tribal parameters nor can you ignore the beacon you just created ( even giving to a church for dispersal invites gossip and eventual compromise ), nor should you ignore the more than likely imperilment of your family. You might be giving away year fours food, but what if the climate, warfare, or other misfortune happens during year three, you will need the food you gave away, trying to bribe your way into heaven. Yes, yes, to each his own. Whatever floats your boat
. It is yours to give away. Understood. But I’ll tell you this- if my glorious leader did that kind of stupid crap, I might think about a regime change. If the food goes outside the tribe, it is food out of the mouths feeding the soldiers and workers protecting the tribe. If El Hefe gave away the food before the tribe was formed, that is a leader who can’t cut through the bullcrap and make the hard decisions. Again, that’s just me. If you want to join a monastery and work 16 hours a day to raise crops to feed the poor, more power to you. As long as you aren’t endangering others.*
When the collapse
starts, you have to make hard decisions. Which is why they are best decided beforehand. Don’t take things on a case by case basis, have guidelines previously. You don’t decide who is the enemy in combat as it occurs, you did that before. If you think withholding your food isn’t warfare, you haven’t been paying attention. I’m convinced food prices will not take a break from increasing, even ( or especially ) basic grain crops globally. It is getting hard enough to buy your own stash. Before, I would have felt quite secure with a years worth of storage food. Now, even setting aside all the Gore Warming crap, just look at retreating glaciers, severe weather
( both hot and cold, dry and wet ), coming severe inflation and oil import decreases for many years now. Now, I think the minimum stash should be closer to three years. It ain’t cheap, but it is a one time expense. And great insurance. But I don’t think any of that should be food charity. Do not pick your fellow tribesmen
right away, as tempting as that is. Have enough family and close friends you are paying to watch your back ( that isn’t food charity, it is a necessary expense with immediate benefits ), and step back from the chaos as much as possible. Don’t fight over supplies. Don’t fight for dominance. Wait, then emerge. Then you have much better choices for your tribe members, since they’ve already fought to survive. If you pick the worthless eaters prior to culling you will have fed a bunch of losers. *
Some of you ( I include myself ) will have no choice but to go lone wolf.
You only have enough food for yourself and must hide out immediately. You can’t afford a support group. I wager that is most of you, given the competing demands for your money every payday. How do you even entertain the notion of feeding others? Worthy of helping or just pure charity alike? The weather is changing. America will become a new Africa, fought over for the last resources, the indigenous population being pawns ( and with food being used as a weapon ). And you want to bet your life the supermarket will open soon? Stop looking at the glass half full. That bitch is emptying.*
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11 comments:
Another option to think about would be to have some sort of work set up for new Tribe candidates. If they can produce more food than they consume, it would be a plus to have them.
If one does go the Tribe route, always have a bug-out location reserved for just yourself. When they start boiling old leather as a meat substitute, git!
You must pay your guest writers by the column-inch, I"m not reading that (literally) spaced-out garbage.
That taken care of, EXCELLENT article and EXCELLENT link! This feeding of beggars issue is going to make us or break us. t's going to determine whether the Bison Tribe, or any other tribe, is going to make it. The link you supply offers some very good thinking on this.
Indeed, if you feed them, they will come. Possums, coons, cats, or Americans. I've spent a lot of time in Santa Cruz, a homeless haven, and there are a lot of "professionals" there. I was invited to eat lunch with a group of them (if you become homeless, you will need to hobnob with other homeless to find resources, they're kept pretty secret from normal folks) and ate a good, nutritious meal, and plenty of it too. I cleaned my plate, but few others did. They were sated in a sea of plenty. Since I've BEEN homeless and could find NO give-aways when I was, I appreciated a good meal. Get into to homeless "grapevine" and you'll find all the soup kitchens, etc,. all of which follow weird schedules which make sure that you can eat, or you can work a job, you don't get to do both.
There's an essay out there simply titled "MZB!" that's well worth reading.
Essentially a Tribe member should be productive. Not necessarily rich, in fact dependence on money must go away. But they must pull their own weight and a bit more. Sadly, having lived in rooming houses and Army barracks and apartments, trailers, houses, I've noted that most people just let stuff fall apart. It's the landlord's job!, they say, while putting up with worn-out electrical sockets, weedy yards, bad phone jacks, untrimmed trees, etc. They'll live in squalor since it's someone ELSE'S fault. A good potential Tribesman will be the kind who's finding stuff, fixing stuff, has found ways to grow or harvest stuff, knows the local huntin' and fishin' even if it's only to be used in a pinch since it's squirrels and pigeons.
We will ALL have the MZB! problem since none of us can keep our mouths shut. You can't, none of us can either. Plus you depend on the beggar-industry for a living so I hope you're prepping!
Charitable giving makes more sense logistically.
In 50 years I'll probably be dead. In 100 years I'll definitely be dead. In 1,000 years I'll still be dead. Same for 10,000 years, 50,000 years, 1 million years.
So I will spend a lot more time dead than alive. Therefore I should focus more on what will happen after I die than now.
I could step out in front of a bus and be killed tomorrow and all my earthly preps are worthless. Death is guaranteed. I want to be prepared for that.
James:
Please learn the difference between the words "Consciousness" and "Conscience".
Good article. I too believe in having a few select people ready to watch your back. But why commit yourself now to a group before you see if they have the _______ to survive?
Good suggestion Anon 12:39, even when you have a group, you should always have a personal "ace in the hole".
Idaho Homesteader
109- when I copy from an email and paste on to blogger, sometimes that kind of stretched out mess happens. Not the writers fault. It is the editors fault, thats me, and since I don't have time to do that very well, that is what you get.
Haha make all the excuses you like, I'm not reading the guest article!
OK that over with, the "MZB!" essay has been disappeared off of the Internet. Too bad, it was a good one.
I can't believe the pinch-down of the Internet in general; at this time last year I could still list things on Craig's LIst (now partially owned by Ebay), I still got a few emails a week, etc. That's all gone now, and I get an email or so a week if I "prompt" one by sending 'em out to those few people I know are still alive and on the net.
Prep with grid-down mind ppl!
Ah, food has always been the quest. People need it, seek it, for those that can control it - look at all the power. Look at how many "things of the past" have been made illegal, so that control can be maintained. Fact is, if you hide with your stash, and the shtf, soon enough, you might make it until regieme change, but if it takes too long your screwed. The methods of finding you will be far to perfected, if not already.
I guess I'm giving a very long-winded way of getting to my point. Get politically active now, to do as much as you can to vote down the stupid things. Jim has said in the past he doesn't think it does any good, and perhaps not, but at least you tried. Fact is, none of us are an island, those days are long, long gone. If you live the most meager existance you may, survive slightly longer.
You will group, it's the only way, doesn't mean you'll do it now, but eventually there will not be a choice.
Always remember what you would do, if you were king. I don't know how many of you play "Civilization" and similiar games, but I am a ruthless Theocrate, because that lets me force the "population" to do my biding - which is win the game. Don't think the PTB, are any less intelligent. We're all pawns for the xxxxxxx insert your cause, philosophy, religion what ever makes you tick. You will comply, if you didn't you'd already be in prison or dead.
Hi Jim,
The floods in AU are affecting the shipping of wheat, corn and coal. Not sure about the growing of wheat and corn.
There's still a lot of room to maneuver in the first world countries, but I bet we start to see some collapses in the third world come next fall and winter.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-03/wheat-rises-to-five-month-high-as-australia-flood-u-s-cold-threaten-crop.html
Australian Wheat has been impacted but not to a huge extent. Our coal exports have been crippled though; and that will hurt the world economically for a few months as coking coal gets expensive due to demand.
Jim - you deserve a lot of credit for addressing this question. To me, it's quite simply THE most divisive and difficult thing to be considered.
On first glance there are no simple answers but I assert that, deep down, in your heart of hearts, the answer can only be a monstrous one...that if you don't know how long your supplies have to last, you have to turn people down - may God forgive us!
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