more semi slop

MORE SEMI SLOP
Let’s all give a big wet sloppy kiss to Herr Ure over at http://www.urbansurvival.com/ for alerting us to the Petkau Effect. If you want more info you can of course Wiki it, but the short version is that small doses of radiation over a long period of time, even very small amounts, are just as harmful as a huge dose over a short period of time. This is especially pertinent as the media is awash with feel good douche bag asshat monkey sodimizers trying to sell the crap that Japan poses no threat to you since nature is full of radiation. Isn’t arsenic natural? Listen, I’m sticking to my story that the Jap nuke disaster is nothing more than a repeat of the 1950’s above ground tests. It won’t kill us outright, there isn’t a whole lot we can do about it, and in the end we all get more cancers and die earlier. No big deal. By the time I’m sixty, if I die from cancer it will be better than ending up in the stewpot. What irritates me is the evil whores that sell their souls to keep the public in ignorance. And speaking of Ure’s site, do you ever wonder about the name? It has nothing to do with surviving in an urban environment, per se. The author advocates rural property and big gardens. But his last name, Ure, and UReBAN Survival. Get it? That’s got to be the reason behind the name, although I’ve never asked. And, unless my memory is going, I swear I can’t ever remember one damn person ever, EVER, never, asking me why I named my periodical Bison. Best Internet Survivalist Online Newsletter. I came up with that all by myself and no one has hastily prostrated themselves before me in worship and feelings of unworthiness. Damn ingrates.

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I know, I know. You get tired of the same old crap here. But sometimes I just can’t stop berating you on the same topics. For instance, I feel the urgent need to yell at you for not living on junk land. Again. I can’t promise a forthcoming article, but be prepared for it all the same. You have been warned. When I feel like I’m being ignored I tend to get louder and louder and repeat myself. Kind of like yelling louder at foreigners when they don’t understand English. Surely the increased volume will break down those communication barriers. People are constantly telling with me that, yes, my hair is great, but I’m an ignorant slut for not recognizing how superior semi auto guns are to bolt actions. So, once again we step into the breech ( pun intended ) and discus logistics. Ever since firearms became practical on a widespread scale, man has been surrounded by a sea of plentiful recourses. When you live on a lush tropical island, do you worry about water? Of course not, you are surrounded by it ( for our purposes here I’m assuming low population, almost daily rain- as apposed to monsoon seasons- and no pollution ). When you live in the desert, you don’t worry too much about wasting ground cover. There’s much more where that came from. When a resource is never ending, you simply do not conserve it. That is just human nature. Kind of like new apps always being one step behind bandwidth. With few exceptions, the victorious military powers of their day never conserved firepower. They might have strained themselves logistically to supply a never ending amount of powder, but doctrine ALWAYS dictated mass firepower.

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For that we can most likely thank Gustovus Adolfus ( spelling? ). A brilliant Swedish leader, ol’ GA was responsible for a great many strategic breakthroughs of his day. That Sweden expanded at all was the result of this one man. One innovation was to lighten the bullet and make reloading much quicker of shoulder arms ( in essence totally redesigning the rifle to conform to his vision ) with the result of mass infantry volley. There have been few true geniuses in military thinking. True breakthroughs that were so innovative they were the new standard forever more. I don’t study much militarily pre-gunpowder, but I would say Genghis was one. Mobility and mass firepower afterward never matched his practice, even with the Oil Age. Not that his standard hasn’t been ignored. It just can’t be matched since he had no logistic train to speak of compared to the norm. And the other genius was Gustovus. We still worship his example. But the sad fact is that the ability to supply that kind of strategy is fast coming to an end. The bell curve always has a historical maximum before the decline. Just because we are at the pinnacle of munitions usage doesn’t mean it is sustainable. Energy and ore depletion are directly tied to munitions availability. You have already seen the heyday of cheap, accurate, readily available modern ammunition. One day none will be available at all. Oh, there will still be very expensive ammo. Or ammo wildly swinging in accuracy. Or sporadically supplied. But not the kind of ammunition needed to practice modern warfare.

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Semi-automatic weapons are not at all the marvels we portray them to be. They use simply mechanisms developed one hundred years ago. The miracle was our modern logistical magic powered almost exclusively by surplus cheap petroleum. That is over and done with. Stick a friggin fork in it. If we are lucky, the near future will have firearms available for warfare. But they won’t be the spray and pray semi’s that were 100% reliant on cheap power and a fully developed infrastructure to feed them their ammunition. It isn’t necessary to expend much brainpower on the end of cheap oil, the logical consequences. All that is needed is your ability to recognize the barrier of discomfort avoidance you yourself erect. Even if you stockpile ten thousand rounds, by practicing suppressive fire tactics you will run out quick enough. The trick will of course be to avoid the run down of their ammunition. But after that bolt actions, owned by those truly recognizing the limitless value of every single round, will rule the battlefield. All that is needed is the tactics to go with it. And tactics are cheaper than ammunition. Although I wonder how available that mental ability is.

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