blue helmets

BLUE HELMETS


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I read Rawles new book over the weekend, and while I won’t put it in the top ten survival books of all time ( one of these days this will be an article- #1 is of course Lucifer’s Hammer and #2 is most likely Dies The Fire. But after that I need to assemble all my fiction collection together and make piles and whittle things down to a top ten and twenty list. Not something I can do from a list, since I usually recall books by their covers ), I will say that I enjoyed it, I thought it was worth the money, and that compared to his other fiction book ( which I also liked ) it was an improvement. I thought that it was a very good overall introduction to the collapse. You can easily see how there could be a whole lot of books picking up on a lot of barely explored ideas. I could quibble on a lot of things such as semi-auto and Jesus worship, that that would be silly because we are in Rawles’ world in this book. These things make sense in his world. The one thing that stuck out as highly improbable was the UN troop occupation of the east coast. This is what I want to pick apart, but just keep in mind that basically, if you liked his other book, this one will be better.

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Some of the books economic collapse details are already dated. One example would be Japan. Since the majority of its manufacturing infrastructure was destroyed, it is no longer a viable economy. I’d wager that only the US Fed printing presses are keeping it afloat ( most likely the same with Europe ). So, Japan would take no role in working against the US in the collapse. Another would be that the end of other central banks buying US debt has already happened. It isn’t a future guess. But even if Europe stayed healthy as a horse, I can’t believe that it would send occupying troops to America. I don’t know where the militia/black helicopter tin foil hat fools got this idea. Really? Europe’s professional armies, outside of Switzerland, have either a force so small it can barely suffice as an internal peace keeping force in times of trouble, or a small force so incompetent that a troop of Boy Scouts with pellet guns would tie them up for weeks. The US occupying force and/or a nuclear arsenal, provide the majority of Europe’s defense. It isn’t large standing armies. How are they going to send over enough troops to occupy us to make a bit of difference? And the idea that an occupation would be a credible source of revenue is just underlying the ignorance of the authors of this idea. All our resources, from aquifers to fertile soil to fertilizers to coal to oil to metal ores to precious metals, all are in decline, and most in decline for the last ten years. Even if Europe’s colonial days weren’t behind them, there isn’t enough left here to justify the expense of war and occupation.

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Moving on to Russia and China as potential occupiers. Has everyone forgot that Russia had to give up a lot of its empire as the cost of control became too much? If they can’t keep Kazakhstan, right next door to its tanks, how would they be able to occupy America? And China has plenty of choice military targets right next door to itself. They have everything that is needed in loot, and a bonus is that the civilians there are usually not armed, and the country is not on the other side of an ocean. To me, it seems like “blue helmets occupy America” proponents are actually desperately grasping at straws trying to prove America is not in decline. If it is worthy of occupation it must be rich and grand. Please stop trying to have a wet dream around me. It embarrasses us both and it can get messy. Now, to give my nemesis his due, this one section of his book was barely touched on and didn’t grieve us too much with irritating length or detail. In fact, I’d wager this was the section that prompted a minion to complain the characters in the book weren’t given any depth.

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On to other collapse news. In middle west Nevada, the epicenter of Yuppie Whore Anal Licking Monkey Molesting California Migration, there has been a huge amount, as in dozens at a minimum, of domestic horses being hit on a state highway. It seems that these mouth breathing oxygen wasters are having a tough time making ends meet trying to pay off their overpriced McMansions without a job, so they jingle mail and turn the horse loose. Horses being one of the many overpriced high cost upkeep status symbols that these sub-humans employ in their quest to find and keep their marshmallow spouses. Being evolutionary dead ends, these idiots think a horse let loose will automatically fend for themselves. Maybe they do, or maybe they have intelligence bred out of them, just like their owners, and it never occurs to them that cars are dangerous. After all, their former owner drove close by all the time and the horse was never in danger. Another sign that the middle class lifestyle in endangered.

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This weekend was rental car weekend, as I needed a wheelbarrow. And it is the ancient crones birthday. The car was $80 after gas, and I found a wheelbarrow on sale for under forty after tax. Of course, I couldn’t sop at that decent amount. I had to buy more storage food ( after the daily water hauling, I’m lucky to get an extra ten pounds of food on the bike, so usually my bulk food shopping is just four or five pound bags of pinto beans or white flour a week ) and storage buckets. I got 125 pounds of flour and nine poly buckets. While at Home Despot getting the buckets I also saw a deal on LED’s. $3.80 for a combo lantern/flashlight. Which is much brighter than the Wal-Mart $5 lantern. I found it at the rack at the check out counter, you might want to take a look.

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