Do your eyes glaze over when some economist starts talking? Me too. Mostly because they talk absolute nonsense and lies.
So let me explain a few things in a way we can all understand.
The financial crash of 2008 was something I predicted way back in 1995 but I expected it to happen at around the year 2000 at the latest. I didn’t use complicated formulas to figure it out. I had simply played in the stock market for a little bit, made some money and realised how it all worked. It was, and remains, a giant Ponzi scheme build on the vapours of smoke and the imaginings of that vapour. The only thing I had not accounted for was the level of both human greed, dishonesty and general stupidity. I had assumed that even brain damaged lemurs that took a cursory glance at the stock exchange would conclude as I did. And whether I was wrong (I was) or not, surely, anyone sane would not deal in such things (o my naive youth). Instead, of course, no one cares it’s a complete fabrication for themes part, and fake, and fraudulent, and made up of smoke and mirrors. They all just keep playing and they all get more and more people in it. Which makes the Ponzi scheme last longer. But eventually, it has to blow up.
The next crash, after that giant clusterfuck (which even if you only know the basics is ridiculously absurd) of 2008 was predicted (by bankers, this time, not me) for 2014-2015. And it didn’t really happen. Because guess what, whole governments were now jumping into the bandwagon.
The 2008 crash was felt most not by wealthy or even averagely well-to do Westerners. It was felt by third world countries the most. Keep in mind that at times the interest rate in places like South Africa hit 25%. Yes, that’s not a typo.
Places like Argentina in the late 80s and early 90s suffered massive crashes. So did places like Latvia. And they do not get a lot of publicity because it does not suit the “people” (indemoniated parasites) who run things to have you realise this stuff in any conscious way.
But this is what it was like if you lived in one of these countries. Say you worked hard all your life and saved, maybe to buy a house or to get one for your children, you have the local equivalent of say 500,000 US dollars in your bank account, squirrelled away over a lifetime. Then you wake up one day and literally from one day to the next you can’t access your money at all. And not only that, but it is now devalued so that the 500,000 you had is now worth 5,000 dollars. I personally know people that happened to who are my good friends. Imagine for a second how you would feel.
It really is a wonder that a lot more bankers have not been strung up from lampposts all around the world.
And by the way, just so you know, that is precisely what they rely on. Between the faceless bureaucracy they present to the world, and your civilised behaviour, they carry on with impunity, because you’re just gonna bend over yet again and take it, and take it, and take it.
Now, this sort of scenario has been pushed off from 2014-15 a few years, to 2020, then they created the genetic serum injection depopulation event and the Ponzi scheme suddenly went rage-steroid massive. So massive, and so fake, that apparently almost no one realises just how insane it is. They literally just decided to print many tons more money, and in fact, being as printing costs money and is kinda like, you know, work, they just added a bunch of numbers to some computers and gave out loans to governments and banks, and giant firms everywhere. In a way, this is “fine” since the whole fiat money thing was really a con anyway to a large extent. So now it’s like anyone with a shred of financial understanding just went:
“Ah fuck it. Let the peasants “enjoy” a brief reprieve if they are even remotely capable, but only so they go along with the lockdowns, serum injections and chemtrail “climate change” depopulation agenda. And anyway, later we turn the tap off and let them squat like the new pigs in the giant favelas we are creating.”
Now, we are not there… yet… but, and this is one aspect of WW3 most people have zero preparation for, I truly believe we will get there soon.
For example, imagine you’r a Palestinian who was just minding his own business a month ago. All of a sudden, because Bibi either allowed or perhaps even created a false flag on Israel (the accounts of everyone knowing about it and the response being PREVENTED for six hours, are now high-on undeniable) you are suddenly without water, electricity or basic services and you’re getting the crap bombed out of you. That’s pretty sudden.
But hey, it’s Palestine, right? Can’t happen near you, right? Well… have you seen what the streets of Paris look like lately? Or San Francisco? Or most big train terminals around Europe? How quick do you think those brown people —that you work very hard at not seeing the colour, incompatible culture and incompatible religion of— who have very little to lose when they are single, young men with no children or wives to worry or care about will keep behaving in a civilised manner when from one day to the next they have no money and no access to basic facilities?
I mean, you don’t even have to go that far. Mass raids of shops, with semi-feral “Londoners” which all seem melanin enhanced, are happening right in Oxford street. With little to no consequences. And have been happening in American large cities for at least a year. And that’s now. When pretty much everything still works.
But let’s say you planned ahead and are off into the countryside, not a vermin-infested giant city with potential zombies all just a hair’s breath away from turning on you and everything that is good and clean and edible. So you have a little plot of land, you’re fairly remote, but you still use the electric grid and water mains and you don’t quite manage to grow all the food you’d need to be self-sufficient (who does these days? Very, very very few small farmers can, if any). You have enough weapons to hold off a small army, especially if of mostly untrained zombies after easy prey. Even so, what happens to you and yours is suddenly all the money you have, whether in a bank or in cash under your mattress turns to zeros and toilet paper? What do you do? How do you survive?
Quite a few of you, no doubt, if realistic, might be thinking about becoming less than lawful citizens yourselves in such circumstances. So imagine how less well-off, less intelligent, less civilised people might behave.
But there is a way out… well, not really, more of a way in… but still. you could just take the serum, and settle for the basic universal income they will give you, wear only three sets of clothes a year, eat 3d printed “meat” and make do until the turbo-cancers get you.
Welcome to the Brave New World Citizen. You can have your new name tattooed on your forearm. No longer John Smith, you are now Jon-O-Smit 998976. And your friend computer will direct you to the nearest euthanasia booth if you are feeling too depressed to continue.
Sorry, Citizen, but in this brand new Alpha Complex, we are not using cloning technologies yet. there are still too many humans for the liking of the High Programmers… errr… and your friend computer has calculated the optimum number of people for this Alpha complex and it is minus eight hundred thousand, so do not fret, friend citizen, we will reach that quota soon with your help!
You think I am just making funny references to the RPG called Paranoia, but tell me, citizen, precisely how is what we are heading towards any different?
And, friend citizen, what are you doing about it? I’m curious and I’d like to know, to compare notes, so to speak, but then, so does friend computer, also want to know, so… yeah.
It’s almost as if you’re secretly a mutant (your brain still works properly, for the most part) and also member of a secret society. And we all know that either one of those two things is reason enough for friend computer to have you self-report to the nearest euthanasia booth.
So. Think about it. Think about how you would survive a sudden financial crash. And realise that this is why I do advise going off-grid as best as possible and as quick as possible. Short of massive armed revolution, becoming self-sufficient, at all levels, is the safest thing you can be doing right now.
On the basis of the recent poll I got this request:
Something Else – How to Survive Long Term in a WWIII Scenario for a married man with young children (Shelter, Food & Water, Surviving extreme Heat/Cold, Defense, How to keep your wife and children in good spirits, Not drawing attention to yourself, etc.)
It’s a pretty comprehensive question and an entire book could be written about each of the topics, so my reply will necessarily be brief and somewhat generic, but hopefully still specific enough to make a difference.
Good Spirits
Also known as Morale, may be the most important factor of all. It certainly tends to be in most conflicts throughout human history.
You should be aware of this, especially for your wife and children more than other factors. Consider: If you move to rural buttfuck-of-nowhere intersection and Hillbilly country, you might feel wholly relaxed that no one will waste a nuke or military to come steal your 3 goats and 15 chickens. However, your wife might miss things like actual shops where you buy food instead of have to skin and gut whatever you shot for dinner. She might even like to get a coffee at a cafe once in a while, frivolous degenerate that she is (joke! That’s a JOKE!). The rugged life of an off grid prepper that has his own bomb-shelter may be the stuff of manly dreams and boyhood joy, but generally is not seen in the same light by the gentler sex. So discuss these things and make sure everyone is clear on the difficulty and/or changes of lifestyle. Are there women out there that would love this life-style, sure. But they are a minority. And almost everyone likes hot water and indoor plumbing, and not freezing in winter. So, read my 4 part series on taking on clown world and winning (use the search me button on the right). If you do, you will see that ideally you need to pick your place on the basis of the geography you want to have ideally. Although, for most people that is already set, it is not too late to make the jump now (it is likely to be more expensive if you want to do it quickly, as always). The factors affecting morale are endless, and even more so for women, so it is difficult to give sound advice to all. One lady I spoke to was having trouble being an hour or so away from her family in what is still a pretty civilised area of a very urban country. She had not been living further from her parents than a few minutes and the change was a shock. The rural area she was in was not remote by any means but felt like it to her and feeling isolated with small children made her days feel like an interminable Groundhog Day. So you need to consider these things and take them into account.
Unlike men, most women will not be happy with an ideally fortified home in an ideal rural area, with a secure bomb shelter under the house, gun ports and plenty of weapons and stock-piles of ammo, food and clean water. Unless you have a wife like the one of the main guns-ho guy in the Tremor Films, what would seem to be ideal to a man is rarely ideal to a woman. She wants mani-pedi and spa locations nearby, a good hairdressers, nice friends to gossip and laugh with about the goings on in the town and their respective husbands and girlfriend’s love affairs and so on. Trivial nonsense that doesn’t matter in a hot war zone? You bet.
On the up-side, it’s mostly because women like these things that we don’t live in a permanent hot war zone, for the most part. Because we men tend to want to please them. And do they appreciate our efforts to give them a poisonous Starbucks on every corner in lieu of bashing irritating neighbours over the head with a nicely shaped stick? Not even a Thank you, kind Sir, I tell you. It’s just the way they are. No point getting upset about it.
So, the HOW you ensure good morale with your wife, is a giant minefield that no one on the internet can possibly navigate fully for you. I can only tell you to not ignore it, prepare for it, prepare her for it and consider that the things that are so insignificant to you that they may never even have entered your head all your life, might be extremely important for her. After all… she doesn’t even think about Rome daily!
Women are primarily solipsistic, so if they experience some discomfort, the Universe is out of whack and God should stop and make it right (through you mostly) and if He (you) don’t, then, you must be the problem. By and large. Your 14 hour days stacking wood for winter, pondering how to build a biological septic tank and your own solar panels, really are not as interesting to her as you would expect of any normal person.
You need to have a very deep connection based on honesty with your wife in order to navigate this well. And keep in mind off-grid farming is brutally hard. And even harder with small children to look after. So, building your community, having one that is active and fun and good is very helpful. Having little friends for your children is also very helpful.
That all said, I sincerely hope that your wife is good natured enough to be the kind of person that can read this entry and laugh, in unadmitted generic agreement with my caricatures. And more importantly, that she is smart and logical and objective enough, to realise that if and when the SHTF, she better be ready to take up a shovel and dig the dirt with you, and at minimum reload the rifles while you hold off the zombies, and preferably shoot some of them herself. How you find/foster/cultivate/generate that delicate balance of manicured nails, pretty, sexy dresses and chocachinos with friends with the realities of having your entrenched fall-back positions for the zombie apocalypse is a puzzle you need to figure out on your own. But figuring it out is VERY important, so don’t ignore it.
Children can generally be kept in good spirits by simply spending time playing with them and teaching them things in good order. Which of course takes up a lot of time, but our children (the little ones) are learning from us all the time and actually enjoy being helpful. The two older ones may need ye old dad’s foot in the backside to motivate them, because they were raised outside of functional family structures, unfortunately, but they are definitely improving and will get there soon enough, and when they do the sense of achievement for them and us both is also an awesome feeling to have. So make the entire concept of having good morale a game you enjoy instead of a chore you dread.
Not Drawing Attention to Yourself
Better than that is being thought of well by your neighbours and community. Help the people near you and be friendly and genuinely a good guy. Of course, if and when the SHTF they will also all come looking to you for help, so you need to balance that. For me that is relatively easy. I am a misanthrope by nature and don’t like people much as a rule, but I am polite and friendly to everyone, until they give me reason not to be, then there is no mistaking who I am and what kind of level of “force” I can bring to bear if required. Generally, if people realise you’re a nice guy but have no hesitation in turning heads of bad guys into pink clouds at the drop of a hat, you get the right balance of helpful (and good) friends, and respectful strangers. The down side is that if and when they DO get organised to come for you, they will actually be a force that is organised and to be reckoned with. But that is my way, because it comes naturally to me. You need to find your own natural way and work your strengths and better your weaknesses. I am not particularly worried about organised roaming gangs of zombies, because if and when it comes to that, there probably isn’t a worse guy to go after in a radius that probably reaches the nearest army base. Even so, I have made good friends where I live and will help my neighbours if I can or when needed and they do the same in return.
Shelter, Heat and Cold
Obviously, your primary home needs to be suitable for wherever you have chosen (or are forced) to live. I tried to pick a place that is not too extreme one way or the other, but in reality, it gets snow in winter (which will probably only increase over time) and is a bit too hot in summer with a lot of attendant bugs in all seasons (flies and mosquitoes in summer and stink bugs in winter). If the weather changes drastically here, a greenhouse will become a requirement (and I plan to have one anyway at some point) and livestock might require better shelter, but your primary shelter and provisions for heating in cold climate is obviously a priority that needs to be faced and that you need to be ready to address in a grid down situation. If not, I suggest you move! It is a lot easier to survive hot places than cold ones. I have plenty of wood to last me literally years and I installed a large wood stove that can heat the whole house and also be used for cooking (not as quickly as the gas stove, but in an emergency, the house remains livable and we can still cook food even without electricity or gas).
The next big item is electrical independence. the easiest way to have some of this is to have a generator and some fuel set aside. It is however a temporary and not a long-term solution. You eventually want to get at least enough solar panels to run your fridge and a couple of lights and at least one or two power tools at a time.
My gasifier project was meant to do this by providing wood to fuel a gasifier that could power a generator, meaning I would not have to rely on petrol. That project, however, has so far been a failure. Which is not to say it is impossible, only that the effort required to make it work in the first place is a lot more than I thought, and more importantly, the effort required to keep it functional if you get it working might be even an order of magnitude higher. That said, I still want to provide value to the people that supported the project, so I am looking at alternatives ways to at least give them something that might be of use or interest for them.
Conclusions
Overall, the main issues are to create a home that is self-sufficient in terms of the basics: Water, heating, food, electricity, and sewage processing.
If you have achieved that, 90% of your problems are taken care of. After that it’s just being able to maintain and even improve on things as you go and preparing with better shelter, better community engagement, better weapons, better food stockpiling and even alternatives to using cash and especially digital money. The economy WILL collapse at some point, it’s not an if, but a when, and when it does desperation will drive people to accept whatever draconian slavery will be imposed on them. The whole point is for you to be able to survive completely apart from that, and in turn be able to inspire and help others near you do the same.
If you saw the recent (2020) series based on the Brave New World of Aldus Huxley (and with he same name) you want to be one of those “troglodytes” living outside of the “utopic” city. And you certainly don’t want to end up caught by them and influenced and ultimately caged by them in any way. Ultimately, you want to be able to roam free and either KEEP them all locked up in their cities, or have their cities crumble to dust with the architects of them buried under them.
Bear with me. I don’t know how long this post will be, because I am trying to connect things that are absolutely important and true, but mostly completely invisible to most people, and that IQ gap thing makes it hard for me to know what is obvious to most people and what is not. So, at a high level let me identify the issue and also identify the solution. Then I will get into the details, time permitting.
The Problems
Human beings are not living according to natural rythms
The Pedovores running this prison planet are intentionally disrupting any natural rhythm as much as possible. They do so in multiple and ever increasing ways and intensity:
Constant cycle of fear porn
Constant cycle of ubiquitously available actual sexual porn
Unnatural working rhythms
Unnatural family time orientation
Pollution of food and water sources
Electromagnetic pollution
Constant disposable lifestyle leading to disposable mindset
destruction of long attention spans by multitude of means
mobile phones
TV
Internet
Video above reading
audio above reading
lack of historically accurate knowledge
lack of history in general
pharmaceutical means
pervasive drug use
destruction of in-depth study of anything
preference for shallow emotional answers to deeper logical ones
txt spk instead of written words
induced dyslexia by “teaching” children to read “whole words” instead of one letter at a time (the result is a child that encounters a word he has not seen before does not know how to read it, guesses internally, and as such understands no context and gives up and/or can’t comprehend what he has read fully)
Intentionally harmful genetic engineered food
Chemtrails
Intentionally chemically altered water and water sources
Manipulation of female hormones by contraceptive pills
Manipulation of male hormones by female hormones in the water supply reducing testosterone
Medication of children due to “ADHD” when all they need is to run around in the forest for a good part of the day
Unhealthy work/live environment (everything from proximity to high tension cables to various sources of EM waves, microwaves, lack of sunlight and bad postural chairs
Sedentary lifestyle
Constant brainwashing/indoctrination by all mass media
That is the list of the effects mostly. What is the result?
Essentially a very unhealthy life that is a constant overpressure on our nervous system and thus on our very life, mind, emotions and hormonal balance. It literally affects everything. Our mood, our very health right down to killing us. our relationships, and our ability to foster good ones and maintain them, at every level. Increasingly, our life is looking more and more, every day like the scrambling for mere survival by a bunch of underfed, poisoned, diseased rats in a cage.
How is it enforced?
By the economic model under which the whole planet has been enslaved, for the most part.
The system of money, which almost all human beings today need to live in some form of comfort or other, is completely artificial, not linked to any intrinsic value related to the work, ability, or even natural resources a person has in the vast majority of cases (well over 99.999% of cases). The money is not even related to a finite resource like gold. Merely to artificial constructs most people don’t understand. The actual “money” ic created from nothing, related to nothing, by those who control the system. You have to work for it at the cost of your time and effort, the people who own and run the system have access to infinite quantities, which they can bestow at will, under some guise or other, to their willing subjects and enforcers of a certain way of forcing the rest of us to live under.
A second way is by the limited and controlled release of technology only decades after it has been identified and bought, cordoned off, secreted, or murdered into control by the same powerful pedovores running things.
Did you know that pretty much all programming that is supposedly all “new” was available in the 1970s?
Or that antigravity technology was probably rediscovered in the late 1800s and certainly by the Germans during WWII and is still hidden from the rest of us?
Or that Harold Aspden discovered properties of the electron and got them correct to several decimal places long before they were identified in the mainstream literature, as well as proved that Einstein came up with literally nothing new, by simply reading through the Royal Society’s Papers prior to 1910?
Or that a lot of this information was easily available on the interned in the mid 1990s, as I reported in my book The Face on Mars, that is now quite difficult to find?
What is the solution?
Paradoxically, the solution comes first and foremost by removing yourself from the system of control. You can have all the healthy food, and decent lifestyle you want, but if it is subject to the enforcement aspect, then it can (and will) all be taken away at a moment’s notice.
So step number one has to be to get out from under the monetary system and step two to get out from under the technological system.
“Well, we can’t all become Amish!” Scream the mouth breathers.
No. I am not suggesting you should. What I AM suggesting is that you need to find a way to become independently able to source clean water, decent food and enough electric energy to run what you need. A separate means of communication that is secure would be a laudable next goal.
“Well, you are talking science fiction for most of us!” Scream the mouth breathers. Drooling.
No I am not. The vast majority of humanity lived this way for most of human history. Yes, human history was very brutal, but guess what, it is very brutal right now, and it isn’t gonna get better. AND, you have the advantage of being able to figure this stuff out while we/you still have access to all this high tech stuff.
So… in order of chronological stability then, the process should most likely be:
1. Purchase/own some land in a place that can grow you enough food and feed enough livestock to feed you and your family. Regardless of whether that is just you or a family of ten. “Oh but how…?” Each of us has to find his way. I wrote a series of posts on this very topic in more depth. Part 1 to 4 of that are available here.
2. Find ways to be as off-grid energetically as you possibly can. My attempt at building a gasifier for this very purpose has so far met with failure, but I KNOW it is possible. I am just trying to rebuild a technology from scratch with only a few indicators. I know at least a few other have done it, so it’s possible. However, I am slowly becoming convinced that while possible, it is probably a very sub-standard solution for a variety of reasons, including the tolerances of our modern engines and the availability of wood that has sufficiently dried for long enough in the correct environment. That said, I am currently exploring other options even as I continue to try and fix the gasifier into a working unit.
3. Find and create an alternative to money. To that end, I have constructed a small chart of equivalences for ammunition to 2023 dollar values. Keep in mind this value/rapport is forever fixed to 2023 values, but over time it will mutate. if ammunition suddenly becomes very scarce, or a certain type of it becomes very scarce, then that value will go up relative to other items.
Calibre – Handgun
USD cheapest average cost (2023)
.22 Long Rifle
$0.10
.25 ACP
$0.40
.32 ACP
$0.45
.380 ACP
$0.33
9mm Parabellum
$0.25
.38 Special
$0.33
.357 Magnum
$0.52
.40 Smith & Wesson
$0.48
.41 Magnum
$2.00
.44 Magnum
$0.80
.45 ACP
$0.40
.50 Action Express
$2.00
Calibre – Rifle
.22 Long Rifle
$0.10
.223 Remington/5.56mm NATO
$0.50
7mm Remington Magnum
$1.05
.30-06 Springfield
$1.05
.308 Winchester/7.62mm NATO
$1.05
.300 Winchester Magnum
$1.50
.338 Lapua
$6.75
.375 Weatherby Magnum
$4.10
.460 Weatherby Magnum
$10.00
.50 BMG
$3.75
12 Gauge Shotgun
Bird shot (2 to 10)
$0.40
Buckshot to Double 0
$1.40
Slug
$1.00
Conversion
Number of rounds
Calibre
1 US dollar equals
10
.22 LR
1 US dollar equals
2
.25 .32 or .45 ACP or .40 S&W or .357 Magnum or .223 Rem Mag or 5.56mm NATO or Shotgun shell (birdshot)
1 US dollar equals
1
.44 Magnum or 7mm Remington or .30-06 Springfiled or .308 Winchester or 7.62mm NATO or Shotgun slug
2 US dollars equal
1
.41 Magnum or .50 AE or .300 Winchester Magnum or 1 Shotgun shell of buckshot
3 US dollars can also be
2
.300 Win Mag or Buckshot
4 US dollars equals
1
.375 Weatherby Magnum or .50 BMG
7 dollars equal
1
.338 Lapua
10 dollars equal
1
.460 Weatherby Magnum
So, that could be an alternative currency presently. Though I suspect, if the zombie apocalypse happens ammunition will become far more valuable that what the above scale suggests today.
You could do the same thing with eggs or apples, or whatever else. You could even revert back to using gold by weight. Although, of course, governments frown upon you walking around with backpacks of ammunition, or gold for that matter. makes you wonder why, isn’t it. The point is, that you need to be able to trade either time and effort or something materially tangible for goods and services. The government also frowns upon this because they can’t tax you if you do that, but it’s really hard to prevent. Although, that is what digital money is all about. And if you think you won’t get fooled into using it, guess again. You have an amazon account? a credit card? online banking? you use an ATM to get cash out? Well, you are already using digital cash. And it’s a small step to forcing you to use only that, without ever seeing physical cash. So. Start by getting used to using only hard cash as much as you can. And try and insist on being paid in the same. It’s not going to stop the tide, but it will help slow it down.
Most people will leave this third point for last thinking it’s impractical, too hard to figure out or get anyone else to agree with. Well… are you starting to understand how it is the primary means of control?
If, however, you are able to produce your own food and energy, it’s not that big a step to find an alternative way to trade for goods and services. So, while escaping the economic slavery is the most important part, doing so at a practical level for the average person will come only after they have secured shelter, food, water and energy.
On Natural Rhythms
If you achieve this trinity of sanity, AND you consciously make an effort to ignore all the constant psyops going on around you and instead intentionally and consciously build a haven of mental sobriety, sanity and joy in your home, you will begin to feel revitalised, happy and alive. In fact, the only sad aspect of your life will possibly be the small number of people able to live as you do and become part of your community.
Now, I am nowhere near having secured all three points, however, I have the shelter and at least until really serious breakdowns take place, the water, even if it required purification, I could continue for a while. The food source is scant, and the next item I need to put some serious work into, and on the energy front, so far, I only have emergency items I can use for a limited time to keep things going for a few days. So, as I said, far from ideal, AND I still need to generate quite a LOT of the vile invented smoke-and-mirrors money to secure certain future-proofing of the house as well as means of producing food more efficiently and so on.
All that said, I assure you my personal mental health has much improved even if my physical health has taken a bit of a toll, which is nothing more than my impatience and built-up stress combining to make me injure myself and not take better care of my body while I try to prepare as much as I can before some economic collapse makes everything even harder.
You may be a lot further away, or like a guy I am aware of, have worked for nearly two decades obsessively at making money as a day trader and then dropped it all to buy a huge ranch with all the solar power and off grid and fencing and guns he wants, and with more extended land further out to farm more animals and so on. Few people have had that mindset from two decades ago, much less the mental strength to keep at it and the fortune and skill to make it actually work. If you are one of them, I salute you. I lived very much like a grasshopper, but I’m still one of those ornery tough ones with spikes all over their shell and while I may not be quite up to a fully stocked ant-hill, well… if the apocalypse comes, I may do even better than a lot of ants.
But enough about you and me, let me get to those natural rhythms and why they matter.
The difference between following natural rhythms and not doing so, is immense.
I was fortunate enough to grow up in Africa for the most part, when it was still wild and had little in the way of laws or rules and rural Italy, which while in a civilised country, in the late 70s was still essentially free for children and most adults too. This created a foundational basis of reality I never forgot. it was apparent to me from an early age that the whole system of money, work, career, schooling was all just a giant deception. A system of making us little better than corralled sheep to fleece.
Left to their own devices, honest men perform extremely well and create a civilisation the likes of which only Catholicism managed to usher in. Sadly, Demonic Protestantism hijacked vast areas of the globe and later infiltrated even the healthy parts, reducing almost all to ruin. We can therefore only speculate as to what kind of future would have been created with technology used by devout Catholics. I suspect it would have been the kind of glorious thing hinted at in the film Tomorrowland or what I imagine when I think about a world of airships, that carry Biplanes for exploration and leisure trips. Like the USS Akron.
The USS Akron, the world’s first purpose-built flying aircraft carrier, could launch and retrieve three [later up to five] F9C Sparrowhawk fighters while in flight. Filled with non-flammable helium instead of hydrogen, the Akron was considered by the US Navy to be much safer than its German-built counterparts of the era. Unfortunately, nature had little respect for the opinion of the US Navy; in 1933, a powerful storm drove the Akron into the sea and claimed the lives of 73 out of her 76 crew. Among the dead was Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, one of the Navy’s strongest airship proponents.
or even cooler USS Macon
The USS Macon was especially interesting for being a kind of “flying aircraft carrier”. Namely, it could carry five Curtiss F9C fighter aircraft. These were one-man biplanes stored in a hangar within the body of the zeppelin.
Sadly, the Macon too was lost at sea and that put an end to the concept, (because by then everyone had started to become a quitter!) although even bigger versions had been planned, that included top-side runways and whole squadrons of biplanes in their hangers.
Imagine a world where the commercial interests of life are SUBJUGATE to the human spirit instead of the other way round.
Imagine a world where the human mind, emotions, biorhythms, and needs lead the technology instead of the technology dictating to our minds, spirt and body how to be and act and live.
Because that, in essence, is what happens. Do you really think there are not alternatives to electricity that are free and easier and safer to use than the ones we have spend decades and trillions of dollars to perfect? Tesla had already figured out wireless transmission of energy more than a 100 years ago. But you can’t put a meter on that.
The antigravity technology rediscovered by Nazi Germany’s scientists is indeed dangerous, but put to positive use, it would absolutely render our planet a paradise, with everyone having enough energy, no pollution of billions of kilometres of concrete and asphalt required, no use of fossil fuels and pretty much clean energy forever for everyone. As well as access to the entire Galaxy, not just out solar system.
But of course, you ar not allowed to know or develop or build these things.
There are numerous stories of real world examples, of men from many nations, including Italy, who discovered, or re-discovered these technologies and as soon as they tried to implement them they either got bought out, threatened into silence or were assassinated.
almost 50 years ago, a hydrogen car that worked efficiently and did not pollute was demonstrated. In the USA, well-functioning electric cars were produced and worked and then were suddenly recalled from every single owner that had one, including, if memory serves, Mel Gibson, and memory holed.
The point is that if you get back to a working and living that avoids all the poisons and distractions of the modern world, the type of family life you can have for a start improves in quality by several orders of magnitude (assuming you are the right people for each other, if not, well… the point is that the truth will out!). Secondly, while you will always be busy, you will also begin to think properly again, and consider possibilities that you never had the time or inclination to consider before. And remember that pretty much every single invention that changed the world was created by an individual and almost never by giant corporations. Yes, it’s true the little guy invariably got screwed and forgotten, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In an honest society of honourable men, the inventor would be able to live well off his invention and people would respect his work.
But such a society needs to be built from the ground up and as I mentioned above what you need to begin to create it, the next step is to build a community around you of like-minded people.
What else you got to do for the remainder of your lifetime anyway?
Despite everyone somewhat jumping on the bandwagon of wanting to go off-grid, rural, and become a self-sustaining farmer, you need to understand that the task is not for the faint of heart.
In particular, if you have been a city-boy most of your life, don’t expect to suddenly be able to move to the country, go off-grid and be like little home on the prairie all flowers and daffodils and unicorns.
Farming, regardless of where you are, to a level that actually is able to feed you and your entire family AND earn you some cash for those other “incidentals” that are inevitable in the farming life, is far from easy.
At a minimum, assuming a family of 7, like mine, where the children are all still quite small, you will require:
Sufficient land to grow a number of different crops
Sufficient water/irrigation or natural rainfall to water your plants
A greenhouse of suitable size to grow those foods that are more susceptible to being eaten by bugs and wild animals and produce better results in a protected environment
A tractor with the various attachments to plough, cut and dig
If you plan to go off-grid you need a serious solar/battery setup. depending on where you are this will run several thousand euro/dollars/gold coins. At a minimum here in Italy it would be 30k Euro, but 50k euro would be better. Even then if you get snow in winter (we do), it will not be enough to run everything you ideally want to run, so prioritising becomes important.
Wood-heated stoves to warm the house and water too in winter
Wind turbines tend to break and not be anywhere as efficient as you hope
Permits/Bureaucracy/Taxes/Regulations be sure what these are before you even buy the property. Sometimes there are legal ways to do what you want despite initial setbacks. sometimes there aren’t. That might not matter in a SHTF situation, but until you’re actually fighting off hordes of zombies, it does matter and can cost you dearly to fall foul of it.
You will also need an array of tools and tool storage solutions that will cost you a further several thousands at a minimum and many several thousands if you go full “apocalypse warehouse”
Your income will be very different from what you are used to, and in the best case, dependent on things like: The weather. Chemtrails. Your ability to purchase a bunch of things, from petrol to fertilisers. And possibly, all the way to Laser-fires from above, or, immigrant petrol-lit ones if you are in a place that some government pedovore fancies you should not be in.
And that’s just the material/practical side of things.
There are some intangibles that are also very important to consider:
Your wife/children may not be ready or willing to undergo the rather extreme shift in lifestyle from “I’ll have my latte Venti with Vanilla extract, a Peruvian berry and a unicorn fart on the foam, thanks” to “You wanna eat? Clean out the chicken-shit from the coop, collect the eggs, water the goats and then make breakfast. I have to feed the chickens, feed the goats, fix the fencing, trim the brambles around the fruit trees and butcher the pig. I’ll be in for breakfast soon.”
They may also find the remoteness hard (at least at first), and if they are not helped to appreciate nature, farming itself, hunting, building and fixing things and so on, they may well resent you and, like many farmer’s children from all the ages, run off to the glitzy city lights you just escaped from. The difference being that back then the city lights offered a real job and still some semblance of a life. Today, the glitzy lights represent the beams of the operating theatre where they operate on your genitals to make you “more real than a real woman” while telling you that the plastic cheese is good for you while you work in a cubicle farm and are hooked up to a VR headset for 3D masturbation in the 3 hours before you pass out in a glycemic coma; before you are woken by a snort of cocaine and do it all again the next day. And the next. And the next.
There are no days off. Pretty much ever. The up side is also that there are no set alarm times to get up, although, necessity sees to it that most farmers rise early and go to bed early. I am a crap farmer, because my natural inclination is to be a hunter/scout, so I tend to rise later and go to bed never, but that’s not the way of the farmer, trust me.
The income you can make from selling produce as a small farm is not a lot. You really need to organise yourself to do that if that is your idea. Personally, misanthropic as I am, I am not too inclined to do that, but it is an inevitable need if your farm becomes your sole way to earn a living.
Farm animals stink. Chickens stink. Pigs really stink. Goats stink. Cows stink. And they all shit. A lot. All the time. The up side is that if you have raised 5 kids from birth, you are mostly used to the stink already. Being regularly sprayed with snot, vomit, liquid shit, piss, undefinable sticky substances from their grubby little hands, and having the occasional dead bug or small animal brought indoors, somewhat hardens you to the farming life. Even so, your wife may occasionally miss wearing long, flowing, colourful dresses, high heels and smelling of jasmine and morning dew. Try to cheer her up by reminding her that if the farm animals escape, there can be early morning runs in underwear and farming boots, where the freezing dew will mix naturally with the sweat and adrenaline pheromones.
This may depend a bit on where you are, but the vast expanses of Earth that are covered in greenery, have bugs. Lots, and lots, and lots of bugs. If you are like me and grew up in that environment, you may find the bugs, the scorpions, the snakes, mice, random little animals cool to see or even study. If you are a city girl, you might freak out every 5 minutes and feel like Dresden in WW2 being dive-bombed by mosquitoes, gnats, and other fiery-biting things.
Injuries. Just like you cannot do martial arts without getting some, it is quite likely that you and yours will suffer some injuries. If you are smart, careful, and go about things intelligently, these should mostly be limited to cuts, scrapes, thorns, twisting an ankle or pulling a muscle or ten. If you are an unsafe idiot, it can mean your death, or worse, that of one of your children or wife. I have worked as an armed bodyguard in South Africa, which is basically one of the murder capitals of the world, with a level of death by violent crime that surpasses the war in the baltic states of the 1990s. And has kept this level of homicide steady for some 30 years, year on year now. I have also done martial arts for over four decades. And I consider farming, especially on hilly, uneven ground that has not been well-maintained, to be more dangerous than either of those endeavours.
Sometimes you will simply need other people to help you. Be they friends or paid workers, especially while setting things up (which is also when you will make the most mistakes). Some jobs can’t be done alone, and some jobs really need an expert guy who has done that most of his life to come help you and show you how it’s done.
Community. Wherever you are, as a farmer, you will need to be a good neighbour and rely on them too. This is not optional. Every farmer knows this. Which is why farmers are some of my favourite people on Earth, always have been. They are also far more level-headed, salutary and pious than soldiers; though, the two types are not as far apart as you might think. Especially if the soldiers are honest types instead of wound-up toys pumped full of battle drugs and retarded ideology. So… make sure you can get along with the people living near you.
So, know all of that before buying into some online grifter telling you how the “homesteading life” is the easy way to removing yourself from Clown World and be totally trouble free. And while people like Wranglerstar might make their living from their YouTube channel, or others may survive on donations, that is not a model you should base your ultimate survival on. Nor is it one in which most will succeed, either. It can be a side stream of income and it can take off and be great for some, but beware of anyone that tell you that the self-sustainable lifestyle is easily or quickly achieved.
And if you want to multiply those problems by an order of magnitude, then try creating a brand new community of people that all do this together and in harmony.
Believe me, you need God then.
In any case, despite all the above, it looks like soon we will have the first purchase of a home near us by a loyal henchman. May he be the first of many to come.
Oh… one last point… if you ARE prepared to face all that stuff… is it worth it?
I wrote about World War III Fatigue and it was well received. Now let us look at the more pertinent problem, because it directly affects your future. And because I am not one of those black-pill nihilistic losers, when I talk about a problem I am trying to give you solutions. So read this through to the end, my despondent little friend:
Clown World Fatigue.
1. Anyone who has not had a lobotomy by now understands a few key things:The War in Ukraine is the West trying to make the whole world their globohomo playground and it’s not going well for them. Russia, China and others are finally able to shake off the US deep state that has been vampiric-ally sucking their souls with a lot less bloodshed than they would have had to do before this (while failing). Of course, countries with a deeply entrenched group of parasites in their entire structure, like Italy, Germany, Spain, the UK (though they are also vampire spawners) and so on, are going to have a very hard time trying to disengage from the USA without actual armed rebellion in the streets, which no one is really wanting to have happen anyway. But the official puppets pretending to govern, are hardly going to say: “Yeah…take your 140 bases, including the nuclear ones, and fuck off back to Yankee-land.” And if they did, they would probably die of a different type of “suddenly.” That said though, by and large, the world will splinter along a multi-polar, more sane part, and a globohomo infested, insane part.
2. Covid and all it’s related crap is a depopulation agenda and it was just a test run.
3. Chemtrails, HAARP weather and earthquake manipulations, chemicals in the water to damage, sterilise and hurt you are all realities, the “Apeel” chemicals Billy the goat Gates wants to put on all food is not there for your health. His genetically engineered mosquitos released in Florida have, suddenly, created malaria where it had not existed at all before, what a Cohen-cidence. They are running multiple lines of depopulation in an accelerated timeframe. They have been doing it for decades with “vaccines” that sterilised people in India and Africa. And now they are trying to wipe out first and foremost Caucasian Males, because they are the biggest obstacle to the full depopulation/enslavement agenda.
4. None of these things are “paranoid fantasies”. They are literal conspiracy facts that the globohomos of clown world are actively involved in. People like you and me who see it are simply noticing reality. And we know how much certain people hate the NOTICING of certain objective facts. Facts that by the way are all out in the open now. Read the WEF site, or Agenda 2030, or what the WHO and UN plans for us, and so on, just read it. They are TELLING you what they will do, it’s not a “theory” of any kind.
Right. So you know all that and you are fatigued about worrying about it. They implement the new digital only driving licence and you’ll just go along with it because eh…you’re just one guy and eh… And so on.
You’re not being loaded into cattle wagons on a shoddy tramline. You’re being gently prodded with a VR headset to stay in your cubicle and stop eating organic meat and take this shot of “essential vitamins” and stay on your 6G brain-tumour forming electronic implant and so on.
It’s all depressing right? It makes you just wanna give up.
That’s their plan.
And here is the antidote. And you are FAR from alone. We are the majority.
Do what I said in the WWIII post too. But above all, begin to think of yourself as the resistance under occupied territory. Figure out how to live without TV. Without smart-phones. Say no to digital cash.
We all have some limits here and there, but trust me when I say that a paper rail card a dumb phone and reading books on your way to work on the train is a far better use of your time even if you are in a filthy giant city. I know, because I did it. Had a more than 2 hour commute one way. I read a LOT of books.
And always, look to buy that little piece of land as per the posts I did on how to take on Clown World and Win. Always work towards that. Find a lost place in the mountains where you can own guns and feed yourself with your hunting and foraging and crop planting.
Look, the Taliban fucked up the USA. If they could do it, so can you when and if it eventually comes down to them hunting you for being the last of the unvaxxed.
Think of every hero in every underdog film.
Whether the original Star Wars (the only ones that count), or the grittiness and realism of Child 44, or the funny, but frighteningly fast-approaching reality of the Paranoia RPG, the hero is always a guy with little to no chance of winning right? Well, buddy, it’s YOU. What did you think you were gonna be in? Some chick-flick rom-com? Well, it might be, in the Paranoia world there was a hilarious game module where for whatever reason the troubleshooters stop taking their meds for an extended period of time and one of the male characters starts getting attracted to one of the female characters, sneakily doing dangerous things like holding hands, which if the computer suspects you of having anything like an actual sex drive, he will immediately ask for your disintegration at the nearest euthanasia booth.
So if you wanted a Rom-Com, you got it. And you better have six clones, as you try to convince one of the last unvaxxed women left to join you in your mountain cave retreat where a fur blanket made from bearskin is the luxury you permit yourself in winter.
Is it hard? Sure.
But aren’t adventure films hard on the protagonists? But hey. You chose the life of a hero buddy, now get on with it.
What’s that you say? You are bespectacled accountant that sits at a computer all day?
So was I buddy, for about 15 years. And now I have a .300 Win Mag and a bunch of shotguns and I still don’t know crap about farming, but I’m learning.
Rom-Com, Drama, Thriller, and Dystopian Science fiction, it’s all the same. You got your movie. We all got our own movie to star in. Now go win this fight man.
Surviving WW3 Long Term
On the basis of the recent poll I got this request:
Something Else – How to Survive Long Term in a WWIII Scenario for a married man with young children (Shelter, Food & Water, Surviving extreme Heat/Cold, Defense, How to keep your wife and children in good spirits, Not drawing attention to yourself, etc.)
It’s a pretty comprehensive question and an entire book could be written about each of the topics, so my reply will necessarily be brief and somewhat generic, but hopefully still specific enough to make a difference.
Good Spirits
Also known as Morale, may be the most important factor of all. It certainly tends to be in most conflicts throughout human history.
You should be aware of this, especially for your wife and children more than other factors. Consider: If you move to rural buttfuck-of-nowhere intersection and Hillbilly country, you might feel wholly relaxed that no one will waste a nuke or military to come steal your 3 goats and 15 chickens. However, your wife might miss things like actual shops where you buy food instead of have to skin and gut whatever you shot for dinner. She might even like to get a coffee at a cafe once in a while, frivolous degenerate that she is (joke! That’s a JOKE!). The rugged life of an off grid prepper that has his own bomb-shelter may be the stuff of manly dreams and boyhood joy, but generally is not seen in the same light by the gentler sex. So discuss these things and make sure everyone is clear on the difficulty and/or changes of lifestyle. Are there women out there that would love this life-style, sure. But they are a minority. And almost everyone likes hot water and indoor plumbing, and not freezing in winter. So, read my 4 part series on taking on clown world and winning (use the search me button on the right). If you do, you will see that ideally you need to pick your place on the basis of the geography you want to have ideally. Although, for most people that is already set, it is not too late to make the jump now (it is likely to be more expensive if you want to do it quickly, as always). The factors affecting morale are endless, and even more so for women, so it is difficult to give sound advice to all. One lady I spoke to was having trouble being an hour or so away from her family in what is still a pretty civilised area of a very urban country. She had not been living further from her parents than a few minutes and the change was a shock. The rural area she was in was not remote by any means but felt like it to her and feeling isolated with small children made her days feel like an interminable Groundhog Day. So you need to consider these things and take them into account.
Unlike men, most women will not be happy with an ideally fortified home in an ideal rural area, with a secure bomb shelter under the house, gun ports and plenty of weapons and stock-piles of ammo, food and clean water. Unless you have a wife like the one of the main guns-ho guy in the Tremor Films, what would seem to be ideal to a man is rarely ideal to a woman. She wants mani-pedi and spa locations nearby, a good hairdressers, nice friends to gossip and laugh with about the goings on in the town and their respective husbands and girlfriend’s love affairs and so on. Trivial nonsense that doesn’t matter in a hot war zone? You bet.
On the up-side, it’s mostly because women like these things that we don’t live in a permanent hot war zone, for the most part. Because we men tend to want to please them. And do they appreciate our efforts to give them a poisonous Starbucks on every corner in lieu of bashing irritating neighbours over the head with a nicely shaped stick? Not even a Thank you, kind Sir, I tell you. It’s just the way they are. No point getting upset about it.
So, the HOW you ensure good morale with your wife, is a giant minefield that no one on the internet can possibly navigate fully for you. I can only tell you to not ignore it, prepare for it, prepare her for it and consider that the things that are so insignificant to you that they may never even have entered your head all your life, might be extremely important for her. After all… she doesn’t even think about Rome daily!
Women are primarily solipsistic, so if they experience some discomfort, the Universe is out of whack and God should stop and make it right (through you mostly) and if He (you) don’t, then, you must be the problem. By and large. Your 14 hour days stacking wood for winter, pondering how to build a biological septic tank and your own solar panels, really are not as interesting to her as you would expect of any normal person.
You need to have a very deep connection based on honesty with your wife in order to navigate this well. And keep in mind off-grid farming is brutally hard. And even harder with small children to look after. So, building your community, having one that is active and fun and good is very helpful. Having little friends for your children is also very helpful.
That all said, I sincerely hope that your wife is good natured enough to be the kind of person that can read this entry and laugh, in unadmitted generic agreement with my caricatures. And more importantly, that she is smart and logical and objective enough, to realise that if and when the SHTF, she better be ready to take up a shovel and dig the dirt with you, and at minimum reload the rifles while you hold off the zombies, and preferably shoot some of them herself. How you find/foster/cultivate/generate that delicate balance of manicured nails, pretty, sexy dresses and chocachinos with friends with the realities of having your entrenched fall-back positions for the zombie apocalypse is a puzzle you need to figure out on your own. But figuring it out is VERY important, so don’t ignore it.
Children can generally be kept in good spirits by simply spending time playing with them and teaching them things in good order. Which of course takes up a lot of time, but our children (the little ones) are learning from us all the time and actually enjoy being helpful. The two older ones may need ye old dad’s foot in the backside to motivate them, because they were raised outside of functional family structures, unfortunately, but they are definitely improving and will get there soon enough, and when they do the sense of achievement for them and us both is also an awesome feeling to have. So make the entire concept of having good morale a game you enjoy instead of a chore you dread.
Not Drawing Attention to Yourself
Better than that is being thought of well by your neighbours and community. Help the people near you and be friendly and genuinely a good guy. Of course, if and when the SHTF they will also all come looking to you for help, so you need to balance that. For me that is relatively easy. I am a misanthrope by nature and don’t like people much as a rule, but I am polite and friendly to everyone, until they give me reason not to be, then there is no mistaking who I am and what kind of level of “force” I can bring to bear if required. Generally, if people realise you’re a nice guy but have no hesitation in turning heads of bad guys into pink clouds at the drop of a hat, you get the right balance of helpful (and good) friends, and respectful strangers. The down side is that if and when they DO get organised to come for you, they will actually be a force that is organised and to be reckoned with. But that is my way, because it comes naturally to me. You need to find your own natural way and work your strengths and better your weaknesses. I am not particularly worried about organised roaming gangs of zombies, because if and when it comes to that, there probably isn’t a worse guy to go after in a radius that probably reaches the nearest army base. Even so, I have made good friends where I live and will help my neighbours if I can or when needed and they do the same in return.
Shelter, Heat and Cold
Obviously, your primary home needs to be suitable for wherever you have chosen (or are forced) to live. I tried to pick a place that is not too extreme one way or the other, but in reality, it gets snow in winter (which will probably only increase over time) and is a bit too hot in summer with a lot of attendant bugs in all seasons (flies and mosquitoes in summer and stink bugs in winter). If the weather changes drastically here, a greenhouse will become a requirement (and I plan to have one anyway at some point) and livestock might require better shelter, but your primary shelter and provisions for heating in cold climate is obviously a priority that needs to be faced and that you need to be ready to address in a grid down situation. If not, I suggest you move! It is a lot easier to survive hot places than cold ones. I have plenty of wood to last me literally years and I installed a large wood stove that can heat the whole house and also be used for cooking (not as quickly as the gas stove, but in an emergency, the house remains livable and we can still cook food even without electricity or gas).
The next big item is electrical independence. the easiest way to have some of this is to have a generator and some fuel set aside. It is however a temporary and not a long-term solution. You eventually want to get at least enough solar panels to run your fridge and a couple of lights and at least one or two power tools at a time.
My gasifier project was meant to do this by providing wood to fuel a gasifier that could power a generator, meaning I would not have to rely on petrol. That project, however, has so far been a failure. Which is not to say it is impossible, only that the effort required to make it work in the first place is a lot more than I thought, and more importantly, the effort required to keep it functional if you get it working might be even an order of magnitude higher. That said, I still want to provide value to the people that supported the project, so I am looking at alternatives ways to at least give them something that might be of use or interest for them.
Conclusions
Overall, the main issues are to create a home that is self-sufficient in terms of the basics: Water, heating, food, electricity, and sewage processing.
If you have achieved that, 90% of your problems are taken care of. After that it’s just being able to maintain and even improve on things as you go and preparing with better shelter, better community engagement, better weapons, better food stockpiling and even alternatives to using cash and especially digital money. The economy WILL collapse at some point, it’s not an if, but a when, and when it does desperation will drive people to accept whatever draconian slavery will be imposed on them. The whole point is for you to be able to survive completely apart from that, and in turn be able to inspire and help others near you do the same.
If you saw the recent (2020) series based on the Brave New World of Aldus Huxley (and with he same name) you want to be one of those “troglodytes” living outside of the “utopic” city. And you certainly don’t want to end up caught by them and influenced and ultimately caged by them in any way. Ultimately, you want to be able to roam free and either KEEP them all locked up in their cities, or have their cities crumble to dust with the architects of them buried under them.
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By G | 31 October 2023 | Posted in Farming Life, Increasing Happiness, Relationships, Social Commentary, StCZA - Module 0, StCZA - Q.O.R.G., Zombie Apocalypse