So… the new Fürher of Germany, Olaf, must be in total agreement with the idea of giving a perfectly normal German citizen up to 3 years in jail for simply stating factual observations.
I wonder what kind of formal greeting Olaf will request of loyal citizens in due course. In case you didn’t know who he is, he’s the new Chancellor, who replaced (fallen) Angel(a) Murky-led.
Here is a picture to get you up to speed.
If you are still one of those brain damaged, mutagenic overload people who still think none of the evil that goes on and especially that has gone on for the last 3 years is due to any sort of intent by persons who literally worship Satan, well, here is yet another data point to try and nudge you our of you genetic misfortune of birth:
A “GOOD OMEN”: THEY TEST A SYSTEM FOR SOLAR GEOENGINEERING AND CALL IT SATAN
Andrew Lockley, an independent researcherpreviously affiliated with University College London, led the effort last fall, working with European Astrotech, a company that does engineering and design work for high-altitude balloons and space propulsion systems.
They have submitted a paper detailing the results of the effort to a journal, but it has not yet been published. Lockley largely declined to discuss the matter ahead of publication, but he did express frustration that the scientific process was being circumvented.
“Leakers be damned!” he wrote in an email to MIT Technology Review. “I’ve tried to follow the straight and narrow path and wait for the judgment day of peer review, but it appears a colleague has been led astray by diabolical temptation.”
“There’s a special place in hell for those who leak their colleagues’ work, tormented by ever burning sulfur,” he added. “But I have taken a vow of silence, and can only confirm that our craft ascended to the heavens, as intended. I only hope that this test plays a small part in offering mankind salvation from the hellish inferno of climate change.”
European Astrotech didn’t immediately respond to an inquiry.
Personally I wonder who funds Andrew’s work.
Directly and indirectly. I just think that might be an interesting avenue to explore, so if some intrepid investigator wants to look it up somehow, let me know.
David Keith, a Harvard scientist who has been working for years to move ahead with a small-scale stratospheric balloon research program, questioned both the scientific value of the effort and its usefulness in terms of technology development. In an email, he noted that the researchers didn’t attempt to monitor any effect it had on atmospheric chemistry. Nor did the work present a feasible “pathway to use this method for deployment at reasonable cost,” he wrote.
When asked if being provocative might have been a partial goal of the effort, Keith said: “You don’t call something SATAN if you’re playing it straight.”
SATAN supposedly stands for:
Stratospheric Aerosol Transport and Nucleation
Because Sulphur. Sure. It’s just a little in joke. And nothing at all with Bill Gates literally wanting to shut off the sun.
It’s not as if Billy “the Goat” Gates is involved with Satanist Marina Abramovich, or had anything to do at all with the patenting of coronaviruses built by the Pirbright Institute that somehow became Covid 19, or the creation and pushing of genetic serums that have killed, maimed, sterilised or crippled millions by now.
It’s not as if he’d role played the whole thing out in something called event 201 before Covid 19 appeared. Or as if he’s in any way involved in the latest roleplay of a new pandemic that will kill kids mostly named Catastrophic Contagion.
Yeah… that would be crazy talk, right?
These elite surely don’t worship Satan and dance around naked wearing horned masks at Bohemian Grove. Surely not.
And becoming a proper Catholic in order to really understand what’s going on and how to fight it, well, that would be even crazier conspiracy theorist nonsense right?
Of course. Keeping the neckbeard, fedora and trench coat with a copy of Dick Dawkins The God Delusion in its pocket is the only way to be that makes sense. Sure. If you’re a genetic mishap.
The rest of us know better.
As you know if you visit here regularly, I am about half-way in the writing some blog posts aimed at providing some simple advice on what to do if/when the zombie apocalypse really kicks off properly.
I also made it clear that panicking, or becoming more scared, is really not the answer.
Now, look here, a homeless couple, not only was surviving rather well, but they even had started some kind of venture in the pharmaceutical industry. Personally I assume their arrest is due to big Pharma frowning on competition, especially when they produce healthier drugs than the ones they try and force on you under the guise of it being a “vaccine”.
So yeah, if they can make a go of it, what’s your excuse?
I mean, ok, they jumped the gun a bit and started their plan too early, hence the indefinite “interruption” they suffered, but still, you have to give them points for entrepreneurial can-do attitude!
I will be doing a scattered series of posts, each focussing in general terms on one demographic. The aim is not to scare you or terrorise you into believing the sky is about to fall. Which is not to say that the sky is not about to fall either. These are more like notes on how I would be preparing if my situation was as described in each post. Whether this is just an exposé of my paranoid tendencies, or whether your foolish optimism will see you eaten by cannibals in the coming economic crash, only time will tell.
I presume the reality, for most, will lie somewhere in between. My personal philosophy, of course, and rather sensibly, even if I say so myself, is that if I am prepared for the marauding bands of cannibals, then if anything less that that happens, I’ll be fine.
I will probably post this introduction ahead of each of the mini Kurgan Survival Guide Posts.
Enjoy.
The last post was for the single guy or possibly young couple. This one is for what in many ways might be considered middle-America and/or middle Europe, though in Europe the likelihood if a couple with one child. But… that said, we have met couples with 4 children too. Anyway, the demographic is of people that have some young-ish children, are not financially well off, and yet, have now realised, perhaps, while the zombie apocalypse might not quite yet be upon us all, it may be a good idea to be prepared anyway.
So, all the things said for the single guy work here too, but the hierarchy may change a bit, given you now have children:
My take on serous SHTF situations os always pretty much the same in terms of hierarchy of needs.
1. Weapons
2. Mobility
3. Safe Location
4. Relevant maps and books on skills you don’t have
5. Medical Stuff
6. Basic Survival Gear
Particularly, the Safe Location needs to be really quite a bit safer, which doesn’t necessarily mean child-friendly, but it does need to be secure or easily made secure. Having a proper tent if you do not have a motor-home would be very advisable, and possibly even if you do have a motor home.
Given that I am assuming such people are renting, don’t own their own home and are surviving month to month, with little or no savings, I think that my priority in such a case would be to buy a decent motor-home type vehicle. Spend the cash to have it checked over properly by the AA if buying second hand and get insurance on the check. Not because anyone will cash in the insurance in the Apocalypse, but because if they think they might, they are more likely to do a decent check of the mechanics.
Kit that motor home out so that you can run it for a lot longer then it’s supposed to. Get professionally made extended fuel tanks if you can, extended water carrying ability, stock up on medical supplies and food and of course, weapons and ammo. In essence, be ready to get in the motor home with your whole family and move to that plot of land near your 4th cousins in the Appalachians with no teeth and lots of bear traps.
Maps of extensive ares oaf land are to be kept in the motor-home, since you may not be able to rely on GPS etc, or, depending on where you live, you may not even want to have mobile phones, and GPS tracking etc etc. For all I know, in crazy AmeriKa, the blues will hunt down the reds using drones and militarised police. I have no idea. But like I always said since I was a teenager: “Just cause you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.” And yes, someone stole that line from me, not the other way round.
When you have small children, it is essential you teach them to be able to do some basic things well. Hide, be quiet when doing so, be quiet when told to be, and recognise various dangers from an early age. My own toddlers run to safety in the forest or on the porch as soon as they hear even the hint of a vehicle on our drive, even before they can see one. The smaller girls are a lost cause on being quiet, but the boy is good at it, and he’s not even 4 yet.
Teach your children to read and write as soon as possible. And let them see when you do other handyman stuff, so they can learn some basics.
If you can’t afford a motor-home, then you will need to adapt your normal vehicle or possibly pair of vehicles and drive in a small convoy if you have two cars. Sleeping bags that can work in very cold weather are a must, as you never know where you may need to sleep. Hence the tent or tents, along with basic tools for eventual proper shelter building down the line. You can build a cabin just using an axe, a saw a hammer and some nails and screws and failing that, even without the nails and screws. As someone said about such endeavours, they can only be described as “character building”, so not fun to do at all, but possible means you can survive. Fun is up to you to see in the darkest of moments.
Personally, I have taken the meagre monies I have out of the bank and keep it in cash now, mostly on my person, so you have to literally take me out to take it. Training for the coming days ahead, don’t you know. The financial crash has already begun and while I expect the completely unlimited printing of paper money and adding of digital zeros at will will stave off the immediate and total collapse of all banks everywhere, let’s just say it can’t be too far off.
Personally I’d be surprised (happily mind you) if we don’t hit the full start of the meltdown by 2024, but I am notoriously pessimistic and way too optimistic about the intelligence of the humans who surround me. Paradoxically, human stupidity will tend to delay the full melt-down, as I explained in the previous post on the coming crash. So you may have until 2025 or even 2026 or so, but I doubt we will ever reach 2030 without a horrific economic meltdown.
So… if I had a young family, I would be looking to buy that motor-home and maps of uninhabited land with decent water-tables so I can build a well somewhere. If I can afford the motor-home and still have some money left-over I would then buy some land or a property in a suitable rural areas I have scouted and judged good.
If I did own a house, I would probably sell it ASAP to get said land and said motorhome if I lived in a large city.
And if I already lived in a decent rural area and had stocked up on essentials then I would be talking with my neighbours calmly and long enough to make up my mind about who is someone I can rely on and who is not, when the zombie-horde happens.
Again, I am not telling you what to do. I am telling you what I would do given certain parameters.
Good luck to you all.
I will be doing a scattered series of posts, each focussing in general terms on one demographic. The aim is not to scare you or terrorise you into believing the sky is about to fall. Which is not to say that the sky is not about to fall either. These are more like notes on how I would be preparing if my situation was as described in each post. Whether this is just an exposé of my paranoid tendencies, or whether your foolish optimism will see you eaten by cannibals in the coming economic crash, only time will tell.
I presume the reality, for most, will lie somewhere in between. My personal philosophy, of course, and rather sensibly, even if I say so myself, is that if I am prepared for the marauding bands of cannibals, then if anything less that that happens, I’ll be fine.
I will probably post this introduction ahead of each of the mini Kurgan Survival Guide Posts.
Enjoy.
My take on serous SHTF situations os always pretty much the same in terms of hierarchy of needs.
1. Weapons
2. Mobility
3. Basic Survival Gear
4. Relevant maps and books on skills you don’t have
5. Medical Stuff
6. Safe Location
This assumes you’re starting out in the worst possible location. Of course, if you are already in a rural area, armed, with your family and with plenty of stocked food, community would be a much higher priority than basic survival gear, but as the title suggests, this is aimed at younger men with little to no resources.
The weapons are for defence obviously, the mobility so you can get out of dodge and to whatever you determined is the best spot for you. If you can organise yourself a bit the vehicle can also double as your mobile home, even if it’s not a winnebago.
In Africa we had a land cruiser that had an extended diesel tank installed in the back, and a wooden raised platform that allowed us to store a bunch of stuff under it and have a mattress and sleeping bags on top. We could go a couple thousand kilometres on one “tank” have food for 2-3 weeks and we’d be able to sleep 2 adults and 3 kids even in bad weather, or even one more by making the front cab another bed over the bench seat.
The difference between a single guy and a couple with no children is quite minimal and boils down to what type of woman one is with in terms of how spartan can she go.
Some power tools and a small generator as well as the basic set of good hand tools means that you can eventually build a more permanent shelter too once you find suitable land or location.
As I said, this is basic and generic, it is not meant to answer all your questions, but rather inspire some positive action.
And try and have cash and bartering goods or some amount of precious metals.
That’s it for now.
Divertimento: One handgun only for life and any situation
As those of you who follow the YouTube channel know, I sometimes like to pose “What if” type questions with respect to firearms, and usually in two scenarios: One realistic and one totally blue-sky.
This probably comes from my years of playing RPGs where such choices for your characters sometimes came up. And possibly having worked with a gun for some years too. Anyway… my blue-sky handgun/fantasy weapon is, of course, the .454 Casull revolver with 30mm grenade launcher. I have wanted this as a real firearm (yes, yes, laws be damned, the Apocalypse is coming don’t ya know?!) for years. I mean… if I could have one at the low, low, price of total war… almost worth it.
But what about a real handgun, for the real world? Only one… Forever.
Yes, it is a very cruel and harsh mental torture. I am not even sure how I would go about it, so, here, with you, I will share my mental process.
Calibre: Almost certainly .357 Magnum. .44 Magnum acceptable too. 41 Magnum would be ok too but the ammo is too rare.
While I generally don’t trust .45 and 9mm, there is a case to be made for the 9mm automatically suppressed Silencerco Maxim 9. It has a high mag capacity and it’s a little bit unwieldy, but not impossible to carry concealed and the quiet aspect is very interesting. I’d say if I decided on a lesser calibre than .357 magnum then the maxim 9 would probably be it.
However, although the maxim 9 is certainly a contender, and depending on legal requirements (suppressors are illegal in many countries) I am more likely to go for a custom made 8 shot .357 magnum on the base of the Ruger Redhawk, but with a 6″ barrel and custom grips. The image below is tragic in terms of photoshop skills, but it gives an idea.
I can hear the squeals now:
Impractical! Too Big! Too Heavy! Too Slow! Not enough ammo!
Now, listen here, you young, millennial, know-nothing, here is my reasonings:
In a post apocalyptic wasteland: The laws don’t matter, I’d strap it to my leg and woe betide anyone foolish enough to irritate me. There might be faster drawers (not many, I tend to be obsessive when I practice and you bet in such a world any moment I am not actually shooting I’d be practicing) but few would be as accurate under actual life fire and with that revolver, assuming it’s well-built, which it would be, I’d be ok out to 50 metres with a bit of practice. I know because I used to be good out to 50 metres with headshots from concealed draw in 2 seconds. It was some 26 years ago and time is not your friend in such things, and I am out of practice, but the extra 2″ should about make up for it, since I used to have a 4″ .357 Ruger GP 100 back then. And centre-mass is good enough for me these days too. And a .357 magnum in your lung will still spoil your whole day.
As for the not enough ammo, again, unless you’re fighting zombie hordes, 8 shots is plenty. Even if you’re fighting 3-4 guys, you thing they will all stand-and-deliver as their friends’ heads turn into pink clouds? 8 shots is about enough for me to shoot 4 different people and be sure they are hit. And at anything like actual gun ranges, 6 for 8 or even 8 for 8 wouldn’t be all that hard. Keep in mind average gunfights are done at about 6 feet. And if you are fighting a horde, I still think a lot of spray and pray is not as effective as calm and deadly with each shot. Either by luck, genetics, mild Aspergers, a few decades of martial arts, or whatever, in every very serious situation I have been in, I tend to enter what Myamoto Mushashi called “The Void”. I wouldn’t be able to do it consciously mostly, but when the SHTF my brain automatically switches into everything is in slow-mo and my movements become close to perfect. I am not bragging, it’s just how it happens. Always been that way since I was a child. So, as long as I get to keep firing, I am fairly sure each shot would go very much where it’s meant to.
The too big, too heavy criticism doesn’t apply as far as I am concerned, as I have no issue carrying a heavy handgun 24/7. I have big hands too so it’s not too big for me at all.
All-right then but what about in the supposedly civilised world? The only thing that changes then is conceilability. Yes a 6″ revolver is harder to hide than a small semi-auto or even a full sized colt 1911, but, again, not impossible to do if you are careful and actually practice this art as if your life depended on it. This aspect though, does bring into it the slow factor. I agree that drawing a concealed 6″ revolver is probably, for most people, including me, going to take longer than pretty much any full sized semi-auto. So I’ll give you that one, but… we’re talking fractions of a second here. Maybe half a second at the outside. And half a second is a lot, it’s 3 fast rounds from a smaller calibre weapon, but… most people will not hit the side of a barn at 10 feet under combat situations.
More importantly, if you have decent situational awareness, the chances are you can see trouble before it kicks off. If you cannot, your speed of drawing and firing is probably moot anyway since you’ll be shot before you even know something’s up. And if you do have decent situational awareness, then you’re unlikely to be any slower drawing than the bad guy, since, in my case, certainly, I’d already be holding the gun, even if still holstered, in a way you would be unlikely to notice I even have a gun, much less that I am holding it already and am ready to draw and fire.
Other criticisms
Too loud. Yeah, sure. But in a civilised world I am not really planning on offing strangers in silence. And in a self-defence situation, whatever the circumstances, as my dad always says, better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. And in certain home invasion by multiple attackers, the sonic boom is certainly an advantage in terms of changing the intruder’s underpants, assuming their friend getting sprayed onto the nearest wall wasn’t in their line of sight.
Too much penetration. Eh. If you’re actually ok at real life gunfighting, your general awareness of a backstop is pretty much engrained. It’s not perfect, and shit happens, but the chances are that unless you’re firing in a crowd (why would you?!?) the chances of some innocent bystander catching around that went through a bad guy are not huge. And if you use hydra-shock or cor-bons, most of the energy gets dumped into the target.
So that’s my answer. Please feel free to leave your own version/thoughts/criticisms in a comment.
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By G | 15 March 2023 | Posted in Guns, Social Commentary