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While reliance on imports is tenuous, and dangerous as a result, imports are a blessing while they are available. It's good to have them, but wise to invest them with forethought.
You point out that urban regions are becoming hazardous, and that rural areas are being cut off. I would suggest that securing access to rural property is time sensitive, and the sooner such move is made the more likely the optimal benefit of it can be attained. Communities working together can deploy a breadth of skillsets to create functional local economies. There are table top technologies that can supply fuel, food, clothes, household goods, and tools, and creating communities that have such breadth of productive capacity potentiates resilience in events that might otherwise render us to dependence on centralized institutional production, which is IMHO extremely hazardous. Being dependent on a slaver means being a slave.
I have several ways to attain to most of these essentials, and aim to have at least three for each of them. In temperate climates, heat is literally an existential need during winter and inclement weather. Have at least two backups to the grid. Same for fuel. Same for food. It is very good to point out that people dreaming they will become off grid survivalists in exigent circumstances, but do not have experience doing it right now, won't be likely to succeed. Because of this it is good to be able to grow food in a backyard - but remember the Holodomor where cadres salted gardens and stripped barns in order to make people dependent on collective farms. Consider how to grow food covertly, in guerrilla gardens, aquaponics indoors, or however you can manage to. Learn how to use different fuels, wood, gas, coal, or whatever might be relic after electricity becomes too managed to be reliable, or too unreliable to depend on. For tools and household goods, it is necessary to have tooling to make them. 3D printers, CNC machines, laser, plasma, and other forms of machining to make things are necessary - but they're useless without practice using them, means of powering them, or a site to use them in. In every case, using these things now is the only way you'll be able to use them in exigent circumstances. So, planning to bug out to a place where these things can be done in extremis is planning to be without them. Be in a place where you do these things daily, and prepare to secure that place from threats, because that is the only way these necessities will remain available in extremis.
Your point about fraudulent taxes and expenses is very on point. This is a means of preventing some of the potential catastrophes that may come of profiteers gaining too much capacity and seeking more. Stored food, some silver or gold coins, some crypto, etc., are useful to get through an initial transition from current circumstances to what emerges, but only to transition to making them yourself or bartering with folks that can make them on a permanent basis. Gaining means of production, not products, is the goal preppers should have, and particularly should include the skills and practice of that process.
Firstly I'd like to thank you for your work, your research and investigation, not to mention your poignant articles (to which i have had many tabs open on my browser, going through them one by one).
And you're from England too!
All that you've written is great great advice! We must form self-reliant mutual aid communities. We don't need communes, though in my time as a volunteer at various places via the helpx.net platform I've come to realise just how many such projects exists around England, on a Co-Op basis, but we need to bring the locals together. Villages connected with villages, towns with towns, and to form a mesh of self-reliance.
Communes are hard as cramming people under one roof, all with their ulterior motives, is a disaster.
Currently I have Stefan Verstappen's entire portable survival library with about 350+ ebooks on all sorts of survivalism and prepping stuffs. Would you be interested in it? I can send you a download link.
I am in the PNW, in the heart of what looks like NPC country on maps, but in fact is mostly villages of self-reliant farmers, loggers, and folks familiar with rock crushers and other heavy equipment. My kinda people! So far my village has not experienced influxes of migrants, infestations of urban progressives, or much in the way of armed oppression from state funded mercenary forces (police). State police do impact the community to a small extent, but our Sheriff's mother lives in the county, and as long as she lives here I reckon he'll do what he can to preserve her felicity, which means he's not going to allow homeless encampments, drug gangs, or immigrant hordes in significant numbers.
So far Pacific City has lived up to it's name.
There are informal communities of folks with interests in traditional crafts, canning, smoking meat, spinning wool, weaving, bushcraft, and folks looking at emergent crafts, CNC, 3D printing, and etc. Combined with a rural tradition of hunting, fishing, bushcraft, and gardening, the rugged mountains, and mighty Pacific resources hereabouts, along with prevailing winds that blow towards the industrial areas of America, I can't think of a better region to dodge or survive most of the catastrophes that might arise, or surely will.
When I was raising my kids and interested in real property I had a look at some intentional communities, as they called communes then, and I confess it made my skin crawl to contemplate life under a soviet-style committee that could decide whether you had a diesel truck or not, or ate meat or not. I much prefer loosely connected communities to tightly integrated consensus ruled ones.
Stefan Verstappen's library sounds extremely useful, and I don't have it, so want it.
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I forgot to upload the 2nd one, will do so now.
Hi @jin-out,
Thank you for participating in the #teamuk curated tag. We have upvoted your quality content.
For more information visit our discord https://discord.gg/8CVx2Am
While reliance on imports is tenuous, and dangerous as a result, imports are a blessing while they are available. It's good to have them, but wise to invest them with forethought.
You point out that urban regions are becoming hazardous, and that rural areas are being cut off. I would suggest that securing access to rural property is time sensitive, and the sooner such move is made the more likely the optimal benefit of it can be attained. Communities working together can deploy a breadth of skillsets to create functional local economies. There are table top technologies that can supply fuel, food, clothes, household goods, and tools, and creating communities that have such breadth of productive capacity potentiates resilience in events that might otherwise render us to dependence on centralized institutional production, which is IMHO extremely hazardous. Being dependent on a slaver means being a slave.
I have several ways to attain to most of these essentials, and aim to have at least three for each of them. In temperate climates, heat is literally an existential need during winter and inclement weather. Have at least two backups to the grid. Same for fuel. Same for food. It is very good to point out that people dreaming they will become off grid survivalists in exigent circumstances, but do not have experience doing it right now, won't be likely to succeed. Because of this it is good to be able to grow food in a backyard - but remember the Holodomor where cadres salted gardens and stripped barns in order to make people dependent on collective farms. Consider how to grow food covertly, in guerrilla gardens, aquaponics indoors, or however you can manage to. Learn how to use different fuels, wood, gas, coal, or whatever might be relic after electricity becomes too managed to be reliable, or too unreliable to depend on. For tools and household goods, it is necessary to have tooling to make them. 3D printers, CNC machines, laser, plasma, and other forms of machining to make things are necessary - but they're useless without practice using them, means of powering them, or a site to use them in. In every case, using these things now is the only way you'll be able to use them in exigent circumstances. So, planning to bug out to a place where these things can be done in extremis is planning to be without them. Be in a place where you do these things daily, and prepare to secure that place from threats, because that is the only way these necessities will remain available in extremis.
Your point about fraudulent taxes and expenses is very on point. This is a means of preventing some of the potential catastrophes that may come of profiteers gaining too much capacity and seeking more. Stored food, some silver or gold coins, some crypto, etc., are useful to get through an initial transition from current circumstances to what emerges, but only to transition to making them yourself or bartering with folks that can make them on a permanent basis. Gaining means of production, not products, is the goal preppers should have, and particularly should include the skills and practice of that process.
Thanks!
@valued-customer I bow to your superior insight!
Firstly I'd like to thank you for your work, your research and investigation, not to mention your poignant articles (to which i have had many tabs open on my browser, going through them one by one).
And you're from England too!
All that you've written is great great advice! We must form self-reliant mutual aid communities. We don't need communes, though in my time as a volunteer at various places via the helpx.net platform I've come to realise just how many such projects exists around England, on a Co-Op basis, but we need to bring the locals together. Villages connected with villages, towns with towns, and to form a mesh of self-reliance.
Communes are hard as cramming people under one roof, all with their ulterior motives, is a disaster.
Currently I have Stefan Verstappen's entire portable survival library with about 350+ ebooks on all sorts of survivalism and prepping stuffs. Would you be interested in it? I can send you a download link.
I am in the PNW, in the heart of what looks like NPC country on maps, but in fact is mostly villages of self-reliant farmers, loggers, and folks familiar with rock crushers and other heavy equipment. My kinda people! So far my village has not experienced influxes of migrants, infestations of urban progressives, or much in the way of armed oppression from state funded mercenary forces (police). State police do impact the community to a small extent, but our Sheriff's mother lives in the county, and as long as she lives here I reckon he'll do what he can to preserve her felicity, which means he's not going to allow homeless encampments, drug gangs, or immigrant hordes in significant numbers.
So far Pacific City has lived up to it's name.
There are informal communities of folks with interests in traditional crafts, canning, smoking meat, spinning wool, weaving, bushcraft, and folks looking at emergent crafts, CNC, 3D printing, and etc. Combined with a rural tradition of hunting, fishing, bushcraft, and gardening, the rugged mountains, and mighty Pacific resources hereabouts, along with prevailing winds that blow towards the industrial areas of America, I can't think of a better region to dodge or survive most of the catastrophes that might arise, or surely will.
When I was raising my kids and interested in real property I had a look at some intentional communities, as they called communes then, and I confess it made my skin crawl to contemplate life under a soviet-style committee that could decide whether you had a diesel truck or not, or ate meat or not. I much prefer loosely connected communities to tightly integrated consensus ruled ones.
Stefan Verstappen's library sounds extremely useful, and I don't have it, so want it.
Thanks again!
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=_hbAoNfzfUo