The Ark of Alexandria

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In our new book, The Personal Ark, we tackle what kind of personal data resources you may need if (or when) we experience GHD (grid, hard down). There are lots of considerations. some of which are non-apparent.

This assumes, of course, that you’re a second-level prepper.  A first-level person focuses on basic food, water, and shelter issues for some period of time.  But the second-level prepper then goes on to figure a transition to a permanent state of being without commercial resources.

The dividing line is whether you have seeds, gardening tools and viable plans and knowledge.  If you do, you’re a second level prepper.

As you can tell, there’s a huge gap between eating what’s on hand and growing, hunting, fishing, and trapping to get the rest.

So, toward this end, a discussion of how to structure information support for that kind of world.

First though, looks like the Colorado Don Ban will go to the US-SupCo and will California try it, too?

Plus, there’s that rousing rally which we’re watching from the sidelines.  Stick around, going to be an interesting Holiday ahead.

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69 thoughts on “The Ark of Alexandria”

  1. Love the arc ideas Kemmosabe,
    really appreciate Ure putting out solid info/ideas for the good Citizens of UrbSurv to chew on and process.

    The Solstice approaches, next day 22nd very powerful NRGetically speaking – a good time to “power up” Ure personal scheisse, in anticipation of the big reveal..There Here! Actually they been here (DEEPunderground) a loooong time.

    Who ? is the biggie – and they aint nice at all, and we be their pets. But most here already suspect as much.

    Lets hop into way back machine for quickie…somewhere in the Himalayan mountains..200 scientists and researchers stationed hear- gave Humanity Sanskrit (which still hasn’t been translated properly) – grossly misinterpreted today. Anyway these marvelous folks were ambushed and blasted into oblivion by aforementioned = Earth/Uras death traps.

    Those 200 Souls have been trapped and seemly abandoned here on Earth since. Seemly – references our experience, perception and measurement of TIME.
    Lets just say things be hotting up in heaven with “the Domain” joining the fray.

    Now where the helll did that winged “comet” go ?

    thx again, Chief.

  2. I love the smell of FEAR emanating from the demons
    they do not have the support to beat him so they believe they have the power to remove him from our choice, we will see
    they must protect their democracy by limiting ure choice of who you can vote for,,,, what a bunch traitors,,, the corporation must die,,, long live the US Constitution

    that move was not a victory for them, it was an act of desperation, of a weak and failing corporation, that will have a boomerang effect.
    a drowning man desperation

  3. “the second-level prepper then goes on to figure a transition to a permanent state of being without commercial resources.”

    Sadly most of us are first level preppers.. we prep with the intention that the water will continue to flow.. the electricity will still be on demand as the switch is flipped.. and you can run down to the local gas station for fuel.
    the Amish is who will be most able to survive hard grid down..
    I do have the equipment to make fuel though.. I did try to get the wife to move to an eco village.. but sadly she said NO… so we are not going to progress from the first level.. most of us are not even ready for the first level … with the latter day saints they project that only six percent are first level prepper.. Monson tried to get the church members to see this.. over and over his messages brought up seek the celestial not the terrestrial ..but it is what it is.. he will remain a hero to me..
    Now think about this.. how many have home loans…where did the money come from.. who owns the paper for the loans did you do a congress and not read the fine print or did you suffer through all that legal mumbo jumbo and see that the loan can be called in in thirty days.. we had congress push through a bill a while back so that people could still be acquiring their property and the economy moving forward. .. and the money coming from outside sources.. the loans can be called in in thirty days.. businesses were bought up by third world countries.. around the wastelands what percentage of the peoples income rely on china.. heck I have family members that work for companies that are owned by china..

    that is what I believe makes the Amish the perfect group to survive a hard grid down.. they live second level or maybe even third.. and all the members have been taken care of.. where even with my faith.. what percentage are not.. they spend billions to build temples.. but haven’t considered the people or the needs of those people.. yet will say that the Latter Day Saints believe that, at the Second Coming, Zion the City of Enoch will return to the earth from heaven, a belief based on the part of the Scripture that stated this return and that “its inhabitants shall join with the New Jerusalem, which shall then be established.”[37] It is taught that the Zion of America will be reunited with the Zion of Enoch but haven’t really made any move towards taking care of the people… reading the old diaries of the trail of tears.. over and over it is the group working as one like the old Amish do today.. today we have separated from that.. now they still have the yellow shirts.. but there is a limit..you are basically on your own.. and seriously .. we see that other religions have health insurance.. I forget which one it is.. but they offer a group health insurance for all that are in their faith..

        • Uncle Ben does, indeed, appear to have been a real person.

          According to the official Uncle Ben’s, Inc. website (www.unclebens.com), he was “an African American rice farmer known to rice millers in and around Houston for consistently producing the highest quality rice.” Unfortunately, the site explains, the details of Uncle Ben’s life are lost to history, although they seem to be aware that he died sometime before the late 1940s, when Gordon L. Harwell, the first president of Converted Rice, Inc. (the predecessor of Uncle Ben’s Inc.) and his partner decided to call the rice that they had been supplying exclusively to the Armed Forces during World War II Uncle Ben’s® Converted® Brand Rice.

          https://www.straightdope.com/21342742/were-uncle-ben-and-aunt-jemima-real-people

        • I didn’t know that.. great to know.. then there are two very great people that should be remembered for the entrepreneurships and their help others to break free of the bonds of the past.
          Its like telling oprah she cannot be called oprah anymore..
          for some reason everyone is set on trying to destroy our past history.. I believe that we should know our history and strive to avoid recreating the troubles and turbulences of the past.
          I personally love hearing the history of the american indians as well.. I feel that history should be included

        • We live on rice for carbs here in the islands. Asian style cookery abounds, and the rice has to be a little bit sticky so it clumps and you can eat it with chop sticks. “Uncle Bens” is an epithet here for bad rice that doesn’t stick together and falls off your chop sticks!

    • LOOB, Samaritan Ministries, is a Christian faith based health sharing ministry.

      It is not insurance.

      All members send their monthly shares to other members that are paying for a medical need.

      It is really worth looking into for anyone who is a Christian and sick of high premiums, high deductibles, and little coverage.

      There are two others.

      Medishare and Liberty Health Share.

      • I thought they were an insurance company.. I tried to get it to.. unfortunately they were not in favor of writing a policy for a member of the LDS community..
        which surprises me.. why hasn’t the LDS church done anything similar for the members of their religious branch..
        someone was telling me about the ZION in MO… ok..
        So what have they done to prepare for zion..eighteen million people.. IF… everyone was to migrate to lets say a five mile square piece of farmland in MO.. this takes some doing.. where do they stay who feeds them.. etc.. the church has been working diligently to build the temples.. but failed to prepare for what they have been saying for two hundred years..
        No transportation available and lets just say five hundred miles.. your talking months to walk there..longer if you are pulling a wagon or wheel barrow.. kids today don’t want to walk across the street or a block away.. in some of the Neighborhoods that BLM and Antifa targeted.. you couldn’t walk a block safely.. and if your of a race other than the neighborhood ethnic background.. I remember the words of one of my superiors I had in the military.. had an apartment off base..and had to catch a bus.. his response was.. when you get to x neighborhood.. there is two blocks you have to go to get to the next bus terminal. in all my travels those two blocks are the most dangerous in the world so when you get off the bus jog to the next bus terminal.. and he was right I was going to just walk .. within ten feet you could see it coming.. I jogged the two blocks to the next bus terminal..
        It is unfeasible to see a migration like that to some place that no one has given a second thought to..
        if you have a bug out location is should be within a maximum distance of one hundred miles.. and that is pushing it.. so prep to stay in place..you know your neighborhood..
        I have said many times.. the ones that will be survivors.. will be the tribes in remote areas.. the Amish and other colonies.. and possible an eco village.. the reason is they teach the old ways.. while all of us are dependent on all the modern conveniences

  5. “What else would you find on Uranus?” (Sorry, couldn’t resist!)” Well if your Captain Kirk of the Star Ship Enterprise you might also be dealing with Klingons around Uranus! Rim Shot! Think about that too!

      • I thought that condition of having a painful set of ASS teroids was a condition brought on by the Trumpster They blamed him for everything else might as well blame him for Roids to LOL.. LOL LOL LOL

  6. People are going to freak in an extended GHD scenario. Surviving will be luck of the draw like survival is now. A real mess in a GHD scenario.

    I’m noticing the Red Sea attacks will box out the West from the Middle East while strengthening BRI.

    Maintaining maritime safety in the area and insurance will become too pricey for the West to continue. Taking the long way around Africa adds expense is no longer practical.

    BRI map

    https://www.asiagreen.com/images/easyblog_articles/29/China-Belt-and-Road-Initiative-map.jpg

    A big change is coming. Or maybe not.

    • We won’t be able to deal with a Grid Hard Down.. we didn’t design our system for being a stable system.. just a profitable one.. Our whole infrastructure is crumbling..I believe that we mainly invest our money in WARs not infrastructure.. and industry.
      with the illegals depending if they are in some revenge army or not.. or if they are going to pay the same taxes etc that the american citizens pay then ok.. no issues… I believe that they should not be eligible for benefits until they become citizens.. then we are going down the rabbit hole even deeper..
      GHD is not something I am looking forward to.. it is going to be one messy situation.. our whole infrastructure from what I can see reading the crap I have read is very fragile.. One quick look at Texas freak winter storm is a great indicator.. the whole core of the USA was on pins and needles.. because it exposed just how weak our system is.. so expand that.. lets say the freak storm is twice that size of a little snow.. once it starts to crumble it will be like domino’s falling.. one goes puts more strain on another.. that one falls and the next one cannot manage the demands.. a few HEMPS and the whole country is shoved back to the time of NOAH.. Now I could go into my decades old rant about not putting all your eggs in one basket.. to diversify .. build mini grid solar towers starting at the furthest point from the power plant.. to utilized coal and wind and solar.. hand out ten kw grid tie systems to any home owner that is willing to have one installed.. and work your way back to the power plant.. you then strengthen the whole system.. the strength of numbers.. and if one freak storm or attack happens.. the rest pick up the slack. it is cheaper than what they propose.. it is more efficient and makes the whole system stronger with less work done on the infrastructure.. what it doesn’t do is support the present business model that they are working on.. which is why they are dead set against it.. instead they want to put those expensive big wind turbines in and build huge solar farms so far from the areas that use it.. that it won’t be cheap but more expensive..
      I also believe that it is to late to do this.. we have some pretty stupid people pulling the strings.. CO2 filters on every lamp post in a city.. and greenscaping.. green scaping not only will keep cities cooler.. but will help eliminate the crop reduction from expansion.

  7. Just a resource reference about water filtration, take a look at : https://www.echocommunity.org/en/resources/917a9497-5cb6-4465-a656-d12c86f35d4d

    If you’ve not visited this site, you should. Although its contents are not directed at North America, there is a vast amount of knowledge listed.

    In particular, the above link drops you into the ‘Appropriate Technology (AT) Tech Notes’ section. Take some time to explore the way of AT problem solving. For instance, there is an entire AT line of thinking that uses bicycle power as the prime mover to drive a wide variety of ‘human scale’ equipment.

    YMMV

    Good luck to us all.

    • @BIC… what do you think of the sand filter Idea…..
      I know it will take some of the muck out of the water but will it purify it?

      • LOOB. my experience with these filters in Africa was not very good. The problem lies in the Filter Maintenance as described in this article.

        “Filter Maintenance
        Over time the top of the fine sand layer will become clogged with sediment and debris and the flow rate will decrease. To clean the filter, the surface of the sand is stirred which moves the captured material into the water and this dirty water is removed using a small cup or can. Fresh water is added and this process is repeated until there is no more debris. Cleaning frequency will depend on the amount and quality of water used- if the water is relatively clear the filter will run for several months before cleaning is required. After cleaning, and any time the top biological layer is disturbed, it must be allowed to reestablish by pouring 1 gallon (4 liters) of water through the filter each day for 1-3 weeks, depending on how severely the biological layer was disturbed. Again, during this time the water is not sufficiently filtered and should not be consumed without further disinfection.”

        I found many of these filters being used as doorstops, flower pots, etc. Maintenance is critical and most people were not able to follow it and gave up. One issue was pouring debris laden water into the filter and plugging it prematurely. Another was channeling in the sand for lack of proper maintenance and having the water go through the channels unknowingly and causing illness to those consuming it.

        I tried to find something simpler and easier. Solar disinfection using clear bottles worked very well and I wrote a book on it. It is easy to teach, easy to use and very effective in areas 30 degrees either side of the equator. Several million people successfully doing this in Africa today. Not the best answer in the cold country where I live, however.

        My advice to anyone using the SODIS or any filtering technique is to ensure the water settles out heavy debris first and then decant the clear remainder for processing. Neither the biosand filter or SODIS is designed to remove and purify heavily contaminated water or chemicals like iron but rather to remove bacteria and viruses that cause water borne illnesses.

        • Thank you so much..
          I think the book you wrote should be mandatory reading in all schools to Everyone should know your story.. great book..

        • Thank you for the kind words. Like G.A. Stewart, I didn’t write the book to make money but hopefully share some things that could help others not make the early mistakes I made and there were plenty. All money from the book sales go to charity.

          One of the greatest satisfactions in life is to build a foundation that others can take and make into something far greater than when you were involved. This is the case with Water School.

          Mele Kalikimaka to Hank and all the other wanabee Hawaiians that hang out here. :-)

        • I will remind everybody about the new style micro filtering filters (Sawyer was maybe the first one to sell a reasonably priced one that could take the place of the big ceramic Dalton filters). Sawyer’s filters claim a potential life span of 100,000 gallons, even more than a Dalton filter, BUT you MUST back flush it regularly with clean sanitary water AND you must pre-filter, pre-filter, pre-filter the water before you put it through the water filter if you want to get anywhere near that 100,000 gallons potential life.

          Once the filter has water in it it MUST be protected from FREEZING at all costs (maybe keep it against your body in below freezing weather?). Freezing will destroy the micro membranes inside it and it will no longer provide it’s protective filtering.

          At a pricing of about $25 to $35 each those filters are by far the cheapest and easiest solution I have seen other than the sun decontamination process. (you can get them as just filters, or as various systems such as a couple of different types gravity bag systems, water bottle systems, etc. etc..) I just bought a couple of packages of TWO of the mini versions for $14 (for two filters, or $7 each) at Walmart, though I do prefer the full size ones since they flow faster and there is more you can do with them.

          The Sawyer systems are now so cheap and small that for my day hike fanny packs I have now added one to each pack in addition to the small bottle of iodine disinfecting tablets that I have carried for years (when hiked the Grand Canyon with my kids a bottle of those disinfecting tablets saved the bacon of a Dad and his kids who ended up at the bottom of the Canyon by the river and were out of water – gave him a bottle so he could purify some water from a small flowing but contaminated nearby stream – for their hike back up to Indian Gardens where they were camping).

          I used Dalton Filters for years for my various wilderness trips and had 100% faith in them, though I always carried Polar Pure (iodine system) as a backup. Micro Filtering DOES WORK and work well when you are in the wilderness (for home use if you have power reverse osmosis with ultra violet treatment is a better way to go – seen how effective that is with truly contaminated house water in giving 100% protection for those living there)

          NOT a life long solution … but for helping you for a year or two it is a viable option to consider.

        • @LOOB

          “I think the book you wrote should be mandatory reading in all schools”

          Agreed. Mine sets on a shelf, not my Kindle. It is too valuable to not have in an EMP-proof version.

  8. “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
    When I read Heinlein at an early age, I grokked, and it changed my life’s path.

  9. Prediction: not only will CA try to remove Trump from the ballot, but you can be assured that WA AG – “Sideshow Bob” Ferguson will as well. Afterall, he is running for Inslee’s seat and needs to show support to his base.

  10. Two “things”
    I have a book case. Thick, solid oak – four feet wide and six feet tall and loaded with ‘resource books’., collected over the past 25 years. My “Alexandria” library. One of my favorites I found at a yard sale., published in 1910 by Emmet and Lillian Gatz entitled- Our Way. There is no publisher’s page – don’t know who printed or distributed and can never find it. or them in an on-line search. It is a very unique cookbook. It shows how to catch, trap or shoot nearly two dozen animals, how the clean, skin and butcher them and then half a dozen cooking recipes for each. It is a great reference book. From rabbits and pheasants to deer and bear. Quite a remarkable book. Needs to be republished.
    .
    One thing for your forward-looking personal Arc that you may want to consider is “Trading Partners”. I spent several years looking and slowly grooming a small group of diverse individuals to be in a group of people that have different skills, abilities and products that would be willing to trade with one another on a regular basis. Especially during very hard times. We trade and coordinate regularly now., and it has worked very well. I believe I have mentioned the “Crazy Chicken Lady” here before. When TSHTF will be the ultimate test though.
    It is something you may want to consider setting up – but with a caveat. Be careful and highly selective on just who you try to recruit and set-up in your group. Keep the group small – I have six in mine – and keep it a secret.

    • The book you have is quite a find – I can’t even find a single reference to it online. You can legally scan, or have it scanned, and republish the pdf yourself. Books prior to 1923 are considered out of copyright, and you have the only known copy. There are machines available that can scan the entire book in a few minutes with zero damage to it. It would be a great service if it was available at a nominal price!

      I’d not let it out of your sight if you get this done, and then put it back in your safe!

      ** Not legal advice, just my thoughts!! **

        • Me too! At this point the pdf is value added, since it’s searchable. Going forward, it could be printed and archived if deemed necessary.

      • I have hand scanned in a couple of books of rare odd ball books via my Brother multi function machine (have one at office, one at home office). The software that comes with every Brother machine will do that and generate a standard PDF from the scans.

        The only downside is you have to scan it in page by page so you have to stand at the scanner to press the button after every page is turned and put on the flatbed scanner.

        • There are specialized scanners for books consisting of two high quality cameras and a bed for the book to rest in at an obtuse angle. It’s connected to a computer or is a stand-alone peripheral. You open the book to the first pair of pages and it focuses and centers the two pages, then photographs them. After the flash, you turn the page and it does it again. Keep on going and pretty soon the entire book is scanned. The book is never opened flat, so no damage to the spine, and perspective restoration is done digitally. That’s where most high quality scanned books come from.

        • years ago when tablets were first I trounced and laptops.. the college kids were complaining about the thousands of dollars worth of books that will be outdated the next year and worthless.. I told them go together buy one scan it and everyone gets a copy..I love my Kiand.. the set that I keep hard cover now are all my go to books..the wife made me downsize my hard cover paper books so she could park in the garage..lol

    • dLynn 12/21/23

      If you do not already have them, a series of books collection known as “The Foxfire Books” is a good find and still in print I think. Consists of 6 or 7 large volumes covering homestead skills in the old traditions of mountain and backwoods folks with no electricity.
      Construction, food preparation, gardening, water filtration, gun construction (including how to ‘rifle’ a barrel), gunpowder, shoes, fire, with lots of illustrations and history.
      In short, everything isolated people used and needed to exist without cities or stores. Worth having in ANY prepper collection…

    • It was a book that was distributed by the Welcome Wagon a group that would get together in communities all throughout the USA welcoming and getting to know the new people that arrive..
      today I don’t think there are any groups like that.. they pretty much ended when MOM had to go to work to help provide.. we outsourced our industry and put more low wage jobs out.. I don’t know who the author is though.. I will have to dig the book out and check.. great book.. many churches put out similar cook books.. I have a few that I truly adore.. for my strategic need to take.. I put Red Binders on some.. for some a Red Dot.. the first to grab.. for the second to grab.. I have YELLOW binders on Green for gardening.. etc.. my favorite books all sit by my chair.. the one I totally love.. is about the Indians.. Survival skills of the native Californians the other one is about the Cree indians.. on Naked and Afraid they travel to a lot of Cayman filled rivers.. but none know how the old indigenous tribes caught them..

  11. Very welcome organized thinking on important SHTF survival points. I might add the skill of harvesting fog (I live where there is lots of it daily). As well as a door that opened for me recently of making fabric from wool, silk, grass(flax) and constructing garments from that. Right now they are colorful and in the gallery. But the skill that is necessary needs practice to be successful. I am doing that. Also sewing on a machine that can be used via foot power. We feel it coming too but will continue to do “primrose path looking out the window” viewing until then. Not into doom and gloom attitude anymore.
    Thank you so much all who dwell here.

    • The foot treadled Singer sewing machine that sat in my grandmother’s house was one thing I latched on to before my brothers could sell it. It needed a new pulley cable and I was surprised to find them on the web. Now we have to figure out how to use it!

      • My mother had a foot treadle Singer. She used it to make lots of her own clothes. She won an electric sewing machine in a contest, and only used it for specialty stitches, such as zig-zag. She preferred the control of the foot treadle machine. My sister got the machine. At a swap meet I found the singer machine oak table and cast iron legs and treadle that I picked up… minus the sewing machine. Would love to find an old singer machine and restore it completely, but for now it is a great table for the electric sewing maching.

  12. Yo Logger G,

    when comes to pattern recognition , we seem to be missing the point here in Ure charts. They all look like they are rising up and to the right. Forward momentum seems to be Up to new higher highs – wtf are you looking at that indicates Down from here?

    BuyBuyBUYBUYBUYBUYBUY!

    For instance BTC was in Decending Triangle chart pattern recently..till this AM, looks like she broke right thru to the upside. On rumored news of 2nd meeting tween blackrock & sec regards spot etf has things pumping in the crypto space of markets. Like we bee talking lifetime opportunities here..
    BTC miners ? Call options purchased this AM, were in the money early this afternoon up over 33% – my SellSellSell some longs 2 cover my nut and keep riding on house money. giddyup!
    Pray tell what miners ? currently long underlying in ALL accounts – BITF..luv management =genius level. Recently as this AM – long terawulf (WULF) Jan Calls – naked..right this moment. Will spread these out as prices move in my direction. Also like Oil for some strange reason..Oh yeah – dividends paying at over 10% on fav Aussie Oil Co. and War in ME
    ..what could go wrong one wonders?

    * can anyone confirm foreign countries not accepting UST as settlement/payment.? Rumor they are only accepting Oil ? Would imagine this would wreck havoc on Derivative Mkts..rutrow.

  13. “The number 1 item, in everyone’s knowledgebase should, we figure, be basic medical skills and training to treat a heart attack, a diabetic incident, intermediate first aid, and being able to perform CPR.”

    Don’t overlook good old BOOKS! I have a bookshelf dedicated to health and self-help.
    “Where there are no doctors”
    “Manual of Tropical Medicine”
    “The Survival Medicine Handbook”
    …and on and on. I am not about to scan these into electronic format. And they are likely to survive as well or better than CDs or electronic formats. For electronics, there is
    The Radio Amateur’s Handbook, of course, which has a dandy introductory course in electricity and electronics in the opening chapter. I have the “Desk Ref”, thanks to your long ago recommendation. And some real antique gems:
    “Radio Engineering” by Terman. (I learned AM broadcast engineering from this)
    “Reference Data for Radio Engineers” (Second Edition C 1946) by Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation
    “The Engineers’ Manual” by Ralph Hudson (MIT) C 1939. The inside cover has a graphic that states “The real university is a collection of books!”
    And an assortment of much more modern stuff like the Solid State engineering manuals that cover transistor theory. Yes, I have a university of electronics on my shelves. And a cataloged ‘parts store’ to support it, also. There is my ‘deep dive’.

    Water is not a problem where I am. 150 inches fall out of the sky annually here. Just a matter of how and how much do I want to collect. If there is a bit if diesel to run the pumps, my sub has a private well and distribution system for several hundred homes. Many homes here about live on catchment systems. And thanks to LOOB I have several ‘electric pitchers’ to make chlorine out of salt water… which surrounds me. Solar panels electric, of course.

    And about half of my consumption consists of locally produced, traded, and/or homegrown food already. More is easy. We is sustainable here. And unlike horseface Zuck, I am not downwind nor near any mil targets. Let the games begin!

    • The one thing I actually asked for this year for Christmas is a new book shelf. The old one we have is about 6′ x 8′ and is overflowing with all kinds of books spanning our collective interests. Then there’s the cabinets in the office in about the same situation. Books are as precious as gold and silver!

  14. “Trump is facing other felony charges, but not insurrection, in his federal election subversion case.) Another justice raised due process concerns and said only Congress has the power to enforce the ban. Trump previously raised some of these arguments in the case.”

    I was thinking about this.. right now all the complaints and comments that were being shouted from the roof tops the accusations etc. On trump are coming full circle. them making a big deal out of him in office is in reverse placing themselves under the same microscope. so would it be wise to start screaming insurection.. what would the return response be..

    • So far, the response has been a push to ban Joe Biden from several States’ ballots on the grounds of bribery or treason (or both.)

      Trump has been convicted of no crime.

      He has been denied his First Amendment Rights, had his Fifth Amendment Rights subjugated, and has now been denied “Due Process.”

      How many more things that’re patently illegal, immoral, and unjust will be done to him, before even the “Never Trumpers” come to realize they are irrevocably destroying that which is the essence of the United States?

      I hope when Soros bought this action, he also covered the retirement funds for “The Colorado Twits” since they have likely guaranteed DJT’s reelection, and accordingly are probably not going to be very popular with the wealthy and “elite,” who are virtually all Democrats.

  15. i know. sunset strip??! have to have a talk with The Oppenheimer’s. lol. You know Old money like the Rothchilds. lol

    and……. its not all about me. lol

    dont get me wrong, i loved my time up on the mountain. been really good.

    what Bill doesnt know is all the richest and powerful live in Jackson Hole. there is 4 former former vice presidents and more movie stars and super wealthy like the Walmart Heris and way more Billionares in Jackson Hole, Wyoming which is an hour a way than anywhere else in the US.

    Elevation here is really High. im 1.52 miles above sea level.

    you think all them Billionares, power elite and uber wealthy moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming because it was on the list of destruction Bill?

    i think they probably get better info than that.

    but as you said, Movies and Gongs. how intuitive Bill. good for you.

    there may be hope for you yet.

    as for me. even all my abilties and uncanny timing to be in the right place at the right time all the time. aint nothing worth bragging about so much as The Glory of God. aint nobody cooler Than God.

    Have a Very Merry Christmas.

    ~ we are right on schedule ~

    • I remember when Jackson Hole was a very small town in 1972, along with Telluride. Jackson Hole was a sleepy cowboy town with a bar called the Cowboy. Amazing how that area has changed.

      Merry Christmas to all.

    • Ok Andy, which is it with you? Bi-polar, PTSD, both? I’ll put you on the prayer list but you’ve got to get off the drugs and the sauce.

  16. now if ya met Bill Cooper who wrote Behold a Pale Horse in 1992? id be impressed. He was called the Most Dangerous Man in the world by Bill Clinton.

    long before Alex Jones.

    okay time to let it go.

    Santa Is Watching.

    :)

  17. “:The 14th Amendment bars from office anyone who once took an oath to uphold the Constitution but then “engaged” in “insurrection or rebellion” against it.”

    Almost, but not quite.

    It does not ban a convicted insurrectionist from running for (and winning) the Presidency, and

    It is not applicable to a former President.

    Don’t take my word for it — Go read it for yourself… ;-)

  18. “Now, here’s where it gets sticky. Really, really sticky.”

    No.

    HERE is where it gets really, really sticky:

    Republican SecStates and AGs are waiting in the wings to ban Biden from the Election in THEIR States, should the USSC punt on a Colorado decision which should take them 10 minutes to present a 9-0 decision against, along with a stiff rebuke of the CoSC and a warning against “election interference” to any other State who contemplates such an act.

  19. “As calamity unfolds, we can take our massive treasure trove of knowledge…
    …Most of it will fit on CDs and DVDs and from there to a number of high-capacity USB SSD drives.

    Computers were evolved using simple text (.txt) files…

    …Since the beginning of course, there were proprietary extended text character sets”

    A 1k text file is 1023 bytes or less. That same 1k file, inserted into a proprietary-format file will be from 21k to about 72k, depending on the format (*.pdf, *.doc, *.wp, etc.) Additionally, if one uses file compression (say the venerable DOS commandline pkzip v2.04G as:
    pkzip filename/maximum )

    the *.txt file will compress 9:1, or to about 112 bytes, the other files will compress between about 20% and 40% (a 31k *.pdf version of that same 1k textfile will compress to about 24k).

    This is why I like textfiles. The formatting overhead for proprietarily-formatted files diminishes by percentage, as a filesize increases, but the percentage by which a formatted file will compress, doesn’t change much.

    I would much rather print stuff out than bet my life that my computer will survive a HEMP attack, but if I opted to store stuff (which I would — multiple, forked redundancies) any that I had to transcribe, I’d have in plain text and compressed. I happen to LIKE Courier New…

  20. “40,000 scrolls may sound like a lot, but it’s not. You can effortlessly compile a library many times this baseline amount of knowledge. ”

    When they became available, my computer builds went from 170mb Connor to 540mb Western Digital hard drives. At that time, MIT had a 6.4 terabyte storage server. It contained 4.2 tb of data — considered at the time to be the sum-total of all human knowledge.

    THEN, some shithead got the idea to put first audio, then A/V on a computer and use it as a media-server…

  21. “But a very large portion of our Alexandria Ark is turning to conventional food sources (dozens of books on tracking and trapping”

    I suggest if you intend to follow this path, that you acquire two pair of genuine Indian moccasins and learn how to use them. Get a pair of plain mocs and a pair with a thin, stitched-on rubber sole. The plain mocs should be deer, elk, or moose, (deerhide, when you’re learning) and should be just the animal skin — no padding or insole, and absolutely no bottom. You want only a layer of animal hide between your bare foot and the ground. You will have to teach yourself woodsmanship, and these are the tool which will allow you to do so.

    {Also, please “Buy American.” There are a number of Indian tribes in the U.S. and Canada who manufacture their own moccasins from killshot to market. (There are also sadly a few like Minnetonka who built a rep, but now buy and flip Chinese mocs). A good pair of tribal deerskin mocs will run you between $80 and $160. A pair of Chinese mocs won’t cost much less, but will likely last much less long.}

    Before you can track, you have to learn to move silently because if you can’t also stalk, all the tracking in the world will only show you where game used to be, before you came barging into the area. The Seneca taught my mom. Mom taught me:

    “You don’t plop your foot down, you place it, heel first, rolling your foot to the outside until you are on the ball of your foot, then you take the next step. The moccasin will let you feel everything that’s under your foot, before you step down hard on it. If you feel gravel or a twig, you shift your foot until you no longer feel it. Only then, do you let your foot take your weight.”

    It is a PITA when you first start, but after a couple months of a couple hours per day of practice, it becomes second nature and it just happens.

    The soft-sole mocs are good for about 30 hours of wear, provided you stay off pavement and sharp-edged gravel. When they wear out, disassemble and duplicate the parts with that deerhide you thoughtfully acquired from the local Tandy Leather store ( https://tandyleather.com ) when you ordered your punch and awl, and that roll of lacing or piggin string. You should get 4-5 pair of mocs out of a deerhide, so that $129 price ain’t a bad deal.

    Once you learn, you can get fancy and do moose or ostrich. Cow critter and buffler are too thick. I know that some of L’Amour’s characters could move silently through the woods in their boots. Louis obviously met better “Injuns” than I ever was…

    Trapping is not fun, unless you have actual traps. Building primitive snares sucks, although fish traps are fairly easy and work well — build baskets, not funnels, unless your fish source is populated with bass, trout/salmon, or large sunfish (like 8″+ bluegills.) If you run a trapline, carry a club. Smack the trapped critter if it isn’t dead — don’t waste a bullet unless you’ve caught a bear or a big cat (if it can kill you, don’t fuck with it, otherwise, don’t waste ammo…)

  22. “How to Manage the Whole of Human Knowledge into the post-Apocalyptic World.”

    First, you find a big rock — Granite Mountain, for instance.
    Then you acquire a 3-4 pound mallet.
    Then you pick up a chisel…

  23. “We have virtually no idea how many people and families will survive. A lot will depend on the role of WMDs and their employment against large civilian population centers. ”

    The way I game something is to put myself in the place of the aggressor, and from that place, think what I would do to go from “now” to the desired result.

    If I wanted to conquer the United States (and Canada, because you’d have to), I would EMP the grid out of existence, airburst every military base, and bunker-bust every known underground facility. I would not target a single population center or other civilian target — just C&C and military. Oh yeah, I’d fire another volley of airbursts at every military base a few weeks after the first, to take out anything that’d been socked away in a hanger-sized Faraday cage.

    Then, I’d wait.

    After a couple years, I’d move in, in a company front spanning from Nome to Baja, offer everyone the soldiers locate an opportunity to learn Chinese, Korean, Iranian, or whatever, feed everyone we find, and kill everyone who is disrespectful. I don’t believe my army would find very many survivors. Why waste ordinance to kill people when, if left alone, they’ll kill each other…?

    In an unlimited war, there is no Geneva Convention (and there may well be no Geneva…)

    • But if one were running a false flag on a relatively tight budget, with the intent of setting off the attacks you described above, one would have mules smuggle smaller weapons to the target’s publicly disclosed highest terror risk urban sites, and detonate them in the most heavily populated urban areas, hoping for a retaliatory strike against the relative innocents. Anything other than the full out attack you describe should be regarded as a false flag, even if the suicidal falsely accused morons are celebrating in the streets.

      • Depends…

        If the trackback leads to a major player, then “yes,” the “attack” is likely a false flag.

        If it leads to a paltry little Eurasian or African, or even South American country, or to the next bin Laden wannabee it is likely the real thing.

        At this point in our history, would you trust the CIA and NSA to perform an honest investigation, and publicize honest results regarding the culprit?

      • Some time ago it was discovered that China was importing small arms into Florida illegally. I have no doubt that that wasn’t the only port of arrival for such things. No one knows where the arms that had come in before discovery went and as easy as it is to convert AR’s and AK’s to full auto I’d say the inventory is pretty well complete for any insurgency.

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