First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations. I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource. Read or skip sections depending on your interests.
Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple. IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.
Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:
- Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
- Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.
And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.
FYI, here’s a link to the companion Survival Sunday – SITREP Edition.
And a hat trick of prior essays of mine:
Unsettling Connections – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info) (bolding in original):
And notice the spin, saying the common good is the highest priority and a fundamental American value.
No.
Either the individual is sovereign or The State is. And if The State is the highest good, then that is a functional definition of Socialism over Individualism. And while individuals can, voluntarily, subsume their interests to the collective, the key word to this is voluntary.
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Rome, er, America – Granite Grok
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Fear is the Mind Killer… – Granite Grok
Note the embedded video – is this not precisely what they’re doing to us?
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People call preppers…. CRAZY…I call people that don’t prep…CRAZY
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Top of the fold:
Fauci: now he tells us – HotAir
The importance of this cannot be understated. They lied, and they lied from the start. There can be no trust in any institution – governmental or otherwise – from here on out.
A Crisis of Trust – Urban Scoop
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“He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.”
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Chapter 2
I never joined a debate club in high school or college because I knew I’d have to learn and then argue for a side that I didn’t agree with. What a loss.
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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:
- Car oil for a few oil changes; spare filters and some way of lifting the car up.
- A spare set of windshield wipers.
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Prepper Site URLS:
Most have daily articles; revisit daily. Please recommend others in the comments.
Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news
Mother Earth News
The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper
SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.
SHTF Blog – Modern Survival
Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive
Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style
Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City
Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness
Gray Wolf survival
Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)
The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World
Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice
Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid
Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com) (new)
And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
The 50 Best Survival Blogs
Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News
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Specific, one-up articles:
Blackout bread, bake without electricity, with tea lights! Also for preppers
From the same channel:
Blackout bread made from muesli, baked only with a tealight. No electricity, for preppers
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Why You Need To Hide Your Harvested Rainwater – Ask a Prepper
I would never condone the violation of any laws or regulations outside an SHTF situation.
However, that being said, many preppers will still harvest rainwater knowing that they are in violation of local or state laws and regulations.
These people will definitely want to conceal these activities from the view of anyone walking by.
It would also be a good idea to hide your barrels or tanks from aerial surveillance as well. Local governments may use drones to check the backyards of people they suspect to be in violation of any rainwater collection laws.
I suspect a LOT of stuff that’s illegal will suddenly be on the table in a SHTF situation.
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11 Fatal Mistakes To Avoid When Bugging Out – Ask a Prepper
Good thoughts. Some I hadn’t considered.
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Related to Spicy Time:
Just the Basics: Winter Warmth | the dying fish
Written about fishing specifically, but good winter-outdoors advice.
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Evil Must Be Confronted! We Can’t Wish It Away!
Maybe I am just ahead of my time. I’ll never forget many, many years ago at one of my first Tea Party meetings when the leaders at the time asked me my ideas for fixing our “government”. The look on their faces, the utter shock, when I stated that there was no voting our way of this mess, was a little surprising to me. But the utter horror you could see when I said we need to kill every last communist in this world, It’s the only way to solve our issues, was telling.
I’m meant to fight this evil. I know it. I just haven’t been told its go time yet. So I write. It’s hard to not be pessimistic. With each passing day the future for my children grows ever darker. It breaks my heart watching what is happening on a daily basis. More and more people are openly discussing our final option, so that gives me hope.
I, regretfully, concur. TINVOWOOT.
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Katie Hopkins: The truth about GB News — I have been keeping this to myself…until now.
I wanted to say it was Communist Noam Chomsky who said to make the Overton window as narrow as possible to exclude as many broad perspectives as possible, but then make it seem as though there’s enormous activity and amplify the differences seen in that narrowed window to distract from the excluded voices.
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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that). But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF. The only relevant questions are:
- When does it start?
- How bad will it get?
- How long will it last?
- What will the aftermath look like?
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Keeping a Property Journal for Our Homestead, Learning to Deeply Know Our Land Over Time
And their channel in general – lots of good stuff.
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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab. I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join. I just approved several new members.
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Foraging: One-up articles
Introduction to Foraging: Foraging Benefits, Equipment, Guidelines, Resources, History and How to Get Started Foraging – Nordic Forest Foods
Basics.
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Plant Foraging – Plant Identification and Foraging – Library Guides at University of Missouri Libraries
Slew of resources.
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Garlic Mustard: A Delicious Invasive — Four Season Foraging
Looks good.
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Foraging (permanent feature):
Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)
Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)
Southern Appalachian Herbs
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Books (permanent feature):
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)
The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)
The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS
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Shortages (broadly):
Fire at Waikato farm kills 50,000 chickens – NZ Herald
Something Strange Is Happening With Our Egg Supply | Ep. 87
Multi-topic; first part applies here.
And related:
Seafood processing plant goes up in violent blaze: It’s a total loss (wnd.com)
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Boots on the Ground…Feb. 5th…Medicine shortages in the US and other countries.
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Food Shortages Are Starting To Become Quite Serious All Over The Planet | ZeroHedge
It will hit suddenly – at least suddenly to most of the sheeple. They will panic. More – they will never, every forgive preppers they know for being right and will turn on us in a heartbeat.
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Gardening, Food Storage, Health, and Related:
Onion Harvest and Curing Process #shorts
Link to the Vegetable Academy channel.
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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:
Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)
USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)
Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)
Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University
National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)
Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)
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Topical Books (also permanent):
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
The Prepper’s Canning Guide
Pickled Pantry
Fermented Vegetables
Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round
Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…
The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics
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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:
Gun Control Kills People – American Thinker
There’s only one goal: us, disarmed.
On disarmament:
New Biden guidelines put target on gun stores (wnd.com)
When a gun store closes, all their paperwork goes to fedgov. Thus this is a “good” way to create a de facto registration list. Related:
Mental Health Screening & Permission Slip Required
If you don’t take the Jab, you will be considered mentally ill. If you don’t worship Climate Change, ditto.
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Massad Ayoob on Gun Registration & Gun Control
Registration has led to confiscation here in the US! IIRC there was a law passed in NY state telling owners “Oh, we just want to know what rifles are out there”… sure enough, YEARS later, it was “Turn them in now”.
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DIY Fish Trap ( that works !! )
Legality is an issue… but if the fit has hit the shan, all bets are off. Like here:
(Cartoon by Gary Larson – used under what I believe is “fair use”)
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Concentrate Where The Murders Are Concentrated | ZeroHedge
- The worst five counties (Cook, Los Angeles, Harris, Philadelphia, and New York) accounted for about 15 percent of homicides.
- The worst 1 percent of counties (31), with 21 percent of the US population, accounted for 42 percent of the homicides.
- The worst 2 percent of counties (62), with 31 percent of the population, accounted for 56 percent of the homicides.
- The worst 5 percent of counties (155), with 47 percent of the population, accounted for 73 percent of the homicides.
- In contrast, over half of US counties (52 percent) had zero homicides in 2020, and roughly one-sixth of the counties (16 percent) had only one.
Correlates well with Bill Whittle’s video:
NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
Medical Journal Floats Concept of Using Braindead Women As Surrogates Through “Whole Body Gestational Donation” – Reduxx
This is monstrous. Utterly.
And yet… there are people who will think this is a good idea. How far we’ve descended down the morality slope. Yes, the woman is brain dead, but it’s still a living person. It gets worse – I’ve seen, in a post I can’t find specifically, how the Globalists could use condemned female prisoners as gestational units for their own babies.
How soon before the organ banks from Larry Niven’s future world starts condemning prisoners and breaking them down for organs? Consider this proposal to implant a woman’s womb in a biological man… could dead or condemned prisoners have their reproductive organs taken for this purpose? I’m trying to chase down a rumor that in the UK there are rules being passed mandating organ harvesting. (I’ve taken the “I’m an organ donor” symbol off my driver’s license.)
Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing on our society in debauchery. Hashem will not tolerate being so mocked for long.
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This is BIG!
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Palate cleansers:
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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here. Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.
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