How does this parasitical philosophy still exist?  And I use “parasitical” as without a rich Engels to support him; there would have been no Marx.

 

 

Glen Reynolds asks the important question: But, like all viruses, it needs receptors to get inside. What aspects of our culture does it bind to? Just like COVID needs a spot on a cell in order to invade it.  I think it starts with that hackneyed phrase that has now been taught for 2-3 generations now:

Sharing is Caring

And who doesn’t want to be nice and be helpful to others (generically speaking, of course)?  It is the Collectivism started early, that “sharing” is a high-value attribute which may be a reason why the older norms of honest, truthfulness, courage, work ethic, and others aren’t being erased so much as they aren’t discussed anymore. It’s a redirection done with subtlety.

Reynolds added a message from a friend in his post(reformatted, emphasis mine, commentary mine):

Re communism. It’s because young people are idealists, and believe history is not relevant to them, because they invented everything when they discovered it. Including communism.

That would be their ignorance showing, to be kind. I could have just used “stupidity”.

It’s because people in bubbles like academia are sheltered enough that by and large they maintain youthful delusions. It’s because powerful people, never subject to the strictures of the policy they push, have long recognized that that the false compassion socialism and communism cloak themselves in are useful tools for gaining, maintaining and expanding their power.

Add to that people whose ideas which then get implemented by Law generally aren’t subjected to the deprivations those ideas serve onto others. That way, they can continue to hold up communism and socialism as Bright Lights (and assiduissly never talk about the downsides or just brush them aside with “no one has ever implemented TRUE socialism | communism yet!”.  Er, yes, they have – to the extent that they can be and they have never ended up well.

To the young, the world is new. It is being experienced for the first time. Communism and socialism speak to their notions of fairness.

Sharing is caring, right? Communism and socialism is ALL about “equity” – everyone is the same and everyone gets the same.

Except for the elite nomenklatura – the new bosses that supplanted the “old capitalist” bosses. Which they never tell you, in keeping these young’uns ignorant of what capitalism is, that you were always able to escape a capitalist boss for a different one. The nomenklature you are stuck with forever (unless you shoot your way out).

And this next bit is why sound economics and history is no longer taught in our Government school systems:

Capitalism, property, the rights of other people who are not like them sound like something old people who never experienced this amazing new world talk about.

The problem is, some of our old people DID experience and came here. The rest of us learned from other countries’ experiences and history and figured out that “C & S” is all malarkey and a con for those who wish to practice their sleight of hand in taking your Rights to add their Power over you.

(HT: Instapundit)

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Puberty blockers and hormone therapy are all the rage among the woke-a-saurs despite the increased risk of death from the drugs, mental health issues, or the exponential increase in likely suicide. Now the American College of Cardiology has more bad news.

 

In the study, people with gender dysphoria who had ever used hormone replacements saw nearly seven times the risk of ischemic stroke (a blockage in a vessel supplying blood to the brain), nearly six times the risk of ST elevation myocardial infarction (the most serious type of heart attack) and nearly five times the risk of pulmonary embolism (a blockage in an artery in the lung), compared with people with gender dysphoria who had never used hormone replacements.

The trend in “medicine” continues to lean toward the mindless pursuit of profit at the expense of human lives or quality of life, but this instance is insidious. The Transgender Agenda targets children, and public schools carry their water. And while it seems counter-intuitive, it makes sense if you look at the bigger picture.

This is a wholly left-wing progressive project that dovetails nicely with their apocalyptic climate depopulation agenda. Gender transition is population control. If it doesn’t kill you and you don’t kill yourself, you’ve been surgically or chemically castrated. I’d say voluntarily, but children (or parents) who are lied to and told this is the only way are not volunteers. Those that push their kids into it are either willing monsters (Munchausen by Proxy) or victims of monsters (the political left).

And I’m not saying adults should be denied any of this if they’ve been fully informed of the risks and provided consent. Human beings do reckless and stupid things daily, not the least of which involves the consumption of alcohol. If they are still moved by their own will to proceed with the transition, even with the risk of stroke or heart attack, don’t make me pay for it, and we’re good. Children treated in this way are victims of adult fantasies. Toys as test subjects for a medical laundromat that moves millions and whose product they cannot just reverse when they are of age.

Not long ago, psychoanalysts began uncovering what looked like rampant sexual abuse of children (in Day Care, for example) that never happened. Impressionable young minds made of clay were convinced, which ruined or ended innocent lives. The power suggestion. That was bad; this is the same but worse. Significantly more young people are being convinced of something that will change them forever even if they decide to de-transition as adults.

You don’t get your parts back, and if you do, they are props to help play the part you were born to play, but that was taken from you by politicized or confused guardians, the progressive political establishment, Big Pharma, and Hospitals that max profits from “elective” surgeries.

And if you kill yourself or die, that works for them too.

 

 

 

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From Instapundit, I started to read the post and went “REALLY?  THIS Department?  WHY in God’s green earth does it matter what THIS department thinks about this issue?

Yet another department going past its authorizing Legislation “mission statement” to drag itself in to do more than it should (and probably not all that well)?

I REMEMBER WHEN THIS WAS DISMISSED AS A RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY THEORY: WSJ: Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Agency Now Says: Energy Department’s revised assessment is based on new intelligence.

The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.

The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office. . . .

The FBI previously came to the conclusion that the pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak in 2021 with “moderate confidence” and still holds to this view.

The FBI employs a cadre of microbiologists, immunologists and other scientists and is supported by the National Bioforensic Analysis Center, which was established at Fort Detrick, Md., in 2004 to analyze anthrax and other possible biological threats.

U.S. officials declined to give details on the fresh intelligence and analysis that led the Energy Department to change its position. They added that while the Energy Department and the FBI each say an unintended lab leak is most likely, they arrived at those conclusions for different reasons.

The updated document underscores how intelligence officials are still putting together the pieces on how Covid-19 emerged. More than one million Americans have died in the pandemic that began more than three years ago.

The National Intelligence Council, which conducts long-term strategic analysis, and four agencies, which officials declined to identify, still assess with “low confidence” that the virus came about through natural transmission from an infected animal, according to the updated report.

I “get” that the FBI would be interested in where COVID came from in a national security standpoint. Ditto the National Intelligence Council. I dryly note that the Health and Human Services, HHS, wasn’t mentioned.  They should be pursuing this.

But REALLY, the US Department of Energy?  Since when did biologicals and diseases become part of its established portfolio?  Nuclear energy, fossil fuels, renewables, how energy is transmitted and then used? Sure.  Most things energy related, I’ll grant them. Is is their name, after all.

Now I deliberately, at the time of this writing, didn’t click through on the above link to write this as I’m hoping others are thinking the same thing – since WHEN should it be anything related to Energy where Wuhan Flu came from?  That’s a bio domain question, an intelligence domain question, a political domain question – not energy related as far as I can tell.

Unless, of course, the entire Federal gaggle of bureaus have gone all “Woke Intersectionality” in believing that since everything MAY affect anything and everything else, they get to do what they want. Just come up with the twisted, convoluted, logic free pathway that slices the maze of “where we are supposed to be doing to what we want to be doing, eh?

And we wonder why Government no longer works?  It doesn’t because it seems that nobody wants to do their jobs EXCELLENTLY and not worry about anybody else’s mission.  It doesn’t because nobody respect boundaries anymore. The idea of “staying in your lane” seems to be an alien concept nowadays.

Imagine how much better Government would be IF it really did just focus on what it was mandated to do and doing it well?

It would mean that Civil Society, with respect to what the Founders believed it to be, would have to totally reconstruct itself AND wean itself from taxpayer dollars.

It WOULD mean that we, as individuals, would have to stop thinking “well somebody ought to do something about this” and get to work and do it themselves / ourselves.

I’d be good with that. And it would mean that I’d never have worry that I’d see such a headline again…

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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.  Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow.  Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

A hat-trick of past essays:

A Curious Incuriosity – Granite Grok

A Curious Incuriosity 2 – Granite Grok

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Lessons from Candle Smoke – Urban Scoop

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Just Give Me Yavneh – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

 

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Dr. Bill Warner explains why Islam is not a religion, but a Political Ideology.

 

 

Related:

 

Bill Warner, PhD: To Know Islam, Know Mohammed

 

 

Phenomenally knowledgeable man.  Here’s his website.

 

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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons.  Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.

 

 

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‘My money says a rationing app is already sitting ready on a hard drive somewhere’ | Neil Oliver

 

 

I won’t touch that bet.

 

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Prescient.  All of this happening, Ukraine-Russia, was avoidable.  Lots of people pointed that out – multiple times over multiple years since the USSR fell.  That it happened regardless indicates, to me, that this was entirely planned.  Indeed, I have to wonder – with what I think is 20/20 hindsight – if the advance towards Russia from the end of the Cold War was entirely to set up this situation.

 

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If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

 

— Marcus Aurelius-Emperor of Rome

 

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A few from my archived library:

 

   

 

I need to comment on the PLO guy’s statement.  At the time, the PLO’s creation was precisely what he said.  NOW… there IS a “Palestinian people”.  Regardless of history or fact, the reality remains that such a people has been created from whole cloth.  They now believe in this identity.  To scold them now that they’re a fabrication may be technically accurate, but from a human standpoint profoundly wrong.  Telling someone who has been told, his whole life, that he is “Palestinian” will not correct his thinking, but rather force him to dig in his heels.

 

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Gunned down for no reason.  Aside from the fact that he was white.

Weep.

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

Not quite.  Gandhi won, in large part, because the British were a moral people at the time, and had a sense of shame.  Once they knew what was being done in their name, they could be embarrassed by it.  Not now.

Now, the above is precisely right when faced with oppressors who truly believe they are doing good.

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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Several years ago a physician from New Hampshire wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal calling attention to the psychological profiles that are now built on children in New Hampshire schools.

Most parents have no idea this is happening in their local public school.

Year after year, mental health data is collected on children, and shared with 3rd party vendors through the Social and Emotional (SEL) software programs.  In addition, some of your child’s mental health information maybe shared with New Hampshire universities.

In the WSJ article, Dr. Cerundolo describes how the medical field is governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Schools are governed by FERPA:

“under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. FERPA can be more lenient than HIPAA, with allowances made for schools to disclose records without consent for such vague reasons as “legitimate educational interest” or “for audit or evaluation purposes.” HIPAA is more stringent and applies to “covered entities” such as hospitals and insurance companies, which are involved in the delivery and billing of health-care services.”

The weakening to the FERPA law occurred during the Obama administration. This has left student privacy activists alarmed at the massive amount of data that is now being collected and shared on children.

But in 2008 and again in 2011, FERPA was radically revised by the US Department of Education – without any vote or authorization from Congress.

In 2008, the regulations were rewritten to allow states, districts and/or schools to share PII data from student records without parental notice or consent with any third party or company designated as a “school official,” including “contractors, consultants, volunteers, and other parties to whom an educational agency or institution has outsourced institutional services or functions it would otherwise use employees to perform.”

Federal dollars poured into states in an effort to start assessing and treating the mental health of children in our schools. The Feds need some kind of data to justify the federal spending.  How can they gather personal mental health information on children? Many parents would object. However, if they change the federal law governing student privacy, they can exclude notifying parents, and stop requiring their consent. That’s what happened.

Now that the law has been changed, there is one other requirement before conducting research on children. Researchers must seek approval from the Institutional Review Boards. (IRBs). Federal law and the American Psychological Association APA standards require IRB review of all human participant research projects. So how are the universities in New Hampshire gathering all of this mental health data on students without IRB approval? It’s a scheme that is legal, but many would argue unethical.

Call this an external audit instead of a research project, and you get to avoid IRB approval. The universities and school administrators are doing backflips in order to not tell parents what is going on with their children’s mental health data.

Keene State Behavior Health Improvement Institute was awarded the contract from the Department of Education in New Hampshire to gather the mental health data from various schools without parental knowledge or consent. See more about that here. Before Keene State it was Antioch and before that it was Plymouth State. The universities have been collecting this sensitive data for several years without parents knowing that their child’s PII has been shared. In some of these cases, federal law may have been violated leaving some of these schools at risk of a lawsuit.

Currently the PII data is gathered by school counselors and social workers, and sent on to Keene State BHII. This puts school counselors at risk of a parent filing a complaint with their licensing board since school counselors are required to follow a code of ethics when it comes to sharing this sensitive information on children.

Do you get the feeling that this is one big scheme to avoid telling parents that their children’s personal mental health information is now up for grabs? Some of this may be legal, but it’s certainly unethical. How do school administrators respond? I continue to see them year after year hand over the mental health PII without parental knowledge or consent. In other words, they don’t seem to care about the exploitation of children.

You can see my reply to one Superintendent that I contacted to see if they received informed consent by parents before sharing PII. I contacted Superintendents in Governor Wentworth, Hudson, Merrimack Valley, Raymond, Sanborn Regional, SAU 34, and White Mountains. All confirmed that they did not require informed consent before sharing the mental health data on their students. Here was my response to them:

 

 

As you can see, school administrators have put school counselors at risk of losing their certification. I would advise parents who find out that their child’s personal mental health information has been shared, file a complaint with The New Hampshire Department of Education. It’s too bad that the fall guy in this situation will be the school counselor, but parents have no other options.

Keene State BHII staff include mental health professionals that know that all of this is unethical. But when I speak to them, they point their finger at the school districts. They say that it’s their responsibility to get informed consent by parents. No one seems to want to protect these children. They are willing to exploit children in order to receive PII and funding.  Keene State BII was hired to fulfill the requirements of the mental health grant. Keep the money flowing at the expense of personal privacy and parental rights.

The people who have worked in the field of psychology know why these ethical practices and boundaries were put in place. They know the history of exploiting human subjects for research. They know that they have an obligation to uphold these practices, but they don’t do it.

How do you trust what is happening in your school? How do you trust mental health professionals working in your school? How do you trust administrators who tell school counselors to ignore their Code of Ethics and share the data? How do you trust any of these people with your children?

Up next? School Based Medical Clinics. They are already in the Manchester Schools. That’s what’s coming next. Be warned.

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To say that the John Fetterman fiasco is corrupt would not be harsh enough. This scenario began when Fetterman entered the Pennsylvania Senate race last year after he had suffered a catastrophic stroke that nearly cost him his life. If there were anyone with a modicum of compassion and common sense in his circle, they never would have subjected him to the rigors of a Senate race. They would have gotten him medical rather than media attention. There is no compassion on the left. There is only a win-at-any-cost mentality and a quest for power.

There are stark similarities between the John Fetterman and Joe Biden stories. Both are suffering from depleted mental capacities. Joe because he is aging poorly and may actually be suffering from dementia. John, because of the massive stroke’s impact on his mind and body. The other is being married to women drunk on power. Instead of loving their husbands and getting them the care they needed, they propped them up and pushed them to victory. Not a win for their state or country, but purely for themselves.

Examine the complexity of the forces behind these two broken men. Biden and Fetterman themselves, if they were cognizant of what was transpiring. Their spouses and families, campaign organizers and workers, donors and the Party, the media, and ultimately the voters who cast their vote for an ideology and not for a person. These two men should be of the utmost competence and character to hold the highest office in the land and to be one of the 100 most influential leaders. These men come up short on both counts.

Both Biden and Fetterman ran their campaigns using the same playbook. Stay out of the spotlight, do not speak to the press, don’t expose your weaknesses or shortcomings, and let the media and Party do your bidding. In the meantime, the media pounced on anyone who drew attention to the fact these two candidates were not thinking clearly. The Fetterman strategy worked perfectly when he did not appear in debate with Dr. Oz until after over one million ballots had been cast. These people voted before they saw what they were voting for.

Joe Biden rarely traveled further than Pennsylvania during the campaign, and he minimized the number of debates with Donald Trump. He stayed as quiet as possible to minimize his blunders. With what we have witnessed in his first two years, many wonder how he could possibly think of running in two years. He will not gain clarity, and the thought of an 86-year-old Biden in the White House is frightening.

The Fetterman situation has gotten worse. The day after the State of the Union, Fetterman checked into the hospital with stroke symptoms. We were told he did not suffer a second stroke, but upon release, he checked himself into the hospital for treatment of severe depression. Fetterman will not resign, and  Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro refuses to remove Fetterman and appoint an interim Senator. The people of Pennsylvania have been duped and only have one active, capable Senator.

This will not have a favorable resolution for anyone, but the voters of Pennsylvania can only look to themselves to blame. Like the voters for Biden, they were fed a false narrative and gobbled it up. We can only hope for better results with Biden in 2024. As for Fetterman, he is Senator until 2028, and who knows, he’ll probably run for re-election, too.

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My only question is WHAT is that pillar made of???

160mph is limit

(H/T: IMGUR via Linkiest)

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It’s International Protein Day, Breakfast Day, and Polar Bear Day if you think you can fit three of those things into your morning. Is there such a thing as bear bacon (imagine the enviro-wacko reaction to that)?

It is also National Pokemon day, Kahlua Day, and No Brainer Day.

On this Day in 1933, “The Reichstag” was destroyed by fire and blamed on Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe.” Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California (1940). General Chiang Kai-shek was elected president of Nationalist China in 1950, and seven years later, Mao (being Mao) gave his famous speech to the Supreme State Conference, “On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People.”

On this date in 2021, Wikileaks began disclosing 5 million emails from the private intelligence company Stratfor.

 

The Morning Mail

Too good not to share…Babylon Bee.

 

LIFE AND DEATH

 

“Chemical Weaponry Destined For Ukraine Ignited In East Palestine” – Rense.com

• Idaho bill would bring back execution by firing squad – The Columbian.
• When John Fetterman Was Hospitalized With Depression, Gisele Took the Kids on A Fun Road Trip to Canada – GP
• Biden Admin Proposes Rules That Would Make It Harder For Americans To Get Certain Medications – Daily Wire
• As women die for freedom not to wear hijab, Swiss envoy wears long black veil in visit to Shia shrine – Jihad Watch.
• EPA Orders Paul in Cleanup of Toxic Waste in East Palestine, Ohio – Daily Mail

 

CULTURE

• Scientists declare ‘male and female’ harmful terms, suggest ‘sperm- and egg-producing’ instead – LifeSite News
• Cleveland, OH, to become 1st 15-minute city in America – Vigilant Links.
• If Pope Francis drops his nuclear bomb on Tradition, this will create a schism in the Church – Lew Rockwell.com
• Marvel’s Pro-Socialism Flick Facing Historic 2nd Weekend Loss, While Pro-Jesus Film Shatters Expectations – IJR

 

ELECTIONS

• Poll Watcher Says Ballot Shredding Captured on Video During 2022 Election Night – IJR
• AZ Governor Katie Hobbs Laundered Cartel Money Through Fake Deeds and Mortgages to Rig Elections – Freedom First
• Fox News Poll Reveals Top 2024 Republican Preferences For WH Run – Truth Press
• Colorado Illegally Invites Non-citizens to Vote after Giving Them Driver’s Licenses – Total Conservative

 

PUBLIC HEALTH?

• Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Faces Texas Medical Board Over COVID Vaccine and Ivermectin – Emily Post News
• Woody Harrelson uses the opening SNL monologue to criticize Big Pharma’s response to COVID-19 – Burning Platform.
• Ivermectin: The Truth – Rumble (Planedmic Series 12:38)
• Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta-analysis of 95 studies – C19IVM.org

 

MISC

• Project Veritas Staffers Release New Statement as Whistleblowers Say They Stand With James O’Keefe – EPOCH Times
• Gov. Noem Tries To Stop China From Buying Farmland, GOP Blocks Her – Finish the Race
• Don Lemon Problems Just Got a Whole Lot Worse than Words – Steadfast Clash

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The question of who has the superior cannabis seeds has been a contentious topic that has stumped countless cannabis aficionados. The constantly evolving market and divergent opinions from various sources make it a formidable task to distinguish the breeder with the most exceptional seeds.

One of the reasons that make this question thorny to answer is that people have disparate needs. Some favor autoflowering seeds, while others — fancy feminized or regular seeds. Some crave particular strains that are not obtainable elsewhere, while others covet uncommon genetics. Eventually, what constitutes “the best” is a matter of personal taste and varies from individual to individual.

Exploring the Market

To find the best cannabis seeds for sale, you’ll need to invest time and effort in researching and investigating different breeders. Delving into the market is crucial to gather intel on different breeders and what they have on offer. One of the most effective ways to commence your quest is to peruse reviews and ratings of various breeders from dependable sources such as online forums, seed banks, and social media groups.

You can also seek counsel from other cannabis growers and enthusiasts for recommendations, participate in online communities, and attend cannabis-related events to widen your connections and gather more intel. This approach enables you to gain personal experience and insights from people who have already tried and tested various breeders and their products.

At the same time, we’ve plunged headfirst into the fascinating and ever-evolving world of cannabis breeding, and we’ve discovered a handful of breeders that consistently reign supreme. These breeders have worked hard to establish themselves and have built up a well-deserved reputation for crafting strains that are always top-notch — boasting exceptional quality, potency, and dependability.

Barney’s Farm

One of the heavyweights in the industry is Barney’s Farm, a breeder hailing from the Netherlands. With over three decades of experience, they know what it takes to create an exceptional strain. They offer a diverse range of strains, including both classic and modern genetics, catering to all kinds of cannabis enthusiasts. And when it comes to awards, they’ve won a bunch of them, such as the prestigious High Times Cannabis Cup and the Spannabis Champions Cup.

Sensi Seeds

For over three decades, Sensi Seeds has been producing top-notch classic strains that have gained recognition worldwide. From Skunk #1 to Northern Lights and Jack Herer, their strains are some of the most popular and well-loved in the cannabis community. The breeder has earned multiple awards over the years, including the prestigious High Times Cannabis Cup and IC 420 Growers Cup.

Green House Seeds

Green House Seeds has been an influential force in the cannabis breeding industry since the 1990s, crafting some of the most celebrated strains on the market. The likes of Super Lemon Haze, White Widow, and Cheese are just a small sample of their powerfully flavorful creations. They have a steadfast dedication to using only the finest genetics and inventive breeding methods, which have brought them several accolades, including the prestigious High Times Cannabis Cup and Spannabis Champions Cup.

Online Retailer vs. Strain Breeder: Where to Find the Best Cannabis Seeds?
While buying directly from a breeder can sometimes ensure seed quality, it’s not always necessary. Although some cannabis enthusiasts might favor buying directly from breeders to ensure seed quality, there’s no need to do so exclusively. Reputable online shops offer an extensive selection of seeds from diverse breeders, making it simple to find the perfect strain to suit your cultivation requirements.

Herbies is a prime example of an online store that offers a vast range of seeds from various breeders, coupled with their dedication to delivering exceptional customer service and top-quality products. Their wide range of seeds includes classic strains, new genetics, and feminized, autoflowering, and regular seeds.

Choosing the best cannabis seed breeder depends on individual preferences and can be subjective. Nevertheless, by doing thorough research, checking reviews, and getting recommendations from other growers, you can compile a list of the best breeders that fit your needs. And remember: buying seeds directly from breeders isn’t your only option. For example, reputable online stores such as Herbies offer a wide selection of premium seeds that can satisfy even the most discerning growers

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Most Americans agree on much – the Left is having us concentrating on, however, the minor “separations”. Why? Agitation, angst, anger, and resentment so as to be able to scapegoat someone or something in order to say THEY/THAT is your problem – and that you are their victim. But we can save you!

And in doing so, presenting a future that has nothing in common with what our Founding Fathers set into motion. There will be no commonality between the Right and the Left, the Collectivists and the “Just obey Constitutional Bounds and Leave Us Alone” Coalition.



The operative question: can that chasm be filled?

 

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Nashua Alderman Comeau, Gouveia, and Sullivan recently voted against an ordinance (O-22-019) to fund the Downtown Improvement Committee (DIC). The DIC, in the past, received money from downtown parking revenue.

This source of funding dried up when the Alderman approved the ordinance for extended outdoor dining, closing North and South bound lanes on Main Street, thereby eliminating parking spaces. No parking, no revenue.

The Board has now approved spending $100,000 out of the general fund for the DIC to fund banners, extra street cleaning, Christmas lighting, and a part-time employee tasked to gather downtown dining data.

Taxpayers have been forced to fund the downtown cultural explosion.

The Nashua Center for Arts is costing taxpayers upwards of $2,000,000 per year, which includes the payments on a $21,000,000 bond, a yearly rental fee to the operator of the facility of $500,000 increasing to $750,000, yearly equipment rental fees of approximately $165,000, the yearly property taxes on the building and property insurance. Taxpayers will be responsible for building maintenance beyond custodial work.

What do we get back? The management company must employ people from the local low income neighborhoods because the Board accepted money from a New Market Tax Credit financing program. Additionally, the management company must donate 1500 tickets per year to low income people, provide 1% of the food and beverage sales back to the city and allocate $1.00 from each ticket sold to a building maintenance fund.

It is clear, supporting the Arts requires bundles of tax dollars.

The Board members above believed that the conscious vote to dry up the source of revenue for the DIC should not shift the burden to taxpayers for additional costs, and, this request for money from the general fund should have been vetted through the budget process, not through a special ordinance.

I agree with the Board members who voted no. But I offer another reason to not fund this Committee of the City. They have no public comment policy, do not list public comment on their agendas, and react hostile to public comment. Citizens have no way to communicate with Committee members; the general email address for the committee only reaches Director Cummings and the Chairwoman, who operates like a battle-axe.

All City committees funded with our tax dollars should permit public comment. The Board of Alderman has repeatedly stated that citizens should attend committee meetings to voice their opinions; a useless suggestion when comment isn’t allowed. The Board should legislate a public comment policy. Having only attended three DIC meetings, at all meetings, public comment was not on the agenda. Citizens have to uncomfortably argue with the Chair to attempt to speak. This creates unnecessary acrimony so typical of this City’s stifling of the citizen’s voice. No voice, no money.

Projects like this have created a heavy financial burden to property owners, many of whom will not enjoy the facility because the cost of tickets and an evening out is beyond their budgets.

Thank you Alderman Comeau, Alderman Gouveia, and Alderman Sullivan for the NO vote.

 

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The character Race Bannon (“Johnny Quest” cartoon series) has shown more courage than him:

ROBERT SPENCER: Mike Pence Seems to Think Being a Conservative Means Letting the Left Get Away With Everything.

If you want solid, stolid, poker-faced, self-righteous impotence and me-tooism, Mike Pence is your man. Solid, stolid Pence reinforced that perception Wednesday when he called out Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) for being so un-conservative as to do something actually to resist the Left and stop it in its tracks. Good, solid, colorless Men of the Right such as Mike Pence just don’t do such things.

Pence as a past and a political track record to compare others against. I have to agree with Spencer on the above – this is not the time for a go-along/get-along guy. Nice guy but these times require a brawler unafraid to take on the Left. Sorry, a Conservative should NEVER be a synonym for Milquetoast. Which he was BIGLEY when he signed his state’s (Indiana) Religious Freedom Restoration Act that protected people of faith in exercising their religious beliefs.

That was good- his prostration in yielding to the Corporate / LGBT Cancel Train was not. It was an utter cave-in to those that would never have voted for him anyways. The corporations that were also starting to become Progressively leaning at that time used their force as well.

The bill was undone.

I don’t see him able to standup to Xi or Putin if he runs for the Presidency.  His past history shows he can’t when it counted.

(H/T: Instapundit)

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When a child has to ask an adult to act like an adult, there is a real problem. But that’s what happened with an 11-year-old boy from Windham, ME recently. Make sure you listen to what he says and do not miss his father, who speaks after him.

WARNING: the pornographic content is then shown at the end of the video.

If a child can get up and show this kind of courage, everyone can. Find out if your district allows children to download the SORA app on their digital devices. Find out if your school district is making obscene and pornographic content available for children. This is child sexual abuse, and those who turn a blind eye to it, or even approve should never be in charge of decisions in any school district.

 

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Heh!  The Trans-Authoritarians are ALL up in arms over a resurfaced clip from South Park showing a man pretending to be a woman that is pregnant and is demanding an abortion.  Yes, this was great commentary back in 2005 about Society starting to have a nervous breakdown. Who knew that what Parents would tell their children “You can be anything you want when you grow up!” would go so wrong so fast and so far?  That males could be women and give birth simply because they said so?

Yes, it IS a delusion and the problem is that this very teeny-tiny percentage of the population not only believes they can be what they aren’t. The worst part is that the Trans-Authoritarians demand that we not just tolerate such nonsense but throw away OUR sense of reality and knowing what a woman is totally out the window of a large skyscraper. And if we don’t, we’re transphobic (as stupid a phobia as there is).

For example:

South Park nails it! pic.twitter.com/IwxUaKfFNX

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 20, 2023

And from the NY Post:

The doctor then attempts to tell his patient that they are “physically unable to have an abortion because you can’t get pregnant.” Garrison then shouts back: “Don’t you tell me what I can and can’t do with my body! A woman has a right to choose.”

The animated doc then explains the basic birds and bees to Garrison. “You can’t have periods, either. You had a sex change, Mr. Garrison, but you don’t have ovaries or a womb. You don’t produce eggs.”

A disgruntled Garrison then bemoans the possibility that they will never feel what it’s like to have a baby grow inside them — or experience what it’s like to “scramble its brains.”

When the doctor affirms, once again, that Garrison will never experience the full joys of womanhood, Garrison states: “But I paid $5,000 to be a woman. This would mean I’m not really a woman. I’m just a guy with a mutilated penis.”

At the end of the clip, Garrison: “Boy, do I feel like a jackass”.

At least he recognized he isn’t what he can’t be. Seventeen years down the line, however, a lot of these guys have such fragile notions of themselves that they either can’t face others in admitting they are wrong – or harder, can’t face themselves.  There’s a reason why gender dysphoria is considered to be a mental illness and it is now common knowledge that transgender people are FAR more likely to have multiple other mental disorders that make that edge just that much thinner to break.

A lot of folks have said that this is “brutal”. Sometimes, tough love IS brutal because it has to break through that wall of delusion that is thrown up (being the Dad of an addict, his wall of delusion that he didn’t need help was very tough to pierce indeed).  Not accepting his delusion to be mine was part of the cure even though he called me hurtful and uncaring…until he saw I wasn’t, just truthful and honest.

Perhaps instead of going along with this stuff, perhaps more of us should be saying what studies are telling us “stop it – you’ll grow out of it”.

 

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Since the dawning of 2022, the Tech sector has shed over a quarter million jobs (233,000), and the bleeding isn’t about to stop. And while I hate to see folks lose a job, two things about this still amuse me.

First, the unprecedented growth that led to the hiring was the result of tax cuts and economic policy under the mean-tweeter. Donald Trump’s economy broke all the Obama admins self-imposed glass ceilings, fueling record growth and employment in every demographic.

The tech sector, with few exceptions, is a swirling cesspool of progressive poop. It played a huge role in shifting the balance of power to the Left and, with it…what you always get—crapped on.

The second thing is explored in a recent piece at The Daily Wire. Middle managers and staff are always the first to go when tasked with cutting payroll fat. The top and the bottom are considered essential. Everything else is a target-rich environment.

 

DEI employees have seen an elevated degree of attrition relative to their colleagues since late 2020, with the trend accelerating in the last six months, according to an analysis from Revelio Labs. “Bearing in mind the typically small size of DEI teams,” Revelio said, “these outflows likely amount to the exodus of entire diversity teams.”

More than 300 DEI professionals have left companies such as Amazon, Intel, and Twitter since the middle of last year.

 

It’s not a big number when you stand it next to 233,000, but most of that dead weight was added in the last few years with salaries and benefits packages that employers don’t mind excising from their payrolls. And absent another George Floys, that honeymoon appears to be over.

 

Bloated headcounts and excessive compensation have drawn the attention of numerous Silicon Valley investors and hedge fund managers. Children’s Investment Fund Management CEO Christopher Hohn told Google CEO Sundar Pichai that “cost discipline is now required as revenue growth is slowing,” while Altimeter Capital Management CEO Brad Gerstner pressed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to reverse the “lack of focus and fitness” at the company.

 

It’ll get worse before it gets better, and again, I’m not applauding their loss of income or lifestyle, but I’ve worked for and run businesses with tight margins. You can bitch about overpaid executives, but they should be doing their part by getting rid of that which does not keep everyone else employed.

Non-productive payroll is a waste of resources. It sucks away money from productive workers and innovators. It is the single biggest problem with rising public education costs (and property taxes in the Granite State). It is also the easiest way to reduce costs without impacting productivity or the product itself.

Big people with big flashlights looking for fast fixes will quickly find themselves wondering why virtue signaling needs to cost so much. They might even notice that it’s become an anchor dragging everyone down with it.

You can’t run a business the way most boards run school districts, and if you truly want education dollars to matter (for supplies and teachers, for example), gut the bloated administrative state from the Superintendent’s office to the schools themselves. A growing part of which are Diversity officers. They are “middle managers,” like the majority of school admin positions, that suck up resources for the purpose of sucking up more resources.

They, too, could face a similar reckoning as they have in big tech if the investors, parents, and taxpayers focus on how much less they are getting for all the extra money the schools are spending.

That’s a big if, and the argument against cuts is that they will hurt students and teachers, but that’s a lie. Cutting unproductive admin overhead frees up money for teachers and teaching. If someone can find a way to message that effectively, you’ll be the tip of any spear in the way against this fiscal and cultural abuse.

 

 

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Are you aware that the Communists … oh, I’m sorry, we’re supposed to pretend that they’re still Democrats … took control of the New Hampshire House for a period of time on February 23rd thanks to NHGOP no-shows? From Judy Aron:

… On Thursday afternoon the House got its first real taste, this session, of what happens when Democrats have a majority in the chamber. Democrats led a direct assault on education freedom and voted to raise New Hampshire energy rates. They did this by removing HB234 and HB430 off the table, when they knew they had the advantage in numbers, and successfully passing both bills. …

HB430 is a bill which attacks the Education Freedom Account Program and will require kids to attend a public school for a year before applying for an EFA. HB234 has to do with how unused Renewable Energy Credits are redeemed, and if the bill is implemented it will make energy costs much higher for NH consumers. … Our only saving grace is that these bills will go to Finance and come back to the House for a second vote. Let’s pray Republicans show up and fight in round 2… otherwise we’ll have to depend upon our Senate and our Governor to save us from bills like this.  …

Okay … but what happens after the 2024 election? When the Governor is Chris Pappas … the Democrats control the House … and the Senate is no longer be controlled by the NHGOP? Rhetorical question, of course, New Hampshire will have a government even more communist than California.

I can anticipate the response from certain commentators … SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP.  And that will be it … no plausible case will be made for how you defeat Pappas or how you stop the Communists from building on the gains made in 2022 as a result of Sun-King’s COVID-policies driving Red voters to leave New Hampshire and Blue voters to come to the State. And of course other commentators will beat the dead horse of …. VOTER FRAUD, VOTER FRAUD, VOTER FRAUD. Voter fraud is how Hassan beat Ayotte by 1,000 votes … it is not how Hassan beat Bolduc by 56,000 votes.

 

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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:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. 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 last SITREP Edition.

 

 

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Prepping – All The Signs Are There

 

 

How to Convince Loved Ones to Prep – The Organic Prepper

Some great stuff in here.  Including some form of “But that can’t happen here” and “Oh, I’ll just come to your house”.

 

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Top of the fold:

Chlorinated dioxins are everywhere following East Palestine train incident, but toxicologists aren’t testing for them – DC Dirty Laundry

Not good for people, animals, or crops.  And it’s going to be covered up.

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Horowitz: Major German paper reveals Pfizer fabricated clinical trials to cover up deaths – Conservative Review

RTWT and understand that the entire thing of “safe and effective” is built on lies.  As if you didn’t know that already.  Particularly telling to me was (bolding added):

“Patient no. 11621327” was more than a mere number. He was a human being found dead from a stroke in his apartment just three days after the second dose. Typically, with a novel product in trial, any death – even one not so sudden – makes the product suspect until it is proven innocent. Yet in this case, Pfizer simply dismissed the death as not related to the vaccine, just as the company did with Patient #11521497, who died 20 days later from cardiac arrest.

If ever a drug needed a Black Boxed Warning, this stuff was it.  E.g., out of the 42,086 Pfizer recipients in the first three months of the trials, 1,223 died.  That’s 2.9%.

If a medication you’re taking carries risk that warrants a black box warning, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you shouldn’t take it. But the risks and benefits of a medication are something your healthcare provider should discuss with you.

And yet it was presented as SAFE AND EFFECTIVE.  And nobody ever really talked to anyone taking it.  I’ve watched, while standing in line for a scrip, people go behind the screen, sit down, the tech goes in with a needle, and nary a word is exchanged.  Some get the Jab and the flu shot at the same time.  And then just stroll out.

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SurvivalBlog: Infectious Disease in the TEOTWAWKI World, Parts 1 to 6, by Militant Medic – American Partisan

Gonna be a lot of them.

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A Bowl Of Peanut Oil Catches 7 Mice In 1 Night – Motion Camera Footage

 

 

A good friend had some of his preps destroyed by mice.  And not just this… but dead mice, set out, can attract bigger things.   Or, frozen and ground up, serve as plant food as you garden – or into your compost mix.  The uses are endless.

 

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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:

 

1. Keeping in mind limits on funds, storage space, etc., should gas masks be a part of your mix? I have one, with several spare filters. I think I’ll be ordering more this week.
2. Save rubber bands from vegetable bundles.
3. I now look at everything with a “how could I use that in a SHTF situation” mentality.
4. If you have, or are getting, chickens or ducks or any animals – would it be an idea to coordinate with neighbors on breeds so as to, once in a while, exchange and avoid inbreeding possibilities?
5. The same with plants.  If you have people planting in your network, coordinate species types so that – longer term – you can do seed swaps and reduce inbreeding risks.
6. I am trying an experiment in salt-drying a few pieces of fish.  In response to an inquiry on Gab about that, I was sent this 1957 article on the topic.  PDF.

 

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:

How to Make Lye from Ashes – Mother Earth News

And from lye, plus fat, comes soap.  More on wood ash:

70+ Uses for Wood Ash (practicalselfreliance.com)

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50 Urban Survival Skills You Should Practice | The Survivalist Blog

Not everyone’s going to be in the deep woods.

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Emergency Preps from A to Z – The Organic Prepper

Broad scope view.

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How To Recondition Old Gasoline – Ask a Prepper

Rotate it.  Use it.  And as an aside, I’ve heard the marine version of Sta-Bil is better than the normal one.

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Prepping Mistakes and Failures: 10 Lessons – The Organic Prepper

Mixed bag; not sure I agree that you can “overprep” – it all depends on what level of SHTF you expect, and for how long.

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Secret Safes: How to Store Your Valuables in Plain Sight (theorganicprepper.com)

The problem is, any burglar reading this article now knows.

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8 Preps You DON’T Actually Need (They’re Not Worth the Money) – The Organic Prepper

Assuming I’m sheltering in place, if the grid is down I NEED a generator – to get water from the well.  Now I do plan to see about a hand pump, but given the depth of the well that’s going to be an issue, even if only financially.  I do concur on many of the others.

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Related to Spicy Time:

I can’t say it too strongly. GET OUT OF “BLUE” BIG CITIES. NOW.

I’ve said many times before that if you value your safety and security, and that of your loved ones, you should get out of big cities, particularly “blue” ones under the control of a left-wing progressive administration.  Again and again I’ve heard replies that it simply isn’t possible, that family ties prevent it, that “I can’t afford it”, and so on.

Well, that’s your call – but the reality of city life is that it’s getting more violent and more dangerous by the day.  No, that’s not an exaggeration.

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How to Survive the First 90 Days After the Collapse

 

 

“Mutual assistance group”.  Aha!  Video is week by week.  Several follow-ups, links to videos:

The Reasons Why 90% Will Not Survive a Prolonged Collapse – YouTube

How To Survive The First 90 Days After SHTF – YouTube

SHTF: Surviving the First 90 Days – YouTube

Surviving the First 100 Days of Collapse – YouTube

Survive The First 90 Days Of The Collapse! What You Can Do. – YouTube

Heres Why 90% of People Won’t Survive Collapse – YouTube

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Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest – The Verge

From a technical standpoint – NEAT.  But… not so from a survival standpoint.  Related:

Pentagon Secretly Working To Unleash Massive Swarms of Autonomous Multi-Domain Drones to Dominate Enemy Defenses – The Debrief

From the link:

 

U.S. Army Announced New Drone Swarm Would Be A Weapon Of Mass Destruction

 

 

This is not encouraging for those trying to take on a still-active and organized military.

You Are Already Learning What You Can About Small-Unit Tactics, Right? – Western Rifle Shooters Association

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‘Dragon Day’ Trailer

 

 

A fictional trailer, yet closer to reality than anyone suspects I fear.  And what’s up with those bracelets?

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7 Plants Whose Leaves You Can Use As Toilet Paper | The Survivalist Blog

You’re gonna have to go, even if you’re only out for a few days at a time.

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Survival Instructor Teaches How to Preserve Meat in Wilderness: Survival Food Rations

 

 

Important to know if you’re out.  Related:

 

15 Wilderness Bushcraft Skills For Surviving 100 Days Alone in the Wild | Brought to you by History

 

 

Master this based on a video?  No.  But… on survival in the wild:

How To Build A Survival Debris Hut – Ask a Prepper

And quick-hits – multiple videos on tanning hides:

Hide Tanning the Woods Cree Way

Tanning Deer Hides Start to Finish! How Easy is This? | TUTORIAL | INDIGENOUS SKILLS | DIY

How To Do Fur Tanning At Home

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Ammunition and magazines are worthless unless they’re ready for use

Yes.  Time to load ‘em up, and get more.  And load them too.

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Defeating Microwave Weapons! – Part 1

 

 

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RED ALERT!!! BIZARRE CLOUD IN COMODORO RIVADAVIA, ARGENTINA 2-11-23 AT 4 A M #argentina #shorts

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZpIKGyGOt0

 

Won’t load for some reason.  From where I found it, this comment:

A similar style cloud appeared over Turkey a week before their devastating earthquake.

 

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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:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

 

As I point out repeatedly, nobody’s going to be “perfectly” ready.  But having resources put away, a positive & adaptive attitude, will be critical.

 

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How to Disappear Completely Without a Trace and Never Be Found Again | Ex CIA Jason Hanson

 

 

Interesting.  Given today’s connected world I think this is a lot harder than presented.

Anyone remember the movie Eraser?  How, in the beginning, one of the people in the protection program went back to his favorite restaurant because he was dying for his favorite dish?  Not succumbing to things like that would have to be at the top of the list, along with cutting off all – and I mean ALL – contact with people important in your life.  Practices, too, would have to be severed.  Say you’re a very religious <fill in the blank>… you could never go back to that, at least not where anyone could see you.

 

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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.

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Foraging: One-up articles

Pine Bark Bread ~ Traditional Scandinavian Recipe (practicalselfreliance.com)

I see this more as a supplement than anything else.  Certainly not a staple centerpiece.

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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):

Sask food facility burns down in a fire killing 10,000 pigs, cause unknown | Business | westernstandard.news

And another one.

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20 Prepping Items That Will Skyrocket In Price This Year (askaprepper.com)

Pretty good on most of these, depending on if I can defend the home.  But then, that’s the key for every prepper, no?

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Fuel shortages in UK leading to vegetable shortages

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/veg-shortage-in-uk-from-fuel-prices.mp4

Related:

UK shoppers face food shortages due to ‘perfect storm’ of ‘terrible weather’ and wholesale hikes | Daily Mail Online

 

 

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Ransomware Attack On Food Giant Dole Temporarily Shuttered US Production

Don’t have to burn them down.

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Health, and Related:

 

 

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Clostridium botulinum & Botulism | Food Safety and Inspection Service (usda.gov)

Non-acid foods need to be heated well above boiling.  See:

National Center for Home Food Preservation | USDA Publications (uga.edu)

This link is also below.

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Chicken Coop & Run Build || Part 1 || Framing the Run

 

 

And from the sidebar:

 

Raising Chickens 101..Best advice and education you’ll find anywhere on the web!

 

 

Beginners Guide To Raising BACKYARD CHICKENS

 

 

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How to Build the ULTIMATE Chicken Coop in 7 Days // Plans Available

 

 

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10 Things To Know BEFORE You Buy Backyard Chickens | Poultry Care For Beginners | Homesteading Tips

 

 

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Garden Organic | Seed Swap Events 2023

Good local idea too.

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Veggies You Only Plant Once And Harvest Forever – Ask a Prepper

Anything you don’t need to plant every year is a good thing.

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Several articles from Mother Earth News:

Vegetable Gardening for Beginners — Expert Advice – Mother Earth News

Duck vs Chicken: Why Raising Ducks Might Be a Better Option Than Chickens – Mother Earth News

Raising Ducks and Geese: A Homesteader’s Guide to Waterfowl – Mother Earth News

A Quick Guide to Raising Ducks – Mother Earth News

Predator Proof Chicken Coop DIY – Mother Earth News

When to Start Seeds Indoors: Zone 6 – Mother Earth News

How To Build a Beehive From Scratch – Mother Earth News

And related:

 

So you want to become a beekeeper. The good the bad and the ugly of it.

 

 

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Dyes found in 90% of foods have harmful effect on gut: study (nypost.com)

Been trying to read ingredients to keep dyes in general out of our, and in particular our kids’, diet.  And watching for crickets, etc., too.  Speaking of stuff in food:

 

 

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Preserve Meat Without Refridgeration FOREVER with only 1 Ingredient! | Historical Salt Cured Meat

 

 

Stock up on salt.  It will be priceless.  Roman soldiers were often paid – at least in part – in salt, hence SALary.  Another video:

 

Preserve Meat Without Refridgeration | EASY Whole Muscle Cure (my favorite snack!)

 

 

 

And rapid-fire, links for more videos:

Easy way to make dry cured Italian Capocollo at home – Dry Curing Meats for Beginners – YouTube

BACON — Cured with Salt and Brown Sugar/ No Nitrates / Home Smoked – YouTube

Easy way to make Dry Cured Italian Beef at home – Dry Cured Meats for Beginners – YouTube

Easy way to make dry cured Italian Capocollo at home – Dry Curing Meats for Beginners – YouTube

Look at the sidebar – lots of videos on this subject.

In general, among everything else, stock up on pure salt.  Read the ingredients; no added nothin’.  Just.  Salt.

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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:

Best Sniper Ammo To Make Every Shot Count (Long Range Shooting)

One site’s opinion.

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WATCH: Guns help 2 brave women stop 2 violent criminals (wnd.com)

Amen!  Another case of non-existent defense with a gun:

El Paso Mall Shooter Stopped Cold as Bystander Pulls His Own Weapon and Fires: Police | The Gateway Pundit

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Keith Olbermann Calls For “Economic Civil War” To Institute Gun Control | ZeroHedge

Guns gone.  BAMN.  Understand their mentality.  Related:

Gun Controllers Have It All Figured Out (jpfo.org)

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GUN CONTROL LIES & PROPAGANDA: ‘Firearms are the Leading Cause of Death in Children’  – Granite Grok

Remember – this is not just about guns.  They’ll lie, about everything, to advance The Cause. Related:

Leaked ATF Documents Reveal The Biden Regime’s Scheme To Close Gun Stores Across The Country | The Gateway Pundit

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At the Federalist: No, Biden’s Push For Red-Flag Laws Won’t Keep Anyone Safer (crimeresearch.org)

If I wanted to harm lots of people, there are lots and lots of ways to do it.

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Murders in US Are Very Concentrated, and They Are Becoming Even More So

While murders and other violent crime in Los Angeles County and some other major urban areas have spread out to parts of those counties that didn’t previously experience much crime, nationwide murders appear to be coming even more concentrated in a small set of counties. When it comes to murder, there are three types of counties in the United States. Most counties experience no murders, a smaller set where there are a few murders, and then a tiny set of counties where murders are very common. In 2020, 52% of counties (with 10% of the population) had no murders. 68% of counties have no more than one murder, and about 18% of the population. These counties account for only 2.6% of all murders in the country. The worst 1% of counties (the worst 31 counties) have 21% of the population and 42% of the murders. The worst 2% of counties (62 counties) contain 31% of the population and 56% of the murders. The worst 5% of counties contain 47% of the population and account for 73% of murders. But even within those counties, the murders are very heavily concentrated in small areas.

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

A recent email from a NH-based reader asks a fundamental question: What happens when, aside from a handful of known-to-us persons, we descend into a zero trust environment.  And I mean zero trust.  Watching with a “stink eye” as you grocery shop, not trusting anyone to stay in their shopping lane.  Being in Cooper’s “Condition Orange” anywhere you go outside your home.  Even being a little jittery (Condition Yellow) inside your home.  E.g., the other day I was working alone as nobody else was home (home office).  Wife at work, kids at school.  And I heard someone on the front steps.  No doorbell ringing, no package left.  Why was someone there at all?  We’re not on a cross-street, there’s no traffic.  A few weeks ago we had a car parked in front of our house at night that, when we came out to look, they tore off.

Consider the spate of “polar bear” and other mob-attacks started with incredible ferocity right from the get-go by persons of a particular demographic.  Now let me be clear: while that demographic has a massive chip on their shoulder, it’s not every single one.  But be that as it may – words are meaningless, even actions are suspect, but patterns are key.  With regret at the necessity, it is patterns that we see that we must heed.

But this is broader than that.  This is about, literally, being suspicious of everyone we meet.  Not trusting the police to do their jobs professionally, but – as in so many countries around the world – wondering who is on the take, or what cops will do what’s RIGHT vs. who will just follow orders.  Same for the fire department; can you really count on them to come?  Can you – especially in light of the Covid fusterclark and Jab drive – really trust doctors and nurses to do what’s best for you as a patient, or what’s best for their and/or their hospital’s bottom line?  (Cough Ventilators and Run-Death-Is-Near cough.)

Can you trust that the pilot of the plane is truly fit to fly?  There are concerns being voiced about cardiac patterns in Jabbed pilots that should keep them grounded.  Can you trust that the pharmacist will not turn you in for getting an Ivermectin prescription?  Can you trust that the schools will not force-vaccinate your kids, even though you’ve told them in writing with an acknowledgement from them to not do so?  Let alone the WOKE sh*t they’re pushing into ever-younger minds against your own beliefs and practices.  (I’d home school but the wife won’t help.  Ironically, she sees nothing wrong or approaching despite her being brought up in, and living through, the USSR’s collapse.)

And as you attempt to ping your neighbors for community groups and possibly prep-minded people, can you trust them to not rat you out the moment the government puts a bounty on people who might be “hoarders” and thus have extra stuff that needs to be forcibly shared?

I have a good Marine friend; he’s told me that I’m one of the few people in this world that he’d trust with a gun behind him in a SHTF situation.  A deep honor.  Likewise.  Alas that he’s hours away.

In a zero-trust world, everyone is a potential enemy until proven otherwise.  Every noise a possible attacker coming.  Every traffic encounter a possible fight or gun-fight.  How many will have the resiliency to cope with that?  Or will they, as the chaos of that inevitably uncoils and strikes our collective society, be willing to throw freedom itself at the feet of those who – offering stability and some form of normalcy – put forth the hand of Socialism?  Having deliberately engineered that zero-trust world for precisely that purpose…

 

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Description: Andrew Bridgen details to Dominique Samuels the alleged bribery he has endured from Number 10 to get him to stop speaking about the Covid jabs: “They tried to buy me…What do you want? You can have anything you want”

 

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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I’ll show myself out.

 

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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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E Pluribus Unum; one of our Nation’s mottos meaning “Out of Many, One”. We started out as a nation of immigrants from various lands, ethnicities, and social norms – the “Many”. As has been stated over our history by multitudes of people stated bazillion times, our nation is unlike any other in that we were not founded on a geographical location and a set of people but by political/philosophical ideas that were to unite us as well – the “One”.

Sadly, during the last century (and accelerating during this one), we are dividing ourselves back to the many – the Left is accomplishing a Balkanization of America by creating one small “special set” of people after another. Sounding grand, trying to right past wrongs, the notion of “protected classes” of people by attributes (nationality, ethnicity, skin color, age, sexuality, identity, and race among others) is now being used as a tool to separate us all.

The tribalism that existed in the “Old Countries” from where we came from is now being brought back to haunt us socially. The Left is now using those artificial differences to set ourselves against each other.

This video is what Vivek thinks about it.



Vivek spent a lot of time talking about China during the event and it was reemphasized by another questioner. What is China’s end goals, what are the dangers, and what should the US be doing about it?



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And this flame needs to be fanned. It needs to be encouraged and allowed to spread. We are not talking about a brush or forest fire. We are not talking about a chemical fire. We are talking about a spiritual resurgence driven by young college students, and it is taking on a life of its own.

I touched on the revival at Asbury University in an earlier article, but it deserves a deeper dive into the movement spreading across the country. My writing today is not a story about civil disobedience that we have become used to expecting. This story is about singing, praying, and surrendering oneself to Christ in round-the-clock revivals. This is a truly amazing phenomenon.

The gathering at Asbury University is not the first in the institution’s history. On February 3, 1970, a religious service morphed into a revival that lasted 144 hours. The current revival had a simple beginning on February 8th. After a regularly scheduled service, a group of about twenty students lingered and continued to sing and pray for each other. As the hours passed, other students heard the music and payers coming from the hall, and they stopped and joined in. The crowd soon swelled and occupied every one of the 1,500 folding chairs, and people stood around the hall and filled the balconies. They were not just observers but became active worshipers. Over the next two weeks, over 50,000 people will have come to Asbury to be a part of a modern religious phenomenon.

Not to mimic Asbury, but occurring organically, there are similar services at many other colleges around the country, including Samford University, Lee University, and Cedarville University. The core of this movement, both its leadership and target audience, is the Gen Z students who have been present since the beginning. Unlike many of the Gen-Z generation who live on Instagram and TikTok, this group has been turning away the media and keeping the event low-key and low-tech. Tucker Carlson of FOXNews had requested to attend and was asked not to come to Asbury. This is not a political event, and they did not want to distort the serenity of the gathering with the presence of high-profile media personalities.

Professional revivalists and Christian celebrities have been welcomed but have not been given a platform. The student leaders have done nothing to disrupt or corrupt the event. This event has no props. There are no special lights, video presentations, or planned offerings. This is purely between the worshipers and Jesus.

Students who have been interviewed outside of the hall are overcome with emotions. They genuinely feel they have been changed by being a part of the service. It is hard to define a word to describe what is happening. It is not an event, service, revival, or any other term used to describe something planned. This has mushroomed from two dozen kids who went to a service and needed something more. They found it in Kentucky, and the world has taken notice. This Asbury Revival is a movement we can hope is not a one-and-done.

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On this day in 1616, “the Roman Inquisition delivered an injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism, which states the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun.”

The Bank of England issues its first 1£ note (1717).  “Dixie Jazz Band One Step” and “Livery Stable Blues” by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company were first recorded in 1917. And “RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) was first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt (1935).

It is also national Pistachio day, Carpe Diem day, Carnival Day, Kuwait Liberation Day, Tell a Fairy Tale Day (for Joe Biden, that’s every day), and it’s For Pete’s Sake Day (a celebration of ‘minced oaths.’

It’s also Black Lives Matter Day, but that needs its own post.

 

The Morning Mail

 

CULTURE

• Liberals Go Into Raging Tirade After Man Says Sex With Trans Woman Is Gay – NewsWars
• Kansas Senate Passes First Bill Defining ‘Woman’ As A Biological Female – Daily Wire
• What Opportunities Will Be Forbidden to Your Children Because They Are White or Asian? – PJ Media
• Did Norfolk Southern neglect safety protocols in pursuit of DEI and ESG initiatives? – Substack
• Now Hiring: Non-Stupid People’ – Breitbart
• Six out of 10 young men are single — disturbing reasons why – NY Post
• LA DA Suspends Lead Prosecutor For ‘Misgendering’ Transgender Child Molester Tubbs – GP

 

MISC

• Gun Control doesn’t reduce suicides – Prepared Gun Owners
• NY Young Republican Club Suspends Matthew Tyrmand, Likely Mastermind of James O’Keefe’s Ousting From Project Veritas – Discern Post
• Google blocks news content in Canada as part of test to be ready in case internet censorship bill passes. – LifeSite News
• Mike Lindell/attorneys served McCarthy w papers over J6 footage – Twitter
• Estimated animal death toll from Ohio train derailment tops 43,700 – CBS News

 

FOOD and STUFF

• Lab-Grown Meat Backed By Bill Gates Has CANCER CELLS And Could Cause Other Scary Health Issues – GP
• WWII-Style Rationing of Meat, Clothing, and Energy Needed to Fight Climate Change, Say UK Academics – Breitbart
• UK Environment Secretary: ‘If you can’t afford food, work harder‘… The Independent (YouTube 0:45)
• Ireland selling “insect burgers” made of mealworm larvae – Gript.ie

 

IF YOU’VE GOT THE ENERGY

• Vatican’s official newspaper promotes call to ‘fast’ from fossil fuels during Lent – LifeSite News
• Wind Farm Blamed For Surge In Dead Whales On U.S. Atlantic Coast – The Daily Wire
• Whitmer Admin’s Proposed Battery Plant Handout Would Send Millions To Railway Company At Center Of Ohio Derailment Disaster – The Daily Wire
• There were three oil refinery fires on Thursday. Two in Mexico and one in Texas. All facilities were owned by the same company. – Bloomberg

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