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Bought this set of wrenches at Walmart…
300 rounds of .223
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There are a lot of things to know about survival food. From how to grow it, where to get it from or how to keep it, this topic never gets old because we couldn’t survive without food.
That’s why this week we’re looking at 5 articles that will help us with all the issues mentioned above, and more! So keep scrolling and remember to drop us a line in the comments section below.
1. 13 Things To Know Before You Dehydrate Food
“Dehydration is a fantastic way to preserve food for the future. There are many reasons why I like dehydrating food: it’s safe, it’s easy, and it’s cheaper than buying dehydrated food. Better yet, the food itself is more nutritious, it’s lightweight, it doesn’t take up much space, and some of it is absolutely delicious (like banana chips).
Of course, if you want to dehydrate your own food, you’ll need a good dehydrator. This one–which I’ve used a lot–is about $70. It’s not one of the high end dehydrators like the Excalibur, but it definitely gets the job done.”
2. Survival fishing: How to make a trotline from paracord
“Statistics show most lost people are found within 24 hours if they stay put. Your priorities, if lost, should be water, shelter and fire, and preparing to signal rescuers.
550 paracord has seven filaments of nylon thread in a plastic sleeve. Each filament is about 30-pound test and can work in a pinch as fishing line.
But time is a precious commodity during a long term situation, and prioritizing activities will be critical. If you can make a fish trap or place a trot line, these methods can gather food while you’re doing something else.”
“Whether it’s an incoming natural disaster (hurricane, earthquake or wildfire) or an upcoming attack on U.S. soil, it makes little difference, as the end result will be imminent disaster. And in the case of such a scenario, you’re going to need to survive. Even if everything will change around, your need-to-feed won’t.
And food will no longer be the commodity we got used to, it’ll be a scares and necessary energy source. To better your chances you’ll need to stock provisions and fast, while they’re available and easily obtainable.”
4. The Survival Buzz #181: How Not to Harvest Lettuce
“Welcome to this week’s Survival Buzz with an update on my own preps plus news and announcements from the Backdoor Survival blog.
This week I get the idiot of the week award. I had some romaine growing on my front porch and thinking that it better get harvested before it goes bad, I picked it early in the day and put the leaves in the refrigerator.
Come dinner time, I had a basket of limp lettuce. Nothing would save it.”
5. The 4 Best Berries For Warm-Weather Homesteaders
“Those off-the-gridders living in the south, where freezing temperatures are rare, have the opportunity to grow a wide array of berries that we northerners can only dream of.
What makes a berry the best choice for a southern garden? Well, that’s subjective, of course. However, for those homesteaders that are off-the-grid and preparing for an unknown future, the best choices in my opinion share two characteristics. First, they can be eaten fresh or preserved, so that some form of the berry is available all year for consumption.”
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Lye is a caustic, alkaline chemical that is useful for many purposes. If you know how to make this stuff it can be really helpful; especially if you live off the grid.
Lye has a lot of household purposes such as being used as a laundry detergent, hand soap and cleanser it will also assist in curing food.
People who live in remote areas really do not have a lot of different products laying around so having a hefty supply of this is perfect because it can be use for a lot of different things.
Instead of running to the store to use a batch of this stuff you can make it from wood ash and water. All you need is a bucket and you’re good to go.
The process not only looks really cool but you get to learn how it separates.
However, before you proceed – make sure you follow precautionary measures when you make this stuff. A lot of people are sensitive to lye because it is really harsh. Make sure to wear eye glasses when you make it and keep small animals and pets away during the process. To Find Out How To Make Your Own Batch Of Lye Please Go To Page (2)…
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I think it is fair to say that one aspect of some prepper’s motivational drive to do what we do stems from a desire to resist tyranny. Perhaps I am only seeing what I want to see based on my own personal outlook on life, but I have a lot of anecdotal evidence that backs […]
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There is a lot of debate on whether America needs to take away the second amendment after the recent church shooting. The logic is that if there are no guns there will be no gun violence. Of course this is a completely illogical line of thinking because if you look at cities that ban guns they have some of the highest rates of gun violence i.e. Chicago.
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By Andrew Skousen – Originally at World Affairs Brief and reprinted here by permission.
Most canning sites err on the side of caution and recommend long processing times and, preferably, a steam canner. As I noted in the last preparedness tip, I prefer steam bath canning for faster processing with less energy, but you have to know its limits and the bacteria you are fighting. For home canning the main fear is botulism and here’s why:
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Original Question from Steve: Hey MD, one of my biggest concerns is federal involvement and forcible detainment of innocent civilians in a shtf time. There is no way to effectively resist such a large force with unlimited resources at their disposal. What is the answer? This keeps me up at night.
M.D. Replies: I worry more about that same force taking my stuff, however I don’t worry much about me being taken physically, although it’s a possibility. They would have to consider you a real threat before they would take you, because if they physically take someone they would then have...
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1.) FOX NEWS is Hillary Clinton’s 9th Largest Donor : “According to Federal Election Commission and Center for Responsive Politics data, 21st Century Fox News Corp. has donated more than $3 million to Clinton family accounts. Overall, this lands Fox as the Clinton family’s 9th largest donor over the course of the family’s political involvement.”
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Yogurt is a delicious, healthy snack, lunch or ingredient that, though typically made from cow’s milk, can be made from many different types of “milks” including almond milk and coconut milk. These require some extra ingredients but still offer many health benefits. Today we’re going to tell you how to make yogurt at home regardless of the milk that you want to use.
The recipes and methods that we’re going to review don’t require a yogurt maker because in a survival situation you may not be able to use it. Also, it’s an unnecessary piece of equipment as long as you’re willing to put in a bit of extra effort.
As with all things made at home, homemade yogurt is superior to store-bought yogurt because you know what’s in it, it’s cheaper, it’s better for the environment and the biggie – if SHTF, there’s not going to be a grocery store to buy it from so you’ll need to know how to make it yourself if you want it!
Traditional Yogurt
You’re going to find about a million different recipes to make yogurt online but many of them aren’t suited to the beginner yogurt maker. Some will turn out too tangy, some will turn out runny and some won’t turn out at all. We’re trying to make this as simple as possible so that your yogurt will turn out every time.
Yogurt, regardless of what type of “milk” you use, is packed with probiotics that help with everything from digestive health to promoting healthy skin and hair. You can even use yogurt in a face mask as part of your beauty routine as a softener. If you’re using dairy milk, it also works as a mild exfoliant.
I’m going to use a cheat here – a bit of store-bought plain yogurt as the “starter” because it’s much simpler. The only other way to start it is using chili stems to create the bacteria in the milk. If you want to try this, place several chili pepper stems in the milk after you’ve brought it to 160 degrees F and keep the milk warm until the concoction thickens. Alternatively, there are freeze-dried yogurt cultures that you can order online.
I also use whole milk though I’ve heard it works with 2% or skim milk, too. Here’s what you’ll need to make a half-gallon of yogurt. By the way, the amount of yogurt you end up with is the same as the amount of milk that you start with.
We’re making a half-gallon here because it’s enough to make different flavors but isn’t so much that it will spoil before you can use it. Feel free to double or halve the recipe.
Ingredients:
½ gallon of milk (cow or goat)
¼ cup plain yogurt with live cultures
2 quart jars or 4 pint jars, rings, and tops, sterilized
1 gallon stock pot with a heavy bottom
1 cooking or candy thermometer
Heating pad or warm spot such as an oven with a pilot light
Instructions:
Heat your milk in the pot until it reaches 180 degrees F according to your thermometer. Remove from heat.
Let the milk cool until it’s 115 degrees F and stir in the yogurt. Stir well to combine.
Pour the mixture into the jars and put the lids on.
Place in the warm spot such as your oven with the light on or wrap in the heating pad on low setting.
Leave it alone for 10-12 hours. The longer it sits, the tangier it will be.
Chill the yogurt well, for at least 3-4 hours. Don’t worry if it’s still thin because it will thicken as it cools.
That’s it. You’ve just made yogurt. Now that you’ve made it, set aside ¼ cup for your next batch!
Note:
1. If you’re using freeze-dried starter, the fermentation process will only take 4 hours or so. Also, make sure that the milk that you use is of high quality. Organic, non-pasteurized milk is my preference. Go organic, at least.
2. This yogurt is going to be a bit thinner than store bought. If you want to thicken it a bit, add ¼ cup dried milk per half gallon – stir it in when you add the yogurt culture.
3. You can freeze your yogurt in 1 cup containers.
4. You may have extra water (aka whey) in the yogurt. If so, line a sieve with cheesecloth or a linen towel and pour your yogurt in so that the whey can drain before you put the yogurt in your jars.
Alternate crock pot method: Bring the milk to 180 degrees in your crock pot on high, then follow the directions above. To cool it, remove the crock from your pot and wrap it in a towel, place it in the oven (with the oven off) and let it sit. I like to heat the oven for a few minutes first, then turn it off before I put the yogurt in so that it’s nice and warm in there.
Almond Milk Yogurt
You can’t make almond milk yogurt from boxed almond milk – you have to make the milk yourself. You can do this with fresh almonds and a juicer or blender. This makes about 2 quarts of almond yogurt. Don’t skip the sugar – it’s the culture food!
Ingredients:
2 cups raw almonds
1 tsp. agar agar powder
2 tablespoons sugar
¼ arrowroot powder
Water
Freeze-dried yogurt starter
Instructions:
Soak the almonds in water for 8-10 hours.
Put the almonds through the juicer or use a high-powered blender, adding enough water to make 4 cups. Blend until it’s smooth then strain the chunks out.
Add back to the blender and add enough water to bring it back up to the 4-cup mark.
Mix arrowroot with ½ cup of water.
Put 3 cups of water into a 2-quart pot and add the agar agar. Bring it slowly to a boil. Be careful because it will boil over.
Simmer for 15 seconds and remove from heat.
Add the milk and the arrowroot mixture and whisk well. Allow to cool to 105 degrees.
Add the yogurt starter according to package directions to ¼ cup of the cooled almond milk and whisk well to combine.
Pour into jars and place in warm spot such as the preheated and turned off oven and allow to ferment for 10 hours.
Chill for 3-4 hours and the yogurt will set as it chills.
Coconut Milk Yogurt
This one is a piece of cake. Combine 1 can of full-fat coconut milk (not the sweetened kind) at room temperature and 1 tablespoon of Inner Eco coconut water probiotic kefir or probiotic capsule. Combine the milk and the probiotic well and pour into a jar. Put it in the oven with the light on or wrap it in a heating pad for 10 hours or so.
Note: If you want it thicker, put the coconut milk in the fridge so that the cream rises to the top. Pour the cream out and leave the water in the bottom.
Now you know how to make a few different types of plain yogurt! If you want to flavor them with fruit or other flavorings, do so either when you serve it or before you put it in the jars.
Do you have any other suggestions for making yogurt? If so, tell us about them in the comments section below!
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The debate about whether to keep horses and mules for survival transportation is about equally divided between those who think motorized vehicles are better and those who believe that horses and mules are necessary in a post-SHTF society. Personally, I tend to believe that they will be valuable assets for work, transportation and trade but I can see the merit of the other side, too.
Should you choose to raise horses and mules for survival, there are a few different breeds that will be good for different purposes.
Travel
As we’ve discussed in other articles, such as this one, horses will be valuable for transportation. There are three that stand out right off the bat. The American Quarter Horse is known for being easy to train, level-headed and sure footed. They can also sprint and, if trained properly, can have good endurance at the walk and trot. Even at the lope, they can cover several miles in a day without needing to stop much.
Quarter horses are also “easy keepers” which means that they tend to maintain muscle mass and body fat without a lot of food. Quarter horses are good survival horses because they can also carry quite a bit of weight and have the endurance and temperament to make good pack animals.
The only real downside to using Quarter horses is that most of them need to be shod in order to travel over rocky terrain in order to preserve their feet from stone bruises, chips and quarter cracks that will disable them for a significant period of time.
Quarter horses are also extremely versatile and can work on farms cutting cattle. They’re the go-to animal for ranch work for a reason – they can stop on a dime, hold a cow while it’s being vaccinated or branded and are physically built for this kind of work.
Other breeds, such as Arabians, are great endurance animals but require more feed to keep them going. They’re fast and have incredible going power but tend to be flightier and more difficult to handle in spooky or loud situations. They aren’t the best choice for survival animals unless you’re an extremely skilled horseperson and the horse won’t be swapped among less experienced riders. Arabians generally have good feet and may be able to go without shoes.
If you don’t need to escape in a hurry and need a horse that can travel smoothly and comfortably in a ground-eating gait, a Tennessee Walker or a Rocky Mountain gaited horse are good choices. Tennessee Walkers are larger and can carry more weight but Rocky Mountain Gaited Horses can go forever and are easy keepers. Tennessee Walkers can require quite a bit of feed to keep them in riding condition.
Hands down, if you’re looking for a steady horse for survival with speed, endurance and durability, you want an American mustang. These are wild horses that run free, mostly in the American West and into Canada. They’re often rounded up to prevent overpopulation or so that man can use the land for building purposes and sold at auction for very little money.
Be aware that when adopting a wild mustang, you’re going to have to put a lot of work into taming and training them. You can buy foals that are easier to raise and train but foals will require several years before they’re ready to ride. That’s fine as long as you believe you have that much time. Mustangs can practically live on air, have incredible stamina and strong feet that most likely won’t require shoes.
Mules bred from any of these breeds are also great for travel though there’s a reason that there’s a saying, “stubborn as a mule”. They tend to decide to do things in their own time though they’re great animals and sturdy both for riding and for pack animals. Just remember that you can’t breed mules to mules – they’re sterile and can only be created by breeding a male donkey (jack) with a female horse (mare).
Work
Belgian horses are probably the most common work horse used in America and would be great horses for survival if you’re looking for a work horse. Be aware that Belgians aren’t particularly good riding horses because they have a rough gait but if you need a horse to pull a plow or a heavy wagon, a Belgian is well-suited for the job. That’s not to say that they CAN’T be ridden because they can, but they’re not the best draft horse suited for it.
Belgians are compact, stocky horses that are typically 16-17 hands tall and they weigh up to a ton. Because they’re built rock solid from head to tail, they’re up to any heavy lifting or pulling work. Because they’re comparatively compact, they’re good for getting logs out of tight spots. They’re fairly easy keepers, too but will likely require shoes to remain sound.
Clydesdales
Better known as the Budweiser horses, Clydesdales are gentle animals that are well-suited for pulling wagons. They’re built much more delicately than a Belgian which makes them better suited for riding as well as working and are extremely trainable. They range in size from 16-18 hands and are agile for their size. Many people even use them for competitive jumping.
Clydesdales have great endurance but aren’t the best horse for pulling a plow. They can definitely work if you need them to and since they’re also good riding horses as long as you’re not looking for quick speed, I recommend them because they are multi-use.
Percherons
A Percheron is a great horse for survival because it has the strong working power of a Belgian with the gentle nature and versatility of a Clydesdale. They range in size from 15-17 hands in height and can weigh up to 2000 pounds. Despite their size, they’re easy keepers and have extremely good feet even without shoes.
Since Percherons are relatively compact and have strong shoulders, they’re good work horses in both tight situations such as logging and in pulling situations such as plowing. Percherons are not as smooth to ride as a Clydesdale but they’re not as rough as a Belgian. They can cover plenty of ground in a day but they’re not going to do it with the speed of any of the riding horses listed above.
There are most certainly other breeds out there that many may think are supreme to the ones that I’ve listed here. I have personal experience with each of the animals that I’ve discussed above but if you have any other suggestions, we’d love to hear them, along with the logic, in the comments section below.
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The forest fires are more than 600 miles away and yet I can see, smell and taste the smoke in the air. I know that many brave people are fighting this fire and hundreds more just like it in dry forested areas all over North America.
There are water bombers attacking from the air, heavy machines are plowing firebreaks on the ground and men and women are risking their lives trying to keep the fires from claiming more personal property and public forest.
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In 2012 I started seriously gathering a long term food storage pantry of items to feed our very large family—six children, three of them married, 6 grandchildren, and my aging Mom. With 18 mouths to feed, I have stored LOTS of grains including 400 pounds of oat groats.
Groats will last many years if properly stored. I have mine sealed in Mylar Bags with O2 absorbers inside of five-gallon buckets. There are over 50 buckets of grain stashed inside of our home, under beds, behind custom cabinets, inside closets, etc., but that’s another story! I anticipate using most of the...
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Let’s pretend you have $3000 dollars and 30 days before you wake up and the banks are no longer open. You have a wife, 2 elementary aged daughters, and your house with detached garage is on an acre of land. You live waking distance from a creek, 100 yards from your neighbor, and about 5 miles from a large national game preserve. You have a 4-wheeler, a small pickup, and a small 4 door car. You also have a front tine tiller, hand gardening tools, a large dog, fenced in yard, and live at the end of your street. There are 4 other houses on this street, all but one of them you are friendly...
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Missouri Rep.: “Take Out” Oath Keepers in Ferguson : “The corporate media is determined to portray Oath Keepers and others in Ferguson, Missouri who are helping residents and business owners protect their property as racist outside “instigators.” The best thing business owners and decent people who still live in that mess or an area is to pack up...
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Any conservative who keeps track of the news at all knows that the mainstream media is fully in bed with the progressive liberal agenda. This is not something new, although it has been accelerating in recent years. Perhaps this was inevitable, considering that “news” is supposed to deal with what’s “new” and liberals have always been working overtime to bring about something new.
But I think the real reason that the media leans towards the left goes much deeper than that. It has something to do with the type of people who are drawn to Hollywood and to the news media as well.
Just like you are more likely to find conservatives serving the public as police, in the fire department and in the military; it takes a liberal slant in your personality to make reporting on what others are doing sound like an attractive career. Conservatives would rather do, while liberals would rather talk about it.
Regardless of how it happened, our modern day news media has abandoned any pretense at being neutral, even though their supporters claim that they are the most even of judges. Liberals scoff at the idea that the media is biased, mostly because the media just isn’t quite liberal enough for them.
But this bias affects how the media reports stories greatly. After all, it is the practitioners of journalism who ultimately decide what qualifies as “news.” They act as the filter to what the rest of us get to see and hear and have become experts in making the positive sound negative and the negative sound positive. The “spin” they put on the news has more to do with public opinion than the news itself.
Media and Politics
Sadly, a large portion of our population has forgotten how to think for themselves. They have become like the people in George Orwell’s classic book, 1984, only thinking and believing what the propaganda ministry tells them to think and believe. Individual thought and expression are going by the wayside for these people, as they conform to what they are told. Non-conformists, like you and I, are villainized for our opinions, our actions and our beliefs.
The scary part of this is how many people are led around by the nose, accepting whatever the media says, without giving it a second’s thought. We see this going on every day, often without realizing what is happening.
Take our elections for example. The most important single factor in a candidate’s success is the amount of coverage they receive from the media. In the 2012 presidential primaries, Rick Santorum was the leading Republican candidate up until three weeks before primary polling started; then, they dropped him totally. They switched their coverage to Mitt Romney, who ended up winning the primaries.
Then there’s Obama. We all know how much of a part the media played in thrusting the freshman Chicago senator onto center stage and ultimately wining two presidential elections. Had it not been for the help of the media and especially of Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama would still be a senator, not a president talking about how he would like a third term as king.
Distraction of the Masses
But the media’s affect on elections is only the tip of the iceberg, when you look at the overall picture. Take the whole #BlackLivesMatter movement, for example. The violent outbreaks which have been happening around the country would not be happening if it weren’t for the media.
First of all, the media misreports the trigger events, talking about how the police are killing “innocent” young blacks. Then they use that to interject suspicion of the police and hatred towards whites. Why? So that they can make a media show out of the resulting riots and destruction.
It’s clear that the destruction in Ferguson, Baltimore and other cities wouldn’t have happened without the media fanning the flames of fire. How do I know that? Because there are many other similar events where nothing happens. There are no riots, no demonstrations and no problems; simply because there is no media attention.
Sadly, the situation is getting worse. The media is creating hysteria over events happening in the world, so that they can actively cover up other things. Most of this is about covering up things that the Obama Administration is doing or has done. They distract the attention of the masses from having their freedoms revoked by stirring up rage about something that doesn’t even matter.
How important is a former athlete getting a sex change operation, in the grand scheme of things? It’s not. How about the killing of a lion on the other side of the world? People in Zimbabwe (where the lion was killed) say that lions are killed there every day. Not only that, but they don’t even know who “Cecil” was. To them, he was just one more lion and the outrage is a “first-world problem.”
What about the outcry against the Civil War Battle Flag? How is that so important? The answer is, it isn’t. It has only been made artificially important by the chattering class, in order to manipulate people’s emotions and get them to cry out against it.
Yet, while these major “stories” have been filling the airwaves, important things have been going on. ISIS has killed hundreds more Christians, just for not converting to Islam. Planned Parenthood is caught red-handed, selling baby body parts. The Secretary of State has negotiated a treaty with Iran, which gives them everything and gives us no assurances whatsoever. Oh, and by the way, Kerry is related (by marriage) to the negotiator for Iran. If he were a righteous man, he would have sat that one out.
What I’m seeing here is that the media is actively working to cover up the actions of the government. They have fully become a propaganda arm of the administration; not only reporting things in a way to make the administration look good, but in redirecting the attention of Americans from what the administration is doing, by focusing their outrage on something else.
Just look at the Cecil the Lion fiasco. A man goes to Africa on a hunting trip. It’s not like that’s anything new. It’s been happening for at least 100 years. But this man happens to kill a lion which is sufficiently well known as to have a name. That gives the news media something to grasp hold of, which they do.
Within a day, everyone is talking about how this horrible man killed a poor, innocent, beloved lion. They close down his business, cry out for the government to take away his citizenship, threaten his life and those of his family and basically destroy his life. Why? To cover something up; the only question is “What?”
Jade Helm started a couple of weeks ago. There are still stories going around about the sinister things that the government is planning on using Jade Helm to do, including supposed statements by military members. The hactivist group Anonymous has made a statement that Jade Helm is a cover-up to kill off 120 million Americans and capture others for “reeducation.” Those stories are of course being mocked by the mainstream media.
I don’t know what to think about Jade Helm. There seems to be a lot of evidence to show some nefarious purpose behind it. But that evidence could be circumstantial as well. But that’s not what scares me. If they decide to kill me, so be it. I’ll win in the end.
No, what scares me is that it is clear that the American masses would readily accept the killing off of 120 million Americans. The news would spin the story, talking about how all those conservatives were really terrorists and people would nod their heads, telling themselves that killing them off was a good thing. That’s scary.
When they come to take you and I off, people will be sitting on their sofas, nodding their heads, as they accept the cover story that they are being spoon fed. There will be nobody to speak on our behalf.
Oh, I suppose we could take a stand and fight when they come looking for us. In fact, I’m sure that at least some of us will manage to do that. But unless you’re planning on standing guard every night, I’d be willing to bet that the government will manage to break down your door sometime when you aren’t expecting it.
Besides, who really thinks they can stand against the weapons and manpower that the government can bring to bear? No, we’ll all go down; and the news will report it as a right-wing terrorist who got what he deserved.
Can you hear the mobs cheering?
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It’s bad enough that individual states are succumbing the regime’s ‘divide and conquer’ strategy, because they are actually already in a form of secession from the United States by their systematic state legislative departure from a National Constitutional Rule of liberty and justice for all.
But the Leftist Federal government is now hell bent to help individual states suppress any possible resistance and overthrow of their agenda.
California recently confirmed the enforcement of strict laws prohibiting opting out of vaccines for the radically spurious rationale of “general public safety”, to cover up the true conspiracy of Big Pharma’s greed to create obscene profits to dump back into the coffers of corrupt politicians. The same Big Pharma that also offers to an ambitious totalitarian regime the potential medium for future chemical induced mass ‘mind control’ of the population, if needed.
Therefore it is now against the state law to refuse inoculations with potentially deadly allergic toxins as your right to choose what goes in your body, or your religious right to reject it. That’s correct: you no longer have a 1st/A protection in the state of socialist sunshine and no fresh water.
They are already talking about making some examples out of ‘dissidents’ by arresting people who refuse inoculations mandated at government workplaces. And your children will be forced to get needles jabbed in their arms on school vaccination days. And there’s nothing you can do to stop it!
What If You Resist and Protest?
Well, that’s the next scary puzzle piece that just became initiated. It’s yet another specious ‘fix’ to the badly broken DOHS/NSA fraud-scam on America that Congress voted 257 ‘For’, and 167 ‘Against’, last March to pass a bill (HR 240) giving this nitwit totalitarian alphabet agency 40 billion of your tax dollars to blow on 231,000 highly paid and benefited government spies dedicated to nothing more–certainly not preventing terrorism–than denying you your Bill of Rights.
Responsible citizens are simply fed up with the Feds thinking they can STILL cruise around all your private business and personal matters anytime they ‘feel’ like it even though the SCOTUS ruled the NSA’s spying is constitutionally illegal.
So the FBI is constantly gripping for more of your tax dollars to supposedly help control the spread of the ISIS in America, even though the government actually have not really cost effectively prevented a single Islamist from killing anyone yet in 10 years. A few self-set up police entrapment undercover style false flags here and there. Notwithstanding. Because any local police department already does this more than effectively enough.
In other words, the Feds are saying that the reason they aren’t catching any terrorists BEFORE they do something bad is not because of the outrageous money they have to spend on the most advanced privacy intrusion tools on the planet, it’s because they are ‘restricted’ by the Constitution in their personal spying efforts!
The strange irony here is maybe they actually believe that insanity. Some of these government spies really believe that it’s super fine and dandy to be an anti-Constitutional criminal as long as it fights terrorist criminals.
Amazingly a couple weeks ago, I saw a celebrity New York detective, Bo Dietl, make a comment on Fox regarding the ineffectiveness of the government’s war on terrorism, stating that if we want to clean it up “the people are going to have to give up some freedom for more security!” It shows you how your mentality changes when you become one of them, when you once might have been one of us.
But the innovation potential of the freedom loving American citizens eventually comes around to stomping Govt’s Nike gym shoe heel down on the snake head. People serious about protecting their personal and business privacy from prying eyes are now doing something about it, until we can all unite and vote out corrupt politicians again and change the laws back to protect the people’s rights.
They are using computer encryption programs to prevent mass random warrant-less internet spying and probing into your private financial affairs. Not because these citizens are doing anything wrong, but because the government hacks doing the spying are definitely not virgins when it comes to criminal conspiracies themselves.
Police State agencies are no joint venture team when it comes to entrapment, false flags, and stings which far too often target persons actually doing nothing–if not only minor things–wrong. And that’s giving the government the huge benefit of the doubt on the amazingly high rate (for such expensive training) of mistakes and “accidents” during routine investigations.
The Police State environment fosters a purview of intolerable unfettered intrusion powers aided and abetted by the poisonous perk of almost total consequential unaccountability.
Is It Too Late to Stop Them?
It’s doubtful. The ’G’-boys (and girls) are now intensifying an effort to make yet another anti-4/A legislation to force private computer encryptions, to be opened anytime any alphabet soup agencies might want to know what you’re doing. This is more likely only for their prurient agenda based “fishing” interests because they certainly aren’t even catching terrorists the old fashioned way either?
Ironically, Jade Helm exercises were culminating lately in Texas and Utah which were the prime target areas among other undisclosed venues. Of course it was only coincidental that Texas and Utah happen to be main ’Militia’ states loaded with off-grid type anti-big G people who also happened to be armed to the teeth…
The G claimed it was just because these states happened to have rugged mountain terrain suitable for simulated battle conditions in other future war countries. Do you mean to tell me that all those other ’mountainous’ terrains across the country that the government already (paid for by taxes) owns aren’t good enough? What about the undercover plain clothes exercises in more urban communities under the Jade Helm operation?
How stupid do they think we are to believe that under cover spec ops raids are to ‘flush out potential terrorist sleeper cells’? Certainly not the IL lone wolfs. They just ‘go dark’ and live off welfare until they’re ready, just like most other career criminals or mentally deranged predators do.
This is nothing else but government ‘practice’ to quickly and effectively disarm the most potentially dangerous gun owners during a national state of Martial Law. Dangerous, that is, to intentional government tyranny, which the 2nd/A was primarily set up to combat.
Don’t they know yet that We, the People, know that the only reason they are spying on citizens is to set up a future shock troop nationwide overnight gun confiscation plan, after which they will then cheerfully float around and land all over your finances, wealth holdings, and cash and gold.? Which they’ll wind up seizing so that they can more easily facilitate all the eventual asset seizures (courtesy of laws already in place and future ones they’ll make) that all despotic governments eventually are ‘forced’ to resort to, as their economic fecklessness starts to feast upon itself while the economy collapses.
So, yeah, sure, the big bad American dog is going to quit moaning and jump up off the government nail he was laying on because it’s just starting to hurt way too much! And he’s going to show those teeth unless they ‘tranquilize’ him and put a muzzle on him.
More Tyranny Ahead
Recently, the Congress passed another new law that would allow the Secretary of State to ‘unilaterally’ (don’t you love that term?) cancel an American passport and launch a criminal investigation if he/she determines that any citizen “has aided or abetted” a terrorist organization.
What exactly does that mean? Does it mean you have proof beyond reasonable doubt that a person is “aiding and abetting” an enemy terrorist organization? Or do you now only need a suspicion from a subjective determination outside the rule of law and due process? Far outside the established boundaries of probable cause and evidentiary due process.
Furthermore, in the truest spirit of slippery slope evil, and to literally LEAP on the kill the Constitution bandwagon, the Senate is also currently debating that passports be also cancelled for persons who owe ‘too much in back taxes’!
The newest unconstitutional American Freedom Act already allows government freezing of your bank and property assets if they suspect that you are “aiding and abetting” terrorists, so why do they need another one to totally restrict and confine your travels?
Even police are not allowed to restrict your travels unless you are under arrest. Which amounts to nothing less than de-facto incarceration. The police can’t even detain you at any length without probable cause. So I guess universal license plate scanning and GPS vehicle and smart phone tracking of everywhere you go just ain’t cutting it sharply enough? They want to see blood!
The Govt simply will stop at no limit to be able to keep you from moving around unless they can know everything you do and even control it. Is it because they don’t want you to be able to hide your guns and money too far from where they know where you live from the Real I.D Act they passed a while back a little higher up on the slippery slope.
The horrifying caveat here is the question of what exactly is the criteria ‘unilaterally’ determined without Constitutional due process or oversight? Subjective presumption is constitutionally illegal. Random NSA spying on anyone you associate through social media or almost any other internet integration could and would conceivably link almost anyone, somewhere down the infinite rabbit hole paradox of the World Wide Web, inevitably to some form of a so called terrorist by government definition.
The problem is that the definition is never clearly delineated. And what’s considered “aiding and abetting”? Agreement with some of their philosophy? I’m wondering if when I carefully peruse this bill if it will also have a sneaked in sanction on gun ownership for anyone “unilaterally” determined to be “aiding and abetting” a terrorist. Why not, being potentially suicidal, having a drug habit, or fighting with your spouse, or telling your neighbor too firmly her dog can’t shit on your steps anymore, now immediately precludes you from exercising your uninfringeable’ 2nd/A rights?
What’s next, detention of citizens for transitioning from obese to “grossly obese”? With the administratively mandated internment penalty for “morbidly obese” persons? Oh, wait! How about talking bad about your government amounts to aiding and abetting a terrorist? “Yup, Senator, great input, I’ll get my staffer to write it up…”
Police State in Action
The Govt wasted no tax payer time stepping on the gas through this newest green light bill on continuous oppression of freedoms. They just announced a successful anti-terrorist raid on a 40 year old Boston area resident Arafat Nagi, a Muslim who allegedly is “aiding and abetting” terrorists. This arrest also provided a much needed morale boost for a grossly ineffective police state agency and they lost no time playing it out for max market value in the MSM.
However as I momentarily check the AP stories and other web feeds for details, because the TV news stations just had a ‘G’ marketing spot telling the story obviously for their own pump up, I can’t find any details that would legally support such an arrest under standard criminal statutes. But this new terrorist support law allowed the authorities to charge this guy and seize all his belongings under the new law with “attempting to aid a terrorist organization”.
It doesn’t take a seasoned cop to understand what a carte blanch authority this is to take away people for almost any reason this will turn out to be. At this time, all I can find is that because this Nagi bought some camping equipment and other things that are perfectly legal for anyone to buy, and just encouraged people to join him in his jumpin’ Jihad, he was arrested.
While nobody wants to see any psycho Islamist terrorists have it convenient to hurt anyone, the insidious problem is in the rationale that alters current criminal prosecution standards. We already have laws for any and all forms of harm or evil against people and property. They’re known as criminal statutes. If this Muslim, or extreme Christian anti-abortion fanatic was leading a band of like-minded radicals and tried to attack a mall, or bomb an abortion clinic then they still get charged with an aggravated felony assault or murder, etc., just like any other nut criminal doing a similar physical crime.
The problem is this new trend in cause for the arrest, and its expansive potential for extreme police state abuse. This type of law gives entirely new and frightening meaning to the term “conspiracy to commit”. The entire activity concept of “supporting or abetting” is part of our entire existentialism, and is usually not a crime by itself. It’s socially dangerous to make helping people more of a crime than the committed criminal act itself. By this logic, a Muslim talking to a few of his cronies on Friday night after prayers at the local mosque, could be “aiding and abetting” Islamist terrorists.
In fact, by this flawed logic, ALL Muslims would seem to then be obligated to prove they were not “supporting” Islamist terrorists, because all Islamists are Muslims. Especially when you make the ambiguous definition of “support or aid” a separate crime in itself, only to be conveniently brought out when needed.
It’s not even a short stretch to see a time when speaking out against the government can be determined to be “aiding and abetting” a potential domestic terrorist group whose only furtherance of the crime was to be a…gun owner.
What’s Next?
Good patriotic citizens are whispering among themselves in whatever private surroundings they still have. They are getting angry. People are saying, “let me get this straight: we have a ‘declared War on Terrorism’ but our government is remiss and exceptionally suspicious in not identifying the enemy terrorist combatants as Islamists. We called Germans Nazis during the war; why can’t Muslim Extremists be called what they are?”
Then, in the most egregious failure of command strategy and concern for our soldiers, they have to fatal audacity to not allow enemy targeted on duty soldiers supposedly still doing their active duty defending our country in uniform to be armed while under ISIL attack!
The Govt was even reluctant to confirm that the killer was a radicalized Muslim. And instead, they disgustingly suggested that soldiers go plain clothes to help mitigate the danger. Then, they denigrated and treated armed free citizens who donated their time and risk to protect the soldiers and sent out a memo to refuse their security because the American citizens themselves could be terrorists!
People are very confused! First, the government sends at unwarranted risk our best and brightest young women and men into dubious foreign combat in worthless POS countries of no real danger or critical value to the U.S. to be gruesomely maimed and mutilated, or lost forever to their loved ones.
Then the V.A. can’t even treat these veterans in a timely and decent manner as they were promised and guaranteed by law! In fact, the V.A. directly caused many to decease prematurely, often in deplorable and inexcusable circumstances, and NOW, this suck job government won’t even allow our war heroes to defend themselves properly while they are trying to recruit more cannon fodder for an out of control government?!
I can’t, but can understand this at the same time. This is happening because once again, as usual, they’re lying to us. This is NOT a war on Islamist terrorism, unless they can also call it ‘domestic terrorism’. Anybody not getting it yet? It’s way past obvious. It is a War alright, but it’s a war directly against the Freedom of the American people.
They don’t want the active duty military to have access to any firearms unless they are training with them or in actual combat. This is because they don’t want the potential contingency of large blocks of standing armed military also in rebellion against the government by joining ’We, the People’. The Govt is corrupt, but being stupid is not one of their faults. The best totalitarian agenda scenario is keeping ALL military weapons locked up in well secured armories that crack Jade Helm type agents–who definitely will be armed–can easily defend. And any and all dissidents will automatically fall then into the new category of ”iding and abetting” terrorists. Only this time it will be American Patriot Domestic Terrorists!
It’s Not Fear Mongering, It’s what’s Happening Now!
So what if people start to protest vehemently against the government for these mounting abuses and liberty violations? Remember the good Marxist General Wesley Clark, who ran for president on the Democratic ticket in 2004? He just commented on the gravity of the oh so serious problem–which really doesn’t exist–of horrid all pervasive ISIS terrorism in this country.
Remember he was the NATO Commander during the U.S. bombing of Serbia, who suggested that “disloyal Americans” “aiding and abetting” should be sent to internment camps for the duration of the conflict? Good thing, he missed the POTUS play, can you imagine being “unilaterally determined” to be a “disloyal American” arrested for supporting anti American sentiment, the next dangerous slip downward on Mt. Sippery Tyranny?
In a sound bit discussing the recent Chattanooga shootings, Clark said he recalled the internment (euphemism for imprisoned) of American Citizens on U.S. soil who were committing no crime other than happening to be of related racial ethnicity to our WWII enemies overseas and being merely “suspected” or “determined” to have only sympathies to our Nazi and Japanese enemies at the time.
Clark said “back then we didn’t say ‘that was freedom of speech’, we just put him in a camp.” The government unilaterally put entire families in camps during that time. After all, it was a time of war.
It seems that these days, more and more authorities–both leftists and conservatists–are advocating these kinds of absolute government Fascist behaviors. Fema Camps around the country are gearing up. The government claims they are for temporarily housing hurricane and other national disaster refugees. But if you happen to drive by one on your summer vacation, you’ll swear they were at least a medium, if not maximum, security prison camp?
As a person conditioned by a life of tradecraft and training to rarely submit to flawed emotional content in manifestations of fear or nervousness, thinking about this latest move by the government is starting to pop small beads of sweat off my forehead, even though the ambient temperature is quite cool around me at the moment.
Political historians out there are familiar with the urban legends of the notion of ”October Surprises” which are extreme political moves which supposedly occur just before the November elections, and may have tipping point influence in the outcome. The reality nobody wants to admit is that these ”October Surprises” do happen. They are historically referenced and proven.
But this year it seems like there’s an extra ingredient being added to a big potential “October Surprise” happening that gets tossed into the deadly soup almost every month with this regime. Which starts to smack of leading up to the dreaded evil progeny of such manifest political driving forces…and an alarming ‘Red Flag’ is waving in the distance, and represents a sinister portentous direction of bad unconstitutional winds blowing over the land… the False Flag event. Likely a big one.
With the POTUS campaigns starting to resemble the plot from the movie ‘Gangs of New York’, and monster money support being tossed around the Republican landscape like online grocery store coupons, and growing suspicion and distrust of Hillary appearing to denigrate the entire Democratic party status in the American collective consciousness to likely swing it toward the right even if she gets the nom-nod, the hard core leftist power elite will not go ‘quietly into forced retirement’.
Anything, and everything, is possible. And the only assurance for ’We, the People’, is that we will be further oppressed. Prepare yourselves!
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