SILENCE OF THE RATS

I have tried my best to get the post about Insulin up on this blog, to no avail. So far it has even stumped Pale Rider. But we go on, doing our best to survive, and we will survive. Life can be boring under these circumstances. When you are a heavy duty prepper you become irrelevant to society until the collapse comes. There ain't a whole lot to do except expand on your preps. Pale Rider opened his yap and confessed that he wanted to get chicken coops. I jumped on that like nobody's business. I can probably get the lumber for free and I already have the ground to put the buildings on. and yes, that is the plural form of building. I want a coop full of egg producers and another coop full of meat producers. Hens in one building and roosters in another. The laying hens will get the biggest chicken yard. I want those little darlings to graze as much as they wish and eat all the bugs they can find. That sure does make for some nutritious eggs. Some eggs you can sit down and eat and enjoy! Eggs as good or better than what we get from the Amish.



Looking at the news I think about what they are not talking about. What they are not talking about is the next big crisis. Well, at least the lovers of society will call it a crisis. To a prepper who is tired of the games and rip-offs and shenanigans of the Powers That Be the collapse might turn out to be a welcome diversion from all the lies and theft we have become used to experiencing. And I know there is an element of folks who would think it strange that we would cease to tolerate business as usual, but the bastards take our money as well as what the willing sheeple will contribute. And what they don't steal they use to placate the unemployed to keep them from taking up arms against them. Sickening.




The preppers I talk to are expecting a food shortage to come along this year but I am the one who thinks it is coming soon, not later. Maybe that is what the SILENCE OF THE RATS is about. We are going to be short on our vegetables and they don't want us to know about it. The fed-ag boys are pushing GMO foods and nobody wants them. They can slip them to the sheeple but the more people find out the worse field position Monsanto gets in. The man is Toledo said he took his wife and family out to eat Saturday and the fairly nice restaurant they went to was 80% empty. Maybe this is why Sam's Club is laying off close to 12,000 employees. Damn near 200 people per store. No one is much interested in spending their hard wrought money on dining out these days. The price of meat and vegetables is going up and the incomes of the diners is going down. You do the math. The next wall we hit is the devaluation of the dollar and the foreign market we have depended on will vanish because the money ain't any good. Make friends with your rural preppers. Join with them and lend a hand and get yourself someone in the growing business to be on YOUR side. Learn to shoot fairly well while you are at it. You just never can tell who might want to share your home grown food while you are asleep at night. Charity is a wonderful thing and can make you some friends, but theft is a hated crime, especially to the people who might just be getting by and cannot afford to have their food source raided.



I keep getting reports of short stacking in the food stores. Shelves are made to look full but a close examination shows them to be scant. Since I have not heard of any move afoot to reduce eating as we are of a habit of doing, I can only say this is evidence of shortages and you are not supposed to find out about them. But you know some nasty blogger will find out and tell on the bastards. I volunteer for the mission myself! And there are a lot of fellow preppers who will conspire to get out the news right along with me. Hundreds of them! I am not alone. Now if I can just get one of you readers to tell me how I can "copy and paste" with this home version of XP, I will be most appreciative. This is truly a frustrating affair. I would settle for "cut and paste" if I could get it!

I gotta go now and watch the horizontal snow outside. Looks like we are in for more global warming. Damn you Al Gore. And you preppers out there, stay alive!

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

MONDAY'S BLOGPOST

I have a post to follow this with advice from Mike Kemp on using out of date insulin. It is possible and he does it with regularity. I want to tell you that Remus of the world renown Woodpile Report has put out an elist alert that says that Karl Denninger has the goods on Bernanke crashing the stock market. I could not copy and paste it so you have to go to Market Ticker or Zero Hedge to read the article. It is pretty interesting.

I had plenty of interesting comments upon my return to the blogosphere. Some are just good people who are welcoming me back to the land of the paranoid. But there are some real economic horror stories being acted out in the daily lives of our fellow citizens. God has to show us mercy or we are burnt toast.

My new computer will not copy and paste Mike Kemp's article on Insulin. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. I am getting very unsettled with computers these days. I am thinking that they are more hoax than anything else. The treachery of the manufacturers is simply amazing. But we go on, doing the best we can and hoping for a vigorous and truthful outcome.

This is all I have at the moment. It's way past my bedtime and I am getting tired and cross and probably needing to go to bed. Take care and thank you for the great comments you have been sending in to me. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

I RETURN

Hi everybody! It's me, the long lost blogger, back once again to talk about the impending collapse of the global economy and what we might do about it. I think my old computer died on the 12th of this month and it is now the 24th so I have been gone a bit. I was given a very nice computer by Pale Rider and it seems to be working well. He even brought it to my door, carried it up the stairs and placed it on my desk. You can't beat that kind of service. No way, no how. And the guy is as big as I am! Helluva man! And he lives here in the Hoosier State. Just about an hour and a half drive away. Can't hardly ask for a better deal than that.

After getting the computer hooked up and running properly we sat down for a nice 6 hour talk. The man demonstrated to me that he is playing with a full stringer of fish, mentally, and is a solid survivor. His preps are up to snuff and he is headed out of town if he can find some dirt to buy at a price he can afford. If God wants him out of town he will make a way and show him a location. Hell, he might even end up right here with me. Never can tell.

I am still waiting for the collapse. Obama is too, near as I can tell. We are getting along pretty well but it looks like the system out in the world is having a bit of trouble. The wife of a local businessman told me this week that her accountant said the recession is half over. And that may be true, to the extent that recession will end as we slide into global depression. I am having trouble getting Pete Smith's blog to come up on my screen. I am wondering if I am typing the address properly. Pete, you better send me your blog address so I can get my Smith fix in the morning.

I have a post for tomorrow already written by Mike Kemp. It is on how to keep and use insulin that may say it is out dated. Mr. Kemp uses such stuff with ease.

Glad to be back with you all! Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

MARTIAL LAW, ETC.

This is the second time I have to type this post. Got the first one done and the machine dropped it completely. Fun. All that work down the drain.

But I talked with my friend over in northern Ohio who has noticed big box stores with thin supplies on the shelves. Then he told me about Andrea in the southern part of Ohio who has seen the same thing. Is there a message that is trying to get through to us through our thick prepper skulls? Just may be. My friend is www.theurbanprepper.blogspot.com. I talk with him occasionally and we seem to get along. Andrea blogs too but I can't remember which blog it is and she will be remembered mostly for her comments. She is pretty sharp in the comment area.

George Ure at www.urbansurvival.com has said there is word on the street that a major player in the financial end of things is going under. The big boys will first have to decide who gets what off of the skeleton when this dinosaur drops over dead. The big boys are kinda like Vultures in that respect. When one of their own bites the bullet it means Party Time for the remaining gangs. Time to divide up the loot!

The real talk of the day is the deafening silence from our media as to what is about to transpire in this country of ours. What the hell is going on? When will Obama declare Martial Law? Who will tell us the real score in the game?

The Urban Prepper has a real good post in his archives about the effects of Marital Law on the populace in this country. How in the hell will you get people NOW to understand that Martial Law will shut down the constitution? How will you get them to realize that every protection we deem sacred and holy will be gone? How do you get people to understand that in Martial Law the law is what you are told it is and not what is written on some piece of paper enshrined in the National Archive Building in Washington, D.C.? Who says you can't be killed for no reason other than some pig thought you needed a damn good killing? Who says your wife or daughter can't be raped with impunity? Who says your vehicle and your fuel can't be taken from you? Who says your food is not going to be confiscated by the government to do as they damn well please with it? I'll tell you who it is. IT IS YOU, PAL. And if you can't back up those feelings then you had better get out of this country and do it pronto. The Socialist scumbags are making a play that is unprecedented in the history of the modern world and using the criminal actions of bankers and brokers and lawyers to justify their every move. If you fall for it then you get what you deserve. If you resist then you had better be prepared to fight like hell! They will be throwing every bullet they can find at us and we will have to give them back in like kind.

There are some blogs out here that are doing their damnedest to show you what is going on. The Woodpile Report is a prime example. Remus Marasylvia is one smart Cookie and don't ever think he ain't. Read his latest Woodpile Report if you want to see what is going on. You can pick up on his act at www.woodpilereport.com . Mayberry over at www.mayberry-keepitsimplestupid.blogspot.com will give you an eyeful any old time. Dragon will get you some good info if you can get him to post! Big John is flexing his muscles these days and starting to make a little music for the preppers to dance to. He is at www.bigjohnlipscomb.blogspot.com .

Learn from these people. I did not put them up on this post to waste your time. They can be very beneficial to your survival. Stay alive.

Michael

FOOLS AND FOOD

I have been reading this morning about the 2030 report commissioned by Gordon Brown's government over in England. It seems someone in the government over there in Blighty land became concerned about the food supply. They sort of wanted to know what was on hand and what was in the pipeline. (Showing some real progress) You and I would call this an inventory of our preps but the British government has to call it something else you know. They call it their 2030 report. Whatever.

The article was supposed to be about the novel THE ROAD but the 2030 report came out and they decided to run it with THE ROAD. Sorta confusing but their inventory was pretty clear. They do not have enough of anything. They do not have enough meat, vegetables, grains, or dairy products. Well, uh, just keep a stiff upper lip old sods and you'll stagger through. Maybe you can eat the White Cliffs of Dover? The Haitians ate mud their last period of starvation. The article did mention that Italy was producing 110% of it's fruit needs and if I were England I would go make a deal for fruit with Italy. You betcha!

But one thing you can be your ass on is that in a collapse Britain is going to feel it and feel it bad . They don't have the capacity to feed themselves. They will be hung out to dry. With a collapse they will not have the grain to even brew their beer. They will be doing the tighten up. They will be going hungry. And they reach January of 2010 before they publish this data.

This is a fools paradise. They have gone decades and have never taken a look at this. And they see it this year and are now reading about it? Wanna buy some cheap English speaking slaves? There should be plenty of them on the market. All of the guys into Islam should be on the market at a cheap price. And after a collapse there will be no one to protect them in all of England. Actually, they will probably never make it to market because they will be killed. Things get so simplistic when people are starving. But they are going to have to rid themselves of a lot of people in order to make it. There will not be enough food to go around. Too many hungry mouths to feed. Money will not be that big a deal. It is calories that will count.

Maybe Britain and Scotland and Ireland can make it together. They would have a better chance if they could. But we have the best chance of all. We have the most fertile ground with the least people on it. There will be people trying to get on it but they can be molded any way we want them to be. We have plenty of water to go with the land. We have the smarts to deal with it if we have to. Our biggest problem is in Washington, D.C. But most problems are political. Get the politicians out of the way and we are home free. Stay alive.

Michael

TOTAL TREASON

Dear readers,

I wrote to you this morning about the seriousness of preparing. Now I ask you to go to www.thecomingdepression.blogspot.com and read about the handing over of this country to the Red Chinese. We need another witness to this crime, but things are not looking too good right now. If this story is true we have a major problem on our hands. Lock and load!!!

Michael

SERIOUS BUSINESS

My thoughts this morning are on the seriousness of preparing. I wonder how many people understand the reality of the whole thing. We don't use the term die-off much these days but it can damn well happen. I don't think people understand that things can go away in a matter of three days or less. We have discussed the matter of trucks not being on the road and what it means to us as dwellers of this fair land. No fuel. No food. No replacement for what we buy today. It can get pretty bad in a hurry. And more than likely it is going to happen. I am alright if it does. Are you? Do you have many months of food stored away? Do you have an inexhaustible supply of water? How about an alternative heat source if the grid goes down? Got things for your kids to do to escape boredom? I don't have any kids but I could have some pretty quick if the SHTF. But what we really need to think about is what will we do if any of these things are not taken care of now while we have a chance to get things in order. AND THIS IS SERIOUS, FOLKS. We have about 700 pounds of canned goods for each of us three adults plus two garbage cans of dried beans and rice and some corn and some oats. I grew most of the beans myself. I just don't have any Butter Beans other than store bought and that is a bitch. I love Butter Beans. The uneducated call them Lima Beans. As long as the system is working you can get them in stores in the late Summer and early Fall. Keep an eye out. The crop was delicious last year, which is one reason I am getting low. I eat the damn things and don't replace them! Ignorant beast that I am! What will a man do with no Butter Beans?

And grumbling about the lack of Butter Beans is all bullshit and I am sure you folks know it. What I am grumbling about is the lack of replacing my preps as I use them. Because the day is coming when these stashes of food can save our lives. I have my food in three different places and I am very glad of that. Do you have your food split into different stashes? Can one calamity wipe your food supply out and leave you helpless? Remember, your life may depend on your cunning to multi-stash your food. And the coming days are sure to bring us calamities. Things we cannot imagine happening will happen. Do your have guns and ammo to protect yourself and your loved ones and friends and your food? There are people out there who plan on eating YOUR food if times get tough. Nasty people, to be sure, but they are here with us and we have to learn to deal with them. They think we are stupid for working and stocking up and being ready because they plan on taking everything they need. But that will not work at my house! If you come to steal from us be good enough to bring your own body bag because we don't furnish them. We will let the Possums and the Coons fight over your flesh if we have to dispatch your ass to the great beyond.

You must face reality and recognize the problems we face. I am not saying that we need to run in circles and scream and shout but we need to have some sort of a grasp of what can befall us if this system fails. And it will fail. It will collapse. And you know, you won't be ready when the day comes. There will be something you have forgotten or didn't take care of and it will be lost for the time being. But do not let it be for your main essentials.

I cannot stress too much the importance of getting your preps in order and fullness of supply. You are going to make it or lose it according to how well you prep. And you have to believe this. We are not playing a game. We are serious as a heart attack. We are betting our lives that we can eat when food ain't available in the marketplace. And that is the crux of the matter. We don't believe there will be food available and there is no big organization getting stocked up so we are doing it ourselves. Do you know about the staggering loss of Asia's Rice crop this year? Do you know about the loss of our vegetables out in Californicate? Do you know that other countries that would normally ship food to us will be holding back to feed their own people?

I was reading Ferfal this morning and he had put up a post from someone in the states who had a woman knock on his door crying that she had been raped. To make a long story short, the woman was part of a gang who made their living from taking down gullible people who might try to help the "raped" woman. The guy never let her in and when she found out he was on 911 she got the hell out of there. What are we going to do when the ruse is no longer tried but rather things go to strong arm tactics or gunplay immediately. Like I am trying to get through people's heads this morning. survivalism is serious business. So do not be fooled. It is going to be grim and you had better get used to that idea right now. Stay alive.

Michael