The world continues to spiral into insanity. The latest revolves around the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. This will be short – politicians cannot win battles nor wars. The military has been handcuffed for decades. We have the most powerful fighting force in the world and if allowed to do their job to the maximum capability – the conflict in Afghanistan would have been over long ago and a somewhat democratic existence Afghans would be experiencing now. Very sad.
The Biden administration has shown their complete incompetence. Well…….
“You know the deal!”
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Approaching the SHTF We All Prepare For: I’ve recently had discussions with several people revolving around SHTF predictions. For the past few decades people – including me – have predicted numerous calamities. We’ve all been wrong. Far too often frustration over world events or situations generates an emotional response and dire predictions are made. Nowadays I truly try to look through the smoke, use facts and data – and use commonsense when considering the future. I’ll likely still bat .000.
Right now as I tabulate all the information and calculate these complex algorithms using a fresh box of Crayola crayons – it just doesn’t look good. What’s that term – “borrowed time”? That begs the questions – “How much time?” & “What is coming?”
What do you think? For me – just keep prepping and working towards goal completion every day. Many would consider the times we are living in at a minimum the beginning of the SHTF.
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Membership Area Update: Numerous new uploads in movies, TV shows, books, etc have been uploaded as well as a couple of new articles. I’ve uploaded my first video in the membership area and more will be published soon. The “American Exit Strategy” section is has been brought up to date. For those who are not aware, this section documents our efforts towards debt reduction, becoming more self-reliant, and eventually moving out into the woods. We also discuss camper living as we live full time in a camper.
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Supply Chains: I continue to see empty shelves where certain supply categories are just wiped out. The reasoning behind these shortages is fairly complex and multifaceted. Labor shortages are a significant obstacle in manufacturing facilities across the country. Importation of raw materials and components is also an issue as countries have had and continue to have shutdowns. While overall the “shortages” are more like interruptions – any additional lockdowns could make things much worse.
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Over the coming weeks, I’ll be reporting some “Blasts From the Past” articles that many may have missed. There are a lot of people new to prepping and this website so bringing some older posts back makes sense. Appreciate all that share with friends, family, and like-minded folks.
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We are in late August with Fall just around the corner. Here in South Carolina, the heat has been intense and it certainly does not feel like Fall is fast approaching. As far back as I can remember between September and November was always a time to prepare for the coming Winter. Likely this is due to growing up as a kid in the frigid north. Regardless – that feeling is beginning to stir within.
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Have a good week all.
Rourke
The fall of Afghanistan as tragic as it is will bode well for the 2022 elections. I think the elephant in the room now is the potentially deadly “vaccines”. It’s very ominous that the corrupt FDA just gave Pfizer approval today. That will make it easier for tyrannical governments to hold you down and stab you.
Ok sooo,, fill up the press with many catastrophes, and divide. They’ve done that. now hop back and forth between them and keep everyone off balance. They do that well too. (2020 denied school shootings, so they needed some thing else – No I am not kidding.)
On Afghanistan:
Warriors – fight and kill and destroy.
Policemen = pacify and enforce.
Social = workers win hearts and minds.
Those are three distinctly different training and execution missions.
If you ask one to do any of the others jobs, let alone all three you stand ill prepared, under equipped and underfunded. More importantly they are unsafe with expectations that cannot be met. Succeeding in one or two of the three missions is still failure overall.
Any upper management (REMF’s) that allow that to occur are not qualified to lead. Any government that demands that expectation, should not be in office, because it is dangerous. If they get so basic an issue so wrong, that is not all they are getting wrong.
Send the warriors and let them do war until capitulation is achieved.
Then send in the peacekeepers to maintain stasis, and if it cannot be achieved, send in the warriors again.
Peacekeepers may never be absent, and you add social workers to help teach. Teaching is a multigenerational task.. that is 20 – 30 years.
If you can’t stand the time then don’t go in the first place, or you get Viet Nam, Kabul, and many more. We have learned nothing because we refuse to listen to history. That is true domestically as well.
GG58
It appears the taliban refuse to give the idiot in the White House beyond Aug. 31st to evacuate more people, I imagine this includes the 6000 troops there trying to get those people out. I stopped at my Congresswoman’s local office and they spent this weekend trying to get 2100 out and are still working on it. Question, will they destroy the equipment at the airport before the leave it did joe promise that to the taliban to?
goinggray58,
We did understand that with Germany and Japan, where we still have bases after 76 years I might add. Lesson forgotten are destined to be relearned, but I think what we are seeing is exactly what the elite want to happen. They believe disorder must occur before order, or I dare say the “New World Order”.
And all the while, while we’re focused on Afghanistan, the Dems are pushing those Constitution destroying bills through, SCOTUS shot down the reinstatement of Trump’s “Remain in Mexico.” I’m wondering what next?
Capt. Turbo, I was listening to a conservative radio host this morning. He was talking about insider trading. Specifically, the approval by the FDA of Pfizer’s China virus vaccine. He explained that Nancy Pelosi’s husband bought a big block of stock in Pfize a couple of days ago…just before the announcement.
The Pelosi family has been involved in insider trading constantly for years. If we did what they do routinely we would be sent to Prison. I feel guilty for holding a significant amount of PFE shares. But to the point of your post, PFE finally exploded upward after years of being a boring dividend hold. Clearly, the Pelosi purchase of PFE was seriously on insider knowledge. You nailed it!
After we get the troops and Afghan citizens out we should do a shock and awe and destroy all the equipment we left there and all of the Taliban’s.
I hope and pray that any of you in the Tenn area flooding are ok. Heavy rain from Henri here and possible flooding in the valleys and Catskills tomorrow. Arlene
I did see a news blip today about the fake pResident ordering and air strike to blow up equipment left behind. Great. We will expend expensive munitions to blow up expensive equipment. Why didn’t we bring it all home? I notice the Taliban already has a bunch of good stuff.
I have started doing some “lightweight” prepping. I have a strong feeling that we will seeing a calamity happening. I am not sure that is the correct word but it suffices for now. Climate all over the world is having changes. Shelves are half empty at the big stores. Grocery prices are rising at a steady pace.
All these events are perhaps foretelling what may be coming down the road. Just my thoughts at this moment in time.
Jan – I believe the word “calamity” aptly describes current events and the trend that is developing. Welcome and appreciate your sharing.