Politics

[WAB]

Or enter the 21st century and have a truly meaningful supply of freeze dried meals.

I’m trying to picture freeze dried food with a fine bottle of wine, of which I have many years supply…

 

[John Wasmuth]

I want someone to tell me again how we don’t have a multi tiered judicial system that favors the leftist communist crooks….

 

[Hunt anything]

We try to can quite a bit of mullet and tuna every year, might start Corning a lot of red meat and then canning it as well!

Or enter the 21st century and have a truly meaningful supply of freeze dried meals.

 

[Hunt anything]

I’m trying to picture freeze dried food with a fine bottle of wine, of which I have many years supply…

Unfortunately fine wine is one thing we have trouble keeping around the house.

 

[CoElkHunter]

We try to can quite a bit of mullet and tuna every year, might start Corning a lot of red meat and then canning it as well!

Spam? LOL

 

[Hunt anything]

Spam? LOL

I only use SPAM when constipated! It works wonders

 

[Brent in Az]

I only use SPAM when constipated! It works wonders

Taco Bell works pretty good also.

 

[Brent in Az]

Yes, having the meds one needs is critical. My wife has a couple RXs that she needs and typically has only a 30 day supply. I don't know the answer to that conundrum?

I have to do blood work once a year, and then my Doc will renew my prescription for another 12 months. I typically buy it all at once if the Pharm has enough in stock.

 

[John Wasmuth]

RIP to the Marines that were killed in the CH-53 crash. Semper Fi!

 

[CoElkHunter]

RIP to the Marines that were killed in the CH-53 crash. Semper Fi!

+1.

 

[USN]

RIP Marines. Prayers for all involved.

 

[Scott CWO]

Learn how to pressure can protein. Your freezer won’t help you!

Going to buy an EMP protector for house, generator, barn and two vehicles. But yes, we know about canning meat and vegetables.

 

[steve white]

I'm not going to comment on an EMP, because either DoD is doing its job, or it is not. And I spent enough time in the DoD to know the most likely scenario there.

Of course, I'll also mention that I will find it somewhat ironic that my Land Rover will end up with the "most reliable" award, because it does not have a circuit board. But I digress.

But I'm commenting here to tell of a campfire game we once played... it was the opposite of the early adopter game. That is to say: How far back in time could you comfortably live, if you had to live without the technology?

Typewriters instead of word processors were good... and we all knew how to write in cursive, so we had that going for us.

Gore-tex is great. Can you still wax canvas?

The first guy fell out when he realized he knew how to deal with fuel injection, but could not adjust a carburetor. Another realized he did not know how to adjust points, or measure dwell.

The conversation went on. Take away the cars... can you ride a horse?

Several of us were woodworkers... but only two could prepare a board with hand planes, not using a jointer or a planer.

The conversation went on... Several adult beverages were enjoyed. It was a good self check: we say we are self-reliant, but are we?

And we have to add to all that FOOD PRESERVATION! Can anyone "can" vegetables in mason jars? My mom and sister could. How about make the sausage, or pemican, or smoke or dry meats, or salt a ham? All the Foxfire books would get taken out and reread, for sure. Wood heat? You betcha, but better buy or weld up your own in advance as a welder might not run, don't know.
Communities should have hardened electrical pumps for the water system, and at least one emergency vehicle so equipped, IMO. Old Dearborn heaters with the correct orifice could use propane.
It goes on and on. Thing is, my uncle Tim has never quit living by wood heat, etc., etc. He wouldn't even miss a beat. He has huge water catchment to grow his garden, well water, pond water, creek water, nearby lake, good neighbors and lots of firepower. His son is a Moorhead mechanical genius. I'm definitely going to his place!

 

[CoElkHunter]

Taco Bell works pretty good also.

Taco Bell won't have electricity, so you're back to Spam and Tabasco. LOL

 

[steve white]

I have subscriptions to several writers on Substacke, Matt Taibbi among them. This came out yesterday.

This one isn't (shouldn't be) paywalled: https://www.racket.news/p/financial...tle&isFreemail=true&r=1b256w&utm_medium=email

A few weeks ago, Ohio congressman and Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan’s office released a letter to Noah Bishoff, the former director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, an arm of the Treasury Department. Jordan’s team was asking Bishoff for answers about why FinCEN had “distributed slides, prepared by a financial institution,” detailing how other private companies might use MCC transaction codes to “detect customers whose transactions may reflect ‘potential active shooters.’” The slide suggested the “financial company” was sorting for terms like “Trump” and “MAGA,” and watching for purchases of small arms and sporting goods, or purchases in places like pawn shops or Cabela’s, to identify financial threats.

Jordan’s letter to Bishoff went on:


During the Twitter Files, we searched for snapshots of the company’s denylist algorithms, i.e. whatever rules the platform was using to deamplify or remove users. We knew they had them, because they were alluded to often in documents (a report on the denylist is_Russian, which included Jill Stein and Julian Assange, was one example). However, we never found anything like the snapshot Jordan’s team just published:
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The highlighted portion shows how algorithmic analysis works in financial surveillance. First compile a list of naughty behaviors, in the form of MCC codes for guns, sporting goods, and pawn shops. Then, create rules: $2,500 worth of transactions in the forbidden codes, or a number showing that more than 50% of the customer’s transactions are the wrong kind, might trigger a response. The Committee wasn’t able to specify what the responses were in this instance, but from previous experience covering anti-money-laundering (AML) techniques at banks like HSBC, a good guess would be generation of something like Suspcious Activity Reports, which can lead to a customer being debanked.

If Facebook, Twitter, and Google have already shown a tendency toward wide-scale monitoring of speech and the use of subtle levers to apply pressure on attitudes, financial companies can use records of transactions to penetrate individual behaviors far more deeply. Especially if enhanced by AI, a financial history can give almost any institution an immediate, unpleasantly accurate outline of anyone’s life, habits, and secrets. Worse, they can couple that picture with a powerful disciplinary lever, in the form of the threat of closed accounts or reduced access to payment services or credit. Jordan’s slide is a picture of the birth of the political credit score.

There’s more coming on this, and other articles forthcoming (readers who’ve noticed it’s been quiet around here will soon find out why). While the world falls to pieces over Tucker, Putin, and Ukraine, don’t overlook this horror movie. If banks and the Treasury are playing the same domestic spy game that Twitter and Facebook have been playing with the FBI, tales like the frozen finances of protesting Canadian truckers won’t be novelties for long. As is the case with speech, where huge populations have learned to internalize censorship rules almost overnight, we may soon have to learn the hard way that even though some behaviors aren’t illegal, they can still be punished with great effectiveness, in a Terminator-like world where computers won’t miss anything that moves.

What a crazy time we live in! See you from the Nevada caucus, and watch this space for other news soon.

And I heard today that FARMERS are to be debanked if they are not woke enough,...scary, and intolerable.

 

[steve white]

If you can't wake up happy about where you live, loving your neighborhood, and trusting your Sheriff and DA, you gotta move. Once everyone figures out this same truth, you won't be able to move because you'll have unsalable real estate and you won't be able to afford the better location property. You'll be a victim. Wind/Solar backups, water purifiers, canned goods, short wave radios, diesel drums...that's all prepping level 401 classwork that is irrelevant if you're unable to pass prepping 101: live in a place that is decent and will stay decent with 100% certainty.

When we talk about contingency planning for society, nobody is good enough to be a prepper for the 1/1000th of 1% scenarios. On the other hand, most people that should know better have no plan for the 80% likelihood scenarios that could manifest in the next ten years.

I know people that spent tens of thousands on guns and ammo to "prep" but they lived on a nice block in MN where the George Floyd protesters took over their playground and they had to move out for a period of time. You think about food, water, and arms when you have a defensible position. No purpose nor plan for spending that kind of money when you have to flee and leave it all behind instantly when mild civil unrest comes knocking.

EMP pulse mitigation is prepping level 601 coursework. So far outside of the realm of preparedness its hardly worth mentioning.

And better buy it all with untraceable cash!

 

[steve white]

Yeah, I've got a generator that will run the whole house, even the A/C, but what happens when the propane runs out? I've got a 1000 gallon tank but that won't last more than a year, at best. Would definitely have to use a lot of wood in the fireplace to supplement and save propane for longer than a year. I'm going to look for a pickup without a circuit board. I used to have a 1972 GMC 4x4 pickup but sold it back in the mid 1990s. It was all fixed up and restored. Stupid that I sold it. Always have lots of meat in the freezer and can always go hunt right out my door. I don't have a garden, however. Makes you wonder. Biden is already turning us into a 3rd world country with all the illegals. Theft and crime is going through the roof. Car thefts are crazy right now. Most illegals come here with nothing and we Americans are soft targets.

You don't know what car theft/jacking is until you have the only operable vehicle after an EMP...

 

[CoElkHunter]

And we have to add to all that FOOD PRESERVATION! Can anyone "can" vegetables in mason jars? My mom and sister could. How about make the sausage, or pemican, or smoke or dry meats, or salt a ham? All the Foxfire books would get taken out and reread, for sure. Wood heat? You betcha, but better buy or weld up your own in advance as a welder might not run, don't know.
Communities should have hardened electrical pumps for the water system, and at least one emergency vehicle so equipped, IMO. Old Dearborn heaters with the correct orifice could use propane.
It goes on and on. Thing is, my uncle Tim has never quit living by wood heat, etc., etc. He wouldn't even miss a beat. He has huge water catchment to grow his garden, well water, pond water, creek water, nearby lake, good neighbors and lots of firepower. His son is a Moorhead mechanical genius. I'm definitely going to his place!

Vegetables with natural acid like tomatoes and peppers can be put into mason jars with only vinegar and don't have to be "canned" by the traditional method. We've done that before. But it's a moot point. How long is that going to last you unless you have a barn full? If one lives where there are very cold winters, you can heat your living area with a wood stove but unless you can get heat to the water piping in the basement/crawl space your pipes will freeze. Your Uncle seems very resourceful and lives where he can tap the resources around him that he needs to survive, but for the other 99.9% of us that isn't an option.

 

[CoElkHunter]

You don't know what car theft/jacking is until you have the only operable vehicle after an EMP...

And the only operating generator. LOL

 

[Brent in Az]

Taco Bell won't have electricity, so you're back to Spam and Tabasco. LOL

I looked it up on the internet, and SPAM has a shelf life of approx 3 years.
3 years of yummy fried SPAM.....LOL.