This is Why a Collapse Will Happen

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People are too soft these days. With energy getting more expensive, infrastructure getting older and a population of hundreds of millions leading lives of comfort undreamed of form centuries the inevitable decline in service is sending the weak into a panic. CNN is hysterically reporting an increase in blackouts as part of a push to build the so-called “Smartgrid” because if we don’t, people will have to face summer without air conditioning. You know, like almost all of us did growing up?

Experts on the nation’s electricity system point to a frighteningly steep increase in non-disaster-related outages affecting at least 50,000 consumers.

During the past two decades, such blackouts have increased 124 percent — up from 41 blackouts between 1991 and 1995, to 92 between 2001 and 2005, according to research at the University of Minnesota.

In the most recently analyzed data available, utilities reported 36 such outages in 2006 alone.

“It’s hard to imagine how anyone could believe that — in the United States — we should learn to cope with blackouts,” said University of Minnesota Professor Massoud Amin, a leading expert on the U.S. electricity grid.

Yes professor, it’s hard to believe that America doesn’t crap out free electricity to everyone who demands it using fairy dust powered generators. The good professor goes on to insist we spend billions (we don’t have) on a “smart grid” system which won’t work. The smart grid scam is known to be nothing more than an attempt by the government, in collusion with utility companies, to begin rationing of energy based on political dictates. The smart grid system will “save” electricity by increasing rolling brownouts, which themselves have claimed lives when instituted, like this recent case in Philadelphia:

PHILADELPHIA – Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers is defending his department’s response to a fatal fire that killed a 12 year old autistic boy.

Neighbors say the closest fire station, Engine 57, was closed when the fire erupted Saturday night because of the city’s “rolling brownouts.” Fire department records indicate firefighters arrived on the scene three minutes after receiving the call. But there are reports the first responder to arrive was actually a battalion chief in an SUV. A fire truck from Engine 68 didn’t arrive until several minutes later. That station is just over a mile away from where the fire was burning on South 55th Street.

The closest station was closed due to planned brownouts.

But that’s not really the point. I don’t think you have a “right” to electricity, and I don’t think we can do anything about coming energy shortages. The problem with all of this is that sans electricity much of our population has no idea how to survive. Think about that for a moment.

Most people in 21st century America cannot survive with what is basically a convenience.

When rolling brownouts make it impossible to store meat long term what will people do? When a blackout hits NYC and lasts a week what happens? I was in NYC for the 2003 blackout and crime actually decreased, because today’s criminals are afraid of the dark. But once they get acclimated what will happen.

We shouldn’t need electricity to survive, but many of us do. The majority of Americans can’t live without refrigeration, cars (which will stop running when there’s no power to pump gas) a direct life line to police and a host of other things, including air conditioning. When I grew up Air Conditioners were something only the rich had, now Americans think they will die without them.

America will collapse because we lack the strength to keep it going. Our weakness has set into motion events which we have no hope of preventing, and no ability to live through. This is why you need to prepare now, for the collapse that’s coming because one day very soon millions of Americans are going to wake up and panic when their comfortable lifestyles have vanished forever.

Al-Qaeda Warning Muslims to Leave America in Preparation for Ramadan Attacks?

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Grain of salt alert. World Net Daily is know to be a, shall we say, overly credulous outfit and many of the links they use in this article are old and broken (like a Link to Canadian Free Press from 2006) or quotes from authors who sell their books through WND. But even a gullible clock is right twice a day so I think this is something to keep in mind:

The new al-Qaida field commander in Afghanistan is calling for Muslims to leave the U.S. – particularly Washington and New York – in anticipation of a major terror attack to rival Sept. 11, according to an interview by a Pakistani journalist.

Abu Dawood told Hamid Mir, a reporter who has covered al-Qaida and met with Osama bin Laden, the attack is being coordinated by Adnan el-Shukrijumah and suggests it may involve some form of weapon of mass destruction smuggled across the Mexican border.

“Our brothers are ready to attack inside America. We will breach their security again,” he is quoted as saying. “There is no timeframe for our attack inside America; we can do it any time.”

As WND has previously reported, el-Shukrijumah is a trained nuclear technician and accomplished pilot who has been singled out by bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri to serve as the field commander for the next terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

The terrorist was last seen in Mexico, where, on Nov. 1, 2004, he allegedly hijacked a Piper PA Pawnee cropduster from Ejido Queretaro near Mexicali to transport a nuclear weapon and nuclear equipment into the U.S., according to Paul Williams, a former FBI consultant and author of “The Dunces of Doomsday.”

“He is an American and a friend of Muhammad Atta, who led 9/11 attacks five years ago,” said Dawood. “We call him ‘Jaffer al Tayyar’ (Jafer the Pilot); he is very brave and intelligent. (President) Bush is aware that brother Adnan has smuggled deadly materials inside America from the Mexican border. Bush is silent about him, because he doesn’t want to panic his people. Sheikh Osama bin Laden has completed his cycle of warnings. You know, he is man of his words, he is not a politician; he always does what he says. If he said it many times that Americans will see new attacks, they will definitely see new attacks. He is a real mujahid. Americans will not win this war, which they have started against Muslims. Americans are the biggest supporters of the biggest terrorist in the world, which is Israel.”

Dawood said he was currently conducting operations in Afghanistan under the leadership of the Taliban. He warned of a series of upcoming suicide bombings there directed against government and coalition forces during Ramadan.

He is also quoted as saying the next attack in America will not be conducted by people like Atta.

“We have a different plan for the next attack,” he told Mir. “You will see. Americans will hardly find out any Muslim names, after the next attack. Most of our brothers are living in Western countries, with Jewish and Christian names, with passports of Western countries. This time, someone with the name of Mohamed Atta will not attack inside America, it would be some David, Richard or Peter.”

He said there will be another audio message from bin Laden aired within the next two weeks.

Coincidentally, it’s being reported that Muslims in Connecticut are asking for police protection for Ramadan after an incident when some evangelicals went all “Jesus is Lord” on them outside their Mosque. By their own admission the protesters didn’t threaten them and left after about an hour so why do they need protection?

Maybe they know that come Ramadan there’s going to be a reason for angry people to be outside mosques?

Dave Canterbury’s Introduction to Wilderness Trapping

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This series of videos is a couple of years old, from before Dave Canterbury was a television star when he was still posting videos to his Pathfinder School YouTube channel. As I’ve said before, if you are harvesting meat in the wild hunting will not work for most people, running a small trapline is the best way to go. The Trapper’s Bible by Dale Martin is the best reference book out there for survival trapping.

These videos however, will walk you through the basics of survival trapping so you know what to expect. There doesn’t seem to be a part four but each section stands alone, so no worries. Continue reading →

One Million Dead Fish in Boliva as New Ice Age Begins

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Our world will die Not by Fire but by Ice. From BolivaBella.com:

Over 1 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles, dolphins and other river wildlife are floating dead in numerous Bolivian rivers in the three eastern/southern departments of Santa Cruz, Beni and Tarija. The extreme cold front that hit Bolivia in mid-July caused water temperatures to dip below the minimum temperatures river life can tolerate. As a consequence, rivers, lakes, lagoons and fisheries are brimming with decomposing fish and other creatures.

Unprecedented: Nothing like this has ever been seen in this magnitude in Bolivia. Inhabitants of riverside communities report the smell is nauseating and can be detected as far as a kilometer away from river banks. River communities, whose livelihoods depend on fishing, fear they’ll run out of food and will have nothing to sell. Authorities are concerned there will be a shortage of fish in markets and are more concerned by possible threats to public health, especially in communities that also use river water for bathing and drinking, but also fear contaminated or decaying fish may end up in market stalls. They’ve begun a campaign to ensure market vendors and the public know how to tell the difference between fresh and unhealthy fish.

In university fish ponds and commercial fisheries the losses are also catastrophic.

Here’s a video embedded, it’s in Spanish but hang in there until about :39, the pictures speak for themselves:

In the Gylfaginning and the Voluspa we learn of the northern European vision of the end of the world. Ragnarok is preceded by the “mighty winter” which lasts three years and in which the world is not spared the ravishes of cold by the summer. As people here talk about record breaking heat in the Western Hemisphere the cold is still killing people and more importantly destroying vital food supplies world wide, truly giving the world no respite.

That same time period will be a time of wars, depravity and the breaking of long standing taboos. It is plain to see that the long winter has come.

h/t Drudge

Multiple Injuries in D.C. Metro Mini-Riot

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Lawlessness spreading like wildfire as people sense a collapse nearing? Maybe, maybe not but can you afford to not prepare for that possibility?

At least four people were injured and three arrested late Friday night after a brawl in the Metro system involving as many as 70 people, a Metro spokeswoman said.

The brawl apparently began about 11 p.m. at the Gallery Place station and then continued in the L’Enfant Plaza station, according to Metro spokeswoman Cathy Asato.

Transit police were called to Gallery Place in Northwest Washington where a disorderly group was reported, she said. Then police were sent to the L’Enfant Plaza station two stops away in Southwest, where a fight was reported on the platform for Green and Yellow Line trains.

She said two persons under 18 were arrested along with one adult. Of the injured, she said two were juveniles and two were adults. One of the adults was reported early Saturday to be in serious condition. At one point, a spokesman for the D.C. fire and emergency services department said as many as seven people were being examined for possible injury.

It was not immediately known what prompted the fighting.

I’m betting nothing in particular caused the riot, just a population of young people used to living in an area where people aren’t allowed to defend themselves and class and race animosity are stirred up by politicians. What will you do when this happens near you?