One of the great myths of vegans is that if it is plant-based it must be healthy. This is an anti-meat ideology, gone mad. Thus, sugar is plant-based but causes numerous health problems and diseases, even tooth decay, and diabetes. Here are extracts from a great email that I just got from:
Ex-British SAS soldier, Bear Grylls has produced survivalist TV programs watched by over 1.2 billion viewers in over 200 countries. The TV shows include Man vs Wild, Mission Survive and The Island. I have seen all of the Man vs Wild shows, which made great TV, very entertaining, although many things are done for spectacle, and are not sensible for survival. Thus, drinking his own urine is dangerous due to the high salt content and possible toxins, as is the toxicity of some of the dead offal meat he ate, and food may not be so urgent in a survival situation, and plant food may be safer. As well, he explored caves, and did dangerous climbs that one should not attempt, since the risk of injury would be high.
Thus, when I picked up his survival books, Born Survivor (Transworld, 2007), and How to Stay Alive (Bantam, 2017), I expected the worst, but was pleasantly surprised. None of the urine-drinking nonsense I could see, but sound material. Thus Born Survivor, has 250 coloured pages of two column print, dealing with all the basics one needs to know in bugging out into the wild, such as the psychological aspects of survival, how to start a fire without matches using sticks rubbed together, navigation, types of knots, securing wild food, getting water (various methods, including purification, usually by boiling), improvising shelters, and the various types of shelters that can be made, and special survival considerations in different types of environments from the severe cold, to tropical forests, to deserts.
Back in 2013, when what was then the Alt Right were depressed about Obama, little realising that in 2021, there would really be something to be depressed about, like the beginning of the end of Western civilisation, “Captain Capitalism,” Alt Right libertarian economist Aaron Clarey published Enjoy the Decline: Accepting and Living with the Death of the United States. The thesis was that democracy has decided that Obama socialists will destroy America. And since one had to accept democracy, for some unexplained reason, one therefore had to adjust. Much of the book examined the economics of American collapse, which is even more relevant now. Then the rest of it dealt with what individuals should do in a collapsing society. He did not explore political resistance, but kept things on the individual level, what is needed so that one does not support the evil system, but can still scratch out survival, with a minimalist lifestyle. The book was urban based, and essentially suggested that survivors should become parasites too, perhaps to bring the system down quickly, rather than deplorable working to feed existing parasites.
Clarey recognised that this would produce collapse, and strangely for a libertarian, he devoted a concise chapter to this scenario, chapter 8, “Plunder.” This is about scavenging for goodies in the post-apocalyptic wastelands that he sees America becoming. The survival basics are covered in a respectable summary, but he directs our attention to internet sites, since he is not an expert.
I have read samurai, Miyamoto Musashi’s A Book of Five Rings (1645) many times over my life. It is one of the profound books that one can keep coming back to. The five rings, relates to the Way of strategy, not only for combat in a physical sense, but in life and politics, which is why this book, along with Sun Tze, The Art of War, are studied in commerce schools and business management, I suppose to get the young cubs interested in the history of business warfare, and the animal spirits of capitalism, flowing.
The five ways are each covered in a “book” which for us is a chapter: Ground, Water, Fire, Tradition/Wind and Void. Musashi’s own approach to sword fighting, and he went around Japan fighting duals to the death, is the Ichi Ryu Ni To School: One School-Two Swords. He is dead against fighting using only one sword, which is a symbol I suppose of not using one’s full potential. The Ground book gives the essence of his philosophy, which is about knowing the weakness of an enemy, timing, when to attack, and how to neutralise them: “If you master the principles of sword-fencing, when you freely beat one man, you beat any man in the world.” The sword is a metaphor for that which is of ultimate value, including life itself, a symbol of the spiritual essence of the warrior, not merely a piece of steel.
Thanks for all the cards and letters from my adoring readers, who have sympathised with my plight over the last few months regarding my destroyed knee/leg/quadriceps muscle, surgically repaired, but as stiff as a corpse in the Arctic. I am getting physio from the local uni, who have supervised students who experiment on you. It is cheap, and you get what you pay for as the saying goes. I have a young Chinese girl who is most unfriendly, and I think that she would prefer for me to die than turn up each week. I have to do exercises with a thin yellow rubber thingy, leg extensions of three sets of 10, as my homework. Apart from that there are exercises and stretches for my calf muscles, which are fine; yesterday, I did 5,000 calf raises on the front steps (100 in a set), just to see what I am made of. Really, the focus should be on my quads, and hamstrings, but she has a “holistic” view that takes in the whole leg, but only one leg. But, the rest of the body must be neglected. Just focus on your leg, nothing else. Yes, too bad if I die of cardiovascular disease in the meantime, ending up, as the corpse with the strongest quad in the morgue!
I had this book sitting on my bookshelf, under heaps of junk since my martial arts days, done when at the high school I was at, there were karate lessons for staff, taught by a few staff member fanatics. He decided, rightly so, that I needed to do more stretching, Being stiff as an iced up board, and he is still right. So, I stretched down and dug out this book, the bible of stretching. Bob Anderson, Stretching, (Shelter Publications, 1980). At the time that book had sold over 400,000 copies, and that was over 40 years ago. Here is the latest edition from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Stretching-30th-Anniversary-Bob-Anderson/dp/0936070463
The Texas nationalist movement is rolling along like a herd of long horn beef, perhaps to the theme song from Rawhide. It looks like the proposal to separate Texas is going to go to a referendum, and as far as I can see, the Texas governor will not be using the system that stole the 2020 election, so we may see the first authentic vote in the US for some time. Yes, the South will rise again, as the corrupt USSA sinks into the sludge of the toxic swamp. A great video to bring Aussies up to date, is linked below, from Dr Steve Turley. And, if Texas does not secede, then the Democrats will destroy them by voter fraud, so there is no way going back, this, or communist Chinese tyranny.
Many here have written about the existential threat to civilisation, and now Putin has expressed concerns about the same issue. Here are the words of Vlad the Great:
A great article explaining in common sense terms, why there is no Covid-19 pandemic, unless the lockdowns themselves are the real pandemic.
Well, surprise, surprise. The World Health Organization, which for much of the Covid-19 situation seemed to be little more than a small department of the CCP, has now changed their test criteria in an alleged attempt to reduce false positives. But, why so late in the day, when the 2020 US election was stolen by postal and electronic voting because of this manufactured crisis?
I note with interest that there was shock and horror about Trump building a wall to protect America’s border, which for the Left must always be penetrated but when it comes to the nest where the parasites live, why that must be walled up. What a joke it is.
Here is the latest thing to be slammed as “racist,” gardening. What I hope is that when the collapse comes, these academics have to be faced with scratching out an existence, but it will not be gardening, which will be too technical for them, and racist. Maybe searching for rusty tins of baked beans in the ruins would suit them.
Way back on April 23, 1992, I believed that there was hope, a chance to prevent the collapse of Western civilisation. At the same time, Joe Biden, not senile then, wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal, “How I Learnt to Love the New World Order.” Yep, right out there, in your face, even then. And American normies voted for this monster, even give electoral frauds. Words fail me.
Not only is Beijing Biden moving to make all Trump supporters domestic terrorists, so that the regime can deal with them, but he is doing his all for mother China. Like letting them have control over the power grid, or at least taking away the Trump roadblock stopping this. Now that makes sense, to let a clearly defined enemy have control over the nerve centre of society!!! Would China let anyone do this to them?
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-01-28-biden-hands-control-power-grid-communist-china.html
Mike Adams runs a line that the elites are on a program of global extermination, to depopulate the Earth. That could be just the soft form associated with environmentalism, that the human numbers are too great and need to come down, by various means, ranging from contraception to genocide. Or it could be the total Satanic nihilist thesis that the Earth needs to be sterilised of all life. On this position, even the elites croak, in an orgy of total annihilation.
It started off with Confederate heroes, and now it is open season on any Whites of the past, even ones who fought against slavery, however crazy. It was all for nothing, given the present level of degeneracy and decline. It is now a battle for survival.
www.zerohedge.com/political/san-francisco-votes-strip-george-washington-abraham-lincoln-school-names
While small businesses have been crushed by the CCP virus, Covid-1984, big business has been booming. It seems these monsters always do well on human misery. It makes me apocalyptical, wishing for a 1,000 km killer asteroid to strike the earth, and just to be sure, have it made of strange matter:
https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/strange-matter.htm
Naturally we are going to see their boy act to protect their interests, and let hem get away with it, being the new masters of the universe.
Slimy Trump looks like slithering out of impeachment 2.0, which was really a foul up, as the Demon-crats should have moved faster before he morphed back to being a private 1 percenter. Still, there are always criminal proceedings, and now Beijing Biden is going to add puppet judges to SCOTUS, the Demons will be able to do anything. Why, even writers in Australia could be convicted of USA crimes!
Trump is talking of running in 2024, but that is an illusion. If he could not win now, voter fraud will be totally mainstream by then. Demon-crats will get say, 20 billion votes or more. And, why not, for what would anyone do about it? Really, this whole voting sham should be dropped and the
USSA needs to move to total communist mode. Maybe then normies might see that something is wrong, but only if the beer and TV run out.
I have just read three heavy papers in scientific philosophy by Professor Raymond Tallis
- “What Consciousness is Not,” The New Atlantis, Fall, 2011, pp. 66-91;
- “What Neuroscience Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves,” The New Atlantis, Fall, 2010, pp. 1-25;
- “How Can I Possibly Be Free?” The New Atlantis, Summer, 2010, pp. 28-47.
The papers are available on the net, and readable for non-specialist who have time to put in on a Saturday night rather than decaying in front of the TV. The issues related to debates, at the time, but as far as I know, still ongoing, attempting to account for the nature of mind, human mind, in the universe. In particular, philosophers have heartburn attempting to explain how mental experience fits into the universe. From a scientific materialist perspective, we could be zombies, having the neural activity we do now, but no consciousness, This leads hard-core eliminative materialists to reject the existence of consciousness itself. But, this merely begs the question, since by the same “logic,” we could argue the other way and reject the existence of material objects, in favour of only perceptions as Bishop Berkeley apparently did.
