Two outstanding books, now getting a bit old, but still relevant are Fernando Ferfal Aguire, Survive the Economic Collapse (2009), and Piero San Giorgio, Survive the Economic Collapse (2013). Ferfal’s book is based on his first-hand experience of the 2001 economic collapse in Argentina. The take-home lesson from this gritty text is how people do turn to violence when resources are scarce. He describes first hand attacks, including one on his wife, and friends getting shot. Gangs systematically loot, while cops, corrupt at the best of times, do nothing, in typical anarcho-tyranny style. At that time, he predicted that the United States would go down the South American road, and the events of 2020 proved him right. He has a YouTube show with Matt Bracken each week for two hours where they discuss the descent of the West, primarily America, into chaos.

I have two tents to my name out here in the Victorian scrub; one to sleep in and one for my stuff. I don’t have much, being pretty much into minimalism by necessity. Thus, while I like to read at the end of the day, as the light fades, I don’t keep my books, but pass them on to my “apprentice.” At the moment I am working through a pile of survival/disaster books which I got from a second-hand bookshop, so I will give a series of reports in the posts to follow, and then out hey go, to a good home.

First up, in no particular order, is Sam Sheridan, The Disaster Diaries, (Penguin, 2014). This is a chronicle of one man’s attempt to prepare for some unnamed apocalypse. Sheridan travels America learning from the masters of survival all of the skills, such as use of guns and knives, survival medicine, wilderness survival, acquiring food from hunting and much more. It is the whole survivalist program. And, opening each chapter is a non-fiction story of the author and his wife and kid, facing various apocalyptic situations, some unrealistic, like zombies and alien invasion, but some deadly realistic, such as facing a gang who intend to eat him and his family, and he has only a machete, probably a smaller one, and a kitchen knife for defence.

I do not understand why there could not be centres where one simply got the Covid disease, then went into isolation for say six years, or whatever. Doesn’t immunisation theory support herd immunity anymore?

Here is an update on how the rule of law and democracy has ended in America. It will not be regained in 2024, as the tyranny of the Left will now be eternal, like in all other banana republics. This is an extraordinary event that the Right has not even digested yet, but here are some pre-digested comments:

https://www.infowars.com/posts/tucker-carlson-democrats-preparing-to-enshrine-fraud-into-law-so-they-stay-in-power-forever/

With the establishment proclaiming the goodness, if not sainthood of the Covid vaccine, it is a bit hard to understand why pregnant women should be left out of the fun and games.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/w-h-o-warns-pregnant-women-not-to-take-moderna-covid-19-vaccine/

The failure of Trump to take a last stand has led to the unfolding of the destruction of the once, United States of America, before our eyes. We will see Beijing Biden bury the country perhaps even before he is buried and Queen Karma Harris grabs the throne. But for now, after throwing his supporters under the Leftist tanks, the great purges begin, Soviet style:

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/01/the-show-trials-and-purges-are-just-getting-started?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_2021_01_30_jihad_watch_daily_digest&utm_term=2021-01-30

We do not call this guy Beijing Biden for nothing; China has the poor old bloke, who should be in a nursing home, on a leash. That’s elder abuse.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17012/china-push-biden

These books may be at the bookshops still, or maybe the libraries, or available by inter-library loan; Extreme Survivors (2013), foreword by Bear Grylls, and Les Stroud, Will to Live (Harper, 2011). Both books are collections of stories of people who faced survival situations, which pushed human endurance and ingenuity to the limits and how they succeeded or failed. Both books cover much of the same ground, with people lost in tropical rainforest, or deserts, or high on mountain tops, or at sea on rafts after ship wrecks. Extreme Survivors has a great mix with stories beyond the usual survivalist literature, such as the escape form Devil’s Island and Alcatraz, and war time escapes. There are amazing stories such as that of  German POW Cornelius Rost, who in 1945 escaped from a Siberian gulag, to spend three years on the run, trekking across the  frozen wastelands of Russia over 13,000 km, to eventually get back to Germany.

The common element in all these stories is that there is some quietly, true grit, an ingredient X, that keeps people going, refusing to give up. The inner spark could be belief in God, of simply a desire to see their family again, something that keeps them keeping on. Whether we all have this quality is essentially unknown until tested. It really does not depend upon how physically strong one is, while that helps, but is an inner spiritual strength that is drawn upon. Like the case of lone climber Aron Ralston, who was trapped by a falling rock, and had to cut off his own arm with a blunt pocket knife! This one made even me a little shaky. But the lad did it and survived, God bless him!

Poverty has been rising, an indication of economic decline, and impending collapse, if the trend continues. Under Beijing Biden, this will accelerate, first with all his Covid fetish bs, and second, with his subservience to his master, China. People will curse Trump for not fighting this to the end. Oh, I am joking, they will just wither and die, unless secession occurs. The least Trump the chump could have done was to support the breakup of America, but golfing burger eaters do not go here.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/last-six-months-saw-sharpest-rise-in-us-poverty-in-half-century/

Professor Lewis Dartnell believes that even after a collapse, civilisation can be rebuilt from scratch, detailed in his book: The Knowledge (Bodley Head, 2014). He is not concerned with the run-of-the-mill economic collapse, but things nastier, like all-out nuclear war, a killer asteroid hit, or a virus that really was deadly, rather than merely constructed to economically destroy the West. He thinks that the scenario of a fast die off of the majority of the population will create a grace period, where the handful of survivors can make use of the left-over resources to rebuild civilisation, and he details how. Basically, the survivors need to have an understanding of fundamental science, such as the atomic theory of matter and the germ theory of disease.

I found the discussion of kick-starting agriculture, food and clothing, medicine, materials, transport and advanced chemistry fascinating. It is all based on preserving the scientific method, that the world is material rather than spiritual, and is governed by empirically ascertainable causes. I think this is where the book fails to get off the ground.

Many internet sites are reaching the conclusion that one of the key problems a defence of Western survival faces is the decline of traditional manhood. We are well aware that feminism has been like an acid for manhood, eroding away now for decades. Then, there is the gender agenda, and all the various deconstructions of masculinity and heterosexuality done by academics, a poison that flows down into society, such as through schools, leading to a crisis of boys, who hardly can study and achieve, when the dark hearts of feminist teachers are against them. I have heard this first hand. Then there are the destructive effects upon testosterone by oestrogenic chemicals, a product of our wondrous consumer affluent society.

This I how the Left operates, when an opportunity comes, or is constructed, milk it. Radical communist Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Hispanic face of contemporary grievance politics, claimed that she was in the Capitol building during the alleged riots on January 6, 2021. She said everyone, even Blacks were white supremacists, and they were coming to kill her. And, she is, she alleges, a victim of sexual assault, so presumably the white supremacists were going to sexually assault her, first.

But, there is now clear evidence that she was not in the Capitol building at the time. So, she lied. That should not be surprising since these critters steal elections right in the faces of the normies, then spit on them, laughing.  So, the deplorables  either do something about this system, or live as slaves, before being demographically replaced in a couple of days.

It was only a matter of time before good old Greta would find herself in the midst of an international controversy, interfering in Indian politics.

Now things are really gutting serious when there is a threat to the booze supply, as such.

Throughout December 2020, I reported on mathematicians attacking the 2020 election results. I am a bit world weary of this now, but for what it is worth:

“Zero emissions” requires no diesel, petrol or gas-fuelled cars, trucks, tractors or dozers and no burning of coal or gas for electricity generation. But without nuclear power or a massive increase in hydro-electricity, green energy will not support metal refining or manufacturing, and domestic electricity usage will be rationed. “Zero emissions” will also force closure of most cement plants, mechanised farms and feed lots and will demand nuclear or wind-powered submarines, destroyers and bulk carriers.

All we hard from the distance of Australia is that Russia put Trump in 2016. Even when this was shown to be false, the Left and Democrats kept up the big lie. Now, when there is evidence that their hero, commo China interfered in the 2020 election, we hear nothing.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/china-sought-to-influence-2020-us-election-says-director-of-national-intelligence/

Biden has said that he does not know what he is signing, while wearing his mask. That raises the idea of getting rid of the superfluous man and just keeping the mask, which will also not know what it is signing.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/hot-mic-biden-says-i-dont-know-what-im-signing-signs-executive-order-anyway/

Nothing new happening here in Europe beyond the usual knife massacres, the same old stuff. We are looking at America, and seeing the future, as now the decay is faster there than here. Freedom has gone. Witness all of this, the story of Laura Loomer. She writes of her plight:

Nothing surprises me anymore, with BLM being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. So much the worse for the Nobel peace Prize. Say, didn’t they give that one to Obama, just for being black, actually mixed race?