The Australian Self-Sufficiency Handbook, (Viking, 1992), edited by Keith and Irene Smith and Allan Gray, is getting old enough now to start to have yellowing pages, just like me. My copy was given to me, and my ex-wife, by her parents. The inside cover reads: “Merry Christmas John and Sue. What’s more “self-sufficient” than your very own copy?” I think the meaning here is that I was always borrowing their copy, so they got me one. But, soon after that the magic of divorce, the loss of my business, and I began the path of self-discovery that I am now on.

I have been reviewing largely American self-reliance and survivalist books, which mostly presuppose some sort of disaster scenario. But, most Australian books in the back to the land and alternative living scene, are more concerned with getting out of the rat race and getting some good old-fashioned country living back in lungs that have been inundated with city pollution, both physio-chemical, and spiritual.

The insane Us political regime are back to the narrative established by Hillary Clinton, of Russia the enemy that must be fought, presumably so both the US and Russia destroy each other leading their master communist China to rule the universe. Too bad if the world becomes a radioactive waste dump. They deserve it, and more.

Well, this was certainly a short-term victory for the reptiles.

We tend to define communism in economic terms, but while this is valid, there is a moral and racial dimension as well, being concerned with attacking freedoms and destroying the White race. Today, the Left is best characterised by its advocation of the Great Replacement and every anti-white ideology under the sun.

Yes, we are well into 2021, and the Covid freak-out continues. Scobozo has issued a zombie apocalypse warning as such of dark disease storm clouds coming our way. Oh, and an international study has shown that lockdowns have no clear benefit, so guess what this was all about? Well, at least Covid got rid of Trump, and pesky things like democracy,  delivering China’s Beijing Biden to pull the US and West  down. What is there not to like?

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/coronavirus-australia-prime-minister-scott-morrison-issues-chilling-warning-for-the-coming-year/news-story/3534a25fb5976d2ef4c4c60a31ccf09f?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=PaidSocial&utm_campaign=NCAMarketing&utm_content=Feb21

Yes, people have died after getting the Covid-19 vaccine, but is dying a good reason for apprehension, compared to the dreaded effects of getting the disease, that may or may not kill you?! Makes as much sense as anything else today in Covid-world, the reality of the new World Order virus.

This is an interesting post by Dr Mercola, arguing that the Covid-19 vaccine is strictly speaking not a vaccine but gene therapy. That would technically make people being vaccinated into genetically modified organism, if he is right. What do the Greenies have to say about his, or are they too busy banning plastic lunch spoons? Anyway, I am not qualified in genetics to comment on the article, but it is worthy of further study, so hence the disclaimer that this is not medical advice but for informatic purposes only.

Only thirty tyrants? Surely, the whole system is now tyrannical, suffocating. The elites abandoned democracy during the Obama era and are now full-on communist, with the typical riches all flowing to them.

I have been following Lance Welton’ take on the madness of the Left. Here is more:

Here are some stories about what the police are doing here re Covid-totalitarianism. Then, consider their lack of interest in the child grooming rapes, still a disgrace The answer is that both of these events aid in the Great Reset, and Great Replacement. Populations must be broken, and have been.

Of course, the Covid-1984 vaccine is reliable. It is are only defence against eternal lockdown. People are rejoicing after receiving it. Like this guy, who simply can’t get enough of the sacred needles, and rest assured, he will be back for more:

The mainstream media continues their useful lies that the antifa protests, no matter what damage, are peaceful, even attempts to burn down an entire city. But Trump protesters only need to sneeze to be swatted as racists. Why Trump supporters can be executed in cold blood by Deep State agents, and just bleeding to death is an act of racism.   It’s because they take it, and are not fighting to break up America, as good conservatives … just keeping on believing the illusions, and keep on being mushrooms, living in the dark and being fed on poo poo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6O9mxBddXU&feature=push-fr&attr_tag=SLggtpf-Jc9FmwVl%3A6

Country Wisdom and Know-How (2004), by the editors of Storey Books, is a large format book, with three columns of fine print. A little hard for an oldie like me to read, but I use a magnifying glass to get by. This book, while geared to North America, does have everything one needs to know to get to first base in living off the land, in Australia, too. The areas covered include, animals, cooking, crafts, gardening, health and wellbeing, and home maintenance. While that is the general type of categories used in such books, there are a multitude of things covered not mentioned in some of the competing books. As I flip through the book there are instructions on how to make baskets from natural materials, to collect the eggs, say, how to keep bees, and birds, too, keeping a dog and making a dog house, slaughtering all types of animals from rabbits to cows, and ways of preserving the meat, not using electricity, and thousands of other useful ideas, things you would just not think off.

The Encyclopedia of Country Living (2012), by Carla Emery, is one of those classic books, that one should get to have a copy and pass on, because nobody today is going to put in the body and soul effort to write such a book again. The book is the female mind’s complement to  John Seymour The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency, (2009),  and it begun its life at roughly the same time, going through numerous versions. It started as a series of sheets at the beginning of the US back to the land movement, and grew over the decades from there. Emery put her life into the book, and by the time of her death the book consisted of a large format three columns of 922 pages in print a bit hard for old timers like me to read, but I use a magnifying glass. The back story and life is fascinating including her marriage, and sad divorce, it is all in there. It is the story of a life of an extraordinary, ordinary lady.

We are presented with a comprehensive guide to all aspects of food production on a self-reliant farm. But there is much more in this towering narrative. There are fascinating discussions of giving birth by oneself, caring for the dead, making quilts and candlesticks and thousands of other things that women used to know about, but in the age of so-called liberation, do not.

This is one book everyone should have in hard copy, because the illustrations are works of art in themselves: John Seymour, The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency, (2009). The text of the book was first written in the 1970s going through various permutations until its present form. There is a foreword to the 1976 edition by the Small is Beautiful author, E. F. Schumacher, putting the book in that context as an alternative to the industrial way of living and its unsustainability. Seymour in the main body of the text says the same. Self-sufficiency is about turning away from that dying world. It requires a small holding for the transition to be complete, but as he details, a lot can be done with just a few acres. But even in urban areas, a backyard can be rid of largely useless lawn, and transformed into an edible landscape, using what he depicted as traditional growing practices, but which can be supplemented with permaculture today.

Covered in this book are chapters on growing food, considering all aspects such as natural weed control, keeping animals especially convenient packages of meat such as meat-line chickens and rabbits, kitchen science and skills, including basking and brewing beer and other drinks, sustainable energy, crafts and skills including those that are being loss such as blacksmithing. As an example, Seymour suggests using a scythe over mechanical cutters, being exercise in use, no fumes to breathe in and efficient. That may seem surprising, but today there are European contests on YouTube, where the guy with the scythe cuts faster than the guy with the hand-held whipper snipper. These things also seem to endlessly break down and get clogged up. As well, on hillsides, especially with lots of rocks in the grass, the mechanical cutters can be dangerous. The scythe’s blade could be damaged too, but the trusty low-tech machete comes to the rescue, not that I ever used one, but my father did all the time.

John Steele is apparently going through yet another book crisis, and reviewing his limited supply of books before passing them on to the next generation of paranoids. That is most excellent. To compliment that worthy task, some reviews of books that I have been meaning to do, but the issue of the collapse of Western civilisation, and emerging Covid1984-totalitarianism just got in the way, but I am sure that you understand.

There are numerous, cheap Kindle books which deal with wilderness and collapse survival, largely re-writing the US Army’s FM 21-76 Survival Manual. These cheap knock-offs are not worth purchasing. However, in recent years there have been many good survival books published by ex-SAS and military dudes, who talk the talk and have walked the walk. Here are some for your interest, those of us nervous enough to entertain the possibility of social collapse, or at least widespread chaos.

Notes of Eric D. Butler's paper at the Fourth Social Credit Seminar: "The New Times," vol.24. no.21. November 8, 1958. In spite of the fact that it can be easily demonstrated that it is possible for a small and decreasing number of people in a modern industrial society to produce all the physical requirements for the whole community, and that the most important potential of the semi-automatic production system is increasing leisure time for all, any suggestion of a policy which would enable the individual to obtain a financial income, however small for a start, without first being compelled to engage in economic activities, or in filling in forms of some description in the growing Government bureaucracies, meets with widespread opposition.

Both Communist and non-Communist Governments are in complete agreement on a policy of "Full Employment" as the only means through which the individual is entitled to life. And as every policy must derive from a philosophy, it is clear, as a number of outstanding Western thinkers have pointed out that although the West is referred to as the free world, it is progressively retreating from freedom. Lip service is still paid to freedom in the Western world, but in fact the individual is being increasingly subjected to centralised direction of all aspects of his life. Many express concern at the effects of this centralised direction but at the same time endorse the policy of "Full Employment" which makes these effects inevitable.

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