Nothing but the Dead & Dying in my Little Alaska Community
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Published on The Doomstead Diner September 15, 2019
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Regular readers of the Diner Forum are well aware of my most recent Jet Setting, Fossil Fuel Burning trip down to the Lower 48 to witness and Christen the SUN Monument on it's Eternal Resting Place in Springfield, MO, where I will join it buried beneath when I have my Final Meeting with the Grim Reaper and buy my Ticket to the Great Beyond. To date, I have been able to battle him off on all the occasions he has knocked on my front door, but win he will in the bye & bye. Nobody keeps the Reaper at bay forever, and I weaken still more with each of these battles. My time left walking the Earth as a corporeal Meat Package grows shorter all the time.
As per the usual on these trips, I shot a good deal of video and fully intended this week to publish one of them on the Placement of the Monument, which took a full 2 years to finally come […] Continue Reading…
C5 Vs Hurricane Dorian
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Published on the Doomstead Diner on September 11, 2019
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C5 Vs Hurricane Dorian (Updated)
Posted on September 7, 2019 by Dark Green Mountain Survival Research Centre
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To Be or not To Be. That is the Question…..No, Seriously.
I asked myself that question, one stormy evening, tangled in some roots with my head stuck under water. While considering just relaxing and breathing in the water, I said to myself, “This is exactly how my second X-wife expected me to die. There is no way in hell I am going to give her that satisfaction”.
That was the added incentive to push harder, one last time… then I was sucked down the river…..
OK. There might have been alcohol involved.
Dorian is about to hit us dead on… but only as a Category 1.(edit. Just upgraded to Category 2 and they have pulled linesmen off the roads) I thought I would put up a quick post before the internet kicks out.
I only had to do ONE storm prep after strapping everything down. I went out and got beer. In the line up, I said, […] Continue Reading…
C5’s Shipping Container Home… of Dooooom
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Published on the Doomstead Diner on September 6, 2019
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C5’s Shipping Container Home… of Dooooom
Posted on September 2, 2019 by Dark Green Mountain Survival Research Centre
With your (I think I am officially burnt out) Host, Category5.
We are just being hit by a tropical cyclone, here in Nova Scotia, so this is a good time to crash and burn and return to the keyboard for a couple of days. Everything is as battened down as merits. I’ll run out to the container when it really gets downpoury to look for leaks in the mud room, eves troughs and windows. The container, itself, will have no problems
It’s still not done but I think we can officially unveil this years experiment, here at the Dark Green Mountain Survival RESEARCH Centre. What an expensive, exhausting and wild ride it has been. The dizzying highs. The depressing lows. The creamy middles.
Yes, I dropped off the earth for a while. I wrote and then erased a few articles, that though correct, I decided were not helpfull. I stopped communicating with friends, relatives, allies and other blog sites.(Dont worry. I’m […] Continue Reading…
Rock of Ages 2: Travelogue
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Published on The Doomstead Diner September 1, 2019
The Fun of Flying
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Regular readers of the Diner Forum know I am currently out of state from the Last Great Frontier of Alaska on another one of my Cripple Cart Jet-Setting Adventures related to the SUN☼ Monument, which by no coincidence is also my Tombstone. I'll be writing a full article and producing a video just about that aspect of this trip after I get home, but for today I'll just fill in the readers and viewers with other aspects of this trip I am trying to accomplish.
It's also no coincidence where the Final Resting Place for the rest of Eternity is for the SUN☼ Monument, it's dead center of Flyover Country in the FSoA, Springfield, MO. This because it's where my few remaining family members live, and it's where my mom died and was buried. So I bought a plot there for myself after my accident, figuring it wasn't going to be long before I was pushing up daisies myself.
SUN☼ represents everything I have stood […] Continue Reading…
This Week In Doom Sept. 1, 2019: Rat Bastards
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Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on September 1, 2019
“This country was born on violence. Violence is as American as cherry pie." –H. Rap Brown
I awoke this morning to see what news had broken and found this:
10 injured in shooting after high school football game in Alabama
At least 10 teenagers were injured when a shooting broke out after a high school football game in Mobile, Alabama, on Friday night, authorities said. Nine of the victims suffered gunshot wounds.
Well, it's Alabama, and it's FOOTBAW, so thus perhaps reason enough. But I'm old enough to remember going to high school football games without fearing for my life.
"Why are the young people bringing this type of violence to public events?" Mobile Police Chief Lawrence Battiste asked in a news conference Friday. "They're bringing their beefs that they have with each other in their neighborhoods and they're putting other people in harm's way."
Let's not forget the exortations by Trump to do that very thing.
GOP front-runner Donald Trump encouraged a […] Continue Reading…
Etiology of a Doomer: Jason Heppenstall of 22 Billion Energy Slaves
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 18, 2019
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(audio-only MP3 provided in case you want to multi-task and listen while sitting in traffic on the way to work in your cubicle or digging post holes for your fencing on the Doomstead or kneeling by the throne and Praying to the Porcelain God. mp3 Audio can be downloaded from Diner Soundcloud.)
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Recent discussions with Jason Heppenstall of 22 Billion Energy Slaves have mainly centered around Geopolitics, specifically the Brexit issue that has kept the UK in thrall for over 3 years now, culminating at the moment with the rise to power of Boris "BoJo" Johnson as Prime Minister and the threat of a "No Deal" exit from the European Union. That supposed "deadline" falls on Halloween, October 31st, slightly over 2 months away. One has to suspect of course that they will find a way once again to kick the can down the collapse higway rather than deal with the inevitable blowback and mayhem such a move will cause. […] Continue Reading…
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This Week in Doom August 26, 2019: The Lyin’ King
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Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on August 25, 2019
“The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Madness occasionally asserts itself on the world stage.
"The Madness of King George" is a stage and film production about Britain's George III, known through history as "the mad king who lost America." George III was king of Great Britain during some of the nation’s most challenging and tumultuous years, including those of the American Revolution. By accounts he was a dutiful, steady monarch who guided Britain through the French revolution and later Napoleon's rise and fall. In 1788, illness brought on his mental breakdown, but he briefly recovered for a time. His later escalating bouts of insanity led Parliament to pass a Regency Act, […] Continue Reading…
Waiting For Eggs
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on August 22, 2019
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She sipped coffee, her voice made little ripples in her cup
' How long are we going to wait here
He looked up from his phone
' Don't worry, it is just going to be a bit longer today. The kitchen is short-staffed
' Why's that, how do you know?
' The Guatemalans did not show up for work today and they only have one Mexican
' Oh, that's right. Trump's immigration raids are today. But how do you know they only have one Mexican?
' All the others Mexicans have cleaning services and do yardwork now. Being here a while they know what pays. More lucrative I imagine and ICE does not work nights so much. People are going to leave a floor waxer alone. Guatemalans are still in the kitchen. They are more recent in getting here
' Why did Trump tell everyone about what he was going to do. Has that happened before?
' Separating children in families of refugees has a really long history. The Romans did it to the Visigoths when the Visigoths were […] Continue Reading…
This Week in Doom August 18, 2019
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Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on August 18, 2019
“We're facing mass starvation in the next 10 years, social collapse and the possible extinction of the human race. It couldn't be worse. So that situation has come about over 30 years of failure– failure by the elites, failure by the governments, and failure by campaigners….The public Is now aware that the elites are taking them to their death!”
–Roger Hallam
Long before there was a Doomstead Diner, long before 9-11, there was Milton William Cooper. Cooper was the greatest conspiracist of this generation and a man you may not have heard of. His book Behold A Pale Horse was an […] Continue Reading…
Systems Science in Collapse: An interview with George Mobus
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 18, 2019
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A few weeks ago I had a great conversation with George Mobus, the university academic famous for his work in Systems Science. George is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, spending his time writing still more books on this subject and the topics relating to Collapse in general. He also still maintains the blog Question Everything, although these days he only puts out 4 blogs a year, on the Summer & Winter Solstices and on the Spring & Fall Equinoxes.
George also appeared on the original Collapse Cafe we produced a few years ago, discussing topics of Sapience, Evolution and Eugenics in July of 2013.
Coincidently directly […] Continue Reading…
Responding to Collapse, Part 10: the future of the power grid
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Published on The Easiest Person to Fool on July 17, 2019
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In this series of posts I've been advising my readers that moving to a small town remote from large population centres, in an area that can supply the basic necessities of water, food and firewood, is a prudent way of coping with the ongoing collapse of BAU (Business as Usual). With the caveat that some advance preparation will be needed to ensure successful use of those resources.
In the next few posts in this series, we'll look at some of the details of how BAU will collapse and how you can prepare to weather that collapse. In the immediate future infrastructure breakdowns will get more frequent and longer until finally it's no longer practical to rely on BAU for the necessities of life. It seems to me that supplies of electrical power, diesel fuel and money will be at the heart of many of the troubles that lie ahead, so I'll concentrate on those areas.
And while I'll mainly be talking about infrastructure breakdowns we should remember that interruptions of service can […] Continue Reading…
Living at the Edge of Poverty
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 11, 2019
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Did you ever wonder what it's like to live at the Edge of Poverty in modern Amerika? What IS the "Edge of Poverty"?
It's the spot the Working Poor are in, the folks who make MinWage or barely above it and the folks living on fixed income Mailbox Money of Social Security. They haven't quite completely fallen off the economic cliff, they're not Homeless People (yet!), but they are generally 1 or 2 paychecks away from that. They live in the kind of housing I live in, federally subsidized tax credit apartment complexes that developers put up to get some tax breaks. The rents on these places are fixed to your income and number of dependents, and they come in around 30% lower in my neighborhood than the open market housing. To qualify for it, you have to do a full disclosure every year of how much money you make, what your assets are, blah blah blah.
I qualify for such housing because I live on the edge […] Continue Reading…
A Bugout Machine Gets a New Home
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 4, 2019
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Longtime Diner readers know my enthusiasm for "Bugout Machines" which come in many different configurations and varieties. They can be as simple as your Car or Bicycle, but can also get pretty big and complex like RVs and Sailboats. All though have one thing in common: Their purpose is to help you GTFO of Dodge when Collapse knocks on your doorstep in your neighborhood.
Like all other plans to handle the ongoing Collapse of Industrial Civilization, all Bugout Machines and all Bugout Plans have their deficiencies, many of them quite easily identifiable. All of these deficiencies though tend to work on different timelines than a total Collapse does. The idea here is to have a good Near Term Survival Tool that can help you negotiate your way through the early stages of a Collapse.
Depending on your situation and budget, your Bugout Machine can go anyhwhere from a Used Bike & Trailer combo up to a Big Ass RV or Sailboat if you are […] Continue Reading…
Second open letter to Extinction Rebellion
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on August 1, 2019
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Dear Rupert Read and Extinction Rebels,
Irrespective of any differences of opinion regarding the severity of climate change we may have, I would like to point out the following facts about a more imminent threat of immediate extinction:
Global thermonuclear war will cause more abrupt and more immediate extinction and therefore represents the most urgent threat to us by far. The undeniable science regarding this has been incontrovertibly outlined by Dr Steven Starr in his papers and presentations.
The bulletin of atomic scientists pointed out that we face the greatest risk of nuclear war right now, even worse than during the cold war.
The worst flashpoint today that poses the gravest risk is the contrived US confrontation with Iran, aided and abetted by their lapdog poodle, "Great" Britain*.
The USA unilaterally reneged on the JCPOA, a treaty which according to all non-US signatories and even according to the CIA itself was effectively containing Iran's nuclear ambitions. The US are now using slander, libel and outrageous provocations such as economic warfare against Iran to try to trigger war, […] Continue Reading…
Rock of Ages
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Published on The Doomstead Diner July 28, 2019
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Those of you who are not regular contributors from Inside the Diner may have drawn the conclusion from my recent articles and videos that the Collapse Biz Trip to Seattle-Tacoma was mainly about testing the modified Cripple Cart for the new systems we put in place to make it a better vehicle for getting around as the Age of Oil comes to a close. This regardless of whether you are a healthy young specimen of the species Homo Sap, or a decrepit and inexorably dying old cripple like yours truly.
In fact however, although very important, this field testing of the Cripple Cart was not the primary reason or motivator for this Biz Trip. It goes back much further than that, to about a year after I had the accident that morphed me into the Cripple I am today. I became obsessed with my impending death, and I remain so to this day. Since I am a Monast, unmarried and childless, there is nobody around […] Continue Reading…
GLOBAL WARMING DENIERS ARE EVIL HUMAN GARBAGE: A Blast from the Past
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on July 25, 2019
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The reposted essay below is long, outdated and depressing.
For a much briefer presentation laced with morbid humour you may wish to view this "Ecosqueak" clip instead: https://youtu.be/3_T4QaJQRL0
(if link does not work, search youtube for "Ecosqueak" and "Geoffrey Chia")
Back in 2012 I still naively believed it might be possible to mitigate against the horrific impending planetary catastrophe we face this century if only the forces of reason and fairness could prevail over those of deceit and greed. I felt that systemic change was needed which would require vigorous opposition to those forces of deceit and greed. Simply exhorting amenable greenies to change their lightbulbs was pointless. My article "The Brisbane Institute is a Brisbane Prostitute" was a personal effort towards that goal, which I sent out far and wide. Some so-called "sustainability" advocates harshly criticised me for that essay. My response to them was this: all it takes for evil to prevail is for "good" people to do nothing.
The recent flurry of "Extinction Rebellion" and "School strike for Climate" activity reflects an […] Continue Reading…
Collapse Biz Trip Day 4: The Big Ewz Marathon Test
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Published on The Doomstead Diner July 22, 2019
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Today's project on the Collapse Biz Trip was to do the most rigorous testing to date of the newly powered Ewz (aka "Cripple Cart") carrying the Full Monte of batteries, both Lithium-Ion (L-I) and Sealed Lead-Acid (SLA) for a total of 20 Amp-Hours (AH) fully charged. As the photo at left indicates, the Cripple Cart had its first live tests on the flight down to Seattle-Tacoma from Anchorage. Those tests were to determine the feasibility for a Solo Cripple to haul all his (massive) amount of baggage to the airport, around the airport and to get it through TSA Security and on the plane. Obviously, since I am now IN Tacoma, this test was successful.
In yesterday's testing, the objective was to see just how much distance I could travel around Tacoma on a single charge without mid-trip recharges. The video above is the first installment of several segments I made on this trip. It is raw video, unedited as of now since […] Continue Reading…
Collapse Biz Trip
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Published on The Doomstead Diner July 21, 2019
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As regular Diners know, I'm currently down in Seattle-Tacoma working on Collapse Bizness. I'm completing the SUN☼ Monument, to carry the SUN☼ message and rules for Sustainable Living on Planet Earth to future generations, as well as testing my small EV battery systems for post-SHTF Day resilience and utility. Also had a dinner meeting with 2 fellow Kollapsniks, K-Dog of the Chasing the Squirrel blog and George Mobus of Question Everything. We had the dinner last night at the Emerald Queen Casino buffet in Tacoma, where I am staying. I got my dinner FREE (I met the 2 hour minimum time sitting at the slot machines to earn this perk), George & K-Dog hadda pay the $20. Good deal for me, since I only lost $1 while spinning the digital wheel once every 5 minutes or so. More about that in the videos.
So anyhow, not much time to write or even to do any video editing right now, but here are a […] Continue Reading…
This Week In Doom July 14, 2019
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Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on July 14, 2019
“The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
There is a steady drumbeat of madness in the air… or it is simply my pulse in my ears? It grows louder. It screams of inevitability. When I was a little boy, four or five, I distinctly recall wondering whether mine might not be the last generation […] Continue Reading…
Collapse Cripple Cart Construction Project
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Published on The Doomstead Diner July 14, 2019
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It's been a bizzy week for both Kollapsniks and Cripples,and I have been overwhelmed with work to do in both areas. I was working on editing a Collapse Cafe video I did with Jason Heppenstalll of 22 Billion Energy Slaves a couple of weeks ago, then George Mobus of Question Everything and I got together to discuss his new Systems Science book along with questions from the Collapse 2019 Survey early in the week as well. Then I finalized plans for a Jet Setting, Fossil Fuel Burning trip down to Seattle in the Lower 48, set now for departure on July 18th of this week. As much as I wanted to edit and publish the discussions with Jason & George though, in this case the approaching DEADLINE for the trip to Seattle took precedence over both. Those vids will be aired of course, but in all likelihood not until after I return from this latest Globe Trotting Adventure at the End of […] Continue Reading…
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