TransAtlantic Kabuki
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Published on The Doomstead Diner October 20, 2019
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Across the Collapse Blogosphere, you'll repeatedly run into the acronym "SHTF". There's even at least two blogs titled with the acronym, SHTF Plan & SHTF Blog . I'm sure there are others, but those two make it into the Top 15 of "Survivalist" Blogs. Here on the Diner on an economic level we often discuss "SHTF Day". It's the day the ATMs go down or the liquidity dries up in the ovenright interbank lending market or the stock market drops 5000 points in a day, that sort of thing. Total MAYHEM ensues after such an event of course, which would be a watershed and marker as we move inexorably down the Collapse Highway. The Stock Market crash of 1929 was such an event, and for those of you interested in comparison of what occured 90 years ago to the week to today, this is a good documentary recently produced (there are of course many of them).
A single SHTF Day may or […] Continue Reading…
Setting the Stone on the Collapse of Industrial Civilization: The Christening
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Published on The Doomstead Diner September 29, 2019
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I've been feeling pretty under the weather for the last couple of weeks, with very low energy to do any writing. It's unfortunate since there is so MUCH to write about these days in the World of Collapse The Trumpovetsky Impeachment grows ever more bizzare each day with new revelations, new inquiries, new subpoenas and new comedy. The Tweeter-in-Chief digs himself an ever deeper hole, and Repugnant Rats are jumping ship all over the place. At this point impeachment articles are pretty certain to be brought, to be followed by a trial in the Senate. Whether enough Repugnant Senators will vote his Trumpness out of the Oval Office remains to be seen. It all depends on public opinion, and whether the 20 or so Senators up for reelection in 2020 consider Orange Julius to be too much of a liability to support anymore.
Starring also this week in the Reality TV show is El Presidente's personal lawyer, Rudolf the Red Faced ex-mayor of the […] Continue Reading…
OPEN LETTER TO GRETA THUNBERG
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on October 6, 2019
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by Geoffrey Chia, October 2019
Dear Ms Thunberg,
It is with some hesitation I pen this letter. If you ever read this, which is unlikely, it may seem but one more of numerous missives from complete strangers who feel entitled to write to you or about you because of your recent meteoric rise to fame. If you never read this, which is more likely, then what is the point of this letter? Hence I admit I write this more as a catharsis for myself (as has been the case for most of my articles) than as a means of communication. I do however hope and believe this note may also be of some value to others who may chance upon it.
Let me begin by congratulating you on your plain spoken address to the UN climate action summit last month, expressing your contempt for the empty words and meaningless gestures of hypocritical adults who either claim to address climate change but do nothing, or blatantly deny scientific reality to line their own hip pockets. Your […] Continue Reading…
Setting the Stone on the Collapse of Industrial Civilization
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Published on The Doomstead Diner September 29, 2019
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More than many weeks that I have spent observing the Collapse of Industrial Civilization, this week (and the weeks before too!) have proven to be above and beyond merely awful, they have been downright DISASTEROUS! The decent into Dante's 7th Circle of HELL began more or less with the latest in Climate Disasters, the FLATTENING of Grand Bahama by Hurricane Dorian, a massive Cat 5 Hurricane that hovered over the islands for a couple of days with sustained winds of 185 MPH. This place will not be a Tourista Destination again for a very long time, if ever before the planes stop flying there.
Following up on this climate disaster, we had the further emergence and promotion of Greta of Stockholm, the 16 year old modern Joan of Arc who is battling with the Big Boys on Twitter over Climate Change, including the biggest Twit-Shit blowhard of them all, the Denier-in-Chief, Donalditry Trumpovetsky. So far, Greta hasn't Blinked, which is of course not […] Continue Reading…
Collapse Chronicles meets the Doomstead Diner
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Published on The Doomstead Diner September 22, 2019
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Sam Mitchell of Collapse Chronicles
I know Diner Fans are Chomping at the Bit awating the vids from the SUN☼ Monument Placement Ceremony on it's Eternal Resting Place in the center of Flyover Country, Springfield, Missouri. However, you will have to wait another week for that, at least. As usual, other more Time-Sensitive artciles or vids have jumped the queue here, and for this line-cutter it's an interview I did with Sam Mitchell of the YouTube Channel Vlog COLLAPSE CHRONICLES. For a change, I am not doing the interview, I am the "Intervieweed". In this episode, we talk about Economics, Climate Change & Extinction, all pretty popular topics amongst Kollapsniks of course. 🙂
Besides that, except for you Grizzled Veterans of the Diner who already know this stuff, included as a BONUS is the short version History of the Doomstead Diner, how it came to be and WHY it exists at all? Although some of Sam's listenership on Collapse Chronicles are familiar […] Continue Reading…
Responding to Collapse, Part 11: coping with power outages, the basics
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Published on The Easiest Person to Fool on August 25, 2019
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Storm moving in off Lake Huron, August 2019
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In my last post I talked about some of the problems with using "for profit" companies to provide infrastructure services and went on to look at how one major part of our infrastructure—the power grid—is likely to gradually fail over the coming years. I ended up looking at the effects of power outages, but ran out of space to cover how you can mitigate those effects and what your community can do to cope when it finally finds itself permanently isolated from the grid. I'll start talking about that today, but it looks like it's going to take three or four posts to cover this subject in the detail it deserves.
If you're following or considering following the suggestions I've been making in this series of posts, you're probably receptive to the idea of making preparations for collapse—possibly quite eager to get at it. The endgame here is the end of industrial civilization, with the grid shut down completely and the wells, mines, farms […] Continue Reading…
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…
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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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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