Response to

an email that came in last night. I figured I would share it with everyone.

Yeah, I am skipping over the BS that is being espoused from the MSM's right now. For good reason to.
There ain't a damned thing we can do to stop the fail that is coming at us. I don't give two squirts about that any longer.
Our country gets involved with a third war BECAUSE the Banking institutions that REALLY run the world see a hickup with the catastrophe in Japan. Best to keep the boat afloat as long as possible so they can bleed as much off before they let burn to the water line. And burn it will.

The EU is starting a slow smoulder that may or may not leap into flames in the next year, BUT it won't put out for at least a century. My reasoning behind that is based on historical points. All you need to do is look into the Crusades of the middle Dark ages to see proofs. This is an ongoing war that never did cease even though there has been a centuries long lull in the action. I think the Islamist are going to win this round. But what does that mean on this continent?

Things are going all EU on us here. Maybe not the Fundamentalist fights of Christianity/Islamist fight (but it is soon to follow) But the whole Entitled, socialist, gimme-gimme attitude of the monkey sphere. So few are willing to get dirty doing what needs to be done to make their world RIGHT but want the Government to do the dirty work for them, at the expense of everybody else of course.

And of course, the MSM's are doing exactly what the PTB want them to do; keep shifting the coverage around so the sheep are too distracted to notice the water lapping at their ankles. Or the sharks circling the boat.

I haven't been saying as much about it as there isn't much point. If you can't see the shit hitting the fan(and it is), I can't wake you up. I am just one little scribbler in a sea of scribblers. Most of whom are much better at getting the idea across than I.
What I can do is 'lead by example'. I am not going to be burning my bridges any longer (unless that is the only way to keep the hoard from crossing the river) but I am going to make my world as 'closed loop' as possible. That means building a house, from scratch, on the cheap, without a bank to assist the financial side of it, without tying into any 'formal infrastructure' that can't be replaced easily, etc, etc. Every single Item I am working on for this house is to be for the long haul. Tin Roof for the life of the house. Properly maintained should outlive the house. Yeah, vinyl windows, but again, properly maintained=longevity. Solar panels to be off grid, there is the battery issue but I am trying to figure something out for that. I would prefer a 'generator' type system but location is key to one of those. My location isn't prime for that; at least, not yet. (just a thought percolating in my mind.) I am not going with the chinese processed pine splinters that they sell at the big box stores for timber, either. There are more than a few local sawmills that cut actual 2"X4"s Rough cut, mostly hardwoods. I can keep the cost down by going that route, and build a better house for it. I will go with sheeting from the box store but only because I can't find anything other than some flooring sheets from a teardown.
The other side of it, that I haven't been covering yet is the gardens. Others are doing a fine job of that, explaining the difference between raised beds and the like. Follow along with them. I am. I have quite a bit to do before I can even put my gardens in around the house, but we have 'community' gardens all over around here. Some are quite large too. May be a liability but then anything could be liability soon enough.
I talk about education in nearly every post as I see it as a means to an end. If you don't know how, learn. Teach yourself, find someone who does know, make the effort. Failing to plan is planning to fail; Period. If you can't take advantage of the full net access we currently have to accomplish some self education now, later when we are struggling and there is extremely limited or NO net, well, good luck. I won't go into what you should learn as there is way more information out there than any one body can absorb. Look around you, figure out what you are lacking in, work on it. Personally, I teach myself as much as I can get my hands on about pretty much whatever I can get my hands on. The more I learn and see how things are so integrated with each other, the more I want to learn. It can be a vicious cycle so be careful. Oh and just a hint: It does all start with the basics. Fire and rock. While I don't see us falling back that far, I do see us making a big fall soon. Better to learn now.

I may restructure this blog to something less 'political' though I am sure there will be the occasional "WTF were they thinking" post. I may even put up a suggested reading list. Not blogs but actual analog books. Things that may not make you think about where we are going; information that may be critical when we get there.
To be honest, I have to shift directions at this point. Not to do so will only lead down a dark road that helps no one. I don't think I need to elaborate any more on that.

I will be back on later with more thoughts on being super cheap and making a go at homesteading. I promise at least one shooty-goodness post soon.