Category Archives: Getting Prepared

James Lee Shines a Light on Green Anti-Humanism

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The Discovery Channel hostage taker James Lee will  be written off as a crazy but he is merely an extremist. The ideology behind his acts is embraced by the radical green movement and is behind many anti-Capitalist, anti-technology groups and protests. He is no different that the Earth Liberation Front or the radicals who tried to burn a family alive in 2008 or the lefty commenters who cheered on mountain lion attacks on children about a year ago.

Anti-humanism is a key pillar in radical environmentalism. It is a philosophy that views humans as an inherent evil that needs to be minimized through extermination. Starvation, sterilization and de-industrialization are all means to the final end which is the end of mankind. To be sure many anti-humanists envision a world where they themselves, living a romanticized tribal existence, are still around but their goal is an end of all civilization, everywhere.

The basics of anti-humanism are mainstream ideas taught in schools and pushed by the media. Human industry is bad, people are “unnatural” and not part of nature and more importantly civilization, prosperity and success are evil. Only animals and primitive tribes are good and the Earth is so fragile that every thing you do is destroying it. You now people, maybe even your children, who on some level believe this.

Failed bomber James Lee’s manifesto is simply an exaggeration of the anti-human philosophy we let fester everyday. Here’s his manifesto, entitled My Demands, in full: Continue reading →

Jim Rogers Sees “Much Higher” Food Prices on the Horizon

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I’ve been warning about the coming food shortages and food inflation for months, and more people rely on less farmers to feed them and those farmers must pay higher prices to grow crops. Jim Rogers reacts to the spike in wheat prices by saying what smart people knew all along, food is going to get more and more expensive:

The July rise in wheat prices, the fastest in 51 years, indicates that shortages in agriculture are coming, Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC.com Tuesday.

Wheat prices in Europe hit their highest level in two years, rising almost 50 percent since late June as Russia’s wheat crop was affected by drought.

“That’s the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Rogers, who has been warning about shortages coming in the agriculture sector for a while, said in a telephone interview.

“We’re going to have much, much higher prices over the next few years,” Rogers, a hedge-fund pioneer who started the Quantum Fund with George Soros in the 1970s, added.

Investors finally began to realize that prices for agricultural commodities have been too low for too long because of subsidies and other factors, which made agriculture an unattractive area for workers, he explained.

“Be prepared, if you have a sugar bowl home go fill it up because it’s going to be more expensive,” he said.

“Anybody who’s got potentially good agriculture land and good weather” is likely to emerge a winner out of this situation because prices of nearly all agricultural commodities are set for steep rises, Rogers said.

“Prices aren’t high enough and most people don’t believe it,” he said. “Unless prices are high you’re not going to attract people in the business. Eventually people will go into farming again but it’s going to take a while.”

Shortages in agriculture are likely to add to problems created by governments who printed money to spend their way out of the financial crisis, according to Rogers.

“It’s all happening at a time when governments are printing more money… it’s a very dangerous situation,” he said.

Roger’s advice is for investors, but his message is clear to all of us. Food is a commodity that will be increasing in price, so your family should be preparing for a future where food will become increasingly harder to get. Storing long lasting foods (including wheat and rice) will save you money in the long term. Learning to grow your own food, even if you don’t have much room, will help offset the price increases we’re going to see. How much of a price increase? In England they’re predicting at least a 10% increase by the end of this year.

Most big box stores with good online presences sell grains and rice in bulk buckets for cheap. I’ve found 35lbs of wheat seed for $50 on Amazon. Frankly I prefer to just hit the can sales at my local market but I know many of you out there enjoy a more cooking from scratch kind of existence. I’m happy with canned corn and tomato soup. Which I have a lot of.

I cannot stress this enough. You must start buying long lasting foods now while they are still reasonably priced. Canned foods, rice, beans, sugar, flour and honey. Fears of global wheat shortages are only the beginning. All food prices will rise in the next few years, some to levels that will make them unattainable. Deflation in our economy may make things cheaper in the short term but it will put many agri-businesses under too much stress. Your extra money right now should, at least in part, go to having a fully stocked pantry, a good garden and if you can maybe a couple of chickens.

Food will be the new gold in the near future.

Concord, Massachusetts Bottled Water Ban Puts Lives at Risk

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News organizations are all a flutter at tenacious busy body Jean Hill’s successful campaign to ban bottled water from Concord, Massachusetts. What a victory for the Earth!

It’s also a death sentence for the people of Concord if disaster strikes.

No one can store all the water they need, but if you don’t have at least a couple of weeks worth of drinking water squared away you will die in the event of a long term disaster. You can live only three days without water, and having seen the government’s belated responses to Katrina and the Gulf oil spill should solidify in your mind that help after a large scale disruption or disaster is often more than three days away.

But what about tap water? Jean Hill has said there’s nothing wrong with drinking water out the faucet and I frankly concur. All you “but Fluoride controls minds!!!” people do bath in the same water you shun after all, or drink it in coffee and tea so obviously I’m not of the belief that there’s anything necessarily wrong with the water. It’s the deliver system that’s at play here.

Many preppers worry about nation wide grid outages in the event of an EMP or solar storm, or disruption of transportation in an oil crisis. In both these situations water will stop running or be unsafe to drink even if it does. Water stations use electricity, if the grid goes down the pumping stations go down too. Any disaster, natural or man made, that takes out electricity will stop water flowing to cities. People with wells and hand pumps may be fine, but people who live in a town where they have no stored water will be at the mercy of  the slow responding government.

But even if we talk about a situation where electricity is available but transportation is disrupted, like an oil shortage, clean water would be at risk. Your tap water is only safe to bath in because trucks deliver chemicals to pumping stations to make it safe. At best, the reservoir you’re town is getting water from is filled with old cars, discarded appliances and dead bodies. I recently republished a 2006 white paper from the American Trucking Association which maintains that if trucking was curtailed for just two weeks the entire nations water supply would be stressed, and after a month water would not be safe to use without boiling.

This sort of data is often used by the Jean Hills of the world to “prove” the need to do something, but if you’re thinking realistically what it means is that you need to be prepared to provide safe water for yourself and your family for drinking, but also for bathing, cooking and even flushing toilets (though that water doesn’t need to be clean) and watering your survival garden. Bottled water is the most economical and safest way for people to be prepared.

Filters are great now, and everyone should have some sort of low tech filtration system to treat water gathered from the wild or rain barrels in long term situations, but not having bottled water in the house, even if you don’t drink it, is irresponsible and short sighted.

I bring this up not because the madness in Concord matters to most of us, but because many cities are moving in this direction and many more people impose these sorts of bans on themselves and their families in order to “go green.” But what will these people do when the water’s been out for four days and FEMA still hasn’t showed up?

I store a few weeks worth of water in the form of flats purchased from Costco, which are rotated out because we happen to drink a lot of water. I also have gallon jugs filled with tap water and treated with bleach for bathing if the water stops, and scouted the area for streams where I can collect water to be treated. The Jean Hills of the world hope that when they need it water will just magically flow from a faucet, and her green pretensions are going to put everyone in Concord at risk if something happens.

h/t Zionist Anti-Communist