Category: Survival
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Situational Awareness
Another MavPhil public service message: Don't walk around with your head up your app! You're a dumbass with a smartphone if you don't understand that it is perhaps the greatest enemy of situational awareness. And if you pack heat, bear this in mind: if you have to go to guns, there's probably been a failure…
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Gun Semantics
Under 14 minutes, by Massad Ayoob, one of the best. Words mean things, especially in a court of law. Precise, penetrating, and practical. As civil society collapses around us, and more and more of us must look to our own physical defense, you must also know how to avoid verbal entrapment by the prosecutorial shysters…
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Rod Dreher on Critics of the Benedict Option
A re-post from 20 July 2015. Things are falling apart so fast that July 2015 seems like a long time ago, even to an old man for whom tempus fugit is an understatement. The original posting occurred roughly four and a half years before the annus horribilis of 2020. And here we are more than…
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Go Gray!
The car of a neighbor sports a bumper sticker: "I vote pro-gun!" I say go gray. Never advertise your political views when you are out and about in public. These are dangerous times as polarization peaks and comity collapses. You must of course speak out, stand up, and prepare. I am not advocating timid withdrawal…
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What is the Greatest Threat to Situational Awareness?
The 'smart' phone. Every day I see people rendered deaf, DUMB, and blind to their surroundings by their phones. Don't be a dumbass with a smartphone! Don't even think of packing heat in these days of rampant, Dem-induced, crime until you have thought through the whole business of situational awareness. Here is a video for…
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Are You a Gray Man?
Substack latest. Exercise your rights, but don't flaunt them.
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How to Prepare for a Communist Coup
Good practical advice. I won't summarize it. You read it. HT: Mendocino Joe.
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Are You a Gray Man?
In contemporary Internet lingo, a gray man is typically a prepper who seeks to be unobtrusive and to blend in. He is 'gray' in that he tries not to call attention to himself, his beliefs, and his stock of guns, ammo, food, and other survival supplies that he hopes will see him and his family…
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Why No Talk of the EMP Threat?
'Sheltering at home' is no big deal with a functioning grid and all that it makes possible such as working at home and ordering goods and services online. Would it be 'racist' of me to suggest that the Chinese might want to destroy our grid with an electromagnetic pulse attack? Leftists are not very good…
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The Chinese Virus Wake-Up Call
Good will come of the current pandemic. People will learn how to be more self-reliant and less reliant on government. They will learn how to prepare for emergencies. They will learn how to slow down, prepare their own meals, stay home, travel less, read books, be more thoughtful and introspective, repair things, and anally cleanse…
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Beware of Projecting . . .
. . . your values and attitudes into others. We are not all the same 'deep down,' and we don't all want the same things. You say you value peace and social harmony? So do I. But some are bellicose right out of the box. They love war and thrive on conflict, and not just…
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Avoid the Near Occasion . . .
. . . of physical altercation. But be prepared should such be unavoidable. My Smith and Wesson tactical pen arrived yesterday. Or should one "resist not the evil doer" and "turn the other cheek" even unto one's personal destruction? For a partial exploration of this theme, see Machiavelli, Arendt, and the Important Difference between Private…
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Survivalism
Many survivalists are extremists. But extremism is everywhere, in the longevity fanatic, the muscular hypertrophy nut, and so on. That being said, a wise man, while hoping for the best, prepares for the worst. But the prepping is kept within reason, where part of being reasonable is maintaining a balanced perspective. A balanced approach, for me, does…
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Is an EMP Attack a Threat to be Taken Seriously?
Obama and his administration did not think so. Trump has different and better ideas. Score another for Trump. Please watch the video. You will learn something from an expert. Filed under: Survival
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What’s the Magic Word?
When leaving the safety of your house, assuming it is well-secured, and while out and about at all times but especially in this holiday season, you should keep in mind the magic word or phrase, Code Yellow.