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  • in reply to: 💡⛑️🛠️Prepping and Survival Board 22.02.2024 #26430
    Mr P
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    archeon, many thanks. Sounds like idyllic place!

    Longtimeago, after the boat, we lived on a island farm – and in the old orchard lived a plague of insects, generations fattened from dropped fruit…and we lightly fenced the zone and got 100 india runner ducks… It was a great adventure. They’re most comical, and lay large wonderful eggs…and the insect plague was solved. We were a test zone for the ag university boffins, and some terrible wasp or worm was “threatening” the vineyards, and the only place it was not found? Yup! We never used any pesticides…very cool farm, 65 acres, peat river loam, infinite water, and a small lake…otter were to be seen at night, big fellows, and messy. But cute!

    Then we moved to a mountain…big adventure. Thence to Anoxia.

    We have a much smaller digs now, but there’s a salmon stream in walking distance, and a beautiful river – access somewhat limited, but free to launch a boat, Deer get hit on the road, and raccoon…bears and lions back in the hills  (I know!) and dangerous swine, and our friend Mr Coyote. Bald eagles nest within a few miles. Our hens have never been bothered, so there must be lots of food for the wild critters. There are a few dairy cows kept by neighbors. Goats and sheep. Alfalfa grows happily hereabouts. Ranchers run cattle, cow-calf usually, further up the slope on somewhat rocky ground, and after that it’s miles of nature reserve…rugged canyons…with scheduled curated hikes, and open for deer season. And the Country is not overly populated, most people here are third generation, some families go back to the 1850’s. So fairly congenial, and reputation counts. They tell me, though, that the standards have fallen since the 1960’s in these here parts. We took the advice from Voltaire, to retire to mind our own garden… Quakers sometimes say “in the world but not of it”… well, that’s a nice goal anyways… but that’s sorta where we are in the phase of life. Pretty much stay home and study the freak show, and neglect building projects, or dawdle and go slowly… Mrs P bakes a lot, and is master of garden zone. Two old motorbikes running, mostly, but seldom ridden for more than a few miles. Fun though.

    Best! P

     

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 20 Feb 2024 #26360
    Mr P
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    “This is bizarre and highly unusual in US culture” Indeed so. And I thought it unique. However Comrade McGovern said to da judgefeller that it happened at a college where he himself was during the affair Vietnam.

    Mr P
    Participant

    Persig, in Zen, wrote about a writing student who was blocked most badly. He (iirc) said go write about the library…still blocked….go write about the library wall…still blocked….ok, go write about one brick in the library wall…and that worked. Shakespeare more fine muse.

    Tennyson> https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses

    Speaking of airplanes… 😉   (That’s a Newhart gag)

    alice and carbon

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 24 Feb 2024 … Open Thread #26348
    Mr P
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    Trumpstein?

    Election in America is funner than moose and squirrel

    Er ist wieder da… sorta, AI type Adolf speaks in voice.

    I wonder why … 😉

    ……………cable zone RS…no confirmation. Remains single source claim, and doubtful. Nevertheless it’s ever so traditional… Same feller wot done the NS, we expect, remain armed and dangerous.

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 20 Feb 2024 #26337
    Mr P
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    https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/europe-india-gateway-eig

    searchable by cable

    EIG (ostensibly whacked) OwnersAT&T, Altice Portugal, BT, Bayobab, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL), Bharti Airtel, Djibouti Telecom, Gibtelecom, Libya International Telecommunications Company, Omantel, Saudi Telecom, Telecom Egypt, Telkom South Africa, Verizon, Vodafone, du

     

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 20 Feb 2024 #26336
    Mr P
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    If true guess who’s the patsy…

    Claim > https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1761859936617959443.html

    “3 submarine cables cut in the Red Sea between Jeddah and Djibouti. AAE-1, EIG and SEACOM/TGN-Eurasia are down. Note: Authorities looking at potential terror link.
    Confirmed: Submarine cables cut by Houthis in Yemen waters.
    To repair the cables, need permission from Yemen to enter their waters
    Insurance companies have canceled insurance for cable ships to ply in Yemen waters
    No maintenance cable ships willing to do repairs
    Cable ships cost $60-&100 million each. Who will take the risk?”

    What did Bobby say? 1,000 telephones that don’t ring? Hello? Hello? 

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 24 Feb 2024 … Open Thread #26322
    Mr P
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    Highly amusing Hollywood war film Sherlock and Voice of terror 1942… But!

    Just at ending! Ah. https://youtu.be/-SiHCBtPHkw?list=PLST25L7XQzX-c2C9gkTTS98_9HKr5Mk97                  @ 1:04:00 East Wind   

    Recalling that in 1942 Hollywood writers and actors were various shades of red, and we might say that the wind was turning red too, and blowing from zone Rus… 😉

    New Russian agent> spy mutt rus

    G’nite friends!

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 24 Feb 2024 … Open Thread #26321
    Mr P
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    Upper classes… Well, not familiar with, for example Choate school, not east coast, and not “upper class”, I did mix for a time at very expensive “upper class” prep school out west. And in Southern California also at a prep school. Never did even the hint of such rites arise or come to my ears. Now, however, the veils are so effaced that we do glimpse the vague shadow of the vile. No dispute, only remark that the veils used to be pretty effective.

    Jeffery… Now maybe dead, people die. But he left the joint alive. One of the guards sent statement. I caught it. https://youtu.be/EhveNJZnfx4  (trailer the prisoner). Now then, depends who snatched him…obviously it was necessary to debrief, possibly with painful encouragement..fella had copies and knew certain things, codes, places, numerics. But yeah, possibly living on his retirement in Palestine, or in the Med on some special island. But he’d be such an embarrassment if discovered… Ah reckons he’s dead. Cheap insurance to whack him, er, have accident. Besides, who loves a pimp and grifter?

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 24 Feb 2024 … Open Thread #26320
    Mr P
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    in reply to: 💡⛑️🛠️Prepping and Survival Board 22.02.2024 #26319
    Mr P
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    Good idea this thread.

    Thoughts>

    Remark the first 100 days is steep learning curve. You overnight may have become the hunted. Keep quiet. Expect bandits, gangs.

    Fires should be kept small.

    Depending, fishing is quiet. Nets. Traps. Night-time. Everyone, and every sort, come to river. Beware. Upstream sewage treatment plants may not function…beware. Use nose.

    Know and cultivate neighbors, with discretion. Some may be cops…and that may be a good or not good. If good, make friends.

    Find local church you can coexist with, now. It’s a place to listen.

    While doctor friend is nice, a veterinarian might be just as good, or, considering how many MD’s in zone A are believers in nonsense, possibly better. Many became vets, rather than MD, because of the silliness, I believe. Vets tend to keep a pharmacy, doc not so much.

    Sewing. Possibly sewing up wound… make kit. Practice on dead meaty things from store.

    Iodine (get a big jug @ farm supply). Prophylactic in bomb fallout, sterilize water, etc. Note, I will sublime through the (plastic) container wall, store I alone or it may damage adjacent materials. Keep cool to minimize sublimation.

    hatchet. I’d like a framing hatchet, part hammer. Stone and file. Saw.

    Spade.

    100 watts of solar pnl is lots better than zero, bring the bits together, charge controller, storage battery, a cheap VOM. Get it to work before the necessity arises. Harbor Freight sells a kit that would be ok.

    Know local plants. Some give vitamin C… etc.

    Left to do so, 100 days Anoxia no sweat.

    Radio…listen, do not chatter. Receiver covering broad frequency range is good. Any transmissions will give away your position 😉   2 meter (Ham band), CB (10 meter) and to “federal” 49? meter cheapo walkie talkies are nice, but may be dangerous to transmit.

    Dogs may be good, and they are edible, and warm, and they make a ruckus that can be a life-saver.

    Learn to set snares for small meaty critters, birds. Practice.

    Chickens may be appropriate.

    Well hand pump. (if you can do,a solar well is a great machine)

    Root crops are pretty safe from theft. Garden. Start now.

    Gun? Maybe…don’t let it go to your head. Local sheriff may be a good fella to know, and if he decides to form a militia posse, you might get invited.  Very situational. Some sheriff are creeps, some are very good. Don’t waste ammo. Repeat. Even a trivial wound can be deadly. Don’t shoot accidentally. Repeat. Weapons make highly metastatic many outcome… use great caution.

    Plenty soap. Wash. Brush teeth. Treasure vision. Use gloves. Get good footwear now, and a spare. Boric acid is cheap and low toxicity to mammal, deadly to insect.

    For calculations, start now using pencil and paper, no calculator. Good for brain. If it hurts, well, it makes you smarter.

    Make plan and practice it, as you would for a camping trip. Locate secondary hide, just in case.

    I assume ‘net will stop. However the SDR site I previously wrote of http://www.websdr.org/  Might be a good and interesting sojourn while ‘net runs.

    There are radio hams near you. Make a friend of them. They know a lot, and they’re sort of vetted, for the most part. They are resourceful. Many attend church 😉

    Let God speak to you. Listen.

     

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 20 Feb 2024 #26314
    Mr P
    Participant

    Speedboat… send fair warning while make good practice. Very diplomatic, and logical since nazi no listen… Noone like getting shot at… Is highly proportional and imho consistent with law of war, and polite too! Persian very diplomatic. Next time maybe messy.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 24 Feb 2024 … Open Thread #26302
    Mr P
    Participant

    O! My friend! Potato is most fine plant! We too are (just finished) with russet and sweet sorts. We can in jars excess, and give away more. Great soils Anoxia zone. Nice neighbors too. Crazy, but nice. Almonds in bloom. Spring rains. All green. I built a bird-house and put it up. Familiar with spade and shovel…

    Wish to proffer> https://whatreallyhappened.com/NEW/  That site. Not to flog. I have watched that site since many years and witness the evolution. Editor implied and stated views are like indicator on dashboard zone northamerica. Pulse. Graph. There’s some latency, but the coupling of his choices to the realpolitik has become much closer, accurate, and less chauvinistic. Interesting feller.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 24 Feb 2024 … Open Thread #26299
    Mr P
    Participant

    Советская мясорубка as used zone 404 and probably elsewhere!

    Sovetskaya myasorubka>

    soviet meat grinder

     

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 24 Feb 2024 … Open Thread #26294
    Mr P
    Participant

    SDR   (what?) Technical matters can be somewhat alien, jargonated. This in degree is necessary… See http://www.websdr.org/   Stay with it… listen to Global real actual Hertzian wave radio  radio, real honest (mostly) real-time…. Murkin hams, Ruskie Hams, Kraut hams, and State and Commercial broadcasts, even ATC chatter… and from commie zones, and, sadly some smelly stuff… but different… & lotsa  fun, and bypassing most of the fecal… System is actual radio receivers all linked to net, and free. Do take a look. A listen… who can say what gems might pass unheard?

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 24 Feb 2024 … Open Thread #26279
    Mr P
    Participant

    Eye on De two point observed, fwiw>

    𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗢𝗹𝗮𝗳 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝘇

    (and after all His Meekness has done for Germany, Springtime, an’ all!)

    And, gasp! Even his generalness Herr Kujat has doubt!

    (rather longer than might be ideal) https://youtu.be/ZDOLcahuF8k

    Best!

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