Trigger Events
You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.Jean-Paul SartreA trigger event is a local event with non-local consequences.In well designed systems, such as a firearm,...
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Trade Items for the New Economy
Whatchya got in Trade?Q: What's a good, TEOTWAWKI investment?A: Tangibles.Okay... that was the easy answer. I think we can take it for granted that stock options, bearer bonds, Federal Reserve notes...
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
The End is Nigh... These are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.From Dead Poet's SocietySeeking a Friend for the End of...
View ArticleUS Army Essential Concepts
[NOTE: This is a reprint from a Wikipedia entry... I wasn't able to confirm these with a direct link to an online source, and haven't seen the original document... make sense to me, though.]The...
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Naked Into the Wilderness: Neolithic Technology and Attitudes
PaleoPlanet is a good place to start.Wherever the seasons are marked by holiday festivals and ceremonies; where the stages of life are punctuated by family and communal rituals; where eating and...
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EROEI
EROEI: Energy Return On Energy InvestedI didn't hear this term until relatively recently, but when I did, it rang a bell.EROEI is a measure of net gain. As ER and EI are always positive numbers,...
View ArticleGROWTH: Interesting Compound
This is a partial repost of an entry by JOHN: The Futility of GrowthJeremy Grantham, one of the world’s most successful investors, shares the same concerns in his April 2011 newsletter, backed up with...
View ArticleWhat is the Sound of One Finger Crossing?
What is the Sound of One Finger Crossing?One of TEOTWAWKI's hair triggers is about to get squeezed.The spent fuel rods at Fukushima Reactor 4 soak in a pool about 100ft above the ground. The pool is...
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Let's Say We Have to Cut an Run: Prioritizing our Bug Out Bag
Peace Pilgrim Walking Lightly You gotta know when to hold 'emKnow when to fold 'emKnow when to walk awayKnow when to runFrom The Gambler by Kenny Rogers Let's Say We Have to Cut and Run: Prioritizing...
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A Rifle for the End of the World
U.S. Survival AR-7 Rifleby HenryU.S. Survival AR-7: Don’t Leave Civilization Without One.- henryrepeating.com A Rifle for the End of the World:The U.S. Survival AR-7 by HENRY I'm going to go out on a...
View ArticleDavid Holmgren's Unstated Assumptions of "Business as Usual"
The following assumptions are reposted from David Holmgren's FutureScenarios.org. They amount to a checklist of necessary requirements for the continuation of TWAWKI. The Unstated Assumptions of...
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Hope for the Hopeless
Dia de Muertos, Watermellon Eater [sic]by Jack Feldman Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.― From The Book...
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That Roller Coaster Feeling
YEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer.Things fall apart.The centre cannot hold.From the Second Coming by William Butler YeatsThat Roller Coaster...
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The Ozymandian Moment
Ozymandias Painting by Julie KrizanOzymandias As remembered,Apologies toPercy Bysshe ShelleyI met a traveler from an antique land, who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert......
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Goodbye Baby, and The Short Arm of the Law
Rock-a-bye, Baby, in the tree top.When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall.And down will come Baby, cradle and all.Goodbye Baby, and The Short Arm of the...
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Predicting TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It)
Homer Simpson's Schreiby Lisa Lustich after Edvard Munch (Der Schrei) and Matt Groenig (The Simpsons)I'm sure he's 'schrei'ing, "D'Oh!"Thomas Andrews: The pumps buy you time, but minutes only. From...
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Ebola Chaos
I Ching ideogram for Chaos vs. Ebola Virus VirionCoINcidence???Ebola ChaosEbola is certainly one of many clouds on our collective event horizon. A cloud that is darkening, and a wind that is rising,...
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Ebola: DON'T PANIC!! is a Panic Response
Contemplating His World TourImage source: http://halehighschool.info/pics/pandemic.jpg ...The systematic, rational way to control [an] outbreak, [is] by defining its outer borders and letting the pyre...
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It IS Different This Time
This is a poor graph, I admit... scales to left an right of the 'peak' are not consistent.My Bad.The overfamiliar cry of “but it’s different this time!” is popular, it’s comforting, but it’s also...
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Spooky...
Planet Petri DishSpooky...Since Y2K, nothing with an associated date has concerned me more than any other. But this year... I'm picking up a vibe.Nothing particular stands out. We're skittering along...
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