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Post by krull68 on Nov 12, 2014 13:20:52 GMT 10
WOOHOO, way to go Brad!!!!
Now on a lesser note, there are things that we as humans are doing that is absolutely criminal to this planet, and boy are we going to get flogged big time by the man upstairs for it. Deforestation being one, dang people, no trees or plantlife, we all die, simple math really (math 101 to be exact, 0 plantlife = 0 life). Chemical dumping into the environment = poisoned planet = dead plants = dead us. over fishing, over harvesting (cutting down rain forests to plant palm trees tsk tsk).
There are things that are completely natural that man contributes very little to, so these things I for one am not too worried about. volcano's put more co2 into the atmosphere in one week than all of mankind in one year.
We are very young, stupid and refuse to listen to the past, therefore we are cursed to relive it, over and over again, until we stand up and say enough is enough, we need to learn, we need to understand, we need to grow up and become adults instead of 2 year olds throwing a tantrum. Sadly each generation grows up feeling the need to "rebel" and thus we will never move forward until we realise we need to learn from the past, because they were not really that stupid you know.
And for all the rebels out there, move out of home, pay your own bills, feed yourself while you still know everything. Pretty soon you will realise you actually know next to nothing and your parents probably were not so stupid after all.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 12, 2014 9:14:32 GMT 10
Hey Fractus, Personally I do not believe anything that bloke says. Did you watch him on the session of Q&A? Went on about the climate, but when asked about the temperature measurements but three acronym organisations (cannot remember the names of the measuring organisations, but they are who the world goes to), he did not even know what they were. total flake and a fraud.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 11, 2014 12:49:41 GMT 10
aaaawwwwww! Thanks guys, it is appreciated. And never forget, not all soldiers served in wars zones, many of us were blessed to serve during peace time, although the thoughts were always on how long until we have to fight to keep everyone at home safe, including the moonbats (yes we even fought and died for them too).
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Post by krull68 on Nov 11, 2014 8:20:34 GMT 10
Cotton poncho soaked in water. I have one made from calico. the colour doesn't matter, just make it big enough to reach your knees back and front.
If you put it in the water, let it soak, then wring it out so it is just damp, that works for a few hours.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 11, 2014 8:17:04 GMT 10
The wife and I have a system to stop that, we use lists. 1/ list of things we need to continually stock up on, ie: food items, replace what you use plus 1. 2/ List of items we need, starting with the cheapest, then most important regardless of price. 3/ Save for big ticket items (find big ticket items at cheapest price, my wife's fav hobby, she is like a tigress, she stalks the item, waits for just the right time, then pounces and goes for the kill. So far she has never paid full price for anything). 4/ Study and research items, techniques, skills. 5/ Practise skills on regular basis. 6/ Do away with things that cost money that we do not need.
Weekly, we work on our budget, to find areas we can either save in, or areas we can earn more money from. Daily, we look for new things to learn, at least one new thing each, we then study this and then pass it to the other. Make it a game, make it your hobby, passion, obsession (choose another descriptor, whatever works for you to keep you excited). Keep things fun, why would you do it if you stopped enjoying it. That's the big killer for preppers, we get dragged down in the drudgery of the task, instead of realising that it can be dang fun while at the same time, save your life in the end. Always remember why you are prepping.
Anyhow, that's my simple thoughts on the subject.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 10, 2014 21:33:36 GMT 10
German village first to become energy self-sufficient ab.co/1zFzLlGNow that is fricking cool. Why the hell cant we do that more? I'd love to pay less for my energy usage. Land mass vs population density is our problem. we have aprox 23 million in an area the size of the US who has nearly 300 million. So we have less than 1/10th the population per sq km and we are expecting to do the same for the same cost as bigger population centres, so do the math on how much it will cost per head. Heck, some European countries are about the size of Tasmania yet have the same or larger populations as we do. Simple economics really.
That's the problem with tackling climate change as well. whatever it would cost per head, would cost us 10 time or more per head here, due to our land mass.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 10, 2014 13:43:32 GMT 10
YAY thanks Rem, I knew someone would know how to spell the sucker!!!
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Post by krull68 on Nov 10, 2014 11:46:02 GMT 10
My problem with the climate change issue is thus: The only solution put forward by the left is, tax, reduce freedoms, wind and solar. That's about it from them. None are prepared to look at anything that includes burning anything. CSRIO has done studies on algae production that can form both coal like substance and oil, using the algae, if the same amount of cubed footage was used as was used to drill and dig, we could theoretically use up all the co2 we put into the atmosphere plus about 5% of the natural co2. when I brought this up with a member of the green party, they got rather rude, abusive and called me anti science. Sadly I cannot work with someone who becomes dictatorial without even accepting to look at any alternatives that do not fit with a certain political outlook. Anyhow, if anyone can come up with practical scientific (practical engineering) solutions, without derogatory statements not based in fact, I am prepared to listen and look into it. If derogatory insults is all a person has, including disparaging someone's intelligence, then I am afraid I walk away questioning their sincerity. I remember as early as 2003 or so I think they were talking about algae, a specific strain that is, replacing crude oil as an energy source, we could grow petrol at home they said. Sounds allot like what you are saying. Ok the spelling is not correct, but the phonetic spelling as I remember is Spuralina algae. I am sure one of our resident smarty pants will be able to give us the correct spelling for the little green bugger.
Having said that, I do not like the fight between the different sides, all it gets is arguments, with no outcomes besides name calling which is counter productive, such as, "your paid by big oil", or in America " paid shrill for the Kosh bros", oh and my fav "your just anti science" ( I personally love that one, means nothing but is a great way of saying, I have no argument, so I will insult you and finish the argument and feel good about myself that we are still no closer to any agreement).
I myself am all for anything we can do, and make it commercial successful that will do the following, stop drilling for oil and or gas, stop digging for coal, stop the need for subsidies for any and all energy producing systems and over all, reduce the costs of energy, transport, reduce or eliminate the damage to the enviorment (oil spills, chemical runoff onto reefs and the like, bird kills from blood huge turbine blades).
That is the direction I would like to see the conversation go. So heads together, stop name calling and lets find solutions, because most of the best ideas have not come from academia, but from normal people on the ground looking at what works and what does not. Was Thomas Eddison a scientist when he made the light bulb? don't think so, was retroactively given to him after his invention became famous. many other examples can be given, we just need to get back the inventor spirit.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 9, 2014 21:35:53 GMT 10
My problem with the climate change issue is thus:
The only solution put forward by the left is, tax, reduce freedoms, wind and solar. That's about it from them.
None are prepared to look at anything that includes burning anything. CSRIO has done studies on algae production that can form both coal like substance and oil, using the algae, if the same amount of cubed footage was used as was used to drill and dig, we could theoretically use up all the co2 we put into the atmosphere plus about 5% of the natural co2. when I brought this up with a member of the green party, they got rather rude, abusive and called me anti science.
Sadly I cannot work with someone who becomes dictatorial without even accepting to look at any alternatives that do not fit with a certain political outlook.
Anyhow, if anyone can come up with practical scientific (practical engineering) solutions, without derogatory statements not based in fact, I am prepared to listen and look into it. If derogatory insults is all a person has, including disparaging someone's intelligence, then I am afraid I walk away questioning their sincerity.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 7, 2014 11:24:14 GMT 10
Fantastic article, even my wife learnt something new in this one.
Few points that stood out to me:
1/ look boring, do not stand out in any way, clothing, gear, housing.(building a shed). 2/ stick with basics, never get fancy. 3/ stock up on tradeables. 4/ stock stuff to fortify your house quickly. metal, wood sand bags.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 6, 2014 18:16:09 GMT 10
/rant on/ Sadly people just do not realise that communism only works while you still have other peoples money to hand out.
In the EU, they are all in debt by huge amounts, yet they borrow more money from other in debt countries to give other in debt countries bail outs. This under normal financial advice is a big do not do, you do not pay off credit cards with other credit cards. This is communism in action, pay with money that no longer exists. And those who do not know, nearly all EU countries are communist to one degree or another.
Look at France, they are so badly in debt, they put a 75% tax on anyone not in govt who owned more than 1 million euros. What was the outcome of this, all those who are rich, left the country, to which they decided to put on a 100% exit tax. The fools do not realise, you take everything off those who have, to not give to those who have not, and soon you will have nothing to take off anyone and nothing to keep whilst pretending to give to those who still do not have.
And don't get me started on communist style capitalism, we all know it as crony capitalism. just watch what obummer has done in the last 6 years, all those solar companies, get millions, within weeks of getting the money go bankrupt, and the money is all of a sudden gone, and no one knows where it is and no one is brought to task over theft of public monies (if the govt gives anyone money, it is the publics money, not the govts money, govts do not own any money what so ever).
/rant off/
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Post by krull68 on Nov 6, 2014 18:06:52 GMT 10
I heard a financial bloke on the radio yesterday arvo. He was asked about the fuel bottlenecks and effects. He seemed to believe there was a possible risk of interruption of supply but only short term. He mentioned also that Saudis had lowered the crude price by $2 as there is an oversupply at the moment due to US being self sufficient in fuels. He also mentioned that The Islamic state terrorists are selling oil. I would like to know who buys it and then an embargo should be put in place. I would want to know who pays this financial bloke before I was interested in believing him. Too many financial blokes (and gals) are paid to keep the sheeple calm, then they are all "surprised" when it all goes south and say things such as, "No one could have seen this coming" and "This is a complete shock as there were no indications this would happen". Call me a cynic, but too many supposed professionals who are there to tell us what to think have BS'd us no end, all the while making millions from backing the opposite.
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 5, 2014 15:40:34 GMT 10
We can build DeSal plants and wave generators (rotting on Port Kembla beach) based on a scam that are costing the taxpayer BILLIONS, but we have no fuel security. How the heck did WE allow this to happen?? NZers say 'she'll be right' and Aussies say 'she'll be right, mate'. Fuel is just as important as water. Without either we would quickly descend to a 3rd world country. Sigh. How, simply by falling in with the watermelon party. green on the outside, full blown communist on the inside that's how! What many do not realise is the so called "green" groups are not interested in pulling people up, rather they want everybody either dead or living in the worst conditions possible, think of the worst place on earth, that has absolutely nothing, magnify that about 4 fold and you are getting close to what the "greens" truly want. For the masses that is, they on the other hand will live in luxury looking over the peasants slaving in the fields, complaining how revolting they are (there is a joke in that LOL)
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Post by krull68 on Nov 5, 2014 9:33:06 GMT 10
It was extremely lucky actually, the wife had just finished watching paroit, and I thought, I would quickly switch to the news to see if they had any decent things on rather than the usual propaganda (IE all right wingers are evil, all lefties are our saviours who will bring in some utopia or another, all the wile dragging us back to the Neolithic prestone age cause you arnt allowed to eat drink, walk, live touch a stone incase a rare species of bacteria lives under there, or a turtle maybe and you should all abort everyone post birth and lets just kill everyone for good measure). /rant off/
Sadly I was only able to get the last 3-4 minutes of it. But what I heard was enough to startle even the wifleberrykins.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 4, 2014 22:24:47 GMT 10
ABC news: World 9-10 pm 4/11/2014
Due to the reduction in fuel production in Australia, we are 72 hours away from a catastrophe through lack of fuel.
Australian Govt has fallen on their promise to hold reserves of fuel for emergencies. Cost to get back to a proper level of fuel supply of 90 days, 6.5 Billion approximately.
Commercial Companies are not bothering to keep a higher supply.
Islamic groups are making direct threats towards Australia's supply lines, IE: bombing the ships bringing fuel, especially from the Middle East.
Those were the highlights from the program.
From the experts: If a natural disaster or terror attack on any of our supply depots here, food would run out in 4 days, transport would grind to a halt in 72 hours, water treatment and supply would stop, power stations would stop working (need front end loaders to get coal to the burners, and diesel electric trains to get it to the plants.)
In otherwords, the experts are saying we are on the verge of a catastrophe and they are scared.
The federal minister for energy (or whatever the dept is called these days) is not worried, as he said fuel is available for certain sectors (military, police) (think martial law).
Anyhow, this just shows that we are one disaster away, in one area, that can bring the whole system to a halt and drive us back to the dark ages.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 3, 2014 18:14:51 GMT 10
I would first get a book on Amish living, including tech drawings for making wheels, carts, plows, harvesters etc. I would also have books on other pre industrial farming level technology, such as metallurgy, also maps of known metal locations. also books on plants to eat and not eat in Australia. basically books, books, books, you can never have too much knowledge. Second I would have basic tools, picks, axes and the likes, also a way to purify water off grid, such as a desalination system.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 1, 2014 16:43:27 GMT 10
It was a very good ready, fortunately I have been playing the game long enough to have actually heard most of the things this fellow talks about. Which is why my focus has been on small acreage farming, including cash crops (grains) production crops (fibre crops such as cotton). Just have to work up a good defensive situation.
Oh and if anyone has difficulty with miles to km conversion, 5 miles out = 8 km out of town and 2 miles off main road = 3.2 km off main road, minimum. 1 mile = 1.6 km or 1600 metres.
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