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Post by Fractus on Mar 13, 2015 21:34:47 GMT 10
Pol lies around the world are definitely the problem. Even the problems we are witnessing with Islam seem to me to be political and groping for power.
I am not seeing how feminism fits or make us weak. Although to be truthful I am not really sure what you mean by feminism.
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Post by Fractus on Mar 12, 2015 15:39:17 GMT 10
Weren't we blessed with pig iron bob. . I was being a little flippant when I said we would know by the build up. You are right frostbite as even if we know we will probably do little for fear of upsetting our neighbours. Probably have a summit and enquiry. The enquiry will appoint Mr chamberlain to negotiate peace and how we will divide Australia to avoid war.
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Post by Fractus on Mar 12, 2015 11:02:09 GMT 10
Google Japan's name for Australia. It is goshu. They have changed the kangi from five to another, but go shu originally means fifth island. We are owned by all our northern neighbours. We are like one of those islands that nth , Sth koreas and China lay claim to. They will fight each other first for the right to invade us.
Seriously a dozen or so years ago around the Timor recalcitrant era, our defence minister said those famous last words. Australia will know well before an attack as the aggressor will have to build a maritime force large enough to get an army here. So we will see the build up. As Gray said I am not militarily trained in any way but I could load an army into a few dozen container ships and deliver them into melbournes docks with minimal warning to Australia. Multiply that with a few Garuda flights into capitals with several hundred light armed assault troops and all we have would be a few trainees from We could fly over our 300 Spartans from WA to hold them at the Westgate bridge until the Athenians arrived from our secret bases to save us.
One jumbo load of troops could take us out and they could resupply from maccas, Coles woollies and cleavers.
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Post by Fractus on Mar 10, 2015 13:01:36 GMT 10
Bunnings sell a butane cartridge light for those who have a pile of canisters like me. About $39  |
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Post by Fractus on Mar 9, 2015 18:08:19 GMT 10
Picked up two types of thorn trees today for a try at a living fence. Ie when I can't afford fencing materials or I want it to be a wind break, or to funnel zombies. One is fairly common and traditional in England. The black thorn. You can make a very tasty drink for its fruit called sloe gin. I told the very nice man what I had in mind for the plant me how would I propagate from cuttings. He said try the kei Apple (dovyalis caffra)So I got one(3 in one pot)) looked it up on wiki and it seems great for all my needs and the fruit pickles well and is edible as well as jams. Very nasty thorns as required. The fruit in the picture is unripe and from Wikipedia.  |
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Post by Fractus on Mar 7, 2015 10:53:10 GMT 10
Has anyone tried to make a living fence. Not sure what you would use in Aust as willow is easy but is too readily eaten by stock. Black berry is too hard to manage although is great to keep sheep in. Yanks use Osage quite a bit but I can't find it here.
the plant needs to be nibbleable (coined a word I think) but thorny enough to survive and block.
Looks like blackthorn might be the go. It grows from cutting is hardy with torns, good for bees and you can make sloe gin with the fruit. Etc etc
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Post by Fractus on Mar 7, 2015 10:48:19 GMT 10
 We get one dozen per day now expecting that to be about 10 per day when they settle down but love it while I can.mini pumpkin zukks and jalapeños make up the meagrely haul. But enough calories to sustain us and have the herbs to make it more palatable. |
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Post by Fractus on Mar 7, 2015 10:36:29 GMT 10
Peter and veg have the lifestyle I am very slowly heading towards. Sadly very few people can do it relative to the number of people in Aust. And definitely best to be living it now.
However, We do put life boats on ships but we don't always live in them. Some people cannot have anything more than a life boat. To maybe get by for long enough to sink in sustainable roots. Very far from ideal but better than having no torch, food, fuel water and the long list of items on every prepper website.
I read some where here that if you have seeds and stuff, don't grow it now as it will attract theives etc. maybe it would but no more than a hot water service that may contain the last drops of water in an area. As I have said before plant a seed and see how long it takes to get food. Specially if it is winter. If you planted a big heap right now. You would still need 360 cans of food per person to eat will you waited for spring to get here and then another 360 pp when your lessons were learned. The skills peter and veg have are not learnt in 6 months. I can say as an average joe on the more sustainable road, I am finding many many things are so difficult that I want to scream at the mildew, dead chooks and bloody green grubs. Then I sometime sit back and thank them for reminding me it is not ever going to be easy and really easy is not interesting. I am not talking about shtf, more about life in general.
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Post by Fractus on Mar 7, 2015 8:11:49 GMT 10
Imagine trying to grow food with only a branch from a tree to till the soil! That would get old very quickly. I have a woodworking background and plenty of hand tools but to make anything substantial with them would be so time consuming.
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Post by Fractus on Mar 7, 2015 7:49:28 GMT 10
I am preparing for the inevitable future. Summed up by a discussion we had here at home about "why is Australia so well off, both financially and in political non violence". We discussed how long it can go on for. We don't know any more than our brilliant e-cono-mistfits. I think the most likely result in the medium term will be very expensive fuel and food combined with very low employment. Causing social restructure that will be unpleasant to all of the haves like me. I have a job, cars, land, food, and worldly goods far beyond my needs. When this happens I want survive with my family and thrive. There are lots of bit of info about Cuba and what happened there. Not as dramatic or well known as Bosnia and Argentina because of their famous survivalists. But was not a war or hyper inflation.
There are all the other threats, and most of them are covered by preparing for main concern. Allthough I am not even started for a total meltdown shtf end of times. Trully I think you need to have an island that is already setup.
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Post by Fractus on Mar 6, 2015 6:23:41 GMT 10
Zombie management is the same degree as political science. Both area bereft of brains
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Post by Fractus on Mar 3, 2015 19:27:26 GMT 10
I am in what could be good or bad. I am a city fringe dweller. Got enough land to grow my way out of trouble and if it does not happen for a few years I will have the skills to make it happen. I will have a pile of family arrive and some useful supplementary skills. The distance from work and family is walkable although would take a full day. We are too close to a main road and would not be easily defended unless I ahve more firepower. Plus side is water, solid fuel and food. I am theoretically able to bug out but in practice my preparations are for bug in. Not ideal but all I could afford.
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Post by Fractus on Mar 2, 2015 17:55:04 GMT 10
what bothers me a little is social media like Facebook has built in facial recognition technology. Quite a few times I've posted a photo and when I've gone to tag people facebook already knew who they were. That is concerning. I am going to google my name and see what images there are |
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Post by Fractus on Mar 2, 2015 10:01:43 GMT 10
Clearly the truth is not the first victim as it is already dead. It is unlikely that the whole of what was suggested is true but some may be. It has always concerned me that we will not know for 30 years if something was true and sometimes not even then.
Who remembers the release of the info on experimentation on aussie kids with cancer by the U.S. Subjected them to plutonium on the pretence of medical care.
Just another reason to have multiple plans and preparations, including things hard copied.
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Post by Fractus on Mar 1, 2015 7:25:42 GMT 10
I have this as a weed. I call it pig weed. I can from compost my parents gave me and it spreads well and grows in the most inhospitable places now I find it has the highest omega 3 of any terrestrial plant go figure. I tasted it and it is ok.
Purslane contains more omega-3 fatty acids (alpha-linolenic acid in particular[6]) than any other leafy vegetable plant. Studies have found that Purslane has 0.01 mg/g of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). This is an extraordinary amount of EPA for a land-based vegetable source. EPA is an Omega-3 fatty acid found mostly in fish and some algae. It also contains vitamins (mainly vitamin A, vitamin C, Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol)[7] and some vitamin B and carotenoids), as well as dietary minerals, such as magnesium, calcium, potassium, and iron. Also present are two types of betalain alkaloid pigments, the reddish betacyanins (visible in the colouration of the stems) and the yellow betaxanthins (noticeable in the flowers and in the slight yellowish cast of the leaves). Both of these pigment types are potent antioxidants and have been found to have antimutagenic properties in laboratory studies.[8]
100 Grams of fresh purslane leaves (about half a cup) contain 300 to 400 mg of alpha-linolenic acid.[9] One cup (250 ml) of cooked leaves contains 90 mg of calcium, 561 mg of potassium, and more than 2,000 IUs of vitamin A. A half-cup of purslane leaves contains as much as 910 mg of oxalate, a compound implicated in the formation of kidney stones; however, many common vegetables, such as spinach, also can contain high concentrations of oxalates. Cooking purslane reduces overall soluble oxalate content by 27%, which is important considering its suggested nutritional benefits of being part of a healthy diet.[10]
When stressed by low availability of water, purslane, which has evolved in hot and dry environments, switches to photosynthesis using Crassulacean acid metabolism (the CAM pathway): At night its leaves trap carbon dioxide, which is converted into malic acid (the souring principle of apples), and, in the day, the malic acid is converted into glucose. When harvested in the early morning, the leaves have ten times the malic acid content as when harvested in the late afternoon, and thus have a significantly more tangy taste.
Traditional medicine
Portulaca oleracea showing blooms
Seed pods, closed and open, revealing the seeds
Known as Ma Chi Xian (pinyin: translates as "horse tooth amaranth") in traditional Chinese medicine, its active constituents include: noradrenaline, calcium salts, dopamine, DOPA[disambiguation needed], malic acid, citric acid, glutamic acid, asparagic acid, nicotinic acid, alanine, glucose, fructose, and sucrose.[11] Betacyanins isolated from Portulaca oleracea improved cognition deficits in aged mice.[12] A rare subclass of isoflavonoids, from the plant, showed in vitro cytotoxic activities towards four human cancer cell lines.[13] Use is contraindicated during pregnancy and for those with cold and weak digestion.[11] Purslane is a clinically effective treatment for oral lichen planus,[14] and its leaves are used to treat insect or snake bites on the skin,[15] boils, sores, pain from bee stings, bacillary dysentery, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, postpartum bleeding, and intestinal bleeding.[11]
Portulaca oleracea efficiently removes bisphenol A, an endocrine-disrupting chemical, from a hydroponic solution. How this happens is unclear.[16]
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Post by Fractus on Mar 1, 2015 6:50:27 GMT 10
Not really effluent depending on what the event people are avoiding. I would much prefer to be ahead of the pack running away form the cities if it is a disease/virus. If it is like the Ukraine a high rise or warehouse in the city would not be ideal. Easy to defend but also easy to burn if you are found and upset the zombies.
If I was running away I would have more fuel and so would be out past the zombie range as I have fuel. To go much further as most of us here do. It would then be foraging/ begging from farmers before everyone else.
With 4 million people in Sydney, even if 3 million run there will still be competion for buildings if each sound structure is held by a small group.
No thought out plan should be disdainfully discarded until the reality is known.
To compare to some of mother natures powers. In a sand storm I would hunker down and see what is left after. In a tsunami I would run like usaine bolt. In a cyclone I would cry. In a fire I would be someplace else. The trick is to decide and act before the sheeple.
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Post by Fractus on Feb 28, 2015 21:24:54 GMT 10
I'm not sure how close the onslaught is and I don't have your faith but if you are prepared even a little you will be ok u til the hoards have begun to thin from natural attrition. I live well with in a tank of fuel and know I could not defend against a group intent on taking what I have yet I will do my best as that's all I can do. Whoever i do have the ability to launch various metals at high velocity on demand.  You reports are very readable and informative. I think I will know when the troubles are beginning from you before mainstream news media. |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 28, 2015 21:07:12 GMT 10
Yes I think I may give it a darned good shot. I have the land so may as well.
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Post by Fractus on Feb 28, 2015 16:24:15 GMT 10
My own fault..... I had a chook drown yesterday. My troughs are used by geese as well. (1st) mistake. They splash out lots of water and foul it quickly. The lower level made it hard for the chook to get out when it fell in. I am going to change it now but a bit late for the poor chook. Worm tablet stuffed down its throat last week and drowned this week. I'm constantly amazed at how many factors need to be considered with homesteading, keeping poultry, etc. All the more reason to start pre-crunch. Yeah it pays to start early. I have made so many mistakes with foxes, grubs, bugs and birds that I would have starved many times over. Even now I would only get to eat eggs potatoes, lamb, tomatoes and chilli. Clearly my skills need to expand considerably |
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Post by Fractus on Feb 28, 2015 16:20:26 GMT 10
I got excited when I thought about getting day olds and growing them out to sell as pullets and maybe make a bit of pocket money.
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