First Things First

I wrotel ast week that I was going to start over on what we should be doing right now. I believe that by this time next year, we will be in deep doo-doo. A combination of several things is going to throw this country into a real mess. The third world war which is now being fought, the economy which is going in the toilet due to all of our jobs being shipped overseas, the invasion of the Mexicans to take over this country, the bursting of the housing bubble and possibly a few more such as a possible terrorist (real or government controlled) attack are all coming to a head at about the same time. This does not bode well for this country. There will probably be riots, stealing, killing and anything else by the people who believe that they are owed a living without having to work for it. There will also be those who cannot get a job because all of their jobs have been shipped overseas or illegal Mexican invaders are doing them. This scares me so bad that I pray every day that I am wrong. However, feeling fairly sure that I am right, I am now going to give some advice that I believe we all need to follow. What little money you will spend on my suggestions will be well spent. Usually when I give advice no one ever loses any money.

First, look at where you live. The bigger the city the more chance of bad things happening. The reason for this is quite simple and quite understandable. City people are not used to doing for themselves. Their food comes from stores or restaraunts and everything else come from stores also. Even those who may know how to hunt and fish or to raise a garden have no place to do so. This means that the have nots will be rioting and taking things from the haves. My advice is that if you live in a city or other area where you feel will be unsafe in a war/depression era, have a plan on where you can go. If you can get out now and get a place in the country, do it. Most have jobs and need to make a living so that is impossible. The next best thing to do, if you can afford it, is to purchase a small piece of land in what you consider a safe area. If it has a house or other buildings on it, so much the better, but it is not necessary. You can use it to camp on during vacations and get to know the area around it. You do not need to purchase a piece of lakeshore property or even a nice piece of land. A small city lot in a town of less than 1,000 would be just fine. It would be better to get a half acre or an acre or more in the country that could be used for camping. Some of you probably do not have the money to purchase even a small lot at today's prices. My best advice for you is to have excellent camping equipment and look for an out of the way place in a national forest or some other accessible wooded area in which you could camp long term. Not the best solution, but better than no plan.

Now I am going to say something that many survival advisors overlook or do not think is true. No matter where you live, have a back-up plan. I live six miles outside of a small town of less than 1,000. However, with all of the city people that have cabins in the area and all of the city people that come camping, I still have a double back-up plan. I am one-fourth owner (all family) of one acre 140 miles north of where I live. I have a older pop-up camper sitting in my yard that I can hook to in a minute and leave for that land. I hunt and fish in that area when I am able and I know it well enough to live partly off the land. Should that fail or for some reason I could not stay there, I already have a spot picked out in a national forest where I do not think I would be found for a while. Some people might think me paranoid and I probably am. However, I consider a crow the most paranoid bird in the wild and I have never seen one killed on the road by a car. They are either too smart or too paranoid. Either way, I do not intend to be road kill either. Having these plans is not costing me anything. I could sell the land for much more than I have in it. I use the camper once or twice a year for a vacation and for hunting. And there is no cost for knowing where to go in a national forest. By the way, I also know a couple of place in a state forest if someone should beat me to my spot in the national forest.

More next week.

Get Ready

Welcome to our new way of doing things. I will try to update this blog on each Sunday night. I have taken much time off and done some rethinking on this blog. While next week and the week after, I will try to finish up the wind generator plans for those of you who might be waiting for them, I will then be doing things somewhat different. I will be jumping around to various aspects of survivalism as I see it. Why the change? I believe the time is coming soon when you will need certain skills and I will try to focus on them. What do I see coming? I see the attempt at a complete takeover of our private lives by our government. For those of you who are unaware of it, I currently have another blog which is political. I have also taken some time off from that one and will be updating that one on Sunday nights also. http://therealamericanpolitics.blogspot.com/ is the other blog. If you are at all interested in the politics of what is going to happen go there and follow that blog as well as this one.

I will just give you a short reasoning of why it believe the way I do. First there is immigration. We are supposedly fighting a war on terror, yet we have an open border policy on the south border of the country. Not only Mexicans and other hispanics are coming in that way but many middle eastern illegals. How many of these are possible terrorists? Only God knows for sure. Many of these Mexican illegals are here to take back a portion of our southwest which they claim is their own. They fly Mexican flags, speak spanish and hate gringos. This could get bad enough for the government to declare martial law. I believe the government is behind the Balkinization of this country. That is one way they could claim martial law is necessary; to avoid a civil war. I already consider it a war as I consider all illegal immigrants as invaders. The senate bill, which the president backs is nothing short of total amnesty. They can call it what they want, but if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and has feathers, it is a DUCK.

Another thing is the economy. While they tell us that the economy is great, they keep shipping jobs overseas and giving those in this country to the illegals. This drives wages down and people are living well beyond their means and using more and more credit. The fed keeps raising the interest rate to keep inlation down they say. As they raise rates, credit card interest goes up, adjustable rate mortgages go up and soon people cannot pay their bills. With the new bankruptcy laws there is no longer a way for people who lost jobs or have medical bills to start over. This is being done to complete the property power grab that the supreme court started when they made their decision against private property. Soon there will be no private property unless the government LETS some people own some. As banks take over people's homes and other property, there are going to be riots and other uprisings. Once again, the government could declare martial law or we could all be fighting in the streets to keep what we own. We could be fighting for food, shelter or anything else.

These are just two possible scenarios that I see the possibility of. There are several others all playing out at the same time. I believe that the government is behind all of them and is just waiting to see which one is going to be the trigger. The patriot acts have taken away much of our freedoms and the rest could be taken with the stroke of a pen. This is why I am changing the direction of this blog. It will still be a survival blog, it is just that I will now be concentrating on what is going on in the country now and how to counter it. See you next week.

I Am Back

Just a quick note today to let you know that I will be getting back to regular enteries. Hopefully the first will be later this week and then once each week. Look for more info soon. Thanks for your patience. Knifeman