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    Liberty Alert: Defying Negative Prepper Stereotypes

    The Life Of The Survivalist


    May 29, 2012 by Brandon Smith

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    In the movie "2012," Woody Harrelson played survivalist Charlie Frost, a character depicted the way Hollywood typically portrays survivalists.

    We’ve all seen the stereotypes depicted in TV and film: a lonely, semi-frustrated man with a knack for carpentry, barbecue and ammo reloading. He stockpiles guns and food in his secret log cabin in the hills near his home and awaits — even anxiously anticipates — the inevitable end of the world. He believes only he will survive, because everyone else is an idiot. Oh, and he’s “crazy.” All survivalists are.

    But is this stereotype in any way honest? Does one have to take on all these cumbersome characteristics in order to be a survivalist, or does one choose to become a survivalist and suddenly is stricken with angry redneck’s disease?

    I became a survivalist three years ago, and I can say without a doubt: One does not have to live the stereotype.

    Survivalism is not about taking on a new identity; it is about being prepared. It is not about paranoia and fear. It is about awareness, responsibility and common sense.

    The average American today is often so disconnected from his own survival and self-defense that when confronted with the idea of “preparedness” he becomes incredulous, as if the entire concept is so fantastical it should be buried in a book of folklore along with fairies and unicorns. The fact of the matter is: True survival will soon be the first thing on many Americans’ minds instead of the last. Every man, whether he be a farmer in the country or a yuppie office jockey in the suburbs, will have to decide immediately what he is going to do — mentally above all else — to be ready for what is coming.

    Taking Responsibility For Your Own Life

    A survivalist understands that until he is self-reliant, he cannot help others. His life is his own. If he fails to protect it, he has only himself to blame.

    No survivalist expects others, including the government, to save him from peril. No true survivalist will find himself after an inflationary collapse of the dollar crying on a street corner demanding free food and a job. He knows he will not get those things anyway, that anything he does get will come only through his own struggle and sacrifice.

    Being truly free is a double-edged sword. While the possibilities of life become endless, one must be capably independent in order to make use of those possibilities freedom presents. This means taking one’s destiny into one’s own hands. It means hardship and heartbreak. It means striving, never stopping, always moving forward through any obstacle regardless of how seemingly impassable. It means having the will to fight back against oppression that appears insurmountable. Your world begins and ends with you, and the same goes for your problems. You are the maker of your own epoch.

    Independence Is Not The Same As Selfishness

    While it is impossible to be a survivalist without breaking free of our dependence on society, this does not mean we leave society in the dust. Survivalists are very aware and insightful people. When confronted with the ignorance of the average person, we often reel in horror and disgust. We can become jaded and uncaring for those who do not see the trouble coming, taking on an attitude of complacency when confronted with the plight of those we tried to warn. The cold Darwinian mantle “Survival of the Fittest” can take hold of us and make us lose our humanity. Some of us may even stop trying to warn people.

    “Let them find out the hard way,” we think. “What’s the point? If they haven’t figured it out by now, they never will.”

    But this is pure rationality, not wisdom; and there is a very big difference. While the survivalist movement is often linked with the “objectivist” philosophies of Ayn Rand and such philosophies lean toward the “every man for himself attitude,” wisdom dictates that this is simply not practical. It is, at the very least, an exaggeration of the truth.

    Human beings have an inborn sense of individualism. Cultivating this is at the very core of survivalism. However, we also have an incredibly strong inborn sense of compassion and connectivity to our fellow man. It is a part of our conscience, and it is something we cannot escape. It is in the nature of those who are aware of danger to try to protect those who are not.

    The survivalist is not an island, and there is something much greater at work in the universe than the narrow mechanics of pure logic. The human heart must be heeded, lest we face the dire consequences; and the heart tells us that all life has a meaning — even the life of a stupid, useless man.

    Why We Fight

    Saving our own lives and the lives of our family is, of course, of optimal importance, but this alone is not enough. What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? What is the point of it all?

    Do I personally feel a great sense of “admiration” for the large part of humanity? Certainly not! Nine out of 10 people I meet on a daily basis are earth-shatteringly ignorant, self-absorbed, egotistical, self-centered, socially backward products of the pop-culture sewage pit.

    But do we condemn them to death for this? No, we do not. Instead, we fight for them every day.

    We do not fight because of what humanity is. Most of us despise what humanity is. We fight for what it could be. We fight for the very real possibility of something far better than what we now know — a world where individualism is the norm and where elite minorities of men bent on dominion are given no ground, no foothold, no quarter. We fight for a world where original thought is encouraged instead of crushed, logic and emotion are given equal importance instead of generically separated and compartmentalized, honesty and courage are rewarded instead of mocked, and the love of our fellow man is natural and real, instead of fabricated and forced for the sake of appearances.

    We fight for a world we may never live to see, not because it is “reasonable,” but because every impulse at our very core tells us it is right. It is necessary. It is one of the reasons we are here, now. The survivalist is not just a self-reliant and insightful man of resolve; he is the levy upon which the ripping torrential waters of history collide. He is the wall that stays the tide. If the survivalist collapses, then nothing can hold; but if he remains, as solid as stone, then there is a chance for everyone.

    Whether we like it, in times of pain the world turns to those men who have either the conviction and great strength of an honorable soul or those who are clever and evil enough to fake it. By becoming a survivalist in such times, one also inadvertently becomes a symbol to others. Ironically, by breaking free of the masses, in a sense we also become partly responsible for them. The example we set could determine the very direction of the future. The way of the survivalist becomes a steadfast light in the darkness, until finally, all men can see.

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    Check Out These DIY Weapons Made Using…Trash

    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:14pm
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    Joerg Sprave has done it again. The man who maintains the Slingshot Channel on YouTube has released yet another DIY tutorial of weapons made from every day items. This time he is showing you how to weaponize your own trash.

    (Related: Ever wanted to know how to turn office supplies into mini weapons? Here’s your video)

    Responding to a challenge from COLORS magazine, Sprave dives into items salvaged from garbage. He headed to his local forest to forage for the trash, which may seem like unusual location, but he seems to have found a broom handle, cat food cans, a pair of jeans, clothes line, crushed red chili (he calls this a “valuable find”), a perfume bottle, batteries, a clothes pin and a pair of “quite clean” and “snappy” rubber gloves. One can only imagine what Sprave will make from these items, but here’s a quick list to fill you in:




    (Related: See other posts on the Blaze of Joerg Sprave’s videos)


    Sprave's homemade crushed pepper spray. (Photo: YouTube screenshot)

    Testing out the pepper spray. (Photo: YouTube screenshot)

    Bolas made from cat food cans filled with batteries to make them heavy (although Sprave recommends using rocks, not batteries). (Photo: YouTube screenshot)

    Sprave fires his crossbow made from a broken broom handle and rubber gloves. (Photo: YouTube screenshot)

    Check out the whole tutorial about “How to Weaponize Trash” for yourself (Note: If you stick it out to the end, you can see some of Sprave’s new slingshots, one of which he hopes to break a Guinness World Record with):



    [H/T Gizmodo]

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    A Weapon That’s Half-Shotgun, Half-Bow? Here’s the Video!Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:49pm
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    It’s a weapon combination so outlandish that some have called it the “craziest weapon mashup” they’ve ever seen. Others don’t believe it is real and some who do believe it find it “cool but pointless.” It’s a combined compound bow and shotgun.

    (Image: YouTube screenshot)


    A YouTube video shows a man testing out the hybrid. Check it out:



    In the comments, some question the recoil because his elbow didn’t bend.

    Although how this item was made is not specified, Every Day No Days Off’s gun blog (via Neatorama) has an idea on how these two weapons could have been put together:
    It looks to me like there’s some type of plunger at the back of the shotgun, which is likely in contact with the firing pin. The cable then whacks that and… BOOM.
    What are your thoughts on this weapon? Let us know in the comments.

    [H/T Gizmodo]

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    Pre-Collapse Ramp Up: Retailers Stock Up On Shutters, Organize Security Details Ahead of Financial Meltdown and Social Unrest

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    With hundreds of billions spent to save the ailing economy of Greece (and the rest of the continent),

    unemployment rates in excess of 50% among those in their twenties and a solution nowhere to be found, many in Europe and around the world are realizing that this entire system is about to come unhinged.

    And when it does, as we have noted on several occasions over the years, there will be riots in the streets.

    Retail business owners in Greece and greater Europe are now planning for the worst.

    This is not some alarmist overreaction. This is happening right here and now, and people are starting to understand that the consequences of a collapse in Europe, the United States and the world are going to be serious:

    The planning, says Dixons chief Sebastian James, may look alarmist but it’s good to be prepared.

    Company bosses around Europe agree. As the financial crisis in Greece worsens, companies are getting ready for everything from social unrest to a complete meltdown of the financial system.

    Those preparations include sweeping cash out of Greece every night, cutting debts, weeding out badly paying customers and readying for a switch to a new Greek drachma if the country is forced to abandon the euro.

    Chief Executive James says the company has contingency plans to shutter up its 69 wholly owned and 29 franchised Greek stores and close them in the short term to protect against any threat of civil unrest and prepare for a switch to a new drachma.

    Dixons, using its experience of dealing with riots in London and other British cities last summer – big flat-screen televisions were the looters’ booty of choice – has ordered enough shutters to protect its stores and is working with the Greek police and security groups.

    KPMG’s Bayly advises his clients to check the six Cs when preparing for a possible Greek euro exit: cash, contracts, continuity, counterparties, control and commercial. He believes that automotive companies, tour operators and pharmaceutical groups would see the biggest immediate disruption from an early euro exit by Greece.

    Bayly also warns companies to guard against the failure of key suppliers or counterparties, to tighten up on controls to avoid errors and fraud, and also to be clear on how they would be affected commercially by possible future changes in patterns of government and consumer spending.

    Source: Reuters via Zero Hedge
    As we highlighted in Just In Time: When the Trucks Stop, America Will Stop , the entire commerce infrastructure is one catastrophe away from seizing up.

    We’ve already seen an example of this in Greece when liquidity in the credit system dried up and caused shortages in live-saving medications because customers weren’t able to pay pharmacists, who weren’t able to pay distributors, who weren’t able to pay manufacturers and transporters – and none of them were able to acquire credit terms from banks to keep the cycle going.

    There is so much interdependence within the system that it is impossible to predict the exact sequence of events. However, astute readers understand that a breakdown in credit lending, or key manufacturers going belly-up because they can’t cover operating expenses, could lead to serious shortages down the line in businesses that include everything from medicine to food to fuel.

    Take a queue from the businesses that have direct relationships with large credit organizations and government insiders. They know something is amiss, and they are taking steps to prepare today, not hoping for a solution that will never come.

    It is critical that you reduce your personal counter-party risk as much as possible ahead of the economic destruction to come.

    You think 2007-2008 was bad?

    That was a private sector collapse. The taxpayers of the world were the backstop – and for the most part business continued as usual.

    We’re now to the point where entire nations are beginning to crumble under the weight of excessive spending and debt – and all of their backstops and emergency response plans have been exhausted.

    The end result will be a paradigm shift unlike any we have witnessed in our lifetimes. There will be riots. There will be starvation. There will be bloodshed.

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    Hackers Take Down Largest Survival Web Site; Threatening Email Sent Prior to Attack

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    [This report has been updated below]

    SurvivalBlog.com, the most widely visited survival web site on the internet became the target of a Denial of Service (DoS) Attack which rendered the site inaccessible on the evening of May 26. According to an email published at The Orange Jeep Dad Blog, Lily Rawles, the wife of founder and author James Rawles, says the attack “appears to have been a “pinging” DOS attack.”

    The Survival Blog main server, which is located in Sweden, is unavailable by using its SurvivalBlog.com URL (uniform resource locator) or direct IP address SurvivalBlog.com.

    As of Sunday May 27 @ 21:30 efforts are underway to redirect the domain name servers to the US-based mirror web site at the following currently available IP address: SurvivalBlog.com

    A threatening letter sent to the web site anonymously this week via email demanded that the site remove all hyperlinks to various other web sites that were interlinked from Survival Blog. It also threatened to openly publish James Rawles books on pirated web sites. The email, in what appears to be broken English, called for Rawles to immediately cease the interlinking within 5 days and threatened to attack unless Rawles complied with demands to publish a racist headline and post on his web site.

    It is uncertain whether Survival Blog’s refusal to meet the demands in the email are related to the flood of access requests that took down the web site over the weekend, but it’s believed that the anonymous sender traced to Texas may be directly involved.

    A copy of the threatening email sent to Survival Blog is sourced via Prepper Website and made available by The Orange Jeep Dad Blog:
    Update from (Avalanche) Lily Rawles (21:48 MST):

    Apparently there’s a racist in Texas that has threatened JWR’s livelihood and attacked SurvivalBlog. The following is a quoted excerpt from the threat as sent to me directly from Lily. She asked that I leave out the cursing and I will happily oblige:

    It appears to have been a “pinging” DOS attack, most likely instigated by the man in Texas that anonymously sent me this little missive, last week:

    You “N” (word removed) lover you have five days to take all links and any metion for links below off your site. If you dont do it I will post everyone of you crappy books on prirate sites and kiss your “N” (word removed) loving income from them good by. I can and haved posted privated books up screwed up a company before They are almost dead kiss www.survivalbooks.com good f***ing good by they could not take our hacks after relating to you f***.

    We even take their 4000 books off kindle. Don’t believe watch their books all go by by after Monday we have people work at amazon we can get their books off watch yours go to to. You must post I hate “N”s on your site or it happen to you to to. Time u feel our power see jewish hate on your site to. we hack good ,

    F*** you them all u

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    www.survivalebooks.com www.cheaperthandirt.com
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    [Note: Orange Jeep Dad Blog] I left punctuation “as is”. They hope to get the site back up by “Monday afternoon”. Please pray for the Rawles in hopes that God will continue to bless their family and deter this miscreant down a different, less harmful path and keep all the loyal advertisers/friends of Survival Blog safe from harm.
    Survival Blog name servers may be in the process of updating, as accessibility seems to be in the process of being restored and or redirected to the US based IP address at SurvivalBlog.com.

    If the site Domain Name Servers have been rerouted then the site should be available once the US based address propagates across global servers, a process that normally takes from a few hours to two days depending on end user access areas.

    UPDATE: MAY 28, 2012 @ 12:03 AM

    Accessibility to SurvivalBlog.com has been restored to the U.S. based mirror site.

    Via Survival Blog:
    This past weekend, our server in Sweden was put under a “ping floodDenial of Service (DOS) attack that at times resulted in 65% packet loss.

    The attack was timed for a three-day holiday weekend, no doubt because the miscreants expected that the staff at our ISP would be unavailable to help us reconfigure.

    OBTW, the attack initially did not include our dotted quad backup address:95.143.193.148 (Which is explained here.)

    At least this provided a good test for our Continuity of Web Services (COWS) defenses. Obviously, we are now going to need multiple mirror sites as well as an adaptive cloud server that can handle any future DOS onslaught.
    Due to the nature of name server updates Survival Blog accessibility via direct URL (www.survivalblog.com) may remain intermittent. Direct access is now available via SurvivalBlog.com.

    Related:
    The SHTFplan.com COWS defense calls for accessibility via dotted quad backup address SHTF Plan - When the Shit Hits The Fan, Don't Say We Didn't Warn You. .

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