MANIFESTO OF IRS BUILDING CRASH PILOT

http://www.businessinsider.com/joseph-andrew-stacks-insane-manifesto-2010-2

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html

Tom's BugOut Plans from LATOC

For full discussion see http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Archives2010/SkilletLickerThinkYoureReadyPartTwo.html

9. Tom's equipment and general bug out plan (very condensed): He said that the first thing he did was to locate land to retreat too. He ran an ad in the paper to lease some land for hunting / camping - min-100 acres, for three years with the option to renew for 2 more terms of three years. He's got ~60 acres, close to the duck river, heavily wooded for three years, with the option of 2 more terms. Cost is $1200 / yr. They drew up a simple term sheet that provided that he did indeed have a lease. He thinks that our economy is coming down sometime within the next 5 yrs, but most likely between Fall 2010 and Summer 2011. He located his site close to the middle, and has over the last year or so prepared his site. An important feature of his site, is that he can drive in about half-way. He has stored some food supplies, but mostly equipment, fuel, some ammo, and a few weapons. The site is roughly 40 miles from his current home, is rural, with only 3-4 neighbors - the closest being about 5 miles away from the BOL.

He described his biggest prize and the most enjoyable hobby was the design and retrofitting of his trailer. He said the most useful tool around his home is his 5*10 foot trailer. It came with the home, and when he realized how useful it was, he sold the family on converting it to a camping trailer, and he bought another one to use for hauling trash, wood, etc. He has built this trailer to house 10 tanks of propane (bbq grill size), in which he bought ~one tank a month for about a year. It also contains all of the camp chairs, tents, heavy food staples (cans of food, rice, beens, etc - about 20 -5 gallon buckets.) tools, axes, a communications compartment with his HAM radio, walkies, laptop, a small solar panel, an ammo/gun compartment, a fishing compartment with multiple trotter(?) lines, 2-100 gallon tanks of water (only one filled in bug out), with a roof to erect for the trailer that collects the rainwater, filters it with modified filters he bought at Lowes, and it fills these tanks (he said that the roof dimensions were 15 by 6 (tin) and for every one inch of rain, he collects roughly 50 gallons of water. We average in these parts about 5 inches rain / month, which provides ~ 250 gallons/month (about 1/3 of his family's needs). Even though it is filtered, he still boils the water for drinking if he has to pull from the tanks. He designed a crude outdoor shower, whose flow is generated by an old hand-crank fuel pump. The same pump, can be used (switch a PVC valve) to wash dishes in the make shift kitchen/study table that is erected after it is located. Lastly, once the trailer has been located, he uses a jack to removes the tires, and set it on blocks.

He also keeps ~ 100 gallons of diesel rotated in/out of his trucks bed tank, with enough stabil to keep the diesel good, for he says 12 to 18 months. All of his vehicles are diesel, and the small 6500w generator is diesel (got it at Northern Supply).

He has taken the trailer out camping with family a few times. They love it, and it has given him a chance to wring out some bugs and determine new needs / useless items. When it is at home, he keeps it covered and stored in a shed in the rear of his house. The only thing it lacks, in an emergency bug out, is the food-stuffs which he keeps in a room close to the garage in his home (temp controlled). He says it will take roughly an hour or so to load this, and if they have the time, he can be fully loaded - and out the door in 3 hrs. If things appear dicey, he is going to preload.

If they have to make the trip and bug out, he is planning on doing this (leaving the home) at about 4am. Before leaving, he will call the switchboard and take two personal days from work. He can be at the site in an hour, plans on setting up the campsite by 7-8am, and monitor news to determine the state of the emergency. If it appears to be a false alarm, he will stay and camp for a couple of days and monitor the news. If it is not a false alarm, he is going to drive to a restaurant 5 miles down the road that has wifi, and send his pre-drafted emails, make phone calls, cache the most recent financial and news data, check and post on his blogs, and get the hunker down underway.

Weekend Links to Go Through

Some links from the previous week(s).

ENDGAME - John Michael Greer
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/02/endgame.html

HEINBERG - CHINA VS US -
http://www.postcarbon.org/article/67429-china-or-the-u-s-which-will

ORLOV on HEINBERG PIECE
http://www.cluborlov.blogspot.com/

Energy Flow, Emergent Complexity, and Collapse
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6181/

Ruppert on various -
http://mikeruppert.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-happens-when-unemployment-checks.html

TOYOTA ADMITS PEAK OIL

Collapse Control

More money to dumb down the already dumbed down.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/01/21/scotus-ruling-spells-disaster-for-political-transparency.aspx

Branding/Collapse

"...the Democrats are in trouble because they branded themselves as progressives, but the system is too ossified to make any progressive reforms. Meanwhile the Republicans have branded themselves as the party of anger, so now they are getting votes even from angry liberals.

Of course, whatever the branding, the job of both parties is to throw scraps to the people while protecting the giant pool of money that wants to keep growing by lending money that nobody can pay. The people are stronger than the giant pool of money, in that money only exists if we believe in it. But it's stronger than us in that our whole way of life depends on it. But that way of life is already falling apart." -RanPrieur.com

also see:
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/01/journal-brands-and-hollow-nationstates.html

Bankers/Bonuses

http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/11/news/economy/bank_bonuses/index.htm

For just $17,500 a night you can rent Dunton Hot Springs, a private town in the Colorado mountains.