Source – oftwominds.com Neither Comply Nor Resist By Charles Hugh Smith The decay of social norms and status quo systems triggering an authoritarian tightening of the screws is a well-worn pattern throughout human history. What do I mean by Neither Comply Nor Resist? Let’s start by noting society functions by our voluntary compliance with a spectrum of…
Source – theorganicprepper.com Standard of Living vs. Quality of Life Fabian Ommar By the author of Street Survivalism: A Practical Training Guide To Life In The City and The Ultimate Survival Gear Handbook If we search the roots of conflicts, social collapses, and even many non-natural disasters, we’ll find an economic distortion or bust. Economic, monetary, and financial downturns…
Source – yvesengler.com Right wing panic over ‘15-minute cities’ about freedom for cars, not people Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose Nothin’, don’t mean nothin’, honey, if it ain’t free – Janis Joplin A growing backlash against 15- minute cities highlights how confused many who rail against big government truly are. Apparently,…
Source – https://journal-neo.org Saudi Arabia is Building the Country of the Future Since the activization of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s position and activities, the Saudi authorities’ resolve to make significant changes in the Kingdom’s foreign policy and image has been particularly strongly disputed. Back in 2017, he predicted that the world would eventually transit…
Source – naturalsociety.com – “…We have evolved to prefer favorable natural environments, i.e. those with plenty of vegetation and water. More specifically, living in said environments can increase physical activity, reduce exposure to pollution, improve social engagement, and reduce stress and depression..Honestly, how would you rather exercise? By walking or cycling down a crowded city…
Source – collective-evolution.com – :“…Every person on the planet can feed themselves with just 100 square feet of well managed land. In 2008, the UN Conference of Trade and development supported organics, saying that organic agriculture can be more conducive to food security in Africa than most convetional production systems, and is more likely to…
Source – wakeup-world.com Living Lightly With Fewer Possessions: Why We Aren’t Meant to Accumulate By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. (Above Photo Added By SM) Recently I was surprised by a conversation I heard on a train. A woman was reading a celebrity magazine, which had a feature on the beautiful home of a TV soap star. This TV…
Source – preppgroup.home.blog You May Not Find Yourself Living In The 19th Century Tomorrow, But What If? By Milan Adams Those that are aware of the EMP commissions report have probably also heard the statement that this type of event would suddenly transport everyone involved back to the 1800’s almost instantly. It is also possible…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com Who Would Benefit From A Severe Global Recession? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith As painful as this liquidation and repricing of risk is for borrowers and lenders, those without debt, those with cash and those with essential skills that are in demand regardless of boom or bust will all benefit. Who would…
Source – earlking56.family.blog We need this article! Americans that have only known the post WWII prosperity are ill equipped and educated to deal with depression level living. by Klark Barnes The forces are mounting that will eventually overwhelm most Americans and send their standard of living to unknown depths. Americans that have only known the post…
Source – preppgroup.home.blog/ 7 Unexpected Consequences of an Economic Crisis: That Will Throw The Nation Into Total Chaos Milan Adams Other than the obvious consequences, what might we expect from a partial economic collapse? A total collapse of the economy would throw the nation into utter chaos. But what if we endure an economic depression, or…
Source – nytimes.com Jacque Fresco, Futurist Who Envisioned a Society Without Money, Dies at 101 By Richard Sandomir Jacque Fresco, a self-taught and passionate industrial designer who envisioned an alternative society where money would be eliminated and resources distributed equitably by computers, died on May 18 in Sebring, Fla. He was 101. His death was…
Source – naturalblaze.com Best Places To Live Off-Grid: Top 5 U.S. States For Quiet Living, According To Experts By Stephanie Vallette If you’ve ever wanted to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life, off-grid living may have piqued your interest. Abraham Lincoln even seemed to like the idea, saying, “The greatest fine…
Source – naturalblaze.com Why The Back To Land Movement Is Growing! By Neenah Payne Humanity Is Living In Two Worlds Now! shows the divide between people who rely on the system and those who are becoming independent of it. Easy Ways To Prepare For Weather Emergencies shows the enormous threats to the grid now and…
Source – naturalblaze.com No Space? No Money? You Should Consider a Micro-Retreat By J.G. Martinez Most of us are not exactly farmers and will have a hard time growing or raising what we intend to eat if we just one day decide to start living off our harvests. It is a fact. Hunters and fishers…
Source – theorganicprepper.com A Philosophy to Help Us Through Difficult Times Lately, it feels like everything that CAN go wrong IS going wrong, along with some stuff we never even considered in our wildest prepper dreams. (A Chinese police station in the United States of America, anyone? GMO mosquitos that will vaccinate you against your…
Source – newdawnmagazine.com Sacred Geography & the Legend of Agartha: A Spiritual Journey Between History & Mystery By Boris Nad The history of peoples is made by the unwritten history of great travels and world travellers – a history that began long before Herodotus or Marco Polo, in the Neolithic or even earlier, in some…
Source – resilience.org Health & welfare in a small farm future: Part 2 – a game of Monopoly By Chris Smaje It’s tempting to divert from my present cycle of posts to address the latest melodrama in the ongoing dark comedy of British parliamentary politics. However, it’s a temptation I’m going to resist. There are some things…
Source – lewrockwell.com An-Cap Mennonites – By David Hathaway Many wonder if voluntarist communities that avoid state entanglements are workable. Critics of anarcho-capitalism ponder whether this idea is a pipe dream and a libertarian utopian fantasy. Voluntarists might try to refute this line of thinking by looking for concrete examples of such communities throughout history…
Source – thedailybell.com The Four Stages to Create a Self-Sufficient Free Community by Joe Jarvis I want to create a free community that can one day declare sovereignty. But to do that, I know I need to start small, and build in stages: How Freedom Will Rise Again, and how to take advantage of a…
Source – oftwominds.com Chart a Course To Self-Reliance – By Charles Hugh Smith Self-reliance in the 21st century is uniquely challenging because we’ve become overly dependent on globalization and financialization. As things unravel, the one surefire strategy is to chart a course for greater self-reliance. Improving self-reliance has no downside, only upside, and everyone can…
Source – theeconomiccollapseblog.com A List Of 33 Things We Know About The Coming Food Shortages by Michael Snyder Things are far worse than you are being told. Over the past few months, I have been carefully documenting facts that show that global food production is going to be way down in 2022. Unfortunately, most people…
Source – oftwominds.com The Global Energy Crunch – By Charles Hugh Smith If we insist on doing the transition the hard, slow, costly way rather than the easy, fast, cheap way, it’s going to be a needlessly arduous, soul-crushing slog. Let’s cover a few common-sense points and ask a few questions about the Global Energy…
Source – naturalnews.com “…Homesteading skills are crucial because they will help you live off the land. By learning homesteading skills, you can be more self-sufficient and live a sustainable lifestyle. Here are 24 homesteading skills that will help you become more self-reliant before SHTF” 24 Important homesteading skills to learn before SHTF – By Zoey…
Source – oftwominds.com “…As I’ve been saying for years: “A healthy homecooked family meal and a home garden are revolutionary acts.” If these don’t seem revolutionary yet, just wait a few years: their revolutionary nature will become self-evident…Gardening is the antidote to the toxic tsunami of despair and derangement sweeping the land and one expression…
Source – resilience.org “…This 50-minute film gives voice to dozens of people building a more beautiful world. From restoring topsoil, to sharing traditional knowledge, to opposing free trade treaties and innovating new ways of supporting local businesses, their actions are forging a new path forward for humanity” Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution This 50-minute film…
Source – mercola.com ‘…They know people won’t accept these slave systems unless they’re absolutely destitute and desperate and have no choice but to comply. Knowing that this is the plan, what does that mean for us? It means we need to a) prepare, so we don’t become victims of their intentional destruction, b) reject their…
Source – theorganicprepper.com “…You may read this and wonder why on earth someone who writes about frugality is talking about these experiences. Why doesn’t she have her sh*t together? Why is she having trouble with money and if she is, why am I reading this site for advice? I totally get it. I practice what…
Source – theorganicprepper.com “…Firing a volley in this war doesn’t have to be bloody. Resistance can begin as easily a planting one seed in a pot. It’s time to go to battle and declare your independence with a spade in one hand and some seeds in the other. You may feel like your hands are…
Source – off-guardian.org “….Vandana Shiva says in a recent article that it is time governments made the fertiliser industry pay for nitrogen pollution and redirect subsidies from industrial agriculture to ecological farming…At the same time, we must not be hoodwinked by the relentless fear-mongering (concerning organics) of the agritech-agribusiness lobby, which requires farmers to continue to purchase…
Source – EllenBrown.com “…The solution to the current food crisis is small and local, including growing food locally… “Deglobalizing” and “dedollarizing” have been much in the news. Reducing dependence on the global supply chain and the U.S. dollar are trends that are happening not just internationally but locally. In the United States, we have seen movements…
Source – eldoradolandcompany.ca “…It’s not uncommon for people in North America and Europe to pay tens of thousands of dollars in property tax every year… just to live in their own homes. And the burden will almost certainly continue to increase. Most governments continually raise property tax rates, especially governments in bad fiscal health. It’s…
Source – resilience.org “…Fifty years after its publication ‘Food for Free’ still stands as the progenitor of the modern preoccupation with wild food; but too often its radical message has been lost in the desire for that ‘wild’ consumer experience. Though added to by many similar books since, and more recently by practices such as ‘bushcraft’, it…
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