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Arthur Hacker was a classicist of the Victorian era.

 

 In the spirit of "last call", top off your preps. Now. The chaos, violence   and unraveling of all things financial is accelerating . The Wave of 2016 put the ruling class in emergency "take no prisoners" mode . They've taken off the mask and are determined to pull the roof down if they don't get their way .

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No one should be surprised. We've been under kommie kontrol longer than their beloved Soviet Union was, yet DC's credibility and legitimacy are suddenly as much in question  as was the former Politboro.
A good practice is to read Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Consider especially these two:

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Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have
The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself

They intend to be, or appear to be, one step ahead of your ability to react. Look for the news media to mislead and misinform with a torrent of "breaking news". Look for invented crisis, false flag ops, hysterical rumors and bogus outrages. Look for censorship and violence against alternative news sources . Don't get wrapped around the axle about specifics. You're not a player. Watch trends, not details.
So far it's been psyops and low-voltage street conflict. Beware. All sides are locked and loaded so when restraint gives way it could be a free fall. How far and how fast things devolve can't be known but what is known is there's no bottom. Opportunists and predators are sniffing the wind. Prepare to support and defend your family, yourself and your community. Get serious. The classic question applies: if you're not preparing for the worst, what are you preparing for? Stay away from crowds.

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Here's some double-distilled survival advice from Aesop at his Raconteur Report website:

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 Get along with the people you can.
Make communities amidst those you will.
Resist those who would kill or enslave you.
Track down and kill the ones who just won't leave you alone.
Items one and two should have been happening with you long since; three and four's time is dawning. Words have turned to punching have turned to stabbing and running over and shooting, already. That won't stay one-sided, nor is the other side entirely unaware of that.

Adam, at Pushing Rubber Downhill, has a few words for those too high-minded to fully engage SJWs:

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 Cuckservatives have been trotting out the “not stoop to their level” line for decades now and the end result has been an almost complete victory for the left in the culture wars...
Everyone wave around their arms in the air and repeat it with me – we’re stooping to their level! No, we’re not. You don’t become your enemy by using their own tactics against them. What you do is you beat them. And defeating people is a rough, cruel and brutal process.

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Who are the Democratic Socialists? Steve Peoples at the Associated Press explains:

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 The group’s constitution describes its members as socialists who “reject an economic order based on private profit” and “share a vision of a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning, equitable distribution, feminism, racial equality and non-oppressive relationships.” Members during public meetings often refer to each other "comrades."

Socialism is a nineteenth century relic most closely allied with feminism, the only "ism" their consitution cites. Socialism is prettiest in pink. Under our current socialist regime the citizen's part is to be nice, do nice things and make nice things and share nice things fairly and nicely. Competition is selfish because everyone can't be a winner.
Picture a school marm in a rural one-room schoolhouse and you're close to the socialist's idyllic niceness. See the children being orderly, quiet, agreeable, attentive and nice. It works, as long as someone else provides the school and all the school supplies, coal for the stove, her salary, the water well, roof repairs, lamp oil and all the other annoying distractions to universal niceness those not-nice hateful people grudgingly provide under threat of a Sheriff's sale.
As for socialist "men", there are memorable descriptions we need not repeat here. As a rule, the more memorable the description, the more accurate it is. But, no need. To see one is to understand all.

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Z Man offers an explanation for the bizarre antics of the Left:

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 The Left has not generated a serious insight about modern society in over a generation. Their last big public policy idea was ObamaCare. Otherwise, it has been a series of bizarre gestures toward increasingly narrow fringe groups. They are the dog that caught the car. The Left has a free hand to do what they please in America and they have no idea what to do.

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The quote for this week is from Theodore Dalrymple at Taki's Magazine:

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 The past, our own included, is another country, and if one were to write a continuous record of one’s life, it would require almost as much research as writing the biography of someone else.

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Reader HN declares 'Mostly Bullshit' on this article linked to in last week's Woodpile Report:

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 Eric Peters Autos - Chipped Tires ... embedded RFID tags collect data on when and where you drive

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Some of Eric's claims;

- passive RFID tags acquire data after they've been installed in a tire, including location data
- passive RFID tags can store acquired data
Data acquisition and storage takes energy. RFID tags don't have any energy storage capability. Of course, proving the non-existence of a passive RFID chip that could acquire data is impossible. BUT; internet search of for such a capability turns the need for expensive external equipment to modify the information stored on high-end RFID tags  .
Therefore I assess Eric's article as just enough truth (presence of an RFID tag) to support an incredible infrastructure of fevered speculation.
It seems to me most likely that the RFID tags in tires are of the 'write once, read many' variety mentioned at the link above. Similar to a serial number that could be imprinted in the rubber as the tire is molded, but easier to scan at the warehouse and tire center. 
Eric's call for the RFID tags to be disabled upon sale to the consumer is equivalent to demanding that any serial number the tire manufacture might have molded into the rubber on the sidewall be ground off upon sale.
Ludicrous. Totally ignores the manufacturer's interest in being to track an unexpected rash of tire failures back to time, place, processes, material used to make the failed tires. That's 'quality control 101'.

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It's been that kind of year. Last week our neighbor down the road said she'd baked chocolate chip cookies and would be walking some over. Carrying aromatic food at night with all the bears around lately seemed a bit risky, so the missus insisted she drive, even though it's a short walk. A bit later she said she wouldn't be over after all. There was a bear between her front door and her car.
It's wise to be cautious of course, but standing firm and demanding "get out of here" has not yet failed to send 'em away. That's my method, a display of macho fearlessness backed up with a large caliber carbine and a ready escape.
This year, aside from a late Spring, has been great growing weather, a rolling sequence of sunny days and rain. My test plots of taters have grown like they're being pushed up from underneath. At present we have cherries, blackberries and currents in abundance.
Over many years the missus, a Master Gardener, has developed three main flower gardens. The Cottage Garden surrounds our patio and has its own walkways and arbors. The flowers mature and bloom in sequence all year, a pleasing place to be, especially of a Summer's morn. Her wildflower garden on the north end of the lot has examples of local varieties and a small frog pond with a single loud resident.
Toward the woodline is her butterfly garden, featuring nine varieties of milkweed she's collected locally. The prize is Monarchs natch, in fact it's a registered Monarch Waystation. She also maintains three bluebird houses, part of a monitored local system.
There are days I take my morning coffee on the patio amongst blooming flowers, wandering gaggles of butterflies and the occasional hummingbird. I take all of this as evidence the proper definition of a complete human being is one man and one woman. Said differently, the higher forms of wealth are unquantifiable.
Next up is trimming branches that have encroached on one leg of my shortwave antenna. My equipment was set up for me by a knowledgeable and exacting enthusiast, good stuff if not state of the art. As-is it's a listening post only but with "plug in" capabiltity for transmitting. A couple of tests by a licensed ham showed it to be more than satisfactory, as much a function of altitude as anything else, doubtless.
Change subject. People who monitor terrorist chatter say there may be something big afoot for September. This may or may not be part of President Trump's all-caps public threat to Iran.
Enough chitchat, let's get to yer ol' Woodpile Report. Yeah, it's a bit attenuated, I have to do sit-down stuff at scheduled intervals.