If SHTF right now...

...are you ready?

Can you get home?

Can you get your kids home?  Even if they are on "Lockdown" at school?

Do you have enough food, water and essentials to ride out a moderate event?

Can you get out of Dodge if needed?  Even if the weather is bad?

"Right now" may strike at any time.

Do what you can to be ready.

Kerodin
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What is your Posthumous Plan B...

It has been my experience as we train fellow Patriots in CQB that most cells/teams/tribes are comprised of one or two people who serve as the heart and motivation and glue for the group.  Without this person the group loses focus and begins to drift.  Without this person, usually, essential skills are also lost to the group.  Our groups tend to be very small and shallow as regards the depth of the talent pool.  Losing a key person with key skills can be addressed by serious cross-training.  But losing that person who is the natural Leader of the group or the natural Heart/Soul of the group, opens the door for demoralization.

I chose the Alice in Chains song above because I like it.  I chose the group Alice in Chains as a larger example - Cantrell and Staley could be considered the Heart/Soul of the group.  The skills of each are complementary and in many places over-lapping.  But it is a losing argument to say that Staley (his worldview, his perspective, what he brought to the group, his voice) was a generic widget and easily replaced.  In the case of Alice in Chains the group was fortunate they have Cantrell, a powerful personality, who was able to keep the group together.  Indeed, because of the work Alice in Chains had done in the world, the respect they had cultivated, when they found themselves without the iconic voice of Staley, they were able to stay together and continue on their journey.  When James Hetfield is willing to drop by and take Staley's microphone, even for a moment, you have a viable Plan B.  (Here's Hetfield singing Would live with Alice in Chains).

If you are the Heart, Soul, and/or Leader of your group (you know in your heart if you are - drop any humility when you talk to yourself), then please embrace your mortality and understand that if the group is to survive and prevail in your absence, you have work to do now.  You are not bulletproof.  You will die or be taken out of the fight at some point.  And what is coming our way is about much, much more than merely "the fight".  If you are the glue and motivation of your Team, you need to be the one who prepares for your ultimate absence.

I invite some of our .mil guys - those of you who have had the responsibility of holding your men together, keeping morale and cohesion together in the face of losing members of the team in ugly situations - to write a piece on this topic. 

If you are the natural Leader in your group, I would suggest you begin to inspire others to lead in your absence.  Consider being this guy, and inspiring others to do the same:

Nope - that ain't Phil Collins...

Yeah, I've got the headphones on today...

But the topic is serious.  Have a Plan B.  If your loved ones will rely on the group even after you are dead, it behooves you to make sure the group will not fall apart when you take a knife in the neck.

Kerodin
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What Liberty looks like...

At that moment, at that place, the ground was secured for Liberty.

When the next chapter of Liberty in America is written, these guys will be featured.

Will you?

Kerodin
III

The Smock

The fight that many contemplate requires the average Patriot to carry considerable gear.  Obviously, what you choose to carry is as important as how you choose to carry it.  If you don't remember where you tucked a widget or you buried a widget deep within the layers of your gear and you suddenly need it, life gets complicated.

I'm not the guy to tell you what to carry, much less how to carry it - I'll leave that to the guys who have been there and done it, in the real world.  This is the grind of being prepared - the little things make a significant difference.  Did you put some widget in a pocket that stabs you in the junk every time you go prone?  Unless you do this grind work - actually putting the widgets in pockets and going prone - you don't know.  You don't want to learn this stuff on-the-job, either.

J.C. Dodge took the time to share more of his experience, here.

Take the time, folks.  Put in the work. 

Kerodin
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Bear & Dragon on the hunt?

Whatever may be your focus as we move through these days, keep an eye on the Dragon and see if it takes any significant action to affirm Chinese claims on the Senkaku or Ryukyu.  If China takes a hard stand at Senkaku, they will have matched the Crimea move by Russia.  If China moves on Ryukyu, they will be escalating beyond Crimea.  If Russia chooses to move on Ukraine, the next move will be China on Taiwan.

What would this scenario (or any similar scenario) represent?  The Pincer - two allies (Russia and China) signaling one another they are ready to move in a coordinated and hardcore manner against the West.  If one or the other fails to match the latest escalation of the other, it will be a signal that they are not, yet, ready for the final move.

When you factor a missing 777 (and understand how many people and countries would have to be involved and willing to take such a risk if MH370 is, in fact, a stolen airplane), factor Iranian warships off the US coastline, factor the very prominently-reported calls by Al-Qaeda for car bombs in America, factor US Destroyer Truxton playing games in the Black Sea, factor a world economy on the brink of implosion, factor the goals of True Believers within the US, factor the Useful Idiots within the US, factor the general moral state of the majority of people in CONUS, factor a dizzying number of similar events and details, any one of which, or combination of which, could serve as a Black Flag - and you have what future historians will write as having been the opening moves of World War III.

The Archduke of our time may have already been assassinated.

So, keep prepping.  Go to Connecticut if it is your plan to do so.  Keep training. 

And keep your eyes on the many, many men who mean to be your Master.  Many of them have far more than an AR and a Go Bag at their disposal.

They will come.  It is only a matter of when, how, in what numbers, and what patches will be on their uniforms...

Kerodin
III

Goodnight, America...

Consider life in America without alternating current available at every spigot in the country.

The report says that in the event of a US grid collapse, it will take at least a year to get the power back up and running.  Wow - talk about connecting dots in a vacuum!  To get the power grid back online in a year, even two years, assumes that life in America otherwise continues without noticing the loss of electricity.  It assumes so much that is not in evidence (or reality) that I have to simply dismiss the entire "Get the lights back on by Americans" concept as fantasy.

Here's when the lights will come back on: Whenever the Russians and Chinese decide to come into CONUS, kick out the rats that will infest from south of the border, execute the few remaining pockets of "Americans" who managed to survive famine, disease, violence, and every other Doomsday plotline one can imagine.

Turn off the electricity across the entire planet at the same time, and we'll have a shot.

Turn off the power only in America - and CONUS becomes the ripest, most succulent piece of low-hanging fruit the world has ever seen.  And we will be devoured so completely as to erase the memory of this place from the history of the Human Record.

Nine stations and a factory...

F me.

Wirecutter has the story, here.

Kerodin
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Russian companies withdraw billions from west, say Moscow bankers

**UPDATE**  The Battlespace is always polygonal.  In the current dance between Washington and Moscow, it is the Kremlin scoring the decisive cuts.

Americans resort to blunt instruments and tired charges of "Mental Instability" for Vlad - before you know it DHS will classify him as a Right-wing gun-nut extremist and religious nut - with an archaic reverence for the US Bill of Rights.  NYT: Vlad is paranoid...

Russia to US: Our nerds are better than your nerds, here.

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Kerry, Merckel, et al, have threatened if Vlad doesn't back up in Ukraine and Crimea over the weekend, they'd begin economic (and maybe "more severe - no options off the table") thumping of Russia on Monday.  Is Vlad wetting himself?

Not so much.  He's not even picking up the phone for Kerry.

Seems he's been playing chess while his enemies are playing checkers.

Kerry & Co threaten economic counters - so several weeks ago Vlad and his pals began moving Russian money out of the reach of Western sanctions, all under the radar.  Kerry and his bosses have been chumped once again.  It is obvious that Vlad and his Team knew weeks, or months, ago how everything would unfold.  Otherwise, he'd be caught with his money in Western hands, or he'd have moved his money too soon, tipping his hand.

But read the FT piece, and understand that it is just now that Western politicians are realizing how they were played on the "Economic Sanctions" front.

...and these are the people your neighbors and mine put into office.

Here's the link.

Next week is going to be very interesting, and for the wise, cursory glances toward the skyline will be in order.

Kerodin
III

Reality: "Since 1914, all the great European empires — British, French, German, Russian, Italian — have vanished..."

Without a game-changer the coming empires on Earth will be Asian, Central/South American, African and/or Muslim.  None has a history of respecting the Bill of Rights.

Those currently entrusted with that document aren't any better.

So, remind me again, what are we all fussing about?

Here's PJB's link.

Kerodin
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John Kerry: Russia has until Monday to reverse course in Ukraine

Or else...

...what, exactly?

It will be stupid people who end this species.

Ms. Duclos has insightful updates, here.

Kerodin
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That didn't take long - Ukraine

I posted below about a Ukrainian legislator who spoke unwise words of Ukraine going nuclear to defend herself from Russia. 

Ukraine's "acting" President prudently got on-air afterward and told the world that Ukraine would not intervene in Crimea.

In totally unrelated news, the sabotage of America's electrical grid is far more wide-spread than originally reported.

Imagine that.

Oh, and it is totally unrelated as long as you don't believe in Grey Terror and Spetsnaz and that Lunev was legit and RA-115s & RA-115-01s...

Kerodin
III

Beware the Copper Dragon

Lee just emailed that copper had dipped below my personal alarm of $3/lb.

Why did it dip?  This story from China is directly related.  You will remember that China had a problem a few months ago, when a shadow bank debt service was reportedly not going to make it on time.  I think it was for $160 million, and the world markets freaked.

Can this be papered over?  Beats me - we are watching the entire system coming apart with twitches here, spasms there, hints over yonder...

All rational data points affirm that implosion is imminent.

If copper remains under $3 for any length of time, watch out for falling anvils.

Kerodin
III

No Plans?

Every once in a while gripes arise about "factions" in the Liberty Movement, versus a unified, single voice.  Some people also complain that we have no actionable plans, because of the factions.

Here's what I see:  The Grand Unified Plan is to recover Rightful Liberty.  This is a goal that almost everyone holds in the Liberty Movement, and many of us have agreed to it.

How we reach that goal differs from Tribe to Tribe, Militia to Militia, Man to Man - 'faction to faction'.

Many plans are never discussed online.  Some are.

The Plan I have put forward is the One Week Plan, which simply stated is: When it is time, all Patriots go into their AOs, find something Evil, and make that Evil thing irrelevant to the future.  I liken my One Week Plan to a swarm of hornets that is released all over the country at the same time, headed for that Grand Unified Plan - Rightful Liberty.  My plan does not include me going to CT if things get sporty up there.

TL has put forward a Plan to go to Connecticut when and if his personal tripwire is breached.  If circumstances in CT change, he will probably modify his plans as prudent.

Concerned American hosts WRSA, and many people share their plans often at his blog.

I know of multiple militia units that have plans based on whatever fact-set and circumstances present.

Secession is a Plan, and many subscribe to it.

Voting is a plan, and the vast majority of Americans subscribe to it.

Whether you think X Plan or Y Plan is stupid isn't the point - you are a freeman and you get to choose how you will pursue your own Liberty.

The point is that the Liberty Movement does, indeed, have plans.  I personally believe that our diversity of plans is also a strength.  When Patriots decide to go to work, Bad People will not be able to use a one-size-fits-all response, because the guys in the Pennsylvania hills will be coming with X, and the guys in NC will come with Y, and so on.

One thing the Liberty Movement has proved, time and again, is that we will not, ever, muster in significant numbers at a specific point and apply a Plan that has been agreed upon by all involved - certainly not before some major tripwire is tripped.

Many miles separate most of us.  The pursuit of Liberty unifies us.

Make your own plan or sign on to a plan you've seen and can support.

We do not ever need to lie - we are on the proper side of morality.  We do not ever need to commit malum in se crimes, because we can restore Liberty under the Natural Law of Self Defense and through legitimate redress using Justice.

Kerodin
III

Ukraine Lawmaker: We may have to go Nuclear

I have a decent understanding of the Soviet mind.  Not Russian - Soviet.

A Ukrainian politician (in office) told the world that Ukraine may need to go nuclear to reverse the Russian action in Crimea.  Unless Ukraine held a few old nukes back behind the shed and has the ability to put them on target very quickly, this Ukrainian lawmaker (Pavlo Rizanenko - in Parliament) may have just sentenced his Countrymen to slavery.

Vladimir Putin is a Soviet thoroughbred.  He was born and raised Soviet.  He was KGB.  He also is a proud Russian from St. Petersburg.  He believes Russia has been treated shabbily, and he believes that Russia has a rightful place as the Alpha world power.

When Vlad hears "Ukrainian lawmaker wants nukes..." what he really hears is "How dare they be so disrespectful - give me just one reason I should not take all of Ukraine and teach them another lesson from their Masters in the Kremlin - this time we will make the Holodomor look like Club Med!"

The US and UK helped convince Ukraine to give up her nukes after the Soviets "fell".

Make no mistake: The US and UK will do nothing to defend Ukraine if Vlad decides to take it.

And every Ukrainian death that results will leave blood on American and British hands.

Here's the link to the story.

Kerodin
III

Real Leadership on display: TL Davis

 

TL: Will I go to Connecticut? It is my duty

Read his reasoning in his latest post, here.

He doesn't put his tripwire out there, which should be held between his own ears and nowhere else.

If he goes, where does that put you?

Kerodin
III

So the question is: Do we stab the Banksters & their allies in the neck this time?

Right this minute there are more than a million employees among the four largest US Banks.

The top 4 US Banks have a cumulative total of less than five trillion dollars in assets - and a cumulative exposure to derivatives of more than 211 trillion dollars.

In the story I link below, Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse blog took the time to show the key numbers in 2007 versus those points today.  The situation today is tremendously worse than it was in 2007.  When the economy blows the engine this time, there is not enough duct tape and chewing gum to fix it. 

You and I know that "The Banksters" are raping the system for everything that they can get before implosion occurs.  You and I know the politicians, central bankers, and a very large percentage of big business executives - and a whole fuckload of lawyers - know they are doing wrong.  Unlike politicians, bureaucrats and their Praetorian, the banksters and financial malefactors will be harder to identify in the aftermath. 

I know where I stand on the issue: Anyone knowingly and willfully participating in the current rape and imminent implosion of the economy is guilty of malum in se crimes, and they are accessories to the coming deaths of those who will die as a direct result of implosion by famine and disease.

What say you?

Here's the link.

Kerodin
III

To be or not to be: WWIII

Two posts below I wondered aloud if we are watching the opening moves of WWIII.

It's not always easy to connect all the dots when you are hip-deep in the middle of a mess, and can't see all the pieces.  And it gets even tougher when you are in the middle of SuckIt-stan and various players are intentionally playing misdirection moves.  However, we can see enough from where we do sit today to continue the line of thought: Are we watching the opening moves of WWIII?

Russia has taken two steps that inform us that we should remain highly alert and ready to move.  As I mentioned below: If Russia takes Eastern Ukraine AND we see China move on the Senkaku, Ryukyu islands or Taiwan, we are probably on a fast track to WWIII.

Susan Duclos is reporting that Russia has moved missiles into Crimea to counter the Truxton, here.

Brock is reporting that Russia is publicly warning Ukraine about their "lawlessness", here.

Within the Cold War paradigm, these two moves could be reliably dismissed as mere sabre rattling.

But we aren't in the old Cold War paradigm, are we...

Keep an eye on Ukraine.  Keep an eye on the PRC.

And check your iodide supply...

Kerodin
III

The cost of Liberty must soon be paid...

A Randall knife, owned by a III Patriot. 
In the world of fighting knives, a Randall blade deserves its reputation.

**UPDATE**  J.C. wrote and informed me the knife he is wearing in the load-out picks is also a Randall - a Model #1 that he trusted with his life in Iraq.

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The fighting knife above tells a story with every sign of age and use.  It reveals something of its owner, as well.  That knife has done work in its lifetime, and remains strong, ready to defend its owner. 

War to the knife, knife to the hilt...

Randall knives are all custom built, and like a good 1911, will live longer than the owner if treated with respect.  Such weapons can be passed from father to son, to protect lives through generations.  How good are Randall blades?  Order one today, and it is anticipated you will receive your order in May, 2017.

Choose your weapons and your gear carefully.  Respect it, and it will see you through.

J.C. Dodge at Mason Dixon Tactical has a post tonight exploring options for how to carry your gear on ops.  This is a topic that fighters approach from many perspectives.  While there is no perfect, right for everyone way to load out, there are certainly wrong ways to be avoided.  I encourage you to read J.C.'s column, here.

The time has come for Americans to set aside hobbies, fun, and the frivolous. 

It is time that Patriots must now turn full attention to the gear and weapons and duties of the Minuteman.  The price of Liberty is being demanded of us, right now.

Kerodin
III

Spring NC PatCon

Brock's North Carolina PatCon is just two months away!

We'll have several wonderful speakers on Saturday, including Concerned American.

This event will be packed with training opportunities including Sam Culper on Thursday, Grenadier1 on Friday (3pm-6pm), and I will host CQB again on Friday (10ish until about 2:30, with a lunch break and a rest before Grenadier1 begins his class).  I will teach the full Fight to your Weapon course to new students, and a strong refresher and new techniques to returning students, and I am very proud that two of our III 300 Patriots will share some of their Krav Maga techniques learned since the last PatCon!

As usual, if you have already taken my CQB class, you may participate again free.  The fee for new students is still $208, 1/2 of which we will donate to Brock to help keep these important PatCons  happening.  Again this spring Brock has put together a wonderful cache of prizes for the raffle.

If there is any way for you to attend, even if only for one day, I encourage all Patriots to make it happen.  Meeting fellow Patriots face-to-face is rewarding and beneficial.  Our evening campfire discussions are always fun and informative.

Here's the link to Brock's place, where you will find much more detail.

If you are a new student planning to attend my CQB course, please send the fee directly to Brock.  If you are a returning student and plan to go through the class again, please zip Brock an email or leave a comment on his site so he can have a rough idea how many people we'll have in the group.

Kerodin
III

Russian "Self Defense"...

Pro-Russian "self-defence" activists use a bat and a whip to beat a …

This group of Russians is only defending itself from the dangerous Ukrainian lying in the fetal position at their feet.

With Russia orchestrating that Crimea citizens vote to become part of Russia, there are whispers that China may soon make a move with the PLA to help "Liberate" the Senkaku Islands.  If this happens, relatively equal military moves by PRC and Russia, the next event in this logical chain of events would reveal the true intent of both countries:  Let us see if Putin takes Eastern Ukraine and China takes Taiwan. 

There are several "ifs" in there, but if we are genuinely watching the opening moves of WWIII, then we will see Ukraine and Taiwan fall.  If Putin remains simply in Crimea and the PRC doesn't move on Senkaku, Ryukyu or Taiwan, one can reasonably conclude WWIII remains in the distance, rather than the near future.

We shall see.

Kerodin
III

Tool: Covered by school kids - this is outstanding

If you are a Tool fan, and you take pride in youngsters who strive to become accomplished at something more than video games, watch this video.  These kids rock it.

Kerodin
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