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Let's talk disintermediation
My sense these days is that nobody except me and maybe a few others work on fridays in America, especially on a cold and icy day like today. It is a slow day. So...let's talk disintermediation.
dis·in·ter·me·di·a·tion
noun. reduction in the use of intermediaries between producers and consumers, for example by investing directly in the securities market rather than through a bank.
Here is a recent illustration of the benefit of traditional intermediation, such as investing through a bank. Some other traditional intermediaries are Catholic priests, corporate farms, and your local police. Together, these represent four areas that I find particularly interesting when it comes to thinking about disintermediation:
- Wealth/Capital (gold, bitchezzz!!!)
- Relationship with a higher power (God, bitchezzz!!!)
- Food (garden, bitchezzz!!!)
- Security (guns, bitchezzz!!!)
Over the years, I have found many ways to practice disintermediation in each of these areas. I have written articles and comments and posted photos on Zerohedge about some of these efforts. Today, I invite you to discuss with me our successes, failures, and hopes in the comments section below. I am thinking this will be similar to an open thread, except I would like us to keep to the topic of practicing disintermediation as much as possible.
Here are a few examples to get us started:
- A great way to safely store a little gold is by placing 1/10th ounce krugerrands in an L.L. Bean money belt, and hanging it in the closet with a bunch of other belts. Hiding in plain sight, and readily portable.
- I found it helpful to write a Gratitude List of the things I am most thankful for, and placing it in a place where I see it every day, not just in the church on Sundays. In my experience, Veggie Tales is right...a thankful heart is a happy heart.
- Most places in America still have a county agriculture extension office where one can get a list of the plants that grow well locally, when to plant them, when to harvest them, how to protect them from pests, and how to fertilize them, etc.
- For home security, it is hard to beat a 12 gauge shotgun, loaded with 00 buck, and a weapon mounted light. However, familiarity with a shotgun gained by target shooting or hunting is highly unlikely to provide one with the ability to effectively use the weapon for defensive purposes, and When you are Suddenly Surrounded by Violence and Killing It's Too Late to Train, so take a Tactical Shotgun Course. It is a load of fun, and you will be suprised to learn that getting the hit on big-slow badguys, when it counts, is often much more difficult than hitting little-fast birdies.
Health and education are two other areas that come to mind where disintermediation can serve us well.
This may be a disaster, but let's see how it goes...
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Apparently I left the impression that business owners pay the same rate as residential? I thought I clearly delineated (in my situation, residential) putting in a separate pole & panel was cheaper than burying 4/0 wire because of the resistance/voltage drop due to distance.
I believe every state has a power regulatory board that sets the rates, then your local commission can add on top of that.
No harm-no foul.
Plumbing is pretty easy. All you need to know is 1) shit flows downhill and 2) payday is on Friday.
I still cannot sweat copper pipe, but will keep trying.
Knowing the rules for the vent side of waste plumbing is a bit more involved than "downhill".
Direct the heat where you want the solder to flow into. Do not apply heat directly to the solder.
Exactly right Papasmurf.
Clean the copper pipe of oxidation (carding brush or sandpaper) blow it off (to remove the grit of doing that) apply liberal amount of flux paste. put the lit torch to the pipe (not the fitting) and you'll see the flux bubble first, then the pipe change color (at the fitting) and then dab the solder in front of the crack at the fitting.
If the solder "sucks up" into the joint, you did it right.
Acetelyne torches have impurities in the gas when burned which contaminate the joint your trying to solder, which is why you never apply the heat directly where you want the solder to go/be.
And flux paste (Kester) works wonders, try it HH ;-)
3) every asshole you meet is a potential customer, 4) don't bite your fingernails.
Sweat copper pipe? 120 grit emery is your freind- it's gotta be clean, remove the oxide layer. Mapp gas is helpful, too. Gets hotter, quicker than propane. Flux core solder, if you ain't in cali. Heat the joint, then put the flame on the component you want it to wick to.
Should do it.
One way or another, the world is likely going to get alot smaller for most people. Communities are as about as broken as possible in most places and the trend is likely reverse.
Without a doubt there are things you wouldn't want to do yourself. Or shouldn't. But there are many ways to make life more simple and stay within a community. Heck, there might be an electrician a few houses down who wouldn't mind helping you swap a breaker in exchange for something you can do.
I'm with you. You also need the "gang, bitchez."
No way I can do everything. I also have to sleep at some point, so I cannot defend all the time. Having good neighbors and good friends who know your out-of-the-way place is welcome for them to come bug out is really helpful. You just have to make sure you have enough stored up for them or they are also storing at your place. Probably a little of both...
+1.
No matter what, one thing is for certain in my mind... we are heading for hard times. That gets alot easier (and safer) when you have friends and family who can pull together.
This goes hand-in-hand with what I said above about getting to know neighbors! If lucky, getting to know some of them good enough to trust them.
find the right pack.
also a great excercise is gun up with a partner and hunt each other to death with an unloaded gun. in woods or local terrain. set some rules and a specific area. each gets time to get away from each other. full camo and begin. can take hours. you wiil in short order will find out what you are made of. fun, fun, fun. ps i'm dead. but learning still,as my son is one hell of stalker. I got a forty with oaks aspens. somebody comes around thinking they are bad, they will be playin dead on my forty. ps i would move to observation point and moniter activity til invervention needed(stealing my shit). walk like in kung fu stance and roll feet gently feeling the ground-thin soled shoes. after much practice you can be silent as an old indian in mocsins. actually walked up to deer on my trails when ground wet.
all fun and good training if we have to resort to wolf pack life style...
just sayin.
ps. major plasteur(sp), retired army, has written stuff on stalking prey. crawl,get low as deer don't expect, walk streams, quit clothing(wool), move slow, play sun shadows and outline to favor, wind, always plan for rest of gun, tree rocks-one shot plan, if ya don't get dirty you arn't stalking...
You can get 1:1 scale airsoft guns that have the same weight as the real thing pretty reasonable these days. Great training tools.
got paintball, but the real thing is key-just say bang. smile laugh tell story of stalk.
another is goodwill pot and pans hang from tree branches(get one piece all metal handles.
hang em a plenty and double tap the mo fo's at various distances. run roll stalk and real life shots from ackward real life situational positions. clip up and pretend it is the boss you hated. helps your focus:)
another is old rusty muffler.hang it up good-chain. upon impact you will get a streamer of rust.
good for that shotgun practice-impact moves the fucker...about the size of a human kill zone.
completly shot a push lawn mower til only stuff left was mower deck and hardened crank (from briggs 3.5 hp) stuck going thru deck. did it twice actually! they folded up like tin foil and recycled. took hundreds of steel jacketed bullets to achieve, but bullets into the engine fins and jug would leave a streamer from friction-awesome-wasn't sure wtf at first. all good fun.
at xmas get together got the gun out- it is contagious. spent better part of an hour shooting off the porch at shit all over the yard. amazing how many guns suddenly apeared once the first shot fired. one of the better x-mas's. talk, breaks, trade guns to shot, and it winds down after everything shot 20 times...plate steel hanging for novices-women given er a try. all fun-i'm a safety nut when this type of stuff starts up. i call out stuff like watch where that is pointed ect. if shit looks wrong say something don't be meek and mild, done right it is cool.
Thanks HH,
I agree with the hiding your PM 's in plain sight thought process
Most people would shit knowing I've got $xxxxxx within 15 feet of them while they sit on my couch.
I can pull it out from it's hiding spot in less than 1 minute.
Same goes for the Colt 1911 and Sig M400.
Cheers!
Cut hole in drywall.
Insert loaded .45 on the block between the studs.
Cover with 1/4 scored drywall that you can punch through.
Presto!
Disposable guns like Norinco's work well for this.
Punch with your support hand, because if you break your metacarpal (easy to do) you may not be able to grip that piece of shit Norinco tight enough to operate it and keep it from jamming.
Punch with the heel of your hand.
I use an STI Spartan 4, cheap but not total crap like a Norinco.
That said, I actually prefer .22's.
Long live the S&W model 41!
If you can shoot him in the eye then calibre doesn't matter!
I'm not recommending these guys, but you get the idea.
http://covertfurniture.com/
A real nutty idea... get to know your neighbors.
(suffice it to say that they might fall into different groups, including the one's you designate as potential threats).
Get to know your neighbours - that way, you know which ones to be careful about.
I live semi-rural, and I think most of neighbors qualify as threats more than allies. They worship at the altar of the State and Jackboot.
Evidently one of them is here.
Reach out. Open up. You will find a tribe of like minded individuals.
luv that belt!
It is certainly more convenient than the bottom of the proverbial lake, and almost as secure. One of the first questions I hear people ask when considering owning gold is where do I keep it?
The second most common question is how much should I buy? I usually say more than $1,000 to not pay sales tax, and less than $10,000 to avoid the reporting requirement for purchases with cash.
And coins can be sewn - and were - into the hems of skirts, coats, corners of baby blankets... etc.
HH, on an entireley different note, if you ever decide to visit Europe and happen to pass through Brussels, I live at approximately 20 km from Zaventem National Airport (located near the capital).
I'll invite you at my home, put you up for the night and I will serve you a chicken you Yanks will never be able to sink your teeth into: our famous "Mechelse Koekoek". You haven't lived until you've tasted that bird. Feel free to look it up on the internet. I buy them as chicks, fatten them up and butcher them myself (as quickly and humanely as possible, mind you).
You guys may have the most powerful military apparatus in the world, but you better leave the cooking to us.
Thank you for the invitation. I will contact you the next time I head to Europe.
The one thing that just doesn't cause me a great deal of concern is the whole idea of either a standard American zombie horde or jackboot thug coming for my phys. The TPTB have already figured out how to placate the horde with free food, television, and even a cell phone; shit, if mass riots haven't happened by now already, I just have no idea what the hell it's even going to take at this point. And I see the jackbootery already occuring, via highly educated wanna-be nerds with a serious megalomania complex at the Federal Reserve. If anything, the domestic miners (esp. Nevada) and the large domestic entities responsible for our energy supply (oil/NG/nuclear/coal) probably have the most to be worried about.
The Great Riots of New York 1712-1873, by Joel T. Headley, $24.99
During the Draft Riots the NYC cops got their asses handed to them, for several days, and the standard American zombie horde was only put down by calling in the military to shoot them down.
And then more recently there is the LA Riots...
"There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life." - Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates
Most folks actually have little idea as to the functional utility of a 12 gauge loaded with 00 for close quarters "work". Actually far superior than the vastly over blamed black items that the world wrings its hand over. Plus, a skeet (short no choke) barrel is entirely legal.
Now, if y'all wanna have some real fun, have a Lyman Cutts Compensator put on the little puppy.
I guarantee you have never ever heard a loud report until a Cutts has ventilated the gasses ...
It will scare the living Uknowhat out of anybody.
Plus, talking about disinter-mediation, the damage 00 does is horrific.
Yes, Martha, there will be disinter-mediation when the 9 pellets cannot occupy the same place in the offender, at once.
BTW, if you load your own, fill some #8 shot around the 00 pellets.
You get the idea....
"the 9 pellets cannot occupy the same place in the offender, at once."
Ah, the Pauli Exclusion Principle applies to ammo too, which implies they are fermions, not bosons.
On a lighter note, buy some fleichette loads if you want your adversary to look like a human porcupine.
00 buck is like having you and your 8 best friends shooting a .32 pistol at a bad guy.
I prefer an AR-15 with an Eotech holographic sight. Multiple 30 round magazines loaded with green tipped penatrator rounds. I could put 30 rounds on multiple man sized targets in 10 - 15 seconds.
For me, a 12 gauge shotgun is too damn diffcult to contol for follow-up shots. Besides, the recoil is a bitch.
One of my (several) Remington 870's has both a knoxx folding stock and a trijicon acog optic... at which point the practical (and cosmetic/bling) difference with your is AR-15 is exactly what???
(other than your 30 rounds of really crap, almost Carl Levin-esque, M855 which is actually NOT designed to kill people efficiently and does a very poor job of either killing them or even stopping them, even versus other 5.56 rounds that had more functional design criteria, and which is of arguable significance since I can put down 8 men with an 870 in well under 10 seconds at any distance under 50m without reloading, or going to a backup gun chambered in 45acp, 7.62/.308, 7.5 Swiss, or even one of the 5.56mm chambered tools with the tacticool Black-T finish and the 30round PMags)
Nobody in for .308 or .50 BMG anymore? Big stuff makes big holes.
When it comes to life or death leave the AR15 for the wife and kids and get the HK91 or Springfield M1A, even a M1 Garand. Nothing squelches backyard riots better than a 308 or 30-06
I hear you knight, takes lots of training to handle a 12 ga. Overall a AR-15 is a tactically superior weapon.
...for me to poop on.
If all you've got is a double-barrel, cut one of the shells so it hits like a slug.
You can find cut shells on youtube.
Stop a rhino!
Gotta agree with ya there knukles.
I had one of these before my unfortunate boating accident...
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:Ithaca37.jpg
...does extreme damage...if you know you're going to be in a close quarters fight with one or more opponents, that is one of the tools you want.
I saw a ruski movie where the protaganist just took his shot out and replaced it with washers. It tears up a 1 gallon water jug for sure.
Washers don't look so good. I'll stick with 00.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEWOwXHUFlo
Leave the pellets in there. Lead is heavier than steel.
I tried it both ways.
Got more damage in 3 to 8' range with the washers. Just sayin.
Not recommending to any one else.
Shit, I was using dimes instead of 2 cent washers.
http://www.apmex.com/product/70060/90-silver-barber-dimes-500-face-value...
Now that is what I am talking about...disintermediated wealth and security all in one! Plus, should you ever need to fight a werewolf...
Plus, should you ever need to fight a vampire squid,..
Sham wow, knucks.
I didn't know you were such a bad ass.
Remind me not to go burglarizin' in your hood;)
Kaiser, we'd have some real giggles....