"One little bit of information can be the difference between life and death." - Author Unknown, Maybe Dead XXXXXXX
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I picked up a Holiday sale deal at Home Depot yesterday that gave me two 3ah+HP batteries, a fast charger, and a bag for $129, plus you get one free tool or set of batteries from the display. It looked like a really good deal to me and I wanted some higher capacity batteries.
I really didn't get what the HP thing meant until I checked it out online.
I don't know if you've gone to the Dark Side with the Ryobi Empire of tools but this is interesting. I'm fully in on it since I've been in their 18V +One series for probably longer than a decade or whenever it started.
I bought them for tools first but now it's part of my post grid down planning for emergency lighting and tools. I'll let you know how this new tech goes. I'm not even sure if my older tools have the tabs required for taking advantage of the HP designation. We'll see. I thought that I'd pass thing along.
It's a joke and if you can find a way around it you may be well advised to do so. Electricians, Plumbers, Welders, and many other careers are still in high paying demand.
Amidst the manic concern about climate change is a fact that can't be ignored. When solar activity drops so do the temperatures. If we are moving into a cooling period then the worriers about warming should drop that idea and be happy if we even nudged things up 1 degree planet wide for it might save millions of lives. Food shortages could be headed our way along with so many other concerns that relate to energy requirements and ability to live. We'll see if it hits us with this form of climate change that has nothing to do with anything man made but rather sun made. If it does happen in this fashion you can bet that people living in the South will be getting a lot more company down there to join them. As for the Warmists among us, hold onto your Sun Hats because things may get frosty. Me, I'm getting out the wool. You can't hide from the cold.
Proviso: I'm happy to call myself an environmentalist but climate change is contained within a whole different sphere of thought unless you count deforestation and desertification. Let's not destroy the ecosystem, sure I can agree with that. If you want to get a good start on it how about curbing population growth and don't complaint to advanced countries on that but rather consider what migration and propagation of huge numbers of people in the less advanced countries will do to the load on the environment.
The term take a deep breath comes to mind. Give yourself mental space to handle anything that comes your way. Prayer can add to your margin of safety but in a dangerous physically threatening situation focus on your breathing.
We all know that it must happen eventually so it's all about timing and events to precipitate it. China is setting itself up to be safe from much of it based on their Gold purchases and so is Russia. Countries like Germany and France have repatriated their Gold from the USA vaults so that should tell you something. The power brokers know what is coming and are protecting themselves and will again leave the rest of us holding the bag so to speak, and in this case the bag will probably be filled with manure.
What to do: Get Hard Assets, add physical survival preparations like water, food, and shelter that you can't be evicted from due to non payment of rent or mortgage even if it means a travel trailer on a piece of junk land. Own your vehicle no matter how old rather than make payments that you can no longer make. Develop lots of friends in your community to network with in the event of such a disaster as a currency default. The the thing to be sure of is to not be surprised if and when it happens.
This also conforms to the idea of focusing your investment on what will run in your gun versus piling on for more and more gadgets. Master your handgun, Glock 19, and master your rifle. AR or AK.
Picture what is happening in cities like Baltimore and Chicago, multiply x50 and make it worldwide. Yes, this does present a picture of doom and it's enough to suggest getting a cabin out in the hills and dropping out of society.
End of Fiat
It's happening now and the only question is when de-dollarization finally comes about. China appears intent on making it happen sooner rather than later.
Bitcoin Myths
It is simply digits in cyberspace so whether it retains actual value is the big question. Who knows for sure.
Demographic Depression
There may be no way around this so as they always say demographics equals destiny.
