Rulez – The Suburban Redoubt

Decoupling

A Gray Man — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:58:14 +0000

These articles and others like them that have been making the rounds have been spinning around my head in recent weeks: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/cheap-manufacturing-be-damned-sentiment-builds-for-moving-u-s-companies-out-of-china In short, decoupling basically means in practice a shift away from international supply chains. These chains emerged in part because outsourcing to foreign nations has some advantages: cost savings, technology transfer, etc. But …

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Bugging out is generally a bad idea

A Gray Man — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:14:25 +0000

“We’re driving a U-Haul out to the Hamptons. Which means I’ll probably be the first to die” So it turns out that covid-19 is messing with the Spring Break plans of our betters and instead they are doing what any sensible prepper would do in an emergency like this: bug out out to the Hamptons. …

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Covid-19 and society

A Gray Man — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:18:24 +0000

This evening the local news had a special on covid-19. An economist opined that this could cause a recession. On the other hand, if there was some good news, such as a fall in cases in Italy, it could rally people’s spirits and make them think everything was going to be alright. I got stuck …

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Guns 101: Part 1

A Gray Man — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:18:03 +0000

Guns are a key part of being prepared. If there is a major disruption they can be an essential source of security and food. This leads to my 12th rule of prepping: Rule 12. Slaves and the dead are unarmed This sounds harsh and intentionally so. You don’t want to be unarmed two months into …

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Of masks and men

A Gray Man — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 01:20:59 +0000

I am going to talk about prepping in part through a series of rules or guidelines that have informed my prepping. In my last post I introduced my number one rule (“Be the gray man”) because…hey, it’s the number one rule. And now I’ll skip to one of the last rules on my list, because …

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I am a gray man

A Gray Man — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 22:16:59 +0000

So let me say a little, but just a very little, about me. I have been a prepper for around a decade. There were series of triggering events for me (e.g. watching the chaos and disruption in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, social distrubances in our increasingly polarized society, witnessing increasingly severe climate events, etc.). …

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