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Posted: 4/8/2023 8:05:33 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: @C-4 Interesting. How do you cook it and serve it, grilled, fried, etc…? My list of exotic meats basically just include ox tail, shark fins, and gator tail. Ox tail was OK but the texture was such that I got tired of chewing and just swallowed it. Shark fins (serve in a soup) didn’t impress me. Can’t say I remember much more that that as both of these were many years ago. My experience with gator tail is it’s great fried but lacking grilled. I do like fried gator tail.  I guess anything that’s fried tastes good to at least some degree.  Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Michael Yon @MichaelYon Mar 30, 2023 at 9:49am Bear Hunting in Japan 30 March 2023 Yonezawa, Japan Mind burst, sans edit Today was with a bear hunter in Yonezawa, Japan. The 67 year-old bear hunter said he kills about 10 bears per year, and lots of deer and hogs. He had a big pile of mixed skulls. Four big freezers. This place is overrun by bears. So many bears here they come downtown and are aggressive sometimes. Over recent generations, rural Japan has been collapsing as farmers die off, or go bankrupt, and their children move to places like Tokyo. Japan is at extreme risk for famine in time of war or serious crisis. He has six guns including a 300win mag rifle, a 30-06 and more. He kills most bears from a couple meters away. He tracks the bears, anticipates line of travel, rushes ahead to wait in ambush. Hunts only during daylight due to Japanese law. Fourth generation bear hunter. Said first time he went bear hunting he was four years-old on his Grandfather’s back. Says he is successful in 60-70% of his bear-hunts because he only goes when it feels right. He hunts alone and usually hides behind a tree for ambush. Said he waits until very last second and whips the rifle around and fires saying the bear usually stands up in surprise, and this gives the hunter a couple seconds to get the shot off. He said sometimes the shot is like 30cm away. About a foot. I said you could make a fortune off a GoPro video of that. He knows what a GoPro is and laughed. These bears are straight up dangerous and so you gotta be really calm to hunt that close. Remember in Darien Gap an Embera Indian told me he got a jaguar that close nights before and showed me the fresh skull, and a kuna indian got a deer from that close and we ate it with Ben Bergquam, Oscar Blue, Matt Bracken, and Matt Tomlett a few months ago in the jungle. The Japanese hunter has very good teeth like the Kuna indians have in Darien Gap. He said he hunts only alone and often walks most of the day until he gets to ambush and then back out again sometimes after dark. He and his friend have a big feast after the hunts…am guessing they have a LOT of feasts cause his home (the part we saw) was filled with furs and skulls. The Japanese bear hunter said in the old days previous generations hunted with spears and would go down into the holes and caves to get the bears. He said they don’t really hibernate but just kind of chill out but their eyes are open if you go look. There is snow around here now making it easier to track and the meat tastes better between fall and end of winter. He loads his own 300mag rifle ammo. Five USD per round. We actually went to talk about farming and food security. Japan is littered with ghost towns and ghost villages with old homes for very cheap because of the collapse of Japanese farming. Severe food insecurity is like not having a military at all. Totally insane. Terrible government. https://cdn.locals.com/images/posts/91572/91572_hcivugyriyiowlm_full.jpeg I hunted last September for Black Bear at my friend’s place. He has 70 acres he manages for deer and wants the bears out of there! I am going again in September this year. There is at least one 350+ lb one there. Have you eaten bear? @Alacran Yes, it’s excellent, as long as you cool it down and get it to the butcher’s as expeditiously as possible. The fat turns rancid quickly but there is a good bear butcher near my friend’s place with a walk-in cooler. They also changed the rules and you are allowed to skin the bear so you can cool it down faster. There are corn fields next to the property and the bear gorge on that, acorns, berries, etc. These are not dumpster bears. We bait with corn, black oil sunflower seeds, molasses, etc. There are 350+ lb black bears in there. I am really pumped for this! @C-4 Interesting. How do you cook it and serve it, grilled, fried, etc…? My list of exotic meats basically just include ox tail, shark fins, and gator tail. Ox tail was OK but the texture was such that I got tired of chewing and just swallowed it. Shark fins (serve in a soup) didn’t impress me. Can’t say I remember much more that that as both of these were many years ago. My experience with gator tail is it’s great fried but lacking grilled. I do like fried gator tail. I guess anything that’s fried tastes good to at least some degree. My personal favorite way to have bear meat is to use it in place of beef in Stroganoff. Extremely tasty with "steak fries" instead of pasta. |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 8:20:33 AM EST
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Interesting story. Even in a crazy world, I still think there are events capable of shocking the whole world. I also think the assassination of Trump would be one such event. Honestly, it might not be all that surprising, but it would still be shocking and a sent message all its own, especially when coupled with this warning.
'Merchant of death' Viktor Bout urges Trump to seek asylum in Russia because his life is in DANGER from government threats and the Stormy Daniels probe - The convicted arms dealer sent a telegram to Trump warning he was in danger - He invited the former president to Russia where he would have protection - He cited the Manhattan DA's probe following Trump's arrest this week https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11950687/Merchant-death-Viktor-Bout-urges-Trump-seek-asylum-Russia-life-DANGER.html |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 8:29:17 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Third_Rail: My personal favorite way to have bear meat is to use it in place of beef in Stroganoff. Extremely tasty with "steak fries" instead of pasta. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Third_Rail: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Michael Yon @MichaelYon Mar 30, 2023 at 9:49am Bear Hunting in Japan 30 March 2023 Yonezawa, Japan Mind burst, sans edit Today was with a bear hunter in Yonezawa, Japan. The 67 year-old bear hunter said he kills about 10 bears per year, and lots of deer and hogs. He had a big pile of mixed skulls. Four big freezers. This place is overrun by bears. So many bears here they come downtown and are aggressive sometimes. Over recent generations, rural Japan has been collapsing as farmers die off, or go bankrupt, and their children move to places like Tokyo. Japan is at extreme risk for famine in time of war or serious crisis. He has six guns including a 300win mag rifle, a 30-06 and more. He kills most bears from a couple meters away. He tracks the bears, anticipates line of travel, rushes ahead to wait in ambush. Hunts only during daylight due to Japanese law. Fourth generation bear hunter. Said first time he went bear hunting he was four years-old on his Grandfather’s back. Says he is successful in 60-70% of his bear-hunts because he only goes when it feels right. He hunts alone and usually hides behind a tree for ambush. Said he waits until very last second and whips the rifle around and fires saying the bear usually stands up in surprise, and this gives the hunter a couple seconds to get the shot off. He said sometimes the shot is like 30cm away. About a foot. I said you could make a fortune off a GoPro video of that. He knows what a GoPro is and laughed. These bears are straight up dangerous and so you gotta be really calm to hunt that close. Remember in Darien Gap an Embera Indian told me he got a jaguar that close nights before and showed me the fresh skull, and a kuna indian got a deer from that close and we ate it with Ben Bergquam, Oscar Blue, Matt Bracken, and Matt Tomlett a few months ago in the jungle. The Japanese hunter has very good teeth like the Kuna indians have in Darien Gap. He said he hunts only alone and often walks most of the day until he gets to ambush and then back out again sometimes after dark. He and his friend have a big feast after the hunts…am guessing they have a LOT of feasts cause his home (the part we saw) was filled with furs and skulls. The Japanese bear hunter said in the old days previous generations hunted with spears and would go down into the holes and caves to get the bears. He said they don’t really hibernate but just kind of chill out but their eyes are open if you go look. There is snow around here now making it easier to track and the meat tastes better between fall and end of winter. He loads his own 300mag rifle ammo. Five USD per round. We actually went to talk about farming and food security. Japan is littered with ghost towns and ghost villages with old homes for very cheap because of the collapse of Japanese farming. Severe food insecurity is like not having a military at all. Totally insane. Terrible government. https://cdn.locals.com/images/posts/91572/91572_hcivugyriyiowlm_full.jpeg I hunted last September for Black Bear at my friend’s place. He has 70 acres he manages for deer and wants the bears out of there! I am going again in September this year. There is at least one 350+ lb one there. Have you eaten bear? @Alacran Yes, it’s excellent, as long as you cool it down and get it to the butcher’s as expeditiously as possible. The fat turns rancid quickly but there is a good bear butcher near my friend’s place with a walk-in cooler. They also changed the rules and you are allowed to skin the bear so you can cool it down faster. There are corn fields next to the property and the bear gorge on that, acorns, berries, etc. These are not dumpster bears. We bait with corn, black oil sunflower seeds, molasses, etc. There are 350+ lb black bears in there. I am really pumped for this! @C-4 Interesting. How do you cook it and serve it, grilled, fried, etc…? My list of exotic meats basically just include ox tail, shark fins, and gator tail. Ox tail was OK but the texture was such that I got tired of chewing and just swallowed it. Shark fins (serve in a soup) didn’t impress me. Can’t say I remember much more that that as both of these were many years ago. My experience with gator tail is it’s great fried but lacking grilled. I do like fried gator tail. I guess anything that’s fried tastes good to at least some degree. My personal favorite way to have bear meat is to use it in place of beef in Stroganoff. Extremely tasty with "steak fries" instead of pasta. Bison is pretty common in Texas, even though I’ve yet to try it. Right now, bear is non-existent here, as far as I know, but it looks like that may be on the verge of changing… https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/west-texans-living-in-bear-country/ |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 10:00:46 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: Bison is pretty common in Texas, even though I’ve yet to try it. Right now, bear is non-existent here, as far as I know, but it looks like that may be on the verge of changing… https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/west-texans-living-in-bear-country/ Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By Third_Rail: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Michael Yon @MichaelYon Mar 30, 2023 at 9:49am Bear Hunting in Japan 30 March 2023 Yonezawa, Japan Mind burst, sans edit Today was with a bear hunter in Yonezawa, Japan. The 67 year-old bear hunter said he kills about 10 bears per year, and lots of deer and hogs. He had a big pile of mixed skulls. Four big freezers. This place is overrun by bears. So many bears here they come downtown and are aggressive sometimes. Over recent generations, rural Japan has been collapsing as farmers die off, or go bankrupt, and their children move to places like Tokyo. Japan is at extreme risk for famine in time of war or serious crisis. He has six guns including a 300win mag rifle, a 30-06 and more. He kills most bears from a couple meters away. He tracks the bears, anticipates line of travel, rushes ahead to wait in ambush. Hunts only during daylight due to Japanese law. Fourth generation bear hunter. Said first time he went bear hunting he was four years-old on his Grandfather’s back. Says he is successful in 60-70% of his bear-hunts because he only goes when it feels right. He hunts alone and usually hides behind a tree for ambush. Said he waits until very last second and whips the rifle around and fires saying the bear usually stands up in surprise, and this gives the hunter a couple seconds to get the shot off. He said sometimes the shot is like 30cm away. About a foot. I said you could make a fortune off a GoPro video of that. He knows what a GoPro is and laughed. These bears are straight up dangerous and so you gotta be really calm to hunt that close. Remember in Darien Gap an Embera Indian told me he got a jaguar that close nights before and showed me the fresh skull, and a kuna indian got a deer from that close and we ate it with Ben Bergquam, Oscar Blue, Matt Bracken, and Matt Tomlett a few months ago in the jungle. The Japanese hunter has very good teeth like the Kuna indians have in Darien Gap. He said he hunts only alone and often walks most of the day until he gets to ambush and then back out again sometimes after dark. He and his friend have a big feast after the hunts…am guessing they have a LOT of feasts cause his home (the part we saw) was filled with furs and skulls. The Japanese bear hunter said in the old days previous generations hunted with spears and would go down into the holes and caves to get the bears. He said they don’t really hibernate but just kind of chill out but their eyes are open if you go look. There is snow around here now making it easier to track and the meat tastes better between fall and end of winter. He loads his own 300mag rifle ammo. Five USD per round. We actually went to talk about farming and food security. Japan is littered with ghost towns and ghost villages with old homes for very cheap because of the collapse of Japanese farming. Severe food insecurity is like not having a military at all. Totally insane. Terrible government. https://cdn.locals.com/images/posts/91572/91572_hcivugyriyiowlm_full.jpeg I hunted last September for Black Bear at my friend’s place. He has 70 acres he manages for deer and wants the bears out of there! I am going again in September this year. There is at least one 350+ lb one there. Have you eaten bear? @Alacran Yes, it’s excellent, as long as you cool it down and get it to the butcher’s as expeditiously as possible. The fat turns rancid quickly but there is a good bear butcher near my friend’s place with a walk-in cooler. They also changed the rules and you are allowed to skin the bear so you can cool it down faster. There are corn fields next to the property and the bear gorge on that, acorns, berries, etc. These are not dumpster bears. We bait with corn, black oil sunflower seeds, molasses, etc. There are 350+ lb black bears in there. I am really pumped for this! @C-4 Interesting. How do you cook it and serve it, grilled, fried, etc…? My list of exotic meats basically just include ox tail, shark fins, and gator tail. Ox tail was OK but the texture was such that I got tired of chewing and just swallowed it. Shark fins (serve in a soup) didn’t impress me. Can’t say I remember much more that that as both of these were many years ago. My experience with gator tail is it’s great fried but lacking grilled. I do like fried gator tail. I guess anything that’s fried tastes good to at least some degree. My personal favorite way to have bear meat is to use it in place of beef in Stroganoff. Extremely tasty with "steak fries" instead of pasta. Bison is pretty common in Texas, even though I’ve yet to try it. Right now, bear is non-existent here, as far as I know, but it looks like that may be on the verge of changing… https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/west-texans-living-in-bear-country/ Bison Ribeye is damn good. So is pretty much any cut of meat from Buffalo |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 10:58:17 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By wjoutlaw: Bison Ribeye is damn good. So is pretty much any cut of meat from Buffalo Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By wjoutlaw: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By Third_Rail: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Michael Yon @MichaelYon Mar 30, 2023 at 9:49am Bear Hunting in Japan 30 March 2023 Yonezawa, Japan Mind burst, sans edit Today was with a bear hunter in Yonezawa, Japan. The 67 year-old bear hunter said he kills about 10 bears per year, and lots of deer and hogs. He had a big pile of mixed skulls. Four big freezers. This place is overrun by bears. So many bears here they come downtown and are aggressive sometimes. Over recent generations, rural Japan has been collapsing as farmers die off, or go bankrupt, and their children move to places like Tokyo. Japan is at extreme risk for famine in time of war or serious crisis. He has six guns including a 300win mag rifle, a 30-06 and more. He kills most bears from a couple meters away. He tracks the bears, anticipates line of travel, rushes ahead to wait in ambush. Hunts only during daylight due to Japanese law. Fourth generation bear hunter. Said first time he went bear hunting he was four years-old on his Grandfather’s back. Says he is successful in 60-70% of his bear-hunts because he only goes when it feels right. He hunts alone and usually hides behind a tree for ambush. Said he waits until very last second and whips the rifle around and fires saying the bear usually stands up in surprise, and this gives the hunter a couple seconds to get the shot off. He said sometimes the shot is like 30cm away. About a foot. I said you could make a fortune off a GoPro video of that. He knows what a GoPro is and laughed. These bears are straight up dangerous and so you gotta be really calm to hunt that close. Remember in Darien Gap an Embera Indian told me he got a jaguar that close nights before and showed me the fresh skull, and a kuna indian got a deer from that close and we ate it with Ben Bergquam, Oscar Blue, Matt Bracken, and Matt Tomlett a few months ago in the jungle. The Japanese hunter has very good teeth like the Kuna indians have in Darien Gap. He said he hunts only alone and often walks most of the day until he gets to ambush and then back out again sometimes after dark. He and his friend have a big feast after the hunts…am guessing they have a LOT of feasts cause his home (the part we saw) was filled with furs and skulls. The Japanese bear hunter said in the old days previous generations hunted with spears and would go down into the holes and caves to get the bears. He said they don’t really hibernate but just kind of chill out but their eyes are open if you go look. There is snow around here now making it easier to track and the meat tastes better between fall and end of winter. He loads his own 300mag rifle ammo. Five USD per round. We actually went to talk about farming and food security. Japan is littered with ghost towns and ghost villages with old homes for very cheap because of the collapse of Japanese farming. Severe food insecurity is like not having a military at all. Totally insane. Terrible government. https://cdn.locals.com/images/posts/91572/91572_hcivugyriyiowlm_full.jpeg I hunted last September for Black Bear at my friend’s place. He has 70 acres he manages for deer and wants the bears out of there! I am going again in September this year. There is at least one 350+ lb one there. Have you eaten bear? @Alacran Yes, it’s excellent, as long as you cool it down and get it to the butcher’s as expeditiously as possible. The fat turns rancid quickly but there is a good bear butcher near my friend’s place with a walk-in cooler. They also changed the rules and you are allowed to skin the bear so you can cool it down faster. There are corn fields next to the property and the bear gorge on that, acorns, berries, etc. These are not dumpster bears. We bait with corn, black oil sunflower seeds, molasses, etc. There are 350+ lb black bears in there. I am really pumped for this! @C-4 Interesting. How do you cook it and serve it, grilled, fried, etc…? My list of exotic meats basically just include ox tail, shark fins, and gator tail. Ox tail was OK but the texture was such that I got tired of chewing and just swallowed it. Shark fins (serve in a soup) didn’t impress me. Can’t say I remember much more that that as both of these were many years ago. My experience with gator tail is it’s great fried but lacking grilled. I do like fried gator tail. I guess anything that’s fried tastes good to at least some degree. My personal favorite way to have bear meat is to use it in place of beef in Stroganoff. Extremely tasty with "steak fries" instead of pasta. Bison is pretty common in Texas, even though I’ve yet to try it. Right now, bear is non-existent here, as far as I know, but it looks like that may be on the verge of changing… https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/west-texans-living-in-bear-country/ Bison Ribeye is damn good. So is pretty much any cut of meat from Buffalo Some day, I’ll try it. Some day. |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 11:03:15 AM EST
[Last Edit: Alacran]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: America seems to be at the fragile point were one little spark could start a blazing inferno across the country as Fox News quickly breaks to commercial.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSQJ8dNFtIUI’m really getting the feeling lately that we are just one event away from a ragging fire sweeping across the country. Just a feeling, though…
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Posted: 4/8/2023 11:09:20 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By amannamedjed: It really sometimes sounds like Yon has gone off the deep end. But... if I had been where he has been and seen what he has seen, I might sound like I had flipped my wig too. I am starting to drift back towards I think he is right rather than nuts or overuse of hyperbole. I think he's so far ahead of everything he's wrong. Kinda like GD can be. Will western civilization melt down and/or an authoritarian takeover? Of course. But who knows if we'll be alive for it |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 11:40:00 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: I’m really getting the feeling lately that we are just one event away from a ragging fire sweeping across the country. Just a feeling, though…
I have the same feeling. I'm at the point I'm as prepared as I can be in my little corner of the world. I can't do anything to change the course of the macro-events unfolding around us. I had a discussion with the wife we'restill adding to our food preps, learning to garden better. We might add chickens but our dogs could be an issue. I did fnce in the side yard for our garden so we could possibly keep the chickens there. We're ready to take care of ourselves and hope for the best. |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 11:45:25 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By wjoutlaw: I have the same feeling. I'm at the point I'm as prepared as I can be in my little corner of the world. I can't do anything to change the course of the macro-events unfolding around us. I had a discussion with the wife we'restill adding to our food preps, learning to garden better. We might add chickens but our dogs could be an issue. I did fnce in the side yard for our garden so we could possibly keep the chickens there. We're ready to take care of ourselves and hope for the best. You're onto something...  Understanding that you cannot change the world... you can change your world. We're going in the same direction as you. Our focus is totally local, on the real world things we can actually DO ourselves to become more independent. |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 11:57:00 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CPT_CAVEMAN: I think he's so far ahead of everything he's wrong. Kinda like GD can be. Will western civilization melt down and/or an authoritarian takeover? Of course. But who knows if we'll be alive for it Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CPT_CAVEMAN: Originally Posted By amannamedjed: It really sometimes sounds like Yon has gone off the deep end. But... if I had been where he has been and seen what he has seen, I might sound like I had flipped my wig too. I am starting to drift back towards I think he is right rather than nuts or overuse of hyperbole. I think he's so far ahead of everything he's wrong. Kinda like GD can be. Will western civilization melt down and/or an authoritarian takeover? Of course. But who knows if we'll be alive for it I find your last sentence a bit ironic. I think the takeover has already occurred. I see it as someone who wakes up in a strange place with strangers surrounding him as he starts thrashing about in a panic. Who knows how long the guy will be alive after he wakes up? We’re still waiting for the public to fully wake up. |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 12:04:40 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By tooter: You're onto something... Understanding that you cannot change the world... you can change your world. We're going in the same direction as you. Our focus is totally local, on the real world things we can actually DO ourselves to become more independent. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By tooter: Originally Posted By wjoutlaw: I have the same feeling. I'm at the point I'm as prepared as I can be in my little corner of the world. I can't do anything to change the course of the macro-events unfolding around us. I had a discussion with the wife we'restill adding to our food preps, learning to garden better. We might add chickens but our dogs could be an issue. I did fnce in the side yard for our garden so we could possibly keep the chickens there. We're ready to take care of ourselves and hope for the best. You're onto something... Understanding that you cannot change the world... you can change your world. We're going in the same direction as you. Our focus is totally local, on the real world things we can actually DO ourselves to become more independent.  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 12:53:50 PM EST
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Posted: 4/8/2023 6:15:53 PM EST
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Posted: 4/8/2023 6:39:11 PM EST
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Posted: 4/8/2023 6:50:00 PM EST
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Lots of good points made in this 10 minutes…
 French Protesters STORM BlackRock’s Paris Headquarters! |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 8:45:22 PM EST
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Quote HistoryThe gaping flaw in his analysis is that the money market funds into which all the supposed "bank run" money is flowing are also in those same banks. When Glass-Steagall was repealed, the firewall between banks and investment houses went away. So, it's only shifting money from the left hand to the right. What he doesn't cover is how much money is being pulled from banks to buy things like stonks or, more importantly, gold and silver (whether paper or physical). In the case of the physical, that money is leaving the banking *system* as a whole. |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 9:17:40 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TarzanT: My land backs up the the UT Grassland Ag Research farm. They’ll never miss a couple (dozen) cows. Dem hefers are for "Mad Cow" Research....you best cook'em well done...
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Posted: 4/8/2023 10:14:46 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: @C-4 Interesting. How do you cook it and serve it, grilled, fried, etc…? My list of exotic meats basically just include ox tail, shark fins, and gator tail. Ox tail was OK but the texture was such that I got tired of chewing and just swallowed it. Shark fins (serve in a soup) didn’t impress me. Can’t say I remember much more that that as both of these were many years ago. My experience with gator tail is it’s great fried but lacking grilled. I do like fried gator tail. I guess anything that’s fried tastes good to at least some degree. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Michael Yon @MichaelYon Mar 30, 2023 at 9:49am Bear Hunting in Japan 30 March 2023 Yonezawa, Japan Mind burst, sans edit Today was with a bear hunter in Yonezawa, Japan. The 67 year-old bear hunter said he kills about 10 bears per year, and lots of deer and hogs. He had a big pile of mixed skulls. Four big freezers. This place is overrun by bears. So many bears here they come downtown and are aggressive sometimes. Over recent generations, rural Japan has been collapsing as farmers die off, or go bankrupt, and their children move to places like Tokyo. Japan is at extreme risk for famine in time of war or serious crisis. He has six guns including a 300win mag rifle, a 30-06 and more. He kills most bears from a couple meters away. He tracks the bears, anticipates line of travel, rushes ahead to wait in ambush. Hunts only during daylight due to Japanese law. Fourth generation bear hunter. Said first time he went bear hunting he was four years-old on his Grandfather’s back. Says he is successful in 60-70% of his bear-hunts because he only goes when it feels right. He hunts alone and usually hides behind a tree for ambush. Said he waits until very last second and whips the rifle around and fires saying the bear usually stands up in surprise, and this gives the hunter a couple seconds to get the shot off. He said sometimes the shot is like 30cm away. About a foot. I said you could make a fortune off a GoPro video of that. He knows what a GoPro is and laughed. These bears are straight up dangerous and so you gotta be really calm to hunt that close. Remember in Darien Gap an Embera Indian told me he got a jaguar that close nights before and showed me the fresh skull, and a kuna indian got a deer from that close and we ate it with Ben Bergquam, Oscar Blue, Matt Bracken, and Matt Tomlett a few months ago in the jungle. The Japanese hunter has very good teeth like the Kuna indians have in Darien Gap. He said he hunts only alone and often walks most of the day until he gets to ambush and then back out again sometimes after dark. He and his friend have a big feast after the hunts…am guessing they have a LOT of feasts cause his home (the part we saw) was filled with furs and skulls. The Japanese bear hunter said in the old days previous generations hunted with spears and would go down into the holes and caves to get the bears. He said they don’t really hibernate but just kind of chill out but their eyes are open if you go look. There is snow around here now making it easier to track and the meat tastes better between fall and end of winter. He loads his own 300mag rifle ammo. Five USD per round. We actually went to talk about farming and food security. Japan is littered with ghost towns and ghost villages with old homes for very cheap because of the collapse of Japanese farming. Severe food insecurity is like not having a military at all. Totally insane. Terrible government. https://cdn.locals.com/images/posts/91572/91572_hcivugyriyiowlm_full.jpeg I hunted last September for Black Bear at my friend’s place. He has 70 acres he manages for deer and wants the bears out of there! I am going again in September this year. There is at least one 350+ lb one there. Have you eaten bear? @Alacran Yes, it’s excellent, as long as you cool it down and get it to the butcher’s as expeditiously as possible. The fat turns rancid quickly but there is a good bear butcher near my friend’s place with a walk-in cooler. They also changed the rules and you are allowed to skin the bear so you can cool it down faster. There are corn fields next to the property and the bear gorge on that, acorns, berries, etc. These are not dumpster bears. We bait with corn, black oil sunflower seeds, molasses, etc. There are 350+ lb black bears in there. I am really pumped for this! @C-4 Interesting. How do you cook it and serve it, grilled, fried, etc…? My list of exotic meats basically just include ox tail, shark fins, and gator tail. Ox tail was OK but the texture was such that I got tired of chewing and just swallowed it. Shark fins (serve in a soup) didn’t impress me. Can’t say I remember much more that that as both of these were many years ago. My experience with gator tail is it’s great fried but lacking grilled. I do like fried gator tail. I guess anything that’s fried tastes good to at least some degree. Steak, and ground for burgers and chili. Maybe some cubed for chili as well. But since they have a wild diet, I make sure to cook it properly because of Trichinosis! |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 10:22:06 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: I find your last sentence a bit ironic. I think the takeover has already occurred. I see it as someone who wakes up in a strange place with strangers surrounding him as he starts thrashing about in a panic. Who knows how long the guy will be alive after he wakes up? We’re still waiting for the public to fully wake up. Ya, compared to 87 years ago sure. But not to the Hitler, Stalin, Mao levels of killing tons of people etc. |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 10:27:08 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By C-4: Steak, and ground for burgers and chili. Maybe some cubed for chili as well. But since they have a wild diet, I make sure to cook it properly because of Trichinosis! Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Michael Yon @MichaelYon Mar 30, 2023 at 9:49am Bear Hunting in Japan 30 March 2023 Yonezawa, Japan Mind burst, sans edit Today was with a bear hunter in Yonezawa, Japan. The 67 year-old bear hunter said he kills about 10 bears per year, and lots of deer and hogs. He had a big pile of mixed skulls. Four big freezers. This place is overrun by bears. So many bears here they come downtown and are aggressive sometimes. Over recent generations, rural Japan has been collapsing as farmers die off, or go bankrupt, and their children move to places like Tokyo. Japan is at extreme risk for famine in time of war or serious crisis. He has six guns including a 300win mag rifle, a 30-06 and more. He kills most bears from a couple meters away. He tracks the bears, anticipates line of travel, rushes ahead to wait in ambush. Hunts only during daylight due to Japanese law. Fourth generation bear hunter. Said first time he went bear hunting he was four years-old on his Grandfather’s back. Says he is successful in 60-70% of his bear-hunts because he only goes when it feels right. He hunts alone and usually hides behind a tree for ambush. Said he waits until very last second and whips the rifle around and fires saying the bear usually stands up in surprise, and this gives the hunter a couple seconds to get the shot off. He said sometimes the shot is like 30cm away. About a foot. I said you could make a fortune off a GoPro video of that. He knows what a GoPro is and laughed. These bears are straight up dangerous and so you gotta be really calm to hunt that close. Remember in Darien Gap an Embera Indian told me he got a jaguar that close nights before and showed me the fresh skull, and a kuna indian got a deer from that close and we ate it with Ben Bergquam, Oscar Blue, Matt Bracken, and Matt Tomlett a few months ago in the jungle. The Japanese hunter has very good teeth like the Kuna indians have in Darien Gap. He said he hunts only alone and often walks most of the day until he gets to ambush and then back out again sometimes after dark. He and his friend have a big feast after the hunts…am guessing they have a LOT of feasts cause his home (the part we saw) was filled with furs and skulls. The Japanese bear hunter said in the old days previous generations hunted with spears and would go down into the holes and caves to get the bears. He said they don’t really hibernate but just kind of chill out but their eyes are open if you go look. There is snow around here now making it easier to track and the meat tastes better between fall and end of winter. He loads his own 300mag rifle ammo. Five USD per round. We actually went to talk about farming and food security. Japan is littered with ghost towns and ghost villages with old homes for very cheap because of the collapse of Japanese farming. Severe food insecurity is like not having a military at all. Totally insane. Terrible government. https://cdn.locals.com/images/posts/91572/91572_hcivugyriyiowlm_full.jpeg I hunted last September for Black Bear at my friend’s place. He has 70 acres he manages for deer and wants the bears out of there! I am going again in September this year. There is at least one 350+ lb one there. Have you eaten bear? @Alacran Yes, it’s excellent, as long as you cool it down and get it to the butcher’s as expeditiously as possible. The fat turns rancid quickly but there is a good bear butcher near my friend’s place with a walk-in cooler. They also changed the rules and you are allowed to skin the bear so you can cool it down faster. There are corn fields next to the property and the bear gorge on that, acorns, berries, etc. These are not dumpster bears. We bait with corn, black oil sunflower seeds, molasses, etc. There are 350+ lb black bears in there. I am really pumped for this! @C-4 Interesting. How do you cook it and serve it, grilled, fried, etc…? My list of exotic meats basically just include ox tail, shark fins, and gator tail. Ox tail was OK but the texture was such that I got tired of chewing and just swallowed it. Shark fins (serve in a soup) didn’t impress me. Can’t say I remember much more that that as both of these were many years ago. My experience with gator tail is it’s great fried but lacking grilled. I do like fried gator tail. I guess anything that’s fried tastes good to at least some degree. Steak, and ground for burgers and chili. Maybe some cubed for chili as well. But since they have a wild diet, I make sure to cook it properly because of Trichinosis! Pretty interesting. Sounds like a lot of people either died or got very sick to get to today’s knowledge of properly preparing bear meat for consumption. I guess the same could be said for lobster. |
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Posted: 4/8/2023 10:36:15 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CPT_CAVEMAN: Ya, compared to 87 years ago sure. But not to the Hitler, Stalin, Mao levels of killing tons of people etc. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CPT_CAVEMAN: Originally Posted By Alacran: I find your last sentence a bit ironic. I think the takeover has already occurred. I see it as someone who wakes up in a strange place with strangers surrounding him as he starts thrashing about in a panic. Who knows how long the guy will be alive after he wakes up? We’re still waiting for the public to fully wake up. Ya, compared to 87 years ago sure. But not to the Hitler, Stalin, Mao levels of killing tons of people etc. That’s the part I was saying is ironic, I just didn’t convey it adequately. A lot of people will die on that road to a complete authoritarian takeover, thus no one knows if they’ll see it actually happen in their lifetimes. |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 5:45:18 AM EST
[Last Edit: C-4]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: Pretty interesting. Sounds like a lot of people either died or got very sick to get to today’s knowledge of properly preparing bear meat for consumption. I guess the same could be said for lobster. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Michael Yon @MichaelYon Mar 30, 2023 at 9:49am Bear Hunting in Japan 30 March 2023 Yonezawa, Japan Mind burst, sans edit Today was with a bear hunter in Yonezawa, Japan. The 67 year-old bear hunter said he kills about 10 bears per year, and lots of deer and hogs. He had a big pile of mixed skulls. Four big freezers. This place is overrun by bears. So many bears here they come downtown and are aggressive sometimes. Over recent generations, rural Japan has been collapsing as farmers die off, or go bankrupt, and their children move to places like Tokyo. Japan is at extreme risk for famine in time of war or serious crisis. He has six guns including a 300win mag rifle, a 30-06 and more. He kills most bears from a couple meters away. He tracks the bears, anticipates line of travel, rushes ahead to wait in ambush. Hunts only during daylight due to Japanese law. Fourth generation bear hunter. Said first time he went bear hunting he was four years-old on his Grandfather’s back. Says he is successful in 60-70% of his bear-hunts because he only goes when it feels right. He hunts alone and usually hides behind a tree for ambush. Said he waits until very last second and whips the rifle around and fires saying the bear usually stands up in surprise, and this gives the hunter a couple seconds to get the shot off. He said sometimes the shot is like 30cm away. About a foot. I said you could make a fortune off a GoPro video of that. He knows what a GoPro is and laughed. These bears are straight up dangerous and so you gotta be really calm to hunt that close. Remember in Darien Gap an Embera Indian told me he got a jaguar that close nights before and showed me the fresh skull, and a kuna indian got a deer from that close and we ate it with Ben Bergquam, Oscar Blue, Matt Bracken, and Matt Tomlett a few months ago in the jungle. The Japanese hunter has very good teeth like the Kuna indians have in Darien Gap. He said he hunts only alone and often walks most of the day until he gets to ambush and then back out again sometimes after dark. He and his friend have a big feast after the hunts…am guessing they have a LOT of feasts cause his home (the part we saw) was filled with furs and skulls. The Japanese bear hunter said in the old days previous generations hunted with spears and would go down into the holes and caves to get the bears. He said they don’t really hibernate but just kind of chill out but their eyes are open if you go look. There is snow around here now making it easier to track and the meat tastes better between fall and end of winter. He loads his own 300mag rifle ammo. Five USD per round. We actually went to talk about farming and food security. Japan is littered with ghost towns and ghost villages with old homes for very cheap because of the collapse of Japanese farming. Severe food insecurity is like not having a military at all. Totally insane. Terrible government. https://cdn.locals.com/images/posts/91572/91572_hcivugyriyiowlm_full.jpeg I hunted last September for Black Bear at my friend’s place. He has 70 acres he manages for deer and wants the bears out of there! I am going again in September this year. There is at least one 350+ lb one there. Have you eaten bear? @Alacran Yes, it’s excellent, as long as you cool it down and get it to the butcher’s as expeditiously as possible. The fat turns rancid quickly but there is a good bear butcher near my friend’s place with a walk-in cooler. They also changed the rules and you are allowed to skin the bear so you can cool it down faster. There are corn fields next to the property and the bear gorge on that, acorns, berries, etc. These are not dumpster bears. We bait with corn, black oil sunflower seeds, molasses, etc. There are 350+ lb black bears in there. I am really pumped for this! @C-4 Interesting. How do you cook it and serve it, grilled, fried, etc…? My list of exotic meats basically just include ox tail, shark fins, and gator tail. Ox tail was OK but the texture was such that I got tired of chewing and just swallowed it. Shark fins (serve in a soup) didn’t impress me. Can’t say I remember much more that that as both of these were many years ago. My experience with gator tail is it’s great fried but lacking grilled. I do like fried gator tail. I guess anything that’s fried tastes good to at least some degree. Steak, and ground for burgers and chili. Maybe some cubed for chili as well. But since they have a wild diet, I make sure to cook it properly because of Trichinosis! Pretty interesting. Sounds like a lot of people either died or got very sick to get to today’s knowledge of properly preparing bear meat for consumption. I guess the same could be said for lobster. It still happens! “Steven Rinella breaks down how he and several members of the MeatEater crew contracted trichinosis after eating some questionably cooked bear meat on a recently aired episode of MeatEater.”  Steven Rinella Explains How He Contracted Trichinosis on an Episode of MeatEater |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 6:19:29 AM EST
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4/09/2023 pretty much all food widely available and easily purchased in the USA.
No massive food shortages or famine yet. |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 7:10:52 AM EST
[Last Edit: Canoeguy]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dance: 4/09/2023 pretty much all food widely available and easily purchased in the USA. No massive food shortages or famine yet. 4/09/2023 It’s been a little tricky for me to reliably get grain (by the ton) and lots of other manufacturing goods are delayed and difficult. Lots of holes in my grocery shelves. Beef prices are rising significantly from what I can see. ETA: I should add that I have noticed a lot of people have started accepting the delays and etc. as normal, as if it has always been this way. I refuse to do so. |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 7:25:08 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dance: 4/09/2023 pretty much all food widely available and easily purchased in the USA. No massive food shortages or famine yet. It was also predicted that the USA would fare better than the rest of the world since we're a net exporter, though we would experience higher prices and that has come to pass. Also certain products are still only available as the higher-priced name-brand version; the generic/store-brand product is no longer on the shelf and in some cases there's no spot for it on the shelf any more. |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 9:12:23 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dance: 4/09/2023 pretty much all food widely available and easily purchased in the USA. No massive food shortages or famine yet. I’m sure packaging getting smaller with pricing getting bigger plays a factor in some product availability. I know there are some things I just won’t buy anymore because of the price-quantity ratio. Chips being the thing that immediately comes to mind. I paid $4 per loaf of bread yesterday at my local grocery store. Some things, you just gotta have. I’m still seeing shortages on various items, too, no matter how fine or normal you say things are. |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 9:21:46 AM EST
[Last Edit: Alacran]
[#27]
Michael Yon@MichaelYon
38 minutes ago Netherlands: BBBeter Party working to Destroy Dutch Farmers 09 April 2023 Panama City, Panama This play was amazingly obvious. Didn’t take long for BBBeter party to show that it’s just another WEF tool. From a Dutch friend yesterday: “The new big party in the Netherlands BBB that supposedly is pro-farmer, votes against a proposal for a parliamentary inquiry into the created "nitrogen problem" and the policies around it (getting rid of farmers, building homes for immigrants on the same land, etc) etc.)”
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Posted: 4/9/2023 9:28:46 AM EST
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From Disney, no less…
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Posted: 4/9/2023 10:26:43 AM EST
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Protests haven’t let hp in Israel.
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Posted: 4/9/2023 10:29:30 AM EST
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Interesting video from a month ago. Hawaiians have been moving to CONUS in huge numbers.
 Hawaii's population has been declining significantly, with many moving to Texas, Oregon and |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 12:16:36 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By C-4: It still happens! “Steven Rinella breaks down how he and several members of the MeatEater crew contracted trichinosis after eating some questionably cooked bear meat on a recently aired episode of MeatEater.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5ZKJ0VozcQuote HistoryOriginally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Originally Posted By C-4: Originally Posted By Alacran: Michael Yon @MichaelYon Mar 30, 2023 at 9:49am Bear Hunting in Japan 30 March 2023 Yonezawa, Japan Mind burst, sans edit Today was with a bear hunter in Yonezawa, Japan. The 67 year-old bear hunter said he kills about 10 bears per year, and lots of deer and hogs. He had a big pile of mixed skulls. Four big freezers. This place is overrun by bears. So many bears here they come downtown and are aggressive sometimes. Over recent generations, rural Japan has been collapsing as farmers die off, or go bankrupt, and their children move to places like Tokyo. Japan is at extreme risk for famine in time of war or serious crisis. He has six guns including a 300win mag rifle, a 30-06 and more. He kills most bears from a couple meters away. He tracks the bears, anticipates line of travel, rushes ahead to wait in ambush. Hunts only during daylight due to Japanese law. Fourth generation bear hunter. Said first time he went bear hunting he was four years-old on his Grandfather’s back. Says he is successful in 60-70% of his bear-hunts because he only goes when it feels right. He hunts alone and usually hides behind a tree for ambush. Said he waits until very last second and whips the rifle around and fires saying the bear usually stands up in surprise, and this gives the hunter a couple seconds to get the shot off. He said sometimes the shot is like 30cm away. About a foot. I said you could make a fortune off a GoPro video of that. He knows what a GoPro is and laughed. These bears are straight up dangerous and so you gotta be really calm to hunt that close. Remember in Darien Gap an Embera Indian told me he got a jaguar that close nights before and showed me the fresh skull, and a kuna indian got a deer from that close and we ate it with Ben Bergquam, Oscar Blue, Matt Bracken, and Matt Tomlett a few months ago in the jungle. The Japanese hunter has very good teeth like the Kuna indians have in Darien Gap. He said he hunts only alone and often walks most of the day until he gets to ambush and then back out again sometimes after dark. He and his friend have a big feast after the hunts…am guessing they have a LOT of feasts cause his home (the part we saw) was filled with furs and skulls. The Japanese bear hunter said in the old days previous generations hunted with spears and would go down into the holes and caves to get the bears. He said they don’t really hibernate but just kind of chill out but their eyes are open if you go look. There is snow around here now making it easier to track and the meat tastes better between fall and end of winter. He loads his own 300mag rifle ammo. Five USD per round. We actually went to talk about farming and food security. Japan is littered with ghost towns and ghost villages with old homes for very cheap because of the collapse of Japanese farming. Severe food insecurity is like not having a military at all. Totally insane. Terrible government. https://cdn.locals.com/images/posts/91572/91572_hcivugyriyiowlm_full.jpeg I hunted last September for Black Bear at my friend’s place. He has 70 acres he manages for deer and wants the bears out of there! I am going again in September this year. There is at least one 350+ lb one there. Have you eaten bear? @Alacran Yes, it’s excellent, as long as you cool it down and get it to the butcher’s as expeditiously as possible. The fat turns rancid quickly but there is a good bear butcher near my friend’s place with a walk-in cooler. They also changed the rules and you are allowed to skin the bear so you can cool it down faster. There are corn fields next to the property and the bear gorge on that, acorns, berries, etc. These are not dumpster bears. We bait with corn, black oil sunflower seeds, molasses, etc. There are 350+ lb black bears in there. I am really pumped for this! @C-4 Interesting. How do you cook it and serve it, grilled, fried, etc…? My list of exotic meats basically just include ox tail, shark fins, and gator tail. Ox tail was OK but the texture was such that I got tired of chewing and just swallowed it. Shark fins (serve in a soup) didn’t impress me. Can’t say I remember much more that that as both of these were many years ago. My experience with gator tail is it’s great fried but lacking grilled. I do like fried gator tail. I guess anything that’s fried tastes good to at least some degree. Steak, and ground for burgers and chili. Maybe some cubed for chili as well. But since they have a wild diet, I make sure to cook it properly because of Trichinosis! Pretty interesting. Sounds like a lot of people either died or got very sick to get to today’s knowledge of properly preparing bear meat for consumption. I guess the same could be said for lobster. It still happens! “Steven Rinella breaks down how he and several members of the MeatEater crew contracted trichinosis after eating some questionably cooked bear meat on a recently aired episode of MeatEater.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5ZKJ0VozcDang, is well done really about the only option? Mercy! |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 12:18:36 PM EST
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Posted: 4/9/2023 12:26:39 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: Interesting video from a month ago. Hawaiians have been moving to CONUS in huge numbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_N2eESDWYEMore generally, people are voting with their wallets and moving to less expensive, lower taxes, and less communist government places (ie, out of blue areas into red areas). That's why HI, CA, NY, IL and other deep blue areas are losing people in droves. |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 2:40:35 PM EST
[Last Edit: Alacran]
[#34]
Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron
The ‘great risk’ Europe faces is getting ‘caught up in crises that are not ours,’ French president says in interview. Europe must reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview on his plane back from a three-day state visit to China. Speaking with POLITICO and two French journalists after spending around six hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his trip, Macron emphasized his pet theory of “strategic autonomy” for Europe, presumably led by France, to become a “third superpower.” He said “the great risk” Europe faces is that it “gets caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy,” while flying from Beijing to Guangzhou, in southern China, aboard COTAM Unité, France’s Air Force One. Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have enthusiastically endorsed Macron’s concept of strategic autonomy and Chinese officials constantly refer to it in their dealings with European countries. Party leaders and theorists in Beijing are convinced the West is in decline and China is on the ascendant and that weakening the transatlantic relationship will help accelerate this trend. “The paradox would be that, overcome with panic, we believe we are just America’s followers,” Macron said in the interview. “The question Europeans need to answer … is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the U.S. agenda and a Chinese overreaction,” he said. . . https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-china-america-pressure-interview/
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Posted: 4/9/2023 2:51:38 PM EST
[Last Edit: lumper]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dance: 4/09/2023 pretty much all food widely available and easily purchased in the USA. No massive food shortages or famine yet. Your above statement would be accurate if you added the words "In America" before the word yet even though I understand where you were referring to America. We are however affected by events in other countries - including their lack of food and resources. Perhaps starving people in other areas don't really matter, after all, they may simply stay where they are and die rather than immigrating to wealthier countries where they can be fed and housed while raping and pillaging the citizens already there. On another note: I am picking up 3 tons of fertilizer (bagged for retail sales) just as soon as the local manufacturer gets the part they need for their weighing and packaging machine. I have been waiting for a while, and still am. If I had to, I could (and would) purchase in bulk and repackage myself - but that would remove any profit due to my manual labor costs since I do not have the automated machinery to pack the product or the fancy packaging supplies to make the product look attractive to the consumer. So, in short, I can currently get the product, but not sell it at a competitive price point that I believe my customers can afford without getting upset at me for "gouging" them. They would likely buy it anyways since a number of them skimped on last years application of fertilizer due to the extreme price jump, but goodwill would be lost. Still, the prices are lower than last years prices - so that is something positive. |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 3:13:27 PM EST
[Last Edit: ThEWayOftheGUn1]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lumper: Your above statement would be accurate if you added the words "In America" before the word yet even though I understand where you were referring to America. We are however affected by events in other countries - including their lack of food and resources. Perhaps starving people in other areas don't really matter, after all, they may simply stay where they are and die rather than immigrating to wealthier countries where they can be fed and housed while raping and pillaging the citizens already there. On another note: I am picking up 3 tons of fertilizer (bagged for retail sales) just as soon as the local manufacturer gets the part they need for their weighing and packaging machine. I have been waiting for a while, and still am. If I had to, I could (and would) purchase in bulk and repackage myself - but that would remove any profit due to my manual labor costs since I do not have the automated machinery to pack the product or the fancy packaging supplies to make the product look attractive to the consumer. So, in short, I can currently get the product, but not sell it at a competitive price point that I believe my customers can afford without getting upset at me for "gouging" them. They would likely buy it anyways since a number of them skimped on last years application of fertilizer due to the extreme price jump, but goodwill would be lost. Still, the prices are lower than last years prices - so that is something positive. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lumper: Originally Posted By Dance: 4/09/2023 pretty much all food widely available and easily purchased in the USA. No massive food shortages or famine yet. Your above statement would be accurate if you added the words "In America" before the word yet even though I understand where you were referring to America. We are however affected by events in other countries - including their lack of food and resources. Perhaps starving people in other areas don't really matter, after all, they may simply stay where they are and die rather than immigrating to wealthier countries where they can be fed and housed while raping and pillaging the citizens already there. On another note: I am picking up 3 tons of fertilizer (bagged for retail sales) just as soon as the local manufacturer gets the part they need for their weighing and packaging machine. I have been waiting for a while, and still am. If I had to, I could (and would) purchase in bulk and repackage myself - but that would remove any profit due to my manual labor costs since I do not have the automated machinery to pack the product or the fancy packaging supplies to make the product look attractive to the consumer. So, in short, I can currently get the product, but not sell it at a competitive price point that I believe my customers can afford without getting upset at me for "gouging" them. They would likely buy it anyways since a number of them skimped on last years application of fertilizer due to the extreme price jump, but goodwill would be lost. Still, the prices are lower than last years prices - so that is something positive. A year ago I went to Costco to purchase Scott’s Weed and Seed Fertilizer which I bought on sale for $40 a bag ($10 off $50 regular size bag). Yesterday I bought the same bag “on sale” for $60. The new retail price is $70. It will continue to rise sadly. All is well. Nothing to see here folks. |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 3:15:27 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron The ‘great risk’ Europe faces is getting ‘caught up in crises that are not ours,’ French president says in interview. Europe must reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview on his plane back from a three-day state visit to China. Speaking with POLITICO and two French journalists after spending around six hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his trip, Macron emphasized his pet theory of “strategic autonomy” for Europe, presumably led by France, to become a “third superpower.” He said “the great risk” Europe faces is that it “gets caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy,” while flying from Beijing to Guangzhou, in southern China, aboard COTAM Unité, France’s Air Force One. Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have enthusiastically endorsed Macron’s concept of strategic autonomy and Chinese officials constantly refer to it in their dealings with European countries. Party leaders and theorists in Beijing are convinced the West is in decline and China is on the ascendant and that weakening the transatlantic relationship will help accelerate this trend. “The paradox would be that, overcome with panic, we believe we are just America’s followers,” Macron said in the interview. “The question Europeans need to answer … is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the U.S. agenda and a Chinese overreaction,” he said. . . https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-china-america-pressure-interview/
So now they pre-emptively surrender. We should let Russia over-run Europe since they no longer have any balls. |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 3:50:35 PM EST
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Two main things popped into my mind while watching this -
1). The moral decline of the west will make this a certainty here just as much as it is in the East. 2). The cheesy 1950’s horror movie How to Make a Monster will be turned into a dystopian movie forecasting our future on a much wider scale.  Failed To Load Title  Trailer: How to Make a Monster (1958) |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 4:00:05 PM EST
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Larger grocery store chains in Europe are falling to companies like Amazon (American based), Alibaba, and JD.com (both Chinese based) for control of food distribution across Europe.
Yes, these companies heavily lean to a digital commerce automation system.  Failed To Load Title |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 4:40:50 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron The ‘great risk’ Europe faces is getting ‘caught up in crises that are not ours,’ French president says in interview. Europe must reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview on his plane back from a three-day state visit to China. Speaking with POLITICO and two French journalists after spending around six hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his trip, Macron emphasized his pet theory of “strategic autonomy” for Europe, presumably led by France, to become a “third superpower.” He said “the great risk” Europe faces is that it “gets caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy,” while flying from Beijing to Guangzhou, in southern China, aboard COTAM Unité, France’s Air Force One. Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have enthusiastically endorsed Macron’s concept of strategic autonomy and Chinese officials constantly refer to it in their dealings with European countries. Party leaders and theorists in Beijing are convinced the West is in decline and China is on the ascendant and that weakening the transatlantic relationship will help accelerate this trend. “The paradox would be that, overcome with panic, we believe we are just America’s followers,” Macron said in the interview. “The question Europeans need to answer … is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the U.S. agenda and a Chinese overreaction,” he said. . . https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-china-america-pressure-interview/
I'm sure USA will bail their asses out again the next time they surrender Normandy. |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 5:36:12 PM EST
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[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By trails-end: I'm sure USA will bail their asses out again the next time they surrender Normandy. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By trails-end: Originally Posted By Alacran: Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron The ‘great risk’ Europe faces is getting ‘caught up in crises that are not ours,’ French president says in interview. Europe must reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview on his plane back from a three-day state visit to China. Speaking with POLITICO and two French journalists after spending around six hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his trip, Macron emphasized his pet theory of “strategic autonomy” for Europe, presumably led by France, to become a “third superpower.” He said “the great risk” Europe faces is that it “gets caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy,” while flying from Beijing to Guangzhou, in southern China, aboard COTAM Unité, France’s Air Force One. Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have enthusiastically endorsed Macron’s concept of strategic autonomy and Chinese officials constantly refer to it in their dealings with European countries. Party leaders and theorists in Beijing are convinced the West is in decline and China is on the ascendant and that weakening the transatlantic relationship will help accelerate this trend. “The paradox would be that, overcome with panic, we believe we are just America’s followers,” Macron said in the interview. “The question Europeans need to answer … is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the U.S. agenda and a Chinese overreaction,” he said. . . https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-china-america-pressure-interview/
I'm sure USA will bail their asses out again the next time they surrender Normandy. I wouldn’t count on America’s help unless it benefited a certain agenda. Even then, they should expect to be hung out to dry as soon as it’s over. |
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Posted: 4/9/2023 6:12:01 PM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacran: Larger grocery store chains in Europe are falling to companies like Amazon (American based), Alibaba, and JD.com (both Chinese based) for control of food distribution across Europe. Yes, these companies heavily lean to a digital commerce automation system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymxG4wOP7fkIf you want to see a glimpse of the future, I strongly suggest watching this documentary as it allows the in-tuned viewer to connect the dots with events that are happening in other dealings in Europe. It sheds a light on the obvious seizure of farmland in the Netherlands & other European countries by showing crops being grown in lab-based greenhouses using no soil or pesticides, only fertilizer enriched water, thus no farms will be needed or used. The CBDC aspect is also obvious with its connection to food production, food distribution, and the control over every aspect of its commerce. The part that really jumps out is this documentary was actually release in French in 2021 and only translated to English for this release within the last few days. That means it doesn’t include the war in Ukraine, the stepped up regulation and confiscation of farmland, the runaway economic inflation, and the push for CBDC, all of which have greatly accelerated the progress that was noted in the original documentary release back in 2021. Failed To Load Title |
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Posted: 4/10/2023 7:05:08 AM EST
[#43]
Tennessee..,
TommyRobinsonOfficial@TommyRobinsonOfficial 12h · This is a preplanned global agenda. https://gab.com/TommyRobinsonOfficial/posts/110171546980619961 |
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Posted: 4/10/2023 7:12:12 AM EST
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She makes a very valid point. Why else would they continue to rack up debt at an exponential rate?
We all are about to go through hell…
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Posted: 4/10/2023 7:17:35 AM EST
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Michael Yon@MichaelYon
1 hour ago Panama: Big Week in Darien Gap Unfolding 10 April 2023 Panama This video describes Panama, the Canal, and Darien Gap. Panama, the Gap, and Canal, are Strategically vital. We spend months in the Darien Gap and will be back in the Gap this morning. Keep your eye on the Gap this week. You will see why on Tuesday:  Why the Americas Still Aren't Connected by a Road |
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Posted: 4/10/2023 10:11:18 AM EST
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Quote History Grid Down, Power Up - Trailer A You Won’t Be Able To Sleep After Learning How Vulnerable We Are In ‘Grid Down, Power Up’ Dennis Quaid went viral in early April after he appeared on Fox News to promote his documentary “Grid Down, Power Up.” So, I decided to watch it, and now I can’t sleep. The documentary, narrated by Quaid, focuses on the vulnerabilities facing the American power grid and the risks posed by failures to upgrade facilities to withstand physical attacks from terrorists and our immediate cosmos. While it is definitely not the best-made documentary I’ve ever seen, it is arguably the most important piece of informative entertainment in modern history. “Grid failure is a real and imminent threat, a devastatingly deadly occurrence leading to life-threatening shortages of heat, food, and water. If protective measures are not taken, we will experience catastrophic failures leaving citizens in states of starvation, death, destruction, and darkness for months,” the documentary’s official website describes, and its spot on. At only an hour long, “Grid Down, Power Up,” packs a serious punch with its data. A majority of the content focuses on how the vulnerabilities in our power grid are obvious. So much so, that external actors like China, Russia, or just about anyone, could plunge America into darkness for extended periods of time. If such an event were to occur, millions would die from loss of food, water, and medication. The main attacks described in the movie include those similar to the substation shoot-ups that have occurred hundreds of times in the last few years. Another risk emphasized by Quaid is an EMF attack from foreign governments. He additionally noted the risk posed by our closest star, the sun, should a major solar storm occur. To learn more about this phenomenon, check out my many, many articles about this threat. (RELATED: Did Flight Systems Go Down Because Of Solar Storms? Well …) All of these risks are prevalent today. And they don’t have to be. “Grid Down, Power Up,” argues that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Energy (DOE), and Defense (DOD), and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency can upgrade our grid to withstand attack. But lobbyists from the energy sector seemingly do everything possible to stop these upgrades from happening, and it’s completely unclear why. I personally believe that documentaries like this should be shown everywhere, from mainstream television to in classrooms. It’s totally unacceptable that the data presented in this brilliant film is far from common knowledge, especially as it presents one of the greatest threats to every single American alive today. https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/10/grid-down-power-up-dennis-quaid-documentary-review/ |
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Posted: 4/10/2023 10:58:14 AM EST
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Outlining the greatest vulnerability to the food supply - transportation.
 Cyclone Gabrielle highlights vulnerability of NZ’s food suppliers | 1News |
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Posted: 4/10/2023 5:39:03 PM EST
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 Ranchers Warn About Record Drop In Cattle Production As Retailers Brace For Disastrous Meat Shortage |
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Posted: 4/10/2023 6:01:46 PM EST
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Posted: 4/10/2023 6:04:03 PM EST
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The firefight with Columbian Cartel in The Darien Gap.
 Firefight with Colombian Cartel! |
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