Pictured is the $6,000 Nutristore premium food kit. Available on Costco's website, the kit has 36,000 servings of food and includes 600 cans of various items like instant pasta and milk
Pictured is the $6,000 Nutristore premium food kit. Available on Costco's website, the kit has 36,000 servings of food and includes 600 cans of various items like instant pasta and milk
No one can prep for their nation going socialist, except for having an escape plan. This is especially true since socialism works for a while, until the stocks of products made under a market system are depleted. The government will pass anti-hoarding laws. Maybe you can hide your cache. Maybe you can’t. Maybe just the smell of cooking food coming from your home will tip off a hungry neighbor.
I’ve known a lot of people over the years who escaped from communist nations in the 80s. They were from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, East Germany, and Cuba. Prepping to stay in the communist state is not a viable option. Prepping your escape route is the only solution.
If you plan to stay, the best prep is to be a loyal Party Member with a position of authority in the Party.
If $6000 buys a years worth of food for a family of four it’s a bargain at just $115 a week.
Directive 10-289:
Point One. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.
What happened in Venezuela is the entirely predictable, and widely predicted, result of despotic socialism.
I dare say it was not just predictable, but inevitable.
“An economic collapse this long seemed like something that was entirely out of the question. It was entirely unpredictable. I would have expected a pandemics or a coup d’etat long before this hungry zombie-like scenario.”
It truly seems like an impossible scenario, what has happened in Venezuela. So much for those who say it can’t happen ‘here.’ It can happen. All it takes is the right sorts in charge.
4-5 months won’t do it. We are prepped for 1 year and have backyard chickens. Without a place in a rural area to run to it still isn’t enough.
Only an idiot couldn’t figure out what eventually would happen in Venezuela.
Does Costco sell the Firearms and Ammunition to help protect the Food stash too?
Actually, that’s a bargain if you have the space for it.
Ping.
Venezuela would make a great Walking Dead type survival show. Every season things get worse, and the characters have to find a way to survive. It might even convert a few socialists.
In a state-sanctioned political apocalypse the only real options consist of escape to a safer place or joining the victorious party. Where the state is formally involved in control and settling the order into permanence, the options for the non-involved consist of slow starvation or violent revolution, an it is the unvarying objective of such a state to remove the people's ability to perform the latter at the earliest opportunity. That might be one certain warning sign.
One of the most interesting studies of what happened in Venezuela and how is one we'll likely never read: how the party enforcers and their Cuban "consultants" have managed to keep the lid on. A similar study might be conducted of Iran, whose government we know has purchased the services of mercenaries from everywhere from Uzbekistan to the Palestine Authority. That state does so under the color of religion, but thugs are thugs, and their importation might be another certain warning sign.
Possession of the sort of redoubt capable of growing its own food is vital in the case of a natural disaster, futile in the face of a state determined to maintain control by seizing the food as the Soviets did in Ukraine. You grow it, they steal it. And they have a neighborhood watch network to ensure they know where it is. Those onions you're taking to the Farmer's Market, citizen, where did you get them? The gun to your wife's head will ensure that you tell them.
The overall point is that a political disaster is harder to survive than any natural disaster short of a planet-destroying volcano or asteroid. It's also far easier to produce and common to witness. If there is a place to run, prepare it and be ready for a timely exit. If there is no place to run, prepare to fight it out. If someone seems unusually eager to confiscate the means of defense under the color of state safety, they're not your friend.
This has been a goood thread. I have often thought of what I would have done if I had lived in Germany in the 30’s.
The summary of the discussion here is that the choices were:
1) leave
2) fight
3) survive for another day
All options has some pros and cons......................
As stated before, we have to place our bets.
Socialism never works.
Ping - SHTF article.
I'd go sit on a beach somewhere and drink margaritas and wait for the end to come.
No need to make the end of the world any worse than it's already going to be.
America has a few advantages working in it’s favor. There are a LOT of people well-armed. There is a LOT of places to hide in the Appalachians, Ozarks, Rockies, and the rural deserts and plains of the interior where there are multitudes of caves, rocky terrain, and very defensible positions. There are a lot of conservative farmers and country people who know how to grow/store food and hunt and there are a LOT of animals to hunt in America. There are a LOT of Americans who know about homemade explosive technology and know how to manufacture firearms and explosives.
I would join these crowds of people and fight if push came to shove.
Food Storage and Long Term Storage - but can it last you and your family for 3 1/2 years ?
Freeze dried foods maintain their nutrition and vitamins, but are bulky and cumbersome so they don't "travel well" in a backpack.
Dehydrated Foods loose some of their nutrition during drying but shrink, however they do "travel well", take up less space, and require hydration prior to being consumed.
Foraging for native plants requires knowledge of which plants are edible, avoiding poisonous plants, and knowledge of where the plants are located.
"Store what you eat, and eat what you store " is a Prepper wise saying and refrain; with reason behind it..
If you wont try it in times of plenty, what makes you think that it will be more palatable in times of stress ?.... despiration ?
Another Prepper saying is :" Try before you buy ! "
All prepper foods/ camping supplies ARE NOT CREATED EQUALLY !!,.. nor do they all have the same storage longevity, and 'shelf life'.
Study the nutritional value of foods that you store, and realize that many foods say they have "two servings",
whereas it might only be what one person would normally eat.
Also, be aware of calorie count, fats, and fatty oils in the foods you store, as they will aid in digestion and energy.
Hat Tip to Freepers TADSLOS and greeneyes And prayers up for the Venezuelan people
Based on historical timetables, we urged friends in Venezuela to leave, almost fifteen years ago.
They didn’t, as they (foolishly) believed it couldn’t happen there.
Now, they are stuck. If they’re even still alive. We lost contact with their family about five years ago :-(
That food is most definitely not for diabetics.