Posted on 01/10/2014 12:42:28 PM PST by Kartographer
There are crimes that mark a society. I started wondering whether I should write this entry in Spanish. But there is enough local outrage on the web, and tomorrow on print, that English must be the vehicle. The affair started early when we learned that Monica Spear was murdered with her (ex?) husband inside her car, in front of her 5 year old daughter whose cries eventually alerted other passerby.
In a way the casual observer could wonder why the murder of two people should matter in a country which had this past year around 24,000 murders, more than twice what happened in Iraq; only behind, I suppose, Syria. We are talking more than 66 murders A DAY, and even if we were taking at face value the lies of the regime we would still be at more than 30 crimes a day. Monica Spear comes only from one of the at the very least 30 families that must cry today.
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To start things off I have gotten a number of request for recommendations for radiation detectors and where to buy them. Any fellow prepper have recomendation they would like to share??
I read in another article that violent crime has quadrupled since Chavez took office.
Not much dirrent than what is occurring right here in the USA under Obama.
Didn’t Chavez also ban guns early on?
Except that under Obama murder and other crimes have continued a decades-old downward trend.
2013 is likely to tie with the all-time low murder rate, and just may set a new record.
Indeed. In many ways Obama is following in Chavez' footprints. He thrives on stoking class and racial tensions. Obama has let the inner city feral animals know that he has their back and they are spreading their violence more and more. How much of the so-called knock game is really because of Obama and Holder's rhetoric and actions?
Maximum violence between classes always manifests itself between classes at closest socio-economic distance, NOT between the classes that are furthest apart. And one of the harbingers of revolution is that it reaches whole new levels just before the SHTF.
When you cultivate race and class hatred for political purposes and scapegoat certain segments of society blindly to get votes, you get violence. Sounds like Obama and the resulting "knockout game."
Sobering read.
Venezuela is what it looks like after the SHTF.
Everything looks normal to an outsider’s eyes. It just isn’t.
I agree. But the knockout game is by itself unlikely to significantly affect crime and murder rates.
Rad Detectors- It depends on what the threat is. A very sensitive pancake-probe Geiger unit will saturate (once the needle is pegged to the right it won’t give you an “how much” answer), so it won’t help you get out of a nuke plume or the plume from a reactor meltdown. It will detect sources as small as a smoke detector, though.
A less-sensitive ion chamber, the old yellow Civil Defense type, will help you measure high levels but won’t tell you if your tuna sandwich is hot, it will read up to 500 REM/Hour but won’t budge at 50 mREM/Hour. You’d use this to see if you are moving into a plume/fallout zone or if you’ve escaped it, or you can check an improvised shelter’s shielding effectiveness.
So to be really ready for low level contamination and high-level events, get both. BUT neither will detect alpha contamination and the 2” pancake won’t get low level beta.
CDV-700 is OK for most low-level concerns, a CDV-717 with remote ion chamber will handle high level events and you can put the sensor on a stick to read around corners. Both are inexpensive compared to lots of the little pocket devices available (and the 700 is more sensitive). A lantern mantle or the right Fiestaware plate will allow you to check the cal of the 700, but you’ll need a pretty big source to check the ion chamber. If you really need accuracy you’ll need to pay for a calibration service.
Most importantly, learn how to use them correctly, learn about radiation types and the physics.
A good book is Dean Ing’s Pulling Through, it’s a nuke survival novel, and it’s based on some interesting techniques that came from Oak Ridge. The original copies have, as an appendix, plans for a home made HEPA filter, ion chamber rad detector based on an orange juice can, and other goodies the oak Ridge boys dreamed up.
Yeah, its no big deal when only white people are being killed.
Here is one possibility to look into:
I have read in various SHTF books or blogs (can't recall specifically where) that for the average person dosimeter badges or stickers are recommended as an alternative to an instrument type radiation detector.
As I recall, the recommendation is based on the fact that badges are simple, nothing to break, no calibration required and lower cost.
I know that badge dosimiters are available many places on the net - eBay, Amazon, etc. but haven't researched beyond Googling for availability.
Iron, a badge like a Landauer dosimeter badge must be sent in to Landauer for readout. They give the dose you recieved over the previous month.
A pen dosimeter will work, but you need a means to charge them up. A couple of pens and a charger are around $500. Depending on what pen you get, they may saturate in a serious mishap.
They are 40’s tech but I still run into them at almost every rad lab I visit.
Some knowledgeable people assert that much of the drop in the murder rate has more to do with improved medical care than with an actual reduction in violent attacks, shootings, stabbings, clubbings, etc.
Over the years medical care has improved, statring with the 911 system, then on to more and better trained EMT's, more and better emergency vehicles, more and better eqipped emergency rooms and, last but not least, ever improving trauma care training, techniques and equipment available to EMT's, and Emergency Room staff.
It’s a tragedy when any innocent person is killed.
It is, however, relevant to the discussion that white people are killed at a much lower rate in America than certain other demographic groups.
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