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Happy 4th of July United States!
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On this 4th of July I want to tell the U.S. to beware of those who pretend not to understand the 2nd Amendment, tyrants, dictators, or hidden dictators will always fear a well armed population.
Letters to U.S. administration, my experience in hidden dictatorships where the population is subjugated by the secret police and organized crime, create the illusion of freedom through PR, charters of rights and freedom on paper, etc, but these mean nothing or worthless when faced with corruption, organized crime, police and regime denial and collusion, and videos of tyranny and NRA.
This is what they want for the United States.
Something You Don't Know General Population
"I don't understand this case or problem, it should be like free money. The police allegations violate the freedom of expression, privacy, seizure of personal computers without a warrant, they used the wrong word to fabricate their false allegations "carnage" instead of "rampage", an error. If the proceedings are extended to two years or five years even better, sue them after for the damages and buy a Cadillac." - General Population
"If the police and crown prosecutor did that to me I'd be telling them "you are going to regret doing this, wait and see, I'm going to sue you for a million dollars". "Go ahead mister crown prosecutor extend the proceedings to 2 or five years if you want too, this ain't the U.K., this is Canada." - General Population
What You Don't Know
"There is something that you don't know general population, that's the way it is supposed to work and told that it works. The reality in Canada is that the regime secret police have extended workplace psychological harassment to criminal harassment networks and energy assault weapons, types of radar. So during false allegations proceedings you are assaulted from neighboring participants, underground emitters that are slipped under your home, public places and stock rooms, and weaponization of space. You have to endure these assaults aimed at inflicting deadly cancers and destroying your fertility to defend yourself in court. Complaints to the police or authorities leads to police psychiatric intervention that leads to incarceration and expensive participating defense lawyers. The British regimes subjugate the population through organized crime and this strategy. This is what they want for the United States. So once acquitted you have the choice to continue to endure these assaults, increase the risk of deadly cancers and brain damage, loss of fertility, or discontinue a civil lawsuit in attempts to limit the damage as they continue efforts to subjugate you or murder you through "natural causes", cancer." -
There are several pages regarding the U.S. 2nd Amendment, U.S. gun debate, and protecting our rights and freedoms. Rage Shooting Factors, U.S. Gun Debate, Influence of the Mind, and other articles like two Canadian regime "secret police" "mob" homicide strategies, ethnic cleansing in Quebec, ..
article in progress
U.S. 2nd Amendment
A video clip that mentions the reason and purpose of the U.S. 2nd Amendment, subjugation, tyranny.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-921094
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7x61jKI4es
U.S. Gun Debate, The U.S. A "Culture of Guns and Violence" - (blog)
Stereotypes, rhetoric, and misinformation about the Right to Bear Arms, "a culture of guns", the cause is "too many guns", the cause is a "deranged person". "It won't be easy, guns have always been part of the fabric of American culture as this 60's ad illustrates, so any curb on guns is a tough sell even modest restrictions have only come after the worst episodes in American history.". The British regimes do not understand what the U.S. 2nd Amendment is for. In Marc Lepine's case I saw them focus on an Arab father. I've seen them claim that we have the freedom of expression to protect us from tyranny. They never reported the obvious freedom of expression violation, and human rights violation that happened to Danny Hunt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqiTY2hD9X4
Dune 1984, Tyranny and Medieval Patterns - (blog)
Movie scenes linked to tyranny, medieval patterns, and technology.
A movie scene that illustrates a medieval pattern, tyranny followed by the illusion of change. British regimes are controlled and hidden dictatorships through corruption and organized crime, the illusion of freedom and democracy for the general population, and have the same pattern. Why? it is about controlling the economy, the money, for control and subjugation, and subjugating targeted citizens of interest, leadership, etc, that they do control through corruption and organized crime, murdering them, destroying them, replacing them with people they do control. This pattern helps hide this repetitive routine used by British regimes for hundreds of years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7ywirCB-T8
Immortals, Tyranny and Blood Lines, Fertility
A movie illustration of destroying a person's fertility, blood line, or ethnic cleansing. British regimes like Canada are actually doing this by cornering or trapping citizens in criminal proceedings and using repetitive radar assaults aimed at the testicles. The English British regime of Canada is doing this in the French province of Quebec, which is linked to ethnic cleansing.
Ethnic Cleansing in Canada?
The french province has been involved in talks of sovereignty, separation, referendums for years.
Notes, the secret police subjugate the population through organized crime, corruption, participants, they corner targeted citizens through homelessness. Quebec from what I believe has always had strong social values, welfare, or values aimed at protecting the homelessness, the tool used for subjugation. The British regimes control the economy, jobs, etc, but with welfare even a repressed or oppressed french population could flourish.
The British have now extended workplace psychological harassment to criminal harassment networks and energy assault weapons, types of radar, to subjugate the population through organized crime. One of the targeted areas that they focus on are the testicles, which destroys the fertility of the males targeted.
Immortals, Tyranny and Brazen Bull
A movie illustration of what British regimes are doing to citizens in Canada, they "cook" them with repetitive radar assaults in attempts to inflict deadly and painful cancers.
Victims need a faraday cage, thick metal and grounded copper wires, to escape the assaults.
"Journal Entry June 18, 2013 Bone Cancer
U.S. Gun Debate, Ireland - (blog)
The British want Canada to have gun control, a defenseless population so that if the population revolts against hidden dictatorship the worse case scenario that can happen is that they can turn Canada and the U.S. into Ireland for decades.
Organizing for Action and President Barack Obama
I believe that immigration, capitalism and free markets, and civil rights were the key to the United States economic success.
I believe that rage shooting factors should play a part in prevention similar to suicide factors play a part in suicide prevention, and believe that the right to bear arms and freedom of speech should not be weakened since they are central in protecting our rights and freedoms. I also know that similar to the workplace strategy of using participating employees to create justification to take action there are forces that move through organized crime that try to create justification to weaken both of these central civil rights, which are linked to subjugation through organized crime.
I also believe that climate change should be on the United States top threats to national security given its link to mass extinction. The increased volcanic activity due to climate change, the melting ice that reflects energy back into space, deforestation that eats the suns energy before it reaches the earth, the increase in green house gas, CO2 levels, floods that increase CO2 levels, the acidification of the oceans due to CO2 and %30-%40 decline in plankton that also eats energy and produce oxygen, are all linked to increased volcanic activity, eruptions, more CO2 and gases, ash linked global starvation and ice age, and mass extinction pattern or "doomsday volcanoes".
The PBS videos on the page give a good indication of the danger, mention Yellowstone park, and several other volcanoes that have increased in activity such as Katla.
I'd like to mention that Alaska and Mexico have increased in activity, which are part of a chain of mountains that run up the United States and several other volcanoes.
Canada's tar sands and Peru's deforestation for oil production are mentioned as political issues along with tweets from President Barack Obama.
The U.S. is faced with hurricanes on the right, tornadoes in the middle, and deadly volcanoes on the left. I see improving building technology for climate change, ocean colonization, and the colonization of the moon and mars linked.
Rage Shooting Factors
http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/rage_shooting_factors.htm
Climate Change & Mass Extinction
http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/climate_change.htm
Psychological Harassment Information Association
http://www.psychologicalharassment.us/
I believe that violence and gun violence are linked to influence of the mind from my experience and that of other victims, Megan Meier and Jamey Robemeyer.
I have created two website pages concerning this issue, Rage Shooting Factors and Influence of the Mind.
The influence of the mind page starts with a paragraph that describes the basic influence of the mind mechanism linked to suicides and gun violence.
"A page about influence of the mind, repetitive suggestions to commit suicide once in a state of crisis or depression and to retaliate through violence or gun violence when being abused or inflicted with intentional damages."
The page has a few videos to help understand this issue. One video involves Megan Meier who was the victim of cyberbullying, mobbing, a pattern that led to a crisis, a suggestion that the world would be a better place without her, and her suicide. Another video involves Jamey Robemeyer a gay teen victim to school bullying and mobbing influenced through constant hate and rejection that he said he could not escape, and committed suicide. A video concerning anti-gay rhetoric from Apple employees, it gets better, that involves hate and rejection is also on the page.
The page has a video that illustrates one basic influence of the mind mechanism that involves damage, provocation, and rampage linked to violence and gun violence. There are several of these mechanisms linked to violence and gun violence that are mentioned. Influence of the mind is mentioned in 4 to 6.
Causes: 1. Trapped or Corned 2. Abuse Strategy (Marie-France Hirigoyen) 3. Damage, Provocation, Rampage 4. Abuse and Influence of the Mind (retaliation) 5. Abuse and Influence of the Mind (visibility) 6. Influence of the Mind .. Ideation, Strategy, Retaliation and Hitting Back, Visibility, Symbolism, Repetitive Humiliation, Bullying, Mobbing, ..
There are also several articles listed from Psychology Today about influence of the mind.
I recently received a response to the Climate Change and Mass Extinction page and have added this response to the Political Action section of this page. I have added a Political Action section to the Influence of the Mind page.
"In January, U.S. President Barack Obama directed the Centers for Disease Control to look into ways to reduce gun violence," -- To that end, the CDC has asked the Institute for Medicine and the National Research Council to -- The Institute of Medicine, at the request of the Centers for Disease Control, is preparing to launch a new round of research into the influence of videogames and other media on gun violence."
And hope that I can add and share another response with the community.
Influence of the Mind
http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/influence-of-the-mind.htm
Dear VP Joe Biden
I understand the U.S. 2nd Amendment and the Republicans.
http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/rage-shooting-factors.htm
Tyranny and U.S. Gun Debate
http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/us-gun-debate.htm
I understand the economic success behind the United States, immigration, capitalism and free markets, and civil rights, central to these is the U.S. 2nd Amendment, and I also believe so is the freedom of speech since it is used to defend the 2nd Amendment that is under attack through organized crime in attempts to create the justification to weaken it.
I've always understood the U.S. 2nd Amendment while living in Canada, the right to bear arms to prevent subjugation by hidden dictatorships.
More recently as I wrote about it and experience tyranny it became even clearer. The "good guys", background checks, aren't always the police and government, and tyrants will always fear a well armed population.
Living in Canada I'm also aware of how hidden dictatorships function, they subjugate the population through organized crime, corruption, pretend not to understand the U.S. 2nd Amendment, try to hide their crimes and human rights violations, "it's organized crime and not tyranny", assign blame to fix their human rights violations.
It is obvious to me how these regimes try to use poverty and homelessness to corner and subjugate targeted citizens, are behind the rage shootings, which creates the justification to advocate gun control, a defenseless population to subjugation, hidden dictatorships, and tyranny.
The British regimes have extended workplace psychological harassment to criminal harassment networks and energy assault weapons, types of radar, they inflict financial loss and physical damages while provoking those that they target. It is another method of cornering citizens with a secure means of subsistence like welfare in Quebec through regime and police denial.
As the other email mentioned, the Canadian English regime had Quebec pass gun control through the terrible crime of Marc Lepine, which seems to have been caused by organized crime attempts to corner him through poverty and homelessness and now have them ethnic cleansing themselves by assaulting males in Quebec, the majority french population, in the testicles with radar to destroy their fertility.
Danny Hunt
PS. following the Mobbing Research article that involves rage shootings and Marc Lepine I was incarcerated, the freedom of expression protection was dismissed, the unlawful seizure of my computers was dismissed, .. , delays and long proceedings while being attacked through organized crime and different types of radar "you have to run away or die of cancer" "you have to turn or die of cancer" attempts at subjugation by "organized crime".
PSS. The pages mentioned are worth looking at and I do support efforts to support those with 3. mental illness 4. school protection from acts of terror or organized crime to weaken the U.S. 2nd Amendment on this site under Political Action like the NRA and 3 - 4 from Organizing for Action aka President Barack Obama.
The authorities deny the existence of this criminal harassment network, their use of energy assault weapons, and the solution by the authorities and police for victims of these assaults is police psychiatric intervention that leads to incarceration.
"British regimes like Canada are actually doing this by cornering or trapping citizens in criminal proceedings and using repetitive radar assaults aimed at the testicles. The English British regime of Canada is doing this in the French province of Quebec, which is linked to ethnic cleansing." - Danny Hunt
"The Canadian secret police still using poverty, welfare, homelessness, to corner targeted QC citizens, added radar tech to destroy fertility."
The Canadian British regime is using energy assault weapons, types of radar, and focused ultrasound technology from neighboring apartments, homes, underground emitters, and weaponization of space. So even with a secure means of subsistence or welfare citizens are still cornered through the regimes denial of their use and police psychiatric intervention that leads to incarceration.
It's Like a Mystery Novel, You Won't Believe It
s.227 Homicides Through Influence of the Mind (repeal 1999)
I experienced a homicide method through influence of the mind around this period of time and have documented the strategy and method used on the site in articles and different pages.
s.672.12 (1)(3) Non-criminal Responsibility Assessment orders (not repealed)
I experienced a second homicide attempt method, which is ongoing. This second attempt involves repetitive energy assaults, types of radar aimed at inflicting deadly cancers, brain damage and brain tumors, testicles and "castration", jaw and throat to disfigure aka Roger Ebert. This second attempt was combined with false allegations, which trap or corner a person in long criminal proceedings while being assaulted, drain finances that would be used for shielding materials or faraday cage, and used s.672.12 (1)(3) before trial, which is "unlawful" according to high court rulings. It can find a person guilty without a trial, circumvents charter of rights violations presented at trial, and makes unlawful seizures of personal computers legal. The radar microwave assaults are combined with several police psychiatric interventions that leads to incarceration as defendants attempt to appeal this "unlawful" assessment order before trial and pressured through threats of incarceration if they do not complete it as the appeals are delayed or "cease to exist" in court.
After being acquitted I tried to address this law that violates the higher court rulings, right to a trial, etc, but could not continue due to organized crime and the ongoing assaults. So this law has not been corrected or repealed and lower court judges can still grant these "unlawful" assessment orders to crown prosecutors, which results in long and expensive proceedings for those who try to appeal this assessment order.
What is interesting, what "you won't believe", is that they are both linked to a homicide method by organized crime, s.227 used to prosecute homicides was repealed, s.672.12 used in a homicide method could not be repealed and still in the Canadian Criminal Code.
British Regime Subjugation Strategy
The British regime subjugation strategy is the same one that has existed for hundreds of years with medieval kings and queens, concentrate wealth, land, the money and jobs. Advocate a defenseless population to subjugation, the threat of being removed, and tyranny to maintain control.
Use poverty and homelessness for control and subjugation.
They control the media and target people in leadership positions to subjugate them or murder and replace them with participants.
Their secret police function through corruption and organized crime, tyranny, but to the general population PR its always "its organized crime and not tyranny.". Censorship is through participation and the secret police. The secret police participants are armed, they use energy assault weapons, types of radar, and focused ultrasound technology to inflict deadly cancers, brain damage, destroy fertility, enrage targeted citizens through their use and corruption, homelessness, to incarcerate them and advocate gun control if this results in gun violence.
As mentioned they use a ruling routine to concentrate wealth, tyranny followed by the illusion of change.
Their subjugation strategy towards citizens, countries (war), .. , is always subjugate or degrade (war, acid violence, homelessness, damage the brain, destroy fertility). In the concentration of land and wealth this can be disguised through acid violence over land disputes in Pakistan, an ally of Canada and the Royal Kingdom. Canada gave Pakistan nuclear missiles to aim at India.
Their secret police are behind attempts to create internal conflicts, "going to hit them back", different biker gangs, organized crime, to push targeted citizens towards one, subjugate them or murder them.
Similar to the concentration of wealth, education, and knowledge are other resources that they they wish to make exclusive through control, economics, wealth, dis-functional, etc.
They have extend workplace psychological harassment networks to criminal harassment networks and have been using stereotypes to mislead or oppress targeted citizens for control through hate and rejection, etc, women, racial ethnic, and the gay community. Only one website, and the creator and founder has been under attack through police false allegations, energy assault weapons, types of radar, aimed at subjugation and murder for over two years through police and regime denial, for example.


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Robert Craxford
Name Robert Craxford
Born 1 Jun 1801
Christened 30 Aug 1801 St George in the East, Stepney, London [1]
Residence 1830 Mecklenburg Square, Bloomsbury, London
Occupation 1831
Residence 1840 42, Thanet Street, St Pancras, London
Gentleman's servant
Residence 1853 55, Great Tufton Street, Westminster, London
Messenger: Colonial Office
Died 22 Aug 1854 Westminster, London [2]
Cause: Asiatic cholera
Buried 24 Aug 1854 All Souls Cemetery, Kensall Green, London [3]
Person ID I386 Extended Craxford Family | The Craxfords of London - including Crauford - not yet attached to the main trunk
Last Modified 20 May 2016
Father John Craxford, b. 1763, Gretton, Northamptonshire , d. Aft 1802 (Age 40 years)
Mother Frances Gill, b. Bef 1780, d. Apr 1808 (Age ~ 28 years)
Married 19 Nov 1799 St Thomas Church, Southwark, London [4]
A witness to the marriage was William Craxford (?his brother)
MC: Craxford, John (1799) and Frances Gill
Although the evidence is circumstantial, we believe the named witness, William Craxford, to be his brother who had married Anne Easthop at the same church eight years earlier. They also shared the other witness, Nathaniel Harris. Interestingly the same archives show that a Nathaniel Harris married Sarah Gill at St Marylebone Church, Westminster on February 1st 1783. Again there is no other evidence to substantiate such a claim, but were Sarah and Frances Gill sisters?
If this is the case, it provides the link tying the "Craxfords of Hoxton" to the main family tree.
London, England Marriages and Banns 1754 - 1921
Southwark St Thomas 1800 Page 25
Family ID F8987 Group Sheet, Family chart
Family Elizabeth Mary Rawlings, b. Abt 1802, Herefordshire , d. 4 Oct 1879, Islington, London (Age ~ 77 years)
Married 21 Dec 1828 St Margaret's Church, Westminster, London
1. William John Craxford, b. 24 May 1829, St Pancras, London , d. 14 Mar 1874, Hoxton, London (Age 44 years)
2. Elizabeth Mary Craxford, b. 30 Nov 1830, Holborn, London , d. 1 May 1903, Islington, London (Age 72 years)
3. Robert Craxford, b. 1832, St Pancras, London , d. 25 Sep 1840, St Pancras, London (Age 8 years)
Family ID F121 Group Sheet, Family chart
DC: Craxford, Robert (1854)
Founder of the dynasty that led to the Craufords and the involvement with the Britannia Theatre. We have not yet traced his lineage back to Northamptonshire
[S58] International Genealogical Index File, C055782 1779 - 1794 0578788 Film 6902328 (Reliability: 3).
[S4] England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983, Westminster 1a 281 (Sept 1854) (Reliability: 4).
[S390] London England, Deaths and Burials 1813-1980, (London Metropolitan Archives), All Souls Cemetery (General Cemetery Company) 1854 Page 222 (Reliability: 4).
[S364] London, England, Marriages and Banns 1754-1921, (London Metropolitan Archives), Southwark St Thomas 1800 Page 25 (Reliability: 3).

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Solar System Digest
Space and beyond!
SpaceX's 20th Station Shipment Arrives With Candy, Science
Posted By: Robbi Drake May 20, 2020
A SpaceX cargo ship has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering experiments, candy and other goods.
By Associated Press, Wire Service Content March 9, 2020, at 7:09 a.m.
In this image taken from NASA video, NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir use the International Space Station's robot arm to capture the Dragon capsule Monday, March 9, 2020. The Dragon capsule reached the orbiting lab on Monday after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, late Friday night. It is SpaceX's 20th shipment to the space station. (NASA via AP) The Associated Press
By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on Monday, delivering the company's 20th batch of gear and treats.
The Dragon capsule reached the orbiting lab after launching late Friday night. NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir used the station's robot arm to capture the spacecraft.
The 4,300-pound (1,950-kilogram) shipment contains science experiments and equipment, as well as special goodies for the three-person crew aloft for months: grapefruit, tomatoes, Skittles, Reese's Pieces and Hot Tamales.
This is the last of SpaceX's original-style Dragons. All future ones are designed to carry either cargo or crew, and will dock automatically rather than require robot-arm assistance. SpaceX has been sending up station cargo since 2012 and plans to start launching NASA astronauts this spring.
From 260 miles (418 kilometers) up, Meir congratulated SpaceX on its many milestones, including the fact this is the third flight for this particular Dragon. Spacecraft and rocket recycling, she noted, is "the more sustainable approach that will be paramount to the future of spaceflight."
The Dragon will remain at the orbiting lab for a month before returning to Earth with science specimens.
https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2020-03-09/spacexs-20th-station-shipment-arrives-with-candy-science
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Once More, Harder
Modern city, late 20th century: dozens killed, mobs in the street, hundreds of fires, widespread looting, and troops called out after a week to restore order, all because some career perp thug got thumped on. And you're going to deal with that x1,000? Sh'yeah right. Best wishes with that plan. Send me a postcard.
In response to today's previous post, this comment:
"I think you over-estimate the desire of private security to be BMoC. So long as the person they're paying/protecting isn't being a complete yahoo and/or doing things to put them in jeopardy, I would question the need/desire for a coup. Especially if the families of the private security were able to attend and a general comfort with following orders.
Some good reads in the survival genre discussing this leadership, or lack thereof, dynamic are the American Apocalypse series (terrible editing but good story); EMP: Equipping Modern Patriots series; Lights Out; One Second After series; and I think one these ended at Raven Rock near Gettysburg where a fairly developed character with an interest in history was killed (IRRC) I don't recall the exact book however -- The Remaining series, Max Velocity's series, Brushfire Plague series, Angry American's Home series, or possibly one of Matt Bracken's Enemies series or one of the Rawles books.
Point being, that people always look for leaders, concepts of honor don't disappear just b/c money is worthless, and hope for a return to "normal" will likely keep folks on the straight and narrow, especially if not starving and relatively comfortable, longer than if they know that the current situation was forever. How it plays is very situationally-dependent.
Lights out in particular has a good chapter or two on what can happen when wealthy and prepared folks sit behind their fences rather than extending patrols beyond them. Resonates as terrain aligns with own in central tx."
Au contraire.
I think some folks underestimate the desire of other people to eat, what happens when they perceive anyone is in the way of that, and the urge to be what they are when completely unconstrained:
Let's be clear about a few things.
1) In any situation where a billionaire is decamping to their retreat bunker, and depending for their continued existence on their little mercenary band,
The "rules" as you understand them no longer apply.
In short, in such a situation, "private security" is neither.
People in charge beforehand, by virtue of money, laws, and stuff, won't be so when the nature of all those things changes fundamentally.
This is like trying to fly in space, when there's no more air for lift or maneuvering: it isn't going to go well when using wings and propellers is your whole plan, because it used to work ten minutes ago.
2) History is replete with lessons. One of them is that "leaders" earned those positions. By feats of arms. When warfare is a constant, as it has been for most of human history and at most times, those who win, lead. Someone thrust into the position who knows how to wave his arms, but not take a hill, is going to last leading people who know the latter for about as long as it takes anybody hungrier and less genteel to decide to pull off a coup. As several hundred former dictators can attest worldwide, going back to at least Julius Caesar.
Billionaires who became so without ever getting their nails dirty are going to be cupcakes in a box in front of grizzly bears, come "The Event." Kings and conquerors were the most brutal, bloodthirsty bastards in the pack, and the most brutal packs begat the commensurately most brutal practitioners, who literally cleaved people's skulls with swords at bad-breath distance to achieve and maintain their positions. Boardroom battles and hostile takeovers by people who've never hefted anything more ferocious than a pen or a cell phone are like watching Chihuahuas fight stuffed animals by contrast.
What does it look like when one world meets the other? It looks like terrorists taking over an OPEC meeting, and shooting the first guy in the face in front of everyone, just to establish who's in charge now, and as casually as brushing a fleck of lint off their cuff.
Scene I: heavily-armed terrorists burst into the room:
"Who's in charge here?"
"I am," said billionaire CEO Scrooge McDick, somewhat upset by the interruption. "So, what's all this about?"
BLAM!BLAM!BLAM! McDick's torso crumples, as pieces of his face fly about the room and decorate the nearby walls and adjacent attendees.
"Wrong answer. Once again, who's in charge here...?"
"YOU ARE!" in unison from the terrified survivors.
That's all of recorded human history, every single time.
3) When people are hungry, "honor" goes right out the window. And "hope" ain't a plan. People in the Soviet gulags, educated, civilized men, routinely sold each other out for a blanket or a crust of bread, in about a heartbeat, as recounted by pretty much everyone who survived and wrote about the experience. Hiding Jews and other "undesireables" in droves were outted by their own former neighbors for an extra ration coupon or the tiniest increase in prestige, from 1938-1945, inclusive, all over Europe.
Honor doesn't fill your belly. And whatever leanings or moral compass you might think you'll obey will exert not a whit of pull on the moral compass of others, and that's vastly truer when all societal underpinings go out the window in a hurry, which is the exact sort of situation under discussion.
Try reading some reality, rather than fiction, from Solzhenitsyn, FerFal, Selco, and others who've passed through actual fire, not fictional works of same by people who've never missed so much as a meal in their entire lives.
Most dystopian fiction is just bad prepper porn, not least of which because it's so unlike any experience in human history for most of the writers, and their imagination is rather more attuned to sales than reality. Hobbes' "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" description of man in a state of Nature was based on a far closer acquaintance with it than that possessed by a convention full of popular authors currently, and conveys more stark reality in those five words than you'll get from five conex boxes full of pulp fiction doom porn.
As Louis L'Amour wrote frequently in his westerns, the problem with being an outlaw is that it means living completely outside the law: no protection by it, no rules, no security, no common civilization, and definitely no honor among thieves, cutthroats, and robbers. They exited civilization of their own accord, and seldom retired to die quietly in their beds. Now imagine entire societies who have the protection and trappings of civilization, society, and law suddenly ripped from them like a blanket on a cold morning.
Nuclear families and small tribal groups will fare somewhat better, because they'll carry most if not all of the trappings of civilization-that-was with them, as much as they can.
Most people don't even have that much, and no one will have anything much between themselves and their nominal neighbors, and it will become a race to the bottom.
How does that look? Watch food distribution scenes at the beginning of Blackhawk Down or anywhere else worldwide in newsreels from the Trashcanistans and Shitholias of the Turd World. This isn't fiction, for them it's called every day, forever, for their entire miserable lives, and as long as anyone of them can remember.
What restrains it here is some scraps of parchment, common assent to it, the prosperity it's brought, and the knowledge that without it, everywhere, throughout all of recorded human history is Trashcanistan, or Shitholia.
In about a month.
Mogadischu. Beirut. Baghdad. Belgrade. Buenos Aires. Acapulco. Rio. Mumbai. Berlin. Rome. Beijing. Saigon. Atlanta. Chicongo. Baltimore. Los Angeles. San Francisco.
Big cities. First-world cities and international destinations. Capitals, even, in some cases. They've all had blood in the streets when times got tough.
It's a different world when the only symphony in town is the staccato of gunfire, not-so-distant, and the only light at night that given off by nearby buildings, gloriously aflame.
Avoid crowds.
Be someplace else.
Don't confuse proximity with alliance or allegiance.
Some people get this without being hit over the head with it, and understand that whistling past the graveyard to the tune of "Normalcy Bias Rag" isn't going to cut the mustard when mobs rule, bullets fly, and the former rules go away like early foggy mist on a hot summer morning.
Little problems - tornados, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, a job loss, personal injury, or divorce - are vastly likelier to happen, in fact almost a certainty, several times in any person's lifetime, and you should be ready for ten or twenty of them for every major meltdown you'll ever see.
Which was exactly what people in Pompeii thought right until the mountain rumbled that last time. What stockbrokers thought until one fateful day in October. And what Louis and Marie figured, until the mob showed up outside the gates.
You only have to get it wrong once, and then you hear the last lifeguard's whistle:
Labels: Class is in session, common sense
modsquad said...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUdRlvHCnbg=30s
That was a Depression, not a meltdown of civilization.
No one marched on the homes of robber barons with torches and pitchforks, and the courts and prisons were open 24/7/365.
Also, most homes had a father, and weren't dependent for sustenance on government handouts. To go on the dole was seen as disgusting.
Divorce was so rare as to be noteworthy.
They were also primarily rural and agricultural, not urban and completely disconnected from the ways and means of getting food.
Apple, meet orange.
One of the other things I remember reading from Mr. L'Amour was "...The problem with being an outlaw is the company you keep..." or words to that effect.
Family/Tribe, AYE.
T-Rav said...
At the risk of, as the good author says, stepping on my own d*ck, and with the caveat that I have zero experience in the military or law enforcement:
I think part of the problem here is that we're talking about a total, across-the-board collapse of society on even a basic level--which hasn't happened in U.S. history. Not in the Civil War, not in the Great Depression. There's been cases of social breakdown and anarchy on a very local level--Detroit, Watts et al.--but those were contained, and temporary.
"The Event" has never happened here before. That's not to say it won't happen (it probably will, for obvious reasons), but there's no telling if it will take the form of total collapse (Detroit 1967 x 1000000), or major but gradual social degradation.
Personally, I think it's more likely to be the latter. No reason the former *can't* happen, of course, but if it is the latter, I would see RSR's argument as a bit more plausible. People will fight like animals for a can of beans if they have to, but they'd rather not. Human nature has a lot of inertia built into it, and if the slide towards dystopia doesn't hit all at once, I think it would be more common to see people taking orders from billionaires and other contemporary social elites: for a time, as long as there's a baseline amount of food, other necessities, and some basic utilities getting to them.
That situation would not last forever, but there would be a certain transitional period taking place, during which both the elites and the non-elites would continue in their current roles. (Until they don't, obviously.)
Long story short, I agree with you if we get thrown into the apocalypse like *that*, but if the collapse is more gradual, I think it becomes a different story.
waepnedmann said...
"Any society is but three meals from revolution."
As a traveling medic for nearly 30 years now (jeez I'm old, how / when did that happen :-) ) I've worked in a few places before and again after their ruin. In Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.
While I am careful to maintain home stores and do my best with personal fitness... I'm doubtful that doing both will necessarily buy me and mine much more time if it all really does turn tits-up.
But, I do hope to be able to buy some time for my kids, and to not face the shitstorm with a "WTF was THAT and where did it come from???" look on my face...
I'd rather hope to go out thinking "Yeah I expected this, but not so soon...".
Probably, something different will happen :-)
Like I said T-Rav, about a month.
If nothing has happened to induce the billionaires to head for their bolt holes, it's academic.
But if it has...it's really not that hard to posit what happens when things slide from 20XX AD to 1800. Or 800.
What they themselves were talking about - seriously, with major personal investments behind their own personal life rafts - was a situation within their own lifetimes where their money, or even money itself, was no longer a thing.
1929 was harsh, but not that harsh.
No one in Manhattan was eating the animals in the zoo. (Unlike, say, in Venezuela, this year! Still think that isn't likely here?) In a country with 600m-1B private firearms, what happens when people start getting hungry enough to riot?
In 1929, people that had borrowed against them lost farms, and a few margin speculators were financially ruined. And a lot of guys were unemployed, for a looooong time. About 1942, in fact. But in the meantime, a dollar was still a dollar, and an ounce of gold or silver was still an ounce of silver. And food was still on the shelves. people just couldn't afford as much of it, so they raised or grew what they could. That assumes months of cushion for crops to mature, and backyard chickens to fatten up.
So, how many chickens are there in urban backyards today?
How many does the average family own right now?
Average people today are thinking 1929 is as bad as it gets.
(This foolishness despite America in 2018 and beyond being nothing like it was economically, demographically, ethically, or morally, in 1928.)
Whereas the guys with the most to lose are thinking, right now, that's the best it gets, and likely far worse.
Put it another way: If things are so bad those former billionaires would need a private army, what could they possibly offer, and lay claim to ownership of, under those circumstances, to keep one? The short answer is nothing. It's like trying to make a bank deal with a hungry shark. Your only collateral is what you can't afford to give up: your own @$$.
Billionaires are living like cartel drug lords now, and their entire outlook based on their own understanding of economics is that that the conditions that currently allow that will no longer continue to operate.
When pallets of cash are useful only as toilet paper and kindling, what makes the world go around, and who serves a pauper who can't even defend his own castle?
No one, ever, any time in recorded history.
Moving the goalposts to reframe the argument into something not-so-bad as all that merely avoids the question, in a rather ham-fisted attempt to pretend that of course the Titanic cannot sink.
To quote Mr. Ismay, the builder of same, "I assure you that she can; and she most certainly will."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU38aaViV84
To think that only something lesser will happen ever brings to mind the words of Lt. Gen. Honoré, when he told the half-assed "planners" in MI and LA that they hadn't really ever practiced for a disaster, they'd "only practiced for an inconvenience."
" they'd "only practiced for an inconvenience.""
This is a universal constant in training. The training event MUST be scaled down so the participants can succeed. NONE of them start by decimating the office staff. NONE of them start with "all of you died from CO poisoning when your unmaintained generator started running", NONE of them start with "all of your hospitals are full with flu patients and someone just dumped a pound of fentanyl out a window over Times Square."
There isn't any training value for the head office staff if you declare them all dead at the start.
So how do you balance the need to do SOME training, with the reality that reality will be much worse? You do what you can to identify some of the most basic issues and deal with them. Because even SOME problems identified and fixed are better than NO problems identified and fixed.
The reality is that in TEOTWAWKI, 90% or more die. Get past the initial die off and you have a chance. I prep to get past that initial die off. I prep to have something to re-start from after that point. (and for all the normal disasters in the Gulf Coast region.)
To segue from anon @09:21
For our respected host's "half a century" on the planet, I can add an additional 20 to that and some additional perspective.
As a prior active participant in the '92 Rodney Games, and then nostril-deep in public-safety emergency planning in L. A.(CA) post 9/11, Honore's "inconvenience" is right on the mark.
The REMF's, with very few notable exceptions, actively do not want any realism injected into their planning models. The first thing that they do is determine how much Federal money is available for the approved and tastefully designed disaster du jour (DDJ). They then structure the response planning accordingly so as to position their respective agencies under the spout where the money comes out.
Any divergence, any suggestion of "but have you considered the potential of..." makes that particular "team member" as popular as the famous dual-taper in the punch bowl.
It is important to remember that the planning I was involved in was based upon intentional actions designed to "Do Bad Things®", not just ad hoc mouth-breathing skells and their neighbors grabbing shoes and flat screens before torching the store.
Getting past the crowd/die-off and the first panic wave fleeing is not a bad thought. Living far, far away from the crowd is better.
The article's premise of who's in charge reminds of a line from a movie extrapolated what one or more of those CEO's or .gov officials might say and the response from some heavily armed leader of an insurgent group about to take over the bunker "but I'm CEO so and so or Senator or Congressman or Mayor or City Council member (or any number of "titles"), response: "and just exactly WHAT is that worth in these times?"
RandyGC said...
+ 1 to anon @11:20. Been living that "dream" for the past few years.
.mil was somewhat better in that once you have your core team trained up, it was not out of the ordinary to start an exercise by saying "you, you and you are dead in the first attack. Go sit in the corner. The rest of you, continue the mission"
Standard .gov or even .com types don't get it, and don't want go get.
RSR said...
FWIW, 90% of what I read for pleasure/not for work is non-fiction. And I read the entire L'Amour catalog prior to graduating high school... Started reading military manuals when I was ~10. Boy Scout, 4-H, etc, skillsets since a child as well -- in addition to growing up on hobby/small scale farm in rural agricultural America. SF (pre-john wayne movie) and more recent SOF and Air Force Security Service relatives and perspectives have informed a lot of my beliefs... Family military service dating back to Revolutionary War, including one in that conflict spending over a decade as a POW/captive w/ British-allied Ohio Valley Native Americans (was wounded in an ambush and one of few to survive captivity)... So I like to think I have a fair bit of book, practical, and second-hand knowledge, and definitely have an atypical interests.
The point I was making that your scenario in which private security decides to kill/overthrow their employer/protectee is just as much fantasy and conjecture. Multiple perspectives on how folks might behave is a good one.
I think you're ignoring the important and existing chain of command within private security teams.
I also think you're ignoring that many folks like the simplicity of merely following orders. I gather that you're fiercely independent; I'm the same -- it's a hard concept for folks like us to understand.
Further, the anarchists/those wanting to be completely unrestrained/picking fights at every turn will be quickly killed. Frankly, that's what already happens in inner-city ganglands and why the assault and homicide rate there is what it is.
Leaders may have earned their positions, but brains have always mattered at least as much as brawn. As much as you discuss skills, I don't understand why this would be in dispute.
Don't know how much time you've spend among the boardroom/C-suite class -- but narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths dominate. IRRC, something like at least 3x the rate of general population -- and I'd argue that's too low if you look at spectrum rather than absolute. Don't underestimate their ruthlessness.
Billionaire's private security forces won't be hungry. Almost certainly, the private security forces' families also won't be hungry. The folks outside the gates/compound/blast door will be.
If the civil war does occur, it will be in cities and suburbs, not rural America. Where billionaires are investing in retreat compounds is not within locations. They're buying land in rural America that has other productive uses and also building secure housing on that land as well. It's about diversification of assets and hedging -- for most the security costs as a percentage of income are likely equivalent to what an average family spends on fast food.
In sum, your original post and argument therein struck me as a dog that won't hunt, at least in 90%+ of foreseeable scenarios. I come here for the perspective and
*I come here for other's perspectives and thought-provoking posts -- in my posts, I was only attempting to do the same.
Chihuahuas are ruthless and aggressive, too. The problem is, at the end of the day, they're not rottweilers or malinois, despite how big they are in their own brains. That is the ruthlessness of corporate types, at the end of the day.
Private armies not overthrowing their masters? 90% unheard of?
My heavens, man, it's happened with professional paid armies a hundred times in the last hundred years, worldwide, and for a lot less impetus that the sort of disaster that would cause a billionaire to flee to a hideout redoubt.
Tell me who Pinochet was, and how he came to be there. How about Perón? Qadaffi? Hussein? Amin?
There have been 23 successful military coups against the entire governments of countries worldwide since just 1996, and 3-4X that many attempts,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat_and_coup_attempts
and you think private security is going to act like British grenadiers defending the Crown heir, in a society-shaping "Event", where even their erstwhile paymasters aren't sure how to control them??
And those same people are overwhelmingly "narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths"?
People don't follow orders, they follow leaders. I've given orders and taken them, from people whom I'd follow into incoming fire, and from people I'd frag proactively, given the slightest opportunity. I've had good, sound trustworthy COs, and I've had COs that made Captain Queeg or Captain Ahab look like a better exemplar or command. Men, in or out of fire, will eliminate threats to themselves, and it won't be a matter of intestinal delicacy how fast or how ruthlessly they take those actions when weapons are hot, of necessity.
Look no further than yesterday's newspaper.
We can't even depend upon the unquestioned fidelity and loyalty of the CIA, FBI, or Department of Justice right this minute, during relative peace, over a relatively minor difference of political outlook between the right and left wings inside the premier democratic republic in all of world history. The Army just cashiered an avowed communist officer in their very ranks, despite the entire chain of command up to and including the commandant of cadets and superintendent of West Point being well aware of his openly-known proclivities. For comparison, past leadership of West Point have included five recipients of the Medal of Honor, at least five men who went on to rise to head of the entire Army, one who chaired the Joint Chiefs of all the services, as well as governors, congressmen, and US ambassadors, so for such a level of institutional rot to have taken root there is no small matter to the republic.
And you're going to tell me that, in a world of people, amidst a scenario far more likely than not, in the specific estimation of those very same billionaires, you can expect better from Fred, and Jack, and Steve, and Julio, and Chang, with a chain of command short enough to count on one's thumbs, with no prospect of court martial, in a world where honor, duty, obedience, loyalty and pay itself will in all likelihood slip into utter inconsequence, and pale compared to everything other than the possession of food, a modicum of safety, and the overwhelming need for self-preservation?
Those billionaires will be defenestrated from the ramparts in the time it takes to swat a fly, and with about as much hesitation beforehand or remorse afterwards as you see from sharks or piranha feeding once blood is in the water.
People die everyday, as they have since time began.
When food is life, and due process is naught but a bullet, former billionaires will become as endangered as rhinos are now, if not as passenger pigeons, and in about as long as it took to read this reply. Anybody who thinks that the natives in those private compounds won't eat the missionaries or the great white providers had better have another look at the size of the stew pot in the village common.
No one's impugning your intelligence, nor are your comments anything but welcome, and my responses to no one in this series of posts was intended at a personal level, but it takes no flights of imagination or supernatural prescience on anyone's part to conclude that in sporty and uncertain times, let alone the sort of civil and societal breakdown contemplated, people will behave exactly as people have, and do, every day since the dawn of time, and that the bonds of loyalty or allegiance are at best tenuous, even given the rosiest possible outlook under those circumstances. Bear well in mind the words of Auda abu Tayi to Col. Brighton in Lawrence of Arabia about why men fight, and when they go.
A billionaire who keeps private security at that point ought to regard himself as a child with a full-grown Siberian tiger or Alaskan Kodiak bear for a pet on the end of a chain, and exactly as safe, come feeding time, every single moment of every day.
George Washington's commentary in regards to fire and government come to mind as well, and at that point, those in nominal "control" are wearing tissue-paper suits, soaked in gasoline.
TFA303 said...
Thank you a thousand times for pointing out that fiction proves absolutely nothing in an argument, especially this one.
Show me historical precedent, or show me a rational argument derived from factual premises.
Fiction can serve to illustrate truth, and underline it, but it seldom reveals it, and can never prove it.
Proof is the providence of evidence, and one doesn't call Santa Claus nor the Easter Bunny as witnesses in court, even if written by Dickens or Shakespeare, or played by one of these guys:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls057221996/
TrT said...
The boss is very much correct.
If you show up at a bunker and start giving orders, the trained killers who's day you interrupt will either just leave you locked out, kill you, or enslave you.
The only way to alter that is to create a scenario in which they are already used to following your orders, and a little thing like TEOTWAWKI isnt going to change that.
That means building a semi sustainable community you annoint yourself mayor of in advance and you dont give anyone reason to change anything.
Saw that thread elsewhere. I wasn't impressed.
Building loyalty takes time. If that was my goal I would make the guys protecting me like family. As an aside it might be easier to make the people you already have trust bonds with into halfway decent fighters than try to rely on some guys.
I am generally very sceptical about these (mosty fictional) survivalist groups of random people who met on the internet.
Also I liked 'Trashcanistan.'
The billionaire's security team will be their normal detail, effectively like family, and if not entirely, largely of the same... Modus operandi at least since vietnam has been layered perimeters in which there's degree of separation between more trusted and less trusted security elements. This will apply here. Billionaires, utilizing the same construction techniques of dot gov foreign installations, results in secure facilities with relatively small security detail needs.
Their team, and likely team's family, will have both food and safety. The billionaire's agent-in-charge, effectively top ranking NCO to their CO role, will serve as a buffer between billionaire and grunt troopers -- increasing protection and reducing gripes. The AIC is the leader being followed, not the CO/billionaire.
Perhaps the narcissists lack in social intelligence, but the sociopaths and psychopaths are master manipulators, unlikely to cut off their nose to spite their face, which is what is required for them to be toppled immediately. I see very few scenarios where the deck is stacked in a manner that your scenario plays out. It certainly will happen in certain situations but is also very unlikely to be commonplace. If you have resources to build a compound, then food, water, power, and armament resources to support it for a couple years are no problem. And if you're smart enough to pick your fights including bunkering down for the first few violent and unpredictable months, survivability rises considerably...
The FBI, CIA, and Justice Dept aren't cut from the same cloth as the more honor-bound American soldier.
Killing at short range w/ bullets is easy, and there's zero reason a billionaire couldn't pull the trigger just as fast as one of his mercenaries.
I'm making no argument against people generally behaving as they always had. But give folks shelter, food, safety (at least when off-duty) and perhaps even a measure comfort, the math doesn't add up for overthrowing the person who made it all possible. Also, most private security is former military well-trained in embracing the suck, and given any sort of competent AIC/NCO, I just can't get your scenario to reach a level of high plausibility. Completely possible, I'm missing something, but I've read both all related posts and comments multiple times, and I just can't make the pieces fit. Regardless, appreciate the response.
Just to note: I am not a billionaire, do not have a private security force, nor am I employed by either.
My only point regarding fiction, was that fiction and conjecture are effectively the same. Consider the multiple points of view and realize that any can be valid given the right set of circumstances. Having your mind open to all possibilities is always a good thing.
As always YMMV.
That's farcical.
Their security details aren't "almost like family", as their sleeping arrangements will demonstrate in about 0.2 seconds.
They may treat them more pleasantly that Shrillary does her Secret Service detail, and better than Simon Legree treated Uncle Tom, but the fundamental relationship is the latter, not "familial" for any common value of that term, unless one's sociological model is the Manson Family.
The only facilities with small security team needs are known as "castles" and AFAIK, no billionaires nor anyone else have built any of those for several centuries. Being locked inside a bunker complex with the hired retainers will put one, in short order, as the vassal of those holding the swords, unless one invests more than a paycheck in their retainers (true of no billionaires since ever), and depends on more than deep pockets to command their respect and loyalty (true of no billionaires since ever).
We know this, because they still pay them, and if they stopped paying them, they would all leave.
Ergo when money itself has no value, they will be unpaid, and free agents, and gravity works at that point.
As new-made ronin in command of the armory and a facility requiring, by your own description, but a small security force, the need at that point, for the billionaire and his family goes away entirely. The billionaire will be enslaved or slain, after torture to reveal the whereabouts of anything useful (one less whiny mouth to feed, more food and resources for the rest), and his womenfolk will be party favors.
And Scrooge McDick won't be pulling any triggers, because he has to sleep sometime, whereas his security force, of necessity, has to be awake 24/7. Coups don't happen at 9AM after breakfast, that happen at 2AM, after El Presidente has been wined, dined, and fondled into Morpheus' arms. Ask Czar Nicholas or countless other examples how that plays out for them in the long run.
Humanity has been ever thus. Gainsaying that reality overlooks about a billion counter-examples, not from fiction or naked supposition, but from all of written human history.
The minute you have nothing to offer, you're superfluous, and under such a situation, the likelihood of judicial retribution approaches nil.
Witness a paltry few millions "shot while attempting escape", "fragged under enemy attack", or Arkancided - in full public view, mind you, during the so-called "rule of law" - in the last 25 years by Lord and Lady MacBeth in the Clinton Crime Syndicate.
In any scenario where fleeing to one's private bunker, with a hired private security force to guard it, is justified (and was the entire baseline scenario that started this chain of posts), the survival of the former owner is a dubious proposition in all cases, in the extreme, for any scenario other than a false alarm.
A billionaire incapable of doing his own killing won't survive the year under those circumstances, and he won't prevail against his nominal own people, unless that group factionalizes as well, at which point the retreat itself isn't likely to survive the resultant internecine civil war.
There is simply no argument from reality using actual humans that can overcome those facts.
If one prefers fictional scenarios for illustration, the greatest reality wasn't the scene in The Accountant, where the corporate mercenaries obligingly trot outside and die to protect their corporate overlord, it was the scene in First Blood, where the WA Notional Guard officer orders his troops to go into the mine and get Rambo, and they tell him point blank, "Fuck you, Clinton, I ain't going in there!"
Pushed beyond that, as demonstrated numerous times during the Vietnam War, they'd have shot Clinton, and told people afterwards Rambo did it. And just about that fast.
And that's with no civilizational collapse on tap, and no deaths by starvation at stake.
You want kamikazes, you've got to train to get them for 500 years, and starting inculcating those values into their minds in their childhoods. You're not going to hire them, whether from Craigslist, nor by shopping at Blackwater.
The one guarantee with mercenaries, plain or fancy, since time immemorial, is that the minute the Goose can no longer lay Golden Eggs, they'll cook it and eat it.
"This will apply here. Billionaires, utilizing the same construction techniques of dot gov foreign installations, results in secure facilities with relatively small security detail needs. "
Zuckerburg has a team of roided rentacops.
There are frequent complaints about their behavior made by his neighbors
Unless they are the decoy team and he has a real security team.
You are still missing the point though.
They arent building these bunkers for three weeks without electricity in a small area, they would just move to another city that still has power.
They are building bunkers because they expect to lock themselves in them for ten years and then found the New California Republic in the ashes.
The problem is, it doesnt matter how loyal your guards are on day one, if you, your wife, your two daughters and your ten male guards lock yourselves in a bunker for ten years, its not going to end well, no matter how loyal they are on day one.
"I'm making no argument against people generally behaving as they always had. But give folks shelter, food, safety (at least when off-duty) and perhaps even a measure comfort, the math doesn't add up for overthrowing the person who made it all possible."
And that might last for a few weeks, but at some point, your staff are going to get bored of cooking your meals and cleaning your toilet and decide not to, and you have no way of challenging that.
You cant withhold pay, there is none, you cant exile them, *you* physically cant remove them, and once they realise that, bad, bad times.
**If anyone wants me to put this together for them, feel free to track me down with your pocket book and I'll do a proper job, but in brief**
You're looking at minimum staff of 100 right off the bat,
So your room in a bunker, just became a bunker in full, and the surrounding land, 64,000 acres is a 10x10 mile square, but hey, you're rich
2/3rds female 1/3rd male, which should keep "lets kill the boss and rape his daughters" off the itinerary.
You dont need 100 staff, but whoever wants to overthrow you needs 50 supporters to do so, a VERY high bar, (or 17 if you discount the women), still an easy number to segregate against
You actually dont want any dedicated trigger pullers, "Head of Security" is an obvious candidate for Negan, he'll have no trouble getting that majority, and that you dont want. Every man a rifleman, but no man "just" a rifleman, there are plenty of ex engineering, medical, logistics ect to recruit from, all of whom will be familiar with firearms, but not just firearms.
A trusted Padre might be nice, but could be a threat too
Depending on your time frame, you might want to consider recruiting homeless former forces, homeless former combat medics, vehicle, electrical, water engineers, cooks and logisticians are rare, but you arent paying me for my good looks and jovial temperament.
Luckily pretty girls who wanted to be an actress and ended up junkies turning tricks in Glendale are ten a penny. You can pull off a religious/saviour vibe pretty easily in both cases.
You wanna split your teams, 11x 9's or 3x 33's
If one your 33's rebels, your still have 66 on side,
But you still have to be top dog.
That means dailyish meetings with your 11 section heads, plus meeting with their seconds and thirds, and one to ones with everyone, frequently. You cant just set them running and turn up 5 years later.
Quick draft numbers
An active human needs 1kg of wheat per day, 100 staff x 1kg x 365 days 36,500kg per year.
Meat, fruit and vegetables, would increase that dramatically
Water, 100 gallons per person per day, 3.65million gallons per year, some reuse available.
Electricity, solar/wind is the normal answer, but both are visible and interruptible, you want to tap an underground river for hydro, or make one, I use 10kwh per day, 1000kwh per day for 100 people or 42kw constant,
Gas, 35kwh per day, 1.3mn kwh per year for our compound, or 145 kw constant replaced with hydro elec.
Some amount of load sharing, balancing, and just plain efficiency will lower that, but its a vast amount if water and height all the same.
10 years of baby clothes, condoms, birth control pills, paracetamol, coffee, 3 cups a day, 100 people, 110,000 cups per year, 2,200 jars per year. Grain mill, maltery, brewery, distillery
Math is bitch. Recalculate.
One hundred people couldn't manage and secure 1 square mile, let alone 100.
For 100 mi², you'd need 100,000 people, or effectively, exactly half of the current US Marine Corps, whose annual budget for FY2010 was $40.6B. So unless you're Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, or Warren Buffet, you're going to come up a bit short, and even their pocketbooks would run dry after 4-5 years of waiting.
And BTW, good luck finding 64,000 acres of anywhere, south of the Arctic Circle.
Let alone arable, well-watered, and defensible. That ship sailed for this continent about 1492. Those places are called "cities" now.
If you try this on the cheap, and go with one square mile, you'd need about 1000 people, and you'd have difficulty producing enough to be self-sustaining.
As far as the concept of making an internal coup more difficult, I repeat:
This is something 26 nations have proven unable to do in just the last twenty years, with vastly more resources, money, people, and planning than your napkin math would allow.
The entire exercise is a fool's errand.
You cannot BUY a tribe. Ever!
You can try to breed one (cf. the last 10 minutes of Dr. Strangelove).
Or you can assemble one through voluntarily, shared, and well-forged bonds of worldview, values, morality, deep spiritual similarities, and common interests.
Note that even having all that, Roanoke colony disappeared without a trace, and both Plymouth and Jamestown nearly starved to death, with far less vigorous opposition than anything we currently contemplate.
Bunkers are for fuhrers, and they all always end up in the same shallow grave.
Cut to the chase: watch The Undefeated (It's John Wayne, this shouldn't be much of a chore.). Learn the lesson driven home by the entire movie. Follow up with The Outlaw Josey Wales, and how that ended. This stuff has been figured out since before we were born.
Man is a social animal.
Unless you want to end up like that Rip Van Hirohito Japanese soldier finally talked off that island in the Philippines in the 1970s, living on stolen pigs and goats and coconuts, learn to form bonds with people here and now, and get along in the world that is, not the dystopian fantasies of pulp fiction.
There may be wars, but there are also periods of peace afterwards, and no one survives in bunkers, long-term. Even the Swiss approach loses its success factor once people can start slinging nukes around. But building the community no one wants to fuck with in the first place is always the way to go.
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Cities that recognize informal workers and involve them in every aspect of planning can create cleaner, greener, more socially responsive and more vibrant cities.
Inclusive cities ensure the working poor have access to secure and dignified livelihoods, affordable housing, and basic services such as water/sanitation and electricity.
To reduce urban poverty, cities must support informal workers by reshaping urban planning, zoning, regulations, laws and policies to incorporate the working poor. And representatives of the working poor must have a voice in urban planning processes.
For Cities to Make Progress on SDGs and the New Urban Agenda, They Must Listen to Grassroots' Solutions
Three Ways to Make Cities More Inclusive in 2019
An event in April 2019 examined Informality as a Way of Life: Challenges to Sustainable Urban Development. In her presentation, WIEGO Senior Advisor Marty Chen noted the real challenge of urban informality is "the clash between informality of the elite and informality of the poor and the tendency of cities to privilege the rich and powerful to the detriment of the poor and powerless."
Informal Workers Contribute
As the 10-city, WIEGO-led Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) showed, urban informal workers make economic, environmental, social and cultural contributions to the cities where they work. In the streets and markets, vendors provide an accessible source of low-cost goods and services to city residents, while waste pickers collect and recycle what would otherwise end up in costly landfills or on the streets. Less visibly, home-based workers produce goods that add value to domestic and international supply chains, while domestic workers make it possible for others to work in the formal economy.
Contrary to mainstream assumptions, many urban informal workers contribute to national and municipal revenue by paying fees to use public space and value-added taxes on inputs and raw materials. Urban informal workers also add vibrancy to public space, and can play a role in preserving cultural heritage, keeping historical markets alive.
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Despite these contributions, informal work is often stigmatized by city authorities and residents as being illegal or unproductive. Many municipal governments have responded to informality by seeking to eliminate it – through evictions, fines, or restrictive regulations – or by ignoring it altogether in city and economic planning.
Read: Including the Excluded: Supporting Informal Workers for More Equal and Productive Cities in the Global South by Martha Chen and Victoria Beard, published by the World Resources Institute
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More productive and equitable cities are created when the contributions of urban informal workers are recognized, when informal workers are involved in decision-making and rule-setting processes, and when their livelihoods are integrated into local economic and urban plans.
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WIEGO engages at multiple levels – carrying out action research and focused activities with membership-based organizations (MBOs) of informal workers in select cities, and bringing the insights and demands of informal workers into global agenda-setting processes.
Public Space for All
Public space is a public good. However, competing uses of public space cause conflict, and often the most vulnerable users, poor informal workers, are excluded. WIEGO believes that regulated public spaces offer possibilities for diverse uses to co-exist, ultimately making cities more vibrant and inclusive.
Our Public Space for All project, launched in 2018 in partnership with Cities Alliance, helps city officials, informal workers and other stakeholders realize the potential of inclusive public spaces. Learn more.
WIEGO's Focal Cities initiative provides concentrated support to informal workers. It builds the capacity of informal worker leaders and their organizations across multiple sectors, and fosters dialogue between informal workers and municipal authorities. Currently WIEGO has five Focal Cities: Lima, Peru; Accra, Ghana; Dakar, Senegal; Delhi, India; and Mexico City, Mexico. Learn more.
Habitat III
In 2015-16, the WIEGO Network participated in the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (known as Habitat III), a consultative process held every 20 years to reinvigorate the global commitment to sustainable development. The process resulted in the New Urban Agenda (NUA), a document that sets global standards and priorities for future equitable, sustainable urban development.
WIEGO actively participated in discussions, and served as co-chair of the Grassroots Partners Constituency Group of the General Assembly or Partners.
Through Habitat III, WIEGO and its MBO partners made visible the contributions of informal workers to cities, and advocated for urban policies that recognize and include informal livelihoods. These efforts are reflected in the NUA document.
Learn more about WIEGO's engagement in Habitat III.
World Urban Forums
WIEGO includes informal workers in its delegations to the World Urban Forum (WUF). Held every two years, WUF is the foremost global arena for interaction among policymakers, local government leaders, non-governmental organizations and expert practitioners in the field of sustainable urban development and human settlements.
In 2018, WIEGO attended World Urban Forum 9 in Kuala Lumpur with workers and organizers from HomeNet Thailand and the Federation of Informal Workers of Thailand. WUF9 focused on implementing the New Urban Agenda.
The delegation brought attention to the need for cities to work with informal worker organizations to achieve truly inclusive cities. A full slate of events brought home that message. For example, WIEGO, HomeNet Thailand, Oxfam, the New York Street Vendor Project, and the City of Songkla, Thailand hosted a side event on how promoting decent work for informal workers can contribute to inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities, addressing both the Sustainable Development Goals and the NUA. A networking event highlighted forced evictions and explored innovative policies and practical approaches to increase spatial, social and economic inclusion. Another presented a case study of how a city slum in western India was redeveloped through a public-private collaboration.
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Moroccans without masks in public risk jail terms
Written by Fred on April 7, 2020
Moroccans who venture outside their homes without wearing face masks risk prison sentences of up to three months and a fine of up to 1,300 dirhams ($126; £102), the government has said .
The new order takes effect on Tuesday for those allowed to go out during the coronavirus pandemic.
The decision was announced on Monday after a government meeting on how to control the epidemic, the AFP news agency reports.
Morocco is under a month-long a public health state of emergency that started on March 19 and has so far reported 1,120 coronavirus cases and 80 deaths.
The face masks will be sold at a subsidised price of 0.8 dirhams ($0.08) per unit, Reuters news agency reports.
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Rising energy costs across the region are already affecting local manufacturers and could lead to more inflation in the building sector.
Bob Flanagan, the UAE managing director of project management and cost consultancy services at Colliers, has said that rising energy prices are feeding into increased input costs for a variety of manufacturers of building products, including cement suppliers, glass manufacturers, cladding suppliers, PVC cabling firms and even timber and joinery workshops.
"Basically, any construction material that is manufactured within the UAE will be affected by this," he said.
The increase in energy prices was cited by building materials company Arkan as the reason for its decision to close its 43- year-old Emirates Cement Factory in Al Ain yesterday.
The company announced a restatement of its preliminary accounts for 2016 as a result of the closure. It said that a previously announced Dh75.7 million net profit declared in its unaudited results last month will now be reversed into a Dh82m loss due wholly to the fact that it has written off the value of the plant from its balance sheet.
Arkan has shifted production from Emirates Cement Factory to its nearby Al Ain Cement Factory – a Dh1.3 billion facility that opened in November 2014. The move will lead to an annual cost saving of Dh45m, it said. The Al Ain Cement Factory is now running at almost full capacity.
"This one-off book loss doesn't change the fundamentals of Arkan business and we are actively exploring ways to dispose of the plant in the near future and realise the highest value possible," said Jamal Al Dhaheri, the chairman of Arkan.
Cement production, which is an energy-intensive process, accounted for 72 per cent of Arkan's sales in the first nine months of last year. In December, the company said it was facing a 73.3 per cent rise in the price of gas used to fire its kilns. Its total power bill was set to increase by just over 56 per cent, the company said.
He said that Arkan's cement operation generated an operating profit of Dh133m last year off sales of Dh613m, despite the Al Ain plant being closed for four months last year after it was damaged by a storm.
A report published by Colliers in January stated that cement costs increased by 3 per cent year-on-year to the end of September 2016 and the cost of concrete blocks climbed by 6 per cent. Other locally produced materials such as aggregates and sanitary ware also subject to price hikes.
Inflation in building materials prices has largely been kept in check for the past two years, helped in some instances by a weaker commodities market that has led to prices of imported materials such as steel and copper to drop sharply.
And although the slow market for contracting in Abu Dhabi means that local construction firms many not be able to increase their own margins, they are likely to have to factor in rising costs, according to Mr Flanagan – not least with the onset of VAT from next year.
"On top of that, in some of the markets around the world prices are increasing. For example, material prices are increasing significantly in America and any of those goods that are imported to here will have an effect.


The January 2017 edition of Family Court Review is dedicated to the Honoring Families Initiative's Family Bar Summit: Shaping the System for the Families We Serve. The Summit, held in November 2015, brought together national thought leaders from diverse professional organizations to identify obstacles to serving children and families in separation and divorce matters and explore opportunities for meaningful change. Participants joined us from the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, the American Bar Association Section of Family Law, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, and other national groups.
The two-day Summit engaged these practitioners as active participants in the movement to improve the system for resolving family conflict. Various themes emerged from the interactive conversation, along with a series of recommendations for reshaping divorce and separation processes to support better outcomes for children and provide greater accessibility, efficiency, and fairness for all parties. Last year, IAALS published these recommendations alongside a toolkit for jurisdictions interested in hosting similar dialogues nationwide.
IAALS is grateful to AFCC and the Family Court Review for highlighting the important work of the Summit and its attendees, and for drawing additional attention to the role of the family law bar in effectively responding to the needs of families today and in the future. As stewards of the family justice system and leaders of change, family law attorneys have an ongoing responsibility to foster continuous system improvement. The ideas presented in these articles represent a monumental step forward in that process.
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GDPR Violation: German Privacy Regulator Fines 1&1 Telecom
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Headquarters of 1 & 1 Telecom in Montabaur, Germany (Photo: 1&1)
One of the largest fines to date for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation has been announced by Germany's federal privacy watchdog.
On Monday, 1 & 1 Telecommunications was fined €9.55 million ($10.6 million) by Germany's Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, or BfDI, for its failure to put in place "sufficient technical and organizational measures" to protect customer data in its call center environments. The company has said it will appeal the fine.
Also on Monday in a separate case, the BfDI announced a fine of €10,000 ($11,100) against internet service provider Rapidata GmbH, for its failure to appoint a data protection officer, as required by GDPR, which is known as Datenschutz-Grundverordnung - the DSGVO - in Germany.
Officials at the Breisgau, Germany-based firm didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Regulators said the amount of the fine reflected its failure to comply with multiple requests, but also the fact that it is a small business.
"Data protection is fundamental rights protection," says Federal Commissioner Ulrich Kelber. "The fines imposed are a clear sign that we will enforce this protection of fundamental rights. [GDPR] gives us the opportunity to strongly sanction the inadequate security of personal data. We apply these powers in the light of due consideration."
1&1 Fined for Poor Authentication
Based in the small, western German city of Montabaur, 1 & 1 Telecommunication SE is one of Germany's biggest DSL and mobile service providers. It's a subsidiary of 1 & 1 Drillisch AG, which is one of the country's largest network-independent telecommunications providers, with about 14 million customers. The company is part of the United Internet Group, which includes all other 1 & 1 companies, including the popular global hosting firm 1&1 IONOS.
The BfDI says it fined 1 & 1 Telecom after discovering that callers to its call center could retrieve customer information simply by giving their name and date of birth, which it said was an insufficient level of authentication for protecting customer data.
Excerpt from GDPR Article 32 (Source: U.K. Information Commissioner's Office)
"The BfDI had become aware that callers could obtain extensive information on further personal customer data in the customer care of the enterprise even by giving the name and date of birth of a customer," the regulator says in its announcement of the fine. "In this authentication procedure, the BfDI sees a violation of Article 32 of GDPR , according to which the company is obliged to take appropriate technical and organizational measures to systematically protect the processing of personal data."
GDPR came into full effect on May 25, 2018.
1&1 Praised for Transparency, Cooperation
BfDI said that after it "criticized the inadequate data protection, 1 & 1 Telecom GmbH was transparent and very cooperative," adding an extra step to require additional information, which the regulator said was a significant improvement both in terms of the technology applied as well as the resulting data protection improvement.
"Despite these measures, the imposition of a fine was necessary," the regulator said, based on the potential data exposure. "Among other things, the infringement was not only limited to a small number of customers, but represented a risk for the entire customer base."
The regulator said it applied a relatively low fine, based on 1 & 1 Telecom's cooperation and move to rapidly fix the problem.
Legal Appeal Planned
The telecommunications firm says it plans to appeal.
"The fine is absolutely disproportionate," says attorney Julia Zirfas, who serves as the company's data protection officer. She says the fine breaches the German legal code's principles of "equal treatment and proportionality" and contends that the regulator erred in how it calculated the fine.
1 & 1 Telecom said the basis for the GDPR complaint that led to the fine involved a 2018 case. "Specifically, it concerned a telephone query using the mobile number of a former partner. The responsible employee fulfilled all the requirements of the then valid 1 & 1 security guidelines," which the BfDI later warned were insufficient, it says.
"Since then, 1 & 1 has continued to evolve its security requirements," the company says. "For example, since then a three-level authentication system has been introduced, and in the next few days 1 & 1 - being one of the first companies in its sector to do so - will provide each customer with a personal service PIN."
Data Security and Integrity Takeaways
Clearly, this case demonstrates that for privacy regulators, data security and integrity are paramount, says Jonathan Armstrong, an attorney at London-based Cordery who specializes in compliance matters, in a research note to clients. The case also demonstrates the likelihood that organizations will appeal any GDPR fines that regulators attempt to impose.
"This case tells us that, as we predicted prior to GDPR coming in, the security and integrity of data is important," Armstrong says.
"We have had cases on authentication in the past including from a U.K. financial services regulator. Organizations need to check that they are dealing with the right people and that they are not giving data away unnecessarily. When they do spot a possible security vulnerability organizations need to deal with it quickly and efficiently."
1&1's decision to appeal the privacy regulator's decision is also not unexpected. "Cases like this will often be appealed," Armstrong says. "The way in which fines are calculated in cases like this is not clear."
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Tripta graduated from York University with a B.A. in English in 1995 and received her degrees in both common and civil law from McGill University in 1999. She was called to the bar in 2001 and spent the first nine years of her career at a prominent downtown Toronto plaintiff personal injury firm before joining our firm in 2009.
Tripta has extensive experience in accident benefits, including bad faith and catastrophic injury cases. She also handles priority disputes and various areas of tort litigation, including motor vehicle accidents, products liability, slip and fall cases and general liability matters. She has conducted Financial Services Commission of Ontario arbitrations and has been involved in several trials at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
Tripta's experience as a member of both the plaintiff and defence bars has allowed her to develop a unique perspective on both sides of a case, and a thorough understanding of the strategies and techniques used by opposing counsel.
Tripta takes pride in achieving the best possible results for her clients. She strongly believes in a client-centred approach and is dedicated to moving cases quickly and efficiently to final resolution.
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Tréflaouénan is een gemeente in het Franse departement Finistère (regio Bretagne) en telt 488 inwoners (2004). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Morlaix.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Tréflaouénan bedraagt 8,2 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 59,5 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

Gemeente in Finistère

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