Fantastic Essay On Civil Defense

Lifeboats and Civil Defense

I read Glasstone decades ago and have not seen or heard of him since until a Vault-Co reader found a link to a site with reprints of his best work.

He was a brilliant man. He helped form a lot of my ideas about nuclear war and the need for civilian defense as opposed to "military defense" absent of concern for the civilians whom the military exists to protect.

Internal and External Publication For Soviet Russia

Resistance to civil defence makes as much sense as resistance to putting lifeboats on a cruise ship. This is no false analogy. Nobody misses lifeboats until they desperately need them. Until then they are just a ridiculous luxury for the paranoid. Until the ship hits an iceberg. The only part of this analogy you have to amend is to remember that human ships never ever stop hitting icebergs and sinking. The human race will never see an end to war and the only way they can prevent them is to maintain a strong defence at all times for both their military and their civilian population. Having a strong retaliation capacity and a plan for your civilians is the greatest deterrence of them all.

Kwanstainia Determined To Lose WW3

Planning to win a nuclear war with a first strike in 1963

American ABM technology simply doesn't work. Russia has mobile launchers for the majority of its missiles now. The U.S. still runs a static operation. Russia will know exactly where to disable all of the 'Stains weapons, but the Kwa can't pinpoint more than 10% of the Russia missile force at any one time. Russia's submarines have a clear advantage in baffling attempts to locate them. Russia's air fighters have a 9-to-1 kill ratio against the Kwa's aging fleet of 1970's jets in most objective tests.

Rods from God and orbital platforms the U.S. is frantically working to upgrade will almost certainly pose a major threat to the civilian population of Russia but in terms of military strategy there is very little to gain by killing civilians. The Russian nuclear force is extremely mobile, adaptable and nearly impossible to plan to destroy with conventional nuclear weapons. This makes it far more likely that the U.S. will turn to cobalt-salted weapons to sterilize whole regions and employ ramjet horror weapons previously discussed on Vault-Co, consisting of spraying a swath of plutonium designed to wipe out entire map grids with sheer radioactive overkill. This in turn suggests the Russians will retaliate with dirty "unthinkable" weapons of their own final reserve including the Dead Hand system and the Dr. Strangelovian Cobalt-60 "Tsar Bomba" they have always claimed to have. We would see the red mercury nuclear cluster bombs deployed that the U.S. has claimed don't exist for decades and neutron-based weapons used against civilians in metropolitan areas.

The 'Stain is going to get its a** kicked even if China doesn't jump in to help and it almost certainly will.

As the WOPR said in War Games, the only way for the Kwa to win is not to play. The madmen over there just don't know the odds.

Reprint of a Classic

Nothing but bad news on Vault-Co for a while. Even I get sick of it.

I just thought I'd reprint this article to show you what kind of world we could actually be living in if we didn't share it with a bunch of a**holes. They want you to think that we live amidst ever-increasing scarcity, peak energy, global warming and a bunch of other fake crises. None of these crises exist anywhere outside of the human brain that is hallucinating them.

Growing food in the desert abundantly

What is really hilarious is that the threats they should be anticipating is a shift back to a new Ice Age (requiring technologies just like these to survive), our planet's electrical grid security during solar flares and magnetic reversals and self-sufficiency for every nation as a viable strategy for the future. Otherwise we'd have almost nothing to fear ever again if we were using our brains. Our societies stopped doing that about fifty years ago when the culture wars started.

All of their false manufactured threats have consequences like war, famine and disease but almost all of these are a result of human stupidity and refusal to respond to simple feedback from experience. We don't really need to have a clash of civilizations or be constantly occupying and invading other countries or any of that crap.

The guy in the article above is part of the solution. It's the way forward.

Everybody else is mostly just crazy people making it worse with nearly everything they say and do. They don't know it but that is all they are really doing with their lives.

Dark Pools : Ultimate Financial Fraud In Stock Market

As explained here, they are steering investors to buy their own stocks and simultaneously pretending to be investment advisors who are recommending those stocks and investing in them for their clients.

Hog wild criminal speculation. Absolute financial chaos. The rule of law has given way to rule of bankers.

No accountability, no oversight and no limits. Literally stealing it right out of people's hands. It is like institutionalized nationwide Madoff. A ponzi scheme that reinvested the bailout money the government gave them back into the ponzi scheme and used the profits to spend themselves into another collapse.

"Bailout" is a communist idea. Free nations don't bail out banks. They let them collapse. It is part of the healthy natural cycle of a free market. Crooks and criminals go bust sooner or later unless the government pays off their losses and pays them to keep on thieving. Free societies send these sorts of people to prison for embezzlement and fraud.

Getting rid of Glass-Steagall threw the barn doors open and the rout has turned into a stampede.

I Don't Make These Stories Up

I just link to them. That's all.

UPDATE : Suggestion here that this entire fiasco is a clever psych-op to divert attention away from the exploding scandal at the Veteran's Administration over how much money they have stolen from soldiers returning home disabled from the wars they started. I heard a swimming pool was closed at one VA hospital that was critical to rehab despite the administrators taking home hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses that year. One source has told me if people knew how much money Obama's cronies have sucked out of the system to leave soldiers dying of infection in hot wards without food or nursing there would be rioting in the streets. I have at least one guy who told me by email a lot of the VA hospitals that received the most money had the least staff in attendance and in at least one circumstance were basically empty buildings with soldiers trying to care for each other without doctors or any medical supplies.

I couldn't make up stuff like this. It's too insane. I would not have even thought of something that far out.

A deserter I can understand. So the guy went AWOL. Who could blame the guy, with who-knows-how-many stop loss orders applied to his record? Okay, so he deserted. I wouldn't do it but when somebody does I can understand. The guy cracked. He couldn't take it. That's one thing.

Except this is not desertion. This guy left his unit and walked over to the enemy camp and asked for sanctuary. This is a whole different order of punishable offense. It's treasonous collaboration with the opposing force. We were taught in PSYOPS that these are the least trustworthy sources of information. If they would betray their own then they will absolutely betray you. A turncoat is never to be trusted no matter which side he is on this week.

Wait, that's not the crazy part.

If I had done something like this, I would not expect the U.S. Army to be willing to trade a bag of potato chips for my life. Why should they? I didn't desert, I sold out my own unit and went over to the enemy to share intel with them. Why should they care if I ever came home?

Obama's administration went around Congress and without notifying them as required by the Constitution and the legislation they traded 5 high-ranking Taliban commanders for this guy. Forget about terrorism. It doesn't matter. These guys were part of the worldwide poppy trade that was grown in Afghanistan. They were the world's drug suppliers for opium and therefore heroin. I don't know if they committed acts of terrorism or not but I know they were supplying the planet with an endless basket of heroin distributed at street level and running a colossal arms trade off the back of the profits. Based on that alone, I would not have released them. Maybe transferred them from Guantanamo but let them walk free over a single traitor who cost other people's lives just looking for the guy?

This is absolutely, positively impeachable. Period. A President who did this needs to be impeached. Benghazi had no plausible deniability other than Obama and his cabinet are incredibly stupid. That's not the same as this. This is treason to recover a traitor. It doesn't make any kind of walking-around sense. It's insane and it deserves impeachment proceedings.

I got to tell you, this reeks of a setup for a false flag they are going to turn around and blame on these guys they set free. It reeks of a setup. Something is really, really fishy about all this. This story is even crazier than amazing superhuman X-Man Jeff "Ultimate Bad-Ass" Bauman and his Boston Bomb wonder stumps healing in 19 days to win a breakdancing contest.

During the heyday of the Soviet Union, Russians would sit around and howl with laughter at the drivel they printed in Pravda. People know Pravda was a propaganda rag. It printed stories about how infantrymen caught bullets in their teeth while they recited Lenin in the Siege of Leningrad and how a Russian mother had fed 6 children by singing folk songs to birds to lure them into a basket trap. It was insane gibberish. But the Russians knew that. The people of the West don't know it. They think these stories can be taken seriously.

Open Cubicles : Manboons Not A Learning Animal

They studied this problem during World War II. The results were as clear and as unambiguous as the nose on your face.

Lemme tell you about these weirdos back in the early 90's. I was one of them. These weirdos consistently claimed in the workplace that you could get a hell of a lot more work done by running a monochrome monitor in the background when debugging. I used to ask for them all the time at all the places I contracted at. People looked at me like I had just stepped out of an alien spacecraft and asked where the earth women were at. Some people teased me after that for the length of the contract. "We will be getting those double monitors in soon, Cleve. One for each of your eyes. Will that make you code better?" They'd all laugh. Then they'd go back to doing nothing and waiting for me to finish up their project.

One really disturbing thing is that the majority of people in the workplace had no idea about the actual hardware architecture of the PC that sat on their desk. Most of them didn't know that a secondary monitor monochrome memory area was built into the stack in MS-DOS for the very reason that all serious computer programmers used a second monitor, especially when debugging any kind of graphical application for any reason. At places like Microsoft, which was a very productive company in it's early days, they were simply mandatory.

About two decades later, every company in the world has twin monitors on their employee's desks for the very reasons I understood in 1991. Mind you, it took two decades for them to adopt something I had deduced within two weeks of sitting down in front of a PC for the first time in my life … and even then they were basically copying other people for reasons they could not explain. I first realised the importance of dual monitor setups when coding for the Commodore 64 on top of a C-128 and discovering the second jack that was available for a completely separate monochrome display.

You can tell they don't really know why they have dual monitors on their desks. It doesn't really make a difference for somebody who does nothing anyway. It makes a colossal difference for a good programmer - upwards of 400% more productive in a given day when coding and debugging.

Nowadays, I don't ever mention anything about open plan cubicles at my contracts. There's no point. The company is purely theatrical anyhow, nobody cares if they ever produce anything. They are just going through the motions like automata. Deep down it is really about authority and dominance. The managers don't accomplish anything, either. They get the private office as a show of authority. They are better than you. They need to access high quality streaming porn all day in their offices and shouldn't have to worry about somebody looking over their shoulder. That's something you impose on software developers.

Here is the thing.

The research also shows that any gains in productivity by putting dual monitors on every desk are easily destroyed by requiring software developers to work in open office plans. This is what managers are supposed to do for a living. They don't know it. In addition to not knowing what they should know, they don't even know what they don't know. They don't know that they don't know what they should know despite knowing they know something when the evidence shows they are actually people who know less than nothing about anything.

When I have my own company (and I will) I will guarantee you my staff (working from private rooms) will outstrip every single place I have ever worked in terms of productivity. I guarantee you. I have been watching them all. Unlike them, I am a kind of 'boon who is a learning animal.

Same Play, Different Actors

In the last 100 years of Rome, the Senate still existed but the succession of insane Emperors established a precedent of completely ignoring any rule of law and simply arbitrarily doing whatever they wanted without consulting anyone.

It is true that the United States has a Constitution.

The thing is, nobody pays it any attention. They just sign "executive orders" and act without consulting any elected representatives.

Now it appears they are negotiating treaties and arranging swaps of prisoners without even letting Congress know about it - despite the requirement of law to do so.

More here. This actually reminded me of the scene in MYSTERY MEN where "Captain Amazing" is so bored looking for suitable supervillains to battle he pulls strings to get "Casanova Frankenstein" released from a mental institution so he can get more corporate sponsorship.

A nation is no better than the people who live in it. It doesn't matter what is written down on paper. America has reached that critical tipping point where enough of its citizens are so completely out-to-lunch mentally that the rule of law simply fell out of fashion from lack of interest. I have a feeling it is not the first time it has happened.

The Roman people didn't really register or care that Nero was putting on the mask of his dead wife's face at night and sneaking out to thrill kill people he caught at random in the streets surrounded by the royal guard. All that really mattered to them was the vicious barbaric spectacles of the Roman circus in the coliseum and the free bread they threw out into the bleachers. Nothing else mattered to them.

The problem wasn't that Nero was insane. People like Nero are always around.

The problem was that the Romans were insane. That is where the problem really was.

It is like some kind of biological kill-switch is built into Homo Sapiens that fires every tenth generation after a civilisation is founded. The only law henceforth to be lawlessness. It is like they can't help themselves. Genetic automatons. DNA Simulacra. A cloned animal with safeguards baked in. The melonhead who pitched this design to his colleagues had the last slide of his powerpoint presentation loaded with security assurances :

1. Corpus Callosum severed to barest minimum required connection
2. Amygdala shrinks upon reaching population density trigger
3. Death wish counteracts higher-order organisation when it reaches certain level
4. Guaranteed to go crazy before it achieves any significant progress and destroy itself

I can just see them all applauding and pounding the guy on the back when he switches off the overhead projector. "Brilliant! Most incredible thing I have ever seen! It's what we have all been waiting for. The 'Thals are finished, they won't know what hit them when we release this thing into the wild."

More Ground Gives Way On Dog Domestication

Now we've got a concession to 45,000 years B.C. by mainstream.

Keep going, Saps. You're getting warmer.

That's because any farther back and it will be obvious dogs were domesticated by Neanderthals, not Cro-Magnons.

If you take away plant domestication and animal domestication, what is left for Cro-Magnon to claim?

He can claim he killed the people who domesticated these crucial resources and stole them for his own use. That's all he can ever claim. Evidence of his own merit appears to be nonexistent.

A Mutual Admiration Society For Psychotics

Maya Angelou was a rough, brutal brothel owner and prostitute herself.

She was a nasty piece of work, like most of the people we are told are saints and heroes we should admire.

Barry Soetoro was a teenage man whore according to his close friends who never held a day job.

Nelson Mandela was in jail because he planned and executed bombings of children's school buses.

When Martin Luther King stepped out on that balcony for a cigarette, the bug planted by the FBI in his hotel room recorded the weeping of the two underage white prostitutes he had just been slapping around during sex.

The world is run by sordid, unstable psychotics and sociopathic monsters. They sing each others praises when one of them dies. They say wonderful things about people who really weren't even human beings. If you did a CT scan of these people's brains you'd see a dark shadow where the frontal lobes should go on a real person.

Maya Angelou administered some ugly beatings with a strap to "trouble" girls in her brothel. Police were called on more than one occasion. She was a foul mouthed, foul tempered pimp, procurer and hard drinking profiteer who traded in human misery.

This was a woman who pretended to be shocked at the inhumanity in the world. She herself was an oppressor and an expression of that inhumanity.

She was a talentless hack and her tortured prose would not pass muster for a third grade creative writing assignment under any normal conditions.

It is bad enough that the bad guys and bad girls run Sapiens planet. To really sprinkle salt in the wound, they are a mutual admiration society that covers for one another when they die, claiming the angels themselves are weeping at the loss of their fellow self-righteous egomaniacal fruitcakes.