Starvin Larry

Many of you have asked for it- We’ve added a Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TC3) Course to the schedule for 1-2 June! The two day course will be instructed by a currently serving Army Combat Medic and will provide the student with a basic, working understanding of TC3 in an austere environment:

• How to approach casualties in a tactical environment
• Tourniquet application
• Wound packing
• Pressure dressings
• Chest seals and NPA’s.
• How to pack a basic IFAK and scalable options for different environments.

This will culminate in a field exercise to show you how this all comes together to treat wounded on the battlefield. We will talk about gear selection and also cover the importance of higher levels of care and evacuation of a patient. You do not need to bring medical supplies, but if you have a pouch you want to test please bring it at your own risk. You…

Authoritarianism is often a bear-market phenomenon. From John Rubino at dollarcollapse.com:

One of history’s hard lessons is that collapsing financial systems beget authoritarian politics.

Today’s world, alas, is following this script, as rising debts lead to wrenching political changes in nearly every country that holds free elections, while fascism and socialism are once again being taken seriously by people who in normal times would inhabit the political center.

But there’s one big difference this time around: the advanced state of social control technology. Past governments, when trying to tamp down dissent, were limited to blunt-instrument policies like curfews, phone taps and press shutdowns. Today’s would-be Big Brothers can do vastly more, and in many cases will use the coming financial/political emergency as an excuse to place Orwell’s proverbial boot on their citizens’ necks.

Some examples from a recent Wall Street Journal article titled The Autocrat’s New Tool Kit:

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I’ve began reassessing communications needs because like you said in an article recently, I as a ham have been ignoring the benefits of using non-ham comms somewhat.