The Truth on Alpha Males / Lone Wolves

".. male alpha wolves don’t gain their status through aggression and the dominance of other males, but because the other wolves in the pack are his mate and kiddos. He’s the pack patriarch. The Pater Familias. Dear Old Dad..."

Researchers used to observe bringing wild wolves into captivity to form their theories on Alpha wolves, but this article points out what really happens in the wild.

Know too that today most of us live in a zoo .. it is high time to prepare for that wilderness experience IMHO.

As promised .. THIS article should "deliver" so we'll needed wisdom in this day and age.

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-really-be-alpha-like-the-wolf/

Team or Lone Wolf (or Both)

Being unique is cool .. having thoughts that not many others understand is OK .. you are probably a critical thinker. You see red flags where others don't, you tend to read people well and know who to trust and who not to trust.

On the other hand are the benefits of tribes, of community (healthy ones) .. many hand make light work is what I have heard and experienced. A healthy team is an awesome experience!

There is a lot to learn in nature about true visionary/leader wolves who sacrificially circle on the outside of the pack .. (more on that in another post).

Here is a stat that shows what happens sometimes POST "team":

"..In the case of US veterans, they’re committing suicide at the rate of over 20 deaths per day — nearly one every hour. And they’re dying of opioid drug overdoses at twice the rate of the civilian population. While there are many reasons behind this, Junger is convinced from his research that “leaving the tribal closeness of the military and returning to an alienating and bitterly divided modern society” is a root cause..."

".. Does anyone else in your life share your concerns for the future?

Is there someone you talk with regularly about the unsustainability of our current economic and ecological trajectories?

Do you have friends and/or family members who support your efforts to develop a more resilient lifestyle?.. "

We we're designed for community BUT don't grab the 1st one that comes along!

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/06/09/feeling-isolated/

Daddy US, Mommy Israel = Baby ISIS

The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia have a lot invested in ISIS .. so while they plan for the next area ISIS will be exported to (nation's nextdoor to Russia) they will hang out in Syria protected by US air power and direct ground and logistics support. Geez!

".. "All the remaining pockets of resistance of ISIS terrorists in Syria are only in areas controlled by the United States,” 

Major-General Igor Konashenkov, a defense ministry spokesman, said on Saturday.

Earlier, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said in a bold statement that pulling out of the Arab Republic “must avoid leaving a vacuum in Syria that can be exploited by the Assad regime or its supporters,” in apparent reference to Iran and Russia.

Russia has been fighting terrorists in the country on the invitation of the Syrian government, while the US presence there has been deemed aggressive by Damascus..."

All remaining ISIS resistance zones in Syria are in US-controlled areas – Russian MoD https://www.rt.com/news/429255-isis-us-zones-syria/

Are We Born Equal? NEVER Can Man Make Everyone Equal? NEVER .. What CAN We Do?

Tom Woods points out:

"The point of the passage I quoted yesterday was that no matter how much you redistribute, some people will always be wealthier than others. Meanwhile, you have empowered a merciless machine of coercion and compulsion, and opened the floodgates to some of the most horrific crimes of the 20th century."

If your goal is to make the poor better off, just say that. Don't say you're pursuing "equality."

Some people will be more talented than others, some will have better luck, and some will be raised in more engaged families. To bring about "equality," you will have to go to war with all of these things.

Fruits of your talents:

A great many left-liberal philosophers absolutely do insist that you are not entitled to the fruits of your talents. You are certainly not entitled to the fruits of luck. (There is a whole literature on this!)

Values of family:

And as for the family, John Rawls could barely bring himself to assure people that he doesn't really think he needs to advocate abolishing the family.

History helps .. REAL history:

Try as you might to put a lid on it, the idea of equality takes on a life of its own. It was even used to justify busing kids 90 minutes each way in order to achieve "racial balance" in schools. Result: schools became war zones, the students hated each other, the local patriotisms built up around local schools atrophied, and eventually even the NAACP declared this to be a stupid and destructive idea that should be discontinued immediately.

Bottom line .. what we CAN do:

The only sense in which "equality" can be useful is this: everyone is equally forbidden to initiate physical force against anyone else.

Just Know - You Need to start Thinking and Planning with This in Mind!

"..I've sat right in front of someone in broad daylight motionless in plain sight at 20 yards while they, even with binoculars and looking intently, didn't see us, in our MARPAT green. We were taking pictures of him, he was calling his cartel boss to tell them "there is no one watching here". We were close enough to hear his side of the cell phone convo. 
MARPAT works..."

Among other things in this article .. it is high time you get out in nature and take a walk and be observant of the nature around you .. and how others may see you in the future:

If you can be seen, you can be shot. 

If you can be shot, you can be killed.

True story ...

Concealment:

Anything that keeps anyone else from seeing you or detecting your presence. And nowadays, as the tech percolates down to even sport hunters, you need to be thinking in terms of visible light, heat image, and near-infrared night vision

Yes, IR sensors pick up body heat and that will need to be minimized

Cover:

Cover is concealment, with a special difference: it not only blocks you from being seen, but far more importantly, other people can't shoot through it... What stops shrapnel, and most bullets not fired from cannon, is 2-3' of dirt, gravel, or solid rock. Six inches of reinforced concrete wall will stop most shrapnel and nearly all forms of 5.56 to 7.62 slugs; unless there's also a lot of other bullets flying in behind the first one. Two to three feet of sandbags or heavy soil stops just about everything but artillery blasts.

Very important to understand the basic physics here ..

Camouflage:

Concealment or cover are what you find. Camouflage is something you can do to help yourself.

Ten things give you away, and you have to defeat each of them to be truly camouflaged.

1. Movement

2. Shape

3. Shadow

4. Shine

5. Contrast

6. Color

7. Noise

8. Smell

9. Tracks

10. Trash

REMEMBER:

Lead cancer from incoming will kill you much faster than skin cancer.

From:  https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2018/05/basic-training-camouflage-concealment.html

After 17 Years of War: No Christians in Afghanistan

Mission Accomplished!

The US ensured that Afghanistan remains in extended conflict so CIA Opium Black Budget revenue remains intact. BONUS: ZERO ability to practice Christianity publically in this region ..

Thanks Bush II, Bush III (Obama), Bush IV (Trump)

".. Afghanistan is a brutal Islamic state. The results of the U.S. war in Afghanistan are: One practicing Jew, one synagogue that is inactive, one Jewish cemetery that is used as an unofficial dump, no public Christian churches, and harsh penalties for crimes such as apostasy, conversion, proselytizing, and blasphemy..."

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-results-of-the-u-s-war-in-afghanistan/

Confederate West Virginia, Why?

Notice June 1861 Confederate States of America in gray. Look closely and you will see a part of Virginia that reaches within 100 miles of Canada almost slitting what is left of the "Union" in two.

If you could look closer you would see the railroad lines that go through that region that connect the east with the west (current Midwest) ... and now you start to see how nervous Lincoln was about this area. Lincoln already had cannon aimed at Dover, DE to prevent that state from considering secession, and in MD Lincoln placed all who were suspected of voting for secession in jail. Dealing with those counties in Virginia that had the railroad lines, coal and timber would take a little bit longer. However, being a new dictator has its privileges.

To know why Virginia seceded, you have to know what happened. The first time Virginia voted, they said NO to secession. Then Lincoln attempted to resupply two southern forts still under his control (Fort Sumter in South Carolina and Fort Pickens in Alabama) there was cannon fire in Charleston Harbor BUT no one was killed. The fort surrendured and then Lincoln called up 75,000 volunteers from all his states (36 minus 7) to "put down an insurrection" (he took care not to call them states) and he did not fathom the fallout from that fateful decision. Four more states left the union with Virginia voting again and this time in favor of leaving. If the reason was to keep slavery, don't you think the vote would have been the same both times? If it was the high tariffs, the vote should have been the same as well. Maybe, just maybe, these regions did not want to be a colony of another empire yet again!!!

One look at the demographics will reveal a lot about the area south of Wheeling that had ZERO say in what happened next.

".. In 1860 the mountainous counties of northwestern Virginia cared little about slavery. Even in the southern counties McDowell had 10% slaves, Mercer 150 of a total population of 4500. .... The B & O Railroad, running across northwestern Virginia, provided a vital link between the Yankee states and the West. This explains why the first battle of the War took place at Philippi ‘West’ Virginia..."

People generally can tell when the weather is changing .. no different by 1860 when those in western sections of Virginia and the rest of the south saw this:

"... western Virginians were horrified by the hijacking of the federal government by Northern industrialists and bankers in 1860. Money had totally bought out the law. A railroad corporate lawyer, Abraham Lincoln, president, swore to defeat the Democratic states even in the North, i.e., New York State, Ohio and the so-called Copperhead states in the West. To the so-called Radical Republicans this was a real civil war. They had to subjugate the Democratic Party representing the workers’ interests. The world was shocked. Even the pope called Lincoln a “tyrant and a usurper” and sent President Jefferson Davis a crown of thorns..."

Yes, they sensed what had been coming for several generations, something Patrick Henry prophesied about that rule by a corrupt majority to the north was coming true.

Then, the fallout continued as key US Army personnel had to make some big decisions based on selfish interests OR on principle:

".. General Lee (today called a traitor in the national media) had to resign his commission in the US Army so as not to help subject his native Virginia to the rule of Northern bankers. In the Sound of Music, Captain von Trapp was similarly forced to flee the Nazis..."

Since this "Union" that Lincoln professed to keep seemed so very fragile (actually, it was his party's inability to hold on to political power indefinitely) it was decided to manufacturer another state for electoral votes needed in 1864 (they admitted Nevada prematurely for the same reason). The method they used is found no where in the Constitution .. but like all things of the Republican party at that time .. you just make things up because the ends justify the means.

".. Just create a “Restored Government of Virginia” in federally controlled areas near Washington. Appoint a governor, Francis Pierpont, and of course an ad hoc legislature. Propose one bill, devoted to the question of secession of the northwestern counties. Vote for it, get paid and go home. Democracy was somewhat crushed, of course. Twenty-two counties did not vote. One county “sent” one representative, some guy who elected himself, etc. But the whole thing worked like a charm, at least in the Union media. The cover-up was well under way. As of June 20, 1863 the federal government declared West Virginia a new state. .."

So even after the war, West Virginia was kept from being part of Virginia again .. politics:

"... In legal limbo, ‘West’ Virginia did not democratically or legally secede. Neither was it annexed with any real popular support. Like India as a British colony, our people are seen as second-class citizens, if that. We are berated for our accents and behavior. And we are blamed for a system we did not create. Like the rest of the Confederate states we are in fact a colony..."

I contend that except in the big political power centers of major metro areas, the rest of this country is treated as colonies ... taxed to feed the federal beast. The American Empire.

Confederate West Virginia | Abbeville Institute