Saturday, August 6, 2022

August 5 Community EMP Preparedness Meeting

 

You can listen to the audio of this meeting here.


Meeting notes:

Benjamin franklin said failing to prepare is preparing to fail and that is what we are doing tonight.

No one in the country is doing what we are doing tonight. Having listened to a lot of preparedness information the most they ever mentioned was store food and know your neighbors because you will need each other. I have never heard of a group of people getting together to talk about how to feed entire towns apart from Joseph in the Old testament who saw hard times ahead and he prepared and not only did he save Egypt but the surrounding countries as well. We just don’t’ have that kind of numbers to even help wayne county. Not everyone wants to think about this. To most people this is new and outside of their realm of possibility and some of us we have been thinking about this for years.

Before we get into where we left off at the last meeting I’ll first talk about basic emp protection in case some people need to leave.

Emp shielding

·         Faraday cages for small electronics, metal trash can, staticloth or conductive fabric

·         Vehicle surge protectors

·         Building protection

o   Biggest closest to transformers, smaller on satellite buildings, followed by surge strips for for computers

o   MOV or silicon oxide because these react in less than 5 nanoseconds at least 40ka surge

o   Siemens sf140, square d sdsa1175, at least

o   For even more protection add clamp on ferrites to your main power leads. They absorb electric charge and slow down spikes.

o   Generator grounds

 

Where we left off last meeting

·         Personally with our farm we are planning to feed 1-2000 people with milk

·         People can live indefinitely on milk

·         We plan to bring a trailer with around 20 spigots. People will need to bring their own container to fill up. This milk will only be good for a couple hours.

·         Set up relief center and food drop sites at Kidron Mennonite/ central school, and Dalton Schools, with a small stop at shady lawn. Standard rule for sqft per person at a long term emergency shelter is 40sqft per person. That means with Dalton, central, Kidron Mennonite we could theoretically house 5000 people. While all of Dalton and Kidron would be 3000 people. We would like them to stay home if possible and we could help them with rain collecting but we think most people are going to be staying at these locations and maybe they can bring their own mattress.

·         Dealing with sewage last time the best we had was dig a trench like in revolutionary war

o   I recently learned the Dalton sewage plant has backup power.

o   Things may be better than what we planned but we are planning for the worst and if it is better then okay.

o   Fuel is finite. We have to assume that we won’t be getting more for years.

o   We have come up with a low power idea of using our back hoe to dig a hole and have someone build a platform and outhouse over it. Rough calculations a 5x5x6 deep hole would last 1000 people a month. We could dig that in less than 10 minutes. What we need to think about is where would we put it so it won’t get into ground water.

o   5 gallon buckets or home trash cans could be used to transport waste to the hole like if it is at night you don’t want to be going out.

o   What about toilet paper. People will have to use washcloths or extra t shirts instead and wash them in the creek. So recommendations like this and ones coming up later I am assuming the least cost possible. If someone wants to put up thousands of dollars for toilet paper to last several thousand for a couple years they can but I am planning for this to not happen. You are looking at 36 500 sheet rolls per day 13000 for a year for 3000 people. That is like 15 pallets worth and those are my figures other peoples are higher.

·         Water, Dalton has backup power for water but we can haul water for temporary

o   Typical survival water is 1gal per person per day 2000 a day 60000 per month. Less than that with milk.

o   Back up diesel generation. 2 400gpm pumps run 2 minutes enough for drinking. 4 minutes for flushing. if it is yellow let mellow, brown flush it down

§  If there natural gas close by you can feed natural gas into the intake using only 10% diesel to make it last longer.

o   Again we are planning long term with no power so

o   At location rain water collection. Including Dalton, Central and Kidron Mennonite we have 214000 sqft of roof. A 1in rain would make 133000 gallons. Although not all those rooves are good for rain collection like the flat rooves but we are looking at in our area 3in of rain a month not 1. We can make a first flush valve and can make a sand charcoal filter

o   We could store the water in portable swimming pools. 1500gal per Pool need 40 pools for a month

o   Another option is use P Gram Dunn’s as a relief center. They have good rooves for rain water collection and a pond.

o   Build a windmill pump, They cost around 6000 and I have looked at plans to build them I could do it with parts lying around. Bike powered pump piston pump, use dc motors out of treadmills to make piston pump and hook directly to residential solar panels to fill overhead water for showers. Most solar installations are grid tie systems which shut down when there is no grid so these would be useless unless we repurpose them like this.

o   If we don’t get some of these measures in place we can

§  Wash clothes in town spring or creek

§  Use wash cloth instead of showering

·         People will have a hard time about this but it is really better for your skin and hair. Showering all the time removes the oils in the skin. It is these oils that when the sun hits it turns into vitamin d and most people are vitamin d deficient. It also kills staph epidermis the beneficial bacteria on your skin which is the body’s first defense against infection. When people get off the crap American diet they will not smell as bad because that is the toxic food coming out sweat glands.

·         I hope we can do better but this is the worst case scenario

·         Heating options in winter. Didn’t have much apart from using a gas stove as a heat source and electricless heaters like Mr Heater ventless heaters on the personal level.

o   Body produces 340btu/hr in 1000sqft of people that is 8500 btu and typically you need 40000

o   Use their whole wardrobe. I do it to stay warm being outside all day.

o   Mylar blankets reflect 90% of heat back but would have to be bought beforehand. They are pretty flimsy may not last long. They do make a mylar lined tarp which would last longer for $20 a piece.

o   Heat up rocks in an outdoor fire and take inside but under blankets. Amish do this on their buggies

o   No one is going to like this one but Rocket mass heaters built in basement of church or a ground level floor

§  Use 10 times less wood than a wood stove, it burns hot so no creosote. The exhaust can be horizontal for the heating mass before exhausting outside unlike a chimney that needs to be vertical

§  Downside takes a lot of rocks and masonry to do and we would need to cut a hole in the roof or out a window for the exhaust

·         Orrville Power update:

o   They are going to look into surge protection

o   Apart from the controls which are easy, one figure I found to protect the big transformer is $100,000 so I don’t know if they are going to dump that much.

o   Their natural gas source is the Chippewa line and uses natural gas powered compression stations not electric powered

o   Solar array grid tie so it will go down if there is not grid unless we modify the inverter to work without the gird

o   2 weeks of coal can burn wood

o   10% replacement transformers

o   The day I met with them they had a meeting afterward about Replacing substations transformers and having redundancies

o   They are putting a lot of money into cyber protection

o   I told him if they can’t keep the power and water running a lot of people are going to die. We’ll see.

·         Santmyer update:

o   They are willing to help us anyway they can.

o   They have over 50000 gallons of fuel plus 60000 gal of propane.

o   Down side is most is in Wooster and Canton

o  I was thinking on the first couple days take whatever trucks are available to bring tankers back to Dalton. Then take a wheel off so someone can’t show up and take it away.

·         Security

o    I talked to Dalton Police Chief and he agrees that after a week or two we would need to set up a road block at West Lebanon and Kidron rd because we have 70000 people from Wooster to Massillon with another 70000 in Canton and right now we only have the ability to feed 2000. We may need one at Wenger and 94 because you have 8000 people from Orrville who could take church road and come down to Dalton from the north. If we have extra room and extra food let them in.

o   If we get more people on board then we could spread out to maybe a Tuslaw school drop or Orrville smuckers barn drop. Everything else in orrville is too urban and dangerous to road blocks, ambushes, being overwhelmed by violent people.

o   National guard was brought up last time. I did some checking there are around 14000 national guardsmen which is around 1 per 1000 people in Ohio. There are 185 cities in ohio over 10000 people. It takes between 5 to 50 soldiers per 1000 people. They don’t have the numbers to be helping or hindering us.

o   From what I saw online Dalton as 2 full time officers and 10 part time

·            There may be possibility of deputizing more

·            We may be able to get the firemen to help out since they are strong fit men

·               I’d also like if we could I like to get a list of local veterans.

·               Any food production site or place of value will need guards which could really be anyone. This is a must because if they steal or damage critical infrastructure then we can’t feed the people. If people come looking for food or shelter send them to our relief centers.

·               We don’t have the numbers to feed Wooster, Massillon or even orrville. People are going to die from violence, starvation but most of the death will be because they drank bad water and got diarrhea. I may want a volunteer tactical team to deliver antibiotics to these dangerous locations. I don’t know how we could properly distribute it with having bad consequences like getting captured and tortured to reveal what the source is. I believe these cities will totally collapsed and be worse than downtown bagdad during the US invasion.

·               It is not a matter of antibiotic supply I have made my own antibiotics for almost 10 years. It is so simple and they are going to need them.

·               Colloidal silver, hypoclorus acid, ozone, chlorine dioxide, calcium hypochlorite, blood electrification, rife frequencies, garlic, oregano

·               For diarrhea charcoal or clay

That was from last meeting. I have a number of questions for you in your particular area of expertise to go further but is there anything you can add to these subjects.

·         What we need to know

o   We need to think about what are we going to do about criminal justice. There is no justice system outside of the community. Can you hold them in a cell while using resources? Work detail? What do we do with them.

§  Rape, sex slavery, murder

§  Looting 

·         In the west it was death penalty for stealing a horse because it was essential to life. What about a generator?

·         I don’t want this to happen but it is better thinking about alternatives now while we aren’t in a crisis.

o   Chickens for food          

§  Grain feeding capabilities

§  Meat birds are not very hardy outside

§  Modern barns are automated controls. With electricity there is no ventilation

§  There is no reproduction on site. The hatchery is in Orrville

§  Sherman Amstutz has birds outside

§  Barrel with holes of offal so that maggots fall out chickens love them, but not in winter

§  Butchering, use a fire to heat a barrel of water to get the feathers off

§  Kidron Fire department has outdoor cooking racks 2.5’x3’ can cook 18 halves at one time. They can also be used for beef

o   eggs capabilities

§  grain feeding capabilities

§  what type, will the eat grass?

§  probably won’t produce eggs without grain 16% protein

§  deliver eggs options

·         transport in egg crates

·         crack them in a tote haul to location to cook 10000 eggs is 100 gal

·         have a fire barrel with a stainless plate to scramble them.

o   You can crack them as fast as you can scramble them. Put in a half tote give a person a scoop for lunch. We will deliver milk for breakfast and dinner

o   Gerberfeed Grain

§  Said they would help us with whatever they had in the bins

o   Butchering

§  animals per day normal vs with only knives

§  hunting livestock that was let out

§  Most people think you need fruits, vegetables, and grains to be healthy. You don’t. That is the government and pharma train doctors who has led the US to be the most unhealthy country in the world. On a diet we are giving them of animal products which is a keto/ carnivore diet. Overweight people will lose 20lbs a month without being hungry, diabetes gone, heart disease gone, most diseases you can think of can be reversed with this diet. With that said though we would like some of our gardening experts to get some helping hands to produce vegetables to help out the food situation.

o    Cold storage

§  Harvest ice blocks in winter. Get insulation board from Gerber Lumber to make or put in 3D meat freezer. There are freezers by preferred air parts

§  People need a purpose or a job otherwise they will get depressed and suicidal.

o   Does the school sewage run on gravity or need a lift pump?

EMP Surge Protection Device for Vehicles

 


Why did I make the Surge Protection Device?

I became aware of the threat in 2007 and started thinking about it in 2013. I took some measures back then but the world situation did not dictate an immediate threat. Now the world situation is serious. To quote Senator Ron Johnson in reference to an Electro Magnetic Pulse EMP or Geomagnetic disturbance GMD "There is 100% certainty that this will happen some time in our future." When Russia invaded Ukraine I scrambled to make something to put on our many tractors that would be affordable. Compare my $60 device with EMP Shield's $400 device. 

How does it work? 

When the surge protection device detects a voltage spike it creates a dead short across the battery terminals pulling electricity away from the electronics to the battery where the battery absorbs the charge. This device is good for multiple surges. It is not a one time use device.

How do I know it will work?

Based on the math below and the electric component manufacturers specs, show it will work. I also tested it. As below I expect a .5 joule surge on a vehicle. I took a .7 joule cattle electric fencer and hooked it to a battery powered radio with a surge protection device. I turned them both on and the radio kept playing while it was getting pulsed with thousands of volts.

About the Surge Protection Device 

• Speed: Military specs for emp protection devices are that they react to voltage spikes in less than 5000 picoseconds. This device reacts in 1 picosecond. 
• Power: Typical emp yield is 50kv/m2 but a super emp weapon yield is 200kv/m2 or 26.4MW. Energy = Watts x seconds. 26.4mw x 17ns = .46 joules of surge power created by emp on a vehicle. This device is capable of handling 5 joules of energy which is 10 times more than what is expected.

How do you install it on a vehicle?

First before you get your device know what size rings you need based on your battery clamp bolt size. I am making 1/4 and 3/8. To install undo the nut on each battery cable clamp and put the red wire to the positive and the black wire to the negative. Use the zip tie to anchor the device to a near by wiring harness.

Where to buy:

General Rental Orrville
Bennet's Appliance next to Buehler's in Orrville

Friday, August 5, 2022

The Case for Self-defense

 


Exodus 20 The command is given thou shall not kill and then moves on without any context of who or what you shall not kill. The pacifists point out that it is to not kill people period. Without any extra input to this verse to the sola scripturaist the conclusion should really include animals and plants too. Is that really what the intention of the command was? No, but it makes you think. If you need the entire scripture to show it isn’t talking about plants and animals, then maybe you need the same criteria to see if it is talking about people period or if certain circumstances are required. The 10 commandments are sins that are considered intrinsically evil meaning they are wrong every time no matter what. Would God command you to sin? The obvious answer is no. It is like having a square circle. It is a logical contradiction that cannot exist. So what do we find the next chapter Ex 21? We see God commanding them to put people to death 5 times and a total of 9 times in the book. Let’s look at some of them. Ex 21:12 if a person strikes someone and they die they shall be put to death however if it was an accident then God will appoint a place for the person to flee to avoid being killed by the victim’s family. We see in this example that the word translated kill in Ex20 should really be murder for God just explained intentional killing is a crime permitting death while an accident which is not murder, the person may be free from punishment. In Mt 19:18 the rich young ruler asks Jesus what he must do to obtain eternal life and Jesus replies keep the commandments. He then starts to list some of the 10 commandments in which he says you shall no murder further demonstrating that Ex 20 should say murder and not kill.

In Galatians 3:6 It talks about Abraham’s faith and it was credited to him as righteousness. In Psalms 106:30-30 it recalls a story about Phinehas that is back in Numbers 25:6-10. In this story Israelite men were sleeping with worshipers of Baal. The command went out from God to kill these people to prevent the worship of false Gods among the Israelites. Phinehas stabs a man and women and stops the plague. God personally tell Moses that He has given him His covenant of peace and will be with him and his descendants. The verse in Psalms says that this act was credited to him as righteousness using the same phrasing that Gal 3 uses concerning Abraham’s faith.

Numerous times in the Old Testament God fights with the Israelites against their enemies in war. Again reiterating that God would not sin nor tell you to sin.

Neh 4:17-18 Is an example of self-defense. It describes how the people were building the wall around Jerusalem and how they always had their sword on them even to say work with one hand and hold their weapon in the other.

Even under Persian occupation in Esther 8:11 with the help of Esther the king allowed the Jews to defend themselves against any attacker.

What about the new testament? In Lk 12:39 it says if the good man of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. This verse shows the legitimate defense of property.

In Lk 3:10-14 people are asking what should they do to be saved. The tax collectors, John the Baptist tells them to not take more than the prescribed amount. For the soldiers he told them to not extort money and be happy with their wages. He does not tell them that their job is intrinsically evil like that of a pirate or assassin showing that legitimate civil defense is okay.

In Lk 7:1-10 Jesus encounters a centurion whose servant is sick. Jesus wants to go with him to heal him but the centurion says just say the word and he will be healed. Jesus then commends the servant for having such a strong faith unseen in all of Israel. You can see that the Centurion in his current profession had a strong faith. It was not after he met Jesus and had a conversion and had to leave his job. Jesus says he had great faith while in his job and did not say he needed to change it.

In Acts 10 is the story about Cornelius the centurion. While he is a centurion he prays and gives alms. One day an angel appears to him and has him send for Peter. Peter in a vision of his own at the time Cornelius’ men arrive hears the Holy Spirit tell him to go with them. When they get back to Cornelius he is baptized and the people who are with them are amazed at the outpouring of the Spirit. Again it is important to note that these events took place because Cornelius was a God fearing man while he was in his profession as a centurion. There is not mention that he felt the need to quit after receiving baptism.

What would Jesus do? Jesus himself is called Lord of Hosts which means he is a commander of armies. In Jn 18:36 Jesus tells Pilot that his kingship is not of this world, if it was his servants would fight to stop Jesus being turned over to death.  This verse while may look like a verse showing no fighting in this world what it actually shows is that fighting in a war is not intrinsically evil otherwise Jesus would not say they would fight had circumstances be different.

Theologians J. P. Moreland and Norman Geisler say that “to permit murder when one could have prevented it is morally wrong. To allow a rape when one could have hindered it is evil. To watch an act of cruelty to children without trying to intervene is morally inexcusable. In brief, not resisting evil is an evil of omission, and an evil of omission can be just as evil as an evil of commission. Any man who refuses to protect his wife and children against a violent intruder fails them morally.”

What about loving our enemies? Which is the more loving act? To defend one’s family (or any group of people) by killing a depraved person intent on killing the entire group? Or by “loving” the aggressor and allowing him to kill unchecked, thus taking the lives of many others? No, in these cases the most loving thing to do is to stop the attack by any means possible or necessary, even if that means taking the perpetrator’s life.

Why is it we see a lot of examples in the Old Testament about fighting in war and capital punishment but so little in the New Testament? In the Old Testament they were a nation of people. God gave them a code of conduct to run society similar to what we have today such as if there is a crime there is a punishment. As a nation they had enemies that would like to see them dead and they had to defend themselves. In the New Testament the nation had long since been conquered and they were living under the jurisdiction of the Romans. Under the Romans you had a different code of conduct similar as today just being enforced by Romans instead of a Christian one. Christian persecution started immediately and it was like that for 300 years until Christianity was legally allowed to be practiced. That is why you don’t see a Christian society in the New testament with its own law enforcement or means of self defense. If you were a Christian and a roman soldier hit you what should you do? Defend yourself and have a dozen more soldiers come and kill you or should you turn the other cheek? It turns out that the phrase is a Hebrew idiom refereeing to an insult. It was an insult to be hit across the face to the Jew so this teaching is not really about not defending yourself but to not retaliate will insults back. There is a time for defending yourself but under Roman occupation was not one of them. After the legalization of Christianity they had to start thinking about what is our place with self defense and military use. This is where the Just War doctrine was developed by St Augustine.

These are the conditions that have to be met in order for a war to be considered Just.

  1. the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
  2. all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
  3. there must be serious prospects of success;
  4. the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.

In addition to the conditions before war there are conditions that need to be met during war:

The Church and human reason both assert the permanent validity of the moral law during armed conflict. "The mere fact that war has regrettably broken out does not mean that everything becomes licit between the warring parties."

  • Non-combatants, wounded soldiers, and prisoners must be respected and treated humanely.
  • Actions deliberately contrary to the law of nations and to its universal principles are crimes, as are the orders that command such actions. Blind obedience does not suffice to excuse those who carry them out. Thus the extermination of a people, nation, or ethnic minority must be condemned as a mortal sin. One is morally bound to resist orders that command genocide.
  • "Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation." A danger of modern warfare is that it provides the opportunity to those who possess modern scientific weapons—especially atomic, biological, or chemical weapons—to commit such crimes.

Just war doctrine is like the doctrine of the Trinity. It was believed early on but for the Trinity it was not formally defined until the Council of Nicea in 325ad. Why was it defined so late? The reason was there was a heretic named Arius who believed Jesus was a powerful creature but not God. His heresy was leading many astray so they had to meet together in council to define what they believed. This is following the example that we find in Acts 15. In this chapter people were saying that new converts needed to follow the mosaic law. This caused much division so they called the first ecumenical council, the Council of Jerusalem, to work out this problem. Peter was given a special office apart from the other apostles in Matt 16:18-19 "And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." He was given the keys to kingdom which is also explained in the Old Testament. Is 22:22 The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder; So he shall open, and no one shall shut; And he shall shut, and no one shall open. Isaiah 9:6-7 and Lk 1:32 says that Jesus will sit on the throne of David and his reign will be forever. So just like in David’s kingdom, Jesus has someone in charge of the keys. Is 22:21 says that he will be a father to the nation. The term pope comes from the word papa or father. In Acts 15 Peter makes the declaration that they do not have to follow the mosaic law and then James the bishop Jerusalem gives pastoral advice in addition to that. Then they send legates out to the Church in whole world with the decree binding all the faithful. This is the kind of authority Jesus gave to the apostles and their successors the bishops who can trace their ordination back to the apostles. The Scared scripture is just one leg of the 3 legged stool that Jesus gave us. He also gave us sacred tradition. 2 Thess 2:15 “So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.” We don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time something comes up. We can look at scripture and we can look at what was practiced and believed that was passed down through history and we have a Church authority who can give certitude to the truth.

We can see in Church history beyond the New Testament, the Church that Jesus founded, The Catholic Church has been speaking about these issues from very early on as seen in the following quotes from the Early Church Fathers below. It is not until the founding Anabaptist religion did all out pacifism become a mainstay.

 

Tertullian to Scapula ch 4 (160-240 ad)

Marcus Aurelius also, in his expedition to Germany, by the prayers his Christian soldiers offered to God, got rain in that well-known thirst

Athanasius Letter 48 (296-373 ad)

For in other matters also which go to make up life, we shall find differences according to circumstances. For example, it is not right to kill, yet in war it is lawful and praiseworthy to destroy the enemy; accordingly, not only are they who have distinguished themselves in the field held worthy of great honours, but monuments are put up proclaiming their achievements. So that the same act is at one time and under some circumstances unlawful, while under others,

and at the right time, it is lawful and permissible.

Basil Letter 106 (329-379 ad)

I have learnt to know one who proves that even in a soldier's life it is possible to preserve the perfection of love to God, and that we must mark a Christian not by the style of his dress, but by the disposition of his soul.

Basil Letter 155 (329-379 ad)

To forget you in my prayers is impossible, unless first I forget the work to which God has called me, for assuredly, faithful as by God's grace you are, you remember all the prayers of the Church; how we pray also for our brethren when on a journey and offer prayer in the holy church for those who are in the army, and for those who speak for the sake of the Lord's name, and for those who show the fruits of the Spirit.

John Chrysostom Homily 5 on First Thessalonians (347-407 ad)

When thy son is grown up, before he enters upon warfare, or any other course of life, consider of his marriage.

Augustine Reply to Faustus the Manichean Book 22 pa 74 (354-430 ad)

The real evils in war are love of violence, revengeful cruelty, fierce and implacable enmity, wild resistance, and the lust of power, and such like; and it is generally to punish these things, when force is required to inflict the punishment, that, in obedience to God or some lawful authority, good men undertake wars, when they find themselves in such a position as regards the conduct of human affairs, that right conduct requires them to act, or to make others act in this way. Otherwise John, when the soldiers who came to be baptized asked, What shall we do? would have replied, Throw away your arms; give up the service; never strike, or wound, or disable any one. But knowing that such actions in battle were not murderous but authorized by law, and that the soldiers did not thus avenge themselves, but defend the public safety, he replied, "Do violence to no man, accuse no man falsely, and be content with your wages."

Sozomen Ecclesial History Book 6 Ch 3 (375-477 ad)

but when the soldiers discovered the cause of his refusal, they loudly proclaimed that they were themselves Christians.

Leo the Great Letters 167 question 14 (395-461 ad)

For that which a man has vowed to GOD, he ought also to pay. Hence he who abandons his profession of a single life and betakes himself to military service or to marriage, must make atonement and clear himself publicly, because although such service may be innocent and the married state honourable, it is transgression to have forsaken the higher choice.

Apostolic Constitutions book 7 par 2 (400ad)

Not as if all killing were wicked, but only that of the innocent: but the killing which is just is reserved to the magistrates alone.