Leech City has released a new article in its leechwatching tools series, this time about the Georgia Open Records Act, or GORA for short. In terms of behavorial modification, the previous article in this series described the Georgia Open Meetings Act, a means by which public officials, our servants, can come face-to-face with their masters. The GORA, or similar legislation found in other states, is an even more powerful tool by which they learn the smell of their master’s hand. Effective use of this tool is an essential skill for any local activist wishing to keep their public servants in line.
Multicolor Off-Grid Christmas Lights
Old School Tech has released the final article in the off-grid Christmas light series, this time with a discussion about multi-color lights, their analysis and a useful generic design procedure. Homeschoolers will find a nice wrap-up in this article with a more scientific process that makes a great science project, linking science, electronics and statistics. Preppers can use the design procedure in this article to make various lighting strings from any color combinations. Be sure to check out the previous wrapper article on this site for a discussion of the practical advantages of this kind of off-grid lighting, especially when combined with the deployment of LP/OPs.
Welcome to Leith, Georgia
Although we’re throttling back on posts to enjoy this Christmas with friends and family, we want to make a video recommendation. This video is required viewing for all those interested in putting their local tyrants on a leash. Welcome to Leith is a recent documentary about the efforts of a small town to ward off white nationalists who had moved in with the intention of taking over. To thwart this effort, the city officials, including the barely-shaving mayor who had inherited the position, conducted numerous shady, illegal and abusive acts to harass and intimidate the villains. These perversions of law and justice were, predictably, reported in the movie as a heroic repelling of boarders. In the documentary, the invaders were a group of down-and-outers who wouldn’t pose a rational threat to anyone outside the confines of their local trailer park. The whole program is so much of a caricature that it is hard to see it as anything but a deliberately-staged drama. Nonetheless, it is a useful tutorial, which is why a friend recommended I watch it during the planning stages of our post-burglary operation here.
100,000 Visitors
Since starting this new blog format a little over two months ago, we’ve reached the 100,000 visitor milestone (with a little under a quarter of a million hits) on this site alone. Although modest in terms of other blogs, this is wildly more successful than I thought it would be, given my level of advanced crotchetiness. It took eleven days to hit 10,000, so the trend is definitely upwards. These stats do not count Leech City and Old School Tech, which are doing nicely on their own in their respective niches.
Thank you, readers, for coming here and plowing through what we have posted.
Some highlights:
An Open Letter To The Powers That Be
Check this out over at JC’s site:
An Open Letter To The Present Powers That Be
Read, and sign if you think appropriate.
Electoral Relief, Final Update
On this site, we’ve been following the ascent of faithless elector trial ballooning, and I am relieved that this stage of the chaos is finally over. This time. Once destructive memes get to the stage this one has, they never really go away, they just become part of the elegant tapestry of decay. I see the future of this as going one of three ways, with one other option at the back of the pack.
Red Off-Grid Christmas Lights
Old School Tech has published the latest in their off-grid emergency lighting series, this time on the adaptation of red LED Christmas lights for off-grid DC operation. Red LEDs have an important application to preppers, in that they help preserve night-vision. As such, they are uniquely useful for use in an operations center or an LP/OP (with suitable light curtains).
Controlling The Local Narrative, Part I, Overview
In our on-going series on modifying local government behavior, especially in the face of runaway crime and public officials who see their offices as their own private spending and intimidation clubs, it is appropriate to introduce measures by which you control the flow of information in this battle. As regular readers will recall, in the aftermath of our 2015 burglary, we consulted a team of specialists in many fields, including media and public affairs, to help adapt political and unconventional warfare methods to this effort. This mini-series of articles condenses a portion of those adapted methods so that you can more efficiently launch your own local public affairs efforts in your area.
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Testing Emergency Solar Christmas Lights
Old School Tech has released a new article in the emergency solar Christmas light series, a topic of interest to preppers who need a little bit of extra light in those dark corners but don’t want to use valuable inverter capacity. This time, an easy-to-make test fixture is described which overcomes the quality problems often encountered with cheap Chinese lights. This is also a great project for a homeschool science class, as well as producing a practical and useful tool from easily available materials.
Three Blind Manassas Mice Agree To Training
As posted over at Leech City, Manassas city council members have finally relented and agreed to attend the state-mandated training for elected officials in the new year. We take full credit for this development. For years, the council members (Audrey solely excepted) had been steadfast in their refusal to attend this training. As such, this announcement is a marked sea change in their approach to this training which occurred since we launched Leech City.
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