EMERGENCY EMERGENCY ...

IF the world was to turn to custard and all the eggs got grilled crispy .. it would be a bit late then to pop-down to the shops looking for a bargain priced BLUETTI solar power station, a battery Radio and a few weeks worth of toilet rolls eh ..

- The NZ South Island Alpine Fault ruptures & lets go BIGLEY - Regular-as-Clockwork every 300 Years. The last one was 1717 I'm told .. ..

Now I am a peculiar case - in that I am practicing the Japanese hara hachi bu (eating until only 80% full) because, despite getting my weight down from 126 kg a few years back to 90 kg currently - AND seriously trying to eat a Whole Foods - Vegetable Based diet - I still need to lose more weight.

- Avoiding meat and dairy fats NOT for any matter of principle or religeon, as I actually consider it smart to eat as wide a range of tasty real foods as is available to a primate .. but because as an ex smoker, ice cream addict I suffered a HEART ATTACK in 1989 followed by a TRIPLE BYPASS in Dunedin, plus two stents later inserted, plus an emergency V-Fib event of over 4 minutes during angiography (I restarted second zap attempt).

I LIKE BEING HERE.

Vegetables are wonderfully affordable on Superannuation, whereas MEAT and DAIRY is bloody expensive - so I can sometimes save enough cash to buy interesting old useful stuff for fun and investment.

STICK IT TO ME BABY ..

Four recent ANTIQUE bargain finds .. from the TOP:

200 y.o. Sikh GUPTI SWORD STICK in GOLD & SILVER Gilt Vine Leaf Panels, and 'German Silver' Filigree Bands.

Malacca Cane with SILVER Pommel Top .. 120 y.o.

London made bent Partridgewood Stick with 9 Karat solid GOLD barleycorn engine turned (or guilloché) Band, assayed 1912

MEMENTO Stick with impressed COPPER Band 100th anniversary of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson’s victory and death at the Battle 

   of Trafalgar (1805–1905), The British & Foreign Sailors’ Society: Issued 1905.

Nice ..

Food now has much less nutritional content than it used to.

- Ask yourself how it is that JAPAN (S.Korea heaps also) has more than 100,000 CENTENARIANS .. (around 800 in NZ). Diet? - What are they eating?

I'm NOT talking about the substitute factory-made imitation Industrial crap .. you know - Mystery Meat & gristle 'BEEF flavoured Sausages' - 'Maple flavoured Syrup', - synthetic "butter" Margarine made of hydrogenated hard seed oils such as OLIVANI - some that are claimed to have around 20% olive oil. (That means it contains 80% Industrial Lubricant content)

Our Chicken, Bacon, Ham meat is all weight increased with around 20 to 30% added/injected WATER while the sky is the limit for processed mince and sausage slush, at upto 49% WATER  Fat and Fillers.

- What I'm on about here is your premium fresh proper 'garden' VEGETABLES & FRUITS that we eat to be fed healthy .. these are LESS good now than they used to be because of SOIL DEPLETION - and because they have been bred to be BIGGER, LONGER SHELF-LIFE, & PRETTIER, but without the minerals and vitamins being enhanced in any way.

In some instances - as much as 50% less vitamins, minerals. Check it out yourself  'cos a list of numbers on screen is boring. - What the fvck do I know? - I am not a health professional .. just a retired old fart.

They have been busy fvcking about with EVERYTHING for years .. to enhance their profits.

For "SAFETY" reasons they are doing everything they can to restrict, limit, and ban ownership of guns .. while feeding our kids any sloppy crap that will make the owners millionaires.

I can remember when eg TOMATOES were thin-skinned, tender, tasty, and without that WOODY core.

I remember when STRAWBERRIES were melt-in-your-mouth soft and sweet - Not hard and white in the middle - and their delicious aroma would fill the room ..

They keep harvesting these modified crops out of the fields year after year - we eat it and we pass it through - and they pump all that nutrient rich excreta down pipes into the sea. It should go back onto the land.

When we visited Abu Dhabi around 20 years ago .. I was impressed by the multi-lane highways having their CENTRAL RESERVATIONS planted with Date Palms that were irrigated with treated sewerage .. but that's not an easy thing - because of the heavy metals and poisonous chemicals we let into the sewers.

These problems can all be fixed .. but there is NO PROFIT in it for the corporate businesses that lobby our elected politicians and Government Ministers. 

OUR CHOICE.

I'd rather be scribbling about some new exciting Handguns or a fantastic new hunting caliber or a brilliant optical sighting system that multiplies starlight and costs less than iron sights or even shotguns that make less noise than air rifles .. BUT THERE IS NOTHING NEW OR FRESH.

Instead of  Government limiting CRIMINALS, - Citizens are taught to fear Firearms, ammunition and knives.

The sad truth is that sport shooting in New Zealand now is on it's last wheezing breath, as the misguided LEGISLATION determines to strip our population of our AUTONOMOUS RIGHTS

The right to SELF DEFENCE

The right to HARVEST WILD MEATS

The right to HARVEST WILD FOODS BY FORAGING

The right to FISH AND GATHER SHELLFISH

The right to SAVE CROP SEED TO PLANT NEXT SEASON

The right to keep HENS FOR EGGS or RABBITS FOR MEAT

The right to DIG A WELL or BORE CONSENT

Why are there no nut or fruit trees in our parks and reserves?

LICENCES AND FEES, - PERMITS, - REGISTERS, - LIMITS, - RESTRICTED LOCATIONS - NOISE LIMITS, - DANGEROUS GOODS TRANSPORT LIMITS, - STORAGE RESTRICTIONS, - SECURITY STIPULATIONS, - POSTAL RESTRICTIONS, - AIR CARRIAGE RESTRICTIONS, - PLANNING LIMITATIONS .. it goes on and on.

YOUR CHOICE - It's up to YOU.

Leave it in the TOO HARD BASKET - or do something about it. - Have you joined COLFO? Are you a DEERSTALKERS member?

FIREARMS LICENCES ESSENTIAL FOR NZ POLICE.

Why should anyone be exempt?

Life IS Good,

Marty K.