Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

“…and amongst the gas lines, darkened cities and abandoned checkpoints a figure appeared saying ‘Be cool. I can handle this.’ And thus the Age Of Zero was upon us…” – The Book Of Zero Vol. I

Being Commander Zero is not all sunshine and stun grenades…

Blackouts in the east, a very simple pipeline problem causing ruckus in the southwest, the government is still…well, doing whatever it is government does..and the external threats are still around.

Ive been saying for a long time that the things that are gonna ragnarock-your-world were less likely to be kooks with nukes but rather various infrastructure failures that would drop us into a third-world lifestyle similar to modern day Russia.

So..lets recap: every person with a pair of bolt cutters and a set of jumper cables now knows that you can cripple the northeast through their antiquated power system. Every nut with a shovel and a hammer now knows there are exactly two pipelines to bring gas into Arizona.

Want a few more? head over to cryptome.org sometime and see the aerial maps of the phone trunks that service the entire country..all conveniently located in one concrete building in NYC just waiting for a truck bomb. We’ve always had these vulnerabilities, its just that up to now no one has really gone out of their way to exploit them.

But you know what? Not. My. Problem.

My job is to prepare for it and come out on top of it with me and my merry band of LMI’s. Natural selection in action, kiddo.

I dont know how Im going to do it, but Im going to be about a zillion percent more self-sufficient, armored, prepped and educated by New Years 2005. That gives me about 16 months to make some serious inroads from where I am now.