by Sherri B., Unknown News
June 4, 2007
America is in the toaster and burning to a crisp. Little Bush has his
secret hideaways, as do Cheney, Rummy, Condi, and Elder Bush "in case
of
dire emergency in America". Hence Little Bush's need to
enact "emergency
powers", which give him full dictator authority.
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What about us? We've -- point blank -- alienated America from darn near
every
country on the globe. If we're being nice to any country you can
guarantee
that it's because the U.S. needs something from them. You can also guarantee
that
the U.S. will burn them when it's done with them.
We're eating China's poisoned food, we're drinking water with
who-knows-what "helpful additives", our skies are chem-trailed, our
kids
are obese, our money is coming close to being useful only as toilet
paper.
If you haven't got a few lovely secret fat accounts in Switzerland,
off the
Florida keys, or in the Cayman islands, you're pretty much stuck if we
experience a 1929-like stock market crash. Even those markets are
only
guaranteed if we're still friends with those countries when it all
goes
sideways.
I have a friend that lives in the Caymans who recently very
laughingly
told me to save the effort, when I asked about moving the very little
money
I have out there. I asked why not. He smiled and said, "What are you
going
to do if we don't give it to you? Bomb us? You're going to be bombing
too
many others and getting bombed in the process. What's stopping ME
from
taking the money and running?" He kept laughing and said he was only
kidding, that of course they'd honor their relationship with us. I
suddenly did not feel comforted. At all.
So what's the plan, Stan? What can you do if you suddenly walk to your
ATM
on Monday and see it is empty, and so's your bank? What if you find that
you
and your significant other's jobs have been outsourced, without any
warning?
Where do you send the kids when the school closes due to
budget
cuts or the teachers go on strike because they've either resorted to carrying mace
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protect themselves from sixth-graders or a couple
have
been arrested for sleeping with them?
Will you go to the cops?
Hopefully
some of you can. But many of you know not to bother a force with
budget
cuts, fewer good cops on the street, short tempers, fear or power
issues,
and trigger itchy fingers.
What about Grandma and Grandpa? Will you have money to keep them at
home
or in a rest home? What happens when social
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services, Social Security,
or
disability benefits fly out the window?
This is what you do: Go backward in time for your skills and go
forward in
your problem solving abilities.
Can you fix a bike? Open a bike shop while you can.
Can you fortress
supplies for people? Can you fix things?
What happens when your gas
or
propane gets low? What if FEMA takes your supply without explanation?
Can
you teach wilderness survival skills? (Please remember that the "safe
berries, edibles leaves, etc may now need to be double checked.)
Can
you
make a stove from stones or an ice-box? Can you wash clothes in a
stream
with a washboard or rocks? Can you teach kids in-home?
Can you care
for
the elderly in-home? Does anyone have transferable medical skills?
Can you
rent rooms (to safe, known people) when the fur starts to fly? Can you
barter? Can you police your own neighborhood? Can you share a home
with
more people than you're used to?
Can you endure energy blackouts
during
winter and summer? If not I'm sure you're already getting prepared.
Can
you shoot a gun? Can your kids? It's a hard question but desperation
makes
killers out of the most tame individuals, and pure evil out of those
already without consciences.
What happens when you can't get on-line, watch TV, or listen to the
radio?
If anyone has relatives old enough ask them about the first and
second
world wars and what they had to do to survive.
This seems scary but America is, I think, about to experience what Iraq
and
Afghanistan experience every single day. A vacuum of resources.
You'll
have to be prepared for the cops to come and take even the strawberry
preserves from your shelves, your guns, your car, or your daughters
virginity. Who is going to stop them? You?
If we have to go down for a time, we should go down swinging and
prepared.
If we have to go down permanently, then let's go down with honor.
We're
facing too many kinds of war with too many factions globally, and our
increasing troubles with imported foodstuffs makes my paranoid mind
think
sabotage. But that's just me.
What's your exit strategy? There's no shame in going to Panama, South
America (I wouldn't but that's just me. Maybe some of you can.),
Canada, or
any country where you can ride out the storm. But many of us won't be
able
to bring our whole families, so many of us will stay.
Get to know one another. Please learn each other's strengths and
weaknesses. Support your neighbors, but also know your enemies. Plan
for
the future. The future is no longer hurtling towards us. The future
is
now.
God speed.
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So what's the plan, Stan?
What can you do if you suddenly walk to your ATM on Monday and see it is empty, and so's your bank?
What if you find that you and your significant other's jobs have been outsourced, without any warning?
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