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YOUR COLLAPSE

I was going to do a nice relaxed, non-panicked, non-paranoid piece today but then I realized that you are not worthy. You aren’t worked up enough and hence it is my sacred duty to try to get you riled, hopefully to the point of bolting from your herd. Remember, the herd does provide safety in numbers, which works out great for you. Until it is your turn to be on the edge where the lion ( The Lion ) is. Actually, this is going to be more like a big asteroid pulverizing the entire herd, as well as the hunting cat, but I like to give you a crumb of hope to cling to. Besides, if you are relaxed enough you will send me money instead of buying prep supplies so I’ll be prepared and you will be in the stew pot. Several times a week I meander over to the site Survival Acres to see what he has to say. A lot of times it is just links to news articles, such as “Mexicans cartels terrorize little old grandma’s this side of the border” or some such. News to grandma- get the hell out of the border areas. Mexico is a failed state due to a combination of oil depletion and overpopulation with a sprinkling of America using corn as a weapon. I think the original plan was for the masses of cheap workers to cross the purposefully porous borders to displace Union workers to keep the mega-corporations ( The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time ) off life support. Mission accomplished. But now we have a huge army on our border and it is just a question of time before they go from potential workers to refugees.

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Sometimes his articles are excessively long and the words tend to blur together. Other times, his natural doom and gloom coupled with his lack of time produce an article that is just right. Not too long in length, but long on panic. You should check it out.

http://survivalacres.com/wordpress/?p=1988

Yes, the collapse has already started. We are way overextended in population in relation to resources ( not just in the Third World but in this country also- especially with a few more tens of millions of refugees ( Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Camps, Civil War, And the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) ). If you think the government was incompetent during Katrina, just wait for the refugee flood ). And, yes, the powers that be will keep up the business as usual. But I don’t think the collapse is being managed. The number one mistake conspiracy theory nuts make is to assign God like powers to those responsible for Kennedy’s assassination, or the Twin Towers ( What Really Happened: Inside the Twin Towers ) controlled implosion or for all I know the fake moon landing ( okay, it wasn’t faked- our reptilian overlords flew us there to take pictures as a cover for their introduction of high tech microprocessors ). There are conspiracies. Bob The Nailer ( Point of Impact ) himself couldn’t waste Kennedy with a hunk of crap Italian bolt action rifle from the book depository. There were other shooters, obviously. The central bankers paying for it didn’t micro-control the events, the cover-up, the killing of the witnesses. You pay the professionals to do all that, you don’t write the script. Plus, plain old greed for power motivates others. You don’t need to instruct them how to act, just dangle a carrot over them and hint at what you want. Conspiracy nuts try to act more intelligent by claiming knowledge but we are all just guessing. Just don’t try to make it more complicated than it is to make yourself look better.

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The collapse can’t be managed. You can’t control leaders or mobs once they sniff their own doom ( Doom ). Sure, you can introduce pandemics or divert food shipments or whatever. You just can’t follow through with the desired control after you initiate things. I don’t know if the big boys even really believe the collapse has started. They are engaged in business as usual to preserve and grow their fortunes. And The Tragedy Of The Commons assures the quickest draw down on resources without any thought to the eventual outcome.

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I said that the collapse won’t be overnight. But it also won’t be slow enough for you to escape unless you are over seventy years old. Months to a few years, with the possibility that it has already started. Tropical fish ( What Fish? A Buyer’s Guide to Tropical Fish: Essential Information to Help You Choose the Right Fish for Your Tropical Freshwater Aquarium (What Pet? Books) ) dying of cold might be a one off event or it could be global cooling/warming ( depending on your location- that Atlantic conveyor stopping will make Europe and the eastern seaboard rather uncomfortable ). To name one example. But let’s just keep focused on economics since that part of the collapse has already started and most can easily relate ( and, no, it isn’t a false alarm like the 70’s since it is now global energy depletion ). Right now, you are either on the public tit or you’ve already seen one family member laid off. If you are on the local or state government teet you are screwed, you just might not realize it yet. Business as usual ( Business As Usual ). The bankers don’t think this is the implosion because just like the rest of you they can’t visualize energy being more important than money. Money is their whole universe. And they will survive by milking the states. Your state will get a loan, not a grant or bailout. Hence, your days as a civil servant are numbered. The states can’t survive by borrowing more. They can’t survive as it is now. Everyone has seen some pain from the economic collapse ( The Cooper Union 2006: The Coming Economic Collapse ). But we are just starting.

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You didn’t act soon enough, and you are trapped with a mortgage. You are upside down and can’t jingle mail without owing the bank the difference. If you can get out through bankruptcy, you still are stuck. You took all your assets trying to stay in the house. No more junk land is available, or you can’t afford to move the thousand miles there. And you can only live in your car so long before it is repoed. Nice move, yuppie. You called yourself a survivalist and never thought the economy would fail? You think the collapse is multi-generational because that’s how its been for forty years. Big mistake. Now you are living in a tent ( Living in tents ) in a national park. But you are soon attacked by roving criminals who are bolstered in their efforts by local police layoffs. You take the kid to the emergency room to treat the knife wound, but he dies after getting a contaminated dose of antibiotics ( the corporation was trying to cut costs ). Then your Food Stamps were cut because there is no longer a minor in your “household”. After a prolonged bout of malnutrition you are susceptible to disease and die of chorea after a camper upstream of you craps in the water ( his hemorrhoids don’t get inflamed if he sits in the water ) and your water filter is used up and you can’t find any wood for boiling water.

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I’m not claiming by following my frugal prep suggestions ( THE FRUGAL SURVIVALIST disaster preparations under $500 ) that you will survive. You will increase your odds, but it is no guarantee. No, what I’m saying is that you had better start panicking now, and get a lot more paranoid. Your collapse could easily happen before the country’s. Even if it doesn’t, your ability to respond to events might be hindered by your insistence on living large up to and until folks are dying in the street. This isn’t a pulp novel of unlimited ammo after a nuclear war and the formation of a fantasy government in Idaho. This is your life on the line, perhaps seriously threatened by your inability to take outside events seriously. You think a nice house, a nice wife and a comfortable air temperature are your due and a requirement for happiness. You think the collapse is on your schedule and will allow you time to comfortably adjust. So you live in the city, and stay in debt, and keep putting off buying supplies. Good luck with that. When the collapse gets serious enough, it is every man for himself. And your friends and your distant family will screw you to survive. I want you to panic now, but I know I’m whistling Dixie ( Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South ). Well, at least it’s a nice tune.
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