[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Arraya: Why is it that, after I read one of your posts, I always have the urge to make sure my doors are locked and my ammo stockpile is secure?
Geez, you’re a ray of frickin’ sunshine, you know that, right?[/quote]
Allen, just calling it like I see it. Don’t think for the moment the powerful monied interests behind the scenes are not looking at social-economic trends for manipulative purposes. The world is ripping apart at the seams right now and nobody here lives on the seams so they don’t see it.
The macro picture is an absolute nightmare and the 4 decade, in the making, American debt bomb is going off at the same time world oil supplies are peaking which alone equals a new economic paradigm.
We have 17 states close to shut down status. Extrapolate that out 6 months and it will be double with budget shortfall trajectories. Soon massive amount of state services will be cut. Real unemployment is pushing 20% and the underlying fundamentals that are pushing it are not, and probably can’t be addressed. Tax receipts are collapsing fast. All default rates are spiking and national foreclosures have been pushing 300K for the past three months. World trade and industrial outputs have fallen faster than the depression. Like 700k people are losing extended benefits this month and the list goes on and on…
That’s just off the top of my head…
Geopolitically,
Revolution is in the air with coups, currency collapses and riots across the globe.
China looks like it is trying to gnaw it’s dollar paw off to save itself and is being coaxed along by Russia. Which, btw, would de-fund our government and military.
Israel is poised for a fall attack on Iran and who knows how the will spiral out of control. The suez canal transports a lot of oil.
Swine flu is not going away and in the southern hemisphere is is mutating and wreaking havoc on hospitals in argentina. Even though it’s not flu season it’s spreading very fast through the US now. Which portends a nasty nasty flu season with potential systemic healthcare problems regardless of death toll. Juxtapose that with the amount of people w/o insurance and 50% of the hospitals in the country operating in the red and you have a big problem.
I’d say this fall we should have crash 2.0 with associated surging unemployment and a possible move away from the dollar via all the bilateral agreements that have been set up over the last year.
Personally, I think Russ has the right idea in studying permaculture and intentional communities.
Decentralized, networked tribes are in our future….
