Everyone has probably heard about the China earthquake.  Early estimates are 9,000 dead, but this number is expected to rise sharply.  Due to the nature of the population density, hospitals and schools, I’d hazard the guess that it will go many, many thousands higher.

The Oklahoma tornadoes were terrible too - we’ve had way too many tornadoes this year already.

Myanmar cyclone death toll jumps to 31,938.  Up to 1 million or more deaths are expected.

More food doom news: Liberia bans food exports to protect rice supply.

Notice the connections here — these are all environmental related disasters.  If this keeps up, we won’t have to worry about homegrown terrorism from the Bush junta.  But don’t count on it.  Expect the worst, because I suspect that’s exactly what we’re going to get.

Cyrano’s latest post — Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die….. A long rant. Unfortunately, he’s right about most of his points.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A survey of bee health released Tuesday revealed a grim picture, with 36.1 percent of the nation’s commercially managed hives lost since last year.

“For two years in a row, we’ve sustained a substantial loss,” he said. “That’s an astonishing number. Imagine if one out of every three cows, or one out of every three chickens, were dying. That would raise a lot of alarm.” Survey shows US honey bee deaths increased over last year

And not just honey either, but crop pollination. Dot, dot, dot, add it up.

Chew on this Savinar: Food Riots are Coming to the U.S.

The Wall Street Journal (April 25) was one of the first to issue the clarion call: ‘Start Hoarding Food Americans!’

I don’t have Kampmarks phone number, but I suppose you could scream and yell at the Counterpunch webmasters and demand that they take down this article while they’re looking up his number.

Recent reports have shared that world record grain harvests are now required in order for the world to avoid global famine, particularly in developed countries. The recent Myanmar cyclone disaster has made this a near-impossibility.

Myanmar is the worlds 7th largest grain producer. Most of their rice filed were wiped out and the entire harvest was lost. The region is now struggling with a serious corpse problem.
The Philippines had canceled an offer to buy 600,000 tons of rice as there were no offers from anyone to sell. This happened before the Myanmar disaster.

Australia is still struggling with serious drought problems. They have stated that it would take two years to recover, even if they did have sufficient rainfall. Australia is one of the world largest grain exporters.

Obviously, real climate change is here and already having severe impacts on the world food supply. Wheat rust in the US midwest is already a big problem and will affect grain harvests this year and in the years to come. In Asia, Vietnam, and also from Egypt to India there is a severe wheat rust spreading across the region, right now.

The world record harvests now demanded by the burgeoning world population simply isn’t going to happen. Reports are indicating that Myanmar’s rice crop are “slashed 7%“, which doesn’t actually sound like that much, but this isn’t an accurate figure. The actual devastation the their rice fields was extreme from eyewitness reports, which claim “the rice crop in Myanmar is totally decimated”. It may be that the military regime in that region simply doesn’t want the world to know how bad it really was, but the reports trickling in indicate it’s far worse then 7%.

Logrithmic sent me this link, but I can’t watch it (still stuck on slow dialup).  An Experiment In Backyard Sustainability

Yesterday evening, the phone rang about 7:15 pm. I was still here, still working, pushing more paper. I picked up the phone, “Hello”?

“Is this Survival Acres?”.

“Yes it is, it’s about an hour and half past our closing time, how can I help you?”.

A angry voice starts in - “There is a blog post on the survival acres blog that is irresponsible, dated May 8th. You need to take this down and issue a public apology immediately”.

The voice rose in volume and stridence - “What you’ve done is irresponsible, you have made us all look bad in the alternative media, YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER THEN TO DO THIS WITH THE CURRENT STATE OF FEAR IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW!! YOU NEED TO TAKE THIS DOWN AND ISSUE AN APOLOGY TO THE BLOGSPHERE!!”

(deep breath)

“Are you the person who posted this? ARE YOU THE PERSON WHO POSTED THIS? I WILL NEVER RECOMMEND YOUR PRODUCTS AGAIN. I WILL NEVER LINK TO YOU AGAIN. I WILL NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH YOU AGAIN.”

I had no idea who this was. “Why are you yelling at me?” I asked.

“ARE YOU THE PERSON WHO POSTED THIS. ARE YOU? ARE YOU?”

“Why are you yelling at me?” I replied.

“LISTEN HERE - I HOPE YOUR HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU’VE DONE BECAUSE I’M NEVER GOING TO LINK TO YOUR SITE AGAIN YOU HAVE MADE US ALL LOOK BAD I AM NEVER GOING TO RECOMMEND YOUR PRODUCTS AGAIN AND I AM NEVER GOING TO BUY FROM YOU AGAIN, YOU HAVE ….

I hung up right about there. I set the phone down and stared at it. Who the hell was that?

Not twenty seconds later, the phone rings again. I didn’t answer it. It goes through its little warm up speech I’ve got on there and a voice comes on the line.

“Alright, it’s me again, it’s Matt from Life After the Oil Crash dot net. I’m not going to yell at you, I’m just going to say I think what you did was deeply irresponsible, and I make you look bad, it makes all us look bad, ah uh and that’s all I’m going to say, and you know, if your happy with what you done, so ah, I’m never going to listen to you ever again I’ll not buy from you ever again and I’m not going to recommend anybody buy from you ever again, so best of luck and I hope you’re happy with yourself.”

I get this email almost immediately aftwards:

SA,

I apologize for having yelled at you as that was simply not necessary. However, I do feel my anger was justified. I will reiterate what I said on the phone here via the the written word: your May 8th post is deeply irresponsible and makes all of us collapse/alt-new bloggers look untrustworthy. People - myself included - go to your site for actionable information, not fiction unless it is clearly delineated as fiction from the very beginning. In this post you did not do this until the very end. That is simply not acceptable. (I assume you are familiar with the Orson Wells radio catastrophe)

While we have not had an official affiliate or business relationship, I have never hesitated to recommend people purchase from you in the past. While I will not be advising people to avoid your site or business, I will neither be linking to or recommending your goods or services in the future as I feel there is no excuse for somebody of your status in the blogosphere to publish a post like this one sans a clear disclaimer at the very beginning of the post.

I do hope you post an apology and/or post the “future blog post” disclaimer line at the very top of the post as opposed to the bottom. I can’t help but suspect I’m far from the only reader of yours pushed to anger by your post. Most will not bother to contact you to express as much, they will just stop reading your blog and/or buying from your store.

Sincerely,

Matt Savinar

Somebody didn’t take his meds yesterday. Well Matt, you want my response, now you’ll get it.

First off, you have absolutely no business dictating what others write, not me, not anybody. None whatsoever. Secondly, you were indeed the only idiot that called me, screaming into my ear. Thirdly, you can piss off, I washed my hands of you long ago.

You understood the post for exactly what it was, but your high horse doesn’t wade any water here, ever.

The difference between you and me Matt, is I do not cater to the crowd like you and never will. I don’t speak pablum, I don’t appear in public and I don’t like grand audiences. None of these things are meaningful to me and never will be.

Attempting to dictate to me what I write on my own site is simply none of your business. Yelling at me only makes it worse, it proves what I have long known about you. There is a reason I do not post on your site and there is reason you and your board administrator were banned from my site long ago.

I lost all respect for you when you attempted to leverage my business for your own gain and profit, without even asking me for my approval in advance. I investigated you and your repeated “offers” and you were going to be the only person making any money. I told you and your board administrator Taraz that too - and there was nothing but silence from the both of you.

I even pointed out that I had lost money on your orders, and yet you and Taraz still thought you were deserving of additional discounts - and there was still silence from you.

And now you “demand” that I obey your dictates? Why would ANYONE in their right mind listen to anything you have to say? You’ve demonstrated that you are an unethical man and only interested in making tons of money. I’m not like you. I will never be like you.

I don’t read anything you write. I have never read your books. I have never listened to your interviews. I have never followed your blog, and this is because you do not speak the truth. You speak pablum like most writers today in the “collapse” genre and I know it. You are tickling ears all across the world and being paid quite handsomely for it too. You told me the sum of this once, I still have that email, it was downright startling, I can only imagine how much more it might be today.

When I came to you with the problem initiated by your board administrator, you quietly covered it up. There was no public apology on your board, now was there? And yet you believe you can force me to apologize on my own board because you demand it? Does your streak of hypocrisy run in the entire family?

How many other people have you tried to bully with your name and reputation? It won’t fly here — EVER.

What gall you have. What an incredible lack of integrity and character you have shown. What fear is this? Why are you so afraid?

I know what it is Matt and I will speak its name. You and all your kind are about to be “found out”. You are deathly afraid that the empires you have built in this genre are really and truly about to come crashing down along with the rest of the world.

The words that I wrote scared the living hell out of you, and they unveiled you for who you really are. I know who you are, quite a few of us do too.

You recognized in them the truth of what we are all facing, and you’re running scared. You are afraid to speak the whole truth. You deal in words much like I do, except I don’t get a paycheck from my words, I’m a volunteer. My words are freely given and meant to be freely received. I do no speeches, no interviews, no radio shows, no television appearances and I charge nothing. I have been asked to do them all and have years ago, but I now politely decline because I have no interest at all in building a following or achieving any fame. I am simply here, making my own small difference in the world and nothing else. I work 7 days a week, at least 12 hours a day, helping those who actually take the initiative to help themselves. When I get time, I write.

But you’re unhappy with that. You call me irresponsible and demand editorial control on my site. Unbelievable. I call you the irresponsible one, for you lack the willingness to speak the entire, unvarnished truth and furthermore for believing you can dictate to others what can and should be said.

If you don’t get your way — then you issue threats. Unbelievable. What incredible arrogance you have. Threaten to “never recommend my products to anyone ever again” as if that actually meant something, as if that actually carried any weight at all. How dare you be so goddamned presumptuous you pompous prick.

You would rather let it out in bits and pieces as it suits you (and pays you) so that you can maintain your position and following. You cater to those who prefer the soft-sell and you know it. I never have and I never will.

And “you will never buy from me ever again”. Need I AGAIN remind you that you and Taraz’s tiny orders were net losses to me? And that I kept this quiet and held my peace until your board administrator made a fool of herself online? You never publically responded — you never will because you lack character and integrity and many people besides myself know this. In my mind, you are a total fraud, a waste of breath and space and I suspect you know it.

I don’t hate you, I don’t envy you, I can really in all honesty, only pity you for what must be a frightening time in your life. You owe me a public apology (twice over), but I doubt if I will ever get it because you’re really not the man you claim to be. And I know it, most of those on my blog know it too since it has come up before.

I am not for sale Matt, not like you, not ever like you. You believe money is the motivation behind everyone, I’ve got your emails, I seen your threats, I know what you charge. I would much rather close the doors to this business and go do something else then to allow you or anyone else to dictate to me what I can and cannot say on my own site, or browbeat me into submission with threats of money. That just reveals you for who you really are, a money-grubbing asswipe. Assuming that your tiny orders would make a whit of difference is absolutely absurd beyond belief. I am presently actively turning away about 100k in orders per week, on purpose and with great deliberation, because I am not for sale like you.

My time now is extremely valuable and in very short supply. There is no point at all in trying to make tons of money or cater to everybody. I can’t do it, I don’t want to do it and to assume that your “input” into my business is actually meaningful just shows how out of touch you are with the day to day reality and what is happening in this industry and in our world today.

What you hope for and what you’re going to get are going to be two entirely different things. You need to wake the hell up. You claim to be “one of us”, but you’re not and never have been. Your orders revealed exactly who you are and what you are and what you actually believe. Your words reveal more, especially those words you spoke and wrote to me last night. It matters not what a man says, it matters what he does, his actions reveal him, as your actions have. And you haven’t done anything except to try to attempt to control me and threaten me. This is why you are a fraud — and why you are afraid.

You’re going to be mighty angry at these words. So be it, I do not care. I am not afraid of you or what you proposed to do. I don’t need you and never have. You’re just an empty voice as far as I am concerned, trying to stave off his own destruction as long as possible. It won’t work. You need to shut up and get busy with saving yourself, but I have seen scant evidence of this. I cannot help you and will not help anyone who takes this position, because I know this is a waste of time and effort now.

You’re still trying to play by the old rules, which are already meaningless now. Speaking the same old meaningless words too, which are empty now. Only you know why, but I cannot do that. The old rules do not apply anymore, empty words do not convey enough anymore and you of all people should know it after all the words you have spoken and written.

I can’t help you and cannot retract my words. I will not issue the apology to the blogsphere that you demanded either. The blog entry stands — exactly for what it says, for what it means and for what is in all probability, going to happen. If you can’t see it, then you are willfully blind, and seeking to keep others blind too, passing yourself off as an authority while knowing nothing about what is actually going on.

The blog entry was written exactly for what it appears to be — to cause awareness, alarm, fright and reflection. Could it be true someday? Indeed, it could very well prove to be true. Writing it now is better then having to write it later — why you can’t understand that is truly bizarre.

If it frightens some people, so what? Time to grow the hell up, quit playing around and pretending our survival is some kind of game. This isn’t a game, no more then you pretending you’re making a difference and have the right to dictate to anyone what they can and cannot say. A fictional blog entry is not the same thing as yelling into a crowded theater that there is a fire — and you should be mature and intelligent enough to know the bloody difference.

Go chase your dollars somewhere else, I won’t ever sell to you. Take your reputation and shove it up your tightwad ass too. I want nothing from you.

Well, some of you knew this was coming, the writing was on the wall. The massive crush of people at Walmart and Costco and every other big box food store has created a gigantic backlog of would-be buyers for storable food. Just be glad you weren’t one of those poor souls waiting line when the doors opened, we’ve heard reports of hundreds dying in the crushing stampedes.

As a result of the worldwide food emergency, minimum orders are now set at $10,000 which we admit, is way beyond the reach of the average peon, err person. Even most of us hardcore preppers can’t find the means to afford this, but it cannot be helped, the canneries have had to make some hard decisions and meet new government mandates. We don’t like it and we’re absolutely certain you won’t like it either, but there you have it.

This also means that only the rich and super-rich will be lining up in the queue for orders from the canneries from here on. Armored UPS and freight deliveries are now optional “services” for these food shipments at an additional charge. We have been approached by mercenary groups offering their protection services, some we’ve hired, and some have scared the living hell out of us. We do not vouch for any of them, you must do your own due diligence regarding their character and trustworthiness, or hire your own (recommended).

A few other updates: All credit cards are no longer considered valid payment, all orders must be paid for in certified funds (cash isn’t accepted either and we consider gold near-worthless). The major card companies have all defaulted on their agreements to pay merchants due to their own insolvency. We will now only accept payment in the form of certified funds, in advance from bonafide financial institutions. We will cash your checks in advance, please be certain the funds are available and on deposit.

Even the super-rich will have to wait. The canneries are all having difficult times in obtaining storable foods. Product shortages are now a daily occurrence, as are supply line interruptions and emergency food price increases. We do not honor any prices now — you will be required to pay the going rate, which changes daily. This is unfortunate for all of us, but the canneries can no longer guarantee any price past a single day.

As a result, we will require an additional 50% deposit on account for your order, which we hope will be sufficient to cover the actual costs. You will be refunded that remaining balance after your order has shipped and all price adjustments have been made.

Our price list is current, although drastically reduced from 1800 items to just 666. These are the only items still available now. You may choose as many as you want in any quantities you can afford. We do not guarantee the availability of anything.

Current wait times are almost 11 months and climbing, eclipsing our former 10 month backlog times for Y2K. We suggest you order sooner rather then later, the worldwide food emergency is only getting worse. Most countries have experienced severe crop failures and crop losses due to drought and flooding in some cases and bizarre weather patterns affecting harvests. Every country in the world has suspended all food exports, so what we have still available is guaranteed to be US grown.

There have also been widespread reports of rioting, vandalism and theft of farms, grainfields, silos and trucks and hugely increasing levels of food-related violence. Warehouses and distribution centers have come under increasing levels of attack and sophistication from home-grown terrorist. While I realize people are truly hungry with increasing levels of desperation, we do not condone such violence. We expect this situation to only worsen as our government has proven to be utterly incapable of rectifying the problems that caused this (we think they are actually involved in making this worse).

We also suggest you order as many seeds and farming supplies you can get. These are also is severely short supply, but some might still be found for the well-to-do if you react fast enough.

(future blog post)

Crashstead BASICS, 2008 edition: An Outline of Survival Factors

Presented in approximate order of prioritization given the prevailing (real) time constraints:

0. LEARN everything real and immediate as possible (as of yesterday, aka past tense, hence item #0)

A. Acquire and develop an acute interest, curiosity, lust, purpose, reason, desire in life and for living. e.g. the will, determination, commitment, competency, health and stamina, psychological preparation, etc.

B. Abolish all debts and externally imposed ‘obligations’ (perhaps file bankruptcy) and get “away” from impact zones.

C. Acquire/develop skills for self and attract/develop/unite the skills sets of others into supportive community.

D. Build mutually supportive relationships with trustworthy (would-be) neighbors, mutual defense agreements, etc.

1. GO /// GET OUT of harm’s way - NOW

A. maximize distance from ‘fan’ (crash impacts, aka people) with reliable potable water and/or precipitation.

B. long list of desirable location attributes - starting with climate factors and natural/renewable resources.

C. even longer list of non-desirable attributes (most are obvious to one who is learned and paying attention).

2. BUY /// ASAP (actually ‘yesterday’) NOTE - do not place all one’s ‘eggs in one basket’ (location)

A. Stockpile preserved foods and other critical supplies (primary and back-up/supplemental, store securely, maintain access).

B. Secure/store/protect genome (plant, animal, etc.).

C. Stockpile/secure hygiene, health, medical and vet. supplies.

D. Buy hand tools, devices, implements, equipment, materials, hardware (and learn how to use and maintain them properly).

E. Acquire books/knowledge, comprehensive (’crafts’, how-to, learning tools, reference texts, ‘old ways’ of doing/being).

3. PLACE /// as ‘remotely’ as possible

A. acquire established arable productive ag-land (existing/operating farm is best/quickest).

B. fully consider access to immediate physical resources and (changing) climate regime and variability.

C. fully evaluate unique risks/benefits, opportunities, challenges/obstacles in a post-industrial world (life w/o oil).

4. BUILD /// life support systems, sustainability systems (incl. ‘creature comforts’ and health care)

A. food production systems (plant and animal, including preservation, storage and preparation)

1. secure seeds and animals with necessary husbandry tools, tack & supplies.

2. establish (prepare) gardens, greenhouses, pastures, habitat/enclosures, and protect/defend same, (however, bear in mind that growing food during collapse will be highly dangerous, be fully prepared to grow after the dust settles).

3. prepare animal feeds in storage and production capability (for food, guard and draft animals).

4. pest &disease prevention and response strategies (learn multiple strategies/techniques to minimize losses/damage and maximize health/vigor).

B-1. Non-external energy preparations (minimize dependence of external energy sources)

animals for guarding, transport and traction
bicycles, carts, wagons
hand/pedal pumps
hand powered tools and equip (e.g. grinders, saws,
insulation against heat and cold (i.e. make use of in/under ground thermal mass)
mechanical advantage (block&tackle, levers, wedges, gearing, etc
solar cooking, etc.

B-2. ‘Alternative’ energy systems (heat, work and electric (minimize electric esp. long-term, establish alternatives and redundancies)

active solar (i.e., water and/or glycol space heating and cooking)
bio-gas (methane digester)
electrochemical storage (w/ redundant and/or backup capacities) (note limited longevity)
passive solar (design/orientation, exposure, modulation, adaptability,
photovoltaic arrays/regulation/tracking (note, limited longevity)
seed oils, biodiesel, animal fats
wind turbines (note, limited longevity)
wood and biomass (heat, cooking

C. Security systems (perimeter monitoring and defensive)

1. Establish redundant caches of critical supplies and prepare multiple defensive positions.
2. Monitor, (guard animals, cameras, IR, motion and/or pressure sensors and devices).
3. Preempt (fences/block egress, warning signs/signals, tripwire audible alarms and/or snares, traps).
4. Secure (concealment, berms/walls, position defensive bunkers, hide/bury critical supplies, armor defensive positions, etc.)

5. Defend

a. booby traps, pits, snares, etc.
b. ballistic weapons (bow, gun, slings, misc.),
c. personal protection weapons (knife, spear, sword, club)
D. Health

1. disease prevention (exposure mitigation, sound (high) nutrition / diet / fitness / hygiene
2. response / treatment (dietary supplements, medicinal plants (100’s), ‘traditional healing’
3. support / care for sick or disabled

E. Education of subsequent generations

1. preserve knowledge (instructional and reference ‘texts’ and materials (in multiple ‘grade’ levels).
2. maintain literacy, elemental math, basic natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, ecology).

5. GROW (aka Live Sustainability, from the increase, not from the decrease (death, destruction))

A. - food(s), - live to purposefully address all future needs and ‘wants’ by you own hand, mind, will (efforts).
B. - knowledge, skills and wisdom/ harmony (aka, relative comfort and security).
C. - trust, respect, bonds, fellowship and community.

Another crash muse:

Generalized ‘types’ of people inhabiting Planet Earth with rough estimate of fractionation: (my % ball-park guesstimations)

90% entirely clueless and utterly co-dependent on civilization and oil (artificial complexity)
(primarily the ENTIRE mass of western civilization, urbanites and the global elite)
generalized sub-categories include:

- the resource poor and uninformed/unaware/blind (60%)
- the resource adequate yet unwilling to learn/adapt (20%)
- the resource rich yet willfully ignorant / capacity poor (5%)
- the overt predatory / malicious ‘types’ (current and in future) (5%)

9% indigenous and/or living in / with nature in some significant degree / extent, non-dependent on civilization and oil to survive
1% partially aware but significantly constrained by capacity/resource limitations
0% aware, fully informed, capable, willing, prepared (far less than 1%, probably less than 0.1%)
Those directly living off (from, because) of the decrease (death of Earth’s ecosystems) 95+%

Say “Goodbye” to 95+% (aka 6.25+ Billion bipeds in the next 5 to 20 years by my guess).

[The above is a contribution by Lonewolf and bit by myself - Admin].

I concur with this, the vast majority of men and women are walking dead meat right now. We only exist because someone else made it possible, we lack the skills, experience, wisdom, foresight and willingness to exist without “them”. Them being civilization with its oil, electricity, farmers, fueled transportation, medicine, money and on and on and on. All which is going bye-bye as our world voraciously devours the last of its resources in gleeful gluttony of ignorance.

None of these people (95% +/-) have a clue what it takes to survive in world of depletion, death and destruction. It is not enough to simply “feed yourself” as I have tried to show here, you must “outwit, outsurvive and outlast” the starving hordes that are soon to come. This is the hardscrabble life we all very much dread, but already being experienced in countries around the world.

Amerikans are not immune to this and will be forced to endure very much. The rising police state will swallow up entire cities and many will disappear in the gulags of Amerikan hell-holes (they already have).

This blog has been rightly called the most “doom blog” on the Internet, I’ve seen the comments (thank you). What is found here is real – not some pie in the sky wishful fantasy of Mad Max reality, but what it actually “means” when humans destroy their planet, overpopulate their world 85 times over and consume all of the resources, tipping the planet past innumerable tipping points that will all spiral together towards our own destruction.

All of these issues have been written about here. I admit — it is indeed very gloomy. They are shared here for your education and awareness. Life as we know it is indeed over. That simple truth is unbelievably “hard” (willful ignorance and denial) for most to accept. For those that still refuse truth, I cannot help you — I will not help you. I wash my hands of you. It is the reason I have redesigned my business to help only those who are serious about helping themselves. These are the would-be survivors of the future world we are all going to inherit, if we live.

This is hard core, as hard as it comes. We are the 1% seeking to become (survivors) the 0.1% of humanity. These are the “basics”, this is not an encyclopedia, there is little time to even bother with writing one now and it’s far too late anyway.

Only a very few are going to take this and run with it. Lonewolf and I both know this already. Most everyone else is just going to hope against all facts and reality (false hope) that it won’t be this bad. But he and I are not alone — there are respected authors, researchers and scientists that feel exactly the same way. We put it here, in a succinct form for you to ponder upon and read. If you’re going to do it — if you’re going to take action and take charge of your life (finally) — DO IT NOW.

Let’s hear from you and your predictions / assessments on what you think will happen next as it relates to collapse.

I’ve been predicting a Hillary win for a long time, but I haven’t mentioned this for quite a while now. This could be the (first) prediction that I’ve been wrong about (I think), since Obama and that other guy look to be the front runners these days.

Personally, I think it doesn’t matter one bit who wins (who in their right mind would want the job in the first place?) since they will simply inherit a horrific situation which is only going to get worse.  So if you have political prediction, that’s fine, but lets “talk” about the other stuff.

Heard a partial broadcast that included a prediction that martial law will be implemented in August.  I’m not “feeling it” myself, but I could definitely be wrong.  Beelzebub could pull something out of his ass anytime now.  We do have another (s)Election up-and-coming and saving their own hides could definitely be on the agenda. My guess is the creeps will simply pardon themselves in advance and declare it legal, but martial law is NEVER very far from my mind.

The recent spate of cop killings (murdering citizens) and abuse of the public has still got me thinking that there is a devious plan behind all the violence.  Or not, maybe we’re just dealing with wacked out morons with guns and a major inferiority complex.

So martial law, or alien invasion, which will it be?  Between now and the say, the end of the year to keep this in perspective and pertinent to the here and now, what do you think will happen next?

I’ll go first on Iran - NOT.  Not going to happen, despite all the blustering, flag waving bullshit we’re seeing. I don’t care if there are battle groups arrayed around the entire country (well, nearby of course), I just don’t “see it”.  I hope I’m right.  I suspect that most of the major lamestream media is just playing along with all the fear-mongering bullshit we’ve come to know and love from this asinine Administration.  But I’m definitely NOT feeling that an attack is actually going to happen.

I’m absolutely sure many will disagree with this.  Good — that why this post is being written.  Let’s hear it.