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Drudge Report Article
Topic Started: Jan 18 2011, 08:54 AM (374 Views)
Raven
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There is an interesting article on todays Drudge Report about the world being one crop failure away from disaster...so anyone sitting on the fence with a boat load of bullets but not much for beans you might want to re-think your prioritys. If it doesn't happen you will still be able to eat your savings. I see more and more backyard gardening in our future.
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I am totally in agreement with your assessment, Raven. Food has and always will be the cause of conflict.
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The price of corn went up 5 cents overnight, never a good omen for prices. Watch the price of oil (soon to be over $100 according to OPEC). The price of corn usually follows oil...the price of food is directly related to both corn and oil. Soybeans and wheat also took a jump. Maybe I just don't need to eat anymore...poor Griz needs the calories or it won't take long for him to look like a scrawny Ethiopian chicken :'(
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That's a masculine ethiopian chicken to you!
Our ancestors left Europe to get away from this crap...as seen on a bumpersticker fns
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I have always respected Ethiopian poultry, regal looking creatures really. I had a conversation with a guy who works for a gas company this weekend. His boss predicts 3.75/gallon by spring and over 4.00 thru summer. That would jumpstart our fledgling economy!
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Raven
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I see a summer of camping in our own woods, which wouldn't be such a bad idea anyway. Truthfully we don't go anywhere really but it is the rising costs that scare me more. Alot of the rioting in other areas are due to rising costs and the frustration that comes from a way a living that slips away from people. Prices go up and wages disappear the government not listening to people and it is a recipe for smoke on the horizon.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those that seek it. Ayn Rand
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The most common cause of rioting IS food shortages. Of course there are other reasons, but the kind of rioting that cannot be put down by a couple helmeted, baton waving police officers is generally because the lack of food is at issue. You mentioned that the whole world is one crop failure away from disaster and that makes sense to me. If you think about it, if we don't have wheat or corn to trade for oil, we're pretty screwed, aren't we? The US economy is not driven by food, its by oil - but in other countries that do not produce their own food, the opposite is true. So, while we hate to admit it, we are truly dependant on each other. Having said that, I absolutely do NOT embrace the idea of a warm-fuzzy European-style "global economic union". I think we should stay out of the whole thing and continue to be a seperate entity. After all, we have more oil under our feet in the States than we could use in the next 100 years. But, there's the key - who ever has the last drop wins - which means we'll buy and use theirs before we even think about touching OURS! That's just Economics 101!! But, since its bound to get mighty ugly in the process of "winning", I'll keep on stashing those jars of peanut butter and extra socks!! :)
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I watch the news and see the rioting elsewhere and it frustrates me to know end when I bring up the idea of it happening here people never think that it will be here, it is always "it can't happen here because... (fill in the lunatic, pie in the sky, boot lickin' reason of the day). The Rodney King riots were some of the worst riots in recent history. People destroyed businesses, cars etc for the sake of things not going the way they wanted them to reguardless of the reasons. Imagine what will happen if there is an actual reason like...I can't feed myself or my kids etc. Not only will it not be localized but the police won't be as helpless as they were then. There would be no political correctness to hide behind and those riots would have no social message that the "powers that be" want to have spread...they will do whatever it takes to qwell that message. At that point the noose will tighten all that much more.
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Actually, watching news clips of rioting in some gawd-forsaken country over food shortages when the USSR crumbled is what started me thinking about prepping. I did NOT want to be one of those people so desperate for food that I'd risk a bullet for a can of soup. I also didn't want to be one of those people waiting in line at the back of a gov't aide truck parceling out cups of rice. The thing that struck me the most was that the people in the news clips were not what you'd think of as poverty-stricken third world refugees. If you looked closely, you'd see they were modernly and well dressed, had in-style haircuts, nice cars parked on the streets, etc. It was apparent that their lives had not always centered around getting that last loaf of bread. Yet, there they were, one step away from starving. Scared the begeezus outa me to be honest!
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I have seen/heard the stories from deprived African countries when I was younger about tribes raiding villages and hacking people with machetes and raping women and remember thinking "Boy am I glad that kind of thing would NEVER happen here in the US" but now in this country, that could play out tomorrow.
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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