third world states

THIRD WORLD STATES


I finally saw “The Book Of Eli” ( The Book of Eli ) last night. You know, I was really looking forward to watching “The Road” ( The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009) (Vintage International) ) and was VERY disappointed. With “Eli” I wasn’t sure it would be any good so I kept putting off watching it. This despite the fact that I love Oldman and Washington ( I didn’t realize Beals was in it- loved Flashdance [ Flashdance ]. I saw it originally in theatres with an Eddie Murphy movie- remember double features? ). But Eli was a darn good movie. A damn fine movie. Was it a good post-apocalypse movie? Weeeelll, I think I have to say no. Too many holes in it. But I doubt it was intended as such. It was clearly a religious fable. The whole Moses wandering the desert before delivering the word of God thing. I’m not sure if it was meant as a modern retelling but that is my guess. As I said, a very good movie, but not what you would expect for post-collapse.

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I think the Druid Dude is doing a pretty good job in his newest series trying to debunk current agricultural practices and our dependences on them. By dissecting the process he points out the problems. http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ . On a related note, did you hear about the Australian mining firm trying to buy a phosphate ( Bonide #969 4LB Triple Super Phosphate ) outfit for $40 billion? They said they were worth at least sixty. My goodness, how little of the stuff is actually left if the valuation is that high? Or is it just stock still being insanely overvalued? You go! Plunge Protection Team. Don’t let the financial market decline, what else is holding up all those derivatives ( All About Derivatives Second Edition (All About Series) )?

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National Pravda Radio reporting on the issue of Pakistan not receiving much disaster aid from the rest of the world. Some idiot talking head with that cute little colonial English accent guessing that since Pakistan has a corrupt government no one wants to send money. Guess again, you dumbass. It doesn’t matter if Grandma Josephine Six Pack sends ten bucks or not. It matters if China or Saudi Arabia ( neither country modeled after a democracy ) are sending millions. Now, the normal guess might be that the scale of the disaster is slow in getting out ( millions dead? ) so governments have been slow to pledge help. They don’t know it is so bad. But we don’t do “normal” here, now do we? No, we do extreme paranoia here, and I will thank you all to remember that. You want the voice of reason, go visit Rawles ( How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times ). Someone that wouldn’t want to offend you. Oh, right! Like that pays the bills. Now, as the nominal head of the local chapter of Paranoids R Us, I postulate for your pernicious pleasures the following. Lack of aid is from one or two things. One, the global economy is far worse than anyone is letting on and there is little spare cash to spare or, my personal favorite, two, the aim is to see Pakistan fail as a state. Why? What, I’m Henry Friggin Kissinger ( Kissinger: A Biography ) now? Okay, the US is actually the better aid donator right now, so my guess is that others see the failure of Pakistan as a blow against our middle eastern occupation. If Saudi Arabia is afraid of us ( in their position, I sure as heck would be- as afraid as I am of Hillary nuking the prez and those under him so she can take over and do things right the second time around ) and China wants us out of their hemispheres ( I’m sure they would trade us a Chavez for an Iraq ), what better way than allow a nuclear weapon enabled Moslem state to fail? And, unless the Russians loaned them their Tesla earthquake/weather modifier machine, they didn’t have to do a thing to help its collapse along. Isn’t power politics fun?

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And, speaking of power politics ( Power Politics (Second Edition) )( if I might be so bold as to follow up on my own set-up ), how about those state finances? As I said before, when the feds subsidized loan interest payments rather than giving grants outright to the states, we are now in a period of state colonization. Things have gotten so bad financially for the Federal Reserve that they have to start eating the feed corn of the individual states. Again with NPR, West Virginia was reported as having a yearly surplus. One of ten states. How did they do it? By not paying into the state retiree fund. Oh, hey, that sure is fiscally sound. The flip side of green shoots- put off pain until next year when the thrice delayed rebound takes place. And how about Illinois taking some of their loan to pay current interest payments a few months ago? This is pure financial fun and games out of the Third World playbook. Our states are turning into Third World entities, or, as I put it with cleverness and no small amount of cuteness, Third World States. Now, it has become a cliché to say we are all turning into a Third World country. America. But what if it was more selective than that? On a state by state basis. Exploit the weak ones, the overpopulated ones first.

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Colonization is exploiting the economy for the benefit of the master country. And now the Federal Reserve ( The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve ) Bank is exploiting selective areas in this country. Loot the pension fund. Check. Indenture the populace by lifetime amounts of debt, concentrated in urban areas so they can’t grow their own food. Check. Only apply band-aid solutions to natural disasters. Check. Allow the excess population to die off. Check ( in this case, death by food lacking nutrients ). This has always been the case, states working for the benefit of the masters. But now that energy surplus is gone it becomes obvious. There is no more attempt at putting a nice face on things. America is different, and we do things differently here. Health care will be to freely distribute toxic “cures”. Overeating is caused by desperately sucking in calories without nutrients. It is death by too much food with too little sustenance rather than death by no food. Instead of death by lack of money, you get lots and lots of money- it just won’t buy anything. You are in a Third World state, and you toil for the home country. You may not be shackled to a loom, thin with hunger and dying of smallpox. Instead, you are fat and sick, with a pair of golden handcuffs chaining you to a mortgage and SUV payment, dying of cancer. Now, you can expect a continuation of higher taxes ( those monkey anus molesters in the state government here want to tax my Amazon book purchases! Sold from another state, transported over federal roads. If I bought them over a telephone line, that was subsidized through a federal tax. What has the state done to participate in this sale? ) with much lower services. Your life will be endangered through water contamination, unpoliced roads, unpoliced neighborhoods, contaminated foods, etc. Taxes are going up to support the bankers, not to keep services running. And you can absolutely kiss your non-fed pension goodbye ( fed workers and SS recipients get all their money- paid in hyper-inflated Greenbacks ).

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But, hey, don’t listen to me. The recovery is just around the corner, right? No need to try to increase your self-sufficiency.
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