root of doctor evil

ROOT OF DOCTOR EVIL


Most of us are occupied almost full time with the issue of money. Either wanting more or how to live with less than needed. It isn’t that money is evil. Money is not the root of all evil, although a case might be made that it is the root of Doctor Evil ( a mockery and a farce ). Money is simply a survival tool. When the health of our corn field meant survival, then weather and other agricultural matters preoccupied most of your time. Since money has been forced upon us as our survival tool ( with the monopoly holders taking a healthy cut as the vig ) we really have no choice but to worry about it. The last vestiges of the self-sufficient farmer were wiped away for good with the imposition of a property tax that had to be paid in cash. Before that, product in kind was accepted. You might think it quaint that an old GP took chickens for a house call, but that was not so much the desperation of Depression farmers but the way life was before a money standard was forced on everyone. I suppose the age-old standby was used at the time as the excuse for selling out the last holdout to the bankers, “it’s for the children”- a classic cure all for the government to use when pretending to help you as it is screwing you. How could they be expected to provide a quality education that now includes sex education ( the parents can’t be trusted to push condoms for emotionless, bondless recreational sex or to teach that packing Johnny’s fudge is an acceptable lifestyle choice ), drivers training ( let’s subsidize Detroit with free training to potential drivers ) and sports ( mock warrior training good for Basic Training indoctrination or corporate commander obsequiousness training, never to be subject to budget cuts for the further benefit of being part of the Bread And Circus distraction to the masses ) if the county can’t maximize its tax base and revenue stream?

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Another nice benefit for our banking masters to forcing everyone on the money survival system is not just increased profits- that is just a bonus- but total control. Never again should one of our nobility be forced to bide their time and wait impatiently for eventual bankruptcy due to forces outside their control. Weather freak events such as the Dust Bowl simply don’t happen enough to fit a busy titans schedule. Far better to force the issue through manipulated markets forcing prices down. Or instructing your purchased politicians to raise property taxes. If they are already high enough, create more inflation ( which pays for itself anyway ) to ratchet up taxes through bracket creep ( something the government wholeheartedly agrees with ) and force up the amount of property taxes through rising prices. Even if the rates remain low, the price still shoots up. The average worker might want the American Dream of a family and a white picket fence, but the Bankers Wet Dream is that everyone buys it through credit ( both the wife [ jewelry store credit ] and the house ). And so far almost everyone seems quite eager to oblige the pukes. We go out of our way to stay indentured for life, and convince ourselves we like it. Look, if you are happy paying through the bloody ass the rest of your life, fine. So be it. We all have different desires and aspirations. But if you think it can only end badly for you, read on.

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Remember how I told you that you only get one warning, then you get screwed if you don’t take heed? Your one warning has been given. Freddie Mac/Fannie May ( henceforth referred to as Nationalized Mortgages since they underwrite over 90% of all loans now ) has announced that they are cracking down on people that can afford to pay their mortgages but choose not to due to the value being underwater. I don’t blame them. Everyone acts rationally in their own best interests. I don’t expect otherwise, even if I do give the old guys a ration of crap about Social Security ( and speaking of SS, that warning has also been given-more in a sec ). The point here is that right now they are going after the better off financially. In the near future, as the government finances sink quickly, that category will include everyone, from minimum wage workers to the unemployed to the upper class with vacation homes. No one will be allowed to stop paying the bank. It is in the cards, people. The banks are in trouble. The banks control the system. The banks will survive a little while longer at your expense. If you are so inclined to believe that a economic crap storm is on the way- take steps immediately to legally shuck your mortgage obligation. I don’t know how, and frankly I’m not sure I care. I have been warning for decades against thirty years of debt. But if you fail to get out of that debt, soon it will be illegal to do so, regardless of your circumstances. Debtors prisons are already happening in disguised and underreported instances.

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Social Security has been in trouble for years. They kept claiming the system was sound until 2020 or 2030. But this year they didn’t pay COLA. Prices obviously went up this year, as anyone who has to buy groceries ( that’s everyone except Karen Carpenter ) knows. This is a very strong signal to you that every year you will fall farther and farther behind if you rely on SS. Take drastic action now. Reduce your living expenses now, voluntarily, while you can. All of the above ties together with the simple observation that while we must have money, we should minimize that need as much as possible. As Mayberry (http://mayberry-keepitsimplestupid.blogspot.com/ ) points out, Starve The Beast. That is a benefit. But more importantly, it minimizes your danger. Besides your wheat and grinder and bolt action and filter for immediate emergency survival, the next most important issue is rent free living of some kind. That is your biggest expense, and thus your biggest danger. You can’t live without money, but without a rent or mortgage payment you can live on a heck of a lot less. And hence live a lot simpler.
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one better than two

ONE BETTER THAN TWO


As much as you all are really, really excited about hearing all about my Bob The Builder projects, I simply couldn’t stretch it out into a full length article. It is friggin hot out and my brain is emitting steam. Not the usual ozone burning smell when I’m trying to think but the actual boiling water gas as Sol cooks my grey matter. Okay, 95 may not seem too hot to you, but here in the high desert where the body is accustomed to mostly cold weather it makes for a hot day. So my thinking cap is askew and barely functioning. Thus, I’ll just steal an idea from The Three Amigos over at http://tslrf.blogspot.com// . I didn’t get a chance this morning to catch up on any other blogs, but I’m sure I’ll get around to mining them for free ideas.

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Last weekend I decided to lower the travel trailer off from the tires and put the axles on cement blocks. I should have done it two years ago but I’ve just now stopped trying to fight the indecision of staying here or not. I could move three miles down the road to the paid for lot but the bike commute is hard enough as it is without adding another six miles a day to it ( I’m already at twelve ). And if I buy a moped then I’m spending as much as I would just staying here and making lot payments ( I wouldn’t buy a Chinese do-it-yourself maintenance unit but rather a they-can-repair-it-at-the-motorcycle-shop Jap moped. The moped because of gas mileage and lack of insurance. So, you’re looking at two grand plus, and interest ). So I’ll just stay put until forced to move. That indecision was keeping me from making any improvements. Now, I’m just a roof away from the pit and I’m now skirted. The skirting was about a hundred bucks for pink rigid board insulation. With some of it tucked under the overhang lip, some in a shallow trench, and some dirt thrown against the bottom, only about a foot is showing. I’ll get around to covering it with mud next week. Twelve friggin hours to lower the thing and skirt it, with legions of mosquitoes feasting on my blood and the far away neighbors learning new combinations of profanities.

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One income is far better than two, as I’ve preached at you before. Big picture wise, employment encourages females to believe they are free and independent and don’t need a male for any other purpose than procreation. Hey, if there was more money in it I’d be happy to earn a living as a sperm donor. But unfortunately the receptacle is a sterile beaker rather than a living organism, almost no one in their right minds could conceive of a horde of little Jim’s running around and as long as we males ( mostly ) retain power there is no way we are going to be caged up awaiting the menstrual cycle of the next mother. So, sorry FemiNazi’s, but we’ll just have keep doing it the old fashion way. Penetration! ( gasp! Faint ). I know that image shocks you, but a lot of things natural are less than sanitary. Why, you should hang around the commode three days after I eat a bunch of deviled eggs. Anyway, as much as I love to piss on the parade of the feministas, we’ll wrap it up concluding that regardless of your stand on who should be allowed to wear your testicles, the fact of the matter is that single parent children will, all things being equal, grow up less well adjusted. I don’t want to piss off any female loyal minions, so let me say this as delicately as possible. Fems should stay home and raise children. I would prefer them barefoot and in the kitchen, also ( but that could just be me ). And no, in the workplace, a female is not always equal to a man. You have at a minimum 20% less muscle mass. You cannot be trusted to pull an unconscious man from a fire, or a wounded buddy from a foxhole. Hey, we have a lot less nurturing ability with the offspring. It isn’t a contest, it is recognizing nature rather than the propaganda of carpet licking butch ivory tower liberal professors. Men’s bodies can’t carry a child and women can’t carry a lot of weight on their shoulders. Without petroleum slaves, women would never have taken a break from their traditional roles. Deal with reality.

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From a purely economic standpoint, two wage families are pretty stupid. And I was saying this way before the current Depression. Almost anyone who works maxes out there spending. The bills equal the wages. In 99% of the cases a two income family will spend all they make. A larger home or apartment, an additional car payment, more work related expenses such as clothing. More money on making up for lack of domestic home chores getting done. The instant food rather than the raw food. The clothes dryer rather than the clothes line, or, I’d wager, the Laundromat drop off service. The child care. The diaper service ( or, to get up to date, disposables rather than cloth ). The store veggies to replace a garden. Multiply that by every chore not done by a working mother and things add up to close to or equal what is being earned in the second income. You can have nicer things, granted. But you have gone from a domestic self-sufficient home to a totally consumerist reliant home. You are now less independent. Money does not equal independence. You are totally dependent on your job. Granted, most of us are to varying degrees. But you have no margin of error. One person loses a job and the whole household is in dire jeopardy. In a one income family, if the job is lost you suffer just as much. But there is a slight difference. On one income, you were already a lot more careful with your money. You had half the debt. You lived without a lot of luxuries. When dad loses a job, mom can fill in temporarily until he finds another. There is a slight income dip, but not 50%. One income, the partners can switch. Two incomes there is no way one person can stop working. You halve your risk.

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Now, if you do this voluntarily, now, before one of you get laid off, you can use the two income family as a prep strategy. Downgrade your living arrangements ( give a trusted relative room and board for child care, mobile home rather than house, older car, etc. ), then one pays all the bills while the other pays off the land, buys an arsenal, stocks wheat, etc. You don’t have a lot of time, the economy will continue to head downhill.
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an expense, not investment

AN EXPENSE, NOT INVESTMENT


I wanted to talk about conspiracy theories today but realized that some readers wouldn’t count it as a real article. So I’ll just touch on that here and then move on to another subject. Not for the first time, someone made a nasty comment about my touching on conspiracy theories being a waste of time. Well, of course they are. But by implication, we should only be mindless robots toiling away paying the mortgage and in our down time learning such wonderfully fascinating post apocalypse skills as dressing gunshot wounds or training attack pit bulls. I would rather waste time. Do you think our forefathers worried about conducting a cost benefits analysis after they ate BBQ and lounged around the fire for hours on end, retelling stories of Og the great hunter, having great fun with farting contests and, one imagines, even having already perfected fermentation for delicious beverages? Those guys knew how to take it easy. And why not? The average life span was a few decades, you might as well enjoy yourself and relax. Of course everything must be balanced. Not only do you not want to waste time, but neither do you want to not relax enough. Plus, conspiracy theories are great fun. Don’t take them too seriously and you can have a blast picking and choosing from the unlimited variety of them. Sure, some or all could contain a kernel of truth, but you should still be careful not to get too worked up about them. I take exception to being screwed by the Powers That Be, but I rant and rave and concoct deliciously convoluted theories on their activities, and then it is out of my system for a little bit. You guys really need to enjoy life a little more.

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Brother Creekmore, http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/ , gave me yet another idea to rip off, and I thank him profusely. His article on the mistakes preppers make inspired me to add one to the list. Thinking that you are making an investment rather than just shouldering an additional expense. Commonly made with gold. As in, gold is a terrible investment, earning no interest and giving bad returns in comparison to the stock market. I hope all of you see through that fake logic. Gold is an expense that protects you from inflation, deflation, or any government created theft of the money supply. Period. It isn’t there to “earn” you money. And of course, long term, the stock market will always lose all your money. Gold freezes your purchasing power indefinitely ( I would say the same for silver, as soon there will be no industry and hence no industrial uses for silver distorting the price ). There are those who say you can’t eat gold, but gold is not a food supply anymore than a shotgun is a sniper rifle. One tool does not build a house. Of course there are priorities, food coming way before wealth preservation, but they are separate tools.

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Another misconception/fallacy is the statement that you should stockpile regular food and if nothing happens you can still eat it. While true, this leads one to assume storage food is an investment. No, storage food is an expense. You seal up hundreds to thousands of pounds of wheat and leave them in a cool dry place and they stay there, hopefully for decades rather than months, until you need it. Yes, you should eat what you store. Buy whole wheat flour in the store to supply at least half of your flour for baking. Or grind your own, it doesn’t matter. But you should not dig into your storage food to do it- that is separate. You can rotate and retire, but never touch the stash itself. It is too easy to find excuses and soon you are seriously short. Wheat, stored properly, lasts forever, so you don’t really need to rotate anyway. The other items such as lard that must be rotated must never drop below X amount of units. Don’t promise yourself you will make up the taken items. We lie to ourselves worse than anyone else. And justify much more masterfully.

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While it is true that guns haven’t lost value for over a hundred years, and while true that they will jump in value after the collapse, since you aren’t going to sell them they aren’t an investment. They are simply an expense. I preach minimizing that expense, but I realize most of you are semi sluts. High or low, it is just something that must be bought. Don’t go overboard by fooling yourself into thinking you are investing. That is how you lose money, by thinking you are an investor extraordinaire. You suck, as witnessed by your illusion of slow collapse. I’m not investing for a total collapse, I’m bearing an additional expense to insure against it, so I don’t care if I’m wrong. By making an investment, you are putting yourself into a mindset of needing to be correct. An expense is just another cost of living. Do you see why it won’t bother me if life goes on somewhat normally? Not that it will. But, just in case. The great thing about playing devils advocate is that you can talk yourself into anything. Taking back wife #4, living off grid just to save $150 a month, eating cardboard flavored bread for most meals. I actually amuse myself.

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A house is not an investment, even an off-grid, buried concrete bunker. It is an expense. You are buying shelter. You might be saving your life, but that is insurance, not an investment ( as I write that line, I’m reminded of an earlier article from the Three Amigo’s [http://tslrf.blogspot.com/ ] along similar lines. If I’m ripping them off also, it is unintentional. My subconscious thinking it is being original when it was just memory ). I could go on, but the basic point is that you are engaged in a very expensive hobby. Enjoy it, and don’t confuse its cost with a brilliant investment plan.
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more on refugees

MORE ON REFUGEES


“I, for one, thought "less effect on culture than a fart in a sewer pond" was brilliant. But we expect brilliance here.” The other day in the comments section. Okay, no pressure there. But seriously, shouldn’t you expect brilliance? You put up with my abuse, buy my elongated version of drivel ( e-books ), buy Amazon through my links and buy through Google ads. I am very well supported with such a small readership. To me, this is your vote saying “keep being brilliant or your fickle minions will spend their money elsewhere”. Granted, sometimes I have a slightly off day, but even then I’m still fairy decent. Hey, if you want an author without a swollen ego you are at the wrong place.

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I didn’t realize there was any more crap to be stirred in the Vietnam War pot, but evidently some minions still have strong opinions. I’ll try to add some more fuel, now that you’ve foolishly betrayed your vulnerabilities, but first two asides. One, I loved the response over at http://www.survivalblog.com/ on Thursday in defense of cats as post-apocalypse pets. My own view is that while dogs have some uses, they are still basically big stupid animals that eat too much, then lick their balls for an hour and their ass even longer. I think it was Heinlein who said cats are the perfect anarchists. Dogs are more like the perfect Gen-X couch potato game player with baggy pants who speaks Ebonics even, or especially, if White. Two, a trivia fact for you on Vietnam. Almost ten percent of the casualties were helicopter crash related. And of that amount almost half were from mechanical malfunction rather than enemy fire. Helicopters seem to be the perfect vehicle for swelling support personnel needs and overall costs.

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Okay, back to the book “JFK” for today’s lesson on the dangers of refugees. A good portion of the first hundred pages of the book were devoted to explaining the deliberate creation of the warring parties. I’m still enjoying the book, but be warned that the author really does repeat himself often. I’ve read in one form or another ten times about how the stockpiled logistics for the Japanese invasion were shipped over to Korea and Vietnam after the atom bombs were dropped. Whether this is true or not seems to rest on one conversation with a boat captain, but it doesn’t really matter. It would explain the levels of material support Ho Chi Min got from us in the Fifties. But we were talking of the deliberate creation of tensions to create war, which the military industrial complex benefited from ( my own view is not that those industries bribed Congress to pay them but that the government as a whole realized a continued war footing would permanently starve off a return to the Great Depression, hence the Cold War ). One of the agreements in the peace talks in Paris ( or was it Geneva? ) was that prior to partition into Commie north and US puppet south, anyone that wished to move to the other side was allowed to, and that the US would help transport if possible. While this seems are nice and sunny and “can’t we all just get along-ish”, the CIA had plans that were much more sinister.

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A combination of promises and scare mongering prompted over a million predominantly Catholic peasants to move to the south. The CIA airlifted quite a number of those, a good number boarded US naval ships in northern harbors and some even walked. Once relocated they were effectively abandoned to their own devices. At the same time the newly created southern government told the French to leave immediately. They didn’t really care as they knew the game was up, but it did eliminate the constable force that kept law and order in the countryside. All the ethnic Chinese were told to leave, using the excuse that they were commies ( even if they were several generations living in Vietnam ). The Chinese were the merchant class that traded with the farmers. Now, even though the peasants were mostly self-sufficient ( a lesson is coming up here for you asparagus worshipers ) they had several needs they themselves couldn’t meet. Metal tools, salt, and surprisingly, potable water. Even though surrounded by rice patties there was no drinkable water. This the Chinese merchants provided in return for part of the huge rice surpluses produced. There was even a steady trade in silver for rice, as the peasants store of wealth, another lesson for those that poo-pa precious metals.

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As trade was cut off, and as hordes of penniless refugees descended, the local farmers came under mounting pressure. The refugees were turning to banditry to survive. As the government started to believe the “commie under every rock” rhetoric preached by the Americans ( of course they “believed” it, that brought in money and guns ) they starting hunting for the fabled commies. Granted, there were some that had been sent over with the refugees, but it was a small portion more than likely. The refugee bandits were favored over the local farmers in the game of politics, and in many cases the farmers did turn into the Viet Cong. It wasn’t a case of the communists invading and forcing the peasants to fight, it was a case of the local population being forced out and being forced to fight back by the non-communist invaders ( the refugees lured there by the Americans ). Now, before you get all up in arms here, I am reporting what the book stated. I think it highly probable, as this is the kind of thing the CIA could do without blinking an eye. And it did benefit the other power players, so why not go along?

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The lesson here should be clear. You can avoid being a refugee, have a super duper deluxe fortress concrete bunker and yet still be overwhelmed by refugees. As you are being forced out of your home, please take the time to e-mail me ( if the grid is still up ) and tell me once again how silly I am for living up here in the deserted, frigid, barren, treeless wastes of northern Nevada. The other lesson is that silver is valuable to even subsidence farmers and that potable water supplies must be secure from outside forces ( outside forces include the electricity to run your pump ). Food for thought.
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magical mystical never ending oil

MAGICAL MYSTICAL NEVER ENDING OIL


As a further sign that western civilization is swirling faster down the drain, the quality over at NPR radio is suffering. How hard is it to put out a decent product when the federal government is throwing money at you? Unless you are the post office, and then it is excusable since so much of the top executives are forced to beg for the difference between profit and expense rather than figuring out ways to raise prices like their private company counterparts do. After you take away Lear Jet time, three hour matinee lunches, golf course time and doing a work around to make escort services tax deductible, there are only a few hours left in the work shift. Post Office officials must go to Congressional meetings whereas the private company guys get to take time for mergers and layoff details. Anyway, NPR, despite having money thrown at it, seems to be getting worse at annoying me. I’m not a huge music fan, but when they keep yammering away at peasants suffering in Africa or inconsequential politics ( what is federal level politics other than the fight for a bigger piece of the spending pie, anyway? ) I am forced to change the channel. They did throw me a bone today and interest me with a story on Michigan or Minnesota or some other Yankee state passing a law where public sports teams could not use Native American names. Your state is broke, the pensioners don’t know it yet but unless Obammy picks up the slack they won’t be seeing anymore checks real soon, there is a very good chance that this winter they won’t be able to afford heating oil, but let’s all get distracted over this kind of meaningless PC BS. Sports fans are pretty macho and bombastic, substituting watching ritualized combat for actually doing something out of the easy chair, but I can’t imagine they are doing anything other than paying homage to a warrior ideal by naming their sports teams after Indians. This is a bad thing? Plus, these idiots had their lands stolen, their grandparents were involved in a genocide, they are living in little pockets of crappy land with no value, they have to kiss the white asses that wander into their casinos for some revenue, and the only thing you can get upset about is how insensitive the Caucasians are for being racist? The bastards tried to kill you! How about a little rage over that instead of this non-issue? I don’t know, maybe it’s a minority thing and I just don’t understand.

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And speaking of all things Yankee and weird, Kuntsler was raging against slavery this week in his article. As I’ve said before, I love the guy for his wit and cheeky attitude against SUV worshippers, but I thought he was a lot smarter than me. Yet, here he is with the standard Northern propaganda ploy acting like Yankees never liked slavery and they send hundreds of thousands to die to end the barbaric practice. News flash, not one northern business owner cared at all about freeing the slaves. What they cared about was money and control. And the south didn’t care if they kept slaves or not, per se, but kept the practice going as it paid the bills. I understand the victor writes the history books. What upsets me is when otherwise intelligent people refuse to look at things logically. The truth doesn’t mean you are unpatriotic. You can love your country despite its warts. But lying to yourself means you approve of the same atrocities all over again. Isn’t it a beautiful thing when the subjects of the realm do all your work for you and trick themselves into believing Orwellian nonsense?

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I started reading “JFK” by L Fletcher Prouty last night. I hadn’t expected much but it promises to be a very interesting, well written book. It got me thinking about the Powers That Be, as the opening of the book lays out how those in control planed the Cold War in advance. The military/industrial complex generated the big bucks until after Vietnam. Then the contrived oil crisis of the 70’s, then the paper finances debacle since then ( the book was written in the early 90’s, I believe ). Of course I don’t believe everything I read, although if it is well written and logical I still enjoy it. Another possible connecting dot. What I started wondering was, do the elites know the end is coming? Do they see it? If so, do they believe it is far enough away not to matter? Was the Bush ranch is South America indicative or false flag? Are they just naturally going from the highest profit business to the next, or are they following the course of declining energy ( abundant oil made military stockpiling and restocking profitable, the seventies saw a sell off of our manufacturing to overseas low wage countries, the eighties saw the start of financial manipulations, all working to profit with declining energy )? Of course I have no answers, but I thought it might be amusing to chart a fanciful course assuming those in power are one step ahead of us. You know I’m right if I have a sudden “accident” on my bicycle.

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Let’s just assume that abiotic oil is a reality. It very well could be, and a feasible case could be made for it. Of course, as a loyal minion stated much more eloquently than I could manage, it doesn’t matter if the wells aren’t refilling fast enough. But, perhaps it does matter. Let’s say that the urban legend of all those capped wells is true. Not that they were capped because the flow was too low to pay the operating expenses, but that they were capped to allow the well to refill. Not to be used later to make a paper dollar profit, but to allow those in power to continue to have access to domestic energy after the collapse. What if they do realize that all those piles of paper currency are worthless compared to energy. Remember, it isn’t that Oil is the be all of the coming collapse, it is about having energy equal population. Oil is just the newest energy currency used by empire, whereas before it was excess crops. Of course, to make all this work, the other urban legend, that of planned population die-off, must then be true. Not that those in power must engineer a designer virus, or put too much effort into micro-managing the affair. They just keep on with Business As Usual. Use up all the oil as quick as possible ( the operating, not capped wells ), keep replacing real food with Frankenfoods ( which, in my opinion, is what is killing the bees ), let the infrastructures collapse. The excess population kills itself off as the energy declines. Then, after profiting immensely ( one assumes trading in paper for tangibles, such as artificially keeping gold prices down to stock up cheaply- the rich are notoriously frugal ), they go back to controlling a much reduced population. Which requires a much lower level of oil use. The citizens are farm serfs rather than pampered, energy guzzling consumers that need to be bought off with welfare. In relative terms, the elite still live in luxury, and they nicely survive the collapse they helped engineer in the quest for vast wealth.

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I might be full of crap, but it is a nice “what-if”. An entertaining strategic planning wargame, if you will.

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