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Well, there goes another reader. I do have a talent for pissing off my minions, who then are no longer loyal. Which is why my reader numbers never advance much no matter how bad the economy gets. Hey, is it my fault federal judges are evil asshats? I didn’t force them to jail people for victimless crimes. If the Nuremburg trials didn’t allow the defense of “just doing my job”, why do we think it is okay to act in that manner. If the Nazi’s were held accountable for their crimes, so should our federal judges. You might fear I’ll make the logical jump to condemning law enforcement, but ease yourself. The job of a cop allows flexibility. If so minded, they can remain largely peace officers rather than robotic law enforcers. They can be evil, but most are not. Judges, by the very nature of their work, start and stay evil ( they are enforcing mandatory sentencing and obstructing jury rights as a matter of course ). If you want bland reporting of the apocalypse, almost any other writer will strive to be inoffensive. I’d rather piss off and lose a hundred readers as long as one person learns to think past all the propaganda. It just might save their live one day.

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Why is it that I keep getting my global crop failure news from a non-survivalist, less paranoid economics website while all the doom and gloom ones trail behind in their reporting? At least I have an excuse, working a full time job to meet the bills and commuting up to two hours a day. And no Internet access at home. I can’t stay on top of the cutting edge. Ure, over at http://www.urbansurvival.com/ once again scoops the news. Corn is down 5% from last year, domestic production ( and remember, stockpiles are pretty much a thing of the past as they have been drawn down over the last ten years to both cover crop failures and meet increasing population ). Soybeans down 1%. But, here’s some happy news for you. Remember all the hoopla about record US crops to compensate for the other global growers seeing loses? Then why is our wheat crop down 11% from 2008? You get tired of me saying it, I get tired of reminding you. Get your grain supply while you can- the age of cheap, subsidized, oil surplus grain is coming to an end.

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I forgot for some time, but a minion brought up wasp spray as a defense and I finally remembered to pass it on. Now, granted, any defense measure might be construed as a reason for the public defender to throw you in jail rather than your attacker, lawyers being scum of the earth second only to my ex-wife may her black putrid soul fry in hell for all eternity like a pork rind, but surely this will invite the less rabid response. Wasp spray is well pressurized and can give you critical distance. It is also quite cheap compared to bear spray. And should do about as well of a job giving your attacker pause. Be it dogs or humans. Use at your own risk, but at least the risk should be greatly reduced.

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I’m usually skeptical about One World Order panics. Our political boundaries are shrinking, not expanding. Not because of trade or Internet connections but because of the decline in oil supplies. Central authority needs to project power to all corners of its domain, and if travel is more expensive, borders shrink. Sound credit, a solid money supply and other economic factors also come into play. Without a working trade system, everyone shrinks down into itself. I also take panics about centralizing US despotic power with a grain of salt. Short term, yes, we will see an increase in centralized federal power. Long term, the US will fracture and break up. So yes, a police state and dictatorship will happen, but at least it won’t last any longer than oil imports. And if we are down to 1930 levels of petroleum use in twenty years time, and imports are 70% of our total, and we lose imports at 8% a year, how long do you think our economy/empire is really going to last? I’ll be too old to effectively fight the forces unleashed during the collapse, but not too old to die of natural causes prior to that. Just my damn luck. Unless I’m hopelessly skeptical and there actually is room temperature fusion given to us by Roswell aliens and the Feds are waiting until we all die off to start over again with a lot less people polluting the air with their emissions ( does Al Gore get saved, or has he served his usefulness? ).

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I remain skeptical also about the effectiveness of expanding quasi-police forces unleashed by the feds. The TSA is a sick and pathetic joke. Of course, so is the ATF, but their very impotence makes the individuals that much more violent and savage. But there is a very good reason why the TSA might vastly expand and harass us at every turn. They just might be the very thing needed to drastically curb our travel. The whole horror show will be draped in the acceptable rhetoric of security, but I believe the primary purpose will be to stop us from traveling. If commuting and travel are the primary uses of petroleum currently, and if oil supplies keep declining, then the obvious target to free up that oil for agriculture and the military is travel restrictions. But the problem is that folks won’t give up travel. It is part of the American Dream And Birthright. People will willingly subject themselves to life threatening doses of radiation to exercise their right to air travel. And to give up their car, with its unrestricted use is unthinkable. Even 30k fatalities a year from drunk driving, and East German levels of police terror at random road blocks fail to stop our rabid use of the roads, blindly driving as we stuff our pie hole full of deep fried lard, applying makeup or using an electric shaver, busy texting a friend telling them what we are doing.

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Before the general public will drastically curb travel, they must come to fear and loath the TSA more than they fear giving up their cell phones and SUV’s. Expect TSA check points at the Greyhound bus station, with shoot outs involving the inevitable crazy homeless guy. Expect roving freeway check points with drug sniffing dogs ( with the inevitable agent planted marijuana oil smear inside your trunk to “alert” the K9 ). Vehicles will be impounded faster than they can buy up parking lots. The drug charges might be dropped, but if enough people lose their cars ( but still owe the bank for it ), real panic and terror will be generated. Expect gun liberal areas to be heavily harassed until the inevitable shoot-out, Billy Bob’s horse crap smeared pick-up riddled with a hundred and seventeen 9mm holes. Expect inner-city road blocks, lasting long enough to create widespread congestion. Make enough folks late enough for work and the herd might start going with public transportation ( in a hilarious related note, our local bus service received a whopping $1,500 in revenue last month. They have no idea how to make up the difference, and even 15 to 1 federal grants are not enough to pay the bills. I guess those whiny bitches in their wheelchairs are going to have to roll along under their own power soon ).

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Expect gas prices to go up. Supply and demand. But I doubt new taxes, other than token local ones, will be added on. The public still must keep the illusion of freedom of travel. Until they decide for themselves that travel is too dangerous. And the TSA is just the agency to help make up their minds.

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