in de nile

IN DE NILE

Guest article today, scroll down when down with the regular article.
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I finished reading the Rawles recommended Tomorrow When The War Began. I ordered it in November and promptly forgot about it. When it was mentioned again, probably by the new Ball And Chain, I realized I hadn’t seen hide nor hair of the little bastard for two months. I wrote to the seller, got a refund and went back to Amazon to get another copy. Which of course cost more. So instead of a six buck book I got an eight dollar one. Perhaps I felt I had to hate it since I must be contrary in all things, but I doubt it. Perhaps the new and unimproved price soured me. Whatever, I didn’t hate it as much as I was bewildered by it. Was this really a male author writing it? It really sounded like a chick book. The narrator was a teenage female, and boy oh howdie did she just go on and on about feelings and love and potential mates. Oh, he’s so cute. But he’s so smart. Good god, just pick one and get impregnated already. You keep this up and you’ll hit menopause before you lose your virginity. Now, granted, the author is rather talented if he can pull this off. I can’t understand women, and I certainly couldn’t write about them. Well, I guess I could just go on and on about I felt about things and keep changing my mind and I’d come close. Guys are easy- two organs control our behavior and our only emotion is hate. We might feel gratitude after orgasm but we fall asleep too fast to remember, and wake up just wanting more. There is a bit of Red Dawn Down Under to attract the male readers, although at least in the first book it is all exploding gas tanks rather than gunfights. I can only guess this was targeted at teenage fems. Read at your own risk.

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And speaking of Rawles, he is again covering what you should do if there is Internet interference by the authorities, as Egypt has stopped civilian access. My thoughts are that when the Internet is down here, it will stay down. If things get that desperate. If the net is down but the mail is still up, I myself plan on going strictly mail order. Instead of writing every day I’ll just put out a booklet ( e-book on disc ) or two monthly. If you think this is a concern, take a moment to jot down my snail mail address as listed on my web page while you still can ( the 181 Bullion is my mail box, the c/o FISH is just for packages ). I’m not too worried about it- at the most I’ll have to worry about interrupted income. But if the Internet and the mail is down, we are in Game Over and will have more immediate concerns.

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A minion wrote an e-mail and asked what I thought about the Egypt situation and the potential for financial chaos. I made it sound pretty good but in essence my reply was “huh?”. I like being away from the news on the weekend ( no net out at the Compound, and the TV news is worse than no news ), but that does have a downside. Such as not knowing what the hell is going on. I thought the Egypt thing was just riots like in Greece or whatever. No concern here. And the SNL skit on the Egyptian leader was pretty funny but made no impression on me one way or another. Luckily for me I went on over to

http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/

and got the 411 ( future generations will be astounded by our cell phone induced slang ). Egypt itself per se has little bearing on things, but Saudi Arabia is the one to watch. If the royals go, the global economy could crash as Saudi oil is thought to be jeopardized. Read all his posts on the subject- I think there were three or four. I think it would be the psychological aspect of it that crashed things. By itself, Saudi Arabia doesn’t produce all that much oil. A bit more than domestic US production. Yes, it is 10% of the global supply, but look at the US. We’ve taken a 20% hit and are still hanging in there. At most, Saudi Arabia oil, if it improbably ceased all production, would cause global depression but not Lights Out. Okay, we are already in a depression just because the increase of oil stopped, but hopefully you take my meaning. No, the big problem is that serious problems in Saudi Arabia would spell out in detail to the Pollyanna’s that Saudi Arabia is no longer the savior it has been made out to be.

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The big Saudi field that got us through the last oil crunch has been producing for about the maximum life of an oil field. They are water injecting to squeeze the last oil out, plus furiously pumping from offshore to make up for either halted or slowing production in the old field. Matt Simmons told us all about it years ago and we ignored him. To acknowledge declining Saudi production is to undermine the entire fantasy of forevermore oil. Even if the Saudi oil is in no danger of completely running out ( water injection damages a field and you can’t get out the last of the oil ), a political event that endangers production will be a huge blow financially. Finally, no one will be able to deny the Saudi oil can’t keep us Oil Up forever. We are already Oil Down, reclassifying products ( the sand and shale crap ) as conventional oil just to keep the figures up at plateau level rather than showing a decline ( no oil growth means no ability to pay the interest to the bankers ). But just because you and I know we are blued and tattooed oil wise doesn’t mean all the Ponzi suckers out there are wise. They are keeping their faith in paper promises. The Saudi tap will endanger this cozy illusion and the victims will rush to the exits. We can smugly laugh at their follies, but do keep in mind that at the same time the bond market tanks, the food storage companies will be overloaded and freeze orders for six months. And guns and ammo will shoot up again ( get it? Shoot up in price ) as the gun counters are mobbed by panicking Yuppies trying to protect their now liquid assets ( and imagine how the precious metals will go up in price ). And perhaps, not positive but just maybe, the junk land will all be scarfed up. Not because more people got smarter but because a lot more people panicked.

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I’m already experiencing hardening nipples in anticipation of my “Told You So” dance. We might not even have to run out of oil before it all implodes.

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