my deflated ass 2

MY DEFLATED ASS 2

The US has a very long history screwing with Latin America. The colonies had the balls to actually be living in OUR hemisphere ( as did Canada, so it was okay to invade them a few times ), so they were our bitches ( like choir boys to the latest Pope-no offense to Papists, but your current leader is Not Right in so many ways I wouldn't be surprised if he is a diddler ). We also felt we inherited the responsibility from Spain administering them. So it amuses me to hear the ignorance involving Venezuela.

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The US has had a vested interest over the centuries in lying about Latin America, to excuse their intervention. The official word, parroted by most Americans, is that Cuba was an evil communist country, Che was communist ( not anti-imperialist ), Columbia's entire economy is cocaine, Mexico is a failed state and that Venezuela has a gazabillion barrels of oil but screws up extraction because they are also communist. You would think people would rub two brain cells together to get a spark, realizing that former communist Russia is doing better than us right now.

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That perhaps, just MAYBE, the communist propaganda-while mostly true, because that is the best kind of brainwashing-had the primary purpose of masking America's fascism. You know my stand on that. National Socialism ( without the Jew hating-a blind ally of needless effort ) is FAR preferable to communism. Always. But it needs to be directed outwards towards a foreign enemy, not inwards where it has been. Anyway, I don't care if the government lies about foreigners. I just need to know it isn't for the purpose of screwing Americans. And the last thirty years, that is exactly what has been happening.

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It is a subtle distinction. Yes, there was some collateral damage of Americans in the fight against Russia. As long as the excesses were reigned in, that was the price you payed for imperial colonialism. We all benefited economically, and there is no free lunch. The difference now is it has become an internal fractional conflict. But enough of all that. I merely need you to understand I am absolutely no fan of communism. I do however intensely dislike government lies ( any lies, but those are some of the worst ). And I understand that sometimes communism is accepted as a better alternative.

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Chinese communism was a preferable alternative to warlordism, and the revolution succeeded by widespread peasant support ( Russian communism, on the other hand, was just the wrong side in the civil war winning ). Cuban communism was better than an American stooge selling out the country to gangsters and resource exploiters ( whether it was worth it in the long run... ). Why do you think so many African nations embraced Soviet aid in exchange for supporting communism? They had enough exploitation by the French and British ( or far worse, the Belgians. It isn't an accident their only Africa colony is still so screwed up ), and had no need for American ones.

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What does the US call any country in the middle east which won't agree to be occupied and exploited? Terrorists. What does it call anyone else that won't buckle under? Communist. It is a near century old smear ( you'll note that we simply adored communism under the unholy reign of FDR ) that disguises what is really going on. In the case of Venezuela, they were part of OPEC ( only the Saudi's are excused for that, as they towed our line ) and even far worse, they stopped taking the PetroDollar!!!

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The horror. The horror. If a country won't take our worthless currency then how are we to spend far beyond our means, to the profit of our banker bros? Iraq was a day early and rejected the petrodollar, while we still had the economic and military means of crushing them. Venezuela played the game much smarter and cashed out of the dollar when the US could do absolutely nothing except throw a tantrum and call it names. Well, okay, we did conduct a few cyber attacks we had perfected over in Iran, and we cut off most of their refinery capacity, but by and large our attacks were weak and feeble.

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That REALLY pissed us off! How dare some little podunk country defy the worlds bestest nation! We are indispensable. Except when it comes to competing with communist China, it seems. But I won't digress. Venezuela was the target of American wraith. We did do some damage. But now we need to turn to oil. Yes, your favorite subject. Venezuela had been pumping oil for near a century. They were tapped out of true oil, conventional high net energy petroleum. Any proclamations of Ginormous Reserves are on par with those “FIVE Saudi Arabia's under the Utah/Colorado mountains”. Total fantasy horse crap.

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Venezuela does NOT have a communism problem. It has a Peak Oil problem. Sweet Baby Jesus In A Prius! You simply humps would rather be screwed over by our free market globalist corporations than ever admit capitalism is anything other than perfect, blaming everything on a boogeyman like communism, unwilling to ever think the Gott Damn planet is finite and cannot support infinite growth. I can hear you now. “But, Jim, I KNOW resources are finite, silly. Just not in MY lifetime”.

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A survivalist unable to see resource scarcity is like a cult leader who is really an atheist. You are in the wrong line of work. And I hope you are happy here. You FORCED me to take this detour. All this time wasted trying to clear the BS away from you ignoring Peak Oil. Again. If your oil is worth less above ground than below, it has little value in funding real growth which absorbs inflation. Why was gold inflationary for the Spanish and not for the British? Because the British had a coal backed gold supply. The Spanish did not. You need energy behind money. If the Spanish had exported food with that gold, it would not have been as inflationary.

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Tomorrow, back to the economics of low price oil and silver.

( .Y. )

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note: is it just me, or does it seem funny all retail business was curbed/shut down right about when the bank runs started?  The Beer Virus seems to be the perfect excuse to shut down bank lobbies so cash withdrawals are limited to the ATM's.  Well, so long all small businesses, and employment, but at least the banks survived a few extra weeks!
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note: a mail from a minion, with permission to post:
Thanks for the blog.  I found you many years ago, probably after Y2K.  Not sure but I got busy around 2010.  First wife died and I moved to NW FL. Got remarried and the NOL only understood hurricane preparing.  

  Because I was reading you, I took it (hurricane preparedness) to another level.  Then I stumbled on the concept of "retirement storing".  This I could "sell" to the wife.  She could see the concept that in retirement if bad inflation came you could have to decide between meds and food.  We are both old enough to remember the inflation of the 70s.

  As this collapse started I would tell her, we should take extra money and do 

 X,Y,or Z.  Of course the question would be Why?.  I would give my reason and a few days later it would be apparent that I was correct.  She finally told her sister "Just do what he says, he's been right so far about everything."  It would be funny except its not.  We have made our choice about where we live..its not the best but we are not moving.  We do have emergency plans for evacuation, but that means we have to time the exact moment the clock hits 11:59.  As my son said the other day its about 11:56 right now.

Midnight will be here soon, I think before the next presidential election but you know how it is when we start prophesying. 

Thanks for all your rants,

A grateful minion  

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my deflated ass

MY DEFLATED ASS

Oil falls below $30, and silver goes under $12, and suddenly we are looking at deflation? I know economics is The Dismal Science ( well, not really. The idiots hiding central bank culpability just pulled mathematical formula out of their ass, but the basics are easy and require no elaboration ), but in what universe was I transported to where adding half the annual GDP in stimulus is deflationary? Houses could fall 70%, and they would still be overpriced ( especially in Smurf areas ). And “half” might be conservative, as I have no way of knowing the details of the Repo Market scam.

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The central bank keeps putting in $100 billion a day, perhaps a bit more or a little less, but call it an average for near six months. $25 Trillion. How much of that was “forgiven” or kept getting extensions on repayment? We only have what the Fed agreed to share with us. You know, the people lying to us for a century. It took many years for it to come out that TARP was several trillion rather than $700 Billion, AND to add insult to injury foreign central banks received about $18 Trillion. Why is the current Repo Operation aboveboard and on the up and up?

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Please recall the historical function of a central bank. They are given a monopoly of money and credit creation ( if the latest waiver of ANY reserves by retail banks don't scare you, your Ollie-ness is completely out of control ) and in return give the government as much money as can pay the interest on. Zero percent interest means even that restraint is gone and inflation is guaranteed. We'll return to that in a second, but know that central banks are a requirement for successful imperial efforts. Without the funding for mega-projects, the means of acquiring power are lacking.

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I won't get into that, not being pertinent right now. Just understand that inflation is what pays off the old principle. A government can create its own paper, and all of them do, but energy in some form must be secured to stretch out the process in a functioning manner much longer. Energy input slows down the inflationary effects. The problem is that if that energy ( or energy marker ) decreases, all that debt and interest is no longer serviced. Britain's empire had growth of real wealth for a long time, from colonialism. As did ( DID, past tense ) America.

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During a time of the Agricultural Age, England grew as its food supply did. It had nitrates for gunpowder, in abundance. Coal gave it another boost, and the gold from its colonies created finances long past its resource contraction ( gold or silver being a nice energy marker, or substitute. If everyone else wants your precious metals, they trade you products with energy embedded in that ). And I've already told you of America, its world record oil, then its Saudi Arabian oil, many times already. Spain, desperation dumping its gold and silver from South America, just devalued its colonial efforts.

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The point is that economics isn't just finances or markets, it is also resources and geopolitics. China understands this right now, but the US does not. We understood we had to go to war to keep countries from deserting the PetroDollar, but we did so in such a bumbling incompetent manner that we did more harm than good. We are drawing down our capital to enrich a very small group, which allows nothing in maintenance costs.

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One of those infrastructure maintenance costs unable to be maintained was interest payments. Most of the companies on the Dow, and all of the levels of government, and most consumers, had to massively borrow after 2008 to stay in business. Consumers obviously took on way too much debt prior to the housing bubble popping. A lot of the mortgage ATM money was wiped out in foreclosures, but everyone started over with less pay, fewer hours, higher rent ( instead of mortgage payments ) and then higher medical insurance. That sector, in other words, could only borrow so much.

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Corporations had far lower interest payments than the populace binging on credit cards and auto/college loans. All three sectors which have been seeing very high delinquencies. BEFORE the Beer Virus. The corporations cut payroll to make their loan payments. Which cut back on the ability of their customers to spend money. Governments just kept raising taxes, but also drawing down THEIR seed capital ( pensions were a nice piggy bank ). In case anyone missed it, the last decade has been everyone screwing everyone just to survive. There was no “thrive”, and frankly I'm astounded anyone thought so.

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If you mean that people and organizations have borrowed way past their ability to ever pay back any of the loans, then yes, the illusion of prosperity was there for all to glory in. And I'm not necessarily saying this is, individually, a bad thing. When one entity receives a bag of free money, one is a fool to return it. The problem was that everyone got a bag of free money. I don't mean, a problem as in inflation. I mean, a problem in that the increased income was a one time offer, to mask falling income, and now everyone has even less than before.

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Peoples income is not enough to pay the interest on their loans. And by people I mean all consumers, companies and governments. Eliminating the interest does nothing if they then cannot even pay back the principle. Now you cannot provide the bankers income needed to loan money to everyone who needs more loans to substitute for lost income. Do you see the feedback loop here? Without money circulating, and I mean money backed by something like real oil growth, you only have Zimbabwe/Venezuela inflation left. And before your little pea brain screams out, “oil reserves, communism=Venezuela”, just stop. Don't embarrass yourself. We'll start there, continued tomorrow.

( .Y. )

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different this time, honest

DIFFERENT THIS TIME, HONEST

A kind minion gave me an article idea, bless his pea picking heart. When were the other times I thought the end was nigh and why do I think it is for real this time? I used to joke around, saying The End Is Here, whenever something too good to be true happened. “Child support ends in July, the collapse will happen in August”. That kind of thing. It was waiting for the other shoe to drop. But seriously, I've been very worried twice before. Surprisingly, one WASN'T during the Cold War.

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Prior to 1977, I was too young to worry or even know about the threat of nuclear war. I started out reading fiction, not reference. After that date, we were living right outside Vandenburg Air Force Base, so it would have been over before we knew it. As a young adult I was mostly in the military until just before the Soviet Union fell. And in the military, well, how much can you determine your own destiny? I was either at Target Zero, or destined to be cannon fodder. The times as a civilian I thought one years food was sufficient.

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So, I didn't worry for the next ten years. I had my dozen buckets of wheat and some guns. I was a prepper who thought he was a survivalist, and even was cheeky enough to believe I could write about the subject. To be fair to myself, others seemed to place value in whatever drivel I was vomiting. Then, Y2K reared its ugly mug. This was the first time I was actually really worried, the more I read. The closer the date loomed, the more desperately I stockpiled. Until, just a month or so away, I figured I couldn't prep much any more.

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Yet, it wasn't too much longer past the failed to appear disaster that Peak Oil became a topic of concern. Studying for Y2K woke me up to a more systemic failure issue, and the energy issue was making sense to me. I think I was actually so focused on that, the looming real estate bubble didn't catch my attention immediately. When it did, I was off to the races diligently studying both energy and economics ( my economics studies during the 80's was Austrian, and more a philosophy than anything long term useful ).

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I was even MORE worried than during the run up to Y2K, because the more you know, the more you need to be very afraid. I panicked more, the more I studied. This was WORSE than nuclear war ( in my mind, but at this time I knew too little about human die-offs from climate change, and didn't factor in nuclear winter ), as it hit everyone and everywhere, the lack of energy or a functioning economy. Coming up on Y2K, I moved to Florida specifically for that concern ( Florida in the winter is usually still flip-flop weather, you just don't sweat as much ). Now, 2008, I knew I needed my own land to avoid the issues of the bankers collapse.

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When 2008 DIDN'T spell the end, I was even MORE worried. Why? Because the cheapest rent living in the city had been an RV lot, and you cannot store enough food in an RV. Not for an actual apocalypse. I was also renting a storage spot for the Hippie Bread Van, but I only had so much wheat in there ( it being a V6 ). I knew I wasn't Honest Injun really prepared, and the sword was hanging over my head the entire time. That is why I never let up on prepping like mad until very recently.

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Y2K and 2008 were the two times I moved locations specifically to prep, and also went all out in stockpiling. I was worried and anxious the whole time. I lived like a barbarian to free up every spare dime to supply. What did I do differently this time? Nothing. I was still prepping from a concern of a 2008 complete energy and financial collapse. I did not for one second think fracking was going to be viable. I didn't think, well, 2020 is it. I was ALWAYS thinking this was the last year of normal, ever since 2008.

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This is not to say every year didn't bring extra proof of extra vulnerabilities. It did. Which just poured gasoline on the fire under my ass. As soon as I heard of the September liquidity crisis bail out bleeding into October, I knew we were done financially. And as soon as I read from a if-anything-cautious-with-conclusions source that Fracking Fuel had peaked in production, I knew we were hosed energy wise. The Beer Bug? That was just the fire accelerant.

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I can't say, “it's different this time”, because to me, this isn't “another time”. This is just a continuation of the 2005 Peak Oil, which was a shoe in come 1972 once we confirmed my beautiful boy Hubbert's US Peak Oil. To me, this is more of a sense of wonder that we actually are going to beat the 2030 Olduvai Theory timeline. And, let us not forget my Lizard Brain full volume klaxon alert. I'm just as worried as I was in 1999 and 2007, if not more so. Yet, this time, I'm really, really, full on prepared ( I know, no food production. That was the sacrifice I made in 2008 to gain immediate safety, on a severely limited budget ).

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If I'm prepared enough for Instant Dark Age ( just add food distribution failure ), yet I'm still anxious as hell, to me this is my Lizard Brain telling my Monkey Mind that he is a schmuck and doesn't know what he is talking about and that it is Full Retard Panic time. My Lizard Brain, him I trust. Not so much my hive mind, or anyone else who isn't sharing my danger for my body. Of COURSE I could be wrong. It is assured you always get something wrong, without complete information. And that is okay. I've been wrong before and it hasn't embarrassed me in the slightest. Better egg on your face than no face, after a gaping bullet wound.

( .Y. )

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note: Flick Connections has a video on the twenty Netflix apocalypse movies to watch which are apropos during Beer Virus.  HERE .  The ones I've watched that I thought were good: Carriers, How It Ends, Here Alone, Cargo, Bushwick, It Comes At Night, Ravenous, Kingdom and Train To Busan.
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30cent 9mm

I don't know if it's the best, but it is the best I've seen:
From PSA HERE 

looking for a lunatic

LOOKING FOR A LUNATIC

You may be right. I may be crazy ( but it might just be the lunatic you're looking for-Billy Joel, ladies and gentlemen. He'll be here all week ). I'm here to panic so you don't have to. And what did another pop culture icon advise us on? That's right, they hump you in the drive-thru. Now that everyone is closing retail, now that they have the excuse after years of failures from lack of customers ( whose money went directly to the bankers via rent and medical insurance inflation ), your only option before supply interruption is going through the drive-thru.

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Where they hump you. This isn't a two week hiatus, people. This is the actual humping. It is almost indecent, the haste that all these businesses grabbed unto the excuse to curtail services. If it isn't Beer Virus, it is the lack of personnel loading up the semi trucks to get product to the retail points. If it isn't lack of supply it's the inability to make loan payments. Let us revisit our Dear Leader Shrub. “This suckers going down”. You want to believe that a recovery is a mere weeks of money printing away, like in 2008. But the only thing that failed then was a few derivatives contracts. It was digital. Analog is failing this time folks.

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Actual crap you need to run an economy. Like food. Like chemicals to the water supply to disinfect. Like your favorite fracking fuel. Look, the bankers staged a coup a century ago, with Devil Incarnate Woodrow Wilson, the third worst President ( after Centralist Lincoln and Communist FDR. Not as good as Imperialist Teddy, or Kenyan Obammy ) ever. Ever since that time, more and more of the economy has come under their control. For 35 years the economy shed manufacturing and embraced financialization ( merely making money with money, nothing produced ).

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This is THE end of that. You can all hold dear to the hope that this is just another screw job by the Federal Reserve. You can grovel at the bankers feet begging for another decade of living as a debt serf, if they only, Please Sir!, won't take your genetically modified corn bread and your diversity is our strength sports ball circus away. I may be crazy, but I also might be right. How do you go bankrupt, Mr. Hemingway? Slowly, then all at once. How does a civilization collapse? Slowly, then all at once.

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You must understand that the President does not work for you. Okay, sure, fine, Trump doesn't need anyone else's money. Now. But he sure did in the 1990's, to avoid bankruptcy, and he was bailed out by the Red Shield. He owes them, they own him, and like every other President, there is dirt on him as a control mechanism. Even if you don't believe me, look at what he does, not at what he says. He is the puppet for the monied interests. What is he doing right now? Doing whatever it takes to keep the economy going.

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NOT keeping people alive. The only reason airlines full of Corona-Chan shock troops isn't needed is because of those 300k Chi-Com fifth columnists University students already seeded the whole country. Then, Don't Test Don't Tell gave it enough time to get everywhere else from the Smurf Enclaves ( it probably wasn't deliberate, although it could have been. My vote is on everyone's attention being focused on the imploding economy. Yes, Dear Minions, the economy has failing BEFORE Beer Virus. Remember, the pin that popped the bubble ).

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If it had JUST been the economy, or JUST been a medical emergency, we would not be spinning apart right now. But it is the Derivatives, the Debt, the Leveraging, the Chinese Logistics, AND just as a sprinkle on the Shat Sundae, Beer Virus. All added together. This ain't your grandpappies banker engineered recession. This is a systems failure, where each node failing starts the next node on its merry way in the same direction. This ain't your Grid Down Lights Out instant emergency, this is the worst possible way of collapse. No supplies available, the government still in charge, no income. You will eat your seed corn waiting for the real total collapse.

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The only good part is that this cannot last all that long. The military and police have to eat as well, and they are Just In Time Inventoried like everyone else. And if they move in to “help” move the food to market, don't bet on it. That is both a “do NOT panic, all is well” bullspit feels good statement AND a move by the gov to secure all those supplies for themselves. Let us remember that last years crop numbers were never resolved adequately. We could have gotten dingus all harvested and stored, for all we know. See what relying on official news does?

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If the food supply was endangered PRIOR to Beer Virus ( and I'm NOT saying it was, just that it is a possibility ), the replacement supply chain could have been compromised before everyone got sick. The mass panic to stock up for two weeks of quarantine might have actually completely cleared the system of supply. The wholesalers never had mass purchases. If anything, restaurants were already losing business. Jobs were already being lost. It isn't JUST the virus. I know, it is hard to relax now. Hard to not soak in the minutia of panic and despair. But it WILL be either resolved very quickly, or fall apart even faster.

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This is what systems failure looks like people. There is ZERO redundancy here. No redundant supply, or cash, or jobs, or unemployment funds. The system was set up for growth. NOT decline. This sucker is already going down. Don't be in denial, trying to bargain with it. Accept. Embrace. Enjoy.

( .Y. )

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why business closures?

WHY BUSINESS CLOSURES?

Most people are asking themselves, why are all these businesses closing down? There are just a few confirmed cases, because of Don't Test Don't Tell, and a virus rarely conducts a headcount ( hat tip, Aesop ) so any crowd size restrictions are arbitrary. Plus, we don't need masks according to the brightest bulbs that they can find to slap in front of the camera. I know they are lying to quell panic. You know they are lying. Ross Perot, even with hearing impaired from six feet of dirt covering him, knows they are lying.

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Here is my question. You are supposedly a highly trained medical type person, if you are working for the WHO, the CDC or the Surgeon General's. Why would you lie? If they threatened you with firing, and the disease was Ebola Two, you would speak out anyway. Supposedly. You know, that oath to first do no harm. As usual there would be the 10% of flaming idiots who just mouthed the words, but most folks actually believe the sacred meaning of oaths. Hell, I didn't pay much attention to mine, joining the military. But I still believe it means something.

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I look back in irony, as the Federal government of my youth was still corrupt and had itself ignored the document I was swearing to uphold ( just not as badly as today ), but that will eventually come back to bite them in the ass. They were in essence having us sign a contract they were not abiding by, to protect an empire they had no business holding ( no foreign entanglements ), and to protect the document would literally mean we are obligated to punish the party in default. Like all the rich and privileged everywhere, they assume the peasants are too stupid to be a bother or a worry.

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So, I'm going to believe that 90% of doctors actually want to uphold their oaths. I might be naive, but I cannot dismiss all of humanity as unworthy and write them off, too cynical to live among my kind. The information they were given is either faulty, or they are under national security gag orders, or there are plenty of employees crying out in alarm but silenced. Or, while easily caught, the virus isn't as deadly as worse case assumptions. I might be missing an obvious one, but I think that mostly covers it.

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The internal propaganda might have them actually believing the initial claims, that the economic disruptions would actually be far worse than the disease. If they actually believed “the flu is worse, bro”, no one would feel the need to whistle blow. And really, yes, a case can be made that the yearly flu is far worse. For all we know, all these medical types are sitting around scratching their heads wondering why in the name of God everyone is panicking. From a detached emotionless viewpoint, this really IS a nothing burger.

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But these scientists and administrators are not historians or economists. They cannot possibly know ( the curse of specialists ) that pandemics of equal or even lower severity than normal do far more damage at the end of empire than during its reign. Hell, even my minions reading here don't all agree this is End Times, unable even to accept Peak Oil. So can NON survivalists be expected to take any of that into account? And none of them are probably aware of the economics that accompany resource depletion. They are too busy remembering the Latin names of germs.

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So, if the scientists are ONLY going by the immediate medical effects of Beer Bug, because in reality it is no where near as dangerous as Ebola or Spanish Flu, why are corporations panicking? Corporate drones are far more retarded than the worst bought off bad scientist turned administrator. Well, there are exceptions, like Bezos. That little bald humper is one smart cookie. He didn't panic weeks ago and sell off his stock. No, he steadily sold it off a bit at a time over the last ten years ( or whatever ). But he was one of a few.

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Corporates should NOT be panicking, as they merely should tow the public line of WHO and CDC and their ass will be covered. Except that the WHO finally called this a pandemic, after waiting forever. THEN the companies started closing down public access. Corporations do not care how many people it kills or sickens. They only care about money. Which is why they also waited this long. Once WHO declared a pandemic, now they could be sued by anyone getting sick on their property. The hooker and blow fund was endangered.

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Then their butt buddy Trump promises government relief to business for lack of business. So, now they COULD reopen. The cost of being sued would be under the cost of lost business from closing. EXCEPT! Customers had already voted, long before Trump's people proposed a bail-out to corporations. Herd behavior had set in and too many people were staying home. Oh, you'll see video of all the clueless idiots still shopping and being tourists. But too many people stopped going on flights or to theme parks. The companies had ALREADY been in economic trouble.

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BEFORE Bat Beer Bug, the economy was a dirty nasty hunk of offal. Business was already way down. As soon as less customers became a trend, far better to drastically cut expenses. Just as we cannot understand how a retailer saved money by closing a store, it is hard to wrap your head around “Disney saves money by closing the park”. Yeah, it cost more in operating expenses. In this case, some business is NOT better than none. SOME business costs too much. It is cheaper to cut expenses than to gamble on making a profit.

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The customer is always right, and customers don't want to get sick. And WHY? Because everyone is so strapped for cash ( 40% of Americans don't have $400 for an emergency, 70% don't have $1k ) they cannot afford to get sick and not work. The consumers were ass raped for the last dozen years as the banks extracted more and more wealth out of the economy, and now there are no more consumers because to consume is to bankrupt after sickness. People are not afraid of Beer Virus, they are afraid of homelessness.
[ addendum-even JUST writing this three days ago I'm still obsolete.  Now the government is forcing lots of people to become unemployed.  Interesting how this one is going to work out ] 

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WHAT YOU BROUGHT TO THE PARTY 3

( post 2 today )

Sweet Jesus up to his knees in this crap tsunami ( per Aesop, the S-6 Chart. S1 crap show-the S stands for something else than “crap”-S2 crap circus, S3 crap Mardi Gra, where we are with Beer Bug, S4 crap riot, S5 crap tsunami, the 10 plagues of Egypt, and S6, crap apocalypse, Noah's Flood ), every two days whatever I just wrote is already obsolete. What can you even buy right now? This morning as I write this ( no, I STILL want to post a week in advance. What if I am down for days sick?-but, want in one hand ) yesterday's “rumor” of ammo shortages is confirmed by a visit to the SG Ammo web site.

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No Wolf or Tula ( hmm, look at that! Once again, a guardian angel always lighting a fire under my ass as I bulk bought last Fall ). The 223 isn't too bad yet, you can still buy 38 or 40 cent rounds ( again, by the time you read this, everything will have changed ), but good luck finding that price for 9mm. Yes, correct, 9mm is now in such short supply it is selling more than carbine ammo. Yeah, what about a “pistol” barreled AR upper? LOL. Okay, this is how crazy it is. All the 303 British steel cased is sold out! AFTER the war, guns started being made with better tolerances and steel case was okay.

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Guns before that needed the case to swell and seal the chamber ( which is why you get a slight gas escape in a Mosin-Nagant using steel case ammo ). I would NEVER use steel case in my precious Lee-Enfield, THE last best battle rifle. No, semi's are not in my mind as good of a design, as they all followed the Nazi manufacturing methods, sheet metal and plastic. You want a REAL rifle to survive the apocalypse, hard wood and steel are needed. And those horse cavalry calibers, because they are far more suitable for homemade reloads using not quite factory standard components.

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This is a trend I've noticed these last couple of weeks. The cheapest products all went first, and they are what is being fought after. I personally think that Costco is a huge rip off, even without factoring in the membership fees. I noticed, before Wal-Mart stopped being the Low Price Leader after 2009 or so, that Wally generic small packs were cheaper per unit than Costco huge packs. I never returned. But the perception is that they are cheap, at least to the Yuppie Scum who don't go to Wally.

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So they got hammered first. Then Wal-Mart ran out of toilet paper ( prior to the food runs ). Next, Family Dollar was out of their very cheap TP ( superior to Wally in price and quantity ), but had all other kinds of TP, the brand names. Only the cheapest disposable batteries were bought out. Returning to an old theme here, people simply don't have much cash on hand. And a LOT of people use credit cards to pay daily bills like utilities. So, with half of the population unable to come up with $400 for an emergency, and the other half with maxed out credit cards, only the cheapest products were targeted.

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What else could people do, with the resources they had? This gave us a small amount of time to go buy the more expensive items at the crappy stores almost everyone but Seniors avoid ( looking at you, Albertson's ). I imagine those are stripped bare about by now also. I guess it is a very good thing indeed a lot of us were a lot worse off financially than Make 'Murica Great Again Trump was willing to admit ( sorry, but if your greatest claim to fame is Better Than Hilary, the bar has lowered so far being President doesn't mean much anymore ), or the supplies would have disappeared weeks earlier.

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So, baring a miracle, and I simply don't see that happening but I pray I'm wrong-for all the good a prayer does from an agnostic-the retail stores are pretty close to no longer being an option. I really did NOT see Wal-Mart being completely wiped out of dry foods ( the video's I see also saw refrigerated meat gone, but on my last visit there I didn't look to see ). I thought the China Mart section would be emptying and the food section, minus a few items as normal from unexpected outages, would stay full. I really dropped the ball on that one. Which just goes to show you that no plan survives first contact with the enemy.

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I was saying, gee, wonder if Wally can stay open just selling food. Now? Now I'm wondering if Wally stays opens weeks from now, let alone months. You might think, they have volume on their side and secure the food before anyone else, or even contracts. But I see the issue now as being huge empty stores with too many people working there, and the end of the volume shopping that made that possible. Before, okay, perhaps they survive as a grocery store. Now? How? If your food is wiped out the minute the semi pulls away, customers mobbing the stocking cart before the cases are even open, what sales sustain the store the rest of the time?

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Now, granted, I'm linear thinking here. Something could happen, like the federal government freezes mortgage payments and compensates owners ( hello, even more hyperinflation than the repo market bail out is going to bring ). But at the current series of events, customers with paychecks and nothing to buy, I can't see the limited and probably rationed per store restocking having a chance of keeping up with demand. If everyone had lost their job FIRST, it might have been a different story. 

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