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Americans prepare for disaster
Published: 14 April, 2010, 00:06
Edited: 15 April, 2010, 08:47
Although world leaders are addressing the nuclear threat, some Americans feel that loose nukes coupled with the state of the economy make the world a scary place and they need to be ready to fend for themselves.
Soooo! The big scare for this month is 'The Nuclear Threat'.... Boo! very scary. Last year it was the non-existent 'Pig Flu' before that it was, er, Terrorism, Dirty bombs, Anthrax, yada yada yada. Yawn, I'm going for a nap, wake me up when our 'Leaders' have something meaningful to say.
"Be scared, be very, very scared" worked to win American public support for Bush's insane invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama has his own version with the "nuclear threat". The so-called "terrorists" are a God-sent blessing to those Americans who want a pretext to invade other nations, or manipulate them to do their bidding. I am disappointed that the Russian Federation went along with the latest Obama charade. Medvedev has to be careful that he does not become a fly in Obama's spider web.
Collapse of USA is an illusion. This is just a show for the public. Of course there are foreclosures, of course there are people getting unemployed, but this is far from being collapse of USA. All this is just a hoax in order to DISARM Russia. Drastic cuts are being made not just in nuclear arsenal, but also in conventional as well. Huuuge cuts are being made in the number of tanks, Russian army is alienated from the Russian PEOPLE (the so called "professionalization" of the army). There is also talk on the drastic cuts in the number of submarines, drastic cuts in the number of personnel... Russia is being disarmed, and all these fake stories about "collapse" of USA are made merely in order to ease disarmament of Russia. Russia is not controlled by the Russians but by the NWO agents. Russians will lose their national state if they do not act.
Tony: You said it right: Government has been left without fresh ideas and all they can say is "a Boo-oo-oo". The situation is however worse than it might seem at the first glance, for that "Boo-oo" technique in conducting policy is not only what the US Government (media) does, but it is widely used all around the Globe. For instance, here in Serbia we all feel "Boo-oo"ed for the variety of reasons. Do not even like to watch TV news anymore, for it is all about threats (here, there, everywhere). Cheers!
I never heard of the word "Preppers." Most of the people I know do not worry about an attack. We do know that we are vulnerable to attack. We know that there are people with other ideologies that don't value this life and want to bring themselves to the next life with as many people that they can take with them. Any age or sex would be accepted into their plans I think most people in the country at least are aware that we are vulnerable. I have never seen nor heard online from a friend or relative whether from this area or the world that has taken the possibility of an attack or economic collapse to a point in which they have done anything at all to prepare for a disaster. Therefore "Preppers" must be just a small group of extremists. But we are all aware that anything could happen.
"Preppers" are not necessarily right wing or left wing, nor do they all hate Obama or want to become tax protesters. "Prepping" has come in and out of fashion several times for the past century. I have a 1970s reprint of the book "Five Acres and Independence" that was originally published during the Great Depression. The book was popular again in the 1970s when we had a sharp recession. There was another episode of "survivalism" and "prepping" during the years right before 2000, when the computer scare and the millenium scare combined to persuade a lot of people to buy land out of town. Now we have tough economic times again and a lot of people are getting thrown out of their homes and out of their jobs. "Prepping" is back in fashion.