Five Minutes to Twelve?

There seems to be enough of Doomsday Scenarios around; I have added my two bits worth in The American Survival Magazine articles of July 2000 and September 2000, where I pointed out the seriousness of our depleting oil reserves, and one thing is sure peace and prosperity is fast becoming a threatened state.

We are now reaching a nexus where energy scarcity, water scarcity, global warming, China's ascendancy, Iran and North Korea's nuclear threats, illegal immigration, and events not noted at the moment, that are becoming unsolvable problems that threaten our present civilization.

Many people are noting the problems but powerful forces exist that prevent solutions to them. Case in point--China is obviously building up a military that is designed to confront the U.S. military. They have already won the economic war; what with Wal-Mart selling billions of dollars of Chinese goods around the U.S. and the world. It is difficult to buy anything in a hardware, department, or other store without finding yourself holding a Chinese item. And our present administration runs interference for the Chinese.

This new effort by the Chinese to be able to knock out U.S. satellites is an obvious shot across the U.S.'s bow. Our technology is our only hope to be able to confront the Chinese and without it, like in the case of our technology being neutralized, we would be hard pressed to enforce our will or protect our country.

This administration has talked a good walk but falls down and stumbles when they have tried to walk the walk. In other words their talk of protecting the American people is just that--talk. They have used all their expertise in holding power rather than using power wisely. This administration has done little for the average American and has seemed to have done its best to represent people who can look out after themselves.

What can we do about it all? Assume some responsibility ourselves by buying less Chinese at Wal-Mart, don't get scammed by clever commercials to buy Hummers and the like, cut back on energy consumption in all forms, nag your congressman or woman to implement reforms and represent your interests and others, be critical of what you hear and see, learn about Propaganda, be a skeptic about what others are trying to sell, and above all if you hear someone say they have the solution that will solve all problems turn a blind eye and deaf ear because there are few if any full solutions to problems.