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If we would come out of the great money loving society, Homeland Security begins at our own home. If we are building a house, make it a greenhouse. Should there be a toxic environment outdoors, there can always be fresh air and whole food indoors. If you have a home that is not a greenhouse, add skylights and an attached greenhouse. Such can heat your house on a Winter's day and not be much threatened by toxic or hostile environment outside. Shade screen and vents can be used in Summer to moderate greenhouse temperature. When you grow your food inside your house, you are justified in having lots of floor space, but you don't need much space if you develop an appetite for sprouts. A floor to ceiling sprouting cabinet, two feet square with three inch deep trays can produce hundreds of pounds of fresh, vital food each week; from dry nuts, seeds, beans and grains. Just add clean water.

In the event of nuclear Winter, oil well fires, volcano eruptions and other calamities, sprouts don't need light or soil, just air and water. You also have stored nuts, seeds and grains for dry use such as cereal, snacks, traditional bean, rice and corn dishes. Store extra of things you like but don't produce. In our little homestead, we eat, no matter the outer conditions, unless it is fire. But we already thought of that and have an excellent fire protection system, inside and out. Blast is the thing that a greenhouse or typical stick house can't withstand. Live where blast is unlikely. Have you noticed that every city is a potential target in war and the greatest destructions take place in them? Sometimes a farmhouse gets bombed, but fewer people live there.

Most rural folks come through wars without a scratch. Rural living is simply safer, no matter what the threat. Government cannot and will not protect any city from attack, any more than it will secure the national borders from invasion. If you prefer to live in a wartime target in a time of war, what do you have a right to expect? The truth of the Homeland Security policy is: we will cross each bridge when we come to it. We will react to close the barn doors when the horses have left. It is public and common knowledge. Grab your plastic sheet and duct tape and wrap yourself in case of emergency. You are responsible for yourself and you have been officially notified of the fact. Have you chosen a good excuse for being a victim? Do you think you will become rich from the loss of family members?

Got neighbors? Will you feed them or shoot them? I recommend feeding them. This is where it is a burden to be a wise pig. A wise pig would have a few month's food stashed, in case his neighbors become desperate. It has been known to happen. Even if we are busy serving the corporate masters, we can find good survival information and purchase survival guides to read in our free time. We can begin by evaluating what are the most likely types of attack, famine or plague we might need to prepare for. Then ask how you would live; what your lifestyle would be, if there was a disruption in food, water, energy, banking, employment, or all, such as people of Iraq and Afghanistan are experiencing. Do you think either government or invaders will take good care of you? The attacks in Oklahoma City and 9/11 were intended to make us question the ability of government to protect anyone against a determined enemy, especially its own paid servants.

If you have made food and water storage a priority, you are two steps ahead of the foolish pigs. If you have begun high efficiency food production and have obtained water purification equipment, you are four steps ahead of the foolish pigs. If you have made a small business of supplying the foolish pigs with survival goods, you have leaped many steps ahead. You will have stock on hand for the majority who, I promise, will wait until the last minute to prepare. For these, you can just about name your price - good old supply and demand. It is a reasonably safe bet you will need to be ready in the next ten years. I would prefer to be ready in five - or yesterday.

There are increasing numbers of ICBMs with nuclear warheads pointed at America. If two or more hostile nations decide to launch, much of the country could be like Afghanistan or Iraq. Portable nuclear devices may have been carefully placed with cell phone detonators as I write this. Do we want to be waiting for humanitarian aid in the aftermath? Look again at Afghanistan and Iraq. How long are you willing to wait in the event of a multilateral invasion of America? It is like viral plagues. You can hope a vaccine is developed for the latest one, or you can take steps to increase your biological resistance to all biological pathogens.

This is the difference between thinking for yourself and depending on government. This is another one of those choices few people realize they have already made. Do you just want to be ready for a chemical attack, or do you want to be ready for any and every lifestyle disruption? Is it better to look at the 9/11 attacks as a one time tragedy, or a sign of bigger things to come? Do you think Al Qaeda is through with Wasington, D.C. or do you see they have unfinished business there? If Washington gets nuked from a few hundred miles off shore, who will tell us to buy plastic and duct tape then? Osama has boats. If he doesn’t have nuclear missles to launch from them, how long before he does? If Osama destroys the Capitol, will Israel destroy Tehran?

As slaves on the great American plantation, we have grown comfortable and too trusting of the plantation managers. We have been shocked to learn our trust was misplaced and abused at a great cost to the general welfare. Those responsible for this welfare have not yet finished their investigations. Investigations that would not be necessary if the responsible had been acting responsibly. Now they are trying to recover that public trust, they will never have again. We should be planning for the changes that alone will create. Central government is a confidence game. When the confidence is lost, so is central government. If we have chosen our lifestyle for the next twenty years, we need to ask if we will be able to support it in a poor world economy.

If not, what do we need to change to adapt it to such an economy? There is more to survival preparation than meets the eye. It helps us make new lifestyle choices, based on something besides corporate climbing and unlimited consumption. Ask how you would like to live if money doesn't buy much or you can't have much with which to buy things. Would you keep your job, your car, your home? Could you keep them if you wanted to? How would you live if you could not keep these things? Now is the time to plan on doing without or stocking up.

People spend a year planning a two week vacation. Few spend two weeks planning their lives. Many believe change precludes planning; because "life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get." Those who have sampled better chocolates know there is a guide in the box cover and they do know what they are going to get. We may not always get what we plan for but when we don't plan, we always get what we did not plan for. One may plan for this and actually be far better off when that happens instead. Planning an independent life always brings unexpected rewards, far in excess of the effort required to implement the plan. What if you gain independence and nothing bad happens? Was it all for nothing? Is independence not a good thing of itself? Will you regret sacrificing your slavery, a career, a business, the treadmill, the rat race that is plantation life? Will you have too much idle time on your hands? Only if you planned for it. Is the typical Western lifestyle worth one tenth what it costs the world?

Planning for an independent, natural, sustainable life, brings far more rewards than planning for a home addition. It helps us to see in steps. Are we keeping one or two freezers full of perishables? What will we do if the power grid goes down for a few days? Will we just accept the loss, or go out and buy an electric generator that might not be there at the store? What if electricity is down for a year? For this, we need to consider the minimum daily electric requirement. Will we have enough clean water stored or will we be filtering and using a 550 watt electric water distiller that makes a gallon every four hours? Will we want to keep a refrigerator or freezer operating? For how long? Will we want electric lights after dark or in dark rooms, or grow lights for starting and growing plants indoors? Do we want two way global communication, or will we settle for a multi band radio receiver that runs on batteries? Even if we have adequate renewable energy sources, a nuclear Winter could block out the sun and calm the air. In such situations a combustion power generator and a stable fuel supply would be good things to have.

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