For those who know me and aware of what I have written in the past, please understand the gravity of the following statement, this is arguably the most important article I have ever written. For those who do not know me, please devote the next ten minutes of your life to reading the following article in its entirety because it may ultimately make the difference between life and death, for you and your family. I am not here to fear monger, or over sensationalize. I am presenting the absolute truth of our reality, and at anytime you feel I am being misleading or have skewed information, I highly urge you to research the information on your own.

The ship is sinking, and you are must realize it now before it is too late. The actions and decisions you make in your immediate future are going to be the ones that decide if you sink or swim. If you downplay the urgency of the message presented, you could find yourself in a hole too deep to dig out of before long. Many will die, and you do not have to be one of them.

An important distinction
Predictions and Prophecies. How many times in life have you heard the phrase, or said the phrase “Geez, if I knew what I know now, back then, I would be rich!”. And isn't that the first thing people assume they would do if they could travel back in time? If I had a time machine, I would go back and buy Google stocks! The truth of the matter is that knowing the future gives you many ways that you can prosper.

But of course there is no way to know the future.. right? Everyone simply got lucky, right? Those who invested everything into those long shots, like google, or gold, and struck it rich - simply got lucky. I believe this had nothing to do with luck, these people simply had more knowledge than others, and believed in that knowledge enough to act upon it. Many, many, people were told to invest in Google, or into gold (examples only), but the vast majority didn't. Though they were given the knowledge, they did not act upon it.

Or on the other side of the knowing the future coin, what about the people who predicted the dot com bubble? The mortgage bubble? The credit crisis? Did all of these lunatics just get lucky?

Certain intangible laws exist that drive very specific patterns in human nature and life in general. These people who got lucky didn't get lucky at all, they literally knew the future because the path is absolutely predictable. Humanity has a very terrible case of Amnesia, we so quickly forget the failures and misfortunes of the past, and systematically repeat every mistake over and over again. The only ones who prosper, every single time, are those who are aware of what is coming.

The information and assumptions here-in are not darts that have been wildly thrown towards the board. They are assumptions and beliefs built on the observation of history, and the actual realities of the current global situation. I have nothing to sell you, I simply believe the time for action is now.

Today is a time unlike any other in the past, and we sit on the edge of the what could be the largest mass extinction of humanity in history. The good news? You do not need to be a part of it.

Oil
What do we do with oil? The first thing that most people think of, is that we use it for gasoline. Though that is correct, what most people don't understand is that producing fuel accounts for less than half of what we actually use oil for.



So without oil, ships quit crossing the ocean, the trucks stand still on the highway, and your car sits idle in your driveway. But on top of all that, practically all commercial manufacturing stalls. Insecticide and fertilizer production stalls, and with that so does commercial food production. Look around your room, how much plastic do you see? No plastic, no electronics. No plastic, no food packaging and on and on and on. Quite literally, without oil, the world grinds to a halt.

Once one realizes how much is needed from oil, they must then understand that at this point no other substance could replace it for us fast enough to make a real difference in our immediate future. Between now, and then, this world will transform so much that it will seem foreign to today.

Understanding Peak Oil
In 2000 the Bush Administration setup the National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG), under complete control of then Vice President, Dick Cheney. It's minutes and records were kept a secret, except 7 pages which were obtained through lawsuits.

This group already knew of and understood the extreme risk of Peak Oil. The 7 pages make it quite clear that the group was interested in where oil was, who owned it, and how much there was.

To understand peak oil, imagine a graph. Oil production in the last hundred years has steadily increased creating a peak in the graph. But now we have passed the peak and are on the decline. The United States reached its peak production in 1970. World wide, not one reserve has been found to be near as large as the largest in Saudi Arabia, the Ghawar Field
Reserve discovered in 1948. All the easy to find oil has already been plundered.

So now not only do we have less oil, but it's becoming harder to find. In the past drilling for oil could produce 200 gallons at the cost of one. Today, that ratio has declined sharply and companies find themselves spending hundreds of millions before producing one barrel. How much of that money do you think is spent consuming oil, in the pursuit of oil?

Iraq
One of the solutions that was apparently suggested by the NEPDG was the invasion of Afghanistan and then Iraq. Afghanistan for the pipe lines, and Iraq for the Oil. There has never been any evidence that Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 911. 911 was simply a precursor to allow the invasion.

The fact of the matter is that we never planned on leaving Iraq. Beginning in 2004, construction of 3 of the largest military bases on earth began in Iraq. As well as the construction of the largest Embassy complex on earth, surpassing the size of the Vatican. All while the oil supply is seized and pillaged. But even with the theft of this oil, it is no where near enough to satisfy the American thirst.

Oil for Food?
Long gone are the days of crop rotation and responsible farming. In the day of Monsanto mutant seeds, and thousands of fertilizers and sprays, the soil we rely on for our food has itself become addicted to oil.

Our soil is useless without the chemicals we produce from oil and natural gas. From there we use an oil powered plow, then an oil powered seed planter. Then we use irrigation that took a lot of oil to be constructed. But we then have to power the pumps to bring the water, so we use electricity made from mainly coal and natural gas.

After that, we then use fertilizer made from oil. The fertilizers and pesticides are applied by an oil powered vehicle, as well as the oil powered crop dusters.

Harvest times comes along and what do we do? Hop in an oil powered vehicle to harvest. Then we ship it in an oil powered vehicle to a processor. The processor wraps it in plastic made from oil and then puts it back in an oil powered vehicle to get to distributors and then retailers.

For every one calorie of energy we produce in food, we spend 10 in oil.

Pretty efficient, wouldn't you think?

The most profound effect of oil, thanks to its million and one uses, was it's ability to facilitate human population growth. Approximately two billion people were one earth in the 19th century. This grew slow and steady till the dawn of the 20th century when Oil started to make its commercial debut. Since then, the population has ballooned to well over 6 billion.

The day we can not pay the price of the oil, is the day the music ends. But we've afforded the cost of oil for the last 100 years, so what, other than peak oil, would make it unaffordable?

Snapping back to reality..
In 2008 the American Public got their first little slap of reality. You may know this time as the beginning of the economic crisis. The collapse of the housing market, the freezing of the credit markets, the failure of Wall Street brokerage firms (Bear Stearns/Lehman Brothers), the failure of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the failure of AIG, Iceland’s economic collapse, the bankruptcy of the major auto manufacturers (General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler), etc.

But what is important is how caught off guard people were by it. The majority of the public marched blindly off the cliff. Ignoring all warnings and alarms. A lot of people, lost everything, and many are still in the process of losing everything.

This can be blamed entirely on the fact that they were not making the most informed decisions because they were operating on incomplete or erroneous information. And some intentionally just kept their heads in the sand, more interested in Gossip Girl, and American Idol. Look where they found themselves with such a small crisis.

Derivatives..
Derivatives are anything derived from a tangible asset, which is then over leveraged, and traded. The derivatives market has ballooned so far out of control that it is impossible to bail out. The bubble is estimated at well over 1 quadrillion dollars. Exponentially larger than all the wealth on earth.

Derivatives are unregulated, not traded on any public exchange, without universal standards, dealt with by private agreement, not transparent, have no open bid/ask market, are not guaranteed, have no central clearing house, and are just not really tangible. Source

This is how they became so out of control. Essentially, the reality is that the entire thing is a massive Ponzi scheme, approximately 20,000-30,000 times larger than what Madoff conducted. The only thing they can do is keep propping it up, until eventually cannot be sustained, then, like all ponzi schemes, it fails. How many people committed suicide because they lost everything due to Madoff's scheme? Now multiply that by 20 - 30,000 times, and add in the failure of transportation and food production. See what were looking at?

If the Derivatives bubble implodes, so will the dollar, and when the dollar implodes, guess how much oil costs?

Federal Reserve Audit
As I have said repeatedly in the past, this will go through. The Fed will be audited, and everyone, world wide, will realize they now have a lot of monopoly money. When the fed gets audited, the US dollar will implode. Not if, but when.

More War in the Middle East
What happens to the price of oil, if war breaks out between Iran and Israel? Or Iran and the US? What if Russia gets involved, they produce a lot of oil. If another war breaks out, just imagine what happens to the price of oil. Always remember that the inflation of oil prices is the equivalent of having no oil at all, since it is will be far too pricey to purchase.

Massive Foreign Debts
If at anytime, any of the above happens, or any one of many other things occurs, and we incur a loss of confidence by any of the large foreign investors... good bye dollar. Countries like China, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and others, hold trillions of US debt. If any one of them starts to unload, it will produce a “run on the bank” so to speak. And poof, there goes the dollar.

What life looks like during hyper inflation


2010 Food Shortage
In 2009 Supply and Demand in the Agricultural markets went completely out of whack. This is due to the nonsensical way that the USDA has conducted itself during this time.

They are predicting record Soy and Corn production, despite the fact, at the same time they have declared almost 300 counties as disaster areas in the last month alone. Disaster areas designate an area which has suffered 30%+ crop damage. This does not include other counties which have suffered below 30% losses.

“the USDA is even predicting record soybean harvests in the same states (Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama) where it has declared virtually all counties to have experienced 30 percent production losses. “

The USDA is caught in a catch-22. Because while they should be reducing estimates, which would increase prices, and decrease the consumption, they are worried that doing so would wreak havoc on the economy, leading to the collapse of the treasury market. Instead, as usual, they are choosing to cook the books so that everything appears A-OK until we march right off the cliff.

The mere fact that they have gone so far in cooking the books to make the situation appear normal, while knowing reality is not what they are predicting, shows that they are absolutely terrified of the alternative. Doing what they have done has made the entire situation far worse than it ever should have been.

So while farmers are shouting that their crops are ruined. The USDA is telling everyone that we are on the verge of record crops. Which has produced record demand, and record futures on exports. Exports that we will not have when it comes time to export.

Again, when the world realizes that we are on the verge of a massive food crisis, the ship starts sinking. As the price of food begins to rise, countries will be forced to begin offloading the dollars that they hold. Doing this will decrease the value of the American Dollar (inflation), while it increases the value of their domestic currency. This will be the only way that they will be able to afford food, or their populations will starve. The entire mess is so erroneous, and so illogical and unnecessary that it is of my opinion, that this is by design. The USDA purposely created this bubble, I leave the "why?" for the reader to decide.

This could be the domino that sets the rest in motion.

News Flash! Consumerism pronounced dead, in 2010
The collapse of the dollar ushers in the long overdue, death of the consumer. Currently, 70% of the US Economy is based on consumer spending. Without it, the economy fails. Any economy that depends on consumerism, cannot sustain a large contraction in consumer spending. Imagine your local mall, and then take a moment to realize how many superficial, pointless stores are located in it. Which produce absolutely no economical benefit to not only your community, but your entire country, OTHER than the initial consumer spending portion of it. Less than 10% of the economy is based on production or manufacturing, and this system cannot be sustained.

With the death of the consumer, comes the death of a lot of businesses. You think 20% unemployment is bad? What about 50%? The great depression will seem like a walk in the park. At least during the great depression we weren't an entirely service based economy, we had manufacturing and physical industries.

Oil Alternatives
If you do not know why we have put ourselves through the epic failure known as the war on drugs, look no further than Hemp. At points in the United States history, it was illegal NOT to grow hemp. Hemp was a vital part of the American economy, so much so, that you could actually pay your taxes in hemp. But this all changed in the early 1900's when DuPont realized the stunning implications of hemp oil and it's widespread manufacturing uses. Hemp, if industrialized, stood to jeopardize over 80% of DuPont's business.

Hemp is a renewable resource that can be grown quickly and harvested multiple times per year. In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs; Department of Agriculture.

But not only paper can be made from hemp, practically anything that we can now produce with oil could be produced from Hemp. It was this realization that terrified DuPont and others who had patented the manufacturing process of plastics derived from oil. So they began a marketing campaign to associate Hemp with it's "evil brother" marijuana. The history of the propaganda is comical at best, since it often contradicted itself. Despite that fact, the propaganda was successful. Marijuana was demonized, and with it, so was Hemp.

This is why I am so outspoken when it comes to the War on Drugs. Not only has the War on Drugs been an epic failure in terms of time, resources, and human productivity that is squandered, but the illegality of drugs also creates a black market which funds criminal enterprises. Criminal enterprises like the Mafia, and criminal enterprises like the Alphabet Agencies of the Fascist States of America.

The most blinding hypocrisy comes with Marijuana being a designated a Schedule One substance, being lumped into a group with drugs like heroin and LSD. But the cold hard facts of the situation (according to Government statistics) is that Marijuana (the drug) is the safest drug that humanity has ever consumed, period. Advil and Tylenol being many thousands of times more lethal than Marijuana, killing thousands in the US alone, every year. So if at any point in the future you hear someone arguing for prohibition, highlight reality for them, and perhaps they will cease to propagate ignorance that has caused many of the problems that have devastated our country.

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (http://www.leap.org) wrote a great book speaking out against Prohibition, and these are the guys who have been responsible for enforcing it. Further reading on the DuPont, hemp conspiracy, can be found here.

The Natural Law of Growth
The natural law of growth describes the observable manner in which any organism that encounters favorable circumstances and then experiences exponential growth, must then suffer an immediate collapse when favorable circumstances cease to exist. This phenomena is witnessed on the lowest levels of nature, in bacterial growth. All the way up to wild life, and stock markets. When time stretches in length many billions of years, a decade is less than one grain of sand on all the worlds beaches. Don't fool yourself into believing humanity is too big to fail.

Once the factor that is driving the exponential growth runs out, or can no longer be sustained, collapse is inevitable. With so many things that can literally grind life to a halt, everyone must understand that humanity is about to go through a huge paradigm shift. Today will seem completely foreign to those who remain a decade from now.

Neutering the population, and lessons of the past
In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed, and with its collapse two countries no longer had access to the oil tap – North Korea and Cuba. Both countries fundamentally dealt with the issue in opposite ways, and thus endured opposite reactions.

North Korea was a rigid, bureaucratic, top-down nation where the central government managed everything. As a result, the nation essentially starved to death as it was unable to sustain its government, and people were unable to become self sustainable. Without oil there was no fertilizer, transit or energy and they had no means to survive, so they starved.

Cuba on the other hand went the opposite direction. Demanding that citizens farm all usable land, using natural fertilizers, so they could become self sustainable. Once they had shed the constraints of the business of food, Cubans were eating healthier than they ever had. As a result, they thrived during a very tough period.

The entire solutions rests in self sustainability. The reality of our situation, is that if we all dealt locally, and our communities could support themselves, there would be little risk in having a world economic crash. Because if that occurs, oh well, get by for now, get back to normal later.

Unfortunately, the past several decades have been nothing short of the neutering of the Western Populations. Practically nothing we use in a typical day, came from our community. So when the ships stop sailing, the trucks stop shipping, and our cars stop transporting us, we will be in for a very abrupt and rude awakening.

None of this is by chance. The United States was systematically de-industrialized and manufacturing was outsourced. Food is not grown anymore, it is manufactured. How many people actually cook real meals? How many people grow any of their own food? How many people could actually feed themselves for just one month if the grocery stores did not restock?

The answer is apparent. That is why this collapse is going to be like nothing that has happened in the last 70 years. Something that the boomers have never had to deal with. They have never come anywhere close to the collapse of the dollar, or oil shortages, food shortages, 25%-50%+ unemployment, etc.

So many people are going to be so completely blind sided by this event that they will be forced to perish. By the time they realize the ship is capsizing, they will already be drowning. Those who saw it coming, and prepared themselves to swim, will not be able to shoulder the burden of all those who remained ignorant, it's just not possible to prepare for that many people who are on their own, essentially useless.

It's this initial massive unrest, and subsequent die off that you must survive. Being unprepared will cause massive desperation, and people will lose their mind. You do not want to be a part of this.

The economic crisis of 2008 did not shut down transportation. It did not shut down oil access, did not destroy food production, did not produce hyperinflation, did not collapse the dollar. In fact, everything for the average person is business as usual, American Idol at 9, CSI at 10.

”But you said billions would perish?”
With the failure of the United States, will come the failure of many nations which rely on the United States. China, India, Europe, Japan, Canada, to name a few, will all feel the effects. Who will survive, will be decided by who can become self sustainable. The problem though, is that no foreign government has been preparing in a large enough fashion to even soften the blow, although India has taken some steps. There will be no way to support all the people that will be blind-sided by this global collapse, and thus billions will die in the process.

We will not be hauled off to concentration camps, invaded, or bombed, we will starve to death after the machine grinds to a halt, and we can no longer provide for ourselves locally.

How much time do we have?
On this, I can only give an opinion. Anyone who claims to know a very specific date is likely selling snake oil. The issue as outlined above, is that there are many, many things that can catalyze the destruction of the dollar. Most importantly, large scale war with Iran, the world food crisis, the auditing of the fed, or a sudden liquidation of American Bonds by Foreign debt holders, will likely be what sets the dominoes tumbling.

The good thing is that this collapse will take a few days, starting with shortages of certain things, in certain areas first. In hindsight, the collapse will appear to have happened instantaneously, but as you're experiencing it, it will be a gradual but rapid collapse. If you notice any of the large indicators listed above being pushed through the Mainstream Media, you are out of time.

So my personal opinion, is that things get really bad next fall, but we begin to see blatant warning signs by summer. Do not take this to mean that you can wait till June to start preparing, because I do not know for certain. And you do not want to miss this boat. It is absolutely vital that you are prepared when the implosion begins. I have been preparing for almost a year, and even I want a few more months to further preparation. Whether we will get that much time, or more, is unknown.

”What hell should I do now???”
I know this has been a lengthy article, but all of it was necessary to paint the very real picture of our near future. As I mentioned at the beginning, if you think I have skewed facts or made things out to be far worse than they are, I desperately urge you to investigate.

What someone should do with this information is completely unique to their situation. Not everyone can afford to build a bunker and stock it with 2 years of food. Getting through what is coming is going to come down to how well you can survive locally. If you do not know how to survive on the land, then DON'T run for the hills, you will just die.

If you live in a city, you have to leave immediately. Just imagine what the streets of New York will look like with millions starving, and a destroyed dollar. It will be pandemonium and you DO NOT WANT TO BE INVOLVED WITH THAT. There will be no revolution, there will be no invasion, there will be no concentration camps, there is no need for any of that, since we will destroy ourselves.

The first thing everyone needs to do is prepare for their family:
- Stock food, but not only that, develop a way to create food for yourself. If you have land, prepare to grow on it with natural fertilizers, or even acquire grazing livestock.
- If you're in the States specifically, guns and ammo should also be stocked.
- Prepare back up power, so that you can keep food cool, provide heat, and cook.
- If you have any money in any sort of investments get it out IMMEDIATELY, and turn it into hard assets, anything tradable. If you can afford it, get gold, if you can't afford that, get silver. These will be useful for trading, and have for all of history held great value.

The common argument you often hear when you someone suggests purchasing gold or silver is that "You can't eat either". But, the thing is that they are easily tradable and will have a "common or understood" value based on the circumstances. If you are short on something you need, your neighbor may not want to trade any of your junk for what you need, silver and gold provide an easily tradable asset that people know always has a value.

- Prepare to protect your property and family. Keep in mind, millions will be unprepared.
- Practically any commodity that you can hoard for future trading will help if that's all you can do.
- Turn off mainstream media IMMEDIATELY, absolutely every single topic that they shove down your throat means nothing. It is simply there to distract you, divide you, and it will ultimately conquer you.

If you cannot become self sufficient, and survive for a few months (at very minimum) on your own, I am terribly sorry. I wish I could sugar coat it, but I can't. I do not see much chance of surviving what is about to come down the pipe.

Epilogue
Anyone who has made it this far and has understood what I have stated, now holds a unique position versus their societal counterparts. I can lead a horse to water, but I cannot force it to drink. The collapse of the dollar is immanent. And though we cannot pin point exactly which straw will break the camels back, and when, we do know the ultimate outcome.

When billions are blind sided, you too will either be blind sided, or you will be prepared. Which situation you find yourself in, is entirely up to you. You know the future, now you must take the steps required, so that you and your family can survive and prosper.

SPECIAL THANKS
Special thanks to Jakes of http://www.shtf411.com for bringing the Documentary "Collapse" to my attention. Without it, I lacked the inspiration and urgency to sit down and put this together. And without it, I lacked the expanded perspective needed to accomplish such a task. This thanks is further extended to Michael Ruppert whose dedication, and sacrifice over the last decade ultimately made this entire article possible.

Furthermore, thanks to Eric deCarbonnel of http://www.marketskeptics.com for his article 2010 Food Crisis for Dummies.

An article that I urge everyone to read. Some information here in, has been derived from that article and simplified for ease of reading. To get a much larger perspective of the food crisis, take the time to read that extensive article. Also, take the time to find and watch the Documentary Collapse, it is an amazingly well put documentary and can provide a more expanded incite into some of the issues covered here in.

Sources:
http://current.com/items/91419883_colla ... railer.htm
http://www.marketskeptics.com/2009/12/2 ... mmies.html
http://www.infowars.com/the-size-of-der ... on-planet/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_%28finance%29
http://www.gravmag.com/needed to read and understand what I have written in its entirety. I know for many, especially Sancho and Warren some of the info is redundant, but I have put it all together to paint the reality of our situation. Our situation, is one of dire urgency, and I firmly believe that failing to take action immediately, will produce dire consequences.

Enjoy.