Son of a Farmer

We’re living in the information age. Thanks to the internet, vast amounts of data are literally at our fingertips. What we are experiencing across the globe verifies much of what in-tune leaders have been saying for seven or eight years – economic meltdowns, cover-ups, corporate-owned governments, market manipulation, poisoned food industry, water supply issues. I could go on, but you get the drift.

Our failure to deal with these issues continues to amaze me. It’s like the boogey-man underneath the bed or closet. We fear it, but we fear talking about it even more. If you take into count the 5% Theory, than 95% of us will continue to ignore the warning signs and do nothing. Five percent of us will continue to prepare. Ninety-five percent will panic.

Food & Water

Finally watched Food Inc. this past week. This documentary is monumental in its dealing with our current food industry. It takes what my friends at King Corn did and keeps going. We’re eating robotic food with no real nourishment or soul. This leads to health problems. This leads to economic problems. With corn as the hub crop in this country, everything revolves around this plant, which is not only largely subsidized so farmers can afford to grow it, but it is genetically-modified. We are eating test-tube food. So are livestock – mainly cattle, pigs, and chickens. These animals were not designed to survive off this seed alone, yet we’ve manipulated the system to such a degree we’re slowly poisoning them as well as ourselves with other corn bi-products such as high-fructose corn syrup. High-fructose corn syrup was heavily pushed in the late 1970s when sugar prices spiked. The corn lobbyists pushed for this product, and now it is a part of 90% of the foods we currently eat. I highly recommend this DVD. It’s available on NetFlix.

Economics

Another documentary I can’t wait to see is Collapse. This is narrated by Michael Ruppert, who has led a wonderful awakening about our global status in economics and peak oil. A former cop and CIA informant, Ruppert’s in-depth research and vehement claims have begun to hit mainstream of late with his book, now renamed Confronting Collapse and his recent documentary, which Roger Ebert gave 4 stars. As the wheels continue to come off the so-called “green-shoot economic recovery,” more people are wising up to our situation. We live in an economic world controlled by very “few” powerful people. The rest of us are peasants. Henry Kissinger called us “useless eaters” 30 years ago.

If 2009 trends continue, then 2010 will prove even more turbulent across the world. We’re already witnessing revolts like the one in Greece currently happening. More revolutions will continue as governments crumble due to economic instability. (See state governments such as Michigan, California, and Arizona. Arizona is putting up its state capital for sale and/or rent.) We’ve been fed lies for so long, it is hard to “wrap our brain around it.” The more people who wake up, the better off we are. The sooner we can change habits no longer beneficial, the more likely we are to make it through this monumental shift.