Al H. Fry has published a 30 page "Hard Times Survival Manual". You might want to get a copy. The price is right, the advise is quite good and there's enough controversial material to keep your interest. Some excerpts are as follows: If humanity ever learns self-control, the Creator will give us the knowledge to create matter through the flow of energy. This, of course, is a dangerous undertaking. The government allows you to "own" property but it actually controls "your" property with various regulations, restrictions and fees. Satan, you may recall, was banished to Earth for breaking the choice laws. Therefore, Earth has served as a prison planet, a place where all the exiled prisoners were allowed to run the show. If the satanic system has made slaves of humans for thousands of years, it's all part of our lessons and choice. The universe is functioning with split second precision. If we humans can't get back to perfection, we will simply self destruct. In a national emergency, National Guard troops will go door to door confiscating your food stuffs for a general stockpile. You will be unable to go to another area without authorization and you will be living in abject poverty under absolute control. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. defined "Government" as the art of extorting as much as possible from the citizens, short of causing an armed revolt. You had better have a R.V. or camper sitting by or ready. Rural lands and lots are going to be very inexpensive if you have saved some cash. Rural areas will be food rich in the summer. One billion profligate consumers are too much for the Earth. Gone is the time when you could rely on the Constitution to protect you. Christ told us we could defend ourselves. Luke 22:35-38. Deut. 33:29. The elitist have almost won all the chips and the game of economics, as we know it, is over. Free trade is manipulated by the elite. Japanese imports are subsidized by the Japanese government to tear down our industrial base. It would be prudent to get a little gold testing kit for future use (i.e. after the government changes the currency). You should be able to purchase gold coins for a 3-6% commission from large coin dealers. Muslim banks do not charge interest. With all the particle board wood seeping formaldehyde fumes at us, little wonder that one in five persons will come down with cancer. The medical cartels only benefit if you remain ill. Consider living on a houseboat and moving about on thousands of miles of waterways. Such a life style is much less costly than a conventional home. At a point later in the decade, people will be stuck in the area they reside. Many cities will have their borders and outlets guarded. Danger - Don't marry American women (Expose!). If you are going to survive the years ahead with companionship, you should probably begin to be very choosy or stick with a pet. Guatemalans, who gave up their guns long ago, now work for $3 a day. We are only one life form among billions. Our primary lesson is to learn tolerance and to grant the right of choice to other life forms. Today, we are trillions of dollars in debt. Each year has us handing out more money to futile causes and total dead beats. Over the last 15 years, we have given Israel a staggering 48 billion dollars for no good reason whatsoever. Forty percent of Israel's work force is in the public sector. Jesus Christ made no attempt to convert anyone to some sect teaching. His message was to follow the golden rule and heal or help others. Shortwave radio will give you a much wider range of information than American media. Pirate stations may wish to contact survival groups and individuals. Virtually all of Europe has wised up and rejected fluoridation. Chlorine will evaporate if left in an open container over night. It is now illegal to drill your own well in most counties unless you get a permit and help with taxes. Albuquerque and numerous other cities now have parasites so bad in the city water that it is wise to treat the water or get dewormed regularly. The oil in rice and seeds tends to go rancid rather quickly. Dates and honey are ideal survival food. Without gas or diesel fuel, tractors will stop and food will be sky high at some future time. Farmers who have horses are few and far between. America is still the best place to be. We have been generous and have given aid to the rest of the world for years. We will deserve being used and abused, but we will not deserve being starved. Our ancestors lived in a state of perfection like animals. They lived simply through instinct and enjoyed their Eden like garden unburdened with intelligence. Then came satan and his followers. Intelligence became introduced through interbreeding. Brain circuits were altered and human perfection and innocence was take without consent. No one could be allowed outside the confines of this exile planet unless they were free of greed, power lust and domination patterns. Even after thousands of years, the bulk of humanity has no desire for greater responsibility. They simply wish to go back to being "animals" and enjoying a simple life without all the pressures. If there were truly a successful spiritual movement or system, it would have cleaned up most of the pain and chaos in civilization by now. Humanity is still seeking however and for most persons the answers are still wanting. As long as things keep stirred up good at lower levels, few persons can see higher level objectives. For most of the public, having communism working against capitalism was enough to keep the war profits and confusion high. More radical "right wingers" were given a tailor made John Birch society to keep them busy on a dead end pursuit. There are dozens of organizations and groups fighting the dummy war on cancer. Untreated cancer patients almost always last longer than treated patients. Radiation and surgery increases the spread of cancer. In countries where the people live on brown rice, fruits and veggies, there is seldom much cancer. In areas where meat products and junk food are consumed, we have problems. To insure that higher class leaders are voted into office, we need higher class voters. Today's voters elect politicians promising them the biggest free lunch. Individual armies and conscription are obviously never going to bring peace. Remember, I told you that the above material was controversial but you would enjoy reading it. You can get a copy of the "Hard Times Survival Manual" and catalog by sending a couple bucks to Al Fry, Box 2207, Garden Valley, ID 83622. Did we blow your mind?