Who's paranoid?

There are two people I know that read this. There is one other Anonymous commenter who has read this at least once. I hope you came back. I want to save as many as I can.

I almost got in a fight with a co-worker at a pool-hall the other day. I was talking about the failing dollar, the Federal Reserve, and the "housing bubble." My friend just bought a motorcycle. He doesn't want to hear it. He wants everything to be okay.

I want everything to be okay, too, but EVERYTHING IS NOT OKAY.

Forget, for a moment, that the dollar is failing. Set aside the fact that the Federal Reserve is inflating our money-supply by $20-billion a week. Ignore the countless illegal immigrants flooding our labor-pool. Right now I want to talk about some downright apocalyptic shit. I'm going to spell it out for you, and I want you to pay attention, because I want you to survive.

I've mentioned the dying bees before, and I've been looking into it. Several people knowledgeable on the subject of beekeeping have expressed opinions, and studies have been done in France and Germany. Everything I've read about it (that didn't come from American media), regardless of the proposed cause, agrees on two points: This is happening just about everywhere, and if the bees go, mankind follows. That sounds sensational even to me. Some people will survive, I'm sure, just not many, and not you or me.

One of the proposed causes for the disappearance of trillions of bees is (drum-roll) cellphones. That one's so retarded I'm not even going to cover it further. It's not cellphones. Cellphones are radios, and many more powerful radios have been around far longer than cellphones. Even HAARP has been around too long to be the culprit.

The most commonly proposed cause is genetically modified food, as reported by Spiegel. GM foods, as they're known, have DNA from a toxic bacteria inserted into their own DNA to make them naturally resistant to insects. These foods produce a natural insecticide that makes them poisonous. The bees eat the pollen, and the toxin in the pollen destroys their immune systems, and they die.

From the article in Spiegel: "In many cases, scientists have found evidence of almost all known bee viruses in the few surviving bees found in the hives after most have disappeared. Some had five or six infections at the same time and were infested with fungi -- a sign, experts say, that the insects' immune system may have collapsed.

"The scientists are also surprised that bees and other insects usually leave the abandoned hives untouched. Nearby bee populations or parasites would normally raid the honey and pollen stores of colonies that have died for other reasons, such as excessive winter cold. "This suggests that there is something toxic in the colony itself which is repelling them," says Cox-Foster."

Going almost hand-in-hand with the GM foods is a study done by the French government specifically naming Gaucho, a pesticide made by Bayer. A perfect example of poison killing things.

My personal opinion on genetically modified food: Dying bees aside, genetically modified food is a bad idea. Pesticides are bad enough when one has the ability to wash them off. When these pesticides are an integral part of the food, it is no longer "food," but "pesticide." If I have a bug problem, I will buy some Bt corn, because a few ears of corn are cheaper than a can of Raid. If I'm hungry... Well, damn. Even organics are suspect, now, thanks to cross-pollination. An organic farmer has no way of ensuring that their crop has not been contaminated. One independent canola farmer in Canada, Percy Schmeiser, lost fifteen years of seed cultivation when his crops were contaminated with genetically modified canola from neighboring farms. The large commercial farms love it, though, because they get to sell more of their poisonous product unmolested by insects that die when they eat it.

One other proposed cause for mass disappearances of bees is the same increased sun activity that is causing global warming, or global warming itself, by either confusing the bees' navigation systems through increased electromagnetic activity, or by having their reproductive cycle interrupted by unseasonably warm winters.

Regardless of the cause, dying bees means unpollinated crops, which means scarcity, which means food prices rise. Coupled with the reduced buying power of the dollar and the ready-to-burst housing bubble, and the climate shift, this spells famine and pestilence, right here in America. Like you, assuming you're an American, I was raised to believe that nothing bad can happen to Americans. Americans don't starve, or die of diseases that might be considered "plagues." Americans don't get cholera, or typhoid, or polio. Those things happen to poor, misguided foreigners that didn't have the good sense to be born here.

I'm really not trying to depress anyone. My mom always gets depressed when I mention this shit. If I were trying to depress anyone, I would mention the eventual heat-death of the universe, and the absolute futility of existence in any form. That's depressing. I just want you to take precautions. Will it hurt you to set aside some canned goods? Canned goods are pretty cheap, and you can eat them whether you're starving, or just peckish. Will it hurt to buy some silver, just in case? Precious metals are a great long-term investment even if the world doesn't end. You should get a water filter, anyway, because pure water is a great idea, even if the seas don't rise, and crop failures don't cause worldwide hunger. Get a gun, too, because it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

You won't need a foil hat, though. That's a myth. The aliens can read your mind right through it, so you might as well maintain some degree of dignity.