Will that be Obama's speech on November 7?
Posted on 08/23/2012 8:42:03 AM PDT by Kartographer
What is the tipping point that will really bring this whole thing to a head?
The answer to that question is stunningly simple, and profoundly prophetic. I am sure the children born into royalty are taught this very simple principle in kindergarten. World leaders certainly understand it. And CEO’s of large multi- nationals figure it out early on in their careers.
The answer came to me one day when I stumbled across an article published by MIT’s Technology Review where researchers at the Institute of Complex Systems published their results on the question; what is the cause of riots? The study was headed up by Marco Lagi and his associates. Lagi thought the answer to the question of what was the cause of riots would be, well, complex. It turned out the cause boils down to one thing.
The price of food.
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I also grow my own garlic.
It’s better than the stuff from China with God knows what in it.
“Are liberals edible?”
Tastes like Chicken.
I haven’t had a good harvest of anything the past two summers because of the heat. I water but temperatures over 100 just do the plants in. I’m going to till under most of the garden this evening to start the fall garden but it’s really too late in the season but we were busy with other home repairs to get to it any earlier.
There’s a falacy in having stored shtf seed packets. One, people don’t realize there’s an art to gardening so they can’t just put a seed in the ground and expect it to provide for their family. Those people will be sorely shocked when reality hits. Two, it takes several seasons to learn what grows well in your particular climate and your particular soil and what your family will eat. Some of those mass packages aren’t going to work everywhere and by the time people figure it out, they will have wasted time, energy and the health of their families. Three is storage skills. If they don’t know how to preserve foods and then they’ll ruin foods or compromise the health of someone or worse.
Manage to find some land for a community garden and get them start working so the area will have more food next year and you have the start of something very worth while.
There was a book I read about this a number (never mind how many!) called IIRC "A Gift of Seeds".
The time to learn to garden is not WHEN the SHTF.
It’s well before.
And honestly, I love to garden and have been doing it for years and am grateful that we don’t have to depend on it for survival.
Yet....
Don't be a Tutsi.
Capiche?
I don’t think starvation causes riots. Or at least they don’t last for long. The population is subdued pretty quickly.
This is why famine has always been a tool of, or exploited by, dictatorships. Mao understood that, Uncle Joe understood it, the British in 1850 understood it.
I completely agree. The time to start living in what you plan for a post-SHTF world is (for many of us) now. I have enough food, and extra, for my large family stored. Every single thing in storage is something we normally cook and eat, and it will all rotate into the weekly menu before expiration. We are not going to transition in an emergency from a typical American eating style to stored wheat berries and dried beans that we have never before cooked or eaten!
The gardening we plan for post-SHTF is already being done, and it is tasty and grows well here - after a few failures and the ongoing yet consistently unsuccessful attempts to get a decent watermelon. I don't think we would actually need all our stored food to get by; we'd simply eat it or eventually trade it out of concern that it would expire for real and not just go out of date.
The price of food.
HUH???? And here, after all these years I thought the 1968 Detroit riot started with the raiding of a blind pig..........
Well spank me and call me stupid and tell my now deceased dad that he didn't need to buy that M-1 carbine after all........
The way a flash mob works is that the mob members individually converge to points near the target, and then all arrive at the target at the same time. After people get sufficiently tired of it, anybody arriving in a middle-class neighborhood who looks "inner city" will just be beaten or killed on sight.
What causes riots?
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to name a couple.
Agitators!
And don’t you DARE OPEN UP offshore areas to oil development, thus lowering the cost of transportation, and by extension, food!
This was my first year for vegetable gardening and my tomatoes looked great -— till they all got eaten by some critter.
Very frustrating and I still don’t know how to prevent it for next year.
I’ve had my share of casualties myself. Something has been gnawing on the stems of some of the plants and the whole plant goes then.
Unless you can figure out what it is that’s doing the damage, I wouldn’t have any idea how to prevent it.
Either squirrels or chipmunks. The plants themselves are not harmed which seems like the lighter weight chipmunks, but many are eaten higher up than chipmunk height. I have loads of both critters around.
Neither bird netting nor pepper spraying the fruit helped. Now I am trying this product called “Shake Away.” I think it’s fox urine. I’m having limited success.
Argh.
The riots last as long as the rioters get their flat screen televisions.
Will that be Obama's speech on November 7?
Maybe someone on this thread could help you out...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2916900/posts
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