Unfortunately, it's a situation of our own making. History shows that the establishment will do whatever necessary to preserve itself at the public's expense. If you really want to know how the system works in the back room, buy a game of Monopoly. This Christmas don't forget to remember your local banker and real estate broker. The ship started leaking badly during the Reagan administration. It now has a hole in it and is sinking. Life boats are being released, but there's little room for the public. If you try and hang on to one, don't be surprised if you get your fingers smashed.

Civil unrest, social breakdown, seeing global markets as an extension of military power....gee we thought we might get away with martial law domestically but it looks like the boys are going public on global military domination. What a bummer for escapist expats. We knew it was gonna suck. Now it's gonna suck universally.

The stage is nicely set. The big producer corporations are ready to keep things going no matter what happens to the "economy". It's their military-industrial complex too. They all need the oil, they all need the protection. These are the ingredients of success to them.

Now what if we just gave them some encouragement? Fact is, they are supra-national already, they are surpa-duper-nationalistic-expialedocious. They don't really need us, that's clear, but what if we just go along with it if they just leave? Just leave us the 50 states and you guys go do what you want? Think they might just go for it?

Not in our great wisdom, no. "There are those who just want to be left alone and there are those who just won't leave them alone". So it's with a certain Kissingerian fatality that we have made our plans in advance, knowing that conflict not of our doing is in the cards.