by Nancy Lieder
live without being perpetually hooked up to machines, in short, a life one could tolerate rather than a life one
would dread. Here again the decision should be explained to the injured, who may exhort the caregivers to
reconsider if they don't agree with the decision. Be firm, as vacillation only tortures the injured who should be
allowed to come to terms with the situation. Remind the injured of the others who also cry for help.
If the injured still overwhelm the caregiver's capacities, choices fall along lines familiar to humans. Treatment
quickly given, such as a tourniquet to prevent the injured from bleeding to death, is chosen over treatments that
would take more time, such as surgery to stop internal bleeding. Lavage of poisons eating at skin takes
precedence over removing a splinter piercing an eye or a limb. Preventing shock takes precedence over setting a
broken bone. The caregivers should be firm and committed during such a process, and not expend precious time
arguing with those in pain and frantic with anxiety over their injuries.
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ZetaTalk: Barter System
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ZetaTalk: Barter System
Note: written Dec 15, 2001
We predict that long before the shift, a barter system will be replacing the current paper money system. The value of
the dollar, in all countries, will be falling, such that in any transaction one or both parties will feel they are getting a fair deal only if a thing, not a representation, is given or received. This is a common practice in countries where the dollar is falling, and a natural migration as the thought occurs readily to mankind, the barter system being recent in
their cultural evolution. What will this mean for the common man, and what will it mean for the rich? The common
man will find they are pleased with themselves if they have had the foresight to secure goods of value, such as seeds or
tools or dried food. The value of appliances that are dead and not able to run, even of cars unable to run over broken
roads, will be zero. The value of items that can increase worth, such as a needle and thread which can repair clothing
otherwise worthless, or a shovel that can create a garden otherwise a weed patch, will balloon.
The rich will of course whine endlessly, and try to convince anyone who will listen that their goods will return in
value, which it will not. Moneys will be used as a medium of exchange, as will jewels and art, in some settings, for a
brief period of time. This will occur until those being offered these at bargain prices realize the shift has happened
worldwide, and rescue and a return to civilization as they knew it will not occur. Perhaps months, but more likely
weeks, and only in limited settings. We advise the common man, as we have in the past, to relieve themselves of stock
and jewels and paper money that will fall in value, perhaps suddenly and without warning. Better to stock up on things
that will have value, candles and matches, school books and a guitar, than what the rich treasure.
In that one's skill sets can be considered a bartering item, one should examine their own skill set by the following
exam. If you were in the middle of a wilderness, alone, what steps would you take to survive? What is the first skill that you would need, and not have? Whom do you know that you would wish about you, in such as circumstance?
What is that skill that they possess, that you perhaps could develop? Imagine a group in such a setting, having arrived
at a land dump where various pieces of junk are about and could provide mechanical devices or shelter, if utilized
creatively and resourcefully. How would you go about creating a comfortable home for yourself, and others, in such as
situation? If you are clueless on how to use junk to structure a home, recycle and hook up, then perhaps you should
work with a junk man, in his yard, and take lessons! What we are telling you is that you should mentally put yourself
in this setting, and you will have no difficulty determining what is useless or most worthwhile, in a skill set. If you are
an accountant, and cannot translate this skill into becoming a tailor or herdsman or cook, your skill is useless!
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ZetaTalk: Hoarding
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ZetaTalk: Hoarding
Note: written Nov 15, 1999.
Many people view with alarm the thought of food shortages and struggling with other people to wrest away a loaf of
bread or fist fights over a bag of flour or rice. They view with alarm such thoughts, and their first thoughts are to stock
up, to buy many of these items. A case in point is the scare just years ago over toilet paper, where there was purported
to be a shortage of toilet paper. Suddenly all the toilet paper on the shelves had been bought up. This is the first
response to worry about shortages, but there are many problems with this reaction.
Because the desire to hoard and stock up is anticipated by the authorities, this is the first trend that will be watched and
guarded against. Hoarding cannot be disguised. The grocer knows who bought a large stock of food, and neighbors can
see who carried many groceries into a house. Those places that sell large quantities of food such as rice or wheat or
beans have the person who made the purchase on record. One cannot hide a stock. The police can come door-to-door,
open the doors, and see a stock of food and this stock can be confiscated. These stocks will be confiscated as food
shortages occur and hoarding is to be discouraged, so that fighting and arguments and theft do not happen. The police
will go door-to-door and those people who have hoarded will have it taken from them, and this will be distributed to
others. Therefore, not only will they lose what they have tried to gathered, they will be penalized. They will be fined,
punished, maybe put in jail, and certainly be scorned by their neighbors.
Of course, there should be some stock for those times when there is nothing to eat, but a very small amount. Don’t
purchase in large quantities. A purchase in large quantities is a signal, and there are records being kept even today of
who it is that purchases in large quantities. Those people are being marked to have their goods confiscated in the
future. They are not being told this. They may even be encouraged to stock up because later someone can come and
take these stores from them. It is a cruel game of those in control, to encourage stocking while knowing that these
goods will be taken later. But those who wish to remain in control, who use such power plays, think not of their
cruelty but only of their ability to get through hard times, and will manipulate whomever stands in their path to
regaining their power. Even through what we are telling you is known and can be logically surmised, nevertheless
warnings about punishing those who hoard are not going out, and people will not be alerted to the dangers of hoarding
or stocking up until they have had the tables turned on them and all their saving put into rice and beans is gone. No
one will tell them that this is to happen and no one will warn them.
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ZetaTalk: Growing Food
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ZetaTalk: Growing Food
Note: written Nov 15, 1999.
Anyone who has a stock of food who does not find
themselves at odds with the authorities will still be subject to theft
from gangs or hungry neighbors. In fact, it is as dangerous to stock up and be traced as holding a hoard of food as it is
for a rich man to walk with gold jewelry down a dark path known to harbor thieves in the bushes. It is almost a
welcome sign, saying come take this from me. The word would go out that this person or that person has a stock of
food. Windows will be broken and people will ccome in with bags over their heads so one doesn’t know who is taking
the food stores away, and the person who has a lot of stock will find it has been stolen from them. So, in the end,
hording is not a solution, even for those people who think they are clever and have very carefully hidden their food.
People who are starving and frightened will aggressively attempt to find where the food has been buried.
It is much safer to be able to produce food on a regular basis. Those people who have seed, or who know how to and
are growing algae in water, for instance, will find this cannot be readily taken or carried away. Growing plants, algae
or fish, cannot be carted away as easily as grabbing a bag of rice or cans of food. Such food stuffs will spoil, is hard to
catch, is wet, smelly, and takes time. Those who are frightened or those who would steal and rob are not inclined to
spend the time to harvest. So somebody with algae in a fish tank or gardens in their basement will find that it is not as
worthwhile for a thug or a hungry person to break into the basement to take a tomato as it is to break into a garage
where someone has stored many sacks of flour or potatoes, something that is dry, compact, and easy to carry away.
In addition, the person who is growing their own food regularly will find that even should they be attacked by hungry
people, that they will be able to recover. Even should their hydroponics beds be ripped out and run off with, with
someone grabbing their carrots or tomatoes or cabbage or green peppers or the fish in the tanks, they will have baby
fish on the side to restart their fish tanks and seed and to restart their gardens. The person who has just stored food
cannot recover, and their food is usually gone. Therefore, we recommend the capability of growing food, in many and
varied ways to where the cycle of life is at hand and a temporary disruption of a garden is not a devastation. These
people will not be raided. It will be the hoards that will be raided. Therefore, we have encouraged growing seed and
helping people learn to grow, and helping people understand the simple things about them with which they can feed
themselves, such as insects and the foods found in nature, the minimum that they need to survive. This kind of
knowledge is more valuable than bags of potatoes or barrels of wheat in the garage, because knowledge cannot be
taken from a person, and it is therefore more valuable.
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ZetaTalk: Food Riots
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written April 5, 2008
Rice Jumps as Africa Joins Race for Supplies [Apr 4] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ Rice prices rose more than 10 per cent on Friday to a fresh all-time high as African countries joined south-east Asian importers
in the race to head off social unrest by securing supplies from the handful of exporters still selling the
grain in the international market. The rise in prices - 50 per cent in two weeks - threatens upheaval and
has resulted in riots and soldiers overseeing supplies in some emerging countries, where the grain is a
staple food for about 3bn people. India's trade minister, said the government would crack down on
hoarding of essential commodities to keep a lid on food prices. [and from another] City Dwellers Priced
Out of the Market [Apr 4] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ Yeshi Degefu stopped eating meat about a year ago.
Vegetables followed soon and, more recently, chickpeas and lentils. Today, Mrs Yeshi, 50, of Addis Ababa,
queues for subsidised wheat, the only food she can still afford. Mrs Yeshi is caught up in a food crisis that
is hitting the urban population rather than the rural poor, the group that has in the past faced the greatest
threat of hunger. This time, the problem is not a shortage of food but its price. Urban populations are
more likely to protest, triggering riots which in Africa have already hit Burkina Faso and Senegal.
Acute food shortages are in the news, as are the rising prices that accompany shortages. We have predicted that in the
years leading into the pole shift that crop shortages would occur, worldwide. Where this became evident in the year 2000, as documented by Nancy in her Shortage TOPIC within Troubled Times, these shortages did not make major
headlines because stocks of grain and other staples were on hand. Now, the stocks are depleted, or nearly so. Where
the price of wheat, corn, and soybeans has been rising in step with shortfalls, riots did not occur until shortages and
price increases for rice occurred. Rice is a staple for half the world's population, primarily the poorest half, and thus
this shortage is touching desperation. Rice was one of the cheapest foods for this populace, and now must be replaced
by more expensive items or starvation looms.
The reaction of various governments to their starving populace is varied. Some are buying what stocks of rice they can
secure and forcing price controls among the merchants distributing these stocks. Others are merely reacting to riots
with traditional riot control. The poor in many of these countries have always suffered at near starvation levels, with
little sympathy from the authorities who expect the starving to fade away quietly and not make a fuss. Malnutrition
affects such a populace before birth, creating mental retardation and a poor start in life for the newborn. Malnutrition
among the young stunts growth, particularly growth of the brain, exacerbating mental retardation. Thus deprived of an
ability to earn a good living except by manual labor, which their stunted bodies can scarcely enable, those affected by
chronic starvation hardly notice when their poor diet is diminished further.
It is the reasonably well fed who are being heard from during the recent food riots. Those who are not retarded or
stunted, and have been able to enjoy a varied diet previously. The first reaction to rising food prices is to carve
expensive treats from the menu. The second reaction is to alter the daily fare to emphasize inexpensive staples - a diet
more dull but affordable. When inexpensive staples like rice rise or double in price these households must trim other
expenses from their budget - less travel, clothing, and entertainment. In many cases, the household moves from being
economically viable and in the black to running in the red, running into debt. Arguments ensue, and demands that the
government do something about the situation is part of the argument. Tempers are at the trigger point, so that some
trivial argument at the food market can spark a riot. This class of citizen - the formerly well fed - does not slide
quietly or quickly into the stance of their chronically starved neighbors. They know about the underclass, the
chronically underfed, but have never imagined themselves forced into these straits. In horror, they see themselves
unable to afford enough food for good health, despite cutting back all budgetary items possible, so panic is just under
the surface and explodes into hysteria with every rise in food prices.
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ZetaTalk: Food Riots
What are governments to do when a formerly quiet portion of the populace becomes noisy and hysterical? Price
controls are one avenue, but even with price controls the shortages will continue and increase due to the worsening
weather extremes we have so long predicted. In the US, soup kitchens are threatened as the US government cuts back
on handouts of surplus food items. There are no surplus items, or they are fast disappearing. New rules are likely to be instituted everywhere. Those who are obese will be encouraged to diet, perhaps given only vitamin pills and minimum
protein such as a few boiled eggs per day. Grains fed to cattle will be diverted to human consumption. All idle fields
will be put into production. And of course price control instituted to prevent panic among those who can no longer
afford to buy food. But in those countries where such measures cannot be instituted because there simply is not
enough food to go around, riot control will be used. Those who ignored their chronically underfed neighbors, the
underclass they took for granted were always beneath them, will now join them, a type of karma, so to speak.
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ZetaTalk: Aftertime Religions
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ZetaTalk: Aftertime Religions
Note: written by Jul 15, 1995
After the cataclysms, religions of the world will enjoy both an increase and decrease in popularity. Some humans,
bewildered by what has happened, will cling to their religions. Some humans will assume that human actions have
caused the shift, which they will interpret as a punishment. Scapegoats will be selected from their midst, and
sacrificed. Other humans will attempt to modify their behavior, to placate what they assume to be angry gods. In the
main, these practices will occur among ignorant or weak peoples, and in truth these practices occur today. Regarding
religion, whatever trend was occurring within a given human will continue, or exacerbate. Those humans who today