Silver, gold, diamonds vs knives, guns and bullets

If you want a model of what it will look like when IT hits the fan, I suggest you look at present day Palestine. You can look at it from the political angle if you like and it is proper to look at it that way because politics created the model or you can look at it from being a participant in the model.

I won't go into a long dissertation but if anyone wishes to learn how the participants survive I'll be happy to publish a website or two.

I write this given Gordon's described scenario which has been, and is, experienced by the Palestinian people today. If we want to discuss IT, learn from IT, get an idea what we would do, then let's look at a real live model of IT.

This post is in no way in support of any one side. It only presents a model as the 3 cousins presented a model.

Interesting cousins you have Gordon, by the way, if Barry needs
an investment advisor...........Kidding!

But, seriously, I think that something is protecting us. I
am not really that religeous so maybe an explanation is we are
all in a gigantic matrix game or who knows what. But the fact
that we have survived so far is against all odds. For example,
I read about fuel air explosives that are almost as powerful as
an atom bomb. They were invented by the Nazis during WW2.
Basically, if I remember the details correctly. A professor
stirred a few pounds of very finely powdered brown charcoal
with some liquid oxygen. When this was ignited the explosion
took out a few square miles of forest. Now, can you imagine
this in the center of Manhattan? I used to work in Manhattan
so I have imagined it. The fact that no one has done this
or a used a "dirty bomb" or any of the other amazing easy
methods of destruction indicates to me that the Mad Max
future may not be coming soon.

Trevor