Two different bits of news have really grabbed my attention this week. The first is that the slowly exploding nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan has officially reached oh-my-god-awful levels. The response of the people and government of Japan? Give the kiddies radiation meters so they know when they've had too much.
The second piece is, I think, more interesting as it involves the state cannibalizing itself. It seems those TSA workers (officially called TSOs) are getting a bit antsy about those nekkid picture machines. It seems that a lot of TSOs at the Boston airport have been getting cancer recently. The TSOs in Atlanta have also filed a complaint with their higher-ups. This was all obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request that the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed. Of course, the TSA refused the request, so a lawsuit was launched. Last week, EPIC finally got ahold of some of these intra-agency emails. The TSA seems to have changed its tune from, "These are perfectly safe devices" to, "Yeah, you should probably wear lead aprons if you are around them."
Here's a link to the emails.
With that as the background, what sort of commentary can I add that will shed light upon the investment and business climate of the world.
Here it is: People are sheeple, and sheeple are... "complacent" is the polite word
People go around believing whatever they are told. Let me ask you, if a nuclear power facility melted down within, oh... 50 miles of you... would you hang out and wait to see what the government told you about the situation? If you would, you're a sheeple. This is clearly a bug-out situation. Maybe it ends up being not that big a deal, but maybe not. The people who are still anywhere near Fukushima are screaming morons. If you have to wear a radiation badge because you are concerned,
you are too close!. As it happens, my father was a nuclear engineer for most of his career, so I asked him about the various levels of danger in such an incident. With the levels that are now being reported in the vicinity (1 Sievert/hr), you're basically dead within 2 hours of exposure. You might linger for a couple days as your bowels die first, but you're a goner.
Similarly, the so-called alternative media has been ablaze with reports countering the claims of safety put out by the government. Now it seems there is a lot of merit to those reports. If you've been going through the backscatter raditiation machines, you're probably a sheeple.
The bottom line is this: the people running things are generally not your friends. They have their own interests, and whatever they may be, they are looking out for those interests. You, as an LBC reader and thinking human being, need to look out for your own interests. That might mean disbelieving reports about inflation and protecting yourself with precious metals. It might mean that you view the future with an eye towards social instability and protect yourself with a high degree of mobility. It might mean lots of things (Feel free to share them below!). But nobody is going to do it for you. As I have said over and over again in many different posts, see reality as it is. Sheeple are either too complacent or too naive to do so.
