Gee .... when i watch the news it's a crazy old world. I guess that's what's normal and it's always been that way throughout the history of mankind. It's nothing to worry about really. You just to have to learn to live with it being the way it is.

Just right off the top of my head:

There was that earthquake in Haiti. One of the poorest nations on earth and already afflicted with a high rate of affliction of the AIDS virus. All of those lives lost and their bodies hauled off to the landfill mixed in with collapsed building debris. It's as if they never were. Life did go on. The sun still rose and the birds sang their song the day after the disaster.

Hurricane Katrina hits the gulf coast and destroys a good chunk of New Orleans. Social disorder follows but after awhile things returned to normal.

A tsunami hits a nuclear power plant in Japan. Vast tracts of land rendered unusable. A nuclear plant meltdown in the former USSR with the same result. Populations permanently displaced from their homes.



Most recently civil war in Syria followed by the invasion of ISIS into the region. People fleeing for their lives. Over 150,000 refugees sitting in camps just over the border in Turkey.

It must have been " The end of the world as they knew it" for all of those people. Most especially the ones who survived .....

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It's probably not a bad idea to have a " Bug out bag " prepared just in case you need to leave in a hurry.

Precious metals might be good because they're considered to be portable wealth. That way you would have something to start a new life with in a new place. It's probably better to stay with easily recognizable coins that were issued by a reputable government. It's sort of a built in " Certificate of Authenticity ". They're much easier to use in trade because there's no question about the karat value & purity of what's being offered.

Private party transactions between buyers and sellers are one way of keeping Uncle Sam out of your business.

~ Just a thought ~