I am a coastal Or resident located a few hours away. I have a question for all of you metro residents.
Right now it seems to me that the people most likely to "get it" live in the metro region (which may or may not be sustainable over the long term) while those in small towns and rural areas are in eminently survivable locations, but without a clue. With that in mind, do you plan on fleeing Portland at or before TSHTF or are you going to try and stick it out in the metro area?

Or do some of you have a dual pronged approach of maximizinging your urban time with a rural back up?
If you are leaving, is your current housing situation driving you or fear of the larger community.
Gut check time. Do you get that feeling deep down in you that Portland is still not going to fare well either?

• Start several intentional communities in rural town areas. Models include Findhorn Foundation ( www.findhorn.org ), Mondragon Cooperative Corporation ( http://freenetworks.org/peering.html) and Mutual Aid Society of America http://icdb.org/show.php?r=masa)
• Network these intentional communities via the World Wide Web and inter-Intentional Community working groups. Use the Mesh Internet access approach. See: http://www.nova.org/; http://freenetworks.org/peering.html
• Create a community-wide “Community Schooling Program” to bring non-members into the loop (inspiration, visioning, membership). http://www.pta.org/pr_magazine_article_details_1171482667734.html
• Create several public and private schooling entities (home schooling, charter schools, re-envisioned public schools). http://www.delano.k12.mn.us/sitepages/pid31.php
• Create many, local, viable, profitable business enterprises which are employee owned (worker cooperatives, consumer and producer cooperatives). http://www.usworker.coop/front My pick is growing algae and converting the algal oil into biodiesel. http://montanasynergy.wetpaint.com/page/BUSINESS+PLAN+FOR+SPIRULINA+CULTURE+AND+PRODUCTION
• Lobby governmental entities which have laws which when applied defeat or slow down the creation of intentional communities, to change the laws toward more permaculture-friendly ones. http://tryonfarm.org/share/node/22
• Create member-owned credit unions which makes micro loans. See http://www.kivab4b.org/ADV/Kiva/Kiva.page?orgcode=SEM7492
• Create viable businesses which serve local and regional needs and couple this effort with a campaign to encourage an economy based on locally derived products and services. http://www.localharvest.org/buylocal.jsp
• Start caring about your neighbors by actions which benefit them. http://www.nashua-coc.org/gna.htm

GOAL OF THE GLOBALISTS AND OUR PLAN

What we are struggling against is far better organized, financed, and disciplined than we are, and is well on its way toward the creation of a global power structure which is privately owned, but operates through governments, the military/police/prisons and financial institutions. The head of this Global Consortium is Travistock Institute, a collection of the world's most powerful men (no women), headquartered in the UK. These men own and/or control vast empires of wealth and property. They control governments and the banking system. They control commerce and currency. They can create wealth or poverty with a stoke of a pen. Travistock Institute is the champion of the “New World Order”.

They finance and order the CIA's covert gang which can install or eliminate a dictator in a foreign country. They decide on when and where wars will be fought and how the spoils will be divided. See John Coleman's book, Conspirators Hierarchy, The Committee of 300, reviews at: http://tribes.tribe.net/mind-control/thread/ecefc760-d34e-48c2-baa1-a91f77da6b5b.http://tribes.tribe.net/mind-control/thread/ecefc760-d34e-48c2-baa1-a91f77da6b5b.

They, along with the oil barons and the “seven sisters” (seven major oil companies) are creating extreme wealth for themselves while creating chaos in the streets for the average citizen. The reasons and the intended results are clearly set forth and document in The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. http://www.naomiklein.org/main. Watch her series of video clips on YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JG9CM_J00bw.http://youtube.com/watch?v=JG9CM_J00bw.

Their purpose in creating the chaos in the streets is to reduce the power of the public to organize or resist the taking of their lives and properties. The methods are: Raise prices so as to cause purchasing power of the dollar to drop, thus forcing many small business to fold. By increasing costs, large companies will shed employees and increasingly move their production and purchasing operations to low wage countries. Meanwhile back in the States, jobs disappear, renters are evicted and mortgages are foreclosed.

The effect is to create a massive shift in wealth from the individuals to the banks. The banks fail and the Resolution Trust Corporation will auction off 100 million blocks of property to the super rich who will then own most of the world's developed real estate. They can charge lower rents, having bought the real estate for ten cents on the dollar, and thus bankrupt the surviving real estate landlords, who then suffer foreclosure. The cycle of accumulation of wealth by the Travistock men thereby gains more momentum.

Meanwhile, we have huge concentrations of homeless folks who, deprived of jobs become an even greater burden on local and state governments. Not only do we have homeless folks, but folks with accumulated health issues which overwhelm the few operating hospitals. All this while, government officials make pious statements and, as usual, do nothing. The controlled mass media whips up hatred of the homeless and working poor. The “Archie Bunker” mentality is promoted. This growing division accelerates.

This Travistock policy is the intended effect of the “divide and conquer” approach. The point is to isolate individuals, families and destroy any attempt they might mount to organize. Without assets, a place to live, a job or source of income, and destitute, they can be easily led and intimidated by the police/military/private army controlled by the Travistock men. We can now see that the war in Iraq is surely a grab by the seven sisters for huge oil reserves since we have crossed over the peak of the Peak Oil crisis. The war in Afghanistan now allows the Travistock men to control the heroin trade – which is very lucrative. We used millions of gallons of herbicide (Agent Orange) in Vietnam, but not a drop in Afghanistan to kill the poppy fields. Guess why.

Now, what do we do about Travistock, the seven sisters and our national and state governments? We bypass them. Simple as that. Boycott. Don't spend any of our money or time or assets with them. Kill them off by denying them cash flow. Remember, we, presently, are a cash flow society. We gave up barter and self-sufficiency a hundred years ago with the industrial revolution and its cousin, the fossil fuel-based transportation revolution. Now it is our time to revolt and start the ecovillage (or permaculture or intentional community) revolution. We need our own banking system (member-owned credit unions) and our own medium of exchange (debit cards) and our own currency (suggest we call them “leaves”, “stems”, “roots”).
We need to read deeply in to Spiral Dynamics since that book really explains the various epochs were are experiencing. See: http://www.spiraldynamics.net/

We start by learning all we can from existing permaculture villages and intentional communities. We need to organize and stay focused on creating our own economy within our networked community economies. However, we still need to sell our goods and services into the cities and towns for needed profits. Remember, we will be in a transition mode for probably fifty years or more, so we will have to continue to deal with the those entities which are strictly based on cash flow and not barter. We will do this with great care, doing business only with “green” companies which practice economic justice in the workplace.

We will support and encourage the formation of worker cooperatives. This approach has been very successful in South America. Read Sin Patron published by www.lavaca.org See also: http://red-coral.net/WorkCoops.html Over the course of the last four years, I have accumulated a sizable library of books, articles, webpages and such which I am willing to post on a web site, free for members to use. We need to organize and create a sustained outreach effort. We need to start our intentional communities. We need our own land and resources put to good use.

Jim Miller,Miller
, jimmiller5417@yahoo.com