[Carol]

I was reading Bill's transcript and just this morning finished William Forstchen's book One Second After which is probably the most depressing, profound and insightful book about the after affects of an EMP detonated above the atmosphere and wiping out the entire nation's infrastructure within seconds. Live without electricity, cars, telephones and all of the modern day conveniences deteriorates quickly with massive die off of the population (80 %) within months of this type of event as most areas don't have food to handle the populations in the areas where they live. Gangs take over in the city areas and people who rely on meds to stay alive are the first to die. This type of reality is chilling and it wouldn't take much to bring this nation to its knees.

The whole purpose of Avalon and Bill's vision was to create a cyber space where folks could come together and plan together on how to weather earth changes and various horizon events (be it military, health related released diseases or whatever). This forum is dedicated to getting information out to the public so that the public who are at least willing to pay attention can be proactive in taking steps to prepare for whatever may strike. This could range from long term snow situations which the nation has been dealing with, lack of food being able to be shipped to higher density populations, lack of medicine.. whatever.. basically we are being reminded to be self-reliant and build our social networks.

I also see some other interesting things going on behind the scenes as there are those who would like to sabotage folks like Bill. These other disrupters want to keep our attention on the drama of games, keep folks confused, provide misinformation, manipulate others who are unknowingly caught up in the surface events and misdirect them away from what is important right now.

I would like to suggest those of you who paid attention to Bill's message to stock up on food, water, water filters, a means to cook without electricity (camper stoves, build cooking kilns to bake bread), find a means to keep clean to avoid disease, look at how you are going to get water into the house or flush a toilet.. think about a solar generator as these do not make noise and don't need gas.

Think about how you would manage without electricity. What books do you have, what do you have growing for food or are you dependent on the market for all of your food. Do you have medicine stocked up?

Avalon is not just a gossip center where the latest "whatever" is up for display. It is a place for people to come and prepare mentally, emotionally, spiritually and for physical changes in our environment, manmade or solar.

Now we can get supplies.. seeds, food (rice is an excellent staple and can be stored in the large dog food plastic containers). Did you know if you blended eggs and spinach you could make a pancake that can also substitute as bread and is healthier? If you can have chickens get some. Grow the spinach in a garden. Tear out the lawn and grow food. Get into companion planting. Get a bee hive if you can. Just remember, when all else fails the most important things one thinks upon after family and friends is food, shelter and water. Having something like this to trade is invaluable. These are the things we need to be focusing on, not who said what to whom about whatnot. Our vision needs to expand to what is going on in the world and with the planet and we need to operate from both faith and knowledge. And we need to be grateful to folks like Bill who make the effort to get the truth out to the public and provide a safe place on the net where folks from around the world can share what they know and make life-saving connections.