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Book One    Reality Bites

 

 

 

Chapter 1

 

 

 

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Working as a nurse in a hospital took a special kind of person. Jane Goodwin is this special type of person. She has met the challenges she faced daily in her job with compassion and caring. It was hard rewarding work that took a person from the highs of saving someone’s life to the lows of watching a child die unable to save them. In those intense moments when someone’s life hangs in the balance is what it is all about. To meet those challenges with skill and calmness came as second nature to her. It was easy sometimes to forget they were people you were working on and not just bodies that required your services. She made a conscious will to never forget they were people with feelings and loved ones’ waiting and praying for them to recover. It showed in all she did. Doctors and her fellow peers respected her. Her patients loved her. She usually had a kind word for just about anyone.

 

She always thought of everyone else’s needs and the little details that brightened even the most horrendous day for all those she thought of as her charges and coworkers. Everyone said she was much too giving, much too kind. They seemed to forget those quick stinging rebukes she could deal out if she caught you in a mistake.

 

Jane understood the stress everyone was under. Especially lately with all the new Biological training they were doing. Since the Anthrax scare of 2001-2002 this new training was mandatory at most hospitals. They were taught the guide lines and procedures that had been set up to help lessen the impact of contamination. These were containment, isolation wards and Biological sterile procedures for the protection of health care workers. They were being taught that by using these strict guide lines it would stop the spread of a Biological contaminate. Or so they said. It was just a theory, a way they had come up with to handle something like this. It had not been proven yet. Still, better than nothing I guess, Jane thought.

 

How little people truly understood what was about to become painfully clear. The U. S. and the world were not ready for the devastating effects and the speed

 

 

of infection a highly contagious virus would cause. Nor were they ready for the deadly results that followed.

 

When people would say how good she was she always laughed and said, “You have it all wrong. I am very selfish. I do it because it makes me feel good.” They would laugh and shake their heads at her not quite understanding her meaning. They just didn’t get it at all she thought. The running joke on her floor was and “Who takes care of you?” She would always smile and say, “Joe does.” Joe was her husband.

 

Jane’s husband Joe Goodwin was a retired Army Sergeant. Joe and Jane had a small twenty acre farmstead in southern Minnesota with chickens and they raised a pig for butchering every summer. It was a good life. He was a hard working man and very good at his job. He was very down to earth and practical. Just like most folks, he had always concentrated on his job and daily living concerns. At home it seemed that there just never were enough hours in the day to complete all that needed to be done that day. Running a farmstead was not an easy thing to organize when the two care takers also had full time jobs. You could make lists of what you planned on accomplishing in a day and were happy if you really had the time to do half on the list. It seemed every job that should take x amount of time ended up taking twice to three times as long as it should. He thought, “Just like contact with the enemy. That is how long any plan really lasts.” You do the best you could. They loved the life they had even if at times it was pretty frustrating trying to get everything done when you wanted. The running joke between them was how long and what jobs were on the, “List.” Things were running a lot smoother since Joe had retired.

 

In 2009 Joe went on a survivalist tangent. It started with watching a movie called, “2012”. It got him thinking and contemplating things out in the world. He then found out about the militia and what they were doing. The more he listened to the information the worse he got. He started talking about the New World Order plans for mass genocide, the dollar collapsing and the H1N1 flu virus and how the vaccine was meant to kill off the earths’ population.

 

He always joked about the Environmentalist and Animal Rights folks. He felt they were just a bunch of dope smoking hippies that were stoned one night and figured out a plan to make a living without working. The hippie’s cried about animals being mistreated, the trees being cut down, bad water or whatever they could think up. The donations flew in from suckers all across the nation and the free loading hippies got set up in a great lifestyle. Of course it is Non profit but the salaries and expense accounts of these people were right up there in the six figures for most of them. How these people slept at night having school kids donating their lunch money for their fake causes was beyond Joe. What really upset him was most of the people believed them with a religious zeal. They preached it and shunned anyone who had a different view from them.

 

Joe was now turning into a full time survivalist. He researched a lot of things on the internet. He worked on wind and solar power. He bought bulk grains and stored them in fifty-five gallon drums. Before he had become more survival minded he used to collect some of the spilled over grain at the local grain mills to feed his chickens. He would collect a few buckets each year and now he was collecting as many fifty-five gallon drums as he could. He stored some gas with preservatives. He switched their electric cook stove to a propane cook stove. He bought a huge propane tank to store a few years worth of propane. He also stored some heating oil for the diesel generator he bought. He was buying up guns and ammo like mad. His reloading room for ammo looked like he could make enough bullets for an Army. He bought up some gold and silver to store for currency when the dollar finally collapsed.

 

Joe’s old Army buddy Preston Riley had just retired in Madison, Wisconsin. They had stayed in touch with each other through emails when he couldn’t visit. Preston had been a helicopter mechanic and was now working at a small airfield. His wife had divorced him and he was now living with a woman. It was way out of character for him. She was a city woman name Carolyn and loved the bright lights and fancy restaurants and parties.

 

Preston was an outdoor person like Joe was. He liked to hunt and fish. Preston had bought 20 acres of land right next to Joe and Jane when they had bought the farmstead. He bought and set up a small two bedroom trailer for deer hunting on it. He came around once a month to visit and check in his property. Joe and Preston had hand dug a well. They had added a few solar panels to the trailer to run the lights and radio. Nothing fancy at all. Preston had found a wood burning hot water heater on the internet and installed it. It was his one luxury for hunting season.  Nothing beat a hot shower. A solar panel with a 12 volt pump pressurized the house system. Joe joked it would have been easier to run 3 -100 foot long extension cords out to the trailer from his property

 

After listening to all the information Joe picked up about the things going on in the world Preston decided to make this his SHTF (When the Sh_t Hits The Fan) retreat too. Preston felt it couldn’t hurt to be prepared for a disaster or whatever. One thing the military had taught him was to cover your ass. If nothing ever happened he had a cool hunting camp. It was a win, win situation as far as he was concerned. Another thing the military had taught him was to not trust politicians. He felt with politicians running the world anything could happen. They didn’t always have the people’s best interest in mind.

 

Jane put up with these two thinking of them as boys playing the end of the world games. Kind of like a mild mid life crisis. They weren’t city type people so instead of flashy sports cars and fashion clothes they played what if it was the end of the world. When Preston came up once a month to visit most of the time it was fun. They had good times and laughed a lot. But lately the talk had gotten out of hand she thought. Way too much about the New World Order and stuff about the powers that be trying to crash the whole financial system and releasing a biological weapon to kill off 90% of humans on the planet. This kind of talk gave her the chills. She was remembering the recent Biological training she had under gone. All of this was running through her mind giving her lightening like glimpses of the horrible pictures and video evidence she had been shown of the horrible results of Biological attacks that had happened.

 

That is just way too much crazy talk. She felt no one in their right mind would ever conceive a plan or idea like that. Sure the world was pretty messed up but it was just human error and learning from our own mistakes. She also felt that with technology advancing at such a fast rate, terrorists around every corner of the globe causing havoc and death was just a sign of their times. People couldn’t keep up emotionally and so they had invented a bogey man. It was their way of handling way too much change in their daily lives. With all the social structures and cultural changes that have happened in the last fifty years, it was a wonder that the world wasn’t an even crazier place. The breakdown of the family unit from a mother and father and grandparents for emotional support and stability is at the heart of everything she felt. Today the norm is a single parent with no close family for any kind of mental or emotional support. They become a single digit unit to handle things that it used to take two parents and two sets of grandparents to handle with aunts and uncles thrown in the mix too. She felt so sorry for the kids of today’s generation. She felt they really don’t stand a chance for any kind of a good life. No supervision and no one they could talk to that would understand their situations or even to know what they are talking about. Yes, the world was a very much messed up place. There is no need for a suicidal phantom New World Order to kill us all off with a bio weapon. We are doing it to ourselves without any help from them she darkly thought.

 

Joe had started doing deep research into the top ecology people. Those no good hippie people were on a power trip. He wasn’t sure if they were really insane or started to believe their own press or what. They were openly calling for a mass genocide of people to save the planet for the animals. How insane was that? Even some people like Patrick Geryl in his book "How to Survive 2012" had real crazy out there stuff like that. In his book on Page 184, A Heroic battle for the Wisdom Cult had the legend of the rainbow warrior. Under the symbol of the rainbow all races and all religions of the world will unite. Together they will proclaim the great wisdom of living in harmony with each other and creations of the Earth. The ones who are teaching this well become know as "the rainbow warriors." Although they are warriors they will have loving hearts and carry the spiritual way of living and knowledge of the "Old Ones" with them. And they will do no harm to any living creature. The legend tells of a FORCE of peace.

 

On page 185 in the author own words. We will conquer. We simply have to. ONLY WE WITH A WELL ORGANIZED VISION WILL BE ABLE TO RE ESTABLISH CIVILIZATION.” “And like a phoenix we will arise from our ashes, ruling the world in an ecological way with an essential message for all future generations.” There is a lot more of the same kind of thing but, it is clear in his writing what he is saying. The eco cult warriors will make everyone become vegetarians or we will kill you. That is the message loud and clear.

 

This is some whacked out stuff Joe thought. You have got to be kidding if anyone really would believe this crap. He found so many more books, articles and manifestos with the same kind of theme through them. They were about death to the humans and a worshipful idealistic attitude to the animals. There were thousands of them all over the place. This is some crazy scary stuff. He did more research and found that this stuff is being taught in colleges. It is being taught in grade schools too. Remember the kids giving up their lunch money to save the animals? Oh boy, he thought. 

 

Joe shared all his research he had done with Jane and Preston. He wanted to believe this was just some ranting from a far left wing extremist but these folks are organized and may number in the millions. That is truly scary that these people are so far out in left field that they hate their own species? How crazy are these lunatics? How much power do they really have? Are they collecting guns, ammo, and bomb making information? Are they studying Bio weapons to release on the public? These were his concerns. And how serious were they really.

 

Just how are out there are these crazy people? Pathological human haters are what they truly are and like the movie the Body Snatchers their madness spreads around the world. How often do you hear people say that there are too many people in the world? Really?  Who promoted them to God to say and judge when there are too many people? They say everything is mankind’s fault. We are in the middle of the 4th mass extinction. Well, that was a theory better known as a lie. You see some academic’s with too much time and not enough brain power made up a computer model and said mankind was wiping out five thousand species a year. They were gone, completely extinct. A reporter back in the 1990's called up the "so called" experts and asked for a list of the top 100 animals that had gone extinct in the world. They said, “Sorry we don't have that list.” The reporter said, “Okay, how about the top ten?” They said, “Sorry we don't have that list.” The reporter was now getting desperate for facts to write the story. The reporter said, “Can you name one species that has gone extinct in the last year because of mankind?” They answered, “No.” The reporter asked, “Why not?” They answered, “Because it is a computer model and not based on what is really happening.”

 

Then really crazy stuff came out later. Joe found this on the internet.

http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2006/04/02/now-in-the-do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do-dept/

 

From: Keith Arnett

Sent: Sunday, April 2, 2006 5:22:25 PM

Subject: Dr. Pianka's FINAL SOLUTION

 

While Heinrich Himmler's "final solution" was limited to exterminating the Jews, Dr. Eric R. Pianka promotes a FINAL SOLUTION for 90% of earth's population. In accepting the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist award, Heir Pianka was interrupted with applause and received a standing ovation.

 

"Soylent Green is people." And the way cinema's futurist society dealt with over population was through the "Renewal Ceremony", where the inductees were secretly turned into FOOD for the remaining citizens.

 

AT LEAST THEY WERE TURNED INTO FOOD! Unleashing the Ebola virus on humanity, as publicly advocated by reptilian advocate Dr. Pianka, would result in billions of excruciating deaths and rotting corpses in the streets. Does such a position increase the esteem of the Texas Academy of Science? Does the Academy deem such a colleague as a visionary, exemplar, & eloquent representative?

 

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! For a scientific community, however provincial, to recognize Dr. Pianka sublimates wholesale genocide. His advocacy of the extermination of most human life on the earth flies in the face of natural selection, and is so patently absurd as to defy logical challenge. The Texas Academy of Science, her directors, fellows, and members, is DIMINISHED through close association with, and its elevation of, Dr. Eric R. Pianka.

 

If the Academy is to maintain public and professional credibility, it must censure Dr. Pianka and rescind his "Distinguished" status. Please use your personal and professional influence toward that immediate end.

 

Sincerely,

 

Keith M.

 

Joe and Preston talked about this crazy professor a lot. Dr. Doom received a standing ovation for openly talking about a bio weapon that could wipe out 90% of the human population. He was advocating killing billions of people. How insane was that? The nutcases must surely be running the asylum in America. This comes right back to the bunny, tree hugger crowd who openly brags about wanting the same thing. Surely Homeland Security is watching these academic communists in America, right?

 

No they’re not. The Body Snatchers have their own people in charge of Homeland Security. In a twist of irony Homeland Security ignores the reality of real American haters. They are real people haters. They target instead the so called right wing extremist like Christians who home school their children and our Veterans. It is like the Nazi’s final solution with America in charge instead of Germany. How crazy was that? Who would have thought this could ever be here in America? The world has really gone truly insane.

 

Joe ran across this.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94803

 

Homeland Security on guard for 'right-wing extremists'

Returning U.S. military veterans singled out as particular threats

 

"Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to right-wing extremists," it says. "DHS/I&A is concerned that right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize veterans in order to boost their violent capacities."

 

Why would DHS put out a report against our veterans? The most deadly threat known to mankind was just made by Dr. Eric R. Pianka who promotes a FINAL SOLUTION for 90% of earth's population. He was accepting the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist award. How in the world had this happened? A man stood up and advocated killing off 90% of the earth’s population and he gets an award? Didn’t we kill Hitler and fight against genocide in the Second World War? Now, we’re giving awards for the same thing? It reminded Joe of a Mark Twain quote, "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself. Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.” How in the world could this possibly be true? But, there it was in black and white living proof before him.

 

Joe was now firm in the camp that our Government was being run by imbeciles that really mean it. How far out there can these people be? Some lunatic Professor wants to have a Final Solution and not only that, but receives a standing ovation and awards? Any thinking American should see the writing on the wall with this one. This was the final solution for Americans? Unfortunately with imbeciles, crazies and far left lunatics all over our Government that outcome was becoming easy to see and believe. They wanted 90% of all people on the planet dead. They were following some type of cult thinking that was immediately apparent in their writings. These were our leaders and thinkers of solutions? What kind of crazy crap was this kind of thinking?

 

Jane came home from work and Joe was busy working in the garage workshop. She thought, “I bet he was too busy working to make dinner again.” She sighed and tried to think of what was easy and fast to cook for dinner. She realized she would have to check the freezer and pantry before she could decide what to make. To her surprise a note was on the table. It said check the microwave. She looked inside the microwave. There in front of her was one of her favorite meals. There was sliced fresh garden tomatoes, steaming hot corn on the cob, baked beans and a grilled pork chop. She smiled and chuckled. What a wonderful husband I have, she thought.

 

As she was eating Joe came rushing into the house. Joe stopped in his track seeing her and smiled. He said, “Good you found dinner. How was your day?”

 

She smiled back at him and said, “Long day. Glad to be home. What are you working on?”

 

He answered, “I have a plan. We need to start building housing units on the property.” A puzzled look came over her face and asked, “Housing units. What are you talking about?” I am sure it is another hair brain idea to save the world plan she thought.

 

You see we have a lot of homeless in America. So to help out we need to build them basic shelters, give them work, show them how to grow their own food, a wood stove to heat the place, and they will need propane cook stoves. I am trying to work out the solution so they only have to make a little money to survive each year. I am thinking we can break up the land so we have a dairy cow, someone else will raise the chickens, someone else will raise the pigs, someone else will raise rabbits, etc... We will rent out the housing units and they will agree to work on their assigned duties and be part of our community. It won't be a luxurious life, but with a main diesel generator we could power the housing units. Charge up a couple golf cart batteries to run the basics for the houses. Nothing fancy but it would beat living on the street and being hungry. We would all benefit together.

 

She had visions of ragtag looking homeless people with shopping carts walking all over their property going every which way. She also was worried about how safe it would be coming home to this. But he continued, “At least the people would be working instead of on welfare or starving.”

 

The phone rang. Joe answered it. It was Preston. He said, “Did you hear about this strange flu overseas?” Joe answered, “No, I’ve been busy with plans on the housing project we tossed around the other day for the homeless.” Preston continued, I just heard about this myself. There’s a serious illness in the Ukraine. There saying this mysterious illness is known as the 'Ukrainian Plague'. It has now affected approximately 1,300,000 with approximately 70,000 hospitalized in serious to critical condition. There are reports that suggest the total deaths could be 6,000 or higher.

 

Has someone really gone and done it? Was this natural or man made? Could this be a test run?

 

 

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