(Tia spells out the various levels of the defcon alert system and gives examples of what it would take to increase to each one. She urges people on this planet to come together and uses the ancient wars of her home planet where hair color was the reason for groups of people to go to war. Her people evolved into a matriarchal society where now the wars are mock battles held during religious festivals.) 

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Tia: okay, back to business, where was I? Oh yes, so you can declare or be aware of when we're going to declare a defcon advancement. Okay for defcon three, a drop of 150 points with, in three different locations civil disobedience and one large-scale such as major forest fires, some ecological disaster somewhere such as a forest fire, major oil slick, heat wave, torrential rain in some major food producing area. Okay?

Russ: okay.

Tia: so we have those three steps. 150 drop, three locations of civil disobedience, some kind of natural environmental problems such as gas…..

Russ: hurricanes?

Tia: hurricanes in major crop producing areas, okay?

Russ: okay.

Tia: something that will damage the harvest. For example, Mark was complaining about the price of red bell peppers. Guess how much red bell peppers are?

Russ: I don’t know, a buck thirty nine?

Tia: this time last year, yes.

Russ: how much are they now?

Tia: $3.29 and they’re not even good ones.

Russ: that’s quite a jump. Yeah but El Niño pretty well wiped out the red bell pepper crop.

Tia: uh-huh. So, taking El Niño as a one environmental disaster okay?

Russ: okay.

Tia: it’s affected the Central Valley…….

Russ: right.

Tia: all the way down it’s affected all the way up to the Yakima Valley all the way along okay?

Russ: right.

Tia: okay, so that is one environmental disaster.

Russ: right.

Tia: okay, now we haven’t had three locations at the same time of civil disobedience. We did have a drop of however many, 209 points…..

Russ: right.

Tia: with a recovery today of I think it was 178 but I don’t have the figures on my hands at the moment. Okay, so we’re part of the way there. Now if there’s another environmental problem and a drop of 150 points plus, plus three locations of civil disobedience, then we would declare a defcon three.

Russ: okay.

Tia: okay, for Defcon two…..

Russ: right.

Tia: okay, it is either a drop of 500 points….

Russ: okay.

Tia: in one day….

Russ: right.

Tia: or a continuous downward trend for a period of two weeks where it loses approximately up to 800 points with six locations of civil disobedience, not all at the same time but again in the space of two weeks…..

Russ: all right.

Tia: plus two major areas of environmental damage regardless whether it is crop producing or not. Now they do have to be…

(Tia takes a break to scold the cats outside in Durondedunn)

Tia: they have to be at least major forest fires, major forest fires like you had in the far east in Malaysia and all that area…..

Russ: right.

Tia: the Philippines and so on, or major, major earthquakes in large populous areas of massive millions or billions exceeding $11 billion dollars which is bigger than the San Francisco earthquake of ‘89.

Russ: right.

Tia: okay?

Russ: all right.

Tia: defcon one is a drop of a thousand in either at one time or over a week, it’s more likely over a week. Okay because when the market reaches 500 what happens? They close it down. 

Russ: right.

Tia: so it have to be a drop of a thousand in the space of a week, six civil disobediences of massive proportions such as the scene in Jakarta….

Russ: right.

Tia: not all in the same location, they’ve got to be spread around all over the planet and four natural disasters of considerable proportion over the period of two weeks exceeding again $11 billion dollars each. You got that?

Russ: that’s a bunch. So that's the three.

Tia: uh-huh. We’re in defcon four at the moment but we’ve been watching and thinking about defcon three for a while just because the market is being a little bit on the jittery side and the fact of the ongoing El Niño thing as you rightly pointed out and the problems in the far east with the nuclear tests and everything. It’s something that’s kind of pushing it back that way however I have seen a general trend in the times that I’ve been doing my map analyzing work as department head of summer times when you have the monsoons and the heat from late winter, spring till late autumn….

Russ: right.

Tia: is always a time of activity, intense activity as a majority of the populace lives in the northern hemisphere, that’s where all problems seem to be generally located. You don’t hear of major disasters exceeding $11 billion in somewhere like Lima Peru do you?

Russ: no, nor are you likely to.

Tia: no. So, the trend of the summertime is something that is always jittery because in the northern hemisphere is so crowded and there are so many billions of people in the northern hemisphere all concentrated on average about 500 miles from the coast in. So there’s a lot of pressure on those areas and of course those areas happen to be the most fertile areas as well because of all the alluvial plains and glaciation and so on. Stop at the oceans and deposit all their nutrients and goodness on the soil. And of course all the mountains are based inland and they all wash down into the oceans depositing silt and sediment and all good stuff all across the alluvial plains again. 

Russ: right.

Tia: so that 500 mile corridor where everybody happens to live…..actually you could probably narrow it to 250 but 500 is a nice figure. So you see the problem, with all those……I don’t like that look of his.

Russ: what?

Tia: the stubble.

Russ: well I don’t think it’s a permanent thing, I think he’s going shave it off after this week’s over isn't he?

Tia: I think he ought to shave it off sooner. Luckily when he comes up here he’s clean-shaven otherwise I wouldn’t let him into my bed, I would say, “go shave that stuff off.” Okay, now do you have questions?

Russ: yeah, for the most part, this is stuff that we’re looking at in the future….

Tia: uh-huh.

Russ: do we have an idea how far in the future?

Tia: I’m waiting to get the okay to release that kind of information from the Council.

Russ: okay. Now somebody might accuse you of being an alarmist…..

Tia: yes.

Russ: okay….

Tia: uh-huh.

Russ: and well with good reason. I mean in times past you have predicted stuff that due to things that happened in the White House have not happened….

Tia: uh-huh.

Russ: and so therefore some people worry that possibly we're jumping the gun and stuff even though I know we’re not…..

Tia: uh-huh but you have received emails from people saying that that’s the impression that they’re getting.

Russ: no.

Tia: no?

Russ: they’re just a general impression I would get if I was reading stuff like that.....

Tia: uh-huh.

Russ: and I was wondering how you would respond to someone like that.

Tia: well okay my response is it’s better to be prepared than to be caught with your panties down.

Russ: correct.

Tia: it’s better to have a plan of saving money, saving food, being cautious, being careful, being prepared for whatever comes. If it never comes that’s wonderful, that is great, but if it comes and when it comes you will be prepared. There is no set date, people have often have made the mistake of setting a date on when things are going to happen, when the world’s going end blah blah blah, when there’s going to be a nuclear war etc. etc..

Russ: right.

Tia: and are any of those groups that have predicted the coming return of Christ, the nuclear war, are they still around?

Russ: yeah.

Tia: uh-huh but they’re fading away because they made the simple, simple mistake of putting a date. There is no date on the Apocalypse, there is no Apocalypse, it just gets worse and worse and worse until people pull her fingers out of their tush and get their act together and realize that they’ve got to pull together. Whether they’re in Africa, or they’re African-Americans and white Americans, one group’s members are the Black Panthers, the other group's a member of the triple K gang, they’ve all got to realize that they have to pull together otherwise none of them are going to survive as a group. They have to drop their grudges and say, “okay, just because the skin's a different color, we all bleed red blood, we all have hearts and livers and lungs and brains, we have to get on.”

Russ: well and that’s it, pulling together has never been man’s strong suit.

Tia: no and it wasn’t on my planet.

Russ: and it wasn’t on Sirius.

Tia: no.

Russ: for example, on Sirius it was one group of people….

Tia: uh-huh.

Russ: who got together for a common cause…..

Tia: uh-huh.

Russ: 120,000 to be exact. 

(Ed. Note: it was actually a 144,000)

Tia: uh-huh.

Russ: on Durondedunn, I don’t know the story there but I’m sure it was a similar story.

Tia: well actually it was after the men decimated themselves because of the redheads and the blondes and the black hairs and the brown hairs, they all lived in different parts of the planet. Skin color never meant anything to us. So your skin’s darker or lighter or whatever, it was hair color was kind of the racial difference. All the blonde people lived in the cold climates, all the redheads happened to live in the kind of middle climates where it would be warm or cold and then of course the dark-haired ones lived further South in the more hot zones.

Russ: hmm, okay. And so that’s when it became matriarchal?

Tia: pretty much after that that we realized that we had to get together and work together and then it was those that lived in the cold climates wanted a bigger area from those that lived in the temperate zones and so on. And that’s when we women had our bloody wars, it wasn't over hair color or stature, it was over land, much like you had.

Russ: hmmm.

Tia: and our wars were much more bloody then the males had, much more bloody, much more ferocious.

Russ: hmmm. Well you didn’t go through that though....

Tia: no.

Russ: so all you can do is read the history books on that.

Tia: uh-huh, yes.

Russ: hmmm. Well someday I'll read about our history books and how everything was nice and peaceful until all hell broke loose.

Tia: name me a day when it’s been peaceful on your planet.

Russ: locally or worldly?

Tia: worldly.

Russ: yeah, never happen.

Tia: I think it was Christmas Day 1967.

Russ: I don’t think so.

Tia: I’m joking.

Russ: of course, but it's just something that all planet’s goes through.

Tia: uh-huh, it’s a matter of evolvement, evolving from a warlike planet such as your planet or my planet or Sirius and realizing that warfare does not solve everything. The bloodshed of women fighting for land and men and so on is not right. The ratio on my planet of women to men is still about three or four to one.

Russ: uh-huh.

Tia: at one time, men on your planet would love this, the ratio was thirty to one.

Russ: women to men?

Tia: uh-huh.

Russ: hmm.

Tia: thirty women vying for one man.

Russ: poor guys would be worn out.

Tia: well that’s when they started to become docile.

Russ: yeah I would be, I wouldn’t have any energy to do anything else but be docile.

Tia: uh-huh pretty much so and then it became a genetic thing and finally that’s how they ended up.

Russ: hmm.

Tia: seeing men that are so much a part of your everyday existence being the dominant ones, the thing is that if you’re not careful, you may go the same way.

Russ: hmmm, it's possible.