Real Crisis Responses

Food

In North Carolina, the economic suffering of citizens by 1862 reached such proportions that county officials implemented elaborate new mechanisms to meet their basic dietary needs.
The crisis overwhelmed traditional public and private aid efforts, leading to a sharp break with past notions about government involvement in the economy.
In Virginia, the shortage of food in towns and cities became so serious by 1864 that Governor William Smith asked the state legislature to appropriate funds to buy and transport food to the needy communities.
When the legislature refused, Smith dipped into his contingency funds, took out a personal loan, and managed to come up with $110,000 to hire a fleet of blockade runners and begin trading for supplies.
Blockade running became too dangerous, but the resourceful governor confiscated a railroad train in the name of the state to facilitate his purchase of food supplies inland.
His operation became so successful that he was able, in his words, "to make occasional loans to the Confederate Government."
As food became increasingly scarce, riots erupted throughout the urban South, disclosing conflicts and resentments that had remained below the surface before the firing on Fort Sumter.
Women, who experienced the hunger of their children and families most directly, led many of these food riots, the best known of which was the uprising in the Confederate capital of Richmond on April 2, 1863.
Similar protests occurred in small towns such as Salisbury, North Carolina where a highly disciplined group of between forty and fifty soldiers' wives demanded that local merchants lower the prices of flour, as well as other essential commodities such as molasses and salt.
When merchants filed to cooperate, the women seized the food supplies and divided them amongst themselves.

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Slavery

1850s

Indeed, planters and yeomen joined together to support secession in large part out of a perceived sense that only by making a strike for independence could they protect household patriarchy from the corrosive forces that threatened it.

These forces, it should be stressed, were not simply the product of a fevered southern imagination.

Especially during the 1850s a sense of uncertainty about the future gathered momentum in the black belt areas of the South as wealth in land and slaves became increasingly concentrated, slave prices rose beyond reach of many aspiring planters and railroad construction integrated even greater areas of the cotton South into a market economy over which individuals exercised little control.

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Hiding or Erasure of History

Germany has done a job in trying to forget the Hitler era and the lingering effects of that time in their history.

German culture demands that no one forget the atrocities of the Holocaust - this is a good thing but in order to do this one must have a thorough process of study of what, who, and why of the origins of such horrific events.

Same two-sided beliefs are occurring in the US today concerning the Confederate States of America - the same set of divisions will ensue with one addition, the mutation of such vulgarity with advancement, it is exactly how the human mind operates.




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Truth For The Future

Borders



Smugglers raise prices for sneaking people across the U S border and is almost doubled in amount.
Proves the point that resetting a boundary does, in fact, cost more in all areas, illegal and legal.
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Humankind

18th Century

"When barely out of college, John Adama declared to a friend that to understand human behavior one had to comprehend "the passions, appetites, and affections in nature" that drove humankind.
"An intimate knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral is the sole foundation of which a stable structure of knowledge can be erected."
The great lesson that Adamas derived from such knowledge was that humankind was given to corruption.
He came to see the species as driven by insatiable desires that led each person to search endlessly, selfishly, for happiness.
Adama believed that the forces of reason and emotion warred within the breast of each person.
Passion, greed, ambition, vanity, envy, and hatred stirred in every heart.
The first urge of humankind, he thought, was to ask how each act and every occurrence would "affect my Humour, my Interest, my....Designs."
Since the transgressions of Adam in the Garden of Eden he said, "Mankind in general has been given up to Strong Delusions, vile Affections, sordid Lusts, and brutal Appetites."
Yet he also acknowledged a brighter side to human nature.
Most persons cherished sociability and played out their lives seeking an equilibrium between the natural, competitive urges.
The struggle was never easy, for selfish egoism was insatiable."
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Voting Cards

Voting cards



Nigerian government spokesperson says that intelligence shows plot to steal vote cards from women then use them to get suicide bombers into polling places.
Reported on 5 February 2015

Advantage

12 December 2014






A report from Israel states that a Palestinian man douses a family with acid.  This occurred when a family had stopped to allow a man cross the street, and act of good gesture.  The man with the acid then approached the car when it was stopped and poured acid on the occupants of the car.  The occupants were children and the acid burned them on the parts that came into contact with the acid.
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