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It Doesn’t Take Much For People To Start Behaving Like Crazed Lunatics
The Economic Collapse ^ | February 12, 2014 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 02/13/2014 9:37:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 02/13/2014 9:37:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
-A major eruption of Mt. Rainier

Don't hold your breath waiting for that -- Washington resident

2 posted on 02/13/2014 9:39:48 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; ...

Preppers’ PING!!


3 posted on 02/13/2014 9:40:41 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bump


4 posted on 02/13/2014 9:43:56 PM PST by 4Liberty (Optimal institutions - optimal economy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Especially since most of them are crazy anyhow.


5 posted on 02/13/2014 9:44:01 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Kartographer

Its your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.

Look what happens every Black Friday and that’s just Christmas shopping, look at what happen during these recently winter storms in the south and now the northeast and thays isn’t real SHTF how do you think people will react then??

So listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3

One of the things Selco covers on his blog SHTF School is the fact that many will not accept that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why don’t they realize it? It’s caused by a condition called ‘Normalcy Bias’ a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.

It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.

A good article on ‘Normalcy Bias’ is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:

http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/

You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.

There is a Great article in my Preparedness Manual on building your on Bug Out Bag titled: A Highly-Mobility 72 Hour Kit-by Ward Dorrity. You can download the whole manual at:

http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!

For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, cash (I myself have been putting up change for the past few years both for the metal content and the fact that using change places to make what purchases you can will move you down the the list of possible marks during shtf), tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.

As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”

Again I like to recomend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:

http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/

http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/

And More

Also there is Ferfal’s Blog a survivor of Argentina’s first collapse:

http://ferfal.blogspot.com/

And there is Selco’s Blog a Bosnian War survivor at:

http://shtfschool.com/

“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”


6 posted on 02/13/2014 9:44:44 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s right.

Civilization lasts as long as people choose to remain civilized.

As soon as they choose otherwise, we are back in the wilderness.


7 posted on 02/13/2014 9:47:33 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The always voracious and sensation-seeking MSM TV stokes the flames of panic, fear and anxiety among the populace even for things like blizzards, high winds.....even bridge traffic jams in New Joisey. The media is shameless.

Leni

8 posted on 02/13/2014 9:48:09 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“So what do you think?”

Look up, for redemption draws nigh.


9 posted on 02/13/2014 9:53:03 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: Kartographer
http://safeshare.tv/w/csrqsTAmSx

Check out this short video

10 posted on 02/13/2014 9:55:42 PM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: steve86

Just to be clear to all, Mount Rainer is NOT a hazard for an earth darkening eruption as you say. However, it IS very much at risk of a lahar - huge and fast snow/mud/rock slide that could make it into the populated South Puget Sound area and wipe out communities, bridges and highways.


11 posted on 02/13/2014 9:57:12 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
B T T T ! ! ! ©

12 posted on 02/13/2014 9:59:18 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: chris37

I think there were a few Twilight Zone Episodes that addressed this issue.


13 posted on 02/13/2014 9:59:34 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work...)
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To: Kartographer

Civilization will die without soap and toilet paper. Paper money does not make good toilet paper and coins are even worse. It is hard to reproduce, I would think having no real first hand knowledge, with a stinking woman.

Soap and toilet paper, food to keep up your energy up to protect them, and guns and ammo to keep the thieves at bay.

Civilization can return as long as the women don’t stink. That is my preping advice.


14 posted on 02/13/2014 10:09:59 PM PST by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So, let's look at which ones of the posed catastrophies could be done as a false flag or terrorist attack:<[>
-A major eruption of Mt. Rainier or the Yellowstone supervolcano -The "Big One" hits California Only some as yet unexposed effect from HAARP could do it, either ours, the Russians' or the Chicoms'

-A massive earthquake along the New Madrid fault line Again, a HAARP type weapons effect

-A highly infectious pandemic that kills tens of millions of Americans The oligrachs would use it if they thought they could contain it eventually; the terrorists, being insane religious fanatics, would do it believing their lesser moon goddess would not let their populations die from it

-Hackers bring down the Internet or crash the banking system That is already being on the drawing boardsd of every major military in the world, and our folks are seeking counter measures, everyday, according to my son

-A massive tsunami hits either the east coast or the west coast destroying numerous major cities IF the terrorist maniacs have a nuke, they could use it to greatest devastational effect on our Eastern shoreline by dropping a major mountain into the sea a thousand miles from New York; it would be a nice coup for someone like Russia using a surrogate

-A major war erupts in the Middle East and the United States gets involved I suspect CIA Brennan is working on the gears for that one as we type!

-A crisis involving North Korea sparks a major war in Asia Not likely, since the Chicoms have the kimmies on a short leash.

-A terror attack that specifically targets our power grid WHEN the Islamic maniacs can figure out how to do it on a broad enough scale, they will do it, make no mistake

-A terror attack involving a weapon of mass destruction in one of our major cities Gee, ya think?

-A terror attack or a major natural disaster causes one or more nuclear facilities in the heart of the United States to experience a "Fukushima-like crisis" A land-locked plant is not nearly as useful for contamination as one nestled by the sea, so Hanford is more likely than a plain states or Southern States plant, though one on the Mississippi River would make a huge contamination problem effecting tens of millions.

-A massive EMP blast that fries our electrical grid and our communications systems The maniacs in Iran are putting all the parts into place to do just that, and the globalists bankers would welcome it as a breath of fresh air for their reset needs.

-Last but certainly not least, a massive economic collapse that fundamentally changes life in America on a permanent basis THAT is already being arranged! The ecomic system of the world and America in particular is sustained on debt accumulation, not wealth creation. Eventually, as has happened numerous times since the Western banking process was created, a reset point is reached where the return to the globalist bankers is under threat of being sequestered into the national government issuing currency as money not as collateral for private bankers.

So, which is most likely to happen first? Only God knows, but I'm betting a flase flag so horrible that survivors beg for the fedzilla to come and save them and protect them forever thereafter, like a major volcanic eruption or tsunami. However, 911 erased a lot of lawsuit records (bldg 7, Gold holdings under the towers, federal records of collected data by NSA/CIA/etc in bldg 6) and government black budget paper trails (at the particular point where the impact occurred on the Pentagon). So hitting NY with a false flag op might now be less agenda exposing.

Whatever comes, if not a natural disaster, will have specific agenda in mind, like ending the we the people Republic, finally. It might be planned as a stepwise process, for instance devastating the California food basket to the nation via massive earth quake which clips interstate connections Eastward, then a New Madrid which collapses connection between east and West of the Mississippi, then ... well, you get the gist. PUT NOTHING PAST DEMOCRIPS. They are evil incarnate when in power.

15 posted on 02/13/2014 10:13:09 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Kartographer

The more people who prepare something...for emergencies the better chances for all of U.S.

I know refuges from all over the world.

All the sane ones...”about half” conserve resources....save for future....ect..

Most Americans I know will have trouble if mcdonalds goes on strike.


16 posted on 02/13/2014 10:16:43 PM PST by Therapsid
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman
Civilization can return as long as the women don’t stink.

Sounds like a redneck song!

17 posted on 02/13/2014 10:17:49 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://safeshare.tv/w/csrqsTAmSx


18 posted on 02/13/2014 10:18:46 PM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: 21twelve
However, it IS very much at risk of a lahar - huge and fast snow/mud/rock slide that could make it into the populated South Puget Sound area and wipe out communities, bridges and highways.

Very much agree. But the tone of the article is concerning some kind of widespread catastrophe, and whereas a lahar can be catastrophic to those in its path, people 5 miles away might be entirely unaffected. Fortunately or unfortunately for those in its immediate path, the major risks between the mountain and Puget Sound are pretty well known and mapped out.

19 posted on 02/13/2014 10:19:08 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

OK....That post goes into my all-time top 10 FR best comments.

That was great


20 posted on 02/13/2014 10:25:33 PM PST by digger48
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