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Supermarkets being looted in Spain
FerFal Blog ^ | 9/3/12 | FerFal

Posted on 09/04/2012 8:51:01 AM PDT by Kartographer

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To: GeronL

As far as I can tell, corporations own very little land aside from a few big corporate farms and most of the food is still produced by private farmers who sell to the manufacturers.

The big land owners are people like you and I who may own an acre or less and the feds and states. I live not far from the Chrysler proving ground which is huge but its still a tiny speck in the map.


21 posted on 09/04/2012 9:29:31 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Kartographer

I’m sure everyone has heard the rumors that something is planned for the week before the election.

A PLANNED financial implosion would not surprise me. It may be their last chance for looting on a vast scale (not the convenience store...the brokerages/banks a la John Corzine).


22 posted on 09/04/2012 9:32:17 AM PDT by darth
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To: Kartographer

He has gone INTERNATIONAL!!!!

(if 0bama had a son that was a looter, he would look like this guy....)

23 posted on 09/04/2012 9:48:10 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Kartographer

I had forgotten that the Mormons stress one years supply of food and basic items. That is not a bad policy, if you have the room to story things. Andrew Tobias makes the same points in several of his books, oddly enough.


24 posted on 09/04/2012 9:54:42 AM PDT by MSF BU (n)
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To: darth; Kartographer
For your edification, Folks, something on that very subject:

Dated 29 AUG 2012

25 posted on 09/04/2012 9:54:50 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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To: cripplecreek
Don't suppose these idiots gave any thought to what happens when the store shelves are empty and trucks stop arriving or ships fail to dock.

When chaos breaks out in this country I'm relying on the looters to hit the appliance stores first to pick up a new flat screen just before the grid goes down. In the meantime, I intend to head for the nearest wholesale store (Sam's, Costco, etc) and buy all the foodstuffs I can with soon to be worthless credit cards (while the grid is still up), or checks and fiat currency which will be worthless in no time.

26 posted on 09/04/2012 10:05:48 AM PDT by immadashell
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To: Kartographer
Many of these ‘yutes’ will think no more about killing you than most people think about stepping on a roach. That will be the test of many. Most preppers I know are Christian people and they will hesitate to do what they might have to do to stop the ‘yutes’. On the other hand the ‘yutes’ won’t think twice nor lose a minute of sleep, in fact they will smile and laugh about it.

The flip side of this is numbers, training, and skill. A majority of the population is productive - decent people outnumber thugs. Also, training and skill matter. Thugs hit with about one out of seven aimed shots and kill with one out of ten hits. Civilians shooting in self-defense hit one out of two shots and kill with close to one out of two hits (precise values vary for both statistics, but those numbers are reasonably reliable). We don't need nearly as large a percentage of good Christians defending themselves before wilding gets expensive for the criminal class.

27 posted on 09/04/2012 10:11:58 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Travis McGee
Coming someday (maybe soon) to cities in the US. When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence
28 posted on 09/04/2012 10:12:31 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
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To: Kartographer

No one else is saying it...so I will.

Looks like Hispano-Iberian culture peaked in 1588 and has been slip-sliding away ever since.


29 posted on 09/04/2012 10:20:56 AM PDT by mkboyce
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To: Kartographer

I know what that’s from!


30 posted on 09/04/2012 10:29:19 AM PDT by DallasDeb (usafa06mom)
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To: Kartographer

Dude... I love your ping list but you have GOT to stop using the Star Trek quote.


31 posted on 09/04/2012 10:31:16 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
We really should be worried for our kids.

Don't worry, they'll have kids that will pay for all of this. It's settled science. /s

32 posted on 09/04/2012 10:51:05 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (Official Romney/GOP-E Platform - We suck less)
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To: snowrip

The truth always bears repeating. You have no idea how many even here on FR think that this kind of thing can’t happen here or to them.


33 posted on 09/04/2012 10:53:44 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: snowrip; Kartographer

I concur: adding fantasy quotes to serious subjects dilutes the seriousness and credibility of the topic.


34 posted on 09/04/2012 10:55:50 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (I'll take over the Mormon over the Moron any day!)
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To: Kartographer

The truth of any coming collapse is not borne out by a quote from a science fiction TV show... and I’m a Trekkie!


35 posted on 09/04/2012 11:00:50 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: Kartographer

All I can say is that the wife and I got to see Seville last year. We saw the onset of this in Barcelona and Madrid this year.

It won’t be long.


36 posted on 09/04/2012 11:10:02 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Pollster1

Many Americans have useful skills, but we’re not so involved in politics now. Funny—most who believe that they are highly skilled will know that they are useless before long. Many don’t even realize that they are miseducated despite the costs of their educations, or that their incomes are coming from a monstrous pile of debt.


37 posted on 09/04/2012 11:13:46 AM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: Kartographer

True: holosights might not work well after SHTF/TEOTWAWKI, the end. Maybe good iron sites would be tougher.

Oh...you said “holosuites.” Never mind! ;-)


38 posted on 09/04/2012 11:18:59 AM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: mkboyce

39 posted on 09/04/2012 11:28:00 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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To: DCBryan1; snowrip

The truth is the Truth no matter where you find it. I think back biting and nitpicking do far more toward diluting such threads.

Let me rewrite it:

John Doe: “Let me tell you something about people, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their tv’s are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, hot showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty gangbanger. You don’t believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.”

Maybe you can see what the meaning is now.


40 posted on 09/04/2012 11:28:50 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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