Collapse: “It Will Be Sudden and Very Painful”

SHTF Plan ^ | 8/4/11 | Mac Slavo

[Kartographer]

While it’s too early to tell whether or not the destruction in stock markets will continue as it did in 2008, one thing is for sure – when the bottom finally falls out of this economy it’s going to come as a surprise to tens of millions of people who have been bamboozled by their trusted politicians and corporate elite.

Today’s Dow Jones collapse of 350 points is but an indicator of the severe volatility and unmitigated destruction we can expect as this crisis enters the next phase. Former comptroller general of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) David Walker warns that it’s going to hurt:

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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, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.

[Kartographer]

PING!!!!

[Bean Counter]

Water, water, water, and more water...

[Magic Fingers]

“...things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.”

I will once I start getting two paychecks.

[Kartographer]

I’ve posted the link to my Preparedness Manual a good number of times now, but it never fails that not more than a week goes by and someone FReep-mails me that they just downloaded it for the first time. So here it goes again: For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:

http://www.tomeaker.com/kart/preparedness1i.pdf

For those of you who would want an idea of what an economic collapse looks like I suggest you watch an excellent documentary available on YouTube Part One is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6_i8zuffs

As a armed society with a very large entitlement minded population I expect that our collapse will be much more violent and I see many many a small business wiped out by looting, think Katrina/L.A. all rolled into one.

I also see what I call ‘Pocket Pogroms’ taking place in many big ‘Blue’ cities and if you aren’t a ‘0bamamite yute’ or one of ‘Holder’s People’ it’s going to get Reginald Denny bad for you very quickly.

I hate to add this, but I don’t like what I am seeing trending with LEO’s lately in the news. I am not sure if it’s stress or what, but there seems to be a growing disfuction in the area of ‘To protect and Serve’ among LEO’s. In a SHFT situation calling on LEO’s for help I think will end in not only not getting help you need, but actually end up with you very sorry you called.

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

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

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

[2ndDivisionVet]

bfl

[loungitude]

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[unkus]

))))ping((((

[Psalm 73]

My one glaring weak spot is water filtration/purification - you’d think that would be the 1st base I cover...........

[Kartographer]

Survival Preparedness for $100 dollars

http://preparednessdaily.com/2011/07/survival-preparedness-for-100-dollars/

[dfwgator]

Bullets, bullets, bullets, and more bullets...

[MrB]

I’d say, if you have the resources/area to do so, you should split your preps into multiple caches so that if the LEOs show up to confiscate your stuff, you give them what’s currently in your house and still have the majority of it in your caches.

[ronnyquest]

Bullets and toilet paper...

[little jeremiah]

In the book “Patriots” the collapse of law and order and all else that that entails was initiated by financial/monetary collapse alone.

[metmom]

While it’s too early to tell whether or not the destruction in stock markets will continue as it did in 2008, one thing is for sure – when the bottom finally falls out of this economy it’s going to come as a surprise to tens of millions of people who have been bamboozled by their trusted politicians and corporate elite.

Not to all of us.

[Kartographer]

*Home Made Berkey Water Filter*

http://www.alpharubicon.com/kids/homemadeberkeydaire.htm

Plans are also in my manual

[TheOldLady]

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[MrB]

Since more than half the cost of a Berkey is in the filters themselves, and you’d have to buy them anyway for your homemade solution,

I think I’ll not take the risk of my unfiltered water leaking into my filtered water because I wasn’t good enough with my hole saw on the 5 gal plastic buckets.

[Magic Fingers]

Thanks, but $100 isn’t going to buy two of what I normally buy.

[ladyjane]

They all talk about social security and medicare but not one of these guys mentions the massive welfare system we have in place.