Posted on 10/22/2013 6:29:43 PM PDT by Kartographer
Make no mistake. It’s coming.
And when it hits, it’ll make the crisis of 2008 look like a picnic.
We survived that one, barely, but it took trillions of dollars just to stabilize, not fix, the system.
This time around, our creditors and the people as a whole may well lose confidence. And once that is lost, look out, because as Gerald Celente notes, the happenings at Walmart when the EBT system crashed were just a prelude.
Imagine that next time around it happens to not just EBT cards, but ATM’s and bank accounts, or that the U.S. dollar itself crashes to such an extent that it is no longer feasible as a mechanism of exchange.
In such a scenario you can fully expect disruptions to food supplies and the normal flow of commerce.
The only saving grace you’ll have are the physical assets in your possession – your arable land, long-term food stores, gold and silver, and the post-collapse labor skills you’ve developed.
The time to prepare is now or you may well experience the horrific effects to come.
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
La Tormenta.
Well no I disagree.
The reason we do not have oodles of jobs, and industry everywhere, is that they have in large part been EXPORTED.
Though we still buy the stuff right back, from China.
I say stop exporting American jobs. Bring them back here.
And I believe this is a very appropriate place to say so.
Bring back American jobs. To America.
Stop importing everything.
There’s a Great Storm coming everyone is feeling it and its one of the reason everyone is on edge. Deep down the alarm bells are ring the nerves on on edge and the mind is unsettled.
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.
Any one with half a brain can look around and see for themselves what is happening right before their eyes.
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 in this article 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.
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 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:
And there is Selco’s Blog a Bosnian War survivor at:
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”
It is the The Most Precious Substance on Earth.
As For Butane.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foWcjWz7pxU
And TP and cigs!
Selco made money being able to refill lighters.
All backed by actual experience.
I should do ok. ;)
/johnny
Learn how to can foods. Pray.
About 10,000 rounds of .22LR and 5,000 rounds of 12 gauge OO buck wouldn’t hurt.
A good supply of sturdy jeans, shirts, shoes and boots, underwear, socks, etc. will be very valuable as most stores will be looted and probably burned quickly. I would suggest the most durable and practical items over style and a good supply to last a few years.
Remember the GM “rescue” we payed for? One of the stipulations was they would not open factories overseas....rather here in the states.....guess what...they’ve opened factories in China anyway.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323372504578468582435347210
4:36 Minutes
Fox Business – Cavuto
Food stamp cuts on November 1 – armed guards for IRS offices
Dept Homeland Security Preparing For Riots On Nov 1 2013 -You Won’t Believe Why? - Cavuto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9iHYec8eFg
Where’d you get that date?
I think you’re pretty much spot on, according to Cahn and “The Harbinger”.
We’ve had 7 year cycles of judgement, starting 9/11/2001.
Then the financial crash of Sept 2008 and the election of BO.
Next 7 year cycle is Sept 2015.
The Third Seal—Famine Rev 6:5-6
5 When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”
They originally thought it was due to famine. They couldn’t imagine it would be because of Obama.
I see. Good points, high info voter.
Obama is an enabler for the anti-Christ. He’s going to make it all so bad that the anti-Christ will be welcomed. It’s all falling in place.
Obama is an enabler for the anti-Christ. He’s going to make it all so bad that the anti-Christ will be welcomed. It’s all falling in place.
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