Posted on 01/23/2014 6:41:44 PM PST by Kartographer
Have you been paying attention to what has been happening in Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Ukraine, Turkey and China? If you are like most Americans, you have not been. Most Americans don’t seem to really care too much about what is happening in the rest of the world, but they should. In major cities all over the globe right now, there is looting, violence, shortages of basic supplies, and runs on the banks. We are not at a “global crisis” stage yet, but things are getting worse with each passing day. For a while, I have felt that 2014 would turn out to be a major “turning point” for the global economy, and so far that is exactly what it is turning out to be. The following are 20 early warning signs that we are rapidly approaching a global economic meltdown…
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
All the while, the spiral downward accelerates, until one day, there is nowhere left to turn but to do violence to prevent it from being done to you and your family.
My sister is utterly convinced nothing could possible happen to upset the existing social order. As much as I love her, she is dead wrong, and I cannot protect her from the ramifications of her willful ignorance.
“held” not “help”
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something wicked this way comes...
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I meant b f l r - thanks spellchk.
No, most people don't see it. Nor will they see it until it is too late.
The mess we are in cannot be fixed, and we are past the point of no return.
No one knows WHEN the actual crisis will hit. That will only be known AFTER the fact, not before.
However, THIS is certain:
Once it becomes clear to enough people that a crisis is imminent a run on basic supplies will start. Eventually, the masses will notice. Once “everyone” sees it the herd instinct will kick in. Stores (and banks) will be empty within hours.
We've seen this happen over and over, but never everywhere at once. What happens then is anybody’s guess, especially in the cities. You can bet it will be ugly.
A large number of the people won’t figure it out until they’ve been without food for 3 or 4 days.
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.”
Prepper’s PING!!
Choom may be the only medicine available.
Is choom covered by Obamacare?
The Main Stream Media and Government keeps us in “ Willfull Ignorance “ ...... It’s called being uninformed.
That means they will all hide their $$ in US treasuries.
That’s tons of cheap $$$ for US.
Now Obama can fix the rest of American in the next ~ 3 years.
I have also thought 2014 would be the breaking point. I would try to talk myself out of that, but I couldn’t get myself to “deny” it, couldn’t force myself into “normalcy bias”. I pick up more cheap packages of dried bean soup mix with the seasoning inside and large boxes of instant rice. I have numerous #10 cans of dried beans professionally packed for long term storage and I bought large bottles of bean seasoning made by Fiesta in San Antonio.
I just keep thinking seasoned beans and rice will keep one alive if everything else fails so I keep buying more. Also kept buying every trip to grocery, a few cans of meat, buying a different type every time.
And, I buy a bottle/jar or two of instant coffee. Instant coffee is a backup if a situation lasts so long the regular coffee is gone - instant is better than none. I get a box of instant milk, too. Those basic food items I listed will keep one alive.
My long term storage professionally packed food is made up from my making a list of different meals for a month, then buying everything to make those meals for as many months as I wanted.
I don’t see those cans as they are put away, so I think that is why I psychologically think “I need more food!” and can’t resist buying more basic food to sustain life. I don’t see the food I buy from the grocery either, as I put that in boxes and store them out of sight.
If you looked in my small pantry, you would think I don’t have much food.
You can’t have too much food. Buy all you can that will store for a good while. And, if you don’t grow food, learn how to do it and do it - start this spring as planting time is fast approaching. I am growing food from seed that I start and I hope I have learned enough to make that food produce this spring, summer, fall. I have many plants up now under my grow lamp and more seeds will be started in February and a whole bunch started in March. I knew nothing about growing this time last year, but now I know how to do it after making mistakes and studying for a year. There is no such thing as a green thumb - there is information to learn and then you can grow anything that will grow in your area.
Ping to my post 17. Yes, I know, you are so screwed.
In regards to growing food, I just got a hydroponic kit and planted lettuce and have seeds for other vegetables as well. Just planted some red potatoes in a pot and I’ll get them in the ground when the weather is right. Herbs are doing well so far. I know it’s insufficient at this time but I’m starting the learning curve and hope to be good at it by the time it’s necessary. One step at a time...
As for your storage, you’re rotating your stocks, yes? FIFO and checking for expiration dates on purchased items?
I always tell people that even if you don’t really believe anything bad is going to happen it never hurts to be prepared.
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