[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

OH, SH*T!

[Viennacon]

It’s interesting that the state department has said NOTHING on the complete overthrow of democracy in Venezuela. Maduro has ordered all his opposition arrested and appointed himself dictator. Obama silent because he’s a fellow Marxist.

[Foundahardheadedwoman]

Anybody else feel a nice big war coming? Last time this happened was the Depression, took a few years for it to start but now in a world run by machines it could come much faster. Time honored cure all for the problems caused by corrupt bankers and governments, wipe the slate clean and get a few tens of millions killed, just part of doing corrupt business.

[CowboyJay]

It’s only SHTF for developed nations, and those emerging markets that rely on investment rather than production to fuel growth.

China is fine. Russia is fine. Chile and Uruguay are probably OK. Mexico is on the upswing. Iceland has exited the Bankstersphere and is doing well.

The Anglosphere is FUBAR. The EEU is FUBAR. Everywhere in South and Central America outside of Chile and Uruguay is FUBAR. India might be FUBAR. South Africa is FUBAR. The rest of Africa has been FUBAR since before Strom Thurmond took office, but parts of it might be looking up. The middle-east has always been, and will always be a special brand of FUBAR.

Did I miss anyone?

[MarMema]

Those banker deaths are fascinating.

[Fungi]

So your new book will solve everything, or you just want to make some money before the world economy collapses?

[ChildOfThe60s]

Well, hell. Before I read this I was only slightly depressed.

[Southack]

Those 20 items are minor events.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[Organic Panic]

OBAMA!!! YES WE CAN!!! Just tax the wealthiest. Just pass amnesty. Just take over the medical industry. Just end the wars. Just give a little more power to government. Just squeeze that turnip a little more. Obama will protect us and lead the world through the darkness brought by individual liberty and capitalism.

Doesn’t everyone take $4,000,000 vacations and wear $12,000 dresses?

[greeneyes]

One very needed preperation is to have a garden, and knowledge/experience on how to grow a complete diet for yourself and your family.

If things are as bad as everyone says, your food stocks will need replenishing long before this is over.

[Mad Dawgg]

"#17 The effects of Federal Reserve tapering are also being felt in Thailand..."

Thailand...?

[Pollster1]

A lot of people worldwide have been freed from job lock. Imagine the size of the global economic boom that will produce if Obama’s democrats are right for the first time in their lives.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Notice that leaders of the decline are the countries with Socialis t governments. The result will be either a drastic cut back in entitlement spending or revolution....... or perhaps both

[Jim Noble]

A quick word about “economic collapse” disaster porn:

The collapse is baked in. Nothing can stop it now. Just as you could still go out to eat and catch a show in Berlin with the Red Army in East Prussia, so too can we pretend - but the die is cast.

What bugs me to no end is the “it’s the end of everything” rhetoric. Go watch “Downfall” and then grab a Google Earth view of the Potsdamer Platz in 2014.

It’s the end of a lot of things, for certain - but most of them are bad. What will be left are 1) Americans, and 2) A continent composed of arable land and abundant natural resources.

Cheer up. The best is yet to come.

[Faith65]

Bkmk

[Koracan]

People need to understand, Level of Industrial Automation - Unemployment - Recession _ Immigration _ Job Export, are all direct related.
Some informed in the Automation systems business estimate in in a few decades, only 20% of an able human being is needed to work due to Xfer of Tasks to the ""Machine"".
In the Press they call it chronic unemployment, better is perhaps, machine displaced, so go play tennis or drink a beer in the local bar, you will never have a Job again.
The old saying, that they have to get re-educated or get a College degree, and then they will find higher jobs to build or maintain or supervise the machine is obsolete. It takes only a hand full of people to do that Job.

There are a lot of Jobs left that automation can not do, but you don't need special qualification for that, Labor only, so now we understand cheap labor {import immigrants or export tasks to Countries with cheap Labor - same thing, different location)
The only resolution will be a drastic re-thinking of the Monetary distribution system.(Society as we know it}
Of course this sounds all Soci/Commi like, but this is not the intend here. As much as we like to hear it , History Does Not repeat itself.

[Starstruck]

Don’t worry about it. SHTF will give you more free time to write poetry and work on your music.

[SisterK]

Did you hear that one of the bankers did “suicide” by nail gun? Shot himself about 8 times in the chest and 7 times in the head. With a nail gun.