Posted on 07/31/2013 9:02:31 AM PDT by Errant
Most astute observers and analysts understand that the world is on the brink of a widespread economic collapse. Our debt, the expansion of the U.S. police state, the militarization of governments, and geo-political posturing are all pointing to an end to life as we have come to know it in the modern world.
We know it’s coming.
The question is when?
What signs should we be looking for?
What will be the catalyst?
The following micro documentary from Storm Clouds Gathering examines the complexity of the variables involved, the intentions of those making the decisions, and the various possibilities – real or imagined – that may set the whole thing into motion.
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I personally am looking at a trifecta to occur:
* A financial collapse or media-driven panic;
* Race riots sparked by another high-profile incident;
* Another mass casualty event involving guns.
If those happen, either in rapid succession or all at once, watch the official response from the regime. That will seal the deal, so to speak.
I don't disagree at all with your predictions. But what I see coming when the chain reactions going on in the Middle East reach criticality, will make our economic troubles pale to insignificance.
What will be the catalyst?
For the USSR, the money ran out when they couldn’t borrow anymore internationally, when their satellite countries began to ignore them, when the bureaucracy become so overbearing it couldn’t even function.
As for me, I'm sweating out hurricane season from now to October. That is my danger area now. Old Sarge, you are in Florida, so that's a possibility for you, too. As long as my house is still standing after a hurricane, I'm good. I'll still have power and water and food and fans to combat the heat - been there, done that several times.
Marcella, darlin’, you and I are both prepped to ride out the storms.
Weather is something we can handle because we know what’s associated with it. There are a lot of unknowns with societal failures, and that throws variables into the equation.
From 1870 to 1890, we were in a great depression. We may be looking at another generation-long economic crunch, and we’re only 5 years in.
I doubt they want utter ruin but Putin has been biding his time just waiting for hussein to royally screw up.
The Amerika of 2013 is unreconizable to me.
I’ve been having to make trips out to some very backward rural areas and I can’t believe how the farmers and ranchers have let the land go. You’d think with the economy, they would be trying to utilize as much grazing and fertile acreage as possible. But that’s not what I’m seeing. Pastures are growing up with briars and small trees where in the past those would have been cleared out for cattle. Fields aren’t being cultivated. Orchards have been left to die. I’ve been around there all my life and I’ve never seen it like this. I honestly don’t know what to think of it or what it might mean.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Moscow with Saudi Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar Bin Sultan on Wednesday, Itar Tass news agency reported. “A broad range of issues in bilateral relations, the situation in the Middle East and North Africa have been discussed,” Russian President’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters."
How can it *NOT* happen when a simple trip to the grocery store demonstrates to me that a majority of our population are already "3rd-Worlders"? I call them "the primitives".
My first thought, too.
“Fields aren’t being cultivated. Orchards have been left to die. I’ve been around there all my life and I’ve never seen it like this. I honestly don’t know what to think of it or what it might mean.”
It’s not like that around here - every SCRAP of land is in some form or cultivation or woodlot...and this is the most LIBERAL county in the state!
If those areas are REALLY rural, as in no other jobs/towns, etc. in the area, that land might be owned by city folk/local government for future use, or it’s farmland owned by a family and the ‘farm’ is gone and the kids have moved on and want nothing to do with the rural life.
Just a couple of ideas...
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