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.
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
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I no longer expect a big break - just mini-busts and -booms in a continuation of the long, slow grind-down into Argentina we are currently undergoing. The America of 2023 will be unrecognizable to us today - but we won't likely have to suffer the shock of seeing it happen all at once.
From Youtube:
Published on Oct 24, 2012
survival expert and health guru, Blake Sawyer, argued that the United States will no longer be a viable place to live, and people should consider immigrating to locations in the less populated Southern Hemisphere. Whether through war, disease, famine, natural disasters, or ruthless government, he predicted that 95% of those who remain in the US will be dead in the next 5-15 years. America has been targeted by the "globalists" to be taken out, he added.
Sawyer noted that the United States ranks highest in violent crime, and that countries in the Southern Hemisphere are much more tranquil. In particular, he highlighted nations in the southern region of South America as being good choices for survivability, specifically Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, and Ecuador. "I...believe that the average American does not know that they're the frog in cold water, and they think they're OK, and they're now boiling," he declared.
Wikipedia Survivalism is a movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists or preppers) who are actively preparing for emergencies as well as possible disruptions in social or political order, on scales ranging from local to international. Survivalists often have emergency medical and self-defence training, stockpile food and water, prepare for self-sufficiency, and build structures that will help them survive or "disappear" (e.g. a survival retreat or underground shelter).
Anticipated disruptions include the following:
Clusters of natural disasters, patterns of apocalyptic planetary crises, or Earth Changes (tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, solar storms, severe thunderstorms). A disaster caused by the activities of humankind (chemical spills, release of radioactive materials, nuclear or conventional war, oppressive governments). The general collapse of society caused by the shortage or unavailability of resources such as electricity, fuel, food, or water. Financial disruption or economic collapse (caused by monetary manipulation, hyperinflation, deflation, or depression). A global pandemic. Widespread chaos or some other unexplained apocalyptic event.
The third wave of Survivalism began after the September 11, 2001 attacks and subsequent bombings in Bali, Madrid, and London. This resurgence of interest in survivalism appears to be as strong as the first wave in the 1970s. The fear of war, avian influenza, energy shortages, environmental disasters and global climate change, coupled with economic uncertainty, and the apparent vulnerability of humanity after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, has once again made survivalism popular. Preparedness is once more a paramount concern to many people who seek to stockpile supplies, gain useful skills, and develop contacts with like-minded people to learn as much as possible.
Many books have been published in the past few years [2008-2012] offering survival advice for various potential disasters, ranging from an energy shortage and crash to nuclear or biological terrorism. In addition to the 1970s-era books, blogs and Internet forums are popular ways of disseminating survivalism information. Online survival websites and blogs discuss survival vehicles, survival retreats, emerging threats, and list survivalist groups.
Economic troubles emerging from the credit collapse triggered by the 2007 US subprime mortgage lending crisis and global grain shortages have prompted a wider cross-section of the populace to prepare. James Wesley Rawles, the editor of SurvivalBlog and author of the survivalist novel Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse was quoted by the New York Times in April 2008, stating: "interest in the survivalist movement 'is experiencing its largest growth since the late 1970s'". In 2009, he was quoted by the Associated Press as stating: "There's so many people who are concerned about the economy that there's a huge interest in preparedness, and it pretty much crosses all lines, social, economic, political and religious. There's a steep learning curve going on right now."
The advent of H1N1 Swine Flu in 2009 piqued interest in survivalism, significantly boosting sales of preparedness books and making survivalism more mainstream. Events such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami have revitalized the survivalist community.
These developments led Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute, to identify a trend that he calls "Neo-Survivalism". He explained this phenomenon in a radio interview with Jim Puplava on December 18, 2009:
The common theme in conspiracy theories about a New World Order is that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government—which replaces sovereign nation-states—and an all-encompassing propaganda that ideologizes its establishment as the culmination of history's progress.
Yeah. With such low bond rates many are into stocks to get the divIdends (nowhere else to go). Rising interest and bond rates would have an i¤pact ... when it really happens to any significant degree.
Are you stocking food, supplies, etc. or buying metals? I’m curious what most people are doing. We all know our economy will come crashing down - it is inevitable.
Pretty nuch we are expecting the same thing. A slow devolving into permanent depression and third world conditions over the next 3-5 years.
Expect food shortages, electricity only 8-12 hours per day or so expensive a lot of people will not be able to afford it, crime though the roof as desparate people do desparate things. If you live in the city you will be miserable.
If you can afford anything in the country buy it now. Stock up on food while its affordable and the means to protect it. Also medicine.
Preppers’ PING!!
You have 7 basic survival needs.
You have to be prepared for doing without external supplies of these things for 3 days, a week, a month, 3 months, etc,
before you are prepared for the “zombie apocalypse”.
Can you survive a 3 month job loss?
Here’s a good listen:
http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/episode-356-getting-started-from-zero-the-how-and-why
1) credit crunch = increased difficulty in obtaining loans
2) tight money = higher interest rates
3) monetary contraction = contraction of the supply of fiat money
These lead to crises:
1) bubbles bursting, such as real estate, banking, savings and loans, financial, energy.
2) increased bankruptcies, insolvencies, defaults, and failures, such as banks, large corporations, big cities, states.
3) crashes, panics and bank runs.
These are the start of the bust phase of the contraction phase of the boom-bust cycle caused by Keynesianism.
In the past, the market collapses were preceded by wild swings over periods of weeks or days before the crash. But nothing every repeats the same. This time the wild swings will happen in a period of seconds or minutes, and within a couple of hours it will all be ashes. Fundamentally, the collapse will be a black swan event that is non-predictable and outsized by definition.
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What will “adjust” is the government’s policies to take our wealth, guns and property. What will “adjust” is the government’s control and influence on the military to go against the people.
No, I’d rather see it collapse, soon. I think that’s the best chance patriots have of surviving and possibly rebuilding before foreign governments pounce on us.
I’m glad we both already live well below our means. That’ll help. For a while.
I sure hope I don’t have to shoot anyone. ;)
While we may not all agree on where the final delineation will be, or how bad it will get, I think the vast majority do agree worse times are coming.
"Two things in the universe are infinite, human stupidity and space, and I'm not sure about space" - Einstein, last century.
Certainly it doesn't have to be repeated again. We have the knowledge and technology to break the cycle. Will we? Hell no...
We'll use the knowledge and technology to ensure "great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be" - Yeshua Messiah, 2000 years ago.
Neither China nor the EU are doing well right now. Both are extremely shaky. The collapse could come in the form of the “perfect storm when the U.S. economy, the Chinese economy, and the EU economy all tank at the same time. That would produce a worldwide depression the likes of which has never been seen before, and the destruction to societies will be like nothing seen since the fall of the Roman Empire.
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