Posted on 07/05/2010 3:22:21 PM PDT by blam
Coming Chaos: No Banks, No Public Facilities, No Food And Rampaging Gangs Of Desperate People
Politics / Social Issues
Jul 05, 2010 - 02:18 PM
By: Mac_Slavo
Bob Chapman, of The International Forecaster, says it’s time to prepare for the worst, comparing our impending economic crisis to that which was experienced at the onset of 1348 and the following century and a half.
Flashback to 1348:
The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe’s population, reducing the world’s population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400.
This has been seen as creating a series of religious, social and economic upheavals which had profound effects on the course of European history. It took 150 years for Europe’s population to recover. The plague returned at various times, resulting in a larger number of deaths, until it left Europe in the 19th century.
While Chapman does not suggest we will experience our own black plague pandemic, he predicts that the consequences of our economic collapse may lead to total destabilization and wars, much like post-plague Europe.
As you are now well aware Fannie and Freddie are going to punish people who have stopped paying their mortgages, who can pay them, and who are paying other bills instead.
This leaves lenders with foreclosures and much more inventory than they ever imagined. This additional problem will bring on the double dip that Wall Street and Washington so fear.
As a result of this and other failures we are about to experience the worst economic collapse sine 1348.
The stock market is topping out readying itself for its most disastrous fall in history. The fall will be followed by years of depression, all of which has been deliberately created to bring the world economically and financially to its knees in an attempt to bring about world government by Illuminists. Some market analysts understand where the market is headed, but most who do understand, write and talk about the mundane observable trappings and not what the situation is really all about.
We have several analysts talking about a market collapse. They do not talk about the real forces behind our misfortune.
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There are always these lone voices in the wilderness, which at best – some 15% of the populace – listens too. You had better listen this time because it could well cost you not only your assets, but your life, especially when another war is being prepared for you to engage in. Nothing is really as it seems to be and there are no coincidences. You are about to enter a world of chaos from which few will survive unscathed.
A world of no banks, no public facilities, no food and rampaging gangs of desperate people. Unemployment of 50% and little law and order. Violence will be rife. This is not a pretty picture, but we have spared you the details. The world had better wake up fast so they’ll be prepared to deal with what is to come. If you were not aware of it the dark side really exists.
… We are now entering the next to last phase of our journey. The wanton creation of wealth, inflation and perhaps hyperinflation, which will rob you of your assets. A stealth attack on what you have left by the people who control your government.
Such monetary creation is the only way these people can keep the game going. They know it won’t last, but they proceed anyway. For awhile they’ll keep the multitudes at bay with extended unemployment and food stamps, but that will fade in time for lack of financial control, as the system begins to break down.
You already see all fiat currencies under fire, as is sovereign debt. Can it get any worse? Of course it can, and it will. Implosion is the word everyone is going to discover and understand.
The picture Bob Chapman paints is one that may lead to an initial reaction of, “What? No way that can happen.”
Perhaps it can’t happen. Perhaps, it really is different this time and our benevolent leaders and the powers that be are capable of managing this crisis. Perhaps they will restore jobs to pre-crash levels. Perhaps home prices will go back up to record 2006 levels because tens of thousands of buyers will appear in the market. Perhaps the Federal reserve will be able to sell of their toxic assets, not have to print more money to bail anyone out, and the world will demand that the dollar remain the reserve currency of choice.
Perhaps all of these people in delinquency on their mortgages will be able to catch up on those late payments. Perhaps governments will stop spending more than they take in and all of their debts will be paid off.
Perhaps the globe’s top financiers will figure out a way to deleverage the trillions of bad debt currently working it’s way through the system.
Or, perhaps they will not be able to reverse course.
Let’s assume that they can’t reverse course. How bad can it really get?
This is something that our elected officials and those at the Fed, Treasury and large institutions will not overtly discuss.
But clues have been dropped throughout the last several years. And, you need to look no further than those very same officials.
President Obama, during the green shoots recovery of 2009 and 2010, told the American people that a depression was avoided. Thus, we can assume that a depression is a strong possibility if we are in fact about to see another economic collapse.
In 2008 and 2009, former Secretary of Treasury Henry Paulson said that we were “on the brink,” in fact, after he left his position with Treasury, he wrote a book with this very title.
The brink, from what we can surmise, meant a complete collapse of our financial, economic and political systems. The result would have been martial law. Hard to believe? Yes. Impossible? No:
Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday, that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousands points the first day, another couple thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no.
House Representative Brad Sherman (D-California) Debate on the House Floor, October 2, 2008 [video source]
If you are a prepper - someone who is planning on worst-case scenarios in order to preserve your life, liberty, and wealth - then you, like us, should assume that the worst case scenario has not been avoided.
We’ve discussed possible outcomes before, as well as ways to prepare if the worst does happen. The following articles may be of assistance with collapse scenarios, and ways to prepare and survive:
Hyperinflationary Depression - No Way of Avoiding Financial Armageddon
What is Money When the System Collapses?
If You Haven’t Acquired Self Defense Capabilities, the Time to Do So Was Yesterday
We realize that sometimes we sound like a broken record, but at the very least, make sure you have reserve food, water, self defense weapons, ammunition, and if possible, a way to get out of the city if you happen to live in one.
The worst of it is still ahead.
Yes, but what amounted to “instant deflation”, both then and now.
What had happened was that because of the use of margin to buy stocks, that is, being able to buy $1 of stock for .10 cents, a vast amount of “imaginary money” was created. Stock became an inflated alternative currency. However, the assumption was that it could be redeemed 1 for 1 with cash money. This couldn’t happen because there was vastly more stock than there was physical money to back it.
So when the market crash happened, there was a margin call, in which everyone who had purchased stock on margin then resold it was supposed to cough up the other .90 cents. Nobody had that much cash money, so went bankrupt. You couldn’t pay for your margin with stock.
Today we face a similar situation, because our virtual money on computers has become vastly inflated beyond our physical money. This means that if there was a “cash run” on the nation’s banks, they would be emptied of cash in an hour or two.
But couldn’t the government just print more paper money? In a word, no. There are only two printing offices in the US, and they work at capacity. And most of what they print are $1 bills.
But couldn’t they print higher denomination bills? There are relatively few $100 bills in circulation. Were the government to print even $500 or $1000 bills, nobody could make change for them.
So here we have two extremes. A severe shortage in cash money, and massive quantities of virtual money. But only cash money is legal tender. Nobody is required to take virtual money for debts. So if retailers refuse virtual money: credit and debit cards and checks, that money is worth only the amount of cash someone will give you for it.
In effect, we will have a split currency.
It would probably be a good idea to keep some mattress money at home in a safe place. Banks can no longer be considered as safe.
You can buy flechettes online but they are illegal in many states.
“I’m on my way out for all-you-can-eat Chinese dinner.”
You may be hungry before you get back home.
I agree with you on the nine meals metaphor.
I would suspect that not matter who, the average person could be turned into a cold-blooded no-regrets killer in 24 to 72 hours, given the right circumstances.
A man or woman can be hungry.
But most would not sit idly by and watch their children starve or worse.
I second the motion, and ammo is not particularly expensive, and is accurate match grade.
Buy it cheap, stack it deep.
Or "Calypso Louis' Million Man Math."
In the normal world, yeah. But business can happen in other ways, people find a way to wheel and deal even if they are bartering.
Yep...and they are wasting no time putting their people in offices...even Borak ufama is helping their cause by placing them in the admins. So it is here and growing. Maybe I should prepare by getting a Burka!
Yes...when I was in Florida 15 yrs. ago I arrived to see the headlines read...Inmates released for overcrowding. So crime will increase...jails will flood and they will let them loose.
Dude, how many hands do you have? ;D)
The world is effectively leaderless and godless and anyone who does not prepare his own family for the worst is a fool.
There will be no 911 call for what we are going to face.
Our fate is most certainly going to be in our own hands as we face the reality of "every man for himself."
A future in the hands of lying con men such as Obama is no future.
Obama won't feed your starving family or protect you from a horde of vandals.
A battalion of midget Russian soldiers was discovered in a shipping container in Long Beach last week. Be careful.
I agree.
I have junk silver (old silver US dollars), $1,200.00 in nickels, and numerous Kugerrands. (Note that it is all 'official' currency)
I watched the movie last week. Very eye opening.
Uplift ping.
The whole concept of an inflationary depression is ludicrous.
Inflation would raise home prices and save the banks. Won’t happen.
Inflation wqould raise salaries and create new jobs. Won’t happen.
Inflation would wipe out government debt, as if the government had never borrowed. Won’t happen.
“The worst of it is still ahead.”
No frickin’ doubt.
Chinese sounds good to me!
“Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come,
and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and
took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not
warned; if the sword come, and take [any] person from among them, he is taken away in his
iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” Ezekiel 33:4
Back in the day, inspired by the ‘56 Hungarians, my buddy and I made napalm bombs with DUZ soap and his old man’s marine fuel.
We filled up beer bottles with the stuff, had a cloth wick stuffed in, and tossed them onto rocks, etc. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) just to see what would happen.
Stuff burned good - real good.
Those were the days.
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