Posted on 11/27/2011 5:08:42 PM PST by blam
Governments Request “Contingency Planning For Extreme Scenarios Including Rioting And Social Unrest”
Mac Slavo
November 27th, 2011
SHTFplan.com
The writing is on the wall. If you can’t read it, then you’re going to have a problem – very soon. It was in early 2009 that we first warned our readers of the coming wave of riots and social unrest that would envelop the globe. Nearly three years on we’re seeing a progressive increase in tension among those affected by deteriorating economic conditions and the trend towards social unrest seems to be accelerating. Absolutely nothing has been resolved in terms of the economic and financial woes facing the world, despite the literally trillions of dollars of wealth in the form of credit and monetary easing that has been committed to the crisis.
As the economic paradigm shifts and hundreds of millions of citizens from the world’s advanced economies are thrown into poverty (including 100 million from the U.S. alone), the situation is getting critical. So much so that what once existed only in the realm of conspiracy theory and alternative news web sites – that governments, especially in the U.S., are planning for large-scale economic meltdown and social unrest – is now a foregone conclusion in political circles.
Europe, as we discussed in 2009, is now coming unhinged and we have the real possibility of not just a collapse in the sovereign debt of a single nation, but the entire European Union and their beloved currency. This is not just some far-out possibility. The collapse of Europe now seems more likely than ever, and governments and regulatory agencies all over the continent are calling for immediate preparations, planning and strategies to deal with the imminent collapse of sovereign debt of individual countries, European banks, and the Euro monetary system that is the glue holding it all together.
“It’s in our interests that they keep playing for time because that gives us more time to prepare,” the minister told the Daily Telegraph.
Recent Foreign and Commonwealth Office instructions to embassies and consulates request contingency planning for extreme scenarios including rioting and social unrest.
Greece has seen several outbreaks of civil disorder as its government struggles with its huge debts. British officials think similar scenes cannot be ruled out in other nations if the euro collapses.
Diplomats have also been told to prepare to help tens of thousands of British citizens in eurozone countries with the consequences of a financial collapse that would leave them unable to access bank accounts or even withdraw cash.
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The EU treaties that created the euro and set its membership rules contain no provision for members to leave, meaning any break-up would be disorderly and potentially chaotic.
If eurozone governments defaulted on their debts, the European banks that hold many of their bonds would risk collapse.
Some analysts say the shock waves of such an event would risk the collapse of the entire financial system, leaving banks unable to return money to retail depositors and destroying companies dependent on bank credit.
The Financial Services Authority this week issued a public warning to British banks to bolster their contingency plans for the break-up of the single currency.
Some economists believe that at worst, the outright collapse of the euro could reduce GDP in its member-states by up to half and trigger mass unemployment.
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“When the unemployment consequences are factored in, it is virtually impossible to consider a break-up scenario without some serious social consequences,” UBS said.
Source: Telegraph
Underestimate this events at your peril. Similar events played out in Europe in the early 1930′s, and we experienced a decade’s long depression here in the United States, followed by five years of world war – and that’s when we were a creditor nation without hundreds of trillions in debt and liabilities.
The collapse of Europe, as we have argued for several years, is imminent. If it so happens that Europe does collapse as we forecast, and capital flees to the safety of the US dollar (thus boosting the dollar’s strength and causing a stock market meltdown) than we urge readers to consider the repercussions that will be felt in America. Within a period of a few months to a few years a similar scenario will play out with our own sovereign debt and currency. And, when the world’s reserve currency goes into meltdown mode, all bets are off.
There’s a reason governments the world over are preparing contingency plans. They know it’s coming, and they know it will be pandemonium. There is, as we noted two years ago, No Way to Avoid Financial Armageddon.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst -
* Collapse of purchasing power due to hyperinflation
* Interruptions to the normal flow of commerce
* Disruptions to food supplies
* Political upheaval
* Increased violence
* Riots
* The militarization of Main Street
* And the potential for failure of our domestic utility grid.
We realize these are extreme potentialities and many might suggest we take off the tin foil hat, but the same was true when we and others forecast a collapse of Europe, civil unrest and government contingency planning three years ago. That has now been actualized.
The next leg of this crisis will take hold in the United States in due time. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Start thinking about money during a collapse, bartering items, post-collapse trade skills, and creating a solid preparedness foundation.
“Nearly three years on we’re seeing a progressive increase in tension...”
You mean an increase in tension with progessives....
The left and their “calm” rhetoric;
New Black Panther: “You gotta kill some crackas. Kill they babies.”
Wanda Sykes at Press Corps Dinner: “I hope Rush Limbaugh dies from kidney failure”
Death Threats Against Bush at Protests Ignored for Years [Zombietime pictureblog]
Keith Olbermann ‘Called To The Floor’ for Bristol Palin ‘Worst Person’ Segment?
Libtalker [Mike Malloy] To Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly: Time To Die
Envious (Liberal Talk Radio Host) Ed Schultz Likens Limbaugh to Hitler
Chris Matthews Fantasizes About Killing Rush Limbaugh
Salon Publishes Call for Murder of Sarah Palin
[Keith] Olbermann Targets [Michelle] Malkin: Without ‘Fascistic Hatred’ She’s a ‘Mashed-Up Bag of Meat with Lipstick’
Actor Richard Belzer: Limbaugh, Beck ‘Fascist Stooges’; Fox News ‘Racist,’ ‘Misogynistic’
Chris Matthews Calls Liz Cheney ‘Daughter of Dracula’
Death Threats Force FreedomWorks to Move
[Ann] Coulter Speech Cancelled Over Security Fears!
[Keith] Olbermann compares ‘Jihadists’ to Brit Hume on religion
Alan Grayson on MSNBC: Fox News is a Threat To This Country
Vile Huffington Post Puts Brisol & Willow Palins Private Facebook Comments Online
Palin daughters are threatened, taunted in Facebook war
Sandra Bernhard Calls Bristol Palin a Hooker on ‘Joy Behar Show’
[Joy] Behar: “This Bit**” Sharron Angle Is “Going To Hell”
Exposure by Free Republic Forces Huffington Post to Pull Article Threatening Glenn Beck
WARNING: Palin Derangement Syndrome Outbreak at the Daily Beast
Palin Derangement Syndrome Returns: Blogger Mocks Governor for Wearing Glasses
Madonna Downplays Her Physical Threats Against Sarah Palin: ‘It’s A Metaphor’
Democrats (Liberal Extremists) Issue Death Threats Against Sarah Palin & Eric Cantor
Fox News: Man Arrested Over Death Threat Against Rep. Eric Cantor
TMZ: Bristol Palin getting death threats, ‘Dancing with the Stars’ ramps up security
Media Bias: MSNBC Host [Ed Schultz]: We Ought to Rip Out Cheney’s Heart & Kick It Around
Info Wars: Obama Consigliere “Rahmbo” Emanuel Sent Dead Fish to Foe
NYT: No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen
Did Liberal hate speech spur arsonist?
Democrat Kanjorski on Florida Republican Gov.-Elect Rick Scott: “Shoot Him”
Violent Liberal Hate Rhetoric: Fifteen Quotes
JD Hayworth in the Cross hairs
Liberal Hate Caught red handed with hate speech
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/27/can-you-imagine-if-an-obama-effigy-were-hung-from-a-noose/
http://www.lookingattheleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/_mg_0206.jpg
65-year-old Man’s Finger Bitten Off by Obamacare Supporter
If I were to choose to hide in my hovel and starve to death, about how long would that take?
Yeah, can’t wait until the cannibalism starts.
I have been told that people will resort to cannibalism after about 6 days of not eating.
Simple ... put a bunch of swat teams on the street and shoot people.
Gubmint better remember, however, how few deaths it took to topple long-established “regimes” throughout the middle east and elsewhere within the last year.
ping
Obama will deputize the OWSers and give them all nice new brown shirts to wear.
You have been told right. Prep to get out of the fray
He will arm the drug gangs and the minority radical groups like the black panthers when he knows he cant trust the military
PING
my own grab of links for an email...
..”If eurozone governments defaulted on their debts, the European banks that hold many of their bonds would risk collapse.
Some analysts say the shock waves of such an event would risk the collapse of the entire financial system, leaving banks unable to return money to retail depositors and destroying companies dependent on bank credit.
The Financial Services Authority this week issued a public warning to British banks to bolster their contingency plans for the break-up of the single currency.
Some economists believe that at worst, the outright collapse of the euro could reduce GDP in its member-states by up to half and trigger mass unemployment
http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm?PROMO_CODE=D30F-1
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Aftershock-survival-summit-unthinkable/2011/10/06/id/413486
Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8917077/Prepare-for-riots-in-euro-collapse-Foreign-Office-warns.html
....The collapse of Europe, as we have argued for several years, is imminent. If it so happens that Europe does collapse as we forecast, and capital flees to the safety of the US dollar (thus boosting the dollar’s strength and causing a stock market meltdown) than we urge readers to consider the repercussions that will be felt in America. Within a period of a few months to a few years a similar scenario will play out with our own sovereign debt and currency. And, when the world’s reserve currency goes into meltdown mode, all bets are off.
There’s a reason governments the world over are preparing contingency plans. They know it’s coming, and they know it will be pandemonium. There is, as we noted two years ago, No Way to Avoid Financial Armageddon.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst -
collapse of purchasing power due to hyperinflation
interruptions to the normal flow of commerce
disruptions to food supplies
political upheaval
increased violence
riots
the militarization of Main Street
and the potential for failure of our domestic utility grid.
We realize these are extreme potentialities and many might suggest we take off the tin foil hat, but the same was true when we and others forecast a collapse of Europe, civil unrest and government contingency planning three years ago. That has now been actualized.
The next leg of this crisis will take hold in the United States in due time. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Start thinking about money during a collapse, bartering items, post-collapse trade skills, and creating a solid preparedness foundation....
The Army, in a year-long war games series called Unified Quest 2011, is looking at a variety of possibilities and how to deal with them, including:
the implications of “large scale economic breakdown” inside of the United States
how to maintain “domestic order amid civil unrest”
and ways to deal with fragmented global power and drastically lower budgets
Clearly, the U.S. government is making contingency plans to deal with a worst-case, all-out-collapse scenario of not only the economy, but our social and political systems.
The war gaming, according to reports, began in 2008 at the onset of the economic crisis, but planners from not just the United States, but around the globe, may have been aware of the dire possibility of economic collapse even earlier. It’s well known that the U.S. government as well as foreign counterparts have been preparing bunkers and continuity of government for decades, but recent preparedness activities suggest that the planning in some aspects has been expedited. Anecdotal evidence indicates that the US government has been the leading buyer of freeze died foods for the last couple of years, and private emergency shelter contractors have reported a shortage in equipment and supplies for building personal-sized bunkers.
In a previous report titled Homeland Security To ‘Regionalize’ Emergency Supplies Over Next 90 Days, we pointed out that FEMA, headed by Department of Homeland Security, is decentralizing emergency supplies from one main distribution facility in Washington D.C. to fifteen regional facilities around the country. Even the Russians and the EU are in high gear. Russia has reportedly begun planning and development of 5,000 new underground bunkers for the city of Moscow scheduled for completion no later than 2012. The EU, in 2006, commissioned the building of a “Doomsday Seed Vault” in a mountainside several hundred feet above sea level. The facility was built and fully stocked with millions of seeds from around the world within 18 months....”
http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/f&web.pdf
This statement blows the entire credibility of the article. If we have a total collapse the ultimate effect will be not inflation, but deflation.
Thanks for the ping.
Taint a pretty picture that is for sure.
END TIMES PING LIST PING
NOW, NOW, Blam.
Just because you’re authorized to get away with posting conspiracy idiocies doesn’t mean you should. /sar
THX BRO. Great to see FREEPERS who are awake.
Along with:
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2011/03/the-myth-of-the-moderate-muslim/
IRAN SAYS 150,000 MISSILES POINTED AT ISRAEL
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=247194
Anarchy in the U.S.A. - The roots of American disorder.
The Weekly Standard ^ | The November 28, 2011 Issue | Matthew Continetti, opinion editor
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 5:38:40 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2812907/posts
ARE STOCKS STARING INTO THE ABYSS?
TMO ^ | 11-27-2011 | Robert McHugh PhD
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 5:02:39 PM by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2812902/posts
Iran expels Britain’s ambassador to Tehran calling ‘death to England’
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 11/27/2011
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 4:26:00 PM by rdl6989
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2812897/posts
Italy Is Closer To Collapse Than Anyone Realized, And So Is The World
TBI ^ | 11-27-2011 | Bruce Krasting
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 3:56:37 PM by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2812893/posts
Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns
British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain.
Published 20:36 23.11.11
Latest update 20:36 23.11.11
Israeli security forces: Turkey nearing military intervention in Syria
Defense officials in Israel say Turkey is likely to set up secure buffer zones in Syria, near the border, to allow armed Syrian opposition groups to battle against the regime.
By Anshel Pfeffer
Israel preparing for war with Hezbollah?
panarmenian.net
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 12:28:33 PM by Perdogg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2812870/posts
Israel’s Secret Iran Attack Plan: Electronic Warfare
The Daily Beast ^ | Nov 16, 2011 | Eli Lake
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 8:29:46 AM by expat1000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2812839/posts
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Iran threatens to hit Turkey if US, Israel attack
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI | AP – Sat, Nov 26, 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-threatens-hit-turkey-us-israel-attack-153655802.html
Fed Warns Unemployment May Double Great Depression
Big Government ^ | 11-25-11 | Chriss W. Street
Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2011 6:29:36 AM by radioone
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2812813/posts
Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window
While nearly all Americans head to family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield — even people in the United States itself.
Senators need to hear from you, on whether you think your front yard is part of a “battlefield” and if any president can send the military anywhere in the world to imprison civilians without charge or trial.
The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. Even Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) raised his concerns about the NDAA detention provisions during last night’s Republican debate. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself.
The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision is in S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which will be on the Senate floor on Monday. The bill was drafted in secret by Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and passed in a closed-door committee meeting, without even a single hearing.
AND
“China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third World War” Major General Zhang Zhaozhong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPjxeyG-Ztw
AND
*BREAKING* Russia Arms Syria With “Ship Killers”: Missiles Threaten U.S. Navy Carrier, page 1
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread779469/pg1
I actually have just such a plan
Interestingly enough, I think the USA would be one of the countries that could actually come out ahead. There's one good reason for this: if necessary, we could tap into the gigantic mountain of resources to keep the country going. Economic self-sufficiency, as economic doomsayer Gerald Celente noted, will be the order of the day. It should be noted that the USA can use NAFTA connections with Canada and Mexico to get access to the following strategic products:
Petroleum products
Crude oil (onshore, offshore, oil tar sands and oil shale)
Natural gas (onshore and offshore)
Coal
Mines in USA, Canada and Mexico
Minerals
Almost all the major industrial metals, plus rare earths and actinides (uranium and thorium)
Agricultural products
Almost all the major agricultural crops, including tropical agricultural products grown in southern Mexico
Renewable energy
Wind power from the upper US Midwest and in Alberta province in Canada
Solar power from the US Southwest and most of northern Mexico
Tidal power from off the coasts of Canada, USA and Mexico
In short, under the right political environment, North America could end up being the big winner in the long run.
sfl
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