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Posted on 08/27/2013 8:44:44 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose
Pentagon Prepping for ‘Large Scale Economic Breakdown’ Anthony Gucciardi by Anthony Gucciardi August 26th, 2013 Updated 08/26/2013 at 1:10 am
High level government documents reveal that the Pentagon is preparing in full force for ‘large scale economic meltdown’ and massive revolt via the US public — exactly what we are criticized for doing.
pentagon-economic-collapse-riotsYou see the Pentagon and agencies like the Department of Defense (DoD) are in full scale emergency readiness in their own words for ‘cataclysmic’ events that are believed to ultimately ignite riots in the face of chaos and economic collapse, and it’s all out in the open. And it’s one of the reasons that we’re seeing such a massive amount of spying on activists of all kinds, alternative news writers and personalities, and basically anyone preparing for themselves.
The US government is dedicated to logging such information into a major database in order to ‘prepare’ for the coming collapse that they are predicting in their own documents for all to see. Collapse predictions that have turned into ‘war games’ by the Pentagon, which in 2010 were orchestrated to prepare for what the Pentagon dubbed ‘large scale economic breakdown’ and the disappearance of essential services like food.
In this same ‘war games’ exercise dedicated to domestic response, exercises were ran in order to prepare for ‘domestic order amid civil unrest’. Military to Stop ‘Domestic Resistance’
A thread that is seen throughout these tests is the concept that civil unrest will unfold and prompt military action against the public. One of the largest examples of this is the US Army’s Strategic Studies Institute paper that talks about about the ‘threat of domestic crises’ that are expected to lead to massive unrest throughout the nation. Spurring more paranoia into the notion that every citizen is a terrorist, the report starts talking about everything from economic collapse to a loss of functional political order brought upon by a ‘hostile group within the United States’ that could access weapons.
In such scenarios, the report discusses how the DoD would then be ‘forced by circumstances’ to come in and stop ‘purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency”:
“DoD might be forced by circumstances to put its broad resources at the disposal of civil authorities to contain and reverse violent threats to domestic tranquility. Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States. Further, DoD would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance.”
To go along with this, and the idea of the military coming in to stop domestic resistance in the midst of an economic collapse, the Pentagon has gone and created a force consisting of 20,000 troops whose sole purpose is to be available for civil unrest and catastrophes – all based on the 2005 Homeland Security program to prepare for ‘multiple, simultaneous mass casualty incidents‘. Yet again we see this link.
But don’t worry, changes have been made just one month ago to allow for the Pentagon to directly have absolute authority over domestic emergencies and ‘civil disturbance’ at large. As reported in a Long Island news publication and properly summarized by The Guardian as further preparation for some form of domestic meltdown:
“Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances.”
What does this mean exactly, to engage in the activity necessary to quell large-scale civil disturbances? Well, for one it is the blank check ability to go ahead and stop major protests amid domestic turmoil. The kind of protests we’re seeing around the world, from Egypt to Brazil. The kind of protests where citizens have had enough.
And going by the Pentagon documents mixed with the DoD papers, it appears the military believes America may take to the streets amid an economic collapse or ‘domestic disturbance’ of large caliber. And you can be sure that virtually all citizens that question the government are the targets of military intervention, as we see in the DoD’s own Army Modernisation Strategy, detailing ‘anti-government and radical ideologies that potentially threaten government stability‘ as a major threat.
Yes, you read that right. The DoD is classifying ‘anti-government and radical ideologies’ as something that threatens government stability. When a major ‘domestic disturbance’ comes along that all of these documents are discussing, such as perhaps in the form of mass protests, it’s the ‘anti-government extremists’ they will be coming after.
Read more: http://www.storyleak.com/pentagon-prepping-large-scale-economic-breakdown/#ixzz2dERGGrvk
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Hungry people are not going to fear just a show of force...
The point of my post was that the state would not need to pay anyone, because food is a big motivator, C-Rations or their modern counterparts would be the coin of the realm.
I have warned as far back as Clinton, this day was coming and that the military would follow orders, just like they always do. The notion that they would not fire on civilians is wishful thinking.
People living in the large cities, NY, LA or Chicago will indeed be in deep dodo.
Wishful thinking.
Maybe, maybe not. But what most never stop to consider is that most of the people on our side have the shills to rebuild it large or local scale.
Those same people have survival skills and or will be protected by those who do...
While the vast majority of America just sits and dies from disease/starvation/is sold into slavery by ferals...who also die as above and are hunted down like dogs by the rest of us.
That leaves a whole lot of untouched hardware/non perishables out there for our team to collect. God knows libs wont do anything with it. They can’t. They will be dead/starved/diseased/enslaved. And ferals sure can’t do squat. They don’t even know what 90 percent of things in existence are.
I think store looting will turn to general mayhem, violence and destruction so fast (2-3 days max) that all of the govt plans will be swept aside like Inspector Clouseau standing in front of a tsunami blowing a police whistle.
Read the personal accounts of the survivors in the NOLA Superdome, or some of the NOLA hospitals, and then don’t rescue them after a few days, and extend that horror across the entire nation.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men won’t be a wet match in a hurricane.
And there might be a big nuke problem too. I left that possibility open with the discussion of getting around the DOE Savannah River sites, and what might have happened there and the other 100-odd nuke plants around the country.
It’s up for debate, but many believe they would go Fukushima if left on their own for 3 years.
Very possible. On another thread I commented that your Babylon story was a real life Fsllout video game scenario.
If you throw the meltdowns in, the result is the same. Dead zones. It won’t be pretty.
On whose part - yours or mine?
I just wanted to put forth some cultural decay ideas, as well as the idea that electricity has become the air we breath, without us fully understanding the implications of that. Put a person in a closed room for long enough, and they understand they’ll die of oxygen starvation. The same person does not have any idea how critical electricity is to our survival today. If we lost power for even a week, our cities would utterly explode. Just connect the social, economic etc trend lines out in the future a bit.
Remember.......short, controlled bursts.
Yup. Just as you said in your story, that ‘Just in time’ existence adopted by business ensures rapid failure of everything.
I once joked that libs would say ‘no biggie, I’ll just call out for pizza until the lights come back on”, but when you really think about it, most of the people under probably 35ish today can’t envision life without electricity. They are almost a part of the grid themselves.
I don’t know if you are familiar with the Fallout series of games, but if you have the time, check into them...not that you need to because you could be definitely be scripting them, but just for general reference.
That’s the level of thinking. “I’ll call out for pizza.”
They are the folks who will not be able to find their way without a GPS in a car. On foot with their “mental mapping” skills? Hopeless.
We should probably be thankful in a way. Those folks will leave plenty behind the rest can use to rebuild. God knows they will be the first to starve, die off exposure or end up in a feral chain gang.
They embraced the stupid all their lives so I won’t shed tears for them.
I was hoping you would post this!
(If you didn’t I was going to.)
I read it yesterday and enjoyed it—BUT it was not enough! I want to know what happens to your antagonist after he leaves the ruined radio tower!
BTW, where is everyone—or should I say ANYone? Seems like he should encounter some people/community somewhere. Even and maybe especially in the mountains; where, as they say, a country boy can survive.
Finally, I’d be amiss not to notice the excellent title you gave the book.
If the government cuts all public communications, then business completely and utterly stops. The Internet is necessary for “Just in Time Inventory” from local Mom and Pop to big box retail.
To shut it down to stop an insurrection or civil unrest will be insane! People not working? Who would they blame? No food because Walmart couldn’t order the right or even ANY deliveries as soon as the shelves are empty? Repeat tens of thousands of times across the fruited plain and the chaos would be TOTAL and FINAL.
Imagine millions of rifle toting bitter clingers—now out of work, with idle hands, caused by the government or DoD, and getting hungrier every minute... THAT’S chaos.
They military wouldn’t be able to sustain themselves, let alone the country. In 1977, I was in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, THE USAF Nuclear war command center, in a terrible blizzard. No one could get up the mountain road. We had to triple shift triple times. We ran out of food after 24 hours! Yeah, there was tons of emergency rations, but eating any of them was against orders unless we were at a higher DEFCOM. Stupid, but that’s how obeying orders can be.
The modern way of life we now have is totally dependent on those communications. I teach high-level network and server classes at a big university. I often ask my students, “How long can a modern business last without email?” The practical answer is not more than a week. “Why?”, I then ask. “Emails only been around for 25 years, and business survived fine without it.”
The reply—and think about this—is we’ve FUNDAMENTALLY changed our whole supply, inventory, supplier to business to customer way of doing things. We are absolutely dependent on computing and electronic networks.
I am 75 years old, so wouldn’t expect to hold out long enough to be a slave.
The walls have been breached. Whoever doesn't (didn't) see this coming has purposely gouged his eyes out so as to remain blind.
Speaking of metaphors and allegories (Jerusalem-Babylon-America), it's like the writing on the wall that noone can read:
Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see JerUSAlem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
A gun near a window makes you a valuable commodity in the prevention of other people from becoming one ;)
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