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
Not wishful, just practical. The Fed has no intention of allowing Texas to be a Military Power they have to deal with.
Many here expect the people to rise up to cast of the shackles of tyranny, I clearly don't expect it. We tolerated Waco, Ruby Ridge, and a myriad of Social adjustments all leading us to the tyranny we now enjoy.
We have an election process that screams out fraud, and we never want to even mention it. We get the candidates someone picks for us and we get the results that some unknown entity proscribes, yet we suffer under the illusion that somehow we had choices.
I am way past my expiration date so a younger generation will have to make a stand, it won't be mine.
I am way better armed than the average person and I learned to shoot nearly 70 years ago, so I need em up close. :)
It’s not “part one” of something serial, sorry about that. It’s a short story, and really just a reason to write the last third in a form people would read. If I wrote a nonfiction essay concerning the “why” in the last third, nobody would read it. The entire plot is a matter of creating a plausible backstory to the last third. My intention was to drag the reader up into the tower and make him look out at the landscape. That’s why he has no name, just the history teacher and by the end the hunter.
If I had to write the next few chapters, I would have to resolve a ton of open questions that nobody, today, can really answer. Would it be as bad as I describe? Cannibalism? History teaches yes, but who knows? Would the nuke plants still be running, providing regional juice? Maybe. Nobody knows. I don’t want to answer all of those open questions; it wasn’t my goal with the story.
My goal was to write the why, and what the signs are leading up to it. That’s all. If others would like to write similar episodes, from other POVs or opinions, I’d read them. I’d like to know what engineers, computer network guys etc think might happen. This narrator is just a high school history teacher who was in a lucky spot when it happened.
You’re right.
This would be a good time to find out which of your neighbors is liberal. When a general breakdown comes preemptive strikes would be necessary.
The time to prepare is now.
I would say to make a sober assessment of which of your neighbors would be inclined to give you some of their dwindling food and which would not. Which you would honestly count on to stand at your side in a deadly situation and which would not. Which you could trust with your kids if you were killed and which you would not.
True, none are likely to be libs. But do not think for a second that the tough talking hyperpatriot wanabee down the bloc is anything but hot air.
Then there's nothing more for us to say to each other. I'm not going to waste my time arguing with someone who believes the American Experiment is over.
Well, good job! I am a computer/network guy. After I retired from the Air Force I got my degree and began teaching at a university. I’ve been doing a lot more writing and consulting on high level stuff; I’m only teaching part time, but my focus of late has been about the survivability of our modern networks that are critical to maintaining our society.
What happens if we were to lose the public, world-wide network, otherwise known as the Internet?
People like to think the Internet is some vast government implementation that others can use but it is not that at all. Every day, a hundred new paths come up; more routers, more cell towers, more communications links.
At my university we have several new, mega-broadband connections to the outside world, but also kept the old links, additional connections to other universities, etc.
Last week, the networking group asked me to help them. I’ve been teaching there for 16 years and also ran the Windows domain so I’ve considered an old timer. Well anyway, these young folks had several old Cisco level-3 switches (they can route) that are more or less pass-thru, but can be managed, meaning they have an operating system. However, they didn’t know the account name or the password. Nobody does. I tried about two dozen old passwords I’ve never forgotten but none worked. I knew the people that set them up and frankly, they didn’t know much and I think they never did anything software-wise on them. Still, the default passwords wouldn’t work... Maybe the NSA is using them! :-)
So, these switches are still running, but cannot be remotely managed. I’m sure this is not an exception and I reckon a lot of the devices hither and yon on the public network are similarly just there with the administrators praying to the Holy Tech Gods that they do not fail or need any configuring! That is also one of the big, unspoken problems about Tech. A lot of the people managing it don’t know enough about it. The saying is, if it’s working, don’t F$%k with it! Often things are switched on and forgotten about because they don’t know how they work—just that they do.
Can the government—or any one entity shut down the Internet or parts of it? I’m not sure it can be done. And any attempt to try might break ALL of it.
As an example, Windows systems in a domain have a secure channel to the domain controllers, and this secure channel must be reset between these computers every 30 days (it’s done automatically). However, if they cannot, the computer loses its trust relation back to the domain controller, and has to be manually reset by an administrator. Since the automatic reset is a timed event, it’s possible for the trust relationship to be broken with only a few days of losing connectivity.
Now more and more businesses are putting their domain-joined computers on the Internet. Hey, it’s “free”, and bandwidth is huge and easy to get these days. Also, domain controllers are talking to each other, keeping it all going, over the Internet through encrypted replication.
Shut the Internet down and ALL of this fails. Hate or love Microsoft, they are the world’s king on domains and business computers. They have these “weak points” if you will, that absolutely require almost constant communications to work correctly. Take that away and it starts to fail. Maybe a little at first, but that can cause other domains and trusts to fail and pretty soon you have a pile of junk that you cannot log into—and no business transactions can take place without the secure authentication and authorization that domains provide.
So if the government wants to stab American—and WORLD—business right in the proverbial heart, they could shut it down, or attempt to shut down certain sites and connections that could cause a cascade of failure globally.
We are joined at the hip to the Network already. It would be major surgery to separate, and the patient would probably die in the process.
The Enclave are the Antagonist from the Game Series Fallout.
The World has been destroyed by a Nuclear War, yet the Federal Government persists and demand the survivors loyalty. Even if it goes up against the New Societies Americans have created from themselves such as the New California Republic.
The Federal Government was just like a cockroach, even a Nuclear War couldn't kill it.
“...1992 - Los Angeles - the verdict is announced for the Rodney King Trial, and almost immediately, the city burns;...”
Lived through and witnessed it. Not something I wish on anyone. Things got very dicey, very quickly.
Also TEXOKIE, They were heavy on propaganda (broadcasts from roving robotic machines and via radio) and simply walked in and took what they wanted. Survivors were considered utterly expendable. In the game, the Enclave gave the remaining ‘Americans” (In quotes as America as an entity had ceased to be) a choice. cooperate or die. Anyone considered to be tainted by mutation was subject to immediate eradication.
There are many things about that game which I am convinced the developer hired experts to research...scenarios and such. While there is a considerable sci fi element, there are many very real scenarios and scientifically, psychologically and sociologically supportable truths to be found.
Heard immediately before Normie unleashed a broadside of green hell from a Plasma rifle into the offending Eyebot ;)
Get out while you still can! They aren’t who they say they are!!!
And lets not forget your favorite Vault...I believe that was Vault Tec’s little contribution to the Feds pre war as well.
You might want to start researching BBQ sauce for long pig.
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I still haven't beat Fallout 3 yet.
I have made little progress lately, this "New Job" thing.
I am currently at Point Lookout, about to solve the Necronomicon Mystery on October 31st, talk about perfect timing!
The “This is your life” vault you said made you ill finishing. I think that was the one.
JOB? What is this job thing of which you speak? This is Obamamerica! Nancy Pelosi said everyone has time for games and personal pursuits! Jobs are secondary.
Of course foreign armor units are now being housed in the US from very arid countries to train in desert environments. Go figure.
I think that the global (mostly cisco) network, our electrical grids and key infrastructure are all so intertwined today that major failures could cascade. A Carrington event solar storm might do it, or a cyber war, which might be the backstory of a shooting war, or other black swans we haven’t thought of yet.
But I’ll stick to many of my major themes. If JIT delivery fails, it can all go haywire very fast when the cities run out of food. Our food comes from very far away, the entire networked system MUST work, or our cities could go hungry and explode very fast. I think a week without power in the USA could tip us right over the brink.
Ah Yes Vault 11, where you must sacrifice your life for the good of the people.
Sounds like George Soros.
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