Posted on 06/06/2012 4:41:35 PM PDT by Kartographer
Our long time friend and regular contributor Manos has been keeping us abreast of the day-to-day goings on in Greece for the better part of three years. Suffice it to say, it’s getting worse with very little hope of resolution to the economic and political woes facing the country, as well as its European neighbors.
The following is a first person perspective of the realities on the ground, and what it looks like in the midst of a truly frightening economic collapse that threatens to not only wipe out the financial wealth and life savings of an entire nation, but may potentially lead to a breakdown in the rule of law and civil war between extreme political factions trying to fill the vacuum of power.
This is real, it’s happening right now, and it’s coming to America in due time.
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Hi guys,
The daily life is still the same.
Things keep going because some divine hand still help us.
You wake up in the morning having no mood at all. And it’s this heat which destroys your brain cells. Today, it’s 34 degrees Celsius.
I’ve kept a small amount of around 250 euros, to buy some final provisions. Mostly meat cans, vitamins, and dried bread. I will store them to my parents’ basement, in order to have alternative escape plans.
The rumor about a power shortage is more and more been discussed around people, and alternative media.
It’s being said that the Power Company is no longer having the money to purchase coal and diesel.
We don’t have a generator for home use, so in case of a failure, we must consume all refrigerator food first.
My wife bought two big camping gas devices, with many spare bottles of gas. We can cook all meat and veggies, and then share them with the rest of the family.
My shotgun is full and well equipped. I hope i don’t need to use it.
My car had a small steering wheel failure last Friday, and i had to fix immediately. I don’t know if we have to leave the town in a rush.
I tried to find a small hut in the property but nobody sells at all.
Prices are so low, that they don’t want to sell their properties for nothing. I’m considering to buy a caravan and put it in the biggest olive-field. A small one with 2 beds, light enough to be dragged by my car, costs around 5.000 euros.
Today the stock market is going upwards, but soon enough the final collapse will occur. Spain is going down rapidly.
I’ll keep posting as long as I can. Don’t worry, I’m fully equipped and prepared.
Just take care of yourselves and families.
When the things reach to your neighborhood, you will have to fight.
Your fellow citizens are still living in their utopia. When they realize the danger, they will turn into ruthless beasts.
I pray for you all.
God Bless you
We wish our friend Manos the very best, as his family and countrymen are on the frontlines of an economic collapse that is about to affect every developed nation in the world.
Take his warnings to heart and prepare, because once the final phase of the breakdown begins it will be too late.
Preppers’ PING!
Yes, it is.
...but take away their holodecks...
Sounds like things are rapidly moving into the dark hole, and a lot more countries’ economies are going to get sucked-in, too. A very bumpy road ahead.
“This is real, it’s happening right now, and it’s coming to America in due time.”
Yes, it is.
Yes this is all to real and so many just don’t get how REAL it’s going to be. Of course I hope that I am wrong and somehow the world’s economy does not crash and burns, but face it the piper will have to be paid! We might not fall as far or as hard as many countries, but I believe a fall of some kind is inevitable.
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become thier‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Now anyone thinking that prepping is foolish ask you what’s easier telling your children and loved ones why you prepared or explaining to them why you didn’t?
But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Timothy 5:8
But then someone has to stand on the bridge waiting for FEMA to bring them a bottle of water, an MRE and a warm blanket so as to provide the Network Anchors their background ‘Money Shot’. I wonder how that will workout for them?
Face it we’ve kicked the financial can so far down the road that we are running out of road and the can which was once the size of a soda can is now the size of an oil drum (Try kicking that!)
For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf
NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
Lastly this for the doubters and the scoffers.
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
So they VOTED for a system that promises pie in the sky, when the EU warned them that failure to put their house in order would make the house fall down on them? If I warn someone not to stick their face in a glass furnace, should I be disappointed when they do? It’s called “thinning the heard”.
Thanks Kartographer. I watch the financials everyday. The Spanish bond market, the Greek meltdown, the BenBernanke dog and pony show . . . The extra supplies may seem like overkill to some, but it is not. Everyone reading this board should be a prepper.
We might not.
But on the other hand, we have a looooong ways available to fall to get to the same level as some places call day-to-day normal.
A quick prayer lofted for your friend Manos. Small communities can survive this - Greek history is full of that. Large ones with central institutions and central planning, won’t, and too much of Greece, and too much of America, have become precisely that.
The problem is we are all chained together and when one falls over the cliff they tend to take others with them... Greece...Spain...Portugal...Ireland...Italy then????And then????and then????.......
Thank you for all the information. My family and I are coming into this prepper thing late in the game, I’m afraid. We have lots of catching up to do... overwhelmed with where to begin. All I know is that, for the lack of a better word, I’m scared.
Just want to toss out that I’ve received my first two shipments of antibiotics from Fishmoxflex.com. They arrived sooner than the 5-7 days under their free shipping policy.
The seals are good and tight and the bottles of quality manufacture. Thomas Laboratories is the manufacturer. I have no business relationship with these people other than as a satisfied customer.
They have 4 of the 5 SHTF antibiotics recommended by Patriot Nurse in her YouTube videos.
Thanks for your hard work, Kart. I appreciate it.
Two things to consider when facing such disasters. The first is how rapidly they are taking place, and the second is how to mitigate them.
To start with as far as Greece goes, they are effectively moving to a state of anarchy, as what passes for government is unwilling to govern.
The best mitigation to this is an alternative form of government that is not official, but efficient. It is the recognition that the legitimacy of government comes from the social contract, but in hard times only those who sign on to the social contract can benefit from government.
“Those who work not shall not eat.”
What existed before, all the credits and debts and promises, are done. No one is retired, and nothing is free to anyone. Riot if you like until you starve, but nobody will give you anything for your demands.
If the situation degenerates too badly, there will be a mass exodus, until other countries close their borders. So if you think you could leave, and you can leave, leave before the quarantine begins.
The vast majority of people abhor anarchy, so it never lasts long unsupported by violent gangs that feed on it. But if they do not materialize, then order will reemerge quickly.
Do you mean Fishmoxfishflex.com instead of Fishmoxflex.com?
You are correct. The error is mine and I apologize for it. Thanks for catching it.
BFL
A good Prep beginning: You can get 20 pound sacks of rice for about $10 each, and spaghetti for $1 a pound (freeze both for a week to kill any bugs, and they store for a long time). Each pound is almost enough calories for one person for one day (1600 calories, when you need perhaps 2,000). That’s $1.00 per person for daily calories. You set aside food for a family of four for a month for $120. Of course, you can’t eat just rice and pasta, but throw in a can of sauce/soup and one of tuna/chicken/whatever, and you have an adequately balanced diet and enough variety to swallow it for a month for a total of $300. It’s a cheap start that covers one of your basic needs. Start with a week of food for your family if a month is too much money. Then rotate around what you add each week/month. Cover a way to cook the food, store water and water purification, stock up on medicines, sanitation, batteries and flashlights (I like at least a few of the hand crank kind), some items for self-defense and for entertainment, broaden your menu, and without too much pain at one time you’re ready for a few weeks, a month, or even a year of uncertainty. Good luck.
It can’t be stressed enough, but few will act. Twas ever thus...
Could you share what you bought and what the dosage is? Thanks!
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