Posted on 10/09/2013 8:18:30 PM PDT by Kartographer
We’re talking scenarios much more severe than the Great Depression.
But this isn’t just happening in America. Switzerland recently engaged in war games that simulated an economic collapse scenario, as well as an invasion by bankrupted nations and millions of refugees. In 2011, the British government developed plans to evacuate their citizens from European countries in expectation of monetary and economic crisis.
The exercises and drills may be compartmentalized so that most who are partaking in them don’t really know why, but there are those in the higher echelons of power that know very well what the end game is going to be.
None of this is a coincidence.
If you aren’t taking steps to prepare for a new paradigm – one plagued with destitution, riots, starvation and bloodshed – then you are going to be a victim of what’s coming.
Gordon Brown is right. When the economic system breaks down or the dollar collapses food, fuel, and medicine will be nearly impossible to acquire. The experience of Greeks, who saw this first hand, is a perfect example.
The only option for the government at that point will be to control the looting and violence that follows by declaring Martial Law and locking this country down.
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
I would pick something Wagnerian, but that’s me...
Hoping the Ponzi scheme doesn't collapse before you get yours, eh?
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Al, old boy...
You still around?
“...They hate my guts because I am not enduring their pain. ...”
GONG... Wrong... That’s not the reason.
The REASON is because you’re an arrogant, insufferable, miserable, and gloating bonehead that takes some strange joy in seeing other people’s misfortune... at least, from your posts, that’s what it appears.
So get it straight, old boy.
“...They are not from my ancestry, Uncle Sam, 1812...”
And as for your ancestry... he’d be ashamed of your actions.
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“...I would pick something Wagnerian...”
Uh oh... I sense a Valkyrie Moment coming from Sarge... some big, buxom, Norse Goddess, perhaps, bearing Shield, Sword, Axe, and a cask of Ale, perhaps???
Good God, man, you really have gone off the deep end, haven’t you?
Having forsaken your most fundamental responsibility as a human being, your conscience is starting to get the better of you; you’re going to greater and greater lengths to dress-up your careless irresponsibility as a great and noble cause.
It ain’t working.
Remember a few months ago a ferry sank in the Phillipines?
One Freeper posted that the sinking was only a couple of miles from where he lived.
To the best of my knowledge, nobody says anything about where he lives, because he doesn’t spend his life pontificating like a pompous petulant little prick about how great and wise he is.
He sets a good example.
SHTF constantly in North Korea
In the mid-90’s the North Korean prison state, which has very bad infrastructure and agricultural systems - they’re commies so what do you expect - was cut off from Soviet aid and the Chinese took over for a period.
wiki”: “By 1993, China was supplying North Korea with 77 percent of its fuel imports and 68 percent of its food imports”
Dependence on the Soviets became dependence on the Chinese.
Famine struck.
Famine that killed somewhere between 250,000 to 3.5 million, and you know the North Korean won’t ever admit the real numbers. The NK government has mandated the famine/mass death be officially called the “March of Suffering”.
Most North Koreans were nutritionally deprived long before the famine struck. It is a “country” run for the benefit of the regime and little else. They always practiced what they now admit is a “military-first” economic policy.
The bad economic system and terrible policies were the main drivers but the floods that hit were the kick in the pants. Not only was at least 1.2 million tons were lost in the harvest but another 1.5 million tons of grain reserves, underground, were destroyed.
North Korea literally has nothing worth selling to the world to trade for food.
The government was the main distributor of food, through the Public Distribution System. They were supposed to thank the regime for their daily bowl of rice, I guess. But the famine/floods destroyed the PDS.
wiki: “However, the extended period of food shortage put a strain on the system and spread the amount of food allocation thinly across the groups, affecting 62% of the population who were entirely reliant on the PDS. The system was feeding only 6% of the state by 1997.”
The people who suffered the most were those who continued to believe and trust the government to feed them. The people who were more likely to survive are those who turned to the black market and other underground means.
wiki: “The average official salary in 2011 was equivalent to $2 per month while the actual monthly income seems to be around $15 because most North Koreans earn money in illegal small businesses: trade, subsistence farming, and handicrafts. The illegal economy is dominated by women because men have to attend their places of official work even though most of the factories are non-functioning.”
You have to show up at your assigned workplace even if it is shut down. Often you will be ordered to go out and find other work and bring back the money to give to the factory/workplce.
Escapees in 2011 began reporting that starvation had returned to North Korea. Even a shill like Jimmy Carter noted that at least a third of the children he saw were stunted by malnutrition and that daily food intake had been decreased from 1,400 to 700 calories per day.
“A study in 2011 by South Korean anthropologists of North Korean children who had defected to China found that 18-year-old males were 5 inches shorter than South Koreans their age”
The number of people wandering the countryside with no help from the NK government, officially non-persons, or Kotjebi has grown. Their main diet is grass soup. Conditions in the detention camps are even worse of course, even in the Children’s Detention Camps there are people starving to death.
This is the Utopia, the Workers Paradise, this is the end stage of the dream of every leftist.
The crap hit the fan a long time ago in North Korea and it continues to hit the fan. Yet their government remains in power and their grip has not loosened as far as one could tell. The majority of people no longer believes their government can or will feed them, they no longer believe that all of the propaganda they are told is true, even though it still remains in them and effects them years after they escape NK. Enough people in NK have seen SK programs smuggled in to know that the rest of the world is not worse off than them, but much much better off.
Yet the grip on power remains.
North Korea is now a model for other governments who know that the S is about to HTF.
Yes, the US and other countries are probably taking lessons on how to stay in control from North Korea.
LOL
Killing zombies to the theme music from “The Incredible Hulk” TV show??
Classical music is good.
“Fight of the Bumblebee” or whatever its called.....
or “Ode to Joy”
would be good soundtracks during zombie raids.
I’d prefer facing the Zombie Apocalypse to something from:
Avenged Sevenfold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zm99J4ydGw
or Elena Siegman...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UAsxfbgMpc&bpctr=1381424769
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6vI919QI14
Da trolls... dey’s be runnin’ Amok or sumpin....
Makes me wonder what side you are on...
lol
Music To Slay The Undead By...
“1812 Overture” would work...
Anything from “Carmen”...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w9yJdkeryI
Or “O Fortuna!” from Carmina Burana (my favorite):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD3VsesSBsw
Or, just for laughs, how about “Swan Lake”
I’m on the side that’s NOT trying to eat somebody else!!!
Haha!
Speaking of Zombies... “The Walking Dead” starts up again this Sunday night. Season 4 already... damn. Lasted longer than I thought it would.
You are all wrong!!
Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRU1AJsXN1g
I love the smell of burning undead in the morning!!!!
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