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Bracken: When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence (EBT SHTF scenario)
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/bracken-when-the-music-stops-how-americas-cities-may-explode-in-violence/ ^ | 9/3/2012 | Matt Bracken

Posted on 03/24/2014 11:13:27 AM PDT by freedumb2003

From Matt Bracken:

In response to recent articles in mainstream military journals discussing the use of the U.S. Army to quell insurrections on American soil, I offer an alternate vision of the future. Instead of a small town in the South as the flash point, picture instead a score of U.S. cities in the thrall of riots greater than those experienced in Los Angeles in 1965 (Watts), multiple cities in 1968 (MLK assassination), and Los Angeles again in 1992 (Rodney King). New Yorkers can imagine the 1977 blackout looting or the 1991 Crown Heights disturbance. (snip) What if a cascading economic crisis, even a temporary one, leads to millions of EBT (electronic benefit transfer) cards flashing nothing but ERROR? This could also be the result of deliberate sabotage by hackers, or other technical system failures. (snip)

(Excerpt) Read more at westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; bracken; ebt; shtf
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To: ANGGAPO; et al

Most here have forgotten that the ‘power elite’ have mandated a 50% reduction in global population. This scenario is but the USA’s minor contribution to that end.


101 posted on 03/24/2014 3:29:12 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had Enough Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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To: tanknetter

Agreed. The LEO will simply be bringing supplies to the other side.


102 posted on 03/24/2014 4:12:24 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: altsehastiin

Electricity is your friend. Once gone, all hell will break loose!


103 posted on 03/24/2014 4:15:09 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: freedumb2003

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104 posted on 03/24/2014 5:10:36 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes
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To: freedumb2003

bfl


105 posted on 03/24/2014 5:19:51 PM PDT by jch10 (Election Day, 2014. May be the most important day since Bunker Hill.)
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To: FreedomPoster

I found my posts there. :-) Thanks for the, um, memories.


106 posted on 03/24/2014 5:26:51 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Marcella

I cannot remember a time when 45 N was not under construction. A family friend lived in Huntsville, for a while, and would come the back way to visit us (through College Station down to Hempstead/Brookshire route.)

The backroads certainly helped us during the Rita debacle.


107 posted on 03/24/2014 7:01:48 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: vetvetdoug

Thanks for serving, and just damn. Whoever made that decision is morally bankrupt, to put young men in that situation.


108 posted on 03/24/2014 7:17:44 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Marcella
but I still say don't leave the house at the beginning of riots.

Absolutely, yes. I was thinking long term and you were speaking of the immediate short term. Missed that. Sorry.

109 posted on 03/24/2014 7:37:40 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
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To: ANGGAPO

It seems like Zero is pushing for a collapse to me. No one would do the things he and the progs are doing unless collapse was the plan.


110 posted on 03/24/2014 7:56:06 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Just doing laps around the sun and shaking my head that progressives can believe what they do!)
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To: F15Eagle

How do those nice big radiator grills work when sprayed with something flamable like kerosene?


111 posted on 03/24/2014 9:43:57 PM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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To: apillar
“But the government will just blame the fact that a loaf of bread now costs $50 on “those greedy corporations” and “rich Republicans”, the “usual suspects” will believe every word...”

Yeah and it's already happening. I bet you saw NASA’s report predicting a collapse due to income inequality. The obama regime has reduced what once was possibly the most credible organization in America to a propaganda mouth. Looking past NASA’s new politics what their statement really told me is that the government believes there will be a collapse.

112 posted on 03/25/2014 6:38:17 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: MtnClimber

“It seems like Zero is pushing for a collapse to me. No one would do the things he and the progs are doing unless collapse was the plan.”

Yes, and the crazy thing is they think a collapse would work to their advantage. I beg to differ.


113 posted on 03/25/2014 6:40:55 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: freedumb2003

BTTT


114 posted on 12/03/2014 9:30:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: freedumb2003

Bumpitty bump bump.

Fergie was extremely tame compared to what can happen.


115 posted on 12/04/2014 1:57:23 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: freedumb2003

BTTT


116 posted on 08/17/2016 6:29:06 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (TRUMP THAT BEYOTCH!)
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To: polymuser

Bttt


117 posted on 09/26/2016 8:26:56 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: wbill

Well, Soros is a NAZI


118 posted on 09/26/2016 8:37:30 AM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: combat_boots
True enough....

Regarding this thread (2-1/2 years later....) it's interesting how prescient Bracken's writing was. Having just dealt with the gasoline crunch we had last weekend, I was surprised at how quickly gas supplies dried up. In my area, things were perfectly fine on Saturday morning. One station had a few pumps bagged, and I read a few rumbles of a problem on FR.

Ten hours later, by Saturday evening (8pm or so) there was no gasoline to be found in a 10 mile radius of my house. Certainly problems existed beyond that, but I didn't bother to look out any farther.

And that was as a result of a simple, semi-easily fixed malfunction. What shortages would a *serious* issue have caused? This was a low-impact event and thus an excellent learning opportunity.

To be fair, I'm equally surprised by how quickly gas supplies rebounded. In less than a week, things are mostly back to normal again.

119 posted on 09/26/2016 8:51:03 AM PDT by wbill
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