Posted on 06/12/2012 10:46:39 AM PDT by blam
Isn't it amazing how no one in a position of authority seems to have even a modicum of curiosity about the causes of an event that, supposedly, was going to bring the entire economic engine to its knees by the next morning, if not sooner?
Paulson and Bernanke both belong in prison.
“And we still don’t know who did it.”
George Soros, Michael Dell, and one other person who I cannot remember.
I think they are very aware of it, they just don’t want it made public.
I agree. Its not that hard to have a month's supply of groceries in the pantry, and everyone should make it a point to accumulate enough to get through at least that period of time... enough for themselves and the stray relative who is sure to turn up on their doorstep. You won't turn them away, so you may as well include them in your planning.
There is more thanonemof my relatives I’d have absolutely no problem turning away from my doorstep.
Prepping is something many can do, to only to the degree our locations, money, and family situations limit. The biggest problem will be the millions of Obama voters who will stream out of the cities once they collapse. This phase will last perhaps three months. Then the biggest problem will be from disease from the millions of unburied bodies. How does one plan for or cope with that? In a modified collapse, the government will become a tyranny, confiscating all private food, guns, and supplies, sending you and your family to a camp. How will you respond? How will your response enhance chances of survival?
If I have something I have options. If I plan I have options. If I am armed I have options. If I am organized with others I have options.
If I sit on the Bridge and wait for FEMA I have surrendered.
Prepping cost far less than you think. Even the poorest of us should be able to prep enough that our forefathers would consider us rich and they managed to tame a Continent with far less. Have we fallen so far that we do not dare try to do the same?
(ahem) So...where will you and your family be when the government comes?
oh how I miss Ronald Reagan right now.
Source?
Knowing that I have food, supplies, knowledge, and gear stashed away really sets my mind at ease.
Even better is the group, the others thought of things I never would have.
Thanks for all the pings Kart.
I began prepping a few months ago, when my personal circumstances changed. I began researching the various prepping outlets, websites and blogs. And at some folks' suggestion, I began looking more critically at events.
While there is a case for the sand-castle-on-the-beach analogy, with the collapse coming in waves, I suspect it is more like building a campfire. You pile tinder and kindling, maybe using a little accelerant. Then a single spark ignites the pile, and as the flames grow, you begin heaping more and bigger pieces, and watch the conflagration grow.
One example: 1914. The assassination of an obscure Archduke in Europe was the spark that ignited a decades-long buildup of diplomatic tinder, resulting in WW1.
Another case: the 1918 influenza outbreak. This was a worldwide pandemic that took two years to finally burn out, but when it started (March of '18), it was swift and fast-spreading, killing a target population in less than a month.
Another case: the panicky volatility of the stock market. The 1987 stock market crash, for one, was started by one spark, the Hong Kong market crashing, spreading worldwide over a period of five days. The 2010 "Flash Crash" shows how quickly the market can panic.
Another example: Katrina. A really good AAR on the storm and its aftermath can be found here. Points to take away include the race-motivated looting and crime; the authoritarian actions of the relief efforts; and how quickly things devolved into a SHTF scenario from a single event.
These points tell me that the kindling is ready to ignite, and it's been drenched with accelerant. We read the other day of the Italian bank that has locked out its depositors. We know of the issues with Greece and the Euro. The single spark could be anything: the acting-up promised by the Left at the RNC convention in Tampa; a natural disaster, whether storm or earthquake; the promised rioting regardless of the result of the Zimmerman Trial; or the Kenyan losing the election in November.
A fire starts with a single spark.
Nonsense!
It’s gonna be Zombie apocalypse, with a Mad Max economy.
Personally, I intend to be my own Jabba the Hutt warlord, with my very own swirly boobed dancing princess on a leash.
I’ve been studying end of the world scenarios (videoly) for years, so I feel confident when the SHTF (wouldn’t you like to know what that means) I’ll be ready for it.
Source? There have been numerous threads on FR with the information dating back to 2008.
We live out in the sticks and are thus far better off to survive a partial collapse than the poor bastards in cities that will become Mad Max made real. The real horror of New Orleans and Katrina was not that too many Democrats sat on their sofas and watched the water rise rather than get the hell out of town. The real horror was how fast law and order collapsed. It didn't take much. And people in the Deep Blue cesspool cities -- disarmed and totally unprepared -- will die by the millions after even a month of interruption to the lives of literal and psychic welfare they live. As they stream out of the cities, how well will you be prepared for them?
Wow. That AAR from Katrina is a great reality check and deserves highlighting. Give that a read when you get a chance, FRiend Drumbo.
http://www.frfrogspad.com/disastr.htm
I’m particularly struck by the suspicion & hostility toward the preppers from “rescue personnel” and non-prepper neighbors alike. Like crabs in a bucket, the lot of them.
While patting myself on the back for assuming an innocuous/harmless manner of moving armed in public, it’s clear that if I have to bunker in place alone, I really need to fortify the ole homeplace - sadly to protect from looters AND the supposed rescuers.
Dell employees were worried about their jobs. There had been layoffs and repositioning 2-3 years ago. After that, everything was hunky dorry. Amazing, huh.
There are several examples of the breakdown of law and order. Katrina in 2005. Los Angeles in 1992 (Rodney King). The 1977 New York blackout. Law and order, and polite society, is just a veneer.
As I remember, it was speculation, not fact. Probably true, though.
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