Just An Ordinary Day In May

Vanity | May 22, 2012 | scotsman

[Scotsman]

The odds of something very near to this happening before November are greater than zero. You will have to pick your own odds ... :)

[appalachian_dweller]

over here...

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!

Interesting Vanity post by a fellow FReeper.

[HangnJudge]

The evidence is freely avilable...

And a personal effort... Incremental Change in GDP VS Domestic Debt
<1 indicates a Negative ROI on Injected Capital
Utterly unsustainable

[Kartographer]

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.”

[null and void]

Next stop: Spaghettification.

[kimmie7]

Haven’t seen you in a coon’s age! How are you?

[appalachian_dweller]

Hi Kimmie. I’m doing okay. You?

[Quix]

END TIMES PING LIST PING

FINANCIAL BLACK HOLE . . .

[familyop]

"Other countries are already having their sovergnity challenged and infringed upon by others - Greece is just the most glaring example for now."

Do we normally respect and uphold "sovereignty" for thieves? No. We don't respect empire, either.

Our US debt regime is not dependent on little, kleptocratic debt regimes of southern Europe. Those places will return to getting what they produce.

Our US debt regime is caused by the social (fascist) politics of an influx of antithetical Europeans over more than 100 years--those who've countered the purpose of early America's first groups of settlers (Puritans, Huguenots, early Presbyterians, Sephardim, all). Our US debt regime is its own and will see its own consequences.

Oil will continue up in the long run, BTW, and the dollar, down. A currency will follow its volume of production of real and useful goods.

[Marcella]

“Every paragraph above could be expanded into pages of detail and analysis, and it will all enevitably lead to massive debt repudiation and the destruction (bankruptcy strictly enforced) of ALL the major money-center banks - the one’s with the greatest exposure to uncollectable debt of any sort. Here in the United States that means that the five largest financial institutions, Goldman Sachs, J P Morgan Chase, Bank of America and a couple of others will not survive, in any form we recognize today. This will happen throughout the World Financial System, and the only hope is that governments will be able to maintain societal stability and not decend into some form or variation of anarchy.”

I haven’t been one to think martial law would surely happen, but if the banks above had to close, the rest would, too. That could easily bring about martial law in order to try to control the chaos brought about by people not being able to get money. If it happened before the Nov. election, there might not be an election and I haven’t been one to think the election wouldn’t happen.

Not much is said on prep threads about having cash in the house. I have taken care of that and everyone should. After Ike came thourgh my area, there was no cash to be had since power was down. So, the possibility of hurricanes and power loss caused me to always have cash stored somewhere on my property so I could get to it.

Preppers should think about banks being closed for whatever reason and prepare for that event. Have smaller bills and change, not larger bills, and put it where no one knows where it is except you and spouse.

[ex-Texan]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2885508/posts?page=16#16

Note entire thread and read between the lines and please open your ears

[familyop]

"Governments throughout the world are feverishly working on 'continuity of government' plans - how do we keep society polite and maintain effective control of a functioning government WHEN the capital markets lock up completely and bank runs go out of control."

Layoffs of enormous numbers of useless government employees, and a good way to start would be with stopping all federal funding to locales ("pork"). That will happen either sooner with government willingness or later with unwillingness.

First, bond investors will take "haircuts." Then, all other recipient of government incomes will take haircuts. Otherwise, only a little later, a complete shutdown of some duration, while favored constituent groups (all equally guilty) fight each other for larger portions. Then, a start-up of very small and old fashioned government (not enough production of useful items to do any more, regardless of inflation or deflation).

Have fun. Enjoy the slide. We're not far from the part where the political/regulator class loses its time and money for controlling politicians, bureaucrats and their supporting/controlling NIMBYs.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Thanks for the ping, Quix.

Things are moving right along, just as we were told they would, and these things have to happen for the one-world economic system to come into place.

That fact doesn't make it any easier to watch, but we know what the end to the story is and that's the only way we can endure what's happening.

[ex-Texan]

I know what is happening

Looky Looky

No big mystery here but the time to wake up is long over

[DuncanWaring]

Glad to see you’re back from your earlier sabbatical.

[Jim Robinson]

Howdy, Scotty!!

One thing I know is true. Government is not the solution. At least not in its present form. Government is the problem. Obama is a Marxist. Romney is a Keynesian crony capitalist who approves of bailouts and stimulus spending and claims more will be necessary. Both think it’s the purpose of government to control the economy.

Pray for a return to constitutionally limited government.

The founders had it right in that regard.

[Brad’s Gramma]

bfl

[.30Carbine]

This is why a “mark of the beast” will be necessary and accepted. No amount of preparation can prevent one from needing that “mark” to buy or sell. We just have to trust Jehovah-Jireh for absolutely everything, now and for tomorrow, and however long He leaves us here to do His will. There is no one more faithful than Jesus Christ. I don’t want to ever deny Him. God help us.

Revelation 13:
14 He deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that he is permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who had the sword wound and yet lived. 15 He was permitted to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 And he requires everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark: the beast’s name or the number of his name.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Amen, my friend... Amen.