Are YOU prepared for the end of the world?

[takza]

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-impe ... 2010-11#-1

[emmahumpfritter]

I agree the writing has been on the wall for a long time now. There's two ways to head into the future IMHO: Get EXTREMELY wealthy and join the elites in their enclaves, or simplify, burn wood, learn skills, have no debt, some rural land and a few hunting rifles with ammo. If you really think about it, there aren't many other options except pure dumb luck.

[takza]

The worst part of it is that at a time when oil/resources are peaking...our incompetent leaders have the US up to it's eyebrows in debt....and are depending on cheap energy to grow our way out of debt. Just ain't going to happen...and definitely won't happen without more wars and environmental degradation. While China has real, not borrowed money to buy up resources...the US goes to war for them on borrowed $....more debt. Yes...the elites think at least...that they can use their $ to protect themselves...but you can see from their "leadership" that they don't understand the fragility of the "social order"...just won't be any as things get real dicey....thus the police state we see. Our corporate-owned government is all for profits...1/2 the profits of the S&P come from foreign sources....the corps have good $ reserves while main street sinks. It's my belief that the END might be like the last market crash..."they" will tell you "ever ting done gone be otay"...till it isn't....but this time it won't just be the market.

They had a chance to get on the right path...but they continued doing the SOS.

Some are expecting $4/gallon gas next year.

But there is a limit to what any individual can do to prepare...you might have a bug out vehicle and even a place to go to and might not be any better off in the end...so to speak. Gonna be a lot of footloose people on the roam...or in the camps?

[emmahumpfritter]

I'm more and more finding myself in this line of thinking....(2nd part of a multi-part segment)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UnQVbfaAHs&NR=1

I predict it's not going to be peak oil that does us in as much as massive social unrest that will put a lot of people into "camps" and even more in the ground. All this "war on terrorism" is really a false flag reason to turn this country (and the world) into this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

For anyone thinking this is too "Extreme" or paranoid..please, I welcome a reasonable rebuttal to the subject.

[ARCHINSTL]

And I thought there was a divide in the country back in the Nixon years - nothin' compared to now...
Tom M.

[takza]

The whole issue is something like the chicken or the egg question...The govt (top 5% that really own the country?) laid a big egg and claims it's all the egg's fault....some of the egg (at least) realizes the govt laid it...so to speak. I vote, but evidence to the contrary, I don't really want to worry about it all too much...too much dumb out there with a lot of people voting to shoot themselves in the foot...I won't likely benefit from whichever way it goes anyway due to my age. Best bet...step out of the way of the train...stand back and watch the idiots get hit? But good luck if you can actually do that.... The younger generations that are going to get to experience what is on the way...will probably try to watch it on their Blackberries? Good luck with that.....

As far as energy prices and the economy...energy prices go up...it acts as a tax...economy slows. Economy slows...demand for oil goes down...sort of an equilibrium....except that over time due to the dollars drop...energy will still go up...and it will go up over time due to inflation...and it will go up due to increased scarcity....so no matter what...energy trends up. Not to mention other resources and water...and all that depend on them like food, etc.

Remember...the chicken has prepared for the MESS it has laid (detention centers...propaganda....surveillance...military on the streets...perpetual wars) but it will never acknowledge it's mistakes....we depend on Wikileaks for that....the egg must pay?

The country...1/2 are fascist or their sympathizers ....1/2 are the victims of fascists. Some fascist sympathizers are also victims, but are too stupid to know it. Some fascist victims are also fascist enablers, but don't acknowledge it.

Historically...it takes A LONG TIME for economic messes like the current one to clear up...this one is exacerbated by it's global nature...resource depletion...global warming, etc.

The increased surveillance will be like the Feds recent moves to lower interest rates...it will cause an opposite reaction?

[takza]

I'm more and more finding myself in this line of thinking....(2nd part of a multi-part segment)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UnQVbfaAHs&NR=1

I predict it's not going to be peak oil that does us in as much as massive social unrest that will put a lot of people into "camps" and even more in the ground. All this "war on terrorism" is really a false flag reason to turn this country (and the world) into this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

For anyone thinking this is too "Extreme" or paranoid..please, I welcome a reasonable rebuttal to the subject.

There IS no reasonable rebuttal. They know what you are doing....and you know what they are doing.....

"ISPs are able to track users' activities, while user-generated content means that daily social activity may be recorded and broadcast online.[11]"

They know what you buy...they can track your credit/debit cards realtime...what your opinions are. If you pay with cash...they will screen for drugs. Your vehicle in a store's lot can be entered. You are under A/V surveillance in a store.

Don't make the BIG CHICKEN fear you? The BIG CHICKEN hates the egg it laid?

People are being tracked on the ground (ordinary looking vehicles, cell phones, GPS bugs) and from the air (planes...UAVs)...and I suspect real-time satellite surveillance in the US as in Iraq/Afgan. Other than the degree of repression...so far...there is little difference between the ME and the US?

They COULD have dealt with energy issues/debt/corporate-elite power back in the Carter days...but they continued the SOS....the country is now painted into a corner. Now the egg has been laid and the die is cast. You makes yer bets...and you takes yer chances?

How to get by in a fascist state? Appear to be one of them...don't draw attention to yourself. Looks like it's too late for me? See you in the gulag....

[takza]

Are we there yet?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... e27136.htm