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- inv1c7u5, on 12/24/2008, -20/+284Some believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as internationalists and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure-one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.
~David Rockefeller, "Memoirs" autobiography
(2002, Random House publishers)
The aristocratic elite, the Bush's, Rothschild's, Bilderbergs, Kissingers, they have been waiting for this to happen so they can capitalize yet again on their war economy. Let's take this battle to THEIR doors instead of our innocent neighbors this time. After all... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
~John F. Kennedy - lilamae, on 12/24/2008, -15/+217There's more financial fallout coming and all these bailouts will not save the economy--perhaps there will be a prolonged Great Depression. People will be likely to panic, make runs on the banks, and eventually be so enraged at the massive robbery of citizens there will be some armed resistance. Or not. Perhaps everyone will be too worn down and hungry to resist whatever the government decides to do.
It's already been shown that citizens cannot stop Congress from doing whatever they want to do re the economy. They are preparing to control the violence that may erupt. If you went to the grocery store tomorrow and a loaf of bread (provided there's some on the shelves) rang up at $50 at the register, what would you do? - inactive, on 12/25/2008, -37/+235Wow, more nuts in this thread than in my mom's fruitcake.
- p47plane, on 12/25/2008, -8/+144Eat Cake
- Nintendesert, on 12/25/2008, -33/+148Damn, most all of you are ***** ***** insane.
- YodaJones, on 12/25/2008, -18/+120If you can afford body armor you should buy it. And guns. Lots of guns, and lots more ammo.
- Korgmeister, on 12/25/2008, -5/+97If it's even remotely possible, the military has a plan for it. They're *supposed* to exhibit Batman-esque levels of pre-planning and paranoia. So there's really nothing unusual or frightening about this sort of thing unless you're totally unfamiliar with how the military operates.
- Observant1, on 12/24/2008, -10/+97the "unforeseen economic collapse" they intrntionally created with corporate welfare to outsource the technology and manufacturing to make US citizens unemployed and lower wages? you mean THAT "unforeseen economic collapse" where all that is left for the criminals who did it is to loot an already bankrupt treasury and bring in the military to protect themselves from punishment for their economic warfare and treason?
the quickest route to stopping the unrest would be the military arresting the real criminals before the first shots are fired, instead of serving them and defending them in some BS "civil war". - jynweythek, on 12/25/2008, -4/+74should I be concerned or is this just more sensationalist *****?
- shirosamurai, on 12/25/2008, -8/+65A blogspot blog called "Future Storm, Chronicling The Signs Of Change As Humanity Hurtles Into A Broken Future" with topics such as New World Order and Police States. That sounds like a credible source of information...
- GovernmentSp00k, on 12/24/2008, -10/+66related: http://digg.com/world_news/Eye_Witness_to_Foreign_ ...
- Gareth321, on 12/25/2008, -3/+56I think your government proved to everyone that they can do whatever they like and you'll do nothing. Voting almost seems like a formality now. Your country has some entrenched agencies that need to come crashing down to be rebuilt. The apathy just astounds me. I might just be looking at this through 'foreign eyes' though. I know you've all had your rights eroded - even to free speech in protests. Perhaps it's already too late to make a change? Let's hope not. We see America in all its former glory falling apart and wonder why the proud and noble citizens aren't fighting like history tells us they should. It's as clear as day that the top echelons of business and politics are raping you financially. We just don't understand why you don't burn them down. How much further do they need to go before you act?
- inactive, on 12/25/2008, -2/+54Them
- inactive, on 12/25/2008, -7/+58I think you can imagine what would happen in inner-city Detroit or Cleveland if the Welfare/SSI/WIC checks stopped coming. It wouldn't be pretty.
- dawnraid101, on 12/25/2008, -2/+52What if the $20,000 you had saved in the bank effectively lost all 90% of its value overnight. Wouldn't that piss you off?
- Drahkar, on 12/25/2008, -3/+50The sad truth is that in forgetting the past (Which most people have.) They have cursed us right back into the same position we were in the Depression, the Civil War and the Red Scare. Only they managed to do it all at once.
I sometimes wonder where the next few years will lead when you consider this country is no longer for the people, but for the rich elite. We're merely the workhorses that help them make even more money.
Too bad they couldn't used all that money for something productive. At the very least they could invest in things like space travel that, while on the short term might seem pointless, the long term it'll most likely be the one thing that keeps mankind alive. The colonization of space. You'd think they would see that as a huge boon for them as it means they could protect their family and family interests far into the future. The fact that it would also benefit us, well that is a secondary fact. - chrissku, on 12/25/2008, -5/+51You make a frighteningly good point. Inflation could easily spark civil unrest.
"If you went to the grocery store tomorrow and a loaf of bread (provided there's some on the shelves) rang up at $50 at the register, what would you do?"
That's a scenario that's possible in the near future. Scary. - inactive, on 12/25/2008, -5/+47I remember this absolutely brilliant guy I worked with. He was the most amazing, gifted engineer. But he was absolutely convinced the world was going to end on 1/1/00. He stockpiled supplies, made plans. turned his basement into some kind of bunker.
God was he crestfallen when we all showed up for work on the 2nd. - GovernmentSp00k, on 12/24/2008, -6/+46Yeah, it's too bad the military doesn't go after the real criminals right. Show up at the Capitol and demand they be tried for war crimes and lying to deceive us into fraudulent war, among other things. Round up bankster frontmen Paulson & Bernanke while their at it.
You'd think this would be enough? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXjCtkymRQ
Yet those war profiteering criminals are given a 100% free pass.
Too bad they don't arrest the financial terrorists and bankster mafia, throw them in prison. Instead their function is to protect and defend them.
Your tax dollars at work right.
The military was strangely nowhere to be found on 9/11, to protect the country and citizens either..All of the trillion dollar defense agencies asleep at the wheel across the board. Why have it at all? when they fail at the most basic task of protecting the nation.
Karl Rove is still on the loose. Will they go after him?
They are mired in Iraq "fighting for democracy" while our freedoms and Constitution are being destroyed by neoCON deceivers and dual citizenship traitors here at home. As 300+ million Americans are forced against their collective will to pay trillions of dollars on a financial terrorism "bail out" scheme.
Why can't they protect us from that?
No phantom terrorists are destroying this country. The mis-leaders, professional deceivers and organized crime in positions of power are destroying this country. - inactive, on 12/25/2008, -11/+50Got Ameros?
(sarcastic) - AlexM, on 12/25/2008, -4/+43I work at a grocery store. When the poverty-stricken are told their WIC check/ebt card/whatever the hell else doesn't work, they get violent. I shudder to the scene of (looted) grocery stores everywhere when the government stops sending those. Funny thing about food is that you need it to survive. If you can't get it legally, you *will* get it illegally. Most able people won't let themselves starve to death - they'll get desperate but they won't give up on available opportunities.
- Locke21, on 12/25/2008, -2/+39If civil violence were to erupt tomorrow, local forces would be overwhelmed. I read a recent article in my city's weekly times that said the city police/resident ratio in some areas of the city are 43 to 45,000. Doesn't seem like much of a fight. Maybe we should get it over with before they have the capability to oppress.
- inactive, on 12/25/2008, -3/+39Its a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake.
- dieboldcracy, on 12/25/2008, -0/+36did I mention you should buy ammo
- Laiden, on 12/25/2008, -2/+37Zombie/Civil Unrest/WWIII Plan
- ZaZ2137, on 12/25/2008, -4/+39sounds like a zombie plan.
- protonone, on 12/25/2008, -4/+37Plan for the worse, hope for the best. The military most likely doesn't expect that their is going to be some huge uprising of the people, but they have to train for it just in case that happens. Just like they have plans for thousands of other highly unlikely circumstances in place, just on the off chance that something does happen. Just because they teach you how to use your cushion as a float on a plane doesn't mean that your going to crash into water.
- ATLien74, on 12/25/2008, -0/+31I got news for you... the police state is already here. Hell, it wasn't a a week or so ago that on digg, there was a story about Military Police running DUI checkpoints with the Local Cops in California. That is a straight up direct violation of The Posse Comitatus Act.
- inactive, on 12/25/2008, -0/+31I've been planning for this, I've already got plans in the work for a concrete, reinforced safe room and I already have an arsenal of rifles and amunition and gas masks and knifes and survival gear, now I'm stock piling food and water and gasoline. And by food I mean loads of ramon noodles, vitamin pills, freeze dried food and canned food. And I've already got a Plan B-----Moving to the mountains of Kentucky with my grandparents who already have a sustainable farm and are way up high away from civilization. Those are my plans at least, anyone else?
- IHateRegisterin, on 12/25/2008, -4/+35Inflation is not a risk at this point in time. The real fear is deflation. Coupled with unemployment and the current tight credit markets deflation is the only missing part of the formula that led to the Great Depression. It seems counter-intuitive but it is a fact:
Unemployed people can not afford plus they can not get credit, so the basic laws of supply and demand kick in. Companies have to lower their prices, in order to lower their prices they must cut cost, to cut cost they either layoff workers or cut their salaries [the self feeding downward spiral continues].
The $50 loaf of bread is not the problem, the problem is the 10 cent loaf of bread when you only have a nickel to spend.
I see two possible scenarios that could warrant massive civil disorder:
- Economic Depression.
- A successful assassination of Barack Obama.
Both are ugly possibilities ... but unfortunately both have a realistic probability of happening. - inactive, on 12/25/2008, -3/+33Yes, you know the huge hundreds year old power elite family of Barack Obama which has had tons of sway on world affairs for the last century.
Oh wait, that's ***** retarded. Just like Heliox.
For that matter, the Clintons haven't been around more than about 30 years as far as relevance is concerned. Sociologically they're quite powerless.
The Kennedy's are a valid point, but that doesn't make up for the rest of your idiocy. - DangerCollie, on 12/25/2008, -2/+32Does anyone ever think past the up-armor strategy? A good quality rifle and sidearm have utility value beyond defense, but what are you going to do with all the other hardware? Who do you think you're going to be fighting? If it's a large, organized force, you're going to lose anyway. If it's a small, lightly armed gang why wouldn't you team up with your neighbors against a threat like that instead of trying to hold them off alone?
No one ever thinks through the reality. If order does totally break down, like it or not, you're going to need other people. You'd be better off being involved with a community organization than stockpiling arms.
If you want to see what happens when order breaks down, take a look at Baghdad after the US invaded. Having a lot of guns didn't really help anyone. - TheBigBad, on 12/25/2008, -12/+39Don't get your news from a blog thats tagline is "Chronicling The Signs Of Change As Humanity Hurtles Into A Broken Future". Speculative and inflammatory journalism is what's causing half the ***** that is going on right now. And that's from the smallest blog up to the major news outlets. Lay the ***** off and let things heal instead of constantly stirring ***** up with your sensationalist stories designed to do nothing more than rile people up.
- Phaedryn, on 12/25/2008, -6/+33"It's already been shown that citizens cannot stop Congress from doing whatever they want to do re the economy."
I'm not sure where you got the idea that the citizens were supposed to be able to "stop Congress". Unless you think (wrongly) that our Representative form of government means "they" must do what "we" want. That is not how it works, nor should it be. We elect our representatives, and they do what they believe is in the best interests of the nation, not what we tell them...two VERY different things.
They are there to represent our *interests*, not our opinions. Apparently some people slept through civics class.
Just because something is popular doesn't mean it is right, or inversely just because something is unpopular doesn't mean it is wrong. - qwerty27807, on 12/25/2008, -6/+32Good thing I have that stockpile of ammo from Y2K still buried.
- cissystrut, on 12/25/2008, -1/+27who are we aiming at again?
- mycutepetpics, on 12/24/2008, -6/+31'Training for such eventualities has already been approved. “Cross-border movement of military resources is authorized for training and exercises in preparation for bilateral military-to-military civil support,” the document says."
http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx111708.html - Fizban140, on 12/25/2008, -2/+27Of course the Government is secretly planning on enslaving us, the military is not known for planning for all sorts of different events even if they are not that likely to happen. No, they never do that, ever.
- acknotSW, on 12/25/2008, -1/+25True, somewhere there are plans for an invasion of Canada and another set of plans to deal with the all so likely scenario of an invasion of the US by Canada.
- snds, on 12/25/2008, -5/+29Sorry, but paranoid sensationalist claims made on a blog dedicated to all things paranoid and sensational is hardly something to get your panties in a bunch over. I concede that it's a plausibility we all should keep in mind but I do not believe we all need to up and get weapons and stockpile food in order to survive it...assuming it happens at all. If the government is truly getting ready for just such an occurrence then we deserve every bit of what's coming to us for letting things get this bad and for letting our government and the corporations of the world stomp all over us.
- benitojuarez, on 12/25/2008, -5/+28Seems like reaching for straws to me. i could be wrong but im putting this on par with the 700 aids cures that have been on digg.
- hypertension, on 12/25/2008, -4/+27" We see America in all its former glory falling apart and wonder why the proud and noble citizens aren't fighting like history tells us they should. "
Good question... but I can only answer for myself.
I left the US for Costa Rica a year and a half ago, and it was the single best thing I've ever done for myself. In EVERY ASPECT my life is better here, in many ways I didn't even imagine.
What's most surprising to people is that I left for social reasons -- to come to a place where I'd make better friends and meet better women.
Americans are notorious for pouring on the fake friendship when they want something from someone, then acting as if that person doesn't exist once that is no longer an issue. Americans also know this and don't care -- it's put into American textbooks on international business relations as a warning that other people are onto them.
The fact of the matter is that they care about THINGS more than people and the best things in life, and are myopically selfish when it comes to attaining them. Young people selling themselves into DEBT SLAVERY in order to get these things is quite common -- $160,000 in student loans and car debt, payable over 15 years (lol) -- is not unheard of. (Don't forget the entire mortgage crisis either!)
Every foreign friend I had in the US had been really hurt by this attitude, and people treating them like TRASH if there was no immediate perceived "need" for them.
The last foreign friend I made in the US specifically asked me how to make friends with Americans. I told him I didn't know, it probably wasn't worth it, and that I was leaving the country because it was such an issue even for me.
I can count the number of people in the US that are important to me on one hand. In Costa Rica, after just a year and a half, I don't have enough fingers and toes to count them all.
So you tell me -- should I go back and struggle in the US? Or should I stay in Costa Rica with people that I actually get along with... and laugh as Americans prove me right and spend themselves into debt slavery and oblivion?
One more thing -- in defense of some Americans -- every time I put a post like this, I always receive messages and IMs from some who have the exact same problems I did and want out. Moving isn't for everyone, but convincing Americans that the best things in life aren't things is even more difficult... though perhaps some will learn it as a result of this disaster. - dungbeetle, on 12/25/2008, -1/+24Just to let you know, you're not getting me to say the cake is a lie.
- paker, on 12/25/2008, -15/+38How does this BS make it to Digg? No wonder I'm reading Digg less and less.
- r3bol, on 12/25/2008, -1/+23I guess you could drop the unforeseen and replace it with possible/expected.
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -3/+25BOOGY BOOGY WIGGEDY WOO LOL LOL
- inactive, on 12/25/2008, -16/+37We are preparing too and there are a LOT more of us than them.
- hypertension, on 12/25/2008, -0/+21Makes you wonder what's REALLY going on.
If it is so completely "unforeseen", then why would they even mention it? It reads like a pre-9/11 report talking about "unforeseen event of planes flying into WTC." - gauge5577, on 12/25/2008, -2/+23I can see only one resolution to this problem. Everybody with a web cam and an internet connection should start uploading videos urging the United States Armed Forces, To stand with the american people on this one. After all they do belong to the United States not David Rockefeller.
- azimir, on 12/25/2008, -0/+20"$50 does represent an absurd percentag. >1000% even at the most conservative of estimates."
Zimbabwe would KILL for a mere 1000% inflation rate. -
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