What Will Cause SHTF?

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  1. Ystranc

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    Yes TexDanm fluorine is a common element, but please don't dismiss this out of hand, please look into it a little further. There is a long history of scientific data and court records of class action law suits against DuPont. Look into compounds called C8 and GenX that accumulate in the body. These two are just the tip of the iceberg.
    https://www.collective-evolution.co...e-in-the-body-cause-multiple-health-problems/
     
  2. watcherchris

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    Without fossil fuels....most food production on the scale needed to feed the world will come to a stop. People and nations will starve. Not just because of the food production issues in using the internal combustion engine...but also the transportation arena...including shipping by crude oil boiler or large shipboard diesel engines.

    These green people are so out to lunch...I don t think many of them have a clue how stuff gets to areas of little from areas of plenty or how it is produced.



    There was a Historian many years ago named Will Durant. In an interview he was asked what was the reason for the decline and fall of so many civilizations back into history.

    His very profound answerer was....."Their standards fell."


    I thought that a very interesting and profound reply.


    My non Ishmaelite .02,

    Watcherchris
     
  3. Ystranc

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    It's not just transporting the food that is grown either, a lot of the fertilisers that are used in modern agriculture are ammonium nitrate based which require extracts from petroleum. Without these fertilisers modern agricultural monoculture methods cannot continue but it could take 20 years or more to get land back into use using the old fashioned rotational method. 20 years of near zero production before getting back to much lower but sustainable production.
    We won't even be able to feed ourselves let alone the 3rd world.
     
  4. lonewolf

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    the third world will have to feed itself after SHTF we will have enough problems of our own with worrying about feeding them.
    the fertilisers that Ystranc talked about are all imported into the UK, without them monocropping which seems to be how modern arable agriculture works these days will come to a juddering halt, the ground will be infertile without those fertilisers.
    as far as I can see we will be(in the UK at least) back to subsistence food production more like allotment gardening than farming as such.
     
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  5. TexDanm

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    The thing about global warming is that pointing and blaming individual nations and places is about like blaming a tornado on someone. Sorry people, weather just happens and always has. If it is really a problem then why don't we look at things that we can DO to fix it instead of spending all of out time blaming it on things that may or may not be the causes. Problems are fixed mostly by DOING things rather than NOT doing things.

    There are actually several things that we can DO to reduce the warming whether it is a natural swing or a human caused issue. None of these things include destroying the economic structure of the first world nations. I remember when the exact same scientists were telling us that burning fossil fuels was going to cause an ice age because the smoke would reduce the amount of light that reached the ground. These same idiots got national and international attention at the start of the first gulf war. They were screaming that if the oil fields in Kuwait caught on fire it would cause something akin to a nuclear winter. Weeeelll, we did it burned and we did not have a Fimbulwinter!

    If we wanted to cool things off we could do it in several ways. A form of cloud seeding with the chemicals being added to jet fuel has been discussed but ignored because basically nobody really WANTS to fix it because they really are not sure that anything is broke. I've looked hard at all of this and actually the only areas that are actually warming up much are in the far north. Antarctica is actually getting colder. Most of the central bands of the earth between the tropics and the arctic are actually having colder winters and cooler summers.

    What you see are reports of localized heat waves that have always been a periodic occurrence. Hell's hairy Balls, we had snow in South East Texas before winter even got here this year!!! We NEVER have snow but in the last couple of years it has been more common. Does this mean that we are looking right in the face of an ice-age??? NO its weather. We had 90+ degree heat index weather and snow all in the same week. THAT is just Texas weather.
     
  6. TexDanm

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    All we have to do is kill about half of the people on the planet and everything will be better...for a little while. I don't see many people volunteering for that so we need to just find better ways to grow more food. Ammonium Nitrate is not just made from oil. It is in poop, urine and a natural part of composting. Coal and oil is just a natural form of composting that was allowed to go unbothered until it was almost pure carbon.

    Most of the caves were cleaned out for the bat guano for the ammonium nitrate to make black powder. There are Islands that are covered with hundreds of thousands of years of bird poop. The natives have gotten rich selling their soil. The old fashion crop rotation is just a slow death for the soil. When you ship grains and crops else where you are actually exporting your top soil. The old way of farming before modern fertilizers led to the Dust bowl in the US and famines world wide. If you take the minerals out of the soil and don't replace them the soil becomes barren and even rotation won't fix that. Starvation is UGLY! What some call pollution others call survival.
     
  7. Ystranc

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    Yes Tex, it's in oil and poop but it is no longer recovered from poop in any great volume. Even the almost sterile pelletised waste from waste water treatment plants is discarded rather than go back into the food chain because of fear of heavy metal contamination. I reccomend well composed poop directly onto fruit trees and pasture though. Composting your own waste gives a valuable resource for small scale growers with our uk imported food prices set to rise by at least 10% next year after Brexit.
    We grow great pumpkins on it as it composts, liquid run off is used as a fertiliser tea for plants in raised beds and our greenhouse. We also use wormeries to increase the speed at which waste is broken down....the point is though that this is all small scale and is taking place on land that has never had chemical fertilisers. We use pig and sheep poop as well as seaweed meal alternating with lime or wood ash every few years.
     
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  8. TexDanm

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    My father in law used to clean out stables several times a year just to get the free organic fertilizer. At the end of the season he would fill between the rows with rice hulls that he would burn and then put in the stables stuff. He would cover it with black plastic for a month and then break it back up and pull up rows for the fall garden. The black plastic made it so hot underneath that any seeds in the horse poop or that had gotten in the garden otherwise were mostly killed and he didn't have to fight weeds very hard. He also returned to the garden anything that was not eaten like the roots off onions and radishes or the shucks off the corn. He sort of composted between the rows that way.I swear he could grow hair on a bowling ball!
     
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  9. Ystranc

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    I've only ever seen that technique from gardeners in the large walled gardens of big houses. It takes a lot of space.
    Sometimes the old ways work best.
     
  10. TexDanm

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    He had three acres and about a quarter to a third of an acre was garden.
     
  11. TMT Tactical

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    Okay, here is the reality of SHTF, There are only two (2) types of SHTF events. What you say, Yes I say. The two events are classified as Sudden (without warning) and Gradual (warning signs are prevalent). Now each category will have it's listed events but each category will also have certain response needs. My biggest concern are the sudden event category. They are the most difficult to plan for. Gradual events (economical collapse, civil strife) all have warning signs and your attention to these warning sign will allow most preppers to be ready. The Sudden events types (grid down, hug earthquake, massive volcano eruptions--should be some signs but maybe not) These are problems that can catch a prepper at a very bad moment. I might have the best prepared BOL in the world but if I get caught 2,000 miles from it by a sudden event, then Mr. Murphy may have the last laugh. So I look at these types of events and then build up my preps accordantly. A get home bag is just that, a badg to get me home if I am a short distance away (hundreds of miles -- not thousands). I would need a full camping setup if I was trapped 2,000 miles from home, when a full blown SHTF event happen. Unless you are traveling in an RV or camper, you are planing on staying with family or at hotel / motels. No pots or pans in your travel bags. Yes we will have first aid stuff and maybe some emergency supplies but will we have what is needed to walk 2,000 miles? Would we be physically fit enough to walk 2,000 miles? Could we even find your way back home, if you had to get off the interstates and use rural routes?

    The point being, It really does not matter what might cause an event, what matters is how would your respond? With Sudden type events, you are going to already have to have all your ducks lined up and ready to go. Gradual events will allow more time to react and add extra preparations. The majority of my focus will be in getting my preps and procedures set for the sudden event (grid down). Now I can't do much about long distance travel, we don't own an RV or camper. Also wife or I most likely would not be able to walk 2,000 miles or anything close to that. So I plan for what we can physically accomplish and hope Mr. Murphy will cut us a break. Yes many could handle the long hike and more power to them, make your preparations for that contingency. Me, I have two bad knees (unstable), wife has bad heart, doubtful we would survive the journey. So with that being said, we don't dump a lot of resources into those scenarios. We do put the majority of our prep resources into our home survival situation. Defense and survival supplies (food, water, shelter). Unless you are a billionaire, you should focus on your most likely situation, not what the cause will be. JM2c
     
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  12. TexDanm

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    I think that we are currently IN a gradual decline that will eventually lead to a collapse. This culture is like a person with a severely compromised immune system. If it is healthy then it can recover from a pretty massive cataclysm where in a degraded state the level of problem that we can recover from is slowly growing smaller and smaller.

    The rot that is affecting most of the western world is at the individual level. We are no longer morally or intellectually competent to elect our leadership. When a people start to accept that their leaders are permitted to lie to them and and not required to meet ANY standard of moral compliance then it is in a terminal state.

    Liberalism as it is currently practiced is a sort of socialistic hedonism where nobody is held to account for their actions. It is just a matter of time before something happens and we will not be able to deal with it OR someBODY will roll in and just take us over. We might be able to fight an outside attacker but we don't seem to be able to rule effectively inside our countries anymore. When you throw open your borders to all who come and don't even require them to conform to the rules of your culture you will soon be at their mercy.
     
  13. Academy-A-wart

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    A lack of sunspots could cause a mini ice age (see Maunder Minimum) The sunspots have been gone since (I think) 2014
     

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  14. TexDanm

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    This is normal. the sun goes on an 11 year cycle. We are heading to the bottom of the current cycle now. It will bottom out in 2020 and then hopefully go back up as it has regularly since the Maunder Minimum. In sure if it does something different it will be because people did something.
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      I hope you're right
       
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  15. koolhandlinc

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    As far as the sun goes. I follow the Suspicious Observers. They are on You tube and also have several websites. They give a daily report on sun activity. I signed up for alerts. I try to always watch them but lately I leave for work at 5:30am. Just a little before they send out the report. Sunspots, coronal mass ejections, solar wind, the electromagnetic interaction between the sun and earth and even comets are discussed. The Carrington Event of 1859 can happen again. Powers far greater than mankind can change history in a moment.
     
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  16. Old Geezer

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    We went to reduced sulfur coal. Turns out that we may have to find out some way of getting sulfur into the upper atmosphere to slow down any warming the burning of carbon may cause.

    One could throw up their hands. What do these "geniuses" want?!

    When working in industry we provided control systems for factories scrubbers.
    https://www.industrialaccess.com/blog/smokestack-scrubbers-what-you-need-to-know/
    There are also devices that use god-awful Voltages to set-up static fields that cause precipitation of unwanted components of the smoke.
    https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-ways-to-reduce-pollution-from-chimney-of-factory
    We provided the industrial controls to operate the latter type of equipment (plus every other type of equipment known to humankind).

    So what happens. Scrubbed smoke shoots FAR higher into the atmosphere than the original unscrubbed. What chemicals and aerosols left in that exhaust harmed the atmosphere more than before.

    OK, so the geniuses in the environmental agencies are dimwits. Smart sometimes, but hey, we "stupid" industrial men made A's in calculus also. Maybe these geniuses aught'a get their sh## together before coming to us "lowly" people.
     
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  17. lonewolf

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    I think that the cause of SHTF will probably be man made rather than natural, could be a combination of the two but most likely man made, humans are good at messing things up aren't they?
     
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  18. Morgan101

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    Lonewolf: While I agree with you that humans are good at messing things up, I believe the cause of SHTF will be a natural disaster. I don't think there is a place on the planet that is immune to natural disaster. We have a tornado season, a hurricane season, a flood season, and these all happen when the weather is good. Winter brings up even worse conditions. They don't happen very often in the Continental 48, but Alaska has its fair share of volcanoes. We are not immune ergo Mt. St Helens circa 1980. Throw in an annoying little earthquake now and again, and the odds are leaning toward natural disaster.

    These are the most likely to happen, so that is what gets the most of my attention.
     
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  19. Sourdough

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    Serious preppers should not even have this conversation subject. Your either prepared........or your "NOT" prepared. Most preppers ain't. If your prepared and in an isolated location, it matters zero what the trigger is, or if the trigger is a fast or slow trigger.

    People are either prepared........or they are delusional, and pretending. The funniest statement is people who say, "Well.......I am pretty much prepared". You is either pregnant or you is not pregnant........no in-between.

    The simple ugly truth is that the evil predator people who are more prepared mentally, physically and devoid of any moral standards, have a higher chance at survival.
     
  20. TexDanm

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    Serious preppers should definitely have these discussions. there are so many possible causes and the preparations for an EMP SHTF is totally different from a Plague based SHTF or one of a more social unrest sort of fall. By discussing this we may get ideas that hadn't occurred to us before plus the differences between our various strategies.

    There is a world of levels of preparedness. You have the sort like most people that live on the coast have to ride out a hurricane and get by for a week or so without power or grocery stores being open. those people ARe prepared...for that situation.

    On the other end of the spectrum, you have people that are going underground in deep silos that are stocked and prepared for riding out an end of the world that may last for years and years. There is a LOT of in between. Not everyone has the money to build a fortress. Not everyone can just get up and walk away from their life in the bigger cities to move to safer more isolated areas. Each person has to balance their preparations with the reality of their situation.

    I disagree that evil predatory people will have a higher chance of survival. In a world where the police and courts are not protecting these people, their survival rate will be almost ZERO. Now if someone wants to attack you and threaten you you call the police. They can't/won't do anything about it unless there are witnesses that are willing to testify or you have marks proving the attack. Either way, they will come back and keep threatening you and you get a restraining order. Finally, the guy kills you and THEN finally the cops and courts might put him in prison for a few years. now, after the SHTF the first time that fool attacked you he signed his death warrant. the next time he comes at you, you kill him and dump the trash in a hole. END of the problem.

    Believe me, when lots and lots of people start carrying guns people get a lot more polite. Thugs in Texas don't act anything like the stories that I hear and read about in other places. Here if a thug messes with a lady and touches her, depending on her mood, she may smile bat her eyelashes at you and then drop kick you right in the balls...or if she is in a bad mood she will drop you dead. You do NOT lay hands on a lady in Texas. If she doesn't get you a man will. When the cops are gone the thugs will either learn manners or die...At least that is the way it will be here.
     
  21. Sourdough

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    My point is very simple..........DON"T be anywhere near other humans. Everything that you brought up assumes humans encountering other humans.

    If you have "ZERO" human contact after the SHTF, you have a massively higher chance of surviving.

    If someone is really serious about "ADVANCED" survival........Step #1 move now, not next week, not tomorrow, move as far away from other humans as you can. No other single thing that a prepper can do comes close to step #1. MOVE.

    If you live far far far away from any humans, and you have ten or twenty years of food and water and shelter, you are substantially prepared for everything.

    What do wealthy people do when they prepare......??? They have impregnable bunkers to isolate them from any humans, and they have 10 or 50 years of food and water.

    Want to avoid the plague........easy avoid all humans.



     
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  22. TexDanm

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    Each of us has different needs and ambitions. To me, your "DON"T be anywhere near other humans." is unimaginable. I think that I will be alone as long as I want in a coffin. Until then I want the people that I love and like around me and to some extent, I like people that I don't know. SOME of them might become friends. I can't imagine dying alone out in the middle of nowhere.

    It would be better to live shorter and enjoy my life than survive longer alone without purpose other than breathing for another day. My fear of death isn't as important to me as my pleasure from life. As I said at first, I understand that we are all different. I have been blessed I guess in that I have had a lot of good people in my life that have more than made up for the less pleasant people I have had to deal with.
     
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  23. Sourdough

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    Now I get it..........you assume that a person can't live with their family and be happy, content and vibrantly alive in a tranquil remote location.
    Good thing that all the families living that lifestyle in Alaska and Montana, and Idaho, and many other locations (like a large Texas ranch) are not aware of this.
    Well........actually they are aware, because they deliberately moved away from the mass of humanity living shoulder to shoulder with thousands and millions of humans.
     
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  24. TMT Tactical

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    As an urban man, lived and was raised almost all my life in an urban environment, what chance do you think me and my family would have if we suddenly moved into a wilderness environment, with NO people around to provide information and knowledge on how to live and prosper in a wilderness environment? We can live life to exist or we can exist to live life. People should prep for the environment they live in, not for the best environment to exist in.
     
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  25. Oldguy

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    Stupid will be the end of us!

    Instead of following the boring but correct science we stupidly follow the junk science as it is easy and more fun!

    Planet earth has already entered its long term cooling cycle ignore it at your peril

    I don't really care what others think as most are just plain stupid but me I am preparing for cold, long cold winters and short sharp summers!:)
     
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  26. GrizzlyetteAdams

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    As the saying goes, different strokes for different folks...

    I have lived on both ends of the spectrum, from urban New Orleans all the way to complete isolation on my wilderness BOL. I agree that isolation will drastically reduce the human depredation problem, but the wildlife nearly killed me several times. (But I still treasure the solitude of the forest more than I do the insanity of so-called civilization.)

    Even after dealing with bears, rattlesnake bite, and rabies, etc. etc. ad nauseum...I will still say that humans are THE most dangerous critters out there...

    Sadly, even the most remote places are discoverable via modern technology (satellite, etc. etc.). I am willing to bet that most isolated BOL and homesteads are already in more than a few people's crosshairs and for absolute certain, the government has full knowledge of such places as well. So while a person may not be living shoulder-to-shoulder with the unwashed masses, we are all vulnerable to human depredation no matter where we live.

    Complete isolation is not what it used to be a few decades ago... and I sure do miss the old days. That's what I get for being born 200 years too late.




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  27. TMT Tactical

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    GZ. so very true. I have an associate I met on another forum. We chatted for many years, exchanging ideas and concepts. He is a multi-millionaire. He built a multi-million dollar bug out fortress. The only way in was by helicopter. Located on top of a mountain, he even had radar. All the stuff for a very long uninterrupted stay. Then one day some members of the local Indian tribe dropped by just to be friendly. Seems they did know a trail up to the top of that mountain. They also knew all about his 'Secrete Fortress". If more that one person knows your secrete, chances are it is not a secrete.
     
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  28. lonewolf

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    isolation and being far removed from other humans post SHTF is the only way to (almost)guarantee one's survival, we can survive bad weather and other natural events but its other people stupidity that will probably kill us.
     
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  29. Old Geezer

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    What you said, plus higher levels of radiation off the solar winds due to weakening field strengths of our planet's magnetic lines of flux. The radiation can directly melt glaciers, duh. However shut down the Atlantic Gulf Stream and poof!, Europe goes COLD.

    We humans are p!$$ants. We imagine ourselves to be bears, however we are simply picnic invaders to Mother Nature.

    When attending school, I once installed fiberglass insulation under a guy's house, the attic insulation, he already had. I hate fiberglass. But then again, it beats freezing your rear-end off. Winds and cold are going to be rich ... and for generations it will be hell. Teach your children well.
     
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  30. Oldguy

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    My greatest fear is a knock on the door/gate and the words similar to " .gov here we are here to help ". :eek:

    They are like flies shoot one today and a hundred turn up tomorrow, then you are in the shit big time!

    Everything I have will be on wheels.:D
     
  31. Belle

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    I believe we will have in fighting reminiscent of the north and south civil war. I do not mean along racial lines but more of an us against them ideology. There is so much hate and resentment in our country that we as a people will destroy ourselves.. Afterward the super powers will fight to claim American soil.
     
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  32. koolhandlinc

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    I can see racial lines being one of the divisions that help spark a war. 8 years of a President who pushed to divide. When one demographic can play the knock out game and its ignored by MSM. When one demographic has more violent acts committed towards all demographics. When a demographic all act as if they are always victims while ignoring their own actions and impacts of the said actions. When rich and powerful have been trying their best to tear down the average working class person. I could go on. Rich people own the media. How many Presidents have called for a new world order or a new way of things or a new beginning. Now we have a President who does not say this and the establishment has been hell bent of destroying him. The civil war will be ignited by liberals who can't handle the truth. We have schools who have transvestites "teaching" kids. Its coming and even President Trump can't stop it. Liberals will destroy the country and everybody in it if they don't get their way. Antifa attacks and then cry's when somebody defends with over whelming force. When mayors tell police to stand down as violence proceeds. The professor with the paddle-lock who hide his face. The woman who stands before a crown and says she is a nasty woman, the woman who holds a facsimile of our Presidents head in her hand, the raper who in a video acts as if he is killing the President. These are the people who bring about a civil war. Its coming, what touches it off I don't know. I can't predict the future but I believe its coming. I will fight with my President if he calls.
     
  33. koolhandlinc

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    I agree completely. Other peoples stupidity will kill them all!
     
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  34. Keith H.

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    I am not very well up on American society Belle, can you give me some idea of who you think may be fighting who & why?
    Keith.
     
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  35. Belle

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    Keith, I would say party lines, those that feel entitled and the power hungry. The intentions of the duly elected leaders doing what is best in "our" interests. We who prepare will be targets when America turns into another Venezuela. That person or persons is alive today.
     
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  36. Old Geezer

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    America's coming Civil War II will need a pretty darned good blasting cap to get it going full tilt. One darned good cap would be hyperinflation/collapse of the U.S. dollar. When the government checks stop being worth anything, the cities will instantly go Chernobyl, violence-wise. The redistribution will become very honest, very in-your-face. The always angry homies will beat-down the weak city-slickers and take their belongings.

    Any event that shuts down a country's power grids will have some "interesting" results ... especially after week number three.

    North Korea sending in one of its mostly plastic mini-subs with a dirty bomb gift will be a big little surprise for some place like the San Fran / Oakland Bay Area. N.Korea could coordinate attacks so that San Fran, Seattle, L.A. would all get a big surprise at the same time. Might not kill that many people, but oh the panic! "We're all going to get cancer!" panic alone would be a bit of a disruption to daily goings-on, I do think. Give a few hundred thousand Americans radiation poisoning and you'll make all weak Americans begin to panic -- we have well over 100,000,000 sheeple in this country.
     
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  37. poltiregist

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    Donald Trump is putting the squeeze on communist China . Saw the prediction today where China is predicted to lose thirteen percent of its export business over the next few months on top of the business already lost with thousands already having lost their jobs . Their population is too high to be able to produce the required amount of food for their population . If their manufacturing industry collapses they will not be able to purchase the required food . If they get desperate enough they might do desperate things . They didn't invest all that money into a military including their Nuke and E.M.P. ability unless they could fathom the idea of perhaps using it . Don't get me wrong , I am with Donald Trump on squeezing China . Living in a apocalyptic world is something I would find interesting . I suppose those that find this thought disturbing , their amount of concern would be directly correlated with how well prepared they are .
     
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    If it is just the same, I will pass on the nuke or EMP attack. That would not solve China's problem. Screwing over the breadbasket is not a way out for starving citizens. In the end, China will have to comply and trade in a fair manner. Better a reduced economy , than a bankrupt economy. JM2C.
     
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    I don't concern myself too much with what will CAUSE SHTF, whether its natural or man made there is sod all I can do personally to stop it happening, so I just concern myself with what comes AFTER which is something I can affect on a personal level.
     
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    you have a very bleak imagining of a SHTF world, whilst there will be some violence mainly in the big cities the level of violence will be in direct correlation with the level of food supplies.
    disease will cause a lot of deaths too once the sanitation systems shut down.
     
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    just don't trip over all the dead bodies of the unprepared masses!!
     
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