I have stated for the past year ‘the absence of food will change things‘. The inflation and food affordability crisis has now surfaced in Sri Lanka. Global media is paying attention, even sending out warnings about what this might represent for other nations.
Sri Lanka has a debt to GDP ratio of 120%, approximately the same as the United States. However, Sri Lanka does not have the benefit of their currency being supported as the global trade currency; therefore, the debt and domestic inflation rate are directly tied together.
The rate of food inflation in March has exceeded 30%…. the absence of the public being able to afford food has now surfaced and the government is collapsing. Read the news from Sri Lanka through the prism of what could happen in U.S. cities if we lose the dollar as the global trade currency.
(Via Reuters) – Reuters Breakingviews) – Sri Lanka’s collapse is front of mind for many. Protesters fed up with crippling shortages of essential food and fuel items are on the streets, prompting multiple members of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s cabinet to offer to resign late on Sunday.
Social unrest will probably accelerate a restructuring of some $44 billion of international sovereign debt. Though Sri Lanka’s problems follow years of mismanagement, its speedy unravelling is a warning to sturdier economies from Europe to Asia suddenly grappling with a spike in the cost of living.
A current account crisis read more has intensified after the West fired its sanctions bazooka at Russia as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine. Rolling blackouts and a state of emergency are frightening away remaining tourists, a crucial source of foreign exchange. Food inflation hit an eye-watering 30.2% in March.
The currency’s 40% depreciation against the U.S. dollar in one month, including a central bank managed devaluation, is blowing out leverage ratios: Public debt estimated by the International Monetary Fund at 120% of GDP is perhaps some 40 percentage points more than might be deemed sustainable, guesses Citi.
[…] It’s a reminder of the political implications of high prices. Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, few Asian countries had consumer inflation in double digits. The standouts were Sri Lanka and Pakistan, whose Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday dodged a no-confidence vote and called fresh elections. Poorer countries are more vulnerable to surging global food prices because their populations spend more on food than discretionary items. (read more)
Food inflation in Sri Lanka reached 30%…. things start immediately collapsing.
Consider the recent projected rate of food inflation in the United States (wave 2, this summer):
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We can never be sure what is going to happen to society in the U.S. However, I would be leery about being in a densely populated urban area when whatever it is, surfaces.
Just wait…..
until the ebt cards don’t work.
The EBT cards will always work for the desired people.
A lot of people that do not normally qualify for food assistance are currently receiving extra food assistance. When Biden doesn’t extend the pandemic on May 16, those benefits will end or be greatly reduced. These families also get $250 for kids over 5 and $300 for kids under 5. When that all ends, all hell is going to break loose. Then they are going to be sitting in the local welfare offices while illegal after illegal gets called to the counter to get new EBT cards.
I thought I read “womewhere” that EBT cards were increased by 20-30% this year to combat inflation?
Prior to the scamdemic a single individual could only qualify up to $197. Now it is at $250 in my State.
Combat Covid, due to shutting down businesses
A family of four went from $680 to $835 here in North Carolina. I believe the increase is permanent too.
That’s a lot of money for food.
Just might not be that much food for the money.
I agree 100%!
I spend $100.00-$125.00 per week for 2.
Actually, I just realized that was pre-Biden chain of supply intentional disruption. I spend 150.00 per week, just 2 of us. I hope at least 1 of the family of 4 is working, otherwise that’s a lot of crappy redundant meals they’re eating, ie beans and rice.
Their on food stamps….no one is working! And they are not eating beans and rice. Steak, shrimp, and lots and lots of chicken.
Granted, there are a lot of people out there on food stamps that do NOT work. Many never have or never will again, thanks to the poorly-run government program. Some of them just sit back and pop out kids while they help to bankrupt the coffers.
But they are not the only ones that are on food stamps. Just because a family gets food stamps does NOT mean that nobody in the family works. There are many families out there that DO work and still cannot afford to feed themselves. Most of the families I know that are on food stamps sure as hell are not eating steak, shrimp, etc. They’re barely getting enough to have crappy (albeit somewhat nutritious) meals. Many of them also have to rely on food pantries/churches that give out food as well, just to make it through the month. Especially with the prices where they are now and where they are headed.
That’s very true and I’m afraid its only going to get worse.
I am fine with rice and beans. Beats the heck out of a big bowl of empty.
In Oregon, during the pandemic emergency under Brown, every family with a child in public school received 250 per kid on an EBT card.
You didn’t apply for it, It was mailed to you.
While I spent that 500 month on steak and lobster, I knew it would end.
So I ended up with about 100 LBs of rice and beans, tons of canned goods, etc.
All the while, I knew this was only a life support system for the grocery stores.
Much like the stimulus checks,
I knew inflation would follow. How could it not.
Now, people are off the emergency stim funds, yet the inflation is here to stay.
My family will make it. We have two bread winners.
But the really poor retirees on SS are screwed.
This too. See my this above.
They need to make a location change.
You need more food if you can swing it. I agree those retirees on a fixed income will suffer, just like the government wanted. I’ll taken in my elderly brother if needed and he will allow it.
Retirees relying on SS solely, are usually just within the poverty level and will qualify for EBT.
I just checked for relatives of mine and they do not qualify for any assistance at all. They are on SS and don’t even qualify for USDA commodities.
Bless you for your kindness!
My family know that they can live with me if they need to.
I am a retired person on SS and have a small pension.
I have no debts at all, own my home outright. I have cut back on my trips to town to once every week to ten days, cut cable tv, keep a few chickens and have a garden, and bake my own bread and cook from scratch. Also stocked up on lots of food for me and the critters. I live in the country with good neighbors.
I have two Achilles heels:
-that property taxes will continue to go up and I won’t be able to stay in my home,
-and that SS payments will stop.
I think they will stop SS before they stop welfare, simply because we older folks are less likely to burn, loot and murder than poor city dwellers.
I am considering as a plan B, becoming a van dweller, or more accurately, an SUV dweller, if I am taxed out of my home. I could even keep my home and rent it out to pay the property taxes, and live in the SUV.
My point is that there are options, even for those of us who are on a fixed income. Just be creative, think outside the box and look at what others are doing.
Lots of great info and inspiration on YouTube.
One channel I love is CheapRVliving. Also lots of great prepping and homesteading channels, too.
Be ready to roll with the punches we all know are coming. Save all you can where you can, and invest in food and equipment that will be useful in the hard times.
Don’t ignore these first little rolling stones that are the harbingers of the avalanche that IS coming.
Yes, they don’t get any EBT, either.
From what I understand the money for the kids is just an advance on their regular tax return money they get every year for the child tax credit. The only thing going away is getting it throughout the year and instead it will go back to free money at the end of the year.
The difference was they gave it to people who normally would not get it as they didn’t pay taxes. They also upped the amount. And if you made too much to qualify they sent it anyway and expect you to pay it back at tax time.
It is part of the democrat transition platform….boys to girls…girls to boys….middle class to poor.
Dem PLANTATION platform, more like it!
Redistribution of wealth, even if it’s from the middle class.
Especially from the middle class.
The powers that be are using communist tactics to achieve feudalism.
They want serfs and masters, with no free men in between.
It’s always from the middle class.
This
In case folks haven’t figured it out yet….the BLM/Antifa astroturfed riots combined with Covid was the distraction for the 2020 elections. For 2022, it is going to be the urban food riots that make it to unsafe to vote in person in our major cities…er…corruption centers…and once again drop boxes and mail ballots will rule the day. You can see this coming from a mile away.
If the elections aren’t suspended for oh I dunno…..martial law or some such crisis.
Not if the inflation rises faster than they can add funds. Not saying that is going to happen but it could. We are walking perhaps the tightest tight rope America; hell the world has ever straddled.
Point is, those with EBT cards will be the last to eat same with all of us. Communism is equal opportunity/equity/equality misery. Ask anyone who’s tried it.
They will work, but they won’t be able to buy anything. That is when you see the D RAT infested cities burnt to the ground.
Maybe yes, maybe no….time will tell.
EBT cards will always function and flow… That’s how they’ll pay their brown shirt enforcers.
Have you read (Zero Hedge) about Putin and the backing of Rubles with gold? Our USD will not be the “standard” for much longer, and will steadily decrease in value. Soros underestimated Putin, his administration, and Bidens huffing and puffing will only hurt this country further .
Not so sure they underestimated Putin. Crashing the dollar is part of The Great Reset
Unless the card is disrupted or otherwise useless- then the enforcers burn the city.
One bad move by NATO and the EBT system will be wiped out.
What about when there’s nothing to buy with the EBT cards?
Exactly.
Farmers can’t buy fuel and fertilizer with them, and all three are being actively destroyed by our war criminals.
Right now we are seeing the calm before the storm. The fertilizer shortage will effect the next growing season, more so than this one. Pray! Prepare! Resist!
Correct question, and the answer is? You better be armed and capable of defending!
I hope every conservative out there is stocking up and growing a garden.
And learning how to can food.
You cannot can food without canning jar lids and they’ve been scarce or unavailable since 2020. If you can find them, they are grossly overpriced. I got rid of a lifetime canning supply stuff about that time. Freeze or dehydrate is all that is left. I’m still not scared. I believe I’m the one God loves. My cup always runneth over.
Or until there is nothing on the shelves to buy with those EBT cards. The cities will burn.
Don’t worry. The feds will increase the amount available until they cannot…depending on whom the recipients are…Americans or Illegals. The latter getting what they need at the expense of citizens.
No?
It’s what they are doing now.
Bout time it happened here. Hate to see it but maybe it will shake the tree hard enough to drop all the rotten fruit. It’s long past time for a reckoning….and it’s coming hard.
Everyman a rifleman!
11 bravo.
Just an old lady living alone, no rifle…probably couldn’t handle one at this stage of my game…..Oh well, at least I’m old. I’ve survived a lot of things before, I’ll survive this if it is meant to be, so I’m not worried.
Old, if you’re anywhere around NE Washington State and the shit hits the fan, you can come bunk with us. Plenty of fire power
Loved
Or, as I like to think of it…
Young at heart…slightly older in other places.😉
ROTFLMAO!!
HA!!🤣
If you’re near East Texas come on over. We’ll be 2 old ladies but plenty of fire power here.
You ain’t kidding. Everyone out here has a minimum of 1 firearm. #Lobos
Lived in Texas for 50 years. Always thought we had plenty of firearms.
Been in Arkansas for the last 15 years. Realized that this state may have the most guns per capita in the US.
It may be a “poor” state. But dang, these boys up here have more fire power than most National Guards.
Both States are well equipped….
Do you have family close by? Keep a packed bag in your car with a weeks worth of clothes. Have another bag by the bed with your precious family keep sakes (pictures, heirloom jewelry, money), medications. Grab it and head to a friends or family member in the country.
Same. I have the other supplies I need so I can stay out of the crowded areas for a few months.
Dear one,
Yes you can handle a rifle. There are lighter models and if I can swing one, you can. There are also very small handguns with easy triggers. I don’t know where you live or your circumstances, but the problem is they won’t just kill you – that would be easy. The kind of people that will break into your home aren’t just looking for food. They thrive on violence. Please do this – find a local gun range and call them. Tell them you’re a little old lady and you need to learn to protect yourself. Ask if they have classes and can recommend a firearm. Do you know anyone who is a veteran who would be willing to help you? Make it a priority to obtain a firearm and learn to use it.
Off soapbox. I understand if you still cannot fathom it. If not, please find someone you can call who will protect you. 911 likely will not be working.
Much love and encouragement to you from me.
22lr. Pistol or Ruger 10-22 carbine.
Carbine is easy on the ears.
And find like minded friends. Develop a network and support group.
Stay safe. God’s protection with you.
Join Team America in your state. Find the link at Jeffrey prather.com
44 states have active groups. Don’t go it alone.
May I suggest the purchase of an air-horn and an old baseball bat? Store both in the front closet. Adrenalin may improve your swing.
28″ aluminum “Fish” bat.
Lighter weight
Lighter price
Excellent way to “Get Their Attention”
Very “efficient” in “close” quarters…
Thank you for that suggestion. I would not have thought of it.
Here in NW Arkansas caring for mother; no guns, no family nearby.
Starting to get a bit nervous for her.
A fire extinguisher can buy you time and/or a can of wasp spray as it is designed to spray a lot from a distance.
A can of wasp spray works across the room
I believe it can shoot 25 feet of a steady stream and burns the neck out of eyes. Horrible to breath. Empty the entire can on them. Then call 911 or whack em with a bat, secure them with duct tape, then 911.
Don’t forget bear spray.
Hand gun with laser sight will do!
Shotguns aren’t hard to handle and can be quite persuasive.
And most of the country/conservative women.
YES!!
Was that your mos? 2542 asking kk kilo
And which politicians will fly the government coop?
Hopefully all of them!
You’re very wrong. Millionaires, billionaires won’t be affected. Just the poor, working class/Middle class. Those were always the intended targets hence small stores were on lock down, while Walmart and everyone else got to make greater profits!
Society is always 9 meals away from anarchy.
People forget that at their peril.
What are the odds the US doesn’t make it to November without serious unrest?
I think that by 2024 things will be so far gone we won’t even have an election.
This United States is done. We just haven’t realized it yet. To many have quit anyhow. No fight in them any more. Not like the days of the frontier when we were all ready to do what needed to be done. No more.
Don’t be too sure. Some hearty men and strong women are left.
I have gone Gault, I’m off the radar everywhere. But I still have some fight in me.
Galt
W R O N G !
2022.
I will be surprised if there are elections this year.
The dems are counting on it so they can declare a national emergency and do away with voting in Nov. They are pushing hard to make us fire the first shot. It will be the only way they will keep their power.
This is the real problem.
We will go from artificial scarcity, which is engineered for profit,
to ACTUAL scarcity
Thats when there just ISNT any electricity
or food
or fuel.
Big difference
ALL…..BY……DESIGN!
I keep seeing people say that food shortages are coming late Summer/Early Fall. Have no idea if that is true.
When the breakdown comes, the focus of the authorities will be on controlling the people, not on providing food....that’s a given….in exactly the same way that in the presence of covid (pretend or real), the focus was on controlling the people, not on providing treatment.
And yet, people who consider themselves conservatives are still muttering about our (former) constitutional Republic and saying things like, “This is just unbelievable.” The falling off the side part is near.
Let them try to control 100 million pissed off American patriots. I can’t wait for that colossal mistake. The birds will get so fat they won’t be able to fly.
Yup. Once a Marine, always a Marine is gonna matter…will be watching for you and will be whatever kind of force-multiplier I can be….
Face it, there are no more 100 million patriots, let along pissed off ones. There are just too many people who are haters, not patriots. This regime has changed us all.
I pray daily you are wrong, but I will do everything in my power to protect my family.
We will protect our family as well.
There are many of us who will not give up or surrender.
How many are living on SS and won’t risk having it cut off? Many in that 100 Million are not taking those chances. True Dough proved what can happen to your bank account when you make too much noise.
I have ss, plus pension, plus going for part time job, plus have arable land, plus can live without heat or air, and I don’t say if I have protection items just for the fact I don’t want anyone to know, but i can field dress the deer in my backyard if I have to,,,,,,just saying
Upcoming digital currency will put us at their mercy. Whatever we think we have now, think again…..Bidenzuela.
Exactly.
Freedom or bowing down for SSI-Disability, etc.
No contest; I will choose freedom.
Junk silver for store of value and barter.
Social security will go away fairly soon. Better to plan for that event. It may occur gradually. But it will logically occur.
I can foresee any unjabbed (that’s me) will be denied any part in society. F*ck them all to hell cos I will NOT partake in that evil clot shot! Death would be more merciful.
Tons of turkey vultures out in these here hills.
I can’t wait either Retired. But I can’t do it by myself. I’m an old lady now but I prefer to go down fighting for the country we grew up in rather than end up dying in a nursing home run by the WHO.
Won’t immediately be bread lines,
They’ll try a new and improved Jimmy Carter move.
Odd & Even zip code days to be “permitted” into the grocery store with the proper electronic
“Purchasing Passport” to identify your entrance & eligibility
That passport think won’t work when people start being denied food. Who will enforce that at risk of life and limb, Xhiden?
The same types that gladly trampled old women then joked bout it.
I doubt that will work in a lot of places. Blacks, for example, have low vax rates. You think in the major cities they will meekly submit to that passport scheme. Or in gun toting country. Doubt it.
I see so many Afrian Americans wearing masks. At first it irked me, but I now realize they are not getting the death shots so good for them in wearing the admittedly silly face diapers. At least they aren’t allowing poison into their bodies.
The inner cities will just steal it. And food trucks will be hi-jacked by organized gangs. Good luck keeping truckers.
Whose life and whose limb unless we are ready to go full out Romania Christmas 89.
United Nations troops.
I have one of those BLM shopping passports. Never been used.
Yes, in one of Christian/Ice Age Farmer’s recent videos, he talked about upcoming food rationing and how that will be tied to digital ID (no digital ID, no food for you)
So we had best be prepared to weather the storm.
Ice Age Farmer = good info.
It’s started with the tea party. Then Trump showed up.
I believe the Trump movement made the elites lose their minds. They now know it’s coming. So, they panicked and have pulled out all the stops.
Problem is, no matter the censorship, the info wars work both ways. They are SCREWED and they know it. They are all desperately trying to consolidate gains but they are a small minority. The will lose.
Like Hitler in his bunker during the last days of WWII. He still thought he could win with kids and old men with grenade launchers.
They ARE delusional. It will never happen now that they have stepped on the accelerator. It’s all out there now for all to see! And they are BY FAR the minority.
I think you are right. Until Trump came along, they didn’t think they needed to worry about a thing…..now they know they really need to worry – – – they really are in do-do now.
Yeah, still squawking about “We’re a Republic, not a Democracy!” blah blah. It makes no difference when the ones we elected to work for us have raided the storehouses and had Us arrested.
When the coming smoke clears, none of them will be left alive.
Start deportation, end welfare, end birthright citizenship, not protecting the borders is treason and will be dealt with. Fire all superintendents of public schools, fire all principle that allowed CRT and porn in school, remove all disruptive kids from public school, declare English our official government language, end affirmative action and special rights for specific individuals. We are all Americans and our lives are what we make it!
Just bought canned meats and fish. Best-by dates out to 2027. That’s a five year shelf life minimum. Combined with canned veggies and dried beans and pasta. You can survive scarcity for a good long while.
Just stay the gray man/woman. Don’t let anyone know what you have unless you absolutely trust them.
We should a be good old fashioned Boy Scouts:
Be Prepared.
Most canned meats will last more than five years past their sell by dates. Tomato, fruit and other acidic canned not so much. Time to stock them shelves deep folks and don’t forget the means to defend them.
Try powdered eggs for their long shelf-life: “Whole egg powder is said to last longer (more than 15 years), if it is stored in air-tight containers that are placed in cool, dark locations. So, there is no need of refrigeration.”
https://tastessence.com/shelf-life-of-powdered-eggs
The Germans have just experienced massive inflation in food and energy and large scale demonstrations are breaking out across England because of hikes in energy prices. The western disciples of Klaus Schwab, like BOJO in the UK, are panicking because time is running out for them to pull off the great reset. I expect food riots will be breaking out across the third world especially, like thos in Sri Lanka documented in this story.
Protests over soaring energy prices take place across UK
Demonstrators rally in London, Cardiff, Birmingham and other cities following major rise in cap on household bills.
So billionaire “Dishy” Rishi, the Chancellor, looks as if he’s lost control and is destroying the Tories. Boris isn’t helping. All in a day’s work.
And so with food shortages planned (key word) and energy costs escalating, plus tax increases (by the Conservatives no less…the party of “fiscal rectitude”), what is the UK focused on??
1. Paying family GPs extra if they describe puberty blockers to children.
2. Asking every male under the age of 60, who undergoes any scan, if he is pregnant.
I’m not making this up, I’m afraid. So long Britannia. You no longer rule the waves. You’re a has been, a once great Empire which has decayed into a rotting corpse. We’re not far behind.
Betsy jones, you have characterized the UK position exactly right. I used to wonder how countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and those western countries across Europe, and ours, as well as Japan and South Korea seemed to be in lockstep on the COVID business. Now I know they are following Schwab’s great reset and build back better script. But I think this controlled chaos they commenced has gotten beyond their control in more and more countries. The fiat currency countries needed to get Russia and China out of the way to make the great reset feasible. They planned on starting with Russia by having Z and his Azof nazis launch a major attack on the two breakaway Russian speaking provinces in eastern Ukraine, but Russia beat them to the punch and seized the initiative. Now, there is a great reset coming, but not the one the WEF elites planned. It will lead, as Sundance has pointed out, to two groups of aligned countries: those in the west whose wealth depends on finance backed by the petro dollar as the World’s reserve currency, and another group whose wealth lies in commodities or natural resources like oil, natural gas, coal, metals platinum, tungsten, etc., and other resources. This group will prevail as inflation destroys the currencies of the fiat currency countries.
A very good, short analysis I believe, Stringy theory.
Because I lived in the UK for a couple of decades, I try to stay abreast of their situation and politics. At one time I thought Johnson would be a good (not great) PM. But I was unaware of his father’s predilections for depopulation and that he was a close friend of Gates’s and one of the co- founders of Planned Parenthood.
So now that I am aware of this, plus a few speeches BoJo has made vigorously defending the depopulation of world…plus(!!) his marrying a climate cult worshipper and fan girl of Schwab’s, his actions make perfect sense.
Drawing board plans, decades of them, for this satanic NWO, didn’t include an interloper like Putin. And I do believe, in spite of the deep yellow journalism which one can easily find in the wretched Daily Mail, that Putin has thrown the biggest monkey wrench in these plans. That’s how it appears to me.
I believe none of this is going in the direction of those intricate WEF plans. And I’m extremely worried for places like Sri Lanka and other countries like them who will be the first to experience a modern day Holodomor.
Johnson appropriated the Build Back Better almost quicker than any other world leader. I pray the UK public realizes what they are in for. And it grieves me because I have friends and family there still (Wales). All we can do right now is watch this play out.
Putin is a formidable foe. I do think his motives are complex and he has rumbled the repugnant powers who are trying to pull us down into a certain hell. Believe me, I’m praying, relying on my faith..knowing Almighty God is fighting Lucifer. He chooses his warriors. Is Putin one, never mind personal views? I do not know. I’m watching with intense interest. Blessings, Stringy theory.
Betsy jones, wow, you really understand what is happening. My wife’s mother was English and my wife spent most summers with her grandparents there as a child. And my wife and I lived in the UK for a while back in the late 1970s. I feel for the average people there and here and elsewhere around the World. I did not have any inkling of BOJO’s background. Now, with your help, I am beginning to see why Britain is so all in on the Ukie propaganda.
I ran across BoJo’s father’s history relatively recently, since Covid started. And then heard a speech BoJo gave some years back on how populations needed to be thinned out.
BTW…search for any videos you can find…and they are still up…of British Funeral director John O’Looney (a smart, compassionate man) on his journey in dealing with the victims of Britain’s murderous Covid policies.
One, in particular, in which Dr Reiner Fuellmich interviews him concerning what he saw and when. Riveting, and these videos expose the genocidal monsters who, like Fauci and others, dispatched thousands upon thousands of Brits without compunction. I promise your time will not be wasted.
And yes, the Brits believe every single word denouncing Putin. Look at the headlines in the Daily Mail UK…then read the comments, if you can stomach them. You won’t need to read many to see how they have positively lapped up every bit of government inspired propaganda. I found it disturbing in the extreme.
I don’t believe the people in the UK have any idea about the food shortages which are coming.
I too have noticed the virulence of Daily Mail articles against Putin and Russia. I don’t watch US coverage in the media here, but from what I read, our print and broadcast sources are just as bad as the Daily Mail. And many here are lapping up the deep state propaganda. The town where I live has professionally printed signs that say, Stand with Ukraine, dotting lawns around town, and ribbons with Ukie colors tied on posts. Too bad they have been brainwashed because they too are clueless as to what is coming down the pike.
Thank you Betsy jones. I will look for those videos. I hope Fauxi and all who pushed the clot shots receive justice.
You’re very welcome, St.
Commodities trump fiat.
This issue is also present in Canada. These vermin havent left them out……
Fuel, food, you name it, the inflation is crippling the poor already.
Grocery prices have risen sharply. Seniors are having a tough go.
It aint pretty now, I cant imagine it gets better until some peoples heads are removed. That is the simple answer….
Agree again.
They expected the BLM style reaction but I bet they’re not expecting it to go beyond that.
We are actively importing the 3rd world as fast as they can come.
They have left the southern border wide open for a reason.
Yup, they need the non citizens for their dirty work. Ever wonder why most are of military age? But they will lack discipline. That will be their undoing.
Some or possibly many but not all of the ones they are letting across the southern border actually hate the upper class. They will turn on the “elite” as well.
How will they get to the elites?
Could they get to the elites in the countries they are fleeing from?
I think they will attack the average American, while the elite hide behind UN troops.
They are waiting for this, Not prepared, but waiting. They will not know what to do when this hits. This they will not be able to walk away from, or talk their way out of…..just blame someone else as usual.
The Mexicans and Central Americans will go home if it gets bad enough here. We’ll be stuck with the muslims and Africans.
Many Mexicans and Central Americans like living here. They love their families, have several children, like to go to Church. They just might save our more selfish young IF the jabs don’t kill everyone first.
I’m guessing like the Nazi death camps, a check and good food rations will go a long way with non citizens to kill off citizens, especially white ones. The elites never dirty their hands. They just pay someone else who would enjoy the task.
Import the third world.
Become the third world.
God save America!!
Ha! One of the ads at the bottom of the page was for 28 day fasting. Not creepy at all.
It’s for survival equipment on mine.
The way ads work, if you’re not blocking all the creepy stuff in your browser, is they are targeted to *your* interests which are picked up from other places on the web that you have visited. Yes, it’s very creepy.
In my twisted mind, I always thought our future torturers would have our browsing history and Internet fingerprint with which to custom design our demise in very creepy ways.
Whitehouse constructs blast wall, Congress has it’s fence, politicians pass anti lynching law, military purges wrong thinkers, state dept creating ministry of truth.
Yeah.
They know, that we know.
Hope everyone has built in multiple layers of redundancy and fall back positions for both your food supplies (including ability to refrigerate and/or preserve) as well as security to defend it. Because we’re moving closer every day to “This is NOT a drill”
Something tells me that collapsed gov’t is a feature and not a flaw. Everything must be destroyed before it can be built back better[?]
Clinton and Biden have been saying this ever since O was in office.
That’s absolutely the plan.
“…perilous times will come…”
“…but the end is not yet; see to it that your hearts are not troubled; these are only the beginning of birth pangs…” (Matt. 24:6,7; Mark 13:7,8; Luke 21:9).
Take heart; believe; stock up; God will make a way for you.
I believe the Word of God.
KaweahKid, remember those words were said 2000 years ago!!! It’s definitely time to look up!!
Yup! Most definitely. It’s both hectic but exciting to see these things happening. To quote Jan Markell, things aren’t falling apart; they’re falling into place.
You can’t really threaten a Christian with death.
What the enemy sees as their worst threat: ” I’m going to kill you,”
the Lord turns into His greatest reward: eternity with Jesus.
Death, where is your sting?
Coming to a big blue city near you – as soon as door-dash delivered McD exceeds the EBT limits.
Long hot summer in the forcast.
JD: Well, of course. Gotta get the sheeple riled up for the elections.
How many secret service agents are going to abandon post when things go sideways? Unless the pols intend to let their families come with them when they flee, the pols will be left in the lurch.
Was wondering the same. I expect Trump’s might stay. Others not so sure.
Those with their heads in the sand in the US continue to believe ” that can never happen in America!”
Have a friend who laughed at me for the preparations I was making a year ago.
Last week she told me she emptied one of her bedrooms, in order to have a larger pantry.
I’m thankful that some people listen, even if it is at the last moment.
Yep. Always room on the ark, until the Almighty shuts the door.
So many are deceived by the Normalcy Bias.
The Bible says in the End Times, many will be deceived….
When the trouble starts we’re going to need a very strong government. Some might call it a police state. The F word.
The 2022 election gets further off every day. No wonder the Democrats aren’t concerned by opinion polls. Or differing points of view.
There won’t be any November elections. Martial law is the end game. This is how it plays out.
Illegals flooded in and shipped across the country. Given fat subsidies to the point where they don’t need to look for work, not that there is any work for them.
Food becomes scarcer, but still available for the right price.
Fuel becomes scarcer, but still available ””””’.
The government continues to step in and provide enough support to at least keep the shelves from being completely empty.
Then, come the middle of August, it all stops.
Food becomes almost out of reach for most people. All the people made fat and lazy by government handouts now can’t get anything to eat. That includes the millions of foreign invaders who havn’t the faintest concept of law and order. Riots, and looting become everyday occurances. Bang, martial law. Two weeks to stop the riots becomes….. You all know the drill by now.
If the election will be allowed.
If it is, look for shenanigans as in 2020.
God Save America!
This is a seriously frightening topic, but we must not bury our heads in the sand. There are many people I know who said, “oh we could never move out of the city because…
the grandchildren
the job
our friends
our church family
etc…”
If the dollar collapses, the country collapses – we are on the precipice. The urban areas will be destroyed, then suburbia, and the violence will radiate outward in concentric circles from every major city. It will be an apocalypse. One should strive to live more than one full gas tank, at the least, away from a major city, especially the Liberal ones. If you can’t get that far away, prepare for layers of physical security. Prepare your heart, mind, and soul to pull a trigger and don’t flinch. ((shudder))
Beans, bullets, and bandaids is not a joke. It is the recommended course of action.
ALL of this could have been avoided, but unfortunately the globalist/communist/marxist/WEF/Satanists want to usher in the one world government, the new world order. The only way to get there from here is to destroy America.
Pray.
The republicans bear the true guilt because we gave them elected power to stand in the way. Then the likes of Romney, Ryan, Barr and Bush et al threw in with the Ds and partook of the payoffs. We were betrayed and the gates were left unlocked. Romney & Co will swing.
Yes!
The RINOs are much more to blame than the Democrats.
The RINOs are traitors to the Constitution and the nation.
The Democrats are just being true to their Satanic creed.
“One should strive to live more than one full gas tank, at the least, away from a major city, especially the Liberal ones.”
Los Angeles is about 3 hours, driving time, south of where I live. That’s definitely within a gas tanks range. That has been on my mind. I hope the traffic that comes across the coastal range and into the Valley is bumper to bumper, thereby burning lots of gas inching forward.
I do live on a dead end street (only ingress/egress is from another dead end street) out of town and have been thinking about how to keep people/cars out in a worse case scenario. Three of my neighbors have small ag trucking companies. If things get too weird I think I will ask them to put a couple of their trailers across the road so no one can drive down our road. At least if they come to plunder they will have to do it by foot making themselves more vulnerable and able to carry out less.
Thankfully, a number of my neighbors are ex-military, even some Marines. And we are all armed.
My major concern is water. If the power goes out it’ll be a little tough to get the water out of the ground from about 350 feet.
You and your neighbors might want to invest in these books: https://civildefensemanual.com/product/civil-defense-manual-vols-i-ii/
The only thing you can do about water is store it, I assume. 3 gallons per day per person is the recommendation. You can get 5 gallon totes with spouts from Walmart. You’ll need water purification tablets if you store water for a long time. A water filter would be good to have on hand – there are many. Identify any lakes or streams that you might be able to get to. Study up on how to filter water from those sources.
There’s book, a novel, which is a fun and interesting read that gives practical, realistic, scenarios after a collapse:
Might give you some ideas.
Godspeed.
Can you set up rain barrels and gutters and downspouts? Can you set up cisterns (or even lots of water barrels) and pump water into them while you still have electricity?
What about a windmill pump, or a solar pump? What about putting in a large pond?
And get a good water filter. You can even build your own.
All,
I understand that most of us have prepared accordingly or at least I “hope” we have. During these times that are coming, it it absolutely important that we show compassion for our countrymen because if we do not, then we devolve into a system unimaginable to everyone.
War of the Worlds movie shows us the ignorance when people stand around when something large comes out of the ground wondering what’s going to happen. It also shows the desperation when one working van travels into 1000’s of desperate people.
If we fail in our compassion then we deserve our own deaths. God created man in his own image therefore, we need to act in that image.
I think I might understand what you are saying, but not sure.
There’s compassion and then there’s foolishness. There’s also the scripture where Jesus instructs His followers not to “cast your pearls before swine”.
I have way too much compassion and empathy for my own good, so in my case, I’ve had to harden up quite a bit so as not to be taken gross advantage of. FOR INSTANCE, I know someone who was making a trip into San Francisco and commented that she should bring some extra cash to give to the “poor sweet homeless people”. Very few of the homeless in San Francisco are both poor and sweet. Most are addicts of unpredictable behavior, some violent. Her foolishness in thinking she could approach “homeless people” to give them cash because that’s what good people do is ignorant and naive. In my opinion, we need to ask the Lord for Wisdom and be cautious.
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Interesting that she felt the need to tell you about her plans for compassion.
Me, too. For years I have lived with the thought that I would rather be the “used” than be the “user.”
Then I realized that to let someone use me was to permit them to sin, which was harmful to their soul.
Now I try to let every social transaction be a win-win.
Still am able to have compassion and to help the truly struggling, but no longer do I permit myself to be the victim.
Then there is “we have to be alive to be able to have compassion”.
I went to a grocery store today to purchase a few items; milk, bread, veggies and ice cream. Staffing at this store is problematic. Two checkout cashiers were working and there were long lines at the self checkout. I was at the end of one line and suddenly another cashier opened her register. I quickly ran to this line and beat out a woman who was ahead of me in line at another register. Well this woman wagged her finger at me, called me selfish, a bully and went on an ugly tirade just because I was faster on my feet. I told her to take a chill pill, but she continued to run her mouth, ending her tirade with “I shamed you and you will never do this again”. I am not feeling charitable toward entitled Biden voters.
Mr. Morris, as a southern woman, I disagree.
Grocery store rules are:
First-the person next in line at any register, gets to go first at a newly opened register. Second- you’re a man! What kind of man hole shots a woman in the grocery store line? This is what’s wrong with society today.
YOU should’ve taken a chill pill. Be a gentleman next time.
Everyone has forgotten about forgiveness. Let it go.
“We can never be sure what is going to happen to society in the U.S. However, I would be leery about being in a densely populated urban area when whatever it is, surfaces.” – Sundance
Wouldn’t surprise me when the double whammy of food inflation and food shortages hit urban areas there won’t be flash mobs stripping grocery stores of all beef, poultry and other food supplies! No different than what we’ve seen happen at jewelry stores and high end clothing stores! God help us! Hosanna!
Through these trying and depressing times, one thought keeps me going. We are SO blessed to be able to escape the United Authoritarian Socialist State of IL aka the U ASS of IL, in 2019. We lived in an urban hellscape called Peoria, aka Chicago South. Look for this city to be Top 10 in US murders for 2o21, in a city of less than 110,000. We are now in rural NE NC. God is great!
Went to the Dollar General in a nearby town today to pick up a few Easter items and a cashier/clerk/possibly the day manager was proclaiming loudly how the whole country was about to collapse. Everyone nodded in agreement.
That tells me that the whole country is bracing for the collapse.
I would guess that all of us are totally turned off by the notion of ‘artificial meat’, and I will count myself as one of them — give me a cow!
But!, at the same time, we also need to be aware of what is actually going on.
That said, the ‘artificial meat’ industry has come a very long way — (and yes, these people are crazy), but despite that — they believe in what they are doing.
And, that is something we need to wrap our heads around — THEY BELIEVE!
So, here is an article which describes an Israeli company, which is trying really hard to replicate (3D print) meat:
https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/3d-printed-steaks-are-the-latest-plant-based-meat-on-the-menu/
Just the embedded video explains things.
Want meat? How about eating plastic???
I have to say this… their desire, whether sincere or not, to get people to eat a plant biology based diet (i.e., artificial meat) is based on climate change ideology. The premise is false. So, yes, I believe they believe in their false premise, which makes it worthy of ridicule on my part. And if ridicule is considered unkind, then I will shun them. In all cases, I will not cooperate with it or give it any credence regardless of their sincerity.
I have been eating fakey hot dogs, sausages, bacon and hamburger made from vegetables for at least 10 years because I like them. I eat tons of real shrimp, scallops, mussels and clams. I don’t make anyone eat what I like. My food choices don’t have a thing to do with any climate change ideology. I feel healthier.
I also drink NA beer but have alcohol in my home for guests.
My carnivorous neighbors all love my vegetarian chili, made with soy burger. They cannot taste the difference, they say.
I have been a vegetarian for over 30 years. Personal choice, not climate change hysteria.
There are very many good options to meat.
You would be amazed what you can do with tofu.
Two onions, 1/2 cup barley. 1 cup dry navy beans, 2 leeks, celery, carrots, soup bone and water or broth to cover. Simmer till done about 2 hours. Nutritious, delicious, easy and inexpensive. Vegetable beef soup.
Mushrooms, parsnip, turnips, snap peas or whatever you have on hand can be added.
They do not believe the garbage they are spewing. They want YOU to eat plastic and worms while they eat meat.
I have no doubt that Bill Gates has Waygu beef in his freezer right now.
All the while he buys up gazillion of US acres of farmland and pushes his nasty fake meat, and now fake dairy.
FBG!
Klaus Schwab says “you vill eat zee bugs”.
FKS!
All this talk about when SHTF and getting out of populated areas and stuff is puzzling; it demonstrates that we are controlled to not stand up and fight for what is right and just. Americans might be well armed, but are fully controlled. When populated areas are conquered and controlled, then what? Haven’t the last five years taught us what happens when we surrender our cities and communities?
I will not be hiding out from whatever it is that comes, I will stand up and face it head on and fight for my community…plus there’s that little matter of some scores to settle.
I agree with you, but there’s a bigger problem. In the urban areas, there are more of them than us (i.e., brainwashed liberals who think anyone who thinks self-defense is a legitimate choice should be arrested and incarcerated, criminal illegal aliens, compromised and corrupt District Attorneys, out of control crime, not enough cops, etc.). The point being: you will be outnumbered and have no back up. Depends upon where you live.
Yes, if you live in a state that honors “castle doctrine”, “stand your ground”, “no duty to retreat”, “constitutional carry”, etc., then you can certainly defend your turf more easily. Otherwise, you’re kinda screwed. I’m happy to be corrected.
Be aware that “some” of us, do not talk on the internet about some things that you are touching on.
It is called, “OpSec”, to some of more modern thinking.
Or, like in my Ma & Dads day, during WW2 , the saying, “Loose lips sink ships”, would be that sort of mindset.
“Keep your mouth shut.”, or “S.S.S.”, would be a good idea.
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There are some of us who are not “too” concerned with the “concentric circles” around metro areas out thru the suburbs & into the rural areas.
Think like how folks dealt with, “horse thieves & rustlers” long ago.
If ya know what I mean.
Might be different in your area, but around this a way…
Folks best stick to the “neighborhood they Know”, and stay out of the areas they don’t know.
Could be the Hogs & Yardbirds get extra food.
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Where are you at in MN? We’re up in the socialist arrowhead.
Twin Cities here….but spend a lot of the summer just SW of Duluth. Debating whether that is my best bugout place or family farms to the west. With Moose Lake State Pen up that way, a little nervous about what will be unleashed in that area if a complete collapse comes and guards walk away to be with their families.
In a Rural S.E. MN. County. On the North side of the, “Driftless area”, from the last Ice Age.
DJT won 2020 in our county. Hard working, Conservative, God fearing folks for the most part. Socialists are frowned upon here by the majority.
I feel sad for ya being surrounded as ya are by the Socialists in your area.
FJB.
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I prefer not to watch old ladies and children gang raped and slaughtered. Because that’s what it will devolve to very quickly.
Good luck.
And of course the solution won’t be to fix the issue but to allow “refugees” to pour un vetted into the US and participating western nations like UK Australia New Zealand and Canada.
As Title 42 ends a half million illegal criminal invaders crossing our southern border per MONTH.
“Though Sri Lanka’s problems follow years of mismanagement, its speedy unravelling is a warning to sturdier economies from Europe to Asia suddenly grappling with a spike in the cost of living.”
Note the implicit assumption here: that there have not been years of mismanagement in “sturdier economies.”
By themselves the covid lockdowns and related economic restrictions represent two years of mismanagement, a mismanagement carried out on such an epic scale and in such a corrosive manner that it likely packed decades of actual damage into those twenty-four months.
Nor are those two years bereft of company. “Studier” nations have squandered decades crippling their economies in order to tilt at the windmills of unreachable climate goals and unsustainable social welfare programs.
We are all mismanaged.
keeler: “Though Sri Lanka’s problems follow years of
mismanagementemulating the same failed policies as everyone else.”If only they were just tilting at windmills instead of building them.
Resigning seems very very smart. You don’t want to be in charge when the nooses come out.
Depends on if the social discorder is targeted and focused where it should be instead of random looting and burning, which I doubt it would be.
I have heard this saying, in a few places… Something about being 9 meals from anarchy. I am glad I live in a rural area..
As I have said many times before in the comments here, when my wife was growing up in Chile under Allende, I will always remember what she said went on at the time: “everybody had money, but there was nothing to buy.” Store shelves were truly empty.
The urban area will be coming to the rural area to get/take what they need.
Thieves go where they can find the stuff they want. That’s not complicated.
In the 1990s, the farmers of far-rural Minnesota encountered a brand new problem. The drug runners/cookers from St. Paul/Minneapolis were spreading into the rural areas to steal the anhydrous ammonia that was sitting around, free for the taking, in the farmers’ fields. Being “way out in the rural area” where there were only gravel roads wasn’t much help once the drug shops figured out where the free anhydrous was.
I’m going to the gulf coast.
Fish,crabs,oysters, shrimp,turtles.
I’ll never be hungry when the seafood is free.
I live in a tourist area, and I’m afraid the tourists will empty out our stores on their way home. I pray not…
Biden’s puppet masters fix the 2020 election, and the world goes to shite.
https://sheridanmedia.com/news/101622/wyoming-farmers-being-hit-with-high-fertilizer-other-costs/
When that time comes the productive states and areas need to cut off the cities and take care of themselves. The era of the American City-State is coming to an end….
We’ve had a warmup with the BLM/Antifa mostly peaceful protests. The real deal will be much worse, plan on this summer up to midterms. If they are unable to steal the key elections, it’ll continue.
We are just getting started.
The water shortages will be worse than the food and energy shortages.
But let’s keep building/expanding and admit millions of immigrants (legal or otherwise)
How does this make sense:
We are facing food shortages, fuel shortages and water shortages,
yet the borders are wide open?
Its like TPTB are trying to create a massive catastrophe.
But Elon Musk! He’ll save us.
“We can never be sure what is going to happen to society in the U.S. However, I would be leery about being in a densely populated urban area when whatever it is, surfaces.”
Grouchy stores might get looted instead of jewelry stores.
The elite will be in walled encampments aka mansions in the mountains when this comes down. They’ll watch in glee.
do they not think that we know where they will be?
They’ve been building luxury bunkers here and bug-out compounds in NZ.
“ Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday dodged a no-confidence vote”
Too bad we cannot hold a no-confidence vote for the current administration.
Note the media’s use of “dodged.” A negative connotation. It implies Imran has been a bad boy. We are supposed to dislike him. They are just sooo blatantly corrupt and they relish the freedom to be so.
rioting, looting, shootings will happen; in other words, total mayhem
I live in a densely populated area with a high income ratio. I’m guessing many of my neighbors will find themselves heading back to Armenia soon.
Confiscation is coming.
Looking for people who have “hoarded” food or who have converted fire starters (cash) to gold to confiscate both.
And they’ll do their best to grab all guns, then send city “families” to the country to “share” empty rooms with strangers.
I read at the end of 2020, probably on WEF, that we peons will be allowed 250 sq. ft. of living space each. A couple with a 2000 sq. ft. home will be made to take in 6 people, known or unknown, in order to continue residing in their home.
My EBT just got charged!
Im gonna go buy……nothing.
Cuz there isn’t anything to buy.
Tried one of my 7-year-old MREs this weekend (yes, technically, it’s expired, but that was the whole point of the exercise). Tasted fine. Still alive.
I liked the C-rations better.
I pattern my survival stock after C-rations. The empty cans are good for other uses too… 😉
👌 opened with a p38 of course.
This is precisely why i moved to Northern Minnesota in 2003. I can sustain myself here. This years garden will be epic and constant ritual of canning fish and game will be helpful. If you haven’t been prepping , God help you.
Where in northern Mn? We live in the socialist arrowhead north of Duluth.
Which people and which globalist bodies are responsible for globally weaponizing the corporate media and the UN State-Run Media (so called public broadcasters)?
These media bludgeoned and extorted all poorer nations, and all Western nations too, into prodigious amounts of ridiculous and wasteful spending over the last 20-30 years.
Politicians/nations who opposed ridiculous issues and spending might find themselves in a sudden scandal cooked up by said media. I don’t blame Politicians so much as I do the media who have corralled them to do their masters’ bidding.
The media deflect blame onto politicians when it is in fact them causing every problem of note in the world, basically.
Enemy of all humanity at present. Recall those old medieval paintings of grimacing demons pitchforking humans into flames and you are coming close to apprehending the true spirit of these wonderful creatures grimacing at you from the TV.
40% currency depreciation rate! WOW! I guess it’s just pure LUCK that currency traders like George Soros is hitting new windfalls EVERY day this inflation circus continues. Biden as POTUS a has been a very LUCKY a thing for Soros; Open Borders bringing death to America and out of control inflation making him vast fortunes day in and day out! Lucky, Right?
‘…the absence of the public being able to afford food…”
The rich (globalists) are making sure the poor (public) can’t find food, and when it can it won’t be able to afford it.
That’s when the rich make sure stacks of bricks are brought to where the poor are — for their entertainment or something like that.
FTA (linked below) – “The hyperinflation is ‘suddenly’ here because the Petrodollar was an abomination responsible for a reign of Death and Destruction around the world that lasted 57 years, and now the petrodollar is dying. Good riddance.
Putin flipped the world onto the new Gold Standard the way Nixon flipped it off the old. From those ashes of the crumbling US Dollar in 1971, Khazarian Henry Kissinger fashioned the monster of the Petrodollar.”
https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/tomorrow?s=r
Chaos is coming.
Last week I looked at Rubles being sold on ebay for collection purposes.
One day a bundle of 25 $100 bills was $175, the next day the exact same bills were priced $350.
At one time one ruble was equal to one U.S. penny. It will be interesting to see what happens to the ruble as all this crazy plays out.
I believe in layered security.
A second row of razor wire…
He’s a Commy, but he got this right.
“Every Society is 3 meals away from chaos.” — Vladimir Lennon
Don’t think for one minute that this can’t happen in the US or any other ‘modern’ nation.
“We aren’t so different afterall.”
From the Breakfast Club, I graduated from HS that year.
Should the evil cabal get their mass riots, I sincerely hope there are major “resets” implemented on those elites wherever they hide.
I want to know where the thousands of illegal border crossers will get their groceries?
From FEMA
From the nearest grocery store. And from the pantries and freezers of Americans.
They will empty out ripened garden produce in July, August, and September. I saw it happen in a small town in rural Minnesota in 1997-8 when the Bosnians and Somalians were being dropped off in their hundreds.
Art and Ruth (friends of mine) went to bed , in town, one evening, enjoying the beauty of their healthy garden in the evening sun. In the morning, it was all gone.
I’ve been begging my brother in rural Duluth to build a gate on his road to have a layer of protection, but no, he sits on his butt watching tv. Sorry, brother, if you see this. Not sorry.
All planned via health crisis, fear, famine.
Tea, rubber, coconut, gemstones, and spices gone.
How easily they will now succumb to the “elite”
Get out of urban areas. Plant a garden. Stock up on shelf-stable and frozen food. Keep clothes that are too big for you to wear when food gets low/rationed so people don’t know you have preps. And go stand in line like your neighbors for any and all food so people think you need it.
Keep a few chickens for eggs, store water and a means of filtering it.
Learn to can and dehydrate food. Have alternatives for cooking, lighting and heating. Have lots of matches and lighters and flashlights. I would not be surprised if we experience an EMP within the next few years.
Band together with like minded folks. Learn first aid skills and any other useful skill you can.
If you are a believer have extra copies of the Bible to share. Lots of folks will be looking for answers. Be prepared to give an answer to those who ask the reason for your Hope.
Have extra food to share discretely with the hungry.
Keep hard copy records of all important papers.
Get as strong and healthy as you can. Stock up on vitamins and meds. Have some junk silver.
When covid began I thought it was a dry-run for what is coming.
I was wrong.
It was stage one for the downfall of the US and the takeover of the world.
This is NOT a drill.
Frozen food is no good when they inevitably take down the power grid.