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Do You Have A Plan B? "This Is Not A Consequence-Free Environment"
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
In August 1939, just days before Hitler’s invasion into southern Poland, General Wilhelm List walked the lines of his German 14th Army making final checks and inspections.
He must have thought it strange– between Army Group North and Army Group South, there were over one million German troops hovered on the Polish border. And they weren’t exactly hiding under rocks.
Everyone knew that the invasion was coming. Especially civilians in Poland.
They were surrounded by German forces on three sides. And on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact, effectively acquiescing the fourth side.
It was obvious that the entire country was about to be turned into a war zone.
Yet seemingly unfazed by this prospect, well-to-do locals were on holiday at the seaside, or keeping cool up in the Carpathian mountains.
Sixty miles to the north of List’s 14th Army, people in Krakow were a enjoying warm summer days in Blonia Park and on the banks of the Vistula River near Wawel Castle.
It was as if they were completely oblivious to the enormity of the consequences about to befall them.
After all, the government and local papers were telling them to not worry. Poland had prepared some basic defenses, and their military commander Edward Rydz-?mig?y was supposed to be a strong general.
They had been told to be confident. So they were confident.
On the first of September, 1939, Hitler’s armies invaded. And despite suffering massive military losses, the Polish government spread all sorts of misinformation on the radio, telling its people about phony victories against the invading German hordes.
None of this was true. And within hours, a multi-year military occupation began that would turn people’s lives upside down.
Looking back, it’s like watching a cheesy horror flick where some idiot character obliviously walks into the dark room where the killer is lurking.
Human beings have a natural tendency to ignore obvious warning signs and take the path of least resistance. It’s a much simpler prospect to stick our heads in the sand than to acknowledge uncomfortable truths and risks.
There are plenty of those today.
Last year, the United States government took in $2.6 trillion in total tax revenue. Yet they spent $2.5 trillion just to cover mandatory spending (like Social Security) and interest on the DEBT.
Bear in mind that 10,000 people per day become eligible for Social Security benefits… and the debt gets bigger every year. They are growing much faster than the government’s tax revenue.
And it is an arithmetic certainty that they will soon fail to collect enough tax revenue to even cover mandatory entitlements and interest on the debt.
US economic growth ground to a halt in the first quarter of this year, and was later revised to be negative. And governments across the West are now so desperate for growth they’re counting prostitution and cocaine sales in their GDP figures.
Meanwhile, the US Federal Reserve has expanded its balance sheet to the point that, after subtracting its unrealized losses, there’s just $3.1 billion in equity to back over $4.3 trillion in assets.
That gives the Fed a margin of safety of just 0.07%… meaning the most important central bank in the world that issues the most widely used currency in the world is practically insolvent.
Look… there might not be any army groups encroached on the border. But the warning signs are just as clear as they were back in Poland in 1939. This is not a consequence free environment.
Unfortunately, most people are just as oblivious.
It may be days, weeks, months, or years before anything happens. But intelligent people don’t ignore the obvious risks to their livelihoods and their families.
Intelligent people have a Plan B. Intelligent people put on their seat belts.
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The GRACE COMMISSION (under President Reagan in the 1980's) revealed that NOT ONE PENNY of federal income money goes to fund regular expenditures by the federal government - it ALL is sent by the IRS (and Treasury) to the IMF and BIS to fund the INTEREST of the U.S. national debt. And there would be NO national debt were there NO Federal Reserve System, since the U.S. government has the Constitutional authority to print its own money!
So, in fact, ALL expenditures by the federal government STILL come from TARIFFS and various EXCISES TAXES.
Gee Simon, I would say the only people who believe this world has any consequence-free environments are the fat rich assholes who have the gall to pillage less fortunate individuals through what ever means they deem appropriate. With never a thought that someone might actaully be keeping score.
You see the majority of society knows all to well how cruel this world can be. They understand the necessity of survival, and many understand the lengths needed to maintain this primal right. Unlike the soft, pampered, elite, who will struggle to even communicate with their surroundings, whom more then likely, will only serve to raise a large and telling flag over their heads, saying look, I'm right here.
Yes a plan B might be a good idea, but will it be enough? Do you know what to do when the going gets tough?
Ya know, I get that there are a lot of things about us, this world, its creation and those who run it and/or who think that they run it that are not common knowledge and maybe it has never been common knowledge.
There was a time when only the elitest of the elitists could read and write and that in itself selected those who could have access to various kinds of knowledge.
But what I am wondering, how that information could be so bad (and yet can be handled by a select few) so that it would ruin the experiment or the nature of our existence.
It might explain why the psychotic parasites are psychotic parasites and why they act the way they do ... and that, IMO, would be a good thing. Is it worth the risk to existence for the knowledge? IMO, yes, as long as we did not have to be a part of some vast and evil conspiracy to get the knowledge ... and that is why it should be public.
what a math : Last year, the United States government took in $2.6 trillion in total tax revenue. Yet they spent $2.5 trillion just to cover mandatory spending (like Social Security) and interest on the DEBT.
Bear in mind that 10,000 people per day become eligible for Social Security benefits… and the debt gets bigger every year. They are growing much faster than the government’s tax revenue.
so far I can recall, the interst make (at nearly 0 interest rate) 200bn annually.
Plan B occurs when High Frequency trading becomes High Frequency bartering.
The Devil opened up his case and he said, "I'll start this show."
And fire flew from his fingertips as he rosined up his bow.
And he pulled the bow across the strings and it made an evil hiss.
And a band of demons joined in and it sounded something like this...
In all honesty, I'm 54 and 'should retire' at 67 according to the new bullshit from the goobermint.
My wife and I used to get annual notices from Social Security about what our contributions were and what we should expect to see for social security....we haven't gotten one of those statements since 2008. They just stopped...no annoucement or explanation.
Personally, I've known I will work until I die at the job since the 1980's when Congress was first made aware of the Social Security ponzie and decided to do what it does best...absolutely nothing.
I don't make a shitload of dollars...between my wife and myself our combined annual income is around $70k...between trying to pay off our mortgage a month and a half at a time, payiing for a car that we had to have a month and a half at a time, buying a month and half of food and water each month, and a minimum of 200 rounds of various ammo each month...along with the utility bills, I don't have too much left to buy gold, though I want to desperately.
I had fifty pounds of silver bought in 1998 - 2001, in mint proofs, now it's down to thirty pounds because I had to sell 20 pounds at the bottom of the market when the wife got sick.
Any recommendations?
You provided too little information regarding your skills, amount of debt, etc. to allow for any recommendations.
As for your silver coins, the fact they are "mint proofs" means nothing: it is the silver content that matters. Also, buy extra FOOD for long-term storage NOW - later it will cost too much, if available at all. Forget about future Social Security payments after retirement - they will either not exist or be in near-worthless currency.
My best advice is to LEAVE the U.S. and live in a non-Western country where the cost of living (COL) is much lower. (This presumes that you can get some cash from the sale of your home, car and other assets; and are able to find work in a new country.) We moved to a country where the COL is less than 1/10th that of the U.S. - and we have a much better life!
If moving is impossible (and I mean, you cannot scrape up ANY cash through asset sales), then I suggest that you form a NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION in which you and your neighbors will work together after the SHTF. And NOT just a "discussion group", but people who will create real plans of action and invest now for your future mutual survival in terms of food and defense. GOOD LUCK !
-- Jack
Want REAL political, economic and social change? A change that any ordinary person can take part in? No, NOT a violent revolution, which can easily be suppressed by armed government force.
Rather, a program of randomly targeted executions of the financial and political elites. Examples: Warren Buffet; Janet Yellen; Bernard Bernanke; Jamie Dimon; Christime LaGarde (IMF); David Rockefeller; Lloyd Blankfein; John McCain; Harry Reid; Hillary Clinton; Mitch McConnel; Mark Carney (Bank of England); members of the EU Commission; family members of any monarchy; CEOs of Walmart, Shell Oil, Exxon, Monsanto; CEOs of every large bank, heads of the IMF, World Bank (WB), Bank of International Settlements (BIS); all members of the Rockefeller, Warburg, Schiff, Rothschild and other banking families; and so on.
When EVERY political and financial elite FEARS FOR HIS LIFE when outside the confines of his home, then you will see some change. When these folks understand that they may be killed by ANY member of the public at ANY time, then you will see them make offers to compromise. BUT have no false hopes: they will never give up. They will simply offer the people a brief respite from their serfdom - a compromise to get the people to stop killing them off.
Thomas Jefferson wrote, "When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have liberty."
The key word Jefferson used was FEAR: the elites must truly FEAR the people for true freedom to exist. Voting and everything else is just political masturbation!
-- Jack
EXAMPLES: To show how easy such a program would be, we need merely to consider the recent Bilderberg meeting in Copenhagen. If just ONE worker at the hotel had poisoned the food, water or drinks at the conference, think of how many of thw world's most notorious elites would have been eliminated?
Or if some patriotic person in NYC shot and killed Jamie Dimon the next time he was seen on the street or in a restaurant, hotel, store, conference, etc?
It is easy to see that the financial and political elites are SITTING DUCKS !!! Kill off a few hundred and the rest will flee for safety, afraid to show their faces anywhere! THEN, and ONLY THEN, will they be willing to compromise.
To those who say that such actions are simply "murder", I would reply, "Isn't what they have done to the world a type of murder? Indeed, it is MASS MURDER on a global scale."