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Guest Post: How's This For Social Unrest?
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Black
How's This For Social Unrest?
In his seminal work The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer recounts how the struggling Weimar Republic printed its way out of reparation debt from World War I. Out-of-control printing caused the German mark to fall from 75 per dollar in 1921, to more than 4 billion just 3-years later.
Talk about chaos. After a brief period of credit-fueled economic respite, the onset of the global depression in 1929 had people in the streets clamoring for change. Hitler's National Socialism promised the world... and under such economic distress, people believed him.
There are two important lessons here. First is that hyperinflation comes very quickly. Confidence languishes for months, even years... until one day the currency begins to slide, slowly at first, then exponentially.
The second is what followed. Economic disaster begets social unrest, the two are inextricably linked. Populist rebellions and roving gangs became a constant presence in the republic.
It's at this point, when people are really hurting, they're the most impressionable. They're looking for somebody, anybody, to lead them out of the turmoil. What they got was a charismatic leader with a grand plan.
Here in Cambodia, a similar story unfolded in the 1970s.
Years of constant American B-52 bombing campaigns during the Vietnam War took its toll on the country. Over 500,000 tons of bombs were dropped on Cambodia during the war. By the time the last US forces withdrew from Vietnam in 1975, nearly three-quarters of Cambodia's agrarian economy was destroyed.
Malnourishment and starvation were rampant, and Cambodians were ready to follow anyone with a plan.
Pol Pot's agrarian socialism struck a chord. After years of civil war, Cambodia's economic ruin opened the door for his communist forces to take over the country.
Just like Germany in 1930, economic hardship swayed just enough people to allow a criminal madman's rise to power. Neither case required a popular majority, but merely a critical mass of vocal activists. The rest of the country either fell in line or was exterminated.
Under both regimes, people never got what they expected. Pol Pot waged mass genocide on his own people, murdering as much as a third of Cambodia's population. Teachers, doctors, students, artists... anyone who could possibly pose a threat was neutralized.
I've had the opportunity to learn first hand about many of these cases during my times here. And not far from Phnom Penh, the infamous killing fields are still littered with human remains.
History is full of examples of governments taking draconian action in times of economic-fueled social turmoil. Faced with terrible circumstances, people cry out for their governments to 'do something'. Politicians happily oblige.
It's concerning right now to see the early stages of economic decline spawning populist uprisings; most are being met with unconscionable force by the police state.
Mark Twain used to say that while history may not repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. I'd encourage you to think clearly about what's really happening in the world, and not simply write off such events as temporary aberrations.
Let me be even more clear: it's not crazy to have a plan. You're not a lunatic for considering your international options. In a world fraught with so much uncertainty, it's the only sane choice.
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Hey shit head. Your Sesame Streeters are raping, stealing, taking dumps in public, using drugs in public, having sex in public, demanding that the government take MORE property from fellow citizens as a sign of ultimate GREED while threatening the press, and you attack the Tea party. The Sesame Streeters are being FUNDED by leftist organizations, promoted by the leftist press, ENDORSED by the DNC and supported by the Nazi and socialist parties. The Tea Party has to fight BOTH political parties AND doesn't engage in your feral rabid pack animal behavior.
You may have the most advcanced case of carino-rectal syndrome I have ever seen. Here's what it looks like: http://silentespeaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/head-up-ass.jpg
How different the world would be if people actually learned what happened in the past not whom was winning dancing with the stars or what new apps were on their smart phones.
Apps not all bad :-) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.conduit.app_f123df5c5c054251bb...
if you want green grass..
water the grass you have..
becuase the grass is NEVER GREENER on the OTHERSIDE!
I see what youre saying.
Obama exists as a duality of Hitler and Pol Pot.
see Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations for a detailed coverage of Germany's hyperinflation.
http://www.delanion.com/main/dom.htm
That's a truly great read in these interesting times.
When all else fails, read the instructions. But does anyone really think that people will actually follow instructions? People are going to do whatever they want to do regardless of what is written on a piece of paper (U.S. Constitution). If we had simply followed and stuck to the instructions we wouldn't be in this mess. Gold & Silver would be our currency and the Fed would not exist, just 2 examples of 100's. The Constitution is a great set of instructions but the thing is nobody cares about them anymore. Game over.
semperfi
The Constitution is a great set of instructions but the thing is nobody cares about them anymore.
I DO.
The outcome is inevitable. Social unrest turns to violence...violence met with police state...System slows to a snails pace causing food shortages..hungry people become deadly violent...These people are labeld and put into groups by police state and summarily killed for our protection. Just depends on which group you are labled under. I've seen first hand what happens when people have small amounts food and water, and it is super ugly.
The collapse may be imminent. According to Biden, today: "“Murder will continue to rise, rape will continue to rise, all crimes will continue to rise,” if the Democrats agenda isn’t passed, he added." At least now we know what we have to do to keep crime low.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46983. Best part of the video is at the end, when the lady in the pink shirt asks the Human Events reporter, 'who are you with?' like he has no business being there unless he's fellating Biden like the rest of the cowardly media.
Feudalism baby! It cant be stopped. All solutions lead to hierarchy, more of it, not less. Think a collapse is just a fun party? After the fun of the guillotines comes the hard times.
I am aiming for minor lord or maybe Baronnet.
But even minor lords have perks.
And how were these tyrannical murderers able to carry out such ghastly foibles? A disarmed population, including mental disarmament. The populace, in shock from the carnage of war, is easily mislead.
"They are so simple, the people."
I am Chumbawamba.
So, not the dastardly, nasty jews this time then?
Great post Mr. Black. I have to agree that we should start looking internationally. It's worrisome to hear anti-immigrant rehtoric along with a possible class warfare errupting. Living in So. Cal and being a Mexican-American, I can tell you that on every major highway there are already checkpoints in which you have to declare your citizenship depeding on your skin color. This is very painful, humilating experience that one must go through in their home state of birth. The scape goat is in the sights of many hate filled people and all USA needs is a savy political leader and the rest is history.
Well Mr Black, it appears that you also comment here as well...
My friend, you are an Ass Hat
What's one of them then, something you wear on your ass?
Like a sombrero, perhaps?
No, nothing like a sombrero. But judging by your command of the english language I'm sure metaphors will go in one ear and well... You're just two ass cheeks.
Tosser...
Get rid of your illegal look alikes from south of the border and problem solved.
If you don't like that idea, you're just gonna have to suck it up.
The problem with this shit, Simon Black, that he has no clue. Where is hyperinflation in US? I see only deflation. The only times when inflation shows its ugly head is when Bernanke prints money. Remove Bernanke. Defeat Marxist Obama during election and there will be no inflation. The big question though is how to correctly deal with deflation and related issues: meager economic growth, high unemployment, income gap.
And shits like SB? Just trying to sell his garbage...
defencev,
Not taking up for SB but check out these lil tidbits.
We are at 10% inflation now, not the bogus 2% BS .gub data ,add the below and just like a SNAP, you can get your if not Hyper Inflation, damned high inflation...............................where does the rate have to be before Hyper takes off?,15-20%............
When the flow of Brenie Buks starts getting cashed out, the velocity of money will definitely hit the gas.
http://www.24hgold.com/english/news-gold-silver-foreigners-losing-confidence-in-holding-us-treasury-and-agency-debt.aspx?article=3662992604G10020&redirect=false&contributor=Bud+Conrad
I do not know where are you getting these numbers. Surely, things like gas or food go up from time to time. Not due to demand though but due to money printing of Bernanke (and there is an undeniable correlation here). Whenever he pauses, the prices of all commodities, including Gold go down or at least stabilize. With this level of unemployment,falling wages and lack of economic growth, there is no room for inflation in US unless it is artificially produced by Fed.
Say good bye to cash transactions in the future, this most recent creation from the swamps of Louisiana will undoubtedly be coming to a state near you, Adios $500 pick up truck, junk shops,thrift shops, yard sales, swap meets and local classified ad's.
http://www.klfy.com/story/15717759/second-hand-dealer-law
Paper trails must be created, comrad.
This is the Hollywood version of history. What they don't tell you is what really happened between 1933 and 1939 in Germany, how Germany came out of GD1, first among all the nations that were in the depths of GD1, without oil, gold, and money.
Anyone care to illuminate the sheeple here at ZH including this writer?
Here's a start.
...The critical point is that the German industrialists financing Hitler were predominantly directors of cartels with American associations, ownership, participation, or some form of subsidiary connection. The Hitler backers were not, by and large, firms of purely German origin, or representative of German family business. Except for Thyssen and Kirdoff, in most cases they were the German multi-national firms —i.e., I.G. Farben, A.E.G., DAPAG, etc. These multi-nationals had been built up by American loans in the 1920s, and in the early 1930s had American directors and heavy American financial participation.
http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_07.htm
Good point TS.
I checked out some facts which lead me to the well-known head of Reichsbank Hjalmar Schacht and the creation of the MEFO-bills. Those bills seemed to be an instrument/construct to print and avoid the debt ceiling at the same time. Any expert around ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefo_bills
and with graphics (ger)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefo-Wechsel
This explains it in a few paragraphs.
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6720
In the good old days, a big war was often good for the economy. Probably not the case any more unless everyone owns stock in a defense contractor (or Halliburton).
Thanx for the post from Cambodia Simon. Could you do another one on the economy there.? I believe there's been overbuilding and rents are pretty reasonable at the moment, no? And how's the weather, a lot of flooding like Thailand?
dp
Pol Pot was a very misunderstood child - just may be if his parents had steered him in a different direction, things may have turned out differently for him. Was he happy?
He really was a very nice boy & kind to his grandparents & teachers alike. Popular at school he excelled at the long jump, chess, arachnology & voluntary social work in a small village 12km from Siem Reap...
Having drawn out 3 greenies for the first few lines of drivel..couldn't resist...
...Whoever did, I want what you are on. Before departing this planet strongly recommend that if there is one trip left for you, make it to Cambodia ..combine the temples with the atrocities, visit the killing fields, view the prison / museum (?) outside of Phnom Peng, where hundreds of photos adorn the walls taken seconds before their execution...look deep into their eyes motherfuckers & if after this you can watch Dancing with the Stars or other crap you deserve what's coming to you. Gods bless.
Weird I watch rise and fall just the other day. It was good; the narrator was a bit American for my liking (no offense yanks, it's just, you know, we broke the German's code bitchez.'. ) Lots of interesting points of views taken from source material, threw lots of parallels with people we see day in day out on the street. Book's on my Christmas wishlist.
One day the music will stop, and we'll all realise there were never any chairs to sit on. We've just been marching in circles, chasing tail and wasting leather.
No offense Winston, but you were doing such a bang up job all by yourself before we showed up to help...
Excellent write up. Always enjoy your perspective, which is unique due to your travels.
I saw this coming to American and did something about it a few years back. We left the US and now live in beautiful, safe New Zealand.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
When everyone finally wakes up and realizes that the Titanic is sinking, all the lifeboats will be gone. Get on one while you still can.
That's why they scripted Australia for Mad Max. Once the rest of the world is gone you'll stagger on, right? Hope those Maori's don't decide to go for paybacks once the balloons are up. Might suck to be you.
That has about the same chance as Native American's doing the same. Most Maori's consider themselves kiwi's first, Maori's second. The "us vs. them" divisions you see in the US are not as large here.
During a collapse, NZ will fair pretty well. Geographically isolated, good climate, largely argiculturally based, 75% of electricity already produced from renewable resources, small population density, etc, etc.
greenland had a small population density too. When it had one at all. Once your cousins start lookin hot, it's all downhill.
Are there pharma manufacturers in NZ?
LFMayor ,
Getting into NZ and staying, becoming a citizen is I think a thing of the past.They wised up.
Same with the Swiss...............you can still live there, if you bring a lot to the table when you come.
Not true. The door is still wide open to both residency and citizenship here - for now.
It is much easier to obtain both than with the Swiss. The entire process took us about 7 months and around $2k USD in total. It is not exclusive to the rich either. We are just average middle-class people and we had no difficulties doing it. I know of people with less than $5k to their name and successfully immigrating.
1935:
The battle cry of the New World Order, complete with whips and gas chambers, is sounded, not by designated villain-of-record Adolf Hitler, but by.....the Rockefellers.
Man the Unknown by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute in New York is published. The Nobel Prize-winner lays out very clearly the methods to be followed by the New World Order.
"Enormous sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums," writes Carrel. "Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? This fact must be squarely faced. Why should society not dispose of the criminals and the insane in a more economical manner?...The community must be protected against troublesome and dangerous elements....Perhaps prisons should be abolished...The conditioning of the petty criminal with the whip, or some more scientific procedure, followed by a short stay in hospital, would probably suffice to insure (sic) order. (Criminals, including those) who have...misled the public on important matters, should be humanely and economically disposed of in small euthanasic institutions supplied with proper gases. A similar treatment could be advantageously applied to the insane, guilty of criminal acts.''
Presumably this disposal "with proper gases" of persons who have "misled the public on important matters" would not apply to people who are named Bush, Walker, Harriman, Rockefeller or Dulles. Who would run the country?
John Foster Dulles who, through the robber barons' favorite law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, is orchestrating arms and finance for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis for their takeover of Germany and ultimately all of Europe, is the author of a major article in the Atlantic Monthly entitled "The Road to Peace."
Dulles explains away Germany’s secret rearmament, which he has had a key role in arranging, as an action to "take back their freedom". Dulles assures Americans that the Nazis and the Italian Fascists are interested only in peace. Would John Foster Dulles lie?
The Nazi Schroeder Bank in New York merges with the Rockefeller interests to form Schroeder, Rockefeller & Company, Inc. Carlton P. Fuller of Schroeder Banking Corporation is made president and Avery Rockefeller, nephew of John D. Rockefeller, owns 42% and is made vice president.
Baron Bruno von Schroeder and his cousin, Kurt von Schroeder of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Gestapo, own 47 percent. Nazi shyster Allen Dulles serves on the board of the Schroeder Bank. Nazi shyster John Foster Dulles is the bank's legal counsel. The German parent bank acts as the financial arm of the Nazi Party and will, in the next few years, siphon large sums of money from the U.S. to Nazi Germany.
Prescott Bush, grandfather of George "I'm A Lyin' Guy" Bush, hires Nazi shyster and financier Allen Dulles to create a massive legal smokescreen behind which to conceal his dealings on behalf of the Thyssen steel interests, major backers and financiers of Adolf Hitler.
Does it mention what kind of ROI he got?
George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, is the Managing Director of the notorious investment bank, Brown Brothers, Harriman, from the 1920s through the 1940s and, like his father Samuel Bush, becomes a devoted lifelong minion of the Harrimans, one of the leading families in the U.S. ruling class. In league with Averell W. Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman, Bush serves as front man for and facilitates investment in and for a score of Nazi businesses.
Bush, the Harrimans, the Rockefeller family, Standard Oil, the Duponts, the Morgans and the Fords provide funding for the Hitler Project, financing Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the takeover of Germany starting in 1923. This includes direct funding of the SS (Schutzstaffel or Black Shirts) and the SA (Sturmabteilung, storm troops or Brown Shirts).
The "approved" version of Hitler's rise to power has the German people, economically devastated by the First World War and the destructive terms of the Treaty of Versailles (written by the Dulles brothers, the Morgans and the Warburgs among others) embracing Hitler as their savior.
In fact, it took some 300,000 SS and SA thugs, armed and financed by the Rockefellers, Fords, Bushes, Harrimans, Duponts et al to terrorize the German people into submission to the Nazis.
These same thugs assassinated more than four hundred German politicians who had the courage to oppose Nazism.
The cash supplied by the American ruling class to the SS and SA is channeled through a variety of German companies by International Telephone and Telegraph (IT&T).
Virtually all of the weapons used by the SS and SA to terrorize the German people, primarily Thomson submachine guns and pistols, are supplied by the Rockefellers' Remington Arms and carried to Germany by the Harriman-controlled Hamburg-Amerika line fronted by George W. Bush's great grandfather, Herbert W. Walker.
The Rockefellers’ Chase Manhattan Bank serves as a major source of finance for the Nazis and, as the Nazis send Jews, Gypsies, socialists and other “sub-humans” to the gas chambers in accordance with the eugenics agenda promulgated by the American ruling class, closes the accounts of its Jewish customers.
Chase will continue to serve as banker for the Nazis even after Germany declares war on the U.S.
Joseph Kennedy, multi-millionaire bootlegger, Mafia associate, stock market swindler and founder of the Kennedy political dynasty, is a major contributor of capital to the Nazis via Prescott Bush.
Kennedy is a vocal anti-Semite and pro-Nazi who later becomes U.S. Ambassador to Britain. His pro-Nazi statements do much to mold U.S. public opinion.
Auto Ordnance, Savage, BSA, i'm not thinking Remington ever produced a Thompson. Nor have I ever seen photos or film showing SA carring a Thompson.
Who's ass did you pull that little factoid out of? Some dipshit "academic" at your waste of time and money college?
The best part of this shit is that it really wasn't the Germans fault. It was...
WAIT FOR IT
BUSH'S fault. Just a different one this time.
Sources?
the SA fought the communists, not the German people.
Agreed, but those communists were German citizens at the time. And then they fought the SS, who were also German citizens.
Liebstandarte, or HJugend?
asdfa
Last time U.S. had a severe economic depression they got Roosevelt and the New Deal, and if the U.S. economy nosedives that's what some people will talk about.
But Germany had a Depression (with runaway inflation) too, and they got Adolf Hitler.
Who can say that this time around the U.S. gets Hitler. Might even be a woman.
Anybody who say that's not possible because so much has changed since 1933 is confusing technology with evolution.
And I would bet the average German in 1933 was way better educated than the average American today.
And on top of that, those at the top have taken Propaganda far beyond anything Goebbels could have ever dreamed of.
My guess is the part of the Jews will be played by the Muslims.
Muslims would be cool, but I'm thinking Free shit army will get the role. Depends on how many of them put on the bown shirts when asked. Even then, they only lasted as long as they were useful, a lot of the mid and high level leaders of the SA got to be plank owners at the first camps.
It does not matter what your politics or means are.
The introduction alone is worth digesting and sitting around the family dinner table and talking about contingencies.
There is no penalty in having a plan.
http://www.ar15.com/content/manuals/FM21-76_SurvivalManual.pdf
Are you suggesting that the Wiemar Republic was too big to fail?
Just prior to tactical retreats in WW I, Germans chained hapless women to machine guns ? Monedas 2011 I read it in Hemingway !
Aldous,
If memory serves, Eisenhower is responsible for ALL of out Interstates.
He wanted the ability to move mass quanities of goods, and materials in times of war and crisis.
North to south, east to west.
Most of you appear wrapped up in the how, forget it, its going to happen, so we need to move along to, what’s the fix, really?
The author stops short, don’t know why, he should just bring the whole treatise to is natural conclusion, I will and for the sake of brevity here it is;
War, its the biggest and best reset button of them all, we are in 1935-36-ish. *shrugs*
Parting shot- Old German saying circa 1941; “ enjoy the war, peace is going to be hell”;)
Most of you are giving the World Monetary Meltdown a constant proctology exam with jeweler's loupe, green eye shade, sleeve garters and tongue depressor....60/60/24/7 ! Monedas 2011 Get your hoards in order and join me for a bong load and margarita break !
Good ole international Simon. This isn't Europe, Eurasia or any other historical surf scenario you can think of. We are armed, pissed off and offer no quarter. Grow food and arm yourself is my advice, other than that stand your ground and hold the line. THIS IS AMERICA!!!
Yes this is America, chock with a significant number of still hopium addicted, indoctrinated and entitlement sheeple that lost or never had the capacity to think for themselves. Couple that with the arguably successful dividing of this nation on a number of different levels, prediction on what path this all might take is next to impossible. Besides that, there still are some tried and true plays available. We haven't had a good contagion scare in awhile, nor a good all out effort against some bogeyman that they tell us wants to kill us. Then to top it all off we have an upcoming election year of a POTUS whose numbers are hovering near the toilet level.Time to keep ear to the ground during the day and sleep with one eye open at night.
As for preppin' and having a plan, probably not a bad idea in light of all that's going on. Besides, isn't lead the other precious metal?...