Starve.Org White Noise Usenet Archive: "Re: Disaster Scenarios and Appropriate Responses"

Thank you very much for your message, Justice. It is a great and
useful advise.

I would add something that can be applied to any country.

4) Strikes, revolts and riots.
As governmental deficts cut basic services some people foresee the
risk of civil troubles. We have to take in mind something. For
example, hyperinflation starts at 10% for the lower percentile, that
issue is related to survival for them, while 100% inflation rise is
irrelevant for the higer 1% percentile as they can choose to live
abroad.

If 20% of a population has a survival problem, it is difficult (maybe
imposible) to grant stability for the society. Specially if
governments have not the apropiate resources to cope with it becaue
lack of budget.

Peace and best wishes.

On Feb 8, 12:46 pm, Justice <JusticeWithh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think every family needs some disaster planning.

> 1) Hyperinflation - best is to have a plot of land and access clean
> water. Everyone needs to scout out and create a victory garden either
> on their front/back lawn or to create one in your neighborhood by
> utilizing unused land. Lots of these have been created even in the
> inner-city and it's something people could working on now.

> With each grocery shop, add a few of the below-mentioned that are
> meant to be used in the future. Build up your pantry now with items
> that don't deteriorate over the short term, e.g., dried beans, rice,
> foodstuffs in glass jars rather than tin cans, and start building up
> supplies in the freezer if the intent is to continue to use
> electricity. Have a food plan that can feed the family for 6 months.

> Start utilizing ride-sharing now or when appropriate, find public
> transportation routes. Begin working with friends, co-workers,
> neighbors to save gasoline. If you have a diesel engine car, learn to
> convert it to bio-fuel. Someone somewhere will still be frying food
> and you can purchase that oil for your car.

> If you live in the exurbs, find a local farmer and join with neighbors
> to supply the farmer with enough money to grow food for the group at a
> fixed price per annum.

> 2) Martial Law Before It is Declared -- have your passport ready at
> all times. Know your exit routes. Use credit cards until you get the
> border, and then have cash ready. Keep credit cards at the ready,
> borrow money on them at various banks within minutes of each other
> (before the reporting can catch up to you) cause that's the cash
> you'll be living on. Take at least 80% out of each and every account
> no matter the losses, attempt to sell or sell various assets or move
> them offshore.

> After it is declared -- offer to join up. Beef up your resume so that
> you can be a valuable member of the gestapo (or whatever it's
> called). Be on the side of the authorities, become trusted, and look
> for ways to escape and help others escape.

> Stay low -- act in the underground. Help the first group attacked,
> and then the next and then the next. If you are in the first group,
> make sure friends and family know your whereabouts and that they can
> be trusted to tell others. The main thing is not to be forgotten and
> left to rot.

> 3) cost of gasoline is out of control -- back to #1. If the intention
> is to stay in country, and if there is work available, begin
> cooperating with others to find ways back and forth from work,
> shopping, and meetings with like-minded individuals. Start or join a
> club with people who agree with you about process and potentially
> about solutions. Look for ways to cooperate with people. The more
> global your network of friends the more chance to have to work with
> people on your wavelength (not all neighbors think alike).

> 4) Mega depression. We're all in the same boat. Money doesn't mean
> much but barter does. Look for ways to barter. Hone your skills.
> Increase your network. You will become an entrepreneur and so will
> everyone else. Again, look for people on your wavelength and offer
> services and/or goods at reasonable prices. Take in boarders. Plant
> a garden. Have chickens if permitted, goats are better.

> Find a J-O-B as a servant to a rich person. Treat them as if they
> deserve all that they have, hide your envy, suck up and kiss ass, and
> eat the scraps left over from the meal. Take your pay in room and
> board and a smaller salary.

> If you already have incredible and indispensible skills, go out and
> hawk them.

> Washington -- if washington has declared martial law, go back to #3.
> If all they've done is create a mega-depression, and they're not
> looking for ways to create jobs immediately, then join marchers who
> will be standing outside the Congress and the whitehouse demanding
> that Washington print money and put people back to work.

> What I actually believe is that we don't go out with a bang -- instead
> we are whimpering along right this minute. It's "creeping sickness"
> and it's all around us. We're not going to have an "ah-ha" moment.

> There are plenty of people in this society who are suffering beyond
> what any of us can imagine, and we continue to live as if all were
> well. We already have our "jews" -- they are the people who were
> turned out of aslyms to live on the streets. They are our drugs
> addicts, our homeless, our vets who live under bridges, our poor with
> no medical insurance and who live each day with food insecurity,
> inadequate shelter. We can call them "our people of the 9th ward."

> On Feb 7, 10:39 pm, GreedIsYourGod <steven....@gmail.com> wrote:

> > OK we have all heard the worst case scenario stories for many months
> > (or years) by now.

> > In each of the following cases try to give a brief synopsis of how you
> > would respond to maximize your and or (you and your families) personal
> > welfare. Mix and match disasters to match your particular tastes.

> > 1) Hyper Inflation

> > As in near total dollar value collapse and even beans & cornbread are
> > going for more than you can pay.

> > 2) Martial Law
> > As in they have begun to round people up and put them in prison camps,
> > and you really don't feel like drinking the Cool-Aid as far as their
> > lame excuses go.

> > Do you go peacefully? Do you fight? Do you run?

> > 3) Peak Oil Say $20 a gallon gas with salaries lagging far far behind.

> > 4) Mega-Depression

> > What do you do? What do think Washington should do?

> > 5) Add your favorite disaster here...