Meltdown America – Are You Prepared For the Coming Collapse?
By Casey Research
“I think we are in the early stages of the end of the West,” says Jeff Opdyke of The Sovereign Investor in an eye-opening new documentary from Casey Research called, “Meltdown America.” This free, 28-minute video gives you a sober look at the coming collapse of the United States, the most indebted nation in the history of the world. You’ll see why stock market crashes, rampant unemployment, and widespread poverty are only the beginning. Your comfortable way of life could be taken from you in an instant. Here’s a sneak peek of what awaits:
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I’m not looking forward to the future at all.
My little shit hole town just had a 100 person riot/fight/gathering/get together, on Easter Sunday, complete with guns.
No one was shot but this shit is just starting to warm up. The meltdown will occur, first to go will be the greedy small business owners, then the last of the middle class, then we’ll all turn on each other.
Safe from the chaos and mayhem will be the .01% bankers, corporation CEO’s and the elite class of politician.
Hunger games, here we come.
The rhetoric, when it begins to flow from on high, about the evils of micro/small businesses and the then labeled predatory tactics that have resulted in the comfortable life of the middle class, are one of my ‘tells’. But imho, this will be late in the game – when you corned but not yet trapped. Like he said, no one is more blind than those who don’t see.
That video was a complete waste of time for those of us who are awake. Those who read The Burning Platform already know we are toast, and TPTB won’t do anything to stop what’s coming.
Just got done watching the video…
My reaction.
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My thinking is guns, gold, ammo, food, water, spare parts, fuel, etc… and books that teach the old ways of doing things, like canning your own food, butchering your own livestock, salting and/or smoking meat, how to build a smokehouse, animal husbandry, etc…
Which reminds me, I still gotta get that list of my books to Admin… sorry if I have been remiss in my duties to my fellow TBP’ers…
Casey is a dick.
We have about a 4 -6 week food supply in the house at any given point in time. We stock up wen there are sales. We have plenty of candles, matches, even a generator and that sort of thing. We could stretch the food to 8 weeks I suppose. Anything beyond that and I’ll have to eat my neighbor. He’s a lot smaller than me and doesn’t own guns so that shouldn’t be a problem. His wife is quite large so, I;m guesssing another few weeks of good eats right there.
Preppers crack me up in their thinking … like they can beat the zombies forever.
For example, this story today ———- “Oklahoma Legislators, Bowing to Big Business, Raise Rates for Small Producers of Solar and Wind Power; Lawmakers in Oklahoma have decided to help utility companies by opening the way for them to charge higher rates to homeowners and small business owners who generate electricity through wind and solar power.” ——— So much for going off the grid.
So go ahead and hoard little stashes of gold. What will you do when the government makes gold ownership illegal …. punishable by fines, prison, or even death? Do you know in several states you never own your water even if it’s on your land? What if they outlaw hoarding food … hoarding meaning two loaves of bread instead of one? Government can and probably will pass unconstitutional nasty-ass laws at a whim to control the population. Goody for you folks that have guns. No doubt it will come in handy against stragglers and the hungry neighbor who wants to eat you. But, good luck to you when two SWAT vehicles and 20 heavily armed men arrive at your doorstep.
Some preppers no doubt will be successful. Most will die a few weeks after the non-prepper. Big fucking deal.
Hey Rise..
Look, I’m about as awake and pessimistic as they come, but I don’t think the video is a complete waste of time…. I did find out something of value from the video – I had long suspected that the Russians and the Chinks were colluding to roll out a new reserve currency and/or collapse our economy, but I’ve never heard anyone back that up like that one fellow did (telling about his buddy in Estonia)…
Tick tock…
@Stucky – I read that also about Oklahoma taxing solar–but it’s if you’re grid-tied. They want to tax you because you’re selling power back to the utility. If you’re off-grid Solar, you won’t be taxed…yet.
@Billy – touche’. But that’s been out there a while about Russia/China taking down the dollar. Interesting that the chinks backed down on the first try. Maybe they see the value of the U.S. buying all their cheap products and are waiting until we are so broke we can’t buy anything at all, Chinese junk or otherwise. Then they’ll drop the hammer.
Stucky,
Wow… and I thought I was a pessimist! You’ve lowered the bar, dude… or raised it.. not sure how that works, but you set a new standard for gloom…
“Preppers crack me up in their thinking … like they can beat the zombies forever.”
Maybe. Maybe not. But I’m not going to rely on Da Gubbermint to “help” me and mine. I don’t give a good goddamn what they decide to “outlaw”. Fuck them and the stolen horse they rode in on. I scrupulously live within the law – don’t smoke weed, don’t break the law… shit, I don’t even speed and I feel like crap if I flick a butt out the window. I’m a model citizen…. cept for that ‘flick a butt out the window’ part…
But if “they” make it impossible to stay within the bounds of the law, no matter what you do (other than die)? Welp, I suppose it will be game on at that point…
And you’re right. Lots of things can happen. Lots of things WILL happen. But I’m not going to stop doing what I’m doing based on a “what if”…
Stucky, Casey for many years has tried to point out to those who think everything is tickety-boo that it ain’t so. He’s not concerned about preppers in the general sense of the word. Nor is he Ameri-centric in his thinking. He’s indeed an international man.
Sure, in the event of calamity there will be a helluva mess and many could die from any of many causes. But not everybody will; look how many managed to survive the Holocaust. So, those who are successfully off-grid and able to provide their own food at worst have a better chance than an apartment dweller in a metroplex. “A better chance” is all that anybody can hope for, whether in hard times or just now when crossing a street.
It takes no great talent nor intellectual competency to just give up and quit. Hell’s bells, I can at least sit and watch, for all that I’ll be eighty, come July. I ain’t gonna quit this early. 🙂
Billy
You and the others here (HIGH quality folks) will surely survive The-Shit-That’s-About-To-Hit far better than the average bear.
In about 5 minutes I’ll be watching the UEFA semifinal — FC Bayern Munich vs. Real Madrid. Should be a great game for soccer fans. Hopefully, Germany will beat the burrito-eaters, but it will be difficult.
It’s not only the economy that’s fragile…look at the power grid vulnerabilities:
“Last winter, bitterly cold weather placed massive stress on the US electrical system ― and the system almost broke. On January 7 in the midst of the polar vortex, PJM Interconnection, the Regional Transmission Organization serving the heart of America from New Jersey to Illinois, experienced a new all-time peak winter load of almost 142,000 megawatts.
“Eight of the top ten of PJM’s all-time winter peaks occurred in January 2014. Heroic efforts by grid operators saved large parts of the nation’s heartland from blackouts during record-cold temperature days. Nicholas Akins, CEO of American Electric Power, stated in Congressional testimony, “This country did not just dodge a bullet ― we dodged a cannon ball.”
“Environmental policies established by Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are moving us toward electrical grid failure. The capacity reserve margin for hot or cold weather events is shrinking in many regions. According to Philip Moeller, Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, “the experience of this past winter indicates that the power grid is now already at the limit.”
http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/23/americas-power-grid-at-the-limit-the-road-to-electrical-blackouts/#ixzz2zj0GrL6B
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I don’t think there will be a collapse. The US has sizeable assets and infrastruce.
Rather it will be a long, slow decline. We will stumble along as things get worse and worse both economically and freedomwise.
I’d say the decline could go on for 100 – 200 years.
Dutchman,
I have to disagree. We may muddle along for 2-3 years, but the possibility of doing so for centuries isn’t in the cards. The economic imbalances are simply too great for this to unwind slowly.
If you compare our situation today with what occurred during the Great Depression, the differences are rather stark. Back then, we were still on a gold standard. We had a substantial manufacturing base. We had a trade surplus. Schools were solid. Families were intact. The massive welfare state was non-existent. A large percentage of people were still working on farms and could feed themselves during a crisis.
None of those positive characteristics exist today. The FSA is on the march. Our military empire is a lumbering giant. Our “money” is a joke. Deficits and debts are unpayable. When foreign lenders cease their futile attempt to prop up the dollar, interest rates will skyrocket and debt service will consume the entire budget.
We will either default and unleash widespread rioting by the FSA or we will resort to hyperinflation, which will wipe out what’s left of the middle class. I don’t see how such a choice will result in a slow unwind. It’s going to be brutal.
@Dutchman: we’re probably already 20-30 years into our long slow slide. A good argument can be made that US culture and prosperity peaked in 1970, as did our oil production. That’s 44 years ago now.
I can’t predict any exact date, but I don’t think we have 100-200 years as a powerful nation. Probably somewhere between 5 and 15. Look at how quickly the USSR went from Red Menace in 1985 to POOF! Gone in 1991.
Dutchman , the dollar is going to be worthless in few years .They can’t go on making money out of air and it still have value.Probably within the next 10 years we will have the meltdown.By the time Obama is out of office (2016) the federal debt will be 20 trillion .
Another 4 years 25 trillion will be size of debt.A lot of economists are saying somewhere between 20 -25 trillion the shit will hit the fan.We have maybe another 5 to 7 years before our life style comes to a permanent end.
Third world here we come .
@Steve @Persnickety @bb It would be nice to get over the pain and then move on to better times. The burning question is what will happen to 25% – 50% of our population ( the ‘eaters’ / dead weight / FSA ).
However Japan, Europe, and even China have a lot of debt. Who knows how long they can conspire to prop one another up.
Man, nobody remembers the 2007/2008 collapse? We were days away from complete banking system failure. LIBOR froze up, no banks lending to each other. Businesses couldn’t pay employees. Once the banking system freezes up, they will close up, hoping for a miracle. They have less than 1% of deposits on hand. Bank runs still happen folks. The FDIC has enough money to cover 0.45% of depositors money in banks. If you still have money in banks, you’re an idiot, you might as well kiss it goodbye. If you still have money in the stock market, well, you’re an even bigger idiot.
Once banking freezes up, no lending or letters of credit, shipments will stop, no paychecks, no cash coming out of ATM’s. No shipments means no gas, no food in stores, no meds in pharmacies. If truck drivers don’t get paid, do you think they’re going to deliver their load? Once the public realizes what’s happening, they’ll clean out the stores. The FSA cleaned out an entire Wal Mart food section in 2 hours when SNAP quit working for one day. There are so many people on psych meds, pain meds, xanax and other addictive meds, when they get cut off, they’ll go berserk. I’m sure you have no idea, but I do. And everyone that smokes, no more cigarettes, and they’ll go berserk.
Our financial system is much, much more fragile than anyone realizes. In 2007/2008 we saw the results. The Fed had to print trillions just to get us out of complete banking failure. It won’t work this time, printing that kind of money when we’re already $58 trillion in debt won’t matter much. And it’s all about collateral. If you don’t trust the other guy on the other end of the trade, or their collateral is suspect, everything collapses very quickly. And that doesn’t even include the worst danger to the system: derivatives. TARP covered the gambling debts last time. I don’t think people will be so forgiving this time. Again, 2007/2008 was just a preview of what’s coming.
What are you going to do when you can’t get your money out of the bank or stock market? What are you going to do when the stores, gas stations, and pharmacies are cleaned out? Are you going to continue to go to work if you won’t get paid? Will the police? I hate to keep saying this, but there are 100 million people on welfare, 12 million on disability. What are they going to do when the SNAP cards don’t work, and their banks are closed and they can’t get their free cash? Or what’s a pile of cash good for if there isn’t anything to buy in stores?
China and Russia could wipe us out in one day. They dump our IOU’s, and all that stored wealth in U.S. treasuries becomes, if not worthless, just whatever people can get for them. Who’s going to buy T-bills? The Fed is buying more than 60% of our IOU’s now. What will they be worth if there are NO bids? When people lose faith the USSA is going to pay back that debt ($17.5 trillion), there won’t be any bids. Or, the Fed will buy them all, and the dollars will then be worth whatever you can trade them for.
The Fed and the banksters pulled a rabbit out of a hat in 2007/2008. They can’t do that trick again. The Fed’s balance sheet is north of $4 trillion. The more IOU’s there are, the less value each on has. And pretty soon the all have little value, then NO value as faith is gone. And faith in this country is just about gone. Even the people that live here don’t have any faith anymore. We’re corrupt liars, fraudsters, parasites and deadbeats. Well, at least 50% of the people.
And face it, during the coming collapse, you’re only going to live as long as the amount of food you have. It’s as simple as that. Whatever else you need to protect your food (and heating supplies) is secondary (but very necessary). Humans only need food, water and oxygen. It’s pretty simple.
“…..That’s how empires collapse: one corrupted, self-serving individual at a time, gaming one corrupted, self-serving institution or another; it no longer matters which one because they’re all equally compromised. It’s not just the border legions that are phantom; the entire stability and strength of the empire is phantom. The uncorruptible and competent are banished or punished, and the corrupt, self-serving and inept are lavished with treasure.
This is how empires collapse: one complicit participant at a time.”
The toughest part of preparing for this shit storm is trying to get family members to understand what is coming. They give you that look or just change the subject. I blame most of that from the TV. People are so damn brainwashed or just plain fuckin stupid from it. Try talking to someone who watches FOX News all day.
But on a brighter note, there are lots of nice AK style guns being imported and plenty of ammo for them. Get yourself one or two, they will serve you faithfully.
well, it’s difficult to top AWD’s outstanding rant, so i’ll just add some fun facts gathered form the internet:
average life of a fiat currency: about 27 years (the FRN is currently running at 43 years).
average life of world reserve currency: about 95 years (we’re currently running at 92 years).
i don’t know the average lifespan of monetary regimes. but it’s safe to say they change. we’ve gone from the gold standard to the gold exchange standard to a pure fiat standard in the last 100 years.
i guess it’s possible that we could limp along for another 20, 30, 50 years. it’s also possible i could live to be 125 years old and grow another dick. it’s just not very likely.
i predict the collapse happens between now and summer of next year. place your bets.
Im prepped for 1-1 1/2 years if I can hold off the zombies. I’ll probably run outa ammo 1st.
“Once banking freezes up, no lending or letters of credit, shipments will stop, no paychecks, no cash coming out of ATM’s. No shipments means no gas, no food in stores, no meds in pharmacies. If truck drivers don’t get paid, do you think they’re going to deliver their load? Once the public realizes what’s happening, they’ll clean out the stores. The FSA cleaned out an entire Wal Mart food section in 2 hours when SNAP quit working for one day. There are so many people on psych meds, pain meds, xanax and other addictive meds, when they get cut off, they’ll go berserk. I’m sure you have no idea, but I do. And everyone that smokes, no more cigarettes, and they’ll go berserk. ” — Brother AWD
Oh, I have an idea of how berserk they’ll go… we’re already dealing with assholes, meth- and pill-heads stealing shit. Shut everything down and we’re building defensive works…
And by the way, we said “Fuck you” to the state. We smoke, but they’re raising taxes – AGAIN – on smokes. Sooooooo, I went and bought a Top T2 cigarette maker. One $14 bag of tobacco will make two and a half cartons of smokes. Tops tubes with filters are $3 a box. So, that means I can make a carton of smokes for less than $10. We’re going to buy two of those big blue storage totes and jam as many bags of tobacco and tubes in them as possible. Trading stock, baby. I can sit here and roll what we need. Anything extra is for trade.
Booze too. Already priced cases of those airline bottles of booze and pint bottles of booze. Easier to carry and if someone robs you, you don’t lose a big chunk of your stock. I’ve already got enough whiskey socked away.
Ain’t trading any guns or ammo. The ammo you trade today might be coming back your way a couple months down the road…
Oh, and AWD? What will really bake your noodle is the fact that the folks that are on psychotropics? The vast majority of them can get by without them… soccer moms with depression, little Jimmy’s phony-baloney ADHD, etc…
But about 3 to 5 percent of folks on psychotropics are the genuine article. Sociopaths. Psychopaths. Multiple personality disorder. The completely insane. A generation or so ago, we used to put them in Sanitariums. Now we medicate them. BUT! The average person on meds only has a 30 day supply in their home.
Meaning, about 5 or 6 weeks after TSHTF, all those batshit insane psychopaths, etc, will be wandering around our neighborhoods completely off their meds… and all that that means…
Glad to hear about the smokes. Might as well, people will pay about anything for their nicotine addiction. I got my supply of cigars. If you inhale a cigar, there’s enough nicotine in one cigar to last the whole day, properly smoked. I often wonder what’s going to happen to the fatties, since it’s the new normal, and there’s so many of them. Many can make it 3-4 months living off their blubber. So, the zombie hordes may survive much longer than anyone realizes. And humans throughout history have resorted to cannibalism as opposed to starvation. Stucky isn’t wrong about that.
I wonder what happens when the whole banking system collapses. It’s all electronic, cards, and limited cash. Once people lose faith in the system and it crashes, paper money will be the only thing worth anything. How do you restore faith? Give everyone a pile of cash? Pay people in cash? The folly of the whole financial system will become evident pretty quickly. If you don’t have cash, or cigs, or booze, or food, or something tangible, you won’t have anything. I don’t even shoot my guns much anymore, I’m too scared I’m going to need the ammo someday. One bullet can mean the difference between life and death.
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I don’t pretend to know how, but I still think the PTB will get a new international currency going before we have a cataclysmic crash. The typical American will be able to survive, but not much else. We will have few consumer choices, and today’s Dollar Store will be fondly recalled as a wonderland of products and variety.
I used to think there could be a nuclear attack or EMP hit, but not now. The purposes of the .01 would not be served by the complete annihilation of a big chunk of the North American continent. There’s still too much money to be made off of its resources and the labor of its people, especially if they can seriously reduce the population by other means. I picture life going on in a gray world of poverty, hunger, sickness, and deprivation. Neighborhoods and infrastructure will be swallowed up by squalor.. Those who are able will have to work harder than they ever imagined. The tyrannical state will still be awash with weapons and technology to keep those with any notions of rebelling to think twice, even if they could find enough energy to act. “Camps” will await the weakest and the ones needing “counseling” services.
Have a good night.
Bullock is right about AK 47 rifles and ammo .You can buy brand new AKs for 5 to 6 hundred dollars .Good magazines for 20 to 30 dollars and bulk ammo (1000)rounds for 230.00 or less on some internet sites.I own a Saiga AK and it one of the best build rifles I have ever shot.Well made and reliable .
There was a long slow decline. It started in 1913. The end will come suddenly but the aftermath will last a long time. We will be looking at a warlord situation like post-imperial China. Things will be very corrupt and violent. Above all else be armed. There will be a short period WOROL. Then I think we will resort to a medieval age for some period of time. Pledge support to strong men in exchange for physical security. The United States will be gone and so will America.
When SHTF, imina head my ass up to Rancho HZK and hope that superwoman takes me in.
I wonder what happens when the whole banking system collapses. It’s all electronic, cards, and limited cash. Once people lose faith in the system and it crashes, paper money will be the only thing worth anything. How do you restore faith? Give everyone a pile of cash? Pay people in cash? The folly of the whole financial system will become evident pretty quickly. — AWD
When the banking system collapses, it will be monumentally fucked for a period of time. Then commerce will re-establish itself, even amongst enemies. Same as it always has been, since time began. People will trade for what they need. Either direct barter, or some rudimentary system of exchange whereby both parties agree on what “money” is. It will probably be silver. Not too much gold around these days, unless you’re talking jewelry. I only know one guy with the financial horsepower to make change for a 1oz Gold Eagle. If that happens, expect low-level squids to establish old time money exchange houses…
“If you don’t have cash, or cigs, or booze, or food, or something tangible, you won’t have anything. I don’t even shoot my guns much anymore, I’m too scared I’m going to need the ammo someday. One bullet can mean the difference between life and death.”
Precisely why we’re stocking up on shit. I plan to exploit man’s vices – smokes, booze, etc. Kentucky is a major producer of tobacco, but harvest is only once a year and you have to have land and seed for that. Plus, there’s a big difference between raw, dried tobacco leaves and a cigarette. Folks might even resort to using pipes again. Who the hell knows? I’ve got short-term trading stock in bourbon. Shit goes wonky, folks will still want booze and will be willing to pay. Until the locals with stills come online and make enough to fill the void, I hope to do a brisk trade. Even toying with the idea of actually building a still myself. Sell you a bottle of booze for X, and when you’re done you can bring the bottle back for a refill for a discount. It won’t be top-self bourbon, but it’ll be quality booze (I don’t make sugar whiskey. Corn only.)
Back in The Before Time, when I was Active Duty, we would deploy somewhere. I would always stash 4 or 5 cartons of extra smokes – Marlboro Reds and Whites for the white guys, anything in a green box for the blacks. After a few weeks of high-stress activity, most guys were completely out of smokes. A resupply run was still weeks away. They’d come to me and I’d sell them smokes at 5X the going rate. They’d crab and bitch, but what else was there? They were free to do the exact same thing as I did, but they didn’t have the foresight to do it or were too cheap to spend the money for the investment…
After a few deployments, I bought a motorcycle with the proceeds.. 🙂 A 1967 Triumph Bonneville, totally cherry.
why are people stupid you damn ignorant fools need to organize and fight the gov.
to hell with your petty bullshit fight the power. https://www.facebook.com/Anonymousawaken