bce1
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Post by bce1 on Dec 28, 2023 18:12:10 GMT 10
Next year will be much like this year. The collapse has started, and I also think WW3 has started - but I don't know where they will go. Both may run out of steam or continue to roll downhill and gather speed. I just hope things don't take off exponentially. Humans are incredible inventors, and we only need one of several major energy concepts to move from the lab to the real world, and the dynamic will completely change. I like my life. I have a good job and, broadly, a happy life. I hope that nothing much happens. I hope that if it does get incrementally worse, nothing major gives way. I wish this for my kids. My oldest are planning their lives as if nothing is going on, and I wish for them that it remains true. I am also broadly happy with my preps, I will never be completely satisfied, but to go further would start to move me from cautious to obsessed! We are somewhat insulated from things financially. I am fortunate to have a reasonable job, and we are independent for 50% of our food. Fingers crossed.
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Post by malewithatail on Dec 29, 2023 6:58:52 GMT 10
Ive said before my view is that it will be a slow slide into WW3, by the time we realize these evil people in charge have led us to war, it will be too late to stop it.
I seem to remember that some time ago one of them was interviewed on the ABC Science Show (remember that one ?) and said that the world collapse would be on a slow and steady basis. I cant remember the word he used though he said much like that above.
If someone cracks cold fusion, then the whole world dynamic will change.
Mired in a putrid sewer of suspected subversion and disloyalty to The One True Cause, heretics are everywhere to those caught up in the mass hysteria.
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Post by Stealth on Dec 29, 2023 21:47:03 GMT 10
$2.70 for a loaf of bread? Damn, the loaves I buy at Coles are $6 each. Oh I'm talking their bog standard, no-name white bread. It was $2 a loaf not too long back. We do buy a slightly more expensive loaf, although not TOO much more expensive. With three kids and never ending pit stomachs we go through about five loaves a week, so $6 loaves would bleed us dry 🤣. But I tend to gauge by the absolute cheapest loaf you can buy from Colesworth to get a good idea of what prices are doing because they do try to keep that at least close to bottom. It's a cheap product compared to other processed food items and is a daily buy for a lot of people so it's a good way to figure out how prices are changing. It's obviously cheaper in general to make your own bread. But with a full time job and family to keep running, if I had to remember to bake a loaf of bread every single day there'd be plenty of days where there wasn't any bread in the morning because I'd straight up forget. Some people have that time and energy. I do not. When it gets to the point where I can't stomach the cost anymore I'll start baking it regularly myself, but for this busy period of my life I don't have a stay at home wife or a passion for breadmaking so daily baking doesn't happen in my house. Sometimes you have to pick your battles and baking bread isn't a hill I am yet forced to die upon.
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Post by spatial on Dec 29, 2023 22:53:08 GMT 10
Ive said before my view is that it will be a slow slide into WW3, by the time we realize these evil people in charge have led us to war, it will be too late to stop it. Since you are religious of the Christian faith. It is described in the Good Book, the events leading up to the apocalypse as being like a woman in travail. Increase in frequency and intensity of contractions. Natural disasters will increase and become more intense and more frequent. The same for wars, economic troubles and 'black swan' events. 2023 was a huge escalation in natural disasters, fire, flood, earthquake, volcanic activity, wars breaking out. Inflation, hardship, homelessness, shortage of goods. People loosing their minds and doing random violent acts. Very many companies laying off workers, going broke. Construction has taken a big knock.
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Post by malewithatail on Dec 30, 2023 7:10:25 GMT 10
Most industries have taken a big knock, I wonder.......if its jab related ?
Certainly the RFS has admitted (though not publicly, only when I cornered the local big chief in charge did he admit that figure), they have lost 30 % of members due to their jab requirements, so I wonder if other organizations are the same ? Not to mention the 'sudden death syndrome'.
I note that some hospitals in America are reinstating the mask and social distancing mandates.
Yes, Matthew 24:6-13 New International Version
"6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains."
9 “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved."
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Post by Tim Horton on Dec 30, 2023 14:46:23 GMT 10
More Trivia..... Many don't know or remember WW2 started in the early, mid 1930s with Japan in China and other parts of Asia.... Also what I believe was called the ...Spanish Civil War that Germany was deeply invested in.. This in 1935-36 (?)...
The thing is there was a lot going on long before the UK, Canada declared war in late 1939 (?) followed by the ...Blitz... and Pearl Harbor...
Anyone else see a pattern re emerging here ?? ??
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Post by bug on Dec 30, 2023 15:21:39 GMT 10
The 'Pearl Harbour' would be the CCP attacking Okinawa and Guam.
The yanks are a bit wiser these days and have their assetts spread out. The achilles heel is fuel. If the Japanese had hit the fuel tanks at Pearl Harbour and then gone after any tanker trying to cross the pacific, it would have taken far, far longer for the US to get back on it's feet. By which time they'd have captured the Indonesian oil fields they wanted. With a total (if temporary) victory in the pacific, they may have enacted their plan to go after the soviets (which the Japanese army wanted to do in the first place). With those troops tied up in the east, the soviets take far, far longer to start winning, if at all. We came very close to losing.
What I'm rambling about, is that I wonder what appetite the US would have these days if the CCP really played the "Stay out of this or we will nuke you" card rather than a spectacular but overall strategic blunder like Japan did.
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Post by SA Hunter on Jan 2, 2024 20:26:47 GMT 10
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Post by Tim Horton on Jan 3, 2024 8:08:47 GMT 10
With the seemingly small amount of energy I have put into thinking about things like this, the article linked by SA Hunter and a bit more sums it up well in my thinking...
A US ...silent depression... is in place.. No telling when or what low it will bottom out at that I can see..
What will eventually develop into WW3 is more likely to start with some combination of Yemen, Saudi, Somalia, Iran, Iraq ...fill in the blank...
Local disasters.. For the US and Canada will likely be forest fires, not only west of the Rocky Mountains, but other areas.. Also flooding, possibly in many of the same areas and other weather issues and combinations of issues in many places... Unfortunately most of these issues will likely be in food producing regions...
I expect about the same for you blokes... My 5 cents of opinion...
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Post by bug on Jan 3, 2024 9:18:42 GMT 10
"person who predicted covid". So about a billion people?
There's a book titled roughly "Nostradamus 1989 and beyond". Amazingly (sarcasm) all his 'predictions' prior to the publishing of the book were absolutely perfect. But somehow everything the book says will happen after publishing was total rubbish. Same as astrologers, 'psychics', fortune tellers etc. They find people who want to believe, give them something to latch onto via a scattergun of 'predictions' and then separate them from their money. It's an ancient scam that continues to work today.
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Post by tactile on Jan 3, 2024 16:12:52 GMT 10
I reckon the Pope will fall off the perch this year.
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Post by SA Hunter on Jan 8, 2024 23:55:24 GMT 10
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Post by Stealth on Jan 12, 2024 17:41:58 GMT 10
The poms helping the US drop bang sticks on Yemen is an interesting development.
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Post by malewithatail on Jan 13, 2024 7:24:01 GMT 10
WW3 seems to have kicked off in the middle east. I had a vision of a nuke being dropped on the USA forces by the rebels. Don't know where they got one from, but Russia may be a good candidate.
We started the meeting with two alternative plans, and now we have narrowed it down to eight !
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