The most likely SHTF scenario...

So, the most likely/realistic SHTF scenario IMO is that a solar flare will hit the earth and knock out power grids and fry electronics etc. NASA confirms the threat to be a massive one, peaking at the end of 2012.
YouTube - Nasa Warns Of Super Solar Storm 2012
When the McDonalds drive thru is no longer an option for putting "dinner" on the table of the sheeple, and the blackouts last for weeks, if not months... things would get ugly quick.
( Remember the scenes from the L.A. riots in the 90s ? Or N.O. after Katrina ? Idiots looting Walmart, carrying out plasma TVs over their heads, instead of a pot or two to boil some water in etc., only to die 3 days later on some sidewalk from heat stroke or dehydration ! Silly scum bag, government dependent sheeple! I was there... I've seen with my own eyes people fighting over gasoline and willing to rob and kill for a few bottles of water ! How many reports of looting etc have we seen on the news from the disaster in Japan ? NONE ! Shines a light on the darkness which is the American inner city ghetto culture... God help those that will be in the cities in those days. )

Anyway, anyone have any info on protecting electronics, such as communications equipment like radios, etc. in such an event ?

 

Interesting take on things, but my money is still on economic collapse

 

Ditto here....already in progress.

 

I hear you, but I just do not see economic collapse causing a true SHTF scenario. Economies collapse... it's happened throughout history. It's happened here in America before as you know, as it has in many others. A reset of the dollar, maybe even a currancy change entirely... hyper inflation etc etc... Very hard times ? yep... shtf ? not so sure...

 

Depends on you definition, I guess.

When the number of people living on artificial money stop getting that, and the civil chaos that results from it hits your house, you might think different.

Is it REALLY gonna make an difference if a CME caused your power outage, or if the fact nobody could pay for power, and the power guys all went home to protect their family, and that's why the power is out ?

Either way, you're out of power......along with the results of that.

And you DID title the thread "the most likely". Anybody with a brain can see the economic trainwreck coming.....a CME is like an earthquake in the New Madrid fault.....yeah, they happen, and one is "over due" according to some, and you may live there the rest of this century and it never happen. You have my personal guarantee the US buck won't last out this century.

 

HAARP induced volcanic /earthquake events to explain the pre-designed world economic collapse followed by M/L. Then it's mass chaos, a new money system, and relocation camps, like what happened in the Holocaust.

 

ghrit:

The 100 year for the buck was simply a figure to compare to the possibility of natural disasters such as earthquakes, CME, etc.

Where I can guarantee the buck won't last out a century, I CAN'T guarantee a disaster of natural origin in that same time period enough to be a country wide SHTF. While it could happen tomorrow, it might also be 1,000 years before the New Madrid fault shifts again.

Point was, economic disaster is much more predictable. I'd give it a 90% chance in the next ten years, if that helps you plan any......ahahahaaaa....

And thus, that puts in in the "more likely" category than a CME.

 

I'll put my useless fiat on Economic collapse by 85% as it stands. Wish I had a crystal ball and could say when...

 

YouTube - We Have Until July at Latest Even a Caveman Can See It COLLAPSENET

 

Unemployment and inflation will make us more dependent on .gov and redistribution of wealth. More terrorist acts, real or false flag, will further tighten restrictions on travel, dissemination of news, and free speech. More will be forced by necessity to move into tightly controlled urban areas or refugee camps. Jobs will be offered that will feed the children of those that help enforce the new social mandates. Rewards will be paid for ratting out non-compliant persons, much like the already tried and true D.A.R.E. Program on steroids. Riots will mandate marshal law and most of us will support it as American, since the most likely to riot are minorities that are more highly dependent on the social tit. The two party system will continue to swap licks to divert our attention from the real problems. If Jesus returns during all this, he's likely to shake his head and mutter "WTF?" and go back home.

 

Right now the US is 14.x trillion in debt. If congress does not extend the debt ceiling. We WILL have a global economic collapse. Basically the U.S. will default on the interest payment of it's Treasury Bills. At that point The global economy will go into the crapper save maybe Cuba. Countries that own our debt Japan, China, UK, a number of the oil producing countries are going to be hosed. That is i believe just less than half of the total obligation, another big chunk is in Banks, Credit Unions, Insurance companies, Mutual Funds, Public and Private Pensions Local and state governments, and individual investors that all wanted a 'SAFE' investment vehicle. Heck you might even own some too. Do you have any Savings Bonds or Patriot Bonds tucked in your desk drawer? Well that's a debt obligation you wouldn't be able to collect on if the govt defaults.

It wouldn't be hard times it would be impossible times. All the liquidity in the market will be locked up tight. Let's just say that every entity has only 30 percent invested in treasuries. And the govt defaults (not being able to pay interest payments nor principal on debt). 30 percent of everyone holding go to zero.

just for simple math,
now states and local govts need to trim their work force by 30 percent, cut back services by 30 percent. Your monthly pension just dropped by 30 percent (probably more). Your 401k just took a hit that you probably are not going to recover from before you retire. You bank will probably go under because it leverages your money and those of other depositors, there is not enough cash in the safe to cover the losses, Not sure about credit unions but probably most of them too. Foreign countries are going to demand their money, and the US will thumb their noses at them. Our trading partners will
never trust us again because their economies will be decimated by our actions or in actions.

Yes IrishMonk, a financial collapse can be as bad as a meteor wiping out a large chunk of the population of the planet. At least with a meteor, It will be quicker and death from starvation will probably be lower.

 

Thanks for the link. That will hit the profit margin index for companies too. We are witnessing the end of a system of things, an old corrupt Ponzi scheme that has been exposed and run it's course.
Good luck on the offshore banking cartels collecting then. They might as well forgive everyone's debt and let us live off the land around us.

 

There has been many economic collapses... can you please point out one instance from history in which such a collapse could be compared to a meteor wiping out a large population of the planet ?

I'm not saying it could'nt be that bad... But since we do not have a point in history in which such a thing has happened, I would say the above quote is a bit exaggerated, or at least along the same lines as my own shtf/solar flare position. ie it has'nt happened before, but things sure are lined up for it to become reality at any time.