civil unrest springing up globally.

[hippiehillbilly]

and the season for riots is still months away.
its going to be a ugly and bloody summer..

Thousands protest across Russia (http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/Thousands%20protest%20across%20Russia)

Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets (http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/Governments%20across%20Europe%20tremble%20as%20ang ry%20people%20take%20to%20the%20streets)

Dawn of new age of industrial unrest as wildcat strikes spread across UK (http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/Dawn%20of%20new%20age%20of%20industrial%20unrest%2 0as%20wildcat%20strikes%20spread%20across%20UK)

i urge anyone who hasnt already made preparations for social unrest to do so while there is still time. its going to get ugly this summer and no country will be immune. not even the united states.

[hippiehillbilly]

think it cant or wont happen here? think again,there are lots of dirty little secrets about the great depression if you go digging. people didnt stand passively in soup lines and wait for their government to save them.. quite the opposite in fact. at one point the danger of the government being overthrown was very real and civil unrest and riots were common.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/timeline/index.html

1931
February -- "Food riots" begin to break out in parts of the U.S. In Minneapolis, several hundred men and women smashed the windows of a grocery market and made off with fruit, canned goods, bacon, and ham. One of the store's owners pulled out a gun to stop the looters, but was leapt upon and had his arm broken. The "riot" was brought under control by 100 policemen. Seven people were arrested.
Resentment of "foreign" workers increases along with unemployment rolls. In Los Angeles, California, Mexican Americans found themselves being accused of stealing jobs from "real" Americans. During the month, 6,024 of them were deported.

March -- Three thousand unemployed workers march on the Ford Motor Company's plant in River Rouge, Michigan. Dearborn police and Ford's company guards attack, killing four workers and injuring many more.http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/depress/depress.html

In a country with abundant resources, the largest force of skilled labor, and the most productive industry in the world, many found it hard to understand why the depression had occurred and why it could not be resolved. Moreover, it was difficult for many to understand why people should go hungry in a country possessing huge food surpluses. Blaming Wall Street speculators, bankers, and the Hoover administration, the rumblings of discontent grew mightily in the early 1930s. By 1932, hunger marches and small riots were common throughout the nation.

[hippiehillbilly]

a good site for commentary of whats taken place so far and whats to come..
http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/tag/riots/

[earthmother]

Altho I think that in the long run these times are a blessing, it's gonna be a bit like childbirth. Extremely painful and somewhat dangerous. I find hope in the fact that people are FINALLY standing up and against those things they used to think they couldn't do anything about. However, I don't have any delusions about how bad it could get. I DO sort of wonder why the governments of those countries where folks are rising up don't simply do what we expect would happen to us here if the citizens did a mass revolt. I mean, I see these riot vids almost every day now, but the riot cops are behaving the same as they were at the RNC. I think we all expected that eventually with enough protest the government and the cops would simply start USING all those detention centers and SHOOTING with something besides concussion grenades and tear gas. Why do you suppose this is going so well for the protesters?

[TheGanjaKing]

Paris with a million protesting in the streets

Video (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=53b_1233279992&c=1)

This report says 2.5 million

Article (http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090081873&ch=1/30/2009%208:23:00%20AM)

[hippiehillbilly]

I DO sort of wonder why the governments of those countries where folks are rising up don't simply do what we expect would happen to us here if the citizens did a mass revolt. I mean, I see these riot vids almost every day now, but the riot cops are behaving the same as they were at the RNC. I think we all expected that eventually with enough protest the government and the cops would simply start USING all those detention centers and SHOOTING with something besides concussion grenades and tear gas. Why do you suppose this is going so well for the protesters?

i think they WANT much more chaos.i think they wont be satisfied till there is a complete systemic breakdown of every facet of society.
to quell the unrest to early may serve to keep the masses obedient,an i personally dont think that is in their plans.. not yet anyway. no its going to get much much worse before it gets better,and it will never be the same.

oh i just saw this,i think things are far worse in china than what they are saying. (the economic numbers they are releasing.)

China fears riots will spread as boom goes sour (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/25/china-globaleconomy)

[earthmother]

Why you old conspiracy theorist you! I do believe you are probably right...

I have an idea that right now one of the best things people could do to "help" is start educating folks on basic survival...

[hippiehillbilly]

what,these guys are terrible poker players,everyone knows there plan..:rolleyes:
but yeah,,
we are members of a couple other boards that focus primarily on preparedness/survival skills,i tell you what people are waking up in huge numbers and trying to take crash courses on being prepared for whats coming.

its shocking to see how clueless so many people are as far as how to sustain themselves.for the most part we enjoy sharing our knowledge and trying to help but we know there is a big difference between reading about it and doing it.

if gerald celentes predictions come true,so many people are going to suffer needlessly.

[earthmother]

It seems to end up that, all things considered, it's easier to work at surviving than it is to work at a job and keep up with "civilized life"... And there is a lot more peace of mind.

[hippiehillbilly]

yeah,we see people paint pictures of homesteading that make it out to be some horrible hardship filled way of life,and its not. i quite enjoy our life..

oh i saw this this morning.. its every single day.

Violent unrest rocks China as crisis hits (http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/Violent%20unrest%20rocks%20China%20as%20crisis%20h its)

[TheGanjaKing]

china is the disaster that everyone was hoping didn't happen

[HoneySuckleBlue]

I look foreward to throwing off the trappings of civilized life. Unless they get into the weird biological chit & it blows over from the mainland to us from DC, everything else I can deal with. Is it too much to hope that the IRS eats it's self in the process?

[marblegallery]

damn bro, so the shit is hitting the fan

[hippiehillbilly]

i would say its teetering on the edge..

Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/31/global-recession-europe-protests)

Europe's time of troubles is gathering depth and scale. Governments are trembling. Revolt is in the air.

It's a snapshot of a single day – yesterday – in a Europe sinking into the bleakest of times. But while the outlook may be dark in the big wealthy democracies of western Europe, it is in the young, poor, vulnerable states of central and eastern Europe that the trauma of crash, slump and meltdown looks graver.

[marblegallery]

Thank you for that website by the way. I was planning on looking for something of that nature for a while