Yellen warns of U.S. default risk by early June

I like Stealth's take on all this and agree 100%, the elites are priming everyone with the "well we tried to warn you" bullshit.  

But I really don't give a faark anymore!  Something bad happens in the US or UK our dollar goes down the plughole, something good happens in the US or UK our dollar still goes down the plughole! As a Neo-Third World Nation Oz has more in common with South Africa, Russia and Argentina these days, I'm prepping for that baseline level of existence and below, we might not be totally there yet but we are well  down the path! 

I totally agree, at the end of the day you can only help influence and maintain a level of responsibility and care as a single individual, since the beginning of human time that's been a tribal, village or family / extended family level of co-operative existence!  It's so fuggen energizing and refreshing when you discover this life lesson,  it's powerful and at the same time dangerous as Big Brother and his Goon Squads view it as a serious threat to their control of our artificially created Local, State and Federal "Communities"  it's so "Un-Australian", what the **** does that even mean these days?   

As we have little money anyway, we are prepped for a economic collapse, and have been for many years !

Knowledge is the currency of the future, oh yes, and food/water.





Most household darksuckers are about 60 who.

People say I act like I don't care. Bad news, its not an act. The sooner it all falls apart, the sooner sanity can prevails and rebuilding starts.





When you reach the depth of about 50 feet, you are in total darkness. This is because the heavier dark sinks o the bottom of the lake and the lighter light floats on top.

I think the only reason it really bothers me is that you can only kick the can down the road so far... Has that road ended? Often we use that phrase as an open-ended time frame but every road ends eventually and I think we tend to forget that when we use the phrase.

The reason I'm seeing a stop sign is purely because they've given such specific time frames. Thursday, they hit the limit. June, they run out of levers to pull. They're telling us in no uncertain terms exactly when they expect to see the impacts and at the risk of panicking the population. If they wanted to avoid panic (and of course they would, a happy sheep is an oblivious sheep) they'd use mitigating terms like 'maybe', 'at some point' and 'perhaps'. There's a lot of firm certainty in Yellen's words and that's what triggers my 'they know what they're doing and the result they expect' response.

For those who're financially set up to weather storms with paid off properties and savings to rely on it's very easy to say "Oh well, not a me problem!". I suppose if I were in the same position I'd be disinclined to care all that much either. Then again, I'd still be worrying about my younger family who's financial position isn't as stable and could lose everything to a crash. Or older folks who're already only skimming by on their less than suitable pensions.
We are none of us an island.

The US is doomed one day or another. To show their corruption, the latest omnibus package they passed recently, gives each senator $2.5M ea to spend just on their own "home security" upgrades.
You don't allow that much money to upgrade home security unless you are planning on making some radical political moves in the near future that would get the public in enough uproar to start attacking their homes.

so this is off topic and all, and my millennial-ness is showing, but... is there a version of the Sims where you start off in a "normal"  world and all the key infrastructure just fails and your Sim has to survive somehow? With all the implications of societal breakdown, no petrol, inflation, dysfunctional supply chains and not having a functional first-world with NGOs to rescue the Sims? Something tells me that might actually freak a few people out, and that might be a good thing

It'd be an interesting excercise, anyway.

Hahaha I used to always murder my Sims in new and imaginative ways, so I can't imagine how that'd go down🤣.

But sadly I don't think the message would get through. There's a very big difference between make-believe simulations where there's no real risk to the user. I think if you could do a first person VR version THAT might get a few cages rattled. But the reality is that most will go 'well that was a fun game, anyway off to the shop to buy some groceries' without making any connection to what they might experience themselves in a grid-down.

Which is a bit sad because I think what you're describing is the most likely scenario of what's to come if the global economy collapses. It'll be everyone for themselves or their nearest and dearest. Which is why I'm firmly in the 'no one is an island' camp. Because we can only get so far alone no matter how good we think we are at being prepared. The universe doesn't care if you know thirty ways to tie knots. It'll give you a burst appendix to fix instead.

I kind of agree about there being a limit to what people can take. Kind of like how far can you stretch a rubber band before it either breaks or snaps back in your face. There is a limit.

However, the goal posts are constantly moving, and if the time frame is longer than a couple of generations, then in theory there is no limit because new generations fall in to line with the 'new world order' because they know no better. (Could be argued they are better educated or that they are dumbed down and brainwashed)

Imagine trying to implement and enforce some of the rules and regulations we have around today to people from 1850's.