Potential SHTF scenarios & tinfoil hat thread (Please read post 1)

Met Éireann has issued a rainfall warning for Munster, Connacht and west Ulster.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/met-eireann-issues-rainfall-warning-602184.html

IBM scientists are developing a new software ecosystem that would be able to support cognitive computing systems.

Rise of the machines!

http://mashable.com/2013/08/08/ibm-cognitive-computing/

The temp just went up a notch. America are moving some of their Mediterranean fleet into 'firing' positions, should Obama choose to act on Syria. I'd say the Russians are monitoring this closely.

touts wrote: »

Two years later and the most developed, organised and technologically advanced nation in the world still cant get a damaged nuclear power plant near their capital under control. Now imagine what would happen if it was Sellafield a few miles from Dublin and the Sir Humhries hundreds of miles away in London were still debating putting the clean up operation out to tender under EU rules.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23776345

Not damaged, crippled. All they have exercised is damage control & tried to contain the leaks. Wait till the truth comes out how extensive the leaks are.

Tokyo Electric Power Company workers have detected high levels of radiation in a ditch that flows into the ocean from a leaking tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_update_read&edis_id=ED-20130729-40264-JPN&uid=14211

Firstly, apologies mods - I know this strictly belongs in the SHTF thread but I just wanted to put a spotlight on this initially as, if it's true, it could well mean that the Rubicon has been crossed. So, excuse my urge to get this out there and please move it accordingly if need be.

Some news sites are suggesting that Putin has ordered a 'massive strike' against Saudi Arabia if the USA/UK/France axis goes to war against Syria. Notably, most of the 'mainstream sites (Sky/BBC etc) aren't featuring it so I don't know what to make of it.

Now, without getting into the politics of it, I think we all know what this means, so all I'll say is prep well, watch closely, keep your head and use it if the time comes. IMO, the next couple of days are going to be crucial in determining what kind of future we have. Links below.

http://www.eutimes.net/2013/08/putin-orders-massive-strike-against-saudi-arabia-if-west-attacks-syria/
http://iranian.com/posts/view/post/19821

Fukushima nuclear plant Leaking into the ocean for the last 2 years
http://offgridsurvival.com/fukushimaleaking/

They include the risks of cyber attacks on our finance,power and transport networks,of engineered viruses and of networks of computers that could develop a mind of their own and threated the human race.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10306413/Britains-academics-to-produce-doomsday-list-of-catastrophic-events.html

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/doomsday_list_scenarios_to_be_investigated

The US Department of Defence has declassified its 2009 Concept of Operations Plan for an Influenza Pandemic.

Among the Plan's assumptions are that in the United States, such a pandemic will kill 2 percent of the infected population, or about 2 million people.

The plan also assumes that a vaccine won't be available for at least 4 to 6 months after confirmation of sustained human transmission, and that the weekly vaccine manufacturing capability will only produce 1 percent of the total US vaccine required.

State and local governments will be overwhelmed, and civilian mortuary operations will require military augmentation. Measures such as limiting public gatherings, closing schools, social distancing, protective sequestration and masking will be required to limit transmission and reduce illness and death.

International and interstate transportation will be restricted to contain the spread of the virus. If a pandemic starts outside the US, it will enter the country at multiple locations and spread quickly to other parts of the country.

Makes for interesting reading! Sobering repercussions though. They're saying that you are on your own in terms of vaccinations (not cures) for up to half a year, and they won't be able to make enough vaccine to guarantee everyone gets some for two years. So that's you potentially fukced for two and a half years unless you can sequester yourself away from contact with other people for that time. The damn thing will have gone around the world a half dozen times by then, everyone not living on the moon is going to get it. Even the likes of the Mormons with their mandated year's supply of food are wide open in this scenario.

Travel will be limited so if you're going somewhere get out quick, public gatherings stopped (malls and shopping centres shut down as well as the schools), basically you'll be getting your groceries delivered by a man in a uniform.

I can't speak for anyone else here but when I think about the ability of our 'de banks dunnit' government working in tandem with the 'strike for salaries' public sector to keep people alive...

...I have a doubt.

That assumes there even is a workable plan, Kriss was going to get in contact with the minister responsible to critique the insane lack of even basic planning in place should a pandemic hit Ireland, before he fell off the internet.

If the next pandemic walks in the shoes of the Spanish flu you're looking at 3-5% fatalities. The DoD has trimmed that down to 2% due to modern healthcare, but most of the world doesn't have that so we'd be looking at anywhere between a quarter and a third of a billion dead globally. Ireland, maybe a few hundred thousand in the worst case. Question is how to minimise your exposure for the duration?

I don't care about meteor strikes. I don't care about alien invasions. I don't care about clathrate guns, economic apocollapses, oil running out, nuclear war, the illuminati herding people into death camps, that's all a pile of bollocks.

People need to understand that barring some medical revolution in virus treatment, this is going to happen. It is not a question of if but when.

Believe it.

If you haven't the time to read the full PDF, go watch the movie Contagion, it's written from the same script.

UNIONS AT THE Electricity Supply Board are to conduct a ballot for industrial action in a dispute over pension arrangements.

http://www.thejournal.ie/esb-strike-ballot-action-1094879-Sep2013/?utm_source=twitter_self

ShadowFox wrote: »

UNIONS AT THE Electricity Supply Board are to conduct a ballot for industrial action in a dispute over pension arrangements.

http://www.thejournal.ie/esb-strike-ballot-action-1094879-Sep2013/?utm_source=twitter_self

Interesting. No government want's to be in power when the lights, water, gas, phones, heating, hospitals, factories, shops etc go off. But they may have backed themselves into a corner because they can't be seen to be beating the crap out of the ASTI and any other public sector union that steps out of line and at the same time rolling over to give the already vastly overpaid 100K a year average Electricity workers yet more perks. Given this government's track record of ballsing things up I'd say it's time to check the gas drum in the shed and stock up on candles.

By the looks of this we are going to have a white Christmas http://realityweather.eu/white-christmas/ get your supplies in now before the shops double the prices