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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: ATM Collapse? Its 5:37 p.m.
Theres a cold sweat on the back of your neck
Youre standing at an ATM in a crowded grocery store
A few yards away, the cashiers drumming her long red nails on the counter, next to your groceries. Theres a long line of people waiting to pay. You turn back to the ATM and swipe your card for the third time
Nothing happens
Behind you, someone in the line lets out an exasperated sigh
you apologize to the cashier
Annoyed, you head back to your car, where you fish out your cellphone and give the bank a call. It takes three tries till a womans voice finally answers
But its just a pre-recorded message
so garbled you cant make out a word. You hang up and start your engine
On the way home you stop off at the gas station
The attendant comes out as usual, but before you can speak he asks a strange question: You buying or selling? Confused, you tell him you just want to fill er up, but when you try to give him your credit card, he suddenly backs away
Sorry, were closed man
Sorry. You sit there for a moment, wondering whether you should argue with the guy
Finally, you just head home. You tell your wife what happened
Definitely strange
but she figures its probably just a computer problem at the bank
Theyll have it sorted out by morning
You agree, but as you fall asleep later that night youre not so sure
Suddenly its 4 a.m.
And theres a cold fear deep in the pit of your stomach
Something doesnt feel right
If its just a computer problem
The bank would have called you
But instead there was that strange message
And what about that gas station attendant
? First thing next morning you take a trip to the bank
It doesnt look open. A piece of paper taped to one of the doors tells you that it has been temporarily closed. No explanation
just a phone number to call and what looks like a government logo
but not one you recognize. You give the number a shot
its that garbled message again
You hang up. Around the side of the building, there are a couple of dented ATMs with broken screens. As you head back to your car you notice a man kneeling down by a pickup truck parked nearby
Hes got a hose running from the trucks gas tank into a jerry can. Suddenly he looks up and catches you staring at him
The look in his eyes tells you not to linger
He watches as you get in your car and drive off. Everythings closed
Its that same piece of paper everywhere
and the same dark screens on every ATM. You start running into other people
trying to deposit Social Security checks
or take out cash
or find out why their cards suddenly arent working. This is not just a problem with your bank
Your whole town is essentially shut down
By the time you call off the search and head home, Main Street is jammed with traffic. You take an alternate road
it leads you past the gas station from yesterday
Its closed now
with a big chain across the entrance
Inside you see a pickup truck next to one of the pumps
Four men are standing around it
One of thems holding a crowbar
Your wifes relieved as you walk through the door. Apparently people have been coming by all day
asking if shes got any cash
trying to sell her things
And theyre not people from the neighborhood either. You turn on the TV
But all you see are the same images of closed banks
smashed store windows
and talk of some kind of crisis
No one really knows whats happening
And then your screen goes blue. Text at the center reads, Service Interrupted: Please Update Payment Info. You shut off the TV and go look out the window
Your wife wonders aloud whether you should invite the neighbors over
You agree
This is looking like a time to stick together
The sun is starting to set. Theres a black helicopter skimming along the horizon
You cant deny it anymore
This is it
The beginning of something youve expected for a long time now
Except that you never really knew when
or what form it would take
And maybe you even gradually stopped believing it would come at all
Except that now its here
And as you stare into the coming night, you wonder how long the food in the pantry will last
and what you might have to do if this situation doesnt get resolved quickly
Hi, my name is Bill Bonner. You may not know me, but Im the president of Agora Inc., the largest underground news and research network in the world. I started this company in 1979, and today were actually bigger than the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The information Im about to share with you has never been released to the general public before. You see, right now at this very moment the highest levels of our government and banking system are locked in a desperate last stand against a disturbing shock
One you would never expect
or even think possible. Yet our leaders have already spent $4.5 trillion more than we spent on World War II trying to contain this problem
And it looks like theyre about to lose the fight
In fact, when they do and believe me, they will a systemic shock will disrupt our lives in ways you never thought possible
You will suddenly be locked out of your bank account
unable to withdraw cash or deposit a check
your stocks will swing wildly out of control
your Social Security payments will pile up unopened on your kitchen table
no one will cash them
It will spread to a weak link in our food supply chain, causing massive shortages in the cities and suburbs
The same will happen to our gas network
Americas highways will become empty
And one by one every service youve come to depend on, from your bank to your grocery store to our Federal government
will shut down
Poster Comment: If the ATMs shut down, what will you do to get money to survive? Better have your stockpile of survival items on hand for the entire family. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
ATM's, cell phones, and the entire banking system and the internet can be taken down from coast-to-coast in less than ONE HOUR.
#2. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#1)
Please do not publicize this. We do not need any more panics. ;)
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