A former adviser to Gordon Brown has urged people to stock up on canned goods and bottled water as stock markets around the world slide.
Damian McBride appeared to suggest that the stock market dip could lead to civil disorder or other situations where it would be unreasonable for someone to leave the house.
Advice on the looming crash, No.1: get hard cash in a safe place now; don't assume banks & cashpoints will be open, or bank cards will work, he tweeted.
Crash advice No.2: do you have enough bottled water, tinned goods & other essentials at home to live a month indoors? If not, get shopping.
Crash advice No.3: agree a rally point with your loved ones in case transport and communication gets cut off; somewhere you can all head to.
Mr McBride credited his former boss Gordon Brown with preventing a cataclysm by nationalising the banking system during the 2008 crash.
We were close enough in 2008 (if the bank bailout hadn't worked), he said. and what's coming is on 20 times that scale.
Financial markets are unstable and periodically suffer crises which can have devastating consequences for the wider economy.
China's "Black Monday" has plunged the global financial markets into chaos. The Shanghai Composite Index, Chinas most important stock market index, was down 8.45 per cent, erasing a years gains in a days trading.
The FTSE100 fell 4.5 per cent, hoping £60bn off the price of UK shares, and the Dow Jones in the US fell by over a thousand points in its first minute of trading.
Some analysts have suggested that the stock market slide could be the start of a new global financial crisis.brightcove.createExperiences();
Mr McBrides suggestions about stocking up on canned goods, setting rally points and stocking up on bottled water were ridiculed by some users on Twitter as over the top, however.
Mr McBride was special adviser to Gordon Brown and head of communications at the Treasury for a period during the last Labour government.
With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." -Alex Kurtagic
I surmise that Damian McBride's blanket lamentation is borne out of a sudden onset of trepidation emanating from the spectre of financial ruin due to his personal portfolio of risky investments. Now, please pass the Grey Poupon....
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With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." -Alex Kurtagic
I don't know - having cash on hand, not depending on banks or ATM's, 30 days of food and water stockpiled and having a bug-out/meet-up location planned.
Seems like good advice to me.
The shit's gonna hit the fan sooner or later.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
having cash on hand, not depending on banks or ATM's, 30 days of food and water stockpiled
Of course, that goes without saying. It's the never-ending "This event portends TEOTWAWKI, not the event yesterday, or last week, THIS event Is The One". It's old. It's the same crap I heard in Sunday school for so many years: "I've made a special study of Revelations and I have seen The End!". Umm-hmmmm.
With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." -Alex Kurtagic
With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." -Alex Kurtagic
It's old. It's the same crap I heard in Sunday school for so many years: "I've made a special study of Revelations and I have seen The End!". Umm-hmmmm.
I agree; it gets very old and silly, especially if you've been hearing it your whole life. that guy named Lindsey Williams comes to mind as the consummate breathless, absurd fear monger. gerald celente, although he's a much cooler cat, is another one. it's always the sky is falling with these people.
"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you".Sirach 4:28
If the sky isn't falling, it's certainly welcome news.
I tell prophecy fiends (1) God doesn't want any clock-watchers, and (2) I've never seen anybody actually make sense of prophecy and make it stick.
Re #2, the spectacular failures are too numerous to mention. A particular fave: The 1979 Late Great Planet Earth flick. When discussing how the Antichrist would be a man so charismatic he would win the hearts of all mankind, they showed a picture of then-prez Jimmy Carter :-) I guess nobody's ever skewered Hal Lindsey for that one, he's just gone on with his Business.
having cash on hand, not depending on banks or ATM's, 30 days of food and water stockpiled and having a bug-out/meet-up location planned.
Yes. It's a good idea to be prepared.
I'm inclined to believe that the most likely sudden life-changing catastrophe that might befall us here would be the riots, looting, raping, murder, and general mayhem that would ensue if our dusky equals ever feel that that they have sufficient justification or excuse to do so. It doesn't take much, as we have repeatedly seen. Imagine how they would react if Obama were assassinated, and the jewsmedia dutifully reported that the perp was a White Nationalist KKK CofCC Confederate flag waver?
I can imagine dozens of major US cities burned to the ground, White people dragged from their cars or their homes invaded and then raped, tortured, and executed South Africa style, etc.
The stock market dropping 25% doesn't seem too bad in comparison.
Advice on the looming crash, No.1: get hard cash in a safe place now; don't assume banks & cashpoints will be open, or bank cards will work, he tweeted.
Crash advice No.2: do you have enough bottled water, tinned goods & other essentials at home to live a month indoors? If not, get shopping.
Crash advice No.3: agree a rally point with your loved ones in case transport and communication gets cut off; somewhere you can all head to.
Crash advice No.4: Damian McBride is a blithering imbecile. The sun is shining, resume living.....
With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." -Alex Kurtagic