The Time Of Unrest

I just want to leave that following text here because i have not that much time today but i will try to join the discussion from time to time:

The time of unrest

Risk consultant predicts "unprecedented increase in internal unrest" in many countries worldwide; high risk exists in Germany. First mass protests against widespread impoverishment have begun in Great Britain.

BERLIN/LONDON (Own report) - A British risk consultancy is predicting an "unprecedented increase in internal unrest" in more than half of the world's countries, including many European states in particular. According to a recent study by Verisk Maplecroft, "socio-economic risks" are currently reaching "critical levels" with inflation above six percent in "more than 80 percent of all countries worldwide"; the "severity and frequency of protests and labor activism can be expected to intensify further in the coming months." Wealthy countries would seek to immobilize the masses with spending programs, while harsher repression could be expected in poorer countries, he said. Among the countries most at risk of internal unrest is Germany, according to Veritas Maplecroft. The German government has just approved its third "relief package." Meanwhile, in the UK, arguably the biggest wave of strikes and protests in decades has begun. Over the weekend, tens of thousands also took to the streets against the threat of impoverishment for the first time in the EU - in Prague.

At a critical level
Large parts of the world are facing an "unprecedented increase in internal unrest." That's the conclusion reached by Bath, U.K.-based risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft in the latest edition of its Civil Unrest Index, a survey that analyzes current global risks. According to the survey, the likelihood of civil unrest already increased in the past quarter in the majority of the 198 countries surveyed. In the next six months, "further deterioration" is expected in a large number of countries, the firm writes [1]: In "more than 80 percent of all countries worldwide," inflation is above six percent; "socioeconomic risks" are reaching "critical levels." Around half of all countries are classified as "high" or "extreme risk" in the Civil Unrest Index. While conditions for civil unrest were emerging in a growing number of countries, "the severity and frequency of protests and worker activism can be expected to intensify in the coming months," the company says.

Worse than expected
Veritas Maplecroft points out that the situation worldwide has already become more severe than suspected during the crises of recent years. The company had predicted at the end of 2020 that by August 2022, the "risk of internal unrest" would increase in 75 countries.[2] "The reality has been much worse," Veritas Maplecroft states, noting that 120 countries have experienced an increase in tensions within their own populations.[3] To a large extent, it says, the countries affected by the current forecast are those in Europe. Indeed, conditions on the European continent are coming to a head as a result of the war in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia. According to Veritas Maplecroft, the countries most affected by the risk of internal unrest include Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Ukraine.

Money or repression
With regard to Europe, Veritas Maplecroft firmly assumes that the governments concerned will try to prevent unrest with spending programs. Where that is not possible, sheer repression may become the "primary response to anti-government protests."[4] Repression, of course, carries its own risks: it leaves "disaffected populations with fewer mechanisms" to "channel" their discontent. Add to this the fact that the weather could prove to be a decisive factor: "A cold autumn and winter in Europe would exacerbate an already serious energy and cost-of-living crisis." At the same time, inflation in the coming year is already expected to exceed that of the current year, he said. "Only a significant reduction in global food and energy prices can stop the negative global trend in the risk of domestic unrest," Veritas Maplecroft predicts; otherwise, "the next six months may prove even more disruptive" than suspected.

Enough is enough
The U.K. is the first country in Europe to be hit by a wave of strikes and protests. There, a recent poll found that 23 percent of adults in Britain are preparing not to turn on their heating at all in the coming winter because of the cost. For several weeks, a campaign ("Enough is Enough") supported by trade unionists and several initiatives has been mobilizing against the "cost of living crisis"; within just 24 hours, Enough is Enough had gained more than 100,000 supporters, and half a million people have now signed up to the campaign. The protest is reflected in numerous strikes - for example, in local and long-distance transport, at the post office or in ports; even a general strike is being discussed.[6] Another initiative ("Don't Pay UK") is calling for direct debits for energy suppliers to be canceled in the fall and, if necessary, for energy bills to no longer be paid if a sufficient number of supporters - one million - is reached. According to a recent survey, the initiative can already hope for 1.7 million supporters.[7]

Delegitimization attempts
Over the weekend, mass protests against the impending impoverishment of large sections of the population took place for the first time in the EU. In Prague, some 70,000 people took to the streets on Saturday - demanding that the governing coalition finally bring energy prices under control. Otherwise, they threatened to "destroy our economy this fall," the organizer of the event was quoted as saying.[8] The massive support of the EU and NATO for the Ukraine war was also denounced. According to reports, unlike in Britain, the protests in Prague were composed of heterogeneous political spectrums, including the Communist Party on the one hand, and forces of the far right on the other. Prime Minister Petr Fiala tried to delegitimize the demonstrators by claiming that they were "pro-Russian forces" acting "against the interests of the Czech Republic."[9] Whether the accusation that those protesting against rapidly rising prices were serving alleged Russian interests will hold up in the long run in the face of impending impoverishment remains to be seen. In the meantime, the first smaller protests are taking place in a number of other EU countries.



[1] Torbjorn Soltvedt: 101 countries witness rise in civil unrest in last quarter. maplecroft.com 01.09.2022.

[2] Tim Campbell, Miha Hribernik: A dangerous new era of civil unrest is dawning in the United States and around the world. maplecroft.com 10.12.2020.

[3], [4] Torbjorn Soltvedt: 101 countries witness rise in civil unrest in last quarter. maplecroft.com 01.09.2022.

[5] Kalyeena Makortoff: Nearly a quarter of UK adults plan to keep heating off this winter, poll finds. theguardian.com 29.08.2022.

[6] Donald Macintyre: 'People are much angrier now': why Britain is going on strike. theguardian.com 28.08.2022.

[7] Severia Bel: Don't Pay UK has the right idea - but it's not enough. opendemocracy.net 01.09.2022.

[8], [9] 70,000 Czechs take to the streets against government, EU and NATO. euronews.com 04.09.2022.
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Know how to make evening shelter from the elements of nature
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Common sense means of traping or catching your food
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Shovel for digging worms, best to have a throw net and not a pole

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The thing about inflation is that you cannot "spend you way out of it". The spending packages mentioned will only make it worse and risk sending those countries into a death spiral.

One would have to be possessed with an ignorance and naivety of the highest level to NOT see that, if the collective governments of the world (and their unelected quote-unquote advisory "steering councils" like IMF, WEF, UN) are not actively engaged in fomenting instability/volatility, then we are living through a time with some of the most incompetent, bone headed and feckless leaders in the history of Earth.

To wit:

- the conflict in Ukraine was 100% avoidable with sufficient diplomacy and dialog. FACT. It's very telling that the skirmishes in Donbass had been simmering for literal YEARS, and the escalation and boil over culminated only after Biden was at the helm. Was it due to a sense of vacancy at the wheel in the West and the Russians seizing on that? OR did it have something to do with the ever eloquent and articulate Biden calling Putin a "killer with no soul"

- Now, everything and I mean EVERYTHING is being blamed on "Russia. RUSSIA. RUSSIA!" from supply shortages to energy crises to cats being stranded in trees. Hmm. Energy shortages have nothing to do with with the rise of the modern technocratic, eco-facism, a "War on Energy" being waged, though I guess?

- What about the predictable and frequently critiqued "Just in Time" logistic/supply chain model that we saw spectacularly implode/disintegrate during COVID (also now conveniently skapegoated on the invasion of Ukraine). In software engineering, we often look for holes/gaps in systems that we describe as "single points of failure"; we often prefer to build what we call distributed systems to avoid this, with redundancies and fail safes. Having everything manufactured/produced in China; hmmm * totalitarian state and geopolitical adversary of U.S. (check), * on the complete other side of the globe geographically, requiring transport of goods by diesel fueled cargo ships (check), * did I mention communist regime yet? (check). JIT supply chains should have, after COVID, been well on their way to the dustbin of history, but our "leaders" seem reticent to do this. I guess they like the uncertainty/fragility/long waits that the JIT model created, or (more likely explanation) they are paid off to keep the status quo.

- We hear incessant, non stop warnings about mass migration due to famine, cLiMaTe cHaNgE, war, etc etc, from "thought leaders" like John Kerry. We have seen that unmitigated, mass, ILLEGAL (versus lawful, gradual) migration has caused no end of problems in places like Europe (where folks that enjoy the fruit$ of Western society nevertheless refuse to socially assimilate), and here in the U.S. we have our own problems with illegal immigration (ASK MURIEL BOWSER). But yet...hmm...the most basic and effective counter measures to restrict and eliminate unlawful, illegal migration....are never used, the problem is systematically ignored by those in charge. Huh.

- Rather than be truthful, transparent about the desire to transition to "green" energy, and map out a reasonable, realistic timeline to transition over decades, we are seeing the deliberate "shooting of our own foot" (see: Ukraine) to engineer dramatic, abrupt and un-democratic sudden changes to the acquisition and use of global energy sources. When Obama's energy secretary said in 2012 (paraphrasing) "We have to find a way to make oil/gas more expensive", we should've taken them at their word, even if it's taken 10 years to deliver on this promise.

So, with all of the above in mind, again, we are either witnessing an insidious, deliberate (forced) march to what has been called "The Great Reset", or our global cadre of leaders is as atrocious as any other time in history.

So, are they malicious, or bumbling fools? Which one makes you want to throw up less.

Collectively, countries and donors have sent over 100 billion dollars to Ukraine; a country rife with internal corruption.

What kind of man/woman would rid themselves of all assets and watch their family starve? The bankrupting of countries at the expense of their citizens is not accidental.

i'm really not sensing the unrest outside of the far left certainly here in the uk and then that tends to boil down into competing factions with in the establishment like the left wing progressives vs left wing terfs.. the various groups have a conflict all their own going on that ends at worst in petty vandalism and someone being canceled..

outside of that none of the passion such as the poll tax protests of my youth.. this all smacks of the French revolutionary period with the middle classes egging on protest up to the point it comes near the their doorstep when they then run a mile..

the liberals and left wing green nimbies are the most ironic, about as anti any form of progress as any of histories machine breakers..

a reply to: ketsuko

they are already in that place when they opted to do that in 2007/8 rather than spend on new wealth creation..

they played redistribute the pot until the pot is so small that its turn into a zombie economy or welfare state for corporations..

a reply to: DerBeobachter

Yep.

The world is triggered.

But "they" pulled the trigger, multiple triggers.



The Great Reset is afoot....

There seems to be something fishy going on also in US


Despite Shortages and Soaring Prices, West Coast AGs Fight to Block Natural Gas Pipeline

a reply to: musicismagic
Came home right now and guess what i bought, among some food (some food in cans to store them like everytime when i go to buy stuff)

Another set of 251 zip/cable ties for 2.99 Euros. I often wonder why people don´t mention cable/zip ties when they talk about their survival-, prepper-, whatever equipment. You only know how useful that stuff is when you don´t have any cable ties anymore. Instead of wasting rope or whatever you can use them for nearly anything, to build shelters and traps as an example. And of course i bought some candles like always since a few weeks. On thursday i will buy a Fiskal hatchet for 40 Euros from LIDL. Wanted to buy exactly this one on amazon but for around 20 or 30 Euros more than LIDLs offer.

Searched for an affordable but not "cheap"(crappy) 55lbs bow and found a compound bow for 120 Euros but can´t decide if i should take a compound or a simpler recurve bow if i need to repair something. And a good slingshot that´s easy to repair if necessary. If SHTF really hard then i am able to hunt and gather food in the forest we played as kids every day in, from dawn till night. I know it like the back of my hand and i know wheres what to find and how and where to hide in there.

Tbh, i am preparing as much as my bit of money lets me do this but on the other side, even knowing why what happens and what will come soon, it still feels like a movie, like a dream in my head sometimes and lets my think from time to time: Should i really spend that much money on that and that now, what if really nothing serious happens and i spend money on stuff i maybe will never need. I am to 99.99% sure that the darkest times, we never could imagine before 2020, are right ahead. And that only because some stinky rich bastards play global chess with us as peasants while robbing us avergae people on a WEF-global scale.

My mind sometimes can´t get how a few traitors could ruin a nation like Germany in full speed, in less than a few years. They broke and break down what our parents, grandparents worked hard for over the decades since 1945. The situation is everything but normal, you could have let some monkeys do the political work here in Germany the last to or three decades, they would have done a way better work for nation and people than these allegedly human beings disguised as politicians have delivered, that`s for sure. Because these animals wouldn`t betray and sell us like these alleged human beings did and do right now.

If i remember that i know that i am not spending money that is burned senselessly for a bit of prepping and survival stuff i will never need. And if i am reminded to what they did to us the last nearly three years then i know that it´s very well spend money for the dark times that are ahead. Btw, i will visit our army shop around the corner this week, need some fire steel, some camo tarps and stuff xD
Cheers

Here in the UK, we're seeing what I hope will prove to be the beginning of a wave of support for those who challenge the mainstream/ legacy media narrative over the vaccine debacle, and the massive rise in energy costs (which completely overwhelms us) is worse than in any other nation. I'm hoping against hope that this will spark a rebellion against the cost of living 'crisis' (engineered deliberately), a wave of momentum which evicts the evildoers from the halls of power over the coming months. GBNews is the organisation which is pulling no punches, seriously railing against the Powers that Be for their criminally reckless (or deliberate) bad decisions throughout the Plandemic. Hoping they manage to build a base which cannot be ignored, hoping they manage to expose the evil bastards for what they have unleashed against us in the name of their dystopian fantasies.

To seek to persuade generations of children that they and their kind are a plague upon the earth is an unforgivable wrong, says Neil Oliver

I won’t sleep at night until there are arrests over the despotic, unscientific measures of the scamdemic, says Bev Turner

Above are just a couple of examples of some of the truly honest journalism which is FINALLY seeing the light of day on a semi-mainstream news channel platform in the UK. We need more & more of this, and we should loudly shout it from the rooftops.


Our energy bills are forecast to rise from an initial maximum of £1,970 per year (which was already bad enough), to an astonishing & literally soul-crushing £6,000 per year, by January. Three months of the average annual wages will be spent on these disgusting energy tariffs. Worse, according to documents leaked this past week, the government apparently appears ready to 'bail out' the energy supply companies in some manner, rather than offer genuine support for those of us who will see our household incomes decimated by these increases in cost. A measly £400 relief has been thus far offered, in the face of a total cost of £6,000. Three months' wages to keep our homes lit & warm. While the energy companies are due to see their profits doubled over the winter of 2022-2023.

It's disgusting, and I know it's deliberate, a strategy of the WEF globalists. To have the nerve to blame this on Russia/ the Ukraine conflict is abominable, the whole thing is planned as part of the WEF-led deconstruction of society. They hope to freeze us & starve us into submission to their insane policy directives, so that instead of protesting, we beg for relief on our knees, demanding a 'solution'. But wait, what type of solution are we talking? Well, it would probably involve relinquishing our property rights, so we can "own nothing, and be happy".

BASTARDS.

We need a miracle.

Hopefully GB News & others like them can begin to unleash Hell against the perpetrators of the current & near future unrest which is surely upon us.

originally posted by: ketsuko
The thing about inflation is that you cannot "spend you way out of it". The spending packages mentioned will only make it worse and risk sending those countries into a death spiral.

Absolutely right! They only buy time till the territorial domestic unit of the Bundeswehr is ready to save the a$$es of the traitors from first of October on, together with the often militarized police. It´s hush money they throw around and then even not enough, it´s like throwing a few cents of our tax money in front of our feet. Especially not enough to keep quiet about the situation.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

- Now, everything and I mean EVERYTHING is being blamed on "Russia. RUSSIA. RUSSIA!" from supply shortages to energy crises to cats being stranded in trees

There was a story in Forces (military news organisation here in the UK) about brave Ukrainian firefighters rescuing a cat from a burning building after the area was shelled by the Russians. Seriously! Not a word of a lie! Check it out:

Firefighters rescue kitten from burning building after Ukrainian city Kharkiv shelled

It's literally a Clown World.

God help us.


FITO.

I am watching a few streams right now, the by the people called Heisser Herbst/hot fall begins. The official newspseak framing term of the traitors and their propaganda presstitutes is Wutwinter (winter of anger) btw. There you can see what they wish, they wish us to freak out because of anger, even their framing reveals their true intentions.

There are several, better a lot of demonstrations today, of all kind of people and political directions, until now peaceful as i see. In several cities in eastern Germany like Magdeburg, Erfurt, in Leipzig it were/are 8 at the same time. All against mandatory vaccinations, against crazy and useless corona measures, against the by "politicians" self-created, forced and rushed electrical energy-, gas, oil etc problems, against WEF and Great Reset( demonstration in Berlin, among other demonstrations), against current government, against war, against fear and panic propaganda by the MSM, against censoring and trying to switch anything and everybody on line, against all the BS that is more than wrong in this nation right now. For opening NS2, for nuclear power because of electrical energy independence and low prices etc.

If you go out for a walk here, you will witness people talking about nothing else anymore, the most average and quiet, the most polite people meanwhile, are angry and rude. But many if not even most of them are not even angry with the perpetrators but with those who say the truth about what happens, with those who dare to take part in democratically justified and legal demonstrations against all that madness and it´s reasons and perpetrators, with those who dare to swim not with the mass into the direction of that fish-shredder in front of us. The mass consists of servile, submissive, obeying people who still believe in state, politics and politicians, MSM, the current thing orders from above etc.

The protests will grow in numbers from now on and it seems to happen what TPTB really are afraid of, all kind of people of all political and whatever directions, protest together peacefully side by side without attacking each other. If you, as a government, achieved this, you have done everything wrong to nation and people you could ever do. That´s how it started in 1989, at almost the same places as today`s protests happened and happen. Ok, seen from today`s perspective it seems that the protests in 1989 were useless because it seems now that the GDR took over the FRG.

But mistakes can happen and be made by the people. And can be corrected afterwards by the people after they learned about their failure.
Cheers

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment
It´s almost the same exact situation in Germany, "funny" how Germany is EU and UK isn´t anymore but both have exactly the same problems at the same time. How many WEF infiltrators are there at the levers of powers in the UK?

I believe we are at the start of the final phase of the agenda, they seem to feel ready, right now or very soon, ready to put down protests, to put down angry people who do not want to be guinea pigs only to fill the pockets of those that maybe even try to depopulate earth up to a certain point. I really believe that they believe that the are ready to defend against the anger of millions soon, of people who do not want to become unemployed and homeless, who do not want to pay trillions of euros for a slice of bread in the near future.

It seems they want to break everything down, including all of us not stinky rich people, this fall and winter. To "build back better" in the middle of the last phase so we all, the leftovers of a former society, are "happy about owning nothing anymore" at the end of the final phase around 2030.

I think we're just more aware because of the Internet.

The instantaneous "information highway".

originally posted by: Annee
I think we're just more aware because of the Internet.

The instantaneous "information highway".

The web helped, on one side, to gather and collect and store so much knowledge and wisdom i would never had been able to gather only by reading books, for example. But on the other side the web is completely in their hands nowadays, i wouldn´t even trust the deep/dark web anymore to be safe there from their spying on us. I don´t even trust my VPN to really protect me but it´s not stupid to make it as difficult as possible for them to collect every bit of data about us.

It´s the first time in my life i really have that strange feeling that almost everything critical we write here could bring us straight into hell soon. But hey, i have been in hell`s kitchen for several times and could stand the heat, hell itself can´t be that worse. They can´t stop me from making use of my right of the freedom of expression. These criminals don´t censor me, they don´t shut me up because i don´t lie but talk about facts. No matter how hard they might try. If they try too hard they create an enemy who has almost nothing to lose, the worst enemy one can have. And i know a lot of others who have not that much to lose but a lot to win when the time is right. Ones doomsday is maybe the next ones opportunity...

Back to the web, without that i would never have met all these nice people on ATS!

originally posted by: DerBeobachter

originally posted by: Annee
I think we're just more aware because of the Internet.

The instantaneous "information highway".

The web helped, on one side, to gather and collect and store so much knowledge and wisdom i would never had been able to gather only by reading books, for example. But on the other side the web is completely in their hands nowadays, i wouldn´t even trust the deep/dark web anymore to be safe there from their spying on us. I don´t even trust my VPN to really protect me but it´s not stupid to make it as difficult as possible for them to collect every bit of data about us.

It´s the first time in my life i really have that strange feeling that almost everything critical we write here could bring us straight into hell soon. But hey, i have been in hell`s kitchen for several times and could stand the heat, hell itself can´t be that worse. They can´t stop me from making use of my right of the freedom of expression. These criminals don´t censor me, they don´t shut me up because i don´t lie but talk about facts. No matter how hard they might try. If they try too hard they create an enemy who has almost nothing to lose, the worst enemy one can have. And i know a lot of others who have not that much to lose but a lot to win when the time is right. Ones doomsday is maybe the next ones opportunity...

Back to the web, without that i would never have met all these nice people on ATS!

Here's a question to ponder.

Why does it seem like most migrants/immigrants/asylum seekers are coming north from the south or southeast?

(Excluding Russians and Ukrainians at this time)

a reply to: DerBeobachter

Probably this Dark Winter is the time the 'Elitists' scuttle back into their DUMBs - let's hope they flood due to geothermal miscalculations.

a reply to: Annee
Maybe because of:

...people who have not that much to lose but a lot to win when the time is right. Ones doomsday is maybe the next ones opportunity...