2017 Predictions Sorta...

[SheilaT.]

Globally, I see this being the year Robert Mugabe will finally drop off his perch and I think Africa will have some major upheaval to deal with if he does. The Middle East will continue to be unstable, The EU is panicking and likely to split into two factions, the old guard of France Belgium, Italy, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in one corner and everyone else in the other . If it happens before Brexit finalises, I can actually see Great Britain joining forces with those countries that want a more controlled EU.
On a personal note, I want to increase my savings, buy that property, grow more food and preserve it and generally make my home as inflation proof as pssible because I believe things are going to get more expensive as all of the above takes place.

 

[Silent Earth]

Globally, I see this being the year Robert Mugabe will finally drop off his perch and I think Africa will have some major upheaval to deal with if he does. The Middle East will continue to be unstable, The EU is panicking and likely to split into two factions, the old guard of France Belgium, Italy, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in one corner and everyone else in the other . If it happens before Brexit finalises, I can actually see Great Britain joining forces with those countries that want a more controlled EU.
On a personal note, I want to increase my savings, buy that property, grow more food and preserve it and generally make my home as inflation proof as pssible because I believe things are going to get more expensive as all of the above takes place.

Various NGOs are reporting that another 15 million migrants are planning on leaving Africa for Europe this year, Wife just came back from Italy and says they are everywhere agressively begging, offering to park shopping trollies or load bags into cars in exchange for the EURO coins out of the shopping trollies, trying to forcibly sell bangles to tourists, molesting females, burgling, tresspassing, shitting in public etc.

 

[Brent S]

Globally, I see this being the year Robert Mugabe will finally drop off his perch and I think Africa will have some major upheaval to deal with if he does. The Middle East will continue to be unstable, The EU is panicking and likely to split into two factions, the old guard of France Belgium, Italy, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in one corner and everyone else in the other . If it happens before Brexit finalises, I can actually see Great Britain joining forces with those countries that want a more controlled EU.
On a personal note, I want to increase my savings, buy that property, grow more food and preserve it and generally make my home as inflation proof as pssible because I believe things are going to get more expensive as all of the above takes place.

I like your attitude with making the best of it for yourself. I'm smart enough to know I can't control the big picture like the economy or global events. I can do things to minimize their effect on me though. I also agree with inflation kicking in this year being more likely.

 

[Brent S]

Various NGOs are reporting that another 15 million migrants are planning on leaving Africa for Europe this year, Wife just came back from Italy and says they are everywhere agressively begging, offering to park shopping trollies or load bags into cars in exchange for the EURO coins out of the shopping trollies, trying to forcibly sell bangles to tourists, molesting females, burgling, tresspassing, shitting in public etc.

Economies cannot take such a large influx of people. It's possible, with good management to help though. Suddenly you have this huge labor force available. Since most of them are receiving some sort of govt handout, why not make them work for it. There are plenty of municipal projects that have been put off due to cost, or possibly agricultural projects. At this point you have two choices. Either deport them all or put them to work. If they are able bodied but don't want to work, then their deported. Oh, crime of any kind, instantly deported. Just thinking out loud here.

 

[Silent Earth]

Geography can not take those sorts of numbers never mind economies, though most EU economies are already on their knees. much of Europe is already heavily over crowded by US standards and the UK is obscenely over crowded. We need an extra 3 million houses just to accommodate those already here, our health services, schools and public services are maxed out, our transport systems at or over capacity. Thats before we consider the implications of millions of mainly poorly skilled, poorly educated people often who have never had access to healthcare systems, who are penniless and from cultures completely alien to our own turning up DEMANDING housing, jobs, money, healthcare, clothing, food, cell phones etc. The threat to the predominantly white, christian northern European modern liberal culture from these migrants is as damaging as the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers in the US to the Native Americans.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/201...gence-warns-15-million-african-migrants-2020/

 

[SheilaT.]

I like your attitude with making the best of it for yourself. I'm smart enough to know I can't control the big picture like the economy or global events. I can do things to minimize their effect on me though. I also agree with inflation kicking in this year being more likely.

Apart from casting my vote and badgering my MP on a regular basis (both of which I do) I'm like you, there's little I can do about the big picture, just try and mitigate it's effects on my family as best I can.

 

[Billy Roper]

Interesting, "Social Unrest" is now listed as one of the eight reasons to prep:
http://offgridsurvival.com/reasonstoprep/

 

[Kevin L]

I think that rampant inflation will be an issue for 2017.

The U.S. national debt continues to grow, yet our GNP remains the same.

What happens when spending outstrips earnings?

Bankruptcy!

At one point in Zimbabwe, a beer cost more than 1.5 trillion Zimbabwe dollars.

Fiat currency is just paper.

Part of the problem is that Americans (like myself, for example) are very wasteful. We consume 1/3 of Earth's resources, yet account for less than 10% of the world's population.

I believe that this situation is part of the reason why there is so much poverty in the world, and poverty breeds crime and terrorism.

One day the world will wake up, and our dollars will mean nothing when our debtors call their notes in.

After that, dollars will be toilet paper and kindling.

 

[Undertaker]

I think that rampant inflation will be an issue for 2017.

The U.S. national debt continues to grow, yet our GNP remains the same.

What happens when spending outstrips earnings?

Bankruptcy!

At one point in Zimbabwe, a beer cost more than 1.5 trillion Zimbabwe dollars.

Fiat currency is just paper.

Part of the problem is that Americans (like myself, for example) are very wasteful. We consume 1/3 of Earth's resources, yet account for less than 10% of the world's population.

I believe that this situation is part of the reason why there is so much poverty in the world, and poverty breeds crime and terrorism.

One day the world will wake up, and our dollars will mean nothing when our debtors call their notes in.

After that, dollars will be toilet paper and kindling.

What happens when spending outstrips earnings?

For a lot of us that has already happened...Suck ### wages already do not keep up with the rate of inflation and every time I turn around something else goes up except the f'ing pay!

 

[Billy Roper]

I have to disagree that poverty is the driving force behind crime. My family of three survives on less than $15,000 a year, and don't so much as jaywalk. The fact is that the poorest White area in the U.S. has lower crime rates that the wealthiest black areas, which is why when it comes to prepping, demographics is a more important consideration than climate. For 2017, I predict continuing polarization and division as America moves towards balkanization.

 

[bigpaul]

Interesting, "Social Unrest" is now listed as one of the eight reasons to prep:
http://offgridsurvival.com/reasonstoprep/

its been top of my list for years!!

 

[Maverick]

Poverty in of itself doesn't breed crime, what it does do is breed excuses that's been exploited by socialist as a means for taxation of the wealthy. The impoverish of today has been molded into a means of revenue, this is why the leftest can only offer false-hope through breadcrumbs. For the socialist to truly fix the poverty problem would truly be destructive to their power base!

 

[Kevin L]

These are points that I haven't properly considered. Thank you for bringing them up.

 

[Maverick]

Here's a 6 minute video, it's an eye opener

 

[Undertaker]

Thats the problem with the US they give a shit about people starving in other countries but yet we have millions walking the street everyday starving and WTH do they do for these people? NOT A DAMN THING! You have to bust your ### your entire life to have something in the US but yet immigrants come over and get handed the silver spoon and are living in f'ing mansions in a years time! WTH! Sorry guys but I have just done got sick and tired of struggling to make a go of it while I watch people that come over here without a pot to piss in or window to throw it out of live like f'ing kings! Just ready to throw in the towel and say to hell with it all!

On another note poverty will not destroy humanity it will make it harder for those living at the poverty level where I am almost at now....Thing is you can beat poverty by getting off your ### and going to work instead of sitting around waiting on those that do work to keep your sorry ### up...Now I know there are those also at the poverty level that do work and try hard but it don't take but one bad apple to f it up for everyone else. Don't believe me join the military.