50 Events That Could Tip the US Over The Brink
August 15, 2011, Submitted by: Ken Tweet
Guest Post: by ‘Be informed’
The weakened United States is teetering on a cliff waiting for the “next” episode to push it over the proverbial brink, a tipping point, reached through a severe incident.
The following 50 events all exist within the realm of possibilities and may be severe enough to throw the U.S. over that point, leading to a chain reaction of events, possibly deep enough to affect the U.S. from ever fully recovering.
1. U.S. government makes it illegal to own gold.
2. Unfounded rumor or a real event causes nationwide bank runs.
3. Total gridlock with Select 12 committee on future debt agreements.
4. Chinese demand immediate payments on most or all U.S. debt owed to them.
5. Banks halt credit to ANYONE not considered an excellent risk.
6. Housing and commercial real estate industry finally implodes on itself.
7. Intense deflation.
8. One of more of the troubled largest states declares total bankruptcy.
9. European Union falls apart.
10. U.S. credit rating falls another 2 notches with all 3 credit agencies.
11. Major nuclear accident or incident that is similar to Fukushima.
12. Large scale terrorist attack or continuous smaller attacks.
13. Sophisticated cyber attack shuts down many areas of the infrastructure.
14. United States is flooded all of a sudden with refugees.
15. EMP event, solar or an attack, affecting most of ground based electronics.
16. Solar storm knocks out most of world’s satellites.
17. An actual food shortage develops that leads to panic buying everywhere.
18. Severe regional war, such as Pakistan and India.
19. World war, nuclear or non-nuclear.
20. U.S. in war with heavily armed country such as North Korea.
21. Intense climatic problems; floods, droughts, severe temperature swings, etc.
22. Category 4 or 5 hurricane hits New York or Houston dead on.
23. Category 5 hurricane destroys huge U.S. oil port, Port Fourchon.
24. EF 5 mega wide tornado plows through large metropolitan area such as Dallas.
25. New Madrid fault breaks, 7.0 magnitude earthquake or larger.
26. San Andreas fault snaps with quake around 8.0 or higher in strength.
27. Cascadia fault zone ruptures, 9.0 or larger in size.
28. Widespread tall tsunami (20 feet +) hits one of the U.S coastlines.
29. Volcano erupts in the U.S. of at least a V.E.I. of 6 or higher.
30. Supervolcano goes off somewhere in the world.
31. Stock market collapses below lowest levels of 2009.
32. U.S. dollar becomes worthless, hyperinflation, gold triples in value.
33. Foreign oil disruption, peak oil in full swing, Israel, Iran war, whatever.
34. Unemployment officially goes above 15%, actual unemployment is at 30% +.
35. A rare Earth minerals embargo against the U.S., China could do this.
36. Arab civil wars spread, especially to Saudi Arabia.
37. Insurances become much too expensive for most people to afford.
38. Welfare, food programs, and other subsidized aids runs out of funding.
39. Non-treatable nationwide or worldwide agricultural blight breaks out.
40. New or some of the old free trade agreements horribly backfire on the U.S.
41. A true human pandemic outbreak begins.
42. Strange event triggers masses of people to up-rise against the government.
43. Civil War, one idealism against another, sections of the U.S. split apart.
44. “Special” I.D. cards now required for everyone in the U.S.
45. U.S. constitutional crisis develops.
46. Elections go completely wrong for one group, intense unrest and riots begin.
47. Leaders stage false flag event to stop or postpone the elections.
48. Long term power grid blackouts through simple faulty outdated equipment.
49. Extremely unpopular law(s) are passed that outrage large number of people.
50. Countries stop using U.S. dollar to purchase oil.
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About half of those events would cause the US to tip over the brink in bad times as well as good.
The government will not outright declare gold illegal to own. They will just tax it at 100%.
The Feds already tax gold as a ‘collectible’, at 28% (plus your State tax). You’re right though – the next step would be an even higher tax in an attempt to kill the price.
@Ken, Yes “They” would try to tax gold and likely devalue it but, in that event we would already be beyond the limits and into Survivalism. It would be up to “Us” to use gold as a trade currency, after all it does have many uses despite it’s lack of nutrition. Malleability is it’s key note. If we get to the point that this type of occurrence is upon us, do you think we will still have government? We will be in civil war beyond any controls of law. **** the NWO, let them eat cake! Survive-All…
Regarding gold, if you own physical gold (which is the recommended way to own gold), then you can take it with you (so-to-speak) because it has always been valued as ‘money. It could even be used to transfer – convert to whatever other currency is being accepted or introduced. On the other hand, if one has ‘paper gold’ (not the ideal recommendation, e.g. the ‘GLD’ ETF), the ideal situation would be to transfer it (sell it) to the existing currency while gold is still skyrocketing, but before the currency crashes to worthless. Then immediately, or soon, transfer to worthwhile tangibles. Some people who are already locked in to paper gold are stuck with this method unless they wish to take the tax hit now and transfer it to real gold. Silver is an excellent metal to own too, and is more affordable for the average person. But now I’m getting off topic…
@Otter: They can try to tax it, but that will only make the price of un-official gold higher. They could ban it but this isn’t 1933, they can’t devalue (actually revalue it) it like they did then because we were, one, the largest holders of reserve gold at that time, which we aren’t anymore and two we are global now and have global communications, so they can’t just wave their hands and change the price. It’s not like we don’t know what it sells for in London or Hong Kong, regardless of what currency it’s traded in. If banned, it would be one of those unpopular govt. actions mentioned in the list, right up there with gun control. You can make me drive 55 mph, you can keep me from buying beer on Sunday, you can make me water the lawn on odd days that start with “C” but my guns, food and money have to be pried FMCDH.
The government can and probably will make it illegal to own gold, they have done it before. They will require that you sell it to them at a rate they set and they will make it a crime to own gold, buy gold, sell gold or transport gold outside of the country. This is like a game of musical chairs. That is if you buy gold today or already own it the value goes up and you become richer. Until the music stops and the government declares gold to be illegal and you must sell it to Uncle Sam for $300 an ounce. So if you are playing this game the object is to sell it all at a profit before the government makes it illegal. Also, I am not so sure silver will be safe either.
What is it with gold? There are 49 other things on this list to discuss.
If you want to own gold, okay, but try going to your local grocery store or Walmart and us it to make purchases. Guess what, they won’t take it, and if they did, how would they give you change when a one ounce gold piece is $1800?
Another thing I’ve noticed lately, is stores checking for counterfit bills.
Now I know they check for $100, $50, and $20, but today I was at Walmart and the cashier ran the yellow pen over the $5 dollar bills I gave her. What?I asked if they got a lot of fake 5 dollar bills and she said yeah all the time. Last week, I got gas at the gas station and gave the cashier 2 ten dollar bills and she ran the yellow pen over them too. I asked if they got a lot of conterfit 10′s and she said all the time.And that probably in the future they wouldn’t take cash ,only debit cards or credit cards-yeah like they can’t be counterfit either. I understand it’s easy to make fake debit cards.
Anyways I found it annoying. What’s next, 1 dollar bills?
Or should one give the stores the new 1 dollar coins? I’ll bet they would like to get 20 or 30 of ‘em at a time! I stopped a Lowes and one time gave the clerk several 1 dollar coins for a purchase and he thought that they were Canadian coins! I said look at them and he called for the manager, who looked at them too, and said it was okay to take them.
Sorry to get off subject.
#51. Obama is reelected.
@ Lone survivalist, I believe it was Utah that first past legislation to implement the legal use of precious metals for legal currency. Since then I believe to date we are looking at 7 states with laws that are at least impending. The point isn’t to try to buy with a gold troy ounce coin, ( Likely we are as with Utah largely talking about Silver usage. ) The intrinsic nature of the value of a coin would be gone, this would leave us with a barter system in which buyer and seller would come to agreement and as the Spanish Reales-”pieces of eight”; you would cut off a piece of metal that was, for where and when, fair trade. This could go on to talk of the Chinese announcing the halt of exports of metals from Noble like silver, as they what the monopoly on electronics. ( Silver is a must for the manufacture of all of the dumb-down and military products. ) You may also have noticed that China has the largest deposits of rare-earths which are more and more critical… “From smart phones to hybrid vehicles to cordless drills, devices we all desire are made with a pinch of rare earths-exotic elements that right now come mostly from China” National Geographic June 2011. Even electric guitar pick-ups need Samarium; also used to control rods in some nuclear reactors. I don’t take “Geographic” 100% but they seem to catch up with reality eventually. Survive-All…