As we enter 2015, and with regards to your preparedness or motivations thereof, we asked to hear your concerns for the upcoming year – the things or events that you believe to be within the realm of possibility and are especially concerned about…
The following poll results list the priority of your concerns for the upcoming year (given the choices which were presented).
POLL Results:
Clearly, your #1 concerns are financial and economic related. ‘Partial economic collapse’ is plainly #1 (while complete economic collapse is also your #5 concern). A stock market crash (#3), a higher cost of living (#7), and the national debt (#10) make up 5 of the top 10 concerns for 2015.
There is little doubt that most ‘awake’ people are aware or know that we are on a collision course with Financial Armageddon in one form or another. We simply don’t know when, we don’t know the extent of the ‘control’ when it crashes, and therefore we don’t know the full extent of the resulting misery. However most of us are concerned we’re on this path…
An ever increasing police state (#2) continues to further regulate, control, and stifle freedom and liberty as we drift further away from Constitutional freedoms.
Most expect another assault on the 2nd Amendment (#4) – given the recent history of our leftist politicians and gun-grabbers who will use any ‘incident’ or opportunity to push further restrictions in their efforts to disarm law-abiding Americans.
The concern of terrorism makes the top ten with an ‘increasing element of radical Islam’ (#6) and a ‘terrorist attack on homeland’ (#8) being of high concern.
Completing the top ten concerns for 2015 is that of our ‘government spying on its citizenry’ (#9) as more and more privacy and freedoms are being given away for the sake of ‘safety’ by the sheeple who know no better.
Here are the complete results of the poll:
Anything missing?
I see a very DARK time coming very soon
So many of these are possibilities. Many of them overlap or the effect of one event could trigger others. Dark times indeed.
Kyrie, luminis fons rerumque conditor, eleyson.
Where is Kyrie eleison used before Christianity?
Wow! I’m truly impressed. The list is nearly in the order I would have made it.
Absolutely fascinating results!
Please do more polls like this, or even re-do polls again and again to see if concerns change or evolve.
Amazing list and I could have easily checked the majority, but left it to a top ten that are realistic for me.
Again, fascinating information to just ponder in the results….
It only takes one (on this list or not) to occur and the chance of NOTHING happening is near zil. Even if you suck at math, you realize SOMETHING will happen soooooooooo…
As with most things in life, it will be more than one, a combination, a sequence, a series of dominoes and if only one is disturbed-off we go!
Combine the above list with our global financial spider web-the one where one fly shakes the whole web-and it’s obvious this ride is going to be impossible to stop once started.
Everybody grab your ankles!…
Gosh, so many to choose from! Our system, financial and otherwise, is so top-heavy that it won’t take a major event to push us over the edge. Many of the listed items, if they happen, will cause an economic collapse. But, what about the little stuff? A Walmart truckers’ strike of two weeks, with our JIT delivery system would starve most of the people in America.
It wasn’t too long ago that the list would have been maybe 6. Now look at it & all are possibilities & so many interact, so if one goes several more will follow. Kind of scarey but faith helps.
The 4th blood moon is supposed to occur in Sept or Oct of this year. I hope nothing bad happens, but there has been a history of bad things happening during the season of the 4 blood moons.
2015 will likely see a big terrorist hit in the US.
These are the same concerns from 2008 to the present. So what’s new?
Economic Collapse, but not many will pay attention. Their heads will be in their iPhone’s. For us personally, the higher cost of living is eating us up. We are even trying to sell our home and get a small one. Prices have gone up and quantity has gone down. It is outrageous. For Texas, Drought and earthquakes. It has not been reported widely, but there are earthquakes where there should not be. Fracking (Fracking refers to a relatively new method of drilling for and harvesting natural gas. The technical term is hydraulic fracturing)is what everyone believes is causing it.
It could be any of those really.
With the cost of oil going down, the fracking should go down. Hopefully causing less earthquakes. But less fracking causes more problems with the economy,especially in the areas that just had a big boom in fracking.
I have been in the oil business for over 30 years. Cracking was going on 20 years before that. Fracking is a scare tactic pushed by the greenies so that the oil and gas low prices don’t kill their “green” power sources.
A partial economic collapse as being the biggest concern in votes is attributed to many instances you list here which got only half the votes. Most of these selections given are just a stack of dominoes…What hits one domino will hit another and another until they all fall down, and I believe the last domino to fall a Partial Economic collapse. I believe it will be worse than the Great Depression, but not a complete and total collapse.
Having been employed in the oil fields all of my mechanical engineering life( 25 years), there is one factor that scares the he– out of me. That is condensate turn-over sub sea, such as on the sea floor of the Gulf of Mexico. Once this starts there is no stopping it. If something would ignite the condensate life on earth would be over in a mater of a few hours. If it is not ignited, then we would have have gobal heating such as no one can describe.
There is one other thing that is horrible to me as an engineer. I have seen a lot of stress analysis in equipment design reports, and it is just non-sense mathematics. Failure of equipment can trigger major destruction such as condensate turn-over or BP type blowouts. Organizations such as DNV, Lloyds, and ABS are a complete failure at finding and stopping such shoddy oil field equipment design and manufacturing. Perhaps, someone will read this and wonder “what is this guy serious” and make this a serious public safety issue.
I think you are talking about subsea hydrates. To make them an issue you need to remove the ocean weight off of them first. I would rank this fear right up there with the chem trail fanatics
After thinking about this list a bit more and reading all of the comments, there is an another aspect to the list that should be considered, IMHO.
This list is exhaustive and primarily focused on events or scenarios taking place. These are things we can easily recognize in an experience taking place or are able to measure like the price of a gallon of gas or milk spiking.
But, how do we capture that there is an increased interval of bad things happening and that over time society has become so desensitized that many bad things across a year like 2014 are just the status quo?
I’d probably label it “Grinding Down Society” or “Social Subversion”. Some of this applies to a police state or higher cost of living, but that just doesn’t encompass the reality of what is occurring these days.
Think along the lines of New World Order, Socialism, Communism, or anything that has taken 50+ years to root into our American society as a normal, everyday thing. We are talking a generation or to take hold, not a specific SHTF in time.
What I’m attempting to capture here is the “Death by 1,000 Cuts” tactics that we never saw happen because it was spread out over time.
Surely that warrants being an SHTF if we are making any effort to understand why things are like they are???
So, great list, but my concern remains that society will continue to have a degradation of general awareness around them and we still can’t label it in a way that gets peoples attention.
Evil…
I want to be like my sister that thinks life will stay perfect as usual. :-)
Thank you for listing ice age & not Global warming.
Mike, you are correct in both comments. It is hydrates, I was talking to others and distracted. The BP blow out was internal to the casing and BOP stack. If there ever is a blowout external to the casing then the subsea pressure will go extremelly low and the hydrate will flash to a gas. This is just one example of a trigger to set this off and there are many other triggers. Thanks for your comments!
By the grace of God go I.
Judging from the lack of votes for a major earthquake it’s obvious many of you do not live in earthquake country.
All of the Above!
This poll was a great idea. Seems like most people are thinking alike. I’ve got one question though. Why are some results listed in bold print and others in regular print? I’m sure it’s an obvious reason that I just can’t figure out.
Thanks for this site and all the work you put into it.
seems like this might be a concern?
“WASHINGTON—The government’s health insurance website is quietly sending consumers’ personal data to private companies that specialize in advertising and analyzing Internet data for performance and marketing, The Associated Press has learned.
The scope of what is disclosed or how it might be used was not immediately clear, but it can include age, income, ZIP code, whether a person smokes, and if a person is pregnant. It can include a computer’s Internet address, which can identify a person’s name or address when combined with other information collected by sophisticated online marketing or advertising firms.”
etc
According to the BBC. Scientists are working on a version of the ‘lysine contingency’. Coming to a neighborhood near you?
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30915785
I’m going to move global war to the top of my list.
And at this juncture, Syria is apparently a focal point which backs up your concern – as Russia has just taken the preemptive lead to support its ally there to take on ‘ISIS’, apparently in alliance with Iran and even China. In fact just today Russia has launched airstrikes in northern Syria and has officially told the US to remove any forces in the area. Global posturing is taking shape…
Well at least Russia is doing “something” to combat ISIS, while your buddy Barry just invites the “refugees” in and coddles the situation like a baby and even disallows the Military to do their job. And personally I don’t care if China and Iran are in conjunction with Russia. MY GOD your president is NOT going to do a darn thing.
And at least Russia is warning the US to get the heck out of the way. Sorry this may sound anti-US (it’s not meant to be) but good for Russia at least Putin is doing SOMETHING!!!!!! and of course the US is calming that Russia is “not fighting ISIS” but fighting the rebels.
FYI it was reported the ISIS just crucified another 1000 people.
NRP
umm… that ‘man’ is not my buddy. Additionally, his inept mismanagement (non-management) of ISIS, etc.., has enabled a power vacuum – and for Russia (Putin) to step up to the plate to take out ISIS. I’m hopeful that Russia is able to crush them (since ‘O’ won’t do it), although I am not hopeful for the ongoing ineptitude from the current occupier of the White House. It will be interesting to see how the U.S. mainstream media will spin this – since Russia is apparently taking the ‘high road’ to take on ISIS while also blocking ‘the West’ from taking out the Assad regime (by simply having their presence there). I have little doubt that the mainstream media will demonize and vilify Putin and Russia for this. There have even been reports that the US has been (is?) covertly supporting ISIS in Syrian efforts to overthrow the regime (all the while they chop off the heads of ‘non-believers’ and chant ‘death to the west’). We’ll see how the chess game continues to play out… although ‘O’ can barely play checkers…
Just to bring it to everyone’s attention, the media in this country has been so preoccupied with Bruce Jenner’s genitals that they have said not a word about what the world is saying: that the U.S. is guilty of creating ISIS due to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and especially for support of the “Arab Spring”. When B.O. calls ISIS ‘J.V.” terrorists and proclaims climate change as our number one crises, no wonder the world is looking elsewhere for leadership. They are finding it in Russia’s Putin.
Disclaimer: As in the tragic Viet Nam war, I highly respect and regard the individuals in our military who have been involved in these wars. I am biased towards Viet Nam vets however due to fact that they were drafted or chose to join a service to avoid being drafted into the army. “War is when the government tells you who the enemy is, revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.”
HAHAHA, I figured that “your buddy Barry” comment would get you fired up a little. I would agree he is an embarrassment to the position he holds in the White House or as some now call it, The Rainbow House.
NRP
Yes, it was the Syria situation that alarms me, especially when O & K (Obama & Kerry) obstinately refuse to remove our military presence, you know war is coming.