Social breakdown in financial collapse

Disruption of the supply chain in economic meltdown

Excerpt from Extinction Radio, March 29, 2015

Listen as Host Kevin Hester and Guy discuss what will occur with disruption of the supply chain.

Expert Explains In Detail How The Next Shock Will Shatter The Global Economy

Business Insider,

7 August, 2012

The eurozone is on a path into a deep recession. As one of the largest and most advanced economies in the world, its centrality to a system of highly-interconnected global supply chains is taken for granted.David Korowicz, a physicist and human-systems ecologist, recently authored a lengthy 78-page white paper titled: “Trade-Off: Financial System Supply-Chain Cross-Contagion: a study in global systemic collapse.”

It explores the increasing systemic risk brewing in the global financial and trade systems. Using complex systems analysis, he explains how within weeks of the next major economic shock, like a major bank failure or a country exiting the eurozone, contagion would quickly spread through global supply chains, causing an “irreversible global economic collapse.”

Korowicz warns that in the next crisis, “neither wealth nor geography is a protection. Our evolved co-dependencies mean that we are all in this together.”

We read the paper and boiled it down to its key points.

Ancient Native American tribes produced a few hundred 'cultural artifacts'--the physical things around you--while today's New Yorkers produce tens of billions of such artifacts.

In 2005, there were 2 billion connected devices. Five years later, that number had tripled to 6 billion, and it's expected that by 2015 the number will be 16 billion.

Supply chain interactions--as parts are manufactured and put together into bigger parts of even bigger goods and so on--are in the tens of billions.

To read Korowicz's paper GO HERE

David Korowicz interviewed

David Korowicz - The Centre Cannot Hold

It is time to revisit what Michael Rupert said nine years ago

When the Trucks Stop Delivering, ‘The System’ Will Collapse

Collectively speaking, most Americans take for granted the system in place to deliver essential supplies to their area. “The system,” an underlying infrastructure that keeps goods, services and commerce in America flowing creates a sense of normalcy and order. Food, water, gasoline and medications are just a few of the items restocked weekly in order for our dependent society to maintain a steady flow. What many fail to grasp is just how fragile the system is and just how quickly it can collapse.....

A very important article from Nafeez Ahmed

Pentagon Admits They Are Preparing For Mass Civil Breakdown

A new US Department of Defense (DoD) research program admits that the Pentagon has long been concerned about widespread social break down. Even more striking of an admission is the fact that they have been funding universities to create models of the dynamics, risks and tipping points that would all be part of large-scale civil unrest in the United States.


The DoD program was funded under the overarching authority of a number of US military agencies.

This program, costing millions of dollars, has been designed for the purposes of immediate and long-term “warfighter-relevant insights” development. The Pentagon explains that the purpose is for senior officials and decision makers in “the defense policy community” to form a contingency plan in the event of wide scale social unrest......

Even an advisor to ex-PM Gordon Brown is telling people to prepare for breakdown

Stock up on canned food for stock market crash, warns former Gordon Brown adviser

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.

the Independent,

24 August, 2015

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.

The Shanghai Composite Index, China’s most important stock market index, was down 8.45 per cent, erasing a year’s gains in a day’s 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

Mr McBride’s 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.