2012 and the risk to us...

[NorthernRaider]

Mike if anything I think it will be used as an excuse for fools to panic, arson, riot and loot as it heads towards crimbo 2012, it will give the lower forms of life the excuse to run rampage again in the citys, and its likely to be exacerbated by others who react in blind panic.
And as a wise chap pointed out on another forum, city dwelling preppers may be well equipped but it wont help if half the local ethnic yoof gangs set fire to the entire street.

I prefer to watch events unfold from afar.

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I'll give it more attention if suddenly HMG and the USG suddenly start repatriating large numbers of combat troops on foreign deployment back home in a hurry and dont put them back in their home garrisons. And if to many ministers and senators suddenly go AWOL. other indicators are likely to be a sudden surge in the price of oil and grain and possibly shortages of them especially as this year was a record grain harvest. If they suddenly got expensive or unavailable it would indicate that the govt is hoarding supplies. Another pointer would be government restrictions on travel.

So I'll monitor for the usual pointers and triggers and prep as normal because wether its a CME or the EU the response will be the same, stock up, hunker down and get as far away from the cities as possible.