Jack, this was a great show. I live in Canada on an Island that has a lovely body of water that will act as a great moat to protect us. We are permaculturalists and are developing an amazing piece of land. All that being said, your message of preparedness is not lost. We can have food security as well as other forms of security but we can’t extend this to protect our extended families living in larger urban centers. If the proverbial shit hits the fan, we are tying to create escape routes that make sense so they can get here. The trick becomes when to pull the trigger on them leaving. hopefully, none of that becomes an issue. still we are trying to figure out how that makes sense. Not that long ago, there were riots in Vancouver over a hockey playoff game….doesn’t seem to take much to trigger the 1%, 5%, 10%….Great show. Thanks again.

In Canada, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver would be the trouble spots. Ottawa to some extent. I *think* I’m ok on and Island with a small population (146k) but at 10% that is still 14k potential problems..
And with our gun laws, more difficult to protect oneself

It is a black problem, the the “riots” in Spain and Greece are because these people have been screwed over massively by their politicians and the international bankers. The riots in London were almost exclusively black, white people would be taking their lives in their hands going out in them and it wasn’t just in London it was in most large cities with a significant black population.

Jack, I wish I shared your optimism that these kinds of things might not happen. From my own pretty in-depth study of history, I really don’t see any way out of it — especially as the economy contracts for a bigger and bigger segment of the population while a narrower and narrower segment sees their financial wealth increase by greater amounts.

Authorities have been planning for this for some time. Hence the militarization of the police, and the existence of entities like NORTHCOM (a US military command whose area of responsibility is the domestic US, which didn’t exist until around 2004-05).

As always, I agree with you that the answer to preparing the best we can for these kinds of things is to first take care of ourselves, then our families, and then our neighborhoods and communities. Indeed, that is the only thing that can be the foundation of any kind of decent, resilient society through this and on the other side of it.

Just to add a data point to support your 10% theory I grew up in the middle of Detroit in the 50’s and 60’s and we lived pretty close to the middle of the ’67 riot, Highland Park to be exact. About the only person to not realize that Detroit was about to blow up must have been the mayor at the time. The riot ended his political career. The riot started as pretty much race centered, but after about 24 hours it was an equal opportunity endeavor. I remember weeks later riding my bike down the alleys and observing the pilfered appliances and clothes looted when someone opened their garage door. Strange things happened of course. A jeep from the 82nd Airborne passed in front of our house and the driver told me to get the hell back inside and stay there. Several days after the army had things under control, women from the suburbs put their kids in the family car and drove down to observe the burned and looted businesses. In fact, there were traffic jams that resulted. We had not prepared in any way for what happened, and mostly businesses were targeted. As you well know cities don’t recover easily from this sort of thing, and Detroit is a case study – from one of the richest cities in the world to ruble and it has stayed that way for almost a half century. Whatever the percentage is, 10% or not, it is perfectly capable of destroying a city, and the police are overwhelmed in a short period of time. It is just a matter of numbers.

My cousin is law enforcement in a rural tourist destination area. There was an African American shot by a Sheriff’s Deputy a few months ago, and all the sudden there were a bunch of African American young men bussed in by the hundreds. Someone was paying for their food, hotels, transportation etc. and they tried to create trouble, but the area was too rural so after a couple weeks they bussed out.
There’s something more sinister going on, because I heard the same thing on internet forums from people in Baltimore right before the riots happened. But, that was able to take hold. Now, where to travel to next?
But, there has to be a huge paper trail as to how these kids are being recruited, why they’re all African American, who’s paying for all this etc.