Germans told to stock up on food and supplies

[Silent Earth]

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/22/germ...-food-and-water-in-case-of-attack-report.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-stockpiling-idUSKCN10W0MJ

 

[jimLE]

guess what? LOL
http://www.doomsdayprepperforums.co...rnment-tells-its-citizens-to.7416/#post-88391


those are good articles thoe..

 

[Dani]

Hope they learn from some of the US disasters and actually take the advise!

 

[jimLE]

naaaa..thats asking for to much..just think of the Americans that don't learn from them..and why should any other country be different?

 

[Silent Earth]

Even the BBC is running with it.

TELEGRAPH
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-plan-tells-citizens-to-hoard-food-and-water/
REUTERS
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-stockpiling-idUSKCN10W0MJ
EURONEWS
http://www.euronews.com/2016/08/22/stockpile-food-and-water-in-case-of-attack-germans-set-to-be-told
UK BUSINESS INSIDER
http://uk.businessinsider.com/german-press-stockpile-food-and-water-in-case-of-attacks-2016-8
ZEROHEDGE
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-...tockpile-food-water-first-time-cold-war-ended

ttp://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/22/germany-may-warn-public-to-stockpile-food-and-water-in-case-of-attack-report.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-stockpiling-idUSKCN10W0MJ

https://www.rt.com/news/356682-germany-defense-plan-food/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37155060

WHY are so many respected media sources running with this article???

 

[jimLE]

good question..im wondering what they know,and/or planning on doing..

 

[Maverick]

Ok, confused?

"...advice to citizens to stockpile enough food for ten days and clean drinking water for five days" kind of backwards but why not 10/10? I guess it's better to die of thirst on a full stomach, hmm.. Typo?

 

[jimLE]

and why 10? why not more then that? like 30 days or more..

 

[Mountain trapper]

Even the BBC is running with it.

TELEGRAPH
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-plan-tells-citizens-to-hoard-food-and-water/
REUTERS
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-stockpiling-idUSKCN10W0MJ
EURONEWS
http://www.euronews.com/2016/08/22/stockpile-food-and-water-in-case-of-attack-germans-set-to-be-told
UK BUSINESS INSIDER
http://uk.businessinsider.com/german-press-stockpile-food-and-water-in-case-of-attacks-2016-8
ZEROHEDGE
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-...tockpile-food-water-first-time-cold-war-ended

ttp://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/22/germany-may-warn-public-to-stockpile-food-and-water-in-case-of-attack-report.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-stockpiling-idUSKCN10W0MJ

https://www.rt.com/news/356682-germany-defense-plan-food/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37155060

WHY are so many respected media sources running with this article???

Disasters sell, or in this case talk of disaster sells?

 

[Silent Earth]

I see according to the UK Daily Express the German Government is currently debating bringing back Conscription, Those buggers are worried about something.

 

[Maverick]

and why 10? why not more then that? like 30 days or more..

In several meetings here with the feds that point was brought up, why not recommend a 30 day emergency supply? several factors were listed, one of the reasons it would send the wrong message, the other reasons is that most people don't have the space nor the money to stock pile a 30 day supply for the family and that it would create an undue burden on the economically challenged families. I remember when we were pushing for the two weeks emergency supplies the feds and ARC were nervous going forward with the recommendation, it took years to get the two weeks I think we would be pushing our luck with a 30 day recommendation, ARC still not sold on the two weeks, if ARC were fully on board FEMA would follow suit or vice a versa.

Truthfully though, if everyone stockpiled 30 day supplies I think FEMA and ARC may feel they are less relevant and lose funding's/donations so in that respect I think it's self-preservation as the real reason why they don't extend the 3-day/14-day out to 30-day.

 

[jontte]

have been on a defence forum here talking about this,seems like some dudes there are following the principle ; food-check,water-check,ammo-check and the list goes on...this must be something more than just disasters sell type of thing,but I'm just too dumb to be able to connect all the dots...

 

[jontte]

In several meetings here with the feds that point was brought up, why not recommend a 30 day emergency supply? several factors were listed, one of the reasons it would send the wrong message, the other reasons is that most people don't have the space nor the money to stock pile a 30 day supply for the family and that it would create an undue burden on the economically challenged families. I remember when we were pushing for the two weeks emergency supplies the feds and ARC were nervous going forward with the recommendation, it took years to get the two weeks I think we would be pushing our luck with a 30 day recommendation, ARC still not sold on the two weeks, if ARC were fully on board FEMA would follow suit or vice a versa.

Truthfully though, if everyone stockpiled 30 day supplies I think FEMA and ARC may feel they are less relevant and lose funding's/donations so in that respect I think it's self-preservation as the real reason why they don't extend the 3-day/14-day out to 30-day.

and as stated here 30-days is smarter than just a mere 10....

 

[jimLE]

good points there.that could cause worry and panic,especially if they went about telling the citizens in the wrong way..

In several meetings here with the feds that point was brought up, why not recommend a 30 day emergency supply? several factors were listed, one of the reasons it would send the wrong message, the other reasons is that most people don't have the space nor the money to stock pile a 30 day supply for the family and that it would create an undue burden on the economically challenged families. I remember when we were pushing for the two weeks emergency supplies the feds and ARC were nervous going forward with the recommendation, it took years to get the two weeks I think we would be pushing our luck with a 30 day recommendation, ARC still not sold on the two weeks, if ARC were fully on board FEMA would follow suit or vice a versa.

Truthfully though, if everyone stockpiled 30 day supplies I think FEMA and ARC may feel they are less relevant and lose funding's/donations so in that respect I think it's self-preservation as the real reason why they don't extend the 3-day/14-day out to 30-day.

you aint dumb,you simply don't have all the info needed..

have been on a defence forum here talking about this,seems like some dudes there are following the principle ; food-check,water-check,ammo-check and the list goes on...this must be something more than just disasters sell type of thing,but I'm just too dumb to be able to connect all the dots...

 

[Maverick]

Back in the 50s during the Red Scare and later the 60s, Eisenhower setup the Civil Defense feel good measures such as stocked fallout shelters, radio television public announcements and recommendations with brochures mailed out to every household on food storage and recommendation, duck and cover school exercises, community involvements etc... problem was half the nation wasn't on board and parents were upset that most of the talk were scaring the children and a great deal of protest from religious organizations, it really caused a lot of paranoia were the government was accused of fear mongering and wasting tax payers money. Even the DOD wasn't on board when they were in charge of the CD since the DOD had to pay for all this without upping the budget. It was later disclosed in 74 that these stocked government fallout shelters wouldn't have done a a damn thing in protecting the citizens from fallout. Lets also not forget FEMA was renamed (reorganization) in 1979 from the Department of Civil Defense so the memories are still fresh with FEMA, FEMA doesn't want the same negative attachment it's predecessor has had so in the end, everyone is playing it safe in other words pulling a General Meade by being overly cautious.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I wouldn't trust FEMA as far as I could throw one of their over bloated bureaucrats. As far as the "economically challenged" being unable to stock up on supplies, they all seem to have money for beer, cigarettes, cell phones, internet and dope. Let them starve.

 

[Silent Earth]

Germans are currently debating bringing back Military Conscription for all its younger citizens, I wonder what they are worried about.

 

[Maverick]

I wouldn't trust FEMA as far as I could throw one of their over bloated bureaucrats. As far as the "economically challenged" being unable to stock up on supplies, they all seem to have money for beer, cigarettes, cell phones, internet and dope. Let them starve.

Though FEMA is the smallest of federal agencies with the smallest federal budget that have less than 3000 full time workers with the average salary of 66k a year that mainly rely on volunteers with a budget of 10b a year for all disasters so the criticism should be directed at the federal government and not with FEMA yet FEMA is blamed for lack of response, what people don't understand FEMA is designed to be reactionary not proactive, FEMA is one giant phone book that call its resources for equipment and supplies, they keep very little on hand for large disasters since they don't have a budget for it also much of the stored supplies in any of their two warehouses are donated, FEMA since 1979 have been handicapped from the start not of their doing nor wishes, they have only two operation managers and two emergency managers that covers the whole nation plus the common wealth countries. The managers make less than 120k a year with the director getting a little more, a lot of responsibility for so little