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German Chancellor Angela Merkel tells Germans to Stockpile 10 days of Food

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Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel has asked fellow Germans to stockpile 10 days of Food and 5 days of Water in case of civilization collapse or some other unseen tragedy. Strange Days, indeed. God Bless everyome, T @newTHOR on twitter https://www.facebook.com/thornewsgo Germany plans to tell its citizens to stockpile food and water in case of an attack or catastrophe for the first time since the end of the Cold War, according to reports. The proposals, which Angela Merkel’s government is set to discuss at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, have not yet been made public. But according to details leaked to the German press they include advice to citizens to stockpile enough food for ten days and clean drinking water for five days. “The population should be urged by appropriate means to keep two litres of drinking water per person per day,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Sontagszeitung quoted a government paper as saying. People will also be urged to keep supplies of medicines, warm blankets, coal, wood, candles, torches, batteries, matches, and reserves of cash in their homes. The authorities are to boost stocks of smallpox vaccine and antibiotics in case of biological attack, and set up reserves of petrol and oil at 140 locations around the country to ensure a supply for 90 days. Other provisions include setting up decontamination sites outside hospitals in case of nuclear, biological or chemical attack. Germany is currently on high alert after two Islamist attacks and a shooting rampage by a mentally unstable teenager last month. Berlin announced measures earlier this month to spend considerably more on its police and security forces and to create a special unit to counter cyber crime and terrorism. The government rejected accusations that the new measures amount to “scaremongering” and said they were not a reaction to the current terror threat. Johannes Dimroth, a spokesman for the interior ministry, said the proposals were a long-planned update to a government paper last revised in 1995. But opposition MPs condemned the plans. A call to stockpile food “could completely unsettle people,” Dietmar Bartsch of the Left Party said. Details of the new proposals emerged in a 69-page government paper leaked to the press. “An attack on Germany which requires a conventional defence response is unlikely,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Sontagszeitung quoted the paper as saying. “Nevertheless the country should be prepared in case of a life-threatening development which cannot be ruled out.” The new proposals hark back to the detailed West German civil defence plans of the Cold War, when the country was thought likely to be on the frontline of any conflict between the Soviet Union and the West. Generations of West Germans grew up to the sound of sirens being tested that would warn of a Soviet attack. In the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990, many civil defence measures were allowed to lapse. A review was first ordered after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and severe flooding in Germany the following year.