escape and evasion

ESCAPE AND EVASION

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note: this video is so bizarre and out there in tinfoil hat territory, it was like passing a traffic accident unable to look away.  Hillary Clinton's Mysterious Malady:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__UQQEHuRws
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I think it is quite natural to want to escape the US.  The place REALLY went to crap in the last ten years, and by its nature cannot recover like it used to.  Any civilization no matter the time period needs excess energy to function.  The US, and pretty much every other place, is now seeing a net energy decline ( fracking oil and gas merely postpone the implosion ).  Less energy today and tomorrow even less energy than that.  You all know my views on bugging out of your country.  It probably won’t work and even if feasible it certainly isn’t for me.

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That doesn’t mean it is the wrong choice, just not one I personally care for.  But I don’t want to argue the case against leaving.  It could well be the best strategy.  The Jews that left Nazi Germany early were rewarded for their sacrifices.  As a minion pointed out, the Confederates that left the defeated South for Brazil missed the grinding poverty and early death by malnutrition that Reconstruction at the hands of the industrialists brought.  There are plenty of examples that reward fleeing dysfunction.  The Whites that left the country while it was still White run Rhodesia, the White Flight out of soon to be minority occupied Rust Belt cities, the Brits who came to the US before the Muslims took over.

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I’ve been an expat, a former California who fled that craphole well in advance of things turning bad.  I don’t regret it.  Today, I merely want to bring up two cautions to moving ( there are many more ).  First, the best place to move to could turn into the worst from people arriving after you.  And second, there might be far fewer future safe places than you think.  Again, I’m not trying to convince anyone to stay.  I myself am not at all convinced staying is actually the wisest choice ( rather, it seems to be the least worst choice, for me personally ).

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A lot of us have fled bad places.  We sacrificed, moved ahead of the crowd, invested.  Then some assface moved there after us and screwed up the new place.  This is true of single pieces of property with a new neighbor, another state, or another country.  I was all alone in a great off grid location and then the idiots discovered the location ( but of course, being pussies, only moved there as the power poles were extended out ).  Now I’m hemmed in.  Other minions must keep fleeing once great alternate spots.  Why do you think a new country won’t be the same?

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Californians screwed up all the intermountain states.  Blacks from Dixie moved in and screwed up the Yankee factory towns.  Look at African Sudan and region.  Refugees moved in from other drought nations and screwed the whole place up.  Just twenty or thirty years ago some locations in Europe were probably really nice places.  Then the Muzzies moved in and turned entire cities into No Patrol regions.  As less stable countries with worse economies and too much population collapse in, say, South America, what is to guarantee your little piece of paradise won’t fall under waves of refugees?

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The big problem with the theories of the Forth Turning, or economic cycles named after Russian dudes, or global empires or even stair step collapses is what I’ve covered before as the 500 year cycle everyone ignores.  For the last five centuries, Europeans and their descendents have built an empire on surplus energy.  First by colonizing and then by carbon fuels.  The Industrial Revolution was due to coal, not the higher IQ of Whites, or the genius of capitalism ( surplus energy invented capitalism, not the other way around ), or geopolitics or technology ( surplus energy creates technology, not the other way around ).

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The whole globe is working under this model of excess energy.  What started as killing Black slaves to provide sugar to factory workers in England with cheaper calories is now killing middle easterners to provide oil to provide Chinese factory workers with cheaper calories from industrial agriculture.  Most countries on the bottom of the food chain are nothing more than commodity providers.  Those countries running out of commodities ( such as Libya and Tunisia, Syria and Venezuela with oil ) are thrown under the bus and long functional economies suddenly crash and burn. 

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These are the opening salvo’s in the end of the five hundred year old Western Empire.  Actually, the process started forty  years ago as oil supply peaked in per capita terms.  But until recently even marginal suppliers were rewarded with imported food.  That process of surplus food to commodities providers stopped being applicable around twelve years ago as the globe hit Peak Net Oil.  This one observation should give anyone thinking of leaving pause.  Are you walking into a trap set to shut shortly?  Repeat after me.  Venezuela was NOT about socialism.  Nor is it now about discarding the PetroDollar.

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It is triage, plain and simple, as the world’s population finally surpassed its grain production ( a combination of the end of the three generation moderate weather that made possible the Green Revolution, along with its butt buddy excess petroleum ).  Did you forget that it is All About The Food?  Excess energy is really just excess food, in the end.  If all of the Third World is nothing more than Commodity Providers, and those are the very areas triaged out of the system from lack of fuel and food, what is saving your expat country of choice?  Yes, growing your own food is great.  But politics from outside have a way of intruding.  Jonestown could have fed itself, but not protected itself from outsiders.

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Again, I’m not saying leaving the US is a bad choice.  I’m saying, will other peoples bad choices follow you to your better place?  Sure, the US is already in CrapHole status ( look at the bellwether state California for environmental, economic and population issues gone septic ).  Most people don’t think their escaped to state won’t follow California’s path, and they are wrong.  But will now functional third world countries stay solid, or will they also follow the collapse of western civilization?  Globalization is merely Western Civilization at this point, the whole globe conquered and occupied.  How will any escape when everyone is vulnerable to the same forces?

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How many Iranian citizens froze to death during WWII, because Russia needed their energy supplies?  They weren’t invaded or fighting in the conflict, but were still effected.  That is the kind of war gamming I’m encouraging here.  If far away locusts will attack your retreat farm, why won’t a rural farm in another country also fall to the overpopulated city hordes there?  Again, I don’t mean this as a “don’t you dare leave” article.  I only want you to think about if you are actually leaving problems behind.

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