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How To Survive The "Deep State"
Submitted by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com,
A currency crisis is coming... Are you prepared?
In Part 1, we detailed the powerful force that's ruining the country, what’s known as the "Deep State." In this, Part 2, we explain how to prosper during the "Deep State"... and lay out the actions you should take today...
Almost everyone looks for a political solution to problems. However, once a Deep State situation has taken over, only a revolution or a dictatorship can turn it around, and probably only in a small country.
Maybe you’re thinking you should get behind somebody like Ron Paul (I didn’t say Rand Paul), should such a person materialize. That would be futile.
Here’s what would happen in the totally impossible scenario that this person was elected and tried to act like a Lee Kuan Yew or an Augusto Pinochet against the Deep State:
First, there would be a “sit-down” with the top dogs of the Praetorian agencies and a bunch of Pentagon officers to explain the way things work.
Then, should he survive, he would be impeached by the running dogs of Congress.
Then, should he survive, whipped dog Americans would revolt at the prospect of having their doggy dishes broken.
Remember, your fellow Americans not only elected Obama, but re-elected him. Do you expect they’ll be more rational as the Greater Depression deepens? Maybe you think the police and the military will somehow help. Forget it...they’re part of the problem. They’re here to “protect and serve” their colleagues first, then their employer (the State), and only then the public. But the whipped dog likes to parrot: “Thank you for your service.” Which is further proof that there’s no hope.
Incidentally, an election year is coming up. So I’ll make a prediction, despite the fact that I don’t keep my finger on the pulse of what the Greeks called the hoi polloi and the Romans called the capite censi.
Because we’ll be immersed in a gigantic financial and economic debacle by this time next year, the natives will be restless and looking for some real hope and change.
They’ll clamor for an outsider who has all the answers. Therefore, Donald Trump will represent the right wing of the Demopublican Party and either Bernie Sanders or a general (yet to be identified), the left wing. I say a general because Americans both love and trust their military.
So what should you do, based on all this? For one thing, don’t waste your time and money trying to change the course of history. Trying to stop the little snowball rolling down the mountainside might have worked many decades ago, but now it’s turned into a gigantic avalanche that’s going to smash the village at the bottom of the valley. I suggest you get out of the way.
What, you may ask, would I do if I were dictator of the U.S. and had absolutely no regard for my personal safety? Here’s a seven-part program, for entertainment purposes only:
- Allow the collapse of all zombie corporations - banks, brokers, insurers, and government contractors. The real wealth they supposedly own will still exist.
- Abolish all regulatory agencies. Although Boobus americanus believes they exist to protect him, and that may have been an intention when they were created, they, at best, serve the industries they regulate. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, for instance, kills more Americans every year than does the Department of Defense in a typical decade. The SEC, the Swindlers Encouragement Consortium, lulls the average investor into thinking he’s protected. They, and other agencies, extract scores of billions out of the economy to feed useless mouths in return for throwing sand in the gears of the economy.
- Abolish the Fed...you need a strong currency to encourage saving. Actually, you don’t need a currency at all. Gold is vastly better as money.
- Cut the size of the military by 90% and abolish the Praetorian agencies. In addition to bankrupting the U.S., the military is now a huge domestic danger, even while it’s mainly an instrument for creating enemies abroad.
- Sell essentially all U.S. government assets. Although some actually have value, they are all a drain on the economy. For instance, the U.S. Postal Service loses $5 billion a year, and Amtrak lost a total of $1.1 billion last year. The Interstate Highway System, airports and the air-traffic-control system, the 650 million acres of U.S. government land, and many thousands of other assets should all be distributed in shares or sold. This would liberate an immense amount of dead capital. The proceeds could be used to partially satisfy some government obligations.
- Eliminate the income tax, as a start, which will be possible if the other six things are done. The economy would boom.
- Default on the national debt and contingent liabilities. That’s somewhere between $18 trillion and $200 trillion. There are at least three reasons for that. First is to avoid turning future generations into serfs. Second is to punish those who have enabled the State by lending it money. Third is to make it impossible for the State to borrow in the future, at least for a while.
I like this program from a practical point of view, because when a structure is about to collapse, it’s much wiser to conduct a controlled demolition than to just let it fall when no one expects it.
But I also like it from a philosophical point of view because, as Nietzsche observed, that which is falling deserves to be pushed.
There are, however, two very important reasons for optimism, science and savings.
Science: Science and technology are the mainsprings of progress, and there are more scientists and engineers alive today than have lived in all previous history put together. Unfortunately for Western civilization, however, most of them are Asians. Most American PhDs aren’t in Rocket Science but Political Science, or maybe Gender Studies. Nonetheless, the advancement of science offers some reason to believe that not only is all this gloom and doom poppycock, but that the future will not only be better than you imagine, but, hopefully, better than you can imagine.
Savings: Things can recover quickly because technology and skills don’t vanish overnight. Everybody but university economists knows you have to produce more than you consume, and save the difference, if you want to avoid starving to death. The problem is twofold, however. Most Americans have no savings. To the contrary, they have lots of debt. And debt means you’re either consuming someone else’s savings or mortgaging your own future.
Worse, science today is capital intensive. With no capital, you’ve got no science. Worse yet, if the U.S. actually destroys the dollar, it will wipe out the capital of prudent savers and reward society’s grasshoppers. Until they starve.
Of course, as Adam Smith said, there’s a lot of ruin in a nation. It took Rome several centuries to collapse. And look at how quickly China recovered from decades of truly criminal mismanagement.
On the other hand, Americans love their military, and this heavily armed version of the post office seems like the only part of the government that works, kind of. So maybe the U.S. will start something like World War III. Then, the whole world can see a real-life zombie apocalypse. Talk about free entertainment...
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But let’s return to the real world. What should you do? And how will this all end?
From a personal standpoint, you should preserve capital by owning significant assets outside your native country, because as severe as market risks are, your political risks are much greater.
- I suggest foreign real estate in a country where you’re viewed as an investor to be courted, rather than a milk cow. Or maybe a beef cow.
- Gold. It’s no longer at giveaway prices, but remains the only financial asset that’s not someone else’s liability.
- Look for depressed speculations. At the moment, my favorites are resource companies, which are down more than 90% as a group. And look to go long on commodities in general. Soybeans, wheat, corn, sugar, coffee, copper, and silver are probably near the bottom.
- Short bubbles that are about to burst. Like bonds, in general, and Japanese bonds denominated in yen, in particular. If you have a collectible car from the ‘60s that you hold as a financial asset, hit the bid tomorrow morning. Same if you have expensive property in London, New York, Sydney, Auckland, Hong Kong, or Shanghai, among other places.
The Second Law to the Rescue
From a macro standpoint, don’t worry too much. The planet has been here for 4.5 billion years and it has a life of its own. You don’t have to do anything to save the world. Instead, rely on the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
There are very few laws I believe in, but this is one of them. There are many ways of stating the law, and its corollaries, but this isn’t an essay on physics. In essence, it states that all systems wind down over time. That entropy conquers all. That all systems collapse without constant new inputs of energy. And that the larger and more complex a system becomes, the more energy it requires. The Second Law is why nothing lasts forever.
In human affairs, you can say stupidity is a corollary to the Second Law, in that it throws sand in the gears of society and accelerates the tendency of things to collapse. But stupidity doesn’t always mean low intelligence...most of the destructive sociopaths acting as top dogs have very high IQs. I want to draw your attention to more useful definitions of stupidity.
One is an inability to predict not just the immediate and direct consequences of an action, which a typical six-year-old can do, but to predict the indirect and delayed consequences.
An even more helpful definition is: Stupidity is an unwitting tendency towards self-destruction. It’s why operations run by bad people always go bad. And why, since the Deep State is run by bad people - sociopaths are actively drawn to it - it will necessarily collapse.
The Second Law not only assures that the Deep State will collapse but, given enough time, that all “End of the World” predictions will eventually be right, up to the heat death of the universe itself. It applies to all things at all levels...including, unfortunately, Western civilization and the idea of America. As for Western civilization, it’s had a fantastic run. Claims of the politically correct and multiculturalists aside, it’s really the only civilization that amounts to a hill of beans.
Now, it’s even riskier calling a top in a civilization than in a stock or bond market. But I’d say Western civilization peaked just before World War I. In the future, it will be a prestige item for Chinese families to have European maids and houseboys.
As for America, it was an idea - and a very good one - but it’s already vanished, replaced by the United States, which is just one of 200 other nation-states covering the face of the Earth like a skin disease. That said, the U.S. peaked in the mid ‘50s and has gone down decisively since 1971. It’s living on stored momentum, memories, and borrowed Chinese money.
Let me bring this gloomy Spenglerian view of the world to a close with some happy thoughts. You want to leave them laughing. Not everybody went down with the Titanic.
Looking further at the bright side: Just being born in America in the 20th century amounted to winning the cosmic lottery...an accident of birth could have placed us in Guinea or Zimbabwe. On the other hand, if I wanted to make a fortune in today’s world, I’d definitely head to Africa.
But just as the Second Law dictates that all good things, like America, must come to an end, so must all bad things, like the Deep State, in particular. That’s a cosmic certainty.
Finally, it occurs to me that, while I hope I’ve explained why the Second Law will vanquish the Deep State, I’ve neglected to explain how whipped dogs can profit from the collapse of Western civilization. Well, it was a trick question. We all love the idea of justice, even if most people neither understand what it is, nor like its reality.
The answer is that they can’t... parasites can only exist as long as their host. Which is actually the final piece of good news I want to leave you with.
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Yeah sure, flee to a foreign country where you are the hated gringo and don't speak the language.
I'm not taking any advice on this subject from a "buy foreign real estate" spokesman. If he plans to cut and run then his opinion won't matter.
Amen! Any man who won't stand and fight for his home soil.....Kind of makes you wonder about all these "Syrian asylum seekers".
Fuck how to "survive" the deep state! Tell me how to destroy the motherfucker!
Easy: bust the child-porn rings.
ALL OF THEM. The rest will follow.
Public sector unions are Deep State. Every state should go all Scott Walker on their asses, and then some. Pull the rug out. Got public education in your locale? Make them issue vouchers, so the fuckers have to compete. In the private sector. ONLY.
Come to Germany.
The grass is greener on the other side?
Many wealthy Chinese have bought houses and real estate here in the USA to get away from their gubmint. Do they think Uncle Sam will not confiscate those houses, that raw land, that commerical RE when things heat up between USA and Communist China?
Very short sighted. Canada has already made a list of ALL the RE held by foreigner-held RE and guess what their next move is? Most likely tax them first. Canada already is asking many of them where'd they get that $2.5+ million for that house and they have already expatriated several looters back to their country of origin to authorities.
Is the grass really greener on the other side for them?
Buy land in the US, prepare/dig in, and when the time comes, fight like hell.
I'm staying right the fuck here, for starters I don't know how to hunt, skin, and cook a monkey, wombat, dik dik, platypus, fruit bat, orangutan.
Second, I have a plan, I got a shopping cart and my "homeless person" costume all set to go, shit my pants and smell like road kill and no fucking stasi stormtrooper will want to load me in their car. Hide is plain site, I can babble like a crazy man too, for instance (pushing my shopping cart filled with trash) "look here mother fucker, whad you say? I will whip your ass, what? WHAT DID YOU SAY? My MOTHER? why did you have to bring her into this?..........(storm trooper walks up, sniffs the air, keeps walking, booboo looks into his rear view mirror duct taped to cart, coast is clear, Checks 1911 under his house coat, keeps pushing cart to oasis behind walmart filled with virgin 20 year old girls waiting for sugar daddy to heat up some Beefaroni.
Turd King will reign in the land of the spotless.
I have to agree. No place like home and defending it. The disconnect between people and thier governments, whether it's USA, Brazil, India or China is huge. A good example is 87% of people polled were against Obama's Tax Care Bill yet he and the Dems crammed it down Americans' throats anyway!
I was just reading Will Durant's books and he says if these gubmints do not change there usually is a revolution and cites the many revolts in ancient and modenr times to throw the bums out.
Lets hope the changes are peaceful.
+1
I always did think the 'hiding in plain sight' tactic was one of the best. Good description of one method, Turd King.
I'm just going to go out, jump in my Lear, head off to my ranch in Patagonia ! ! !
Well, next to flying to the ranch in Patagonia, hiding in plain sight pales in comparison I guess...
"Come to Germany. "
Don't you mean the "Caliphate, European edition"? Germany either going to become an islamic state, or a return to nationism (ie NAZI like system). The EU is smack in the middle of Socialism, Islam, and the new cold war between Russia, China and NATO. I am reasonbly sure that the EU is second only to the Middle East as the past place to move to.
I'm with you on busting the gubmint unions, but vouchers will just ruin otherwise good private schools by sending "youths" to them. Why should Shaniqua get taxpayer-funded private school edukashuns for her eight chilluns from 7 baby daddies? Fuck that!
Right on IV. You nailed it.
Vote from a rooftop.
Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.
Those old fuckers in Virginia knew what was up.
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
I perfer to vote by not participating anymore. Drop out of the labor force supporting ths crap circus and stop paying taxes. Unfortunately too many people have gotten adicted to the "keeping up with the Jones": McMansions, BWMs, SUVs, Posh crap, and can't afford to stop working. Tyler has it right: "You don't own your things, Your things own you!"
That's really easy .... elect Biden with Berny or Hillary as Vice President.
It'll really be painful all around you but then that's only because we are residing in a 'Deep State' now.
"Tell me how to destroy the motherfucker!"
Follow Timothy Leary: Drop out of of the labor force and stop bankrolling the system. There are now probably less than 70M american workers paying enough taxes need to keep the system afloat.
if the Colonel wins in 2016, its likely the he will greatly speed up the path of destruction. His "Free stuff" for everyone policies will result in tens of millions of americans drop out of the laborforce and start collecting "free" stuff. The FSA "Free Shit Army" is the most powerful Army in the world once its adequately supplied! No nation has ever survive the FSA with it starts rolling!
Team Depends......You don't have home soil in Free Shit America. Fail to pay tribute to the Deep State and you will see who owns your home soil. Therefore, you are UNGROUNDED in every sense of the term. If you try to hang on they will kill your ass dead if you don't move along like a good little serf.
You had better put your dick ruler back in the pocket and listen to Casey. It's pretty obvious that you and the ZHers posting above you could use a dose of education and a double dose of humility.
We are all in Deep State Deep Shit. I've read Casey's books and newsletters for years and he is someone that every ZHer should read. Take it on good faith to start immediately getting a second passport. There are many more things you need to prepare for, his Going Global is a good tool.
A hint to the wise is sufficient.
The Pilgrims were cut-and-runners.
Comes a time for everything...
Surviving to thrive is the goal.
I know a bunch of people who ran off to Europe to escape the dindus in America and what happened a few years later? Europe decided to invite unlimited numbers of Africans and Muslims and spread them all over Europe.
Running is no answer. You are just subjecting yourself to the whims of a different set of elites and governments. The only answer is to withdraw as much as possible from mainstream society and focus on your family. Build a community with like minded people if possible. Really, start your own town. It IS possible and has been done throughout history.
Be hours away from the nearest town of more than 10,000 people.
The ones who "ran off to Europe" were the elitist libs who liked to claiim that Manhattan "was an island off the coast of Europe" so as to sound even more "cultured and elite."
They got exactly what they deserved.
"Remember, your fellow Americans not only elected Obama, but re-elected him."
The author lost all credibility with such an ignorant comment.
President "elected" with 100% plus the votes in how many districts...?
you'll be surprised how little you are hated (as an individual ) when you travel or move abroad. Foreigners hate Bush and other mafia not American people (especially the young ones). It's a myth. I've lived in many countries and I see how people feel towards Americalns even in the countries your government bombed not so long ago (i.e. Serbia)
That all depends on their attitude.
A little bit of humility and some empathy will open doors in any country you happen to visit.
Dragging around an "exceptional" arrogance on the other hand will win you no friends.
Depends on the country and its attitudes towards Americans in general.
The 'Ugly American' excepted.
And there are plenty of those around which just makes living amongst other cultures a little more difficult because of stereotyping. But yes, I have seen from my limited time in other cultures that there is actually an advantage for Americans (gringos). Especially in Latin America.
You are too funny. Three years ago I moved to a "foreign" country. They gave me permanent residency and even though I am still working on learning the language they are always willing to help me learn.
What country and what makes it "foreign"? The Obama FSA USSA is the most "foreign" strange POS I have ever seen.
Don't be a dumb fuck, learn another language or three.
Yeah sure, flee to a foreign country where you are the hated gringo and don't speak the language.
Why escape to a foreign country when 14 States are already positioned and prepared to leave this failed 50 State Union?
The Confederate States never officially surrendered or rejoined the Union. Technically the 13 Confederate States and Texas remain an occupied foreign country and the Independent State of Texas. The Confederate States retain an active Government In Waiting ready to take control away from a now "On the Edge of Collapse" corrupt Centralized Federal Government. It still retains physical Gold and Silver valued in the trillions of (currently valued) Dollars that was never surrendered when only a cease fire agreement was signed at what became the end of the civil war. Little known and never reported are the number of Solders and Sailors from Texas and the 13 Confederate States that make up the Military. Currently it's 85% and most of those have been recruited by an origination that are prepared to support the League of the South when the collapse comes to take control of the Military and take it to the 13 Confederate States and Texas so Washington D.C. will be prevented from starting a second Civil War. All it will take to start the ball rolling is the collapse of the US Dollar, which could now happen on any given weekend where everyone wakes up one Monday morning with closed banks filled with worthless fiat dollars.
The problem is that the confederate states let themselves be invaded by yankee scum fleeing their crime-ridden, tax-obsessed northern, frozen rust belt, shit-hole states.
dress like a hobo?
This is not an alternative to be taken lightly. The hobosexual lifestyle, while certainly not for the majority, can provide one with companionship and uh, yeah. If you love campfires, don't mind grounds in your coffee, and are bold as love, this could be the situation for you. If gender confusion doesn't confuse you, you may have found your community. Heck, hobosexuals can now marry each other in this magical place, where progress is measured in loss. Want a cake for your wedding? Why, you can force any bakery to bake you a dumpster cake. And if they refuse? Well, this is your ticket out of the alley, my friend!
most of the homosexuals I've met in LA and London don't really get on well with anyoe. Occasionally they go out to clubs where tehy air-kiss a lot and have sex with stranger they hope never to meet again.
I've met lots of them (especially In London) who never have sex with anyone and or hate sex (they told me themselves).
People often confuse gender identity disorder (a sympthom of many psychopathologies) with homosexuality.
And in Anglo-saxon world it's been turned into a religion from what I see
"most of the homosexuals I've met in LA and London don't really get on well with anyoe."
Shit. Most everyone I've met from LA don't seem to play well with others, homosexual or otherwise.
When is Zerohedge gonna stop posting these articles about buying foreign land and storing your gold on foreign soil? Instead of posting articles about hiding one's self and wealth from ever expanding global control, can we please have more articles about how to actively fight the system.
Withdrawing support is the only way. It's hard and it would be good to do it along with others. I've shrugged as best I can while remaining "in the system" but there are red lines which, if crossed. will cause me to withdraw my support entirely. These include single payer, chips and 2A.
If every American who cares about liberty withdrew what support they could, the world would be a better place. TD I don't see anybody standing and fighting do you? Isn't there some Tsun Tzu about if your enemy is destroying himself?
Best way to withdraw your support?
Simple:
1) Stop borrowing from banks (or anyone for that matter)
2) Pay off all debt
3) Don't buy things you don't need and can't afford
If only 1 in 4 Americans did this beginning tomorrow, the Ponzi would collapse in a matter of weeks...
Why do you think both political parties are encouraging illegal immigration? They need fresh debt slaves to continue the Ponzi.
You have to stop the government borrowing from Banks.
Start cash businesses where a good % of your customers are local and know you. If the fiat goes kaput, at least you've got a local group who is used to paying you something for a product/service. Once that human habituation is in place, it's a lot easier to renegotiate the currency with which you get paid. With these businesses (and a good accountant), use every allowance in the tax code to reduce your AGI. This can dramatically reduce the amount you feed the Beast. And dare to speak the truth.
Indeed.
If you can keep your gross business receipts to around only $15,000 to $20,000 per year, you can file for the EIC and have the IRS pay you approximately $5,000 per year that you never paid in taxes in the first place.
Don't just starve the beast; bankrupt it...
If enough white people withdraw their support from the existing society and power structure then it will eventually collapse. Solar power is a big enabler in that regard. Simply leave the madness of modern society and start your own community. Maybe just your own family, but it's enough. If possible, though, find like minded people (relatives, close friends) and bring them into the community. This is not possible in Europe but it is surely possible in North America where one can buy land and build a community hours away from the closest city of more than 10,000 people.
'Cause you're gonna' hide in Canada when the SHTF. So what's the diff? Americans flooding across the border with gold and guns, what are Canadians gonna' do?
"Americans flooding across the border with gold and guns, what are Canadians gonna' do?"
Um,... offer us free college tuition and healthcare, issue us drivers licenses and teach us to speak Canadian?
That's the whole point of the article. One can't "fight the system" but remove themselves from it to the best of their ability/means and to whatever extent makes one comfortable. If one chooses. The ways to do this are too numerous to list really...
Don't forget the BTC lottery ticket, BTChez.
I'm sorry, I cannot except the premise that you can't fight the system. To remove oneself is just kicking the can. You try all you want to find your own little corner where you hope eveyone leaves you alone, but that is merely sticking your head in the sand. Through taxation you will never be free from government intrusion, the land you think you own can be taken through numerous ways such as eminent domain and the raising of property taxes. The longer people feel they can't fight the system, the more tools they will lose to serve that purpose, gun control being a primary example. This idea of just hiding one's self will be our doom because it is wasting the precious time that could be used on community preparations.
I'm bunking with you.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'm right there with you brother. I still marvel at the brilliance of guaranteeing a jury of one's peers, truly smarter men than I.
The thing is, there is no chance jurors of today would be your peers, if you even went to trial. You seldom choose to defend yourself now, because they you on so much, and prosecutors themselves arent accountable and judges have invented all sorts of rights to themselves that undermine the whole point of juries, such as they now are created.
Once they lable you a terrorist you get no jury, no lawyer, not court date and no judge. Just a cell. Read the NDAA act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fis...
Depends whether you want to fight or live your life, go for it. Depends on the "community" one finds themselves in. Your viewpoint depends on many things to even have a shot at success without driving you insane and/or having violence inflicted upon yourself.
If you want to fight however, I suggest you get your ass out from behind your keyboard and go put yourself in jeopardy. Go ahead, go fight the system, I encourage you if that's what you're into but I know you don't have the ability to do it successfully. On the other hand, if that is your path in life, good luck and who am I to criticize you.
I do maintain, however, that separating one's self from the machine, one's labor, the way one spends their "money", etc., etc. is in fact one of the best ways to "fight" it on a passive level.
I'm too old too fight, just injecting my own opinion.
BTW, it has nothing to do with "hiding" and everything to do with living, something you may yet come to realize if you don't already. Calling this approach "hiding", "sticking your head in the sand", or "kicking the can?" is an insult to anyone who's taken risks, big or small, to pull-up roots to try and make a better life for themselves, particularly those faced with hardship or worse. Punk move.
John Lawrence Burns[1] (September 5, 1793 – February 4, 1872[2]), veteran of the War of 1812, became a 69-year-old civilian combatant with the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. He was wounded, but survived to become a national celebrity.
You,re never too old to fight -you have less to lose. If you've had a long life, you have less to lose than a young man -especially those with young children depending on them. Only the good die young - should not be that way.
Samuel Whittemore was a distiguished military officer in Her Majesty's Army during the mid 1700's. He retired in Mass. around Bunker Hill-yes THAT Bunker Hill. When he heard the British were coming to town DISARMING CITIZENS he grabbed his gun and moved his 70 year old ass out with some friends and tried to ambush the convoy, except there were a lot more of them than him. He was wounded, bayonetted several times and left for dead. His friends got him up and he lived another 20 years.
Alexander's SilverShields were still unstopable when they were in their 70's during the succession wars after Alexander fied died in Babylon.
The goal of every Free Man should be to Die in Babylon.
You want to fight the system? Go to Stormcloudsgathering.com and watch all the videos. Also research the "White Rose" a group in Germany during WWII. That's the best way to actively do something.
Full length movie on Sophie Scholl and the White Rose:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXtC08tWxqA
"Parasites can only exist as long as their host"
I love that.
Cancer, is the ultimate "Parasite"
I completely leveled the 'Deep State' in 08 except that the 'Deep State' is shit-for-brains and it was not hard. Frankly, if you want to fight what is left of the system you will need to analyse the system to spot what will likely remain as the system keeps crashing on a quarterly basis.
Moreover, if you really want to repair the system instead of pushing it over a cliff like a philosopher you must understand that the system cannot be repaired, and must be fully rebuilt on a more suitable substrate. Ergo, when Z/Hers scream for an end of the FED they instinctively know that the present system is already so disfunctional that nothing works anymore. If we follow through with a complete redesign of the functional aspects of a new economy we might get somewhere before the old system completely implodes into history.
Agreed. I'm sick of Doug Casey and his Spam. Plus he's an Israeli nationalist (Zionist).
Is he a jew?
Papists and false-Jew Talmud Khazar cult impalers have been satanically bonded as "good cop/bad cop" since long before Golgotha. Together they rose and together they shall achieve Eternal Damnation, praise God.
Not sure about the Papists -but the talmud and talmudistic Jews pre-dated the Khazzarian Empire and conversion.
Nonononono! That bunch want to keep you in the pen here for shearing.p
voting with our vallets is a good start
Refuse to take part. Withdraw. Work for a while to build wealth then buy land somewhere and go "off grid" as much as possible. Reduce your income and taxes as close to 0 as possible. This doesn't mean you don't work, it just means you don't work for sheckles. Barter, farm, hunt, fish, manufacture something and sell it to hipsters online. Lots of options there. It's really the only sane way to live.
Stop worrying about what's happening in Syria or across the world and focus on your family and community. You shouldn't care what's happening in the next state over, let alone across the world. It is possible to live this way. Save up, withdraw, disconnect. Again, with your family and friends, not by yourself like some crazed hermit.
You should care about what is outside your community. The cities will empty fleeing the chaos and they gotta go somewhere.
Not all countries have 100% surveillance and ground penetrating radar and parallel court systems and, well, need I continue?
Some don't practice and enforce zero tolerance.
Start by making sure this website stays up.
its called FM 31-21
http://www.survivalebooks.com/free%20manuals/1961%20US%20Army%20Vietnam%...
so far theres a whole lot of talkers but no serious takers....including myself
you wanna go first?
Let the Criminal Fraud Entity aka the Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. collapse into its own footprint as did Buildimg Seven & revert back into a Constitutional Republic which has always stood.
TPTB are good at 'controlled collapses' ONLY in certain cases (like the one cited above) and when said collapses can be blamed on 'terrorists' in a way to garner even MORE power over the masses.
Sadly, real systemic collapses tend to be VERY messy and violent. Many figureheads and public faces of TPTB may end up hanging from lamp posts but the real power sees blood in the streets as an OPPORTUNITYy to make even MORE money.
Satan's "hands" are no longer hidden. The Anti-Christ's Talmud/papist Fifth Column, in its entirety, shall be expropriated and erased.
Hillary only needs something like 25 electoral votes after she wins about 10 big Democrat voting states. She could win about a dozen states and lose 38 - but get to the White House. Our only hope is to re-assert states rights or to find another country!
You have to crawl before you can walk -I doubt the American sheeple are ready to walk -so we will liklely get Hillary - Putin could be a game changer though. things could change very quickly if he succeeds in the ME and the World turns against us. The sooner the better. We are an occupied country -a ZOG - I'm ready for the battle for America to begin.
Diebold will "deliver" the Presidency again.
The South was right!
>>>Our only hope is to re-assert states rights or to find another country!
Quoted for truth.
Personally, I found another country 15 years ago. I respect those who say they want to "stay and fight", but you do actually have to do something, beyond the work-family-fatherland lifestyle that TPTB are perfectly content to see you pursue.
IMHO, if you're in the belly of the beast, you have to at least minimize your support of the Oligarchy (through debt, taxes, and the child-sacrifice-through-public-education paradigm). If you're keen to actually destroy Oligarchy assets, and assault their servants, I share some of your sentiments, but you may well be engaging in behavior that is counter-productive. Actively working toward the assertion of States Rights (and jury nullification), is one of the few modes of resistance that at this time seem reasonable.
Things, of course, will change.
Another rat left the sinking ship.
Hope that works out for you in the worldwide reset.
Pray tell which hemisphere, continent, climate and culture have you chosen for your earthly observation post?
I am semi-retired, working in Auckland, New Zealand, with a home on the South Island.
In terms of leaving the USA, my move was looking for "something better", not an attempted flight from Global Apolcalypse. The (financial) Apocalypse, though, will affect some areas more than others, and urban Amurica will be among the most affected.
Between a "culture" that I find generally horrible, and no future that I wanted a part of, the choice to leave the USA was easy, once family obligations were resolved. My one (adult) child is in the States, though, which is a source of concern; still, it's his call. To be honest, if I had grandchildren, I would likely move back to the US, at least part-time.
There is no "hope".
It will be the only choice, to accept enslavement or NOT.
Caliphony - in the tank for Cuntarly
NY - the same...those fuckers would vote in Stalin.....stupid asses
Illinois - The Land of Stinkin....of course.....Cunt gets the votes
NJ/Mass/Conn/Vermont/NH - all Cuntarly voters....the dumb fucks
Pennsylvania - toss up....but lots of Cuntarly lovers there
Maryland....of course.....Cunt for Pres.
Wisconsin - liberal as ever.....and just as dumb
those alone give the cunt the WH
Hillary's election just might be the spark needed to get things moving in the right direction.
And Jeb Bush would be any BETTER?
Get past the illusion that political parties matter and that there are any real differences. Obama was put in play to deflect the outrage felt by the masses after 8 years of Bush II. God forbid a real progressive got elected on a tidal wave of revulsion (like FDR in 1932).
Obama has been Bush III - if you believe otherwise you're delusional.
Whoever is 'elected' in 2016 will be at the beck and call of the Deep State andserve TPTB - trying desperately to continue the can kicking and postpone the collapse that is coming. The Republic is dead and the Empire is collapsing. The end game will be war - bloody and messy - to distract the people from the treachery of their leaders. It is the cycle of history and only the arrogant believe they can do different after screwing it up as their predecessors have.
I agree.
The reset caused by the last 40 years of elitist corruption could happen anytime.
It will be a mess, worldwide.
Electing the immoral Billary cartel would make it quicker than electing somebody that would try to fix the mess.
Then the rebuilding can begin.
I live in my van in San Francisco and deliver food 8 hours a day, 7 days a week. I'm 44. Met my Indonesian wife while surfing Bali back in '03. We are building our 3rd house up on the east coast of Sumatra. I work here 9 months out of the year and go there to surf and hang out with her/my family for the other 3 months. America is truly collapsing, but don't tell that to a Boomer. They'll just say all we need is a Democrat in office and everything will be fine.
A comment from a rat that has jumped the ship about us boomers is a fine way to start the morning.
Salud, and may you choke on your cowardlyness.
He's winning.
Keyboard warriors won't be enough to save whatever shards of freedom yet remain here in occupied America.
Most boomers I know are voting for Trump.
Im so tired of these articles by rich guys telling other rich guys how to survive. What about us that cant afford foreign real estate and shitloads of gold? We dont have a choice to survive the deep state...our best hope is to fight it not run from it.
>>>...our best hope is to fight it not run from it.
If you choose to fight, good luck to you. You don't have to be "rich" to flee Mordor, though money certainly helps; being young and mentally flexible is good enough.
If you're over 50, and sans a few million bucks, probably the thing to do is to hunker down in one of the "backward" areas of the USA, and network with the like-minded.
True but silver is an option also, even if one only purchases a coin at a time it can make a big damn difference. It's possible that one coin could end up paying a whole month of your bills at some point and the price right now is around $16. Then you can fight, eat and run.
Work. Save. Get the best land you can afford in the best location you can find. Get away from the cities. Withdraw support. Reduce your on-books earning and taxes to near 0. Focus on your family and community. If you can't do this on your own, join someone else that is like minded with more resources (obviously to reduce conflict I'm talking about family and close friends).
In future history, the most interesting stories will be from those regular guys who did what was needed to survive and triumph, not from those whose prep-bunkers allowed their survival.
Plenty of people would barter land for work. Especially where you would be a valuable part of the local community. Look into woofing in Latin America. Or look for farmers getting up there in age. The vast majority of farms in the US will change hands in the next 20 years. Plenty of farmers will be looking to pass on the farms to keep them out of the hands of the corporations. But farmers will not just give their world to you for nothing. Expect to earn it.
If necessary, I'll take my cue from the cockroaches in the kitchen when the light comes on, I'll crawl my ass under the refrigerator.
The swamps of the South or the deserts of the Southwest are good, government pussies probably will not camp out there. Being a Southern boy I prefer the swamps, I know what bites, stings, poisons, and critters that can eat you, if you don't eat them first.
Notice that they have closed any escape valves within the borders of the US. If you attempt to remove yourself from their system you can face guns from cops or federals. You can't simply move out in the woods even if you wanted to; every square inch is dominated by some controlling "authority". To put a point on it, the radio news thought it was an item of national interest that they arrested a man who had been living in an old church for 3 years, for trespassing. They want to make sure that everyone knows you can't leave the plantation.
The problem with removing escape valves is that pressure builds. It's going to be revolution or civil war at some point. There won't be a peaceful change because they will not let go of power.
I read a great description once about how to disappear into the countryside. Things like find a place to squat by looking for places where remote public lands and private lands meet or are entangled. With the right low profile, the county will think its public land and the neighbors will think you're the reclusive owner.
This is for you, Doug Casey, paradigm of the new International Man with no loyalties except to the idea of keeping his pile of filthy lucre safe and growing...
These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
When we win, and we will, don't come back.
May God bless you and yours always, "tarabel."
Death for Treason
Let's not forget that Thomas Paine was talking about a FOREIGN enemy in his works, and I believe some premises need to be looked at differently when "the enemy" is your next door neighbor, your banker, your mayor, your Congressman, and your President! The tactics needed might be more along the lines of passive non-cooperation than outright violent insurrection.
Thomas Paine wasn't necessarily writing about a "foreign" enemy". His "reason" applied to those leading Great Britian but were mostly addressed to the snakes in our US of A.
There were many in the colonies loyal to the King. Legislators, judges, businessmen, clergy and landowners.
Revolutionaries were betrayed, jailed, killed, and ruined by those used to being on their knees to a sovereign Godfather.
He had progressive snakes around in his day also. One of my favorite Thomas Paine quotes.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in
holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
In my view, this is not correct. Thomas Paine was talking about the legitimate government that ruled the land he lived in. Non-cooperation would be a good start, in any event. War should always be the last resort. All other options should be exhausted.
Tell us what patriotic things you are doing.
Hi Fred, the most patriotic thing I do is not GIVE UP, as so many suggest is the proper course of action-- including Mr. Casey and the countless foreign trolls who busy themselves on this site. They never call for China to give up, or Russia, or the EU, or anyone else-- just the Americans. Why? Because we are the last stumbling block in the plans for a boot on the face of humanity forever.
My ancestors have stood on Plymouth Rock, fought the King, the Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Fuhrer, and the Politburo. Every generation of Americans has its own challenge to face. Saying that the one confronting us is too big and scary for us to handle is not the response of Americans but of the miserable subject nations from whence our families all dared to cast off from. The other governments of the world shout for us to submit. Our own captured organs of government shout for us to submit. In a time when evil and chaos seem to be universal, they all shout for us to give up, to submit, to accept our fate and merge with the rest of the hive mind.
The prophecy of General George Washington still has power and promise to me.
In this third and greatest crisis to face America, "All the world united shall not prevail against her."
I will not give up on General Washington, God, or the Constitution of the United States so long as life remains. Encouraging others to stand, rather than kneel, is as patriotic as it gets.
"...the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
Assuming of course that (y)our side wins.
Otherwise, the more desperate and tragic it all becomes.
Buy foreign real estate is maybe the dumbest thing I've ever read on this site.
You forgot about his referral to the grand business opportunities in Africa.
Bet he doesn't live there, bank there, or invest there himself.
You would be wrong about investing there. Much of his time is in Argentina.
I had no idea they'd moved Argentina to Africa.
Since you mentioned it, however, do you suppose he keeps his bank account in evil old US dollars or in Argentine Boat Anchors?
If he practices his advice, he doesn't keep his money in any of the NYC and London banks. His stuff lists the most stable banks in the free countries.
If he isn't your cup of tea, search others, I'm not overly enthralled with him or anyone, but he knows more than you an I. Big talk with firearms is plain suicidal. I'm probably as armed with as much firepower as anyone here but going to war is stupid, defend you and yours and don't start any crusades.
I expect a coup is in the making when the uniformed and uninformed ones see their families in danger and their lights come on.
The ones flying and driving the BIG firepower aren't dumbed down like the Pentagram drooling suck asses.
No, Vlad, it is not. You have inhaled too much. A lot of arguments. In case of collapse, countries do not matter, regions and locations do. Either the region has resources to support your survival or not. It is that simple. If not, move out! If your present country does not have such regions and/or is in grave (geopolitical etc.) danger, move out. Fighting the system does not help. Not supporting it and surviving to help to build better system does. So the term "life hedge property" does make sense, Check out one region in South Am - http://visa4brazil.com
Buying foreign real estate has been working amazingly well for the Chinese and other foreigners here in the US. No?
This guy is on glue.
Not bright suggesting unloading a car with points ignition...and the Beast can now be identified with specificity: individually, by family, and by institution - for expropriation and for justice.
No coincidence the author - who believes America, and God, is doomed - has a Roman Catholic clan name - of the same satanic FedScam, Hitler-financing, Holodomor-committing, Holohoaxing, JFK-assassinating, 9/11-committing, Sandy Hook-hoaxing faction which followed us over with their false-Jew Khazar Christ-killer partners to destroy the Children of God, and God's "Promised Land."
I American, we live in two different countries. All I see are over half of Americans wanting a handout and vote their religion on me. They demand and force me to pay for their bad habits. I'm sick of it, find another host.
After Rome and the Talmuds took us over, the prophesied "New Israel," with the "Civil War," Rockefeller/Bush built "Big Oil" on unredressed murder and arson in 1870's Cleveland, then set up the welfare system ("Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion") to forestall Justice, which must be visited upon the Roman Anti-Christ's Rothschild/Rockefeller/Organized Crime Fifth Column.
My belief in God, the Creator of the universe, our named Sovereign, informs me those who allied with our homo ruling false-elite (which I began to perceive at West Point, a True Believer not realizing I'd been born into its periphery..."forest for the trees") - the foretold attackers of Israel: Gog and Babylon - are the "Beast" ("engine for enslaving mankind" - Th. Jefferson) which shall be cast down, and our "nation of priests" - the divine right of Individual Sovereignty - shall be restored.
Those who repentantly look to Our Sovereign shall by grace be saved. The transparently obvious anti-Capitalist/fascist/racist/oppressor/exploiter servants of Satan among us shall be fully expropriated and wish they had made "better choices."
In God's image all is volitional.
The military won't be loaded up with greencard Hispanic Roman Catholic illegals soon enough, nor will the People bow to the "disarm the Goyim" hoaxes and psyops.
Ergo the Talmud/papist false-elite Anti-Christ in America is toast, thank God. Good and decent police and military will come to the People, who as sovereign once more shall reform as America 2.0 with a more precise understanding of The Founder's prophetic writing, that Rome is, in fact "the real Anti-Christ," and just what is the difference between a true Jew and a false-Jew Talmud Khazar Christ-killer Zionist.
Adding Isaiah's several interlocking prophesies of "Zion," the "New Israel," to this exegesis of the biblical "Israelites," we can know only America is God's "Promised Land," "into which all nations of the world flow," never to be destroyed, praise God: http://www.missiontoisrael.org/israelite.php
not everyone went down with the Titanic?
NO ... just most of the men.
Casey exchanged his ticket for a first class cabin on the Andrea Doria.
I think we should keep the Post Office, it never had to be as expensive at it has become. Besides, if we were to survive a deep state reset nobody would want to use the internet for things requiring personal information, paying bills on line etc (I don't want to do it now). By the time this is over it will take a very long time to gain trust back in most modern systems. Modern systems are also vulnerable to solar flare or EMP and there is nothing wrong with snail mail. We don't have to throw the baby out with the bath water, unless of course we run out of oil then it's smoke signal and pigeons.
Those who go down into the luxury bunkers thinking that they are safe will be killed and most likely eaten. Of the billions on the surface some will survive.
Strange Doug didn't say "get the hell outta dodge".
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Okay, he did mention "foreign real-estate"... but that sounds like a financial investment. I'd say moving to a remote rural location is a sanity, liberty and lifestyle investment... very much more important than any financial investment.
Everywhere is "Foreign Real estate" to anyone who isn't already there. As an idea, its nuts to buy something you most likely won't reach in a collapse situation. If you do reach it, you' be the newcomer during times of low trust and resources. Better to find a place in your own country that is'nt exposed to the worst of the developments. If there are no places like that, move now to a different country.
I'm gonna guess ZH commenters skew to people who work in higher paying financial service jobs. Clinging to the notion that a pile of gold and a pied-a-terre in (pick a foreign country) are effective hedges against the next 'Krystallnacht' involves a high degree of delusion. Look @ how quickly all the flights were stopped after 9/11. That's how fast transport to your pied-a-terre can be cut off. Also, try paying for 2 items in gold; 1 of which is legal to purchase, and 1 of which is illegal. If that goes well for you, then proceed to 'gold is the answer' step 2, the timed 25 mile march with all your gold on your body.
People who wait until the SHTF are almost certainly trapped in whatever slave-pit they live. Tough turkey.
For those folks, I suggest you get a private pilot license and a pipistrel virus sw 100 912iS with extreme range tanks (about $150K brand new). With this airplane or equivalent, you can fly yourself (and one other) from anywhere, and get to anywhere else on the planet (in hops that do not exceed about 4000km each).
Of course, if you have boatloads of money, you can buy a more expensive and larger airplane [to take more people and personal property]. Just make sure you get something that will take you a LONG way without refueling (at economy speed). The reason I suggest 4000km is... because then you can fly all the way across the north or south pacific ocean in hops. Without a range of at least 3850km (reliable), you can't make it.
I mention the pipistrel virus sw 100hp with 912iS engine because that's what I have, and know it gets 70~75 mpg at economy speed (240kph~250kph) and about 35~45+ mpg at cruise speed (~285kph). I've flown back and forth across the south pacific three times... so I know this airplane is capable of the longest refuel hop (about 3800km). I moved to the southern hemisphere to "get the hell outta dodge" nearly 4 years ago, so I already practiced what I preach.
What I'm saying is this. Anyone who lives in the evil empire or any of its major allies should "get outta dodge".
This means "move your butt to some other fictitious nation" that appeals to you.
The number one fact to understand (if you live somewhere with a modestly to egregiously annoying and/or nasty government) is the following:
Never live where you are considered a citizen!
Or even a permanent resident.
When you live "elsewhere", the predators-DBA-government tend to think of you more like "a welcome guest that is likely spending outside money into their economy". Whereas, if you live where you are a citizen, the predators-DBA-government consider you their slave, their milk cow and quite possibly their meat cow eventually. In other words, they'll abuse you endlessly, suck you dry, eventually [mostly] eat you alive.
This is the more elaborate meaning of "get the hell outta dodge". Go live [and work] where you are "not an official resident". In some places (many places in south america) all you need to is drive across the border to another fictitious nation for lunch once every 3, 6 or 12 months.
Or don't even bother. For fun, find and read the story about the fellow who left Argentina after living as a tourist for 14 years (to say goodbye to a dying parent). When he went to leave, the Argentina agent said "you overstayed 14 years... do you realize we could fine you $50 if we wanted to?"... then let him through and said "come back soon"! Hahaha. In other words, if you don't cause any serious trouble, some fictitious nations don't really care... or make a big deal of such rules.
Of course, if you live somewhere good, and can avoid the worst aspects of your local predators-DBA-government, then stay home but be prepared.
Great article and lists, but the author misses a critical point. Science has changed the way political power flows. That hasn't happened since the printing press, so it's not surprising that he missed it.
First, it's made coercive centralized organizations almost unbeatable. Surveillance technology, big data, and digital finance give governments the ability to control their populations so completely that, if they are not stopped, they will make 1984 look like Woodstock.
But where it giveth, it also taketh away. For the first time since the city state, encryption gives common people the ability to talk directly to each other without state interference. They can organize, person-to-person, on a worldwide basis and, collectively, fight back in ways that are unstoppable by any tyranny no matter how totalitarian.
The implications of this double-edged sword extend way beyond anything that can be said in a short post. Or even a book. But someone has tried, at least for the latter.
I'm talking about Thieves Emporium. It's only a primer, but it does a good job of addressing the conflict. Think cyberanarchists vs the Deep State. Or Atlas Shrugged rewritten to talk about common men and women in the 21st century.
Rated 4.6 by readers at Amazon and Smashwords. The Daily Anarchist called it 'Barely Fiction'.
Take a look at it while you still can, before some government tries to ban it.
http://www.amazon.com/Thieves-Emporium-Max-Hernandez-ebook/dp/B00CWWWRK0
There is no "science" without power.
It will go back to the basics for some time, of working all day, everyday for food, water, shelter from the storms and criminals, and then do it again if you survive the night. It'll take a community to just stand watch at night.
Tech developments have not inherently made the people into slaves; merely the developers of the tech have adapted the tech development toward that end. Every tech development that can be adapted to making individuals less free can also be adapted to making them more free. In fact, I would argue tech makes a number of the once-essential .gov functions obsolete.
Some Technology is inherently centralizing. Depending on who controls the nexus, that can translate to enslavement. The printing press, the telephone, railroads, databases, fax machines, photo IDs, fiat money, and interlinked camera systems are all examples of this class of technology. In the present political environment, they translate into, not just pro-government tools, but pro-tyranny ones.
Encryption, the Internet, mesh networks, and equity money (such as Bitcoin and gold) are all inherently decentralizing and, in the current political situation, translate into pro-freedom technologies.
Since centralized political structures like governments are inherently antagonistic to emergent ones like anonymous on-line societies, a conflict must ensue. Thieves Emporium is an analysis of that conflict presented through the medium of fiction. It is a technically-accurate examination of the social and political ramifications that must come from such a struggle. And it is also a fun read.
I suggest you finish a copy before you make any more dogmatic comments on the subject.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/346807
I live and work in Thailand and the last thing you want to do is buy a condo here. LOL...theses ass clowns have zero idea what they are doing.
The Thai's will fuck you six ways from Jesus and smile all the way down.
Who are theses "experts"? Fucktards can hurt people with their bullshit "advice"
Check the net for land and condo scams Thailand....lol
No sucker like an old sucker..
This is a fucking total load of shit... when the collapse comes it will be total --- and there will be no reset.
The Elders of Zion know this --- that is why they are doing everything possible to hold off the collapse for as long as possible
THE PERFECT STORM (see p. 58 onwards)
The economy is a surplus energy equation, not a monetary one, and growth in output (and in the global population) since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from the harnessing of ever-greater quantities of energy. But the critical relationship between energy production and the energy cost of extraction is now deteriorating so rapidly that the economy as we have known it for more than two centuries is beginning to unravel. http://ftalphaville.ft.com/files/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf
Ok you mo rons. This mo ron has been reading a blogger's tale of what he did when the reset started in his country. Google "ferfal". He has archived articles from years past. He covers living in his normal country, the take over of the systems by the corrupt elite cartels in collusion with the bankers, day to day life of answering the knock on the door with a pistol in hand, carrying at all times when leaving the house, a article answering a question about the Casey redoubt in the desert with not water, no police, no law, no doctors, etc... and his travails since emmigrating with just suitcases back to the country his great grandparents emigrated from after he spent 15 years trying to legally immigrate to the US of A, with no success. I don't care if you read his experiences. It's given me some ideas about what to expect and some ideas on how to prepare as best I can on a fixed retired income. I'm staying in my US of A. Come what may. I will not go on my knees. Those that go quitely into the night I leave with this missive from a great American that faced the same choice we all do.
If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility
of servitude greater than the animating contest for
freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your
counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand
that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you,
and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams
I wonder what dirt the NSA and the deep state would have used against Sam Adams to silence him.
I hear he was a heavy beer drinker...
The real truth is that the vast majority of us are dependent on a highly complex very ridged system that is susceptible to systemic collapse at any moment. Anyone who is not an eternal optimist understands the desperation in the energy sector. We are now steam cleaning sand and crunching rock to get the last substitutes for the oil that is necessary to run the machine. While the last of the conjured money ran into the shale oil play the rest of the economy withered. The last economic bubble is government. That too will burst like all bubbles before it.
As in all collapses the symptoms first appear on the periphery. Cities and now states are unable to meet their pension obligations. The federal government took in more in taxes than it has ever taken in and is still unable to meet its obligations. The minions running the machine are trapped like the rest of us dependent upon the continuation of the system. Many of them see the hand writing on the wall but will cling to their positions with every ounce of their strength right up and until the moment the beast dies.
The mind and heart of the beast is the central banking sector. This sector is totally dependent upon the grid. The grid is totally dependent upon the energy sector. When the dying energy sector collapses, it is all gone.
Economics will push people into electric cars, solar panels.
example. 5 years ago there wasn't a credible electric motorcycle. There were plenty of not quite there versions of course. Short range, battery, lack of power etc.
Today there are a couple of completely credible motorcycles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3DiAecsh_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YIEVdFt0OE
With batteries that'll last 300,000 miles before dropping to 80%. I wore my last bike out over about 50,000 miles. Another 5 years and there will be affordable cars which can do the same.
Non-sense
The "Deep State" has a lot of sheeple to go through to get to me back in the mountains and I am ready.
Income tax is not so bad IF IT WAS ONLY INCOME THE government applied it to. Your labor cannot be taxed. INCOME is a corporate tax. Compensation for labor us NOT "income" see Edwards v. Keith, 1916.