Category Archives: Where to Be or Not to Be

As oil declines, remote gas stations will closefirst, forcing many to move to urban areas, which will become megacities. For a while food, shelter, and power can be provided to urban centers, but eventually the electric grid will fail and diesel shortages strike. National guards and locals checkpoints are likely to make it hard for people to flee cities for the countryside

Part 3 Raven Rock. The government’s plans for after a nuclear holocaust

Posted on October 6, 2018 by

This is the third part of my book review of: Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die. Simon and Schuster. This book stresses that a full … Continue reading →

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The mega rich are escaping to New Zealand — the best place to survive collapse

Posted on March 11, 2018 by

Preface. China has the largest navy in the world now, at some point during collapse it would be easy to invade Australia, New Zealand, and other refuges. And anyone else who can sail.  In hard times, the property rights of … Continue reading →

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Bill Bonner escapes to Argentina

Posted on March 8, 2018 by

[ The Dailyreckoning warned about the dot.com crash before 2000, and the coming housing bubble very early on (it is absurd that the media often says the housing bubble was unpredictable), the rank corruption of wall street and banks, detested … Continue reading →

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George W. Bush home in Crawford Texas

Posted on February 19, 2018 by

Rose Marie Berger. The Texas Two-Step. George W. and Laura Bush’s new Crawford, Texas home boasts a stunning array of eco-friendly features—perhaps not what you’d expect from one of the least environmentally friendly administrations since…um, creation. http://www.sojo.net/magazine/index.cfm/action/sojourners/issue/soj0107/article/010722.html The Bush ranch … Continue reading →

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How to survive a nuclear winter

Posted on May 6, 2017 by

[ Clearly you’d want to move to Australia or New Zealand or stockpile 5 years of food.  Related posts: Nuclear winter: World-wide ozone loss from small nuclear war = 1 billion + deaths The EMP Commission estimates a nationwide blackout … Continue reading →

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After collapse: plunder or feudalism?

Posted on March 7, 2017 by

  IWW poster “Pyramid of Capitalist System” (c. 1911), depicting an anti-capitalist perspective on statist/capitalist social structures Preface. In this post an anonymous author looks at what will happen if society collapses and we have to suddenly go back to … Continue reading →

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Water-borne diseases will increase as energy declines

Posted on July 21, 2016 by

Preface. Drinking water and sewage treatment plants are the main reason lifespans nearly doubled. Read Laurie Garrett’s  “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health” for details. As energy declines, the ability of towns and cities to treat water … Continue reading →

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Dmitry Orlov: How Russians survived the collapse of the Soviet Union

Posted on August 18, 2015 by

[ A great post by Dmitry Orlov about what collapse may be like, the best strategies to survive, and why the Russian way of life and culture prepared them far better for hard times than will be the case in … Continue reading →

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Richard Duncan : Olduvai Gorge – Civilization ends when Electric Grids Permanently Fail

Posted on June 26, 2014 by

The Olduvai Theory – Heading into the Gorge By Richard C. Duncan, Ph.D. Volume 23, Number 2 (Winter 2013) Summary: The Olduvai Theory is defined as the ratio of world energy production and population. It states that average energy production … Continue reading →

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29 Things to Keep in Mind about buying Real Estate

Posted on May 9, 2014 by

This is an edited down version of 30 Reasons To Get Out Of Real Estate And Into REAL Assets by “Don’t Tread on Me” at businessinsider.com. The shift from paper assets to real assets is driven by money/debt creation. Since … Continue reading →

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