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March 13, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
13:18
U.S. cities are death traps like Brazilian nightclub
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By now everyone is familiar with the Brazilian nightclub inferno and sadly how it has taken the lives of 230 people because the exits were blocked and these people who died inside the nightclub could not get out.
So they went into this kind of scene here and they were enjoying the show and all the fireworks that were going off inside not realizing that it was a death trap.
And here we go.
This is the result.
An absolute death trap.
Now, what does this have to do with you?
Most people listening to this or watching this are going to be watching from North America.
In cities like, well, Los Angeles.
What does Los Angeles have to do with a Brazilian nightclub?
Well, everything.
Because if you're living in major U.S. cities, such as Los Angeles, or Miami, or Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and others, including Houston, you are living in a death trap with no exits, or at least not enough exits.
Let's go back to Los Angeles and take a look.
Remember, people died in the Brazilian nightclub because they couldn't get out when something went wrong, something they did not anticipate.
Some kind of a disaster.
If you're in Los Angeles and something goes wrong, first of all, you are in the highest density city in America.
About almost four million people live in this city, in this immediate area, and many millions more just outside of it.
You'll notice you can't escape to the west, to the southwest, unless you happen to own a yacht or some kind of a boat.
Otherwise, you can't do that.
You only have a few courses of action in order to get out.
You have to go to the east on I-10, or maybe to the northwest up I-5.
Or maybe to the southeast.
But guess what?
Those highways are going to be jammed up with all kinds of stalled cars because people don't store fuel.
So if there's a let's say a grid collapse scenario, a grid down situation, gas stations can't pump gas.
Remember?
We saw that after Superstorm Sandy in the northeast.
In places like Philadelphia and New York City.
They couldn't pump gas on Staten Island.
Remember that?
Gas stations didn't work here.
So people won't be able to get out of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles is a death trap city.
It's like the Brazilian nightclub just waiting for a disaster to kill potentially millions of people, which is why I encourage everybody to have an escape plan, have extra stored supplies, have a bug-out bag, have a water purification system and backup water supplies, and many other things.
I'm not going to go into all those details here.
But let's look at another city, Miami, Florida.
You'll notice Miami is even in a worse situation in terms of escape routes.
Check this out.
On the east, you have nothing but ocean.
You're not going to get out there unless you happen to have a boat or a ticket on a boat.
That's not practical for most people.
They're not going to be able to get that.
What do you have here to the west?
Crocodile-infested swampland.
That's what all this is, this wildlife management area.
This is crocodile country.
You're not going to make it through there, not on foot.
Or at least not with both feet remaining.
After you try to march through there, you'll lose a foot or two on your way.
So where do you go?
You have to travel north or south out of Miami.
Well, you can't go too far south, you notice.
That's the end of the continent.
So you've got to go north.
What do you have up north?
More traffic, more people trying to escape.
And still no safe refuge from the disaster.
So you got to go up north and then this whole area I-95 is going to be absolutely jammed up.
You won't be able to get anywhere.
So if you're in Miami and something goes majorly wrong where you got to get out of Miami, forget it.
Even this Interstate 75 is going to be hopelessly jammed up with stalled cars.
Miami is a death trap just like the Brazilian nightclub.
How about Chicago?
Well, Chicago has a similar kind of challenge, but it's in a little better situation than Miami.
Of course, you've got Lake Michigan on the eastern half of Chicago, so you're not getting out that way, unless, of course, again, you own a boat, or you know somebody who owns a boat, and you can manage to not have your boat taken over by men with guns, which would probably include the Chicago mayor, Mr.
Mafia boss, who would commandeer whatever boats he needed to get out of there.
But most people are going to have to get out to the west.
They're going to have to try to get out into the country of Illinois.
And that's not an easy thing to do.
It's better than Miami, but you're still going to have jams on all these major interstates, 88, 55, and even 65 over here on the southeast.
You're going to have problems getting out.
Of course, the farther out that you live, such as in Aurora, you're going to be in a better situation to then escape out into the country.
Or let's say a place like Gary.
You're going to be in a better situation than you are if you're in Evanston or inner city Chicago.
That's where the real death trap is.
Inner city Chicago is going to be a lot like the blaze in Brazil in the nightclub.
This is death trap zone right here folks.
This is all death trap zone.
If you live in this area You need to have a new backup plan.
Let's look at some other cities.
Philadelphia.
Well, Philadelphia, here we go.
Super high population density.
Lots and lots of crime.
Lots of corruption, as we see throughout the Northeast.
You've got major problems here.
First of all, you're not getting across this river on foot.
If you can find a bridge that's still open, yeah, you can get across it.
Otherwise, you're screwed.
You're going to have to head somewhere else.
Well, you can't go to the northeast because what's there?
Well, of course, New York City.
See?
This whole area is going to be...
Refugees are going to be coming out of New York trying to get somewhere.
So if you're coming out of Philadelphia, you can't go to the Northeast.
And you can't go to the Southwest because what are you going to hit there?
Baltimore and the D.C. area down here.
There's gonna be people trying to leave that area.
So really, and of course, over here to the southeast, this is a very limited number of people will be able to find resources and supplies in this whole area.
You're gonna have to head west.
And what's to the west of Philadelphia?
Rugged mountains.
I mean, think about Allentown, right?
This is not something that you can traverse on foot very easily.
You are going to need to be a rugged survivor.
You're going to need to have backup routes and plans.
You're going to need to be able to navigate without your GPS, because that probably won't work.
For example, if a solar flare knocks out our communications satellites, you're not going to have GPS. So there you go.
Now let's look at the absolute worst case, which is, of course, New York City, Manhattan Island.
Right here, this is the ultimate death trap in America.
If you are living on Manhattan Island, It's almost like you're signing up for suicide.
It's that bad.
How are you going to get off of this island?
Well, there's only a few bridges and tunnels that you can take to get on or off the island.
Those bridges and tunnels can easily be knocked out or taken over, depending on the situation.
I mean, like a Red Dawn or a Civil War or who knows what, or just a natural disaster that wipes out a bunch of bridges and tunnels, like a tidal wave from a meteor strike or something like that.
Or if the power grid goes down, how are you going to start your car?
If your car gets fried from a high-altitude EMP burst or a solar flare, how are you going to start your car to get off the island?
How are you going to hail a cab?
You're not.
So if you're in this area, you're in bad, bad shape.
In fact, you're probably in bad shape over here in Jersey City as well.
Now, people in upstate New York are going to fare a lot better, obviously, and on Long Island, they're going to do a lot better out here.
But upstate New York, they've got plenty of area to survive and to live off the land, and there's a lot of good country out there and a lot of good people out there as well.
I'm not saying people in Manhattan are bad people.
I'm just saying they're living in a death trap and they might want to think twice about that.
Where do you go from New York to escape?
Well, you have to eventually head west and that's just going to hit more population density.
You are not going to be able to get out of New York or Brooklyn or Staten Island or any of these areas.
You are royally screwed.
It's like being in a Brazilian nightclub With a fire burning inside and you can't get out of the exits because the exits can't handle the capacity.
Now, with all this, I'm not trying to freak you out.
I'm trying to say find a way to be safer about it.
If you can, get out of the cities.
Get out of Los Angeles.
Not a good place to live, especially if you have to get out on foot, you're going to face a lot of desert over here, right?
Lots and lots of desert.
Good luck with that.
Try marching through this area on foot when, let's say, maybe a terrorist bomb takes out the water system that pumps water up over the mountains and into the city of Los Angeles.
If that water supply is taken out, you're not going to be able to get water, and you're not going to be able to escape without water.
So you're in a world of hurt right there.
Get out of Miami.
Miami is a death trap.
Get out of Chicago.
Get out of Philadelphia.
Get out of Houston.
Get out of New York.
Have a bug out bag.
Have a back up plan.
Have a vehicle that won't be affected by an EMP burst, for example.
A pre-1985 vehicle, typically, will solve that problem for you.
I want you to be safe and I want you to stay alive.
So get out of the cities, which are death traps, and get into the country.
You're going to be in much better shape.
Where should you go in the country?
Well, let's take a look here at the good old U.S. of A. Get a big picture view.
Lots of nice areas here in Colorado.
Not Denver, obviously.
Not Colorado Springs, but over here west of the mountains is great in Colorado.
Lots of wonderful areas here in Utah.
Again, stay outside of the major cities.
Arizona, good areas.
New Mexico, good areas.
Texas is great as well.
Here in Central Texas, between Austin and Houston and Waco, a lot of good areas in here.
You can survive in those areas.
All throughout the South, as long as you stay away from the cities, get outside of the big population areas, you can do well.
The Midwest is also very good.
Lots of places in Southern Missouri that are really good, and Northern Arkansas, well, all across Arkansas.
There are lots of places even in Nebraska, Wyoming is a good, rugged country that you can survive in, and of course, all kinds of people surviving out there in Idaho and doing a great job with it.
Eastern Washington, Southern Oregon, Inland Oregon is fantastic.
Northern California is also fantastic as well.
You've got to get way north of Sacramento and San Francisco, obviously, but Northern California is a great area.
And that list is not complete.
I'm just giving you my basic assessment.
The bottom line is where you want to steer clear of are the coasts.
Think about it.
Anywhere up here, In this whole area, the eastern seaboard is high, high population density, and then down here in Miami, high population density.
On the west coast, you've got the same problems from San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, and to some extent Seattle, but Seattle's not as bad.
But if you stay away from the coast, you're going to be in much better shape.
I don't want you to get caught in a kind of Brazilian nightclub inferno situation where you can't exit.
Remember, this is tragedy when people can't get out and they die.
They die by the hundreds and it didn't have to happen.
If they had only thought ahead and found a way to get out, you think those people thought that fire was going to happen?
They went in there thinking they're going to have a wonderful night of music and special effects and socializing and dancing.
They were there to party and have fun.
They did not look at the exits.
They did not realize they were walking into a death trap.
And that's the way people are right now in Los Angeles and New York.
You are in a death trap.
Get out.
Get out while you still can before something big happens and you're trapped.
Those are my words of advice.
It's not fear-mongering.
It's not pessimism.
I mean, would you call it pessimism if I warn these people to get out of the nightclub?
Is that pessimism?
No.
It's being smart.
It's saving your ass.
Get out and stay alive.
That's what I'm saying.
Get out and stay alive.
And thanks for listening.
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