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March 20, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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DEATH TRAPS: Why it’s impossible to evacuate large cities
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Has it ever occurred to you that there is no practical way to evacuate America's largest cities?
The plans just don't exist.
The infrastructure doesn't exist.
They're impossible to evacuate, which is why the federal government really has already decided, why bother warning anybody about anything?
Because there's nothing we can do about it anyway.
So even though we have the coming economic collapse, which will happen, it is inevitable.
It's a mathematical certainty.
And even though we have the risk of cyber war, bringing down the power grid, or cratering the water delivery systems that feed the cities, or even setting off nuclear disasters, On purpose, because worms and Trojan horses and malicious code gets into the systems and unleashes that.
Even though we have all these risks and many others, the United States government has absolutely no plan to evacuate the cities.
How do I know this?
Well, from lots of different sources, but let me name one that I've been reading recently.
I just finished the book Lights Out by Ted Koppel.
Ted Koppel, of course, is the former mainstream media journalist.
He did quite a solid investigative job on this new book called Lights Out, which talks about the risks of cyber war or cyber attack taking down the power grid across the United States or regionally.
He also mentions EMP attacks briefly, but his book mostly focuses on cyber warfare attacks.
And in this book, he goes out and he interviews some of the top people in government.
Now, he has access because he's a trusted veteran mainstream media reporter.
So he can call up the former senator of Wyoming, for example, which he did to get meetings with the right people.
He can meet with the Department of Homeland Security top brass.
He can meet with military officials.
And he did.
And he assembled all this information from all these interviews and wrote this book, which I highly recommend.
I think it's an outstanding book.
It's really well written.
It's kind of short, in my opinion.
It's a little on the short side.
But what's in there is well written.
He did a great job.
He obviously traveled and talked to a lot of people.
And there are so many important messages that come out of this book.
One of them is the fact that the federal government really has no plan to evacuate the cities.
There's one passage in the book I recall, and of course I'm paraphrasing because I'm not reading right out of the book, where he's asking an official, I believe this was an official who covers New York, He's asking him something about, is there a plan to evacuate New York City?
And the official says, yeah, sure there is.
And Ted Koppel asks him, really?
You're going to evacuate 5 million people?
8 million people?
10 million people?
Where are they going to go?
And the answer is something like, well, they'll just go to the countryside or we'll send them over to Jersey or something like that.
I don't remember the exact detail, but it was basically a BS answer.
You can't take 5 to 10 million people out of a city and just find somewhere else for them to go.
Where are they going to go?
You're going to pack them into people's farms?
Well, there aren't that many farms that close to New York City, in case you haven't noticed.
It turns out that everywhere across America, when you look at large cities like Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, of course, San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix, Miami, there are no evacuation plans that are realistic.
Even in natural disasters like hurricanes, you can get some of the people out, but every road turns into a massive traffic jam, doesn't it?
Always happens when there's an attempt to evacuate from an approaching hurricane.
And every store is wiped out of supplies like bottled water and flashlights and batteries and duct tape, right?
It happens every time.
Gas stations run out of gasoline.
And this is in a situation when the electricity is on.
When the power grid's working, Ted Koppel is talking about a scenario where the lights are out, the grid is down.
There is no electricity, which means, guess what?
There's no way to fire up the pumps that pump the gasoline at the gas station, so you can't get gas.
So instead of cars leaving on the highway, you're going to have cars stalled out and running out of gas everywhere on the highway.
Oh, and guess what?
You can't even complete your transactions at the Quickie Mart to get your bottled water and your flashlights and your batteries.
You know why?
Because they require electricity to complete the transaction.
This isn't 1972 where they can ring it up on a mechanical cashier and where the cashiers can actually do math and give you the correct change on their own.
No, everything's computer driven now and most employees are completely clueless and helpless without technology telling them how many pennies and quarters to take out of the drawer and hand back to the customer.
And besides, most transactions aren't even done in cash anyway.
It's all electronic transactions, debit cards, credit cards.
And that whole system is offline when the power grid is down.
Ted Koppel also asked people about, well, how much food is really stored here?
And this, again, was New York.
And it came down to a few hundred thousand meals.
Really?
A few hundred thousand meals for a few million people?
So it's like less than one meal per person is what's in storage there?
And even though the military has apparently tens of millions of meals stored, MREs, That's different.
That's for military use.
Of course, the U.S. military and the federal government are big-time preppers.
They've got underground bunkers and tunnels and caves and cities.
They've got years of supplies of seeds, of food and ammunition and medicine, communications gear, water, water filtration devices, anti-nuclear radiation treatment medicine.
You name it, they've got it.
But they tell you, you shouldn't prepare.
You're a kook.
You're crazy if you prepare.
Even though they've got underground cities stocked for the next decade.
But for the people of New York City, they've got about enough to feed maybe part of the population for part of one day, and that's it.
That's it.
So where are, well, I don't know the exact population of New York.
I'm guessing, I'm just going to go real rough estimate here, 10 million.
It's probably more or less depending on whether you're defining the greater New York area or just Manhattan Island or whatever.
But let's say 10 million, okay, just as a working number.
How are you going to feed 10 million people?
When you have no electricity, when you have really no way to even load up the vehicles...
Well, let's even backtrack.
You don't even have a way to reach the drivers of the trucks to tell them to drive the trucks to go pick up the food somewhere where they can load the food, I guess by hand, because probably nothing's going to work there either.
You don't even have the ability to pump the gas into the trucks To fuel the trucks to take the drive to get to New York City.
You don't even have the means to alert the people of New York City where to get the food, how to get it, how to line up.
The whole thing doesn't work.
It's a joke.
And, of course, there is no evacuation plan in existence that's realistic.
There are comic book type plans using comic book logic like, oh, if you get bit by a radioactive spider, you get superpowers.
You know, that kind of thinking.
If there's an event, we're just going to evacuate New York City.
Send them over somewhere else.
That's the kind of thinking that they have.
But there's no realistic plan.
So what does this tell you, really?
It tells you, if you are stuck in a major city, when the lights go out, that is, when the grid goes down, if it goes down, natural disaster takes it out, cyber attack, EMP weapons, freaking aliens from planet Zord, who knows?
But if you're in a major city, when that happens...
You're basically dead.
You're basically dead.
And you can't decide to leave after the event happens.
You're just going to be one of 10 million other people who are all saying, oh, gee, we should have got out of town.
Before this happened, you're going to be just at the end of this long line of people who are desperate and starving and maybe cold if it's in the winter, maybe sick, maybe, who knows, diabetic and they need insulin.
So the wise move, obviously, is to get out of the cities while you can.
And I've hammered this point over and over again.
And thankfully, many, many people agree with my assessment, and they have taken active steps to get out of the city and move out to a safer area, maybe out to the country, or maybe at least farther away from the city where they do have a realistic evacuation plan.
And I think that's crucial.
I think that could save your life.
But then there are other people that just say, well, it's not, you know, people are talking about it was going to happen before and it never happened before.
Now, so that means it's not going to happen now.
You know, this logic is since it hasn't happened before, it can't happen in the future.
This is faulty logic.
Most crises happen unannounced.
You know, the really big events are considered disastrous because they don't happen regularly.
If they happen regularly, then we would have planned for them in advance and they wouldn't be so disastrous.
So, almost by definition, a huge disaster is something that doesn't happen with advance warning and doesn't happen with the kind of frequency that would make you believe that it's not an emergency.
I know this sounds like circular logic, but that's my point.
It is circular logic to think that because it hasn't happened, it won't happen.
That's illogical.
You know, before Pearl Harbor happened, no one thought Pearl Harbor would happen.
And then Pearl Harbor happened And then they said, oh my God, Pearl Harbor happened.
We weren't prepared.
So the day before Pearl Harbor happened, there might have been people walking around in Pearl Harbor saying, well, Pearl Harbor can't ever be attacked.
It's never been attacked before.
Right?
And their buddies would have said, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's never been attacked before.
How can it be attacked?
But then it was attacked.
And then the next day, some of those people were dead.
And the rest of them are like, whoa!
That's crazy!
We got attacked!
You know, because they didn't believe it could happen.
Same thing, you know, the citizens of Japan who lived in Hiroshima that America nuked in World War II. You think the day before the nuke was dropped on them, you think they were running around saying, we might get nuked?
No, they were all thinking, we can't get nuked.
We've never been nuked.
Nobody ever dropped a nuke on us, on civilians.
Never happened.
Didn't even know what a nuke was, in fact, until it was dropped on them.
So, by definition, these disasters will happen unexpectedly, and there is no plan to save people in the cities of America.
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