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Escaping the Socioeconomic Bullseye

Guest Post by Jeff Thomas

Imagine that it’s 5th August 1945 and you’re the only person in Hiroshima who knows that, the following day, the US will drop an atom bomb in your back yard.

It goes without saying that you’d choose the fastest form of transportation available to you and head out of the city as quickly as possible.

Where would you go? It wouldn’t matter very much. The goal would be to get as far as possible from Hiroshima, since you wouldn’t know how far out the damage would extend.

For many years, I’ve been advising people on what I’ve perceived as a coming economic crisis that would carry with it both a political crisis and a social crisis of epic proportions.

These three arrows would be concurrent, with each one exacerbating the other two.

Not surprisingly, many people have been either unwilling or unable to accept that such a major series of events might take place. However, the writing is now very much on the wall and even those who don’t really understand the crisis have a feeling in the pit of their stomachs that unfolding events will end very badly.

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ESCAPE FROM AMERICA

Linh Dinh’s articles used to appear on Counterpunch, and I’ve posted some of them here …. I feel he is a very good writer.  This article appeared on OpEd News.  Maybe I like the article because I can relate to it, as my parents made the difficult decision to leave their homeland.  Or, maybe I like it because on more than a few occasions lately I too have thoughts of escaping the USA!USA!USA!

Whatever. I just know that several of the opinions expressed in this piece will infuriate a few of you! Just as I like it ….

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Escape from America

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Lin Yutang wrote, “What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?” Born in Fujian, Lin also lived in the U.S., France, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, where he’s buried. Whatever attachment Lin had to his childhood stews, fish balls, snails, clams and tofu, it didn’t prevent this remarkable author and inventor of the first Chinese typewriter from globetrotting to improve his mind then, finally, to save his own ass, as his favored Kuomintang got routed by bad-assed Mao.

Should I stay or should I go? Ambrose Bierce glibly defined an immigrant as “an unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another,” but between any two things, types of coffee, meat loafs, races, there is always a value judgment, so one thing is always better or worse than another, though the verdict is never unanimous, for some people are even fond of ingesting egesta, or watching television nonstop, even to the point of leaving it on through the entire night as they sleep, so they can hear it in their dreams, I suppose. My friend T.J. does this. To each his own, then, but since leaving one’s country is never an easy step, logistically or psychologically, let’s examine the reasons for such a radical departure.

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