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notions that we have been conditioned to accept unquestioningly. In order to adapt, you will need plenty of free time. Granting yourself this time requires a leap of faith: you have to assume the future has already arrived." He also advises: "Beyond the matter of personal safety, you will need to understand who has what you need and how to get it from them."
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The EnergyBulletin.Net review states that "Orlov's main goal is to get
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purposes and the need to buy goods that would sustain local communities - "hand tools, simple medications (and morphine), guns and ammo, sharpening stones, bicycles (and lots of tires with patch kits), etc." Orlov writes: "Much of the transformation is psychological and involves letting go of many
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The function of the US military is to intimidate other countries into letting the US buy whatever it wants by printing US dollars as needed Once their ability to intimidate the world into submission is gone all that will remain of the "richest country in the world" is a pile of worthless paper.
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Ben McGrath wrote that Orlov describes "superpower collapse soup" common to both the U.S. and the Soviet Union: "a severe shortfall in the production of crude oil, a worsening foreign-trade deficit, an oversized military budget, and crippling foreign debt". Orlov told interviewer McGrath that in
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When precisely that moment arrives is anyone’s guess, but you shouldn’t need to time it exactly provided you can plan for it. I recommend that you do so—if you haven’t already.
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