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>There Goes Europe  - James Howard Kunstler - 
The primary evidence supporting your contention is a nation's population before oil production and now.
It is just that simple.
Survival and growth require energy assets.
Those assets MUST be marketable.
It is from the market that all largess originates.
It is the largess that keeps a damper on social unrest.
Reduce the assets and/or their marketability and the former recipients of the largess must move on or perish.

Gypsy, I down arrowed you because it is NOT the bombing, but rather the loss of government largess.
That loss triggered the social unrest leading to the violence.
Nobody with any measure of perceived power willing gives up their wealth and the power it supports.
Non-producers will always feel the brunt of the attack on civility.

This has always been the outcome of distributing largess to non-producers.
Even wildlife professionals will tell you, "Don't feed the animals, you habituate them to hand-outs."
First, last and always, homo sapiens is an animal. It is only the threat of force that maintains civility towards outsiders.
Outsiders defined as not of our group, clan, family, profession, etc.

For all the USA readers, don't get smug.
This reality show is coming to a theater of operations near you all too soon.
I desperately hope I am wrong.


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Beginning of the headline :T he desperate wish in what is loosely called the West to at least appear morally correct is unfortunately over-matched by the desperation of people fleeing unstable, overpopulated places outside the West, and it is a fiasco beyond even the events of the moment. The refugee / immigrant crisis around the Mediterranean is a preview of a horror show to which there is no end in sight, and is certain to escalate. So anyone who indulges in fantasies about organizing an orderly, rational distribution o... Read More
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