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Is America About To Reach A Breaking Point?
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
In America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and there are more than 100 million people that get money from the federal government every month. As the middle class disintegrates, poverty is climbing to unprecedented levels. Even though the stock market has been setting record high after record high, the amount of anger and frustration boiling just under the surface in our nation grows with each passing day.
And now extended unemployment benefits have been cut off for 1.3 million unemployed Americans, and it is being projected that a total of 5 million unemployed Americans will lose their benefits by the end of 2014. In addition, as I have written about previously, 47 million Americans recently had their food stamp benefits reduced. The conditions for a "perfect storm" are certainly being created. So how much longer will it be until we see all of this anger and frustration boil over in the streets of our major cities? Is America about to reach a breaking point?
If you think that the title of this article is "alarmist", you probably have not been paying attention to what has been happening over the past few weeks. For example, a 600 person brawl broke out at at movie theater in Jacksonville, Florida just the other day...
Five teenagers were arrested when a 600-person brawl broke out in a Florida movie theater’s parking lot on Christmas night.
Described by police as a “melee,” the fight occurred around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday outside the Hollywood River City 14 movie theater in Jacksonville when a group tried to storm the theater’s doors without purchasing tickets, police said. Several had rushed an off-duty police officer working as a security guard.
The officer “administered pepper spray to disperse the group, locked the doors and called for backup, following protocol,” said Lauri-Ellen Smith, a spokeswoman for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
Soon after the pepper spray was used, “upward of 600 people moving throughout a parking lot about the size of a football field began fighting, disrupting and jumping on cars,” she said.
And a "flash mob" of "400 crazed teens" was so violent that it forced a mall in Brooklyn to shut down just a few days ago...
A wild flash mob stormed and trashed a Brooklyn mall, causing so much chaos that the shopping center was forced to close during post-Christmas sales, sources said Friday.
More than 400 crazed teens — who mistakenly thought the rapper Fabolous would perform — erupted into brawls all over Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Mill Basin on Thursday at 5 p.m., sources said.
The troublemakers looted and ransacked several stores as panicked shoppers ran for the exits and clerks scrambled to pull down metal gates.
In addition, the release of new Air Jordan sneakers caused mini-riots and brawls to break out all over the country just before Christmas.
So why is all of this happening?
Of course people will come up with all sorts of theories to explain these outbreaks of violence, but what pretty much everyone should be able to agree on is that we are seeing levels of anger and frustration rise to very dangerous levels in this country.
Right now, there are approximately 6 million Americans in the 16 to 24-year-old age group that are not in school and that are not working either. What that means is that we have an alarmingly high number of very frustrated young people that do not have anything better to do than to cause trouble.
In some of our largest cities this has become a massive problem. In fact, quite a few major U.S. cities actually have more than 100,000 "idle youth" living in them…
Just look at some of the nation’s largest cities. Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Riverside, Calif., all have more than 100,000 idle youth, the Opportunity Nation report found.
But the Obama administration says that this should not be a problem. In fact, the Obama administration tells us that the unemployment rate has been steadily "declining" and that there are plenty of opportunities for everyone.
Of course that is a giant lie. Just before the last recession, about 63 percent of all working age Americans had a job. During the recession that number fell below 59 percent and it has stayed there ever since...
So the notion that we are experiencing an "employment recovery" is absolutely laughable.
But most of our politicians appear to believe this lie, and it is being used as justification to cut off extended unemployment benefits.
And the funny thing is that by cutting off these benefits, it is going to make it appear as though unemployment has gone down even more. Millions of unemployed workers that are being forced into the streets will now be counted as having "left the labor force", and it is being projected that the unemployment rate could decline by as much as half a percentage point as a result.
What a joke.
A lot of the people that are having their benefits cut off are really hurting. For instance, consider the case of 63-year-old paralegal Laura Walker...
“Not all of us have savings and a lot of us have to take care of family because of what happened in the economy,” said Walker, of Santa Clarita, who said she has applied for at least three jobs a week and shares an apartment with her unemployed son, his wife and two children. “It’s going to put my family and me out on the streets.”
So what is she going to do?
Well, at this point she appears to be down to just one option...
“I just don’t know what to do, except pray.”
And of course the unemployed are not the only ones that have had their benefits cut. As I mentioned above, all 47 million Americans that are currently on food stamps recently had their benefits reduced. The following is an excerpt from a recent article by Mac Slavo...
Earlier this year government benefits for nutritional assistance were reduced after the expiration of emergency legislation that was enacted following the 2008 financial collapse. Nearly all of the 48 million people receiving food stamp distributions were affected. The move led to warnings from food pantries and recipients around the country who said that the $40 billion in cuts would leave many American families without the ability to put food on dinner tables across America. According to Feed America, the roughly $29 per family that would no longer appear on their EBT cards will amount to about 1.5 billion meals in 2014.
The fact that government dependence has soared to all-time highs even in the midst of this so-called "economic recovery" is just another sign that the middle class is dying. For years, middle class families have tried strategy after strategy in an attempt to survive, but now it has become apparent that the middle class is rapidly approaching a breaking point...
Rising income inequality is starting to hit home for many American households as they run short of places to reach for a few extra bucks.
As the gap between the rich and poor widened over the last three decades, families at the bottom found ways to deal with the squeeze on earnings. Housewives joined the workforce. Husbands took second jobs and labored longer hours. Homeowners tapped into the rising value of their properties to borrow money to spend.
Those strategies finally may have run their course as women’s participation in the labor force has peaked and the bursting of the house-price bubble has left many Americans underwater on their mortgages.
And even though the Obama administration and the mainstream media have tried to convince us over and over that the economy is "getting better", most Americans are not buying it. In fact, according to a new CNN poll, 70 percent of all Americans believe that "the economy is generally in poor shape".
As the economy continues to decline, not all Americans will respond to their desperate situations by getting violent. Many suffer quietly, hoping that things will eventually turn around for them. Unfortunately, the ranks of the suffering grow with each passing year. For example, a recent CNN article discussed the continued growth of "tent cities" all over America...
The total number of homeless people residing in tents and makeshift homes is unknown. Many of these communities are small and hidden from public view, while others claim hundreds of residents and are sprinkled through major urban areas.
Some, like those tucked under roadways, are temporary and relocate frequently. Their conditions are vile, unsanitary and fail to provide refuge from storms and winds. Then there are communities, such as Dignity Village in Portland, Oregon, that have a more sustained presence. The 13-year-old "ecovillage" set up by homeless people is hygienic and self-sufficient.
Preliminary findings by The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty show that tent cities have been documented in almost every state, and they're growing.
So how do we solve these problems?
Are there any solutions that could get us out of this mess?
Of course there are. But don't hold your breath waiting for any of them to be adopted. In fact, the American people continue to express great support for the very people that got us into this mess in the first place. For example, according to a Gallup survey that was just released, Barack Obama is the most admired man in America by a very wide margin and Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America by a very wide margin.
And the mainstream media will continue to tell all of us that "leaders" like Obama, Clinton, Reid, Boehner, McConnell and Pelosi can be trusted to get us out of this mess.
If you believe that, there is a bridge that I would like to sell you.
The American people need to stop having blind faith in the relentless propaganda that is being spewed at them through their televisions screens. The pretty faces that you see "reporting the news" do not care about you and they are not watching out for your best interests. The corporate-controlled news is highly scripted and it is pretty much the same whatever channel you turn to. If you have any doubt that "the news" is scripted, just check out this video...
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I guess that makes me one.
"Notarocketscientist"...you ignorant slut!
NotARocketScientist - Use boozean logic. God either is true or god is false. If false then man will continue his quest for 'origin' it seems baked into our DNA. If god is true then we will seek origin as it seems baked into our DNA.
Neither I nor you can prove or disprove god using boozean logic. So your screen name may be fitting based on lack of logic.
I was an athiest for many years and I have my reasons. But in 1998 I asked God if He existed, why and to prove it. I manage databases so I am big into statistical anomoly. After a few years of impossible odds one right after another I asked God more questions. Deep ones. The answers do come but they may not be what you want to hear.
Evolution as a process is a real bitch. Being potentially bored for eternity is another. We think therefore we are is true, it cannot be false.
Well what if we collectively always existed? I worry now more about boredom than eternal condemnation or reward.... Some food for thought perhaps.
That 85% number that is often quoted is quite misleading. For many, their belief is more cultural than devotional. It'd be like asking people in the New Orleans area if they were Saints fans. I'm sure a very high percentage would say yes, but how many of those people try to watch every single game and attend as many as they can also while buying the merchandise, etc. and how many of those people's fandom amounts to occasionally catching the 2nd half of the game while out to lunch at Chili's on a Sunday afternoon? Yes, maybe 85% of this country says they believe in God, but I'd venture that it's really closer to a quarter to a third (definitely less than half) of all people that really act on that faith and would take what they believed was the Godly stand no matter what (i.e. under extremely difficult circumstances, even if it was perceived there was an easier, but secular, answer). And that share is shinking by the day, quite tangibly at least with each passing generation. So you can go ahead and pretend that this country is practically overrun by theocratic numbnuts, but you'd only be half right.
every single soldier signed up to execute muslims of the world for not being christian - they are true christian demon-fucks. Truest ever.
Oh yes, never turn your back to a catholic priest.
I always tell the kids in my neighborhood 'Stay away from crack, it's wack, and remember if you're ever touched by your minister, call the police!'
unless you've already visibly hit puberty - then you're in the clear and only have to worry about rapist cops :-)
Hey NEP, that was some serious troll work....
i suspect NEP believes in Santa too...
Actually, my wife and I are expecting our first next month, and our plan is to not do the Santa thing.
well at least you'll indoctrinate your first born in another fairy tale....anyhow, best wishes on birth...
Thanks, VD.
Then you are about to experience a true miracle. Kids are awesome...expensive, but awesome! Best of luck to you, your life will never be the same.
Good for you and your progeny.
definitely not enough praying!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yo5HZuDxjY
That's why Chinese and Indian fortunes are soaring, right? It's got everything to do with God and nothing to do with hard work, conservatism, and underconsumption.
The rise and fall of civilizations has fuckall to do with their religion, and for the most part religion is just another tool of the sociopathic elites to hijack the basic human faculty for spirituality. YHWH was the original all-seeing-eye in the sky.
YHWH was the OG NSA. Back then, the sociopaths didn't have enough technology to spy on you every second of every day, so they invented an angry oriental tyrant ruling the universe from his golden throne, always at the ready with a lightning bolt and demanding murder as his condition for forgiveness of petty transgressions; and the people were dumb enough to believe in it, because the people are dumb enough to believe fucking anything.
it must then follow that the NSA's 'success' must be direct result of NSA's daily prayers over at HQ...
You're talking out of your ass. Google "DeToqueville on American religion" and you will learn what it means to daily life to live in a society where belief in the Christian God is broad and deep. You don't have to believe in God to benefit from living in a society where most others do.
Belief in YHWH was broad and deep in Armenia during the genocide, in Ethiopia during the famine, in Haïti during the earthquake and then subsequent looting of the country by American interests.
I believe in gods - "more gods than you can shake a stick at," to colorfully translate the 8,000,000 kami of Shinto. I'd rather take the risk of an imagination that's too accepting rather than too restricting. As for YHWH, I think he writes a lot of his own press, and to a Buddhist the idea of performing a blood sacrifice in a holy place is basically the biggest blasphemy and sacrelige available in the religion.
BENEFIT? Like being attacked by crazed lunatics because I am UNABLE to believe in their fairy magic?
UNABLE.
I do not form belief systems or beliefs. At all. Ever.
Show me evidence or shut the fuck up.
Conjecture, question if you will but don't you DARE shove into MY FACE or demand that I worship & pray to your skyfairy.
My whole life before an adult I was forced, punished, ridiculed, ruined.
Evil christians did this to me.
I hold them as the devil. No book devil, no bible devil, the bible is a book of evil meant to vanquish our species and christians, muslims & judaism together are the demon-trinity of pure evil.
also to be fair throughout all of this the Jews have only done harm to others that I can see mostly in other countries as I grew up.
I have Jewish friends & they never, ever have shit on me or had others treat me badly for being an atheist.
Around the world Judaism rubs a lot of people the wrong way because of the wrong-doings of Israel but in my personal life never, ever have I been treated improperly to my face, with anything less than full respect, by Jews.
That's pretty good for being an atheist.
I'm sure Saudi Arabia would see me stabbed & executed for some kind of treason for being an atheist.
That's what religion does. It makes daily murder a holy sacrement.
It's evil.
YHWH was the original all-seeing-eye in the sky.
Not really. Different dude. YHWH was a pretty nasty act, but third tier in the Elohim hierachical power structure, a petty warlord. The "all seeing eye" is a hundred times worse. The Vatican's former ancient Hebrew translator, Mauro Biglino, decided to do a hard ass literal translation of the Old Testament. He concluded that it was a very accurate chronical of the times, particularly how the deal got cut between YHWH and Moses. It's almost funny. The Jews were not choosen. They chose to sign up with this dude. Biglino got canned for his efforts by the Vatican. He is currently persona non grata there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc01No3LV70
The presentation is in Italian but the subtitles are pretty good. It's totally fascinating, particularly the technical difficulties he faced. Ancient Hebrew had 22 letters, no vowels, and it didn't separate the words with spaces. The entire Old Testament is one big word by English standards. A little thought about the permutations and combinations involved will show you that translating it accurately is not an easy job and requires a lot of discretion and intuition.
I'm glad that I wrote this comment because his book, written in Italian, was finally released in English last month. Been waiting with anticipation for two years, and I just checked on Amazon again.
http://www.amazon.com/forever-change-ideas-about-Bible-ebook/dp/B00GX5OH...
More of this drivel. It's always and forever because people are turning away from a made up bunch of nonsense that used to control them but now does not. As religion is eroded, humanity progresses because it means people are no longer so ingorant as to believe in things that make no sense. I don't wish the state to replace religion, which is what has happened, I rather wish that people would smarten the fuck up and realize they don't need gods of any sort and that there remains a richness of meaning, joy, and wonder to be found. Religion is an unnecessary addition to the whole experience, it adds nothing extra. But what it does accomplish is to draw lines between groups, it creates artificial distinctions--snobby, holier-than-thou attitudes and behaviors, and fucking POPES--that alone tells me everything I need to know about religion--domination systems and control structures.
Yes, when one moves religion off the board, it opens up all kinds of possibilities. When 'leaders' no longer have to even pretend that they believe in a power higher than themselves, they can really dig into the problems facing humanity and murder those problems. And they will happily murder hundreds of millions of problems. It's all very, very enlightened, and not the least bit primitive.
Can you share with me an example of any society in modern history that has benefitted from becoming less religious? By benefitting I don't mean becoming more tolerant of whatever deviance has you so committed to atheism, I mean stability of families, economy, liberty etc.
Worrying about what your neighbors are doing in their bedrooms is the real deviance.
Let me put you straight: With a few exceptions, NO ONE cares what you do behind your bedroom door. And we don't think about it. When we do, it's generally because people are shoving it in our faces.
We'd prefer you hold off on teaching kindergartners about fisting (thanks anyway), but aside from that, go to town.
how in the fucking world did they brainwash all these twenty something morons to believe they could win any argument by throwing up slavery or gay bashing. they bring up again and again how much more intelligent their positions are. they never lived in a world where you didn't have to lock your doors. hey douchebags, slavery ended 150 years ago. it ended because WHITE people were willing to die in huge numbers to end it.
slavery is alive & well all over the world, including in America.
If you can't see it, you drank the LSD kool-aid.
NO, let me put you straight. 99% of all religious people believe it's the work of the devil for people to make their own decisions in their own bedroom or IF they should have children or WHEN.
Religious demon-fucks want to demand abortion be stopped - even though it's a rational & personal choice to decide WHEN NOT to have children - stop all condoms, stop all birth control of any sort, and demand precisely who you are allowed to marry or not, by age, gender, family name, etc.
Religious fucks are the most deviant, twisted fuckers on Earth. It's a disgrace to the species.
ALL societies in ALL eras of history.
Every society that ever stopped worshipping gods has always had vast intellectual and social improvement.
THe downfall of America is the opposite: they became MORE devoted to god and more deviant, more destructive.
To worship god is to kill in the name of god. It has no other purpose.
Your gods are inventions of your slave-masters. They never were real.
The slavery, executions in the name of god, war in the name of god, has always become an exponentially increasing slaughter BEFORE people turn away from the evil known as 'god'.
Once the evil is defeated, peace returns.
Religion is the reason you HAVE LEADERS.
YOU DON'T NEED ANY.
Until you rid yourself of religion you will always have an overlord. Religion DEMANDS you worship overlords, and believe in lies - that's what's wrong with it.
Science lies. When you finally realize the full implications of this fact, you will have an epiphany. Religion lies, When you finally realize the full implications of this fact, you will have an epiphany.
Science can't lie. Science is questions & experiments. By definition no lie can hide there.
The mental derangement it takes to pretend questions & experiments themselves are lies rather than open-ended questions of reality itself.... is a sad and pathetic mentality.
I think you mean GOLD...Not GOD. One letter. Huge difference. The former is real valuable money that humans need to live in a stable civilization and the latter is something fucked up religions make bullshit doctrines around to control people with. I'll submit to Aristotle's Prime Mover Concept and that's about all. Fuck religion.
The Chinese have had 12,000 years of civilization with nothing more than paper and ink. Gold was only allowed in the country in just the past few years...and it's going to tear that people apart as a consquence.
ah.........bullshit. Dumbest thing I read all day. Do you have brain injury?
The ancient words for 'bank' both in Japan and in China is 'silver'
You loaded a Failtonium tipped .50 cal and shot yourself in the foot with it.
Right - and what about the Americans who committed genocide when they came to the country - did they have god?
Oh and what about the Americans who ran slaves - very holy were they?
First of all there is no such thing as God - no more than there is a tooth fairy - so only children and retards believe in such things - any adult who says there is a God does not deserve intellectual respect (any more than someone who were to claim 1+1=3)
And secondly, America has always been evil - from day one. The country was founded on evil
You're not taking your meds like you were told.
There is no way I can prove the is a God ,but I can prove beyond all doubt that the devil is real , so if there is evil then there must be good or at least a creator , the world is a testing ground for your soul when you die you will be asked what did you do to push back against evil. look at all the singers actors who say they sold there soul to the devil (youtube it) for 40+ years of fame and fortune to live a life in eternal bondage . I for one will not take that risk so I stay on the side of good and resist evil , if I die and i was wrong then what did I loose , if I am right then when I am asked the question i can hold my soul high and be proud of my life.
I can tell you right now there's no creator.
Nothing was created. There is no "nothing" before all that exists. It's always existed. Matter & energy combined can't be destroyed, they are conserved. Matter can become energy & vice versa but they can't be added to or removed from reality itself, the universe.
Crazy fucked up Murrkin fundamentalists believe there is no toothfairy, no santa claus, no leprechauns yet believe in god.
Mentally deluded, perhaps insane at a fundamental level. Nearly a total write-off of the human species.
If all of you dont want to go the God rout , then how about turning our back on wholesome values, Iraq, Afghanistan etc they all did not attack us, we invaded them just like the other 32+ countries since the second world war. America was founded on God, good and wholesome values in this world. People support our troops even though they spread terror, death, suffering ,and pain to the rest of the world they are not America and if they are I will not fight to save your America . I will however fight for the Creator, good and wholesome values for everyone in this world has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness . If you do not believe that and what the US Army is doing is wrong, then we have a serious fundamental problem with what America is.
"Thou shalt not kill". That's a translation, but the message is as straightforward as you can get. You can't kill other people, period. That causes dillemas.
What if there are a bunch of wild-ass red-skinned heathens living on the land that God gave to the white Chrstians to farm? They need to be exterminated somehow, but you're not allowed to kill them.
What if there are a bunch of uppity black-skinned bucks putting on airs and causing problems in the cities that God told the white Christians to build? A few of them need to be shot or lynched to keep the others in line, but you're not allowed to kill them.
What if there are a bunch of brown-skinned ragheads sitting on top of the vast petroleum reserves that God gave white Christians to use as part of the Earth's bounty? They need to be wiped out, but you're not allowed to kill them.
The answer, of course, is simple. Hire other people to kill the redskins & blackskins & brownskins for you. You don't need a degree from Harvard Law School to figure out that loophole.
Go get 'em, heroes! I'll sit back here and bang my drum & wave my flag & cheer you on. Onward Christian soldiers!
That is "Thou shalt not do murder".
Educate yourself.
You public school indoctrination is incomplete. Get back into the basement, put on some clean underwear, and take your ritalin.
Nope. "Kill" is what it says. Nothing about murder, or mans' interpretation thereof. No "1st degree, 2nd degree, justifiable manslaughter, etc.". Just don't kill. No Supreme Court decisions or Constitutional interpretations required.
You wrote three sentences and had two glaring grammatical errors. Your rebuttal was an unsuported false statement, followed by a crude ad hominem attack.
You, Sir, are an ignorant fucktard.
god is a lie.
How do you think you got so fucked up? You believed in god. A saviour to keep you all fed.
All the happy slaves.
This is the dream come true for those who invented your god - your slave masters.
Blankfein meant it when he said he was doing god's work. He & the slave masters before him invented your god out of thin air. There never was a real one.
America is filled with drooling ***ing restards watching TV and Hollywood's shit. Who in their right minds would go to movies? Full on Hollywood garbage and Mockingbird propaganda while having to worried you might be attacked with animals in the audience. Third world BS.
all have more than 100,000 idle youth, the Opportunity Nation report found.
Raise the minimum wage that will surely get them off their asses. What do these thugs have to riot about? Free food three times a day during the school year and 3 times a day at the rec centers in the summer. Free internet at home, free heat aka LIHEAP, Free rent-section 8, free healthcare-medicaid. Shit the teachers in my city even do their wash. Free bus rides and lightrail. Free fucking food stamps. These are all the free-bee's given out in my city alone. I'm sure I missed a few and it's most likely like that in your city too. I know it's like that in the cities you listed where these incidents occured.
Fuck these animals, they have no soul most likely because their parents are part of the free shit army and thanks to faggot cocksucker's like Obama they all think they deserve that and more.
Bring on the collapse I'm locked and loaded. I'm to tired to give a shit anymore. Yeah when the time comes I my not be able to pull the trigger or my get killed myself. Whatever.
Here's what these animals did to a guy for a fucking used Iphone woth maybe $200 bucks:
http://kstp.com/news/stories/s3264193.shtml
If we add up all the QE applied since that day at Jekyll Island, who received the greatest percentage first use of the money, and who controls that money today? Is it the EBT crowd, or wait for it, our old friends the MIC, the elite, Big Pharma, Central Banks, Big something, and that means not you. This is pure distraction, and based on the tone of the missive, you are either a troll, or someone actually worked up about the people receiving by far, the smallest cut of the pie.
moar police state
moar prisons
moar surveillance
no problem
I thought Conan was a comedy. Not much to laugh at there.
Conan = Stupid fucking ginger.
atleast that ginger made a video clip that prob woke some people up. conan knows whats up
Looking past the emmys and the harvard education, he doesn't know much.
it's okay, you can admit it, if you've bought a handjob, or two, or ten for yourself.
"In America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and there are more than 100 million people that get money from the federal government every month."
50 mil + 100 mil = a lot of drone practice
Contrary to their plans, it sure sounds like all of the professional sports stadiums in America combined won't be able to hold all of those useless eaters. Maybe they will rotate them in as the first batch dies off.
no, they build the wall around your town while you're sleeping.
You wake up in camp Fema. You don't need to get on the train, you already have a ticket.
Um, hate to be the bearer of bad news but the drones are not for those people. The drone tolls for thee.
A lot of the article talks about the usual "rioting" and reflexive violence among black savages. Additionally, fomented by years of racial propaganda by smug, self hating liberal whites.
Yawn.
Let me know when a critical mass of decent white folks start rioting . Then we will be getting somewhere.
CORRECT. The gang of middle class white folks , who have the finances and intelligence , will be much more feared than a bunch of teenage animals ....
Also, middle class white folks (well, southern ones anyway) by knowing which direction to properly hold a firearm can actually shoot straight.
Did you ever think this was karma at work?
America brings over many thousands of slaves --- who are understandably unable to integrate into a society that despises them --- and then tear the society apart.
You state that " Only morons believe in God" in one post and now you are indicating that YOU believe in karma? Wow. ZH comments section is the best free entertainment available on the web.
My exact thoughts as I read further into this one. The authors PC way of tiptoeing around the subject at hand, and I don't say this as a racist either. The fact of the matter is it does not require a genious to figure out, the majority of the time, what race of youngsters are likely involved in any particular melee. Where the fuck are mom and dad in the broader picture?
Dad is out of the picture, and mom is laying on her back making another one. Before you down arrow me, this applies to pretty much any of the main ethnicities here in this country.
Now you're being PC. This isn't a big problem for whites and asians. Nor is it a big problem for recent immigrants from Africa, who often try to avoid contact and influence from "African Americans". We know who the main problem is: blacks. Whether it's mayhem like this, voting to destroy the constitution, murder, ignorance - black Americans as a group are enemies of order and freedom and supporters of chaos and the new slavery, where whitey pays the bills for all time because whites tapped into a booming African slave trade. And the 'good' blacks don't do anything about any of it.
Agreed, but please save the "racist" pre-apology/qualifications.
A clear-eyed observation of the facts, whether they be crime or socioeconomic statistics, or the actual world as it exists around you removes you from any classification of the utterly RIDICULOUS LeftMedia created and fomented "racism" Alinsky charge.
All the "decent" folks will be busy defending their properties and assets. The Koreans come to mind during the '92 LA riots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots
NOPE.
Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of New York.
Remember the Rodney King LA Riots. I was there and in my opinion Rodney King was the straw that broke the camel's back, the real cause of the riots was socio/economic. There was a recession and a lot of people were suffering.
Can it happen again? Of course, look at what is happening around the world.
Reminds me of the massive white riots during the depression.
Only this time it will be much worse. It will be interesting to see where it kicks off.
Sooner or later the American people must come to understand that war has been declared by the oligarchs against the middle class. If the iSheeple don't wake from their teevee and potato chip induced comas soon, the middle class will have been completely wiped out and poverty will be the norm for more than just 47 million people.
Correlate the existence of the middle class with the availability cheap fossil fuels, in particular oil....
Two classes, the uber rich and the destitute have been the historical norm for 6,000 years...
At it's core, this is (and always has been) about resources. Take away the food stamps and/or turn off the water and see how fast things go to shit.
Oil (cheap energy) allowed the world to embark on a "cycle" unlike any other in history. But, it is a cycle nonetheless. And we are heading into a "perfect storm" in so many ways it is just scary. Oil is a part of that of course (EROEI and the shifting of who controls resources which is changing more dramatically at this point).
Why specifically is cheap oil on the verge of disappearing?
Do you buy gasoline?!? It already disappeared. There is a difference between linear and exponential equations - economics may not teach you this, but nature will.
because it's finite like clean water, gold, silver, etc., and we're using up oil, silver, helium, and various other rare things (clean water, too). Given the population boom & all the industrial waste made from factories using oil I dare say we may run out of clean water about the same time we run out of affordable oil & that could be within 20 years.
I could accept that as being more accurate if you had specified the existence of a large middle class. Trade gulds, local merchants, etc. predate fossil fuels, and they generally constituted the middle class way back when. Cheap energy - in the form of first coal and later oil, although designating them 'fossil' fuels is probably a misnomer - did correspond with a rapidly improving standard of living and an expanding middle class.
A small middle class has always existed to parasitically service the needs of the uber rich... Someone is going to make a cut on the imported silks if you get my drift...
Carbon from dead plants and animals laid down millions of years would most definately qualify itself as "fossil"...
You know Doc, It is a curious thing in light of recent revelations of NSA spying and such, that there are no igadget burnings to protest such assaults on Liberty. It's almost like nobody gives a shit or something........
It's amazing how well the sheep have been conditioned. They are all immersed in their little igadget imaginary farmville world, and are missing out on life.
The good news is the whole technological apparatus relies upon an intact electrical grid. It can be unplugged......
Its all part of the NWO agenda to create a serf class and an oligarch class protected by a military/security class... There's no room for the middle class until we break up their evil plan and a monetary revolution against the banking oligarch class takes place already... Geez
And I'm referring to a gold and silver monetary revolution not a bitcoin takeover spoof...
And I'm referring to a gold and silver monetary revolution not a bitcoin takeover spoof..."
Been there - done that- failed. Name ONE economic system that hasnt failed. Gold-silver- failed- tulips- failed- animal skins and whiskey- failed seashells- failed. Etc etc etc... there is NO answer, it is all failure
Tulips were a speculative commodity bubble/ponzi scheme not a monetary system first off.. Secondly if u read US history our country did pretty good after Andrew Jackson abolished the central bank and we had a gold standard up until the creation of the fed.. The fact is that there is a power struggle and there will always be that segment of corrupt old powerful banking families that will deceive the sheeple into thinking that they need central banks when in fact their only purpose is to subjugate the sheeple and turn em into serfs... Ur comment is worthless
You need to realize history is written backwards.
The times when everyone prospered and there was peace, and advancement, have no voice in the history books. Those should be the parts that our children study. How to achieve harmony, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. I must of missed those chapters in my history books.
The parts where everything went to shit, that is the history we have been taught by the slave masters. The rabbit hole goes as deep as your mind will carry you.
Gold & silver never failed. Ever.
Sheeple humans failed to keep their masters in line, and one variation of that is that the sheeples stopped using gold & silver at the command of the masters, but the masters kept using it. You'd have to be crazy & re-invent history to find one period where gold & silver failed. Never has that day happened.
Instead of rampant conspriacy ideation, why don't you read some history....
My comments are based on the obvious fact that the banking class controls the world economy and the politicians that go with it.. If u read history urself u will see this to be the case, before u go flapping ur mouth off at me next time homo...
Oh my, he called me a faggot... Great display of argumenative technique... \facepalm
Well history has shown that you have very special circumstances to have a middle class as found in the 20th century western world. And those conditions have basically ceased to be...
Reversion to the mean...
Flakmeister, stay on script like the video in this article. It's CONSPIRACY THEORY not conspiracy ideation. You'll never make a local TV anchor at this rate.
Conspiracy ideation is a nice way of saying "making shit up", i.e. creating a non-existent conspiracy to explain something they have no clue about or to fulfill a desired worldview, usually both...
Let me know when you want to play with the big boys...
Yikes
I'm actually surprised that Michael Snyder is futhering the U.S. welfare-industrial complex propaganda. According to that dogma, welfare can never be cut for anyone in any amount. Benefits and project scope can only increase. Any cuts will result in (brown-skinned) youth raping your wives and daughters or grannies starving in the streets.
Want to know where we're headed in this country? We are becoming Venezuela. Nothing will work, most people will be dirt poor, but the leftist dogma and propaganda will be so powerful that no change will be possible. Productive middle-class people will be ground down until the system collapses.
I believe the message for anyone who has any idea what is happening is that the pack of wild puppies in the back yard are now all grown up as feral and even more dangerous to society as the day they were created; it's all part of the CPiven strategy- obviously they have accomplished their primary usefulness at the ballot box, now it's time to change their mission.
After all destruction of the Great Experiment is the goal.
..any guesses what that new mission might be in an election year.. or who the target might be they will be encouraged to attack?
What Channel do they broadcast the 50-year old white guy flash mob instructions? Anyone?
..uh, that would be ESPN-1,2,3,U and Classic!
Wait until the EBT cards quit working, then the riots will begin in earnest. "1000 fires in NYC/NJ, and fires in 1000 cities"
If they can steal money from government workers pensions to fund government operations, they can simply add electronic money to EBT cards.
What will cause the EBT cards to quit working besides some temporary glitches we saw recently? If anything I see these sorts of things expanding long-term with the occasional pull-back due to political pressure. Long-term trend upward for the redistribution. The rich may get richer, but the underclass will grow until many, many people do not work.
Destruction of the currency. When it gets to the point that the EBT card may have $10,000,000,000, but that'll only buy a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs, EBT could be considered broken from a functional standpoint. Also, if there is some systemic shock that unexpectedly brings down JPM, who manages that program, EBT will break.
The thing that people always seem to forget is that, no matter how many digital zeros are added to the end of an account, at some point, real physical goods need to be exchanged.
And the system doesn't have to break for an extended period of time. I give it a week before groups of people march in and take what they need (want) because they are owed it.
Then the shooting starts.
pods
I've been waiting for the collapse/revolution/paradigm shift since 2007.
Guess what? It ain't coming. I'm convinced this can go on for decades and decades.
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
There will never...ever....evar be a revolution in this country. TPTB have done a great job at compartmentalizing the citizenry into neat little groups who look at the other groups with distrust. They all think that the other groups are the enemy, and they never think to look at the people doing the dividing. When shit does hit the fan our guns will be turned on each other, and not pointed at the people who deserve it.
"TPTB have done a great job at compartmentalizing the citizenry into neat little groups who look at the other groups with distrust."
I don't think this statement is accurate. Actually, human nature did the compartmentalizing and TPTB capitalized on this human defect. I agree that a revolution seems unlikely, but a "civil" war between the various idealogical factions resulting in the breakup of the US into multiple nations is a possibility. However, a global conflict between the "west" and "east" involving nuclear weapons resulting in massive devestation and loss of life will probably be implemented by TPTB to distract the masses long enough to ensure the "elites" survival. TPTB in China have already expressed their intentions along these lines.
Yeah, you are right with that point. Still TPTB are very good at feeding those divisions and using them to their advantadge in order to keep us distracted from their criminal activity. My belief has been that civil war and balkanization is the inevitable outcome of the U.S.S.A
Indeed. Edward Bernays work has been the bane of humanity. Very sad.
Bingo Doc.
like districts? With people actively set against each other to ensure they don't see who's making them fight?
Decades? It can go on for centuries. Bringing up Rome in discussions like these is such a cliche, but the Roman intellectual elite considered Rome hopelessly corrupt and the people beyond redemption by the time of emperor Augustus. The "peak" of Rome was still coming, and the fading away took centuries. Actually, it probably would've survived if plagues didn't kill at least a third of the empire's population in the later years.
I believe the difference between us and Rome is the speed in which events take place now VS then. Rome went through stages of expansion and contraction over the centuries. We dominated the world after a couple hundred years and the cracks are startying to show. Throw on top of that the fact that we have reached peak oil and the end of cheap energy, and you have a good mix for a speedy decline.
Exactly. I can send a message or transfer money to most places in the world nearly instantly. I can hop on a plane and be almost anywhere within one day. The Romans could not do any of that faster than a horse could transport them, and they could not even make it to the other side of the world. Events happen much, much faster today than they did 2000 years ago. Accordingly, when things really start breaking, they will break at a pace that would have shocked the Romans. But then again, I can watch what the rats in DC are doing live. How long did it take people in England to know that the Roman emperor had decree something?
And, of course, oil is the real issue for our society. If we had a lot more cheap oil, these scams that we're all so pissed off about could probably go on unnoticed for a long time. But now we're just getting a taste of real resource limits, and the plebs aren't getting theirs to the degree that the rich are, and it is causing resentment.
"If we had a lot more cheap oil, these scams that we're all so pissed off about could probably go on unnoticed for a long time. "
Thanks E.V. Not everyone see that. They could have kept it up for a loonnnng time.
COME ON PEAK OIL !!
They can't print it, buy it, steal it...... Resource limits are the only thing gonna stop this train.
Agreed, and so we should all be encouraging the use of fuels/energy as much as possible, as fast as possible, while still trying to be PC about it so we don't end up as the bad guys. Our childrens children may not drive cars as we have, but at least they won't be chained to this shit-ass system. Implode mother fucker!!
Dr. Engali, I believe your general thinking is sound about the rate of business compared to Roman times. Things happen in decades now not centuries. As for balkanization, take this one step further. Our leaders sold out to foreign lobby. Larry King live, "Politicking" now brought to you by Russian Times. Oh the irony!
As for 'collapse' the word implies wholesale destruction and is over used.
Steep contraction is a better word or reversion to the mean. Think about it. If debt overhang in 2008 was 40% and we contracted 25% in real terms reverting to the mean of 1998 (but with millions more mouths to feed) isnt that bad enough?
Necessity is the mother of all in invention, it will change because it has to. Or another way to look at it is anti-trust will arise and spur competition because profits in mega globals cap out. We're near that point.
Its going to stay bumpy for some years yet but outside of WW3 I'm cautiously optomistic. By that I mean Ill try and grow 5% per year in revenues vs. 10% prior 2008. For other small business guys learn the tax laws and invest in such so you only pay 17% tax rate like old Warren Buffett. Hey, I am rendering to Ceasar what is his as Christ admonished.
Arguably, abortion killed the roman empire. The father in roman life had,the power of life and death on family members, and used it. The non christian population collapsed and was replaced, but the replacements were not cruel enough in their thinking to maintain the empire.
I disagree. Yes it could be a slow grind down. But then the Berlin wall fell in days and no bullets(not saying that will happen) but it goes to show how quickly things can happen.
You will start to see a steady increase of property crime in 2014. It already seems to be more frequent lately. Bank robberies, burglaries, theft.
Those flash mob events are different entirely. That is too much testosterone, to little IQ, and too much time. Bad combination.
And mobs tend to not be the smartest of creations. Just to be safe, I would avoid big cities unless you like living life on the edge. For me, I would rather face a grizzly bear because at least the bear has reasons.
Those in power are trying to ratchet down the standard of living slow enough to avoid having their heads on a pole, but since moneychangers and skimmers take a cut of all the gravy being dished out to keep the plebes from rioting, people are going to notice all this vast wealth floating around. And that will breed contempt. Add in an entitlement attitude and you will have a 2014 that is worse than 2013.
But take solace, as 2015 will be worse than 2014.
Just like the next "president" will make Obama look like a good guy. Shit, look what he did for Bush.
pods
"Just like the next "president" will make Obama look like a good guy. Shit, look what he did for Bush."
Boy ain't that the truth? I recall every time Bush got on teevee to speak it would make my stomach churn listening to that idiot try and form a sentence. Now I see people longing for the Bush years and I'm thinking WTF? You liked being plunged into ginned up wars and witnessing the disastrous response to Katrina? WTF is wrong with you people?
I remember when Clinton was bombing Bosnia (or was it the aspirin plant) how at least GHWB would not bomb someone to get the news off of his own troubles.
In reality, we are in a Downward Spiral. Keeps getting worse.
pods
Clinton blew up a couple aspirin plants after Nairobi.
Bush invaded Afghanistan after 9/11. Umm, two Tomahawks, vs 12 years in Afghanistan.
You are kind of proving my point.
Unless you saw me mention Clinton and falsely assumed I was a left-right kind of guy.
Clinton was worse thant GHWB, Bush was worse than Clinton. Obama was worse than Bush.
See the pattern?
pods
I believe pods point is that each president gets worse then their predecessor and escalates things as the nation continues it's slide south.
Well, you go to war within the military and political alliances you have (NATO, the Democrat Party) not those you might ideally like to have. Pussified rules of engagement and muddy feel good strategies objectives and means like fucking Three Cups of Tea will get you what we have, the US making afpak safe for the Taleban.
I'm glad to hear it, because for a while, I was thinking it was just me. I would literally feel ill after seeing Bush's face or listening to his voice. In retrospect, it is all good. Bush allowed me to free myself from the media matrix. I couldn't take it physically, so maybe I owe the Bush family a debt of some sort, karmic possibly.
Invade Vietnam again?
Naaa, they can't now, Intel has a Chip Packaging Operation near Hanoi. Any other Ideas?
Canada. Saves on cost of fuel as well.
Why not Mexico? Hell, half of them are already here, plus we get their oil fields and drug production. Sounds like a plan to me!!!
Ya, you can rent our igloos for below-market cost and have fun with those ice storms. You know Calgary can hit -60 C in the wind and that's -76 F. Still want it?
You mean the Vietnam we had treaty obligations with? That one was swept away after the Democrats in Congress prevented providing any support to South Vietnam in follow up to Nixon decisively winning the war. That Vietnam is long gone of course.
What do you expect with a bunch of kleptocrats above the law passing themselves off as our "captains of industry"?
I bought myself a lavatory brush for Christmas. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
This will be a slow...drawn out process. We are in the 2nd inning. The really bad stuff doesn't happen for another 20-30 years.....
Oh noes, terror at the mall. If I wanted to keep it this "real", I'd buy my poorly-produced expletive-laden "beats" at Westgate in Kenya.
Advice from Crooklyn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSopk6h1LAs
Why wouldnt God be sending judgement on this country? We saddle the unborn with debt and often times kill them all the while protecting fags.
Maybe you were judged.
The only place worse than lost in the forest is the wrong side of history! http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/the-bread-crumbs-of-2013/
Happy new year everyone!
Here's someone actually doing God's work:
http://www.upworthy.com/fancy-chef-cooks-up-yummy-meals-for-less-than-a-dollar-and-his-life-lessons-are-delish?g=2&c=upw1
hey Barry - time to go out and start a war you fucking cocksucker
Increase in hunting ( and fishing) due to economic hardship... In US. Rise of the hunter gatherer?
http://missoulian.com/news/local/report-economic-hardships-boost-interes...
Laying Strips of Venison on the Empty Car Pool Lane of Some Abandoned Superhighway!
Shiiiiiit, I just throw mine in the smoker and add some wood every 30-60 minutes.
Yup,
Me and the Mrs. likes to get us some free eatin too.
http://www.nighthawkpublications.com/images/2011/6/16.jpg
Four legs good, two legs bad... that's because the two legged dumbass is more prone to do more stupid shit. They're more like animals than animals.
The pigs whispered words to each other discussing how to force the donkeys to work more and to feed them less. That's how the pigs worked things out on Animal Farm. More for the pigs, less for the donkeys. It all works out in the end.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.