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Guest Post: 2014 Will Bring More Social Collapse

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Submitted by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts via Alt-Market blog,

2014 is upon us. For a person who graduated from Georgia Tech in 1961, a year in which the class ring showed the same date right side up or upside down, the 21st century was a science fiction concept associated with Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, "2001: A Space Odyssey." To us George Orwell's 1984 seemed so far in the future we would never get there. Now it is 30 years in the past.

Did we get there in Orwell's sense? In terms of surveillance technology, we are far beyond Orwell's imagination. In terms of the unaccountability of government, we exceptional and indispensable people now live a 1984 existence. In his alternative to the Queen's Christmas speech, Edward Snowden made the point that a person born in the 21st century will never experience privacy. For new generations the word privacy will refer to something mythical, like a unicorn.

Many Americans might never notice or care. I remember when telephone calls were considered to be private. In the 1940s and 1950s the telephone company could not always provide private lines. There were "party lines" in which two or more customers shared the same telephone line. It was considered extremely rude and inappropriate to listen in on someone's calls and to monopolize the line with long duration conversations.

The privacy of telephone conversations was also epitomized by telephone booths, which stood on street corners, in a variety of public places, and in "filling stations" where an attendant would pump gasoline into your car's fuel tank, check the water in the radiator, the oil in the engine, the air in the tires, and clean the windshield. A dollar's worth would purchase 3 gallons, and $5 would fill the tank.

Even in the 1980s and for part of the 1990s there were lines of telephones on airport waiting room walls, each separated from the other by sound absorbing panels. Whether the panels absorbed the sounds of the conversation or not, they conveyed the idea that calls were private.

The notion that telephone calls are private left Americans' consciousness prior to the NSA listening in. If memory serves, it was sometime in the 1990s when I entered the men's room of an airport and observed a row of men speaking on their cell phones in the midst of the tinkling sound of urine hitting water and noises of flushing toilets. The thought hit hard that privacy had lost its value.

I remember when I arrived at Merton College, Oxford, for the first term of 1964. I was advised never to telephone anyone whom I had not met, as it would be an affront to invade the privacy of a person to whom I was unknown. The telephone was reserved for friends and acquaintances, a civility that contrasts with American telemarketing.

The efficiency of the Royal Mail service protected the privacy of the telephone. What one did in those days in England was to write a letter requesting a meeting or an appointment. It was possible to send a letter via the Royal Mail to London in the morning and to receive a reply in the afternoon. Previously it had been possible to send a letter in the morning and to receive a morning reply, and to send another in the afternoon and receive an afternoon reply.

When one flies today, unless one stops up one's ears with something, one hears one's seat mate's conversations prior to takeoff and immediately upon landing. Literally, everyone is talking nonstop. One wonders how the economy functioned at such a high level of incomes and success prior to cell phones. I can remember being able to travel both domestically and internationally on important business without having to telephone anyone. What has happened to America that no one can any longer go anywhere without constant talking?

If you sit at an airport gate awaiting a flight, you might think you are listening to a porn film. The overhead visuals are usually Fox "News" going on about the need for a new war, but the cell phone audio might be young women describing their latest sexual affair.

Americans, or many of them, are such exhibitionists that they do not mind being spied upon or recorded. It gives them importance. According to Wikipedia, Paris Hilton, a multimillionaire heiress, posted her sexual escapades online, and Facebook had to block users from posting nude photos of themselves. Sometime between my time and now people ceased to read 1984. They have no conception that a loss of privacy is a loss of self. They don't understand that a loss of privacy means that they can be intimidated, blackmailed, framed, and viewed in the buff. Little wonder they submitted to porno-scanners.

The loss of privacy is a serious matter. The privacy of the family used to be paramount. Today it is routinely invaded by neighbors, police, Child Protective Services (sic), school administrators, and just about anyone else.

Consider this: A mother of six and nine year old kids sat in a lawn chair next to her house watching her kids ride scooters in the driveway and cul-de-sac on which they live.

Normally, this would be an idyllic picture. But not in America. A neighbor, who apparently did not see the watching mother, called the police to report that two young children were outside playing without adult supervision. Note that the next door neighbor, a woman, did not bother to go next door to speak with the mother of the children and express her concern that they children were not being monitored while they played. The neighbor called the police. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mom-sues-polices-she-arrested-letting-her-kids-134628018.html

"We're here for you," the cops told the mother, who was carried off in handcuffs and spent the next 18 hours in a cell in prison clothes.

The news report doesn't say what happened to the children, whether the father appeared and insisted on custody of his offspring or whether the cops turned the kids over to Child Protective Services.

This shows you what Americans are really like. Neither the neighbor nor the police had a lick of sense. The only idea that they had was to punish someone. This is why America has the highest incarceration rate and the highest total number of prison inmates in the entire world. Washington can go on and on about "authoritarian" regimes in Russia and China, but both countries have far lower prison populations than "freedom and democracy" America.

I was unaware that laws now exist requiring the supervision of children at play. Children vary in their need for supervision. In my day supervision was up to the mother's judgment. Older children were often tasked with supervising the younger. It was one way that children were taught responsibility and developed their own judgment.

When I was five years old, I walked to the neighborhood school by myself. Today my mother would be arrested for child endangerment.

In America punishment falls more heavily on the innocent, the young, and the poor than it does on the banksters who are living on the Federal Reserve's subsidy known as Quantitative Easing and who have escaped criminal liability for the fraudulent financial instruments that they sold to the world. Single mothers, depressed by the lack of commitment of the fathers of their children, are locked away for using drugs to block out their depression. Their children are seized by a Gestapo institution, Child Protective Services, and end up in foster care where many are abused.

According to numerous press reports, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 year-old children who play cowboys and indians or cops and robbers during recess and raise a pointed finger while saying "bang-bang" are arrested and carried off to jail in handcuffs as threats to their classmates. In my day every male child and the females who were "Tom boys" would have been taken to jail. Playground fights were normal, but no police were ever called. Handcuffing a child would not have been tolerated.

From the earliest age, boys were taught never to hit a girl. In those days there were no reports of police beating up teenage girls and women or body slamming the elderly. To comprehend the degeneration of the American police into psychopaths and sociopaths, go online and observe the video of Lee Oswald in police custody in 1963.

Oswald was believed to have assassinated President John F. Kennedy and murdered a Dallas police officer only a few hours previously to the film. Yet he had not been beaten, his nose wasn't broken, and his lips were not a bloody mess. Now go online and pick from the vast number of police brutality videos from our present time and observe the swollen and bleeding faces of teenage girls accused of sassing overbearing police officers.

In America today people with power are no longer accountable. This means citizens have become subjects, an indication of social collapse.

 

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Fri, 01/03/2014 - 01:07 | 4295675 The Heart
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Today we call them yougins, SCREENAGERS.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 01:16 | 4295691 Radical Marijuana
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One of the things I like about Paul Craig Roberts is that in his live performances he does not pull punches, with some last minute "optimism" ... since there are no rational reasons to substitute any favourable "buts" into the obvious conclusions. ... I like to hold on to irrational hopes in political miracles just as much as anyone else ... However, I admire somebody who is still rational enough to recognize how irrational hoping for some series of political miracles to save us really is!

The deeply entrenched, well-established political systems make it practically impossible to compete with the already accomplished degree to which there is a runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut, that is going to turn most Americans into its road kill. In theory, if there were enough political miracles of enough Americans (and other people around the world) "waking up" enough, then maybe something could be done about the runaway social insanity situations that we are in NOW ...

The world that I also grew up in as a child (that Roberts reminisces about) has been pretty well totally destroyed. I can not see that being able to be brought back, since everything that is most obviously important is getting worse at an exponentially accelerating rate. As a drowning man, I keep on clutching at thinner and thinner straws of irrational hopes ... However, I can not actually believe that the apparently exponential rate of destruction of the world that I grew up in is not going to continue to get worse, faster ...

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 01:58 | 4295749 satoshi101
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Yep, like today's other article here "It's going to be better",

Only a snake-oil salesman can tell you its going to get better,

It's going to get much fucking worse, ... there are NO real fucking leaders in sight, good men are fucking silent, knowing all too well that if you go public with a "EMP has no clothes", that the IRS will clean your glory-hole.

So good-men really do remain silent,

Nothing can bring the USA back, it was lucky post WWII, and it then still had resources up to 1970's, by the 1980's all was stolen, now you have 320+ million people that must be imprisoned, murdered, or eaten, take your pick of the outcome,

Smart men left, men of means left, .. and only the clueless remain in the USA, hell most of the ex-pats I know are all old warriors,...

But It's NOT the destruction of the world, the world is just fine, New Zealand is just fine, and so is all the worlds good places, its only the USA that will continue to descend into HELL.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 08:54 | 4296079 FredFlintstone
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Good post. I guess I am clueless. I spent a little time in NZ recently and thought it had some positive aspects also some negative. 1/3 of the employed work for the government. Impossible for most to save money, even professionals. Except for milk and mutton, everything is imported and costs a fortune. 70% of economy related to agriculture with much of that tied to countries like China. China finds a little bacteria in its imported infant formula and all of NZ shits their pants as their economy depends on these exports. Was a relatively poor country til just recently. Never saw a good looking woman there. Very parochial, seemed kind of suffocating. Very beautiful though. Nice weather.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 02:13 | 4295773 DavidPierre
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RM:

Just finishing... the Lost Coast by Tim Bowling.

It is poetry rapped in prose about the death of wild culture and once happy childhood.

http://www.harbourpublishing.com/title/TheLostCoast

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 10:05 | 4296250 tarsubil
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I think the ending is exactly right. "...an indication of social collapse." Everyone talks about the coming collapse but if you look closely it seems it has already occurred.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 01:28 | 4295710 PoliticalRefuge...
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no brakes.

 

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 01:48 | 4295736 Rusty Shorts
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Defcon 18 - Practical Cellphone Spying - Chris Paget - Part.mov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU8hg4FTm0g

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 01:58 | 4295756 2hangmen
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It comes down to how many of us remain sheep. With apathy, loss of morality, and normalcy bias guiding our existence, how could we ever be anything but fat, dumb and oblivious.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 02:29 | 4295801 satoshi101
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Even when the US troops arrived in NAZI germany they still had to remove german women from their homes, take them to the gas chambers and show them what the GERMAN's had done, for the majority still believed that ... every thing was fine, that Germany was GOOD, and that Germany was the MORAL Compass for the world, .... blah-blah

1.) Nazi germany was the greatest and kindest nation on earth, the moral compass for the world

2.) The german constitution was the greatest document ever written

3.) The founders of Nazi Germany were the greatest men in human history, ...

How far must the USA descend into HELL before the SHEEP wake-up? They don't, that's why its called "BOIL THE FROG", the FROG's all died long ago, ... now the USA is a nation of fucking zombies, just waiting to be encapsulated in a FEMA black-bag.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 02:28 | 4295793 satoshi101
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"From the earliest age, boys were taught never to hit a girl. In those days there were no reports of police beating up teenage girls and women or body slamming the elderly.
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To comprehend the degeneration of the American police into psychopaths and sociopaths... "

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Given the majority here don't read the OP posts, just this paragraph is enough, essentially when a nation lets its COP/MIL beat little girls or old lady's, that nation is fucked, when the people refuse to stand up and say "Enough is Enough, that is telling that that nation is FUCKED",

The USA is fucked, and nothing can or ever will fix the fucked nation.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 02:58 | 4295827 sangell
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Sorry, Oswald did come out with a black eye. When asked how it happened he said " A police officer hit me". It wasn't quite as perfect as you remember Dr. Roberts. In fact, the first great invasion of privacy was not by the government but the marketing of scanners when mobile telephone meant a home base station or analogue cell phone. Everyone was 'listening' to their neighbor and UNIDEN and other scanner manufacturers catered to this 'curiousity'.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 04:11 | 4295871 satoshi101
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You would have had to seen Oswald live to know he had the slighest bruise, but the photo's today of little girls and old lady's having the fucking shit beat out of them by dozens of cop's is what Robert's is talking about.

Little girls and old lady's having the shit beat out of them by USA cop's is so common now on YOUTUBE that nobody even cares anymore, this is what Roberts is talking about.

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Sorry, but Apologists for the NSA USA COP Police-State should have old rusted railroad ties inserted in their glory hole.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 12:25 | 4296687 therearetoomany...
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Agreed, or getting raped by a state cop while another state cop watches.  Penetrated anally and vaginally, two women, without changing gloves, on the side of the highway.   All because they thought the two people in the car were smoking pot, which they weren't.  And originally they were pulled over for throwing a cigarette out the window.  

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/troopers-texas-probe-genitals-w...

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Trooper-to-Be-Terminated-Roadside-Cavit...

Oddly enough, when I went to look for the article online, no major news source came up on the first page other than 'The Daily News".   And local Dallas NBC station.  

And, BTW, rehired....can't confirm on other sites...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Outrage-TX-Trooper-who-ra-by-Martin-Hil...

 

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 10:29 | 4296325 Staplegun
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I blame TV for people thinking that policing was like the Andy Griffith show back in the 60s. The reality was pretty much the opposite of that. The only difference was that there weren't mobile cameras out there to catch all of it.

See: Rochin v California, COINTELPRO, Fred Hampton, Katz v US, Frank Serpico etc etc etc. Up until DOJ put major metro departments under federal oversight, it was common to get your a** handed to you by a cop who didn't like the cut of your jib or your color. And thanks to Reagan's crack epidemic, the police became militarized. I think a more relevant study would be to examine how the police have become more militarized in recent years and how that militarization will lead to more abuses. 

 

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 03:25 | 4295845 Rising Sun
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not a single soul in any government anywhere is accountable for the spending waste and imposed misery they create

 

this shit will continue ad infinitum

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 03:30 | 4295851 firestarter_916
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It was a promising article until the bashing of Fox News.  Not sure the relevencec of that to this article.  Does CNN ever confront their President about privacy issues?  Considering the last sentence of the article, I'm quite certain the auther voted for the resident of the White House has abused power and privacy more than the other 41 Presidents put together.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 04:28 | 4295868 satoshi101
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Defending Faux news on ZH, who could have guessed?

Next we will see the Tylers defending Goebbels.

Fuck CNN, fuck Fox, Fuck all MSM media.

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There seems a trend here by the trolls and GUBMINT bot's to negate the truth that Robert's say's by fine pointing small failure in his arguments.

The point that Robert's has made that once a nation, allows its women and children to be mistreated by 'authority', then there is NO return to HUMAN NORMALACY.

American 'Big Government' Authority has destroyed any and all credibility it may have had to lead not only the world, or America, or even a dog kennel.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 08:10 | 4296011 negative rates
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See ya later Casey!

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 09:04 | 4296111 satoshi101
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Bot's that apologize for the COP-SHOP, should have rusty railroad devices rammed up their rectum, ... enough said.

The Bot owner's will be tracked down, nobody is safe, your either with us, or your against us.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 10:19 | 4296280 Calmyourself
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Fox radio reports on the "rescue" of the stuck in the ice idiots in Antartica neglects to mention  they were there to study the lack of ice aka Global warming.  Saw pictures of Antartica 1912-13 expedition ice free to the shore..

 

Yep fuckem all, simplre collaborators we will shave their heads and march them to their destiny.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 11:33 | 4296543 therearetoomany...
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I've noticed "alot" of anti-Roberts sentiment on there.  

It's insane, this is someone that lived in the belly of the beast, in the 'matrix' and is telling us exactly what is going on.  I've been reading his blog now for about 6 months and everything is eye opening and spot on and tends to reflect opinion and comment for about 85 percent of the folks on ZH. 

I guess some people have to be 'smarter' than everyone else, or something.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 17:51 | 4297890 satoshi101
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Well its obvious here that there are lots of little kids, and the people running ZH, are all under 30,

Reminds me what Churchill used to say "If you over 40 and your not conservative you don't have a brain, if your under 40 and not liberal you don't have a heart"

The kids ain't got no money on ZH, but they don't have a heart either, What Roberts is talking about is beating little girls and granny, and the ZH kids seem to think its funny.

 

It's all funny until they come for you, and then and only then will the ZH kids wise up to the real world.

 

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In summary the majority here are heartless, and only love money, that's the obession with the stock market, and get rich quick (BTC)

Total disregard for the fellow man,

Welcome to America, post 1980's collapse

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 11:26 | 4296505 therearetoomany...
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Fox is by far the most insidious 'news' source out there.   They feign this fairness crap, but in small little doses they've supported everything that is wrong with the country, whether Bush or Obama or any of the others that would control our way of life.

Support of drones, NSA, raising the debt cieling, everyone on Fox has declared Snowden a coward and traitor.  Belittling Ron Paul.  If you've ever seen the Jon Stewart youtube of how the media ignored Ron Paul in 2012, Fox was number 1 in its ignoring of Paul. 

They are out there to put that facetious spin on stories...like, "Oh, you'd be a fool to believe the NSA is abusing power. "  

Insidious.  

Please understand how big a foe Fox is, right along side the others.  

Coming from an ex-fox watcher.

Turn off TeeVee...it's keeping us down.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 04:51 | 4295888 lakecity55
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So far, our impersonation of National Socialist Germany is going quite well.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 06:04 | 4295898 Dr. Destructo
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Impersonation? It's more like our country is looking at any authoritarian regime that ever existed or mentioned in a fiction book and said: "We can do better!"

Rome? Your corruption isn't shit compared to ours!

GDR? Your STASI isn't shit compared to ours!

George Orwell's 1984? How can we expand on this?

Nazi Germany? You were on a roll with nationalism/governmental corruption, and corporatism, but you neglected to enslave the world with shitty currency backed by more shitty currency.

USSR? A one-party system isn't the way to go -you need two powerful parties that lead the people toward the shithouse but argue about how to get there so that people THINK they're different.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 05:26 | 4295902 Disenchanted
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"Control the food, control the people."

Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation by F. William Engdahl

 

This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish control over the very basis of human survival: the provision of our daily bread.  


This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. Engdahl takes the reader inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science labs, behind closed doors in the corporate boardrooms.


The author cogently reveals a diabolical world of profit-driven political intrigue, government corruption and coercion, where genetic manipulation and the patenting of life forms are used to gain worldwide control over food production. If the book often reads as a crime story, that should come as no surprise. For that is what it is.


Engdahl’s carefully argued critique goes far beyond the familiar controversies surrounding the practice of genetic modification as a scientific technique. The book is an eye-opener, a must-read for all those committed to the causes of social justice and world peace.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 13:29 | 4296913 WillyGroper
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Great book. Well researched. FWE is spot on.

I have friends from Iraq, lived here 30 yrs. 

Told me the farmers seeds were seized just after the invasion.

MON truly is Satan. Or one fork of his tail.

Murder by numbers, 1,2,3

It's as easy to learn as your ABC's.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 14:12 | 4297083 Anusocracy
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Shit that wouldn't be happening without the existence of government.

People who can't give up their love affair with government are forever attacking symptoms.

If government continues to exist, there will never be an end to symptoms for morons to bitch about.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 07:33 | 4295964 justsayin2u
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Societal expectations for acceptable behavior are very low.  This results in less person to person interaction and more calling the police when people act poorly.  Think of the barking dog at midnight or the neighbors kids party with kids fking in the yard or pissing in the street.  In my experience over the last 20 years you are as likely to have a neighbor threaten you as to have them help you if you ask them to get their act under control.  So you call the cops instead and they have to handle the situation - often ineffectually.  It would be much better if people respected each others rights.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 10:14 | 4296269 Zero-risk bias
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I get what you're saying with the whole respect thing. Guess that would be the most logical.

There is the tolerance angle too. I guess this is what has also contributed to this nullification of action and created self-doubt, or a tendecy for inaction, avoiding confrontation.

A friend recently said it pretty well. He said, "I think we've got to get rid of these taboos".

If we can get rid of out silly notions of acceptable/unacceptable, and start to look at it as appropriate to oneself, and worry less about other peoples' personal decisions. We might make it another generation or wh knows.. things might get back to civility.

Repectfuly.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 10:34 | 4296342 Mi Naem
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Eliminating the notion of right and wrong does not make a civil society. 

Eliminating the notion of right and wrongmakes the kind of selfish "society" of isolated individuals whose primary faux connections are around seeking or prolonging some unsustainable pleasures.  The common view becomes that anyone who considers getting in the way of what I want had better STFU and stay out of my way if they know whats good for them. This is pretty much where we are - "diversity" only for the lowest common denominators. 

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 11:14 | 4296480 therearetoomany...
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Right?  It's "situational ethics"  that has caused all this bullshit.   Thanks Hippies!

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 08:12 | 4296013 no more banksters
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"The more the welfare state, human and labor rights retreat, the more difficult the "recovery" of Vision becomes. Situation becomes worse in front of the attack of neoliberalism. Vision becomes not only a utopia, but also a luxury because the top priority of people is to survive. The concept of Liberty itself tends to disappear permanently inside increasingly militarized societies of private armies."

http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/01/how-western-societies-lost-th...

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 08:59 | 4296096 negative rates
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But don't forget all the money on the sidelines, and the back burner too. There is more than one clown in the circus these days dude.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 09:02 | 4296105 satoshi101
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Yep, even in hell you can get rich by fucking those on their knees, ....

There must be a god, and his colors must be red, white, and blue.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 09:25 | 4296150 gwar5
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Paul C. Roberts, et al,: we've experienced a coup.

The unelected private central banking cartel members are the new sovereigns and they are running the nation states openly and with impunity.  They have unilaterally suspended self-government and the Constitutions in the EU and America.  Farage: This is very dangerous game indeed.

Shadow governments are out of the shadows and coordinating events. Imagine if a private monopoly cartel of oil companies like Exxon and Halliburton tried to pull this one off, debasing the gas at the pump 5% a year for 100 years.

All the abuses are acts of war upon the masses of clueless people.  All hail the BIS and the Bilderbergers.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 09:33 | 4296165 Gewehrsmann
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A very tedious article.  The minute I detect the authors political agenda in a financial article I lose interest.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 09:51 | 4296218 Mareka
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On Oswald not being beaten in custody. 

It seems like in just the last year depictions of police in TV & movies beating suspects during interrogations has become routine.  The suspect spills the beans and there are congratulations all around for the good police work.

Can you imagine Joe Friday holding a suspects head underwater to see if he could get a confession?

 

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 10:11 | 4296270 Calmyourself
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Tyler more importantly Brandon's essay on resistance.

http://www.alt-market.com/articles/1911-violence-in-the-face-of-tyranny-...

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 10:51 | 4296394 deerhunter
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Society has lost all expectation of moral and rational behavior.  I have been fishing in the Fox River for fifteen years and watched as people ignored all laws for keeping smallmouth bass of legal size and quantities over the last fifteen years as well.  I once mentioned to a man with 8 fish in a pail,  all illegal size that there was a three fish limit and none of his looked big enough.  He told me to go fuck my momma,  in those words.  I lost a game warden job to "affirmative action" way back in the day and guess I still have a little game warden in my blood.  Long story short fifteen years ago in the fall I could catch smallmouth bass in the 15 to 19 inch range for a month straight.  This past fall,  I caught one fish over 15 inches.  It is a small example of lawlessness.  I have spoken with a game warden who pretty much has given up issuing tickets as a lot of the violators never pay or show up to pay or give fake names, addresses.  I won't mention what country those folks come from or what color the man who told me to go F my momma was either. Oh,  one other thing,  two kids came to the door and asked me if they could shovel my driveway.  I said no thanks and that i was waiting til morning.  As they walked down my driveway one shouted over his shoulder,  "Bitch".  We have collapsed and no one is willing to call a spade a spade.  My daughters are 33, 30 and 23 and in my house they did not use the word suck.  Call me crazy.  My house, my rules.  Brace yourselves cause when it comes,  it will come quickly and violently.  Stopping the EBT cards is my guess when things are ready.  

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 13:32 | 4296937 WillyGroper
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Just curious. What if those fish were his only means to feed himself or family?

Not making an excuse for his behavior.

I just don't think any of us in the position of chronic hunger are going to give a rats ass about the size or limit. 

When everything has been taken from you, you have nothing left to lose.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 11:12 | 4296395 RaceToTheBottom
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Article started out good, but the author could not hold himself back.  Too bad.  Good 4/5 of an article on a very important subject.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 12:29 | 4296705 dexter_morgan
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I see the red/blue - good/bad media delusion runs strong here.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 13:10 | 4296833 TrulyStupid
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The idyllic America of the 50s and sixties described herein was more typical of the white side of the racial divide.. the other side could be even more brutal than today's reality.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 13:35 | 4296939 Son of Captain Nemo
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What an important post to the start of 2014 and well written.

It says so much about how we've changed as a Nation in our declared state of emergency over the last 12 years!

Hope you keep this one up for awhile.

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 13:56 | 4297026 Notarocketscientist
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Paul Roberts rules.   Sign up for his newsletters right side half way down the page http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 17:30 | 4297841 SweetDoug
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Had to put this in. Great article. It's coming. Coming apart.

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When I was a kid, in the fall mornings, before school sometimes, I would sling my shot gun over my handlebars, ride through town and go duck hunting.

Nobody was killed in a random shooting.

At our high school, in the early 70’s, my dad ran the rifle club. The kids brought their guns in and they were stored in the principle’s office. They fired them in the gymnasium, into 2x4s stacked up at the wall.

Nobody ever got shot.

Our science lab kept rattlesnakes brought in by the guys.

Nobody ever got bit.

We had a credit for school that culminated in an 11 day trip to a large national park, where two teachers looked after 12-18 students.

Nobody ever drowned or got hurt.

And now? Most of that is gone, except for the Outdoors credit.

Now when they go? 1 teacher for 3 students.

It’s all over.

The fucking little bitches have won. The mealy-mouthed, little shitrats. The freaky-deaky, siamese cat-like soccor moms, who freak out at the least little hangnail in life, calling the cops, spying on you, all-the-while, starring in awe of their own little perfect darling…

The ones that if they don’t have their café-laute, cream bullshit whatever, think they’re roughing it.

I was arrested by the cops a few years ago for harassment. I dared to show up and serve the douche-bag the civil case myself, after sending him 3 letters, telling him, “Pay up or else.” I thought I was doing something called “due diligence” before we went to court.

The DB is a cop-caller. That’s what we call these types now. He told them that he and his wife “fe-ee-ee-ee-ee-l-ll-ll-ll-ll-ll threatened.”

Not ‘threatened’ but ‘feel’ threatened. There’s a difference. There used to be a difference. Not for the cops. Feelings are everything now.

They dragged me out of my home. (I think this was also due to my going after the cops to do their job in some other, unrelated matter, but that might just be my paranoia. Ever walk into a cop station to inquire about what they’re doing about your stolen stuff, and the duty desk guy recognizes you? And you’ve never seen him…)

This sneaky tactic, is now spreading all over. It’s even reached my old home town of 500. A friend that wants the neighbour to stop dropping yard waste on his mom’s back 40, tries to contact him to give the guy a heads up, in case the fellow didn’t know it shouldn’t be done.

After several attempts, Shane knew he was getting the runaround. He caught up with the guy on the main street and rapped on the window of car. Buddy drove off and later, Shane was arrested with flashing lights on the main street in his car with his wife and spent the weekend in jail.

Shane’s the local appliance fixer guy. This dope who comes over to my 83 year mom’s place at 8:30PM because she’s panic stricken that her washer is broken. He forgets to send her the bill. A real nasty character…

Another buddy, who’s drunken ex-girlfriend won’t leave, so he gently pushes her out his door, closes it, to hear her banging on it, to open it, and she’s somehow, got a cut forehead, and needs 911 according to her.

Guess who got taken away? Apparently you can’t push a drunken woman out of your house, who won’t leave, who’s getting rough.
Yet the douche who did me, when I tried to deliver mail to his place of work, man-handles me out the door, shoving me down the stairs, that if I wasn’t as skilled as I was, I’d a fallen.

Same story as mine, except with a woman, different outcome though.

I went to the cops, because I was fed up. I’m nobody to push around, due to my size and training. The cops? “Well… Did he hurt you?”

Notice the double-standard in law? Everything is political.

And another friend, who has a grandkid 1.5 years old, who bit another kid at some pre-school, the parents are threatening the family with a lawyer. Over this?

Or you show up at work, only to be sacked and replaced by the pot-smoking pal of the foreman, who blamed you for the wall he hit with the forklift he was driving, who spells the word “danjerous” for the work signs he puts up.

Or the woman who lives in the quiet cul-de-sac, who calls the cops over and over because kids are playing too loudly on the street, or you’re parked on her side of the street. The cops ask you to move and keep your kids quiet, but when she threatens the kids, nothing happens to her. Not even the second time. But don’t you dare tell the cops you’ll beat her if she touches your kids, because well, you know…

It’s coming apart. Rapidly.

I give it no more than 10 years.

Something’s gonna give.

And when it comes, it’s going to explode. The little guy, the regular joes, are furious. There’s no more justice. There’s law, but no justice.

Just my two cents.

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