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Coasting Towards Zero

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Submitted by Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,

In just about any realm of activity this nation does not know how to act. We don’t know what to do about our mounting crises of economy. We don’t know what to do about our relations with other nations in a strained global economy. We don’t know what to do about our own culture and its traditions, the useful and the outworn. We surely don’t know what to do about relations between men and women. And we’re baffled to the point of paralysis about our relations with the planetary ecosystem.

To allay these vexations, we just coast along on the momentum generated by the engines in place — the turbo-industrial flow of products to customers without the means to buy things; the gigantic infrastructures of transport subject to remorseless decay; the dishonest operations of central banks undermining all the world’s pricing and cost structures; the political ideologies based on fallacies such as growth without limits; the cultural transgressions of thought-policing and institutional ass-covering.

This is a society in deep danger that doesn’t want to know it. The nostrum of an expanding GDP is just statistical legerdemain performed to satisfy stupid news editors, gull loose money into reckless positions, and bamboozle the voters. If we knew how to act we would bend every effort to prepare for the end of mass motoring, but instead we indulge in fairy tales about the “shale oil miracle” because it offers the comforting false promise that we can drive to WalMart forever (in self-driving cars!). Has it occurred to anyone that we no longer have the capital to repair the vast network of roads, streets, highways, and bridges that all these cars are supposed to run on? Or that the capital will not be there for the installment loans Americans are accustomed to buy their cars with?

The global economy is withering quickly because it was just a manifestation of late-stage cheap oil. Now we’re in early-stage of expensive oil and a lot of things that seemed to work wonderfully well before, don’t work so well now. The conveyer belt of cheap manufactured goods from China to the WalMarts and Target stores doesn’t work so well when the American customers lose their incomes, and have to spend their government stipends on gasoline because they were born into a world where driving everywhere for everything is mandatory, and because central bank meddling adds to the horrendous inflation of food prices.

Now there’s great fanfare over a “manufacturing renaissance” in the United States, based on the idea that the work will be done by robots. What kind of foolish Popular Mechanics porn fantasy is this? If human beings have only a minor administrative role in this set-up, what do two hundred million American adults do for a livelihood? And who exactly are the intended customers of these products? You can be sure that the people of China, Brazil, and Korea will have enough factories of their own, making every product imaginable. Are they going to buy our stuff now? Are they going to completely roboticize their own factories and impoverish millions of their own factory workers?

The lack of thought behind this dynamic is staggering, especially because it doesn’t account for the obvious political consequence — which is to say the potential for uprising, revolution, civic disorder, cruelty, mayhem, and death, along with the kind of experiments in psychopathic governance that the 20th century was a laboratory for. Desperate populations turn to maniacs. You can be sure that scarcity beats a fast path to mass homicide.

What preoccupies the USA now, in June of 2014? According to the current cover story Time Magazine, the triumph of “transgender.” Isn’t it wonderful to celebrate sexual confusion as the latest and greatest achievement of this culture? No wonder the Russians think we’re out of our minds and want to dissociate from the West. I’ve got news for the editors of Time Magazine: the raptures of sexual confusion are not going to carry American civilization forward into the heart of this new century.

In fact, just the opposite. We don’t need confusion of any kind. We need clarity and an appreciation of boundaries in every conceivable sphere of action and thought. We don’t need more crybabies, or excuses, or wishful thinking, or the majestic ass-covering that colors the main stream of our national life.

 

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Mon, 06/02/2014 - 16:29 | 4817881 Overfed
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He paid for it himself, works a job, and pays for his own maintenance meds. I wouldn't respect him if he were a parasite.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 16:32 | 4817897 FredFlintstone
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Great. Looks like we will all be paying (Medicare) for a 74 yo man to change to a woman. I don't think that is right.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 17:09 | 4817930 Overfed
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I strongly doubt that there will be Medicare in 30 years from now. Nevertheless, I have a fair bit of respect for him to own up to who he is, and for working two jobs at a time during is late teens and early 20s to pay for a very expensive set of procedures.

Also, I never would have known that he was transgendered but for the fact that someone else let it slip. We're not talking about the barfly bulldykes whose only sense of identity is in being obnoxious lesbos. 

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 16:15 | 4817858 Clowns on Acid
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Yeh right.... keep that kid away from guns....

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 16:22 | 4817868 Cathartes Aura
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I've posted this repeatedly, but here it is again. . .

approximately 1 in 2000 live births have ambiguous genitalia, in that they are not visibly "male" or "female" - many of those are surgically assigned a gender, because the surgeons convince the parents that their child cannot "fit in" to culture otherwise, and would be harassed, etc.

so a substantial number of humans are have their body altered via surgery and hormones - from a very early age - and still don't feel "real" - they're in the culture, mostly "hidden" because of strong "culture policing" that goes on, mainly by men (gendered males), who bully anything they don't perceive as "normal" - or whatever isn't attractive enough to be considered "fuckable".  everyone else is mocked.

should these people not exist?  should they not have the same rights as you believe you deserve?  should they be forced into narrow cultural norms, even when they can't truly fulfill those "norms"?

how 'bout we all just grow up and let other people exist without having to squeeze into those narrow box'd realities, even if YOU find them quite comfortable, not everyone has to. . .

but good on you for actually seeing that the person who chose the gender presentation most in line with how they see themselves, is performing that chosen role to the best of their ability, a higher standard than even expected. and that it's not always about attention seeking or vanity - sometimes it's about learning who/how to Be.

edit: upvoted to even your "score". . . heh.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 18:38 | 4818306 RafterManFMJ
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I tried to get through your post, honestly but I had to ultimately rush off to give my Dolphin a flogging. Bad! Bad dolphin!

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 23:44 | 4819114 Cathartes Aura
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yes, of course you did.

thinking is hard, like yer dolphin.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 18:15 | 4818219 samsara
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"The whole LGBT thing is just another distraction to keep the sheeple from thinking about what's really going on."

Yes, I believe they can spot memes in a growth stage, and ask themselves 'How can we direct this to our aims.'

And that long range plan gestating over years implemented in phases. Taking minor social memes, amplifying them to their plan wherever possible. Woman's lib, CIA For example.

But yes, taking a small social issue, project it thru 6 corporate new channel, make it a talking point.

But it must be emotional social issue to get them fight each other, and have it be an "Issue"

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 18:29 | 4818274 arby63
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Agreed. Could be my neighbor anytime but we are spent. He needs to take care because times are about to explode.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 15:51 | 4817770 BuddyEffed
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Rising above to view the big picture is difficult for most.  Everybody's own priorities and day to day decisions are in play and just getting through today and the next few weeks are always the priority.  As you can't get to a few months or years out without getting through the next couple of days.  From birth we have been conditioned to trust for the best and that the weeks, months, and years will come and be similar to our recency biases.  We can try to make a few decisions about the long term, but those almost always are heavily influenced by recency bias, and without damn good reason to consider any alternatives we most likely won't, collectively or individually.  

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 14:58 | 4817616 Bemused Observer
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This is what you get when you allow vast sums of money to flow like water into the hands of a few people at the top...those people then make decisions on how to spend that money, and as it turns out, they don't always make wise decisions.
Just look at some of the bone-headed ideas coming out of that group...
So, it wouldn't surprise me at ALL if these guys really DID try to automate everything. Because I promise you that not a ONE of them ever took 5 minutes to work out the potential consequences of their succeeding in doing that.
I guess they figure the government will just drop cash from helicopters so that their sales don't suffer...because, well, isn't that what government is FOR? For protecting the profits of big corporations?
Oh yes, you can BET that's what they think.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 15:02 | 4817629 Professorlocknload
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We need an appreciation of boundaries? Clarification on that, maybe?

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 15:03 | 4817637 p00k1e
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First, eat the fresh food.

Second, eat the people.

Thirdly, eat the pets.  

Lastly, eat the canned good.

Pray for the crop.  

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 15:45 | 4817746 cougar_w
Mon, 06/02/2014 - 16:25 | 4817874 Overfed
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So when are you gonna finish it?

BTW, Diamond should have one of these: http://japaneseswordsocietyofcanada.org/229.html

Note: this is a Tachi, not a Katana.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 17:09 | 4818044 cougar_w
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At this rate I might finish it in retirement.

Right now I'm writing some short-format bondage porn, hope to have it done in a few months. Not as nasty as it sounds although it manages to become really nasty in parts. Diamond and Fortran make a cameo appearance as mind-destroying nightmares, but in a very sweet way. It will be fun when that exact scene word-for-word is in both novels. We'll see who makes the connection.

Yeah I work several moves ahead, all the time. It's like juggling chain saws, most days.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 17:26 | 4818098 Overfed
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Well. Yaknow. Whatever pays the bills. Looking forward to the next installment.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 15:18 | 4817670 DOGGONE
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I have a great idea.
Let's tell the truth.
"The Public Be Suckered"
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1230886

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 16:06 | 4817826 BudFox2012
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The only problem I have with this piece is that it assumes we have not already hit zero.  Remember, people living in the former Roman empire considered themselves to still be Romans for centuries after Rome had fallen.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 18:23 | 4818257 arby63
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This isn't Rome and 99.9% of folks can't even feed themselves beyond the local grocery.

Take note.It's meaningful. The warning signs are out.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 18:58 | 4818371 cougar_w
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Most Romans of the day lived on fully functional farms and vineyards with centuries of productive history, and transported their goods to local markets where others bought them in local trade. When the empire collapsed everyone shrugged and went back out into the fields and markets.

Just about zero Americans have any such Plan B. Nor is any such thing even remotely possible for them. Most cannot lay hands on a functional shovel.

We'll probably see actual starvation in the streets before this episode starts to work itself out.

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 11:59 | 4820266 Matt
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I think you underestimate how quickly people can adapt. The big challenge/die-off would be in the first year after a collapse, I suspect. How quickly the wheels come off, and what time of the year, will be huge factors. 

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 07:38 | 4819593 AdvancingTime
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Corruption leads to decline. Today a big topic is the huge growth in inequality. Those who look closely understand that it is not the 1% at the top stealing the icing off the cake, but the much smaller .1% or .01% that are skewing the numbers and overreaching.

I contend this goes hand in hand with the massive growth in crony capitalism and corruption. Much of this can be attributed to the ability of those in control "changing the rules" and positioning themselves to benefit at every corner. In our busy and complex world we have found it impossible to watch all the moving parts. More on this subject in the article below.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-empires-collapse.html

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 20:36 | 4818614 franciscopendergrass
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"Has it occurred to anyone that we no longer have the capital to repair the vast network of roads, streets, highways, and bridges that all these cars are supposed to run on?"  

We have been building infrastructre for decades.  Remember the Marshall Plan.  How about all the infrastructure we built in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The only problem is that we focus our attention on infrastructure we destroy with our military and not the ones back home.  Oh, those wonderful contractors.  I guess we need the military to invade this country and blow up everything then something might get done.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 22:27 | 4818913 SweetDoug
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Are they going to completely roboticize their own factories and impoverish millions of their own factory workers?

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Yes.

Meet the future. The future doesn’t need you.

Oxford Professors: Robots And Computers Could Take Half Our Jobs Within The Next 20 Years
http://www.prisonplanet.com/oxford-professors-robots-and-computers-could...

Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She’s A Robot
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/10/meet-the-robot-telemarketer-who-deni...

Google Wants To Build A Robot Army For The Manufacturing Sector
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-robot-technology-2013-12

Motor Authority Nissan Nissan Leaf Self-Driving Car
A Self-Driving Nissan Has Successfully Navigated Public Roads In Japan
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-self-driving-nissan-has-successfully-na...

Doctor Robot Will See You Shortly
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-26/doctor-robot-will-see-you-short...

The World's Largest Miner Wants To Replace Its Overpaid Train Drivers With Robots
http://www.businessinsider.com/rio-tinto-replaces-drivers-with-robots-20...

The Less Obvious Dangers Of The Robot Economy
http://www.businessinsider.com/dangers-of-the-robot-economy-2013-9

Robots help counter soaring labor costs
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-11/14/content_17103496.htm

Foxconn Planning To Hire 1 Million Robots
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/foxconn-planning-to-hire-1-million-robots/

Darpa PetMan Robot - Complete info
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S4ZPvr6ry4

SCHAFT robot wins DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs8m3czkes4

Researchers Are Making A 3D Printer That Can Build A House In 24 Hours
http://www.businessinsider.com/3d-printer-builds-house-in-24-hours-2014-1

Navy Helps Fund 3D Printing of Buildings
http://defensetech.org/2014/01/20/navy-helps-fund-3d-printing-of-buildings/

Meet "Smart Restaurant": The Minimum-Wage-Crushing, Burger-Flipping Robot
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-12/meet-smart-restaurant-minimum-w...

BANK OF AMERICA: 'Long Robots, Short Human Beings'
http://www.businessinsider.com/bofa-long-robots-short-human-beings-2014-1

Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of Thousands Of Books On Amazon
http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-o...

The US Army Is Considering A Plan To Replace Thousands Of Troops With Robots
http://www.businessinsider.com/army-replace-troops-robots-2014-1?pundits...

Driverless Trucks Will Keep Army Safe From IEDs
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2014/01/driverless/

Not to be out done…

Russia takes on Google: Photographs of amphibious drones suggest country is developing a robotic ground army
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2544534/Russia-takes-Goog...

A smart-object recognition algorithm that doesn’t need humans
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-smart-object-recognition-algorithm-that-does...

This crime-predicting robot aims to patrol our streets by 2015 | Cutting Edge - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57614255-76/this-crime-predicting-robo...

Would you have sex with a ROBOT? Japanese designers create virtual reality experience that lets men get intimate with Manga characters
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2507186/Would-sex-ROBOT-J...

Realistic Sex Robot
http://www.discoveryfitandhealth.com/sexual-health/videos/first-sex-robo...

A Wikipedia for robots
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-wiki-for-robots

1 Million Robots To Replace 1 Million Human Jobs At Foxconn? First Robots Have Arrived.
http://singularityhub.com/2012/11/12/1-million-robots-to-replace-1-milli...

Meet "Baxter" the Robot Out to Get Your Minimum-Wage, No Benefits, Part-Time Job, Because He's Still Much Cheaper; Fed Cannot Win a Fight Against Robots
Read more at http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/01/meet-baxter-robot-out...

Squarepusher Explores ‘Emotional Machine Music’ With 78-Fingered Robot Guitarist
http://singularityhub.com/2014/03/01/squarepusher-explores-emotional-mac...

Robotic-assisted prostate surgery offers better cancer control, study finds
http://www.kurzweilai.net/robotic-assisted-prostate-surgery-offers-bette...

US Army Studying Replacing Thousands of Grunts with Robots
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140120/DEFREG02/301200035/US-Army-S...

Driverless Cars, Meet Captainless Ships: Autonomous Vehicles To Take To The Sea
http://singularityhub.com/2014/03/18/driverless-cars-meet-captainless-sh...

A Chinese Company 3D Printed 10 Houses In A Day
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-chinese-company-3d-printed-10-houses-in...

Google: Driverless cars are mastering city streets
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20140428/DADF4A6G0.html

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 07:34 | 4819586 AdvancingTime
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Yes, we could be looking at the face of a strange new world. An article that I stumbled across got me thinking about the implications of robots going main stream. Yes, I'm looking down the road at a time in the near future when a person may decide to walk down the street with his metal companion or worker beside him or in tow.

 Imagine some of the ways culture would begin to change if robots started to appear on the streets of our cities in the same way wireless phones have. Most likely robot ownership would become a status symbol. People may soon choose to buy a robot and finance it the same way they purchase a car. More on this subject in the article below.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/09/thats-my-robot.html

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 01:03 | 4819265 I Write Code
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Kunstler tends to ramble and bounce off the walls a bit, but he's my kind of rambler.

Each week's events in the Obamanation are worse than the last, and more clueless.  A lot of people have seen it all coming and aren't surprised by it in the least, but that's like saying you saw Godzilla walking towards you down the street and so getting mashed by his feet is no surprise at all, it's also no pleasure.

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 01:21 | 4819294 basho
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very well said.

but who here can hear, not many.

most seem to have their heads up their collective asses.

this forum is probably an accurate usa microcosm.

doomed

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 01:26 | 4819302 trailsend
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Blather.

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 02:18 | 4819382 atomicwasted
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Ugh, I inadvertently clicked on a Kunstler article.  Yuck.  The man who unconditionally hates everyone and everything at all times; the ur-cranky-old-man Luddite.  Dislike.

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 02:59 | 4819411 lasvegaspersona
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at least music can provide an infinitely expanding challenge while the world slows down to zero...even if it falls from the sky while slowing..I'm tired of waiting for this destruction any yet not really fully ready to face it...So I amuse myself in a thing in which I have very limited talent. Thus it seems able to keep my attention forever.

I recommend it for those bored with doomer porn yet unable to look away for very long.

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 03:19 | 4819424 the tower
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We are already at zero. The old system is already gone, most people just don't realize it yet.

Robotics WILL produce/do almost everything, and a handful of companies will run it all. Yes.

How will we "buy" these products? With an icome that is dispensed by the "government". 

You will have the right to undertake entrepeneurial efforts, of course, and there will always be work that will be done by people, which can help you top up your income, or even make a substantial amount of money, like in old times.

It's what people will want come the end of this "crisis".

Oh, and there's no stopping it, so you might as well remove sites like this from your bookmarks. Any news source for that matter.

Greetings from Davos

 

 

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 04:18 | 4819459 honestann
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Kunstler is one of those people who starts with grains of truth, then extrapolates in only one of many possible directions, and thereby always arrives where his feelings wanted him to end up.  Somehow, he and his apologists believe that just because his starting points have a grain or two of truth, everything that follows is valid.  Which is one enormous fail.

Sat, 06/07/2014 - 03:14 | 4832081 Element
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Ann, a reply to a comment from a week-old discussion you had with RM.

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-05-28/founding-fathers-guarant...

Sun, 06/08/2014 - 20:04 | 4835368 honestann
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Reply to your message posted.

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 04:42 | 4819475 enloe creek
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fuck yes the world is going to be one big cage match between consumer countries we should prevail after a 40 million man conscript army gets annililated but on the bright side prostitutes will be plentiful and cheap

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 05:31 | 4819494 turbochef69
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"The tortuure never stops" by Frank Zappa

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 06:53 | 4819556 world_debt_slave
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ignorance is bliss

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 07:20 | 4819567 esum
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COASTING TO ZERO = WHITE HOUSE OCCUPIED BY A ZERO EMPTY SUIT

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 07:25 | 4819575 AdvancingTime
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Much of the economic landscape is beginning to look like something out of  "Alice And The Looking Glass" A bizarre  and unrecognizable land, a land that is distorted and papered over by ream after ream of paper. This paper has been rolling off the printing presses of central banks all across the world in an attempt to mask reality.

Peter Schiff says, printing money is to the economy what taking drugs is to a drug addict. In the short term it makes the economy feel good, but in the long run it is much worse off. What was once the "long run" or "distant future" may be getting much closer. More on this in the article below.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-happens-after-momentum-ends_...

 

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 07:36 | 4819589 Save_America1st
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why else do you think the global elitist, eugenicists want to depopulate the planet by up to 90% and reduce us human "animals" down to nothing.  Sterilize us, starve us, wipe us out until there are less than a million "chosen ones" left on the planet.  

http://www.infowars.com/from-7-billion-people-to-500-million-people-%E2%80%93-the-sick-population-control-agenda-of-the-global-elite/

http://www.infowars.com/elite-eugenicists-call-for-mass-depopulation-drastic-reduction-in-energy-consumption/

Georgia Guidestones:  Reduce global population to 500 million people

 

See...I think the author has it right in a certain way.  All those things are definitely happening, but it just may be that it's not happening by accident or by the short-sidedness of the powers that be.  It just may be that they doing this on purpose in order to impoverish the majority of the planet and then begin the mass extermination they've been dreaming about for so many decades. 

The "elitists" now feel that technology has finally caught up with their long-time plans to rule the world with robots that serve them and kill the rest of us off.  They want to play God and start the world over again in their likeness and with their globalist, Marxist, technocratic "religion" which will replace all other religions on the planet once they've eradicated nearly everybody else. 

Then they can erase everything from before, and re-write history and act like nothing ever happened before them.  The next several hundred years of human generations will be born into darkness and slavery to the all-powerful elite who will have finally taken over the world.

Or we wake up and kill them first and stop this tyrannical bullshit from ever coming true.  Either way it sure seems like a big fucking war is coming.  It's almost inevitable and unstoppable.  They want genocide on a massive global scale so badly and they're just pushing everyone to the brink of it non-stop lately.  Pedal to the metal...full speed ahead and no turning back. 

But war won't be enough because they don't want to destroy most of the world's infrastucture or irradiate the valuable and necessary land and resources, etc.  I think they mainly want to use what they are using now...deindustrialization, poverty, lack of services and care, starvation, and eventually massive pandemics of bio-engineered diseases that will kill off most animals species and billions of us. 

We all die off and those who are left will be the slaves to clean the shit up and ruling global elites who will have all the rest for themselves. 

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 07:37 | 4819592 rsnoble
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What's even scarier than transgender(ok, that's no really scary esp if 'it' is totally hot and you don't know it beforehand) is transhumanism.

Imagine an eternal Obama, Bloomberg, McCain etc............in terminator bodies that can bench press 3,000lbs.  And what the hell, let's make copies of ourselves while were at it get rid of one another pops up.

The crazies would finally be that much closer to being gods.

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 08:56 | 4819732 Savyindallas
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Do you have any idea how huge the tansgender Industry will be when 50 million people learn they were born the wrong sex? Do you have any idea how many jobs that will create when we switch them back to their natural gender?

The editors of Time realize this. The transgender revolution will be the catalyst to move the markets to highs that you never thought possible -

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 09:08 | 4819768 yrbmegr
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Society is to blame.  Thanks, Howard, for that gem.

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