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10 Examples Of The Social Decay That Is Eating Away At America Like Cancer

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Submitted by Michael Synder of The Economic Collapse blog,

It isn’t just our economy that is crumbling.  Something is happening to America that no amount of money will be able to fix.  Everywhere around us we can see evidence of the social decay that is systematically eating away at the foundations of our society.  It can be found on the streets of our inner cities, in dark basements in extremely rural communities, in the most prestigious boardrooms on Wall Street, and definitely in the halls of power in Washington.   Bringing in an entirely different crop of politicians or printing gigantic mountains of money is not going to solve this problem, because it exists in the hearts of millions of ordinary men and women.  The truth is that we really need to take a good, long look at ourselves in the mirror, because we need to take a 180 degree turn as a nation.  What we are doing now is clearly not working, and the longer that we take to address this problem the worse it is going to get.  The following are 10 examples of the social decay that is eating away at America like cancer.  Individually, they could be dismissed as isolated incidents.  But I could have easily listed 100 examples or 1000 examples.  Every single day, we are inundated with reports like these.  The symptoms of the decay of our society are all around us.  We just have to be willing to look at them…

#1 It seems like many of the most horrific crimes these days are happening in middle America.  For example, a woman was recently hit over the head, raped and set on fire in a park in Wichita Kansas

Wichita police say a woman was sexually assaulted, hit on the head, and set on fire Monday night in Fairmount Park.

 

According to police, the woman was on the ground, almost in a crawl, barely moving, and naked.

 

The woman was helped by a neighbor – Johnnye Marshall woke up her boyfriend Deon McPherson when she heard somebody scream for help.

 

“What if that was my daughter?  I’d want somebody to go in and get her,” McPherson told The Wichita Eagle.  “Where there wasn’t blood, there was a burn.”

 

The flames from the fire were about 2 to 4 feet high.  McPherson stayed with the woman until firefighters arrived.

#2 I have repeatedly written about how the United States is the most obese of all the major industrialized nations.  Well, now we are using our extreme obesity to try to hide things that we have stolen

A 350-pound Wal-mart shopper was arrested yesterday after he was found sitting atop five stolen rib eye steaks in the seat of a motorized scooter that he was riding around the South Carolina store.

 

Rodney Fowler, 43, was spotted Tuesday afternoon placing the steaks in his scooter by a Walmart loss prevention officer, according to a police report.

 

“Suspect sat on the steaks and exited the store passing all points of sale, without attempting to pay for said merchandise,” cops noted.

 

The 5’ 5” Fowler was then confronted by the Walmart worker and escorted back into the store, where he was later arrested by police for shoplifting. “Due to his size, the suspect was cuffed using two pairs of cuffs,” investigators noted.

#3 What would you do if a police officer pulled you over for a traffic stop and exposed his private parts to you when he came up to your vehicle?  Well, this actually has been happening in New Jersey

A Newton police officer was arrested Monday on accusations that he unzipped his pants and exposed himself to young male drivers during “numerous” traffic stops.

 

Jason R. Miller, 37, of Hampton Township, a patrolman since 2001, turned himself in at the Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office and has been indefinitely suspended without pay pending the outcome of the criminal case, according to a statement issued by Sussex County Prosecutor Francis Koch and Newton Police Chief Michael Richards.

 

Miller was charged with two counts of official misconduct, one count of a pattern of official misconduct and one count of lewdness, the statement said.

 

Miller would expose his genitals to motorists “to satisfy his prurient interests” and then let them leave without issuing traffic summonses, according to a police complaint.

#4 If someone was planning to “accidentally” kill his wealthy wife, you would think that he would be smart enough not to put an “X” on the map where he planned to do it.  But that is apparently precisely what one man in Colorado foolishly did…

A suburban Denver man charged with pushing his wife to her death off a cliff in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park could not explain to investigators why he had a park map with an “X” drawn at the spot where she fell.

 

Newly unsealed court documents say Harold Henthorn denied using the map during the deadly September 29, 2012, hike.

 

But he told friends that he scouted out the park’s steep and craggy terrain at least six times, trying to find the perfect place to take Toni to celebrate their 12th year of marriage.

It also turns out that his first wife died in a “freak accident” too.

Some coincidence, eh?

#5 It is one thing to kill someone.  It is another thing to hack the dead body up with a saw and cook it.  I don’t know what in the world has happened to the state of Florida, but a lot of really weird stuff has been going on down there lately…

Angela Stoldt told officials she took a hacksaw to her neighbor’s body last year and tried to cook away evidence of James Sheaffer.

 

One leg went in the oven. Other parts went into pots.

 

Stoldt’s house in Deltona smelled of burning flesh, but she assured her daughter it was just a rat broiling in the oven, according to details made public last week after a grand jury charged her with first-degree murder.

 

“Thursday is when I was cooking him,” Stoldt told investigators. “Friday is when I was dumping him.”

 

The 42-year-old Deltona woman is accused of killing Sheaffer, 36, a limousine driver, in April 2013.

#6 In recent years, it seems like there has been a constant stream of news stories about twisted men locking up women in their basements and forcing them to be sex slaves.  The latest example comes from Cincinnati

A man pleaded guilty Friday to locking multiple women in his Cincinnati home and forcing them into prostitution.

 

Christopher Hisle, 45, was arrested on April 8, 2014, in Louisville, Kentucky after authorities said he drove a young woman from Cincinnati to Louisville to engage in prostitution at a nearby Red Roof Inn.

 

An FBI investigation later revealed Hisle was involved in forcing and compelling the women to engage in commercial sex for at least two years. He held the women at his Avondale home at 908 Lexington Ave., documents state .

It is unknown how many women Hisle held at one time and what their ages were. Authorities said at least 12 women are victims of his human trafficking operation.

#7 Why would a grown woman want to have sex with a 10-year-old boy?  You would have to be incredibly sick to try to do such a thing, but that is reportedly what one 25-year-old babysitter in Connecticut is charged with doing.  In fact, she is accused of doing this multiple times

A babysitter has been accused of repeatedly having sex with her friend’s 10-year-old son while she was looking after him and his other siblings.

 

Marybeth Rataic is facing 10 felony charges after allegedly having sex three times with the boy at his home in Meriden, Connecticut.

 

Police say that in one instance, the 25-year-old from Willimantic, had sex with the boy while his siblings slept in the room after creeping into the child’s room, which he shared with his brothers.

 

She is also accused of having sex with the 10-year-old while his mother was giving birth in hospital.

#8  A minor scuffle between two girls at a California high school erupted into a melee when a 400 pound police officer slammed his fist into the face of one of the girls.   Other students began to swarm the officer, and at that point things got wildly out of control

A lunchtime fight at a Central California high school Wednesday ended with police swarming onto campus, closing the school and putting six students under arrest, authorities said.

 

However, Ernest Righetti High School students say the initial fight was relatively minor, and that it was a Sheriff’s deputy striking one of the girls involved in the brawl that sparked the mass violence on campus.

 

That shocking moment was filmed by a bystander and has since been posted online by the Santa Maria Times.

 

The video shows the officer trying to break up a fight between two girls, only to hit one of the young women and drag her away. Students watching the altercation appear outraged by the act, and start to swarm the officer.

#9 When I was growing up, it seemed like almost everyone watched the Cosby Show on Thursday night.  Bill Cosby was “America’s Dad”, and he was universally respected.  Well, it turns out that now he is being accused of rape by 15 different women.  How is it possible that such horrific crimes could be covered up for so long, and what does that say about our society?  The following comes from Time Magazine

In Cosby’s story we find accusations of women being silenced for decades by threats, lawyers, fear and a generally defensive public, who until now were uninterested in being awakened from sweet dreams of their TV father.

 

The NPR audio interview released last week showcases Cosby’s clearly pre-determined response to the softest, almost nervous questions about the rape allegations: deafening silence.

 

This should not be viewed as the mature response of a well respected, integrity filled man (and in the case of his wife, a beloved, regal woman) attempting to maintain dignity and stay above the fray. It should be seen as what it is: A power move by a someone so arrogant that he thinks he shouldn’t even be asked about the fact that 15 women are accusing him of a horrific crime.

#10 As I have written about previously, the violence that we have seen in Ferguson, Missouri this year is a perfect example of how the streets of America can descend into chaos.  And now the upcoming grand jury decision threatens to rekindle that violence.

Instead of sober deliberation about this case and sincere attempts at peaceful reconciliation, both sides are preparing for mass civil unrest.  If the grand jury reaches “the wrong decision” we could see even more rioting, looting, violence and police brutality than we saw the first time around.

And this time, it may not be limited to Ferguson.  As the Daily Sheeple has pointed out, protest organizers have put up a Tumblr page for something called “The Ferguson National Response Network“.  According to that page,  “planned responses” are being organized in 82 cities throughout the United States.  In addition, protest organizers have released a list of 19 “Proposed Rules of Engagement” for confrontations with law enforcement authorities.  Needless to say, all of this sounds quite ominous.  The following are the 82 cities where “planned responses” are currently being organized…

Albany, NY
Albuquerque, NM
Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX
Baltimore, MD
Bangor, ME
Beavercreek, OH
Blacksburg, VA
Boston, MA
Buffalo, NY
Carbondale, IL
Chapel Hill, NC
Chattanooga, TN
Chicago, IL
Cleveland, OH
Columbia, MO
Columbus, OH
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Des Moines, IA
Detroit, MI
Durham, NC
Ferguson, MO
Gainesville, FL
Grand Rapids, MI
Greensboro, NC
Greenville, NC
Grinnell, IA
Houston, TX
Indianapolis, IN
Iowa City, IA
Jackson, MI
Kansas City, MO
Kennesaw, GA
Lawrence, KS
Lexington, KY
Longview, TX
Los Angeles, CA
Louisville, KY
Meadville, PA
Memphis, TN
Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis, MN
Mobile, AL
Monpelier, VT
Monroeville, OH
Nashville, TN
New London, CT
New Orleans, LA
Newark, NJ
Northampton, MA
NYC, NY
Oak Ridge, TN
Oakland, CA
Olympia, WA
Oshkosh, WI
Phoenix, AZ
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Portland, OR
Providence, RI
Raleigh, NC
Rochester, NY
Rocky Mount, NC
San Diego, CA
Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle, WA
South Hadley, MA
Spring Valley, NY
Springfield, MA
St. Paul, MN
St. Petersburg, FL
Stroudsberg, PA
Tallahassee, FL
Tampa, FL
Toledo, OH
Toronto, Canada
Tucson, AZ
Washington, D.C.
West Hartford, CT
West Palm Beach, FL
Williamsburg, VA
Worcester, MA

Police in Ferguson are warning citizens that they better buy guns because they “will not be able to protect you or your family“.  And CNN is reporting that gun sales in Ferguson are indeed surging.

Hopefully this grand jury decision will come and go and peace will prevail in Ferguson and elsewhere.

But without a doubt, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted on a daily basis is disappearing.

The foundations of our society are steadily rotting and decaying, and our underlying problems are getting worse with each passing day.

How long will our nation be able to remain stable if this continues?

 

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Sat, 11/22/2014 - 09:19 | 5476491 Pee Wee
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I looked in the mirror. All I saw was a bunch of guys in suits walking on top of children's corpses, laughing all the way to the bank of TARP Incorporated.

I was nowhere in the reflection.

The love of fraud finance and cousin fiat is the cancer - social decay is a symptom where the greedy think they have something they clearly don't and can buy whatever they clearly can't.  Instability = record bonuses.

Let the poor lock and load and the greedy eat shit.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 09:22 | 5476514 Ban KKiller
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Or....death to banksters!

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 09:46 | 5476520 Pee Wee
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More like anyone selling justice or monetizing the rule of law with fraud money under fake circumstances.

People are sick of the lawless gluttons of greed, whatever "veils" they try and hide under, and whatever fake titles they are called that day.

Think what you want, but the rule of law is the only thing saving the predators.  The same rule of law the same predators have cut into pieces for yet more fake money.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:22 | 5476661 Tortuga
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I agree Pee Wee, with the caveat that it is the christian upbringing of us sheeple that forestalls a reckoning.

We don't want to go to hell.

Those thus indoctrinated are becoming the minority though. Should the beheaders prevail over us infidels, that

too, will pass.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 09:25 | 5476517 Baby Eating Dingo22
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Society hasn't changed one bit

What has changed is the ease with which we learn of the horrific details of it's immorality

Fortunately, there are still plenty of good-hearted stories as well

Sadly, we have the ability and technology to educate in incredibly efficient ways. This is where we can improve en masse

Yet we don't.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 09:58 | 5476548 GreatUncle
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If the same economic system persists and just keep adding more and more people year on year it is only ever going to get worse. It will never improve neither because the economic system is maintained for the chosen few to have a fantastic time or am I to see unicorns when banksters start to give all their wealth away.

It really doesn't change ever what happens is eventually it collapses because the economic system is flawed if it only serve those that would create it for their own ends and not the majority of people.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:17 | 5476657 Tortuga
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I never understood Elaine's statement, it fit in with the "show about notning" theme I guessed. Like the show anyway.

I have often wondered at the lame stream medias "ease" and reduntant fascination with "horrific details" at the expense of

"good hearted stories as well". Even the local news focuses on horrors, locally and nationally.

I know nothing.

Sun, 11/23/2014 - 12:00 | 5476684 percyklein
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Actually, it has changed. Young children are not being brought up by mothers at home. Instead, most  of those mothers are out working. Their children, for the most part, are in the custody of strangers while their mothers work. So those children are not being brought up by their mothers in the manner that was customary in my own childhood. Just think about what this means and what it has led to. Nothing good. 

Why are these mothers working instead of raising their children? Some prefer it. Many claim to prefer it, and would be looked down upon by those mothers who actually do prefer it and those women who wisely have not had children to raise because they chose to do something else, if they did not.  Most working mothers, however, including a healthy portion of those who claim to prefer working to child raising, have no choice. They are forced by economic factors into the workplace to the detriment of their children, destroying our traditonal method of bringing up children in America. Most of these mothers would rather stay home and raise their children, but cannot because of economic factors and social pressure, including pressure from the male part of any couple who cannot afford to live as well without income from the female part of the deal.

Women, it is said, have been "liberated." I have no argument with that. Women who think they ought to be able to "have it all" (meaning having children and a satisfying career of working) and seek to realize that idea, aided and abetted by the men who impregnant them, are something else again -- and I do have an argument with that.  This attitude in significant part is responsible for the change I am talking about.  Others, an unknowable, but surely very large number, do not "want to have it all," but have no other choice. Bills must be paid. The income of the father is insufficient to do that. That is, the father can no longer pay for the style in which the couple wants to live, because the cost of leading and living a decent life -- I am not talking of an extravigant life -- has increased so massively that it is unaffordable by a single working earner who is not in one of the  top income percentiles. So we are getting very different grownups from the largely abandoned chiildren of these working mothers.

So do not tell us society has not "changed one bit."  Could attitude changes fix this? No longer because, no matter what a couple wants to do or tries to do to keep the mother at home raising the couple's children, it has become unaffordable  for most.  Attitudes have very little to do with that.   

 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 09:27 | 5476518 SheepDog-One
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This guy brings up murders, thuggish street violence, and obesity as something new, and wee need to 'check ourselves'? None of this stuff is anything new, it's just that 'Murka has been so coddled and sheltered from it previously.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 09:52 | 5476531 Chuck Knoblauch
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This is Globalism.

You don't like it?

Local communities better get their act together.

Before the Chinaman comes around.

And tells you to move.

Chinaman is in Detroit right now.

Evicting blacks, whites, and hispanics.

Turing off their water and electricity.

No ticky, no shirty.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 09:48 | 5476536 GreatUncle
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10 billion people, not enough to go round.

Now if you want the lifestyle those at the top believe they are entitled too then the only option to have it is to take by force else remain poor forever.

All relative though can be a drifter and the animal instinct observing all a middle class voter has ... when they have nothing in relative terms.

Or could equally be the middle class, by often non violent fraud observing all the banksters have from legalised theft choose to steal.

All humans are parasitical by nature because there are way to many of us like 9+ billion to many all demanding their piece of the action in one way or another.

 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 09:49 | 5476537 Vendetta
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symptoms, not root causes.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 09:56 | 5476546 Chuck Knoblauch
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FBI says violent crime is down.

Another lie I suppose.

 

 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 10:13 | 5476569 IndianaJohn
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So their parents sat them in front of the TV from the time they were able to look. Then they went to school where the children's minds were cleared. Hollywood picked up the mindless children from school to form what I see today.

#11, The three hardest words in the human language, 'I've been had'

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 10:27 | 5476579 pupdog1
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As Americans see their "leaders" degenerate into walking human filth, and their most important institutions crumble (for example the US Constitution, Banks and investment houses, IRS, Secret Service, SWAT teams killing innocent citizens because they got the wrong house, and an NSA that used to do vital work aimed at our enemies, not our citizens), they naturally say "Why should those guys have all the fun?"

The fish rots from the head down.

Simple as pie.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 10:23 | 5476583 tedstr
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This is what a modern revolution in the wealthiest nation on earth looks like.  The frog has been boiliong in the pot for too long.  People are slowly going fucking nuts

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 10:26 | 5476585 medium giraffe
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Some of the main economic factors that led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire:

Inflation

Hoarding

Cost of welfare schemes

Currency debasement

Cost of expanding bureaucracy

Adverse balance of trade

 

Some of the cultural changes that marked this period:

Increased taste for brutality

Government paternalism

Decreased personal and political freedom

Increasing materialism

Sense of futility

Ever greater extravagence amongst the rich

 

 

Sub sole nihil novi est.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:01 | 5476635 Tortuga
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Well, medium gaffe; just for balance I would add

Insane "gods" as Caesars.

Government representatives that were/are supposed to be

Checks and balances on insane Caesars, bought and paid for by...

History does repeat itself.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 10:32 | 5476593 Slowdrip
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Lots of 2nd, 3rd generation inbreedng in them back swamps of Fla. Used to marvel at some of nature's creations, when working Radiology billing computer systems in the state of Fla back in the late '80s. Some pretty twisted visuals, to be sure.... 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 10:43 | 5476602 Duude
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Free access to violence on TV, videos, movies, violent gaming software, andl Internet porn, are the fuel.  But the instigator is the dissolution of the nuclear family. Even where families remain intact, they socialize with a world that was raised in a broken family unit. Their value systems soon become perverted and they spread their corruption to all they come in contact with.  Of course, that isn't to say every intact family has an appropriate value system either.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 10:51 | 5476622 Okienomics
Sat, 11/22/2014 - 10:54 | 5476625 Bumbu Sauce
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This post at Ace's covers a lot of bases.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/353314.php

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:13 | 5476639 messystateofaffairs
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Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:11 | 5476643 messystateofaffairs
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Selective sampling or some points in a general moral decline trend? Personally I think perhaps the latter, but this has happened before throughout history, I think is happening now in certain places, and will go away then happen again. I see a pervasive rot out there, the stink emanating most greatly from the head, and filtering through swaths of the national organism. 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:26 | 5476667 Tzanchan
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Messy, well said. This type of behavior has been going on in one form or another since time began. Ww now have the Internet and 4 billion camera phones to connect us. Hmans are humans, imperfect, heinous, brutal (life in the state of nature, nasty, brutish and short). Why is this age different from all other ages? Because it is. It's NOT different, just depravations adapting to th 21st century....

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:50 | 5476719 jal
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"... the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted on a daily basis is disappearing."

The USA of A is just the same as all other social structures. Its not any better.

There are cameras in every hands witnessing and posting on the web

There are bloggers everywhere telling their version of truth

Therefore, Look into your future ... Mexico ... spring uprisings

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:13 | 5476645 Hamm Jamm
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IF THE LEADERSHIP OF A COUNTRY DOESN'T CARE AT ALL....   WHY WOULD THE PEOPLE ?

Put the criminals that run the country in a bottomless jail ...  and bring back some honesty and morals to the office

 

and this time ... make sure you fight to maintain integrity

 

 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:12 | 5476646 esum
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this is all the result of the communist plan to undermine ussa values and morality.... started in early 1900's and continued to this day... the "it takes a village" commie concept has replaced parental resposibility.. immorality has replaced common self respect and courtesy... socialist programs have contributed to this beginning with the "great society " of LBJ.. and swirled downhill from there.. trillions wasted with perhaps good intent but all libtard prograave the opposite of the intended result.. look at obamacare.... lok at welfare, look at disabiltiy claims frought with fraud... we have a mockery of leadership / morality and integrity for a president... a supreme liar and evil deceiver... 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:16 | 5476652 JohnFrodo
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Its all part of the New Nihilism. Led by our there is no future leaders, the question is it a natural state or is it being organized?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:27 | 5476672 Playtime's Over
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Um, hello, it's the new far left paradigm led by our leader to mongrelize the nation and turn us into a soupy brown cesspool.  Working pretty good I'd say.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:29 | 5476677 Barnaby
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What a field day for the heat
A thousand people in the street

Meet the new dross, same as the old dross.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:38 | 5476690 VWAndy
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# 1.  SELLOUTS

 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:49 | 5476718 RaceToTheBottom
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But, But, But, why don't they pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:50 | 5476813 Winston of Oceania
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Because they are getting free crumbs from the table of the oligarchy in payment for stocking the vote farm. Plenty of drugs and young girls to molest so why rock the boat, that is until the plantation keepers put their foot too hard or on too many necks.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:02 | 5476730 cheech_wizard
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Why no mention of the races of those involved with numbers 1 through 10?

Number 1 I posted last night, and yes it was a black male who was arrested for the crime?

Thi is Fight Club, don't forget the rules of proper reporting.

Just checked, number 6 also black.

You can almost peg the race by the crime.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:01 | 5476731 exomike
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ZH Goes Tabloid?

 

THIS ARITCLE IS NOTHING BUT BUT RIGHT WING DISTRACTION PROPAGANDA.

WORLD NET DAILY WOULD "ALMOST" BE ASHAMED TO PUBLISH THIS.

 

FORGET THE ROBBER BARRONS! LOOK OVER THERE, BLOND GIRL IN A DUMPSTER!

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:53 | 5476823 didthatreallyhappen
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LMAO

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:58 | 5476835 Emergency Ward
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Another cup of coffee, exso?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 11:59 | 5476733 headhunt
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When an 'education' system teaches people they 'deserve' free shit...

When people act like thugs and criminals and are excused for their behavior because it is a part of their 'culture'....

When morals are not taught in the home.....

When communists and their belief system are ingrained in our government......

Expect bad shit to happen.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:22 | 5476760 exomike
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What? Did you leave out the word, "ni*ger" so we wouldn't suspect you were a KKK intellectual? 

Once again, AND PAY ATTENTION THIS TIME MAGGOT! 

Statistically the percentage of communist in the world population has a decimal and 5 zeros in front of it; as in .00000X. Furthermore the U.S. is a statistically insignificant contributor to the un-grand total.

The threat to the U.S. from communism is slightly above rolled oats.

 

NOW, DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY! MAGGOT!

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:54 | 5476820 didthatreallyhappen
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you must have been downvoted by a public school teacher.  She has a gigantic afro and is not qualified to teach outside of the inner city

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:07 | 5476740 VWAndy
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One after another. Good people sell out. Time after time. And if they wont sell out blackmail works well.

 I need a new plan. phaq.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:12 | 5476747 shovelhead
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What?

No "sumpthins wrong with the kids these days" posts?

Keep this up and ZH may lose it's calling as the home for the cynical curmudgeons of the world.

 

Haha, just kidding. There's more self-righteous brimstone and perdition moralizing here than at any Southern Baptist Preachers Convention.

I suppose omitting the words sin, the Devil and Hell makes it more intellectually palatable.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:21 | 5476758 VWAndy
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At times like this I think I should build a fucking space ship and just bail.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:26 | 5476763 Winston of Oceania
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How about the boom in food pantries? I've watched the one across the street from me quadruple in size over the last six years. Once a month the county sends a truck and the circus really winds up...

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:26 | 5476764 Winston Smith 2009
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NONE of this is new, it's just that the internet makes it so very easy to find. I suspect that if you'd go to the HUGE effort of reading newspapers on microfiche from the last 50 years, you'd find exactly the same stuff. Hell, you want domestic unrest stories, check out the 60s. Today's unrest is NOTHING compared to then.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:37 | 5476775 Hughmon
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You can find these type of stories going back centuries and a page full of these types of stories is nothing but anecdotal proof. Also the population is larger than ever and the populaces awarness of coast to coast sensational news is at an all time high now that we instantly get our news from cable tv and the internet.

This article is just a bunch of fear monkey tripe.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:46 | 5476810 loveyajimbo
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You can find this crap daily on HLN Network... all negative... all the time.  And if the gorillas riot in AZ or TX, they might again become endangered.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:48 | 5476814 Civilizedworm
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I've been enjoying your comments lately, Tall Tom

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:52 | 5476818 didthatreallyhappen
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the vast majority of grotestque criminality described above is "performed" by democrats and people who are from families of democrats.  Why, you ask?  It is simple.  Lack of morals.

oh, the bankster criminals have a very high democrat contingent as well.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:05 | 5476856 p00k1e
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The Rapture of the Republicans should be any day now.   Jesus must be late.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:29 | 5476913 didthatreallyhappen
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lmao at effeminate garbage like you

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:11 | 5477033 Tek Kinkreet
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Us vs. Them = sheep mentality

sheep mentality = why we are in this mess

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:56 | 5476829 p00k1e
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I can't stop laugihng.  We're doomed!

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:33 | 5476927 Againstthelie
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Humans are good. Live your dream. Do what you want. God loves you.

Discipline is evil!

Laws and rules destroy your individual freedom!

Every human is precious!

 

What else can be expected from a society built on nothing but huge lies?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:49 | 5476967 arrowrod
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I was at the grocery store today.  I was amazed to see the store completely filled with stuff.  The next amazing thing was the store accepted my lucre for groceries.

 

Wow, what a system.

 

 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:06 | 5477015 AdvancingTime
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I contend the biggest problem with America is the massive growth in crony capitalism and corruption in Washington. Europe suffers from the same sickness. Much of this can be attributed to the ability of those in control "changing the rules" and positioning themselves to benefit at every corner.

This causes inequality and is toxic to society. In our busy and complex world we have found it impossible to watch all the moving parts. More on how this incestuous mess leads to collapse in the article below.

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

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:49 | 5477019 Tek Kinkreet
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Any year in recorded history will offer something along these lines. This article amounts to one of those meaningless yahoo top 10 lists written to distract people from reality. Though I agree with the conclusion it has nothing to do with anything listed. Our culture runs on the 7 deadly sins, we celebrate greed above all, our society worships money. Until we change that, we can expect a continued descent into man made hell.

the real list...

#1- fear
#2- collusion
#3- known crime is rewarded instead of punished
#4- us vs. them sheep mentality
#5- apathy
#6- greed
#7- money worship
#8- victim mentality
#9- money in politics
#10- lack of empathy
#11- laziness, mental as well as physical
#12- forced morality
#13- power imbalance
#14- centralization
#15- taxation w/o representation
#16- narcissism
#17- lack of community
#18- extreme delusion
#19- lack of personal responsibilty
#20- lack of true freedom
#21- ignorance, lack of transparency
#22- lack of solutions & willingness to try something different
#23- lack of common sense
#24- keyser soze

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:35 | 5477095 Joebloinvestor
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The biggest "rub your nose in it" is the non-prosecution of banksters.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:37 | 5477101 sniffy
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I'm getting real tired of cranky old men

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:38 | 5477103 Clesthenes
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Thanks for telling us what’s wrong…

Now, what can be done to fix such problems?

Perhaps we could employ a historically-proven method for the purpose.  Americans have this power; but they REFUSE to use it. 

There are three main reasons for this failure: one is that Americans have no knowledge of such power; the second, they’ve been herded into a kind of impotent stupor by medication and indoctrination; the third, that they aid, benefit or were complicit in such evil.

There’s a remedy for all three of these failures: 1) learn, and use, the law and procedures of redress (full article); 2) follow a health regimen that has REDUCED – not slowed – my biological age 50 years (it also un-does the damage done by medication and indoctrination); and, 3) see number one.

This health regimen has given me the coordination, health and physical condition of a professional athlete around the age of 20; I’m 70 years of age (for validation, video and webpage – each leads to the other).

Not only to Americans not know the power they possess, very few know ideals won/confirmed by our Revolution.

For example, Founders repeatedly declared that “no man is obligated to obey any law or pay any tax unless he has given consent to it”.  Did they mean this literally?  Of course they did.  From the first English settlement to the Revolution this was how affairs of the colonies were managed.  Every “law” and every “tax” had its origin in contracts between colonial assemblies and those who petitioned for redress of grievances.  The terms of the contract were sometimes referred to as “laws” of the contract while its money payments were treated as “taxes”.  And only petitioners were obligated to obey such “laws” and pay such “taxes”.  When redress was completed, related “laws” and “taxes” expired.

Once you learn this right of consent, you’ll come to understand there is probably not a constitutional tax on the books.

There, in two paragraphs I conveyed to you more real history than you learned in 12 years of elementary and high schools, and 4-6 years of university indoctrination.  You won’t learn this and other lessons from professors, or judges, or lawyers; the first two depend on continued grievances for their pensions, the third never learned such history, or law.

This right of consent was won with the Revolution… and who knows it?

And, such is the problem, if no American knows ideals won/confirmed in our Revolution… if no American knows the history, law and procedures of redress, who would trust such Americans to guide men thru catastrophes designed and orchestrated by a nation of cutthroats and thieves who have been perpetrating them for 5 millennia?

 

Without such knowledge you only launch on missions of suicide.  

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:47 | 5477114 Tek Kinkreet
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well said

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 17:43 | 5477483 begintowin
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Say, you're not the 70 year old guy that goes to a baseball batting cage and hits 115 mph baseballs are you?

Sun, 11/23/2014 - 18:33 | 5479869 Clesthenes
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I am.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:10 | 5477160 VWAndy
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Learn to use the law? For real?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:33 | 5477208 TheShadowKnows
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This is a nation of believers in bullshit. Always was, still is.

For instance. Long gone are the days when you could sit down publically for a chilling out session with a smoke among friends and enemies to think and talk things through before going ballistic. (The peacepipe effect.) But people believed the crap about smoking killing them (like they won't die anyway) and substituted that habit for a worse one ... anti depressants and anti psychotics which result in suicidal and homocidal tendencies and actions.

Not to mention the fatties who obediently put down their smokes and immediately started shoving more contaminated food and mind bending pills down their gullets.

You could almost clock it with an egg timer: from smoking bans to high stress levels and wide spread anger. (and obesity)

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 21:41 | 5477951 dag
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If China wiped out the US power grid and Russia followed up with nuclear attacks on Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles (Hollywood), and Chicago (with a certain famiy there), eventually, in time, the rest of the country would restore order and rebuild America.

Other than this, there is no hope for America.

Sun, 11/23/2014 - 03:37 | 5478462 kappal_toba_dhu...
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Things are only going to ge worse.  As I have posted and said many times, USA is on the way down and is much worse off than most of Asia.  Better to get out now  while you still can.

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