As the U.S. economy collapses, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is going to begin to disappear. In fact, there are already an increasing number of signs that the collapse of society is accelerating. In cities such as Chicago, roving packs of young people are "mob robbing" local businesses, randomly assaulting tourists and shoppers and are even pulling people out of vehicles. This isn't just happening in the "bad areas" anymore. Over the past couple of months this type of crime has been common in some of the wealthiest areas of Chicago. In fact, many Chicago residents are now referring to "the Magnificent Mile" as "the Mug Mile". But it isn't just in Chicago that this is happening. During this past Memorial Day weekend, cities all over the United States experienced a stunning wave of mass violence. We are supposed to be an "example" for the rest of the world, but as our economic wealth crumbles we are witnessing the collapse of society all around us. So what is going to happen when the economy gets even worse?
The United States used to be a fairly civilized society. But now very few people seem to care how they treat others. That is even the case with our own government. As you will see below, the government is now sending SWAT teams in and dragging people out of their homes over unpaid student loans.
So if the government is going to be so brutal, what kind of message does that send to our young people?
Today our young people are facing a future that looks incredibly bleak. It is hard to have faith in the "system" when the "system" simply does not work any longer.
What are you supposed to say to a young person when you know very well that there are no jobs and that there is very little hope?
Most Americans don't understand what is causing the collapse of the economy, but most of them do have a sinking feeling that something has seriously gone wrong.
For the last few years the American people have waited patiently for our politicians to "fix things", but they have not gotten the job done.
Instead, our economic situation is still declining.
So now frustration is starting to boil over, and it is only going to get worse.
The following are 18 signs that the collapse of society is accelerating....
#1 In a brand new article, Janet Tavakoli has vividly described the wave of shocking violence that is currently sweeping the city of Chicago. What she says is happening to Chicago right now is beyond alarming....
This year, all hell has broken loose in downtown Chicago. Years of under-hiring have resulted in a police force that is unprepared for wildings and gang violence. Moreover, concealed carry in Chicago is illegal, unless one follows the Constitution.
Tourists and residents have been attacked by mobs of youths on buses, on beaches, on bicycle paths, near the shops of the Magnificent Mile, and outside their homes. Mobs of shoplifters plagued "Mug Mile" stores.
Terror has descended on many of the wealthiest areas of Chicago. Some are even calling on Chicago residents to completely avoid areas like the Magnificent Mile during the weekends until more police are brought in.
Mobs of young people are "swarming" retail stores, assaulting shoppers and pedestrians and even pulling people out of their cars.
The following is one eyewitness account of the "wildings" in Chicago that Tavakoli included in her recent article....
At about 11pm last Friday night, June 3rd, I heard shouting, screaming, horns blaring and tires screeching from my apartment...When I looked out my window to the street below I saw a crowd of about 20 young people...directly across the street from the entrance to my building. They were leaning on parked cars and clogging the street. They were screaming at people walking and driving by. I watched them stop vehicles, including taxi cabs, and pull people from the vehicles...It was a frightening scene and I was sure someone was going to be hurt.
#2 If you don't pay your student loans you may find yourself getting dragged out of your home by a SWAT team.
You doubt this?
The following is how an article in The Daily Mail recently described one recent SWAT team raid in California that was apparently ordered by the Department of Education....
A father was dragged from his home and handcuffed in front of his children by a SWAT team looking for his estranged wife - to collect her unpaid student loans.
A stunned Kenneth Wright had his front door kicked in by the raiding party at 6 am yesterday before being dragged onto his front porch, handcuffed and led to a police car with his three children.
He says he was then detained for six hours while officers looked for his wife - who no longer lives at the house.
#3 One town in Connecticut was forced to shut down a beautiful new fountain because too many people were using it as a toilet.
#4 This most recent Memorial Day weekend, cities all over America literally turned into war zones. There were reports of mass violence in Miami, New York, Chicago, Charlotte, Myrtle Beach, Nashville and Boston among other places.
If you want to see video of some of the violence in Miami as it was happening, you can view it here. The video is quite disturbing so please don't let any small children view it.
#5 One of the hottest books in America right now is a "children's book" entitled "Go The F*k To Sleep".
#6 A teenage girl in Washington state recently shot her Dad with a hunting bow because he took away her cell phone.
#7 In New York City, one 32-year-old man was recently charged with sexually assaulting an 85-year-old woman.
#8 Democratic strategist James Carville recently made national headlines when he told talk show host Don Imus the following....
"You know, look — this is a humanitarian — you know, you’re smart enough to see this . . . People, you know, if it continues, we’re going to start to see civil unrest in this country. I hate to say that, but I think it’s imminently possible."
#9 According to one new study, the percentage of U.S. households that contain a married couple with children has fallen from 44.3% in 1960 to 20.2% today.
#10 In Atlanta, two dozen teens recently violently assaulted two Delta flight attendants on a train for no apparent reason. The following is how a local Atlanta newspaper described the attacks....
Their "Clockwork Orange" style blitz was over soon after it began. The teens boarded the train, headed to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, at the Garnett station a little after midnight seemingly intent on instilling fear. They succeeded.
“There was blood everywhere, people were hollering and screaming,” a witness told Channel 2 Action News. “We were intimidated. People were terrified. People were trying to run. But there was nowhere to run.”
#11 Federal prosecutors in Indianapolis have announced that they have broken up one of the largest child pornography rings ever discovered. It was based in Bloomington, Indiana.
Are any small towns still safe?
#12 Barack Obama's food safety chief is defending armed raids of raw milk producers (including a raid on an Amish farmer) and he says that the FDA will "keep doing our public health job".
#13 In Florida, a 45-year-old Polk County sheriff's deputy has been charged with strapping children to a desk and spanking them with sex toys.
#14 In Sioux City, Iowa a 41 year old man recently walked into the office where his boss worked and beat the living daylights out of him. The boss suffered four chipped teeth and needed surgery to repair his nose. Apparently the boss was planning to fire the man.
#15 A 20-year-old woman in Oklahoma has been charged with killing the family cat and using the blood as part of a costume she planned to wear to a Lady Gaga concert.
#16 McDonald's recently held a "National Hiring Day" and about a million Americans showed up to apply for jobs at McDonald's restaurants all around the nation. Well, in Cleveland a horrible fight broke out between some girls and it ended up with three people being run over by a car. You can view video of this incident right here. Please do not watch the video if you are sensitive to graphic violence.
#17 All over the United States, vicious restaurant brawls have been erupting with alarming frequency and many of them are being posted up on YouTube for the world to see. You can see one example of this phenomenon right here.
#18 From coast to coast, "mob robbing" has become a very disturbing trend.
So what is a "mob robbing"?
Well, basically dozens of young people storm into a store together, grab whatever they want, and storm back out again.
Recent examples of this have been caught on video in Washington D.C. and in Las Vegas.
So does anyone still doubt that we are starting to see the collapse of society?
Sadly, things are going to get a whole lot worse.
In response to a recent article entitled "The Coming Economic Hell For American Families", a frequent commenter on my site known as "El Pollo De Oro" left the following comment about the collapse of society that is beginning to unfold....
Yes, it’s going to be VERY violent in The Banana Republic of America. Carjacking, kidnapping, drug trafficking, armed robbery and murder for hire will be major growth industries in the BRA when millions of formerly middle class Americans, now the neo-poor/neo-peasants, become increasingly desperate. The horrifying violence in Mexico will become a fact of life on this side of the border, the brutal kidnappings of the Philippines and Papua New Guinea will plague the BRA as well. Formerly middle class Americans who find themselves living in shantytown slums won’t like their new accommodations, and many of them will turn to violent crime in the hope of improving their miserable circumstances.
The truth is that about the only thing keeping our society together has been the unprecedented affluence that we have been enjoying over the past few decades.
Once that affluence is gone, the true character of the American people will come out, and we may not like what we see.
That is one reason why I pound on the economic crisis this nation is facing day after day. Once our wealth is gone, there is going to be chaos in the streets of America.
So what are you seeing in your area of the country? Do you see signs that the collapse of society is accelerating where you live? Please feel free to leave a comment with your opinion below....
I believe it’s a combination of upbringing and today’s society in these economic times. Kids of today “tomorrows leaders” are looking to be part of some kind of group (gangs) to be part of. These so called gangs are just the garbage of today’s society. There is no benefit for these kids to be in. They are being brain washed from what our parents are teaching us. Which brings me to the point of upbringing. Some parents don’t give a dam what there kids are up to. These parente typically from low income living, just think that everyone owes them something or everything. It’s ashame seeing these kids being rejected from there own family blood. They are basically thrown out the door and learn the streets to survive. Kids should be given a chance to live life. Not by joining gangs. What the hell are the kids thinking to join. Initiation is getting your arse beat up to a pulp. Girls being gang raped by god knows how many. In this article concerning the next 20 years, yes it’s going to get ugly. Yes, I’m concerned about my kids future. Yes, I do spend all possible time with my kids and provide the best I can my kids upbringing. Yes, I will do whatever takes to defend my family if need be. Even here in Lehigh County PA there has been break ins in people homes in a development behind where I am. When you thought you have heard it all. A Target store by me was held up last week. Seventh Street Downtown Allentown people being robbed, stabings, car jack etc. No exaggerations, downtown Allentown is getting bad. It’s all low income housing “projects” where these events happen. People are getting desperate and will do whatever it takes to keep either there habit going. I hope for some of these people are doing this to put food on the table, which I doubt. Once a thief is just for profit or a habit. But all I can say just like most people here am ready and in hopes I don’t need to use my gun on someone.
If this is what Political Correctness will get you then this is only the tip of the iceberg.I don’t know what to say if the Government gives Islamic Radical Terrorists the benefit of the doubt.Think seriously about this.
Your article is correct. All of these social problems have been caused by a poor economy, nationally and internationally. There is one solution, the reenactment of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which assured that the commercial banks and investment banks, were separated. It was repealed by Clinton in 1999 and brought on all the speculation (derivatives and securitization of real estate loans) and other gambling scenarios that have occurred since then. Go to http://www.Larouchepac.com and get in depth information.
Lets just say it because we are all thinking it:
the VAST majority of these crimes are committed by blacks. Once the black community cleans itself up, or they are all thrown in jail. this will stop/
About the mob robbing, When the day comes where stores cannot stock their shelves as well or not at all. The mobs will go to houses instead.
Buy Guns so you can mow them down instead of being mowed down by them.
I agree of course with the theme of this website. I have been watching the decline for years and just decided to not have children and leave the world to the thugs, marxists and islamists to fight over. I want to say that I was raise a Christian but like with my Christmas fun of Santa Claus I grew up and stopped being deluded with religion. I really chafe when I hear someone or read someone give the glazed over moronic answer that Jesus or Budda or Allah will solve our problems. I don’t want to say I want to beat the crap out of them but the feeling of absolute frustration with that stupidity does well up in my throat. We have as Americans the ability to take our country back from the socialists and elitists that have run rough shod over us. The Tea Party has show the way. “Mount up and ride toward the sound of the guns”. Pick up a sign, email a Rep or Senator, talk to a co-worker. Join the fight we need you.
who cares … ?
Okay, 2 beefs with this article:
1. The Dept of Education SWAT team story – needs to be updated. It was not SWAT, it was officers from the Dept of Education. Also, apparently it was NOT about upaid student loans and could have been fraud regarding student loans.
Don’t get me wrong, I still think it was ridiculous to go to such lengths for a case of fraud.
2. The “childrens’ book” entitled “Go The F*k To Sleep” is NOT a childrens’ book. It was a tongue and cheek book written by a guy who was having trouble getting his 2 year old daughter to go to sleep. After one harrowing night, he updated his Facebook page, JOKING that he was working on this book called, yes, you guessed it, “Go The F*k To Sleep”. His friends thought it was so funny, they encouraged him to write it. It is NOT meant for children, despite its cover and style. See either the current Redbook or Good Housekeeping for the story to verify.
Nothing wrong with keeping people informed, but it also helps if you are CORRECT. Otherwise, a couple of “wrong reports” and you become a Chicken Little and a Boy Who Cried Wolf and no one will heed your warnings.
Just some friendly advice.
Feeding the flames:
Turning food into fuel;
Forcing E15 into our fuel that is KNOWN by the government to destroy our pre-2007 cars, our boat motors, motorcycles, outdoor power equipment, ATVs, and chainsaws – just so they can placate the farmers and environmentalists;
The Dept of Justice REFUSING to prosecute criminals just because they belong to a union or socioeconomic group;
Government trying to take 100 million acres out of production so as to empower environmentalists;
Government giving billions of dollars to an unfriendly country (Brasil) to drill 17,000 deep in the ocean for oil, while preventing Americans from drilling 5,000 feet deep in the water – for safety sake.
Read the book Power Grab
And watch the video Agenda: Grinding America Down.
Do not doubt that what you are seeing is worldwide and it is totally planned and staged from the pit of hell itself. The climaic battle of a war that is older than mankind is at hand and we are the battlefield. Do not desire to be numbered with the evil rich who implement this plan for their doom is certain and it is near at hand.
OWEN: “Rich” is not a synonym for “evil.” There are many very good rich as well as poor people, & vise versa.
Don’t stereotype.
THINK, instead.
And no, I’m NOT rich–I’m dirt poor. But I know lots of rich AND poor folks.
Indeed I have been thinking and pondering this issue for over 20 years now, but I do see how you could mistake my meaning. I do not think that all whom we would call rich (some might even consider me rich) would be evil. I was pointing to that segment that are both rich and evil and that segment is indeed small but they are very powerful. You did the same with your phase good rich. I do see our present situation as a planned event and I do attribute it to ultra-wealthy men and women in league with Satan in the great conspiracy against God that began before our race was created and continues to this very day. The outcome of that conspiracy has already been determined and it is recorded in the Word of God. Unfortunately for our race, most humans will choose to be on the losing side. I can tell you now what these evil rich want from the rest of us — they want us to die. That’s right. That’s what they are planning. In regards to the rich, here is a verse from the Word of God that we would do well to ponder: “Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? 7 Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?” James 2:5-7.
Olivier, you have it backwards. You ‘buy’ the media propaganda. There is abortion available everywhere, but those babies could have been our salvation. (Many brilliant minds who contributed greatly to socienty were almost aborted.) There are many ways to get an education, but if you want to blame someone for higher cost, blame the ‘higher’ universities for raising the cost 400% in the last 10 yrs. Gun ownership has proven in countless studies to REDUCE crime; obviously, criminals don’t register guns, so enforcing registration and limitation of guns cannot help–and note, that’s the first thing upcoming dictator regimes do is take away guns. Police are downsized because those in administration don’t want to cut their own jobs. It was TARP and bailouts that socialized loss but also set up sharing of profits with political elite. True some rich such as Soros want to control, but most ‘rich’ are trying to keep their businesses afloat–businesses that employ others. ‘Poor’ aren’t demonized; Americans are generous in giving. But, those who think they are ‘entitled’ to everything that others work hard for are the cause of many uprisings–fueled by strategically-placed, politically-motivated instigators, such as the thugs at voting locations.
The net value of humanity is negative, so most of those babies who were aborted would have been parasites on society or worse.
I, ENEMY COMBATANT: Gee…it’s too bad YOUR mother didn’t see it that way when she spawned YOU, you arrogant so-&-so!
And, yes, to JC, Don King, and Abby. When this country still adhered to morals and included God in everything, we were a strong country. But decay comes with evil.
All I can say is, stockpile food and ammo.
Stockpile, stockpile, stockpile ….
JOE: I can’t stockpile; I’m too poor, even if I had the space. I say, “Pray, pray, PRAY.”
GOP Allows Rich To Literally Take Food Out of the Mouths Of Women and Babies.
If you are a mother struggling with food instability, programs like WIC (Women Infant Children), which provide financial support for grocery purchases, are like a lifeline.
But WIC is a lifeline the GOP is more than willing to cut in order to protect tax cuts for the rich. And how long would the wealthy be effected if they had to give up their breaks to keep WIC fully funded?
Just seven days.
Just another glaring example of how the people who call themselves “pro-life” have little or no respect for any of these babies after they are born unless their parents are rich enough to keep the political-campaign- contribution bribes coming after these politicians do the dirty work for them.
The GOP are disgusting immoral evil people.
GARY: That’s a Leftist propaganda LIE. You’ve been brainwashed by the Leftist media. One may find pro-life organizations all over the place which help the expectant mother by:
* counseling
* pre-AND-post-natal care
* housing
* school
* parental training
* job training
* food
* clothing
* baby supplies
* even help her to adopt out if she so chooses.
CHOICE means having more than ONE option. Abortionists sell–yes, SELL–ONE.
Iam concerned -I have my sister with her spous4e i Tinley Park,IL-is the violence there also?
I agree with JC…+People forget Jesus. We have a powerful weapon. it’s called the Rosary. Prayer.. that’s what will save us.
I guess it is time for me to start carrying mine. I am already locked and loaded. All though not much has happened in our area as of yet. But an old lady can’t be to careful.
cici.
The moral fibre of society has been declining for at least two generations now. Hence the decline in the number of families with two parents and children. The recent affluence has papered over these deficiencies but now the chickens will come home to roost. The Americans unfortunately will be the last to discover that democracy can only work in an affluent and growing economy.
This country gets what they deserve. We had a christian culture in this country. That was the best culture in the history of the world. The country was founded on it and,as a result,we had the most prosperous country in the history of the world until 1960 when we voluntarily decided to replace it with a secular culture(the worst kind of culture). Since then we have been going down hill morally. The chickens of our moral decline are now starting to come home to roost. That’s why I don’t vote for fiscal conservatives like Arnold, Rudy and Mitt. These guys believe that we have to put the moral issues on the backburner until we fix the economic issues. They don’t care if the country goes into the toilet morally just as long as it doesn’t go into the toilet economically. They just don’t get it. They don’t seem to see that it is the moral problems that are causing the economic problems. It’s not the economy stupid(as Bill Clinton once said). It’s the morality stupid. But the young people want the freedom to ‘hook up’ and have casual sex and if there is an unwanted mistake, why let that stop your fun and pleasure. There’s always abortion. This country is history. We’re not going to turn it around. We’re living in the last days of america as we once knew it.
While there is a lot of immoral bullshit today, how does that compare with immoral bullshit like Jim Crow laws, Manzanar, and the Trail of Tears?
Your correct enemy. Its not cristianity that is the golden answer. Our misuse and greed of our monetary supply is a main cause. The notion of making money from money, inflation and huge business owning polititions is to blame.
Good call, it’s like people think we just got this bad, no, we’ve always been a people of savagery. I look with excitement to the future, because yes, this country deserves it, not for turning it’s back on Christianity though (your religion is made up, it’s a system to control masses, just need to do a little bit of research and have a little bit of sense to realize this) Americans have no sense of community and common wealth, it’s only about me me me, what is mine! Well now all you selfish, self righteous pricks will reap what you have sown
How about the good Christians who foster hatred against people who are “different”? The good Catholic priests (child abusers)? The good Christians who abused their children for years and the law didn’t give a crap?
Christianity as it exists is BULLSHIT. You will suffer the karma you have earned for what you have done. Jesus will NOT save you from your karma. Christians are basically evil horrible people who persecute others.
You’re a freakin retard. You’re the only horrible and evil one I see here. Now go away and ********************.
christiangel,
you are a freakin idiot.
How did you ever form such incredibly stupid
opinions.
Jim, you are so right on it’s scary.
Very well said.
I guess no one here recalls learning about late 17th Century France, which was almost 100% Christian (Catholic), run by the clerics and nobility and how that turned out???
Your problem isn’t religious, although every right winger will argue it is because that viewpoint is easier to digest and sits well with their social attitudes and values. Your problem is socio-economic. The wider the disparity between the classes, the greater the level of violence. This is not a new phenomenon folks, it happened throughout history and yet you still have people who completely discount it.
It is very difficult to take something away from people once you have given it to them. I defy you to take away national holidays, iPods, free elementary education, etc from the populace. You’d have another Civil War. Yet Corporate America and their political servants take away the general populations opportunities to prosper and can’t understand why the middle class isn’t happy about it.
Keep doing what you are doing, you’ll learn (yet again) the hard way that numbers speak volumes and the middle class can only handle so much before they break. We have the same problems up here but because of our social safety nets, our patience is much greater. Once we lose those, we’ll be the same way; preying on each other, survival of the fittest.
And, regardless of your belief system, you have to admit Darwin got that much right!!!
Sorry, 18th Century France. Don’t let that little error blind you to the accuracy of the situation now (although a lot of you will because it’s too difficult to look at and deal with your problems any other way)
Totally wrong! Forget Christianity: It has hurt enough people!
It’s Reaganomics (Voodoo economics as G Bush senior called it himself)
We need to put in place a huge rebuilding of the crumbling American infrastructure with well paid jobs.A 40-60% increase of minimum wage to take real inflation into account is WELL overdue.
Socila Sec recipients have lost 60% of their buying poer in the last 12 years (economists say so…not me) So: let’s increase benefits for all Soc Sec recipients earning less than $1000/mo and 30% between 1000 and say $1300
10 % up to 1500. Bust the cap on Social Security income tax: everyone pays the same, to pay for it.
Let tax corporations on their profits diverted to tax heavens at a higher rate than in the US to discourage tax evasion practices instead of offering an amnesty (current offer!).
Start a 10% tax on wealth above $1 million for 5 years at least.
Set up a maximum wage (currently a big subject in France) of 12-20 times minimum wage!
Return to pre-Kennedy tax structure: It promoted growth and the birth of a healthy middle class (remember 60s and 70s golden age???)
Kennedy, then Reagan destroyed it: it took 30 years of “trickle up” – turned gush up in the last 10 years – to get us to where we are!
Set up a permanent Social Contribution tax like in France: currently at 11% on all income except disability and unemployment.
Return taxes on capital/investment gain to 30% remove loopholes. Remove all Farm subsidies going to farmers earning over $10000/year!
Hum… that would be a good start!
Your comment is the only one, that makes sence at this point. This has nothing to do w/ religion, it has to do only w/ human g r e e d.
We must hang onto our christian values. The fact, that corrupt Rome in collusion w/ the ruling class /1% ??/ kept the masses stupfied and in fear is not much different than what is going on today.
Jesus Christ was a socialist!!!. I bet if he was around He would take his whip and visit Wallstreet and their paid politicians.
Change is needed NOW> before things get out of hand. Do it young people, love one another and have faith. U are the future.
Firstly, it was Clinton who said, “It’s the economy, stupid!”
Secondly, the most pressing things is the economy because we are on the edge of a cliff, financially speaking. This HAS to be taken care of, first.
I take a far different view of the collapse and see it as a string of related cause/effect movements. U.S. economic power peaked when? 1960s? Since that time we as a nation have exported out wealth to the world in exchange for cheap goods and services. $10s of Trillions of dollars in U.S. Wealth has flowed unabated to other nations. In the interest of promoting world-wide capitalism and stability, U.S. citizens have by and large bankrolled the world. During the 50s, 60s and early 70s (prior to OPEC), single income middle class families could thrive. This allowed one parent to stay home and groom and grow a family. In the 70s and 80s it was no longer possible for the single earner to make it, so the 2nd parent jumped in – leaving a big family void that still exists. Fast forward to today, now even with both parents at it, a family cannot make ends meet – and we still are losing $1.5T – $2T a year in wealth (by importing more than we export). Congress is so beholdened to corporate America that it allows this drain to continue. Just look at China – we allow our economic policy to be dictate by corporations that do not care one bit about the citizens of this country – their only concern is the quarterly/annual earnings statement. Can’t anyone see what is wrong with this picture? Innovation and prosperity are good, but when the incentives for all are not aligned (and I’m not talking about silly trickle down economics – which has been statistically demonstrated to be a joke), we get greed.
So true.
It’s simple You need to water a trees roots for the top to grow.
Christian culture? You mean the “culture” that had no issues with displacing or killing million of native Americans to take over their land? The “culture” that in the name of Jesus didn’t have any issues with destroying two of the most amazing civilizations in the history of the world? (Incas and Mayans) The one and only culture that would torture and burn people for just believing that the earth is a sphere and the sun is not the center of the universe? The culture that had no issues with enslaving millions of Africans for profit? THAT CULTURE? That’s what made our country great? I mean hard work, personal responsibility, sacrifice, and a constitution that provided perhaps for the first time in modern history PERSONAL FREEDOMS and minimized collectivism had nothing to do with it right?
You mean the constitution that was based on that very religion correct?
Let him with eyes see, and him with ears hear
The Constitution only mentions religion in saying a national church and a test oath will not be required. While the Founders came from a largely Protestant background they were often deists or agnostics. The founding document was most assuredly not based on Christianity as such. As for Jefferson’s famous “I have sworn opposition to tyranny” letter it was directly at clergymen who wanted a religious state!
I don’t know what you are talking about. My wife stays home with the kid while I work. We are a super minority among our cohorts. They don’t comprehend how we do it. I could write a book about it and they still wouldn’t get it. We have plenty of money (about 40% of my take home) left over after we pay our bills. It can be done, it’s just that most people either won’t cut back or don’t know how to live below their means.
Hey Ranch111
Try that on $500-800/month of Social Security/disability income!
This is all baloney. America is not going to hell in a hand basket. We have a few basket cases, for sure, but the sky is not falling. We are simply enduring some hard economic times, and we have a dud for a leader who is making it worse than it should be. With a decent leader and some common sense, this nation can be as great as it ever was. Choose good conservative leaders, not just at the federal level, but all the way down to the dog-catcher and you will see America prosper again. Banish the liberal nut-cases from your social circle and quit glorifying those whose only attraction is to spout profanity or some idiocy designed to shock normal minds in order to gain attention. Learn to admire Joe or Jane Smoe who get up every day and go earn an honest living for they are the real heroes; disdain those who do otherwise by taking advantage of public gimme programs or living off criminal activities. Demand decency and we shall have it.
Thank you. On a bleak morning in Chicago it is refreshing to read your basic “s#it or get off the pot” response. While we all have to be aware what is happening around us, I cannot live my daily life with so much doom and gloom.
well said.
You are SO full of crap.
The sad truth is, a country can only be as good as it’s citizens. There is no denying that basic fact, yet many seem to ignore it. And the citizens of today who now replace the citizens who built this country are no match, and in fact are quite inferior to earlier generations in many ways. A walk through any Walmart will provide a shocking glimpse of the average American of 2011 as low-class, dull-witted, uneducated, and uncivilized. These are not nation builders, and certainly can’t compete in the world marketplace. Americans are in love with stupidity and mediocrity.
The former U.S.A. (post Obama election) is now reaping the fruits of the years of leftist indoctrination in schools, by the media, etc. Also of LBJ’s forced busing and school integration. That was supposed to bring the blacks UP to the level of the whites. It did the opposite – white kids picked up all the negative traits of the blacks – brutality, anti-school, drugs, violence, etc. HOPE you are enjoying the CHANGE. Obama is just taking existing trends to the next level (of Hell).
BTW, I fled the former U.S. in the last days of its life, about 2-3 months after the Obama election. Haven’t been back since, and there is not enough money in the world to force me to return. It has been fascinating to watch the economy disintegrating and all social mores collapse. I didn’t flee because of Obama’s election (and certainly not because he was black – I like Herman Cain). It was because of the 52% of the population that would vote for a totally incompetent idiot, who was obviously a communist. There is no recovery from that. Once half the population was paying zero taxes, collapse is inevitable.
Either he is both a Bankster and big business + billionaire’shill OR a Communist; NOT Both!
I think we all know – EXCEPT YOU Patrick – which one he is…
In parts of Spokane, Washington, a conservative town, police won’t stop after dark unless there are at least two squad cars.
I have reared two fine young adults in an ever increasing society of violence and depravity caused by the liberal bleeding hearts that do not understand restraint and respect are the threads that knit cohesive society together. Every day I had to combat the foolish and erroneous concepts that came home from the public school who had control over my children more waking hours than I did. I kept them in sports to stay busy and away from drugs, which were rampant even in the sports teams. When my first was born my father asked why anyone would want to bring a child into this evil world? I now understand and fervently agree with him.
Stop entitlements, foreign aid, and “illegal”
immigration, return to a protection of the innocents instead of exalting sexual explicitness virtually everywhere. Freedom of self expression should never over shadow self restraint. The concept of honor, and truth has been critically eroded by selfish promotion. The “I”, “Me” generation was thoroughly indoctrinated by the very politically correct public school system that is as corrupt and sickly skewed as our government. In losing our moral compass we have lost our sanity and spiral to the abyss.
Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot, discern the signs of the times? Matt 16:3
SOME SIGNS OF OUR TIMES:
1. NUCLEAR POWER AND TECHNOLOGY:
2. GOSPEL OUTREACH ALMOST COMPLETED:
3. ISRAEL IS A NATION:
4. THE FORMATION OF THE ONE WORLD CHURCH:
5. THE CEASATION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 475AD
6. THE DRYING UP OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER
7. INSTANT COMMUNICATION
8. KNOWLEDGE INCREASED:
9. TRAVEL AND MOBILITY:
10. UNIFIED MONETARY SYSTEM:
11. SUPERNATURAL LEADER, PEACEMAKER WILL SURFACE:
12. THE RISE OF (MNC’S) MULTI NATIONAL COMPANIES
CONCLUSION:
IS JESUS CHRIST REALLY COMING AGAIN? I believe He is coming again. What do you think?
Did you know that at the core of biblical prophecy is the prediction of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ? He literally came the first time as a babe in Bethlehem as was predicted. Did you know that for every prophecy telling of the first coming there are scores announcing His Second Coming?
Christ’s Second Coming is something we should long for. Think of it! Heaven will be ours. Pain will be no more. Sin and evil will be vanquished. Satan will be defeated once and for all.
This is a vital issue today. How could anyone claim to believe the Bible while denying that Christ will return bodily to earth? But the position has garnered an outspoken and influential following, especially among young believers with more zeal than knowledge.
Many people think time is growing short before Christ returns. In the past twenty years, since Bible prophecy has captured the attention of this generation, history has been in high gear. Are we listening today to the warning from the mountain of evidence in front of us? Or will we be unprepared victims of foolishness who are not paying attention to the Signs Of Our Times? This morning I will present some reasons why I believe JESUS IS COMING BACK SOON The Bible Says
Matt 24:44
44 “For this reason you be ready too; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.
Matt 16:1-4
And the Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Him asked Him to show them a sign from heaven. 2 But He answered and said to them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ 3 “And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times?
The Day of the Lord 1 Thess 5:1-11
1 Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. 2 For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. 3 While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like birth pangs upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief; 5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; 6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. 7 For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. 8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him. 11 Therefore encourage one another, and build up one another, just as you also are doing.
Peter, James & John, and Paul, and Christians of every generations have been saying Jesus is coming back soon, so what makes today any different? They have been telling me for 75 years that Jesus is coming back. I just don’t believe it.
This morning I am going to share with you Some Signs of Our Times and why I believe we that Jesus’ return is imminent?
SOME SIGNS OF OUR TIMES:
1. NUCLEAR POWER AND TECHNOLOGY:
Today we possess, as do many other countries, the ability to destroy mankind from the earth. Humanity never had that kind of power until the invention of the atomic bomb. The Bible says,
Matt 24:21-22
21 for then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall. 22 “And unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days shall be cut short.
In 1998, the roster of the world’s acknowledged nuclear powers expanded from five to seven, when India announced that it had conducted five successful underground tests and Pakistan responded in kind several days later.
UNITED STATES
First nuclear test: 1945
Most recent nuclear test: 1992
Total tests: 1,030 (815 underground)
Arsenal and missile range: 12,000 warheads; 8,100 miles (13,000 km)
1. US
2. RUSSIA
3. U.K.
4. FRANCE
5. CHINA
6. INDIA
7. PAKISTAN
8. NORTH KOREA
9. IRAN/IRAQ
10. ISRAEL
2. THE GOSPEL OUTREACH ALMOSTED COMPLETED
STORY OF COCA COLA
At the end of World War II, Robert Woodruff declared, “In my generation it is my desire that everyone in the world have a taste of Coca Cola.” Talk about vision!
Today Coca Cola is sold from the deserts of Africa to the interior of China. Why? Because Woodruff motivated his colleagues to reach their generation around the world for Coke .
How big is your vision? Have you ever dreamed about what God could do through you to help win the world in our generation to Jesus Christ? After all, as Oswald Smith said, the only generation that can reach this generation is our generation.
Even though the Lord limited His own public ministry to the Palestine area, He came and lived and died for the whole world. After His resurrection He commissioned His disciples to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19, italics added). He sent them as His ambassadors first to Jerusalem, then to all Judea and Samaria, and ultimately to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8).
Those first-century Christians were hesitant to dream about how God would fulfill Christ’s last commands. The apostle Paul challenged their complacency by devoting his life after his conversion to traveling and proclaiming Christ.
Paul explained his vision for evangelism in Romans 15. First, he could report, “From Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ” (Romans 15:19). Even his enemies admitted that Paul had saturated entire provinces with the gospel (Acts 19:26) and had turned the world upside down (Acts 17:6).
Paul was not content to saturate one small area with the gospel at the expense of the rest of the world. He had a strategy for reaching the entire Roman Empire. “But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions [Jerusalem to Illyricum], and since I have been longing for many years to see you, I plan to do so when I go to Spain” (Romans 15:23-24).
Paul went on to explain his itinerary. In his mind he visualized every major city he would stop at on his way to Rome. He longed to win the people of this influential capital city to Christ—just as I long to see key cities around the world hear the voice of God. But beyond Rome, Paul ultimately wanted to reach the entire known world with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Like Paul, as God’s ambassadors our vision should be “to win as many people as possible to Jesus Christ throughout the world.” That is part of my evangelistic association’s statement of vision and reason for existence. Following the example of Paul, we actively and aggressively seek to evangelize the masses from city to city using every means possible.
Evangelism is not an option in the Christian life. Paul admitted, “When I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!” (1 Corinthians 9:16). Whether by preaching or praying, traveling around the globe or speaking to those next door, we should all have a part in winning the world to Jesus Christ.
Matt 24:14
“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come.
3. ISRAEL IS A NATION:
Israel is back in their homeland in unbelief after 2400 years of separation. May 14, 1948
Matt 24:32-35
32 “Now learn the parable from the fig tree (the nation Israel): when its branch has already become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near; (Israel becoming a nation May 14, 1948 again after 2400 years). 33 even so you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door. 34 “Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. 35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words shall not pass away.
Ezek 37:1-14 (Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones prophecy fulfilled May 14, 1948)
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2 And He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry. 3 And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “0 Lord GOD, Thou knowest.” 4 Again He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, ’0 dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.’ 5 “Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. 6 ‘And I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin, and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the LORD.”‘
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9 Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Come from the four winds, 0 breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life.”"‘ 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life, and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
The Vision Explained: 11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.’ 12 “Therefore prophesy, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13 “Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people. 14 “And I will put My Spirit within you, and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that 1, the LORD, have spoken and done it,” declares the LORD.”‘
4. THE FORMATION OF THE ONE WORLD CHURCH:
The World Council of Church, formed in Amsterdam in 1948, with its headquarters located in Geneva, Switzerland. The council brings together more than protestant, Orthodox Eastern, (including the Russian Orthodox Church and Old Catholic bodies, ), the WCC is a fellowship of churches, now 342 in more than 120 countries in all continents from virtually all Christian traditions, is now the chief instrument of ecumenicity; in 1961 it united with the International Missionary Council. This will lead I believe to a universal church and universal worship.
“The primary purpose of the fellowship of churches in the World Council of Churches is to call one another to visible unity in one faith and in one Eucharistic fellowship, expressed in worship and common life in Christ, through witness and service to the world, and to advance towards that unity in order that the world may believe”. From the Constitution of the WWC
Rev 13:1-4; 11-16 (The Beast from the Sea & The Prophet)
1 And he stood on the sand of the seashore. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names. 2 And the beast, which I saw, was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast; 4 and they worshipped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?”
6. THE DRYING UP OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER
Another prophecy in Revelation declares that the Euphrates River will dry up so this enormous army of two hundred million soldiers can cross from Asia into the Middle East to invade Israel:
Rev 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the east.
The Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) is a massive $32 billion public project to harness the power and potential of the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and to irrigate the fertile plains that lie between them. When completed in 2010, 21 dams and 17 hydroelectric power plants will produce approximately 22% of Turkey’s projected electricity requirements, equivalent to the entire national energy consumption in 1988. The Ataturk Dam, the sixth largest rock filled dam in the world, is the key structure for the development of the Lower Euphrates River region. Completed in 1993, it presently generates 8.9 billion kWh in electricity and is responsible for opening more than 180,000 acres of farmland to irrigation in the Harran plain.
Throughout history the Euphrates River has been an impenetrable military barrier between East and West. However, the government of Turkey recently constructed the huge Ataturk Dam that can now block up the headwaters of the Euphrates River for the first time in history. The Prophet John also foretold a future military highway across Asia that would allow this astonishing army to march toward the final battle in Israel. John appears to refer to the building of this highway in these words: “The way of the kings of the east might be prepared” (Revelation 16:12) 12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east.
The Chinese government has spent enormous sums and expended the lives of hundreds of construction workers to build a military super-highway (Karahoram Highway) across Asia heading directly toward Israel. This highway has no economic purpose, and no foreigners are allowed anywhere near this road. The highway has been completed at a staggering cost of money and lives, through the rugged terrain across the south of China and through Tibet, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The Prophet John’s unusual prophecy about “the way of the kings of the east” is being fulfilled in our day in a manner that sets the stage for the final battle of this age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoram_Highway. http://www.cuttingedge.org/News/n1602.cfm
And don’t forget the 200 million-man army. Time Magazine, page 35, May 21, 1965, China’s boast of a 200 million-man army. This is not a coincidence!! This is the fulfillment of Bible Prophecy, see below!!!!!
Rev 9:16-21
Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the armies of the horsemen was two, hundred, million; I heard the number of them. 17 And this is how I saw in the vision the horses and those who sat on them:
Then over in Rev 16:12 the Bible tells us who this 200 million man army is.
Rev12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the KINGS FROM THE EAST. Rev 16:12
The Toronto Star newspaper reported in 1995 that Chinese officials admitted that they now have a staggering imbalance between boys and girls. The sexual imbalance will result in an excess of over seventy million young men in China by the year 2000, with no women for these men to marry. Negative consequences: 120 boys vs 100 girls born will cause social security problems, no one to pay for retirement, and social havic – no one to marry
7. INSTANT COMMUNICATION
With WORLD WIDE COMMUNICATIONS, the cellular phone, the internet and satellite TV. We now have for the first time in history the ability to watch world events as they unfold. Such a coming event will be the death of the two prophets of God.
Rev 11:3-13
“And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy 7 And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street where also their Lord was crucified. 9 And those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. 10 And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry; and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. 11 And after the three and a half days the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were beholding them. 12 And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them.
8. KNOWLEDGE INCREASED:
Currently our age/era is identified as the INFORMATION AGE. Around the year 2000 it was calculated that the sum total of human knowledge is growing so quickly that it literally doubles every twenty months. This is staggering in light of Daniel’s prediction from the ancient past that “knowledge shall be increased.” Knowledge would increase. Specifically, this is referring to an understanding of Bible prophecy, but also an increase in scientific knowledge is implied.
Dan 12:4
4 “But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase.”
We are no longer living in the industrial age. We are living in the information age!
Bill Gates says, “Information is king.”
9. TRAVEL AND MOBILITY:
There has been a transportation explosion in speed during the 19th century as never seen before in history. While most people in past centuries seldom traveled more than fifty miles from the place they were born, millions of people now travel across the globe as part of their normal course of daily business or annual vacation. And the U. S. space shuttle Discovery has carried our astronauts at a speed over eighteen thousand miles per hour. Speed and the ability to get places fast is the reason we won our independence from Great Britain.
Dan 12:4
4 “But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, (travel) and knowledge will increase.”
10. UNIFIED MONETARY SYSTEM:
Rev 13:16-18
16 And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand, or on their forehead, 17 and he provides that no one should be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.
We are now a 95% cashless society, and will prepare for the coming SMART CARD. Signed into law May 2002, within the next 5 years every U.S. citizen will have a NATIONAL ID CARD/DRIVERS LICENSE, and it will have your finger prints and retinal scan information. (Also see Business Week magazine, June 3, 1996, page 123, Smart Card.)
11. SUPERNATURAL LEADER, PEACEMAKER WILL SURFACE:
He will be a military, economic and political genius.
Rev 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.” 2 And I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him; and he went out conquering, and to conquer.
There are two riders on white horses in Revela¬tion: the first rider comes with a bow in his hand and a victor’s crown on his head; the second rider comes with a sword for His weapon and a kingly crown upon his head. These two horsemen are dia¬metrically opposed.
At the inauguration of the Tribulation, the dark prince enters as a victorious leader.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their deeds.
The prince of darkness enters our chaotic world scene straddling his prancing stallion, with an air of confidence and a flashing smile. As a symbol of a conqueror in oriental imagery, for his grand entrance he chooses a white horse. The white horse means that he will conquer through peace. Notice he has a bow but no arrows, and he will be given a crown. People will love this man. This first rider is none other than the Antichrist, the great counterfeiter who rides into the frenzied world arena at the beginning of the tribulation period to bring a false peace in the midst of global turmoil. The great impersonator, the cleverest mimic of all time, he will conquer without war. He is the Antichrist, and he will be ushered into power when he settles the Palestinian /Israeli dispute with a seven year piece agreement Dan 9:27. He will be a military, political, financial genius.
Dan 9:27
27 “And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, (seven years), but in the middle of the week, (3 ½ years) he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”
Antichrist may be a homosexual:
Dan 11:37
“He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all.
In a world churning with wars and rumors of wars, revolutions toppling governments, people living with the threat of international catastrophe. This military genius will become the world dictator, promising peace and prosperity, and will be welcomed as the hope and savior of the world; he will mesmerize the masses and command the military. Under his lead¬ership governments will be united and the people of the earth will sigh with relief, believing their future will be brighter. He will vanquish all national loyalties, by consent, Rev 17:13, or by conquest Rev13:15; 20:4.
Former Secretary General of NATO, Henry Spaak, spokesman for SWIFT, (Society For World-Wide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, said concerning their goals,
“We do not want another committee, we have to many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of the people, and lift us out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man and be he God or devil, we will accept him.” Apocalypse Next page 292.
New Terms to Look and Listen For:
• Transparency: The gradual revealing of the plans to have/need a one world system with world equality in banking.
B – Brussels
E – Economic
A – Accounting
S – Surveillance
T – Terminal
• Federalism: Federalism = sole control. Surrendered sovereignty to the one world government, which will probably be the European Union in conjunction with the United Nations. Federalism will vanquish all national loyalties, by consent Rev 17:13, or by conquest Rev. 13:15, 20:4.
• IMF: International Monetary Fund?
o Find the answer to this question. Where does the IMF get it’s money, what is it used for, and who dispense the money?
• G7-8: Forum for effective world government. Includes, Germany, Japan, Canada, France, Great Britain, Italy, United States, Russia.
POSSIBLE SCENARIO
European Union: will be the Monetary arm of the One World Government.
NATO: will be the Military arm of the One World Government.
United Nations: will be the Governing arm of the One World Government.
World Council of Churches: will be the Religious arm of the One World Government.
12. THE RISE OF “MNC’S” MULTI NATIONAL COMPANIES
1. International Atomic Energy Agency
2. International Civil Aviation Organization
3. International Development Association
4. International Finance Corporation
5. Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultive Organization
6. International Monetary Fund – IMF
7. International Telecommunication Union
8. International Labor Organization
9. Food and Agriculture Organization
10. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Organization – GATT
11. NATO – North American Treaty Organization
12. United Nations
13. UNESCO = United Nations Education, Scientific & Cultural Organization
14. Universal Postal Union
15. World Bank = International Bank for Construction & Development
16. World Court
17. World Meteorological Association
18. World Health Organization
19. WTO – World Trade Organization (144 countries as of Jan 03)
20. International House of Pancakes
Not to mention all the McDonalds, Penney’s, Jones Store, Fast Food Stores, Baker’s Square, Perkins, Lowe’s, Ace Hardware, Maynard’s, etc. Look around!!!
Where are all the mom and pop stores? They are gone.
Where are all the community banks? They are almost extinct.
The formation of such international alliances has led outstanding thinkers to state that a new world order is on the horizon.
CFR -The Council on Foreign Relations
• http://www.cfr.org/
EU – The European Union
• http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/opinion/index.htm
• http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm
The European Union (EU) is a family of democratic European countries, committed to working together for peace and prosperity. It is not a State intended to replace existing states, but it is more than any other international organization. The EU is, in fact, unique. Its Member States have set up common institutions to which they delegate some of their sovereignty so that decisions on specific matters of joint interest can be made democratically at European level. This pooling of sovereignty is also called “European integration”.
The historical roots of the European Union lie in the Second World War. The idea of European integration was conceived to prevent such killing and destruction from ever happening again. It was first proposed by the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman in a speech on 9 May 1950. This date, the “birthday” of what is now the EU, is celebrated annually as Europe Day.
G7-8 – Group of Seven/Eight (Group 20 forthcoming)
• http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/
• http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/g20/index.htm
To foster stability and growth of the world economy
ICC – The International Criminal Court
• http://www.un.org/law/
The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 17 July 1998, when 120 States participating in the “United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court” adopted the Statute. This is the first ever permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to promote the rule of law and ensure that the gravest international crimes do not go unpunished.
The Statute sets out the Court’s jurisdiction, structure and functions and it provides for its entry into force 60 days after 60 States have ratified or acceded to it. The 60th instrument of ratification was deposited with the Secretary General on 11 April 2002, when 10 countries simultaneously deposited their instruments of ratification. Accordingly, the Statute entered into force on 1 July 2002. Anyone who commits any of the crimes under the Statute after this date will be liable for prosecution by the Court.
IMF – The International Monetary Fund -
• http://www.imf.org/
The IMF is an organization of 184 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty.
NATO – North American Treaty Organization
• http://www.nato.int/docu/facts/2000/what-is.htm
• NATO’s members are Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States.
WCC — The World Council of Churches
• http://www.oikoumene.org/en/home.html
WTO — The World Trade Organization
• http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/whatis_e.htm
The Ataturk Dam
• http://www.adiyamanli.org/ataturk_dam.htm
The Federal Government
• http://www.fedworld.gov/
• http://www.firstgov.gov/
• http://www.fedworld.gov/gov-links.html
• http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
TERMS TO WATCH FOR:
• TRANSPARENCY
• SURVELLIANCE
• FEDERALISM and or GLOBALIZATION
• Sole Control. There is a push for the EU to become the sole controller of the New World Order. FEDERALISM will vanquish all national loyalties, by consent, Rev 17:13, or by conquest Rev13:15; 20:4.
CONCLUSION:
I believe there was an outpouring of evil prior to the birth of Christ, and that there will be a satanic and demonic outpouring of evil just prior to Christ’s return. Look at all the evil in our land today. Doesn’t the following scriptures describe our world today?
1 Timothy 4:1-3
But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, 3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods, which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.
2 Tim 3:1-5
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as these.
IS GOD GIVING PEOPLE OVER TO SIN?
Romans 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 2- For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four footed animals and crawling creatures. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
Is The Restraining Power Of The Holy Spirit Slowly Pulling Back?
2 Thess 2:6-8
And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he may be revealed. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. 8 And then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
If you have not yet received Christ as Savior, won’t you please take a moment now and do so? Here’s how:
1. Realize that heaven is a free gift. Therefore, it cannot be earned; nor is it deserved. It is a free gift; it must be accepted. (Eph. 2:8-9, Titus 1:5)
2. Man is a sinner and cannot save himself. Sin is what separates us from God and keeps man out of heaven (Isa. 59:2; Rom. 6:23).
3. God is merciful and doesn’t want to punish you (1 John 4:8). But God is also just and must punish sin (Ex. 34:7).
4. Christ was willing to take your punishment so that you could be pardoned by God (Rom. 5:8). Christ gives you His righteousness (2 Cor. 5:21).
5. The gift of eternal life is received by faith (Eph. 2:8, 9). Faith in Christ is more than head knowledge; it is a change of mind and heart (Rom. 10:9, 10).
If this makes sense to you, won’t you please accept Christ right now? You can receive the gift of eternal life now! Pray this prayer with me:
Knowing that I have sinned and that I need the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior, I now turn from my sins in repentance from my heart and place my trust and my eternal destiny completely in Jesus Christ alone. Heavenly Father, please have mercy on me and forgive my sins. Wash me clean in the blood of Jesus Christ; be my Savior; come into my heart and give me eternal life. I renounce my past utterly and completely, and after thoughtful consideration, I now proclaim Jesus as my Lord. By faith alone and with God’s grace, I receive Jesus Christ and accept Him as my Savior. I surrender full control of my life to Christ my Lord. From this time forward, as He gives me strength, I will seek to serve Him as my King in the fellowship of His church and obey Him in all areas of my life.
“For whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved,” Rom 10:13.
It’s So Simple
Matt. 24:30 3 words “Lord, save me.” Peter
Luke 18:14 7 words “God be merciful to me, the sinner.” Publican
Luke 23:42 9 words “Jesus remember me when you
come into your kingdom.” Thief on the cross
Rom. 10:13 13 words “For whosoever will call upon the
name of the Lord will be saved.”
I believe! I believe! And I have been awaiting His return for the past 25 years now. We are now much closer to the Rapture of the Church and the worst period of life on planet Earth that mankind has ever seen.
The Bible is NOTHING but a fairytale!
Mark, you are a hijacker… get your own blog.
Amen, brother! Prophecies are being fullfilled in front of our eyes as we speak–and many will be deceived who haven’t accepted Jesus as their Savior!
You know, it isn’t hard to see the community organizing in all of this.
They leftists who seek to defeat us with our own money – have organized unions of street gangs. It is the same each time it is deployed. Develop a strict, militant dogma around hatred, dedicate yourself to any means justifying an end, and make an enemy out of your political rivals – that way you can begin to herd the sheeple wherever you want them.
You can even participate in voter intimidation and suppression.
Whay are we allowing a system of aparthied here in America? Why are we allowing the workers of the world to unite – against the producers – here in America?
Minorities are being mined for opportunities to sew discord – and they are willingly complying.
Do not allow the hatred filled small groups of thugs to cast you as a victim in order to use your strength, without your brain and compassion.
This is America – resist the hate – know what is happening.
Be Aware – don’t be herded into the faceless collectives known as “the masses” – because eventually, all masses either overwhelm the host, or they are excised – both scenarios reslt in death to the masses…
I am not a mass – I am a me. I love my country.
It’s the greatest place on Earth – we just need to return our government to the people – we don’t need a “Big Brother”.
“Whay are we allowing a system of aparthied here in America? Why are we allowing the workers of the world to unite – against the producers – here in America?”
Why? Because “useful idiots” prove useful, and are easily manipulated.
This country became what it is because of the freedoms it provided its citizens – the freedom to make choices for ourselves, engage in economic activity, dream and try to turn those dreams into reality. Economic freedom produces wealth, period. It is when the social justice crowd shows up that things go downhill. Can you imagine the Americans who crossed the Great Plains in covered wagons and settled the West demanding that the government first lay roads, limit the speed and number of wagons and make the trip accessible to everyone? Look at the way people think! They expect everything to be done for them…some guy up there says free trade only makes companies move their jobs to poorer places…were there no poorer places in the world during the first 200 years of our history? We seemed to build a pretty substantial industrial base anyway – because people had skills, were educated, were willing to work and had discipline. That is really all it takes. The politically correct crowd has demonized every last thing that made this country great. So now, America will be a country with gay marriage, ethnic and religious factions vying for power, censored polite speech walking hand-in-hand with a hideous, horrid reality. Every last one of you knows down deep what the answer is, just take a deep breath and remember…
Your example of the Americans who crossed the Great Plains in covered wagons to show how peoples’ thinking/expectations has changed was BRILLIANT.
However, your characterization of gay marriage as somehow part of the problem has no basis in fact.
I also agree that the great plains crossing analogy was brilliant.
However, gay marriage is a good example of a “politically correct” society in which virtually anything must be acceptable. We are being forced to accept behavior that would have lead to the extinction of our race if it was commonplace and “normal”.
The freedoms and attitudes that built this Country are long gone. They have been replaced with people who want a nanny state to provide for and protect them from cradle to grave.
It worked out real well for the former Soviet Union. I just want to thank all the people who voted us into a socialist police state. Hope you enjoy our new Country, comrades!
Actually the gay marriage advocates started down this road with the simple argument of “unfair”. It is unfair for heterosexual couples to enjoy tax breaks, better rates on health insurance, better mortgage rates etc etc. Thus lays the problem. Why does our government give anyone “tax breaks”? In fact why does the government tax income period? Why do people get subsidies to buy houses (in the form of a tax break)? You see people the one and only problem is the fact that our money is backed by NOTHING. The government can borrow at will, the bankers can get 750 billion in bailouts and a do over, wall street firms can get inside info and billions of near interest free money. That is the one and only problem. Because let me tell you if those welfare checks was actually gold, those farm subsidies was silver, those little wars we have been fighting in the past 70 years were paid in gold and silver I guaranty you they would not have happened. No way no how. Read you constitution people. And when Ron Paul asks Bernanke if gold is money and he says no next time, you will know we have no constitution, no laws that actually protect free trade, no lawmakers that are not bought and sold to the highest bidder and no future no matter what we do with our character or culture. One big mistake Ron Paul made was he didn’t give him the follow up question. “Mr. Bernanke if you don’t believe gold and silver is money then you are saying our constitution is wrong and we should not follow it. YES OR NO”?
Donn Obama is far from being a Socialist: he is an advocate of “Rogue capitalism” as Der Spiegel called it.
Big business have benefited from Obama and Health insurance companies will rake billions on our back thanks to a right wing healthcare reform.
BTW: What does Gay marriage have to do with economic collapse and stagnnat salaries since 81 after OFFICIAL inflation (most likely a50% drop)???
Gay marriage = equal rights!
I have an idea let’s repeal the Bush tax cuts for 2 years and use 75% of the money for inrastructure investment and 25% for deficit reduction. If the economy hasn’t gotten noticably better in two years, we end the stimulus and devote 100% of the money to deficit reduction.
The FairTax would be very helpful.
The “Fair tax” is not fair: it benefits mostly millionaires + billionaires
let’s go back to pre-Kennedy tax structure; upper rate above 70%
I still have faith our best days are ahead of us.
Matthew 24:31 sounds like a good day to me. The only problem is the days before that.
Remember the First Great Awakening that preceded the Revolutionary War and the Second Great Awakening that preceded the Civil War?
We need a Third Great Awakening to help us get through the days ahead!
Good evening,
I’ve read many of the comments of this blog – by the way I’m writing from Europe – and I am profoundly disillusioned by the poor level of the discussion.
Many of the opinions seem to lack any serious and objective perspective on what is just about to happen in the USA and the real causes behind the unavoidable crash. This is quite sad. What would you say about Nixon’s 1974 shock? What about FED’s FIAT money? And what about turbo-capitalism? Many of you speak of pistols and God… go ahead… there might be a day when americans will experience what europeans felt during WW2.
Regards
Markus
What are you talking about?
You don’t notice all the references to the fed here?
Nixon – oh, you must be referring to the Bretton Woods agreement and the elimination of the gold standard. Nothing new.
What Europeans experienced in WW2????
Are you kidding? Europeans started WW One and Two, and the USA had to come and clean up the mess. What about what WE experienced?
Well I guess we are seeing that the hate of the Democrat Party is starting to bear fruit. They are trying to play one “class” of people or minority group against society like the article today about the inequities in inome between the rich CEO’s and the “working man” Their continued failure to enforce the immigration laws to get illegals to vote for them is also bearing poisonous fruit. These illegals have absolutely nothing to lose. The last SIX Houston area Police Officers were all killed by illegal immigrants, but since Houston is a Sanctuary City” there will be more. If we do not get the lawless Obama Regime out of office, this is only the beginning.
Sorry Roystoll2 – But even though I like the Tea Party; they will be unsuccessful in saving our Great Republic. But they will do some good. And they will only be partially successful because the power of the Internatinal Bankers/Illuminati kingpins who rule the whole world. They have had 200 plus years; in their Luciferic assault on the world. And they have assasinated Presidents; and also shot and poisoned Presidents and Prime Ministers; who wouldn’t obey them. But in the very near future; they will demand that the whole world take their zombie making and mind controlling mark of the beast chip in their foreheads or hands. And this RFID chip will change your mind; and make its recipients their brainless zombie slaves. But if you take their Mark (chip)you will forever be cursed by God in hell, 24/7, because it will mean that you have joined and sided with Satan and his antichrist beast leader; and their Satanic leaders; according to Revelation 14:9-11 and Revelation 13.
The Tea Party Movement was formed to get the corruption out of our government and it is working. You have got to enforce each and every law to the letter such as the immigration law that has been on the books since 1952. Build more prisons and do away with this “Racial Profiling” crap! It is just a get out of jail free card. The student loan incident; it is against the law to put someone in jail for debt, so what gives? From the FBI: Black males age 14-35 committ 56.6% of ALL violent crime in America while they compromise less than 3.5% of the population. This is a problem and the charge of “racial profiling” is adding to it. If someone in that group is dressed like a thug, stop and frisk. If a person in that group is well-dressed and clean shaven, he is not your problem. It is not a racial problem. It is a problem we ALL have to address. A little common sense will help.
If the Tea Party folks REALLY want to get ‘corruption out of our government’ (and it’s NOT working, by the way), then they’d want FEWER prisons and more money put in schools.
It costs more to imprison someone is about $30,000 versus $15,000 to educate a child from K-12.
The cost to build the ‘average’ prison in Pennsylvania, for instance, is about $200 million. The cost to build the average elementary school in Pennsylvania is about $32 million, and high school about $90 million.
As you can see, you save money concentrating on EDUCATION of all children than imprisoning adults.
ALso, black men (and Hispanic men) are arrested at a higher rate than white men. They are also given longer sentences for the similar crimes. As a white person, this should really trouble you, not for the unfairness to minority men (most are criminals), but because white victims of crime are 90% + victimized by ANOTHER WHITE PERSON.
90%+ of black people victimized by crime are victimized by black people. criminals most often simply don’t leave ‘the hood’.
If black men that ‘look like thugs’ should be ‘racially profiled’, then white men who are between 18-45, live alone or with their mothers, can’t get along with women should also be racially profiled, since they are the most likely serial killers and next domestic terrorist.
Nonsense.
What the Tea Party ought to do is demand the progressives be kicked out of education AND prisons. Then we could start to clean up the philosophical mess. Then we wouldn’t need so many of either one.
We don’t need to be building anything until we can pay for it.
Yes! we have the highest rate of prisoners of any western nations (we passed the Soviet UNION under Reagan: check statistics!)
We also have the highest crime rate of industrialized NATIONS MOST American don’t even know that fact because it’s NOT what our media tell us daily is it?
SO: Putting people in jail does NOT make us safe, neither is the cruel and non-Christian death penalty…
“If a person in that group is well-dressed and clean shaven, he is not your problem”..;.HMM ? Kissinger; Rothschild; ROCKEFELLER; MONSANTO EXECUTIVES; NIXON; BILLDERBURG; CLINTON; shall I keep going? Dress code means nothing.. Jesus walked AND dressed as a poor man. HMMMMM…
The baby boom generation, my generation, the “me” generation, has ruined this country by inserting the “me” way of thinking into every aspect of our lives. This had led to widespread unabashed greed, the breakdown of the nuclear family, the degradation of our environment. Everything is about “me” first and the hell with everyone else. The most powerful “me”‘s have formed the corporations which exist only for the expansion of themselves. They buy the politicians (more often Republican than Democrat) so that the laws will work to perpetuate the corporate power. They buy the media to influence people to want what they are selling and to vote against the people’s own self interest. As a famous Nazi general once said something like this….If you tell a big enough lie often enough, people will believe it’s the truth. They use technology to numb us and our children’s minds. They want to privatize everything so they can control the people in every aspect of their lives. They promote a pro life stance so that there will be more people to go out and buy their worthless products. They want to privatize schools so that they can control the future generations for their own corporate ends. Why do you think that most kids today know more about Lady GAGA than they do about any of the Presidents. The US ran well when we weren’t owned by mega corporations. It worked when we had mom & pop stores and bought local. It worked when people weren’t so stressed out because they have to work 60 hours a week just to make enough money to buy more of everything that they don’t really need. Kids are becoming violent and misbehaved because their parents are too busy to pay attention to them so the corporate messages on TV end up doing the parenting. The last Depression happened because of old corporate “robberbarons” which left nothing for the people. The megacorporations are today’s “robberbarons”. So don’t blame the government for all your troubles, blame the corporations that control the government. And ask yourself who the corporations promote more..Republicans or Democrats? The answer should be pretty evident.
Linda, this has nothing to do with the baby boomer me generation. Their only crime is that they are so focussed on themselves; that they can’t see how the International Bankers/Illuminati kingpins are stealing the wealth of America. They are so self-absorbed; that they can’t tell that the robber barons mentioned above will bankrupt the nation and will continue to have their One World Luciferic Government that will enslave us all. But when you take Jesus as your Lord and Saviour; you will be somewhat protected from these wicked monsters. At least until they demand that you take their Mark of the beast chip in your forehead or hand. And according to Revelation 13 & 14:9-11, if you take their zombie making and mind controlling, Mark (chip), you will be tormented in hell, 24/7, forever and ever. Why? Because taking the Mark will mean that you have sided with and joined Satan and his antichrist beast leader and leaders. But if you reject the Mark (chip) and be a martyre; you will be given the renovated and beautified Earth; and live like a goddesss forever and ever!!
Linda: regarding your comment “The last Depression happened because of old corporate “robberbarons” which left nothing for the people.”
That is not true. The Stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were caused by Central Bank monetary polices.
“When business in the United States underwent a mild contraction in 1927, the Federal Reserve created more paper reserves in the hope of forestalling any possible bank reserve shortage. More disastrous, however, was the Federal Reserve’s attempt to assist Great Britain who had been losing gold to us because the Bank of England refused to allow interest rates to rise when market forces dictated (it
was politically unpalatable). The reasoning of the authorities involved was as follows: if the Federal Reserve pumped excessive paper reserves into American banks, interest rates in the United States would fall to a level comparable with those in Great Britain; this would act to
stop Britain’s gold loss and avoid the political
embarrassment of having to raise interest rates.”
“The “Fed” succeeded: it stopped the gold loss, but it nearly destroyed the economies of the world in the process. The excess credit which the Fed pumped into the economy spilled over into the stock market-triggering a fantastic
speculative boom. Belatedly, Federal Reserve officials attempted to sop up the excess reserves and finally succeeded in braking the boom. But it was too late: by 1929 the speculative imbalances had become so overwhelming that the attempt precipitated a sharp retrenching and a consequent demoralizing of business confidence. Great Britain fared even worse, and rather than absorb the full
consequences of her previous folly, she abandoned the gold standard completely in 1931, tearing asunder what remained of the fabric of confidence and inducing a world-wide series
of bank failures. The world economies plunged into the Great Depression of the 1930′s.”
- Former Federal Reserve Chariman Alan Greenspan, 1966.
“As everyone here knows, in their “Monetary History” Friedman and Schwartz made the case that the economic collapse of 1929-33 was the product of the nation’s monetary mechanism gone wrong……
In short, according to Friedman and Schwartz, because of institutional changes and misguided doctrines, the banking panics of the Great Contraction were much more severe and widespread than would have normally occurred during a downturn…….
Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry.”
- Current Federal Reserve Chairman Chairman Ben Bernanke, Nov. 8, 2002
Absolutely! We need to get rid of the Federal Reserve. Some time ago, I saw a video of a guy associated with Mises Institute who was very persuasive in showing that the Federal Reserve did more damage when it tried to “fix things” than if it did nothing.
Linda, regarding your comment “They want to privatize schools so that they can control the future generations for their own corporate ends.”
America, as conceived by the Founding Fathers, lasted about a century…The turning point was the massive importation of German philosophy in the period after the Civil War…The philosophical pragmatists in the 1880s and
’90s were pioneering the method of eroding the nation’s founding ideas…..For the most part, the leading spirits of the Progressive era were men who had been students here or abroad in the 1880s or ’90s. They were the voices of the
First American generation to be reared in college on the new collectivist theories; they were men trained to the conviction that an increase in the power of the state is the
solution to most of mankinds problems…..
From Emerson to Dewey [John Dewey, father of the modern American public education system, rf] and even later, they sought to accept the conclusions of Kant…They began to drop the made-in-America masks. What showed up was the made-in-Germany essence. The men and women growing up in the 1920s and ’30s, the first large scale group of Americans to be reared in Progressive schools, had been rendered incapable of offering their future children any intellectual guidance. As it happened, their children, growing up in the postwar years, were the first generation to be exposed to the new irrationalist trend. These children became the rebels of the sixties…
– From The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff, c1982
Rick I cannot let you say this:
” The men and women growing up in the 1920s and ’30s, the first large scale group of Americans to be reared in Progressive schools, had been rendered incapable of offering their future children any intellectual guidance”
IF this were true parents in public schools all around the Western world would be incapable of raising their children properly and I challenge you to prove that parents educated in private schools (most of them of wealthy families of course) give a better future (less crime better careers) than those raised in public schools
SO I have been reading all these comments and some I agree with and others – not so much. But the basic common thread here is that we all agree that we have been used, abused, lied to and manipulated by our corporately owned and operated Government with the Federal Reserve Bank as the big cheese who started it all 100 years ago. So what exactly is wrong with the population of this country? Are we too stupid, too lazy? too afraid? Why can’t we stand together and make the significant and lasting changes we all want? IS it just that we lack a leader with enough charisma to pull us together? Would that even work or are we just too lazy to get it done? I hear this call to action from so many people day after day. Why doesn’t it happen? The only thing that makes sense is Fear and that’s just plain sad. So instead we sit in front of our tv’s and accept the slavery we are sold each day and hope that it won’t get any worse…
The kids won’t accept it for much longer, they will bring about the changes we are afraid to make. That is what you need to prepare for. The wrath of the children we have promised the sun, moon and stars to but have delivered nothing but poverty, slavery and fear.
This nation would have never survived the Depression if the people in the 1930′s had today’s current narcissistic, “me” attitude. Thank goodness people back then had a caring and sharing attitude. I hope and pray we can get that same attitude back today. But I doubt it.
What we need is something like the Black Death. The Black Death actually improved living conditions for peasants because the value of their labor skyrocketed.
The U.S. has NEVER been more civilized that it is today.
People didn’t always ‘care about each other’. Black people were enslaved until the mid 19th century, and lived under idiotic Jim Crow laws in the south, and faced prejudice and exclusion in the North.
Native Americans had their land stolen, and were almost completed killed off.
In states like Texas, along with Black people, Mexican Americans were lynched and driven off their property.
In many states, Black towns and areas were habitually attacked and burned down, and many Black Americans were killed in ‘race riots’.
Asians in the Northwest were often driven from their property, given only a few hours to pack whatever they could put on their backs.
Hell, even poor whites until the beginning of the 18th century were sent to ‘debtor’s prisons’ if they couldn’t pay their bills.
In short, it is fantasy weaving to say ‘America is going to hell’, because they said that in the 1960s, during the depression, at the end of the 19th century and during the Civil War. Everybody thinks THEIR time is the worst.
Realist… thanks for your common sense. This dialogue was becoming quite depressing as hate and disillusion is more prevalant than I wished to acknowledge. “Sheeple” have been dumbed down to the extent that they REALLY believe that political interest,an election, religious and educational institutions really give a damn about them. Black v. white, rich v. poor, urban v. suburban and all of the polarities prostituted as real – have become real for many responding to this post. How sad. NEWSFLASH: To the 1% that run the world stage – you are bottom feeders – useless eaters. Until you guys who are Walking Dead, wake the f*&$# up, “their” plan for you will remain propped up a bit longer. BTW to the dumbass that made the statement about white kids adopting the ways of black kids- don’t let me open a can of whip ass and take him back to the time that Europeans were taught to bathe… by people of color. Just keeping it real. But no one wants real talk. REALLY.
You guys can never see history back before the end of World War 2, can you?
We had a secular culture in the 1920′s as well.
Do not ascribe to God what can be more easily explained by the fact that we won World War 2, were the only unscathed country to do so, had a shit load of manufacturing capacity and Texas oil, and won word reserve currency status thanks to the fall of the Pound Sterling.
The period from 1945 to 1965 is not “the history of this country” in its entirety.
Go the F*K to sleep is a book for adults.
Now more than ever we need to prepare ourselves to be self-reliant. Do not look to the government for your needs. A great starting place is to have food reserves. You can get free food by taking “Food Freedom Tour”. http://baboon.myefoods.com/ All you pay is shipping and you will receive two – four serving soups and one – four serving entree. The food requires water and heat to prepare. Great for times of emergency, camping trips and every day use. Plus it is quite tasty.
Wow, this is amazingly definitive proof you have of our moral and economic collapse. A guy beats up his boss? Some people were run over? Very convincing items!
Exactly what time period do you want to return to that was so pure? Give me a specific date range and I’ll see what atrocities I can turn up from that period.
Do you realize that one of the main reasons things can seem more perverse in our current period is that there is more news coverage and a quicker news cycle?
Oh Zach oh haughty one.
Wombat, is that you out of New Mexico?
The economic collapse is partly due to the fact that American women have been too busy involved with their own work and careers and earning a pay check like men do, and so neglected their children over a long period of time. This is not only sinful behavior (because God doesn’t like it) it is also detrimental to the economy and the social structure in the long run.
We are now at a point in the long run where the socio-economic structure has reached a point of no return. The massive damage done is leading to the breakdown we are witnessing now. American women can continue to behave like sluts, but everything has consequences…and the personal consequences that they’ll bear in the coming days will be horrific. Nature has its own ways of correcting things.
If American women do not realize what their God given duties and responsibilities are, then economic collapse is the only way out to teach them a good lesson in economics and social behavior.
Great blog you have, Sir. My hat is off to you for what you are doing, for the information provided.
I just posted this article on my blog and gave you full credit, of course, at the bottom with a link directly to your article.
I am a truth seeker myself and try to spread blogs, websites, videos about the reality we are living all over the net, to inform and educate people.
I appreciate what you do and thank you so much for it.
Health, love and prosperity to all.
Thanks so much to you and to all who help to spread this information. I hope that everyone will take these articles and spread them as widely as possible.
Michael
Excellent info from Mark Lanz in print form.Here’some evidence and video format info for those who are still skeptical that we are living in “the last days”.
The bible says that will out faith it is impossible to please God. Even in our modern society you can not function without faith. How do you know going down a highway with only a yellow line separating you from on coming traffic that they will not hit you and kill you? How do you even know the chair you sit down in will not collapse under your weight. Every decision you make requires some faith. What is reasonable for you in terms of accepting God, that he is, he exists and does have a say in your future destiny? If you seek him earnestly with an open heart and mind you will find him that is a promise in the bible.
Please check out these 2 direct links for evidence and info that will prove to you it is reasonable to assume God does indeed exist and has communicated to mankind through the life and death and Resurrection of his son Jesus Christ. The last direct link will take you to youtube site that provide information on End times prophesy (the days we are living in now).
http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/myredeemer/Evidence.html
Josh McDowell’s book Evidence that demands a verdict.
http://www.youtube.com/user/farsider1975#p/a/u/0/a8SubDZuVw8
Farside1975 bible prophesy and end times videos based on what the bible predicts for the “last days”
I love all the finger pointing…liberals blame overbearing religious conservatives, conservatives blame welfare minded commie liberals.
What a joke. The closest anyone has come to describing our demise is the destruction of the family unit. For without constant rearing by parents, all children are bound to fail.
I laugh daily at these two “opponents” because Congress has made it into a manipulative game.
Divide and conquer is the strategy.
How many religious faithful thank the lord by serving despondent communities once a month. You rail on about their terrible habits, but you shelter yourself instead of spreading the lord’s word to those that need it most.
The same for liberals. It is clear that Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, and North Korea failed at spreading the wealth. Adam Smith has a book for you, it is called the Wealth of Nations
ZBK,
You sound like a fanatical Muslim. In fact, where’s your religious towel. Women do not believe in slavery. Duties eh? So GOD ordained that Eve raise Cain and Abel. How did that work out?
Keep that religious crap in your community. Others know GOD is far more advanced than some ancient doctrine. Read Genesis again…it reveals far more than the history of the Hebrews. Even the Hebrews know that (or are you anti Semetic also?).
THIS IS NOTHING. JUST WAIT UNTILL THE GUNS COME OUT……….ONCE IT GETS STARTED IT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP IT. THATS WHEN THE PRESIDENT WILL CALL IN THE UNITED NATIONS TROUPS AND PUT THE COUNTRY UNDER MARSHALL LAW AND THEN THERE WILL BE NO ELECTIONS OR FEDERAL HELP ALONG WITH FEDERAL BANKS CLOSING. IT IS ONLY THE SIGNS OF DISTRESS AS WE ENTER THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.
ZACHARIAH NEAR THE END OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SAYS THAT THE PEOPLE WILL BE STANDING UPON THEIR FEET WHILE THEIR EYEBALLS AND TONGUES ROT OUT OF THEIR MOUTH AND SOCKET WHILE THEY YET ARE STANDING UPON THEIR FEET. THATS NUCLEAR RADIATION TO ME. IT’S CALLED THE COBALT BOMB OR RICH MANS BOMB BECAUSE IT DOES NOT DESTROY INANIMATE OBJECTS ONLY THAT WITH MOISTURE IN IT. NUKES MUST BE GETTING CLOSE. 9=11 WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHATS AHEAD. signed korean vet. mpls minn
Well may be if the US stops invading other countries and spending billions to bombing “democracy” on others the US citizens would see some prosperity.
I think it is not so much the economic collapse as the collapse of an ethical nature. Profit at all cost, extreme hedonism, cut throat capitalism degraded the US to a sub-society level. US media propagates gangster life style 24/7. The US will be the next USSR, but the process of collapse will be worse.
I hear lots of noises about cutting government spending. OK. Let’s do it, and we should start from the salary of our the members of congress and senate. Their overage salary is around $150,000.00. How about to cut their salary by half? How about cutting their insurance cost? Another huge saving. They should start cut their salary first.
Eliminate all kind of corporate lobby. Bankers and CEOs of corporations should not have salary higher than our president. Period.
All monster oil corporations should be splitted back to small ones, as we had 25-30 years ago. Here are so many jobes for people.
Forget all that religious stuff. It’s all nonsense, since it is manmade. The Bible is not the word of God or The Creator. It is a work of men. Ignorant, tribal people have used “religion” for justifying the worst acts that have ever been visited on human beings. It’s time to let all superstition go the way of the dinosaur. The world would be far better off without it. Think for yourself.
In terms of the global economy, it’s toast because the crap is baked in the cake. All debt based currency systems eventually collapse.
Do we know what is on the horizon? Not yet, but it won’t be pretty. Societal collapses have occurred throughout human history and people do survive. We can only hope that we will be able to once again rebuild after the hooligans, crappy politicians and central bankers have wrecked the remnants of what was an incredible experiment; The American Experiment.
Perhaps it is time for a great cleansing of the corruption, greed and stupidity that has dominated our country for decades. Sorry, FDR, there never has been a free lunch. Sorry, President Wilson, you can’t create money out of nothing! Sorry, President Obama, you can’t run up trillions in debt and expect to have a future as an intact nation.
It seems to me that the only way to rebuild this society is to allow the government systems in place today to completely collapse. Then we should break up the Union into smaller countries that would compete against each other for resources both natural and human talent. Get rid of the mega nation state and give it the heave-ho! A smaller state would force a new system to be much more responsive to the needs and wants of the populace, governed by the US Constitution as the Founders intended. This system is simply out of control and it is not sustainable. The question is will we allow the present form to be dismantled in an organized manner or will we allow it to consume itself? A nationwide default would be a good idea as we would hose the Chinese real good and they’d be stuck with file cabinets of useless paper.
“The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good. The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any that act wisely, that seek after God. They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt; there is none that does good, no, not one.” Psalm 14:1-3.
“I will not eat green eggs and ham. I will not eat them, Sam I am.” – Dr. Seuss
Quoting a made-up book is just going to result in me quoting another fictional story.
Do a little research on the Bible for yourself (not the kool-aid served up by the History channel) and you will find that the Bible is accurate to a fault on matters of history, science, and prophecy (predicted future events at time of writing). You can call it “religion” if you like, but the american religion of evolution/psychology has no logical foundation. An self-caused explosion does not adequately or logically explain intelligent life. The universe cannot be it’s own cause, because it would have to exist and not exist at the same time and in the same relationship. The only thing that makes sense is that the universe was created by an eternal being who exhibits the characteristics that we have (giving our charateristics a logical source).
Evolution/psychology is the foundational belief system driving our total and complete collapse as a nation. It has been used to totally destroy the family by forcing women to voluntarily seek employment (leaving the children to be raised by strangers and public indoctrination centers) and completely undermining all parental authority. Evolution is not science, having never been observed or repeated, and unable to be tested–and psychology is nothing but man’s opinion about man. Both are labelled “science” to dupe the masses into accepting them as more intelligent beliefs than “religion,” which is painted as an irrational belief system. The result is total moral breakdown. The book of Romans predicts this slippery slope in chapter 1 verses 18-32; beginning with the refusal to believe in God despite it being quite plain, continuing with a belief and worship of creatures (evolution/ pagan nature worship), and resulting in total moral breakdown (rampant homosexuality, disobedience to parents, no natural affection).
Hello! I’ve been following your website for some time now and finally got the bravery to go ahead and give you a shout out from Porter Tx! Just wanted to say keep up the excellent work!
Thank you!
Texas is great – I have got to get back down there one of these days.
I have never been to Porter though – is it a nice town?
Michael
This is ridiculous. Citing a bunch of random crimes does not mean they are signs of a collapse in society. At any given moment in the history of the United States could a list like this have been compiled. Using a list of crimes to demonstrate this is a logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Take, specifically, the popular parody book Go the F*k to Sleep. How is a man writing a satirical children’s book a sign of a deteriorating society? Satire has been around for centuries.
I do disability claims, used to do social security and Medicaid, now just Medicaid….just got an illegal alien case today that I have to work on and likely, based on issues, will approve a 20 yr old illegal alien! If politicians really wanted to do something, they would cut that out. Normal people finding out about that sort of thing, but do little to demand change. Plus, Medicaid is open to people now that work full time. So, Govt money and insurance going to pay for bills in medical facilities largely owned or dependant on Govt money-robbing Peter to pay Paul.BTW, when a social security number starts with 990, means illegal alien that your Govt has created out of thin air for them to use..
QUESTION:
Please give me your opinions on the following question.
If the U.S. currency is about to collapse, is it better to spend everything you have now on food and supplies, etc. and even rack up more debt now to purchase these items? If nobody can pay their bills because the currency has collapsed to worthlessness it may seem better to go into debt now b/c that money will not have to be paid back. Also, why pay off debt now if society may totally collapse. Perhaps it it is better to buy food and ammo with your money now. Or will the government convert those old dollar denominated debts over to the new currency? Please advise.
All you said in the article is very true. day by day the disturbance in society is growing up and up and that,s why economy status is also going to collapse.the 18 signs you mentioned are really true.specially the last one of “mob robbing”.
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