In order for a society to function, there has to be a certain level of trust. Each day when we leave our homes, we take for granted that most people are not going to attack us for no reason, that there will only be isolated incidents of theft in our community and that rioting and violence are not going to erupt in the streets. Whether we realize it or not, we depend on the fact that the vast majority of the people around us are going to act in a civilized manner. Unfortunately, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is starting to disappear. When I was growing up, I was taught that challenging times reveal our true character. There are many that believe that the declining economy is causing a lot of the chaos that we are now witnessing, but perhaps what is going on is that these challenging economic times are simply revealing the character that has been there all along. For decades, a "false prosperity" that was fueled by unprecedented amounts of debt has masked a lot of the internal rot that has taken hold in America. But now that our prosperity is crumbling, our lack of values is becoming startlingly clear.
Greed, corruption and extreme self-centeredness have deeply infected our society. We see this on Wall Street and in Congress, and we see this among those that are trying to survive on the mean streets of our largest cities.
Our nation is breaking down on every level. If by some miracle we were able to fix our economy, that would mask our problems for a while, but it would not solve them.
Unfortunately, as I write about nearly every day, there are a whole host of indications that our economy is about to get even worse. When it does, millions of Americans will become even more desperate, and as we are now seeing all over this country, desperate people do desperate things.
The following are 22 signs that the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is starting to disappear....
#1 In Detroit, 100 bus drivers recently refused to drive their routes out of fear for their own personal safety. An article posted on the website of the CBS affiliate in Detroit is quoting the head of the bus drivers union, Henry Gaffney, as saying that the drivers are "scared for their lives"....
“Our drivers are scared, they’re scared for their lives. This has been an ongoing situation about security. I think yesterday kind of just topped it off, when one of my drivers was beat up by some teenagers down in the middle of Rosa Parks and it took the police almost 30 minutes to get there, in downtown Detroit,” said Gaffney.
#2 In Wilmington, Delaware recently, a man offered to help someone carry a television down the street, but quickly realized that it was his own television which had just been stolen out of his house....
A Wilmington resident who stopped home for lunch about noon today saw a man carrying a flat screen TV down the street and asked the man if he needed help.
He then recognized the television as his own, looked up and saw the door to his home ajar, said Master Sgt. Adam Ringle.
#3 Shocking video has surfaced of a young thug walking up to a defenseless elderly man in a Chicago subway station and knocking him out cold. In the video, the friends of the young man are cheering him on and laughing at how easy it was to knock the old man out cold.
#4 Beating up old people for no reason seems to be catching on all over the country. Just check out the following report from a recent article posted on philly.com....
AN 84-YEAR-OLD ex-university official savagely attacked by four young punks during a walk in Wissahickon Valley Park earlier this week theorizes that the beating he endured was a cruel game of "get the old geezer."
Jim Shea, a former vice president of university relations for Temple, from 1968 to 1983, walks up to five miles on Forbidden Drive, in Fairmount Park, three times a week, but that type of stamina wasn't enough to stave off the lowlifes who not only beat him bloody, but dealt a blow to one of the things he holds most dear - his pride.
#5 All over the United States, police are brutalizing Occupy Wall Street protesters and spraying pepper spray directly in their faces. Whatever you may think of the Occupy Wall Street protests, the reality is that this is not a sign that things are becoming "more stable" in America. You can see video of one very disturbing confrontation right here.
#6 Clashes between police and protesters in Oakland, California recently became so violent that at one point the streets of Oakland resembled a war zone.
#7 Unfortunately, as the American people become increasingly frustrated with out system many of them are actually starting to consider violence as a solution. According to one recent survey, 31 percent of all Occupy Wall Street protesters "would support violence to advance their agenda".
#8 In New York recently, a confrontation between two female customers and a frustrated cashier ended with the cashier beating the living daylights out of them with a metal rod. The following is how a local CBS affiliate in New York described this incident....
It appeared to have started when two female customers argued and yelled obscenities at the cashier when he questioned a $50 bill they gave him.
One of the female customers then slapped the cashier. A woman is then seen jumping over the counter while the other woman goes behind the register.
That’s when the cashier can be seen on the video disappearing into the back of the fast-food restaurant. He comes back with a metal rod and begins hitting the women.
You can see video of this violent confrontation right here.
#9 These days, many Americans are so "on edge" that just about anything will make them snap. For example, a 60-year-old woman in New Mexico recently repeatedly stabbed her boyfriend because she thought that he was cheating during a game of Monopoly.
#10 If you thought that the above example was crazy, just check out what one man down in Georgia did recently. He actually firebombed a Taco Bell because they did not put enough meat in his Chalupa.
#11 In Cleveland last week, a 49-year-old man was sent to the hospital after a poll monitor working for the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections tried to bite his nose off.
#12 Not only do TSA agents make us feel like dehumanized cattle as we go through airport security, some of them are evening making fun of us at the same time. For example, one TSA agent recently scribbled “GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL” on a TSA inspection notice after discovering a sex toy in the luggage of one female traveler.
#13 Identity theft is rising to very alarming levels all over the United States. For example, a recent article in the Palm Beach Post described what has been going on down in Florida this year....
In the first half of this year, the Federal Trade Commission received more than 20,000 complaints from Floridians whose identities had been stolen -- nearly as many as in all of 2010. More than half of those reporting their Social Security numbers or other personal information had been ripped off and used to commit fraud or theft were in South Florida, with heavy concentrations in parts of Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood and Hallandale Beach.
"That kind of increase is really shocking,'' said Vance Luce, deputy special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service in South Florida, which investigates identity theft and financial crimes. "The fact that it's on the upturn doesn't surprise me at all, but that's pretty alarming.''
#14 In the Seattle area, an elderly couple in their eighties was recently brutally attacked by a 31-year-old man armed with a crossbow and a hatchet. The following description of this brutal crime comes from King 5 News....
Prosecutors say 31-year-old John Chase was walking down the highway when he saw Ralph Aldrich, 88, in his back yard. Detectives say Chase shot and killed Aldrich with a crossbow and then went inside the home and repeatedly hit 83-year-old June Aldrich with a hatchet.
#15 As America falls apart, more of us than ever are taking medication for depression. At this point, more than 1 out of every 10 Americans over the age of 12 is taking prescription antidepressants.
#16 In some areas of the country, people have been literally tearing apart their own cities in an attempt to find things to sell. I recently discussed this phenomenon on The American Dream Blog....
In Fresno, California the damage caused by thieves stealing copper wire from city street lights is costing the city about $50,000 a month. So far, about 2,500 street lights have been stripped of their wiring.
#17 As people become more desperate, we are starting to see some truly bizarre crimes in many parts of the nation. In northern Alabama, one team of crooks has been using a forklift to pull entire ATM machines out of the ground.
#18 Most Americans don't realize this, but all over the U.S. livestock is being stolen from ranchers in unprecedented numbers. The following is from a recent Associated Press article....
While the brazenness may be unusual, the theft isn't. High beef prices have made cattle attractive as a quick score for people struggling in the sluggish economy, and other livestock are being taken too. Six thousand lambs were stolen from a feedlot in Texas, and nearly 1,000 hogs have been stolen in recent weeks from farms in Iowa and Minnesota. The thefts add up to millions of dollars in losses for U.S. ranches.
Authorities say today's thieves are sophisticated compared to the horseback bandits of the rugged Old West. They pull up livestock trailers in the middle of the night and know how to coax the animals inside. Investigators suspect it's then a quick trip across state lines to sell the animals at auction barns.
#19 At this point, thieves are becoming so bold that they will steal literally anything that they are able to cart away. For example, in the San Francisco area a while back thieves actually stole a copper bell that weighs 2.7 tons.
#20 According to the FBI, the number of gang members in the United States has increased by a staggering 40 percent since 2009. Right now, there are 1.4 million gang members terrorizing citizens on the streets of America.
#21 Down in Miami, thieves have become so bold that they have actually been breaking into parked police cruisers and stealing guns and ammo out of them. Many of those guns undoubtedly are ending up in the hands of gangs members.
#22 Be careful who you befriend online. They might just hold you captive and use you as part of a Satanic sex ritual. The following description of an incident that recently happened in Milwaukee comes from thesmokinggun.com....
Two young Milwaukee women were arrested this week after an 18-year-old Arizona man--who traveled to Wisconsin by bus after meeting one of the suspects online--told cops that he was held captive in the duo’s apartment for two days and slashed and stabbed more than 300 times as part of an apparent satanic sex ritual.
Anger and frustration are growing to unprecedented levels in this country, and all of this anger and frustration is manifesting in thousands of different ways.
As I have written about previously, the rioting, the crime and the violence that we are seeing now is only just the beginning of what is coming.
Unless a miracle happens, our country is going to keep heading down the road toward societal collapse. For even more examples that show that our country is starting to come apart at the seams, please see the following articles that I have authored previously....
-"18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating"
-"12 More Signs That Society Is Collapsing"
It won't happen all at once, but unless our nation changes direction dramatically, we will see things get progressively worse and worse.
Instead of teaching our children to love and care for one another, we have taught them to be incredibly self-involved. Today, way too many Americans deeply love themselves, deeply love money and are deeply addicted to entertainment. Each new generation seems to be even more prideful, even more arrogant and even more violent. As a nation, we are losing our empathy for others, our compassion for the needy and our respect for the elderly. Our family units are breaking down and thousands of our communities are being transformed into hellholes.
What in the world is happening to America?
If you have a thought on this topic, please feel free to share your opinion by leaving a comment below....
Vandals have stolen a copper sword from the top of Lincoln’s tomb in the past week. No honor.
Dishonest Abe, America’s first fascist, deserves no respect.
True. Murikans have a disturbing history of idolizing their politicians (and their film stars, athletes and so on). This is one their weirdest and most significant traits that render them ridiculous in the eyes of the world.
Where else on earth does voting in another bunch of criminals, uhm, I mean politicians take as long?
And where else on earth does the population go into some sort of delirium when one or the other wing of the same bird gets elected?
Murikans are as stupid as they are dangerous. It’s a scary combination.
Regards,
b
Concerning your comment about Lincoln, your head must be so far up your a$$ that you need a plexiglas-glass bellybutton just to see the light of day.
The left wing loons are running the show and these are the ill effects of their policies. What a shame.
Brings to mind an old addage:
“When leaders are corrupt, violence increases.”
And I guess the longer corruption is tolerated, the more violent people become.
A decade of teaching people “might is right” in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, and others before.
No accountability for lies, deceit and arrogant disrespect for international law by the US President, that has resulted in genocide of millions.
You reap what you sow.
You are right, it is a shame.
America/Americans used to be highly respected.
People are starting to wake up and realize that we have to do realy big things.
FIGHT THE CAUSE – NOT THE SYMPTOM
Read “Common Sense 3.1” at ( http://www.revolution2.osixs.org )
*** Free people shouldn’t act or live like slaves ***
Gee, what do all these “signs” have in common? What do these cities have in common? A very left wing, welfare class group of criminals in cities run by the left wing for the welfare class. Is this indicative of the collapse of our society or just more of the same from the criminal class in cities ruled by corrupt politicians?
Blah blah blah, blame the left wing, blame the “welfare class”—typical right wing reasoning. Tell me, is it the “left wing” that run Wall st.? is it the “left wing” that run congress and mainstream political discourse? is it the welfare class, the poor, the vulnerable that dictate policy? no, no and no. I am beginning to realize that people like you are the “useful fools” of the elite who condition you into believing the “left wing” are the problem, when really it is the elite (corporatists) who are the problem.
antistupidity = but full of it…
in 2008 who was the biggest contributor to Barry Obama? It was Wall St with Goldman Sachs leading the way…Nancy Pelosi (while considering legislation concerning Visa) was allowed to buy VISA’s IPO (that was not open to the public) and made $100,000.00 in a day…no no its all right wing conspiracy….The establishment of both parties are two sides of the same coin and you are blind to the corruption on the left, so you are the one who is a useful fool…Both sides are guilty and yet see only boogey men with an (R) after their name…
Have you ever heard the old adage ” you catch more flies with honey that vinegar.” Instead of berating people who you consider in the dark, why don’t you take an extra minute out of your day and educate them. You might help someone see the light instead of making them feel stupid. You could do that unless of course you like being a donkey.
Aside from all the jobless and homeless people, the rest of us are finding that expenses have galloped way beyond our incomes. I spent the last few years complaining about price inflation, including to the media, but almost no one seems to care.
We’re at the point where everybody I know, except for the well off, cannot pay their bills. I have friends who worry if they’ll make it through the winter. I have friends who can’t afford health insurance. I’m told to hurry up and apply for heating assistance because every year there is less and less money for the poor; the rumor is that the agency is so broke I’ll be lucky to get $100–enough for 10 days worth of heat.
Meanwhile, Congress is living it up and is clueless. I also spent several years contacting my legislators, all of whom ignore progressives like me. So what’s left? Bodies in the street!
“progressives like me”
Um, unless your definition is different than the one I know, you and the people you vote for are mostly the problem.
So what’s left? I dunno, try not voting for marxists and those people that would destroy our culture.
What exactly is progressive about social programs that we cannot afford? The real source of our problems are the destructive economic policies of big government (mostly from leftists) which have robbed the dignity and spirit of our population.
This is the natural result of an overgrown government feeding off of 40 years of exporting inflation. More and more we have been taught that we don’t need to work hard for a living. As government grows our society becomes more and more based on fraud, theft, and violence because that’s all government is.
That’s it in a nutshell….
people are losing it. The antidepressant use figure is the most…depressing…well, maybe not, they’re all really bad.
One of the strongest contributing factors to these types of violence is several decades of entertainment that has included violence as an important element. You can’t show people violent, thugish action over and over and expect them never to do anything violent. People are not born knowing how to interact acceptably in social terms, they have to learn how. And entertainment is one of the things that influences people by showing them violent actions which otherwise intelligent people would never resort to if entertainment did not include violence. Also, there is a lot of enthusiasm these days about football and other sports. It is said that sports teaches teamwork, but actually what most team sports instill in their players a sense of hostility and in many cases violence is condoned. So it is no accident America is turning violent. After all, violence is becoming more and more a part of our young people’s daily lives.
Robert
No doubt the violent saturation in the entertainment industry is a significant contributor. There is a host of problems with many having economic roots coupled with a family breakdown. I believe the breakdown in family in and by itself is the predominate cause. The remainder are fuel that intensifies the problems.
Being poor with a strong family unit makes a better person then rich without it.
“Being poor with a strong family unit makes a better person then rich without it.”
Brilliant.
The current collapse basement is the family destruction and the relative values. I live in Argentina and here are really strange the families in which only the father works, independently of the social class.
Children grows up alone and without the love of their parents, with this “seeds” is impossible to think in a healthy society.
along those same lines…we should stop coddling and subsidizing our “single mothers”…what we need to do is sterilize them. We must end the “breeding for dollars” cut off the check and see how fast this problem corrects itself.
You are so right! All forms of Media have desensitized people, so that violence is no longer anathema, as it is to human beings who have not been indoctrinated to accept it.
Half right. Exposure to violence WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES is the problem. Check out a martial arts training dojo that teaches using actual contact. You’ll find some very humble, peaceful people that don’t go around looking for fights.
The problem today is so many young people think that using violence solves everything; that they are invincible; and for the most part they get away with that illusion as there aren’t that many folks around who can (or will)put the hurt on ‘em. A big lie is told by far to many that ‘violence never solves anything’.
And so, we wind up with a society in which far to many believe that violence is to be avoided at all costs, while there is a desperate (and growing) class that believes violence is to be casually used whenever it suits them.
The end of America is coming and the violence is only going to get worse. Train to protect yourselves!
here is how the banker’s game works:
http://aquinums-razor.blogspot.com/2011/11/here-is-how-bankers-game-works.html
It is being said that before 2012 is over anything paper related will become virtually worthless. Everyone must immediately secure physical silver and gold in order to survive what is coming. Greed of governments and corporations have brought this upon us.
The population must begin making the laws by direct popular vote and not through elected political leaders. The government should have no lobbiest interaction as they do now as with Wall stret banks.
Wake up America! Kansas doesn`t exist any longer!
For someone calling themselves Archangel your advice is peculiar…
Jas 5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
So you heap up all the gold you like…me I’ll trust the Lord Jesus and endure.
AFter a horrible flood, a man was holding onto some floating debris in the middle of a large body of water. A man rowed by in his canoe and asked the man to get in. “Jesus will save me”, was the man’s reply. Some time later, the National Guard came through in a bigger boat and insisted he come aboard. “Jesus will save me” the man firmly stated. a couple days later, a helicopter hovered over him and told him this was his last chance as they were abandoning the area. “Jesus will save me”, insisted the man. Two days later, the man died and went to heaven. He asked why Jesus didn’t save him. Jesus replied, “I tried! I sent a row boat, a speed boat, and a helicopter!”
Scott Cowie,I trust only in Christ.You are missing something brother.Silver and gold is Gods money,always has been always will be.
The good old govt told the American people we wont base our money on silver and gold”Gods money”.Instead we will base it on wordly things.We will let the banks decide what our money is worth”CREDIT”.Not one FIAT currency in the world is based on silver or gold!”google it”.
I feel the spirit of truth,or the counselor has shown myself and many others to prepare,to get ready.
Brother how many times in Scripture has God told his people to prepare for bad times.
I believe they were told to do it by the Spirit,It wasnt a lack of faith,but a fulfillment of it.
This is spoken in Love,not in judgement.
May Christ be Praised always! Micah 1:9
Peace to you and your family
“What in the world is happening to America?”
It is called the Fourth Turning. Everything is happening as predicted by the Fourth Turning historians.
The peak of crisis will come by 2015, and a new era will emerge around 2025. It is unstoppable. It is an economic world war 3 and America entered it by bombing itself at ‘Pearl Harbor’.
http://www.fourthturning.com
excellent book!
Actually it’s called the Fourth Thunder and the First Trumpet.
Maybe call me stupid, but never heard of HOG ranching!
Oh,and as the song said:
“Oh, ain’t(sic) that America for you and me,
Ain’t(sic) that America somethin’(sic) to see baby,
Ain’t(sic) that America home of the free,
Little pink houses for you and me.”
Well, there are winners and losers.
America. Largest prison camp (stalag) in the world.
America, the most illiterate, dumbed down society the world has ever encountered.
Peace out!
Uh….where do you think your McRib comes from? Bacon, pork chops, sausage? There are TONS of hog ranches, pig farms, and the like. I guess you think the meat fairy in the back of the Piggly Wiggly summons it up with magic dust?
The decline of civilization. Mankind has not shed the ape. It is a sad time for those amongst us who yearn for something better to be prisoners and casualities to the rest of society during its breakdown.
These are amazing times. Although the collapse will be brutal for most, I believe in the long run we will all be better off. The current system is a joke and we will need to hit rock bottom before all of humanity wakes up.
Totally concur there. The ‘system’ is just a vortex sucking anyone near it into oblivion at this point.
Rather, desperate people without character do desperate things.
Just think so many of these problems would be non issues if there was a more equal distribution of wealth and income.
Yes folks we need to tax the rich and spread the wealth!
Gary2, CSX railroad is hiring. Get an application and start making some big money so the govt. can take it from you and give it to me.
Jake, you are wasting your time on that one. I am sure CSX wants to hire skilled, intelligent people with a work ethic.
What the People Want: Tax Increases for the Rich, No Cuts to Social Security, Medicare Benefits
Political poll-sorry but more people agree with me-tax the rich and spread the wealth.
All SLACKERS agree with you. You are a really fart smeller, Gary!
I will never relocate for a business only to be let go. I have seen this happen time and time again.
Well hopefully your not in Camden NJ.
Of course you must relocate if necessary. My grandparents relocated to a new country.
What the US citizens need is opportunity not handout. There simply is not enough wealth to support their lifestyle forever without new wealth creation. We cannot continue with foreign wealth creation and the US just creating currency to purchase those goods. In order to maintain the Status Quo of US Reserve Currency in the absence of a huge industrial base the US must rely on the use of the Military to threaten (or remove) from power those leaders wishing to sever that relationship.
The problem lay in the trade agreements and deregulation of the finance sector and the solutions are therefore in the reversal of those policies.
I knew it Gary is too lazy to get a job that pays good. He rather stay a lazy liberal crying and stomping his feet like a spoiled liberal crying about men and women who made it on there own hard work. Tax the poor teach them to work for a living.
Gary2
You are a broken record about stealing other people’s money. How can you possibly condone theft, by the .gov or anyone else? Or do you assume that people who have worked all their life, are doing to willing give it to someone else? I’m not. I won’t survive the battle, but neither will some of the others that are sent to steal it from me.
You absolutely amaze me with your thinking. I’m sorry you and your ilk are in this country, I won’t call you an american, you do not deserve the title.
Terry
#15
I think it’s worse than that but I’m going on what I see in my city. I work at a local hospital and I’ve seen kids as young as 7 on multiple psyc meds. Wellbutrin, Prozac, Adderal-all at the same time. The fear among my co-workers is the drug shortage we are experiencing. Some of these patients are truly psychotic. What happens when the no longer get their meds?
If America continues on the path that it is right now, where do you think we will be in a few years? Is this slow and gradual? or do certain events spur on a sudden decline in behavior like this?
It will be both gradual and sudden. The gradual stuff grinds you down, inflation, higher taxes, lack of infrastructure maintenance. Then you get sudden impacts, like a health related problem, default on mortgage and you drop several notches in the standard of living.
The trend can be reversed very quickly, it mostly depends on the type of military dictatorship that gets imposed. If the military is corrupt I suggest vacating the country.
This kind of stuff has been happening for centuries. Sure it is sad and disgusting, but it can not all be attributed to a change in culture or economy.
The amount of reporters and media outlets that exist now is tremendous. Anyone can be a reporter now a days and that is why there seems to be an increase in this kind of behavior. Not to mention that our population (the US and the worlds) has exploded since the early 1900′s
A good amount of digging and you will be able to find stories similar to the ones mentioned above that happened a century ago.
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I am sorry that I have to read this story on the old man but maybe it’s for the best to know.
I think that we are all part of the problem in that we don’t care for one another and we have all sorts of reasons to not care.
I did this walking home from the library today just because. I am no better.
This is why I want to leave the United States.
I really more and more don’t recognize my country.
In a nutshell, the elite ‘New World Order’ (rulers) got into bed with the banking and financial sectors, who then got into bed with the governments of the world, who then got into bed with senior political figures, who then told us, the taxpayers, that all your money will now have to be used to bail them out or face economic collapse. In sum, its financial terrorism, New World Order tyranny, waging war on nations and humanity for profit and power. If central bankers start all the wars, are veterans heroes, or mercenaries and dupes? The evil of world war, plus a global economic crisis and a world plague will devastate and ruin our societies. And that is the point.All this has been planned by the sociopathic and evil ruling elite that hijacked America. They want terror, a global war, a global economic crisis, a global plague, and total global chaos, so they can offer their global government as a solution to these catastrophes. Occupy Wall Street is controlled and coopted by the bankers. That’s why they are all screaming for socialism (communism) which is exactly what the bankers are planning for the peasants in the NWO. In the process, they are bringing all nations into a state of poverty, war, fear, and slavery.Every veteran and soldier assaulted on the front lines of the global protests against the 1% and their enablers, awakens a greater rage in the hearts of their fellows, who already know how little remains on the table for them, regardless of their sacrifice. Every member of the police, who is not completely compromised by the lies and their own surfaced brutality and self interest, is being awakened to the nature of the Draconian laws they are being compelled to enforce. We hold these truths to be ‘self’ evident because that is what is revealing them. They don’t hate us because of our freedoms, they hate us because every day we are funding and committing crimes against humanity. The so-called War on Terror is a cover for our military aggression to gain control of the resources of Western Asia. This is sending the poor of this country to kill the poor of those Muslim countries. This is trading blood for oil, this is genocide and for most of the world we ARE the Terrorists. The minute we fell for 9/11 we signed our doom. There are so many examples of the establishment media’s censorship of fundamental issues. The truth is regarded as the enemy by journalists, editors, and “news” executives. The Oklahoma City Bombing and the September 11 attacks proved that the American people are sacrificial pawns in the global war against all nations that is being waged secretly by the new world order traitors. No American is safe from the evil of the hijacked federal government and its master, the international banking empire. Every human being is threatened by the demons in Washington and their comrades in Israel and England. The next inside job in America may be a Nuclear 9/11. Hundreds of thousands of Americans may get incinerated by the evil terrorists in Washington and Israel to help gain public support for the coming wars against Iran and Pakistan. America does not have an economy. It has a prison industry, a financial industry, an entertainment industry, and a military industry. Its insides have been gutted. Why does a “loving Creator” allow these things to happen: A: Because the sins of this world are stacked up into the heavens, and there is no REPENTANCE!
I like your post except the last bit.
People have free will. They decide to be good or bad. That is what God allows – free will choice.
There is still time for repentance. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who has not tried it. It will set you free from fear and all the influences that would like you to be violent and insensitive to the needs of others.
Turn the tide from an increase in violence, to a critical mass of love and respect for all our fellow human beings.
The puppet masters want to make the whole world over in their own image – hateful, spiteful, greedy, psychopathic, homicidal maniacs who are control freaks to the nth degree.
Love conquers all – don’t imitate the fascists who are already defeated and self destructing.
Peace, not war! Protest, not violence!
Arrest the warmongers and banksters for treason.
They’re called paragraphs… :/
Wow! I hope everyone reads your comment. Every word of it is true. Well done, friend.
Wise as a false serpent,
Please provide some evidence that the Occupy movement is backed by the bankers. Whats happening right now is socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest of us. To think that they would ever want that threatned is crazy. The occupy movement threatens them, it wakens more people to their crimes.
The fact that you gave about widespread anti-depressant use (10%)reveals a symptom of social disfunction and also a potential cause. All anti-depressants have some degree of side effects. It is different for each person but there are mood swings and paranoia even suicidal actions caused by the prescription drugs and inappropriate dosages. It is not good for our communities and the individuals that a high level of people are on maintenance psychiatric drugs. This becomes an aggravating factor. I’m afraid.
One of my favorites is “Chantix”. It helps you stop smoking, but it may cause agressiveness, suicidal thoughts or actions, etc. Call your doctor of you experience any of these.
When you go on a shooting rampage, at least there will be no second hand smoke around. Your doctor will be happy about that.
Focus on the negative and it amplifies. That’s the intention behind the rise of this type of behavior.
One must understand that a societies mental intentions will raise the negative mental vibration by volumes.
The solution is positive prayer and medition. Teaching this to the masses is a challenge, yet necessary in order to raise the positive thought form vibration frequency level to counteract the same negative one being pronounced by this website and society as a whole.
How little faith ye have?
This is what happens when some members of society have a lack of respect in general, and a disregard for the rule of law specifically.
What is really scary is that if it gets completely out of control, the government won’t hesitate to impose its own “rule of law”, like the National Guard and Army.
Item #21 is an example of just how brazen some thieves have become. If they are willing to break into a police cruiser to steal weapons, just think what they might do to you…
I have two things to say.
1) I love the 2nd amendment and people who support it.
B) Pharmacy is evil. The word “pharmacy/pharmaceutical” comes from the Greek word “pharmakia” which means witchcraft. I got that out of my english / greek transaltion bible.
You are right about many of the “wonder drugs” out there. Potential liver damage seems to be mentioned quite often.
I agree with this article. I’ve always felt that American society was becoming more and more corrupted way before things began to fall apart. But people weren’t feeling the real consequences of their acts because they were blinded by their greed, lust, and selfishness. I watched people over the years fall further and further away from God, as though he didn’t really matter anymore.
Now that this thing has started to bust, you’d think it would serve as a wake up call. But instead, people are beginning to act worst than before.
Check out Pat Buchanan’s latest books for an look at the causes of the Republic’d disintegration…..And O. Spengler, volume two for an overview of where we headed and why.
Yo GM…
Are you the 12 stepper who still packs blunt… Go easy Bro … were both on the same side… gladitorial distraction / bread and circus, worked wonders in the fall of Rome… so why not now… im down, so chill… btw didnt i trade you Aaron Rodgers…
From another’s post – “America is losing our moral compass. We have removed the active desire of spreading and living the Gospel of Jesus Christ from many of our lives. Our Founding Fathers knew that religious values were the basis of a free society.”
– No it’s not. They put it there because that is what they were all taught, that they must pick and god and be religious, wanted to do it how they wanted, and etc…. NONE of the greed and violence has anything to do with Christ and a god.
-I’m an Atheist. So is my teen. Neither one would dream of being so vile in any way unless it’s self defense. These people are so vile because they CAN be and they get something from it. Money, false pride, fame – even though how stupid it is, etc etc etc It has nothing to do with “christ” and neither does an economic collapse. It is simple human beings doing what they want to get what they want, period.
To deny the positive impact of Christianity on the lives of billions of people, and on societies, is short-sighted and stupid. Just because you believe something else does not mean another alternative is wrong.
…that was a “stupid” comment from you about my comment but I should have known better to post online.
-I never denied that it had some “positive effect” from it. You totally missed the point! The point was that everyone being a christian would NOT save the world and I am sick of reading how it will, because that is what taught from birth. People do what they want even punching an old man at a subway for no reason, if they are Christians or NOT.
The American people can save themselves, and save the world from American terrorism that is killing millions worldwide. Take back your government, your military and judicial systems. Change your foreign policy from lies, deceit and genocide in the pursuit of greed. Gaddafi did it in a bloodless coup and ended homelessness; introduced free medical care including overseas specialist operations; introduced free education to graduate level with accommodation, equipment and a stipend until employed; loans all interest free; free electricity; free farm and equipment and seeds to anyone willing to have a go; and much more. Obama and Clinton celebrated his death, calling him a dictator. Who killed more people? America or Libya? Obama/Bush/Reagan or Gaddafi? Gaddafi did not attack his people. Obama did with NATO, killing 100,000 Libyans. Someone in America needs to do a Gaddafi and get rid of the fascist dictator/ship running American politics.
Curious, but are you from Libya? I do not know anything about Qaddaffi’s policies, but I do know he had a crush on Condolezza Rice.
I was riding my bike home after work and the street on my route was partially closed due to repaving. The flagger had my lane closed and me not wanting to ride my bike through fresh asphalt simply took the sidewalk instead. She, (the flagger) became angry that I didn’t obey her stop sign and began chasing down the sidewalk trying to hit me with the stop sign.
Sometimes a thing must be fully broken and dismantled before it can be built anew and better than before. Does anyone disagree that God has told us that this would be the outcome of a civilization under the rule of men? The pain provides us with a choice. We can join the world and its wickedness or we can remain personally faithful to Godly principles. God tells us that we are a world set on a course of destiny. Do we have a choice not fulfill that destiny? Most of us are trying to hang in there but perhaps letting go is the better path.
As mentioned above, one in ten people in the U.S. are on anti-depressants, these are the main cause of the violent and bizarre behaviour mentioned.
If you check you will find most high school shootings etc have been carried out by people taking these drugs.
Worse thing is Federals do not try to follow the constitution.We need an Inspector General who can not be fired by president.President should not be head of the military otherwise our wars will never stop long .We must not allow a foreign country to lead us into unnecessary war.
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Well, I knew that ANYTHING can happen in Cleveland (a.k.a. “Clevageland”), but could suchlike be happening in Kokomo (Ind.), Kalamazoo, or Peoria?
Abrahamic, and religious dogma in general, is not an etiological basis for sustainable morality.
ONE of the (many) things that has happened to this country, and perhaps the most basic is that women are no longer raising their own children. Instead, children are being raised in institutions. When they are not in day care or in extended day, they are living highly scheduled lives. (These are the children who are not poor or inner city children.) These children are hardly ever home.
Psychiatrists say that children raised in this manner may not have empathy or a conscience (not all children, of course) because no matter how good their parents might be, they did not receive the love, care and nurturing of someone who loves them. The day care worker is not a family member.
Mothers come home from a long day at work, cart the kids to soccer, etc., make dinner, help with homework, takes care of the housework…is tired, it’s not true that quality is better than quantity.
When my daughter was in high school, very few of her female friends had close relationships with their mothers. Those that did…their mothers were at-home mothers. I know that many won’t agree with this….but I remember what this country was like before the women went to work in order to pay more taxes to the government. Those who want careers should wait to have children.
On another level, people are no longer taught to respect the elderly.
It doesn’t help when older and elderly women dress like slobs in sweatshirts and jeans in public, either. That does not garner respect.
We have become a nation of slobs when women wear sweat pants and pajamas to the store and our young men wear their jeans around their knees. We’ve become nation of sluts when our young girls barely wear any clothes. (My daughter has traveled much of the world and is in the Peace Corps, this is exactly how other countries view us because of American tv where the females dress like strippers and have casual sex at the drop of the hat. It is one of the reasons our volunteers are raped.)
If we have no respect for ourselves and a shred of self-dignity, how do we expect others to have respect for us?
The inner city life of a child, I cannot imagine.
Society must change where women who want to stay home wit their children, can. The fathers should make enough money to support their families so that families can become more stable.
And we should all stopped being taxed to death to give families a further chance for stability.
We need less of big government and more of state autonomy.
We need to keep the jobs in this country rather than out-sourcing them.
We, (like every other country on this planet) need to strengthen and enforce our immigration laws.
We need to go back to the gold-standard.
But, above all, we need to become a decent, moral people, again.
Sorry I couldn’t edit the mistakes in my comment.
Modern medicine has kept me and a host of others alive raising the life expectancy from 46 years in 1900 to 76 years today. The math does not lie.
Rightiwngers to victim of breakdown: Apologize for being weak
Check this post where owner of an aggrieved taxpayer’s site we are the 53% wails on an unemployed contributor who is NOT claiming benefits for being a “weak, lazy rat bastard”.
http://the53.tumblr.com/post/12781480884/editors-note-most-of-us-have-breakdowns-every
How is this different to suckerpunching an old man on the subway?
Typical leftwinger. You know so much but so much of what you know is WRONG.
Yes, duping poor people into voting for elitists who want to take away everything they have is the biggest and most successful scam in history. Now go back and read that tumblr post in which a mentally ill man who has worked like a dog and never taken out of the system is mocked pilloried for his breakdown.
Subject: this is interesting
http://hsdent.com/blog-report/Deflation.pdf
he says ALL assets devalue , even Gold and silver
http://livewebinarsolutions.com/registration/dentlanding.php?offercode=dent2
http://www.hsdent.com/tgca_p9j6g4m2.pdf
I believe we are on earth to grow in the sense of human values and spirituality but almost all the energy we have burnt was for material growth.
I think we’ll have to account for what we did with our lives, like we would if the boss went on a business trip and gave the staff some tasks to do but instead of doing them we goof off then when he returns we have trashed the place.
Have we developed and grown as human beings? Most have not.
All of this and more has all been predicted, and not only by Nostradamus but by much ,much more reliable source, the prophets of the Old Testament&Christ of the living Bible and thats all I need to see what is going to happen, not only to this nation but many, many nations. It ain’t pretty so get yourself prepared to be either slaughtered or saved.I prefer to be saved because we are seeing the very tip of the iceberg. Don’t wait until 2012, we may not get that far.
Good ideas everyone. Let’s confront the hard truths, but still hope in each other! Humans are capable of much much more.
I’d like to point out that many of these societal issues of violence, selfishness, laziness, and worst of all, apathy, all have STRONG roots in our school system!! Think about all the behaviors discussed here, then think about the experience many children experience at school. Look for the connections.
I think the single most important big picture action that can be taken is to reach out to children, especially young ones, and show them that there’s more to the world than Disney. They’ll absorb ANYTHING that’s put in front of them, which is scary, but also inspiring. Our only hope as a society.
I ditto your comments aboutt the children in America. This past summer I welcomed a 15 year old girl who I have known since she was five years old. She had been coming to our home for a summer visit for several years. This past school year she was a freshman in high school.
Her behavior was shocking! She was deceitful, manipulative, cunning and disrespectful. She is self-absorbed and selfish. She is overtly interested in acting “sexy.”
I made it clear to her she would not be invited back.
The breakdown in our society has infected our young people and they are the future of America. The lack of moral absolutes and the attitude that if it feels good, it’s alright to do it is at the core of this breakdown.
History does repeat itself, and we shall go down just as Rome did! Historians say they collapsed from inside due to moral decay. They were so busy eating, driking and engaging in sexual orgies that they didn’t see the enemy at the gate.
The horse is already out of the barn and it’s too late to close the door!
The US has failed miserably in three things:
Holding the perpretrators of 911 accountable (it wasn’t Osama), their statanic ritual has proven very effective
Getting rid of the Federal Reserve, I think its too late now
Chalenging Obama on nationality
Everything else comes as a natural concequense of the above. Now all that is left is faith in God, due to the things mentioned humanity is doomed.
Have a nice day
per·pe·tra·tor
noun
a person who perpetrates, or commits, an illegal, criminal, or evil act
Uhh, the perps are dead homie. Perhaps you saw the explosions?
Dear Mal R., That’s what you’ve been told to think. You’re awfully nearsighted.
Why do the nations rage and the people’s plot in vain? ……… toibry.blog.com
Since news reports have become “politically correct” the ethnicity of the bad guys and gals isn’t shown. Perhaps illegals from South of the border? Perhaps African American? Don’t know do we? And why would that be important you ask, gritting your teeth, thinking I am a racist? Because it is the most significant detail that leads back to what is really going on in our country.
Sure Frank, because we all know white people never commit any crimes unless it involves killing millions of Natives and stealing entire continents and their natural resources all in the name of gaining material wealth for themselves. This happens TODAY all over the globe under the guise of “commerce” and “globalization”. Same tactics. New name.
But let’s focus instead on the little petty “brown” criminals that steal $20 from a convenience store when the “white collar” educated criminal from Wall Street, the banking industry, and mega corporations continue to buy your represntatives alligiance and steal trillions of dollars out of the economy and people’s pension funds and are never even mentioned in the media, identified, or prosecuted in any way, shape or form.
I’ve never been the victim of any crime despite the fact I work as a teacher in some of the worst areas of a city overun by gangs. I avoid becoming a victim by using common sense. However, I’ve lost over 38% of my 401K in the past three years due to bad “investments” done by the good ol’ white folks in suits and ties. Guess what type of criminal I am more worried about because of their covert and insidious operating techniques? Get a clue!
The 40% rise in gang members in just 2 or 3 years is mind blowing. Thats all the proof you need that more and more people are being pushed out onto the street.
OR maybe that more and more illegals are getting across our (open) borders to rape and pillage our country, along with all the foreigners that are given visas to get here and join organized crime. All criminals just the same.
Are you aware of the history of the founding of this country by any chance? The continent was stolen after the murder of millions of it’s orginal inhabitants. Fact. That’s is not what is happening today!
The media is very effectively using impoverished “brown” people as scapegoats for the mega financial crimes and economic collapse being engineered by the banking and corporate cartels that are given carte blanche to do as they please with the our money.
This article is actually only contributing to the problem. Convincing relatively logical, peaceful individuals that a quick course in close combat training is needed. They want you violent. Now is the time to devote your time to your legacies (your children). Educate them. These incidents above are an absolute celebration of ignorance. Society will not break down until a critical mass of individuals perpetuate such a break down. This article is playing a sweet hand towards those ends (this and a million others).
Don’t show up, when the party starts, don’t be there. Have you ever seen a riot with zero participant. And for the Occupiers, yes, speak, but turn your back on any such violence. Walk strong and sure in the opposite direction. That’s the challenge – don’t ********** it up!
Got God? Society needs a God to work. Our country needs a God to help be a moral and good people. Without God, we cannot survive as America. America was designed to have Americans submit to God. No God, No America. We had problems in the past because- we are all sinners and make choices. Today we have more and more people without God- and who don’t give a rats a@@ about America. They are self centered- the world all revolves around them and their food stamps and SS checks. I know I have two in my family. What pains in the a@@ they can be! Anyone can get drugs these days. I heard that there are enough Oxycodone pills to give every American 4 a day for one month. You dod not need a Dr. either. There are plenty of these wellness centers that write scripts all day long. We are screwed. We will most likely have a serious battle in our country with the OWS types v. people that do not support then taking out hard earned lifestyles. All this is going somewhere-but who really knows where.
Amen! But not just “a” God, we need the one and only true God. “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chron 7:14) I too think there are many that feel entitled. God says “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.” (2 Thess 3:10)…if our country just went back to Biblical values, we’d once again be in God’s good grace.
I think part of the problem, as it is at the moment, is that criminality is rewarded and honesty is penalized. Criminality is rewarded both legally, as in the case of Wall Street bankers, and illegaly, through immediate gains. Honesty is penalized, such as the case of many whistleblowers who are fired and blackballed. I’ve been honest and hardworking all my life. That got me laid off.
I completely agree with you KaD. I pray you find a job that is worthy of your deeds. If you don’t have one, please check my website and see if it’s for you or not. Wishing you the best!
The book of Revelation (in the Bible), is going down right now. No bs. Jesus taught the Law of Love. He said you overcome evil with good. Satan manipulates and exploits our pain. people all over are love starved. media tells you nobody will love you if you don’t look a certain way, so on and so on. Children abused, hurting, traumatized people every where. the “unlovely” people are the ones hurting the most. Forget what you think you know about Jesus. Read what he said for yourself in the gospels.
I know someone who had their car stolen. The car was in such bad shape I am not sure the junk yard would take it.
One of the worst beatings out there.
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A Lot Of People Disagree With The Conceal To Carry Law, Here In Minnesota We Have This Law,And Crime Has Acutally Gone Down,It Took A Long Time And A Lot Of Hard Work To Get It,But It Makes Alot Of These Tough Guys Think Twice About Accosting Somebody, Simply Based On The Fact They Don’t Know If That Person Is Armed Or Not,And Alot Of Them Do Not Really Want To Find Out,They only Seem To Be Tough When The Advantage is There’s. I Do Not
Believe That It Is A Bad Deal Or A Sad Deal,It Is What It Is-Reality.
If Somebody Was To Try Something Stupid As Coming After Me With A Baseball Bat Or Whatever,
I Would Tell Them To Think About What I Would Say To Them,”Would You Like To Meet My Two Best Friends”,Mr.Smith And Mr.Wesson.P.S Minnesota Is One Of The Biggest Liberal States In The U.S
Already gone.
Relax brother,you got franken,noseachar,and dayton to protect you…LOL.
Im here in liberalota with you,thank God im not in the heart of the Msp beast.I carry everywhere,and so does the wife…
But remember a pistol is just something to use to get to your gun.
It will be a real bad day,for the baseball bat man when I get to my trunk and introduce him to Mossberg 12,and Dpms 308.
Then they will reallly hear the fat lady sing!!!
I’ll go you one step further. All non-criminal, taxpaying (i.e. WORKING) adult citizens should be ISSUED handguns to carry. That should slow crime WAAAAY down.
Yo Wiseass…
Sorry had to go there…
your post is nothing but pure genius, and even though most blogers here are not awake enough to fully grasp the full spectrum dominance of it all… dont let it stop you from laying down command and control posts of pure truth like that one…
Most of what you are describing: gangs, crime, occupy wall street, can be traced to two demographics, black youths, illegal immigrants, and socialists and communists. What should we do about it? Most Americans are not interested in fighting for their culture, they just want to be comfortable, watch football, internet, etc. They will do nothing because they think nothing bad will happen to them. When blacks and hispanics make up the majority do you think they will treat whites really well, provide benefits, etc? No way.
r.bitting is right, whether people like it or
not. The truth is just that – the truth.