Stages of collapse

Will the United States collapse? Let's hope not. But since it is a possibility, it is a good idea to recognize the stages of collapse so that we may be prepared. The collapse of the former Soviet Union occurred quite rapidly, and we all know how that went down.

(The following is borrowed from http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2008/02/five-stages-of-collapse.html)

Stage 1: Financial collapse. Faith in "business as usual" is lost. The future is no longer assumed resemble the past in any way that allows risk to be assessed and financial assets to be guaranteed. Financial institutions become insolvent; savings are wiped out, and access to capital is lost.

Stage 2: Commercial collapse. Faith that "the market shall provide" is lost. Money is devalued and/or becomes scarce, commodities are hoarded, import and retail chains break down, and widespread shortages of survival necessities become the norm.

Stage 3: Political collapse. Faith that "the government will take care of you" is lost. As official attempts to mitigate widespread loss of access to commercial sources of survival necessities fail to make a difference, the political establishment loses legitimacy and relevance.

Stage 4: Social collapse. Faith that "your people will take care of you" is lost, as local social institutions, be they charities or other groups that rush in to fill the power vacuum run out of resources or fail through internal conflict.

Stage 5: Cultural collapse. Faith in the goodness of humanity is lost. People lose their capacity for "kindness, generosity, consideration, affection, honesty, hospitality, compassion, charity" (Turnbull, The Mountain People). Families disband and compete as individuals for scarce resources. The new motto becomes "May you die today so that I die tomorrow" (Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago). There may even be some cannibalism.

Does any of that sound familiar? I suggest that you read the rest of Mr. Orlov's article, which further explains these five stages. Interestingly, he maintains that the people of the USSR were better prepared to cope with collapse than we are. I think he's right. 

Boy Scout Motto: Be Prepared

No greater love

As you probably can tell, I am ambivalent on the issue of gun control. I do not possess firearms, and I have no intention of ever obtaining a firearm. However, I do see that they can serve a purpose; I was in the military for over twelve years.

One of the things that bothers me the most about firearms is what is reported in this article:

http://www.dailycensored.com/gun-control-us-unlawful-wars-killed-100-million-americans-should-never-disarm/

"The data show ~20% of given populations who disarm to their governments are thereafter killed by those who disarmed them." That is not a comforting statistic.

Especially not when we live in a country in which police are known to have beaten helpless senior citizens, who say they feel threatened by paralyzed people in wheelchairs, and who shoot fleeing unarmed suspects in the back with impunity; a country whose soldiers and commissioned officers sexually assault and rape women both here and overseas, who beat and torture men and women whose only crime is resisting our illegal invasions of their countries, and who think the use of weapons of mass destruction to "liberate" people is their God-given right.

America has a long, sad history of direct and indirect genocide (e.g., the Indians, our African slaves, the "enemies" of our sock-puppet dictators). If the order is given to take your weapons, you can be assured that adequate forces will be assigned to accomplish the task. Do you think your neighbors are going to help you when the SWAT team arrives? If you do, just recall what happened to the Branch Davidians in Waco back in 1993. Nobody came to help; if anyone had, they would have been killed, too.

Some people say, "I Will Give Up My Gun When They Peel My Cold Dead Fingers From Around It." Believe me when I say in reply, "Yes, you will; and yes, they will."

The key to regaining our freedoms is contained in the difference between a soldier and a conscientious objector. Both are brave; both are willing to die for what they believe; one is also willing to kill, the other only to give his life. What did Jesus say about this subject?

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. -John 15:13 KJV

Lay down his life; not kill for his friends. Read some Medal of Honor citations @ http://www.cmohs.org/ Most if not all involve acts of courage in which someone was willing to lay down his life for his friends; whether or not he killed someone in the process was (or should have been) irrelevant.

The persons who signed our Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to their cause. They did not specifically pledge to kill anyone in the process. If we truly wish to be free, that's what we have to figure out how to do: how to obtain and secure our freedoms without resorting to violence, torture, and more killing.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house; we all should have learned by now the validity of that statement. If you doubt its validity, you need look no further than what you and your nation did in response to the provocation of 9/11. You're not going to roll back any of that by using more coercion and violence.

We must find another way.

A separate reality

Vacations for him, hunger for the rest of us:

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/01/02/obama-returns-hawaii-added-cost-3-million/

"Our" government no longer serves the needs of the people; it hasn't for quite some time. Time for REAL change, not just the smoke, mirrors, and outright lies of Obama ad-Dajjal and his ilk.

Welcome to the New America

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255241/Sperm-donor-ordered-pay-child-support-lesbian-couple-despite-giving-rights-child.html

Huh? I truly don't know what to say.

Top Censored Stories of 2012

Stories which were under reported or not reported in 2012 include the following:

1. Signs of an Emerging Police State

2. Oceans in Peril

3. Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Worse than Anticipated

4. FBI Agents Responsible for Majority of Terrorist Plots in the United States

5. First Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions Loaned to Major Banks

6. Small Network of Corporations Run the Global Economy

7. 2012: The International Year of Cooperatives

8. NATO War Crimes in Libya

9. Prison Slavery in Today’s USA

10. HR 347 Would Make Many Forms of Nonviolent Protest Illegal

11. Members of Congress Grow Wealthier Despite Recession

12. US Joins Forces with al-Qaeda in Syria

13. Education “Reform” a Trojan Horse for Privatization

14. Who Are the Top 1 Percent and How Do They Earn a Living?

15. Dangers of Everyday Technology

16. Sexual Violence against Women Soldiers on the Rise and under Wraps

17. Students Crushed By One Trillion Dollars in Student Loans

18. Palestinian Women Prisoners Shackled during Childbirth

19. New York Police Plant Drugs on Innocent People to Meet Arrest Quotas

20. Stealing from Public Education to Feed the Prison-Industrial Complex

21. Conservatives Attack US Post Office to Break the Union and Privatize Postal Services

22. Wachovia Bank Laundered Money for Latin American Drug Cartels

23. US Covers up Afghan Massacre

24. Alabama Farmers Look to Replace Migrants with Prisoners

25. Evidence Points to Guantánamo Dryboarding

Please take the time to read the details @ http://www.projectcensored.org/

Peace Pilgrim

The world needs more people like Peace Pilgrim:

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/31/168346591/peace-pilgrims-28-year-walk-for-a-meaningful-way-of-life

Rachel Corrie was one such person, but she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer.

Who are the role models for today's youth? Those who worship money, not peace. And those who worship Satan, not God.

The growing global theocracy

The high priests and priestesses of America’s growing global theocracy are encouraging our children to do the following:

• Tell the new truths (which in fact are lies)
• Profess the new faith (which consists of doubt)
• Rebel against the new tyrants (men in general and God)
• Be filled with the new spirit (which is a spirit of confusion)
• Show the new compassion (which in fact is based upon rage)
• Feel the new righteousness (which in fact is unrighteousness)
• Embrace the new salvation (which consists of "nation-building", a.k.a. the destruction of nations)
• Fulfill their new destiny (which is the worship of Mammon)
• Pledge the new loyalty (which in fact is betrayal of everything America used to be)
• Become the new city on a hill (which will be a city of false gods, idols, and graven images)
• Preach the new gospel (the false gospel of forced globalization)
• Receive the new reward (only if they are willing to turn their backs on God)

The First Amendment requires "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This is the first thing mentioned in the First Amendment because it is considered the most important right in America. That is why those who want to re-invent (i.e., to destroy) America are targeting it so strongly. Yesterday, The New York Times ran an op-ed piece written by a law professor entitled "Let's give up on the Constitution" in which the author advocates sabotaging that document (see my 12/31 blog post). This crusade of the destroyers will not be over until the Constitution is trampled underfoot and replaced with God knows what. Prepare yourself; religious persecution is coming to America, and it will be brutal.

And do not kid yourself by thinking that in fighting Islam America is combating theocracy in general. The opposite is true: the global theocracy America is creating will be inescapable, and it will tolerate no competitors. It will destroy all other religions that offer a viable alternative to its tissue of lies.

What do you call Christianity without God? Communism.

What do you call a theocracy without God? The American Empire.

America is becoming Satan’s kingdom. You will someday be forced to choose between taking the Mark of the Beast (“life” in the global theocracy of Satan) or "death" (life in the Kingdom of God). I have already made my choice. Have you?