How close is a US collapse

 

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How close is a U.S. collapse?

With a raft of anti-gun executive orders out of the White House, and the "Earn It" act (to remove all online privacy) being re-proposed for a third time, and new Equal Rights Amendment (special privileges for the few!) proposed by Sen Chuck Schumer (Communist-NY), the President and Congress continue to ignore the will of the people.

They didn’t change our name from America to Gulag nor arrest us in the middle of the night. Instead, congress and the unelected pointy-headed cubicle dwellers stalking the halls of power have passed laws and regulations and presidents have signed executive orders putting American people directly and absolutely on a path towards the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto.

And you know what? These laws were passed "legally" and sanctimoniously under the color of law right under our noses. When we vote Republicrat or Democan, we are not voting in a free election. We are merely rubber-stamping an entrenched bureaucratic system under the pretense of American Democracy.

The denizens of our "Democracy" have concluded they are no longer accountable to the people, but have determined to do the will of their masters, the moneyed elites. People wonder why our congressmen and senators would do this to us. The answer is quite simple. Power.

The people who want central, powerful government are always ready to seize power. And they have been solidly in power in the U.S. for over 100 years. Plainly stated, an elite group rules no matter which political party appears to be in power.

The men in political power under any party name keep themselves and their buddies in power to keep mass corruption covered up. The same bureaucrats are always in charge so as to keep a tight lid on in order to prevent exposure.

Somehow election after election we hear the same thing and get the same thing from whoever is in power. Anyway, it's not the politicians in power, but it's the powerful faceless people behind the scenes who pull the strings.

Everything is gradual at first and toward the end the rot sets in and cultural collapse becomes obvious. A defining characteristic of failing or collapsing government is stepped-up aggressiveness, not least toward its own citizens. Do you see it? The elected elites responded to the rise of the Tea Party with slander and special targeting by several government agencies like the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. And have you noticed that the U.S. is now generally anti-entrepreneurial and anti-small business with stepped-up regulations on small businesses? This small business administrative burden is nothing less than government harassment.

The questions are how much longer will the people tolerate this "long train of abuses and usurpations," and is it the grand design of the regime’s globalist masters to push Americans to the brink in order to hasten the collapse?

We are fast approaching a time when the American system will either collapse under the weight of big government, or an incident will prompt an uprising of the people. The Founding Fathers recognized this possibility.

In a letter to William Stephens Smith, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?"

Perhaps it’s time to remind them, for as James Madison (as Helvidius) wrote, "If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is, that every nation has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of a host of American martyrs; but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation."

An elitist bureaucracy that wants everyone to behave like obedient sheep is likewise enslaved to one idea that is a wrong one. But as long as we stay vigilant and fight back against that wrong idea, there’s hope for a freer future. The fight begins with liberty. Human liberty is only available to the individualist. Individualism and human liberty are opposite of democracy. We must abolish the idea of "democracy" and re-establish our Republic if we want to be free of our masters in Congress and the White House. They should serve us, not the other way around.

The Tea Party was successful in removing some of the old guard of the elected class and installing some of their own in government. Though some of the newly elected lawmakers turned out to be wolves in sheep’s clothing, many of the Tea Party-backed Congressional candidates continue to work to disrupt the old guard party apparatus and attempt to reign in big government, much to the chagrin of the statists.

In New Hampshire, there are now 40 elected Free Staters in the state legislature. It has taken a concerted effort, but The Free State Project, for example, has thousands of folks migrating to the state for the sake of liberty.

A change toward freedom can occur, but it will be ugly for those who — blinded by normalcy bias or just ignorance — aren’t prepared. Once we come through the fire, then, I believe, Constitutional governance can be restored.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter^®

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Unbelievably, the fate of the U.S. economy still rests squarely on the preservation of stock values and ever more worldwide financial speculation.

A recent report authored by Claudio Borio, Robert McCauley and Patrick McGuire for the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) revealed that the mount of derivative debt foreign banks hold is "staggering," according to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

How massive is their exposure? The report said, "For banks headquartered outside the United States, dollar debt from these instruments is estimated at $39 trillion, more than double their on-balance sheet dollar debt and more than 10 times their capital."

Financial institutions have not stopped building more complex derivatives to offload risk. Worse, they're offloading it to one another… and even worse, the European banks are surely relying on U.S. banks as counterparties to those derivatives.

 

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Looking ahead to 2050, many Americans see a country in decline and worry about the nation's economy, global role, and political divisions. However, a majority say they have at least some confidence in the future of the U.S.

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Which makes more sense:  Sound money without debt slavery and little or no inflation [more spending power] OR inflation and a continual diminished value of our dollar?

In simple terms economics in reality is a matter of income disparity; the haves and the have nots.

Washington and globalists want to destroy the Middle Claas, turning us all into serfs vs. the Plutocracy that America has become.

We should be taxing consumption, not labor [that’s how America was until the robber baron class decided to saddle us with an income tax [then states and many cities got in on the act of gouging the citizen-soon, everyone has their hand in your pocket]!

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eye-opening survey this week conducted by OnePoll on behalf of HelloFresh, a meal kit delivery service. Here are some of the highlights:

·         Respondents reported throwing away about $63 worth of weekly groceries and spending nearly $3,000 a year on unused groceries.

·         Nearly a third admitted they’re likely to forget about leftovers once they’re out of sight.

·         Two tops reasons people end up wasting food are forgetting about it and leftovers not being popular among household members.

·         38% reported throwing food away because they didn't feel like eating it after purchasing it.

·         19% reported that they often overestimate how much food they'll use when grocery shopping.

·         22% reported not being confident they know the best ways to store foods.

Of the survey's list of the foods people find hardest to use up, most are produce, including lettuce, bananas, apples, avocado and carrots. If you tend to toss too much produce, here are some tips for reducing the waste:

·         How To Never Waste Another Vegetable or Fruit: A 4-Step Plan

·         Tips for Frugally Freezing Fruits and Veggies

Other foods included milk, bread, eggs and meat. All of these items can be frozen using these tips from around the web:

·         Freezing milk

·         Freezing eggs

·         Freezing bread

·         Freezing meats

Finally, if throwing out food that has gone bad makes you feel guilty, you're not alone. 73% of survey respondents reported the same thing

 

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The American Experiment is on life support…Preparing for Civil War Against Leftists

Regardless of who wins the elections, American cities will burn because elements outside of U.S. hell bent on destroying our communities [even Wall Street and Silicon Valley are in on the coup of American values], erasing our shared history, and ripping out the roots of our nation, and replacing it with a perverted communist agenda…Part III

My UK associate, a former MI6 agent [the same one who warned me in ’16 of the fake Steele dossier used to start a coup against Trump] tells me of the Deep State snakes ongoing coup efforts funded by globalist/socialists Soros, Bloomberg, et al and its ties, along with the Biden family, to Communist China.  Due in large part to media manipulation by these two anti-Americans, he projects Biden’s of a win at 49%, giving Trump a 47.7% odds.

These globalist are hell-bent on destroying America and even the indoctrinated socialist youth of America will rue the day if Biden and his cadre of Communists win.

–>link to previous post here: https://poormansurvivorblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/what-to-do-if-america-turns-socialist.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/zAXAf+(Poor+Man+Survivor-The+Urban+Survivalist)

 

   Many years later while at Stanford, I ended up living in a progressive student house. One of the things that made this house so progressive was the heroic attempt by its students to grow their own vegetables in the house garden. I couldn’t quite understand these efforts. We didn’t need food, and nobody had time to genuinely mind the garden, so the result was meek, half-rotten crops whose main function was to feed local rats and raccoons. There was something almost sacrilegious in growing food that systematically went to waste. I looked at it with a mixture of cultural wonder, sadness, and confusion. It was like raping Mother Earth, stealing from her what we didn’t need for an empty symbolic gesture of self-righteous grandeur. In their fashionable quest for sustainability, the students also decided to cultivate their own compost pile in the backyard, but since nobody had either the time or the patience to mind it, the compost too became a favorite playground of all the local rodents, and a constant source of aroma that filled the air of my small ground-floor room. My mother used to manage her own compost, too, but as I remember it, it never smelled, and I never saw one rat frolicking on it in joyful abandon, as they often did on our Stanford compost. Perhaps it was because my mother sprinkled her compost with soil each time she put something on it. Or perhaps it was because she would check up on it a few times a week, aware that it was supposed to feed a good part of her yearly crops. I don’t know.

Our share was located a few miles outside of our town and it took us about an hour, hour-and-a-half, to walk there. My mother made this walk a couple times a week from early spring to late fall. The season started sometime in late March, early April, and it always opened with the same ritual. After work, my mother, still dressed in her office clothes, pushed my stroller slowly through the winding roads by the riverbank and train tracks. We spotted the first signs of spring, but never really talked. My mother was always somewhere else, ahead of herself in her thoughts, stopping only occasionally to fix the straps of her high heels, or to pick a wildflower that I asked for. My small dog marched bravely next to my stroller, tangling its leash in its wheels or around my mother’s legs. Once we got to our share, a huge pile of horse manure that my mother bought from the local farmer was waiting for us. Spreading the manure was supposed to be my father’s job, but since it had to be done before the first rain washed all the nutrients out of it into one spot in the ground, and since my father always took his time to get around to it, my mother would customarily lose patience and do it herself. I suspected that my father procrastinated each year on purpose, fully aware of the fact that she would eventually break down and do it herself rather than worry about the manure losing its nutritional value.

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And so, each spring, the ceremony repeated itself. My mother would take off her office clothes, her high heels, and her wedding band, and change into old jeans and my father’s plaid flannel shirt. With a gesture worthy of a film noir femme fatale, she smoked a cigarette while strolling around between patches, checking up on the soil and the roots of whatever survived the winter: her roses, raspberry bushes, and trees. Then, she rolled up the sleeves of her shirt, grabbed a dung-fork, and began spreading the manure neatly all over the ground. Once this was done, she smoked another cigarette, took the shovel, and flipped the manure over so that it was now covered with soil. Another cigarette and she grabbed the rake with which she broke the larger chunks of soil, smoothing it away in preparation for the spring seedlings. I sat there in my stroller, dressed in four sweaters, grumpy and whiny, with my dog on my lap, watching my mother lazily, pointing out the spots she had missed and complaining about the smell of manure. Once she was done, my mother took off her jeans and her flannel shirt. She put her office clothes, her wedding band, and her high heels back on, fixed her hair and her makeup, and washed her hands in the nearby river. Slowly and silently she pushed my stroller as we went back home for supper, picking up more wildflowers on our way back. Our dog, bored to death, jumped around, happy we were going back.

In socialism, organizing a food co-op with your friends and family is a must. We didn’t know we were creating co-ops, and there was no official roster as to who exchanges what, but everyone had a specialty food they produced. My parents’ friends’ in-laws had an apple orchard, so every fall we got a couple of boxes of apples from them. My mother peeled, diced, and dried them for winter. My aunt Kazia had a large orchard with cherry trees and raspberry bushes. Every year, my mom and my aunt Eva, with my three cousins, went to visit Aunt Kazia to pick the cherries and raspberries. The boys climbed trees and I sat on a little wooden stool by the raspberry bush, eating most of what I picked. Every year, all three of my cousins and I got sick from overeating freshly picked cherries and raspberries. My grandmother had a garden with edible roses. When the rose flowers were picked, my job was to de-petal them. Once all the petals were removed, my grandmother made rose jam, by blending them with sugar and a touch of vanilla. My grandmother’s garden was bulldozed years ago to make room for a new socialist bungalow, and it’s been over twenty years since I’ve eaten rose jam. If you’ve never made or eaten rose jam, you’ve missed out on one of life’s most sensual pleasures. . . .

Ironically, whatever food we did have, it was 100% all-natural and organic, and not because we were health conscious, elitist, or obsessed with our longevity. No, there were simply no fertilizers, hormones, or pesticides that anybody could buy or even afford. There was only horse manure and compost. I grew up without soda pop and refined sugar. Without chewing gum and M&M’s, without Lunchables and Gerber baby foods, without Snickers Bars, Power Bars, and breakfast bars. Without Pop-tarts, Popsicles, and popcorn. Once in a blue moon, my father bought a bottle of Pepsi or a tablet of Swiss chocolate from Pewex, a chain of stores that catered to foreign tourists. Pewex carried Western sweets, drinks, coffee, and alcohol. You could only shop there with dollars, which meant that only foreigners could shop there, as it was illegal for any Pole to own dollars. The fact that owning dollars was illegal didn’t stop anyone from buying them on the black market to shop in Pewex for birthday sweets and coffee. My father did too, and so each birthday and holiday was celebrated with a tablet of Swiss chocolate, which he ceremoniously divided and passed around among us like a sacred offering.

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6. My first encounter with the plentiful and the tasteless

When we came to the U.S. the only grocery store we could afford was Aldi, a chain of stores catering to immigrants and food-stamp recipients. If you’ve never been to Aldi, it looks somewhat like a warehouse. For twenty bucks, you can feed a four-person family for a week. The only problem with Aldi’s food is that it has no taste. Whatever we bought, it had no taste. Strawberries tasted like paper, bread tasted like cotton balls, milk tasted like bleach, and ice cream tasted like tissues soaked in sugar. Within my first month on U.S. soil I developed a strange rash, most likely a response of my spoiled body to the avalanche of chemicals it was suddenly asked to process. My mother and I wondered aloud whether American children who were born here ever knew what a real strawberry or real bread should taste like. It seemed incomprehensible that in this richest country in the world, most of its citizens grew up never knowing the taste of real food. Eventually, I got used to tasteless food, and my rashes went away, but eating became a constantly failed search for the lost taste. It took me thirteen years before I could afford the same kind of food I ate as a child. I remember the anticipation I felt when I finally bought my first pint of organic strawberries. Would they taste like those from my mother’s share? Or would they taste like paper? Another irony of socialist life was that though our socialist government was not able to maintain regular delivery of bread or toilet paper to its stores, it had ambitions to produce and deliver luxury goods.

 In fact, each country in the socialist bloc proudly exported its own brand of luxury: Poles had world-class vodka, Russians had Beluga caviar, Cubans, our friends, had cigars, and Hungarians had their Royal Tokaji (currently sold online at $500 for a half-bottle). Once in a while, usually for their anniversary, my parents enjoyed some of these perks of socialist living as all the countries in the socialist bloc would customarily exchange their luxury goods at nominal mark-ups. Since I was too young to participate in these pleasures of adult life, unfortunately, I missed that part. It will probably take me another thirteen years before sentiment moves me to splurge on Russian caviar or half a glass of Tokaji. . . .

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7. Eating habits here and there, then and now, and why a 12-step program doesn’t always change your ways

Depending on the circumstances you grew up in, you develop different food habits. My grandmother, who spent her youth in a German labor camp, had a habit of hiding breadcrumbs in her pockets. My American friends who grew up under capitalism like to throw food fights. I, who grew up under socialism, developed a habit of leaving half of my meal on a plate for later, just in case I needed it in the future. This way, I am always certain to know where my next meal comes from. When I got married, the habit became less burdensome and, in fact, very much appreciated by my husband, who, oblivious to my covert prudence, would gleefully consume whatever I left on my plate. Although with the help of my all-devouring husband, I managed to 12-step myself out of the habit, there are still occasional moments when it returns. Three weeks ago, I had dinner with a friend. It was a nice downtown restaurant with starched white tablecloths and stainless steel candlesticks, my friend was smiling at me genially, and I never felt farther away from socialism than I felt at that moment. But then, in the middle of my meal, the impulse came to stop eating, to leave it for later, just in case. . .

http://cosmopolitanreview.com/how-i-survived-socialism/

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Your phone also has special functions like digital compasses, levels, and even the tiny flashlight that can be the difference between life or death in a crisis.

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