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The Year America Dissolved: 2017
Oligarchy: No Help Wanted, Involvement Not Accepted.
- America’s collapse occurred when government ceased to represent the people and became the instrument of a private oligarchy. Decisions were made in behalf of short-term profits for the few at the expense of unmanageable liabilities for the many. Overwhelmed by liabilities, the government collapsed. -
It was 2017. Clans were governing America.
The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable.
As society broke down, the police became warlords. The state police broke apart, and the officers were subsumed into the local forces of their communities. The newly formed tribes expanded to encompass the relatives and friends of the police.
The dollar had collapsed as world reserve currency in 2012 when the worsening economic depression made it clear to Washington’s creditors that the federal budget deficit was too large to be financed except by the printing of money.
With the dollar’s demise, import prices skyrocketed. As Americans were unable to afford foreign-made goods, the transnational corporations that were producing offshore for US markets were bankrupted, further eroding the government’s revenue base.
The government was forced to print money in order to pay its bills, causing domestic prices to rise rapidly. Faced with hyperinflation, Washington took recourse in terminating Social Security and Medicare and followed up by confiscating the remnants of private pensions. This provided a one-year respite, but with no more resources to confiscate, money creation and hyperinflation resumed.
Organized food deliveries broke down when the government fought hyperinflation with fixed prices and the mandate that all purchases and sales had to be in US paper currency. Unwilling to trade appreciating goods for depreciating paper, goods disappeared from stores.
Washington responded as Lenin had done during the “war communism” period of Soviet history. The government sent troops to confiscate goods for distribution in kind to the population. This was a temporary stop-gap until existing stocks were depleted, as future production was discouraged. Much of the confiscated stocks became the property of the troops who seized the goods.
Goods reappeared in markets under the protection of local warlords. Transactions were conducted in barter and in gold, silver, and copper coins.
Other clans organized around families and individuals who possessed stocks of food, bullion, guns and ammunition. Uneasy alliances formed to balance differences in clan strengths. Betrayals quickly made loyalty a necessary trait for survival.
Large-scale food and other production broke down as local militias taxed distribution as goods moved across local territories. Washington seized domestic oil production and refineries, but much of the government’s gasoline was paid for safe passage across clan territories.
Most of the troops in Washington’s overseas bases were abandoned. As their resource stocks were drawn down, the abandoned soldiers were forced into alliances with those with whom they had been fighting.
Washington found it increasingly difficult to maintain itself. As it lost control over the country, Washington was less able to secure supplies from abroad as tribute from those Washington threatened with nuclear attack. Gradually other nuclear powers realized that the only target in America was Washington. The more astute saw the writing on the wall and slipped away from the former capital city.
When Rome began her empire, Rome’s currency consisted of gold and silver coinage. Rome was well organized with efficient institutions and the ability to supply troops in the field so that campaigns could continue indefinitely, a monopoly in the world of Rome’s time.
When hubris sent America in pursuit of overseas empire, the venture coincided with the offshoring of American manufacturing, industrial, and professional service jobs and the corresponding erosion of the government’s tax base, with the advent of massive budget and trade deficits, with the erosion of the fiat paper currency’s value, and with America’s dependence on foreign creditors and puppet rulers.
The Roman Empire lasted for centuries. The American one collapsed overnight.
Rome’s corruption became the strength of her enemies, and the Western Empire was overrun.
America’s collapse occurred when government ceased to represent the people and became the instrument of a private oligarchy. Decisions were made in behalf of short-term profits for the few at the expense of unmanageable liabilities for the many. Overwhelmed by liabilities, the government collapsed.
Globalism had run its course. Life reformed on a local basis.
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Sounds like a happy ending.
And a lesson learned about paper “money” created by private “banks” outside government control.
1. You can rob the country’s gold from Fort Knox and other places by printing money, then ask to be paid in gold or silver.
2. You can make people forget about the meaning of dollar or “thaler.”
3. You can make the gov borrow from you that which it can create easily on its own.
4. You can charge interest on that.
5. You can inflate money in circulation all you want.
6. Then you can contract money in circulation and keep the catch.
7. You can make governments go to war with other countries for their resources.
8. You can enslave the populace with debt.
After which it is up to you as to what you want to do with the country.
The Roman empire collapsed in one lifetime. Historian Niall Ferguson says America has about two years to get it act together. Empire can collapse very quickly it is usually just that one more thing that happens on top of everything else that causes it to collapse.
I wonder if hyper inflation will occure with the Fed bank asorbing the extra cash out ther and allowing only a certain amount cash out there to be chased by our population? Terry
We must unite against them; we are running out of time, their #s are few ours are many. Get close to your neighbors, speak to strangers at the market or gas station where ever you are spread the word that the international banking conglomerates (Rockefellers, J.P. Morgan, the house of Rothschild and the Military Industrial Complex which has an insatiable thirst for war) all these super rich banking establishments and giant multinational corporations have seized control since George H Bush took the reigns after Reagan got too big for his britches. Every president and its administrations since have been pushing a one world government, World Bank, New world Order. I have seen few solutions proposed. Here is one. Purchase the documentary called The Secret of OZ and make copies this documentary educates about the real enemy we face, as for the strategy to cut this cancer out of our precious republic, insist that any candidate campaigning for any public office agree to abolish and repeal the 1913 federal reserve act and abolish the IRS which was instituted in 1913 to collect the taxes which are paid to the federal reserve for compensation of interest charged on this countries money (or median of exchange)brought into circulation and basically borrowed by our congress, they are encouraged to borrow us into debt by the banks in order for the banks to collect more and more interest, get the picture? These federal reserve banks and there bankers/super rich families whom own the banks have taken over this country and have now looted trillions of dollars of wealth right under your nose. Government has become complicit with these international entities and should be brought to justice. We must insist that a constitutional amendment be enacted to only allow congress to bring interest free green back’s into existence and never a private bank ever again; this will remove the influence the banks have over public policies (creation of wars) and law and cut these parasitical monsters out of our future once and for all.
Mark is RIGHT
I think that the US will splinter, and I think it will be over the have and have nots. A small percentage of people have most of the wealth in the US. Less than 1% own most everything in this country, except what the different forms of governments own, federal, state, county, city. Most of the wealth outside Texas and California is concentrated in the norteast sector of the US. I think that Texas will split off and most of the southeast will follow and some mountain states. I think that California will follow along with Wa. and Oregon. There is no parity in wealth between the different states with the same size geographic area and population size.
Only a matter of time. every one will loose their ass. will any one survive???????? when their is nothing what will happen ????????????????? A WORLD WAR??????????????
Mark is correct, but if we insist that each new president abolish the Fed, there will be a domino effect of “Lee Harvey Oswalds” killing each and every one of them. No president is allowed to actually be the “president”, when offshore banks, Wallstreet, MIC, and Zionist’s are involved and are the ones that hold THE REAL POWER over this country.
2017? no our country dessolved with the Vietnam war, how are We to trust a government who sends its citizens to war on the basis of lies by corporate profiteers. Just like Cheney and his pirates $40 million for each pirate? They should be shot for treason
Guys, google search : Russian Professor predicts end of US.
Its a Wall Street Journal article from 2008. He first proposed his theory in 1998:
“He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S.(…)wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in.
California will form the nucleus of what he calls “The Californian Republic,” and will be part of China or under Chinese influence. Texas will be the heart of “The Texas Republic,” a cluster of states that will go to Mexico or fall under Mexican influence. Washington, D.C., and New York will be part of an “Atlantic America” that may join the European Union. Canada will grab a group of Northern states Prof. Panarin calls “The Central North American Republic.” Hawaii, he suggests, will be a protectorate of Japan or China, and Alaska will be subsumed into Russia”
Mad Max: Road Warrior…here we come!
Pure Fantasy: Its a warning of the times we are in and of possible consequences if we all sit on our backsides and just bla bla about it. Where is the Vote? Who gets the votes? Are there no new Honest Leaders out there trying to get into the seats of Power on our behalf? Yes there are, many, its up to us, and them, to make it happen, and soon. Yes, of course, the worst is going to happen, if we allow it, so will we? Boil it down to its basic parts and one part is paper money. ONLY Coin is debt free and Government issued, ok its a bit heavy to carry around but its a lot lighter than the debt and the interest we have no chance of repaying! Start to ask for and use ONLY coin, lets give the Bankers a run for their money, they got enough and we need more. Value is what we put on ourselves, not what others give us.
The only way out of this mess is taking over the FED ‘manu militari’ and declaring all debt to the FED abolished-illegal. Put together a provisory ‘military-civilian gov.’ and call for general direct elections within 90 days banning both the REP ‘n DEM parties from particicipation ‘n expelling to Israel anyone who smells of AIPAC-ADL, no matter Jewish or not. That includes J. McCaine too.