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How Civilizations Collapse — Is U.S. Next?

What ruins societies is well known: too much consumption and not enough production, a debased currency and endemic corruption.

Two more fundamental causes for decline are even more frightening: an unwillingness to pay taxes and the end of the rule of law.

Federal immigration law enforcement is now predicated on politics. The law as it was written suddenly has ceased to exist — at least for particular groups at particular times and places.

If elements of the controversial Affordable Care Act were deemed politically risky, then their implementation was ignored until after an election. If the EPA could not see its agenda passed through Congress as federal law, then it implemented its green policies by fiat.


http://news.investor...apse.htm?p=full

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Because Life is So Easy - That's Why We Can Get Away With Denying Reality

The denial of reality involved in the Jenner and the Dolezal affairs:

It has something to do with the ever-increasing availability of screen-based entertainment (movies, TV, the internet), but

When nearly all children survive infancy and there is so little violent death, the urgency of getting children on the ground and fed and off the nest becomes rather less urgent.

When most of us can get a decent job by sleepwalking through school for 12 or 16 years, then we can afford to indulge ourselves in a bit of fantasy in between the times we have to show up for work.

We can afford to have educated twentysomethings wasting their youth pretending to be artists and writers in some yeasty urban "ideopolis."

We can afford to have people experimenting with gender.

We can afford to have and "underclass" of violent gangbangers and welfare scroungers. We can even afford to have people bullying other people around with their stupid and twisted doctrines of social justice.

We can afford to have a huge government edifice doing useless things with extraordinary ineptitude.

We can afford this because we are so rich, as a result of 200 years of the Great Enrichment. But if and when things turn south, then the penalty for living in a fantasy will go way, way up.


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Because Life is So Easy - That's Why We Can Get Away With Denying Reality

We can afford to have an "underclass" of violent gangbangers and welfare scroungers. We can even afford to have people bullying other people around with their stupid and twisted doctrines of social justice.

We can afford to have a huge government edifice doing useless things with extraordinary ineptitude.

We can afford this because we are so rich, as a result of 200 years of the Great Enrichment. But if and when things turn south, then the penalty for living in a fantasy will go way, way up.

Muslim groups (especially Arab ones) are the polar opposites of Northwest Europeans.

Northwestern European society is liberal, democratic, individualistic, secular, and high-trust.

Arab society is illiberal, autocratic, collectivist, extremely religious, and low-trust.

Social bonds in Northwestern European societies are primarily among non-relatives (at least past the nuclear family).

Social bonds in Arab society are structured around kin. Institutions in NW European societies are rule-bound. Institutions in Arab societies are corrupt.

In France, Muslims make up 60% of all prison inmates, while being only 12% of the total population (Leclerc, 2014). Similarly, 7 out of 10 burglaries, assaults, and violent thefts are committed by first- or second-generation immigrants (Chevrier and Raufer, 2014). Most of these perps seem to be Muslim, although a third of them may be West Indians, Africans, and Roma of nominally Christian background. Muslims seem to be especially overrepresented in serious violent crimes that lead to prison sentences.

Similar trends are developing elsewhere. Muslims make up 70% all prison inmates in Spain and 45% in Belgium (WikiIslam, 2013 see Note 1; Sudinfo.be, 2013).


http://www.unz.com/j...orism-quotient/

[diogenes227]

Seeing red as terrorists win by preying on ignorance, intolerance and fear.

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Europe’s disintegration could be biggest threat of 2016

 

If Brexit were to occur, other dominos would fall. Scotland might decide to leave the U.K., leading to the breakup of Britain. This could inspire other separatist movements — perhaps starting in Catalonia — to push even more forcefully for independence. And the EU’s Nordic members may decide that with the U.K. gone, they, too, would be better off leaving.

 

As for terrorism, the sheer number of homegrown jihadists means that the question for Europe is not whether another attack will occur, but when and where. And repeated attacks could sharply reduce business and consumer confidence and stall Europe’s fragile economic recovery.

 

Those who argue that the migration crisis also poses an existential threat to Europe are right. But the issue is not the million newcomers entering Europe in 2015. It is the 20 million more who are displaced, desperate, and seeking to escape violence, civil war, state failure, desertification, and economic collapse in large parts of the Middle East and Africa. If Europe is unable to find a coordinated solution to this problem and enforce a common external border, the Schengen Agreement will collapse and internal borders between the EU member states will reappear.

 

Meanwhile, austerity and reform fatigue on the eurozone periphery — and among noneurozone EU members such as Hungary and Poland — is clashing with bailout fatigue in the core. Populist parties of the left and right — with their shared hostility to free trade, migration, 

 

 

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[AChartist]

Fitts on the third rail, is the junk conspiracy planted in alternate media to

 

obfuscate real crime.

 

Similar to the marx dialectic, modeled like thesis-antithesis-synthesis, but crime-diversion-whiteout

 

 

Stocks, were they thought they afforded that waste and sloth, is because they never paid for anything.

 

 

My daughter said my 200k house now costs 600k in Nashville. The 400k ponzie for just the hyperinflation part of housing

 

is $30 an hour taxed for lifetime.  Not counting federali tuition or Obamacare hyperinflation yet either.

 

They better start chanting on $100 min wage, for non-producing waste pay.

 

 

 

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Prediction from 2002:

 

“This European superstate will not endure, but break apart on the barrier reef of nationalism. For when the hard times come, patriots will recapture control of their national destinies from Brussels bureaucrats to whom no one will ever give loyalty or love.”

“Europe is dying. There is not a single nation in all of Europe with a birth rate sufficient to keep its population alive, except Muslim Albania. In 17 European nations, there are already more burials than births, more coffins than cradles.

“Between 2000 and 2050, Asia, Africa and Latin America will add 3 billion to 4 billion people — 30 to 40 new Mexicos! — as Europe loses the equal of the entire population of Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Germany.

“By 2050, the median age in Europe will be 50, nine years older than the oldest nation on earth today, Japan. One in 10 Europeans will be over 80. And who will take care of these scores of millions of elderly, before the Dutch doctors arrive at the nursing home?

“Immigrants is the answer, immigrants already pouring into Europe in the hundreds of thousands annually from the Middle East and Africa, changing the character of the Old Continent. Just as Europe once invaded and colonized Asia, Africa and the Near East, the once-subject peoples are coming to colonize the mother countries. And as the Christian churches of Europe empty out, the mosques are going up.

“Yet, even as great nations like France, Germany, Italy and Spain grow weary of the strain of staying independent, sovereign and free, the sub-nations within are struggling to be born again. In Scotland, Wales, Ulster, Corsica, the Basque country and northern Italy are secessionist movements not unlike those that broke up Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union into [24] independent nations.”

 

 

 

http://www.unz.com/p...disintegrating/

 

 

 

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Prediction from 1996:

 

[S]ooner or later, as the globalist elites seek to drag the country into conflicts and global commitments, preside over the economic pastoralization of the United States, manage the delegitimization of our own culture, and the dispossession of our people, and disregard or diminish our national interests and national sovereignty, a nationalist reaction is almost inevitable and will probably assume populist form when it arrives. The sooner it comes, the better… [Samuel Francis in Chronicles]

 

 

 

http://theweek.com/a...p-campaign-1996

 

[AChartist]

Everything can change after spring, not sure the date of German surrender, this year ends 70 years unconditional surrender.

 

The next german president wont take oath to the shadow alphabet. The German people have had it, the hoax ww-ii history is well known

 

in Germany now.

 

 

This looks like a just break it o'cult operation, order out of chaos.

 

 

Germany Lost Track of 600,000 Refugees; Who knows Where they are Now?

Posted on January 23, 2016  by  Martin Armstrong
 

German Transit Zone

The German government has now admitted it cannot account for 600,000 of the 1.1 million migrants who arrived into the country last year. And people wonder why the borders are closing? Germany has become one giant mess – a transit stop who what purpose? Germany was not equipped to handle these refugees and this is now raising concerns sky-high behind the curtain. Now 600,000 refugees can be anywhere throughout the EU. That is bigger than any army in history. Was Europe just invaded? This is beginning to look like the invasion of the Huns.

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Europe’s disintegration could be biggest threat of 2016

 

If Brexit were to occur, other dominos would fall. Scotland might decide to leave the U.K., leading to the breakup of Britain. This could inspire other separatist movements — perhaps starting in Catalonia — to push even more forcefully for independence. And the EU’s Nordic members may decide that with the U.K. gone, they, too, would be better off leaving.

 

As for terrorism, the sheer number of homegrown jihadists means that the question for Europe is not whether another attack will occur, but when and where. And repeated attacks could sharply reduce business and consumer confidence and stall Europe’s fragile economic recovery.

 

Those who argue that the migration crisis also poses an existential threat to Europe are right. But the issue is not the million newcomers entering Europe in 2015. It is the 20 million more who are displaced, desperate, and seeking to escape violence, civil war, state failure, desertification, and economic collapse in large parts of the Middle East and Africa. If Europe is unable to find a coordinated solution to this problem and enforce a common external border, the Schengen Agreement will collapse and internal borders between the EU member states will reappear.

 

Meanwhile, austerity and reform fatigue on the eurozone periphery — and among noneurozone EU members such as Hungary and Poland — is clashing with bailout fatigue in the core. Populist parties of the left and right — with their shared hostility to free trade, migration, 

 

 

http://www.marketwat...&dist=bigcharts

 

 

Britain to hold EU referendum on June 23

 

Date announced for historic referendum on whether to stay in the EU, after UK secures "special status" deal in Brussels.

 

 

http://www.aljazeera...0125646701.html