"I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. "I think the
puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left
is more to my liking." "Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out
both puppets!"- Bill Hicks
"Politicians are in bed with corporate crooks. They don't give a damn about life, liberty, equity, justice, and human need. Policies they support show it. Growing inequality is institutionalized. America's heading for oblivion. People needs are ignored. Depression conditions threaten to become catastrophic. Policymakers able to act don't notice or care. Self-interest defines them. They infest Washington like a metastasizing cancer." - Stephen Lendman
EU Support for Israeli Crimes Makes It Unworthy of Nobel Peace Prize
Australia's Julia Gillard Is No Feminist Hero
Who Wants to Live This Way?
Only Wealth, Power, and Privilege Count
Why Not Vote For Stein, Goode Or Johnson?
Third-Party Candidates Could Spell Trouble for Obama, Romney
9/11 Revisited - Again
Not even the "left" mainstream media will touch this one
NYT: Great Paper. Great Propaganda Organ.
Syria conflict: UN's Pinheiro gives jihadist warning:
Lead investigator Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said the presence of hundreds of "radical Islamists or jihadists" was particularly dangerous. There have been increasing reports of foreign fighters entering Syria.
http://is.gd/OMtO9c
Murder evidence 'after" Qaddafi's death raised: "The evidence suggests that opposition militias summarily executed at least 66 captured members of Kadhafi's convoy in Sirte," his hometown, said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch (HRW). "It also looks as if they took Mutassim Qaddafi, who had been wounded, to [the port city of] Misrata and killed him there,"
http://is.gd/HYhsmm
"Politicians are in bed with corporate crooks. They don't give a damn about life, liberty, equity, justice, and human need. Policies they support show it. Growing inequality is institutionalized. America's heading for oblivion. People needs are ignored. Depression conditions threaten to become catastrophic. Policymakers able to act don't notice or care. Self-interest defines them. They infest Washington like a metastasizing cancer." - Stephen Lendman
Yesterday, after a weekend training in nonviolent civil disobedience,
protesters from the Tar Sands Blockade jubilantly swarmed the Keystone
XL pipeline's construction site in Winnsboro, Texas. Keystone XL
pipeline opponents have tried petitioning the government, filing
lawsuits, and bringing their issues to the media's attention, but with
Obama's recent endorsement of the southern leg of the pipeline, the Tar
Sands Blockade feels justified to resort to civil disobedience.
Here, protesters emerge from a “sit-in” 70 feet in the air, in trees which stood in an area already cleared to make way for the pipeline. Protesters holler and cheer as they flood into the construction site, scrawling “blood for oil” on the machinery and holding up a banner that read: “All pipelines leak, all markets peak”. Some people locked themselves to pieces of equipment and others stood, defiantly, in the way of the dirty oil machines. Eight were arrested yesterday but six of those were released from jail today on charges of criminal trespass. The two who chained themselves to Keystone XL machinery will be in court today.
Here, protesters emerge from a “sit-in” 70 feet in the air, in trees which stood in an area already cleared to make way for the pipeline. Protesters holler and cheer as they flood into the construction site, scrawling “blood for oil” on the machinery and holding up a banner that read: “All pipelines leak, all markets peak”. Some people locked themselves to pieces of equipment and others stood, defiantly, in the way of the dirty oil machines. Eight were arrested yesterday but six of those were released from jail today on charges of criminal trespass. The two who chained themselves to Keystone XL machinery will be in court today.
Evidence Of War Crimes: Bloody Vengeance in Sirte
By Human Rights Watch - WARNING - Report contains disturbing images and video
New Proof of Mass Murder at Gaddafi Death Site.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32768.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32768.htm
White House Covering Up Weapons Pipeline In Syria
Video
Is potential scandal a Syria version of 'Fast and Furious'?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32772.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32772.htm
EU Support for Israeli Crimes Makes It Unworthy of Nobel Peace Prize
By Omar Barghouti
The European
Union is not "merely hypocritical" in its relationship with Israel, it
is "complicit in crimes against the Palestinian people."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32770.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32770.htm
Australia's Julia Gillard Is No Feminist Hero
By John Pilger
Thanks to her, women are now liberated to kill Afghans and others who offer no threat to Australia.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32774.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32774.htm
America R.I.P.
By Paul Craig Roberts
"The United
States will be a third world country in 20 years." We might get there
even sooner as Washington exhausts what little is left of American
wealth in gratuitous wars in service to Israel and the US
Military/Security Complex.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32775.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32775.htm
Who Wants to Live This Way?
Only Wealth, Power, and Privilege Count
By Stephen Lendman
Politicians
are in bed with corporate crooks. They don't give a damn about life,
liberty, equity, justice, and human need. Policies they support show
it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32778.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32778.htm
Police Arrest US Presidential Candidate Jill Stein at Debate Site
By RT
Police
arrested Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running
mate, Cheri Honkala, after they tried to enter the site of tonight's
presidential debate at Hofstra University.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32767.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32767.htm
The Lame Rules for Presidential Debates
A Perfect Microcosm of US Democracy
A Perfect Microcosm of US Democracy
By Glenn Greenwald
Secret collusion between the two parties, funded by corporations, run by lobbyists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32769.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32769.htm
Why Not Vote For Stein, Goode Or Johnson?
Third-Party Candidates Could Spell Trouble for Obama, Romney
By William Callahan
These candidates' chances of taking the Oval Office are slim, but they could siphon votes from Romney and Obama.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32771.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32771.htm
"Loophole" Allows Saudi Arabian Businesses to Spend Freely in Our Election
By Lee Fang
Foreign corporations can in fact influence American democracy in pernicious ways.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32773.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32773.htm
9/11 Revisited - Again
Not even the "left" mainstream media will touch this one
By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Ignoring of all of those warnings from the CIA, for gosh sake was not because of negligence.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32777.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32777.htm
NYT: Great Paper. Great Propaganda Organ.
By Edward S. Herman
Its being pegged as a "liberal" newspaper, and the paper's allowing just enough dissent to give the appearance of balance.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32776.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32776.htm
Three Turkish soldiers killed in PKK attacks on outposts: Kurdish
militants attacked military outposts in southeast Turkey overnight,
triggering clashes in which three Turkish soldiers and three militants
were killed, the governor's office said on Wednesday.
http://is.gd/mdbapu
http://is.gd/mdbapu
PKK vows 'violent reprisal' if Turkey attacks Syrian Kurds: Turkey's
Kurdish rebels will retaliate to any Turkish attacks on Kurds in
war-torn Syria, the second in command of the outlawed PKK said in an
interview published Wednesday.
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2012/10/turkey4230.htm
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2012/10/turkey4230.htm
Syrian rebels shoot down helicopter in Idlib: Video - Rebels downed a helicopter on Wednesday as troops fought to take back a key Syrian town,
http://is.gd/yOv04k
http://is.gd/yOv04k
Syria conflict: UN's Pinheiro gives jihadist warning:
Lead investigator Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said the presence of hundreds of "radical Islamists or jihadists" was particularly dangerous. There have been increasing reports of foreign fighters entering Syria.
http://is.gd/OMtO9c
UN envoy warns of Syria crisis spillover: Lakhdar Brahimi, currently in Lebanon, says if the conflict is not solved, it will set the entire region ablaze.
http://is.gd/ITb7sD
http://is.gd/ITb7sD
Syria says lack of unified rebel leadership prevents holiday cease-fire: The
Syrian government on Wednesday said the international envoy's call for
a holiday cease-fire would likely fail because the rebels fighting to
topple Bashar Assad's regime have no unified leadership to agree to it.
http://is.gd/djPHcP
http://is.gd/djPHcP
Divided Syrian rebels agree on joint leadership: Syria's
divided rebels have agreed to set up a joint leadership to oversee
their battle to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, two insurgent
sources said on Tuesday as fighting raged in cities across the country.
http://is.gd/G7yNuV
http://is.gd/G7yNuV
France pledges help for Syrian 'Revolutionary Councils': French
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Wednesday reiterated France's
support for Syria's opposition movement at a meeting with "elected
"Syrian Revolutionary Councils to which Paris has been providing direct
aid for several months.
http://is.gd/xhH0gH
http://is.gd/xhH0gH
PM: Israel to act if "threatened" by Syria's chemical arms: Israel reserves right to take military action in Syria if chemical weapons fall into hands of "terrorists", Netanyahu says
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4293180,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4293180,00.html
Netanyahu: Any change in Egypt-Israel peace accord would undermine whole treaty: In
a meeting with EU ambassadors, the prime minister expressed little
sympathy with voices in Egypt calling for a review of the peace accord
with Israel.
http://is.gd/HBGnEr
http://is.gd/HBGnEr
Qatar funds major project to rebuild Gaza: Hamas'
international alliances have been shifting of late. Its ties to
Shi'ite Muslim Iran have loosened over the past year and it has grown
closer to the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood which now governs Egypt and the
conservative Arab Gulf state of Qatar.
http://is.gd/0PuPwY
http://is.gd/0PuPwY
Israel asks UN to block ship headed for Gaza: Israel's
UN envoy on Tuesday asked the world body to try to persuade a Swedish
ship carrying rights activists not to try to break the Jewish state's
blockade of the Gaza Strip.
http://is.gd/2ef1TN
http://is.gd/2ef1TN
Medicine crisis in Iran due to sanctions: "We
are feeling the shortage mostly for cancer and MS drugs. Of course,
thalassemia and dialysis patients are also facing hardships. These all
are rooted in problems which have been caused by sanctions against the
banking sector and difficulties transferring foreign currency,"
http://en.trend.az/regions/iran/2077786.html
http://en.trend.az/regions/iran/2077786.html
Ways to Watch PressTV in Europe: After
the Europeans satellite provider Eutelsat SA yanked Press TV off the
air in a flagrant violation of freedom of speech, Iran's
English-language broadcaster has offered its viewers alterative means
of watching its programs. As a result, Press TV will be still
accessible in Europe through the following links:
http://is.gd/vg9t2U
http://is.gd/vg9t2U
Libyan militia murdered 67 detainees: Human Rights Watch alleges pro-Gaddafi fighters, including "dictator's" son Mutassim, were abused and murdered in Sirte
http://is.gd/gaJKMH
http://is.gd/gaJKMH
Murder evidence 'after" Qaddafi's death raised: "The evidence suggests that opposition militias summarily executed at least 66 captured members of Kadhafi's convoy in Sirte," his hometown, said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch (HRW). "It also looks as if they took Mutassim Qaddafi, who had been wounded, to [the port city of] Misrata and killed him there,"
http://is.gd/HYhsmm
CIA operative, U.S. intelligence officer killed in Afghan 'insider attack': An
officer for the Central Intelligence Agency was among those killed in a
suicide bombing at an Afghan intelligence office - the latest
so-called "insider attack" in the war, according to one current and one
former U.S. official.
http://is.gd/VgGR71
http://is.gd/VgGR71
Suicide Truck Bombing By Taliban At Afghan Military Base, 55 Wounded: Around
55 people were injured in East Afghanistan Wednesday morning when a
suicide bomber rammed his explosive laden truck into a U.S.-Afghan
military base, local media reported.
http://is.gd/d87Q5x
http://is.gd/d87Q5x
Afghanistan's safest province "falling prey" to Taliban: Local
people say the insurgent stranglehold is now so tight that the
province is effectively cut off by road in all directions and safely
reachable only by air.
http://is.gd/dPVfLO
http://is.gd/dPVfLO
Deadline dismissed: US wants troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014: "The
point of the upcoming negotiations is to agree on an extension of the
US troop presence well past 2014, for the purposes of conducting
counterterrorism operations and training and advising the Afghan
security forces."
http://is.gd/PlNnTb
http://is.gd/PlNnTb
Special troops sent to fend off Taliban: THE
Australian Defence Force is sending 65 highly trained airfield defence
guards to protect the coalition base at Tarin Kowt following a Taliban
attack on another coalition base in Afghanistan that destroyed several
RAF jets.
http://is.gd/Y8Fa82
http://is.gd/Y8Fa82
Pakistan: 'Drone attacks kill 80% innocent people':
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Wednesday that the majority of those killed in drone attacks were innocent people.
http://is.gd/YsLSUy
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Wednesday that the majority of those killed in drone attacks were innocent people.
http://is.gd/YsLSUy
Cardinal causes uproar with "Muslim scare" video at Vatican: - A
Roman Catholic cardinal has caused an uproar at the Vatican by
screening a spurious YouTube video that makes alarmist predictions
about the growth of Islam in Europe.
http://is.gd/KmmeUN
http://is.gd/KmmeUN
Britain deals blow to U.S. extradition treaty, blocks handover of hacker: The
British government took steps Tuesday to roll back a controversial
extradition treaty with the United States, blocking the handover of an
autistic computer whiz who had hacked U.S. military databases and
moving to enact legislation that could complicate future attempts by
American prosecutors to pursue alleged criminals in Britain.
http://is.gd/4wiOP1
http://is.gd/4wiOP1
In a world gone crazy:
Police taser blind man: A "terrified" blind man was hit with a 50,000 volt taser gun after police mistook his white stick for a Samurai sword. Stroke victim Colin Farmer, 61, collapsed to the ground in shock after he was hit in the back with the gun while walking down the street in Chorley, Lancs.
http://is.gd/FupSn5
Police taser blind man: A "terrified" blind man was hit with a 50,000 volt taser gun after police mistook his white stick for a Samurai sword. Stroke victim Colin Farmer, 61, collapsed to the ground in shock after he was hit in the back with the gun while walking down the street in Chorley, Lancs.
http://is.gd/FupSn5
Plans to monitor all Britons' online activity : Under
the government's plans, currently being scrutinised by Parliament,
service providers will have to store details of internet use in the UK
for a year to allow police and intelligence services to access it.
Records will include people's activity on social network sites,
webmail, internet phone calls and online gaming.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19968068?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19968068?
Watch the Full Town Hall Debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney - Video - President
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney met for the second time in a town hall
debate moderated by Candy Crowley at Hofstra University on October
16th, 2012.
http://is.gd/M1neUD
http://is.gd/M1neUD
China Set to Lose Top U.S. Lender Spot to Japan: China
is poised to lose its place as the U.S.'s biggest creditor for the
first time since the height of the financial crisis, blunting one of
Mitt Romney's favored attacks in the presidential campaign.
http://is.gd/tG4zsL
http://is.gd/tG4zsL
Daryl Hannah: Op-Ed - Why I'm standing up to TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline in east Texas: Don't
buy the tale that this tar sands oil will make the US
energy-independent. It's export for profit, even as spills poison our
water.
http://is.gd/2MYDAf
http://is.gd/2MYDAf
Greece, Spain 'in depression': Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz: Greece
and Spain are in "depression, not recession", Nobel prize-winning
economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Wednesday, blaming tough austerity
measures for their downward economic spiral.
http://is.gd/K9hdi2
http://is.gd/K9hdi2
Germany shocks EU with fiscal overlord demand: Germany
has stated its exorbitant price for keeping Greece in the euro and
agreeing to mass bond purchases by the European Central Bank.
http://is.gd/kbLsz4
http://is.gd/kbLsz4
Should Millionaires Get Unemployment Benefits?: Nearly
2,400 Americans in households with $1 million or more in annual income
got unemployment insurance in tax-year 2009, according to a recent
report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
http://is.gd/6axPUv
http://is.gd/6axPUv
Colorado's working poor: 'Suddenly, I'm living below the poverty line': The
US poverty rate has risen 19% since 2000. Gary Younge talks to voters
in Fort Collins about the struggle to stay afloat - and whether Obama
or Romney offers any kind of solution.
http://is.gd/QLBgym
http://is.gd/QLBgym
Bad to the bone: A medical horror story: When
medical device company Synthes decided to illegally test a bone cement
on people, the results were disastrous. A disturbing tale of corporate
crime and punishment.
http://is.gd/cXd0hY
http://is.gd/cXd0hY
Are
we on the verge of societal collapse? Many of the greatest empires
throughout world history were not conquered by outside forces. Rather,
they crumbled inwardly as extreme social decay set in.
There have been many that have compared the last days of the Roman Empire to what America is going through right now. In the decades following World War II, the United States was the most powerful and the most prosperous nation on the entire planet, but now things are rapidly changing.
There are literally thousands of signs that our society is collapsing all around us. All you have to do to see this is turn on a television or pick up a newspaper. I spend a lot of time discussing our nightmarish economic and political headaches in this column, but the truth is that our problems go much deeper than that.
Even if a major miracle happened and we got the "right person" into the White House, the Federal Reserve was shut down, our 16 trillion dollar national debt was paid off, our trade deficit went to zero, a solution was found for the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble and the "too big to fail" banks were broken up, we would still be facing a national crisis of unprecedented magnitude.
The cold, hard reality of the matter is that America has become an absolute cesspool of filth and corruption, and the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is rapidly disappearing. Until we get our hearts right, there is not much hope for the future of this once great nation.
So are these the last days of America? The following are 25 signs of extreme social decay....
#1 We have come to accept that it is "normal" that security goons should be allowed to touch the private parts of our women and our children in the name of "national security". Just check out the ordeal that conservative radio host and Breitbart editor Dana Loesch suffered through recently at the hands of the TSA...
#3 It is hard to imagine some of the sick things that people do behind closed doors. Down in Florida, one former medical examiner was apparently collecting human body parts...
#5 Many debt collectors are willing to say absolutely despicable things in order to collect debts. One debt collector recently told a disabled military veteran that if he would have "served our country better" he would not be disabled and that he "should have died"...
#8 We are continuing to see a rash of "zombie attacks" all over the nation. The following is one recent example from Pennsylvania....
#10 Evidence of social decay extends to the highest levels of the federal government. Just check out what some highly paid federal workers have been doing when they were supposed to be working...
#12 The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world, and many of our prisons are absolute hellholes. The following is what a former inmate named Daniel Miller recently told Business Insider about what really goes on inside our prisons...
#14 What in the world has gotten into our kids? Many of them have literally turned into little monsters. Just check out what two little boys recently did to a church in Virginia...
#16 You might want to think twice before becoming a pizza delivery worker. Just check out what happened over in Dallas recently...
#18 Last year it was reported that 86 teen girls at one high school in Memphis, Tennessee were either pregnant or had recently given birth.
#19 Sex trafficking has become a raging epidemic in America. It is estimated that there are now approximately a million prostitutes in the United States. Most of them are being trafficked by male "pimps".
#20 As our social decay gets even deeper, it is going to become more important than ever to secure our homes. Just check out what happened over in Kansas City, Missouri recently...
#22 Racial hatred is rising to distressing new heights in this country. Here is one recent example...
#24 Respect for parents has declined to shockingly low levels in America. Just check out what one son down in Florida recently did to his own mother...
Sadly, a list like this one could go on indefinitely. More examples of extreme social decay pop up in the news almost hourly.
But we don't like to admit that we have problems. Our politicians continue to proclaim how we are "the greatest nation on earth" and that the rest of the world should follow our example.
Rarely do you ever hear politicians talk about how we are the most obese nation on the planet, about how we have the highest divorce rate on the planet or about how we have the highest teen pregnancy rate on the planet.
Until we are willing to admit just how bad things have gotten, we will never be willing to accept the solutions that are necessary to start fixing things.
Many Americans are pinning their hopes on the upcoming election, but instead of making things better I am concerned that this election may trigger a lot of the anger that is boiling just under the surface in this country.
If we continue down the path that we are currently on, the social decay that we are now experiencing is going to accelerate.
The fundamental level of trust that any society needs in order to operate efficiently is breaking down, and more Americans than ever are living in fear. You can see it in their eyes.
Our politicians can pile on millions more laws, rules and regulations and they can put a police officer on every corner, but that isn't going to make Americans trust one another. Once confidence in our societal institutions and our faith in one another is gone, it is going to be incredibly difficult to ever rebuild it.
Yes, we really are on the verge of societal collapse. What we are experiencing right now is just the leading edge of the coming crisis.
Things are going to get a whole lot worse from here.
There have been many that have compared the last days of the Roman Empire to what America is going through right now. In the decades following World War II, the United States was the most powerful and the most prosperous nation on the entire planet, but now things are rapidly changing.
There are literally thousands of signs that our society is collapsing all around us. All you have to do to see this is turn on a television or pick up a newspaper. I spend a lot of time discussing our nightmarish economic and political headaches in this column, but the truth is that our problems go much deeper than that.
Even if a major miracle happened and we got the "right person" into the White House, the Federal Reserve was shut down, our 16 trillion dollar national debt was paid off, our trade deficit went to zero, a solution was found for the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble and the "too big to fail" banks were broken up, we would still be facing a national crisis of unprecedented magnitude.
The cold, hard reality of the matter is that America has become an absolute cesspool of filth and corruption, and the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is rapidly disappearing. Until we get our hearts right, there is not much hope for the future of this once great nation.
So are these the last days of America? The following are 25 signs of extreme social decay....
#1 We have come to accept that it is "normal" that security goons should be allowed to touch the private parts of our women and our children in the name of "national security". Just check out the ordeal that conservative radio host and Breitbart editor Dana Loesch suffered through recently at the hands of the TSA...
They performed the regular pat-down and then the agent informed me that she would be using the front of her hands to "sweep" my groin. She pressed and swept across my crotch three times horizontally and three times vertically. In any other circumstance this would be sexual assault.#2 Police up in New Jersey say that a man kept his girlfriend padlocked in a bedroom for most of the last 10 years.
The agents themselves were friendly and smiled, yet I was still denied a public screening and no witness of my own present for the screening itself (a second agent was in the room at the time). I had no reason to be angry with the agents themselves, yet I was angry, and still am, at the regulations which require them to routinely violate men, women, and children in the name of a false sense of security.
#3 It is hard to imagine some of the sick things that people do behind closed doors. Down in Florida, one former medical examiner was apparently collecting human body parts...
In what could be described as an episode of Auction Hunters turned reality horror show, authorities in Pensacola are investigating after finding human brains, hearts and lungs in a storage unit they say belonged to a former medical examiner.#4 A former fifth grade teacher down in Atlanta has admitted that she helped her students cheat because they were "dumb as hell".
Someone bought the storage unit at an auction last week and noticed a foul smell as they were sifting through furniture and boxes.
Officials at the medical examiner's office in Pensacola say the remains of more than 100 people were found crudely stored in Tupperware containers, garbage bags and drink cups.
#5 Many debt collectors are willing to say absolutely despicable things in order to collect debts. One debt collector recently told a disabled military veteran that if he would have "served our country better" he would not be disabled and that he "should have died"...
"If you would have served our country better you would not be a disabled veteran living off Social Security while the rest of us honest Americans work our asses off," one of the agency's debt collectors allegedly told the vet. "Too bad, you should have died."#6 In many areas of the country, street drugs have become so powerful that they are pushing users completely over the edge. Of course there is never any excuse for murdering children, but would any rational person do this kind of thing without being high on drugs?...
Michael Collier was declared 100 per cent disabled after suffering permanent spine and head injuries while in the Army. As a result, both Collier and his wife receive disability payments from the federal Social Security Administration, which are exempt from seizure by debt collectors.
A Camden, N.J. man was charged with murder for allegedly slashing the throat of a 6-year-old Camden boy. Police say he told investigators he was smoking a combination of marijuana and PCP, known as "Wet" just before the killing.#7 A school bus driver in Wisconsin recently told a 12-year-old boy that "maybe your mother should have chosen abortion for you" because he didn't like the Romney campaign sign standing in his front yard.
Osvaldo "Popeye" Rivera, 31, was arrested Sunday afternoon and charged with murder and attempted murder.
Police say Rivera was trying to sexually assault the boy's 12-year-sister and the little boy tried to come to her defense. Investigators say Rivera slashed the throats of both children.
#8 We are continuing to see a rash of "zombie attacks" all over the nation. The following is one recent example from Pennsylvania....
A Doylestown man, who was naked and bleeding profusely, gnawed on woman's head all while "screaming like an animal" during a wild neighborhood rampage, state police said.#9 A beekeeper over in North Carolina says that someone recently stole 20,000 bees from his property.
#10 Evidence of social decay extends to the highest levels of the federal government. Just check out what some highly paid federal workers have been doing when they were supposed to be working...
In 2006, the deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security was arrested for trying to seduce online someone he thought was a teenage girl. Four years later, the Securities and Exchange Commission found that 17 of 31 employees caught accessing porn at work since 2008 - one for up to eight hours a day - were senior staff.#11 In a shocking murder trial in southern California, prosecutors have played a tape of a former chef admitting to police that he slow cooked the body of his wife for four days.
In 2010, the Boston Globe reported that senior Pentagon staff were downloading child porn. Instead of generating a media storm, the story died. Senior staff were watching the sexual torture of small children on Pentagon computers, and Americans were not outraged?
#12 The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world, and many of our prisons are absolute hellholes. The following is what a former inmate named Daniel Miller recently told Business Insider about what really goes on inside our prisons...
"When they found out the black homosexual had approached me talking that homosexual stuff, I was told 'Look you have to stab him or pipe him down,'" Miller recently told Business Insider about his first experiences during two decades spent in and out of prison, most recently for robbery.#13 A 7-year-old boy was part of a gang of youths that recently invaded the home of a 51-year-old woman and beat the living daylights out of her.
"The guys were there just to make sure I actually split this guy's head open."
Those "guys" were the Aryan Brotherhood, one of the most famous and feared jailhouse gangs.
Miller, now 38, joined up when he first entered the correctional system in Kansas as a teen. He bounced around a number of different facilities before being released on Sept. 19 this year.
"At 16 years old, I wanted to be accepted in prison," he said. "I would fight everybody."
He grew so cold and so good at fighting he became the one ordering attacks on fellow inmates - something that still haunts him.
#14 What in the world has gotten into our kids? Many of them have literally turned into little monsters. Just check out what two little boys recently did to a church in Virginia...
Two little boys caused thousands of dollars worth of damage to a Loudon County church, according to officials.#15 A former high school English teacher has been accused of having sex with five different male students. The most disturbing part is that she is a mother of three children and her husband is serving this country in the U.S. Army.
The vandals used the children's toys and art supplies to damage the sanctuary, fellowship hall, and Sunday school rooms. They also smeared food for needy families and their own feces and urine on walls and floors.
According to Loudon County Sheriff Tim Guider, all that damage was done by two boys, aged 6 and 7.
#16 You might want to think twice before becoming a pizza delivery worker. Just check out what happened over in Dallas recently...
Two Dallas teens called in a pizza order to lure a delivery worker to a Grand Prairie house, then beat the woman in the head with a pistol and sexually assaulted her on the porch, according to Grand Prairie police reports released Wednesday.#17 According to shocking new research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately two-thirds of all Americans in the 15 to 24 year old age bracket have engaged in oral sex.
Bleeding and wearing just a bra, the 30-year-old woman drove herself back to a Grand Prairie Pizza Hut, the reports stated.
The 17-year-olds accused in the July 24 robbery and sexual assault were in custody Wednesday at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center in Dallas in what Grand Prairie police are calling one of the city's "most heinous offenses" in recent memory.
#18 Last year it was reported that 86 teen girls at one high school in Memphis, Tennessee were either pregnant or had recently given birth.
#19 Sex trafficking has become a raging epidemic in America. It is estimated that there are now approximately a million prostitutes in the United States. Most of them are being trafficked by male "pimps".
#20 As our social decay gets even deeper, it is going to become more important than ever to secure our homes. Just check out what happened over in Kansas City, Missouri recently...
An elderly couple is recovering Tuesday after they were brutally beaten inside their south Kansas City home.#21 It is becoming easy to understand why so many Americans are arming themselves these days. Even Brad Pitt says that he "doesn't feel safe" without a gun.
The woman was also raped, according to a police report.
Tony L. Putman, 18, of Kansas City was charged with six felonies Tuesday afternoon. The charges include one count of rape and two counts of robbery.
The couple's ordeal began about 1:30 p.m. Monday when a man broke into their home near 73rd Street and Campbell Avenue. Entry was gained through a basement window, which was broken.
#22 Racial hatred is rising to distressing new heights in this country. Here is one recent example...
A Michigan State University student is recovering after he was beaten up and had his mouth stapled shut during what investigators are categorizing as a brutal hate crime.#23 Overall, more than 50 million abortions have been performed in the United States since Roe vs. Wade was decided back in 1973. At this point, the number of babies killed by abortion in America every year is almost as high as the total number of military deaths in all of U.S. history.
Zachary Tennen, a 19-year-old sophomore in MSU's journalism program, said he was at a house party on the 500 block of Spartan Avenue early Sunday morning when two men approached him and asked if he was Jewish. When he responded "Yes," the two men raised their arms into a Nazi salute and said "Heil Hitler" before knocking him unconscious, according to Tennen's mother, Tina.
About 20 people reportedly watched as the men proceeded to staple Zachary Tennen's mouth shut at the lips and gums. His jaw was broken in two places during the attack.
#24 Respect for parents has declined to shockingly low levels in America. Just check out what one son down in Florida recently did to his own mother...
A Florida man yesterday rubbed dog feces in his mother's face during an argument in the home they share, police report.#25 A 21-year-old Utah man is being accused of stabbing his grandmother 111 times and then removing some of her organs. But news like this hardly makes headlines anymore because crimes such as this one have become so common.
Cops arrested William Jenkins, 22, on a felony domestic battery charge for pushing his mother, 53, to the floor during the dispute, according to a Palmetto Police Department report.
When questioned by cops, Jenkins denied pushing his mother, but admitted that he "did rub dog defecation on her face because she yelled at him," investigators noted.
Sadly, a list like this one could go on indefinitely. More examples of extreme social decay pop up in the news almost hourly.
But we don't like to admit that we have problems. Our politicians continue to proclaim how we are "the greatest nation on earth" and that the rest of the world should follow our example.
Rarely do you ever hear politicians talk about how we are the most obese nation on the planet, about how we have the highest divorce rate on the planet or about how we have the highest teen pregnancy rate on the planet.
Until we are willing to admit just how bad things have gotten, we will never be willing to accept the solutions that are necessary to start fixing things.
Many Americans are pinning their hopes on the upcoming election, but instead of making things better I am concerned that this election may trigger a lot of the anger that is boiling just under the surface in this country.
If we continue down the path that we are currently on, the social decay that we are now experiencing is going to accelerate.
The fundamental level of trust that any society needs in order to operate efficiently is breaking down, and more Americans than ever are living in fear. You can see it in their eyes.
Our politicians can pile on millions more laws, rules and regulations and they can put a police officer on every corner, but that isn't going to make Americans trust one another. Once confidence in our societal institutions and our faith in one another is gone, it is going to be incredibly difficult to ever rebuild it.
Yes, we really are on the verge of societal collapse. What we are experiencing right now is just the leading edge of the coming crisis.
Things are going to get a whole lot worse from here.
.....................keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons......................
....................................kosmicdebris..........................
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