Economic Recovery?

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/economic-recovery

If this is supposed to be an “economic recovery” it sure is pathetic.  In fact, as you will read below, the numbers tell us that this is the worst economic recovery that the American economy has ever seen.  If what we had experienced was a “normal” recession and a “normal” recovery, then jobs, economic growth and home values would have come roaring back by now.  But they haven’t.  The Federal Reserve injected unprecedented amounts of new money into the system and the federal government went into unprecedented amounts of new debt, but all of that effort has not accomplished much.  It did buy us a little bit of time and a period of relative economic stability, but now there are all kinds of signs that we are about to go into another recession (or something even worse).  So is it really honest for Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama to be using the term “economic recovery” to describe what is happening?

The truth is that what is really taking place is that the long-term economic decline of the United States is beginning to accelerate.

But most Americans simply don’t understand what is going on.

The mainstream media teaches us to blame our politicians for the economy.  One recent survey found that 44 percent of the American people believe that the U.S. economy is “worse than when Obama was inaugurated”.

Yes, Barack Obama is a horrible president.  But the economic downfall of this nation is not all his fault.  George W. Bush was a horrible president too.  So was Bill Clinton.  Congress has been corrupt and incompetent for decades.

Of course the institution that is most responsible for our economic problems is the Federal Reserve.  Thankfully, more Americans than ever are starting to realize this.

But if you listen to Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama, you would think that a great “economic recovery” has begun.  They would have us believe that they know exactly what our problems are and that they know exactly how to get us out of this mess.

Unfortunately, what we have experienced is not much of an “economic recovery” at all.  According to the Wall Street Journal, this is the worst “recovery” from a recession that the U.S. economy has ever seen….

On economic growth, real GDP has risen 0.8% over the 13 quarters since the recession began, compared to an average increase of 9.9% in past recoveries. From the beginning of the recession to April 2011, real personal income has grown just .9% compared to 9.4% for the same period in previous post 1960 recessions.

So what is really going on?

Sadly, what we are experiencing right now is a brief period of stability in the middle of a downward spiral toward economic oblivion.

The CEO of Pimco, Mohamed El-Erian, says that it should now be obvious to everyone that all of the efforts of the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve to stimulate the economy simply have not been enough to solve the structural economic challenges that we are facing….

“It’s clear that the stimulus-induced recovery hasn’t overcome the structural challenges to large-scale job creation.”

The U.S. economy is not producing enough jobs.  Today, there are 25 million Americans that are either unemployed or underemployed.

But the inability to create jobs is not a new phenomenon for the U.S. economy.  The truth is that between 2000 and 2007, the U.S. economy had its poorest stretch of job creation since the Great Depression.

However, since 2007 the employment situation in this country has gotten a lot worse.  Take a minute and watch the stunning video posted below.  It shows how rampant unemployment swept across this country between 2007 and 2011….

Our politicians promised us that globalization would be great for the U.S. economy.

Well, it was great for the big corporations to be able to pay slave labor wages to workers on the other side of the globe, but things have not worked out so well for workers in this country.

Millions of our jobs have been lost.  Millions more jobs are being lost.  Yet our politicians do nothing to stop the bleeding.

Things have gotten so bad that even the top of the food chain is shipping jobs overseas.

Just consider this recent headline which appeared in Business Insider: “Goldman Sachs Is Firing Employees In The US So It Can Hire 1,000 In Singapore“

If even jobs at Goldman Sachs are being sent out of the country, are any of our jobs safe?

Many Americans would love to start a business instead of having to work for someone else, but the economic environment has become incredibly toxic for small businesses in the United States.

The rate of new business creation in the United States has been declining steadily since the 1980s.  Our politicians are literally choking the entrepreneurial spirit to death in this country.

Today, more Americans than ever are dependent on the government.  In fact, it has gotten to the point where the U.S. economy itself is highly dependent on the government.

So what is going to happen when the government is not handing out so many goodies?

The era of rampant spending in Washington D.C. seems to be coming to an end, at least for now.  The U.S. national debt has become so outrageous that many members of Congress are finally determined to start making some cuts.

While it is true that cutting government spending is long overdue, most Americans don’t realize that cutting government spending will also mean that “the economic sugar high” that we have been experiencing will start to wear off.

If we try to live within our means, that is going to cause a lot of economic pain, and the American people are not too good about making sacrifices these days.

Look, whoever is elected in 2012 is going to be in for a rough ride.  Some very difficult economic times are ahead, and whoever is elected in 2012 is going to get blamed.  By 2016, the president is probably going to be the most hated person in America.

But the truth is that these economic problems have been building for decades.

We didn’t get here by accident, and our economic problems are not going to be solved overnight.

In fact, many financial analysts are warning that they are about to get a lot worse.

For example, David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff says that there is a 99 percent chance that the U.S. will fall into another recession by the end of 2012.

As the economy continues to crumble, U.S. cities will become increasingly hostile places in which to live.

According to a recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, 41 percent of Americans say that crime has increased where they live over the past year and only 6 percent of Americans say that crime has decreased where they live over the past year.

But just wait until the economy really collapses – that is when all hell will break loose.

In a recent article entitled “Is The Economy Improving?“, I quoted statistic after statistic that showed that the U.S. economy is actually continuing to decline.

The American people are starting to lose patience.  In fact, people all over the country are starting to get more than a little crazy.  For example, there is a now a national “epidemic” of people robbing pharmacies in order to get a hold of painkillers.

Pharmacists all over the country are being robbed at gunpoint.  Some prescription painkillers will reportedly sell for as much as 80 dollars a pill on the street.  As a recent article in the Washington Post noted, things are getting really dangerous out there for pharmacists….

“It’s an epidemic,” said Michael Fox, a pharmacist on New York’s Staten Island who has been stuck up twice in the last year. “These people are depraved. They’ll kill you.”

Armed robberies at pharmacies rose 81 percent between 2006 and 2010, from 380 to 686, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says. The number of pills stolen went from 706,000 to 1.3 million. Thieves are overwhelmingly taking oxycodone painkillers like OxyContin or Roxicodone, or hydrocodone-based painkillers like Vicodin and Norco. Both narcotics are highly addictive.

But this is what our country is turning into.

We are a nation of addicts.

Our national addiction to debt and our national addiction to greed have brought us to the brink of economic disaster.

If you are waiting for an “economic recovery”, you should stop waiting.

This is about as good as things are going to get.

From here on out, things are just going to keep going downhill.

Most Americans are going to be absolutely blindsided by the economic collapse that is coming.

But that doesn’t have to be you.

You still have some time to get prepared.

Five Primary Tribes

Five Primary Tribes
Hellesponte & Kerodin
June 26, 2011

http://www.kerodin.com/five_primary_tribes.htm

Census 2010 race/ethnic %’s for the United States (source) Race 2000 2010 White (NH) 69.1% 63.7% Black (NH) 12.1% 12.2% Asian (HN) 3.6% 4.7% All Other (NH) 2.6% 3.0% Hispanic 12.5% 16.3% Total Minority 30.9% 36.3%

No matter how good you are, how well-prepared, there comes a point in any conflict in which sheer numbers will overwhelm a smaller force.  In Aiki we train against as many as eleven enemies at once.  But the reality is that if 5 grown men bum-rush you, you are usually toast.  If you have one rifle and 10 mags standing alone against 1,000 bum-rushers, you will lose before you run empty.

The table above is valuable, particularly if you believe in a SHTF scenario that people under duress will fall-back along racial and ethnic lines into Tribes.  I think History is decisive on the matter, and we know what to expect.

If you have a bowl half-filled with water and you begin adding oil at a faster rate than water, one day, oil will be the most prevalent substance in the bowl.  Even if you add varieties of oil.  If you add motor oil, vegetable oil and sunflower oil, the water still loses.

What you end up with is a water minority and one day the oils will fight for dominance.

Welcome to America, 2011.

The Hispanic population has surged far beyond the Black population in the last decade alone.  Many of us see the evidence in our communities.  I now live in the same demographic in which I went to elementary school & junior high school in the late 70′s & early 80′s.  Today our “Old Town” is lined with businesses that have all chosen to post all of their primary signage in Spanish.  This was not even conceivable when I was a kid going to school down the street.

Look at a map of the country.  Most inner-cities are dominated by Black residents.  This changes when you start looking at Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada.  Those states are nearly owned today by Hispanic residents.

Consider a SHTF disruption.  I think the average Patriot can understand that with a gentle push from the Armies of the Cartels and perhaps even a supporting role for official Mexican military, our entire southwest becomes lost.  Keeping it, and subsequently beating back any unleashed wave of new immigrants, especially if they are armed, becomes a task that would require significant US Military commitment.

Consider the states of the southwest as foreign territory in a Ruckus.  White Flight from the southwest will be the only way to survive.  Those who stay will discover just how much they are loathed by their Hispanic neighbors, and will learn the value of 2A as they succumb to the mobs wielding machetes.

South of the Border Armies have a significant Fifth Column already well entrenched in major pockets across the country.  Believe me, the Hispanic folks living in my AO do not consider themselves to be Americans.  They have no desire to be Americans.  In an Us versus Them world, they are Them.  I will be seen as a Target of Opportunity…and I think if we were to map the 5 neighborhoods surrounding mine, Hispanics may just be the majority…

So the Southwest will fall with little more than a gentle push.

And every major inner city not under Hispanic control is already under Black control.  Every major inner city, in the early stages of a genuine Ruckus, from Atlanta to New York to Chicago to St. Louis and Kansas City and beyond, will immediately become a No-Go zone without real armor.

A quick study of the blackouts in American history will reveal that the time limit is about 72 hours…after the 72 hour mark has been reached, the riots begin.  And they will consume what is on their shelves, then they will begin Ops into the suburbs…from every major metro in America.  They want stuff and they need stuff.

What is LEO’s plan?  What is FedGov’s plan?

These are variables that are hard to pin down.

So if we are to break into major Tribes they will be: Black, Hispanic, White, LEO, and the Master Class.  Asians may coagulate, but their numbers in America are low and they are spread widely.  Religious Tribes?  Muslims still make up a small number in America, even if you add the N.O.I.  Jews in America will never be a significant armed force.

I have already bet my life that the bonds of skin color will bind more tightly than the bonds of Christianity.  Black Christians will line up shoulder to shoulder with Black Muslims.  Hispanics will side with those who look like themselves, regardless of religion.

There will be many, many subsets, forced by geography but driven by common motivations.  Only after the main enemy is done will subsets of Blacks & Hispanics fuss among themselves.

This is where the true value of Black & Hispanic Tribes exists for Constitutionalists.

The common enemy of Hispanics and Blacks will be represented in the uniforms of LEO.  LEO, of course, is nothing more than the tool of the Master Class, as much a threat to Constitutionalists as every other Tribe.

Anything that stresses LEO and erodes his capability is an advantage for Constitutionalists.

The southwest and inner cities will stress LEO, and will probably break LEO’s back.

Good for us.

Are you in a danger-zone for being surrounded or over-run by other Tribes?

Remember: White, Black, Hispanic, LEO & Those who would be Masters.  Five primary Tribal threats.

Foreign intervention?  Possible, but not without widespread Treason of the highest order and a serious crippling of CONUS.

One more: All of those Whites who have not prepped, have no means of feeding or medicating their own without taking it from you.  They are a threat to you.

Patriots are a very small group, indeed.

Kerodin
III

The benefits of free trade

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2011/06/benefits-of-free-trade.html

Do let’s hear more about how wonderful free trade is and what an intrinsic benefit it must be to everyone:

Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits from China. Wired reports the chips weren’t only low-quality fakes, they had been made with a “back-door” and could have been remotely shut down at any time. If left undiscovered the result could have rendered useless U.S. missiles and killed the signal from aircraft that tells everyone whether it’s friend or foe.

Apparently foreign chip makers are often better at making cheap microchips and U.S. defense contractors are loathe to pass up the better deal.

The important lesson here is that economics are not and cannot be the sole factor taken into consideration when one is contemplating the pros and cons of free trade. The fact that there is no blanket economic justification for free trade is an entirely separate matter.

For La Raza todo

http://causapatet.blogspot.com/

Flash Mobs may be the catalyst needed to awaken a few folks to common sense.

Here:

Hellesponte & Kerodin

Demographics and Tribe don’t lie.

Population growth rates for the United States: 2000-2010:

White (NH) 1.2 %
Black (NH) 11.0 %
Asian (HN) 42.9 %
All Other (NH) 24.1 %
Hispanic 43.0 %
Total Minority 28.8 %

(NH) – data are for single race, non-Hispanic.
Minority = all groups except white, non-Hispanic.

For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada. – For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing.

Don’t think for a moment that they will be rooting for the home team.

M.E.Ch.A.
La Voz de Aztlan
National Council of La Raza
Black Panther Party

There are several other “minority” organizations. Many of which are taxpayer subsidized.

I don’t speak for anyone other than myself. But when you have millions of “minorities” clenching their fists and yelling (insert race here) Power, you better know that those clenched fists are directed at no one but the white people.

I knew a American man several years ago who was of Hispanic (Mexican) decent. He was in a bar with a few of his white friends. Over in the corner, was a group of … Mexicans. One of those Mexicans yelled out to him, “Hey man, why don’t come over here and start acting like your race?!” He walked over to the table of Mexicans and said, “My grandfather came to America legally. My father was born here. I was born here. My grandfather left everything behind him to become an American. My father is an American. I am an American. That is my race. If you want to be a race of Mexicans, then go back to Mexico. I have no room for your race.” By this time, all his white friends were standing behind him.

“Hey man, we don’t want no trouble.” And they slowly slinked out of the bar.

Personally, for myself … I have no room for your race. If you are here, you are an American, or you are not. If you are not … please go back to that shit-hole that you came from. Because you are ****ing up my country.

And while I am at it … for you white multiculturalists … please follow and try your multiculturalism in their country. Hell, go native for all I care.

And uh … what’s up with that 1.2%? Viagra need?

 

Kill whitey?

If it looks like trouble, it probably is. The gang is not there to debate the effects of american corporate expansion on the development of the urban neighborhoods with you.

The Flash Mob Attack – How To Defend?

Don’t wake up in the middle of your beating and think, “I better be brutal!” The time to be brutal is … right now.

Yeah. It happened to me once. And yeah, being brutal worked for me. Ya know, eyes, throat, pulling on the ear with a vengeance, biting, etc. But by the time the “brutal” thunk up in me, I already looked like a train wreck.

Don’t make that mistake.

And let me give you some more advice. When that punk is asking you for money while reaching into his jacket … Brutal. Now. Or when you see the guy pulling out a pocket knife from his coat pocket … Brutal. Now. There is no time to make decisions. The time is now. And brutally.

This all happened in San Francisco Several years ago.. My Sifu was really pissed on that first little gem.

In my hometown, I worked as a bar-back at one of the now closed watering holes. A customer was touching and being rude to one of the waitresses. We asked him to leave. He reached into his jacket pocket and you can see the hammer coming out, it is a gun. The time to be brutal is now. Not when the gun is pointing at you.

When you are accosted at the entrance of the store and a stranger suddenly starts making conversation with you, be aware of your surroundings … he probably has a buddy close by. Leave if you can. Make an excuse. If that doesn’t shake him off, don’t stay stationary while jabbering. Move while talking and be deliberately animated with your hands. They will size you up.

Be aware of your surroundings. And no. They were not all black.

Close your eyes and imagine that you’re with someone who you really love and care about more than anything. It can be your children, your spouse, significant other, family member (sibling, parent) or whomever else that holds the most importance in your life. Imagine that you’re walking down the street, without a care in the world, just enjoying the time you have with your loved one. Out of nowhere appears an attacker, who is ready to rob you and most likely hurt you and your loved one. Here you are, the only thing that stands between the thug and your loved one, the only thing that can protect your loved one. Failure is not an option for you here. You don’t have time to plan or strategize or even think! You simply explode and do whatever it takes to protect your loved one. You pound away until the threat is out of commission. And then you get the hell out of there!

Close your eyes and imagine what would happen if you didn’t protect your loved one. What would happen if you didn’t do everything in your power to keep this person from harm? Can you imagine it? With all the intensity and all the emotion?

Mentally practice that. Learn to turn it on and off. Just don’t stay there.