– Protesters Declare They Are Ready For War As America’s Impoverished Inner Cities Threaten To Erupt (Economic Collapse, Aug 10, 2015):
Are we about to witness a new round of racially-charged protests, riots and demonstrations all across the United States? On Sunday night, a protest that had been organized to commemorate the one year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri took a very violent turn. An 18-year-old named Tyrone Harris that is being described as a “real close” friend of Michael Brown opened fire on police with a stolen handgun. Police returned fire and Harris got hit. He is now in the hospital and his prognosis is uncertain. Of course this just raised tensions to an entirely new level, and at this point a state of emergency has been declared in Ferguson.
So what would cause an 18-year-old young man to pick up a gun and start firing at police?
This didn’t just happen in a vacuum. An environment of violence and racial conflict is being purposely created, and the mainstream media and our politicians are continually fueling the fire.
On July 30th, the leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, delivered a speech during which he stated that he was looking for “10,000 fearless men who say death is sweeter than continued life under tyranny”. The following is an excerpt from that speech…
“Death is sweeter than to continue to live and bury our children, while white folks give the killer hamburgers.
“Death is sweeter, than watching us slaughter each other, to the joy of a 400-year-old enemy. Yes, death is sweeter.
“The Quran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says, ‘Retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain.’ Retaliation is a prescription from God, to calm the breast of those whose children have been slain.
“So if the federal government will not intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us. Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling.”
In the social media world, the ominous hashtags #fightback and #JusticeOrElse are being heavily promoted. The implication is that African-Americans have a right to commit violence because of the injustices that have been committed against them in the past.
And on Sunday night, the “peaceful protesters” in Ferguson were repeating the following chant over and over: “Ready for what?! We’re ready for war!”
When you understand the context, it becomes much clearer why some of these young people are doing what they are doing.
Instead of trying to cool things down on Monday, protesters continued to push the envelope. Several very prominent activists, including Cornel West, were arrested when they crossed a barrier in front of a courthouse in St. Louis…
Cornel West, and several prominent protesters including DeRay McKesson, 30, and Johnetta Elzie, 26, were arrested Monday afternoon during a protest outside the U.S. courthouse in St. Louis. The demonstration was part of a move by several clergy members to purposefully be detained by police.
Anger and violence are not what America needs.
If we could just learn to love one another and to treat one another with respect, things could be so much different in this country.
But instead, we are being set up for a race war.
Just consider the response to a recent incident that happened in Alabama…
An Alabama police officer was pistol-whipped with his own gun during a traffic stop — and then mocked by cop critics online.
The plainclothes Birmingham detective was investigating a string of burglaries when he stopped a GMC Yukon and was attacked by the driver, authorities said.
This particular police officer has never been charged with doing anything wrong, but just because he is a cop he was mercilessly attacked online. The following are just a couple of examples…
“Pistol pimped his face n um chillen now,” Twitter user @TriggaMane666 posted with a picture of the wounded officer.
“Pistol whipped his ass to sleep,” a Facebook user wrote before deleting a post showing the officer face down on the sidewalk.
Anger and frustration are growing to frightening levels all over the nation, and the surging poverty that we are seeing in many areas is playing a significant role in all of this.
Despite what you may be hearing from the mainstream media, the truth is that the economy is not getting better. In fact, in a whole bunch of different ways our economy is already in worse shape than it was during the depths of the last recession.
If you live in a nice neighborhood, you may not even be aware of what is going on in much of the rest of the country. According to the Atlantic, the number of Americans living in high poverty areas has nearly doubled since the year 2000…
The number of people living in high-poverty areas—defined as census tracts where 40 percent or more of families have income levels below the federal poverty threshold—nearly doubled between 2000 and 2013, to 13.8 million from 7.2 million, according to a new analysis of census data by Paul Jargowsky, a public-policy professor at Rutgers University-Camden and a fellow at The Century Foundation. That’s the highest number of Americans living in high-poverty neighborhoods ever recorded.
The development is worrying, especially since the number of people living in high-poverty areas fell 25 percent, to 7.2 million from 9.6 million, between 1990 and 2000. Back then, concentrated poverty was declining in part because the economy was booming.
People living in highly concentrated areas of poverty can become very desperate, and desperate people do desperate things.
Don’t let the misleading economic numbers fool you. As Paul Craig Roberts has pointed out, if honest numbers were being used our current unemployment rate would not be too far away from the unemployment rate at the height of the Great Depression…
In 1994 the Clinton regime stopped counting long-term discouraged workers as unemployed. Clinton wanted his economy to look better than Reagan’s, so he ceased counting the long-term discouraged workers that were part of Reagan’s unemployment rate. John Williams (shadowstats.com) continues to measure the long-term discouraged with the official methodology of that time, and when these unemployed are included, the US rate of unemployment as of July 2015 is 23%, several times higher than during the recession with which Fed chairman Paul Volcker greeted the Reagan presidency.
An unemployment rate of 23% gives economic recovery a new meaning. It has been eighty-five years since the Great Depression, and the US economy is in economic recovery with an unemployment rate close to that of the Great Depression.
But instead of telling us the truth, the mainstream media continues to put out lots of happy stories.
For instance, one of my readers just sent me this one: “4 signs the Des Moines economy is surging“.
I had to smile when I saw that. You know, even though the U.S. economy has been collapsing, it is collapsing right now and there are all sorts of signs that our collapse is about to greatly accelerate, there are still lots of people out there that mock “the collapse crowd” and insist that everything is going to be just fine.
And of course the mainstream media continues to mock anyone that is seriously trying to prepare for the coming hard times. The following is an excerpt from a recent Toronto Star article…
Preppers anticipate various disasters by stockpiling food, honing wilderness survival skills and learning self-defence.
If a Katrina-like storm knocked out power in Toronto, you’d know the preppers by the lights in their windows, running on generators. And if things ever descend into chaos, they’ll grab their prepacked bags, loaded with essential survival equipment, and split, leaving the rest of us to fight over the last drops of gasoline and fresh water.
The mockers will continue to mock, and their jokes will continue to be very funny up until the moment when everything starts falling apart all around us.
But those that are wise understand what is happening, and they are preparing in advance.
50% of all Americans now live at or under the poverty level.
“Food insecurity” affects at least one household in four every month….that is bureaucrat language for hunger………..that is 25% of the populations, or more. Hunger can breed revolution when nothing else can.
Of the slightly more than 200 million working age Americans (ages 18-65), 93.8 million suffer long term unemployment…….and they are not counted in the mendacious employment numbers…..they claim unemployment is now at 5.3%, the lies never stop.
Our real unemployment is close to 50%, every bit as terrible as during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Instead of confronting it, and establishing much needed road and bridge building projects to put Americans back to work, our fool leaders pretend we are in the “longest recovery in US history”??????
In 1929, we were the world’s largest lending nation and our money was backed with gold. We were still an emerging MFG power, and we kept working together as a people to get through and solve this great depression. Today, nothing is being done because this is a global effort to lower wages of workers all over the west…..We need to compete with Asia. When will someone ask why?
Why is nothing done about any of this? We have fools in power, and they are destroying our way of living forever.
Most of the money is going to a very few people at the cost of everyone else. This depression has been going on since 2009, and we continue to lose jobs by the hundreds of thousands every week…..Everyone is now aware a few greedy guts are getting all the marbles, and resentment is growing. TV and social media makes the contrast very clear to millions.
This last week, it came out the US gained 215,000 jobs for July. That comes out to 4300 jobs per state. Oil companies laid off over 12,000 over the last two weeks, and that doesn’t include WalMart, and other greedy guts who kept up profits by laying off people……..
The standard of living for millions of Americans continue to decline, and not one word is spoken. Trade laws, such as the debacle just passed by Obama, assure our way of living will get much worse. Yet, nobody says a word…..The media has indeed become the message, no truth is allowed through all the chaos.
When hope and all sense of justice is destroyed, then people hit the streets. From there come the mob uprisings…..And that is when many will find out how many repressive laws there are now in effect in this nation. We have no habeas corpus, no right to a speedy trial, no voice…………..
Then, God help us all.