John and Nisha Whitehead – The Rutherford Institute Feb 8, 2023
Step away from the blinders that partisan politics uses to distract, divide and conquer, and you will find that we are drowning in a cesspool of problems that individually and collectively threaten our lives, liberties, prosperity and happiness.
These are not problems the politicians want to talk about, let alone address, yet we cannot afford to ignore them much longer.
Foreign interests are buying up our farmland and holding our national debt. As of 2021, foreign persons and entities owned 40.8 million acres of U.S. agricultural land, 47% of which was forestland, 29% in cropland, and 22% in pastureland. Foreign land holdings have increased by an average of 2.2 million acres per year since 2015. Foreign countries also own $7.4 trillion worth of U.S. national debt, with Japan and China ranked as our two largest foreign holders of our debt.
Corporate and governmental censorship have created digital dictators. While the “Twitter files” revealed the lengths to which the FBI has gone to monitor and censor social media content, the government has been colluding with the tech sector for some time now in order to silence its critics and target “dangerous” speech in the name of fighting so-called disinformation. The threat of being labelled “disinformation” is being used to undermine anyone who asks questions, challenges the status quo, and engages in critical thinking.
Middle- and lower-income Americans are barely keeping up. Rising costs of housing, food, gas and other necessities are presenting nearly insurmountable hurdles towards financial independence for the majority of households who are scrambling to make ends meet. Meanwhile, mounting layoffs in the tens of thousands are adding to the fiscal pain.
The government is attempting to weaponize mental health care. Increasingly, in communities across the nation, police are being empowered to forcibly detain individuals they believe might be mentally ill, even if they pose no danger to others. While these programs are ostensibly aimed at getting the homeless off the streets, when combined with the government’s ongoing efforts to predict who might pose a threat to public safety based on mental health sensor data (tracked by wearable data and monitored by government agencies such as HARPA), the specter of mental health round-ups begins to sound less far-fetched.
The military’s global occupation is spreading our resources thin and endangering us at home.America’s war spending and commitment to policing the rest of the world are bankrupting the nation and spreading our troops dangerously thin. In 2022 alone, the U.S. approved more than $50 billion in aid for Ukraine, half of which went towards military spending, with more on the way. The U.S. also maintains some 750 military bases in 80 countries around the world.
Deepfakes, AI and virtual reality are blurring the line between reality and a computer-generated illusion. Powered by AI software, deepfake audio and video move us into an age where it is almost impossible to discern what is real, especially as it relates to truth and disinformation. At the same time, the technology sector continues to use virtual reality to develop a digital universe—the metaverse—that is envisioned as being the next step in our evolutionary transformation from a human-driven society to a technological one.
Advances in technology are outstripping our ability to protect ourselves from its menacing side, both in times of rights, humanity and workforce. In the absence of constitutional protections in place to guard against encroachments on our rights in the electronic realm, we desperately need an Electronic Bill of Rights that protects “we the people” from predatory surveillance and data-mining business practices.
The courts have aligned themselves with the police state. In one ruling after another, the courts have used the doctrine of qualified immunity to shield police officers from accountability for misconduct, tacitly giving them a green light to act as judge, jury and executioner on the populace. All the while, police violence, the result of training that emphasizes brute force over constitutional restraints, continues to endanger the public.
The nation’s dependence on foreign imports has fueled a $1 trillion trade deficit. While analysts have pointed to the burgeoning trade deficit as a sign that the U.S. economy is growing, it underscores the extent to which very little is actually made in America anymore.
World governments, including the U.S., continue to use national crises such as COVID-19 to expand their emergency powers. None are willing to relinquish these powers when the crisis passes. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the U.S. government still has 42 declared national emergencies in effect, allowing it to sidestep constitutional protocols that maintain a system of checks and balances. For instance, the emergency declared after the 9/11 has yet to be withdrawn.
The nation’s infrastructure is rapidly falling apart. Many of the country’s roads, bridges, airports, dams, levees and water systems are woefully outdated and in dire need of overhauling, and have fallen behind that of other developed countries in recent years. The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that crumbling infrastructure costs every American household $3,300 in hidden costs a year due to lost time, increased fuel consumption while sitting in traffic jams, and extra car repairs due to poor road conditions.
The nation is about to hit a healthcare crisis. Despite the fact that the U.S. spends more on health care than any other high-income country, it has the worst health outcomes than its peer nations. Experts are also predicting a collapse in the U.S. health care system as the medical community deals with growing staff shortages and shuttered facilities.
These are just a small sampling of the many looming problems that threaten to overwhelm us in the near future.
Thus far, Americans seem inclined to just switch the channel, tune out what they don’t want to hear, and tune into their own personal echo chambers.
Yet as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, no amount of escapism can shield us from the harsh reality that the danger in our midst is posed by an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution, Congress, the courts or the citizenry.
The american health care system is going to collapse because nobody trusts it anymore. Getting more aggressive and forceful will only accelerate this collapse. This regime has assumed the public is far less intelligent than it actually is from day one. That alone has engineered their demise.
Some of this is true, but the US faces no threat of invasion, apart from CIA drug cartels. Yes, the US military is spread too thinly, but no one is interested apart from Russia.
All the above problems can be laid at the doors of the thicko voting sheeple. I caught a line yesterday, that the Nazi Tories of the one party state would only get 130 something seats if the election was held now, and based on x NOP. The point is, the thicko voting sheeple are going to elect the other half of the Nazi Labour one party state, and I must admit, Starmer would look rather dashing in a WW2 Nazi uniform. Look out Prince Harry!
Should we even debate the collapsing West, and it’s affects on the thicko sheeple? I saw that one national screen treasure was bemoaning Truss’s budget, and that some of her friends werent going to be able to pay their death grip payments. So fecking what. These tw@ts buy so they can make money by speculating, because you always make money with bricks and morter. Well, only a tiny number have made ‘real’ money since 2008, because the real rate of inflation has been double the official rate, & the pound has been falling since 2008, and fell even more after Brexit disaster and it being thrown to the floor by the Nazi regime, just to keep property prices looking rosy.
The article says China and Japan hold $7 something trillion in US paper, so who is holding the majority of the rest? Its the US Federal Reserve Bank, they just keep issuing the Nazi US one party state regime with credit cards that will never be paid off. It’s the same in the UK.
They are trying to inflate their way out of debt, or at least relieve the pressure. China owns most US land. Successive US regimes have been handing over huge tracts of land as a sweetener to buy worthless US paper. As if the Chinese will ever be able to collect on all this land.
“Americans seem inclined to just switch the channel…”
If you are poor and sick and your government wants to jail or kill you, what else can you do?
As society collapses law and order will crumble and in the end there will be no money to pay the police. They’ll take off their uniforms and after reflecting on some of the atrocities their service has committed they will deny they ever were police officers, preferring to say they were cab drivers or in a profession where a lack of specialist knowledge won’t trip them up. Guilt will cripple a few who needlessly took the lives of an innocent, but not many.
The biggest problem society will then face is roaming gangs of ex-policemen who will be some of the most dangerous gangs around. The gung-ho, juiced up on steroid types. They were organised nationally and have access to superior weapons and protective clothing, and their gangs will be so ruthless that the Bloods, the Crips, the Hell’s Angels and mafia may work together here and there just to contain them.
I lived in the US during a time of relative liberty and prosperity. Even then, it was very much a third-world country of obscene contrasts in opportunity, achievement and wealth.
Violence was never far from the surface of everyday life. Neither were pervasive militarization and heavy-handed police tactics.
The education system was so politicized, unless you were a lesbian Chinese female spouting the right propaganda, academia had no jobs for you — and this was 30 years ago.
So let’s not pretend that a great society has somehow lost its way. Today’s state of things has been actively and visibly in the making for at least the past 50 years.
“This country is DOOMED. Doomed. And not just because of African-Americans.”
– Joe Biden
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RUSSIA IS NOT THE ENEMY !
our enemies are millions in our own
nations . misled brain idiots by jew media .
@ PRAETORIAN GOURD
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
there was once an USnegro woman
always repeating the refrain : There
will be no government . ha ha ha ha
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE ATLEAST
A GOVERNMENT OF JEWMAFIA OR
ARABMAFIA OR RUSSIAN MAFIA OR
TRIADES .
@ CARL JONES
you must be a jewish shill always repeating
your main enemy word Nazi . time will come
that even an retarded like you will understand
that we have since atleast 20 years a bolshevik
system in desguise advancing in USA/CANADA
AUSTRALIA/NZ/EU . you will understand as
the last when the first Gulags/FEMA camps open
under different names .
Good wide-ranging piece on the rosy state of affairs in the dystopian hell that is the Jewnited States.