Detroit a “City in Crisis”

The U.S. Department of Labor reported a national unemployment rate of 9.8 percent in September. Michigan topped the list, as usual, recording the highest unemployment rate among the states at 15.3 percent. This is a 6.4 percent year-over-year increase in unemployment since September 2008, when the rate stood at 8.9 percent, again the highest in the nation. With Michigan’s economy mired in a severe recession, and no bright spots on the horizon, the state’s real estate market is destined to suffer a brutal and extended downturn.

Detroit, in particular, is a city in crisis. Shocking incidences of incompetence, corruption and scandal among city officials have thrown the local government into turmoil and left the city with a daunting leadership void. Local unemployment rose to a record high of nearly 29 percent during the summer of 2009. City services (police, fire, sanitation, 9-1-1, etc.) have deteriorated to deplorable levels. The school district is the worst in the nation. Population is declining. There are more than 80,000 abandoned lots and buildings within the city limits – a decaying landscape. The city has so much potential, but today Motown is in a very sad state of affairs. And as goes Detroit, so goes Michigan.

The above from a rejournals.com article.

Detroit is a shining beacon of the American future. It reminds me of the “indicator” species of animals that foretell the future of an ecosystem. Once the frogs start to go, for instance, you know you have a pollution problem. Well, Detroit is like a huge frog in the pollution of present day America. When it croaks out a death rattle, I think there may be many others to  come.

If anyone has interesting links to stories on the city that was once called “the birthplace of the American middle class” please post a link and your comments.

In the mean time, friends, buy canned goods and ammo.

Monday’s Joke

A pony walks into a bar and says “Bartender, may I have a drink?”

Bartender says “What? I can’t hear you. Speak up!”

“May I please have a drink?” “What? You have to speak up!” “Could I please have a drink?”

“Now listen, if you don’t speak up I will not serve you.”

“I’m sorry, I’m just a little hoarse.”

Pilots for 9-11 Truth Analysis of Flight 77 Data Recorder Indicates Cockpit Door Never Opened During Flight

On the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 departed Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles at 8:20 am Eastern Time. According to reports and data, a hijacking took place between 08:50:54 and 08:54:11[1] in which the hijackers allegedly crashed the aircraft into the Pentagon at 09:37:45. Reported by CNN, according to Ted Olson, wife Barbara Olson had called him from the reported flight stating, “…all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers…”[2]. However, according to Flight Data provided by the NTSB, the Flight Deck Door was never opened in flight. How were the hijackers able to gain access to the cockpit, remove the pilots, and navigate the aircraft to the Pentagon if the Flight Deck Door remained closed?[3]

All in all it’s just another brick in the wall. The lid comes off of this cauldron of lies in tiny increments every day my friends. The greatest conspiracy “theory” regarding this event is the drivel spewed forth by our government.

The Financial “Tsunami” is Upon Us, and Right Soon

The present fallout can be summarized in simple terms:

Should a bankrupt country (the US) be allowed to use money created out of thin air to pay for goods produced with the sweat and tears of hardworking citizens of exporting countries? Adding insult to injury, the same dollars are now purchasing a lot less than before. So what is the use of being paid in a currency that is losing rapidly its value?

On the other hand, the US is telling the whole world, especially the Chinese that if they are not happy with the status quo, there is nothing to stop them from selling to the other countries and accepting their currencies. But if they want to sell to the mighty USA, they must accept US toilet paper reserve currency and its right to create monies out of thin air!

This is the ultimate poker game and whosoever blinks first loses and will suffer irreparable financial consequences. But who has the winning hand?

The above quote from this article by Matthias Chiang. I am hoping he does not mind my quoting it, as the site is free to all. Take the time to read it, as several interesting issues are raised. Here’s his closing comments:

When currencies are being debased, volatility in the stock market increases. But the gains are not worth the risks and if anyone is still in the market, they will be wiped out by the 1st quarter of 2010. The S&P may have shot up since the beginning of the year by over 25 per cent but it has been out-performed by gold. The gains have also lagged behind the official US inflation rate. It has in fact delivered a total return after inflation of approximately minus 25 per cent. When Meredith Whitney remarked that, “I don’t know what’s going on in the market right now, because it makes no sense to me”, it is time to get out of the market fast.

In a report to its clients, Société Générale warned that public debt would be massive in the next two years – 105 per cent of GDP in the UK, 125 per cent in the US and in Europe and 270 per cent in Japan. Global debt would reach US$45 trillion.

At some point in time, all these debts must be repaid. How will these debts be repaid?

If we go by what Bernanke has been preaching and practising, it means more toilet paper currency will be created to repay the debts.

As a result, debasement of currencies will continue and this will further aggravate existing tensions between the competing economies. And when creditors have enough of this toilet paper scam, expect violent reactions!

Will these “violent reactions” signal the final, inevitable avalanche to World War III? Maybe, maybe not, but he hits the nail on the head when he opines on the teams involved.

It would be naïve to think that the US would quietly allow itself to be foreclosed! When we reach that stage, war will be inevitable. It will be the US-UK-Israel Axis against the rest of the world.

The United States and their zionist talking heads aren’t going to part company anytime soon, you can be sure of that. They fully intend to go down swinging, no matter how many sheeple will die in the process.

So, should you buy 100 pounds of rice, a closet full of canned goods and fill the bathtub with tap water? I can’t answer that question for you. Do what you need to to sleep at night, and remember what Patrick Henry said on a cold March afternoon in 1775.

Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

Peruvian Gang ‘killed victims to extract their fat’

Killing people to use their fat for cosmetics. Yep, you read that one right.

I’ve been busy with a lot of personal business lately, and I apologize for the lack of new content around here. As this story indicates, always a few more straws to be found and placed on the back of the camel of our demise.

Monday’s Joke…Late

One day George W. Bush and Dick Cheney walk into a diner. A waitress walks up to them and asks if she can take their order. Bush leans close to her and says, “Honey, can I have a quickie?”

The waitress is appalled and yells at the President about women’s rights and storms away.

Cheney then says to Bush, “George, its pronounced ‘quiche’.”

Detroit Property Auction: Can’t Give ‘Em Away

DETROIT (Reuters) – In a crowded ballroom next to a bankrupt casino, what remains of the Detroit property market was being picked over by speculators and mostly discarded.

After five hours of calling out a drumbeat of “no bid” for properties listed in an auction book as thick as a city phone directory, the energy of the county auctioneer began to flag.

“OK,” he said. “We only have 300 more pages to go.”

Some properties less than $500 continually received no bids.

With an increase in poverty and crime comes hopelessness and decay. More and more American cities will experience the blight of Detroit as our march to oblivion picks up speed.

Are you armed yet? You better be.

14 Americans Die in Two Afghan Helicopter Crashes

In the deadlier of the two, seven troops and two D.E.A. agents were killed when their helicopter crashed after “leaving the scene of a firefight.” The AP did not report on the type of aircraft involved or the unit of the men lost.

Now we have the D.E.A. involved in this fiasco. God only knows how civilian employees are going to screw things up for the combat troops on the ground. I would certainly have hated to tote some lard ass REMF D.E.A. civil servant through any exercise what-so-ever.

Meanwhile, the C-in-C gets his ball on and reads the teleprompter. Not to mention the hideous characters actually running this sideshow behind the scenes; the likes of Emmanuel and Axelrod. We need to pull our troops out of there and enforce our southern border. War on Terror my ass. Enough is enough.

Good luck guys, give ‘em hell and get home safe.

King of Battle

Euro Breaches $1.50 USD

I know there’s a new currency in the works for the U.S. proletariat. I just wonder what the Federal Reserve is going to call it.

Holla 'fo a dolla, peeps

Just a matter of time until my EU citizenship comes through. Maybe then I can earn notes actually worth something.

Monday’s Joke 10/19/09

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.