Why do so many Americans want us to become more like Nazi Germany?  When I was growing up, I was taught that Nazi Germany was the antithesis of everything that America stood for.  I truly believed that we were "the land of the free" and that we were a bright, shining example for the [...]]]>

Why do so many Americans want us to become more like Nazi Germany?  When I was growing up, I was taught that Nazi Germany was the antithesis of everything that America stood for.  I truly believed that we were "the land of the free" and that we were a bright, shining example for the rest of the world.  Unfortunately, over the past couple of decades America has been eagerly embracing the secret police culture of the Nazis.  In a desperate attempt to feel "safe", we have decided to become much more like our arch-enemies of the past.  In fact, in many ways we have already surpassed them.  Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union never had facial recognition cameras, "enhanced pat-downs", automated license plate scanners, voice recognition software, mobile backscatter vans or drones in the skies.  In America today, every single form of electronic communication is monitored by shadowy government intelligence agencies.  All over the globe, the emerging Big Brother electronic surveillance grid becomes more pervasive with each passing day.  Never in the history of the world have citizens been monitored so closely by their own governments.  But is all of this surveillance actually keeping us safer?  Of course not.  Just look at what happened in Boston.  But every time another tragedy strikes, our politicians tell us that the answer is to tighten security even more.  If this continues, eventually security will become so tight that it will choke all of the life out of this country.

Much has been written about the abuses on the federal level by the TSA and the Department of Homeland Security, but this is not just a phenomenon that is happening on the federal level.

Sadly, the truth is that Americans are embracing the secret police culture of the Nazis in local communities from coast to coast.

For example, just check out what is happening down in Palm Beach County, Florida.  The Sheriff is setting up a 24-hour hotline, and he is encouraging people to call that hotline to report on their neighbors.  In particular, he wants people to report on anyone that "hates the government"...

“We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government, hates the mayor and he’s gonna shoot him,” Bradshaw said. “What does it hurt to have somebody knock on a door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’”

This sounds very similar to the "See Something, Say Something" program set up by the federal government a few years ago.  We are being trained to spy on one another, and nobody seems too concerned that this is exactly the same type of thing that used to happen in East Germany during the Cold War.

Aren't we better than that?

We have become so consumed with fear that we now even consider little girls to be terror threats.

Down in Florida, a 16-year-old girl that always got high grades was recently expelled from school, hauled away in handcuffs and charged with two felonies because her science experiment produced a small explosion...

The teen is accused of mixing household chemicals in a tiny 8-ounce water bottle, causing the top to pop off, followed by billowing smoke in an small explosion.

Wilmot's friends and classmates said it was "a science project gone bad, that she never meant to hurt anyone."

Even the teen's principal said, "She made a bad choice. Honestly, I don't think she meant to ever hurt anyone. She wanted to see what would happen [when the chemicals mixed] and was shocked by what it did.  Her mother is shocked too."

How bizarre is that?

Everyone involved in treating that precious little girl like that should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

And in the name of "security", we are turning public schools all over the nation into prison camps.

When I was growing up, I never heard of schools holding "terror drills".  But now they are a regular part of school life.  Sometimes teachers are not even told that a drill is happening and they think that it is real.  For example, check out what happened the other day during an unplanned drill at a school in Oregon...

Teachers were shocked and caught off guard when an Oregon school held a school shooting drill.

The Oregonian reports Pine Eagle Charter School in Halfway held the drill last Friday as children were home for an in-service day. Two masked “gunmen” burst into a meeting room holding 15 teachers firing blanks. Teachers only realized it wasn’t a real shooting when none of them were bleeding.

Can you imagine that?

Can you imagine having armed men storm in and thinking that it is real?

If I was one of those teachers that had blanks fired at them, I would immediately resign.

What kind of nation are we becoming?

We are becoming a global embarrassment.

And how are we supposed to protect our children from all of this?

Even if you don't put your kids in the public schools, the police state may still come and grab them from you.  The following is from a recent article by Simon Black...

In the Land of the Free recently, a California couple had their child kidnapped by the state. At gunpoint.

It all started in mid-April when Anna and Alex Nikolayev took their 5-month old son Sammy to the hospital in Sacramento to be treated for flu symptoms.

The parents didn’t particularly care for the treatment that their son was receiving. Doctors were pumping him full of antibiotics and soon began talking about performing surgery.

Anna and Alex argued with the doctors and said that they were going to get a second opinion; they took the baby and went to another hospital where another physician deemed it perfectly safe for the child to return home with his parents without the need for surgery.

The next day, with the family resting comfortably at home, the police showed up with Child Protective Services.

Alex, the father, went outside to talk to them where he was thrown to the ground by police. Officers then relieved him of his house keys and proceeded to let themselves into the house with hands on their pistols.

Then, still with their hands on their pistols, they told the mother “I’m going to grab your baby, and don’t resist and don’t fight me…”

Is this how we want to live?

Do we want to live in constant fear with the government constantly watching every single thing that we do?

Isn't that the exact opposite of what our founding fathers intended?

Even as you read this, the government is watching you.  The truth is that governments around the world have Internet surveillance capabilities that are far beyond what most people would ever imagine.  In an article entitled "The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution", Google's Eric Schmidt explained that all of the technology for "an incredibly intimidating police state" is "commercially available right now"...

Despite the expense, everything a regime would need to build an incredibly intimidating digital police state—including software that facilitates data mining and real-time monitoring of citizens—is commercially available right now. What's more, once one regime builds its surveillance state, it will share what it has learned with others. We know that autocratic governments share information, governance strategies and military hardware, and it's only logical that the configuration that one state designs (if it works) will proliferate among its allies and assorted others. Companies that sell data-mining software, surveillance cameras and other products will flaunt their work with one government to attract new business.

And in fact governments around the world, including the U.S. government, have been caught using such spy software to spy on the Internet behavior of private citizens...

Mozilla has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a company that sells spyware allegedly disguised as the Firefox browser to governments. The action follows a report by Citizen Lab, which identifies 36 countries (including the US) hosting command and control servers for FinFisher, a type of surveillance software. Also known as FinSpy, the software is sold by UK-based Gamma International to governments, which use it in criminal investigations and allegedly for spying on dissidents.

Mozilla revealed yesterday in its blog that it has sent the cease and desist letter to Gamma "demanding that these illegal practices stop immediately." Gamma's software is "designed to trick people into thinking it's Mozilla Firefox," Mozilla noted.

But we will never see this kind of behavior change until people start demanding it.  And even after all of the horrible abuses that have been publicized over the past several years, one recent poll found that 43 percent of all Americans are still answering yes to the following question...

“Would you be willing to give up some of your personal freedom in order to reduce the threat of terrorism?”

Obviously we still have a long way to go.

Meanwhile, the emerging Big Brother police state gains a little bit more ground with each passing day.

About the author: Michael T. Snyder is a former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Economic Collapse Blog.  His new novel entitled "The Beginning Of The End" is now available on Amazon.com.

The U.S. military has officially banned the gospel of Jesus Christ.  As crazy as that sounds, it is actually true.  In a written statement, the Pentagon told Fox News that "religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense" and that "court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis and [...]]]>

The U.S. military has officially banned the gospel of Jesus Christ.  As crazy as that sounds, it is actually true.  In a written statement, the Pentagon told Fox News that "religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense" and that "court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis and it would be inappropriate to speculate on the outcome in specific cases".  And a consultant that has been brought in to help the Pentagon develop new policies on religious tolerance says that sharing the gospel with someone else is like "rape" and that he would like to see "hundreds of prosecutions to stop this outrage".  His name is Mikey Weinstein, and he is the president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.  In the past, he has described Christians as "human monsters" and "enemies of the United States Constitution".  He says that sharing the gospel in the military is "sedition and treason" and should be punished as such.  Why in the world would such a man be brought in to advise the Pentagon about religious tolerance?  Sadly, all of this is just part of a larger trend of animosity by the U.S. military toward Christians and the gospel.

Once upon a time, faith had a very prominent place in the U.S. military.  But now it is rapidly becoming one of the most anti-Christian institutions in the entire country.

I would like to know who decided to bring in one of the most rabid atheists in America to help establish new policies for religion in the military.  Just check out what Mikey Weinstein told Fox News the other day...

“If a member of the military is proselytizing in a manner that violates the law, well then of course they can be prosecuted,” he said. “We would love to see hundreds of prosecutions to stop this outrage of fundamentalist religious persecution.”

He compared the act of proselytizing to rape.

“It is a version of being spiritually raped and you are being spiritually raped by fundamentalist Christian religious predators,” he told Fox News.

Telling someone about Jesus is like raping them?

Weinstein also says that Christians that talk to others about their faith in the military are "die-hard enemies" of the Constitution...

"We MUST vigorously support the continuing efforts to expose pathologically anti-gay, Islamaphobic, and rabidly intolerant agitators for what they are: die-hard enemies of the United States Constitution. Monsters, one and all."

Well, what is typically done to "die-hard enemies of the United States Constitution" that are guilty of "treason"?

Traditionally, treason carried with it a death sentence.  Under common law, that included "drawing, hanging, beheading, and quartering".

So precisely what is Mikey Weinstein proposing should be done with members of the U.S. military that share their faith in Jesus with others?

Weinstein's anti-Christian tirades are reminiscent of the kinds of things that were said by Hitler and other Nazi leaders during their reign of terror in Germany.

For instance, the head of the Hitler Youth, Boldur von Schirach, once made the following statement...

“Destruction of Christianity was explicitly recognized as a purpose of the National Socialist Movement”

Frighteningly, there seems to be just as much hatred behind the things that Weinstein is saying.  The following is from a recent Breitbart report...

“Today, we face incredibly well-funded gangs of fundamentalist Christian monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans by forcing their weaponized and twisted version of Christianity upon their helpless subordinates in our nation’s armed forces.”

Those words were recently written by Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), in a column he wrote for the Huffington Post. Weinstein will be a consultant to the Pentagon to develop new policies on religious tolerance, including a policy for court-martialing military chaplains who share the Christian Gospel during spiritual counseling of American troops.

Weinstein decries what he calls the “virulent religious oppression” perpetrated by conservative Christians, whom he refers to as “monstrosities” and “pitiable unconstitutional carpetbaggers,” comparing them to “bigots” in the Deep South during the civil rights era.

But of course all of this is just part of a larger trend.

It was recently revealed that a U.S. Army Reserve equal opportunity training presentation included "Evangelical Christianity" on a list of "extremist organizations" that also included al-Qaeda, Hamas and the Ku Klux Klan.  For much more on this, please see my previous article entitled "All Over America Evangelical Christians Are Being Labeled As ‘Extremists’ And ‘Hate Groups’".

If the U.S. military and the American people listen to people like Mikey Weinstein and start treating Christians as "human monsters" and "enemies of the United States Constitution", what will the end result be?

The first step to persecuting any group of people is to demonize them.  That is exactly what is being done to Christians right now.

But no matter how many laws they try to pass, I will never stop sharing the gospel.

What about you?  Will you allow the government to stop you from sharing your faith?  Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below...

About the author: Michael T. Snyder is a former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Economic Collapse Blog.  His new novel entitled "The Beginning Of The End" is now available on Amazon.com.

During fiscal year 2012, $359,796,008,919.49 that had been forcibly extracted from American taxpayers was transferred into other hands.  Most of it ended up in the pockets of the global elite.  So what did the American people get in return for that 359 billion dollars?  Nothing at all.  No roads were built, no schools were [...]]]>

During fiscal year 2012, $359,796,008,919.49 that had been forcibly extracted from American taxpayers was transferred into other hands.  Most of it ended up in the pockets of the global elite.  So what did the American people get in return for that 359 billion dollars?  Nothing at all.  No roads were built, no schools were constructed, no teachers were paid and none of it went to national defense.  It was simply interest that was owed on the national debt, and most of it just made the ultra-wealthy even wealthier.  But this is exactly what the Federal Reserve system was designed to do when it was created back in 1913.  It was designed to get the U.S. government trapped in an endless spiral of debt that would systematically drain the wealth of the American people and transfer it to the ultra-wealthy and the international bankers.  When most people think of a "wealth redistribution scheme", they think of a government raising taxes in order to give money to poor people.  But the Federal Reserve system works in reverse.  Money is taken from all of us and it is redistributed to the global elite.  That is why a federal income tax was instituted the exact same year that the Federal Reserve was.  Money is extracted from all of us through taxation, and then it is transferred from the federal government to the ultra-wealthy through debt payments.

So what role does the Federal Reserve system play in all of this?

Many critics of the Fed focus on how much money the Fed makes each year, but that is a mistake.  The truth is that the Fed returns the vast majority of the money that it makes to the U.S. Treasury.  The Fed is not a money making machine itself.  Rather, it is a system that enables others to make hundreds of billions of dollars each year.

I think that it is easiest to think of the Fed as a "middle man" between the U.S. government and the global elite.  It was designed by the international bankers for the benefit of the international bankers.  The entire goal of the Federal Reserve system is to make the ultra-wealthy even wealthier.

The Fed is a privately-owned banking cartel that has a monopoly over money creation in the United States.  Nobody else, including the U.S. government, can print money.  So those that claim that "the U.S. government can print money" are just dead wrong.

When the U.S. government wants to spend more money than it has, it asks the Fed to make some more money.  The Fed then creates money out of thin air that did not previously exist.  Normally this money is not even printed up.  It is just entered into a computer.

In return for the new money, the U.S. government gives the Federal Reserve some U.S. Treasury bonds.  In essence, U.S. Treasury bonds are promises to pay back money.  But the U.S. government always agrees to pay back more money than it receives.  So a larger amount of debt is created than the amount of new money that is created.

When the Federal Reserve receives those U.S. Treasury bonds, most of the time they take them and auction them off to interested buyers.  This is how they get into the hands of the ultra-wealthy and the international bankers.

So how is the U.S. government ever supposed to pay back all that debt if the amount of new debt being created is always larger than the amount of new money that is being created?

Well, the theory is that the money will be able circulate through the U.S. economy really fast and that the federal government will be able to tax it enough times and at a high enough rate to be able to pay off the debt plus the interest.

But that never seems to work out, does it?

Instead, the federal government always finds that it can't fund government activities and pay off the debt at the same time, so they always come back to borrow more.  That is why it is called a debt spiral.

So the debt just keeps getting larger and larger.  Today, the U.S. national debt is more than 5000 times larger than it was when the Federal Reserve was first created.

And as the debt keeps getting larger and larger, so does the money supply.  And that is why we have such a problem with inflation.  Since the Federal Reserve was first created, the U.S. dollar has lost more than 96 percent of its value.

But the global elite are not just doing this in the United States.  They have established similar systems in almost every nation on earth.

So every year, gigantic mountains of money are transferred from taxpayers all over the globe into their pockets.

And that is the primary reason why they have so much money.

It has been estimated that the global elite have up to 32 TRILLION dollars stashed in offshore banks around the planet.

And that is just the money that we know about.

Are you starting to understand why people are so upset about this stuff?

Fortunately, people all over the world are starting to wake up to this massive wealth redistribution scheme.

The creation of money should belong to the people - not to the global elite.

Just consider a statement that Italian politician Beppe Grillo once made...

"Whom does the money belong to? Who does its ownership belong to? To the State fine…then to us, we are the State. You know that the State doesn’t exist, it is only a legal entity. WE are the state, then the money is ours…fine. Then let me know one thing. If the money belongs to us…Why…do they lend it to us??"

Doesn't that make sense?

If the currency of a nation belongs to the people of a nation, then why do we let the elite create our money out of thin air and lend it back to us?

Why do we continue to use a debt-based currency system that is making the global elite far wealthier at the expense of all the rest of us?

For much more on how the Federal Reserve works, please see my previous article entitled "10 Things That Every American Should Know About The Federal Reserve".

Please share this article with as many people as you can.  I have tried to simplify things as much as possible in this article so that even people that have been through the dumbed-down public education system in the United States should be able to understand it.

So what do you think about the Federal Reserve?

Are you angry that hundreds of billions of dollars are being transferred from U.S. taxpayers to the global elite every single year?

Are you disgusted that money that is created out of thin air by the Federal Reserve is being used to bankrupt our nation and enslave future generations of Americans to trillions of dollars of debt?

Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below...

A plan being pushed in Congress right now by senators from both major political parties would force all Americans to get a biometric national ID card.  It is being promoted as a key "immigration reform" measure, but the truth is that a national ID card is much more about the government's endless appetite for [...]]]>

A plan being pushed in Congress right now by senators from both major political parties would force all Americans to get a biometric national ID card.  It is being promoted as a key "immigration reform" measure, but the truth is that a national ID card is much more about the government's endless appetite for more control over the American people.  If this national ID card plan is passed by Congress, you will not be able to get a job without one.  So how are you going to survive if you can't work?  In addition, this national ID card would undoubtedly soon be used to identify us for all sorts of other purposes.  For example, have you tried to open up a bank account lately?  They make you jump through all sorts of hoops to prove that you are who you say that you are.  So what would happen if the government decided to require you to show your national ID card before opening up a bank account?  If you refused to get a card, how would you be able to function in society without a bank account?  Would you try to conduct all of your transactions in cash only?  That might work for a while.  And of course you would not be able to drive or get on a plane without your national ID card.  So forget about going anywhere.  Are you starting to get the picture?  Unfortunately, the push for a national ID card in the United States is only a small part of the overall push toward a "global ID card" that is happening all over the planet.  The eventual goal is to have a "universal ID" that every man, woman and child on the planet will be forced to take.

That is why it is so important for the American people to speak up about this.

Right now, all of the big mainstream media outlets are lining up on the side of a national ID card.  For instance, just check out this short excerpt from a recent Washington Post article entitled "The case for a national ID card"...

An effective solution would be to issue tamper-proof, biometric ID cards — using fingerprints or a comparably unique identifier — to all citizens and legal residents. Last week, both President Obama and a bipartisan group of eight senators seeking immigration reform urged something along those lines, without calling it a universal national identity card. That’s a major step forward.

And of course the Wall Street Journal is reporting on this too...

Key senators are exploring an immigration bill that would force every U.S. worker—citizen or not—to carry a high-tech identity card that could use fingerprints or other personal markers to prove a person's legal eligibility to work.

The idea, signaled only in vaguely worded language from senators crafting a bipartisan immigration bill, has privacy advocates and others concerned that the law would create a national identity card that, in time, could track Americans at airports, hospitals and through other facets of their lives.

According to investigative reporter James Tucker, there are those in the Obama administration that are optimistic that they will be able to get a national ID card through Congress now that Ron Paul has left the House of Representatives...

At a recent reception in Washington, D.C., an AMERICAN FREE PRESS source overheard Thomas E. Donilon, a White House national security advisor and past Bilderberg member, speaking of Paul’s retirement and the good chance that the global card could now be shepherded through Congress. Paul’s son, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), would not object to the plan, added the individual with whom Donilon was talking. He was referring to the fact that Senator Paul has backed off from the strong pro-nationalist positions of his father because he is fantasizing about being elected president in 2016.

So will anyone in Congress step up and fight this on behalf of the American people?

Let's hope so.

But of course there are many other large nations that are actually far ahead of the United States when it comes to implementing this global ID card scheme.

Just check out what is going on in Indonesia...

Since the start of the government of Indonesia’s multi-modal biometrics-based National Electronic ID Card (e-KTP) program in August 2011, record enrollments are being achieved across the country’s population of 172 million ID-eligible residents.

More than 103 million people have been enrolled and de-duplicated in one year with 80% or 140 million residents of the eligible population already enrolled and 85% already processed. Statistics show that over 1 million de-duplication transactions are being achieved in a single day in the data center and 600,000 enrollments being achieved in a single day in the field. In addition 60 million ID cards have been printed.

And India is currently collecting biometric information on more than a billion people...

In India, a massive effort is underway to collect biometric identity information for each of the country’s 1.2 billion people. The incredible plan, dubbed the “mother of all e-governance projects” by the Economic Times, has stirred controversy in India and beyond, raising serious concerns about the privacy and security of individuals’ personal data.

The plan is moving ahead at a clip under the auspices of the National Population Register (NPR) and the Unique ID (UID) programs, separately governed initiatives that have an agreement to integrate the data they collect to build the world’s largest biometric database. Upon enrollment, individuals are issued 12-digit unique ID numbers on chip-based identity cards. For residents who lack the necessary paperwork to obtain certain kinds of employment or government services, there’s strong incentive to get a unique ID. While the UID program is voluntary, enrollment in the NPR program is mandatory for all citizens.

Are you starting to understand what is happening?

This is a global effort.

At this point, there are approximately 100 countries that now issue mandatory ID cards, and undoubtedly this campaign to gather the biometric information of every person on earth will continue to spread.

In fact, soon you may not even be able to log in to your favorite Internet sites without a fingerprint or an iris scan.

Does that sound crazy to you?

It doesn't sound crazy to the major technology firms that are a part of the Fast Identity Online Alliance...

Imagine logging on to your eBay account with your fingerprint. Or perhaps accessing your Facebook account via an iris scan.

It might seem a bit much for the average computer user, but it may not be that far off if an initiative is successful.

The use of biometric data as an added security measure is just one of the solutions being proposed by a consortium of firms who have come together to form the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance.

We live in a world that has become obsessed with information and obsessed with security.

At first, we may all just be forced to carry around ID cards, but eventually cards will not be considered to be good enough.

Cards are easily lost, they can be stolen, and they can be forged.

But what about an electronic tattoo?

Wouldn't that be much more secure?

That is the argument that will be made.

And the advancements that have been made in the field of electronic tattoos lately have got a lot of scientists very excited...

Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, researchers say.

Does that sound "cool" to you?

That is how these changes will be marketed to the public.  They will be sold as the "hip" and "cool" things to do.

But the truth is that these electronic tattoos are incredibly dangerous.  They can receive electrical signals from your brain, and they can also send electrical signals to your brain...

The devices are less than 100 microns thick, the average diameter of a human hair. They consist of circuitry embedded in a layer or rubbery polyester that allow them to stretch, bend and wrinkle. They are barely visible when placed on skin, making them easy to conceal from others.

The devices can detect electrical signals linked with brain waves, and incorporate solar cells for power and antennas that allow them to communicate wirelessly or receive energy. Other elements can be added as well, like thermal sensors to monitor skin temperature and light detectors to analyze blood oxygen levels.

This is very frightening stuff.

But most people just do whatever the "authorities" tell them to do without thinking about it.

So will you take a national ID card if Congress requires you to?

Will you take an electronic tattoo on your hand or your forehead someday if the authorities require it for "security" reasons?

The control freaks that run things just love to find new ways to watch us, track us and control us.

For example, just check out what is going on in New York City.  The following is from a recent article in the Telegraph...

Created by Microsoft and the New York Police Department, the Domain Awareness System, known as "the dashboard," is state-of-the-art crime fighting technology.

"The dashboard," instantaneously mines data from the NYPD's vast collection of arrest records, emergency 911 calls, more than 3,000 security cameras, license plate readers and portable radiation detectors and aggregates it into a user-friendly, readable form in the control room.

Eventually, that data will be able to be seen in real time by officers on laptops in their squad cars and on mobile devices as they walk their beat.

Could you imagine how much more intrusive such a system would be if "national ID cards" were constantly feeding information about all of us into their computers?

But the "authorities" insist that all of this "security" is making life so much "better" and "safer" for all of us.

Well, what about for 3-year-old Lucy Schulte?

She is a sweet little disabled girl in a wheelchair that has Spina bifida.  Recently she was getting ready to get on a plane to go to Disney World, but TSA workers decided that she was a potential terrorist and so they manhandled her and confiscated her stuffed toy.

You can see very disturbing video of this incident below...

Is this really want we want America to become?

For much more on how America is being transformed into a Big Brother police state, please see the following article: "29 Signs That The Elite Are Transforming Society Into A Total Domination Control Grid".

So what do you think about all of this?

Do you believe that a global ID card is a good idea or a bad idea?

Would you take a national ID card if Congress made it mandatory?

Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below...

Are you preparing for the collapse of society?  If so, the truth is that you are definitely not alone.  The number of preppers in the U.S. has absolutely exploded in recent years.  It has been estimated that there are now approximately 3 million preppers in the United States, and "Doomsday Preppers" is currently the [...]]]>

Are you preparing for the collapse of society?  If so, the truth is that you are definitely not alone.  The number of preppers in the U.S. has absolutely exploded in recent years.  It has been estimated that there are now approximately 3 million preppers in the United States, and "Doomsday Preppers" is currently the highest rated show on the National Geographic channel.  In fact, you could be living next to a prepper and never even know it.  All over America, families are transforming spare rooms into long-term food storage pantries, planting survival gardens, unplugging from the grid, converting their homes over to alternative sources of energy, taking self-defense courses and stocking up on just about everything that you can imagine.  The re-election of Barack Obama and other recent events seem to have given the prepper movement even more momentum.  For example, in January the U.S. Mint broke all kinds of records and sold nearly half a billion dollars worth of gold and silver coins to the public.  Not only that, Americans bought enough guns during the last two months of 2012 alone to supply the entire armies of China and India.  When it comes to prepping, nobody can match the passion that Americans put into it.

So what are all of these people prepping for?

Well, the truth is that no two preppers have the exact same motivation.  There is a general consensus among preppers that our world is becoming increasingly unstable, but when you sit down and talk with them you find out that there are a whole host of different civilization-killing events that various preppers are concerned about.  Some are preparing for the collapse of the economy.  Others are extremely concerned about the potential for crippling natural disasters and catastrophic earth changes. To other preppers, the rise of the "Big Brother" surveillance grid that is being constructed all around us is the greatest danger, and many of them warn of the tyrannical agenda of the New World Order.  Terrorism, killer pandemics, EMP attacks, World War III, martial law, solar megastorms, asteroid strikes and societal chaos are some of the other things that many preppers are worried about.  There are even some preppers that are not worried about any "threats" at all - they just want to get "back to the land" and want to become less dependent on the system.

Whatever the motivation, it is undeniable that the prepper movement has gotten very large and that it continues to grow.

In fact, there was a recent article in the New York Times about preppers that was actually written by a prepper entitled "The Preppers Next Door"...

To the unprepared, the very word “prepper” is likely to summon images of armed zealots hunkered down in bunkers awaiting the End of Days, but the reality, at least here in New York, is less dramatic. Local Preppers are doctors, doormen, charter school executives, subway conductors, advertising writers and happily married couples from the Bronx. They are no doubt people that you know — your acquaintances and neighbors. People, I’ll admit, like myself.

I was absolutely amazed that one of the key mouthpieces of the establishment, the New York Times, would publish an article that was mostly positive about preppers, because the truth is that prepping is essentially a huge expression of a lack of faith in the establishment.   Even the article admitted as much...

PREPPING IS THE BIG SHORT: a bet not just against a city, or a country or a government, but against the whole idea of sustainable civilization. For that reason, it chafes against one of polite society’s last remaining taboos — that the way we live is not simply plagued by certain problems, but is itself insolubly problematic.

And that is exactly right.  There are millions of us that are entirely convinced that the world around us is becoming increasingly unstable and that "the system" will not be there to take care of us when everything falls to pieces.

With each passing day, even more Americans lose faith in the system and begin prepping.  If you are one of those new preppers, there are actually dozens of great websites out there on the Internet where you can get an education about prepping for free.  The list of websites and blogs that I have compiled below contains more articles and resources than you could ever possibly need.  Hopefully many of you will find this list to be extremely helpful.

The following are 50 of the best prepper websites and blogs on the Internet...

1. Survival Blog

2. American Preppers Network

3. The Survival Mom

4. SHTFPlan.com

5. Survival 4 Christians

6. Urban Survival

7. Backdoor Survival

8. Off Grid Survival

9. Modern Survival Online

10. The Survivalist Blog

11. The Suburban Prepper

12. The Great Northern Prepper

13. Prepper Website

14. The Survival Podcast

15. Doom And Bloom

16. Provident Living Today

17. Prepper.org

18. Prepared Christian

19. SHTFblog.com

20. Survival Cache

21. Modern Survival Blog

22. Rural Revolution

23. Preparedness Advice Blog

24. Prep-Blog.com

25. Survival And Prosperity

26. TEOTWAWKI Blog

27. The Neighbor Network

28. The Apartment Prepper

29. Armageddon Online

30. The Berkey Guy Blog

31. The Home For Survival

32. My Family Survival Plan

33. Prepography

33. Prepper Dashboard

34. Bacon And Eggs

35. SHTF School

36. Canadian Preppers Network

37. Maximum Survival

38. Survivor Jane

39. Prepping To Survive

40. SaltnPrepper

41. SGTReport

42. SHTF Wiki

43. Jewish Preppers

44. Survival Magazine

45. Survival Week

46. Prepper Forums

47. Survivalist Boards

48. Tactical Intelligence

49. The Prepared Ninja

50. Common Sense Homesteading

51. Surviving Survivalism

The sad truth is that our world is becoming increasingly unstable in a whole bunch of different ways and we all need to learn how to prepare for the difficult years ahead.

Unfortunately, most Americans simply are not prepared for much of anything.

For example, a large percentage of Americans do not even have enough savings to get them through a single financial emergency.  According to one recent report, approximately 44 percent of all households in the United States are just one unexpected event away from financial disaster.

Most American families do not have much food stored up either.  One recent survey discovered that 55 percent of all Americans have less than three days supply of food in their homes.

Could that possibly be accurate?  Do people really keep that little food in their homes?

Another survey asked Americans how long they think they could survive if the entire electrical grid went down and there was no more power for an extended period of time.  Incredibly, 21 percent of those who responded said that they would survive for less than a week, and an additional 28 percent of those who responded said that they would survive for less than two weeks.  Close to 75 percent of those who responded said that they would be dead before the two month mark.

So who are the crazy ones?

Are the people trying to become more independent and self-sufficient crazy, or are the people who have complete and total faith that the system will take care of them no matter what happens actually the crazy ones?

I don't know about you, but I would prefer for myself and my family to at least have a chance to survive if society melts down for some reason.

What about you?

Are you a prepper?

Do you know some preppers?

Do you believe that people should be prepping?

Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below...

There is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation is the primary cause of the most important problems that the world is facing and that something desperately needs to be done about it.  They truly believe that humans are a plague upon the earth and that we will literally destroy the planet [...]]]>

There is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation is the primary cause of the most important problems that the world is facing and that something desperately needs to be done about it.  They truly believe that humans are a plague upon the earth and that we will literally destroy the planet if we are left to our own devices.  To the elite, everything from global warming to our growing economic problems can be directly traced back to the lack of population control.  They warn that if nothing is done about the exploding population, we will be facing a future full of poverty, war and suffering on a filthy, desolate planet.  They complain that it "costs too much" to keep elderly patients that are terminally ill alive, and they eagerly promote abortion for babies that are "not wanted" because they would be "too much of a burden" on society.  Anything that reduces the human population in any way is a good thing for those that believe in this philosophy.  This twisted philosophy is being promoted in our movies, in our television shows, in our music, in countless books, on many of the most prominent websites in the world, and it is being taught at nearly all of the most important colleges and universities on the planet.  The people promoting this philosophy have very, very deep pockets, and they are actually convinced that they are helping to "save the world" by trying to reduce the size of the human population.  In fact, many of them are entirely convinced that we are in a "life or death" struggle for the fate of the planet, and that if humanity does not willingly choose to embrace population control soon, then a solution will have to be "forced" upon them.

Yes, I know that all of this may sound like something out of a science fiction novel.  But there are a whole lot of people out there that are absolutely obsessed with this stuff, and many of them are in very prominent positions around the globe.

The following are 30 population control quotes which show that the elite truly believe that humans are a plague upon the earth and that a great culling is necessary...

1. UK Television Presenter Sir David Attenborough: "We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now"

2. Paul Ehrlich, a former science adviser to president George W. Bush and the author of "The Population Bomb": "To our minds, the fundamental cure, reducing the scale of the human enterprise (including the size of the population) to keep its aggregate consumption within the carrying capacity of Earth is obvious but too much neglected or denied"

3. Paul Ehrlich again, this time on the size of families: "Nobody, in my view, has the right to have 12 children or even three unless the second pregnancy is twins"

4. Dave Foreman, the co-founder of Earth First: "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox."

5. CNN Founder Ted Turner: "A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."

6. Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso about medical patients with serious illnesses: "You cannot sleep well when you think it’s all paid by the government. This won’t be solved unless you let them hurry up and die."

7. David Rockefeller: "The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident."

8. Environmental activist Roger Martin: "On a finite planet, the optimum population providing the best quality of life for all, is clearly much smaller than the maximum, permitting bare survival. The more we are, the less for each; fewer people mean better lives."

9. HBO personality Bill Maher: "I’m pro-choice, I’m for assisted suicide, I’m for regular suicide, I’m for whatever gets the freeway moving – that’s what I’m for. It’s too crowded, the planet is too crowded and we need to promote death."

10. MIT professor Penny Chisholm: "The real trick is, in terms of trying to level off at someplace lower than that 9 billion, is to get the birthrates in the developing countries to drop as fast as we can. And that will determine the level at which humans will level off on earth."

11. Julia Whitty, a columnist for Mother Jones: "The only known solution to ecological overshoot is to decelerate our population growth faster than it’s decelerating now and eventually reverse it—at the same time we slow and eventually reverse the rate at which we consume the planet’s resources. Success in these twin endeavors will crack our most pressing global issues: climate change, food scarcity, water supplies, immigration, health care, biodiversity loss, even war. On one front, we’ve already made unprecedented strides, reducing global fertility from an average 4.92 children per woman in 1950 to 2.56 today—an accomplishment of trial and sometimes brutally coercive error, but also a result of one woman at a time making her individual choices. The speed of this childbearing revolution, swimming hard against biological programming, rates as perhaps our greatest collective feat to date."

12. Colorado State University Professor Philip Cafaro in a paper entitled “Climate Ethics and Population Policy”: "Ending human population growth is almost certainly a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for preventing catastrophic global climate change. Indeed, significantly reducing current human numbers may be necessary in order to do so."

13. Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin Eric R. Pianka: "I do not bear any ill will toward people. However, I am convinced that the world, including all humanity, WOULD clearly be much better off without so many of us."

14. Detroit News Columnist Nolan Finley: "Since the national attention is on birth control, here’s my idea: If we want to fight poverty, reduce violent crime and bring down our embarrassing drop-out rate, we should swap contraceptives for fluoride in Michigan’s drinking water.

We’ve got a baby problem in Michigan. Too many babies are born to immature parents who don’t have the skills to raise them, too many are delivered by poor women who can’t afford them, and too many are fathered by sorry layabouts who spread their seed like dandelions and then wander away from the consequences."

15. John Guillebaud, professor of family planning at University College London: "The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. An extra child is the equivalent of a lot of flights across the planet."

16. Democrat strategist Steven Rattner: "WE need death panels. Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently — rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget."

17. Matthew Yglesias, a business and economics correspondent for Slate, in an article entitled "The Case for Death Panels, in One Chart": "But not only is this health care spending on the elderly the key issue in the federal budget, our disproportionate allocation of health care dollars to old people surely accounts for the remarkable lack of apparent cost effectiveness of the American health care system. When the patient is already over 80, the simple fact of the matter is that no amount of treatment is going to work miracles in terms of life expectancy or quality of life."

18. Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger: "All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class"

19. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: "Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of."

20. Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger: "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."

21. Salon columnist Mary Elizabeth Williams in an article entitled "So What If Abortion Ends Life?": "All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides."

22. Alberto Giubilini of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and Francesca Minerva of the University of Melbourne in a paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics: "[W]hen circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible. … [W]e propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion’, rather than ‘infanticide,’ to emphasize that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a fetus … rather than to that of a child.  Therefore, we claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be. Such circumstances include cases where the newborn has the potential to have an (at least) acceptable life, but the well-being of the family is at risk."

23. Nina Fedoroff, a key adviser to Hillary Clinton: "We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people."

24. Barack Obama's primary science adviser, John P. Holdren: "A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births."

25. David Brower, the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club: "Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license ... All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."

26. Thomas Ferguson, former official in the U.S. State Department Office of Population Affairs: "There is a single theme behind all our work–we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it…"

27. Mikhail Gorbachev: "We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage."

28. Jacques Costeau: "In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not to say it."

29. Finnish environmentalist Pentti Linkola: "If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating if it meant millions of people would die"

30. Prince Phillip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II and co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund: "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation."

There is so much more that could be said about all of this.

If you would like to learn more, the following are 10 of my previous articles about the population control agenda of the global elite...

#1 "The Population Control Agenda Of The Radical Humanists Who Would Love For You And I To Die"

#2 "They Love Death"

#3 "From 7 Billion People To 500 Million People – The Sick Population Control Agenda Of The Global Elite"

#4 "Al Gore, Agenda 21 And Population Control"

#5 "The Green Agenda Is About Getting Rid Of As Many Humans As Possible"

#6 "Governments Around The World Are Eagerly Adopting The Strict Population Control Agenda Of The United Nations"

#7 "One Less Child? Environmental Extremists Warn That Overpopulation Is Causing Climate Change And Will Ultimately Destroy The Earth"

#8 "Hillary Clinton: Population Control Will Now Become The Centerpiece Of U.S. Foreign Policy"

#9 "New U.N. Report: We Must Reduce The Population To Fight Climate Change"

#10 "To The Global Elite The Math Is Simple: Human Overpopulation Is Causing Climate Change So The Solution To Climate Change Is Population Control"

So what do you think about all of this?

Do you agree or disagree with the sick population control agenda of the global elite?

Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below...

Piers Morgan is getting on television every night and flat out lying to the American people about gun control.  Nearly every statistic that he quotes is inaccurate and he fails to acknowledge a whole host of statistics that would instantly invalidate the arguments that he is trying to make.  Yes, the UK has a [...]]]>

Piers Morgan is getting on television every night and flat out lying to the American people about gun control.  Nearly every statistic that he quotes is inaccurate and he fails to acknowledge a whole host of statistics that would instantly invalidate the arguments that he is trying to make.  Yes, the UK has a lower gun murder rate than the United States does, but what Piers Morgan fails to tell you is that the overall rate of violent crime in the UK is about 4 times higher than it is in the United States.  A woman in the UK is not allowed pull out a gun to protect herself against a gang of potential rapists.  So perhaps that explains why the UK has about 125 percent more rape victims per 100,000 people than the United States does.  While UK newspapers are declaring that the UK has become the "violent crime capital of Europe", crime rates in the United States have actually fallen dramatically over the past 20 years.  This was also a time period during which gun laws became much less restrictive in the United States.  Today, murder rates in the U.S. are generally far higher in cities that have very strict gun control laws (such as Chicago) than they are for the general population.  The cold, hard numbers make it clear that when there are more guns there is less crime, but hardcore leftists such as Piers Morgan are absolutely obsessed with gun control and Morgan continues to relentlessly attack the 2nd Amendment night after night.  We need to start pointing out that he is not telling the truth.

The following are 18 facts that prove that Piers Morgan is flat out lying about gun control...

#1 The UK has approximately 125 percent more rape victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.

#2 The UK has approximately 133 percent more assault victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.

#3 Piers Morgan continues to insist that there are more than 11,000 gun murders in the United States every year.  But that is flat out wrong.  According to the FBI, there were 8,583 gun murders in the United States during 2011.  And as Ben Swann recently pointed out, 400 of those were justifiable homicides by law enforcement and 260 of those were justifiable homicides by private citizens.

#4 The United States is #1 in the world in gun ownership, and yet it is only 28th in the world in gun murders per 100,000 people.

#5 The violent crime rate in the United States actually fell from 757.7 per 100,000 in 1992 to 386.3 per 100,000 in 2011.  During that same time period, the murder rate fell from 9.3 per 100,000 to 4.7 per 100,000.  This was during an era when gun laws in the United States generally became much less restrictive.

#6 The city of Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States.  So has this reduced crime?  Of course not.  As I wrote about the other day, the murder rate in Chicago was about 17 percent higher in 2012 than it was in 2011, and Chicago is now considered to be "the deadliest global city".  If you can believe it, there were about as many murders in Chicago during 2012 as there was in the entire nation of Japan.

#7 After the city of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring every home to have a gun, the crime rate dropped by more than 50 percent over the course of the next 23 years.

#8 Approximately 200,000 women in the United States use guns to protect themselves against sexual crime every single year.

#9 Overall, guns in the United States are used 80 times more often to prevent crime than they are to take lives.

#10 Only about 3.5 percent of the gun murders in the United States are caused by rifles.

#11 According to Gallup, an all-time record 74 percent of all Americans are against a total handgun ban in the United States.

#12 Down in Australia, gun murders increased by about 19 percent and armed robberies increased by about 69 percent after a gun ban was instituted.

#13 When Piers Morgan claims that there are only 35 gun murders in the UK per year, he isn't exactly being accurate.  According to official statistics, there were 59 gun murders in the UK in 2011.  It is also important to keep in mind that gun crime was already super low even before the gun ban in the UK was instituted, and that a 2009 article in The Telegraph declared that gun crime had doubled over the past decade even though it is widely acknowledged that crime statistics in the UK are massively underreported.

#14 The UK has the fourth highest burglary rate in the EU.

#15 The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.

#16 A 2009 article in The Telegraph had this stunning headline: "UK is violent crime capital of Europe".

#17 Despite the very strict ban on guns in the UK, the truth is that the UK is a far more violent society than the United States is.  In one recent year, there were 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK.  In the United States, there were only 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people during that same year.  Do we really want to be more like the UK?

#18 According to Gun Owners of America, the governments of the world slaughtered more than 170 million of their own people during the 20th century.  The vast majority of those people had been disarmed by their own governments prior to being slaughtered.

But you won't hear many of these statistics on the mainstream news, will you?

In fact, right now there seems to be some sort of a nationwide backlash against gun advocates.  A few high profile gun advocates have even ended up dead in recent days.

For example, self-described "gun nut" Keith Ratliff, the owner of the ninth most popular channel on YouTube, was found dead at his business on January 3rd...

Keith Ratliff, 32, was a channel producer for FPSRussia firearms channel, an account with more than 3 million subscribers that features videos of a man testing a variety of guns.

Ratliff was found shot in the head at his business on Jan. 3, and while police don't have a motive, they have classified his death as a homicide, FoxNews.com reported Wednesday.

Not only that, one of the most prominent rifle manufacturers in America was killed in a "mysterious car crash" on January 4th.  The following is from a recent article by Mike Adams...

John Noveske is one of the most celebrated battle rifle manufacturers in America. His rifles, found at www.NoveskeRifleworks.com are widely recognized as some of the finest pieces of American-made hardware ever created. (I own one of his rifles, and it's a masterpiece of a machine that just keeps on running.) Sadly, John Noveske was killed in a mysterious car crash just a few days ago, on January 4, 2013.

According to the Outdoor Wire, his car "traveled across the oncoming lane onto the dirt highway shoulder until it struck two large boulders. The vehicle rolled and Mr. Noveske was ejected."

But barely a week before this incident, John Noveske posted a lengthy, detailed post on Facebook that listed all the school shootings tied to psychiatric drugs. At the end of the post, he asked, "What drugs was Adam Peter Lanza on?"

That was the last post he ever made.

So are these two incidents just coincidences, or is some sort of a pattern emerging?

Meanwhile, radical leftists are introducing gun grabbing legislation in legislatures all over the United States.

On the federal level, Barack Obama is developing plans to bypass Congress and use executive orders to implement his gun control agenda.

There seems to be an all-out attempt to bring strict gun control to the United States.  It is going to be very important to get the facts out and show people that reducing the number of guns is not going to make us all safer.

Please share this article with as many people as you can.  Hopefully this list of facts will help to change some minds.

The middle class in the United States is being systematically destroyed, and nobody is doing much of anything to stop it.  Our incomes are shrinking, our share of the income pie is at an all-time low, our jobs are being sent overseas, debt burdens have soared to unprecedented heights and millions of formerly middle [...]]]>

The middle class in the United States is being systematically destroyed, and nobody is doing much of anything to stop it.  Our incomes are shrinking, our share of the income pie is at an all-time low, our jobs are being sent overseas, debt burdens have soared to unprecedented heights and millions of formerly middle class Americans have fallen into poverty.  America once had the largest and most vibrant middle class that the world has ever seen, but now it is rapidly being shredded.  Unfortunately, this is particularly true for younger Americans.  Today, families that have a head of household that is under the age of 30 have a poverty rate of 37 percent.  That is astounding.  The truth is that there are not enough decent jobs for the hordes of young people that are entering the marketplace each year.  Once upon a time, a college degree was just about a guaranteed ticket to the middle class, but in 2011 more than half of all college graduates under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed.  Sadly, statistics tell us that the younger you are, the less likely you are to have a chance to live "the American Dream".  Nearly half the country already lives in a household that receives direct financial assistance from the federal government, and that percentage grows with each passing day.  We are rapidly being transformed from a country of middle class citizens into a country of impoverished government dependents.  If dramatic changes are not made, the middle class in America will continue to decline every single year.  What would our society look like if the middle class disappeared entirely at some point?

The following are 60 facts that prove that the middle class in America is being wiped out...

#1 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the middle class is taking home a smaller share of the overall income pie than has ever been recorded before.

#2 As the middle class shrinks, more Americans than ever have been forced to become dependent on the federal government.  Federal spending on welfare programs has reached nearly a trillion dollars a year, and that does not even count Social Security or Medicare.  Welfare spending is now 16 times larger than when the "war on poverty" began.

#3 Median household income in the U.S. has fallen for four consecutive years.  Overall, it has declined by over $4000 during that time span.

#4 The U.S. economy continues to trade good paying jobs for low paying jobs.  60 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were mid-wage jobs, but 58 percent of the jobs created since then have been low wage jobs.

#5 The number of Americans living in poverty has increased by more than 15 million since the turn of the century.

#6 The number of Americans on food stamps has grown from 17 million in the year 2000 to more than 47 million today.

#7 Back in the 1970s, about one out of every 50 Americans was on food stamps.  Today, about one out of every 6.5 Americans is on food stamps.

#8 According to the Pew Research Center, 61 percent of all American households were "middle class" back in 1971.  Today, that figure has fallen to 51 percent.

#9 In the United States today, 35 percent of all households live on $35,000 or less each year.

#10 One recent survey discovered that 85 percent of all middle class Americans believe that it is harder to maintain a middle class standard of living today than it was 10 years ago.

#11 62 percent of all middle class Americans say that they have had to reduce household spending over the past year.

#12 According to one survey, 77 percent of all Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck at least part of the time.

#13 In 1989, the debt to income ratio of the average American family was about 58 percent.  Today it is up to 154 percent.

#14 Total U.S. household debt grew from just 1.4 trillion dollars in 1980 to a whopping 13.7 trillion dollars in 2007.  This played a huge role in the financial crisis of 2008, and the problem has still not been solved.

#15 While debt loads for middle class families are going up, the net worth of those same families is going down.  According to the Federal Reserve, the median net worth of families in the United States declined "from $126,400 in 2007 to $77,300 in 2010".

#16 The percentage of working age Americans with a job has been below 59 percent for 40 months in a row.

#17 Today there are about 3.25 million Americans that say that they want a job but that have not searched for a job in more than a year because they believe that it is so hopeless.

#18 When you total up all working age Americans that do not have a job in America today, it comes to more than 100 million.

#19 The unemployment rate for African-Americans rose dramatically from 13.2 percent in November to 14.0 percent in December.

#20 The unemployment rate for Americans in the 18 to 29 year-old age bracket is 11.5 percent overall.  For African-Americans in that age group, the unemployment rate is now up to 22.1 percent.  Millions of young people believe that the system has totally failed them.

#21 Families that have a head of household under the age of 30 have a poverty rate of 37 percent.

#22 Last year, an astounding 53 percent of all U.S. college graduates under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed.

#23 Today, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents.

#24 According to the Tax Policy Center, the recent fiscal cliff deal will raise taxes more for those making between $30,000 and $200,000 a year than it will for those making between $200,000 and $500,000 a year.

#25 According to a Gallup survey, only 60 percent of all Americans say that they have enough money to live comfortably.

#26 One recent survey found that 63 percent of all Americans believe that the U.S. economic model is broken.

#27 Each year, the average American must work 107 days just to make enough money to pay local, state and federal taxes.

#28 Consumer debt in America has risen by a whopping 1700 percent since 1971.

#29 There are now 20.2 million Americans that spend more than half of their incomes on housing.  That represents a 46 percent increase from 2001.

#30 The average American household spent approximately $4,155 on gasoline during 2011, and electricity bills in the U.S. have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row.

#31 According to USA Today, many Americans have actually seen their water bills triple over the past 12 years.

#32 Health insurance costs have risen by 23 percent since Barack Obama became president. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, health care costs accounted for just 9.5% of all personal consumption back in 1980.  Today they account for approximately 16.3%.

#33 In 1999, 64.1 percent of all Americans were covered by employment-based health insurance.  Today, only 55.1 percent are covered by employment-based health insurance.

#34 According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.

#35 The United States has lost an average of approximately 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

#36 The United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.

#37 According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.

#38 In 2000, there were more than 17 million Americans working in manufacturing, but now there are less than 12 million.

#39 Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs.  Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.

#40 Since 2000, U.S. multinational corporations have eliminated 2.9 million jobs in the United States and have added 2.4 million jobs overseas.

#41 According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.

#42 According to one study, between 1969 and 2009 the median wages earned by American men between the ages of 30 and 50 declined by 27 percent after you account for inflation.

#43 At this point, one out of every four American workers has a job that pays $10 an hour or less.  If that sounds like a high figure, that is because it is.  Today, the United States actually has a higher percentage of workers doing low wage work than any other major industrialized nation does.

#44 According to the Pew Research Center, only 23 percent of all American workers believe that they have enough money to get them through retirement.

#45 According to the Economic Policy Institute, the wealthiest one percent of all Americans households on average have 288 times the amount of wealth that the average middle class American family does.

#46 In the United States today, the wealthiest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.

#47 According to Forbes, the 400 wealthiest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans combined.

#48 The six heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have a net worth that is roughly equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans combined.

#49 At this point, the poorest 50 percent of all Americans collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.

#50 The United States now ranks 93rd in the world in income inequality.

#51 The average CEO now makes approximately 350 times as much as the average American worker makes.

#52 Corporate profits as a percentage of GDP are at an all-time high.  Meanwhile, wages as a percentage of GDP are near an all-time low.

#53 Today, 40 percent of all Americans have $500 or less in savings.

#54 One recent survey found that 28 percent of all Americans do not have a single penny saved for emergencies.

#55 Shockingly, at this point 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be "low income" or are living in poverty.

#56 According to one calculation, the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of "Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming."

#57 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, an all-time record 49 percent of all Americans live in a home where at least one person receives financial assistance from the federal government.  Back in 1983, that number was less than 30 percent.

#58 According to U.S. Census data, 57 percent of all American children live in a home that is either considered to be "poor" or "low income".

#59 For the first time ever, more than a million public school students in the United States are homeless.

#60 According to a stunning new Gallup survey, 65 percent of all Americans believe that 2013 will be a year of "economic difficulty".

In America today, there is an all-out attack on the values that this country was founded upon.  Many of the people that are involved in these attacks actually claim to "love America" and yet they viciously attack the values and the principles that were foundational to what early Americans believed.  In particular, [...]]]>

In America today, there is an all-out attack on the values that this country was founded upon.  Many of the people that are involved in these attacks actually claim to "love America" and yet they viciously attack the values and the principles that were foundational to what early Americans believed.  In particular, there are two documents that were greatly cherished in early America that are being relentlessly assaulted today: the U.S. Constitution and the Bible.  In colleges and universities all over America, students are being taught that these documents are "flawed" and that they need to "evolve" as society changes.  Those teaching this philosophy honestly believe that modern values are far superior to the values found in those documents.  They are convinced that it is foolish to be "bound" by the wisdom of the past.  That is why they love to refer to the U.S. Constitution as a "living, breathing document".  They believe that they should be able to "reinterpret" the Constitution without going through the hassle of the formal amendment process.  And of course we have seen courts do this over and over again in recent years.  When they feel it is necessary, our politicians and our courts will even openly ignore the Constitution when they feel it is necessary.  At this point, the Constitution has been so watered down and so many of our freedoms and liberties have been stripped away that we really don't have much of a Constitution left.  Sure, it is still there on paper, but our nation really doesn't follow it anymore.

Of course a similar thing could be said of the Bible.  In colleges and universities all over America, the Bible is relentlessly attacked.  Trust me, I have sat in university classrooms where it happens.  The goal is to cast doubt on it, discredit it and make it as irrelevant as possible.  In other words, they are trying to do the same thing to the Bible that they are doing to the U.S. Constitution.

But those two documents were the two most important documents in the early years of the United States.

Those two documents contained values and principles that helped make our country great.

Unfortunately, today we think that we "know better" and we are turning our backs on those values and principles.

So do you hate America and the values and the principles that it was founded upon?  The following are some indications that you might...

If you refer to the U.S. Constitution as a "living, breathing document", you might hate America.

If you believe that the U.S. Constitution is "inherently flawed", you might hate America.

If you go around telling people that "we cannot let the Constitution become an obstacle", you might hate America.

If you believe that the U.S. Constitution "represented values we should abhor or at least reject today", you might hate America.

If you are convinced that there is "something infantile in the belief of the constitution-worshippers that the complex political arguments of today can be settled by simple fidelity to a document written in the 18th century", you might hate America.

If you find yourself uttering phrases such as "capitalism does not work" or "capitalist pigs", you might hate America.

If you consider marriage to be an "antiquated institution" and you believe that it enslaves women, you might hate America.

If you believe that the fact that the percentage of married couples in America today is at an all-time low is a good thing, you might hate America.

If you think that football is "too violent" and should be banned, you might hate America.

If you believe that those that are "reverent of individual liberty" are potential terrorists, you might hate America.

If you consider California to be a positive example for the rest of the nation, you might hate America.

If you believe that U.S. soldiers should be ordered to avoid criticizing "anything related to Islam", you might hate America.

If you believe that students should be sent home from school for wearing shirts that display the American flag on the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo, you might hate America.

If you think that the U.S. military should be able to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens on U.S. soil without ever granting them a trial, you might hate America.

If you believe that "liberty" and "freedom" are "dangerous", you might hate America.

If you believe that all human activity should be centrally planned and managed "for the good of the environment", you might hate America.

If you believe that Christianity exists to keep the poor from killing the rich, you might hate America.

If you think that the government should take away most of what people earn through taxes, you might hate America.

If you believe that it is a good thing that millions of American jobs are being shipped to communist China, you might hate America.

If you consider small businesses to be "irrelevant", you might hate America.

If you want to trample on our Second Amendment rights, you might hate America.

If you believe that volunteer chaplains should be banned from using the name of Jesus on government property, you might hate America.

If you think that the U.S. government should continue running trillion dollar deficits every single year, you might hate America.

If you think that traffic camera fines are a good thing, you might hate America.

If you believe that our borders should be left unprotected, you might hate America.

If you believe that illegal immigrants should be able to legally get driver's licenses, you might hate America.

If you believe that illegal immigrants should be able to practice law in the United States, you might hate America.

If you are wearing a shirt that proclaims that you are "proud to be politically correct", you might hate America.

If you think that the United Nations should be given control of the Internet, you might hate America.

If you are convinced that license plates that say "Choose Life" on them are unconstitutional, you might hate America.

If you believe that government agencies should be able to read your email without a search warrant, you might hate America.

If you believe that faith is a "mental illness", you might hate America.

If you work for MSNBC, you might hate America.

If you believe that preppers are "dangerous extremists" that should be carefully watched and monitored, you might hate America.

If you believe that TSA goons should touch the private parts of our women and our children before they are allowed to board their flights, you might hate America.

If you are convinced that "it is necessary to give up some civil liberties in order to make the country safe from terrorism", you might hate America.

If you believe that making a profit is a sin, you might hate America.

If you consider the Founding Fathers to be "terrorists", you might hate America.

Whenever there is a great crisis or a great tragedy in the United States, the collectivists immediately try to use it for their own political advantage.  As Rahm Emanuel once said, "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste".  So it should be no surprise that liberals are doing their best to [...]]]>

Whenever there is a great crisis or a great tragedy in the United States, the collectivists immediately try to use it for their own political advantage.  As Rahm Emanuel once said, "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste".  So it should be no surprise that liberals are doing their best to exploit the horrible tragedy that just happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.  20 small children and 6 adults were savagely murdered, and instead of appropriately mourning this great loss, liberals are in a feeding frenzy and are falling all over one another as they rush to exploit this horrible tragedy for political gain.  Some of the most horrible things that you can imagine are being said about gun owners and about the NRA.  They are being called murderers, terrorists and "the new KKK".  Some are even suggesting that they should be shot or rounded up and put into camps.  It is absolutely disgusting to watch what is going on, and the mainstream media is just eating all of this up.  The mainstream media loves any story that they can use to demonize those that are opposed to the collectivist agenda.

Fortunately, the rampant demonization of gun owners is only having a limited impact on the poll numbers.  One new survey taken after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School has found that 71 percent of all Americans are against banning handguns entirely.  So hopefully we won't see our politicians try to ban all gun ownership any time soon.

But they are definitely going to come after "assault weapons" early next year.  Some members of Congress have already indicated that they plan to introduce new gun control legislation in January.

Meanwhile, we can expect the demonization of gun owners and the NRA to continue.  The following are a few of the crazy things that have been said by gun grabbers in recent days...

-A statement by progressive grassroots group CREDO...

"After the shooter Adam Lanza, no one is more to blame for the massacre of 20 first graders and six women at the Sandy Hook Elementary School than the National Rifle Association"

-Democratic New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler...

"We have a lobby, the leadership of the NRA, who function as enablers of mass murder. And that's what they are. They're enablers of mass murder"

-Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock...

"You know, I did not go as far as I’d like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America’s gun culture – I believe the NRA is the new KKK. And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don’t have our best interests [at heart]."

-David Brooks on PBS Newshour...

"And then I guess my final point would be, I think if we're going to control guns, we really have to do it massive.

I think I'm all for getting rid of the assault weapons and machine guns and all that tough, but if we want to prevent something like this, we have to really think seriously about drastically reducing the number of guns in our society, and particularly -- this is an old Patrick Daniel Moynihan idea -- the number of bullets. It is very hard to control 300 million guns. The bullets are a little easier to control."

-Salon columnist David Sirota on MSNBC...

"The issue with it will be, politically, I think; the profile is white men. That’s a profile that’s not, essentially, in America allowed to be profiled. That’s the one profile in America that’s not allowed to be profiled."

-MSNBC host Ed Schultz...

"...it's the confiscation of these types of weapons that counts and will have an impact."

The things that people are saying on Twitter are even worse...

-Sam Tarling: "All NRA members should be shot!!!! I thank you, that's one of my own!!"

-@fullofbalogna: "The NRA & gun manufacturers are terrorist organizations. We need to eliminate them. Why do RWers support terrorists & murder of kids?"

-Ryan: "The NRA is nothing more than an enabler of mass murder, a terrible organisation that has children's blood on their hands. Wake up USA."

-John Cobarruvias: "Can we now shoot the #NRA and everyone who defends them?"

-Stacy Fernandes: "all NRA members need to be rounded up and put in camps where they cant hurt anyone else"

But it is not just gun owners that are being demonized by the mainstream media.  Over the past couple of days there has also been an attempt to portray the mother of Adam Lanza as a deluded prepper that had been preparing "for the end of the world".  The following quotes from mainstream sources come from a recent article by Daisy Luther...

• Nancy was a member of the Doomsday Preppers movement, which believes people should prepare for end of the world. (Riehl World View)
• According to reports, Nancy Lanza was a so-called ‘prepper’, a part of the survivalist movement which urges individuals to prepare for the breakdown of society by training with weapons and hoarding food and other supplies.  ( The UK Independent)
• Reports are starting to emerge of the troubled young man and his unusual upbringing.  (Yahoo)
• Dan Holmes, owner of a landscaping firm who worked on the family’s home, said she was an avid gun collector: ‘She told me she would go target shooting with her kids.’ (UK Daily Mail)
• Marsha Lanza described Nancy as ‘self-reliant’.( The UK Independent)
• He was reportedly homeschooled by his mother, a school principal and gun enthusiast, who wasn’t satisfied with the education her son was receiving.. (Yahoo)
• As America searches for answers, investigators are turning towards Nancy Lanza’s supposed identification as a survivalist.  (Yahoo)
• Her former sister-in-law Marsha said she had turned her home ‘into a fortress’.  (UK Daily Mail)
• Mother of Sandy Hook school gunman Adam Lanza was a ‘prepper’ survivalist preparing for economic and social collapse, say reports. ( The UK Independent)
• Mrs Lanza is thought to have trained her sons, Adam and Ryan to shoot, even taking them to local ranges. ( The UK Independent)
• ‘Nancy had a survivalist philosophy which is why she was stockpiling guns. She had them for defense. She was stockpiling food. She grew up on a farm in New Hampshire. She was skilled with guns. We talked about preppers and preparing for the economy collapsing.’  (UK Daily Mail)

Before this crisis I wrote an article entitled "Why Are Preppers Hated So Much?", and in that article I detailed how preppers and survivalists are increasingly being demonized by the media.

Well, now it is getting a whole lot worse.

As I wrote about the other day, political correctness has taken over America, and the mainstream media is systematically demonizing any group that will not go along with the program.

That includes gun owners.

Sadly, the truth is that if just one teacher or one principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School had been armed, a whole lot of lives could have been saved.  There have been numerous examples of mass shootings that have been stopped by private citizens with guns.  University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds discussed a couple of these in a recent piece for USA Today...

If there's someone present with a gun when a mass shooting begins, the shooter is likely to be shot himself. And, in fact, many mass shootings — from the high school shooting by Luke Woodham in Pearl, Miss., to the New Life Church shooting in Colorado Springs, Colo., where an armed volunteer shot the attacker — have been terminated when someone retrieved a gun from a car or elsewhere and confronted the shooter.

And time after time we have seen crime go down when gun laws are relaxed.  Criminals are much less likely to try something when they know that their targets are likely to be armed.

Here are some more statistics about guns and crime from foxandhoundsdaily.com...

* Guns are used 2.5 million times annually or 6,860 times a day. This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than they are to take lives.

* Less than 8 percent of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.

* 200,000 women use a gun every year to defend themselves against sexual abuse

* Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year.

* Only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The ‘error rate’ for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high.

Sadly, the collectivists seem absolutely determined to use the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School to unleash a new era of strict gun control laws.

So if you wanted to get a gun to protect your home and your family, you might want to do it now.  The witch hunt has begun, and it will soon become much more difficult to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights.

The thought police are watching you.  Back in the 1990s, lots of jokes were made about "political correctness", and almost everybody thought they were really funny.  Unfortunately, very few people are laughing now because political correctness has become a way of life in America.  If you say the "wrong thing" you could lose your [...]]]>

The thought police are watching you.  Back in the 1990s, lots of jokes were made about "political correctness", and almost everybody thought they were really funny.  Unfortunately, very few people are laughing now because political correctness has become a way of life in America.  If you say the "wrong thing" you could lose your job or you could rapidly end up in court.  Every single day, the mainstream media bombards us with subtle messages that make it clear what is "appropriate" and what is "inappropriate", and most Americans quietly fall in line with this unwritten speech code.  But just because it is not written down somewhere does not mean that it isn't real.  In fact, this speech code becomes more restrictive and more suffocating with each passing year.  The goal of the "thought Nazis" is to control what people say to one another, because eventually that will shape what most people think and what most people believe.  If you don't think this is true, just try the following experiment some time.  Go to a public place where a lot of people are gathered and yell out something horribly politically incorrect such as "I love Jesus" and watch people visibly cringe.  The name of "Jesus" has become a curse word in our politically correct society, and we have been trained to have a negative reaction to it in public places.  After that, yell out something politically correct such as "I support gay marriage" and watch what happens.  You will probably get a bunch of smiles and quite a few people may even approach you to express their appreciation for what you just said.  Of course this is going to vary depending on what area of the country you live in, but hopefully you get the idea.  Billions of dollars of media "programming" has changed the definitions of what people consider to be "acceptable" and what people consider to be "not acceptable".  Political correctness shapes the way that we all communicate with each other every single day, and it is only going to get worse in the years ahead.  Sadly, most people simply have no idea what is happening to them.

The following are 20 outrageous examples that show how political correctness is taking over America...

#1 According to a new Army manual, U.S. soldiers will now be instructed to avoid "any criticism of pedophilia" and to avoid criticizing "anything related to Islam".  The following is from a recent Judicial Watch article...

The draft leaked to the newspaper offers a list of “taboo conversation topics” that soldiers should avoid, including “making derogatory comments about the Taliban,” “advocating women’s rights,” “any criticism of pedophilia,” “directing any criticism towards Afghans,” “mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct” or “anything related to Islam.”

#2 The Obama administration has banned all U.S. government agencies from producing any training materials that link Islam with terrorism.  In fact, the FBI has gone back and purged references to Islam and terrorism from hundreds of old documents.

#3 Authorities are cracking down on public expressions of the Christian faith all over the nation, and yet atheists in New York City are allowed to put up an extremely offensive billboard in Time Square this holiday season that shows a picture of Jesus on the cross underneath a picture of Santa with the following tagline: "Keep the Merry! Dump the Myth!"

#4 According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, it is illegal for employers to discriminate against criminals because it has a "disproportionate" impact on minorities.

#5 Down in California, Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill that will allow large numbers of illegal immigrants to legally get California driver's licenses.

#6 Should an illegal immigrant be able to get a law license and practice law in the United States?  That is exactly what the State Bar of California argued earlier this year...

An illegal immigrant applying for a law license in California should be allowed to receive it, the State Bar of California argues in a filing to the state Supreme Court.

Sergio Garcia, 35, of Chico, Calif., has met the rules for admission, including passing the bar exam and the moral character review, and his lack of legal status in the United States should not automatically disqualify him, the Committee of Bar Examiners said Monday.

#7 More than 75 percent of the babies born in Detroit are born to unmarried women, yet it is considered to be "politically correct" to suggest that there is anything wrong with that.

#8 The University of Minnesota - Duluth (UMD) initiated an aggressive advertising campaign earlier this year that included online videos, billboards, and lectures that sought to raise awareness about "white privilege".

#9 At one high school down in California, five students were sent home from school for wearing shirts that displayed the American flag on the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo.

#10 Chris Matthews of MSNBC recently suggested that it is "racist" for conservatives to use the word "Chicago".

#11 A judge down in North Carolina has ruled that it is unconstitutional for North Carolina to offer license plates that say "Choose Life" on them.

#12 The number of gay characters on television is at an all-time record high.  Meanwhile, there are barely any strongly Christian characters to be found anywhere on television or in the movies, and if they do happen to show up they are almost always portrayed in a very negative light.

#13 House Speaker John Boehner recently stripped key committee positions from four "rebellious" conservatives in the U.S. House of Representatives.  It is believed that this "purge" happened in order to send a message that members of the party better fall in line and support Boehner in his negotiations with Barack Obama.

#14 There is already a huge push to have a woman elected president in 2016.  It doesn't appear that it even matters which woman is elected.  There just seems to be a feeling that "it is time" for a woman to be elected even if she doesn't happen to be the best candidate.

#15 Volunteer chaplains for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department have been banned from using the name of Jesus on government property.

#16 Chaplains in the U.S. military are being forced to perform gay marriages, even if it goes against their personal religious beliefs.  The few chaplains that have refused to follow orders know that it means the end of their careers.

#17 All over the country, the term "manhole" is being replaced with the terms "utility hole" or "maintenance hole".

#18 In San Francisco, authorities have installed small plastic "privacy screens" on library computers so that perverts can continue to exercise their "right" to watch pornography at the library without children being exposed to it.

#19 You will never guess what is going on at one college up in Washington state...

A Washington college said their non-discrimination policy prevents them from stopping a transgender man from exposing himself to young girls inside a women’s locker room, according to a group of concerned parents.

#20 All over America, liberal commentators are now suggesting that football has become "too violent" and "too dangerous" and that it needs to be substantially toned down.  In fact, one liberal columnist for the Boston Globe is even proposing that football should be banned for anyone under the age of 14.

Once upon a time, Detroit was one of the greatest cities in the entire world.  Today, it has become a desolate wasteland where the lawless reign.  Once upon a time, Detroit was a teeming metropolis of about 2 million people.  Today, it has become a rotting war zone with a population that is down [...]]]>

Once upon a time, Detroit was one of the greatest cities in the entire world.  Today, it has become a desolate wasteland where the lawless reign.  Once upon a time, Detroit was a teeming metropolis of about 2 million people.  Today, it has become a rotting war zone with a population that is down to about 700,000.  Once upon a time, Detroit was known for good paying manufacturing jobs and it was packed with middle class homes.  Today, nearly all of the good paying manufacturing jobs are gone (many of which has been shipped overseas), and there are more than 30,000 vacant homes in Detroit.  The city was once a shining example for the rest of the world, but now it is a laughingstock for the rest of the world.  If you can believe it, more than 50 percent of all children in Detroit are living in poverty, and close to 50 percent of all adults living in the city are functionally illiterate.  The high school graduation rate in Detroit is down to about 25 percent, and the city has become a breeding ground for gangs and violence.  The number of murders in Detroit is already higher than last year, and recently groups of young men toting AK-47s have been running around robbing gas stations.  How much worse can things possibly get for Detroit?

Many of those in Detroit that are trying to live normal, honest lives find themselves living in fear.  There are not enough police officers to deal with all of the crime, and the criminals know it.  Ten years ago, there were approximately 5,000 police officers in the city of Detroit.  Today, there are less than 3,000.

As a result, many average citizens have been arming themselves so that they can defend themselves and their families.  This has led to quite a few violent confrontations with criminals.  As I discussed the other day, justifiable homicide in Detroit rose by 79 percent during 2011, and the rate of self-defense killings in Detroit is about 2200 percent above the national average.

At this point, even the police are telling people to "enter Detroit at your own risk".  The number of murders has already exceeded the total from all of last year and we still have about a month to go...

The killings were the latest in what has been a particularly violent year in Detroit. The city announced last week that homicides rose this year, reaching 354 through Thanksgiving after totaling 344 for all of 2011.

And now the criminals are becoming even bolder.  As I mentioned above, gangs of young men with AK-47s are terrorizing gas stations all over Detroit.  The following is an excerpt from a recent article by the CBS affiliate in Detroit...

Detroit police are investigating whether a group of AK-47 wielding robbers who hit two gas stations Wednesday morning are responsible for several similar crimes that have recently occurred across the city.

What would you do if you were confronted by a group of young men with AK-47s?

Police seem to think that this group of young men is responsible for a whole string of gas station robberies that have occurred in recent weeks...

Investigators are also looking into whether the two incidents are related to a string of other gas station robberies in the city, all of which are believed to have been carried out by the same group of men.

Police say those men robbed at least 11 gas stations in a two-week period. Then, just hours after police put out a public notice about the robberies, the group struck again — this time robbing six different gas stations in one hour. In every instance, police say the suspects will cover their faces, walk into a gas station armed with assault weapons and announce a hold-up.

In other instances, groups of young men have decided to "move in" and take over entire gas stations...

A Detroit man says his business is being held hostage by a group of teenagers who continually loiter inside and out of his gas station.

"There's a lot of good people around here," said the station owner, who wished to remain anonymous. But now, those good people aren't coming as often to the Marathon station along W. 7 Mile Road on the city's west side.

"This is a Bad Crew gas station," said one teen loitering out front on Tuesday. When asked what that meant, he said, "If you don't know, I can't even tell you."

When the police are called, the teens just disperse and return later.  Police say that there is nothing that they can do to keep them away permanently.

It is so sad to watch what is happening to what was once such a great city.

Detroit was once known for making the greatest cars in the world.  Now, it is known as a dumping ground for the dead...

From the street, the two decomposing bodies were nearly invisible, concealed in an overgrown lot alongside worn-out car tires and a moldy sofa. The teenagers had been shot, stripped to their underwear and left on a deserted block.

They were just the latest victims of foul play whose remains went undiscovered for days after being hidden deep inside Detroit's vast urban wilderness -- a crumbling wasteland rarely visited by outsiders and infrequently patrolled by police.

Detroit was once a symbol of everything that America was doing right.  Now it is an example of everything that America is doing wrong.  The following is what one British reporter discovered during his visit to Detroit….

Much of Detroit is horribly dangerous for its own residents, who in many cases only stay because they have nowhere else to go. Property crime is double the American average, violent crime triple. The isolated, peeling homes, the flooded roads, the clunky, rusted old cars and the neglected front yards amid trees and groin-high grassland make you think you are in rural Alabama, not in one of the greatest industrial cities that ever existed.

Most of the abandoned homes and most of the abandoned vehicles in Detroit have been looted and stripped bare.  Thieves are ripping up anything that they can and selling it off.  In Detroit today, criminals have stripped so much copper wiring out of the street lights that half of all the lights in some Detroit neighborhoods no longer work.

Things have gotten so bad that many people are afraid to drive through the city in the middle of the day.  The head of the bus drivers union, Henry Gaffney, says that his drivers are literally "scared for their lives"....

“Our drivers are scared, they’re scared for their lives. This has been an ongoing situation about security. I think yesterday kind of just topped it off, when one of my drivers was beat up by some teenagers down in the middle of Rosa Parks and it took the police almost 30 minutes to get there, in downtown Detroit,” said Gaffney.

Needless to say, many people that are able to move away are getting out while they still can.  In the worst areas of Detroit, property values have been horribly depressed.  Some homes in Detroit have even been sold for a single dollar.

So what is the answer?

Well, Detroit Councilwoman JoAnn Watson says that since citizens of Detroit overwhelmingly voted for Obama, that Obama should return the favor by sending a whole bunch of money to Detroit...

"Our people in an overwhelming way supported the re-election of this president and there ought to be a quid pro quo and you ought to exercise leadership on that," said Watson. "Of course, not just that, but why not?"

Nearly 75 percent of Wayne County voters pulled the lever for Obama in November.

What do you think?

What is the solution to Detroit's problems?

Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below...

If the UN is given control of the Internet, that would be a massive step toward making the UN a true global government.  The Internet is the number one venue for free speech and freedom of expression on the planet today, and if the UN is given authority over the Internet it would only [...]]]>

If the UN is given control of the Internet, that would be a massive step toward making the UN a true global government.  The Internet is the number one venue for free speech and freedom of expression on the planet today, and if the UN is given authority over the Internet it would only be a matter of time before free speech is severely cracked down on.  Of course it would not happen immediately.  At first, UN officials would likely mostly keep their promises of maintaining a "free and open Internet".  But inevitably you would see them act to remove "terrorists" from the Internet, to crack down on "hate speech" and to repress any "politically incorrect" speech that is likely to insult anyone in any way.  If you were censored or banned from the Internet, you could scream about the 1st Amendment all you want, but the United Nations is not bound by the 1st Amendment.  The UN is not there to protect you or your freedoms.  If the UN becomes "the government of the Internet", you can essentially kiss freedom of speech goodbye.  If you do not believe that this could ever happen, you might want to pay close attention to a UN conference that is being held over in Dubai starting on Monday.  It is called "the World Conference on International Telecommunications", and it is scheduled to last for two weeks.  During this conference, Russia, China and a number of Islamic nations plan to make a hard push to have the Internet formally placed under the authority of the United Nations.  Right now, a non-profit organization that is based in California is primarily in charge of running the Internet.  The organization is known as ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).  But now there is going to be a huge effort to take authority away from ICANN and give it to the United Nations.  China, Russia and a number of Islamic nations are arguing that the Internet is a global asset and that it should be governed by a global authority.  However, if the UN is given authority over the Internet, not only will they inevitably kill the "free and open Internet", it will also be a huge leap for the UN toward becoming the government of the world.

Other nations participating in the conference want to tax the Internet and use it as a way to transfer money from the wealthy nations to the poor nations.  Fortunately, the United States does not have to go along with this treaty if it does not want to.  The treaty is entirely voluntary, and the U.S. could decide to opt out.

But is there anyone out there that is actually willing to trust that our politicians will do the right thing on this treaty or on any other major issue?

Even if the U.S. did opt out, we could see a "Balkanization of the Internet" in which the "U.S. Internet" is largely cut off from the "UN Internet" that most of the rest of the world is using.

So even though this conference over in Dubai is not getting a lot of attention in the mainstream media, the stakes are huge.

Even Google is concerned.  Google is asking users to sign a petition supporting the free and open Internet...

"A free and open world depends on a free and open Internet. Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future. The billions of people around the globe who use the Internet should have a voice."

Fortunately, at least some of our politicians are aware of what is going on.  Once in a while, one of our lawmakers says something that is right on the money.  This was true of U.S. Representative Greg Walden the other day...

“The ability of the Internet to grow is due largely to the flexibility of the multi-stakeholder approach that governs the Internet today,” said Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.). Government intervention would not only harm the Web but “endanger the global economy and freedom on a much larger scale," he said.

But the way that the Internet works now does not work for repressive governments such as China and Russia.  Repressive regimes don't do well when there is freedom of speech and freedom of expression.  There are a lot of nations out there that would love to use the UN as a tool to crack down on speech that they do not like.

And we have certainly seen repressive governments crack down on Internet speech in recent years.  All over the world average citizens are getting into trouble for exercising free speech on the Internet.  A recent CBC article included some recent examples...

Last month in Iran, four people were arrested for posting messages on Facebook that were deemed insulting to officials. Four Kuwaitis were jailed for purportedly using Twitter to criticize the country’s ruler earlier in November. And in the most publicized recent case, two women in Mumbai were arrested for posting and “liking” a comment on Facebook admonishing supporters of late nationalist Hindu politician Bal Thackeray.

Can you imagine how bad things would get if the UN developed a global "Internet speech policy"?

Already the UN is expressing concern about how "terrorists" are able to use the Internet to "spread propaganda".  The following is from a recent article by Kurt Nimmo...

Terrorists are exploiting Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Dropbox, to spread “propaganda” and open Wi-Fi networks in airports and libraries pose a threat to national security and enable “perpetrators,” according to “The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes,” a PDF released at a conference in Vienna held by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

The globalist organization claims terrorists are running rampant on the internet and leveraging social networks because there “is the lack of an internationally agreed framework for retention of data held by ISPs,” particularly in the United States.

The United Nations report was produced in collaboration with the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force. Members include the World Bank, Interpol, the World Health Organization, and the International Monetary Fund.

This may sound harmless to you, but what if they decide that you are a "terrorist" if you oppose the United Nations?  How would you feel if you were permanently banned from the Internet and thrown in jail for writing a blog post about how evil the United Nations is?

Are you starting to get an idea of how this kind of power could be horribly abused?

Even now we are seeing law enforcement authorities all over the world enforce the "rules of the Internet" in an iron-fisted manner.  For example, according to NBC News a 10-year-old girl in Finland recently had her laptop confiscated by authorities for simply trying to download one single album...

Last year, 9-year-old Julietta came across a torrent on The Pirate Bay after searching on Google for Finnish pop star Chisu's latest album. The download failed to work, and she and her father went and bought the album together shortly afterwards. Unbeknownst to them, Finland's Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (known as CIAPC, as well as its Finnish acronym, TTVK) had already taken notice.

This incident resulted in Finnish police standing at the front door of the home of this little girl and taking her laptop away...

Last Tuesday morning, he found a pair of Finnish police officers standing at his doorstep.

The police presented a search warrant, entered, and identified the now 10-year-old girl's Winnie the Pooh-decorated laptop as the object of their search, and confiscated it.

If you think that is bad, then you definitely would not want the UN implementing and enforcing global Internet laws.

You see, the United States is one of the only nations on the face of the earth that still guarantees freedom of speech.  Of course that freedom of speech is now greatly limited and is being eroded with each passing day, but in most other nations things are even worse.

As I have noted previously, in the UK it is now against the law to insult someone with your speech.  Many other nations have similar restrictions on freedom of speech.

So what would you do if the UN started implementing "global speech codes" for the entire Internet?

How would you fight back?

Are you starting to get an idea of how dangerous all of this could potentially be?

A free and open Internet is one of the greatest assets that we have.  It has enabled regular people to communicate with each other on a massive scale unlike anything we have ever seen before in human history.

In the years ahead there are going to be constant efforts to restrict our ability to communicate with one another on the Internet.  It is imperative that we oppose those efforts.

Please share this article with as many people as you can.  The free and open Internet is under attack, and we must speak up while we still can.

Should we be concerned that some Americans are putting Barack Obama up on the same level as Jesus Christ?  Should we be alarmed when a famous actor refers to "our Lord and Savior Barack Obama" on national television or when a prominent artist depicts Obama wearing a crown of thorns?  What should we think [...]]]>

Should we be concerned that some Americans are putting Barack Obama up on the same level as Jesus Christ?  Should we be alarmed when a famous actor refers to "our Lord and Savior Barack Obama" on national television or when a prominent artist depicts Obama wearing a crown of thorns?  What should we think when authors write books about "Apostle Barack" or groups of school children sing songs about how wonderful he is?  It is very dangerous when national leaders start to become objects of national worship.  This is the kind of thing that happens in North Korea - not in the United States of America.  When we put men up on a pedestal, pretty soon we find ourselves going along with whatever they say even when we know that it is wrong.  It is fine to admire, respect and support our politicians if that is what you choose to do.  But when the line is crossed and we start giving any politician the kind of praise and worship that only God should receive, there is a big problem.  Barack Obama is not Jesus.  He is just a man.  Unfortunately, the truth is that many Americans believe that he is much more than that.  What you are about to see should really disturb you...

Recently, actor Jamie Foxx referred to Barack Obama as "our Lord and Savior Barack Obama" during a television broadcast of the 2012 Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Video of this incident is posted below.  Notice that the crowd cheers wildly when Jamie Foxx says this...

A painting by artist Michael D’Antuono that is currently on display at Boston's Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery is making headlines all over the nation.  In the painting, Barack Obama has a crown of thorns on his head and his arms are stretched out as if he was being crucified.  In the background is the presidential seal...

The artist says that he has no plans of taking the painting down because "I feel my First Amendment rights should override someone’s hurt feelings".

Others are now referring to Barack Obama as "Apostle Barack".  For example, the following is the official description of a book entitled "The Gospel According To Apostle Barack" by Florida A&M University Professor Barbara A. Thompson...

Yes, Barack had worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people, especially those who elected him in 2008. His followers needed to re-elect him to a second term, so that he could continue to accomplish the promises he made, thus, realizing his vision of America as a more perfect political union or "heaven here on earth" Then, as I began to contemplate ways to assist Barack in his 2012 re-election bid something miraculous happened. I felt God's (His) Spirit beckoning me in my dreams at night. Listening, cautiously, I learned that Jesus walked the earth to create a more civilized society, Martin (Luther King) walked the earth to create a more justified society, but, Apostle Barack, the name he was called in my dreams, would walk the earth to create a more equalized society, for the middle class and working poor. Apostle Barack, the next young leader with a new cause, had been taken to the mountaintop and allowed to see over the other side. He had the answers to unlock the kingdom of "heaven here on earth" for his followers. The answers were repeated - over and over - in speeches Barack had made from his presidential announcement to his inaugural address. Those speeches or his teachings contained the answers to the middle class and working poor people living in a "heaven here on earth" For when the answers were unlocked and enacted, Apostle Barack's vision of America would be realized.

Are you disturbed yet?

You should be.

This next example of how Barack Obama is being "spiritualized" is a poster that was being sold on the streets outside the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte earlier this year...

Do you see what is being implied there?

What is being implied is that Barack Obama is just like Jesus - he is God's Son that was sent to us from heaven and that we should believe in him.

And of course you have probably already heard about all of the groups of children over the past several years that have been singing songs of praise about Barack Obama.  One of the most famous examples from Obama's first campaign is posted below.  The girl in the video has a beautiful voice, and it is kind of really chilling to hear her sing about how Obama is going to "lead us".  At the end of the song, the group of children in the video sings "yes we can" over and over as if they are at some kind of a cult meeting...

Sadly, this is not the only example of this kind of a thing.  In a previous article, I detailed a number of other examples of groups of young children singing songs of praise to Barack Obama.

What in the world has happened to us?

This kind of "leader worship" is not supposed to happen here.  It is only supposed to happen in crazy societies like North Korea...

So what do you think about all of this?  Please feel free to post a comment with your opinion below...

The elite want to tightly control almost everything that we do, say and think.  When most people think of "tyranny", they think of thugs with guns and little dictators running around barking orders at everyone.  But that is not how the elite are accomplishing their goals these days.  They want us to actually believe [...]]]>

The elite want to tightly control almost everything that we do, say and think.  When most people think of "tyranny", they think of thugs with guns and little dictators running around barking orders at everyone.  But that is not how the elite are accomplishing their goals these days.  They want us to actually believe that we have freedom and that we are choosing our own leaders, but in the background they are exerting "soft power" in a way that is absolutely ruthless.  They fund the political campaigns of our politicians, they own nearly all of the large corporations and financial institutions, they exert very tight control over the media and their agenda is being promoted through the education systems of virtually every nation on the planet.  What the elite are doing is not illegal.  In fact, they use the government and they use the law to accomplish their purposes.  That is one reason why the elite love big government.  For them, it is an instrument of control.  The larger the government is, the easier it is to watch, track, monitor and control the rest of us.  As you read this, a "total domination control grid" is being constructed all around us that is far beyond anything that George Orwell ever dreamed of.  This system is advancing on hundreds of different fronts, and it is getting tighter and more restrictive with each passing day.  We may think that we still have a certain degree of liberty, but if you start doing things that the system does not like, the system has a way of getting you back in line very quickly.  In the end, it is all about control.  There are many among the elite that actually believe that a tightly controlled society that is dominated by government institutions that they control is what is best for humanity.  Many of them honestly believe that society would descend into chaos without a strong hand guiding it.  Many of them truly are convinced that those that are "enlightened" are doing a noble thing by guiding humanity into the "bright future" that the elite are designing for them.  But of course the freedoms and the liberties of the common people must be greatly limited in order to get us to that "bright future".  We are like cattle that need to be penned in for our own good.  This is how the elite actually think.  I spent many years being educated by them and rubbing shoulders with them.  They should not be trusted.  Once our liberties and freedoms are gone, they will be nearly impossible to get back.  And once the elite have total control, we will be faced with a tyranny unlike anything humanity has ever seen before.

The following are 29 signs that the elite are transforming society into a total domination control grid...

1. A new bill in the U.S. Senate would allow more than 20 different government agencies to read your email without a search warrant.

2. Next generation facial recognition cameras that can identify a person in less than a second and "send authorities all known intelligence about anyone who enters a camera’s field of vision" are being put up in southern California.

3. A highly sophisticated surveillance grid known as "Trapwire" is being installed in major cities and at "high value targets" all over the United States.  Unfortunately, most Americans do not even realize that it exists.

4. Police departments all over America are beginning to deploy unmanned surveillance drones in the skies over their cities.  But don't think that a drone is not watching you just because you don't live in a major city.  The truth is that the federal government has been using unmanned surveillance drones to spy on farmers in Iowa and Nebraska.  There could be a drone over your house right now and you might not ever know it.

5. Individual politicians know more about you than they ever have before. The amount of information that the Obama campaign has compiled on potential voters is absolutely frightening...

If you voted this election season, President Obama almost certainly has a file on you. His vast campaign database includes information on voters’ magazine subscriptions, car registrations, housing values and hunting licenses, along with scores estimating how likely they were to cast ballots for his reelection.

6. The UK is often five or ten years ahead of much of the rest of the world in implementing "Big Brother" police state measures.  Over there it is now against the law to insult someone with your speech.  If you say something that is "likely" to insult a Muslim or a homosexual you could end up being dragged in front of a judge.  It is only a matter of time before we see these kinds of laws all over the planet.

7. Could you imagine the government telling you what the temperature inside your own home can be?  A new law in France would do exactly that...

Heating a French home could soon require an income tax consultation or even a visit to the doctor under legislation to force conservation in the nation's $46 billion household energy market.

A bill adopted by the lower house this month would set prices that homes pay based on wages, age and climate. Utilities Electricite de France and GDF Suez will use the data to reward consumers who cut power and natural gas usage and penalize those whom regulators decide are wasteful.

8. Control freak bureaucrats love to tell others how to run their lives.  For example, one man down in Orlando, Florida was recently ordered to rip out the vegetable garden that he was growing in his front yard.  Will we eventually get to the point where even the smallest details of our lives are micromanaged by the government?

9. Most Americans don't realize this, but the DNA of almost every newborn baby in America is collected and stored by the government.  What plans do they have for all of this DNA?

10. All over America, schools are beginning to require students to carry IDs with RFID microchips in them wherever they go.  Fortunately, some students are fighting back...

The San Antonio sophomore who opposed microchipping student IDs that would track their every movement has inspired a groundswell of 300 students in her huge district who now refuse to wear the identification chips over religious, personal privacy, safety and civil liberties concerns. In addition, some 700 other people have signed petitions opposing the microchipping program.

11. There is more crossover between our education system and our law enforcement system than ever before.  An increasing number of schools in the United States have police officers roaming their hallways, and today there are more than 70,000 children behind bars in America.

12. When you rely on FEMA to take care of you, it can literally feel like you are in prison.  The following is a description of what life is like in one FEMA camp that was set up in New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy...

“Sitting there last night you could see your breath,” displaced resident Brian Sotelo told the Asbury Park Press. “At (Pine Belt) the Red Cross made an announcement that they were sending us to permanent structures up here that had just been redone, that had washing machines and hot showers and steady electric, and they sent us to tent city. We got (expletived).”

Sotelo said Blackhawk helicopters patrol the skies “all day and night” and a black car with tinted windows surveys the camp while the government moves heavy equipment past the tents at night. According to the story, reporters aren’t even allowed in the fenced complex, where lines of displaced residents form outside portable toilets. Security guards are posted at every door, and residents can’t even use the toilet or shower without first presenting I.D.

“They treat us like we’re prisoners,” Ashley Sabol told Reuters. “It’s bad to say, but we honestly feel like we’re in a concentration camp.”

13. Your cell phone collects information about you wherever you go, and law enforcement authorities in the United States requested that cell phone data be turned over to them more than a million times in 2011 alone.

14. The federal government has created an iPhone app that is designed to encourage all of us to take photos of "suspicious activity" and report our neighbors to the authorities.

15. The U.S. government is increasingly using spyware to monitor the behavior of their employees while they are at work.

16. According to three NSA whistleblowers, the agency "has the capability to do individualized searches, similar to Google, for particular electronic communications in real time through such criteria as target addresses, locations, countries and phone numbers, as well as watch-listed names, keywords, and phrases in email."

17. Private corporations are gathering every shred of information about you that they possible can. One of the largest companies involved in "mining our data" is known as Acxiom.  It turns out that Acxiom has compiled information on more than 190 million people in the United States alone…

The company fits into a category called database marketing. It started in 1969 as an outfit called Demographics Inc., using phone books and other notably low-tech tools, as well as one computer, to amass information on voters and consumers for direct marketing. Almost 40 years later, Acxiom has detailed entries for more than 190 million people and 126 million households in the U.S., and about 500 million active consumers worldwide. More than 23,000 servers in Conway, just north of Little Rock, collect and analyze more than 50 trillion data ‘transactions’ a year.

18. We are being trained to give up our privacy and our dignity in the name of "security".  For example, what the TSA did recently to one woman who was dying of leukemia was absoutely shameful...

19. According to one recent survey, nearly one-third of all Americans would be willing to submit to a "TSA body cavity search" in order to fly.

20. Law enforcement authorities all over the United States will soon be driving around in unmarked vehicles looking inside your cars and even under your clothes using the same backscatter technology currently being used by the TSA at U.S. airports…

American cops are set to join the US military in deploying American Science & Engineering’s Z Backscatter Vans, or mobile backscatter radiation x-rays. These are what TSA officials call “the amazing radioactive genital viewer,” now seen in airports around America, ionizing the private parts of children, the elderly, and you (yes you).

These pornoscannerwagons will look like regular anonymous vans, and will cruise America’s streets, indiscriminately peering through the cars (and clothes) of anyone in range of its mighty isotope-cannon. But don’t worry, it’s not a violation of privacy. As AS&E’s vice president of marketing Joe Reiss sez, “From a privacy standpoint, I’m hard-pressed to see what the concern or objection could be.”

21. A company known as BRS Labs has developed "pre-crime surveillance cameras" that supposedly can identify criminal activity before it happens.  These cameras are being installed at major transportation hubs all over San Francisco.

22. According to Gizmodo, the Department of Homeland Security will soon be using laser-based scanners that can scan your body, your clothes and your luggage from 164 feet away...

Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body—agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you.

And without you knowing it.

The technology is so incredibly effective that, in November 2011, its inventors were subcontracted by In-Q-Tel to work with the US Department of Homeland Security. In-Q-Tel is a company founded “in February 1999 by a group of private citizens at the request of the Director of the CIA and with the support of the U.S. Congress.” According to In-Q-Tel, they are the bridge between the Agency and new technology companies.

Their plan is to install this molecular-level scanning in airports and border crossings all across the United States.

23. A complex network of automated license plate readers carefully track the movements of millions of vehicles as they move in and out of Washington D.C. and the surrounding suburbs.  Most people do not even know that they are there.

24. The FBI is spending a billion dollars to develop a biometric identification system that will reportedly be far more sophisticated than anything that law enforcement in the United States has ever had before….

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun rolling out its new $1 billion biometric Next Generation Identification (NGI) system. In essence, NGI is a nationwide database of mugshots, iris scans, DNA records, voice samples, and other biometrics, that will help the FBI identify and catch criminals — but it is how this biometric data is captured, through a nationwide network of cameras and photo databases, that is raising the eyebrows of privacy advocates.

Until now, the FBI relied on IAFIS, a national fingerprint database that has long been due an overhaul. Over the last few months, the FBI has been pilot testing a facial recognition system — and soon, detectives will also be able to search the system for other biometrics such as DNA records and iris scans.

25. If the government decides that you are a "bad guy", they can put you on a "no fly list" that will ban you from flying indefinitely.  This can be done to you at any time, without any notice, and you won't be told that it has happened.  In fact, as one prepper discovered recently, you might only find out that you are on the list when you try to board a flight.

26. Those that revere individual liberty are now being labeled as "potential terrorists" in official U.S. government documents.

27. A National Guard whistleblower recently revealed that members of his unit were told that "doomsday preppers" will be treated as "terrorists" when civil unrest breaks out.

28. One family in Idaho recently had their home raided by a SWAT team because a computer identified them as "constitutionalists" after someone had phoned in and complained about a domestic disturbance at their address.

29. Today, the mainstream media in the United States is totally dominated by just six giant corporations.  Those corporations own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and large numbers of popular websites.  The way that almost every American looks at the world is being constantly influenced by these media corporations every single day.

Please share this list with as many people as you can.  We desperately need to wake people up while there is still time.

Why is the mainstream media saying nothing about election fraud even though there are eyewitness reports from all over the country of voting machines turning Romney votes into Obama votes? Why do the Republican Party and the Romney campaign seem completely uninterested in widespread reports of voter fraud in important swing states?  The integrity [...]]]>

Why is the mainstream media saying nothing about election fraud even though there are eyewitness reports from all over the country of voting machines turning Romney votes into Obama votes? Why do the Republican Party and the Romney campaign seem completely uninterested in widespread reports of voter fraud in important swing states?  The integrity of our votes is of the utmost importance.  If our voting machines are not "working correctly" or if rampant voter fraud is being committed, what are we supposed to do about it?  According to the Election Protection Coalition, American voters reported more than 70,000 voting problems by 5 PM Eastern time on election day.  But it seems as though nobody even follows up on these complaints.  With each election cycle the reports of election fraud just continue to get worse, but once each election is over we never hear about anyone getting into any trouble.  What you are about to read will likely make you very angry.  There are eyewitness accounts of voting machines all over the nation turning Romney votes into Obama votes.  So will anything be done about this?  Of course not.  We are being told to sit down, shut up and blindly have faith in the results that the voting machines are giving us even though there is solid proof that there were very serious problems with the voting machines.

These problems first emerged in a number of swing states during early voting.  In many of the most important swing states it was being reported that Romney voters were claiming that when they tried to cast votes for Romney that the voting machines changed their votes to Obama instead.  The following is one example of this from Ohio...

“I don’t know if it happened to anybody else or not, but this is the first time in all the years that we voted that this has ever happened to me,” said Marion, Ohio, voter Joan Stevens. 

Stevens said that when she voted, it took her three tries before the machine accepted her choice to vote for Romney.

“I went to vote and I got right in the middle of Romney’s name,” Stevens told Fox News, saying that she was certain to put her finger directly on her choice for the White House.

She said that the first time she pushed “Romney,” the machine marked “Obama.”

So she pushed Romney again. Obama came up again. Then it happened a third time.

“Maybe you make a mistake once, but not three times,” she told Fox News.

But of course this was not just happening in Ohio.  There were also eyewitness accounts of this happening during early voting in quite a few other states including Nevada, Kansas, North Carolina, Missouri and Colorado.

Officials assured us that the voting machines would be "recalibrated" and that we would not have these kinds of problems on election day.

Unfortunately, it turned out that there were a whole bunch of reports of voting machines turning Romney votes into Obama votes on election day.

For example, an equipment manager who worked for Chicago's election system on election day says that he repeatedly witnessed voting machines fail to register Romney votes...

Steve Pickrum said he worked for Chicago’s election system during the early voting and Election Day voting for the 2012 race.

As an equipment manager for the system, Pickrum said, he responded whenever there was a glitch with a voting machine.

“On early voting, when I did work on the floor when voters needed help using the equipment, I was able to see the preference of the voter, and every time that I saw [a] voter voted for Romney a ‘voter save failure’ message came up on the screen,’” he reported.

And guess what happened when he went to cast his own vote?  The same thing happened to him...

Then when he went on Election Day to cast his own vote, he picked Romney and experienced the same error message.

Pickrum said he worked at both the Matteson voting area as well as in Precinct 70, and although he discussed the anomalies with his boss, had not yet filed a formal report.

He said when he voted, he was told by a precinct worker to just go ahead and assume that his vote had been tabulated, despite the error message. But since he knew the operations of the machines, he asked the poll workers to check the vote report, and they found his vote had not been counted.

Over in Pennsylvania, a poll watcher claims that "about 5 percent to 10 percent" of the votes were being switched from Romney to Obama by the voting machines in the polling location that he was monitoring.  What he recently told WND is absolutely staggering...

It was in Upper Macungie Township, near Allentown, Pa., where an auditor, Robert Ashcroft, was dispatched by Republicans to monitor the vote on Election Day. He said the software he observed would “change the selection back to default – to Obama.”

He said that happened in about 5 percent to 10 percent of the votes.

He said the changes appeared to have been made by a software program.

Ashcroft said the format for computer programming has a default status, and in this case it appeared to be designating a vote for Obama each time it went to default.

But issues with the voting machines were not the only problems that poll watchers were observing on election day.

Down at one polling location in the swing state of Virginia, a poll watcher named Dara Fox says that voter fraud was "rampant".

She recently told WMAL radio the following...

-That it appeared that voters for Obama were being bussed in.

-That many of them could not speak English at all.

-That many of them could not tell poll workers the correct address on their identification cards.

-That many of them were obviously far from the correct age.

-That many people were voting more than once at that same polling station throughout the day.

The following is a YouTube video of Dara Fox being interviewed by WMAL.  Was there an organized effort to steal the vote in Virginia?...

According to the head of the Republican Party of Maine, a similar thing appeared to have happened in his state...

I have previously detailed a lot more evidence of potential voter fraud on election day right here.

If anyone out there has heard of any other reports such as these, please let me know.

If we do not speak up, nothing will be done.

The Democrats aren't going to do anything about this.

The Republicans aren't going to do anything about this.

The mainstream media is not going to do anything about this.

As far as they are all concerned, we are not supposed to question the results.  We are just supposed to have blind faith in the system even though there is a mountain of evidence right in front of our eyes that is screaming that something is wrong.

So what do you think about all of this?  Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below...

Has there ever been such a negative reaction to the results of a presidential election in modern American history?  Yes, those that supported Barack Obama are celebrating greatly right now, but the other half of the country is really freaking out.  Over the past 48 hours there has been a very powerful outpouring of [...]]]>

Has there ever been such a negative reaction to the results of a presidential election in modern American history?  Yes, those that supported Barack Obama are celebrating greatly right now, but the other half of the country is really freaking out.  Over the past 48 hours there has been a very powerful outpouring of emotion that has included a strange mix of mourning, anguish, frustration, grief, despair, panic and fear.  Yes, the more conservative half of the country was disappointed after Bill Clinton's two victories, and they were certainly not pleased with what happened in 2008, but those were viewed as temporary setbacks.  What happened on Tuesday night is being viewed as something else entirely.  Shocked conservatives are describing the election results as "catastrophic" and many believe that there is no hope that America will ever be turned around again.  The reality that we are about to go through another four years of Barack Obama in the White House is starting to set in, and this is shaking a lot of people to the core.  If you are conservative, you will likely find many of the quotes below to be quite sobering.  If you are liberal, you will likely find many of the quotes below to be quite hilarious.  But there is one thing that everyone should be able to agree on - America is more divided today than at any other time in the post-World War II era and half of the country feels like they were just punched in the stomach.

The following are 16 quotes that show how much people are freaking out about another four years of Barack Obama...

#1 Rush Limbaugh: "I went to bed last night thinking we’re outnumbered.  I went to bed last night thinking all this discussion we’d had about this election being the election that will tell us whether or not we’ve lost the country.  I went to bed last night thinking we’ve lost the country.  I don’t know how else you look at this."

#2 Sarah Palin: "Well, unfortunately, we know what we will get with four more years of Obama. This really is a catastrophic setback to our economy and to any opportunity that we would have for Supreme Court justices to be appointed who would be strict adherents to the traditional interpretation of what our Constitution says."

#3 Marc Faber: "I am surprised with the reelection of Mr. Obama. The S&P is only down like 30 points. I would have thought that the market on his reelection should be down at least 50%…I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama who basically doesn’t care about piling up debt. You also have in the background Mr. Bernanke, who with artificially low interest rates enables the debt to essentially escalate endlessly."

#4 Ron Paul: "The majority dictates against the minority. So, right now the majority are receiving a check...That is why people were sort of surprised with these conditions that this president can get reelected. That is a bad sign in that there are more on the receiving end. People do not want anything cut. They want all the bailouts to come. They want the Fed to keep printing money."

#5 Donald Trump: "Our country is now in serious and unprecedented trouble...like never before."

#6 Jim Rogers: "It’s going to be more inflation, more money printing, more debt, more spending"

#7 Glenn Beck: "So I sat there on my set last night and what I said, I think about this time yesterday, was I caught myself halfway in the middle of a monologue and I think I cleared my throat and I said, I’m biting my tongue here to say things that I ‑‑ hopefully I won’t have to say tomorrow. But I got up yesterday at 3:00 in the morning and I knew. And I couldn’t sleep and I started to say my prayers and I got up and kneeled down by the edge of my bed and I knew that ‑‑ or I suspected that my mind’s not God’s mind, and the peace and the comfort that he had given me and so many of my friends was not about an election. God’s about a bigger picture than an election or a candidate. God is about the freedom of mankind. God is about the Constitution, which is a divinely inspired."

#8 Tanner Lee Cook: "I am honestly sick to my stomach. I have lost all hope in America as a nation. Its time we start to feel sorry for ourselves."

#9 Laura Ingraham: "Axelrod's mustache lives. America's economy dies."

#10 Robert Sewell, MD: "Notice to all patients, Prepare for LONG LINES & government denial of care. That's what you have voted for today. Hope you Love Obamacare"

#11 Richard Viguerie of ConservativeHQ.com: "The battle to take over the Republican Party begins today and the failed Republican leadership should resign"

#12 Bryan Fischer: "Today was Pearl Harbor. Tomorrow we begin planning for Normandy."

#13 A Small Business Owner In Nevada: "I had to lay off 22 people today to make sure that my business is gonna thrive and I’m gonna be around for years to come. I have to build up that nest egg now for the taxes and regulations that are coming my way. Elections do have consequences, but so do choices. A choice you make every day has consequences and you know what, I’ve always put my employees first, but unfortunately today I have to put me and my family first, and you watch what’s gonna happen. I’m just one guy with 114 employees — well was 114 employees — watch what happens in the next six months. The Dow alone lost 314 points today. There’s a tsunami coming and if you didn’t think this election had consequences, just wait."

#14 Ted Nugent: "Goodluk America u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide. Soulless fools"

#15 Michelle Malkin: "My counsel to you tonight: Please, do not be bitter. Do not fall prey to the Beltway blame game. Do not get mired in small things. Do not become vengeful creatures like our political opponents who voted out of spite instead of love of country. We still have boundless blessings to count — and to secure. I remain a proud, unrepentant believer in the American Dream. And I know you do, too. Freedom will endure because we will keep fighting for it. We can’t afford not to, friends."

#16 Joseph Farah: "For many of us, the unthinkable has happened.

America has decisively turned the corner away from the constitutional principles of limited government and self-government with the re-election of Barack Obama.

There may be no way home for us.

For those of us who fundamentally reject Obama’s policies, things are going to get very rough for the next four years. We have allowed our fellow Americans to pronounce judgment on the nation."

Hurricane Sandy is doing even more damage than originally anticipated.  As I write this, parts of Manhattan are under several feet of water.  Nobody expected that.  It is also being reported that water is pouring into the New York subway system.  Some of the subway tunnels reportedly have four feet of water in them [...]]]>

Hurricane Sandy is doing even more damage than originally anticipated.  As I write this, parts of Manhattan are under several feet of water.  Nobody expected that.  It is also being reported that water is pouring into the New York subway system.  Some of the subway tunnels reportedly have four feet of water in them at this point.  That is absolutely unprecedented.  All along the eastern seaboard we are seeing utter devastation.  The storm has just reached shore and yet already more than 2 million people have lost power.  From end to end, Hurricane Sandy is more than 1000 miles across, and this slow moving storm is going to continue to pound the northeast for most of the rest of the week.  The truth is that the northeast part of the country has never seen anything quite like this.  The storm surge has produced incredible damage all over the east coast.  Posted below are some photos that people have posted online of the devastation that they are seeing in their areas.  Of course there is no way to 100% vouch for the accuracy of these pictures, but I think that you will agree that many of them are extremely powerful.  We haven't seen scenes like this since the horrific tsunami that hit Japan back in 2011.  We all need to be in prayer for those in the path of Hurricane Sandy because this crisis is far from over.

The following are 11 horrifying photos of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy...

#1 A photo of the road to Atlantic City posted by Sharla McBride...

#2 A photo of lower Manhattan posted by Wilson Pitts...

#3 A photo of the lower east side posted by Terri Pitzel...

#4 A photo of Brooklyn posted by Nick Cope...

#5 A photo of the boardwalk in Atlantic City crumbling posted by Shawn Reynolds...

#6 A photo of Long Beach Island posted by Jenn Perry Katsikis...

#7 A photo of Ocean City posted by Ken Shane...

#8 A photo of flooding in Atlantic City posted by Jim Roberts...

#9 A photo of power lines down in Seaside Heights posted by Jim Lipof...

Could this be the first presidential election in U.S. history to be decided by hackers?  In recent years, hackers all over the globe have become increasingly sophisticated.  Meanwhile, our computer-based voting systems have repeatedly been shown to be extremely vulnerable.  This is particularly true in the crucial swing state of Ohio.  Several years ago [...]]]>

Could this be the first presidential election in U.S. history to be decided by hackers?  In recent years, hackers all over the globe have become increasingly sophisticated.  Meanwhile, our computer-based voting systems have repeatedly been shown to be extremely vulnerable.  This is particularly true in the crucial swing state of Ohio.  Several years ago the Ohio Secretary of State actually issued a report which stated that the voting machines used in Ohio are "susceptible to breaches of security that may jeopardize the integrity of the voting process."  This is very disturbing, especially considering the fact that both the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign pretty much admit that whoever wins Ohio is going to win the election.  The state of Ohio has voted for the winner in every presidential election since 1964, and most analysts agree that the 18 electoral votes from Ohio are almost certainly going to determine the outcome of this election.  So will someone be tempted to tamper with the election results in Ohio?  Sadly, if someone did want to hack the voting results in Ohio it would apparently not be that hard to do.

Back in 2007, a risk assessment study was performed on computer-based voting systems in Ohio.  That study was called "Project Everest", and it came to some absolutely startling conclusions.  The following is a brief excerpt from that report...

Unfortunately, the findings in this study indicate that the computer-based voting systems in use in Ohio do not meet computer industry security standards and are susceptible to breaches of security that may jeopardize the integrity of the voting process. Such safeguards were neither required by federal regulatory authorities, nor voluntarily applied to their systems by voting machine companies, as these products were certified for use in federal and state elections.

In particular, the study was quite hard on the voting machines produced by a company known as Hart InterCivic.  These voting machines are used in Hamilton County, which is considered to be a crucial section of the state.  George W. Bush won Hamilton County is 2004 and Barack Obama won it in 2008.  According to reporter Ben Swann, there are some legitimate concerns about the security of these machines...

But that short news report doesn't tell the whole story.  Project Everest found a whole host of security problems with the Hart InterCivic voting machines.  The following are a few quotes about Hart InterCivic voting machines pulled directly from the report...

-Compromise of the precinct optical scanner can be “easily gained.” An unauthorized individual with sufficient knowledge could “easily overcome the tamper seals and either modify or replace the operating system files or memory card.”

-The ballot box on the optical scanner was easily unlocked using common lock picking techniques, which would allow unauthorized individuals to access voted ballots.

-The security of the PCMCIA memory cards used to carry the elections data between the precincts and the board of elections is “inadequate.”

-At the board of elections level, both computers used with the Hart voting system were “easily compromised.”

-The Hart system performed “poorly” in the file systems access testing because unauthorized individuals could gain access to the memory cards and “easily tamper” core voting data.

-Hart scored a “zero” on the twelve-step baseline comparison framework – that is, the Hart InterCivic voting system failed to meet any of the twelve basic best practices requirements.

What makes all of this even more alarming is the fact that Hart InterCivic is largely controlled by a private equity firm known as HIG Capital which is run by former colleagues of Mitt Romney.  In fact, a number of HIG executives are reportedly important Romney fundraisers.

A recent article in the Washington Post summarized the connections between Hart InterCivic, HIG Capital and the Romney campaign...

In a nutshell: Three of Hart’s five corporate board members are executives of HIG Capital, a global private-equity firm that made what it called a “significant” investment in Hart last year. Four HIG executives (Tony Tamer, John Bolduc, Douglas Berman and Brian D. Schwartz) have been identified as Romney bundlers by independent watchdog groups such as the Sunlight Foundation.

HIG employees as a whole have donated $338,000 this year to the campaign of the Republican presidential nominee, according to Open Secrets. Three of them (Tamer, Berman and Bolduc) used to work at Bain. Among the investors in HIG is Solamere Capital, a private-equity firm run by Tagg Romney, one of the candidate’s sons.

Of course none of this means that anyone is going to do anything wrong or will even have the opportunity to do anything wrong.

But it definitely does not pass the "smell test".  Romney fundraisers should not have invested in a company that provides voting machines in Ohio.  If Obama ends up losing Ohio, many Democrats are going to be crying bloody murder about this.

Not that Democrats don't do a lot of questionable things too.  In fact, some Democrats have already had their hands caught in the cookie jar this election season.

And of course there is the possibility that if election results in Ohio are changed that it may not be either the Republicans or the Democrats doing it.  It could simply be an outside group of hackers that want to alter the outcome of the election for their own purposes.

In fact, computer security experts all over the nation are warning of such a scenario.  Our computer-based voting systems are extremely vulnerable.  The following is from a recent WND article...

The result of an election will be changed by hackers, the only question remaining for an online security expert is which election will it be.

“I’m somewhat surprised it hasn’t happened yet,” said Stephen Cobb, a security evangelist for ESET-North America, an IT security company, in a recent article by Dark Reading, a website for security professionals.

Let us hope that the results of this election reflect the will of the American people.  Let us hope that neither hackers nor political operatives are able to monkey with the results.

But we would have to be fools not to recognize that the potential for abuse is certainly there and that our politicians have not sufficiently addressed the vulnerabilities that currently exist.

As I wrote about the other day, there have been a large number of documented voting machine problems in recent years.

We would be foolish to stick our heads in the sand and pretend that these problems don't matter.  The integrity of our elections is of paramount importance, and our increasing dependence on computers makes our elections more vulnerable to fraud than ever before.

So keep a close eye on the voting results in the swing states.  Hopefully there will not be any issues, but in this day and age you just never know what is going to happen.