my brain dead neighbors would begin chanting: usa, usa after reading this obituary for the remains of the empire;

In May of 2014, Frank Bruni wrote an article for the NYT titled ‘America the Shrunken’, in which he detailed what he called “the downward arc of a diminished enterprise” that was the USA, quoting friends who claimed their children would live in a more impoverished America, that the reign was over and the slide was inevitable. The optimism and the arrogant swagger are mostly gone. He quoted Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik who wrote, “At the core of Americans’ anger and alienation is the belief that the American dream is no longer attainable.” (1)

He wrote,

“For the first time in our country’s history, there is more social mobility in Europe than in the United States. More and more I get the sense that we’ve lost it. Everywhere you turn, the evidence mounts. American schoolchildren aren’t anywhere near the head of the international pack, and American adults, according to one recent study, lack the technical skills that peers in many other developed countries have. American bridges crumble. American trains crawl. American flights leave from terminals that pale next to many Asian and European counterparts.”

“Joe Biden acknowledged as much when he compared La Guardia Airport to a third-world country. I’ve been to La Guardia and I’ve been to Guatemala, and if I were Guatemala, I’d sue for defamation.” (2) And again, “the middle class in America, which had long been the world’s most affluent, wasn’t anymore. Canada had overtaken us. My Times colleague Nicholas Kristof wrote about America’s rank on a new “social progress index” that includes 132 countries. We’re 39th in basic education, 34th in access to water and sanitation – access to water and sanitation! – and … just two spots above Slovenia.”

Also in May of 2014, Peter van Buren wrote an article titled An Empire in Decline, City by City, Town by Town, in which he related some of his travels through parts of the US today and compared them to their appearance in their prime – a time not very long ago. He began by writing: ..........https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-shrunken/5698017

a surprise post from videorebel quickly on the heels of his previous one, and this one is centered on health, diet and such, and a most excellent one at that;

“Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.” Voltaire

“If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that germs seek their natural habitat, diseased tissue, rather than being the cause of disease.”

Rudolf Virchow, father of modern pathology.

6 in 10 adults in the US have a chronic disease. 4 in 10 adults have multiple chronic diseases. 54% of American children have  chronic illness. America has the sickest population in the world. A woman who speaks to audiences around the world reported that Americans do not appear to be as vibrant and healthy as people in foreign countries.

An allergy is a response to the presence of a foreign protein. Do you think that the rise in allergies is related at least in part to the 72 injections of 17 different vaccines?

Older people did not know what autism was until state laws starting mandating 72 shots for children before they graduate from high school.

The German Federal Supreme Court has ruled that there is not enough evidence to prove that the measles virus exists. The world’s largest and leading genetic Institute and other independent labs have both concluded that the 6 studies in measles virus case were wrong. They have misinterpreted ordinary constituents of cells as parts of the suspected measles virus. Labs had sued to collect a 100,00 euro prize to disprove Dr Lanka’s criticism of the measles virus theory.  Dr Lanka won in the Supreme Court.

So we are exposed to vaccines based on a scientifically tenuous proposition?..........https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/disease-big-pharma-friend-or-foe/

about half way thru this pdf is the epstein section in which you will find lots of reasons to know epstein didn't kill himself, if he's even dead;


Enough of the obtuseness. Epstein was not just a world-class perv. He was running a blackmail operation in which men of wealth and power were lured into “honey traps”,29 filmed releasing dopamine into their own skulls and other biofluids into the damsels’ skulls.30 After Jeff’s 2005 arrest, a police video tour of his house showed copious mildly erotic wall art, photos of famous people, and a painting of Gizz (Maxwell that is).31 Most notably, the plethora of bedrooms each had attached private bathrooms fully stocked in toiletries and neatly stacked towels. What was missing was evidence somebody lived there. Piles of crap indicative of human occupancy were absent. It was not a time capsule of somebody’s life. It looks like a B&B (Brothel & Breakfast). Next question: How do you blackmail wealthy and powerful men without committing suicide by nail-gun shots to the head and keeping your entry in “Who is Still Who”? Epstein is said to have used strong-arm tactics on occasion,32 but can you really bully the Clintons and their cronies? More questions: How do you get convicted of trafficking underaged girls (at least 34 according to the FBI),33 get off with 8 months of house arrest over the protestations of the lead prosecutor,34 and talk the judge into sealing the case? How do you get subsequent civil cases brought by the victims sealed as well? Recently released partial transcripts of the civil cases include testimony of victims describe being raped by famous people that I will not mention because they have law degrees.35 Where is Mariska Hargitay and the SVU for Christ’s sake? The civil court judges are mandated by law to pass felonious behavior to the authorities. (I actually learned that from Judge Wapner in a People’s Court episode. No joke.) You also could imagine that post-conviction Epstein might be persona non grata among the elite interested in keeping up appearances for the public. Usually sex offenders get banished to trailer parks clustered with other sex offenders miles from elementary schools. His ties with the appropriately named “Prince Albert”, Ehud Barak, George Stephanopoulos, and a host of others stayed strong and in plain sight.36 Hold that thought..........Overwhelming evidence suggests that Jeff Epstein was, loosely speaking, a serial blackmailer being protected by his employers—intelligence agencies.62 Acosta said as much when he adjudicated the sweet deal with Epstein in 2005:

https://cm-us-standard.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Year-in-Review-Final-pdf.pdf

just in case you've forgotten;


“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” ~ H.L. Mencken

this post is reinforcement for those who know there are two sets of laws, and new information for those who have been unaware of the situation;

Former New York City Police Department (NYPD) sergeant Ritchard Blake has received five years of probation after being caught on surveillance camera shooting a man in the face and planting evidence on him.

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun made his final sentence last week, giving a slap on the wrist to Blake that is a shocking example of how law enforcement personnel experiences a different standard of justice than ordinary civilians.

Blake, 40, was recorded on Aug. 2, 2018 firing two bullets toward Thavone Santana’s jaw and then planting a blade next to Santana as he laid on the ground. He would later return to the crime scene and pick up the knife. According to a civil lawsuit filed against the city, Blake acted out in a jealous rage.

Santana has claimed that Blake turned violent on him after a dispute over a phone charger. Blake’s girlfriend had borrowed Santana’s phone charger, and he ran into Blake on his way to buy a new one. Blake reportedly told Santana to stay away from his girlfriend before firing the gun at his face.

Blake has stood by his story that he fired the gun at Santana’s face in a measure self-defense, and he believed that Santana was armed. However, the video evidence showing Blake planting the blade on Santana makes his story seem very far-fetched.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement that his office wanted Blake to do prison time, but did not object to the lenient sentence given to the former cop.

“This defendant is now a convicted felon who has been held accountable for his actions and is no longer a member of the NYPD,” Gonzalez said.

“We rely on the truthfulness of our police officers to maintain the integrity of the criminal justice system, which makes his egregious and criminal conduct of trying to frame an individual in this case especially disturbing,” he added.

The NYPD has become increasingly disrespected in recent years, in lieu of cases like the death of Eric Garner that have galvanized the city against law enforcement.

A trend has developed in recent months of people dousing police officers with buckets of water as they patrol the streets..........https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/75775/former-nypd-cop-gets-probation-for-shooting-rival-in-the-face-and-planting-fake-evidence-on-his.html

caitlin provides a bit of insight here in case you could use some;

We all slid out of the womb an itty bitty helpless information sponge into a world full of mentally ill giants who couldn’t wait to fill our tiny skulls with all of their inner demons. And now everything, understandably, is fucked.

That’s basically our whole entire situation in a nutshell. You can add on as many extra details as you like–plutocracy, corruption, mass media propaganda, billionaire wine cave fundraisers, whatever–but ultimately our plight is due to the fact that every single human showed up on this planet completely helpless and knowing nothing, forced to trust crazy giants to give them the grand introductory tour.

Why were those giants crazy? Well you see, they got here the same way you did: small, slippery and completely clueless, surrounded by enormous gibbering lunatics who were all in a mad rush to teach them how to be insane.

And those giants came into the world under the exact same circumstances, as did the giants who came before them, and the giants who came before them, and so on.

It’s a grand old tradition of ours, ultimately stretching all the way back to our own evolutionary birth in this world and the emergence of a massive cerebral cortex in a mammal who up until that point had been primarily concerned with sneaking in a snack and a quick shag in between mad sprints away from sharp-fanged predators. This newfound capacity for complex abstract thought burst onto this frantic, confusing scene and was quickly seized and manipulated by the cleverer primates.

And thus human madness was born........https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/12/22/why-everything-is-fucked/

pcr rightly askes with some evidence provided: are we insane? i join with him in his question;

The United Church of Christ in Ames, Iowa, for reasons unknown flew a LGBTQ flag/banner of sexual perversion. A 30 year old Hispanic immigrant took it down and burned it. For this “crime” he was sentenced to 16 years in prison!

In response to college kids or provocateurs burning the US flag during Vietnam War protests, the US Congress passed the 1968 Flag Act that permits those who burn or defile the US flag to be imprisoned, but not more than one year. What has happened to America that buring a flag of sexual perversion is 16 times more serious than burning the American flag? How can this be the case, and in a red state!? https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/12/19/lgbtq-flag-burning-iowa-man-sentenced-church-banner-fire/2697139001/

Almost every day I read that another person has been fired from their job because they tweeted the fact that there are only two genders. One of the most recent is the firing in the UK of Maya Forstater, “the charity worker who was sacked for her belief that there are two sexes and that sex is immutable.” This is more than a belief. It is a statement of fact, of truth. There is no scientific evidence of a third gender, much less evidence of the hundreds of genders that have been declared by utterly stupid people of no known intellectual capability or accomplishment. Hermaphrodites are considered to be abnormalities, a failure of nature. When a distinguisned author and a famous actor came to the defense of Maya Forstater, they were shouted down by a multiple of subhuman excrement. https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/12/20/the-witch-hunting-of-jk-rowling/

The Western World has lost its way. It was only a short time ago that a Google senior engineer, a white male, was fired because he posted a tweet or an email that spoke a truth that men and women are good at different things and excell in different areas. His statement of scientific fact violated the feelings of feminists, who maintain that there is no difference between the capabilities of men and women. If women aren’t excelling in men’s areas, it is ipso facto proof that women are being discriminated against. This claim doesn’t work for men who are not excelling in women’s areas. The men can’t claim they are not doing as well in women’s areas because they are discriminated against...........https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/12/21/sexual-perverts-are-the-new-american-privileged-class/