| The Dismembering of America
by it's Creditors
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| Dmitry Orlov, author of Reinventing
Collapse, says that the U.S. will be unrecognizable in ten years. He
draws parallels to the collapse of the USSR and the self destruction of
the United States of America. |
| Posted by JD Nutt, IG Web-Editor
- Report last updated on June
7th, 2011 -
Oklahoma City, OK. |
| In Dmitry
Orlov's most recent interview with WMNF Tampa, he outlines the five stages of
collapse... |
| First you have
financial collapse, which is basically the volume
of debt that has to be taken on in order for the economy to
continue functioning, cannot continue. We’re seeing that right
now in Greece, we’re probably going to see that in Japan, we’re
definitely at a point now in the United States where even if you
raised the income tax to 100 percent, there’s absolutely no way
of covering the liabilities of the U.S. federal government. So,
we’re at that point now but the workout of the financial
collapse is not all quite there. We don’t quite have a worthless
currency but that’s in the works. |
| That, of course, is followed by commercial
collapse especially in a country like the United
States that imports two thirds of its oil. A lot of that
is on credit and if a little bit of that oil goes missing then the
economy starts to fall apart because nothing moves unless you burn
oil in the United States and, of course, a lot of goods that are
sold everywhere are imported again, on credit. |
| And then commercial collapse is generally followed
by political
collapse because the Congress no longer has the
ability to spend money in the fashion to which they have become
accustomed. Governments at every level start failing.
We’re seeing the beginnings of that where fire and police
departments around the country are being cut. Right now
there’s a big fight over the retirement of retired municipal
workers. Retirements are, basically, being looted in order to
paper over these giant gaping holes in the finance scheme. |
| Then the last two stages are I think generally
avoidable in most places which is social
and cultural collapse. |
| I think the country will be unrecognizable
in 10 years, I don’t know about 5, but I don’t think it will
look like a country in 10 years. I think it will be largely
dismembered by it’s creditors. |
| I think certain stages like the onset of fuel,
transportation, fuel shortages will be very sudden.
American society tends to be very fragile… |
| I expect certain parts of the country to go
through this cataclysm where suddenly everything that they depend
on, which is basically their car, no longer works and
everybody’s stranded and very angry. It would be a lot of
mayhem. We’ve already seen that, for instance, during
Hurricane Katrina and afterward because of all the refinery
problems the ‘..’ pipeline that goes up from the Gulf, I think
it ends up in New Jersey somewhere, it couldn’t be filled so gas
stations in places like North Carolina ran dry and I’ve heard
from people in that area that basically civilization ceased to
exist. And then, when gasoline supplies were restored civilizaton
sort of came back. That should be the pattern in a lot of places
in this country. |
| Unfortunately a lot of people simply cannot
be reached because they refuse to hear what we have to say.
It’s not that they can’t understand it, it’s that they
refuse to listen. The media, in general, in the United States
makes it very easy because there is this fictional reality that
they perpetuate and foist on people that contradicts what we’re
saying. We’re saying that ‘this will not continue for very
much longer, people’. And then the media says that ‘everything
is fine, everything is normal’… |
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Our entire way of life – everything that we
have come to know from the Baby Boomers to Generation Z – is being
systematically disassembled – our financial, economic, political and
social systems. Slowly, day-by-day, one
policy shift at a time, the world as we know it is changing.
We’re faced with mountains of debt, a dead
or dying production capacity, a depreciating currency, rising
unemployment, and more Americans than ever before having to rely on
government assistance just to feed themselves and their families.
Whether we slowly devolve into a near third
world nation over the course of the next decade, or experience a violent
and rapid economic collapse fueled by rising commodity prices and
shortages, remains to be seen.
Either way, we share Mr. Orlov’s views that
the system has crossed the Rubicon and has been irreversibly damaged. The
coming decade is going to be long and arduous – unlike
anything Americans have ever experienced before or ever expected to
happen. |
Author:
Mac Slavo
Date: June 1st, 2011
Website:
www.SHTFplan.com |
| Reference: Club
Orlov |
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