My long standing view is that we have reached the point of diminishing return on new money (AKA credit) which is conjured from thin air in order to goose the economy and to buy the loyalty of the socialist boot lickers among us. Jim Rickards recently mentioned that new debt was nearly at parity with respect to GDP growth and that soon the return would be negative. I think we are in negative territory in that regard right now. More money printing and debt creation is not stopping the middle class from sliding off a cliff. As soon as the powers that be see negative benefit, they will stop with the printing.
The good news is that whereas the rise of Mammon money brought with it the depths of human depravity including a ridiculously over the top military which trickled down into a "zero tolerance" police state, the fall of Mammon money will reverse these very things. While credit has not actually begun to fall yet on the charts, the intoxicating power of it seems to have evaporated and its effects on the herd are dissipating rapidly. since at least 2001, Dear leaders have thrown the Keynesian Kitchen sink at the problem of falling prosperity and the best they have been able to do is to slow the collapse. But now they are actually talking about raising the interest rates because of income inequality (or more to the point, the threat of pitchfork revolution which accompanies income inequality).
Just recently, Obama started re-thinking the distribution of military toys down to city police. Of course, it was originally done in order to goose the economy. You print up some fake money and then "buy" things with it, drive the new MRAP around the block twice so it can be listed as "used" and then label it "surplus" even though it is being used for exactly the reason it was purchased. I think Obama is looking at the unrest and realizing how quickly the people would slap the local police dept upside the head and jack the MRAP in an uprising situation. Then the people would have the MRAP. Perhaps Obama is just wondering if it was really all that wise to distribute military hardware so broadly across America.
In any case, I want to make sure that people understand my prediction about the decline of the police state is not limited to the police. It in fact specifically applies to the military. Yes, I know its heresy to speak like that right now. The USless military is so powerful blah blah blah. We must support our troops and worship everything military, blah blah blah. Well let me tell you something folks: the mood change I have been talking about is occurring at the global herd level. It will not spare the US military from the coming change. And I say this confidently even though today's news is talking about how the US drone strikes killed some innocent children in Syria.
Yes, folks, our military is fighting an illegal, undeclared war in a foreign country and it is killing women and children and other innocent noncombatants in its zeal to control everything. Today the drone strikes seem like they will never stop, that the US military will never tire of killing people and that the defense industry will just become more and more profitable until the end of time. So I'm going out on a limb to predict that within 18 months the drone strikes will be down 80-90% from the peak and may have been stopped altogether. In fact, I predict that military commanders will be held criminally liable at a personal level before the collapse is over.
Yes, I know, crazy talk. The article says, "We regret the unintentional loss of lives," said Lieutenant General James Terry, head of the US-led campaign." and also "The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Wednesday that 131 civilians had been killed in coalition air strikes since September, including 42 children." So, James Terry, you regret all of this? Really, you mother fucking bastard? Do we really have your honest "regrets"? So nice of you to grace us with these words of comfort, you USeless apologist for murderous piece of shit war criminals! Who killed those innocents? Who killed those women and children? I want their names. I want to lay eyes on the jerk that happily pulled the trigger. I want to stare down the brass that gave the order.
What would you say if someone did that to you? Would you say "I regret that someone walked in out out of the blue and for no reason at all shot my daughter in the face"? Put a sock in it you ass! Your crappy little "apology" is just making things worse.
I'm telling you, more and more people are falling out of the spell imposed upon them by Mammon money. More and more are going to be thinking these same thoughts and fewer and fewer will hold themselves back from full expression of them. In other words, people will stop being intimidated by all of this shock and awe crap and instead they will begin to call it what it really is which is WAR CRIMES.
In truth, the military leaders are just like the cops - they literally sold their souls to the military industrial complex. But now the police, who are marginal in the pecking order to the military, are on the run because the very system that they were so confident would protect them in their amoral activity suddenly is turning around to bite them. Blind eye, begone!
Mark my words, within 18 months we will see some military leaders getting in serious deep shit because of all these war crimes and people will begin to refer to their activities by those two highly accurate and highly descriptive trigger words. I know that I am seriously pissed that these acts have been committed in my name using tax dollars wrested from my grip at what is essentially gunpoint (everything devolves to gunpoint these days since might makes right). I am ashamed that our military is part of these dreadful acts and so should be every self respecting American. The end does not justify the means, folks. It wouldn't if it were my child or your child who was the one getting murdered so it can't justify the means simply because it's someone else who is losing a child.
The global herd knows this and soon it will be demanding justice from the military. Heads will roll. Military commanders, I offer you the same good advice that I offered the police before the herd turned on them: Back down while you still can. Back down and bow out and wash your hands of all this if you can find some way to get the blood stains off. Refuse immoral orders regardless of their fake legality. War crimes were legal in Nazi Germany until they weren't and then those who had behaved immorally were tracked down for the rest of their lives. The only real law is the law of morality. Little rules in books that hidden men voted on in the wee hours in order to give themselves legal cover from atrocities are not going to save anyone when the herd decides to put an end to this crap.
In a feature length interview, Robert McNamara quoted Gen. Le May, for whom he worked during WWII, that the US better win the way, lest he be tried as a war criminal for fire bombing Dresden and later dozens of Japanese cities. The american military machine of war crimes goes way back.
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