16 Reasons Why the United States is Going to Hell in a Handbasket

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May 13, 2014 By M.D. Creekmore

A couple of weeks a go after expressing an urgency to put our preps into high-gear, several readers asked why that I felt so strongly, about it, and why I felt the end” was getting close. I think that is a good and reasonable question, so I decided to do a write-up, and offer an explanation. As you can see, I don’t think any one problem or event will cause the collapse of the American empire, but a number of separate but interlocking events and issues.

Another point to consider is that the U.S. government has the resources, and inside information that would allow them to foretell when a major disaster or complete collapse is coming and they have been prepping and building underground bunkers on a mass scale and despite the fact our tax dollars are being used to build those bunkers we are not invited.

Free Trade with Communist China

Communist China is not our friend and has overtaken the U.S. economically, and will be in a position to surpass the U.S. militarily within the next ten years. Yet we continue to import, buy and consume their products by the millions everyday. In fact it’s getting more and more difficult to buy a product in the U.S. that does not have the “made in china” label attached to it. U.S. goods and private services trade with China totaled $439 billion in imports 2012.

Meanwhile china uses those funds to build its military might and expand its military technology. The U.S has even been selling and giving china advanced technology that could be used against the U.S. in a military confrontation. A large portion of that technology has passed from the U.S. to Israel and then from Israel on to China.

In 2012 a pentagon contractor was caught selling military technology to China (no doubt bought with funds that U.S. consumers of “made in China” products had sent them) according to the report they had sold China the software and engines needed to make its first-ever modern attack helicopter.

A break down of the traditional family

America has turned from a nation promoting morality and a belief in God to a nation where anything goes, with the most perverse and ungodly acts being accepted, promoted and even glorified. And if anyone disagrees, or speaks-out against this immorality they are quickly labeled as promoting hate, bigotry or of being a racist. This quickly shuts most opponents up while simultaneously, implanting the message in everyone’s mind, that those acts in-question are to be accepted and are somehow cool.

A break down of morality

Everywhere we turn today we (and our children) are bombarded with images of sex and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, music, and TV. This constant bombardment has promoted promiscuity, and corrupted the minds of the American people and made us into a nation a degenerates and perverts. And in many cases molesters of children and even animals.

According to this report Americans spend 13.1 billion dollars on pornography every year.

Americans spend 13.1 billion dollars on pornography every year, which is the same amount the country spends on foreign aid. More than 260 million Internet pages are pornographic, an increase of 1,800% in just five years. Christian Broadcasting Network said: “We’re living in a sex-saturated society. Even the popular culture is often pulsing to a pornographic beat. Clothing that was seen only in porn magazines decades ago, now drapes some of our most celebrated pop icons

A declining belief in God, the Bible and Christian values

According to a report on The Daily Mail, “Americans starting to lose faith? Belief in God and miracles declines as Darwinism becomes more popular” from the report; The number of Americans who believe in God is declining, as a new poll shows a move away from traditional beliefs. The Harris poll, which questioned more than 2,250 adults about their beliefs, found that those with the strongest faith lived mostly in the South, voted Republican, and were black. The online poll also showed that more Americans were describing themselves at ‘not very religious’ and that there was an increase in those believing in Darwin’s theory of evolution.

As a nation we are turning away from God and the religious principles that this nation was built on, these founding principles have been what has held us together as a nation and kept us strong, but it seems that we are banning God from the country and our lives.

Declining freedom and turning away from a constitutional government

We have been seeing a decline in freedom for a longtime but after 9-11 the loss personal freedom, privacy and constitutional rights have been on a rapid decline. Now we are constantly, watched, monitored and recorded, we can now legally be detained and held indefinitely without a trial or due process. And U.S. citizens can even be assassinated on U.S. soil by order of the president.

Just like the imaginary, war on drugs, the war on terror has been used as an excuse to trample on individual constitutional rights and to increase the power of the government and the ultra wealthy that control the country from behind the curtains. Scare the population enough and they will willingly turn over their freedom and rights for a promised margin of safety – even Glenn Beck was so afraid after 9-11 that he supported Patriot Act.

As has been said; and is practiced religiously, by those in power “never let a crisis good go to waste“, this is also the same tactic that the Obama administration tried to use to destroy the second amendment after the Sandy Hook ordeal…

A militarization of the police forces nationwide

It seems that just about everyday I get emails from readers and read news reports of police abuse of power – everything from shooting and killing an unarmed and handcuffed man, to shooting a suspect in the back while running away, or a man executed by police for camping on public land (did you hear the “officer” yell, Booyah after shooting the man 6 times?), all justified of course, to police shooting and killing chained and caged dogs. Even puppies and a 5 pound Chihuahua aren’t safe from thugs in uniform.

And now to make matters worse police departments around the country seem to be gearing up for war with military hardware, and tactics. Who do they plan on going to war with you ask, well the American people of course, who else. We are already living in a police state under a “soft” form of martial law, and they are getting ready to tighten the screws down even tighter, that’s why those in power are getting all of this in place.

A one party political system

Many Americans think that they have a choice when they enter the voting booth. Well guess what they don’t – republicans and democrats, democrats and republicans what’s the difference? Neither represent the American people or give one big crap about defending individual rights or the Constitution.

In the U.S. we have a one party system masquerading as a two-party system, to give voters the illusion of having a choice and hope for change, but both parties are controlled by the same people who really run the country. The system is rigged and we don’t have a choice…

Corruption of the political system

See above. As former Governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura has said; when you spend millions of dollars to get elected to a position that pays a hundred thousand a year, we know those figure don’t add up. They are all a bunch of crooks – money, ego and a hunger for power has corrupted the American political system.

“The truth is there are very few members [of the U.S. Congress] who I could even name or could think of who didn’t at some level participate in that [system of bribery and corruption in Washington D.C.].” Jack Abramoff, professional lobbyist and onetime power broker for the elite of Washington, D.C. (during a CBS’s 60 Minutes interview, Sunday November 6, 2011)

School system used to indoctrinate children

Government ran school systems are nothing more than indoctrination centers for our children, a place where they can be groomed and molded to the liking the government via propaganda that was designed by trained psychoanalysts to make future generations of American citizens into subservient slaves in a Big Brother police state.

When I was going to school, I carried pocket knives, (so did other kids and no one got cut or murdered) and I even read gun magazines in the classroom and no one said anything, other than my teachers asking to take a look at the magazines after I was done. I think they were just glad that I was reading something. I remember one boy bringing a sling-shot to school, and we set up a cardboard box and shot at it with the sling-shot, while the teachers watched.

Now school is like a prison where everything is watched and monitored and any form of free expression is suppressed and quickly beaten down. They are training children to be adults who view being constantly watched and monitored by “authorities” as normal and even to be welcomed and demanded by a subservient population.

They are also training children to be dumbed down adults that can not think for themselves, to have no personal beliefs, thoughts or opinion other than what they are told by the “authorities” via the government controlled main-stream media.

"He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future!"

— Adolf Hitler, speech at the Reichsparteitag, 1935

Please read – Hitler Youth… and Indoctrination by Our Public Schools.

A government controlled main-stream media via newspapers, magazines, radio, movies and TV

The stuff that you see on broadcasts like CNN aren’t news or reporting but the controlled media simply spewing forth talking points that have been provided for them by the white house and other government agencies – this has been admitted to by main stream “news” organizations.

The corporate media is now openly admitting that they are in fact controlled stenographers that do nothing more than echo pre-scripted narratives outlined in talking points created by the rulers of America’s shadow government.

They use the main stream corporate media to push their agenda and views and to pursued the American people to do and believe what they want them to do and believe all while believing that it’s for their own good and was their decision. This is called mass media brainwashing and those in power are good at it.

People as drones, as automatons, in some kind of mind-control stupor, while thinking they are living in a free society. I don’t say this with disdain, but more as matter of fact.

Taking control of the internet…

Just about the only semi-free media left is the internet, and that is why they want to control it. Currently the Obama administration is about to introduce a Chinese-style ID program for everyone and a few other tweaks that will afford government agencies and their controllers to tights their grip and control of everything done and said online.

What Obama has done to free speech is kill it dead utilizing a bias-oriented justice system and governmental control. He has effectively put the gears forward to shut down free speech on the internet, and is now planning an even more erroneous putsch that will destroy freedom of expression completely. Plans are coming into place for a Chinese style thought control program called the “National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace” which will force every internet user to completely give up their privacy, be labelled, and tracked even further than is usual by the NSA.

And now we have Democrats proposing trolling media, and internet for “hate speech” which will be defined as whatever they say it is. Folks it’s all about control, control of everything you do, control of what you thing and control of what you say, and the best way for those in power to do that is to have full control over all media outlets, including the internet.

Political Correctness is out of control

You might be a racist if you have an American flag, don’t like Mexican food, disagree with Obama policy, but the one 100% guaranteed way to know if you’re a racist is to look in the mirror – if you see a white person looking back at you then you’re a racist – because only white people can be racist. At least this seems to be the general assumption made by the main-stream media and race-baiters like Al sharpton, who would probably call me a racist because, I own white-leghorn hens or maybe it would be because I own two black giant hens, who knows how he would go, but one thing is certain he would probably find a way to make it racial and the main stream media would be all over it.

By now, I’m sure, that you’ve heard about the LA clippers owner Donald Sterling and his racist, comments that he made to his girlfriend during what he thought was a private conversation. And while his comments were undoubtedly, racist against blacks, those comments are his personal views and no matter how wrong those comments might be or whom those comments might offend, is he not entitled to his beliefs and to express those beliefs in a “private” conversation?

Apparently not. At least according to the NBA, the players, the media and fans nationwide. Because of his private (but recorded) comments he has been banned from attending any NBA events, he will have to pay a $2.5 million fine and they are trying to force him to sell his property, which is the L.A. Clippers team.

While his comments were offensive, and disgusting and he is obviously an elitist prick, should anyone be able ban him from public events, or force him to pay a fine or sell his property for something he said in a private conversation?

Almost as soon as this story broke the race baiter Al Sharpton was threatening to call for an advertising boycott of the NBA during an interview with TMZ if Sterling was not punished for his speech.

And who could forget the Paula Dean fiasco… where she while under oath during a court appearance admitted to using the dreaded “N word” in a private conversation with her husband in the past, resulting in her being fired from the food network, being dropped by sponsors and having her merchandise pulled from store shelves across the nation. All because of something she said 20 years in a private conversation with her husband.

The list could go on and on, but I don’t want to waste anymore time on this. The race issue is being constantly poked by operatives of the federal government like Al Sharpton to keep racial tensions high and the government controlled main-stream media uses this stuff as a distraction to keep everyone occupied and infighting so we don’t come together and see what is really happening with their corruption, to our country, to our economy and to our freedom.

They want to keep us divided alone racial lines so that they can better lie to and control us.

An entitlement mentality

Sadly, the United states is turning, (some would say it has already turned) from being a nation of producers and working folks to a nation of takers that feel that they are somehow entitled to “free money” for doing nothing but setting an their ass, watching TV, playing video games, drinking, doing drugs and breeding like rabbits, after all the more that they breed and produce the larger their check will get in most cases.

According to http://www.heritage.org/

America is increasingly moving away from being a nation of self-reliant individuals, where civil society flourishes, toward being a nation of individuals less inclined to practicing self-reliance and personal responsibility. Government programs not only crowd out civil society, but too frequently trap individuals and families in long-term dependence, leaving them incapable of escaping their condition for generations to come.

And according to Statistic Brain there are 12,800,000 Americans on welfare, 46,700,000 on food stamps or SNAP, 5,600,000 on unemployment, with a total government spending on welfare annually (not including food stamps or unemployment) of $131.9 billion. Folks these are the true zombies, that will be clawing at your door when the welfare stops coming and they get tired of waiting for the taxpayer to feed them.

Foreign companies taking over big business and buying up property in the U.S.

China and to a lesser extent other nations are buying up business and property in the United States, for example China recently, purchased 90% ownership in AIG’s airplane leasing unit, International Lease Finance Corporation, to a Chinese investor group for approximately $5.28 billion. And according to the same site the Chinese have also bought 80.1 percent of ILFC for approximately $4.23 billion, with an option for an additional 9.9 percent stake. According to its website, ILFC is ‘world’s largest independent aircraft lessor measured by number of owned aircraft.’

And it’s not only airplanes that the Chinese are interested in – CNBC reports that the Chinese are on a buying spree and sweeping up every energy and natural resource in the United States that they can get their hands on. And they’re even buying up and taking control of the U.S. food supply – China’s largest acquisition to date of a U.S. company, Smithfield Foods, is raising among market watchers who question China’s interest in taking possession of one of America’s largest food producers – via CNBC.

And they’re not stopping there the Chinese are also buying large chunks of land across America, according to Michael Snyder, it the Chinese are on a real estate buying spree all over America…

Declaring anyone who doesn’t agree with government policies as having a psychiatric disorder

Support the U.S. Constitution, or disagree with government policy or the policy makers then you might have a psychiatric disorder. After all according to B.O. we “wrongheaded” Americans need to just trust the government more and everything will be peaches and cream from then on…

Obama: “Wrongheaded” Americans Must Trust Government More

President Obama today said Americans had developed the “wrongheaded” view that Washington won’t look out for them, a fallacy he said was stoked by conservatives and their philosophy that says people are “on their own.”

Disagree with Al Gore and others on global warming then you probably have a psychiatric disorder, don’t want to join the Borg, then you undoubtedly have a psychiatric disorder because Psychiatrists now say non-conformity is a mental illness. Yep, nothing to see here folks, take your meds, and relax, everything is going to be okay. No more “wrongheaded” Americans allowed, you will be assimilated.

Folks this is being done for a couple of reasons, number one if they can legally declare you a nutcase then they can legally and easily, take away your rights, or lock you up and two no one wants to be labeled or considered a crazy person, so most folks will shut-up and keep their thoughts about the government and governmental policy to themselves.

U.S. national debt at unprecedented levels

As of May 13 2014 the current national debt stands at 17,518,681,450,890 – yep, that’s a lot of numbers, over seventeen trillion in debt and growing fast. To put it into perspective and to see what a trillion dollars looks like click here. How much longer this spending and adding to the national debt can go on before completely crashing is up for debate, but the world is starting to lose faith in the U.S. dollar and are looking to move away from and out of the U.S. currency.

When the world (or a couple of key countries) lose faith in the U.S. dollar and stop lending to us, because of our massive growing debt and our out of control currency printing, the U.S. economy will crash. This won’t happen over night, and has in fact been happening for years, but as we are getting closer to “the end” the whole process will be put into overdrive – we can see this starting now with our lenders using their dollars to buy euros or yen or gold rather than U.S. bonds.

You see the U.S. dollar is backed by nothing but air and everyone with half a brain knows it – but the fact that many people still view it as having some value, allows you to be able to make purchases with it. But as you can see by the chart below since 1913 the dollar has continually, been decreasing in buying power and will continue to do so… This has been caused mostly by uncontrolled currency printing and increasing debt. For a complete breakdown of how the financial system “works” and is crashing please read DollarCollapse FAQ’s this is the best and easiest to understand explanation that I’ve found.

Dollarpurchasing-power1913-to-2013

Well there you have it folks – my thoughts and a few explanations of what I think is wrong in America, why we are collapsing as a nation and why I prep. I could go on forever, and we could get into issues like our failed foreign policy, the three global predator nations all fighting for control and to be the leader of the new world order, the corrupt banking system etc… but we will leave that for another day…

Depravity, delusion, and destruction--Signs of post-Christian America

By Madeline Crabb

"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people." (Prov. 14:34 NIV)

America is no longer a righteous people seeking God. We are instead a nation guilty of rampant sin, including homosexuality – the one sin that, when generally accepted as normal by society, indicates a nation is about to be destroyed. Overall, we are a nation of depravity, delusion, and soon destruction. These signs indicate we are now a post-Christian.

What's happened to bring us to this point? We were established by god-fearing Christians, for the purpose of practicing and furthering the Christian faith. There is still ample documentation to support this, that is, until the revisionists erase it. Today, however, we have become a nation of heathens who no longer honor the One True God of the Bible, and His Son, Jesus Christ. In fact, as a nation, we not only don't fear or honor God, but now boldly mock Him in almost all that we say and do.

This rejection and mocking, and the subsequent drastic decline began in 1962 when the U.S. Supreme Court removed prayer from the public schools. Since that time, God has been systematically kicked out of virtually all public places by government. Our "representatives" in government have become evil and have perverted the system. Sadly, most people accept what government says, not God, as the ultimate law, the arbiter of our fate. Thus, the government is a form of God's judgment upon us. Perhaps it's true that we get the government we deserve? Nonetheless, while government has been busy usurping God's authority, God Himself has been lifting His hand of protection from, and gradually backing away from us. After all, if we don't want Him around, He will honor our wishes.

Unrestrained moral decay is the result. Families are crumbling because of divorce. Schools are nothing more than government indoctrination centers. Truth isn't taught in schools because the wise men running government schools don't believe in right and wrong. Everything is relative – whatever we think or feel is reality, our truth. This thinking is the basis of anarchy, which is also overtaking society.

There is no longer a coming together for the collective good of society. Instead, we are now an "It's all about me" people. Selfish...self-absorbed...proud...arrogant...If we weren't so conditioned to accept the moral decay as "normal," we would understand that it is part of God's judgment upon us. But, like the proverbial frog in the pot of water that's being gradually warmed-up so we won't jump out, we think "it's all good." We continue to eat, drink, and be merry, not realizing that one day soon, we are going to die.

So what does the Bible say about such a society. Remember that Solomon said, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (Ecc. 1:9 NIV)

In the book of Romans, the Apostle Paul explains societal decline:

"For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles." (Rom. 1: 21-23 NIV)

When a people, either individuals or a nation, reject God, something will take God's place. We begin to either worship the creation, or build for ourselves other idols. And yes, money and fame can be among those idols. Does America sound like a nation of idolaters? Yes. In the Ten Commandments, which have also been banned from the public square, the very first of the commandments is to have no other gods but God Almighty.

Furthermore, we have also forgotten to be thankful for what God has done for us. Does America sound ungrateful? Very much so.

Paul then begins to tell of the consequences of our actions: "Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator – who is forever praised. Amen." (Rom. 1:24-25 NIV)

The 1960's was the beginning of a major rebellion against not only God, but ALL authority. This move was marked by sit-ins, protests, and violence, perpetrated by people who now sit in the powerful seats of government, industry, and education. Back in the 60's, hippies called such people "the man." Now, those hippies are the man. Think of people like Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama's terrorist mentors, Bill Ayers and wife Bernardine Dohrn. Uhh, it's like the inmates running the asylum!

Paul continues to explain: "God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion." (Rom. 1: 26-27 NIV)

The 1960's also marked the beginning of a sexual revolution that has morphed into inconceivable proportions. Seriously, it is difficult to fathom the levels of depravity caused by this cancerous revolution. But then, God gave us over. We want what we want, and God has honored our requests.

Paul concludes that, "Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done." (Rom: 1: 28 NIV)

When we begin thinking we are so wise, we are falling for delusions and lies, either conjured up by our own futile thinking, or whispered in our ears by Satan, the father of lies.

The following list characterizes the nation that rejects God:

"They are filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless."(Rom. 1: 28-32 NIV)

Dear friends, this is a picture American society. We proudly flaunt our godlessness, and yet expect Him to somehow bless us. Insanity! Arrogance!

And finally, we're told: "Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." (Rom. 1:32 NIV) Dear friends, this passage tells us that not only our practice of all these ungodly things are worthy of death, but so also is our support and approval of them.

The Apostle Paul was led by God to warn the Romans, and all other readers, about the danger of rejecting God. As a Christian nation, we once understood these truths. We once honored and respected God and ALL of His counsel. So now, our society is a moral cesspool (depravity) that we somehow think of as "normal" (delusion). The pillars our society – family, religion, government, and business – are all in the process of being totally destroyed. America is teetering on rotted foundational pillars. Total collapse is imminent.

As the first chapter of Romans tells us, God allows these things to happen to us when we reject Him. It is a form of judgment – that of abandonment. God has not yet allowed our total destruction because of the remnant of those who still truly honor Him. As God told Abraham, He would spare the city (Sodom) for even ten righteous people. (Gen. 18:32) In the end, however, only Lot, his wife, and two daughters escaped the destruction.

In a teaching video, "the Implosion of America," Dr. Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, TX discusses our demise. He describes the process of demolishing buildings called imploding – as opposed to exploding. He says there is a pause, or a lull, between the initial pushing of the destruct button and the actual activation of the explosives and subsequent fall of the targeted building. Dr. Jeffress contends, and I agree with him, that the destruct button has already been pushed by Almighty God. We are simply experiencing the lull/pause before our walls fall inwardly upon us.

Our days as a nation are numbered. Have we passed the point of no return? My heart tells me we have. What say you? We must understand that God has always responded the same way, generation after generation, nation after nation...If we seek and Honor Him, He will bless us and guide us. For forty years in the desert, the Israelites were fed, clothed, and instructed by God. Instead, they grumbled, complained, rejected God and His instructions, and chose to do their own thing. (Sound familiar?) God finally canceled their trip to the Promised Land. Even God has His limits. So, if God punishes His chosen people, the Jews, why won't He punish us?

While depravity, delusion, and destruction clearly mark a post-Christian America, God can still delay judgment upon us. In the book of Jonah, Nineveh was marked for destruction by God, but when the people repented of their sins, God relented for a while. Repentance and returning to God are our only hope. This means true repentance and sorrow over our actions, not just being sorry for getting caught. We have to confess our sins and STOP SINNING. America, can we do it? To anyone willing to hear....