Earlier today, I was truly stunned by a Fox News article about what is going on in Portland right now. Tent cities are literally taking over entire neighborhoods, and many residents are "resorting to selling their homes" as a result...
Residents in a Portland, Oregon, neighborhood are resorting to selling their homes and moving due to homeless encampments right outside their front doors.Portland was once such a beautiful place, but now it has literally been transformed into a hellhole.
"It's a little scary because I know there is mental illness and that concerns me," North Portland resident Maria Inocencio told KGW8.
Residents of North Portland said at least three families on one street have left in recent days due to the homeless camps, and KGW8 reported seeing for-sale signs up and down streets.
Needless to say, Portland is far from alone. From Seattle all the way down to San Diego, communities all along the west coast are being plagued by relentlessly growing encampments. In many cases, such encampments are magnets for drug addicts and other societal outcasts.
But this is not just a west coast problem.
Let me give you are couple of examples. In recent weeks, tent cities have been popping up all over Pittsburgh...
"We want immediate action. We want to see people in homes. There's a humane way to deal with homelessness," said Pittsburgh City Council president Theresa Kail-Smith.And in Fayetteville, North Carolina one burgeoning homeless camp recently made news because it features quite a few registered sex offenders...
Homeless camps are popping up all over the Northside.
You'll see them on the Riverfront Trail to Millvale.
Another makeshift tent city popped up underneath the Andy Warhol Bridge.
There are 843 registered sex offenders living in Cumberland County. For dozens in Fayetteville, their home is a tent alongside the road.From coast to coast, this is becoming an enormous issue.
Deputies in the Sheriff's Office Sex Offender Registration Enforcement Unit (SOREU) learned the group of offenders are homeless and stay in a tent community along where the busy Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway (Highway 87) goes over Gillespie Street. Some live under the overpass while others live in a nearby field beside Gillespie Street.
And the truth is that it is only going to intensify as the months roll along.
In 2008 and 2009, millions of Americans lost their jobs as the economy plunged into a major downturn.
Once those people lost their jobs, many of them could no longer afford their homes and soon found themselves on the streets.
I wish that we would never have to see anything like that again. It was truly a very dark chapter in our history, and countless people had their lives turned completely upside down.
Unfortunately, it is starting to happen again.
As I detailed earlier this month, large companies are starting to lay off workers in substantial numbers.
This even includes Facebook. This week, we learned that Facebook recently used a very unique method to lay off one group of workers...
A group of about 60 contractors who work with Facebook learned they were laid off this week after they were chosen 'at random' by an algorithm.I suppose that is one way to avoid personal responsibility for firing someone.
The layoffs are the latest example of Big Tech reining in spending and hiring, as just days ago Apple let go of about 100 recruiters.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also recently said he will weed out underperforming employees with 'aggressive performance reviews' as the company braces for a deep economic turndown.
"Don't blame me - it was the algorithm".
If a big corporation that is swimming in cash like Facebook already feels forced to "thin the herd", I think that is a very bad sign for the employment market as a whole.
In the months ahead, I think that there will be a lot more layoffs all over the country.
And this comes at a time when the housing market is starting to collapse.
Existing home sales in the United States have now fallen for six months in a row, and the numbers for the month of July were downright depressing...
Sales of previously owned homes fell nearly 6% in July compared with June, according to a monthly report from the National Association of Realtors.I anticipated that home sales would be lower than last July, but a 20 percent drop is pretty catastrophic.
The sales count declined to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 4.81 million units, the group added. It is the slowest sales pace since November 2015, with the exception of a brief plunge at the beginning of the Covid pandemic.
Sales dropped about 20% from the same month a year ago.
And as the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates, it is probably inevitable that the numbers will get even worse.
The stage is being set for a historic economic meltdown, and I would encourage you to do what you can to get prepared for it.
2008 and 2009 were extremely bitter.
What is coming will likely be even worse.
And as the economy deteriorates, tent cities will continue to take over more neighborhoods all over America.
But don't look down on those that are living in tents.
With a run of bad luck, you could be one of them too.
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Reader Comments
What part of the great reset did You not understand?
Just on a side note: it is long overdue that zuckerberg
joins the homeless like the Duke brothers in "Trading Places".
For good.
It won't happen, though. Social media addiction beats heroine
and meth any day.
In line with the "you'll own nothing and be happy". Government will take care of you, do not worry, do not fret, Government will take you by the hand and lead you to the globaliat promise land ... the satanic new world order.
And house and apartment rents are STILL going up at astronomical rates, doubling in a year in some areas. Until a third of the American people - a hundred million or more - are living in tents or their cars, and until all those houses are sitting empty, this trend is not going to change. Welcome to the American Nightmare - unbridled greed and accumulation of capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people, while the rest starve in tents on the streets. This is the end of America - we are all living through it, whether we like it or not.
Sometimes, the powerful bring in foreign armed forces, mercenaries, who are willing to kill the citizens because they are not part of them, so what we must guard against is just that.... Unless the natives with weapons are willing to fight the mercenaries, in which case the mercenaries always lose. Those who fight for pay are never as brave as those who fight for their families and their own land.
"That was yesterday. Today we have better weapons, are better organized, have a better bureacracy, better infrastructure and transportation..."
People - at least those who create the majority of problems - don't need to look back. They got it all figured out - all under control. Just think about neo-cons and their delusions of grandheur. The German word for that is "Größenwahn" ("Megalomania") and it can affect an individual, a group, or an entire Nation. History is full of examples for that.
It may best be filed under "human condition", since it appears to be part of human history for more than 4000 years.
I will read it right now. Thank You again.
In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by Sultan Mehmet III, and the Byzantine Empire, which had lasted for over 1,200 years, and had spread over the entire Mediterranean and down into Egypt, was no more. How did it happen?
Well, the Emperor was broke. Byzantines felt they had no stake in the Empire and refused to fight for it. The Emperor had to hire mercenaries, and could not afford enough of them together with their weapons. A man came to him, offering to build giant cannons to defend the city, but the Emperor could not afford either the huge amount of bronze it would take, or the fees of the cannon-builder.
So the cannoneer sold his services to the Sultan instead, and the resulting giant cannons he built for the Sultan were used to knock down the famous, great walls of Constantinople, which had stood against all attackers for 1,000 years, allowing the Muslims to enter and loot the city. The Emperor himself put on a soldier's uniform and fought on the walls. He was killed in the melee but his body was never found or identified - he vanished from the world, if not from history.
The Muslim troops went on a looting rampage, but there were a dozen or so mansions in the city where the amount of treasure was so vast, so immense, that they dared not touch it, but simply guarded it and reported its existence to the Sultan. The Sultan ordered the owners brought before him.
He asked them: "Your Emperor was bankrupt. He could not afford to pay his soldiers or furnish them with weapons and armor. He could not afford the cannons with which I destroyed the walls of your city. Yet you had all this stupendous wealth in your treasuries. What were you proposing to do with it if not to defend your city?"
They replied, sheepishly: "We were saving it for you, sire. We give it all to you."
He said: "I thank you for your great generosity. However, such treacherous and greedy men are not needed in my court." Turning to the guards, he said, "Take them out and cut their heads off." And so it was done.
Can you see the parallels with our present American Empire? People have lost all loyalty to their country, they feel it is no longer theirs, they hate its institutions, our National Debt has gone from $4 trillion in 2000 to $30 trillion in 2022, other countries are building more and better weapons than us, other countries are growing their wealth by leaps and bounds while we and our allies are going broke, and meanwhile a tiny class of stunningly wealthy men have accumulated literally trillions of dollars, taxed on the backs of poor people to pay into the coffers of the rich. Homelessness, hunger, inflation, riots, and hatreds of one group for another are out of control.
This is the final stage of Empire, when its success in earlier stages generated so much wealth that greed became rampant, and the Empire was looted by its oligarchs. It happens every time. Every time! Now, the rot is too far gone to be reversed, and this Empire is collapsing, soon to be replaced by the Eurasian Empire led by China. Whether the transition will be peaceful or bloody we do not know, but it is coming, inevitably.
Enjoy the little book!
Now, a few things are as crazy as Glubb wrote about. For one, his descriptions of the fall of empires is a match to our present time. The Anglo-American empire is following all the previous ones into the grave. With exactly the same developments. Which led me to muse, that this short work could have been from a contemporary science fiction writer - that describes human history as fiction. A sort of 1984 of empires and thus mankind. There are only few words in the text that are no longer used. It could have been written today.
An idea came up about a website that enables people to discuss this important pamphlet regarding human history in terms of the cycle of empires that have always driven human development. Whereas the big difference between previous empires and the present installment are the degeneracies of "media" and "intelligence". That religion, sports and celebrities are tellsigns of the stage of decay and fall, is especially noteworthy. The hype about Joe Rogan and people like him, the focus on wallstreet - the decadence of it all is so well described and so obvious to anybody that still has preserved a sense of willingness to learn about not only the present, but even more so about our collective past as human beings.
Last but not least, another thought crossed my mind:
In the search for answers about the question if the empire cycle always plays out as it did, I wonder if Gene Roddenberry was thinking in line with Glubb's analysis? The moment, when the entire human race becomes a federation - an empire heading out into space? Space appears to be the next stage of empire - if mankind manages not to blow itself up before. It sure is entertaining to match what Glubb wrote with "Star Trek" (especially "The Next Generation"). Maybe the writers knew about this remarkable work by Sir John Glubb? The topic of "fate of empires" is subject of a number of shows of the series with "Captain Picard". The next "sea" is "space".
Thank You again for this gem. It aligns very well with my own take on human history and the part of "survival", that lead me to write a book about that, too.
All the best to You!
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