AMERICA IN CRISIS: 7.17.21 - The StageIs Being Set For The Total Collapse Of The U.S. Economy

San Francisco’s Retail Apocalypse – Todd Strandberg - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ The city of San Francisco was once one of America’s beautiful urban areas. Many songs have been written about it. Today, San Francisco is a city that is more known for homelessness,crime, and illegal drug use. A new poll by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce shows 8 out of 10 residents in San Francisco consider crime has worsened in recent years. It’s the second year in a rowresidents are saying crime has increased – with 70% feeling the quality of life in San Francisco has declined. Around 88% of people said homelessness has worsened in recent years, and 80% viewed addressing this homeless crisis as a high priority. The shoplifting rate is so high, many businesses have had to close. Walgreens has shuttered 17 of its stores in the San Francisco area in the past five years, and the companysaid thefts in the area are four times more likely than anywhere else in the country, as executives budgeted 35 times more for security personnel to guard the chains. People are so bold at theft, they would walk into a Walgreens, fill up a bag with goods, and casually walk out the front door. The clerks don’t do anything to prevent thetheft because they can’t. It’s not worth risking your life to stop a crime that will never be prosecuted. Some stores have security, but they are only there for show, and the thieves know it. “It’s going to be lawsuits. Obviously, they don’t want ourselves or anybody else to get injured while we’re out here attempting to make these apprehensions and leave itto law enforcement,” Kevin Greathouse, a security guard at a San Francisco-based Walgreens who carries a handgun, a taser, and pepper spray, told ABC 7 News. “I don’t have any intention of getting stabbed for $60 worth of stuff,” he told ABC 7 News. In San Francisco, thefts under $950 are considered a misdemeanor. Suspected criminals are often issued citations instead of spending time in jail ahead of their court date.In most cases, thieves will have their case thrown out if they skip their court appearances. Only a fool would bother to show up to court. They might as well have a death penalty for stealing where they will only hang people who show up to their own execution. Target stores in San Francisco are now closing early, moving from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., with a Financial District store closing as early as 5 p.m. on Saturday, according tothe hours listed on its website. Target told KPIX5 the decision to adjust its store hours in San Francisco was related to theft, with a spokesperson confirming: “For more than a month, we’ve been experiencinga significant and an alarming rise in theft and security incidents at our San Francisco stores, similar to reports from other retailers in the area.” As the city leaders do nothing, the criminals are only getting bolder. A mob of looters was captured on film ransacking a Neiman Marcus store in San Francisco – smashingdisplay cases, stealing handbags, and running out of the building before the police arrived at around 6 p.m., according to the Washington Examiner. The merchandise-laden suspects were seen running out of the store before jumping into a getaway car that sped off. According to KTVU’s Henry K. Lee, at least 9 people wereinvolved. So many people have stolen shopping carts from this Market St. Safeway, you can only use them inside, and they have long poles so they won’t fit through the doors to rolloutside. In San Francisco, a restaurant needs a special permit to serve alcohol outside. A drug dealer can openly sell cocaine on the street right in front of a cop. San Francisco is run by people who are pro-criminals. Kate Chatfield, a senior director in far-left District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office, downplayed safety concerns bymaking the matter about racism. When told husbands are scared for their wives and family, she said “the ‘crime surge’ crowd shares the same ideology as The Birth of a Nation,” referring to an early 20th-centurywhite supremacist film. Chatfield locked her Twitter account – making it so only her followers can see her tweets – after her comment about crime fears drew sharp criticism online. A possible outcome of San Francisco’s lawlessness is the rise of someone who will restore order. This happens many times in third-world countries. The person who comes topower is normally a dictator. I don’t think, if one who comes to power over the US, this person will be the Antichrist, but he could set the pattern for the one who comes to save Europe from itself. “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn” (Proverbs 29:2). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pandora's Box Opened - Transgenderism Now Followed By Transracial � Jonathan Van Maren � https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4830 As Rod Dreher observes in his recent book Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, perverse ideologies can conquer entire civilizations simply because most peoplechoose to live by lies even if they don't believe them simply because it is easier. Hate threatens societies -- apathy destroys them. Thus, while a loud and very powerful minority in the United States is on board with the transgender agenda, the vast majorityof the population simply can't be bothered to protest. This is largely because these movements don't impact our daily lives -- until, suddenly, they do. It is obvious to anyone with eyeballs and a functioning frontal cortex that the trans movement is making a mockery of us all. But most specifically, it is making a mockeryof women. It is women who are being forced to share locker rooms and showers with their penis-packing sisters; it is women getting trounced in sporting events; and, insanely, it is women who are essentially being told that biological men are better at beingwomen than they are. For example, a man identifying as a woman -- Kataluna Enriquez -- was just crowned Miss Nevada, beating out 21 female contestants in the beauty pageant. And how do you thinkthe mainstream media reacted to this new patriarchy-in-drag? NBC called it a "historic win." The Courier Mail called him a "remarkable beauty queen." Entertainment Weekly gushed that "history was made." LGBT groups celebrated wildly at this leap forward for theircultural long-con, and it is easy to say why. I think beauty pageants are generally exploitative soft-core porn shows, but it turns out that even this bastion of female objectification can be colonized by guys -- not as gawkers, but as girls. It's going to get crazier, too. A fellow named Oli London, a British influencer who is obsessed with K-pop star Park Jimin, decided to get a series of grotesque plasticsurgeries in order to turn himself into Jimin's doppelganger. Having achieved a disturbing parody of his idol, he has now come out as a non-binary Korean. To be clear, he is a white Englishman. But because he has been told that a male can become female with a bit of nip and tuck, he -- quite understandably -- believes thathe can become a Korean of indistinct gender. He released a video laying out his new identity titled "My TRANSition story": "I identify as Korean. That's my culture. That's my home country. That's exactly how I look now. I also identify as Jimin, and that's my career name. I know it's a bit confusingfor people--nobody's ever come out as Korean, but this is something that you guys know if you've followed my journey. For the last eight years I've really struggled with identity issues, with who I am...I've finally gone through my racial transition surgery." Needless to say, there has been a lot of backlash -- but his critics don't have much of a leg to stand on. They've spent the last five years or so vigorously trashing anyonewho disagrees with the premise that you can choose your own identity and mold yourself into it, and there's no logical reason a man can become a woman but a white guy can't become a Korean. Oli responded by saying as much: "If you can be transsexual you can also be TRANSRACIAL. Why are there such double standards & hypocrisy with people criticizing me for beingKorean. It's the same with someone who was born in the wrong body and wants to become a man or a woman. I was actually born in the wrong body!" He goes on to say that he has taken courage from everyone else coming out and identifying as various and sundry members of the alphabet club, and that he would like to usePride Month to make his announcement, as well. London has had 18 plastic surgeries (and it really, really shows), and he uses all the same language that trans people use, noting that he "feels beautiful for the first time." He says he previously felt trapped in his body. He even announces his pronouns: "they/then, Korean Jimin." He then encourages others who might identify as Korean or Japaneseor any other ethnicity to follow his lead and come out. After all, why not? How could anyone possibly object after everything they've been ramming down our throats for the last decade? I thought that London's video would be funny -- a sort of can you believe this isn't the Babylon Bee thing -- but it wasn't. He looks very sickly, and he doesn't look Korean-- he looks like he was brutally assaulted and got a good mauling in the process. If I hadn't read the news coverage and watched his announcement for myself, I'd think he was just having us on -- perhaps even trolling the trans movement. But he isn't. He's deadly serious. Our culture has broken down to the point where a young British man can get 18 plastic surgeries, insist he's a non-binary Korean, and then use the argumentsthat Western governments have been busily passing into law for the past few years to warn people that they'd better not make fun of him. Watching Oli London's coming out video is like watching a tragedy unfold in real time -- and he, unfortunately, is just a microcosm for legions of confused, hurting, anddeluded young people just like himself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Communism in Cuba and America - Bill Wilson � www.dailyjot.com America is fast heading down the slippery slope of communism. Call it what you will�communism, socialism, fascism, democratic socialism, liberal democrat, whatever�theseare all different shades of tyranny, cousins of the same family. One need look no further than Cuba and compare what is happening in America to see how far America has journeyed toward communism. The very foundation of American liberty rests in the First Amendmentguarantees of freedoms of speech and religion. What we see in Cuba is the targeting of religious leaders because they speak out against the communist regime. Why? Because communism requires replacing God with government. It�s atheist and ruthlessly so. Peaceful protests against the Cuban communist regime have ended in the brutality against protesters, especially religious leaders. The Communist Party of Cuba is an explicitlyatheist institution that inhibits all religious worship while deceptively tying communism to Catholicism by promoting late dictator Fidel Castro�s ties to nominally Catholic, but functionally Marxist liberation theologists. The Miami Herald reported on April23, 2006 that Fidel Castro was responsible for 31,173 executions and prison deaths since he took power in 1959. Some 5,728 were killed by firing squads. He refused medical attention to those trying to escape the island by boat, resulting in another estimated77,000 deaths. Nearly all the sources indicate an exact number of deaths caused by Castro�s regime is unattainable, with some estimating the death toll over 1.5 million. In America, followers of Christ are not facing firing squads, but we do face the �Squad.� Breitbart reports that as of Monday afternoon, prominent leftists who promote socialismin America and their constituencies who were deceived enough to elect them to Congress were silent on the violence against protesters in Cuba. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley(D-MA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) had not posted any social media (which they usually have something to say about anything anti-Christian or anti-Jew). Joe Biden said he stands with the Cuban people, but failed to denounce the violenceagainst them by the regime. Face it: the Democratic Party is sympathetic to communism. Democratic Party leaders use the news media, entertainment, and corporations to do what they know they are Constitutionally prohibited to do�censor freedom of speech, suppressreligious expression, force healthcare decisions, promote societal division, and a host of other jack-boot tactics. If you look at Cuba today, can you see the struggle in America tomorrow? People, these leftists attack your freedoms of speech and religionbecause they are the foundation of freedom. The people of Cuba know it all too well. Once freedom is lost, it is nearly impossible to regain. We are at a tipping point. As in Ephesians 6, put on the full armor of God and pray �that utterance may be given untome, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel.� We all need to rise up or they will make the US (us) like Cuba. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Is The Worst Inflation Since The 1970s, And The StageIs Being Set For The Total Collapse Of The U.S. Economy - by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/this-is-the-worst-inflation-since-the-1970s-and-the-stage-is-being-set-for-the-total-collapse-of-the-u-s-economy/ How does it feel to live in a country with double-digit inflation? On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics told us that the consumer price index has risen 5.4 percentover the past 12 months, and such a high number shocked a lot of people. But in order to make a fair comparison to the past, we have to account for the fact that the way inflation is calculated has been changed literally dozens of times over the past severaldecades. According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if inflation was still calculated the way that it was back in 1990, the official rate of inflation over the past 12 months would be about 9 percent. And if inflation was still calculated the way thatit was back in 1980, the official rate of inflation over the past 12 months would be well into double-digits. Everyone that has been warning that we could soon see inflation rise to levels that we haven�t witnessed since the the Jimmy Carter years can stop, because we are alreadythere. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is committing fraud, because the numbers that they give us are almost meaningless. For example, U.S. home prices have risen 20 percent overthe past year, but the �shelter component of inflation� makes up only a tiny fraction of the overall consumer price index� We�ll get the latest read on inflation Tuesday, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts out its consumer price index for the month of June. As you may recall, the May reportshowed the biggest annual increase in consumer prices, 5%, in 13 years. But if you�re looking for the recent jump in home prices to show up in that number, you�re likely to be disappointed. The shelter component of inflation, as measured by the CPI, has stayedpretty steady, from around 2% to 3.5%, for the past decade. And some economists have a problem with that. Wouldn�t it be wonderful if your mortgage payment accounted for only 3.5 percent of your overall budget each month? Needless to say, such a figure is completely and totally unrealistic. For most of us, housing is the single biggest expense that we face on a regular basis. And as I have documented in many previous articles, housing costs have been soaringinto the stratosphere in recent months. Car prices are also rising at an extremely alarming pace. According to CNN, the average price of a new car has shot up 12 percent over the past year� In May, the average new car price hit a record $38,255, according to JD Power, up 12% from the same period a year ago. About two-thirds of car buyers paid within 5% of thesticker price in May, with some paying even more. Instead of buying a new vehicle, you could purchase a used one instead, but used car prices increased 10.5 percent in just the last month� Last month alone, average used car prices soared 10.5 percent � the largest such monthly increase since record-keeping began in January 1953. That spike accounted for aboutone-third of the monthly increase for the third straight month. Renting vehicles has gotten a lot more expensive as well. In fact, average rental rates are up a whopping 86 percent since this point in 2020� Daily car rental rates have increased 86% compared to this time last year and 140% more than 2019, according to Julie Hall, a spokesperson for AAA. The �5.4 percent inflation� fairly tale that the Labor Department is trying to sell us is absolutely laughable. And as long as they keep putting out such doctored numbers, they are going to have zero credibility. Everyone can see that prices are skyrocketing all around us. In such an environment, a restaurant in New York can charge 200 dollars for French fries and some people willactually pay that price� Serendipity3, the iconic Upper East Side restaurant, set a Guinness World Records title for making the �Most Expensive French Fries� � just in time to celebrate NationalFrench Fry Day Tuesday! Serendipity3�s Creative Director and Chef Joe Calderone and Corporate Executive Chef Frederick Schoen-Kiewert are the masterminds behind the �Creme de la Creme Pommes Frites,� which cost a whopping $200. Our leaders thought that they could pump trillions upon trillions of fresh dollars into the system without any serious consequences. Sadly, they were dead wrong. Inflation is wildly out of control, and one economist just told Breitbart News that the U.S. is starting �to look a little bit like a Latin American country�� Desmond Lachman, an economist and senior fellow with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), told Breitbart News on Sunday that the U.S. is beginning to resemble a LatinAmerican country given its inflation, government spending, and printing of money. �[The U.S. is] in [a]very bad position from a long-term point of view. I don�t see how this can end well when we�re running � now � budget deficits something like 15 percentof GDP,� Lachman said on SiriusXM�s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak. �This is beginning to look a little bit like a Latin American country.� It is actually much worse than that. The truth is that we are in the terminal phase of the greatest debt bubble in the history of the world, and at such a critical moment U.S. officials have decided to systematicallydestroy the value of the reserve currency of the planet. Prior to the pandemic, the U.S. government was stealing more than a hundred million dollars an hour from future generations of Americans, but now our politicians have uppedthat rate to more than 300 million dollars an hour. And when the next major crisis comes along, they will pass even more �emergency packages�, because spending money is the only solution they have. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve continues to pump giant mountains of money into the financial system. Since September 2019, the size of the Fed balance sheet has more thandoubled, and that should be considered a crime against humanity. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans don�t even know what the Federal Reserve is, and only a small fraction of the population actually understands what they arecurrently doing to our financial system. Facing no significant resistance, our politicians will continue to get us into staggering amounts of debt, and the Fed will continue to transform the U.S. dollar into toiletpaper. Sadly, what they are doing is setting the stage for the collapse of the late, great U.S. economy, and the economic pain that is ahead will affect every single man, womanand child on the entire planet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM