AMERICA IN CRISIS: 9.11.21 - Major U.S. Cities Are Becoming Fentanyl-Infested Cesspools

Major U.S. Cities Are Becoming Fentanyl-Infested Cesspools As Millions Plunge Into Hopelessness And Despair - by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/major-u-s-cities-are-becoming-fentanyl-infested-cesspools-as-millions-plunge-into-hopelessness-and-despair/ If you live near a major U.S. city, you don’t have to go to a movie theater to see a horror show. Instead, just find out where fentanyl-laced heroin is being sold and gohang out with the drug addicts for a few hours. If you survive the encounter, it will be an experience that you will never forget. In city after city, hopelessly addicted men and women wander the streets of our core urban areas like zombies. Unfortunately,many of them won’t last very long because it is exceptionally easy to die from a fentanyl overdose. As you will see below, drug overdose deaths in the U.S. were up 30 percent last year, and fentanyl was the main reason. Earlier today I came across a video of the streets of Philadelphia that really struck a chord with me emotionally. Philadelphia played such a critical role in the American Revolution, and it was once such a beautiful city. But as this video clearly shows, it has now become a complete and utter hellhole. WATCHTHIS VIDEO How can city officials just stand aside and do nothing as this goes on day after day? Down on Kensington Avenue, you can buy a bag of fentanyl-laced heroin for as little as five dollars… The Kensington section of Philadelphia, where anyone can buy a lethal dose of fentanyl-laced heroin for $5 a bag, has been known locally as the ‘ground zero’ of America’sopioid epidemic, Philadelphia Magazine reported. It is not uncommon for locals who pass by the area to notice men lying motionless on the sidewalk. Syringes and needles are also frequently seen out and used in plain sight. Authorities know that this is going on right out in the open, and they do nothing to stop it. Needless to say, what is happening in Philadelphia is just a very small fraction of the overall crisis that we are facing in this country. From coast to coast, thousands upon thousands of addicts are dying. In fact, the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States was up 30 percent last year… The provisional drug overdose death statistics for 2020 confirmed the addiction field’s worst fears. More people died of overdoses in the United States last year than inany other one-year period in our history. More than 93,000 people died. The increase from the previous year was also more than we’ve ever seen—up 30 percent. These data are telling us that something is wrong. In fact, they are shouting for change. Fentanyl and engineered substances that mimic fentanyl are being shipped into this country in vast quantities. These substances can be “100 times stronger than meth or heroin”, and they are super addictive. But they are also super deadly. It has been reported that an amount of fentanyl equivalent to “two grains of salt” can kill you. It is so easy to make a mistake when dealingwith fentanyl, but addicts just keep coming back for more. Sadly, a 39-year-old female comedian learned this the hard way when she almost died the other night after taking some fentanyl-laced cocaine… A comedian who is said to have taken fentanyl-laced cocaine that killed three people at an LA house party has told a friend that she is recovering from the incident. Kate Quigley, 39, texted friend Brian Redban Sunday to say: ‘I’m alive. Not great. But im OK,’ with Redban sharing a screenshot of the message on his Instagram Sunday. Of course wherever there are people that are extremely addicted to illegal street drugs there is also going to be lots of crime. So far this weekend, dozens of people have been shot in the city of Chicago, and criminals have become so brazen that they are now literally trying to haul away entire ATMmachines… Someone has been trying to steal entire ATMs from businesses in Chicago, and has succeeded at least once. Chicago Police said that burglars tried to use a blow torch and pry tools to open an ATM outside a business. In two other robberies, they smashed a window or door and triedto steal the ATM. In one instance, they did walk away with an ATM. I don’t know why anyone would still want to live in the city of Chicago at this point. Of course the exact same thing could be said for dozens of other major U.S. cities. As the economic suffering in this nation intensifies, it is inevitable that even more people will turn to drugs to try to deal with the pain. I am seeing so much hopelessness and despair out there right now, and turning to something that will instantly make you feel good can seem like a really easy answer. But in the end it can send you to the grave. Right now, Democrats in Washington are debating whether they should extend the enhanced unemployment benefits that are expiring… President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are facing pressure to extend federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits set to expire this weekend for millions of Americanworkers, as the Delta variant continues to surge and job growth slows. Three federal jobless aid programs, first put in place by former President Donald Trump’s administration last March, will lapse Monday, with an estimated 7.5 million unemployedworkers set to lose all their benefits. An additional 3 million will no longer receive a $300 weekly boost to the unemployment benefits provided by their state, according to estimates from the Century Foundation. In order to extend those benefits, we would have to borrow more money, and we can’t afford to do that. But if we don’t extend those benefits, even more Americans will fall into poverty, and that will lead to more hopelessness and despair. We live at a time when more Americans than ever are dependent on the government, and that is very alarming because socialism always ends up collapsing. As Margaret Thatcher once said, socialist governments “always run out of other people’s money” eventually. Unfortunately, the United States has been marching down a socialist path for a long time, and if we stay on this course it won’t lead anywhere good. There are consequences for the decisions that we make, and the drug addicts that endlessly wander our city streets are just one example. So many of those addicts could have been doctors or lawyers or business executives, but instead they have willingly chosen to destroy themselves. Of course our society as a whole is willingly destroying itself, and little time remains to do anything about it. ----------------------- Abraham and America � Terry James � https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ What does Abraham have to do with America? might be the question. No, not Abraham Lincoln, but Abraham, the progenitor of the Jewish race�one of the great, Old Testamentfathers of faith in the One, True, Living God. Thousands of years separate the United States of America from the time of Israel�s founding father, yet the linkage couldn�t be more apparent. Let�s explore what I mean. We�ve examined the matter in various ways in our time together in these commentaries. Yet I sense it�s now most necessary to look more deeply into the connection. I believethe commonality of Abraham�s time to ours is undeniable. Sodom�s Lot and Us The comparison of Lot�s time in Sodom to us (believers) and our time in the present-day USA is astounding, really, in my view. Sodom and Gomorrah were perhaps among the most highly successful commercial centers of the world at the time when Lot served in the gates of Sodom. He was apparently a cityofficial�a judge�who rendered verdicts of various sorts in contested matters among the citizenry. It seems that just beneath the civility and smoothly operating society and culture of the time, however, there beat the heart of wickedness that emerged intoviolence and debauchery once the sun set each day. We can only imagine what level of depravity could cause God, Himself, to come to earth and get a firsthand look at things going on. Now, we know the Lord�the Creator of all that is�knew exactly what was going on in Sodom and Gomorrah. But He came, we can be almost certain, specifically so that therewould be a record of the visit. I believe part of the reason for the visit was so you and I could consider the record of it these thousands of years later. The chief sin of those cities�Sodom in particular�almost with a doubt, according to the scriptural record, was sexual activity of the most egregious nature. God the Son, in a theophany appearance to Abraham, addressed the matter of Sodom and Gomorrah: And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogetheraccording to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. (Genesis 18 20�21) Particularly, sensual evil of every kind had progressed to sexual perversion of every sort. We know that the Apostle Paul reflected on the perverse nature of the activitythousands of years later: For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leavingthe natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. (Romans 1:26�27) Abraham, Lot�s uncle�when he finally figured out that he was in the presence of God, Himself�was terribly worried about what the Lord was about to do. Abraham, no doubt,knew about the evil going on in those heathen cities. He must have known that the Lord already knew all about it, too. Abraham carefully and reverently approached the Lord, asking if He would spare the cities if the Lord could find first fifty righteous there, then thirty, then twenty, thenten. The Lord said �yes� in every case. Abraham then must have concluded that his nephew and family were the only ones who were considered righteous in God�s holy eyes. We don�t know what the population of those towns was, but the percentage of �righteous� within the total population must have been infinitesimally small. There just weren�tenough people who believed in God�s way to prevent destruction of the whole area. In considering America and the degree of the wicked and perverse society and culture our nation has devolved into, here�s an interesting question that is relevant. We�veheard it asked before: �Might the Lord relent on our own nation�s well-deserved judgment and perhaps destruction if enough �righteous� (true believers in Christ) inhabit our land?� We remember the quote attributed to Ruth Bell Graham, evangelist Billy Graham�s wife: �If God doesn�t judge America [for all the wickedness Mrs. Graham saw] He will haveto apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.� The Lord didn�t get angry at Abraham when He rather meekly sought God�s agreement to relent from His decision to destroy those depraved people. Surely there are more �righteous� in America, percentage-wise, than there were in Sodom and Gomorrah in Lot�s day. On the other hand, in some ways, America, the most God-blessed nation in human history, materially speaking, and one of the most blessed, spiritually, has exceeded any othercivilization in wickedness. Considering the slaughter of millions upon millions of the unborn�and the murder of babies even after birth�as well as the twisting of God�s natural order through LGBTQ and other perversion-engendered venues, can the Righteous Lordof Heaven even entertain our prayerfully issued question as He did Abraham�s? Or is it time for Him, like in Lot�s day, to remove the righteous like He did in that troubled time of antiquity? Perhaps, thinking on all the things we see developing, we are about to find out. ------------------------------------------------------ Why Are Food Prices Going Up So Rapidly?- by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/why-are-food-prices-going-up-so-rapidly/ For a long time I have been warning that global food prices would rise dramatically, and that is precisely what we have witnessed over the past 12 months. Unfortunately,global wages are not rising nearly as quickly as global food prices are, and so this has pushed millions and millions more people into poverty and hunger. Here in the United States, nobody is currently in danger of starving to death, but many Americans havebeen getting a severe case of sticker shock when they go to the grocery store. Not since the Jimmy Carter era of the 1970s have we seen prices escalate like this, and people are starting to get angry. Since the beginning of the pandemic, global food supplies have been getting tighter and tighter. When I first started writing about this, certain individuals derisivelydismissed what I had to say, but now the truth is becoming apparent to everyone. Very tight supplies and growing demand have pushed global food prices 32.9 percent higher over the past year� Central banks and mainstream media continue to peddle the notion that soaring food inflation is temporary and the average Joe and Jane should not worry about it. But ina new report via the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), global food prices are on the rise, once again, and back to near-decade highs. FAO released a statement Thursday that detailed after two consecutive months of declines, world food prices in August jumped due to solid gains in sugar, vegetable oils,and cereals. FAO�s food price index, which follows international prices of globally traded food commodities, averaged 127.4 points in August, up 3.9 points (3.1%) from July and 31.5points (32.9%) from the same period last year. Unfortunately, experts are telling us that food prices are going to continue to climb. In fact, one is estimating that food prices will continue to go up like this �for the next two years or so�� Grocery prices have been on an upward trend for most of the year, and some experts say that this will continue for at least the next several years. �We�re going to continue to see price increases, probably for the next two years or so,� says Phil Lempert, an analyst and food trends expert perhaps best known as the SupermarketGuru. This is really bad news. So why is this happening? Well, the Biden administration is blaming the greed of the meat processing industry� During Wednesday�s press briefing, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke about the actions the administration was takingto help alleviate what Deese called �pandemic profiteering� from the top meat processing companies. �One of the interesting findings of the report that we put out today, is that about half of the overall increase in grocery prices can be attributed to significant increasesin prices in three products � in beef, in pork and in poultry,� Deese said from the podium. Certainly greed is playing a role, but as Zero Hedge has pointed out, a whole host of other factors are contributing to this crisis as well� A combination of global droughts, volatile weather, labor shortages, and supply chain disruptions persisting from COVID, among others, have contributed to the rapid risein food prices over the last year. Heading into fall, soaring food inflation shows no signs of abating and may worsen. This may cause socio-economic turmoil in emerging market economies, mainly because peoplein those countries allocate more of their daily budgets to food. The pandemic was supposed to be subsiding by now, and so by this time of the year prices were supposed to be starting to stabilize. But instead the Delta variant is causing widespread panic, and this is causing more disruptions throughout our entire society� The summer that was supposed to mark America�s independence from COVID-19 is instead drawing to a close with the U.S. more firmly under the tyranny of the virus, with deathsper day back up to where they were in March. The delta variant is filling hospitals, sickening alarming numbers of children and driving coronavirus deaths in some places to the highest levels of the entire pandemic.School systems that reopened their classrooms are abruptly switching back to remote learning because of outbreaks. Legal disputes, threats and violence have erupted over mask and vaccine requirements. We already had a shortage of nurses and other health care workers before this pandemic, and now all of the various mandates that have been instituted threaten to cause ameltdown of the entire system� Fortune.com reported last week that about 39 percent of U.S. hospitals have announced vaccine mandates for staff members. �It�s not just nurses at stake with vaccine mandates. Respiratory techs, nursing assistants, food service employees, billing staff and other health care workers are alreadyin short supply. According to the latest KFF/The Washington Post Frontline Health Care Workers Survey, released in April, at least one-third of health care workers who assist with patient care and administrative tasks have considered leaving the workforce,� according to Fortune. I can�t even begin to describe how foolish it is to institute mandates that could potentially force thousands upon thousands of health care workers to leave their jobs rightin the middle of a pandemic. But that is what we are now facing. The way that we have responded to this pandemic has been a complete and total nightmare, but those running things seem entirely convinced that they are on the right track. Moving forward, there is going to be more panic, more chaos, more shortages and more price increases. So even though food prices are already ridiculously high, now is the time to stock up, because food prices are only going to go higher from here. I have been doing my best to sound the alarm, but sometimes I feel like I am pounding my head into a wall. Most people just have an absurd amount of faith in the strength and durability of our system, and so they refuse to believe that it could ever fail. But it is failing, and what we have experienced so far is just a preview of coming attractions. --------------------------------------- VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM