AMERICA IN CRISIS: 1.29.22 - The United States Is Becoming A Third World Country

The United States Is Becoming A Third World Country - by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/the-united-states-is-becoming-a-third-world-country/ In the old days, Americans would derisively speak of “third world countries” that were plagued by high crime rates, corrupt governments, severe economic problems and anoverall lack of civilized behavior. Unfortunately, the tables have turned, and now we are becoming a “third world country”. The thin veneer of civilization that we all used to take for granted has been steadily disappearing, and our nation seems to becomea little bit more degenerate with each passing day. Of course this didn’t happen overnight. It has taken decades of decline to get us to this point, and now our decline appears to be accelerating. If you have ever visited a foreign country with a major crime problem, you probably recall the unsettling experience of suddenly realizing that you are the prey and thatthe predators on the streets won’t hesitate to take advantage of you if they sense an opportunity. Sadly, many Americans now feel like that on a permanent basis in their own local communities. In recent years, crime rates in our core urban areas have absolutely skyrocketed. For example, the Daily Mail is reporting that carjackings in some major U.S. cities haverisen by up to 510 percent… Major cities across the US have observed carjackings spike by up to 510 percent in a ‘disturbing’ trend some are attributing to lax punishment and a shift in driving habits. In line with an overall rise in violent crime across the nation, cities such as Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans are experiencing a jump in violent vehicletakeovers as critics slam criminal reform systems. Other forms of theft has become absolutely rampant as well. Footage of thousands of discarded boxes and packages that had been stolen from cargo trains in southern California shocked the nation so much that California Governor GavinNewsom felt compelled to go down there and check it out for himself. Once he got down there, he actually used the term “third world” to describe what he was witnessing… Last week, the governor visited the site as an effort was already underway to clean up the shredded boxes after looters broke into railcars to steal Amazon and UPS packages. “What the hell is going on?” Reuters quoted Newsom as saying amid the aftermath of the railcar thefts on Union Pacific train tracks in downtown Los Angeles. Newsom said the scene “looked like a third world, these images, the drone images that were on the nightly news.” For once, Newsom was actually 100 percent correct. This sort of thing shouldn’t be happening in a civilized society. But even when we catch criminals and take them to jail, they are often put back on the streets very quickly. In Detroit, a drug dealer that doused his pregnant girlfriend with lighter fluid and set her on fire “was granted a $5,000 bond” and is now free to continue terrorizingthose around him… A Detroit drug dealer was granted a $5,000 bond despite allegedly setting fire to his girlfriend who was 27 weeks pregnant with twins, burning 60 percent of her body andleaving her critically-ill. Convicted drug pusher Devonne Marsh, 42, reportedly doused his 26-year-old girlfriend with lighter fluid and ignited her on fire after the pair had an argument. Of course crime is just one piece of the puzzle. Inflation is out of control, there are widespread shortages all over the country, basic services are breaking down, thispandemic has exposed rampant incompetence and deep corruption among our health authorities, and our streets are filled with drug addicts, homeless vagrants and scam artists. As our country deteriorates at a very alarming pace, an increasing number of Americans are blaming the Biden administration for our woes… “Downhill, divided, doubting democracy, falling behind, and tuning out — this is how Americans are feeling as they’re heading into 2022,” Democrat pollster Jeff Horwittof Hart Research Associates told NBC News. Biden’s approval remains in the low 40s (43%) and 72% of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction. NBC News reports more than 70% saying that in back-to-backpolls has happened just six times in the poll’s history, according to the report. And another recent survey found that just 19 percent of Americans “strongly approve” of Joe Biden’s performance at this point… Only 19 percent of likely voters strongly approve of President Joe Biden’s performance, down three points in two weeks, a Monday Rasmussen poll revealed. After Biden’s two-hour press conference last week in which he was questioned why 49 percent of voters believe he is mentally unfit to be president, 49 percent also stronglydisapproved of Biden’s presidential performance, a 30 point differential. Certainly Biden has been a complete and utter disaster, but all of our problems are not solely his fault. It has taken decades for America to reach this juncture, and things are getting worse with each passing day. I really like how Victor Davis Hansen summarized the currentstate of affairs in one of his recent articles… Hard Left “woke” ideology has all but obliterated the idea of a border. Millions of impoverished foreigners are entering the United States illegally — and during a pandemicwithout either COVID-19 tests or vaccinations. The health bureaucracies have lost credibility as official communiques on masks, herd and acquired immunity, vaccinations, and comorbidities apparently change and adjustto perceived political realities. After decades of improving race relations, America is regressing into a pre-modern tribal society. Crime soars. Inflation roars. Meritocracy is libeled and so we are governed more by ideology and tribe. We are so deeply divided, and there is so much anger and hatred in our nation today. And a house that is divided will surely fall. If we really want to behave like a third world country, perhaps we should eat like a third world country too. In fact, the elite have already been strongly promoting the idea that we should all become accustomed to eating bugs… A quick search of the World Economic Forum website reveals an obsession with the idea. Here’s a small selection of articles from the last few years: “Worms for dinner? Europebacks insect based food”; “Good grub: why we might be eating insects soon”; and “Fancy a bug burger?” The house journals of global capitalism, the Financial Times and The Economist, take a similar line. Both publications advocate for entomophagy beneath perky headlines suchas “Eating bugs: a culinary idea with legs” and “Why eating insects makes sense”. Doesn’t that sound fun? Actually, at the rate that global food supplies are tightening, bug eating may become quite popular sooner rather than later. We live in such troubled times, and I have a feeling that they are about to become a lot more troubled. But I don’t plan on eating bugs. And I don’t want to live in a third world country. Unfortunately, our politicians don’t listen to people like you and me. They are just going to keep doing what they are doing, and we are all going to suffer the consequences of their disastrous decisions. ---------------------------------------- Two Shortages That Threaten To Absolutely Eviscerate The Global EconomyIn 2022 - by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/two-shortages-that-threaten-to-absolutely-eviscerate-the-global-economy-in-2022/ This was supposed to be the year that things �got back to normal�, but here we are at the end of January and things have only gotten worse. As we move forward into Februaryand beyond, there are two key global shortages that we are going to want to keep a very close eye on. One of them is the rapidly growing fertilizer shortage. A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal ominously warned that �high fertilizer prices are weighingon farmers across the developing world�� From South America�s avocado, corn and coffee farms to Southeast Asia�s plantations of coconuts and oil palms, high fertilizer prices are weighing on farmers across thedeveloping world, making it much costlier to cultivate and forcing many to cut back on production. That means grocery bills could go up even more in 2022, following a year in which global food prices rose to decade highs. An uptick would exacerbate hunger�already acutein some parts of the world because of pandemic-linked job losses�and thwart efforts by politicians and central bankers to subdue inflation. According to the International Fertilizer Development Center, exceedingly high fertilizer prices could result in a reduction of agricultural output in Africa alone �equivalentto the food needs of 100 million people�. So this is a really, really big deal. And this crisis is going to deeply affect us here in the United States too. The following comes from a recent piece authored by U.S. Senator Roger Marshall� It�s no secret farmers are faced with a fertilizer crisis. Prices for phosphorus-based and potassium-based (potash) fertilizers have more than doubled in Kansas while Nitrogen-basedfertilizers have more than quadrupled. Fertilizer is vital to feeding not only the country, but the world. It contains essential nutrients for plant life, and without it, American agricultural yields will quickly suffer as well as food prices in local grocerystores. As I discussed the other day, these crazy prices for fertilizer are going to make it impossible for many U.S. farmers to profitably plant crops this year. That means that a lot less food is going to be grown. On the other side of the world, the North Korean government is asking their citizens to start creating �homemade� fertilizer from their own waste� State-run media has also been encouraging people to make �homemade� manure, The Daily Beast reported. A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK that residents hadstarted �producing fertilizer from human waste� after authorities launched a 10-day drive to increase production. Perhaps U.S. citizens should give this a try, because a lot of us are certainly full of crap. The other major shortage that I want to highlight in this article is the ongoing computer chip shortage. According to a report that was just put out by the Department of Commerce, chip inventories around the nation have become dangerously thin� Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce released the results from the Risks in the Semiconductor Supply Chain Request for Information (RFI) issued in Sept. 2021. Key findingsfrom the report provided data-driven information about the depths of the semiconductor shortage and underscored the need for the President�s proposed $52 billion in domestic semiconductor production. The RFI showed that median inventory held by chips consumers (including automakers or medical device manufacturers, as examples) has fallen from 40 days in 2019 to lessthan 5 days in 2021. If a COVID outbreak, a natural disaster, or political instability disrupts a foreign semiconductor facility for even just a few weeks, it has the potential to shut down a manufacturing facility in the U.S., putting American workers andtheir families at risk. At this point, computer chips used to produce automobiles and medical devices are particularly in short supply. In a blog post, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimando explained that a lack of chips resulted in �$210 billion in lost revenue� for automakers in 2021� �In 2021, auto prices drove one-third of all inflation, primarily because we don�t have enough chips,� Raimando wrote in her blogpost. �Automakers produced nearly 8 millionfewer cars last year than expected, which some analysts believe resulted in more than $210 billion in lost revenue.� If there is additional disruption to chip production this year, 2022 could easily be even worse. Many may wonder why we just don�t plop down a bunch of factories and start pumping out more chips. Unfortunately, it isn�t that easy. Chip factories take a very long time to build, and we are being warned that it could take �until 2023� before things return to normal� But industry executives aren�t optimistic that the funding would help alleviate the crisis, the Washington Post reported. They argued federal funding could help build upthe long-term supply of chips but wouldn�t help in the short term because chip factories take years to build. Chip consumers that were surveyed by the department similarly estimated that shortages wouldn�t go away in the next six months, and some suggested it could take until 2023. We should have never become so dependent on chip production in Asia. Today, Taiwan accounts for a whopping 63 percent of all computer chip production in the world� The majority of chip factories are currently based in Asia, which houses about 87% of the market share of semiconductor factories (with Taiwan alone accounting for some63%), separate industry data indicates. The political climate in the region, and tensions between Taiwan and China, has come under renewed scrutiny as the shortage has exposed how much U.S. industry relies on these sources. So what is going to happen to our economy if China invades Taiwan and our main supply of computer chips gets completely cut off? I have been warning for years that military conflict with China is coming, and now we are closer than ever. What is our economy going to look like if a Chinese invasion of Taiwan this year instantly puts us into a state of war with the Chinese? How in the world will we even be able to function as a society? You might want to start thinking about such questions, because what was once �unimaginable� threatens to become reality in 2022. ---------------------------- VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM