When Globalism Runs Its Course ...
The Year America Dissolved
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

It was 2017. Clans were governing America.

The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable.

As society broke down, the police became warlords. The state police broke apart, and
the officers were subsumed into the local forces of their communities. The newly formed tribes expanded to encompass the relatives and friends of the police.

The dollar had collapsed as world reserve currency in 2012 when the worsening economic depression made it clear to Washington’s creditors that the federal budget deficit was too large to be financed except by the printing of money.

FO MO -

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts07262010.html

Moved or not moved . Count or no count. Hard to figure out cause of so many changes but anyway.

Here's an article not from a woo woo or good foreign or Ron Paul type hard money site but from The Big Boys top magazine or so I hear. Me like the classy pictures and remember posting them here years ago in the front when guests like me could still show them. Since I could not find any one doing it on the net before me except at arty pictures sites I gotta wonder if I lead the way. Then again I didn't look to hard.

Art books are in a library to. Anyway here be -

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/659...ty-and-collapse

Summary: Imperial collapse may come much more suddenly than many historians imagine. A combination of fiscal deficits and military overstretch suggests that the United States may be the next empire on the precipice.

NIALL FERGUSON is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His most recent book is The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World.

There is no better illustration of the life cycle of a great power than The Course of Empire, a series of five paintings by Thomas Cole that hang in the New-York Historical Society. Cole was a founder of the Hudson River School and one of the pioneers of nineteenth-century American landscape painting; in The Course of Empire, he beautifully captured a theory of imperial rise and fall to which most people remain in thrall to this day.

A little more at the link and more in the mag at the real library but whos got time for that.

Time running backward. Then foreward again? Where is John Pigtar when you need him?

Do we wait around, or move into small armed compounds now?

Gangs. Warlords. Tribes.

What's the difference?

Most of the world is controlled by warlords.