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Apocalypse by 2040? Shock as MIT computer model predicts END DATE for civilisation
A COMPUTER MODEL developed in 1973 by a team of MIT researchers has predicted the “end of civilised life as we know it” by 2040, with a major change coming in 2020 – just two years away from now.
An apocalyptic computer model, processed by one of the world’s largest computers in 1973, has predicted the end of civilization by 2040.
The prediction came from a programme nicknamed World One, which was developed by a team of MIT researchers and processed by Australia’s largest computer.
It was originally devised by computer pioneer Jay Forrester, after he was tasked by the Club of Rome to develop a model of global sustainability.
However, the shocking result of the computer calculations showed that the level of pollution and population would cause a global collapse by 2040.
This shows that the world cannot sustain the current level of population and industrial growth for more than two decades.
Australian broadcaster ABC has republished its original report from the 1970s, since there is just two years until a major change is expected according to the computer model.
The model based its predictions on trends such as pollution levels, population growth, availability of natural resources and quality of life on earth.
The eerie calculation has been remarkably accurate in certain predictions, such as a stagnated quality of life and diminishing pool of natural resources.
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The prediction came from a programme nicknamed World One, which was developed by MIT researchers (Image: GETTY)
A fascinating forecast shows that the quality of life is expected to drop dramatically right after 2020.
At this time the broadcasters addreses the audience: “At around 2020, the condition of the planet becomes highly critical.
“If we do nothing about it, the quality of life goes down to zero. Pollution becomes so seriously it will start to kill people, which in turn will cause the population to diminish, lower than it was in the 1900.
“At this stage, around 2040 to 2050, civilised life as we know it on this planet will cease to exist.”
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The apocalyptic computer model processed by one of the world’s largest computers in 1973 (Image: IG)
Alexander King, a British pioneer who led the Club of Rome, also made a shocking prediction regarding national sovereignty.
He told ABC: “Sovereignty of nations is no longer absolute. There is a gradually diminishing of sovereignty, little bit by little bit. Even in the big nations, this will happen.”
287 Comments on "Apocalypse by 2040? Shock as MIT computer model predicts END DATE for civilisation"
deadly on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 12:59 pm
There will have to be quotas during a die off, with equal opportunity comes equal responsibility. It is only fair. The numbers have to be equally distributed. If Africa has one billion people, a ninety percent die off there would mean 900 million would inevitably be slated to die.
The entire western hemisphere has about one point two billion, therefore, about one billion western peoples would be mandated to die. If you use continents and not races, it will be without bias. Create more understanding, be less emotional.
You would be required to do your part. If you have to die, fit the criteria to be exterminated, you should report to the extermination facilities in your area. Bring your passport and birth certificate. Documentation is important, don’t forget.
Governments would have to decide how extermination would progress. Kool-aid works and has worked. Drink the kool-aid. Keep up with the jonesin’ Joneses.
A controlled apocalypse would be more orderly, have better results and the efficient methods would be used the mostest.
We’re here from the government and we’re here to help.
The ‘death dollar’ at work.
lol
If collapse comes, every major road will reach gridlock in a matter of hours, minutes. You’ll be walking. You’ll be looking for a drink of water in no time. You’ll be hungry is just a couple of hours. You’ll be joining the huddled masses yearning to be free.
You will be SOL. Up Shit Creek without a paddle, whistling in the dark, looking up a dead horse’s ass.
Every farmer will have enough brains to bug out for a while while the living dead scrounge through the countryside and scour gardens with nothing in them, long gone. When he gets back home to the farm, he’ll shoot to kill. A farmer will kill to keep what he has, doesn’t matter what or who.
You’ll have to step over dead bodies all around you, move them into heaps and bury them in mass graves, but it will be over and you can get back to work. Get the bulldozers moving, life has to get back to normal. Some souls won’t make it, too bad for them.
The die-off will be over within a few days later, four or five billion dead people to deal with. Better than dealing with them when they were alive. Just a bunch of animals living lives not worth living. Useless eaters, useful idiots, gone, thank freaking God.
Good riddance, glad they’re gone.
We need more people like the baggage handler at SeaTac. Drive more planes into buildings, not nosedive to the ground.
We need chaos, pell mell mayhem, pandemonium.
We’re almost there.
We need bridges in Italy falling to the ground, all of them.
Real collapse, not the fake collapse everybody talks about on the internet and nothing ever happens.
Laughter is the best medicine.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 1:21 pm
Davy
I am full of fear?
Who is the one who is scared to open a science paper and knowledge?
And a slow collapse is an oxymoron..The collapse will be fast, think the world trade centers coming down..Think Soviet Union.
Davy on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 1:22 pm
“Forget About Turkey: Asia Is The Elephant In The Room”
https://tinyurl.com/y9dly2hc
“excess liquidity usually leads to the misallocation of capital, masking any balance sheet constrains. And as this tide of excess liquidity recedes it reveals the misallocation of capital and the mispricing of risk. The two caution that as EMs have benefited the most from this misallocation of credit, yet as the tide of excess liquidity recedes, “EMs will begin to pay the heavy price of this misallocation of credit.”
“So between the rally in the US Dollar, dented global growth prospects, slowing Chinese credit growth and escalating political tensions from the US, leaves these nations very exposed to a shortage in USDs. Which is why, in Nedbank’s view, “we believe Asia will be the next source of downside systemic risk for financial markets.”
“If the dollar keeps rising aggressively at a time when China (which for now has a nice, thick capital controls firewall) is devaluing while other EMs are scrambling to contain capital flight by aggressively hiking rates (such as Argentina’s shocking 45% rate hike yesterday) in the process sending their economies into recession, should the Fed fail to contain the dollar surge, the outcome may well be another Plaza Accord. But not before global markets crash first.”
Davy on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 1:26 pm
“I am full of fear? Who is the one who is scared to open a science paper and knowledge?”
People like you who spout off toughness are normally the ones scared shitless inside. I have seen vets come back from Afghanistan and you don’t see them acting cocky and spouting off how tough they are. Normally they don’t want to talk about it.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 1:55 pm
Davy
I never said I was tough..I said I wasn’t full of fear as you were claiming..All I am saying is if you live in a glass house..you know..
And going to Afghanistan doesn’t make you tough…It makes you a mindless tool for the elites..
JuanP on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 2:40 pm
Delusional Davy “Ah, maybe if you ever got serious about life and people you would experience compassion and empathy.”
Two things you are clinically incapable of doing, Exceptionalist! But, keep projecting. That you are good at! LOL!
Anonymouse1 on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 2:44 pm
Exceptionalturd, there is no need keep staging these faux ‘fights’ with your ‘mushmind’ sock puppet. They are not terribly convincing, as everyone here at this point understands, ‘mushmind; here, is nothing more than your little (failed) sock puppet project.
Give it up already. Better yet, why dont you put down the interwebs and go to that magickal place called ‘outside’, and pretend to work on that weed-infested dump you call a ‘farm’?
How many weeds could you have contemplated pulling, or how many of those old tires and refrigerators that dot your property could you have stared at and told yourself you’d actually stack them in a pile someday, in the time it takes you peck out those dumbass word salads of yours that no one reads?
Tick tock, slip slid’n, dumbass.
JuanP on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 2:48 pm
Slip sliding away! LOL! The American decline is fast becoming a collapse! Are you ready? Go make hay! LOL!
Theedrich on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 3:24 pm
The lying filth of the DeepState wants death. For the world. The “city on a hill,” the “indispensable nation,” etc., etc., decries any and all attempts to avoid global extinction by Darklanders as “racism.” Even though all of the facts are blinking Red Alert, the highly placed anti-Whites continue to demand White genosuicide.
The United States is simply too corrupt and too unable to stop its own march to doomsday. Its arrogant attack on “evil” Caucasians will thus proceed until every urban locale on the planet looks like Haiti or some other Negroid hell, the seas are dead with pollution, every essential mineral gone, and no realistically arable land is left.
The masses are unable to recognize the U.S. as the utter disaster which it is. All that matters are immediate, evanescent profit and benefit, as defined by the JewBox and the wizards behind its curtains. Even now, when the point of no return has been reached, there is nothing but denial and business-as-usual. What a surprise it will be to discover that mankind lives in a Petri dish!
onlooker on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 3:50 pm
Yes, Drich, if only those dark skin people would just die, the whites would inherit a pristine sparse Earth and make it a paradise. Never mind that the whites have been beating the drums of imperialism, war,and Capitalism louder than anybody else through history and have consigned the dark skin folk to the hell holes you aptly describe. Even as they have lived mostly affluent lifestyles. Guess reality eludes you eh sick racist
Cloggie on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 3:51 pm
Just to make Theedrich’s blood boil even more, here recent pictures from fokking Sweden. Hordes of “youth” putting an entite parking lot on fire… for “fun”. Hint: the “youth” first names are unlikely to be Sven.
https://www.geenstijl.nl/5143381/nee-zweden-is-geen-mislukte-staat/
“Great game hunting” will no doubt soon become very popular in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe. But first we need to get rid of the empire and its 1968 vassals, responsible for this mess in the first place.
Cloggie on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 4:24 pm
Guess reality eludes you eh sick racist
American spineless virtue signalers and racism howlers and closet nihilists like onlooker and davy richly deserve what is coming to them: total collapse of US society. They choose to ignore every rule in the book of history and its endless sequence of inter-ethnic competition, usually ending in war or even genocide. Instead they kick the can and prefer to be engaged in a pc guilt trip, at the cost of the future of their own children, who can fight the civil war, leftist daddy enabled. They think their fake ideals are reality. They aren’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC-Cqkq6zWc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO1agIlLlhg
“Black powah!”
Davy on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 4:29 pm
Nedernazi, you know how stupid you sound in English when you try to be dramatic and lie through your teeth. What a scumbag.
Cloggie on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 4:46 pm
Nedernazi, you know how stupid you sound in English when you try to be dramatic and lie through your teeth. What a scumbag.
Idiots like you are unable to maintain a first world society, too much work, too tiresome. Instead they are flirting with the third world and “Chief Seattle”, giving a clear see-through in the ambition level or lack thereof of our self-styled “moral giants”. Goats and hay, that is as much as you can expect. Oh and “racism” howling.
And when everything goes wrong, as it will, they run off to Mother Europe. Because they might not be up to the task of running and maintaining and defending a European society, they still want to pick the fruits of said society, just like your average Bantu.
For onlooker and davy, this peak oil farce is an excuse to have to do nothing because, you see, “the end of the world is nigh”. And they want to keep it that way, and are fighting tooth and nail against any solution, like renewable energy, that would only be a threat to their collapsenik existence.
#Barf
GetAVasectomyAndLetTheHumanSpecieVanish on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 4:54 pm
Arthur Demarest who is archaeologists who studies the collapse of ancient civilizations. He said that collapsing society double down on what the known even if it is bad.
Immigration is an example of that. Take for example Western white countries. White population is declining,debts and interest payments on the debts are increasing. So what do they do, increasing population to match the increasing interest payment on the debt. As interest payment on the debt increase because more debt is produced, more and more immigration is needed.
Western countries are trying to keep the debt structure alive by bring immigrants in and hoping it will generate enough economical act ivies to pay the interest payment on the debt.
This tactic is now failing and causing racial war and civil disturbance within Western white countries. It is best to let African and Arab to die in their own countries or exterminate them by bombing their electrical infrastructure.
By trying to save the financial system (debt structure) instead of reforming the financial system, Western countries are destroying themselves
I agree Theedrich, it is hopeless and in a couple of years Western civilization won’t exist and survivor are going to be eating earth worm to survive
Cloggie on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 5:27 pm
I agree Theedrich, it is hopeless and in a couple of years Western civilization won’t exist and survivor are going to be eating earth worm to survive
The US empire is dead in the water and hopefully and probably could be finished in a few months, when a hard Brexit and an escalating Iranian conflict could enforce the breakup of the West, a breakup between Anglosphere and continental Europe to be precise.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6058491/Tory-Brexiteers-ramp-pressure-PM-positive-rival-blueprint.html
May’s Chequers plan is unacceptable for the EU, now competing Conservatives want to push away May and her plan and replace it with an even less acceptable plan.
So it is almost certain that no deal will be in place and an escalation of the conflict is guaranteed. That means potentially a total blockade, no flights, no ferries, no shipping until the 39 billion will be paid and a WTO or Canadian template regime will be in place. If this standoff takes several months, British economic output (50% goes to Europe) will be left to rot in warehouses.
Several large companies have already said that a no deal Brexit means moving their HQ from Britain to continental Europe. The escalation will only harden positions and fight for prestige and further poison relations.
Probably in the end Britain will cave in, as 39 billion can’t replace 50% GDP economic output and a WTO regime will materialize.
One thing will be clear: after half a century membership of the European project, Britain is withdrawing, indicating that they are NOT Europeans but Anglos.
Most British don’t realize it yet, but Britain is too small, too weak, too insignificant to be autark, they will need membership of a greater entity. And if the EU can’t be that entity, it is going to be the US. Tertium non datur.
And with that development, the genius Orwell will be right about the geopolitics of the 21st century:
https://documents1940.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/george_orwell_map.jpg
Britain will reject to be a defining major European power, next to Germany, France and Italy, but end up in Orwellian Oceania, that will materialize after Trump, a sort of new mongrelized USSR, again owned by Jews, just like as was the case with the good ol’ USSR. A USSR “of color” so to speak, a complete nightmare for whites.
In continental Europe, populism is winning; Eastern Europe and Russia weren’t political correct anyway and Europe and Russia will be driven in each other’s arms, just like Orwell predicted in the linked map above from “1984”.
GetAVasectomyAndLetTheHumanSpecieVanish on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 5:29 pm
London just got a terrorist attack against their parliament.
You know your country is done when people are attacking parliaments institutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfAcSVEIuQ
Bring immigrant in is killing Western countries.
Arthur Demarest pod cast
http://tedfischer.org/category/thinktank/
Cloggie on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 5:40 pm
Multiculturalism, never a dull moment and an interesting genocide as a Grand Finale to top it off.
Two socker teams placed in the same field do not drink tea together, but instead determine who is the strongest.
It aint different with two or more ethnicities placed into the same country. Onlooker and davy want to drink tea. Not going to happen.
onlooker on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 5:54 pm
Oh goodness, you will be fighting on the Titanic Earth with your fellowman not any sub-ethnicity fools.
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This is from the 1972 publication Limits To Growth. In its 40 Year Update the ‘Tipping Point’ for global population collapse was in 1975 when we failed to invent any effective responses to our pollutants poisoning our atmosphere. Then CO2 was about 285 ppm; now it’s well over 400 ppm, and that’s just one of the 90,000+ chemicals we’ve dumped into our biosphere since then. The year before Fukushima began adding it’s toxins to the Pacific and the weather systems spawned above it. Within 2 months after that explosion, particulates from Fukushima were identified in Moldova, and bad news for sea food species in the North Pacific, Aleutian chain, the BC & Coast, and, eventually the entire ocean and planet. What the other 90,000 chemicals are doing to our life support systems has been ignored as often as possible. Which of the 33,000 microbes, upon which we all depend for processing our food, will become the missing link enroute to the 6th Mass Extinction’s events becoming manifest NLT 2024? Poisoned, or warmed beyond their ability to adapt to our poisoned planet’s environment, which option will you choose to go extinct from?”
MASTERMIND on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 6:13 pm
Onlooker
My brother from another..
Life is too short to be pissed off all the time like Clogg and theo..They are misanthrope’s..
MASTERMIND on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 6:16 pm
Clogg
If it wasn’t for the above average liberal IQ..White people would be no more intelligent than minorities..You are just brainwashed into a cult because you are a loser and you want to belong to something.
Antius on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 6:25 pm
The fantasy world of the Swedish political elite. Read this article. Notice anything odd about it? The people seem desperate not to identify those involved. They don’t want to mention the obvious fact – that these attacks were all carried out by Asian and ME muslims that these lacklustre morons deliberately imported. If they had arrested anyone, the truth would end up being reported. But it is totally obvious anyway.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-14/furious-swedish-pm-rages-violent-gang-rampage-what-hell-are-you-doing
twocats on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 6:40 pm
“If it wasn’t for the above average liberal IQ..White people would be no more intelligent than minorities.”
and if we want to be perfectly honest – take away the Jews and you lose pretty much half of modern civilization and three-quarters of your movies – basically a hellscape with Model-Ts broken down as far as the eye can see.
twocats on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 6:43 pm
speaking of loser fords – eagle ford ain’t feeling so good right about now. looking raggedy – more like pigeon ford.
makati1 on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 6:46 pm
“The United States is simply too corrupt and too unable to stop its own march to doomsday…
The masses are unable to recognize the U.S. as the utter disaster which it is.”
Well said Theedrich.
makati1 on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 7:40 pm
“America’s Militarized Economy”
“American weapons are way overpriced for what they can do, but they are a bargain for what they can extract out of America’s taxpayers,…
America has a militarized economy. It also currently has the very highest percentage of its people in prison out of all of the world’s 222 countriesand so certainly qualifies as a police state (which Americans who are lucky enough to be not amongst the lower socio-economic classes might find to be a shocking thing to assert). On top of that, everyone knows that America’s military spending is by far the highest in the world, but many don’t know that it’s the most corrupt and so the U.S. actually spends around half of the entire world’s military budget and that the U.S. ‘Defense’ Department is even so corrupt that it has been unauditable and thus unaudited for decades, and that many U.S. military programs are counted in other federal departments in order to hide from the public how much is actually being spent each year on the military, which is well over a trillion dollars annually, probably more than half of all federal discretionary (which excludes interest on the debt, some of which pays for prior wars) spending. So, it’s a very militarized economy, indeed.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-militarized-economy/5650556
Slip slidin’…
Davy on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 7:45 pm
slip slidin, global research dot com is click bait
makati1 on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 7:51 pm
“US Failure to Accept Reality an Existential Threat to Us All”
“…They all represent a form of hybrid warfare, being waged (a) because actual warfare with Russia (and China) is, in the words of a recent Rand report “unthinkable;” and (b) because the previously dominant geopolitical role played by the UK and more recently by the US are rapidly being replaced by a vastly different multipolar world, of which Russia and China are two central components….
… why the direct “hot war” option is unthinkable. First, there is the rapid and largely unheralded advance in sophisticated Chinese missile technology. This ignorance is personified by a senior Australian defence official responding to US admiral Harry Harris’ comment about how much the Americans appreciated their use of Darwin in Northern Australia as a base, saying that “it had the advantage of being out of the range of Chinese missiles.”
In fact, that is far from the case.Two of China’s missiles are worth special mention; both are members of the Dong Feng (“East Wind”) class, namely, the DF 41 and the DF 21D. The DF 41 has a range of 14,000 km (the distance from Beijing to Canberra is 9000 km) and has up to 10 independently targetable nuclear warheads. Its top speed is Mach 25, thereby reaching any Australian target from anywhere in China in less than half an hour….
The other member of the Dong Feng family worth noting in this context is the DF 21D. This anti-ship missile has a speed of Mach 10and a range of 1500 km. Its technical capabilities make it also invulnerable to defence measures. It is a “carrier killer” which means that US power projection, manifest in its aircraft carriers and their aeroplanes, are incapable of operating within range of the Chinese mainland….
…new Russian missile systems, even more devastating than the Chinese ones referred to above. These new systems announced by Putin include a nuclear powered cruise missile of unlimited range; an unmanned submersible missile with an intercontinental range, operating at high speed and at great depth; a Mach 10 hypersonic missile with a 2000 km range (the Kinzhal); and a Mach 20 strategic missile (Avangard).,,,
The whole of America’s strategic military posture has been rendered obsolete.”
https://journal-neo.org/2018/08/14/us-failure-to-accept-reality-an-existential-threat-to-us-all/
Slip slidin’…
Davy on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 8:02 pm
“These new systems announced by Putin include a nuclear powered cruise missile of unlimited”
BS slip slidin, you are obsessed with click bait. You are a warmongering fool obsessively referencing articles with death and destruction as their goal. SICK
Nostradamus on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 8:07 pm
A computer program predicts the end of all that is ?
ROTFLMAO.
GregT on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 8:08 pm
“slip slidin, global research dot com is click bait.”
There is no such thing as global research dot com, troll.
makati1 on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 8:21 pm
” “It takes a remarkable force to keep nearly a million people quietly indoors for an entire day, home from work and school, from neighborhood errands and out-of-town travel. It takes a remarkable force to keep businesses closed and cars off the road, to keep playgrounds empty and porches unused across a densely populated place 125 square miles in size. This happened … not because armed officers went door-to-door, or imposed a curfew, or threatened martial law. All around the region, for 13 hours, people locked up their businesses and ‘sheltered in place’ out of a kind of collective will. The force that kept them there wasn’t external – there was virtually no active enforcement across the city of the governor’s plea that people stay indoors. Rather, the pressure was an internal one – expressed as concern, or helpfulness, or in some cases, fear – felt in thousands of individual homes.”—Journalist Emily Badger, “The Psychology of a Citywide Lockdown””
It has become way too easy to lockdown this nation.(US)
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/08/14/from-boston-to-ferguson-to-charlottesville-the-evolution-of-a-police-state-lockdown/#more-181510
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“It takes a remarkable force to keep nearly a million people quietly indoors for an entire day, home from work and school, from neighborhood errands and out-of-town travel. It takes a remarkable force to keep businesses closed and cars off the road, to keep playgrounds empty and porches unused across a densely populated place 125 square miles in size. This happened … not because armed officers went door-to-door, or imposed a curfew, or threatened martial law. All around the region, for 13 hours, people locked up their businesses and ‘sheltered in place’ out of a kind of collective will. The force that kept them there wasn’t external – there was virtually no active enforcement across the city of the governor’s plea that people stay indoors. Rather, the pressure was an internal one – expressed as concern, or helpfulness, or in some cases, fear – felt in thousands of individual homes.”—Journalist Emily Badger, “The Psychology of a Citywide Lockdown”
It has become way too easy to lockdown this nation.
Five years ago, the city of Boston was locked down while police carried out a military-style manhunt for suspects in the 2013 Boston Marathon explosion.
Four years ago, the city of Ferguson, Missouri, was locked down, with government officials deploying a massive SWAT team, an armored personnel carrier, men in camouflage pointing heavy artillery at the crowd, smoke bombs and tear gas to quell citizen unrest over a police shooting of a young, unarmed black man.
Three years ago, the city of Baltimore was put under a military-enforced lockdown after civil unrest over police brutality erupted into rioting. More than 1,500 national guard troops were deployed while residents were ordered to stay inside their homes and put under a 10 pm curfew.
This year, it was my hometown of Charlottesville, Va., population 50,000, that was locked down while government officials declared a state of emergency and enacted heightened security measures tantamount to martial law, despite the absence of any publicized information about credible threats to public safety.
As Tess Owen reports for Vice:
One year after white supremacists paraded through the streets, the face of downtown Charlottesville was transformed once again – this time with checkpoints, military-style camps for National Guard, and state police on every corner. When residents woke up Saturday, all entrances to the downtown mall were blocked off, apart from two checkpoints, where police looked through people’s bags for lighters, knives or any other weapons. Up above, standing atop a building site, two national guard members photographed the individuals coming in and out… A National Guard encampment was set up in McGuffey Park, between the children’s playground and the basketball court, where about 20 military police officers in camouflage were snoozing in the shade of some trees. A similar encampment was set up a few blocks away.
More details from journalist Ned Oliver:
Downtown Charlottesville felt like the green zone of a war-torn city Saturday. More than a thousand local and state police officers barricaded 10 blocks of the city’s popular pedestrian district, the Downtown Mall, to prepare for the one-year anniversary of the white supremacist rally last year that left dozens injured and one dead. To enter, people had to submit to bag checks and searches at one of two checkpoints… Preparations aside, unlike last year, no white supremacist groups had said they were going to visit the city, and, by week’s end, none had. Instead, it was a normal day on the mall except for the heavy security, a military helicopter constantly circling overhead, and hundreds of police officers milling around.
Make no mistake, this was a militarized exercise in intimidation, and it worked only too well.
For the most part, the residents of this city—once home to Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president, author of the Declaration of Independence, and champion of the Bill of Rights—welcomed the city-wide lockdown, the invasion of their privacy, and the dismantling of every constitutional right intended to serve as a bulwark against government abuses.
Yet for those like myself who have studied emerging police states, the sight of any American city placed under martial law—its citizens essentially under house arrest (officials used the Orwellian phrase “shelter in place” in Boston to describe the mandatory lockdown), military-style helicopters equipped with thermal imaging devices buzzing the skies, tanks and armored vehicles on the streets, and snipers perched on rooftops, while thousands of black-garbed police swarmed the streets and SWAT teams carried out house-to-house searches—leaves us in a growing state of unease.
Watching the events of the lockdown unfold, I couldn’t help but think of Nazi Field Marshal Hermann Goering’s remarks during the Nuremberg trials. As Goering noted:
It is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
As the events in Charlottesville have made clear, it does indeed work the same in every country.
Whatever the threat to so-called security—whether it’s civil unrest, school shootings, or alleged acts of terrorism—government officials will capitalize on the nation’s heightened emotions, confusion and fear as a means of extending the reach of the police state.
These troubling developments are the outward manifestations of an inner, philosophical shift underway in how the government views not only the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, but “we the people,” as well.
What this reflects is a move away from a government bound by the rule of law to one that seeks total control through the imposition of its own self-serving laws on the populace.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t take much for the American people to march in lockstep with the government’s dictates, even if it means submitting to martial law, having their homes searched, and being stripped of one’s constitutional rights at a moment’s notice.
In Charlottesville, most of the community fell in line, except for one gun-toting, disabled, 71-year-old war veteran who was arrested for purchasing cans of Arizona iced tea, a can of bug spray and razor blades, all of which were on the City’s list of temporarily prohibited, potentially “dangerous” items. Incidentally, the veteran’s guns (not among the list of prohibited items) caused no alarm.
Talk about draconian.
This continual undermining of the rules that protect civil liberties will inevitably have far-reaching consequences on a populace that not only remains ignorant about their rights but is inclined to sacrifice their liberties for phantom promises of safety.
Be warned: these lockdowns are just a precursor to full-blown martial law.
The powers-that-be want us acclimated to the sights and sounds of a city-wide lockdown with tanks in the streets, military encampments in cities, Blackhawk helicopters and armed drones patrolling overhead.
They want us to accept the fact that in the American police state, we are all potentially guilty, all potential criminals, all suspects waiting to be accused of a crime.
They want us to be meek and submissive.
They want us to report on each other.
They want us to be grateful to the standing armies for their so-called protection.
They want us to self-censor our speech, self-limit our movements, and police ourselves.
As Glenn Greenwald notes in The Intercept:
“Americans are now so accustomed to seeing police officers decked in camouflage and Robocop-style costumes, riding in armored vehicles and carrying automatic weapons first introduced during the U.S. occupation of Baghdad, that it has become normalized… The dangers of domestic militarization are both numerous and manifest. To begin with… it degrades the mentality of police forces in virtually every negative way and subjects their targeted communities to rampant brutality and unaccountable abuse… Police militarization also poses grave and direct dangers to basic political liberties, including rights of free speech, press and assembly.”
Make no mistake: these are the hallmarks of a military occupation.
Militarized police. Riot squads. Camouflage gear. Black uniforms. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Surveillance cameras. Kevlar vests. Drones. Lethal weapons. Less-than-lethal weapons unleashed with deadly force. Rubber bullets. Water cannons. Stun grenades. Arrests of journalists. Crowd control tactics. Intimidation tactics. Brutality.
We are already under martial law, held at gunpoint by a standing army.
Take a look at the pictures from Charlottesville, from Baltimore, from Ferguson and from Boston, and then try to persuade yourself that this is what freedom in America is supposed to look like.
A standing army—something that propelled the early colonists into revolution—strips the American people of any vestige of freedom.
It was for this reason that those who established America vested control of the military in a civilian government, with a civilian commander-in-chief. They did not want a military government, ruled by force. Rather, they opted for a republic bound by the rule of law: the U.S. Constitution.
Unfortunately, with the Constitution under constant attack, the military’s power, influence and authority have grown dramatically. Even the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which makes it a crime for the government to use the military to carry out arrests, searches, seizure of evidence and other activities normally handled by a civilian police force, was greatly weakened by both Barack Obama and George W. Bush, who ushered in exemptions allowing troops to deploy domestically and arrest civilians in the wake of alleged terrorist acts.
Now we find ourselves struggling to retain some semblance of freedom in the face of police and law enforcement agencies that look and act like the military and have just as little regard for the Fourth Amendment, laws such as the NDAA that allow the military to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens, and military drills that acclimate the American people to the sight of armored tanks in the streets, military encampments in cities, and combat aircraft patrolling overhead.
We’ve already gone too far down this road.
Add these lockdowns onto the list of other troubling developments that have taken place over the past 30 years or more, and the picture grows even more troubling: the expansion of the military industrial complex and its influence in Washington DC, the rampant surveillance, the corporate-funded elections and revolving door between lobbyists and elected officials, the militarized police, the loss of our freedoms, the injustice of the courts, the privatized prisons, the school lockdowns, the roadside strip searches, the military drills on domestic soil, the fusion centers and the simultaneous fusing of every branch of law enforcement (federal, state and local), the stockpiling of ammunition by various government agencies, the active shooter drills that are indistinguishable from actual crises, the economy flirting with near collapse, etc.
Suddenly, the overall picture seems that much more sinister.
The lesson for the rest of us is this: once a free people allows the government to make inroads into their freedoms or uses those same freedoms as bargaining chips for security, it quickly becomes a slippery slope to outright tyranny. And it doesn’t really matter whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican at the helm, because the bureaucratic mindset on both sides of the aisle now seems to embody the same philosophy of authoritarian government.
Remember, a police state does not come about overnight…It starts small, perhaps with a revenue-generating red light camera at an intersection….Remember, it’s a slippery slope from a questionable infringement justified in the name of safety to all-out tyranny.”
Slip slidin’…
JuanP on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 8:31 pm
Delusional Davy “slip slidin, global research dot com is click bait”
Translation: Davy doesn’t like what they write. LOL!
JuanP on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 8:34 pm
Delusional Davy “BS slip slidin, you are obsessed with click bait. You are a warmongering fool obsessively referencing articles with death and …”
More insults, lies, and bullying on the Exceptionalist’s part! You are such a sad fuck, Davy! You are quite probably the most pathetic piece of shit I have ever interacted with.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 8:50 pm
Look what happened in Italy..They can’t even keep their bridges from collapsing..That is what happens when you elect the low IQ far right..To busy squealing about immigrants to even keep the bridges from collapsing..
https://i.redd.it/voakek1iv1g11.jpg
makati1 on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 8:52 pm
Signs of the times in America:
“Back-to-school shopping: Bulletproof backpacks, other protection on the to-buy list”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/08/13/back-school-bulletproof-protection-safety-shopping-list/913614002/
“More than 1 million people default on their student loans each year”
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/13/twenty-two-percent-of-student-loan-borrowers-fall-into-default.html
“Household Debt Hits Record High $13.29 Trillion Led by Mortgages, Student Loans”
https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economics/household-debt-hits-record-high-13-29-trillion-led-by-mortgages-student-loans-CY9ZW1ddnEKUAcBjk5GYvQ/
“More Americans are defaulting on their credit cards: analyst”
https://nypost.com/2018/08/11/more-americans-are-defaulting-on-their-credit-cards-analyst/
“Stagnating salaries: Real US wages are essentially back at 1974 levels, Pew reports”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2018/08/14/salaries-real-us-wages-back-1974-levels-pew-report/37468497/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories
Slip slidin’…
makati1 on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 9:07 pm
The Police State move forward…
“LA Subway Becomes First In Nation To Deploy Portable Body Scanners”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-14/la-subway-becomes-first-nation-deploy-portable-body-scanners
The Amerikan Police State moves closer to lockdown. “Papers please!” Slip slidin’…
deadly on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 9:13 pm
There should have been no military presence in Charlottesville, the Nazis could have had direct physical confrontation with those who disagreed and maybe a mass casualty event could have occurred.
With the military there supporting other law enforcement, the potential for violence was contained.
The Nazis should have picked a fight with US Army regulars on duty at the site last Saturday or whatever day it was, just see what would have happened. A little disappointing but makes a good story.
The Nazis against the US Army would have been more entertaining.
It’s the entertainment dollar that the networks, the media, are after, so you can’t have 200 dead people lying in a heap. After the toll is taken, then too clean up the mess afterwards is just an ugly mess. That is bad theater for the Great Unwashed, not going to happen when the Army is hanging around for extra kicks.
All because everything got out of control, you have a mini war on your hands. The networks would have a sad tale to tell, not prudent.
Fear and loathing has entertainment, dead people not so much. There is a limit.
However, it would be right out of makati’s playbook. He would be happier than Satan in Hades.
Makati can’t wait for it to happen. Makes him a blithering idiot, if you want to know the truth, one more fact of life. NObody can help it. lol
Did you know that the Americans living in the Philippines would be very uncomfortable living there if the US Navy would weigh anchor and sail away from Subic Bay?
Might be a factor in the comfort level, the zone would close in. The misery index would rise quickly and substantially.
I’m beginning to think makati can’t spell Philippines. #chortle
makati1 on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 9:43 pm
deadly, do YOU know that the US Navy left Subic in 1992?
They are trying to get back in but the current government is making it difficult for them to ever return. The Ps is turning to their powerful neighbor, China, and also to Russia, and away from the US. I agree that that is best for the Philippines. All the us wants to do is start a war here. They will fail.
makati1 on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 9:49 pm
“Makati can’t wait for it to happen. Makes him a blithering idiot, if you want to know the truth, one more fact of life. NObody can help it. lol”
Do you realize that that comment makes you sound insane, deadly? Who is the “blithering idiot”? YOU, if anyone. “With the military there supporting other law enforcement, the potential for violence was contained.” Or was it made worse? It is the job of the police to control riots, NOT the military.
YOU are supporting the growth of the police state in the uS. “
deadly on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 9:55 pm
The US Navy is back in the Philippines, makati.
Dated November 12, 2015:
US Navy edges back to Subic Bay
The US Navy began using the base in Subic Bay last year to deliver materiel and personnel for annual joint military exercises. Some 6,000 US personnel came to Subic in April, and are set to return for exercises in 2016 in agreement with Philippine authorities, according to a Western diplomat. US ships are using Subic Bay as a resupply port during routine calls, and two towering merchant marine ships flying American flags were docked here in late October.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 10:12 pm
Mak is an old crank that nobody cares about anymore..He will likely crap himself and crook before the US even collapses..
LMFAO!
DMyers on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 10:23 pm
It’s time we challenge the assumption that Earth must be designed to provide a climate that is comfortable and beneficial to human beings (because we are Nature’s penultimate creation). Nature has no moral obligations, and It may find no redeeming value in the human experiment. For that, It may lead us where we do not wish to go. We don’t like it hot, and we don’t like it cold. As those are the only alternatives, we’re not going to like what we get.
The greatest obstacle to coping with evolving conditions is anthropomorphic anthropomorphism (i.e., human exceptionalism).
Boney Joe on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 10:41 pm
Antius:
My, aren’t you special- a real English twat, which is as bad as it gets. Save the morally superior aires for people who actually give a shit.
makati1 on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 11:14 pm
deadly, this is 2018, not 2015, and the US Navy is NOT in Subic any more than the Russian Navy or the Chinese Navy is in Subic. Sorry, but your info is way out of date and not accurate. Russian Navy ships visit occasionally, as do the Chinese Navy and a few American ships. VISIT, not based here.
“US Navy attack submarine visits the Philippines”
https://navaltoday.com/2017/02/15/us-navy-attack-submarine-visits-the-philippines/
“Russian navy visits Philippines as Duterte tightens ties with US foes”
https://www.navytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2017/04/20/russian-navy-visits-philippines-as-duterte-tightens-ties-with-us-foes/
“Philippines: Duterte welcomes Chinese navy ship visit to Davao”
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/news/2017/05/philippines-duterte-welcomes-visiting-chinese-navy-ships-davao-170501183602279.html
A pathetic attempt to revise facts, deadly.
makati1 on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 11:16 pm
I see MM still has a case of diarrhea of the mouth. lol
Cloggie on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 11:30 pm
“and if we want to be perfectly honest – take away the Jews and you lose pretty much half of modern civilization and three-quarters of your movies – basically a hellscape with Model-Ts broken down as far as the eye can see.”
Confined to America this is absolutely true. “Enjoy” the result, I would say. A civilization essentially murdered. Now please fall over and die already so that at least Europe can survive.
“The US Navy is back in the Philippines, makati.”
Good, the more opportunities for a US-Chinese clash the better. We would like to have WW3 with Putin still in power.
“There should have been no military presence in Charlottesville, the Nazis could have had direct physical confrontation with those who disagreed and maybe a mass casualty event could have occurred.”
Huh? The police intentionally let loose their antifa thugs against the right-wingers. As always it was the left looking for violence.
makati1 on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 11:47 pm
Cloggie, not likely to be a clash here. The Us cannot go up against the Chinese who are America’s bankers and the providers of most of America’s necessities. Even Trumpet knows that. He can bluster but it is just hot air.
However, if the Us can get a war going with Russia, it would likely destroy Europe first and then the Us as it escalates into nukes. After, China would pick up the pieces and move on, if there is anything left.
I want WW3 to be financial, and to destroy the Us military’s capabilities by means of the end of the USD and America’s eventual bankruptcy. It is time that America learns to live on its fair share of resources, or about 1/4 what it wastes now. So be it. Tomorrow?
deadly on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 11:47 pm
Sorry, the Charlottesville controversy carried over and into Washington, DC this time. It took place on Sunday.
I meant the Unite the Right 2 in Washington.
There was a permit applied for in Charlottesville but was withdrawn. Got the locations mixed up.
My bad. So sotty.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/12/us/unite-the-right-charlottesville-anniversary/index.html
Cloggie on Tue, 14th Aug 2018 11:55 pm
“Life is too short to be pissed off all the time like Clogg and theo..They are misanthrope’s..”
Says millimind the criminal who around the clock calls for a surprise nuclear strike against Russia.
Millimind and his goy toy davy, a cancer to be dealt with by Eurasia.
Unrelated, moderate left British voice Cockburn on Trump and Brexit:
http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/britain-doesnt-have-the-clout-to-suffer-a-fool-like-boris-johnson/
Surprisingly tolerant towards Trump, Brexit not so much.