The United States of America will cease to exist on February 5th, 2006
Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of people in the U.S. think that the economy is just fine, which makes my assertions below sound preposterous. The fact is, and I’m quoting financial experts from the likes of Morgan Stanley and Standard & Poor’s, the U.S. is on the brink of "economic Armageddon" because of its failed economic policies of the last three decades. Superficially, the macroeconomic indicators look somewhat OK, but the U.S. economy is fundamentally weak, severely imbalanced, and highly vulnerable to external variables like soaring oil prices or foreign currency reserves. While it shows no outward signs of desperation, the U.S. government is utterly desperate to survive. It knows that its visions of empire are about to be dashed by economic collapse. In fact, the only way the U.S. government can survive is as a dictatorship. Its money will soon be worthless, so it will be forced to take the resources and labor it needs by force. It is already securing Iraqi oil by military force.
The United States already makes extensive use of prison laborers who toil for slave wages and are then billed for room and board! It’s a no-brainer to expand this labor "program." In fact, as the economy comes crashing down, hordes of angry, rioting Americans will create a large pool of newly criminalized slave laborers. Rounding up and incarcerating large numbers - read millions - of Americans is not outside the realm of possibility. It is, in fact, something that’s been planned for years in the event of a national "emergency." Pretty much everything necessary to accomplish it is in place, waiting to be activated.
In addition, hordes of destitute Americans will create a large pool of potential soldiers, solving the military’s recruitment problems. Do you think American soldiers would balk at incarcerating or even shooting American civilians? I don’t. If people are fearful enough about their own prospects for survival, they will do just about anything.
The government will have to nationalize major industries such as energy, minerals, agriculture, communications, and transportation. The government may not overtly characterize it as nationalizing. By using corporations as proxies and then controlling the corporations, the government can perpetuate the facade of a market economy and pretend that it’s not a dictatorship. Did you know that many prisons in the U.S. today are, in fact, run by private corporations, who have a vested interest in expanding their "market"? The government will also confiscate everything with any international value, such as gold. It will also need to confiscate peoples’ guns. I’ve been reading about purported plans by the Department of Homeland Security to confiscate bank accounts and the contents of bank safe deposit boxes. These plans supposedly call for confiscating, in particular, gold and guns! I don’t give these claims a whole lot of credibility yet, but it is a logical and urgent step.
The other major factor that’s largely been kept out of public sight is "Peak Oil." We are probably at the peak of oil production right now, but it won’t be clear until several years after we pass the peak that we’ve done so. Thus, competition for the world’s remaining oil supplies is going to become much more intense, vicious, and violent. It’s no coincidence that the U.S. attacked Iraq and is now agitating to go after Iran. Iraq and Iran possess the world’s number two and number three largest known oil reserves and Iran possesses the worlds second largest natural gas reserves. The U.S.’s own natural gas fields are already in decline and the nature of natural gas production is that it falls off abruptly. Some experts think natural gas production in the U.S. is about to fall off precipitously starting soon, maybe even this year. One third of electricity in the U.S. is produced from natural gas. So you can see it’s a very important resource. Therefore, finding an alternative source for natural gas, such as Iran, might seem like a good idea. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to transport natural gas from Iran to the U.S. Nevertheless, controlling Iran ’s natural gas gives the U.S. a mighty lever with which to control the rest of the world, particularly Europe and India. This is also a secondary reason to control Middle Eastern oil, as Europe, India, China, and Japan are particularly dependent on the stuff, while the U.S. actually produces about half of the oil it consumes. If Peak Oil is indeed imminent, then the country that controls the bulk of the world’s oil controls the world.
