Britain’s decline was extremely rapid after 1914 . . . America next?

10 Responses to Britain’s decline was extremely rapid after 1914 . . . America next?

1. F. Beard | June 7, 2011 at 10:27 pm |

   The US could recover if we’ll:

   1) Bailout the entire population.
   2) Reform the money system.

2. Tom H | June 7, 2011 at 10:32 pm |

   “Rising commodity prices exacerbate the problem, since they push up inflation and reduce the spending power of wages and salaries.”
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   Rising commodity prices push up inflation or inflation pushes up commodity prices? hmmmmmmmmmmm

   You for got a fraudulent stock market, fraudulent comex, criminal banking system, criminal government, and the shredding of the constitution. That aside, I agree, definitely an empire not only in decline but headed for total collapse.

3. ZORRO LONDON | June 7, 2011 at 11:03 pm |

   The US could recover, if FBeard was Pope!

   Sorry Beardy…not going to happen.

   We are truly approaching the precipice as the PMs manipulation we now see daily is absolutely BLATENT!

   So much for CFTC, but we knew that already.

   That little shack with a tin roof somewhere in Paraguay is starting to look increasingly
   secure and comforting, compared to the Mad Max world (Not you MAX!) thats just around the corner in the cities and elsewhere.

   Now has anyone thought of this?

   The US has 2 MILLION hardened psychopathic criminals in its prison system.

   Poor misunderstood souls I mean,

   Whats going to happen if they get loose on the general population?

   Thoughts on that scenario?

   Perhaps Obama will employ them as his new NWO police force. Now wouldnt that be just peachy!…………………..Z

4. 8Ball | June 7, 2011 at 11:14 pm |

   Good lecture on monetary policy in the latter part of the Roman Empire…

   http://mises.org/media/2839/Inflation-and-the-Fall-of-the-Roman-Empire

5. F. Beard | June 7, 2011 at 11:19 pm |

   The US could recover, if FBeard was Pope! Zorro

   You are mistaken to think I would take any position of leadership. No way brother!

   If I can’t influence genuine reform just the way I have been doing then too bad.

6. F. Beard | June 7, 2011 at 11:21 pm |

   The US has 2 MILLION hardened psychopathic criminals in its prison system. Zorro

   Really? I thought many of our criminals were in for victimless crimes such as drug use. Of course the prison system may have turned them into monsters.

7. Bruce | June 7, 2011 at 11:40 pm |

   *hides pr0n*

8. Dark Markets | June 7, 2011 at 11:49 pm |

   EXCELLENT summary ‘clip’ Thanks for that!
   “the US is in an advanced state of cultural decadence.”
   “The experience of both Rome and Britain suggests that it is hard to stop the rot once it has set in, so here are the a few of the warning signs of trouble ahead: military overstretch, a widening gulf between rich and poor, a hollowed-out economy, citizens using debt to live beyond their means, and once-effective policies no longer working.
   A recent military history book I read stated “luxury loving Roman elites – slaves and commoners had little to fight for – were no match for the energetic, hardened ‘barbarians’ who conquered Rome in 410″
   Here in America, the WORST SIN of the elites isn’t technically even a crime – given UNDISPUTED command of the world stage after collapse of USSR in 1991, the American ‘elites’ REFUSED to fully fund, finance, & promote FAMILY PLANNING, reproductive health rights, and lower birth rates, because they JOINED the radical right-wing “MORAL VALUES” crowd, as a means of maintaining their authoritarian “LOOK UP TO us Elites – we are your masters” autocracy (soon to be full fledged post- Cold War KLEPTOCRACY.)
   During the Cold War era, the Anglo/American/likudnik Elites had to at least PRETEND to be concerned with the welfare & job opportunities of the common working men & women of Amerika…

9. Dark Markets | June 8, 2011 at 12:02 am |

   The parrallel with “BRITAIN IN DECLINE after 1914″ is most appropos – and is at the CORE of the (neo-con) HIJACKING COUP of America, from (well before) the Stolen Election of 2000, to today.
   Watching a video of the early WWI years, the narrator said that at start of WWI Royal Flying Corps leaders believed that “ENLISTED MEN WERE NOT SMART ENOUGH to learn to fly” (but that as deadly attrition killed British pilots soon after start of WWI, competent enlisted men & NCOs were soon enough given flight training).
   I can believe this INSANE elitist bias: Royal Navy admirals were often NOTORIOUS despots, who could and did have men FLOGGED ROUTINELY, (for what we would call trivial offenses.) Royal Navy records show that after Nelson’s flagship, HMS Victory, were victorious in brutal cannon action combat at the titanic battle of Trafalgar, her officers CONTINUED to FLOG their men shortly after the battle – those same men had exhibited so much heroism in battle! Another British Lord of the Admiralty REFUSED to allow forks and spoons be issued to the men at mess – he thought it would make the sailors “soft” !!
   and the ultimate example of British CLASS WAR _AGAINST_ their OWN people was shortly after WWII, when the British army LIBERATED some of those deadly, awful Japanese prison camps. Once the war was over, British officers – to “retain respect for rank within the ranks” – made their enlisted men & NCO’s SALUTE captured JAPANESE officers – the same ones who had been torturing and killing British prisoners mere days or weeks earlier!
   The ELITES here in America, especially the “divine right of god” neo-cons, are TRYING to RAMROD this nauseating CLASS APARTHEID down America’s throats today (just as in occupied West Bank) – and it should be considered TREASON !

10. I_Cant_Believe_Its_Just_a_Dip | June 8, 2011 at 10:01 am |

    Isn’t another warning sign drug/alcohol use. on RT this morning they’re saying opiate use is up 35% and cocaine 27%. kinda ties in with other escapisms such as eating,tv,games etc.