Predictions For 2015?

Ayasano

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Well you are correct about the doom and gloom talk here, but if you want real doom talk just turn on the evening news.

Sometimes the truth can be more scary than fiction.

The problem with relying on mainstream news media for all your information is that they exist to make a profit, and bad, attention grabbing headlines sell more newspapers and bring in more viewers than good news. Widen your view by getting information from more sources that come from the public or independant outlets, like twitter.

Also, why are there so many high tech scary movies today?

The young people seem to like them and the violent games.

People fear what they don't understand, and most of the people making movies are from the older generations. Also, the real question you need to ask about violent video games is: why is it okay to show violence but not sex, or drug use? Granted, those themes are becoming more acceptable to explore as videogames become more of an art form akin to movies and literature than mere toys, especially in the indie scene. Also, plenty of studies have shown there are no links between playing violent videogames and violent behaviour. Being bad at games, however, can cause violent behaviour, but being bad at anything can do that.

"Overall, this pattern of effects was found to be independent of the presence or absence of violent game contents."

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/106/3/441/

There is also a report that came out saying there are more angry people then any time in our history other then just prior to the civil war.

2015 may be the year of the next civil war if we can't find a way to work together.

Do you have a link to that report? I can't seem to find anything like it. Also, it doesn't help that there are far more people than there were during the American Civil War. (Which I assume is the one you were referring to)
 

walt willis

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16 Statistics Which Prove That The American People Are Absolutely Seething With Anger, By Michael Snyder, on August 16th, 2011

According to a whole host of polls and surveys, the American people are incredibly angry right now. The American people are hopping mad at the government, the American people are hopping mad about the economy and the American people are hopping mad about the direction that this country is headed. Never before in modern U.S. history have the American people been this angry.

There is vast disagreement about what the solutions to our problems actually are, but what everyone can agree on is that the American people are absolutely seething with anger right now.

The statistics that you are about to read are mind blowing. We used to be such a happy country. Once upon a time we were one of the happiest places on earth.

But as the economy has fallen to pieces anger has been steadily growing. If something is not done to turn the economy around eventually this anger is going to erupt in frightening and unpredictable ways.

The American people are not equipped to handle hard times. We are incredibly spoiled. Most of us have only known good times, and most of us have been taught that we will have endless prosperity all of our lives because we live in the greatest nation on earth.

Well, "the greatest nation on earth" is about to get a massive wake up call. We are up to our eyeballs in debt and we are bleeding jobs, businesses and wealth at an astounding pace.

Our economy is dying right in front of our eyes, and most Americans have been so "dumbed-down" that they don't even realize what is happening.
But what most Americans do know is that things are "bad" and they want someone to "fix" things. They know that something is "not right" and they want things to go back to the way things used to be. The longer it takes for things to return to "normal", the angrier they are going to get.

The following are 16 statistics which prove that the American people are absolutely seething with anger right now....

#1 A new Washington Post poll has found that a whopping 78 percent of Americans are dissatisfied "with the way this country’s political system is working".
#2 That same poll found that only 26 percent of Americans believe that the federal government can solve the economic problems that we are now facing.
#3 Gallup says that Barack Obama's job approval rating has hit an all-time low of 39%.
#4 According to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, Congress has a disapproval rating of 82%.
#5 A new Rasmussen survey has found that 85 percent of Americans believe that members of Congress "are more interested in helping their own careers than in helping other people."
#6 That same survey found that 46 percent of the American people believe that most members of Congress are corrupt. That figure was a new all-time high.
#7 According to a different Rasmussen survey, only 17 percent of Americans now believe that the U.S. government has the consent of the governed.
#8 A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll discovered that 73 percent of the American people believe that the nation is "on the wrong track".
#9 A recent poll taken by Rasmussen found that 68 percent of Americans believe that we are actually in a recession right now.
#10 According to Gallup, the percentage of Americans that lack confidence in U.S. banks is now at an all-time high of 36%.
#11 U.S. consumer confidence is now at its lowest level in 30 years.
#12 According to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, 90 percent of Americans believe that the economy is performing poorly.
#13 That same poll found that approximately 80 percent of Americans believe that it is "difficult" to find a job these days.
#14 According to one recent poll, 39 percent of Americans believe that the U.S. economy has now entered a "permanent decline".
#15 Another recent survey found that 48 percent of Americans believe that it is likely that another great Depression will begin within the next 12 months.
#16 According to a brand new Rasmussen survey, 48% of Americans believe that reductions in government spending are "at least somewhat likely" to result in civil unrest inside the United States.

So why doesn't the government step in and spend a whole bunch of money and make everything all better?

Well, the problem is that we have done this time after time before and now we are broke.
We have been living way, way beyond our means for decades and now the bills are coming due.

David Walker, the former Comptroller General of the United States, has been warning about our debt problem for years. Walker says that the United States is heading for a "sudden and very painful" economic collapse....

"Here’s the bottom line. If you take the total liabilities of the United States – public debt, unfunded pensions, retiree health care, under funding with regard to social security, with regard to medicare, a range of commitments and contingencies – as of September 30 2010 we would have had to have had $61.6 trillion dollars in the bank in order to be able to defease those obligations."

The cold, hard truth is that the U.S. national debt should have been addressed many years ago when it was still relatively small.
At this point, there is no solution to our national debt problem under our current financial system.

Most state governments are also facing huge financial problems. The state government of Illinois is so broke at this point that it can't even afford to bury the poor people that are dying.

But Illinois is not alone. All over the country, state and local governments have been implementing austerity measures.
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, state and local governments have slashed more than half a million jobs since August 2008.

That is a whole lot of good jobs that aren't there anymore.
But government debt is not the only debt problem that we are facing. Personal debt is also a raging crisis.
According to USDebtClock.org, the total amount of personal debt in the United States is now over 16 trillion dollars. The exploding levels of personal debt have created a tremendous amount of stress in households from coast to coast.

When I was growing up, it seemed like almost everyone was in the middle class. But today the middle class is shrinking at lightning speed.
According to author David DeGraw, 17.3% of all Americans were living in poverty during 2009. Not only that, DeGraw also says that 9 major U.S. cities have a poverty rate of over 25 percent.

Can you imagine that?
In fact, there are some cities such as Detroit where the poverty rate is over 35 percent.
It is hard to believe what is happening to America. Today, there are over 45 million Americans on food stamps. That number has increased by approximately 12 percent in the last year alone.

There are currently 34 million Americans that need a full-time job. Unemployment is rampant and there is intense competition even for part-time jobs that pay minimum wage.

So where did all of the jobs go?
Well, as I have written about previously, globalism is absolutely devastating our economy. Millions of our jobs have been shipped to countries where labor is far, far cheaper and they aren't coming back.

In addition, millions of Americans that do still have jobs are also deeply struggling right now. There are millions and millions of Americans that are working part-time jobs because that is all that they can find right now. Millions of other Americans are flat broke and are discovering that their paychecks are "shrinking" due to inflation. Wages have barely risen while prices for food and other necessities are skyrocketing.

Most families are really struggling to get by right now.
According to the Washington Post, the average yearly income of the bottom 90 percent of U.S. income earners is $31,244.
It is really hard to pay a mortgage and feed a family on that income.
The only people that seem to be doing well are at the very top.
The average yearly income of the top 0.1% of U.S. income earners is 5.6 million dollars.

Not that making money is a bad thing, but when an economic system funnels all of the rewards to the very top you know something is deeply broken.
The poorest 50% of all Americans now own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.
A lot of poor Americans have literally fallen off the map. The Daily Mail recently did a feature on one tent city that has been constructed deep in a forest in New Jersey....

In scenes reminiscent of the Great Depression these are the ramshackle homes of the desperate and destitute U.S. families who have set up their own 'Tent City' only an hour from Manhattan.
More than 50 homeless people have joined the community within New Jersey's forests as the economic crisis has wrecked their American dream.
You can see shocking pictures of this tent city right here. So it is no wonder why so many Americans are so angry.

If you lost your job or your home you would probably be angry too.
Most Americans just want to be able to go to work, make a decent living, pay the mortgage and provide for their families.
But in America today that is becoming increasingly difficult to do.

Our economy is a giant mess and the American people are becoming very angry. If the economy gets even worse, they are going to become even angrier.

Storm clouds are gathering on the horizon. Things are about to get very, very interesting.
 

OriontheLesser

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1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.



2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.



3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.



4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.



5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.



6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.



7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.



8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.



9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.



10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.



11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)



12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.



13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.



14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.



15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.



16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.



17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.



18. Gain control of all student newspapers.



19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.



20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.



21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.



22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."



23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."



24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.



25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.



26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."



27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."



28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."



29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.



30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."



31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.



32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.



33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.



34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.



35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.



36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.



37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.



38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].



39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.



40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.



41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.



42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.



43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.



44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.



45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

2016 or 2020: Mission Accomplished :D . All Hail the Mighty USSA!!!!!
 

Suraska

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Messages
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1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.



2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.



3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.



4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.



5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.



6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.



7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.



8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.



9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.



10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.



11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)



12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.



13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.



14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.



15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.



16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.



17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.



18. Gain control of all student newspapers.



19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.



20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.



21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.



22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."



23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."



24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.



25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.



26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."



27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."



28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."



29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.



30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."



31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.



32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.



33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.



34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.



35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.



36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.



37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.



38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].



39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.



40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.



41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.



42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.



43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.



44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.



45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

2016 or 2020: Mission Accomplished :D . All Hail the Mighty USSA!!!!!

Yes and it only took 3 generations. My grandmother was born in the waning yrs of WW2 reaping the effects of FDR's implementation of Welfare, my mother born in the late 1960s fatherless and reaping the benefits LBJ's massive expansions including free healthcare, food, and everything else parents are usually expected to provide even luxuries, and myself born in the mid 1990s fatherless and presented with the choice to work for my keep as a US Citizen or live off the government's dole. Luckily I chose the former, because I feel my mother and grandmother took enough from the system without giving back, but the children my peers are popping out by the pair probably won't even be offered the option of working. Just stay home and the government will take care of you. It is people who choose to work like myself and you who will be punished as the burgeoning sociofascist welfare state completes the "dumbing down" of America and succeeds in creating a nation of helpless infantile citizens dependent for all basics needs.
 
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Ayasano

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Yes and it only took 3 generations. My grandmother was born in the waning yrs of WW2 reaping the effects of FDR's implementation of Welfare, my mother born in the late 1960s fatherless and reaping the benefits LBJ's massive expansions including free healthcare, food, and everything else parents are usually expected to provide even luxuries, and myself born in the mid 1990s fatherless and presented with the choice to work for my keep as a US Citizen or live off the government's dole. Luckily I chose the former, because I feel my mother and grandmother took enough from the system without giving back, but the children my peers are popping out by the pair probably won't even be offered the option of working. Just stay home and the government will take care of you. It is people who choose to work like myself and you who will be punished as the burgeoning sociofascist welfare state completes the "dumbing down" of America and succeeds in creating a nation of helpless infantile citizens dependent for all basics needs.

The funny thing is, the people who work are just as helpless. They're just dependent on a boss instead of the government, and a boss can let go of you at any time for no reason at all. (At least in the US, in the UK there are laws that mean a boss can't fire you without a good reason, but I wouldn't be surprised if they just made up a reason)

The only way to really be independent is to be self-employed, because then no one can cut you off. (At least not without the system as a whole collapsing, but that's not going to happen) It takes a long time to transition completely to self-employment if you don't have wealthy parents or something though.
 

PaulaJedi

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The only way to really be independent is to be self-employed, because then no one can cut you off. (At least not without the system as a whole collapsing, but that's not going to happen) It takes a long time to transition completely to self-employment if you don't have wealthy parents or something though.

Right. We kind of depend on the economy, but that's about it. We know when to cut corners, prepare, etc. I had no help starting my company. The best one to start is one that has very little overhead (i.e. no loans). We just went out and did it out of necessity. No help whatsoever, but my husband already had a few clients from his previous job that asked for him when he left. It's all about who you know, not how much money you have.
 

Suraska

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The only way to really be independent is to be self-employed, because then no one can cut you off. (At least not without the system as a whole collapsing, but that's not going to happen) It takes a long time to transition completely to self-employment if you don't have wealthy parents or something though.

Right. We kind of depend on the economy, but that's about it. We know when to cut corners, prepare, etc. I had no help starting my company. The best one to start is one that has very little overhead (i.e. no loans). We just went out and did it out of necessity. No help whatsoever, but my husband already had a few clients from his previous job that asked for him when he left. It's all about who you know, not how much money you have.

You are very lucky. Since the financial crisis of 2008-9 when government had to bail Wallstreet out just to keep us from plunging into a new Dark Ages the middle class and small business owners have gone the way of A Track Players and Church on Wednesday&Sunday. If a person manages to have a dollar that isn't under their control then government still finds an underhanded way to tax the Hell out of it and watches them like a hawk with intents of sabotage. IRS Audits, unannounced inspections, and false charges. I don't think there is a way to exist entirely off the grid.
 

PaulaJedi

Survivor
Zenith
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The only way to really be independent is to be self-employed, because then no one can cut you off. (At least not without the system as a whole collapsing, but that's not going to happen) It takes a long time to transition completely to self-employment if you don't have wealthy parents or something though.

Right. We kind of depend on the economy, but that's about it. We know when to cut corners, prepare, etc. I had no help starting my company. The best one to start is one that has very little overhead (i.e. no loans). We just went out and did it out of necessity. No help whatsoever, but my husband already had a few clients from his previous job that asked for him when he left. It's all about who you know, not how much money you have.

You are very lucky. Since the financial crisis of 2008-9 when government had to bail Wallstreet out just to keep us from plunging into a new Dark Ages the middle class and small business owners have gone the way of A Track Players and Church on Wednesday&Sunday. If a person manages to have a dollar that isn't under their control then government still finds an underhanded way to tax the Hell out of it and watches them like a hawk with intents of sabotage. IRS Audits, unannounced inspections, and false charges. I don't think there is a way to exist entirely off the grid.

I totally agree with you! We are being taxed out the bunghole!!! And I pay the same for my health insurance as a millionaire, yet I'm personally dishing out money for the 50% of America that pays no tax. So, yes, we don't rely on Uncle Sam, be he sure as hell is punishing us for it!!! Growth is difficult. I'm still in my starter home. Can't save money for the life of me (quarterly income tax). We aren't off the grid, that's for sure, but at least we pay the mortgage and put food on the table without asking for government handouts. I am grateful for that.
 

owlcool

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Try some sane predictions.
1. Gay marriage is legalized Nationwide.
2. Because of such Legalization, Republicans threaten like Kim Jong Un/Donald Trump to secede. They never secede.
3. The Confederate Flag is considered on Par with the Swastica, and is removed from all Public Property. Florida takes the Confederate flag it replaced with another Confederate Flag down after replacing it with 1 more Confederate Flag, or a Swastica.
4. Christian Flag is taken down from Public Property, as America can't promote One religion over another, or America puts up Thousands of Flags of the Official Religions, including the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and a Flag of Scientology.
5. More examples of the Government breaking its own laws thanks to the Freedom of Information act, People Tweet about Seceding but never do. Families of Victims get appropriate compensation to the tune of Millions of Dollars.
 

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