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美國infowars.com網站7月28日發表文章稱，由於盲目進行海外勢力擴張，美國的統治基礎已麵臨嚴重危機。未來幾年裏，美國的政治、經濟、軍事將出現全麵崩潰的局麵，追求建立世界帝國的夢想隻能以國家分崩離析為結局。
反恐讓警察變得軍事化且不負責任
文章寫道，時間到了2017年，美國已為宗族勢力所統治。最初的宗族勢力是圍繞當地警察部隊發展起來的。20世紀後期保守派打擊犯罪和布什及奧巴馬兩任政府在21世紀頭十年裏的反恐戰爭帶來的結果是警察變得軍事化且不負責任。隨著社會的崩潰，警察成為軍閥。國家警察機構解體，官員並入地方警察力量，警察及其親友組成了新的宗族勢力。
2012年美元失去世界儲備貨幣地位
2012年，美元失去世界儲備貨幣的地位，日益嚴重的經濟不景氣讓美國的債權人意識到該國聯邦預算赤字已經大到非狂印鈔票不可的地步。隨著美元崩盤，進口價格暴漲。由於美國人無力負擔外國製造的商品，供應美國市場生產的跨國公司相繼破產，進一步削弱了美國政府的收入基礎。政府被迫大印鈔票以應付開支，結果卻導致國內商品價格飛速上漲。麵對嚴重的通貨膨脹，華盛頓不得不放棄社會保障和醫療保險製度，隨後又停發個人養老金。這些舉措換來了一年的喘息，但由於沒有更多可供利用的資源，印鈔票和惡性通貨膨脹依然在繼續。食品交易體係瓦解，原因是政府為應對通貨膨脹製定了固定價格，並且要求所有采購和銷售必須使用美國紙幣。由於不願用升值的食品換取貶值的紙幣，商店裏的商品都消失了。華盛頓采取了類似“戰時共產主義”的政策，政府出動軍隊沒收商品並分配給民眾。由於現有商品庫存很快會耗盡而未來生產前景並不理想，這種措施僅是權宜之計。而且，沒收的商品大多被軍隊霸占。在當地軍閥保護下，商品重新出現在市場上，不過，買賣采取易貨交易或是用金、銀、銅幣交易。
其他宗族勢力圍繞擁有食品、金銀、槍支彈藥的家族和個人建立起來。宗族勢力為平衡相互間的實力差距組成不穩定的聯盟，背叛時常出現。地方武裝對貨物運輸征稅導致大規模糧食和其他產品的生產癱瘓。華盛頓控製了國內石油生產和加工，但政府的汽油大多都用於換取在部族地區的通行安全。
美國在海外基地大部分軍隊被放棄
美國在海外基地的大部分軍隊被放棄，由於資源儲備很快用盡，這些被遺棄的士兵被迫與曾經的對手結成聯盟。華盛頓發現自身越來越難以維持。由於失去了對整個國家的控製，華盛頓無法保證從遭到其核攻擊威脅的國家獲得海外供給。其他核國家逐漸認識到，他們在美國的唯一目標是華盛頓，預見到危險前景的人們開始逃離這座曾經的首都。
全球化已經走到盡頭
羅馬開啟帝國時代時，采用的是金銀幣的貨幣製度，憑借高效的機構和支援能力，羅馬軍隊得以在帝國時代連續作戰，取得壟斷地位。而當自大的美國開始追求建立世界帝國，海外擴張帶來的是美國製造業、工業和專業服務職位向國外轉移，政府稅收基礎的消逝，龐大的預算和貿易赤字，紙幣不斷貶值，以及美國對外國債權人和傀儡統治者的依賴。羅馬帝國持續了幾個世紀，美國卻在一夜間崩塌。羅馬帝國的腐敗增強了敵人的實力。美國崩潰發生之時，政府不再代表人民，而是成為私人寡頭統治的工具。決策代表少數人的短期利益，代價是讓多數人背負難以承受的債務。由於債務不堪重負，政府最終垮台。全球化已經走到盡頭，生活的變革取決於地方。
The Year America Dissolved
Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
July 28, 2010
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.
With the dollar’s demise, import prices skyrocketed. As Americans were unable to afford foreign-made goods, the transnational corporations that were producing offshore for US markets were bankrupted, further eroding the government’s revenue base.
The government was forced to print money in order to pay its bills, causing domestic prices to rise rapidly. Faced with hyperinflation, Washington took recourse in terminating Social Security and Medicare and followed up by confiscating the remnants of private pensions. This provided a one-year respite, but with no more resources to confiscate, money creation and hyperinflation resumed.
Organized food deliveries broke down when the government fought hyperinflation with fixed prices and the mandate that all purchases and sales had to be in US paper currency. Unwilling to trade appreciating goods for depreciating paper, goods disappeared from stores.
Washington responded as Lenin had done during the “war communism” period of Soviet history. The government sent troops to confiscate goods for distribution in kind to the population. This was a temporary stop-gap until existing stocks were depleted, as future production was discouraged. Much of the confiscated stocks became the property of the troops who seized the goods.
Goods reappeared in markets under the protection of local warlords. Transactions were conducted in barter and in gold, silver, and copper coins.
Other clans organized around families and individuals who possessed stocks of food, bullion, guns and ammunition. Uneasy alliances formed to balance differences in clan strengths. Betrayals quickly made loyalty a necessary trait for survival.
Large scale food and other production broke down as local militias taxed distribution as goods moved across local territories. Washington seized domestic oil production and refineries, but much of the government’s gasoline was paid for safe passage across clan territories.
Most of the troops in Washington’s overseas bases were abandoned. As their resource stocks were drawn down, the abandoned soldiers were forced into alliances with those with whom they had been fighting.
Washington found it increasingly difficult to maintain itself. As it lost control over the country, Washington was less able to secure supplies from abroad as tribute from those Washington threatened with nuclear attack. Gradually other nuclear powers realized that the only target in America was Washington. The more astute saw the writing on the wall and slipped away from the former capital city.
When Rome began her empire, Rome’s currency consisted of gold and silver coinage. Rome was well organized with efficient institutions and the ability to supply troops in the field so that campaigns could continue indefinitely, a monopoly in the world of Rome’s time.
When hubris sent America in pursuit of overseas empire, the venture coincided with the offshoring of American manufacturing, industrial, and professional service jobs and the corresponding erosion of the government’s tax base, with the advent of massive budget and trade deficits, with the erosion of the fiat paper currency’s value, and with America’s dependence on foreign creditors and puppet rulers.
The Roman Empire lasted for centuries. The American one collapsed overnight.
Rome’s corruption became the strength of her enemies, and the Western Empire was overrun.
America’s collapse occurred when government ceased to represent the people and became the instrument of a private oligarchy. Decisions were made in behalf of short-term profits for the few at the expense of unmanageable liabilities for the many.
Overwhelmed by liabilities, the government collapsed.
Globalism had run its course. Life reformed on a local basis.
反恐讓警察變得軍事化且不負責任
文章寫道，時間到了2017年，美國已為宗族勢力所統治。最初的宗族勢力是圍繞當地警察部隊發展起來的。20世紀後期保守派打擊犯罪和布什及奧巴馬兩任政府在21世紀頭十年裏的反恐戰爭帶來的結果是警察變得軍事化且不負責任。隨著社會的崩潰，警察成為軍閥。國家警察機構解體，官員並入地方警察力量，警察及其親友組成了新的宗族勢力。
2012年美元失去世界儲備貨幣地位
2012年，美元失去世界儲備貨幣的地位，日益嚴重的經濟不景氣讓美國的債權人意識到該國聯邦預算赤字已經大到非狂印鈔票不可的地步。隨著美元崩盤，進口價格暴漲。由於美國人無力負擔外國製造的商品，供應美國市場生產的跨國公司相繼破產，進一步削弱了美國政府的收入基礎。政府被迫大印鈔票以應付開支，結果卻導致國內商品價格飛速上漲。麵對嚴重的通貨膨脹，華盛頓不得不放棄社會保障和醫療保險製度，隨後又停發個人養老金。這些舉措換來了一年的喘息，但由於沒有更多可供利用的資源，印鈔票和惡性通貨膨脹依然在繼續。食品交易體係瓦解，原因是政府為應對通貨膨脹製定了固定價格，並且要求所有采購和銷售必須使用美國紙幣。由於不願用升值的食品換取貶值的紙幣，商店裏的商品都消失了。華盛頓采取了類似“戰時共產主義”的政策，政府出動軍隊沒收商品並分配給民眾。由於現有商品庫存很快會耗盡而未來生產前景並不理想，這種措施僅是權宜之計。而且，沒收的商品大多被軍隊霸占。在當地軍閥保護下，商品重新出現在市場上，不過，買賣采取易貨交易或是用金、銀、銅幣交易。
其他宗族勢力圍繞擁有食品、金銀、槍支彈藥的家族和個人建立起來。宗族勢力為平衡相互間的實力差距組成不穩定的聯盟，背叛時常出現。地方武裝對貨物運輸征稅導致大規模糧食和其他產品的生產癱瘓。華盛頓控製了國內石油生產和加工，但政府的汽油大多都用於換取在部族地區的通行安全。
美國在海外基地大部分軍隊被放棄
美國在海外基地的大部分軍隊被放棄，由於資源儲備很快用盡，這些被遺棄的士兵被迫與曾經的對手結成聯盟。華盛頓發現自身越來越難以維持。由於失去了對整個國家的控製，華盛頓無法保證從遭到其核攻擊威脅的國家獲得海外供給。其他核國家逐漸認識到，他們在美國的唯一目標是華盛頓，預見到危險前景的人們開始逃離這座曾經的首都。
全球化已經走到盡頭
羅馬開啟帝國時代時，采用的是金銀幣的貨幣製度，憑借高效的機構和支援能力，羅馬軍隊得以在帝國時代連續作戰，取得壟斷地位。而當自大的美國開始追求建立世界帝國，海外擴張帶來的是美國製造業、工業和專業服務職位向國外轉移，政府稅收基礎的消逝，龐大的預算和貿易赤字，紙幣不斷貶值，以及美國對外國債權人和傀儡統治者的依賴。羅馬帝國持續了幾個世紀，美國卻在一夜間崩塌。羅馬帝國的腐敗增強了敵人的實力。美國崩潰發生之時，政府不再代表人民，而是成為私人寡頭統治的工具。決策代表少數人的短期利益，代價是讓多數人背負難以承受的債務。由於債務不堪重負，政府最終垮台。全球化已經走到盡頭，生活的變革取決於地方。
The Year America Dissolved
Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
July 28, 2010
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.
With the dollar’s demise, import prices skyrocketed. As Americans were unable to afford foreign-made goods, the transnational corporations that were producing offshore for US markets were bankrupted, further eroding the government’s revenue base.
The government was forced to print money in order to pay its bills, causing domestic prices to rise rapidly. Faced with hyperinflation, Washington took recourse in terminating Social Security and Medicare and followed up by confiscating the remnants of private pensions. This provided a one-year respite, but with no more resources to confiscate, money creation and hyperinflation resumed.
Organized food deliveries broke down when the government fought hyperinflation with fixed prices and the mandate that all purchases and sales had to be in US paper currency. Unwilling to trade appreciating goods for depreciating paper, goods disappeared from stores.
Washington responded as Lenin had done during the “war communism” period of Soviet history. The government sent troops to confiscate goods for distribution in kind to the population. This was a temporary stop-gap until existing stocks were depleted, as future production was discouraged. Much of the confiscated stocks became the property of the troops who seized the goods.
Goods reappeared in markets under the protection of local warlords. Transactions were conducted in barter and in gold, silver, and copper coins.
Other clans organized around families and individuals who possessed stocks of food, bullion, guns and ammunition. Uneasy alliances formed to balance differences in clan strengths. Betrayals quickly made loyalty a necessary trait for survival.
Large scale food and other production broke down as local militias taxed distribution as goods moved across local territories. Washington seized domestic oil production and refineries, but much of the government’s gasoline was paid for safe passage across clan territories.
Most of the troops in Washington’s overseas bases were abandoned. As their resource stocks were drawn down, the abandoned soldiers were forced into alliances with those with whom they had been fighting.
Washington found it increasingly difficult to maintain itself. As it lost control over the country, Washington was less able to secure supplies from abroad as tribute from those Washington threatened with nuclear attack. Gradually other nuclear powers realized that the only target in America was Washington. The more astute saw the writing on the wall and slipped away from the former capital city.
When Rome began her empire, Rome’s currency consisted of gold and silver coinage. Rome was well organized with efficient institutions and the ability to supply troops in the field so that campaigns could continue indefinitely, a monopoly in the world of Rome’s time.
When hubris sent America in pursuit of overseas empire, the venture coincided with the offshoring of American manufacturing, industrial, and professional service jobs and the corresponding erosion of the government’s tax base, with the advent of massive budget and trade deficits, with the erosion of the fiat paper currency’s value, and with America’s dependence on foreign creditors and puppet rulers.
The Roman Empire lasted for centuries. The American one collapsed overnight.
Rome’s corruption became the strength of her enemies, and the Western Empire was overrun.
America’s collapse occurred when government ceased to represent the people and became the instrument of a private oligarchy. Decisions were made in behalf of short-term profits for the few at the expense of unmanageable liabilities for the many.
Overwhelmed by liabilities, the government collapsed.
Globalism had run its course. Life reformed on a local basis.
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