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antikythera User ID: 1030102 United States 04/26/2011 02:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Getting near that time when people will be roaming the land like Roland the gunslinger. The tower is falling. The wolves among you will devour the sheep. :orbsig: :ninjalapirate: Art Homepage, [link to pondcypress.deviantart.com] Hand carved skull and cross available for purchase, [link to www.artfire.com] |
El Quisqueyano User ID: 1348609 United States 04/26/2011 02:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in Flint MI. now renamed by the public "Murdertown, U.S.A" or "Little Baghdad" Quoting: NiNzrezIt is a war zone here *Population: 102,000 *Police on duty at any given time: 6 *The police station is only open from 2pm-5-pm, closed holidays, weekends and evenings. *It takes police anywhere from 8hrs to 4 days to respond to your 911 call... and your lucky to get a response at all. *The murder rate here is worse than those in Newark and St. Louis and New Orleans. It’s even worse than Baghdad’s. *Flint is so broke that the city can not even afford simple basic safety. *If you live here you need to be in post Armageddon survival mode at all times, or fall prey to the statistics that will be posted for the 2011 year. It is so bad, that a reporter for the New York Times came here to do a report on the situation in Flint . Here is what he wrote about his experience. From the article: A sign taped to the entrance of police headquarters says it all: “Closed weekends and holidays.” Every weekday, the doors are locked at dusk. It’s not that the cops here are scared; it’s just that they’re outmanned, outgunned and flat broke. After the door is unlocked and I enter police headquarters, it is easy to see why. There are only six patrolmen on duty for a Saturday night. So broke is Flint that the city laid off two-thirds of its police force in the last three years. The front desk looks like a dusty museum piece. We leave headquarters and head out into the night. Howe turns up the heat in his Chevy cruiser and switches on the computer. “That’s something,” I say hopefully. “Some squad cars in Detroit don’t even have computers.” “Hold on a sec,” he says. “Let it warm up.” When it does, I see that there are more than 12 runs stacked up, including a kidnapping call that is more than six hours old. A home-invader call is two hours old. A “man with a gun” call is 90-minutes old. “Sometimes, we don’t get to a call for two days,” he says. Last fall, an elderly couple called after being held up at gunpoint in their driveway. The police arrived on the scene five hours later. READ FULL STORY HERE: [link to www.nytimes.com] Here is a running list of current crimes: [link to topics.mlive.com] a collapsing economy, highest unemployment of all time, all time high home foreclosures, people here are left in depression and desperation on how to survive. This has thrown this city into a state of chaos and survival. Coming to your town soon.. courtesy of the American Government Welcome to Mayor Kosh era. NYC back in the 1970's and 80's. Manhattan was called Lebanon. |
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TheBonne User ID: 1330015 United States 04/26/2011 02:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is pinned ?!?! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1318319WTF ?!?!?! Yeah. It's bigger than a breadbox, so it is pinned. Take a look at old Detroit. Many places are or have been left in a shambles. Places I used to camp out are without police protection and that is N. Cali. It make me very sad, and I know about sadness. The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.-Frank Zappa Sister Sis"ter, v. t. To be sister to; to resemble closely. [Obs.] --Shak. Make mine Mint: h33t.com search linux mint |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1349919 United States 04/26/2011 02:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks for the look into the future NiNzrez. Many more cities and small towns will be joining you shortly. Quoting: Resisterthats a messed up thing too we should be flourishing and becoming stronger in our communities While "progressive" big government socialists are in charge, the productive will be punished until they leave, and the parasitic will procreate until they overwhelm the available resources. I say corporate fascists control both levers of the voting booths in this country. The Bush crime family was/is not progressive and are heaped in utter bullshit and greed. All your little heroes on the "right" are as tainted as those on the left. NiN,...time to let go and find somewhere new. Z I agree with you. People seem to forget a few things too, when pointing to the USA's more prosperous times, such as the 1950s - that back then we operated in a *closed* economy. There was NO industrial competition because all the countries that were producing anything such as Germany, Japan, UK - all of these *had the shit bombed out of them and could NOT produce*. There were all kinds of trade restrictions in place as well. So *of course* the US was raking in the $. |
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TheKID18 User ID: 1350056 United States 04/26/2011 02:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i know how you feel. I live in relatively large city, but it is filled with gangs and old people. Jobs? barely. Police? a few here and there, but not many. Education system? absolutely stinks (worst in the state, if i have anything to say about it). A dying city that has no hope and has gone way past its due. I would relocate, but i just don't have the money. I feel your pain OP. God bless you and praying for you and yours! |
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Grandma Zee User ID: 1350492 United States 04/26/2011 02:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've been following your posts for some time and have much respect for your knowledge about the sun activities. I was surprised to learn that we live just about 25 miles from you. But we live in the country, raise and preserve most of our own food and so far have a pretty good life far removed from the urban situation. I'm somewhat apprehensive about the future developments I see coming but I wonder if a lot of the violence taking place isn't also due to the undercurrent of fear surrounding events taking place with our sun and other energy sources. My husband and I had a "sixth sense" about the coming situation several years ago, sold our home in Florida just before the real-estate bust and moved back to Michigan. We built an apartment onto our Grandson's home and share the costs of living with only one home to insure and pay taxes on. It seems to make sense if one can combine resources with other family members. Our roots are also in the Flint area and we have other family members living there that are not able to relocate at this time so I understand what you are saying. It behooves each family that can to help make preparations for those that can't right now. If we all did this there would be some place for them to go to when the situation there becomes impossible. I will follow your threads even more closely to extract the clues as to the developing situation. Will send out positive thoughts for your protection and safety. |
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Jen User ID: 1357744 United States 04/26/2011 02:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP , if you can you should leave ! Quoting: GhostVikingLike i said in another thread . The police have no interest in stopping crime . NO CRIME = NO POLICE = NO JOB . Take care i wish i did have the means to move me and my family out of here right now we spend all we make on surviving we have adapted and learned to survive here we now know how to act, walk, talk when in public where to avoid, where we can and can not go, how to secure our home. On GLP there is so much talk about how to prepare for survival post doom, but we are already partially living this way Maybe that's not a bad thing. Maybe you'll be two steps ahead. Easier for you to let go of the things that don't really matter. Easier for you to adapt. It's awful to me that things like this are happening in our country. All I can suggest is really impossible, and that would be to pool together the people interested in policing the city. Bring more power back to the people, take it upon yourselves to volunteer staff city offices and departments. Might not be the "licensed officials" which might turn into a model for the rest of the US to follow. After all, the entire country is just completely polluted with corrupt politicians. Sounds like your community has a wide open space for putting power to the people. The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal. Because any moment might be our last. Everything’s more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. - Achilles |
El Quisqueyano User ID: 1348609 United States 04/26/2011 02:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP , if you can you should leave ! Quoting: GhostVikingLike i said in another thread . The police have no interest in stopping crime . NO CRIME = NO POLICE = NO JOB . Take care i wish i did have the means to move me and my family out of here right now we spend all we make on surviving we have adapted and learned to survive here we now know how to act, walk, talk when in public where to avoid, where we can and can not go, how to secure our home. On GLP there is so much talk about how to prepare for survival post doom, but we are already partially living this way Get yourself what is called a Police Lock. We used to use them in NYC back in those days. It is an iron rod that connects to the floor and connects to the door. Completely securing you over night. Not even SWAT could knock it down with a battery ram. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1357710 United States 04/26/2011 02:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in Flint MI. now renamed by the public "Murdertown, U.S.A" or "Little Baghdad" Quoting: NiNzrezIt is a war zone here *Population: 102,000 *Police on duty at any given time: 6 *The police station is only open from 2pm-5-pm, closed holidays, weekends and evenings. *It takes police anywhere from 8hrs to 4 days to respond to your 911 call... and your lucky to get a response at all. *The murder rate here is worse than those in Newark and St. Louis and New Orleans. It’s even worse than Baghdad’s. *Flint is so broke that the city can not even afford simple basic safety. *If you live here you need to be in post Armageddon survival mode at all times, or fall prey to the statistics that will be posted for the 2011 year. It is so bad, that a reporter for the New York Times came here to do a report on the situation in Flint . Here is what he wrote about his experience. From the article: A sign taped to the entrance of police headquarters says it all: “Closed weekends and holidays.” Every weekday, the doors are locked at dusk. It’s not that the cops here are scared; it’s just that they’re outmanned, outgunned and flat broke. After the door is unlocked and I enter police headquarters, it is easy to see why. There are only six patrolmen on duty for a Saturday night. So broke is Flint that the city laid off two-thirds of its police force in the last three years. The front desk looks like a dusty museum piece. We leave headquarters and head out into the night. Howe turns up the heat in his Chevy cruiser and switches on the computer. “That’s something,” I say hopefully. “Some squad cars in Detroit don’t even have computers.” “Hold on a sec,” he says. “Let it warm up.” When it does, I see that there are more than 12 runs stacked up, including a kidnapping call that is more than six hours old. A home-invader call is two hours old. A “man with a gun” call is 90-minutes old. “Sometimes, we don’t get to a call for two days,” he says. Last fall, an elderly couple called after being held up at gunpoint in their driveway. The police arrived on the scene five hours later. READ FULL STORY HERE: [link to www.nytimes.com] Here is a running list of current crimes: [link to topics.mlive.com] a collapsing economy, highest unemployment of all time, all time high home foreclosures, people here are left in depression and desperation on how to survive. This has thrown this city into a state of chaos and survival. Coming to your town soon.. courtesy of the American Government Wow it's that bad there??? Flint has always been one of the top 5 cities for murders and crime. I live in Westland, u can come stay with me, if TSHTF I've got enough ammo to take care of these problems. |
El Quisqueyano User ID: 1348609 United States 04/26/2011 02:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the late 1960s and 1970s, a wave of arson overtook the South Bronx. Arson became popular because landlords would collect the insurance money for their buildings. As a result, many streets were entirely burnt out. By the 1990s, nearly half of all the buildings in the affected neighborhoods were destroyed. The Bronx was completely neglected by the City of New York, and many residents complained that the NYPD did little to fight crime in their districts. This period of misery, lawlessness and chaos made the South Bronx a nationwide symbol of the dark side of the American Dream. During a Yankees Game of the 1977 World Series, the camera showed a night panorama of Yankee Stadium and, maybe half a mile away, an anonymous building on fire. Millions of viewers watched the skyline engulfed in flames as sports commentator Howard Cosell shouted, “Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.” In the same year, Jimmy Carter made a visit to Charlotte Street, which was laid to waste and looked like it had been bombed out in a war. This is all purposely done by TPTB. It is a scheme of theirs. There is a name for it but i forgot. They run down neighborhoods to lower their value. Then they buy all the land dirt cheap, start paying the local officials to get the area cleaned out. They then start building these rich neighborhoods for the elite so as to keep the minorities out cause they can't afford it. Big money making scheme they have. |
Idealist Orphan User ID: 1308455 United States 04/26/2011 02:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am somewhat of an idealist. I want to ask what the best thing to do in this situation would be. I want to say that there is an opportunity here somewhere because in everything there is a polarity. I would first ask all the cops that still live there if they would volunteer to help bring the city to a safer level. These people would be paid in points that they could exchange for food, clothing, supplies etc in stores that also volunteered to accept them. This would probably mostly be local stores and shops. I would try to have a town meeting where we got everyone together and decided what they needed. Most would want food, clothes, good school, and things to do in the town etc. I would then get all the volunteers I could to start growing food that would be rationed to the people that volunteered in the garden. I would ask each and every person what they were willing to do to contribute. Perhaps some would teach, some would build, some would farm, some would repair etc on and on. I would go to the thugs and ask them what they want. Why do they do this. What is their purpose in thugging? I would try to help them get their needs met and give them some suggestions of what to do to fill up their time. I know that they would still thug if they wanted drugs but I think if they helped people or started to farm or build, help some one, volunteer then they might begin to feel something good inside ..and that there is a way to live, contribute, build up a life that is fulfilling. I cannot go into great detail here. There are many details to fill in the spaces here but I know that humans are capable of anything. Being an idealist I see it as a perfect opportunity to bring everyone together to make their own unique town that could make history. |
The Analog Guy User ID: 1357733 United States 04/26/2011 02:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP , if you can you should leave ! Quoting: GhostVikingLike i said in another thread . The police have no interest in stopping crime . NO CRIME = NO POLICE = NO JOB . Take care i wish i did have the means to move me and my family out of here right now we spend all we make on surviving we have adapted and learned to survive here we now know how to act, walk, talk when in public where to avoid, where we can and can not go, how to secure our home. On GLP there is so much talk about how to prepare for survival post doom, but we are already partially living this way These skills will serve you well anywhere when TSHTF, but seriously, relocate! And it's so friggin cold there in the winter. I say burn all of your bridges while you still have control of the flame. We are like flies crawling across the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel: We cannot see what angels and gods lie underneath the threshold of our perceptions. We do not live in reality; we live in our paradigms, our habituated perceptions, our illusions; the illusions we share through culture we call reality, but the true historical reality of our condition is invisible to us.” |
El Quisqueyano User ID: 1348609 United States 04/26/2011 02:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the late 1960s and 1970s, a wave of arson overtook the South Bronx. Arson became popular because landlords would collect the insurance money for their buildings. As a result, many streets were entirely burnt out. By the 1990s, nearly half of all the buildings in the affected neighborhoods were destroyed. The Bronx was completely neglected by the City of New York, and many residents complained that the NYPD did little to fight crime in their districts. This period of misery, lawlessness and chaos made the South Bronx a nationwide symbol of the dark side of the American Dream. During a Yankees Game of the 1977 World Series, the camera showed a night panorama of Yankee Stadium and, maybe half a mile away, an anonymous building on fire. Millions of viewers watched the skyline engulfed in flames as sports commentator Howard Cosell shouted, “Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.” In the same year, Jimmy Carter made a visit to Charlotte Street, which was laid to waste and looked like it had been bombed out in a war. Quoting: El QuisqueyanoThis is all purposely done by TPTB. It is a scheme of theirs. There is a name for it but i forgot. They run down neighborhoods to lower their value. Then they buy all the land dirt cheap, start paying the local officials to get the area cleaned out. They then start building these rich neighborhoods for the elite so as to keep the minorities out cause they can't afford it. Big money making scheme they have. ^^^This is what they do. If any one here knows the name given to this scheme i would greatly appreciate it. I forgot it. Thanks |