Tide Thefts, Cargo Hijacking and Cattle Rustling
… why is an epidemic of thievery sweeping America? – Published on The Economic Collapse, by Michael Snyder, November 3, 2013.
Desperate people do desperate things, and it appears that Americans are rapidly becoming a lot more desperate. An epidemic of thievery is sweeping across America, and authorities are not quite sure what to make of it. Down in Texas, cattle thieves can get up to $1,500 per head of cattle, and cattle rustling was up nearly 40 percent last year. As you will read about below, cargo hijacking is becoming much more sophisticated, and it is being estimated that losses from cargo thefts will total about $216 million this year alone. And for some reason, Tide laundry detergent has become a very hot commodity among common criminals all across America.
In fact, it is being reported that some grocery stores are “losing $10,000 to $15,000 a month” as a result of Tide thefts. So why is all of this happening? Well, as I have written about previously, crime is on the rise in the United States, and poverty is absolutely exploding. In fact, according to the latest numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, 49.2 percent of all Americans are receiving benefits from at least one government program each month. Over the past five years, we have seen an unprecedented rise in the number of people that cannot take care of themselves without help from the government. Millions upon millions of Americans that have been forced into poverty are becoming increasingly angry, frustrated and desperate. And what we are watching right now is only just the beginning – all of this is going to get a whole lot worse …
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Links:
Quantum Spying: GCHQ Targeted Engineers with Fake LinkedIn Pages, on Spiegel Online International, by Spiegel Staff, November 11, 2013: Elite GCHQ teams targeted employees of mobile communications companies and billing companies to gain access to their company networks. The spies used fake copies of LinkedIn profiles as one of their tools …;
GCHQ’s Homepage;
GCHQ on en.wkipedia, incl. See also and External Links;
on fr.wikipedia;
on de.wikipedia;
John Pilger: IMF & World Bank are weapons of war, 21.20 min, uploaded by marcchabotyt, Jan 3, 2011;
War By Other Means, 51.55 min, on John Pilger.com, 1992. An investigation into the crippling levels of debt paid by Third World countries;
Watch all of John Pilger’s films;
Basic Income, a new human right, 3.06 min, uploaded by Basic Income for Europe, March 28, 2013:
Statements at Basic Income demonstration[ENG], 13.30 min, uploaded by Basic Income for Europe, Nov 6, 2013: At the demonstration ‘Basic Income is a human right’ on 14th Sep. 2013 in Berlin we asked some participants about their opinion on Basic Income. Thanks to BGELeipzig for video and translations;
Links in french:
- Taxe Tobin: l’Allemagne double la France par la gauche, dans Rue 89/un blog du Nouvel Observateur, par Pascal Riché, le 31 octobre 2013;
Links in german:
- Initiative Grundeinkommen Leipzig BGELeipzig; Startseite; /Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE; /Videos; /Links; /Kontakt;
- Stimmen zum Grundeinkommen aus 6 Ländern (Demo in Berlin 14.9.2013), 13.30 min, von BGELeipzig am 19, Seot 2913 hochgeladen: Bei der Demo “Grundeinkommen ist ein Menschenrecht” stellen wir den zum Teil internationalen Gästen die folgende Frage: Was ist deine größte Hoffnung beim Thema Grundeinkommen?