¿Qué pasa cuando
un país abandona todo intento de producción industrial clásica en beneficio de
las finanzas, la producción primaria (atenti, Mauri), la “tecnología de la
información” o la industria bélica? Pasa esto que vemos acá:
La nota que sigue
es de Michael Snyder para su sitio web The Economic Collapse blog:
Título: Baltimore
Has Become A Rotting, Decaying War Zone Amid Raging Opioid Epidemic
Texto: It is hard
to believe that Baltimore was once one of the greatest cities in the entire
world. Unlike nearby Washington D.C.,
Baltimore is a blue collar city that is home to some of the hardest working
people in America. When I was in high
school, my brother and I were huge fans of the Baltimore Orioles, and once in a
while our parents would drive us from our home in Virginia all the way up to
Baltimore to see them play. As an adult,
I spent a number of years living near D.C., and I would take frequent trips up
to Baltimore.
To say that the
city is in a state of decline would be a major understatement. Everywhere you look there are abandoned
buildings and homes, and as you drive through some of the worst areas you can
actually see drug addicts just lying in the streets. Just like so many other communities all over
this country, decades of liberal policies have taken a brutal toll, and now the
city is just a rotting, decaying shell of the glorious metropolis that it once
was.
There are some
sections of Baltimore that you simply do not go into once the sun goes
down. And actually it isn’t a very good
idea to go into those areas during the day either. The crime in the city has gotten so bad that
authorities have actually formally requested help from the federal government…
According to The
Baltimore Sun Newspaper, the city has logged in 118 homicides today with the
projection of >400 murders for year’s end. It’s so bad here that Baltimore’s
Mayor has asked the Federal Government for help in attempt to regain control.
Even the police union sounds the alarm of an officer shortage leading to
decrease in patrols. All of this is occurring as the Baltimore population
declines, nearing a 100-year low, U.S. Census says.
Through the end
of April, Baltimore was on pace for the highest murder rate in the history of
the city.
Yes, you read
that correctly.
The primary
factor fueling all of this violence is an opioid epidemic that is completely
and totally out of control…
The opioid
epidemic is the quiet killer that has been leaving a trail of bodies on the
streets of Baltimore.
“The individuals
that are putting these drugs on our street, they’re killing people on our
street,” said deputy commissioner Dean Palmere of the Baltimore Police
Department.
Drug overdoses is
expected to have killed 2,000 people statewide in 2016 and more than 800 in
Baltimore alone.
“There are more
people dying from overdose here in Baltimore City, than there are dying of
homicide,” said Baltimore City health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen in February.
That last
paragraph amazed me when I first read it.
Even though
Baltimore is on pace for the highest murder rate in the city’s history, more
people are actually dying from drug overdoses.
And now police in
the city are warning of a new opioid that is reportedly “100 times more potent
than heroin”. It is called Carfentanyl,
and it can kill people almost instantly.
I would like to
share with you a short YouTube film put out by Alastair Williamson just a few
days ago entitled “The Baltimore Experience”.
No matter how much I write, I could never communicate the devastation in
the city quite like this little video does…
Did you see the
part near the end where Williamson stops to offer a bottle of water to a man
that is just lying in the street?
Hopefully that
particular man is not on anything, but it is quite common to see people lying
around like zombies in cities where an opioid epidemic is raging. These are very cruel drugs, and they will
utterly consume you if you allow them to.
The more drugs
that come in, the worse the violence gets, and within the past 24 hours we have
seen four more senseless murders in Baltimore…
Two men were shot
and killed Tuesday morning in west Baltimore, police said. Officers responded
at 5:52 a.m. to the shooting on the 2800 block of Lanvale Street.
Police said
officers found the victims in and around a vehicle. Both had been shot in the
head and were declared dead at the scene, police said.
A 35-year-old man
was fatally shot Monday evening in southeast Baltimore, police said.
The victim,
identified as Charles Gatuthu, 35, was shot in the head and body at about 7:45
p.m. in the 6100 block of Boston Street. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview
Hospital, where he died.
A 25-year-old was
shot and killed Monday afternoon in west Baltimore, police said.
Of course
Baltimore is far from alone. On Monday,
I wrote about how Chicago is becoming a gang-infested wasteland, and on Tuesday
we got news of Chicago’s 200th homicide so far in 2017.
And an official
bulletin went out to all members of the Chicago police on Monday warning them
about the “high-powered weapons” that gangs are now using to kill people…
Chicago police
issued a bulletin Monday warning its officers about gangs armed with
high-powered weapons, after three people were shot to death over the weekend –
including two attending a memorial for the earlier victim.
Department
spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the three people who were killed in the
shootings Sunday were all members of the same street gang.
Sometimes it is
hard to believe that this is still America.
The precious
people that are getting hooked on these drugs and that are committing these
murders were once innocent little boys and girls. Somewhere along the way they were led down
the wrong path, and this is happening on a massive scale all over the nation.
So what should we
do?
What we need are
some real solutions. We need to restore
the principles and the values that this nation was founded upon, and we need
people that are willing to step forward and take this nation in a different
direction. In times of great darkness, light is needed the most, and at this
moment in our history we are in desperate need of some lights.
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