Time to get a job in the East. Australia is sounding pretty good right now. Or, offgrid it and go to Ireland.
I am halfway through "The Devil's Chessboard" by Talbot. It details the life, constant treasonous acts, and moral bankruptcy of Allen Dulles and his Wall Street cronies. From protecting their rich nazi pals during and after WWII, the McCarthy era, numerous overthrows of democratic governments, all the way through the Kennedy assassination, it details the dark side of our laughable "democracy." The use of the CIA as a personal extragovernmental tool to protect the wealth of his friends, and to undermine the American government and democracy here at home. So, in a nutshell, we had this coming. We have been building bad karma for a long, long time......
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-american-empire/
"Faced with a fading superpower incapable of paying the bills, China, India, Iran, Russia, and other powers, great and regional, provocatively challenge U.S. dominion over the oceans, space, and cyberspace. Meanwhile, amid soaring prices, ever-rising unemployment, and a continuing decline in real wages, domestic divisions widen into violent clashes and divisive debates, often over remarkably irrelevant issues. Riding a political tide of disillusionment and despair, a far-right patriot captures the presidency with thundering rhetoric, demanding respect for American authority and threatening military retaliation or economic reprisal. The world pays next to no attention as the American Century ends in silence."
