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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest90
Date: November 12, 2022, 11:05 am
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The U.S. is officially in a flu epidemic, federal health
officials say. They’re preparing to deploy troops and
ventilators if necessary.
HTML https://fortune.com/well/2022/11/04/us-united-states-in-flu-epidemic-federal-health-officials-say-cdc-hhs-rsv-covid-omicron-2022/
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest78
Date: November 17, 2022, 3:11 pm
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Perhaps when a nation's number one priority becomes economics it
will end up literally sucking the life-blood out of people, not
just figuratively?
‘I’m selling my blood’: millions in US can’t make ends meet with
two jobs
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> More Americans have been working two or more jobs over the
past few decades, census data shows
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> Millions of Americans are currently working two or more jobs
in order to make ends meet, as global inflation and corporations
jacking up prices have sent prices of food, gas, housing, health
insurance and other necessities soaring in the past year.
>
> Cashe Lewis, 31, of Denver, Colorado works two jobs and is
currently trying to find a third job to cover the recent $200
monthly rent increase to her apartment. She works days as a
barista at Starbucks, but claims it’s been difficult to get
enough hours even with taking extra shifts whenever she can due
to scheduling cuts as part of the crackdown on union organizing
by management.
>
> At night she works at a convenience store because the hours
are reliable, and works six days a week, often 16 hours a day.
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> “I’m exhausted all the time,” said Lewis. “On the one day I
have off a week, I donate plasma for extra money. I’m literally
selling my blood to eat because I have no choice.”
>
> Her partner suffers from epilepsy and can’t work full-time
hours because of it. Even with insurance, their medication is
expensive and she spends about half of a two-week paycheck at
Starbucks to cover the health insurance premiums.
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> Over the past five years, she has struggled with homelessness,
and was previously fired from her job for sleeping in her car
behind her place of employment.
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> “All of my friends and family work multiple jobs as well, just
trying to keep our heads above water. Nothing is affordable and
the roadblocks set up to keep people in the cycle of poverty
benefit the most wealthy members of our society,” added Lewis.
“We aren’t living, we’re barely surviving and we have no choice
but to keep doing it.”
>
> More Americans have been working two or more jobs over the
past few decades, according to data from the US census, with
women more likely than men to have multiple jobs and multiple
jobholders most prevalent among low-wage workers.
>
> Laura Richwine of Omaha, Nebraska, works two jobs, one in
fraud prevention and the other doing administrative work, and
had previously been working three jobs to keep up with hefty
medical bills she’s been facing since being hit by a car in
2014.
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> “It’s rough and I barely have any energy to keep up with much
else,” said Richwine. “I’ve got a bachelor’s degree and have
been working for over 10 years, but up until this year I had
never had a job that paid more than $15 an hour. Many places
around me still only offer Nebraska minimum wage, which is $9 an
hour. You can hardly even buy food with that amount.”
>
> Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than
400,000 Americans work two full-time jobs. In September 2022,
4.9% of all the more than 164 million US workers held two or
more job positions, over 7.7 million workers.
>
> Though US census data estimates these rates and numbers to be
much higher, at 7.8% in the most recent year where data is
available, 2018, about 13 million workers, while BLS data at the
time estimated 5.0% of the workforce holding multiple jobs.
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Entire article:
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/05/multiple-jobs-census-data-inflation-us?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest78
Date: November 24, 2022, 5:33 pm
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Inflation casts a shadow over Thanksgiving as food banks
struggle to meet demand
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> This Thanksgiving, as many sit down with friends and family at
tables overstuffed with food, there are millions of Americans
who aren’t as fortunate. The holiday is a reminder of the stark
reality of what’s called food insecurity. It’s widespread in the
United States and there’s no obvious end in sight. Katie
Fitzgerald of Feeding America joined William Brangham to discuss
what can be done.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QARFFgZxoEk
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 25, 2022, 8:38 pm
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Bill Taylor is the personification of present-day US weakness:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH0pHPk-SsU
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> "They'll be held accountable."
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Repeat x N.
Woke commenters do not believe a word of it:
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> So who's going to bring Russia to the accountable
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> They won't be held accountable...don't lie.
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> Tell me, who is going to hold Putin accountable? Certainly not
America, they can't their own accountable. Trump makes a
mockery of any American talking about accountability
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> Short on any details about HOW Putin will be held accountable.
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> Oh really? Putin will be held accountable just like Trump?!!!
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest78
Date: January 14, 2023, 4:32 pm
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Many Americans Dream Of Moving Abroad — Here’s How 3 Families
Actually Did It
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> What it’s actually like to leave the U.S.
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> If you are parenting your way through the first part of the
21st century in America, you may regularly tap into an always
humming and sometimes throbbing collective anxiety. There’s
political anxiety about anti-democratic forces,
insurrectionists, losing civil rights, and a future of more ugly
and divisive politics. There’s economic anxiety about child
care, health care, inequality, and the ballooning costs of
college and student debt. And there is our anxiety about
physical safety — we’re emerging from a public health disaster
that’s killed over 1 million Americans and we must face our
country’s other ongoing sicknesses, like racism, anti-semetism,
and gun violence.
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Entire article:
HTML https://www.romper.com/life/three-american-families-move-abroad?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Perhaps we should be thankful at the least that the author
cannot spell "anti-Semitism" correctly...
Reminder: anti-Semitism is not anti-Jewishness, and
anti-Jewishness is anti-racism because Judaism is racist; along
with being homophobic, misogynist, ethnotribal, ethnocentric,
and ethnonepotist. It also promotes terrorism and usury...
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/ancient-world/antropocentricism-the-most-dangerous-ideology-in-the-world/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/israel/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/?message=17433
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest78
Date: January 20, 2023, 12:09 am
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As U.S. hits debt limit Treasury resorts to "extraordinary
measures" to pay bills
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> The U.S. government hit its statutory debt limit on Thursday
and the Treasury Department said it has begun resorting to
"extraordinary measures" to pay the bills. Reporter Sahil Kapur
joins Morning Joe to discuss.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnSF2UIuo_w
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest98
Date: February 14, 2023, 5:14 pm
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HTML https://www.cp24.com/lifestyle/pandemic-youth-mental-health-toll-unprecedented-in-the-u-s-data-show-1.6272012
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> Pandemic youth mental health toll unprecedented in the U.S.,
data show
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> The pandemic took a harsh toll on U.S. teen girls’ mental
health, with almost 60% reporting feelings of persistent sadness
or hopelessness, according to a government survey released
Monday that bolsters earlier data.
>
> Sexual violence, suicidal thoughts, suicidal behavior and
other mental health woes affected many teens regardless of race
or ethnicity, but girls and LGBTQ youth fared the worst on most
measures, according to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention report. More than 17,000 U.S. high school students
were surveyed in class in the fall of 2021.
>
> In 30 years of collecting similar data, “we’ve never seen this
kind of devastating, consistent findings," said Kathleen Ethier,
director of CDC’s adolescent and school health division.
“There’s no question young people are telling us they are in
crisis. The data really call on us to act."
>
> — Among girls, 30% said they seriously considered attempting
suicide, double the rate among boys and up almost 60% from a
decade ago.
>
> — Almost 20% of girls reported experiencing rape or other
sexual violence in the previous year, also an increase over
previous years.
>
> — Almost half of LGBTQ students said they had seriously
considered a suicide attempt.
>
> — More than a quarter of American Indians and Alaska natives
said they had seriously considered a suicide attempt — higher
than other races and ethnicities.
>
> — Feelings of persistent sadness and hopelessness affected
more than one-third of kids of all races and ethnicities and
increased over previous years.
>
> The results echo previous surveys and reports and many of the
trends began before the pandemic. But isolation, online
schooling and increased reliance on social media during the
pandemic made things worse for many kids, mental health experts
say.
>
> Prinstein noted that anxiety and depression tend to be more
common in teen girls than boys, and pandemic isolation may have
exacerbated that.
>
> In low-income areas, where adverse childhood experiences were
high before the pandemic, the crisis has been compounded by a
shortage of school staff and mental health professionals,
experts say.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: DyingYoung
Date: April 12, 2023, 2:00 pm
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Dying Young in The United States: What's Driving High Death
Rates in Americans Under Age 25?
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> Americans ages 15 to 24 are twice as likely to die as their
peers in France, Germany, Japan, and other wealthy nations.
While mortality rates for young people have been steadily
declining in these nations, rates have remained stagnant or
risen in the United States among every age group under 25. And
the infant mortality rate is up to three times higher in the
United States than in peer countries.
>
> This PRB Population Bulletin provides a comprehensive look at
deaths of Americans under age 25 before the start of the
COVID-19 pandemic, examining who is most at risk of early death
and why.
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> Poverty, race and ethnicity, gender, parental education,
family structure, and regional location are important factors in
young Americans’ mortality risk, with those living in southern
states facing a greater risk of early death. Injuries, suicides,
and homicides are the leading causes of death among children and
young adults, while premature birth and congenital abnormalities
are the top causes of infant mortality.
>
> Although it is too early to fully assess the impact of
COVID-19 on mortality patterns, the authors warn that growing
rates of mental health and substance abuse issues among young
Americans during the pandemic could contribute to rising death
rates.
>
> Recommendations to reverse these trends include:
>
> Reducing child poverty through direct payments and expanded
tax credits and funding for child care, preschool, housing,
nutrition, and health care.
> Addressing racial and ethnic barriers to improve access to
quality health care and reproductive health programs.
> Improving treatment for and prevention of mental illness and
substance abuse, as well as enacting broad safety measures
related to guns and gun ownership.
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HTML https://www.prb.org/resources/dying-young-in-the-united-states/
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How serious is Pentagon files leak for US and its allies? |
Inside Story
DIR By: 2ThaSun
Date: April 12, 2023, 2:55 pm
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How serious is Pentagon files leak for US and its allies? |
Inside Story
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> The Pentagon has suffered the worst leak of US national
security intelligence in many years.
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> Top Secret information on Ukraine's war plans, China, South
Korea, the Middle East and Africa have been made public.
>
> Russia has been accused of doctoring some files to create
misinformation.
>
> So how serious is this breach for the United States and its
allies?
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7LQ-7s8lD0
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: 2ThaSun
Date: April 12, 2023, 2:56 pm
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Why is American Life Expectancy So Low?
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> After years of a constant climb, the US is appearing to be
lagging behind in life expectancy, even declining further
following the coronavirus pandemic. In this video, we explore
what factors are driving this negative slump in life expectancy
as well as how hard it would be to overturn it (hint: it's
pretty hard).
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ki8DrIJ1H0
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