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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 15, 2020, 8:02 pm
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Religious Lunatics Influencing US Leaders
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> Religious lunatics run wild in US politics.
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See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/yahweh-tribal-g-d-of-the-nwo-british-israelism-and-christian-identity/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/the-curse-of-ham-or-hamitic-myth/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/secret-societies-and-occult-forces/
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Christian Identity has become part of almost every "white"
supremacist group in existence present day.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 15, 2020, 10:52 pm
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 16, 2020, 7:44 pm
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"The Unraveling of America: Is This the End of the American
Empire?" | Amanpour and Company
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> Amid a global pandemic, with a polarized political electorate,
and with protesters crowding the streets, one wonders if the
American Era might be coming to an end. Wade Davis certainly
would argue that it is. In a recent article for "Rolling Stone,"
he wrote about COVID-19 as a factor in “the unraveling of
America." Davis shares his thoughts with Hari Sreenivasan.
>
> Originally aired on August 17, 2020.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 18, 2020, 12:06 pm
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Thousands line up in cars in Texas to receive food before
Thanksgiving
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> Thousands of people lined up in their cars in Dallas on
Saturday to receive food from the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB)
ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday next week.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 18, 2020, 5:17 pm
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Thousands of cars line up for food in the US
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> In case you missed it: These scenes of thousands of Americans
lining up (many in luxury cars) over the weekend to collect food
are extraordinary.
> #US #FoodLines #Covid19
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyNiiEKyL04
Guess you can't eat luxury cars or cash after-all, who would
have thunk it? ???
Meanwhile:
Congress deadlocked on stimulus bill as US struggles with food
insecurity
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> Twelve million people will lose unemployment benefits after
Christmas if Congress doesn’t deliver another round of federal
assistance for Americans hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. A
nationwide eviction moratorium is also set to expire unless
legislators act. As more people are struggling, many are
questioning what President-elect Joe Biden will do to address
the economy. Legal journalist Mollye Barrows joins to discuss. (
19:28 ).
>
> Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Tehran is
willing to rejoin the 2015 JCPOA if the United States does as
well. Meanwhile, the United Nations says Iran has stepped up its
uranium enrichment efforts at its main nuclear site. RT
America’s John Huddy has the story. Then Prof. Mohammad Marandi
of the University of Tehran shares his perspective on the fate
of the historic nuclear deal and US sanctions under Joe Biden. (
1:12 ).
>
> Drug maker Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced their
coronavirus vaccine is 95 percent effective. This comes as the
US daily death toll tops 1,500, the highest in six months.
Several states are reinstating COVID-19 restrictions ahead of
the Thanksgiving holiday. RT America’s Trinity Chavez has the
latest. ( 16:00 ).
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I swear Earth should be officially nick-named "Planet of the
Morons"....
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 21, 2020, 11:45 am
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AOC castigates McConnell for sending the Senate home for the
holidays
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> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) attacked Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Nov. 20 for allowing
the Senate to break for Thanksgiving when, she said, millions of
Americans are going hungry.
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>
> Diane M. Romero
> 19 hours ago
> The Senate needed to pass the HEROES ACT with the same
urgency and devotion to make it work as they did with the SCOTUS
confirmation.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 27, 2020, 11:42 am
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The Sad State of Happiness in the United States and the Role of
Digital Media
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> The years since 2010 have not been good ones for happiness and
well-being among Americans. Even as the United States economy
improved after the end of the Great Recession in 2009, happiness
among adults did not rebound to the higher levels of the 1990s,
continuing a slow decline ongoing since at least 2000 in the
General Social Survey (Twenge et al., 2016; also see Figure
5.1). Happiness was measured with the question, “Taken all
together, how would you say things are these days—would you say
that you are very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?” with
the response choices coded 1, 2, or 3.
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HTML https://worldhappiness.report/assets/images/5-1.png
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> Happiness and life satisfaction among United States
adolescents, which increased between 1991 and 2011, suddenly
declined after 2012 (Twenge et al., 2018a; see Figure 5.2).
Thus, by 2016-17, both adults and adolescents were reporting
significantly less happiness than they had in the 2000s.
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HTML https://worldhappiness.report/assets/images/5-2.png
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> In addition, numerous indicators of low psychological
well-being such as depression, suicidal ideation, and self-harm
increased sharply among adolescents since 2010, particularly
among girls and young women (Mercado et al., 2017; Mojtabai et
al., 2016; Plemmons et al., 2018; Twenge et al., 2018b, 2019a).
Depression and self-harm also increased over this time period
among children and adolescents in the UK (Morgan et al., 2017;
NHS, 2018; Patalay & Gage, 2019). Thus, those in iGen (born
after 1995) are markedly lower in psychological well-being than
Millennials (born 1980-1994) were at the same age (Twenge,
2017).
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> Several credible explanations have been posited to explain the
decline in happiness among adult Americans, including declines
in social capital and social support (Sachs, 2017) and increases
in obesity and substance abuse (Sachs, 2018). In this article, I
suggest another, complementary explanation: that Americans are
less happy due to fundamental shifts in how they spend their
leisure time. I focus primarily on adolescents, since more
thorough analyses on trends in time use have been performed for
this age group. However, future analyses may find that similar
trends also appear among adults.
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> The rise of digital media and the fall of everything else
>
> Over the last decade, the amount of time adolescents spend on
screen activities (especially digital media such as gaming,
social media, texting, and time online) has steadily increased,
accelerating after 2012 after the majority of Americans owned
smartphones (Twenge et al., 2019b). By 2017, the average 12th
grader (17-18 years old) spent more than 6 hours a day of
leisure time on just three digital media activities (internet,
social media, and texting; see Figure 5.3). By 2018, 95% of
United States adolescents had access to a smartphone, and 45%
said they were online “almost constantly” (Anderson & Jiang,
2018).
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HTML https://worldhappiness.report/assets/images/5-3.png
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> During the same time period that digital media use increased,
adolescents began to spend less time interacting with each other
in person, including getting together with friends, socializing,
and going to parties. In 2016, iGen college-bound high school
seniors spent an hour less a day on face-to-face interaction
than GenX adolescents did in the late 1980s (Twenge et al.,
2019). Thus, the way adolescents socialize has fundamentally
shifted, moving toward online activities and away from
face-to-face social interaction.
>
> Other activities that typically do not involve screens have
also declined: Adolescents spent less time attending religious
services (Twenge et al., 2015), less time reading books and
magazines (Twenge et al., 2019b), and (perhaps most crucially)
less time sleeping (Twenge et al., 2017). These declines are not
due to time spent on homework, which has declined or stayed the
same, or time spent on extracurricular activities, which has
stayed about the same (Twenge & Park, 2019). The only activity
adolescents have spent significantly more time on during the
last decade is digital media. As Figure 5.4 demonstrates, the
amount of time adolescents spend online increased at the same
time that sleep and in-person social interaction declined, in
tandem with a decline in general happiness.
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HTML https://worldhappiness.report/assets/images/5-4.png
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> Several studies have found that adolescents and young adults
who spend more time on digital media are lower in well-being
(e.g., Booker et al., 2015; Lin et al., 2016; Twenge & Campbell,
2018). For example, girls spending 5 or more hours a day on
social media are three times more likely to be depressed than
non-users (Kelly et al., 2019), and heavy internet users (vs.
light users) are twice as likely to be unhappy (Twenge et al.,
2018). Sleeping, face-to-face social interaction, and attending
religious services – less frequent activities among iGen teens
compared to previous generations – are instead linked to more
happiness. Overall, activities related to smartphones and
digital media are linked to less happiness, and those not
involving technology are linked to more happiness. (See Figure
5.5; note that when iGen adolescents listen to music, they
usually do so using their phones with earbuds).
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HTML https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/the-sad-state-of-happiness-in-the-united-states-and-the-role-of-digital-media/
And then some wonder why there are so many "haters" on the
internet.... ;D
See also:
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: December 3, 2020, 11:54 pm
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How Norway's Prisons Are Different From America's | NowThis
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> NORWAY'S PRISON SYSTEM: ‘The most important thing is how we
treat people’ — Norway has developed a prison system that looks
a bit different from that in the U.S., which has the world’s
largest incarcerated population.
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> Chris Faller
> 3 months ago
> These prisons are nicer than most American schools
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> Navy Blue
> 1 month ago
> Norway is a country, though, with citizens, America is a
business, with employees.
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> Username
> 3 months ago
> Its so strange how Norway has these amazing prisons and yet
they have the lower reconviction rate out of the two countries.
You'd think people would be less scared to go to prison so they
would commit more crimes with less care. But since they get
treated properly, with respect, like everyone else, they leave
the prison a better person than they ever were and realise that
there's no need for crime. Unlike in America where they get
treated like animals in cages, so they come into the prison
messed up in the head and leave even worse, with their life in
dismay and they just resort to crime again
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> Charles
> 2 months ago
> As a French citizen, I've often idealized the US and took the
UE for granted but over the past few years, I've realized that
while we are flawed, we're miles ahead in pretty much everything
that matters. Europeans should unite and stop focusing on the
US, it's a barbaric country.
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> Lori Lenny
> 1 month ago
> Degrading inmates, and taking away their personal dignity does
not help people to change for the better. It makes them angry
and primitive. It changes them for the worse.
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> peter nicholson
> 3 months ago
> There really is no point in comparing the US with civilised
countries.
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> MikefromQueens
> 3 months ago (edited)
> Prison is big business here. And business’s own this nation we
call home. Simple as that. Norway actually wants to make things
better.
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> Frankie Bauer
> 3 months ago
> As a correctional officer in the U.S. this made me cry. It’s
incredibly dangerous at my facility and this is inspiring.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: December 8, 2020, 11:39 am
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The Pentagon predicts its own collapse
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> The #Pentagon believes that the #ClimateCrisis will exceed the
White House’s capacity to cope, which might trigger the downfall
of the US #Military.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: December 9, 2020, 9:16 pm
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A Shocking New Look at the 2008 Housing Crisis
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> Aaron Glantz’s award-winning investigative journalism has
sparked over a dozen congressional hearings and criminal probes.
His latest book, “Homewreckers,” takes a shocking new look at
America’s 2008 housing crisis. It’s a tale of greed and
corruption, as Glantz pulls back the curtain on a group of Wall
Street magnates who he says took advantage of a rigged system.
Moreover, as Glantz tells Hari Sreenivasan, these “homewreckers”
include key members of President Trump’s inner circle.
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The Death Of The American Middle Class
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> The End Of The American Dream (2011): With around 120,000
people declared bankrupt each month, many of the squeezed
middle-class see the American dream slipping away.
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