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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 11, 2021, 12:14 pm
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Andersen: 'Evil Genuises' Have Allowed In All Types Of 'Exciting
Falsehoods'
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> Writer Kurt Andersen joins Morning Joe to discuss 'Evil
Geniuses,' which looks at the leaders who have shaped the U.S.
economy.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiR64zCATtM
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 20, 2021, 12:42 pm
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The Housing Crisis for Students Was Bad Before COVID — and It’s
Only Getting Worse
HTML https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/college-student-housing-crisis-covid-36865268?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 20, 2021, 9:05 pm
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‘It’s all fallen apart’: Newsom scrambles to save California —
and his career
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> The Democrat leading the nation’s biggest state is facing a
raging pandemic, vaccine distribution problems and a nascent
recall drive.
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> LOS ANGELES — California is running so low on oxygen that
officials are telling emergency crews to conserve supplies.
Ambulances in Los Angeles are backed up outside emergency rooms,
sometimes for hours. And the coronavirus vaccine distribution
remains so disjointed that a freezer failure that forced
immediate inoculations of hundreds of people in Northern
California — inmates, older people, and some people on the
street — was hailed as an improvement.
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> Californians are frustrated, tired and sick. And in the midst
of the unfolding catastrophe, Gov. Gavin Newsom — confronting a
burgeoning recall effort, on top of a year of wildfires and
civil unrest — is under siege.
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> Yet the pandemic has worsened in recent weeks. And the frame
of reference through which Californians view Newsom is about to
change dramatically when Joe Biden replaces Donald Trump in the
White House. No longer benefiting from a reliable foil in
Washington, the bar of public approval for Newsom — and for
Democratic governors across the country — is likely to be
raised.
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> “For the last couple of years during Newsom’s tenure, people
have been saying the nation’s going in the wrong direction and
the state, compared to the nation, is going in the right
direction,” said Mark Baldassare, a veteran pollster and
president of the Public Policy Institute of California. Now,
without a Republican president to judge Newsom against, he said,
"It certainly changes that point of contrast."
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> For Newsom’s political purposes, the sooner the better. For
years, Republicans’ messaging on taxes, regulations and social
issues has fallen flat in gubernatorial politics here, a
reflection of California’s overwhelmingly Democratic electorate.
But the coronavirus has come as a bonanza for Newsom’s critics,
providing an opening for anti-Newsom broadsides that might
resonate beyond the Republican Party’s base.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 23, 2021, 10:46 pm
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Huge Human Inequality Study Hints Revolution is in Store for
U.S.
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> There’s a common thread tying together the most disruptive
revolutions of human history, and it has some scientists worried
about the United States. In those revolutions, conflict largely
boiled down to pervasive economic inequality. On Wednesday, a
study in Nature, showing how and when those first divisions
between rich and poor began, suggests not only that history has
always repeated itself but also that it’s bound to do so again —
and perhaps sooner than we think.
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> In the largest study of its kind, a team of scientists from
Washington State University and 13 other institutions examined
the factors leading to economic inequality throughout all of
human history and noticed some worrying trends. Using a
well-established score of inequality called the Gini
coefficient, which gives perfect, egalitarian societies a score
of 0 and high-inequality societies a 1, they showed that
civilization tends to move toward inequality as some people gain
the means to make others relatively poor — and employ it.
Coupled with what researchers already know about inequality
leading to social instability, the study does not bode well for
the state of the world today.
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> “We could be concerned in the United States, that if Ginis get
too high, we could be inviting revolution, or we could be
inviting state collapse. There’s only a few things that are
going to decrease our Ginis dramatically,” said Tim Kohler,
Ph.D., the study’s lead author and a professor of archaeology
and evolutionary anthropology in a statement.
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> Currently, the United States Gini score is around .81, one of
the highest in the world, according to the 2016 Allianz Global
Wealth Report.
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> Kohler and his team had their work cut out for them, as
studying inequality before the age of global wealth reports is
not a straightforward task. It’s one thing to measure modern day
economic inequality using measures of individual net worth, but
those kind of metrics aren’t available for, say,
hunter-gatherers chasing buffalo during the Paleolithic. To
surmount this obstacle, the researchers decided to use house
size as a catch-all proxy for wealth, then examined the makeup
of societies from prehistoric times to modern day using data
from 63 archaeological digs.
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> Overall, they found that human societies started off fairly
equal, with the hunter-gatherer societies consistently getting
Gini scores around .17. The divide between rich and poor really
began once humans started to domesticate plants and animals and
switch to farming-based societies. Learning to till the land
meant introducing the concept of land ownership, and inevitably,
some people ended up as landless peasants. Furthermore, because
these societies no longer lived as nomads, it became easier to
accumulate wealth (like land) and pass it down from generation
to generation.
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> The Gini scores got higher as farming societies got bigger.
The small scale “horticultural” farmers had a median Gini of
.27, and larger-scale “agricultural” societies moved up to .35.
This pattern continued until, oddly, humans moved into the New
World — the Americas. Then, over time, the researchers saw that
Gini scores kept rising in Old World Eurasia but actually hit a
plateau in the Americas. The researchers think this plateau
happened because there were fewer draft animals, like horse and
water buffalo, in the New World, making it harder for new
agricultural societies to expand and cultivate more land.
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> Overall, the highest-ever historical Gini the researchers
found was that of the ancient Old World (think Patrician Rome),
which got a score of .59. While the degrees of inequality
experienced by historical societies are quite high, the
researchers note, they’re nowhere near as high as the Gini
scores we’re seeing now.
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> “Even given the possibility that the Ginis constructed here
may somewhat underestimate true household wealth disparities, it
is safe to say that the degree of wealth inequality experienced
by many households today is considerably higher than has been
the norm over the last ten millennia,” the researchers write in
their paper.
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> On Monday, a global report from Credit Suisse showed that
modern humans are continuing the trends set by our predecessors:
Now, the report showed, half of the world’s wealth really does
belong to a super-rich one percent, and the gap is only growing.
Historically, Kohler says in his statement, there’s only so much
inequality a society can sustain before it reaches a tipping
point. Among the many known effects of inequality on a society
are social unrest, a decrease in health, increased violence, and
decreased solidarity. Unfortunately, Kohler points out, humans
have never been especially good at decreasing inequality
peacefully — historically, the only effective methods for doing
so are plague, massive warfare, or revolution.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 24, 2021, 2:59 pm
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AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS - Chris Hedges
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> American Psychosis - Chris Hedges on the US empire of
narcissism and psychopathy.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse (?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 24, 2021, 6:09 pm
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Foreign companies are giving up on the United States and betting
big on China, report says
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> Foreign companies are turning their backs on the United
States, taking advantage of China's booming economy and superior
management of the Covid-19 pandemic.
> Direct investment in the US by foreign companies plummeted 49%
to $134 billion last year, according to a report released Sunday
by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. By
contrast, foreign direct investment in China grew by 4% to $163
billion in 2020.
> 2020 marked the first year in history that foreign direct
investment in China overtook that of the US, according to the
UN. China is now the world's largest recipient of foreign
companies' investments.
> Although Covid-19 was a large factor in foreign direct
investment tumbling in the US -- and most places around the
world -- the drop-off in foreign companies' American investments
began well before the pandemic.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 24, 2021, 7:37 pm
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What’s Driving California’s Mass Exodus?
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> As Oracle, Palantir and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise move their
headquarters out of California and Elon Musk moves to Texas,
California is considering raising taxes on the wealthy to
unprecedented levels. Experts say California needs to find more
ways to reverse the trend.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 25, 2021, 11:28 am
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Why Do Cell Phone Bills Cost So Much In The U.S.?
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> The average American spent $1,218 for cell phone service in
2019. That comes out to just over $100 per month. Check out the
video to find out why you may be paying so much for your phone
service and what you can do to save some money.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 25, 2021, 11:44 am
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Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The Developed World
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> The US incarcerates more people - both per capita and by sheer
numbers - than any other nation on earth. Our prisons are
inhumane hellholes, and private prisons are making a killing.
Let's talk about our horrendous prison system and look at some
much better justice systems in other countries.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 25, 2021, 10:44 pm
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Is The U.S. Running Out Of People?
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> The US is facing an aging population, falling birth rate and
economic recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic. These
issues will have huge implications on the size of the workforce
and the consumer base. Watch the video to find out why America
could be confronting an underpopulation problem and what
business leaders and policymakers can do about it.
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World overpopulation and over-consumption problem aside, how do
U.S. citizens not realize that THIS IS YOUR CAPITALISM,
REPUBLIC, AND DEMOCRACY in action!? This is EXACTLY everything
all of you keep ranting about as the greatest thing that's ever
happened to humanity has led all of you!? THIS is what you are
trying to push on the rest of the non-western world and then you
wonder why non-westerners don't want it and hate you for it? YOU
ARE REAPING EXACTLY WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN!!!
I just don't understand how to say this any clearer to Americans
and Westerners in general?
It is SO amazing to witness their society falling apart because
of democracy, yet they continue to push democracy like it's the
best form of government ever invented!? THAT IS ABSOLUTE
LUNACY!!!
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