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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 9, 2021, 10:46 pm
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How Fracking Became America's Money Pit
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> For most any nation, let alone a superpower, energy
independence is considered the geopolitical holy grail. So when
fracking lured in American investors, everyone had high hopes
the country would finally break free of OPEC. But oil is a
complex game, and 2020 saw sharp declines in demand caused by
the cartel’s maneuvering, shale oil’s oversupply, and now the
devastating effects of the coronavirus. What’s worse, the
startup mentality of the U.S. fracking industry promised
investors mythical growth and nonexistent returns. In the end,
it burned a $340 billion hole in Wall Street’s pocket.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 10, 2021, 9:42 pm
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Wow! I never realized there were already this many books on the
subject: (Disclaimer: of all the things I post on these forums I
am weary most of the following types of posts because I do not
wish to see Americans demoralized more than they already are,
but accuracy is more important at the end of the day I believe).
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 11, 2021, 11:55 am
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The pandemic exposes the severity of America's problems
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> Ten million people are out of work, 15 million Americans are
behind in their rental payments, 24 million adults and 12
million children literally don't have enough food to eat. This
is the dark picture U.S. President Joe Biden painted when he
called on Congress to go big on a $1.9 trillion rescue plan to
deal with a faltering economy. As CGTN's anchor Guan Xin
observes, the pandemic has exposed the severity of America’s
problems which were underlying even before the pandemic.
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> S S
> 8 hours ago
> US don't follow the path of common sense and truth so
ultimately they are going to lose
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> K C Koay
> 2 hours ago
> As the saying goes, "those who live in glass houses should not
throw stones.”
>
> It is a fact that the U.S. is enjoying massive unfair
advantage over the rest of the world. This is largely made
possible because the world at large (and China) still honour the
dollar as the principal reserve currency. The certitude of
dollar as the reserve currency enables the U.S. to print money,
via the issuance of debts to finance its huge deficit spending,
its insatiable appetite for consumption, and to augment the
exploit and hegemony of capital. Effectively, to the U.S., the
cost of capital and labour of other producing countries is no
more than the cost of printing of the greenbacks.
>
> However, for the U.S. to sustain the ‘fiat’ value of the
dollar, the confidence and continuous support of the world
largest trading nation, China, is pre-eminent.
>
> The logical strategy would be for the U.S. to view and treat
China as its strategic partner, rather than an adversary.
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> Set san Chew
> 7 hours ago
> Nailed it sis.
> That s the truth.
> That s the reality.
> Keeps on printing us$
> N america will becomes a banana republic.
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Turns out that just being wealthy is NOT good enough when it
comes to nation-states and civilization. Western capitalists
have always lived under the false assumption that you can just
throw money at a problem and it will go away. We are now
witnessing what happens to a nation and it's people when all it
cares about is profit and money above all else.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 12, 2021, 9:04 pm
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Blaming China For US Poverty And The Broken American Dream
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> In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organisation, with
America's support. The US' belief was that free trade with China
could create more opportunities for Americans.
>
> However in the past 20 years, almost 5 million manufacturing
jobs in America have been lost, as factories moved overseas,
creating Rust Belt de-industrialisation, a surge in poverty
levels and anti-China sentiment.
>
> Dayton, Ohio, home of the Wright brothers, was once known as
“The City of 1,000 Factories” and the Silicon Valley of its age.
From 2001 to 2007, the city lost almost 23,000 jobs, as
factories such as General Motors shut down. Ironically in 2015,
Chinese glass-maker Fuyao set up a factory in Dayton employing
2,300 workers - the subject of the Academy Award-winning
documentary American Factory.
>
> But how much is globalisation, and China in particular, to
blame for America's deindustrialisation woes, and how much the
one-percenters and unequal distribution of wealth? America's GDP
after all has grown by some US$11 trillion since 2001.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 12, 2021, 10:30 pm
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Unemployed Americans Are Smuggling Drugs to Survive the Pandemic
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> The Sinaloa cartel is enlisting unemployed Americans to move
drugs over the border with Mexico. VICE News speaks with cartel
members and smugglers adapting to pandemic conditions.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 13, 2021, 10:10 pm
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Billionaire DELUSIONAL on Survival Checks
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> Billionaire investor Sam Zell thinks that the next stimulus
package needs to be more targeted, claiming it's just a fun way
for people to gamble with the government's money.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 14, 2021, 7:23 pm
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Thoughts On The Impeachment Trial or (Sunday Morning Coming
Down)
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> Comedian Corey Ryan Forrester reflects on the impeachment
trial and how it was very predictable
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> But that ain't America baby, it's not, the bad guy wins. In
this country the bad guy wins, more often than not.... Our
system is broken, broken in half....
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>
> I just really, really, really, want to see the bad guy lose
like he does in all my story books....
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I guess that's one of the main reasons I'm here as well, for
just once in my life I want to see the REAL bad guys lose! Not
the petty criminal that's had to resort to crime because they
don't understand a better way, but the real crooks. The crooks
that were born into privilege, whether "white" or Jewish, and
still go out of their way to feed on the poor and destroy
innocent lives without a care in the world, all for profit!
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 16, 2021, 8:50 pm
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Beto: ‘We Are Nearing A Failed State In Texas’ Thanks To GOP
Leadership
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> “We are nearing a failed state in Texas. And it has nothing to
do with God, or natural disasters. It has everything to do with
the leadership and those in the positions of public trust who
have failed us,” says Beto O’Rourke amid Texas’ latest crisis:
massive power outages.
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Chris Hayes Debunks GOP, Right-Wing Media Lies About Texas Power
Outages
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> "It is just a lie that wind turbines, 'green energy' are the
root causes of the problems in Texas right now,” says Chris
Hayes, discussing the right wing attempt to turn Texas power
outages into a culture war.
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> Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, wrote a Facebook
post Tuesday saying that a person's local government or power
provider ‘owes you NOTHING!’ as millions of Texans go without
power during a frigid winter storm. The mayor has resigned, but
says his resignation was submitted prior to him facing backlash
for his comments. Boyd has since deleted his controversial post
on Facebook, which also said, ‘Only the strong will survive and
the weak will [perish].’ He later posted an apology, saying, 'I
would never want to hurt the elderly or anyone that is in true
need of help to be left to fend for themselves.' President Joe
Biden has declared Texas to be in a state of emergency.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 17, 2021, 2:39 pm
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Winter storm leaves 5.5 million U.S. houses without power
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> A winter storm sent temperatures plunging across the Southern
Plains, prompting a power emergency across large swaths of the
U.S. Texas was hit hardest among these states, with more than
4.3 million houses facing power outages. Electric Reliability
Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages the state's electric
supply, initiated rotating power cuts from the early morning of
February 15.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 17, 2021, 10:48 pm
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