<https://tinyurl.com/2krngtwr> dailysignal.com

... Journalists Now Represent America's Elite

Today, journalists are .. people who are super comfortable with authority,
super comfortable with massive government. They think that somebody should
be telling everybody what to think and what to do, and they should be the
ones in charge of that messaging .. Journalists ascended to the elites ..
It shifted their focus because they ended up on the beneficiary end ..

....

It's what's called "leftist media" in the American context. American right-
wingers are dumb (thery're of lower IQ, as everybody knows) so these silly
species invent conspiracy theories about "socialists" hijacking everything.
In the modern American reality the Left represents Big Money, the Right
represents medium/small businesses, and populace are represented by no one.

> <https://tinyurl.com/yj7bnjkf>
>
> A Ponzi Scheme of Prosperity ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2klmn7qn> thedailystar.net

US employers struggle to find enough workers .. Salespeople, food servers,
postal workers -- "Help Wanted" ads are proliferating across the United
States, as companies struggle to deal with a worker shortage .. "We have a
lot of jobs, but not enough workers to fill them," the US Chamber of
Commerce, which represents American companies, said in a statement ..

....

I does not sound sensical.

If an employer doesn't have "enough workers" it simply means that the
employer offers too low wages, so those employers who cannot offer higher
wages should go bankrupt without unnecessary fuss.

> <https://archive.is/N6AV9>
>
> .. America's shortages are worsening ..

<https://archive.is/uBUCw> ohiocapitaljournal.com

100 million people in America are saddled with health care debt ..

The picture is bleak. In the past five years, more than half of U.S. adults
report they've gone into debt because of medical or dental bills .. A
quarter of adults with health care debt owe more than $5,000. And about 1 in
5 with any amount of debt said they don't expect to ever pay it off .. The
burden is forcing families to cut spending .. Millions are being driven from
their homes or into bankruptcy .. Debt from health care is nearly twice as
common for adults under 30 as for those 65 and older ..

America's debt crisis is driven by a simple reality: Half of U.S. adults
don't have the cash to cover an unexpected $500 health care bill .. As a
result, many simply don't pay. The flood of unpaid bills has made medical
debt the most common form of debt on consumer credit records. As of last
year, 58% of debts recorded in collections were for a medical bill ..

Read more <https://tinyurl.com/2ox456dq>

> <https://tinyurl.com/277grhso>
>
> .. U.S. healthcare is failing

<https://tinyurl.com/2oxy5y4b> spectator.com.au

America is forgetting how to make stuff ..

Between 2000 and 2010, US manufacturing experienced a nightmare. The number
of manufacturing jobs in the United States, .. declined by one third in
that decade, falling by 5.8 million to below 12 million in 2010 ..

This economic disruption has resulted in growing social disruption. While
most people in the US assumed the nation was becoming one big middle class,
instead a working class facing declining incomes came into clear, angry view
during the 2016 US presidential election .. Corporations and businessmen in
the US made a conscious decision to abandon the US and go to China to build
things. They invested a lot of money to accomplish this goal .. Now the US
dependence on China is an issue ..

Millions of American jobs disappeared a decade ago and millions more
continue to be .. And his wife divorced him. And he grew more depressed ..
This makes our country weak, dependent and vulnerable ..

....

So America has sold China rope with which to hang it (as it was predicted).

> <https://tinyurl.com/2f4j3zwj>
>
> The Myth of American Competitive Supremacy

<https://tinyurl.com/2hne7u5e> bitcoin.com

Peter Schiff Warns US Faces a 'Massive Financial Crisis,' .. Much Larger
Problems Than 2008 .. The U.S. has a lot more debt than it did back then ..
economic downturn "is going to be a much bigger crisis ..

While speaking on the Kitco News broadcast, Schiff further explained in
greater detail why he thinks America's economic downturn will be more ugly
than 2008's economic decline ..

> <https://tinyurl.com/2nywznrz>
>
> The Drug Crisis Is Getting Worse ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2fddbvp2> bloomberg.com

Decline in Chinese Students in the US ..

Late 2021 survey results found that 62% of Chinese polled had a negative
perception of the US .. Younger Chinese - those born in the 1990s and
later - tend to have a more negative image of the US than their parents do.

....

The American education is more about prestige than real education, and as
America's prestige wanes in overall, it's harder for its universities to
sell their substandard services.

> <https://archive.is/73nQU>
>
> America has 1.2 million fewer students in college

<https://tinyurl.com/2hacogn8> boredpanda.com

European Visits The USA For The First Time And Is Shocked And Disappointed ..

... A European who visited LA and the US for the very first time, shone a
light .. The author .. shared how shocked he was with what he saw there. From
"drunk and high people" to "so many homeless and poor" with "five, six tents
under each bridge" and "trash and feces everywhere," .. he never felt so
unsafe ..

Bored Panda reached out to the author of this post .. who's from Belgium and
works at a university as a sociologist. "In Europe, we .. consume a lot of
American media and movies, so in the back of my mind, unconsciously, the USA
was very comparable to Europe." However, once the [author] arrived in LA, he
was surprised to see "so many homeless, poor and psychotic people." He told
us: "It became apparent to me that the USA suffers from all the problems
that I knew about, but multiplied tenfold ..

The author said that he always compared the USA to other western countries,
but it all changed during this trip .. ".. Remind me more of Brazil or South
Africa ..

> <https://tinyurl.com/2pptc9ax>
>
> .. America operating as a Third World country ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2n3cokee> thrillist.com

Flight Cancellations in 2022 Are Worse Than They Were Pre-Pandemic

If you've been flying this year, you've probably had a flight canceled
or at least seriously delayed. In the past week, American Airlines has
announced the cancellation of thousands of flights, and other airlines
have made similar cancellations throughout the summer .. That's about
11% higher than pre-pandemic levels ..

> <https://archive.is/xHgFO>
>
> Today's America: An Economy of Shortages

<https://tinyurl.com/2f4dsowq> propublica.org

A raccoon invasion. Human feces in the lobby. Flooding ..

Apartment hunting in New York City is a special kind of hell. Friends
warned me before I moved here five years ago, sharing stories of
cockroaches and sketchy real estate brokers, of paying $2,000 per month
to live next to an early morning parade of garbage trucks. So when I
landed my first apartment - with hardwood floors, a short commute and
an in-unit washer/dryer for less than $1,850 a month - I thought I'd
found a unicorn.

The unicorn turned out to be a pile of rotting meat in a trenchcoat.
First my ceiling became waterlogged from my neighbor's leaking radiator
(while she was recovering from surgery). Then my radiator soaked the
apartment of my downstairs neighbor (who was paying $3,000 a month even
though there was no heat in her toddler's bedroom) ..

Read more <https://tinyurl.com/2f4dsowq>

> <https://tinyurl.com/25qx5zpf>
>
> New York stinky! Odor complaints in NYC ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2qqgf9a8> oakpark.com

Rats are a reality of urban living, especially in Chicago. Last year, pest
control service Orkin dubbed the City of Broad Shoulders the "rattiest city"
in the United States, a title Chicago has the misfortune of winning seven
years in a row .. "I've been living here for 43 years, and it's never been
this bad," ..

....

> <https://tinyurl.com/23g9lthv>
>
> America's great cities are gripped by decline and disorder ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2ewa8rsn> jagranjosh.com

Polio outbreak in New York, London, and Jerusalem: For the first
time in decades, the dreaded disease of polio is spreading in areas
of London, Jerusalem, and New York ..

....

> <https://archive.is/XB4xy>
>
> Medieval diseases, gangs, corruption, crime ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2jja7frd> advisorperspectives.com

America's $7 Trillion Retirement Crisis Is Only Getting Worse

... The situation is getting worse. Even when everything was going
right - inflation was nonexistent, interest rates were low and
stocks were in an extended bull market - there was a multi-trillion
dollar savings shortfall .. Then .. The resulting market turmoil
erased some $3.4 trillion from 401(k)s and IRAs in the first half
of 2022 .. Things are likely to get worse as the Baby Boom
generation retires. The number of Americans age 65 and over is set
to increase to 73 million by 2030, or about 21% of the population,
compared with 49 million or 15% in 2016 ..

> <https://tinyurl.com/2eujc6ys>
>
> .. Standing water in building entrances and a hole in the roof ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2k3w7rlx> tulsaworld.com

Ten percent. That's the portion of K-12 teachers in the United States who
say they've been physically attacked by a student, a new survey has found ..
Various news outlets have reported what has been described as a "wave of
student misbehavior" .. The purported surge in student misconduct is part of
an upward trend in student assaults on teachers ..

As school districts across the country report critical shortages in teaching
staff .. Teachers informed me the principals were worried about their schools
getting a bad reputation ..

> <https://tinyurl.com/y9edw9a7>
>
> .. Bad Behavior Is on the Rise ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2fcwcdus> realclearpolitics.com

... the Federal Bureau of Intimidation

Nothing symbolizes the decline of the American republic better .. The
Federal Bureau of Investigation is now the Federal Bureau of
Intimidation. Or more appropriately, the Federal Intimidation Bureau,
whose acronym would spell out FIB, as in the Big Lie. Face it, nothing
the FBI has said for the last six years since they joined with the
Democratic Party to invent the Russia collusion hoax can be taken
seriously ..

This wasn't about the rule of law; it was about the rule of the
schoolyard. Bullies get what they want through force and intimidation,
and there is no reason for any of us to believe that the raid had any
purpose other than to intimidate Donald Trump into backing down from
his plans to run for president in 2024 ..

....

> <https://tinyurl.com/2j7lykvb>
>
> Welcome to the Banana Republic of America

<https://tinyurl.com/2zm9slmm> thetrumpet.com

The Federal Bureau of Fabrication

How far will the Federal Bureau of Investigation go? It lied to obtain a
warrant to spy on the campaign of Donald Trump in 2016. It contorted
itself to avoid political harm to his opponent, Hillary Clinton. It raided
the homes and offices of three of the president's attorneys in 2018, 2021
and again this year. It raided the apartment of an investigative
journalist to intimidate those who published information relating to Joe
Biden. It has confronted people who have worked with the president,
seizing their phones and even putting one in jail for a short time. And it
has infamously put dozens of less powerful Trump supporters in jail
without trial or any semblance of due process for more than a year .. The
FBI is morphing into the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party ..

....

America as a whole is morphing into a shithole.

> <https://archive.is/sRZ8S>
>
> .. It's a really scary time ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2kusnl5f> khaleejtimes.com

Why is Donald Trump so powerful? .. Trump tells powerful stories that
ring true to tens of millions of Americans .. The main one is that America
is being ruined by corrupt coastal elites .. The Regime: Washington power
players, liberal media, big foundations, elite universities, woke
corporations. These people are corrupt, condescending and immoral and are
looking out only for themselves .. Metropolitan elites have become
something of a self-enclosed Brahmin class ..

....

In the modern American situation, the Left (the "liberal", mainstream one)
represents Big Money, whereas the Right represents medium/small businesses
("petty bourgeois" mindset and attitudes).

The right-wingers en masse are too stupid to grasp the way the "leftist"
"socialism" may be linked with the Big Money interest, these low IQ species
simply don't understand what and who they are dealing with.

> <https://tinyurl.com/2fohv9ex>
>
> .. People who are super comfortable with authority ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2qen4hqw> phys.org

'Catastrophic failure' .. Roughly 21,000 fish died at a northern California
university's aquatic research center overnight last week .. "The loss
appears to be due to chlorine exposure, to which fish are especially
sensitive," .. There was a failure in an external decontamination system
that caused the chlorinated water to back up in the fish tanks ..

....

> <https://archive.is/xRhGW>
>
> Power Grids Are Failing All Over America

<https://tinyurl.com/2lzll4vq> globaltimes.cn

US electoral system rotting amid chaotic politics

... Continues the pattern of victory of Trump-endorsed Republicans in the
primaries. Trump has backed over 200 candidates in this election cycle,
of which about 180 have won. It proves that the influence of the former
president is very strong among the hardcore GOP members, the most common
group to participate in the partisan primary elections ..

At the same time, the recent drama over Trump is seemingly stealing the
spotlight from other more prominent issues in US society that should have
been the main focus: soaring prices, energy shortages, healthcare, and so
on. Politicians [seek] to satisfy their personal political interests at
the expense of people's welfare. This indeed manifests a new sign of
decadence in US domestic politics .. As for whether they can solve these
problems or not, these politicians do not care ..

Experience has shown that a large number of US domestic problems have not
been solved at all after the elections .. The US electoral system has
reached the point of rot. While the basic pattern of the system - being
manipulated by plutocracy - has not changed, a new layer of politicization
and weaponization of the judiciary is now added, as proven in the FBI's
recent raid. So-called democracy in the US is now far away from the dream
that was cherished by the nation's founding fathers. Such "democracy" has
long lost its capability to solve the problem in essence .. It is getting
farther and farther from true democracy ..

> <https://tinyurl.com/y3k8ubq4>
>
> .. "It's America that is the sick man" ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2lpkc3tw> wvtf.org

For many Americans, rising prices are making it difficult to afford living
costs. And some are making sacrifices .. Inflation is also causing many
people to rethink their social activities .. It's unfortunately typical for
people to limit their doctor's visits .. Inflation affects everyone, but
not equally. Low-income families are impacted harder ..

"[These families] would be most likely to lose their jobs if we were to
enter into a recession .. They would be even in worse shape if we're in a
situation where they were to lose their job."

....

Things aren't good, and it will be getting worse.

> <https://tinyurl.com/a2m5w79d>
>
> There is an existential crisis ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2l9vx7uc> cnn.com

American farmers are killing ..

Nearly three quarters of US farmers say this year's drought is hurting
their harvest -- with significant crop and income loss .. 37% of farmers
said they are plowing through and killing existing crops that won't reach
maturity because of dry conditions. That's a jump from 24% last year ..
Farmers in Texas are being forced to sell off their cattle herds earlier
than normal due to extreme drought -- as water sources dry out and grass
burns up .. Reduction in herd size, down 50% ..

> <https://tinyurl.com/frv7s4et>
>
> The result is that for decades - or longer ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2ny95l8b> silive.com

The ongoing crisis on America's roadways <https://is.gd/OcUKuY> is growing
worse and worse, with early estimates from the federal government showing
that motor vehicle deaths during the first three months of the year have
reached their highest point in 20 years .. The rising roadway deaths during
the first quarter of 2022 come on the heels of the deadliest year on U.S.
streets in 16 years .. The estimated death total marked the highest number
since 2005, with the 10.5% rise representing the highest year-to-year
increase in the country's recorded history .. The increased number of deaths
can be attributed, in part, to increased dangerous driving behaviors ..

....

> <https://tinyurl.com/2zc92rxa>
>
> L.A. is spending tens of billions of dollars to make [things] worse ..

<https://archive.is/Z5wqB> cenlanow.com

... Texas cattle industry faces existential crisis ..

The megadrought in the Western U.S., the region's worst in 1,200 years, is
threatening America's cattle heartland: withering pastures, wrecking feed
harvests and endangering a quintessential way of life ..

The drought is echoing through beef supply chains, resulting in higher
prices for consumers for at least the next two years - and likely serving
as the final blow ..

More than three-quarters of farmers in drought-stricken states have pulled
farmland out of production, and 85 percent of ranchers reported selling off
some portions of their herds ..

> <https://tinyurl.com/ybe67mfa>
>
> The Drought in the West Is Bad and It's Gonna Get Worse / and no hope

<https://tinyurl.com/2lxekhx6> usnews.com

The full reopening of the Colombia-Venezuela border will come sooner rather
than later .. Relations between the two countries have warmed in the nearly
two weeks since Gustavo Petro was sworn in as Colombia's new president ..

> 2019-02 <https://archive.is/M7sl7> Maduro's days are numbered - Pompeo
> 2019-03 <https://archive.is/JK2cT> final push against Maduro
> 2019-04 <https://archive.is/nuHWA> final phase of Operation Freedom
> 2019-05 <https://archive.is/mvYp5> Maduro's days are surely numbered now
> 2022-08 <https://archive.is/6bijP> Things to become worse for the US ..

<https://tinyurl.com/2h6k8vp3> mininggazette.com

... Our broken political system ..

One of the biggest reasons American politics have turned upside down over
the past few years is growing numbers of Americans do not think leaders
represent their interests. That simple sentiment underlies nearly every
recent problem in American politics .. It's hard to trust elected
representatives if you think they are in it to line their own pockets.
Voters also don't trust politicians who seem to prioritize foreign
interests or special interests over their own well-being. Those are
precisely the sentiments many voters feel today. It has now been over six
years since America's political class was put on clear notice that their
voters are not happy. During those six years, almost zero effort has been
expended to understand why voters are so frustrated ..

....

The situation when elected leaders betray the expectations of their voters
and fail on electoral promises is more rule than exception for the modern
"western democracies". Besides the mass of ordinary voters, there's always
some more powerful unelected actors and forces affecting government
policies, which may be the Deep State and [trans]national corporate clans
with their interest or - in the case of smaller nations - powerful foreign
forces. And the ordinary voters can't even think for themselves and on
their own, since the mainstream mass media zombify their brains, while the
mainstream media are also owned by those very unelected actors and forces.

> <https://tinyurl.com/2j6wghso>
>
> .. Live in an age of failure ..

<https://archive.is/unLvM> wbaltv.com

America's small businesses are fighting 'double whammy' .. Only about
a third of small businesses are making 90% or more of their pre-
pandemic revenue .. That's worse than the results of a similar survey
conducted last year, when 42% said they had recovered 90% or more of
their pre-pandemic business .. There's a combination of factors working
against small business owners .. When vacant storefronts become a
fixture on Main Streets across the nation, consumers wind up with fewer
choices about where they spend their money, and workers are left with
fewer places to seek employment ..

....

Given the fact that the US government is ran by big corporations, it's
pretty natural that it seeks to somehow make life for small businesses
more difficult.

> <https://archive.is/CYPAH>
>
> In fact, Biden is starting to look more like a South than a North
> American president .. A Biden bust is looming - it is just a question
> of how quickly it arrives ..