<https://tinyurl.com/ynmzczz2> theintermountain.com

So pervasive is the decline of America that it has given birth
to its own school of thought .. A nation once celebrated for
its irrepressible optimism now appears to be in decline ..

Real wages are falling. Productivity growth is down. Companies
aren't competitive in global markets. White-collar jobs are no
longer secure. Our nation's infrastructure is collapsing. The
federal deficit is soaring. The health system is deteriorating.
Our cities are unsafe. Our schools are failing ..

....

Some American zombies are still trying to be optimistic.

> <https://tinyurl.com/ylg8v43u>
>
> This Year, Americans Have Become Hungrier ..

<https://tinyurl.com/yq89a9jx> thesun.co.uk

If Biden wins, the US heads into a deeper decline - but if Trump wins,
America burns .. But what if either of these candidates doesn't run?
Then America is going to be in even more choppy waters ..

Something is badly off in American politics ..

....

No good options exist for America, the decline is in progress.

> <https://tinyurl.com/yl92gavo>
>
> .. America is no longer "a shining beacon on the hill" ..

<https://eig.org/aging-population-impact/>

The U.S. population is aging faster than ever. One hundred years ago,
one out of every 20 Americans were senior citizens; by fifty years ago,
this share had doubled. New U.S. Census projections estimate this
share will soon double once again .. Aging affects the economy like it
affects the body .. The wide variety of issues don't just accumulate,
but interact and exacerbate one another .. The challenge of an aging
economy should be viewed as a similar phenomenon ..

....

It means more immigration is highly necesaary.

Anti-immigration activists accelerate America's decline.

> <https://tinyurl.com/ym4urdp8>
>
> The USA is sleepwalking into a future of blackouts ..

<https://tinyurl.com/ykucuy8c> tippinsights.com

... Why Are Americans At Each Other's Throats? ..

... Even those who voted against Obama nevertheless felt his
victory made a profound statement about the country. Polls showed
both blacks and whites expected "race relations" to improve. But
after Obama's eight years in office, both blacks and whites thought
race relations got worse. What happened? ..

....

Pompous falsities and real evil make American decline inevitable.

> <https://t.co/B1PJk0QeHJ>
>
> The soul-numbing numbers of America's decline

<https://tinyurl.com/ypzcvbuz> bbc.com

A US lunar lander has "no chance" of making a soft landing on the
Moon due to a fuel leak, the company behind the mission says ..
The US space agency (Nasa) had purchased capacity on the lander ..

<https://tinyurl.com/yqwdczpj> theguardian.com

Peregrine will become another piece of debris, floating in space.
It will also be a floating coffin, as among its contents are
capsules containing DNA samples or portions of cremated remains
from former US presidents, the science fiction writer Arthur C
Clarke and others whose families have paid ..

....

> <https://tinyurl.com/yngharw4>
>
> America is LOSING its status as science hub of world ..

<https://tinyurl.com/ysw3ndug> johnmenadue.com

America today .. its economy is failing; its politics are pathological
... Like the old Soviet Union in 1989, the USA is a great power in decline,
with all the problems that this entails. Its disintegration as a "united"
state will not be the result of another Trump presidency - although Trump
would definitely hasten that disintegration ..

Here in Australia, we should not be focusing obsessively on the rise or
fall of the egregious Donald Trump .. Australians should be preparing to
deal shrewdly with an America under his ugly tutelage. But we should not
be blind to the fact he is as much a product of the inevitable decline of
the US as a superpower as the rest of his blinkered compatriots.

> <https://eig.org/aging-population-impact/>
>
> The U.S. population is aging faster than ever.

On 1/10/2024 1:20 PM, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
> <https://tinyurl.com/ypzcvbuz> bbc.com
>
> A US lunar lander has "no chance" of making a soft landing on the
> Moon due to a fuel leak, the company behind the mission says ..
> The US space agency (Nasa) had purchased capacity on the lander ..

сейчас все бросятся обсуждать эту несвежую новость (нет) ?

Ну, бывает. Область новая, опыта мало.
Аппарат ломается и не всегда можно узнать - почему -> опыт дорог и
накапливается плохо .

Любые миссии такого рода ещё столетиями будут лотереей.

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Благословлѧю на ​добрыꙗ​ дѣла. Вашь Іаковъ.

<https://tinyurl.com/yn3psjwf> themostimportantnews.com

Survey after survey has shown that Americans overwhelmingly agree that
this country is moving in the wrong direction. So how did we get here? ..
Ultimately, America's biggest problem is the fact that our country has
become completely saturated with evil. From the very top of society to
the very bottom of society, we have eagerly embraced evil, and just about
every form of wickedness that you can possibly imagine is exploding all
around us .. Everywhere you look, evil is growing ..

Read more <https://tinyurl.com/yn3psjwf>

> <https://tinyurl.com/ym85x86g>
>
> .. A Police State ..

<https://archive.is/78KuE> wsj.com

More Teens Who Use Marijuana Are Suffering From Psychosis

... Thousands of teenagers and young adults .. have developed delusions
and paranoia after using cannabis. Legalization efforts have made cannabis
more readily available in much of the country. More frequent use of
marijuana that is many times as potent as strains common three decades ago
is leading to more psychotic episodes, according to doctors and recent
research .. Rates of diagnoses for cannabis-induced disorders were more
than 50% higher at the end of November than in 2019 .. Large studies show
a clear link between frequent and more potent cannabis use and higher
rates of psychosis, particularly in young users ..

> <https://archive.is/sOBdR>
>
> 48 Million Americans Live With Addiction ..

<https://archive.is/MewL4> theepochtimes.com

Millions of Americans are struggling under the crushing weight of
rapidly rising health care costs that now force them to choose
between putting food on the table or taking care of their health ..

Even those with insurance often cannot afford the out-of-pocket
expenses associated with needed care. The problem is especially
acute because incomes have failed to keep pace with rapidly rising
costs .. The root cause is a broken health care system, "the way it
is designed, unfortunately," ..

....

America in decline the way it's designed.

> <https://tinyurl.com/yugmd3jq>
>
> America's Police Can't Solve Murders Anymore

<http://alturl.com/jsb7z> robertreich.substack.com

... Why American capitalism is so rotten ..

... In the late 1970s, the virtuous cycle came to a halt .. Starting
in the early 1980s, the median household's income stopped growing
altogether, when adjusted for inflation. Today, the median household
is earning just a bit more than it did in 1979, 45 years ago (adjusted
for inflation) ..

The standard explanation attributes this to neutral "market forces,"
... The standard explanation can't account for much of what's happened.
It doesn't explain .. why other advanced economies facing similar
forces didn't succumb to them .. why so much of the nation's income
and wealth have gone to the top. America's middle class has shrunk
because of its declining bargaining power - orchestrated and directed
by America's oligarchy. The economic gains that would otherwise have
gone to the middle class went instead to the moneyed interests at the
top ..

Read more <http://alturl.com/jsb7z>

> <https://tinyurl.com/ysw3ndug>
>
> .. the USA is a great power in decline ..

<http://alturl.com/7vdid> windsorstar.com

It's midnight in America. Things are falling apart. Prices are rising,
crime is spreading, jobs are leaving. Cities are bursting. Schools are
failing .. The United States is in crisis, led by an old, inept,
corrupt .. Didn't you know this? Isn't it obvious? If you don't, listen
to Donald Trump .. Everywhere, it's decline, decline, decline ..

....

But this is the truth.

Sarcasm and mockery are out of place.

> <https://tinyurl.com/yn3psjwf>
>
> .. Everywhere you look, evil is growing ..

<http://alturl.com/9fs72> christianpost.com

Less than half of adults can name the three branches of the U.S.
government. Another 25% can't name even one. And just over one-third
of Americans can pass the U.S. citizenship test.

These sad facts are a reminder ..

....

The facts remind that America has become a nation of zombies.

> <https://tinyurl.com/yl92gavo>
>
> .. America is no longer "a shining beacon on the hill" ..

<http://alturl.com/2rp4r> creators.com

Have you seen the polls? Most Americans are angry and shocked about
our open borders. They are literally in shock that any U.S. president
would allow this to happen ..

Open borders are leading to massive increases in spending: welfare,
food stamps, national debt - the bankruptcy of America. And of course,
a massive decline in our quality of living. Open borders are
overwhelming the system and will inevitably lead to the collapse of
our economy, civil society, and eventually, our entire country ..

Open borders have produced an unprecedented crime epidemic .. Open
borders are leading to the death of America's cities, now filled with
crime, drugs, homeless people, needles, poop and pee ..

....

Collapse of the US would be nice, useful for the world.

So I'm for more American open borders.

> <https://tinyurl.com/ytjxwjb3>
>
> .. The thick fog of despair that has fallen over the nation ..

<http://alturl.com/okc9k> amgreatness.com

At the present pace, based upon the fates of Athens and Rome, we can
hazard an educated guess. As our culture continues to degrade, the
citizenry and politicians will kick the can down the road to
civilizational decline until our cancerous $34 trillion national debt
consumes .. Is there a chance Americans will awaken .. ?

....

There's no chance.

The meditaion on Athens and Rome is in itself a kind of dream.

> <https://archive.is/78KuE>
>
> More Teens Who Use Marijuana Are Suffering From Psychosis

<http://alturl.com/mb34w> forbes.com

... The Diminishing Global Influence Of U.S. ..

First, on the economic front, by 2018, 128 out of nearly 190 countries
had chosen China as their larger trading partner. Two-thirds of the
world was trading more with China than with the United States. In fact,
90 of these countries traded more than twice as much with China as
they did with the United States ..

... Another of the near-peer competitors, Russia. The Russian military
operation against the Kiev regime should have been an easy cause on
which to build a global alliance. Yet, the global desire to oppose
Russia in favor of the United States and Europe is nearly non-existent
... All of Asia, all of Africa, all of South America... the parts of
the world that are growing the fastest, continue to do business with
and in many cases, support Russia ..

... The world's view of Palestine. Today, 139 of the 193 United Nations
General Assembly members recognize Palestine as a state. Notably, the
US and UK do not. In this, they are opposed to the position of 72% of
the world's countries .. Only ten countries opposed a recent United
Nations General Assembly vote demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The US was one of these ten, in opposition to 153 countries that voted
for the ceasefire .. If you look at the list of countries, their
populations, and their importance on the global stage, it is an even
more telling failure ..

> <http://alturl.com/5j4j4>
>
> The US isn't the biggest power in the Middle East any more ..

<http://alturl.com/k9sm8> unherd.com

... American cities are squalid ..

Ever since I began my project to walk around the world, it has
always been jarring to come home to the US, often from much poorer
countries .. to find that our infrastructure is infinitely worse ..
The reality is we are rapidly falling behind the rest of the world
in liveability ..

> <http://alturl.com/q4tcs>
>
> US imperialism is a declining imperialism ..

<http://alturl.com/qowp7> axios.com

Americans are angry .. A huge margin say their political leaders
don't care about them .. This angry, irritated feeling cuts
across all groups, without much hope for improvement with a
potential Biden-Trump rematch .. More than 70% of respondents ..
said politicians aren't trustworthy ..

....

American decline is steady, irreversible.

An uprising by zombies won't be successful.

> <https://eig.org/aging-population-impact/>
>
> The U.S. population is aging faster than ever ..

<https://archive.is/2Wct7> wsj.com

... Americans Have Lost Faith in the Value of College ..

For three generations, the national aspiration to "college for all"
shaped America's economy and culture .. That consensus is now collapsing
in the face of massive student debt, underemployed degree-holders and
political intolerance on campus. In the past decade, the percentage of
Americans who expressed a lot of confidence in higher education fell
from 57% to 36% .. Nearly half of parents say they would prefer not to
send their children to a four-year college after high school, even if
there were no obstacles, financial or otherwise. Two-thirds of high-
school students think they will be just fine without a college degree ..

> <https://tinyurl.com/yto5vx62>
>
> Fewer young men are in college ..

<https://archive.is/ohKOG> thehill.com

Five reasons American decline appears steady, irreversible .. have
been gathering momentum for decades, through both Republican and
Democratic administrations. No president or party can solve these
chronically intertwined, deep-rooted, systemic economic, political,
societal and cultural problems. Officials can only manage the decline ..

Read more <https://archive.is/ohKOG> about these fatal reasons

> <http://alturl.com/jnwyt>
>
> Only Trump Can Save America

<http://alturl.com/su7zy> unherd.com

The American Crack-Up / The nation remains blinded by a veil of madness

... How have two diametrically opposing Americas come to inhabit the same
space at the same time? That question can be answered in a single word
that is generally missing from American civics textbooks: "Oligarchy."

Contrary to the country's powerful democratic mythos, which imagines
American democracy ceaselessly expanding to include workers, women and
minorities .. Americans now find themselves living in an oligarchy
administered day-to-day by institutional bureaucracies that move in lock-
step with each other, enforcing a set of ideologically-driven top-down
imperatives that seemingly change from week-to-week and cover nearly
every subject under the sun.

The new American system has little in common with the process of
balancing .. as described by 20th-century American political scientists.
Today, power flows from the top down, from a set of fantastically
wealthy billionaires, to a national administrative class, and to a new
layer of non-profit administrators, foundation executives and NGOs ..

By trashing institutions that once protected their interests, and cutting
them out of the national power equation, the new American system deprives
America's working and middle classes of opportunities ..

Read more <http://alturl.com/su7zy>

....

Essence of the American political system has degenerated today from
democracy-republic into something else, while your minders successfully
exploit slogans-cliches and fetishes that are no longer relevant.

> <http://alturl.com/k9sm8>
>
> .. American cities are squalid ..

<http://alturl.com/s423z> charleshughsmith.blogspot.com

... Low-Trust, Increasingly Dysfunctional Society and Economy ..

What the well-compensated pundits and economists are ignoring (or are
paid to ignore) is the decay of the U.S. from a high-trust-functional to
a low-trust-dysfunctional society and economy .. Trust in institutions
has plummeted to lows, as has their trust in the political-corporate
elites' leadership .. "Soaring wealth" is asymmetrically distributed ..

> <http://alturl.com/k9sm8>
>
> .. American cities are squalid ..

<http://alturl.com/9y7nz> starkrealities.substack.com

Today's federal government is almost entirely unconstitutional ..

... A hard fact: Today's sprawling federal government, which involves
itself in almost every aspect of daily American life, is almost
entirely unconstitutional .. There is zero constitutional authority
for the Social Security, Medicare, federal drug prohibitions, the
Small Business Administration, crop subsidies, the Department of
Labor, automotive fuel efficiency standards, climate regulations, the
Federal Reserve, union regulation, housing subsidies, the Department
of Agriculture, workplace regulations, the Department of Education,
federal student loans, the Food and Drug Administration, food stamps,
unemployment insurance or light bulb regulations. Even that sampling
doesn't begin to fully account for the scope of the unsanctioned
activity .. Even if you view some of them as benign, that doesn't
render them constitutional ..

....

So the US government itself contradicts "rule-based order" mantra.

> <http://alturl.com/su7zy>
>
> The American Crack-Up

<http://alturl.com/qa3rs> consortiumnews.com

The End of Global Leadership

This is a time of many defeats for America and Americans .. The war
in Ukraine is out-and-out lost no matter how long and perversely the
U.S. and its clients continue wasting lives and money to avoid this
truth. The Israelis will prevail on the ground in Gaza .. but Israel
and America have already lost big, very big, if we think in strategic
terms rather than tactically. The Gaza crisis, in turn, has further
shredded the social and political fabric at home .. This is the
defeat that will mark our time .. "Something Lost, Never to Be Found
Again" <https://rb.gy/efxcke> .. Ours is "a culture that has become
debased; its lures that used to trap us into the 'Myth of the West'
lie withered, as patently false idols," ..

> <http://alturl.com/qowp7>
>
> Americans are angry ..

Oleg Smirnov <os333@netc.eu> wrote:
> Today's federal government is almost entirely unconstitutional ..

Бля, пц какой-то.
Путинская гнида рассуждает про конституционность

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