DEC 31
17 SIT EC y POL
ND denounce Global-neoliberal
debacle y propone State-Social + Capit-compet in Econ
ZERO HEDGE ECONOMICS
Neoliberal globalization is
over. Financiers know it, they documented with graphics
Financial and political power are two sides of one coin...
[ Nice
graphic.. but blocked to copy-paste ]
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via:
OfTwoMinds blog, Go to this
author or source below!
We all know the rich are getting richer, and the super-rich
are getting super-richer. This reality is
illustrated in the chart of income gains, the vast majority of which
have flowed to the top .01%--not the top 1%, or the top .1% -- to the very
tippy top of the wealth-power pyramid:
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If 2017 has seemed to you like
a long and terrible year filled with
bad news, then here's some good news to close
things out: you
were right!
The
bottom line: Maybe President Trump was onto something when he decided that he needed
to make America great again. From health care to education, the
U.S. is starting to see notable declines in the areas that matter the most to
regular citizens.
1. We're dying sooner
America
just registered its
second straight year with a decline in life expectancy. That last happened
more than a half-century ago. There is some good news: heart disease and cancer
death rates are down.
2. Student debt is piling up
Student
debt hit $1.3 trillion this year, compared to just $243 billion back in 2003.
3. Homes are out of reach for millennials
First-time
homebuyers accounted for 34% of all home purchases in 2017, which neared a
historic low, per CNBC. Chalk that up to sky-high home prices and those
massive piles of student debt, which the New York Fed said accounted for a noted drop in
homebuyers amongst millennials this year.
4. Mass shootings result in a shrug
The
Onion's continuously re-upped headline says it all: "'No Way
To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens." United
States has had more mass shootings and more people killed in those mass
shootings than 10 other developed nations combined, per Politifact.
5. The opioid crisis is staggering
Now, 91 people in the United States die every
day from an opioid overdose. Vox put things in terrifying context earlier this year: the
U.S. has 4% of the world's population but 27% of its drug overdose deaths.
6. Our education system is middling
Data
from the Pew Research Center shows that U.S. STEM education is
especially lacking. In 2015, only 38% of fourth-graders, 34% of eighth-graders
and 22% of 12th-graders were rated proficient or better in science based on the
government's National Assessment of Educational Progress.
7. Our infrastructure is falling behind
President
Trump has promised a massive infrastructure package sometime early in 2018.
That couldn't come soon enough, as the American Society of Civil Engineers gave
the United States' infrastructure a D+ grade
for 2017.
8. There aren't a lot of days off
We
also don't guarantee paid vacation time — most countries in Western Europe guarantee weeks — and
there's no guaranteed paid sick days.
9. We drink too much [and eat too much unhealthy food = high rates of obesity ]
Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism saw risky drinking behavior jump to 12.6% among American
adults in 2012-2013 from 9.7% in 2001-2012. That increase amounts to about 7
million more Americans binge drinking each week.
10. Fewer people want to visit
Tourism
is down across the board — per The Telegraph, there are huge drop-offs in demand for
British travelers to come to the United States. Tourist hubs like Las Vegas and
Orlando saw double digit declines in U.K. visitors in 2017.
But don't despair! We'll have 10 ways America is
crushing it later today...
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"James
is startled awake. He is disturbed...'What kind of a world have I been born
into...?' he seems
to ask..."
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POLITICS
Seudo democ y sist duopolico in US is obsolete; it’s full of frauds & corruption. Urge
cambiarlo
President Trump has delivered on a number of promises for his
base. But there was an impressive amount of breakage along the way...
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The Political Year
In Charts
graphics blocked too.. SO OPEN: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-30/year-charts
Remembering the first year in office
for perhaps the least traditional president the US has ever elected...
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CNN's
Ana Navarro, the latest data from the Interior
Ministry of Mexico would suggest that Mexicans living in the U.S. have less to fear from a Trump administration than they did
under Obama.
[[ CNN
has been accused of being mercenaries of Press: no interest in truth but on
money ]]
Anyway.. here is the source:
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WORLD
ISSUES and M-East
Global depression is on…China,
RU, Iran search for State socialis+K- compet. D rest in limbo
"Protesters must certainly know that improper
behavior will be to their detriment, and the nation will come out and stand
against these actions and throw a hard punch in their faces," Iran's Revolutionary Guard vowed as protests swept
across the nation for the 4th day.
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Unfortunately, all of this precludes a bright prognosis for
2018. The world will not become safer. Relationships between major global powers will
remain strained at best. Likely, they will deteriorate.
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GLOBAL
RESEARCH
Geopolitics & Econ-Pol
crisis that leads to more business-wars:
its profiteers US-NATO
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SPUTNIK
and RT SHOWS
Geopolitics & the nasty
business of US-NATO-Global-wars uncovered ..
Iranian Protests: The Story So Far It start as Manufactured riot & then..
RELATED 1: See images of People protest in Tehran, 2017, picture
obtained from social media
The mass protests that broke out across Iran earlier
this week continue for a third day; two protesters have been killed amid the
ongoing disturbances. Takfiri groups and foreign agents
in this clash,"
deputy province governor Habibollah Khojastehpour told state television. "Takfiri"
is the name that Iranian state media sources usually use to describe Sunni fundamentalists who target Shiites in Syria and
elsewhere, such as Daesh (ISIS) and the Al Nusra Front.
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RT SHOWS
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NOTICIAS
IN SPANISH
Latino America looking for
alternatives to neoliberalism to break with Empire:
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“Estamos en una fase permanente semejante al
periodo de acumuloriginaria”
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VIDEO: 'Violento ataque' de una
ardilla a la Policía de Nueva York Si ellas los odian.. imaginen la N
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PRESS TV
Global situation described by
Iranian observers..
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