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American prosperity and perceived poverty - an excellent analysis on a historical, economical, political and psychological level.

Listen till the end of the video (26 minutes) as it's not only about Americans being better off than people in some underdeveloped countries, and not everything is said at being two thirds through the video.

youtube.com/watch?v=pZlpyYKU7sA

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Day 20 cont 💰💰💰💰☢️🏭🏠🏘️⛪🕍📈📉👔👨🏻‍💼👩🏻‍💼

“A video shared thousands of times on a Chinese (#CCP) #SocialMedia platform claiming a re-elected #Albanese government would adopt “the far-left agenda” of the #Greens and potentially seize vacant homes was created by a member of a #WeChat group campaigning for the Liberal party in a marginal Melbourne seat.

The six-minute video, narrated by a woman who refers to herself as #AuntieGuoer, also claims any minority Albanese government that might rely on the Greens would “crackdown on the #MiddleClass” and lead to the #decline of “traditional #SocialStructures”.”

I see this is happening in the seat of #Aston and past Liberal seat of a political favourite of mine, #TudgyFudge 🤪🤣☺️ Given the subject matter I’d lay a bet this is the work of ex AFP Officer, #SandraBourke and #MatthewSheahan who now has removed all biographic links. Why?

#AusPol / #Advance / #propaganda / #extremism / #ForeignInterference / #CounterDemocratic / #LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals <theguardian.com/australia-news> / <advanceaustralia.org.au/time-t>

The Guardian · Video claiming re-elected Labor would ‘plunder’ middle class made by member of WeChat Liberal campaign groupBy Henry Belot

Today, we remembers the death of the German Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed on this day in 1945 for his active opposition to Nazism. May his courage and his memory never be forgotten. #dietrichbonhoeffer #fascism #nazism #Trump #MAGA #Germany #theology #USA #stupidity #cheapgrace #religion #christianity #christian #ChristianNationalism #philosophy #sociology #psychology #resist #TrumpLies #trumptariffs #decline #usa #jesus

Excellent (long) piece!

“Apocalypse From Within: How American Imperial Decay Fuels Nuclear Risk: Why US Dysfunction is the Greatest Nuclear Threat”

by Raja Sohail Bashir in The Geopolitical Compass on Substack

“High-profile warnings from figures like Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, suggesting a declining America is uniquely prone to nuclear first-use, underscore a visceral fear demanding rigorous analysis”

open.substack.com/pub/hailyb/p

The Geopolitical Compass · Apocalypse From Within: How American Imperial Decay Fuels Nuclear RiskBy Raja Sohail Bashir
#Press#US#Decline

US #stocks #plunged today, with the S&P 500 suffering its biggest #decline since March 2020.

#Shares of multinational companies #tumbled. Nike & Apple dropped 13% & 10%, respectively. Tech shares dropped, with chip-makers Nvidia off 7% & Elon Musk’s Tesla down 5%.

When asked about the market reaction to the tariffs, Trump said: “The markets are going to boom. The stock is going to boom. The country is going to boom."

When elements of a #foodchain are lost, this can have #ecologicalimpacts with other species getting more abundant. N. Hammerschlag et al. (2025) report a sharp #decline in the #whiteshark population in #FalseBay, South Africa, possibly due to attacks by #orcas. This has implications for Cape fur seals and sevengill sharks.

© This text #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

Paper

N. Hammerschlag et al. (2025):
doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.153

Photo

White shark by Terry Goss, Cr. Commons creativecommons.org/licenses/b

House #sparrows, once one of the most common #bird species, are becoming increasingly rare in #Europe. Several studies have already shown a direct link between the decline in species and industrialised #agriculture ( #herbicides, #insecticides, #glyphosat).
A new #study shows chronic exposure to #tebuconazole, a widely used #fungicide impairing offspring growth and survival in farmland birds

Study: sciencedirect.com/science/arti

via @cnrs ▶️ cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un-des-fongi

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"The mass murder in Gaza outlines a pattern, a set of tools and measures of extermination, subjugation, and expulsion".

"What is it about genocide that Global-North governments find so valuable and attractive that they protect its screamingly criminal substance and application, even at the cost of completely ruining their standing with everyone else on the planet?"
It sets a precedent "to subdue the cities of the Global South (and the poor in general").

"Why?
"The general reason is obvious, and while there would be much to say about it, let’s just summarize it here: The West is in decline in a severely crisis-ridden world (it has produced most or even all of these crises, but let’s pass over that irony for now). Its “elites” have decided not to adjust constructively – which would be entirely possible by compromise, cooperation, and sharing – but instead […] they will fight for what they hubristically see as their “garden”."

Tarik Cyril Amar (2024) tarikcyrilamar.com/p/the-gaza-

"When an abject lack of compassion has the redeeming feature of being accompanied by a blunt lack of sophistication": tarikcyrilamar.com/p/germanys- 🧵

Tarik Cyril Amar's Substack and Podcast - The Ninth Wave · The Gaza MethodBy Tarik Cyril Amar

alojapan.com/1224581/push-to-p Push to preserve native Okinawan languages reaches Hawaii #anniversary #decline #extinction #language #native #news #Okinawa #OkinawaNews #okinawan #OkinawanStudies #OleloHawaii #revival #uchinaguchi #沖縄 HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – While the culture of Okinawa continues to thrive in Hawaii, the native language of the southern islands of Japan is on the verge of extinction. The decline began in the late 1800s when Japan annexed Okinawa and took…

Why is America Intentionally Destroying its Global Influence?

youtube.com/watch?v=0f0vuCycOT

Paul Warburg, creator behind The Icarus Project illustrating the ignorance, wrong path forward and wrong decisions the current Trump administration are taking with their current policy. America in decline by weak leadership with no vision... erratic and plain wrong, estranging long term allies...

Їхати в Штати аби вчитися демократії? Сорі, це ви у нас маєте вчитися

Три тижні тому допомагав писати лист-відмову на запрошення взяти участь в одній з програм обміну від Department of State імені Марко Рубіо – одним словом, гарно послали:)

#US#program#visit