[Humours video spoof]
On 6 May 2010 the saga began. After 14 years of Tory chaos on our screens, is the long-running Downing Street farce finally coming to an end?
The main character may change but the plot remains the same: failure, internal division and scandal.
Rishi Sunak heads up the latest season, but he’s too weak to make a difference…
#Video #Chaos #Decline #GeneralElection #poverty #SaveOurNHS #ToryLiesCostLives #Trailers
It’s rapidly becoming readily apparent to everyone, not just me, #WangHunin, #Simplicius, and #AndreiMartyanov, that the decline of the #imperial #UnitedStates is both a) inevitable and b) observable.
The best indicator of #real #GDP per #capita is #energy usage per capita, because everything about a comfortable modern lifestyle takes a lot of energy, energy comes into everything people do and consume. This was rising exponentially to #1972, when the rise suddenly halted. It then started fall, slowly. And suddenly it has now started to fall rather more quickly and dramatically. It looks like three trend regimes: Exponential growth starting in the seventeenth century, then #stagnation and slow decline starting in 1972, and now it looks like the beginning of #dramatic #collapse, looks like the beginning of a sharp break in the trend of slow and gentle decline.
This reflects a #regime ever more #hostile to the #men who made it great, to the #faith that made it great, the #culture that made it great, and #race that made it great.
Notice that no matter what metric is used, 1972-1973 keeps appearing as the high water mark for the #USA. That’s not an accident. 1972 was, from an economic, industrial, and demographic perspective, the moment of Peak America.
Everything since then has been nothing but #decline #disguised by the #collapse of the #SovietUnion.
https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=cILE72Kw2wY
#prof #richardwolff #wolff #richarddwolff #decline #american #empire #us #economics #capitalism #politics
#cop15 #montreal #biodiversity #loss #decline #life #nature #planet #soil #ecosystems #sustainable #resources #conservation #forests #rainforests
August 15, 2022
Now globalized perfection is breaking down and costs rise. Price cutting is being replaced with price gouging, a substitution that consumers recognize as inflation.
Deglobalization is not a quick or painless process. The ride down will be bumpy and cost increases have many sources. Profits will become harder to come by and scarcities will knock down global rows of dominoes in unexpected ways. External costs that piled up for the past 30 years have come due and must be paid.
Inflation isn't transitory or within the control of central banks. The forces at work are far beyond the reach of central bankers. Cost of credit matters, but so does the real world.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug22/globalization-inflationary8-22.html
https://tomdispatch.com/the-decline-and-fall-of-everything-including-me/
When it comes to our country and the world, however, the end of the story has yet to be written.
#decline #fall #politics #war #inequality #world #environment #climate
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=saE-OQlXtno
https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_noam_chomsky_fragile_us_empire
#ProfWolff gives updates on #US #freight #workers #strike #preparations; #progressives and #labor targeting #municipal #government; #Chipotle #store-closing to stop #unionizing, and #OccupyWallStreet's " #Debt-Collective" $5.8 billion #student-loan-forgiveness #win. In the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff #interviews #NoamChomsky on the #decline and #fragility of the #US #empire, the role of US #military and the rise of #fascism as a coping mechanism.
#economic #update #prof #richardwolff #rdwolff #wolff #chomsky #fragile #audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN6ac59G6Bo
'It has been one year since #JoeBiden came into office. While he is at COP26 making weak and unconvincing commitments on the climate, the #collapse of the #world #order as we know it — from #environment to #geopolitics — seems #imminent. #RichardWolff and #YanisVaroufakis examine #Biden’s first year in office, and share their perspectives on the current #political and #economic order and its #future, from #techno-feudalism to the new #ColdWar on #China. They also speak about the ongoing #pandemic and the profound #transformations taking place in our time.'
#imperial #abyss #varoufakis #wolff #working-class #workers #labor #unions #strikes #capitalism #oligarchy #financialization #digital #system #foreign #policy #hegemony #us #eu #nordstream2 #empire #decline #denial #fdr #lbj #socialism #organize
I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual, if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one! Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.
George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist [pseud. of Mary Ann Evans]
Letter to Sara Hennell (May 1844)
#quotation #quote #child #childhood #decline #enlightenment #happiness #ignorance #improvement #life #nostalgia #sorrow
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/eliot-george/49185/
...Narratives that see widespread economic and technological stagnation setting in sometime around the mid-1970s have become fairly common. And it’s pretty clear that the 1970s were some sort of inflection point, a time when we fell off established income, innovation, and progress curves on a number of fronts. The big question is why....
A book exerpt by Andrew Potter, from On Decline, with a pretty good discussion, set of references, and treatment of the question.
https://thewalrus.ca/its-not-in-your-head-the-world-really-is-getting-worse/
#progress #SecularStagnation #technology #decline #AndrewPotter #BigProblems #collapse #books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6vrc1mPsNo
https://www.democracyatwork.info/globalcapitalism_sept2020
#global #capitalism #decline #accelerates #prof #richarddwolff #wolff #democracyatwork #capitalist #crash #social #effects #failures #scapegoating #pandemic #covid19 #systemic #racism #budget #collapse #housing #eviction #professional #athletes #organized #labor #emerging #fascism #irony
