#poverty

kuchinster@hub.hubzilla.de

About American exceptionalism

How ‘the mother of all bubbles’ will pop

But every hero has a fatal flaw. America’s is its sharply increasing addiction to government debt. My calculations suggest it now takes nearly $2 of new government debt to generate an additional $1 of US GDP growth — a 50 per cent increase on just five years ago. If any other country were spending this way, investors would be fleeing, but for now, they think America can get away with anything, as the world’s leading economy and issuer of the reserve currency.

https://www.ft.com/content/9a0da0d6-92b4-4034-ac25-7b4abcbb0bbe

#USA #US #american #economics #bubble-economy #finance #crisis #future in #poverty

Arrogance always faces punishment.

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

This article is about three weeks old. #Canada killed the first man via the Medical Assistance in Dying ( #MAiD) program. That acronym is similar to iPhone. It's clearly a depopulation agenda.

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#Quote Canada has just killed the first citizen under the Canadian government’s controversial new plans to begin #euthanizing #patients who have been injured by Covid “vaccines.”

An Ontario man in his late 40s has become the first person to be #euthanized for “ #post- #COVID-19 #vaccination #syndrome.”

The man was killed under Canada’s “assisted suicide” laws via the #government’s taxpayer-funded Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program.

Doctors had determined that the patient had become a #burden on the socialized #healthcare #system.

They #warned that he wouldn’t recover from “ #post-vaccine #syndrome” and ruled that MAiD was a better option than long-term care.

The patient, identified only as “Mr. A,” had experienced “suffering and functional decline” following three #Covid #mRNA #vaccinations.

The doctors said the patient was suffering from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and personality disorders as a result of the “post-vaccine syndrome.”

The man was twice admitted to hospital, once involuntarily, due to his condition.

Doctors noted that the patient had “thoughts of suicide” while “navigating his physical symptoms.”

The anonymized case is one of several highlighted in a series of reports issued by a 16-member MAiD death review committee struck by Ontario’s chief coroner’s office in January.

“Amongst his multiple specialists, no unifying diagnosis was confirmed,” according to the report.

However, his MAID assessors “opined that the most reasonable diagnosis for Mr. A’s clinical presentation (severe functional decline) was a post-vaccine syndrome, in keeping with chronic fatigue syndrome.”

Yet, there were no “pathological findings” at a post-mortem that could identify any underlying physiological diagnosis, the report notes.

Despite agreeing that the man’s condition was caused by a vaccine injury, multiple specialists consulted before his death couldn’t agree on a diagnosis.

The lack of a clear diagnosis raises further questions as to whether the man’s condition met the criteria for an “irremediable,” meaning a hopeless, incurable condition.

However, Canada’s assisted dying law requires people to have a grievous and irremediable physical condition.

Psychiatric experts raised concerns about whether the man’s mental illnesses would or should have rendered him ineligible for MAiD.

Some members of the MAiD death review panel also questioned whether a condition “previously unrecognized in medicine” — namely, a possible “post-vaccine somatic (meaning affecting the body) syndrome” — could be considered incurable.

Canada’s rapidly expanding euthanasia industry has been a growing concern for some time.

The Canadian government first introduced MAiD in June 2016.

By relaxing the laws, the nation legalized assisted suicide for those whose death was reasonably foreseeable.

The MAiD program was supposed to offer an alternative option for terminally ill people so they could avoid a painful death and die with dignity.

However, the nation’s Liberal government has increasingly expanded the laws since 2016.

Today, the Canadian government is euthanizing citizens for #depression, #hearing-loss, #autism, and even #poverty and #homelessness.

The government is even pushing to expand euthanasia laws to include #children and #infants.

What started as an option for terminally ill people is now being used to eliminate those who have become a burden on the nation’s socialized healthcare system.

The recent MAiD death review committee report highlights another case involving a different unemployed male in his 40s with inflammatory bowel disease.

The man was living with few social supports, was dependent on family for housing and financial support, and had struggled with alcohol and opioid addictions.

anonymiss@despora.de

#Tax on the super-rich approved in #G20 leaders' #declaration

Source: https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/economia/noticia/2024-11/tax-super-rich-approved-g20-leaders-declaration

"With full respect for tax sovereignty, we will seek to engage cooperatively to ensure that ultra-high-net-worth individuals are effectively taxed. Cooperation may include exchanging best practices, fostering debates on tax principles, and developing anti-avoidance mechanisms, such as addressing potentially harmful tax practices. We look forward to continuing discussions on these issues within the G20 and other relevant forums, drawing on the technical contributions of international organizations, universities, and experts," says the document, whose final content was approved by consensus.

#politics #wealth #rich #future #finance #economy #money #news #poverty

anonymiss@despora.de

The real rulers are the Elon Musks and #Trump is just on stage for the smear theater. Unfortunately, the leftists who want to redistribute #wealth no longer exist in American politics. The right has stepped into this gap and taken over the problems of poor people for their politics. How can the US be a #democracy if you have to be a millionaire to become #president or need the favor of millionaires to make it?

#politics #news #usa #society #poverty #Problem #WhiteHouse #freedom #government #capitalism #money #finance #election #future #humanrights #power

kuchinster@hub.hubzilla.de

Image/photoAndrea Junker :verified: wrote the following post Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:17:25 +0200

McDonald’s USA

— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits

— Big Mac: $5.90

McDonald’s Denmark

— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension

— Big Mac: $5.66

Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.

#capitalism is #poverty

kuchinster@hub.hubzilla.de

On the decline of empire, with historical parallels

The grand experiment that began in 1776 will come to an end, as all once-great nations do. The US will continue to exist, but as a shadow of its former self, in the manner of the failed empires before it.

https://internationalman.com/articles/national-fire-sale/

#USA #US #american #warmongers #debt #economy #Western #management #capitalism #fail #collapse #crisis #poverty #history

Fools are always punished by history because they don't learn it.

wist@diasp.org

A quotation from The Bible

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from works, and I by my works will show you faith.

The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
James 2:14-18 [NRSV (2021 ed.)]

#quote #quotes #quotation #action #belief #charity #faith #helping #needy #poverty #pragmatism #prayer #thoughtsandprayers #wellwishing #wordsanddeeds #works
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/bible-nt/4934/

faab64@diasp.org

It’s a social emergency. More than 30 million people in Europe are living in severe social and material deprivation – according to the latest European statistics.

That’s 30 million women, men and children who cannot afford a roof over their heads or a proper meal every second day, who rely on every single cent in their wallets and don’t know what tomorrow will bring.

If society has failed them, we won’t. The fight against poverty is and always will be at the heart of our political battle.

As the second largest group in the European Parliament, we are putting maximum pressure on the new European Commission and member states to roll out a broad anti-poverty strategy, as well as a specific plan to invest massively in affordable housing.

Pulling millions of people out of poverty is not a wishful objective: it can be achieved if European leaders and governments make it a top priority.

#Europe #Poverty #Economy #Politics #homelessness #Capitalism