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[Iside]

1 febbraio 1861
Il Texas dichiara la secessione dagli usa.

AUGURI!

Stanno festeggiando l'anniversario

[paulhowe]

Stanno festeggiando l'anniversario

Qualche mese fa hanno promosso una raccolta di firme, per poi promuovere un tentativo di portare all' attenzione politica l'idea dell' indipendenza del Texas.... su circa 30 milioni di abitanti che vivono in quello stato di firme ne hanno raccolte 139,456.

Insomma lo 0.46% della popolazione del Texas vuole la secessione.... se vai in Veneto e in Lombardia la percentuale di quelli che vogliono staccarsi dall'Italia e' molto piu elevata!

[Amati75]

Qualche mese fa hanno promosso una raccolta di firme, per poi promuovere un tentativo di portare all' attenzione politica l'idea dell' indipendenza del Texas.... su circa 30 milioni di abitanti che vivono in quello stato di firme ne hanno raccolte 139,456.

Insomma lo 0.46% della popolazione del Texas vuole la secessione.... se vai in Veneto e in Lombardia la percentuale di quelli che vogliono staccarsi dall'Italia e' molto piu elevata!

In varie interviste quando parlano di secessione poi chiedono se continueranno a ricevere il social security….

“Secessionisti “ solo fino al moventi nel quale smette d arrivare la pensione e benefici…..


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[alpha12000]

https://www.theamericanconservative....eid=7c0dc7b7cb

Washington, D.C. has a crime problem.

On Monday, a man as yet unnamed by the police went on an auto theft rampage for the record books. He started the spree by shooting a lawyer getting out of his car in the luxe Mt. Vernon neighborhood of K Street, a brisk 10-minute walk from The American Conservative’s offices. The assailant apparently thought better of that vehicle—a standard transmission, perhaps?—and fled the scene on foot. He attempted and failed to seize another car in Northwest, and then in NoMa shot another driver, who later died of his wounds at the hospital. The killer took the victim’s car and fled over the line into Maryland. He then abandoned the car, stole another car, abandoned that car, ordered a rideshare, and carjacked it. After this energetic showing, the criminal decided to wind down—it was by now 3am Tuesday—by cruising around D.C. and its Maryland suburbs while taking potshots at police cars. Eventually, our enterprising felon was chased down and shot dead by New Carrollton municipal police around 40am.

This lurid episode attracted the attention of the conservative press because the K Street shooting victim (who remains in critical condition), Mike Gill, is a Republican D.C. election board member and had served as a minor appointee in the Trump administration. Lest it be thought that the District’s crime is partisan or in some way a respecter of persons, we must note that Gill is not the highest-ranking politico to face the realities of our imperial capital’s streets: Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, was carjacked last October.

Because Washington is a federal district, law enforcement falls under the Department of Justice. Merrick Garland has decided he’s seen enough, and announced that DoJ will be routing additional resources to cracking down on carjackings and homicides.

The nation’s capital is moving in the wrong direction for sure; it is also moving in the opposite direction from most of the rest of the country. National crime levels declined sharply in 2023, although still not returning to their pre-2020 levels; murder in particular was down 15.6 percent. D.C.’s dysfunction doesn’t seem to arise from particular local conditions. Forty miles north, Baltimore—a much less high-rent city than Washington, which has a median household income of about $101,000 per year—has seen a 21 percent decrease in homicides year over year for 2023, even despite an ongoing consent decree over alleged police malfeasance. (Of course, this still makes Baltimore one of the most dangerous cities in the Western hemisphere, but we’ll take what we can get.) What gives?

Well, Baltimore hired as deputy mayor a man who thinks that behaviors like dealing drugs around burn barrels on public sidewalks should be stopped, and understands that this program may involve putting police officers in places where they’ll arrest criminals. These bare concessions to common sense have prevailed, often in embarrassed quietness, in the biggest cities in America. Washington, unfortunately, is the city of dreams; its political class is stocked with crooks and, worse, ideological bobos with master’s degrees. It is still firmly in the throes of the post-Floyd mania for keeping the cops from doing anything.

In D.C., a fabulous merry-go-round of buck-passing prevents anything in particular from being done to stop the carnage and chaos. City council passes bills systematically down-scheduling misdemeanors and felonies; Muriel Bowser, the mayor, vetoes them; the council overrides the veto. Herroner proposes bills to increase enforcement; the city council declines to move them, saying Herroner already has the power to deploy the Metropolitan Police Department’s personnel as she wishes or pointing to the U.S. attorney’s refusal to prosecute. Herroner proposes reinstating the drug-free zones she voted to remove as a council member; the council refuses to sign off. It is a municipal Rube Goldberg machine preventing anyone being on the hook for sending constituents and constituents’ relatives to jail. The result? Carjackings in the district almost doubled between 2022 and 2023.
Herroner, who went to private school and is a Catholic, seems to be more or less genuinely in favor of law and order—she has repeatedly blocked the release of D.C.’s stop-and-frisk data—but she lacks the clout, the will, or both to make it happen. The city government’s apathy for actually stopping crime may play into the fact that, per the police chief, the force is short 500 or so officers—which hardly helps the cause. Meanwhile, the council prefers giving out vast sums to the types of NGO and private contractors that have been so very effective in other blue cities.

We have written before about the anarcho-tyranny in Washington; things have clearly not improved since our last dispatch. The sad truth is that the only recourse at the moment is the crude and primitive instrument of correction in every democracy, voting the bums out. Some Washingtonians are trying that; a recall effort is afoot against the Ward 6 council member, Charles Allen, whose proposed revision of the city’s criminal code provoked federal intervention. Yet the catch is evident in the solution; the bums are in office for a reason. People voted for them. (Allen himself pointed out that he won his last election with a North Korea–level margin, north of 90 percent.)

In any other city, you’d say “let ‘em rot,” but Washington is the entire American people’s district, and where the nation carries out its shared public life. You can’t have congressmen getting carjacked or worse. It may be time for the federal government to consider more radical remedies—for example, revoking Washington’s home rule.

[Marximiliano]

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[IlWehrwolf]

LA PENTOLA AMERICANA STA BOLLENDO

Stati Uniti e Israele raddoppiano
Gli Stati Uniti e Israele continuano a raddoppiare il loro fallimento e le cose non fanno che peggiorare.

Non ci sono prove che la campagna di Israele a Gaza abbia avuto successo. Gli israeliani hanno perso molti uomini e le capacità di Hamas rimangono intatte. I tentativi di Israele di costringere i gazesi a fuggire dalla Palestina sono stati infruttuosi, perché la gente di Gaza non ha un posto dove andare. Israele ha ritirato molte delle sue migliori unità da Gaza per combattere Hezbollah, ma anche lì non se la passa bene. Hezbollah può subire perdite, Israele no, e mentire sulle sue perdite non aiuta.

Le basi americane in Siria e in Iraq sono illegali e gli Stati Uniti ne stanno subendo le conseguenze.

Tre soldati americani sono morti nella Torre 22 al confine con la Giordania, che è un’estensione extraterritoriale della base americana illegale di Al Tanf in Siria. Altri 34 soldati sono rimasti feriti, e si prevede che il numero aumenti.

Biden ha prevedibilmente promesso ritorsioni ed escalation – e quindi altre perdite.

Con l’Ucraina che ha munizioni sufficienti solo per un altro mese circa, Biden sta raddoppiando, cercando di ottenere più soldi per Zelensky, anche sperando di rubare beni russi per pagare il conto, cosa che distruggerà di fatto la fiducia internazionale nel sistema finanziario statunitense, distruggerà il dollaro e farà crollare l’economia degli Stati Uniti.

Gli Stati Uniti e Israele hanno anticipato la decisione della Corte Internazionale di Giustizia che ha dichiarato Israele – e per estensione gli Stati Uniti – colpevole di genocidio, tagliando il sostegno all’agenzia delle Nazioni Unite che fornisce aiuti umanitari a Gaza e mostrando il dito medio all’intera comunità internazionale. Alla faccia del “soft power” americano. Un’ottima notizia per i cinesi, i russi, l’Iran e l’emergente mondo multipolare.

Nel Mar Rosso, gli Houthi continuano a vincere e gli americani e la loro Coalizione dell’Incontinente continuano a perdere, sprecando le loro risorse. Gli americani e i britannici stanno pisciando controvento. Con i missili intercettori che costano in media 2,5 milioni di dollari a testata, l’operazione costerà nell’ordine di 2 miliardi di dollari. Gli attacchi americani e britannici sono tanto casuali e inefficaci quanto costosi. Gli Houthi lanciano droni e missili che costano tra i 5.000 e i 20.000 dollari. Ne hanno una scorta infinita, ma i britannici hanno già esaurito le munizioni.

La guerra interna
Sul piano interno, i tentativi di Biden di bloccare gli sforzi del Texas per rendere sicuro il confine con il Messico hanno provocato proteste di massa, ispirando nuovi movimenti secessionisti in tutti gli Stati DisUniti.

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Il convoglio della libertà in America
La guerra contro Trump e il populismo americano continua con sentenze contro Trump pronunciate da giudici e giurie di parte, che praticamente garantiscono la rielezione di Donald.

Nel 2016, Trump ha perso il voto popolare ma ha vinto il Collegio Elettorale. Nel 2024 potrebbe vincere anche il voto popolare e, se così fosse, questo gli darà più potere per sostituire il repubblicanesimo con il trumpismo.

Non che questo cambierà qualcosa. La politica americana dipende dall’identità nazionale, che deve crollare prima che qualcosa cambi.

In questo momento, Trump sta facendo una campagna elettorale come candidato contro la guerra, promettendo di evitare la terza guerra mondiale. Dice di essere favorevole ad abbandonare la NATO e, naturalmente, l’Ucraina.

Lo farebbe? Domanda sbagliata. È “riuscirebbe a farlo?“.

Il suo primo mandato ha dimostrato i limiti del potere di un Presidente osteggiato dai media e da metà della popolazione di un Paese schizofrenico.

Quindi non ha prosciugato la palude, ma ha finito per immergersi in essa, parlando con ranocchi come John Bolton e Nikki Haley. Lo Stato profondo (cosiddetto) è in realtà MICIMATT – e controlla i media e la percezione del pubblico. Nel 2020, ha fatto sloggiare Donald grazie a un’abile ma illegittima manipolazione dei processi elettorali. Dopo di che ha iniziato una vendetta legale abusiva.

Quando Trump tornerà al potere, cosa cambierà? Saranno gli affari di sempre. Affari sporchi.

Non cambierà molto in Medio Oriente – il complesso militare-industriale e Wall Street vogliono mantenere questo stato di cose perché le armi sono le uniche cose che gli Stati Uniti hanno da produrre e vendere. Come ho già sottolineato, con la guerra si guadagna. Ed è per questo che gli Stati Uniti sono sempre in guerra.

Ricordiamo che Trump è sempre stato molto favorevole a Israele, ha riconosciuto Gerusalemme come capitale sionista e nel suo primo anno ha autorizzato più attacchi con i droni di quanti ne abbia fatti Obama in quattro. Trump darà la colpa di tutto a Biden, anche se potrebbe seguire il consiglio dei militari e ritirarsi dalla Siria e dall’Iraq.

Trump dice di voler abbandonare la NATO e l’Ucraina.

MICIMATT non l’ha voluto. Ma ora gli Stati Uniti stanno perdendo in Europa. Il mercato bellico del Medio Oriente è migliore e i conflitti possono andare avanti per anni – con o senza basi statunitensi in Siria e Iraq – garantendo un flusso di cassa stabile. Se accidentalmente scoppia la pace, beh, c’è sempre qualche altro posto dove iniziare qualcosa.

Detto questo, Trump preferisce i conflitti economici alle operazioni militari e, a questo proposito, promette di essere duro con la Cina.

L’America che sanziona l’America
Trump ha anche detto che si spingerà molto più in là nell’imporre “un’audace serie di riforme per eliminare completamente la dipendenza dalla Cina in tutte le aree critiche“. Nel 2022, gli Stati Uniti hanno importato beni dalla Cina per 536,3 miliardi di dollari e ne hanno esportati per 154 miliardi.

Tra le altre cose, Trump ha dichiarato che imporrà “un piano quadriennale per eliminare gradualmente tutte le importazioni cinesi di beni essenziali – dall’elettronica all’acciaio ai prodotti farmaceutici“, oltre a nuove regole per impedire alle aziende americane di effettuare investimenti in Cina e per inibire gli acquisti cinesi di beni statunitensi.

Tuttavia, Trump si è anche sbilanciato, affermando senza dettagli che avrebbe permesso “tutti quegli investimenti che servono chiaramente agli interessi americani“.

Si noti l’avvertenza alla fine di questo commento: “permetterebbe ‘tutti quegli investimenti che servono chiaramente gli interessi americani’“. Questo significa praticamente tutti gli investimenti e i prodotti!

Le politiche di Trump sono in effetti sanzioni al contrario – sanzioni dell’America sull’America – destinate a fare per gli Stati Uniti ciò che le sanzioni hanno fatto per la Russia – promuovere l’autarchia e la reindustrializzazione indipendente.

La Russia è stata abbastanza fortunata che le sanzioni siano state imposte dall’estero, con un intento malevolo, cioè quello di distruggere il Paese come nazione.

Per ottenere ciò che ha ottenuto la Russia sarebbe necessario un massiccio finanziamento dell’istruzione tecnica e tecnologica, delle infrastrutture e dei servizi sociali. Richiederebbe un partenariato pubblico-privato che gli oligarchi americani non accetterebbero mai.

Richiederebbe anche una sfida esistenziale, come una minaccia immediata di guerra contro la patria americana.

Infine, sarebbe necessario un leader intelligente e di talento, dotato di lungimiranza. Non risulta che a breve gli Stati Uniti eleggeranno Vladimir Putin.

In definitiva, nessun presidente potrebbe imporre arbitrariamente le misure necessarie per la rinascita economica a causa dell’effetto immediato e doloroso sull’americano comune. Putin e Xi sono entrambi uomini del popolo. Capiscono la gente comune – capiscono che non si può produrre consenso senza offrire qualcosa in cambio. Trump non è affatto così… non ha mai dovuto pagare nulla.

Il nuovo slogan di Trump è Salvare l’America.

Salvarla da cosa? Lui non lo sa. Non lo sanno nemmeno i democratici. E nemmeno l’opinione pubblica. O forse lo sanno tutti, ma non vogliono ammetterlo. Perché ciò che minaccia l’America è se stessa.

Il resto del mondo si sta già salvando dagli Stati Uniti.

I russi, i cinesi, gli iraniani, i gazesi, gli houthi, i siriani, praticamente tutti gli abitanti del Sud globale.

https://comedonchisciotte.org/la-pen...-sta-bollendo/

[alpha12000]

https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-...24-1?r=US&IR=T

Something strange is happening between Gen Z men and women. Over the past decade, poll after poll has found that young people are growing more and more divided by gender on a host of political issues. Since 2014, women between the ages of 18 and 29 have steadily become more liberal each year, while young men have not. Today, female Gen Zers are more likely than their male counterparts to vote, care more about political issues, and participate in social movements and protests.
While the gender gap is an enduring feature of American politics, at no time in the past quarter century has there been such a rapid divergence between the views of young men and women. The startling speed of the change suggests something more significant is going on than just new demographic patterns, such as rising rates of education or declining adherence to a religion — the change points to some kind of cataclysmal event. After speaking with more than 20 Gen Zers, my colleagues at the Survey Center on American Life and I found that among women, no event was more influential to their political development than the #MeToo movement.
In 2017, women around the world began speaking out about their experiences with sexual assault and harassment. Gen Zers were then in high school and college, and for them, the movement came at a formative moment. "Luckily I had that all over social media to shape the way I look at dating and men," a 21-year-old woman told us about #MeToo. She said it allowed her "to use other people's experiences to form a sense of putting a guard up." A 20-year-old woman offered a similar take — that #MeToo empowered her to stand up for herself: "I think it makes me less of a doormat."
As I've written previously, the #MeToo movement united women politically. Although the challenges women face vary dramatically in the US, sexual harassment is a ubiquitous experience impacting women across lines of social class, politics, age, and race. Eight in 10 women say they have been sexually harassed at some point in their lives — and addressing that reality quickly became central for women. After the inauguration of Donald Trump, hundreds of thousands of women marched on Washington in the largest single-day protest in American history.
But while women were rallying together, many Gen Z men began to feel like society was turning against them. As recently as 2019, less than one-third of young men said that they faced discrimination, according to Pew, but today, close to half of young men believe they face at least some discrimination. In a 2020 survey by the research organization PRRI, half of men agreed with the statement: "These days society seems to punish men just for acting like men."
It increasingly feels like Gen Z men and women are living on different planets, each guided by the belief that they are navigating uniquely hostile terrain — and understanding why is crucial to bridging the gap.
The #MeToo movement established a sense of solidarity among young women. A survey conducted in 2022 found that two-thirds of young women believe that in most or in every way, what happens to women in the US will have a bearing on their own lives — an idea known as "linked fate" in sociology. But this sentiment was not shared by older women: Only 36% of women older than 65 said the same. This bond has bled into Gen Z women's politics, especially around issues like abortion. A survey we conducted after Roe v. Wade was overturned and just before the 2022 midterms found that no issue mattered more for young women than abortion: 61% said it was a critical concern, while only 32% of young men said the same. In the 2022 midterm elections, all young voters strongly supported Democratic candidates, but young women demonstrated much greater support than men.
Gen Z women have also united around the importance of female leadership and representation. A recent Pew poll found that 72% of women aged 18 to 29 believe there are too few women serving in "high political offices," a steep jump from the roughly half of women over 50 and less than half of young men who said the same. More than seven in 10 young women said that the lack of female representation in political office is because women are held to higher standards than men.
This newfound solidarity among women is also showing up in the workplace. For decades a strong majority of men and women alike had reported a clear preference for a male boss. But the percentage of women who said they preferred a male boss plummeted 12 points between 2014 and 2017. By that year, the year of the most recent polling, a majority of women reported preferring a female boss for the first time.
At the same time, women's dissatisfaction with the status quo has only intensified. In 2016, 61% of women said they were satisfied with the way women are treated in American society, according to a Gallup survey. Today, that has dropped to 44%.
As women's political priorities have solidified, young men's priorities have melted into mush. Surveys consistently show that young men are far less likely than women to say any particular issue is personally important to them. A survey we conducted last year found that young women expressed statistically significant greater concern for 11 out of 15 different issues, including drug addiction, crime, climate change, and gun violence. There was not a single issue that young men cared about significantly more than young women.
Young men are also unhappy. For a growing number, feminism has less to do with promoting gender equality and more to do with simply attacking men. A 2022 survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that 46% of Democratic men under 50 agreed that feminism has done more harm than good — even more Republican men agreed. In our recent poll, roughly one in four male Gen Zers said they have experienced more gender discrimination than older men. And less than half of Gen Z men identified as feminists, with only half saying they support the #MeToo movement, compared to 72% of women.
One young man we interviewed said he didn't pay much attention to #MeToo: "It just seemed like a bit of buzz going on around celebrities, and awful things are happening in the world all the time. If I did ponder, it would bring me down and so I just choose to not even pay attention." Another said #MeToo was just something he picked up from "a woman's study class" in college but not anything that he thinks much about.
The lack of interest could be because Gen Z men have their own issues. Richard Reeves, the founder of the American Institute for Boys and Men, has meticulously documented the challenges facing young men in America: They are struggling more in school, are less likely than women to go to and graduate from college, have fewer close friends than previous generations, and are four times as likely to commit suicide than women. Reeves argues that this state of affairs requires that we hold two seemingly contradictory ideas at once: Men at the highest rungs of the economic ladder are still advantaged by a system that perpetuates gender inequality, while men on the lower rungs of society face unique challenges because they are men.
While women have turned to the left for answers to their problems, men are finding support on the right. Trump helped redefine conservatism as a distinctly masculine ideology, stoking grievances and directing young men's frustration toward liberals and feminists. There are signs the message is resonating: Republican affiliation among white men aged 18 to 24 jumped from 28% in 2019 to 41% in 2023, according to a Harvard Youth Poll. Outside politics, right-leaning figures such as Andrew Tate, Elon Musk, and Jordan Peterson are attracting young men looking for an ideological home.
Most young men are probably not interested in making America great again, but they do feel acutely the need to secure a place for themselves in a culture that readily identifies male advantage but ignores the challenges young men face. Out of a sense of increased insecurity, more young men are adopting a zero-sum view of gender equality — if women gain, men will inevitably lose. It's an outlook that makes them defensive, encourages them to ignore or overlook enduring challenges women face in society, and can even spur misogyny. As one 35-year-old man told Pew in 2022 about #MeToo: "Too many people are taking advantage of a serious situation because it's trendy or they are greedy or just want attention." And this attitude has real-world consequences: In the online gaming world, 75% of Gen Z women have reported experiencing harassment.
An oft-cited statistic that conveys the enduring absurdity of the gender gap is that until very recently, there were more CEOs named John than CEOs who are women. Across most industries, from politics to academia, men in American society still control more resources, earn higher wages, and enjoy more prestige. But few young men have any experience in the boardroom, and in the classroom, it's their female peers who are crushing it.
But both genders are feeling increasingly precarious — and it's causing them to drift further apart. A recent Washington Post editorial lamented what this growing political divide means for dating and marriage: If Gen Z men and women can't agree on politics, it's going to get harder for them to find a partner. But if anything, that understates the problem. Based on our interviews, there appears to be a growing eagerness among both young men and women to blame their problems on each other. And a society in which men and women see their interests as irrevocably opposed is not one that can last.

[paulhowe]

Buone notizie per Joe Bidone...... https://www.marketwatch.com/livecove...?mod=home-page


January jobs report highlights: 353,000 new jobs, unemployment rate stays at 3.7%
By Jeffry Bartash
Quick look at the numbers:

U.S. economy adds 353,000 new jobs in January well above 185,000 Wall Street forecast

U.S. unemployment rate stays at 3.7% in January

U.S. hourly wages climb a sharp 0.6% in January

Increase in hourly wages in past year climbs to 4.5% from 4.3%

U.S. job gains in December raised to 333,000 from 216,000

U.S. job gains in November revised up to 182,000 from 173,000



A mio modesto avviso se il tasso di disoccupazione resta sotto il 4.5% e' difficile che Trump possa vincere le elezioni.

[Iside]

...Con l’Ucraina che ha munizioni sufficienti solo per un altro mese circa, Biden sta raddoppiando, cercando di ottenere più soldi per Zelensky, anche sperando di rubare beni russi per pagare il conto, cosa che distruggerà di fatto la fiducia internazionale nel sistema finanziario statunitense, distruggerà il dollaro e farà crollare l’economia degli Stati Uniti...

Mi auguro che gli USA non diano più un cent a Z: ma quando eleggi un rimba ovviamente fai solo danni, quindi ben presto gli americani dovranno correre ai ripari

[Amati75]

@IlWehrwolf

"cosa che distruggerà di fatto la fiducia internazionale nel sistema finanziario statunitense, distruggerà il dollaro e farà crollare l’economia degli Stati Uniti..."


Dimmi che non capisci nulla di come funzionano i mercati senza dirmelo.