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Three in 10 people now say that Americans may have to resort to violence to get the country back on track, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

To be sure, a strong majority disagree with that (70%), but the 30% who now say violence may be necessary is up 11 points since April 2024, an increase driven by Democrats. Eighteen months ago, just 12% of Democrats agreed; now, 28% do.

But, still, a slightly higher percentage of Republicans — 31% — also say Americans may have to resort to violence. That's also up 3 points since last year. (Independents have also increased from 18% to 25%.)

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:49 pm I've mentioned in these pages that somewhere around 1971, give or take a few years, and it would vary from sector to sector with probably the more complex sectors coming first, that the US entered the maintenance phase of a declining civilization. There was a slow recognition and response to that turning point.

Minimum wage would be $26 an hour if it had grown in line with productivity

Updated on: September 7, 2021

The Fed Has Admitted That Today’s Banking Environment Is More Dangerous Than 2007
By Avi Gilburt
Sep 24, 2025

Moreover, consider that there was one major issue which caused the GFC back in 2008, whereas today, we currently have many more large issues on bank balance sheets. These risk factors include major issues in commercial real estate, rising risks in consumer debt (approaching 2007 levels), underwater long-term securities, over-the-counter derivatives, high-risk shadow banking (the lending for which has exploded), and elevated default risk in commercial and industrial (C&I) lending. So, in our opinion, the current banking environment presents even greater risks than what we have seen during the 2008 GFC.

EXC: Inside The Secret Meetings Between Chinese Spies And U.S. Agriculture Officials Helping China Buy Farmland

Americans selling out their own country

A secretive Chicago meeting ignored by the mainstream press brought several dozen Chinese Communist Party officials face-to-face with America’s agricultural leaders.

The U.S. Heartland China Association (USHCA) pitched it as a harmless “forum,” but the real agenda was far more consequential: embedding Beijing into U.S. agriculture, food, and healthcare systems. The USHCA has a long history of enabling the CCP takeover American farmland.

A Breed in Decay: Why U.S. Millennials and Gen Z Are Dying at an Alarming Rate — Faster Than Any Other Generation in Recent History
Story by Arezki Amiri

Young adults in the United States are dying at significantly higher rates than their counterparts in other wealthy nations, according to a sweeping new analysis published in JAMA Health Forum and highlighted by Slate this August. The findings point to a deeply embedded public health issue, one that predates the pandemic and appears to be accelerating.

In 2023, more than 700,000 Americans died who would still be alive had the U.S. matched the age-specific mortality rates of 21 other high-income countries including Canada, Germany, and Japan. Of those under 65, nearly half of all deaths were deemed “excess,” meaning they likely wouldn’t have occurred elsewhere. The disparity is particularly stark for adults aged 25 to 44, where the rate of excess deaths reached 62%—a statistic that has prompted renewed concern among health researchers.

Dr. Jacob Bor, one of the study’s lead authors from Boston University’s School of Public Health, described the trend as “an unfolding generational catastrophe.” He warns that what began as a slow divergence in mortality outcomes has become a “systemic pattern of premature death unique to the American experience.”