📝 🚢 🇺🇸 "This is genuinely one of the prime signs of a collapsing imperial order; the trade routes aren't safe any more."
🔶️ "It's a telling day when one of the world's largest container companies effectively says that the Red Sea isn't safe for commercial shipping -- despite the presence of TWO American aircraft carrier groups in the Mediterranean / Persian Gulf region"
🔶️ "Tellingly, too, is the fact that five -- 5 !!! -- nations have military bases in Djibouti, on the mouth of the Red Sea, within striking distance of the shipping incidents: the US, China, Japan, France and Italy (and Spain, UK and Germany typically have deployed planes there, too)"
British man attacked for entering a ‘no-go zone’ in London.
A horde of Islamists surrounded him and questioned why he was in ‘their’ neighborhood.
They threatened him and began chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they kicked him out.
A 65-year-old couple retiring in 2025 with average earnings will receive an estimated $1.34 million in lifetime benefits, while contributing only $720,000 in today’s dollars.
That shortfall—more than $600,000 per couple—is being made up by younger workers.
“Most of the growth in spending has gone to retirement and healthcare, while programs that promote upward mobility... have been left behind”
https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-medicare-young-workers-cost-10477619