America

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

If we felt empowered in daily life, would we be so enamored of superheroes constantly saving our world from destruction?

Via CaseyResearch.com,

“America is a marvelous idea, a unique idea, fantastic idea. I’m extremely pro-American. But America has ceased to exist.”

Longtime readers will recognize this. It’s one of Doug Casey’s more memorable quotes.

I’m sharing it with you today because Doug said something last week that touched on this radical idea. He said the United States could break apart due to racial tensions.

Yang Xiadou is the Party’s number two man in Xi Jinping’s crackdown on corruption in the Chinese Communist Party – although some have seen this, in part, as a convenient way for Xi to bolster his power base.

For the first time since 2012, real average hourly earnings has declined for 3 straight months...

Dragging the year-over-year growth in real earnings down to just 0.4% - the weakest growth since April.

Overall, Real average weekly earnings up $1.40 from a year earlier to $370.03.

Welcome to the road to serfdom America.

Originally published on Medium by Caitlin Johnston (@Caitoz). This must-read rebuke of 'The Atlantic' republished with permission.

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