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SPIEGEL Headline Story: America is sick
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 35842134:MV8yMjk1ODI5XzM5MDkwMzU3XzczMjBGRjM2] Here's a Greta comment from the comments section after the article. "The Roman empire took centuries to develop pathologies and centuries to collapse as a result. In this hyper-accelerated age of information industrialization this trend proceeds in decades, and the vulnerable party is our "big schoolyard bully" empire The United States. There are numerous causators and reasons why the US is very close to an acutely painful and terminal decline and what is happening in the US has absolutely nothing to do with such superficial figleafs such as "terrorism". The US is militarizing for one reason alone, and that is - vastly reduced standard of living. It is a proactive renegotiation of collective national affluence - and the people holding the biggest guns will have the best barter chips. Face it, once this party ends the US will face a process very similar to a revolution, as people have to contend with USSR collapse conditions. It will be a miserable world wide crisis (and we in Europe will suffer immensely) but in the US it will be far far worse - blood will run down the streets. The world's leaders realize this quite well. That Der Spiegel doesn't swallow this bitter medicine and keeps stuck in last milleniums hollywood script paradigm of The Terrorists! is laughable." Spot on! [/quote]
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Comment: America's delusion
A comment by Klaus Brinkbäumer
U.S. President Obama imagines himself above the law
The U.S. is sick. The 11th September 2001, it has wounded and bewildered, that's been obvious for almost twelve years, but how serious is the disease that we understand only now. The NSA affair puts some open, not just the phone calls and the digital lives of many millions of people. The spying on the world shows that the U.S. has become manic, that they act pathologically over grip, what they do, is out of proportion to the danger.
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