"My colleagues and I did a study about 10 years ago looking at the two different parties in the United States"not in terms of ideology or policies but purely in terms of violent death rates"and, astonishingly, we found that over a 110-year period, almost without exception, whenever there was a Republican president who was elected, the murder and suicide rates would double, and whenever there was a Democratic president elected, the murder and suicide rates would halve."
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Israeli media reported in January that Israel had destroyed 1,100 of the 2,800 buildings in the border areas. In that same month, 21 Israeli soldiers were killed while working to demolish a building after a Hamas rocket detonated explosives IDF soldiers had planted. ... The Israeli military insists it needs to create the buffer zone to prevent future October 7-style attacks. But the plan also advances Israel's seizure of Gaza's territory, and many ministers in the Israeli government favor re-establishing Jewish settlements in the Strip.
Your definition of middle class was designed to answer this research question:
The choice between these various approaches depends on the purpose at hand. As I am
interested in whether the emerging Asian middle class can compensate for falling growth in the
US middle class, it makes sense to take an absolute approach with a common threshold range for
all countries. It would make no sense to compare Indians earning USD2 per day with Americans
earning USD50 per day and claim that both are comparable in terms of purchasing power, and as
drivers of global growth, because both are middle class.
www.oecd.org
Do you acknowledge falling growth in the U.S. middle class?
If you don't, then this definition doesn't work.
Or just see the Fundamentalists and Pentecostals in the thread
"Evangelical America is More Divided Than You Think" over here
drudge.com
Fundamentalists and Pentecostals are a retardant upon cultural and intellectual progress.
Civil disobedience is part of a healthy democracy, and if it's done in a way that doesn't ruffle any feathers, then it isn't civil disobedience.
I'm fine with protesters blocking roads, and I'm fine with physically removing protesters who are blocking roads.
That should be the long and the short of it.