I just saw a news report on CNN. The Republican Party in the USA has rejected the Palestinians completely. How will Mahmoud Abbas react? Or Benjamin Netanyahu? And what about the Palestinian people themselves?

An attempt to revive an old T4T forum in the event that much of the American economy goes belly-up again.

Noteworthy failures can include:

1. Deaths of once-prominent businesses, like former Fortune 500 companies. Foreign firms may be included.

Deaths include bankruptcies, liquidation, and forced mergers.

2. Governments in receivership or bankruptcy. That includes state, municipal, and county governments.

3. High-profile organizations such as unions, colleges and universities, symphony orchestras, opera companies, high-profile churches, and foundations.

4. High-end marketers irrespective of size -- let us say Cartier or Gucci if such were so.

Thread for the mention of long-running or strongly-rewarded TV and radio series.

Please -- at least five years or major awards. If due to the death of a star, then that fits in Obituaries. No DJ shows, either.

I understand that A Prairie Home Companion, which introduced us to the world of Lake Wobegone, ends as its star Garrison Keillor retires.

Bernie Sanders has endorsed Hillary Clinton.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/drow...90f7ea5c6f

Do not drive drowsy! It's can be as dangerous as driving drunk.

...I'm tempted to believe that drowsy driving often intensifies the menace of drunk driving.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...story.html

Quote:Former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh, now a radio talk show host, declared "This is now war" and called for President Barack Obama to "watch out" in a Twitter post reacting to the Dallas shooting that killed five police officers and injured seven.
"This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you," he wrote in the tweet posted Thursday night, which has since been deleted...


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...story.html

http://www.people-press.org/2016/07/07/2...isfaction/

Quote:As Republicans and Democrats prepare for their party conventions later this month, a new national survey paints a bleak picture of voters’ impressions of the presidential campaign and the choices they face in November.

Overall satisfaction with the choice of candidates is at its lowest point in two decades. Currently, fewer than half of registered voters in both parties – 43% of Democrats and 40% of Republicans – say they are satisfied with their choices for president...


http://www.people-press.org/2016/07/07/2...isfaction/

I know I've gone a few rounds with various members here regarding whether or not this is a CW 4T. My opinion is generally not. We don't have either a serious sectional dispute (unless you look at the county vs county level) nor do we have the type of intense class warfare we saw last century in Europe and to a lesser extent Asia.

But do we perhaps have something else?

This whole situation of militarization of police, and, police escalating to deadly force, seems to have reached a boiling point. Now, although not well advised, it looks like at least some of the lone wolves are shooting back.

Potential complicating factor - infiltration of Nazi / White Nationalist elements into law enforcement.

Discuss!!!

http://peterturchin.com/blog/2013/06/21/...ppearance/

Quote:Tomorrow I head for “Sci Foo” at the Googleplex. I proposed a discussion session there, “Are We Becoming Less Cooperative? If So, Why?” and I’d like to use today’s blog to help me formulate my ideas for this session. So here it goes.
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The title of this blog is a paraphrase of a 1995 article by Robert Putnam, “The Strange Disappearance of Civic America.” Robert Putnam is a political scientist at Harvard who over the last 20 years has been documenting the decline of ‘social capital’ in America...



http://peterturchin.com/blog/2013/06/21/...ppearance/

Although not specfic to being Middle Aged, certainly these sorts of thoughts come up more now than they did when I was in my 20s and 30s.

Please share your own thoughts and experiences.