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Right now, I'm about to try to get out of Ukraine, and seek political asylum in Hungary. Either I'll cross the border and make it to safety, or I'll be disappeared by the Kiev regime. This is what's happened to me over the past three months. 1/25 — Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) July 31, 2023 Once …
by Michael If you believe the corporate media, the U.S. economy is doing absolutely great as we start to roll through the second half of 2023. Even though inflation is out of control, the commercial real estate market is in free fall, corporate bankruptcies are surging, and large businesses all over America are conducting mass layoffs, …
Boiling Ocean Update: Florida Sea Temperature ‘Record’ Drops 15°F in just 48 Hours …the BBC reported that seawater along the tip of Florida had exceeded “hot tub” temperatures of 37.8°C (100°F) in recent days, “making it potentially the hottest ever measured”. – The reading came from ONE buoy – in Manatee Bay (Everglades National Park) …
A former employee of a large food service corporation is suing the company in federal court after it fired her for refusing to participate in a program that discriminates against white male employees. Courtney Rogers worked for Charlotte, North Carolina-based Compass Group USA Inc. from her home office in San Diego, California. The company had …
Retail crime surges to record levels with repeat offenders and criminal gangs operating exempt from consequences, new data released by Co-op reveals today (Thursday, 27 July). Co-op has seen crime, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour jump 35% year-on-year, with more than 175,000 incidents recorded in the first six months of this year – almost 1,000 incidents …
Senator @RandPaul Accuses the Government of Fraud in $113 Billion Sent to Ukraine “It is impossible to send this much aid this fast into wartorn Ukraine without waste, fraud, and abuse,” asserted Senator Paul. “Yet we are told by departmental inspector generals that they have… pic.twitter.com/sXu9ne6bld — The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) July 27, 2023 …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to compel the release of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s FBI background investigation documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Secretary Mayorkas’s abysmal performance has led to the introduction of several impeachment …
When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October last year, he restored new hope among conservative accounts, with many prominent influencers previously banned or suspended under Jack Dorsey being resurrected. Not only that, Musk positioned himself as a somewhat conservative figurehead, a good guy within the elite ranks of big tech fighting for free speech, …
by Chris Black Countries going into an election such as the Netherlands and Spain are going to have to deal with a contentious issue that their mainstream parties would rather ignore. The same EU polling (https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/2932) finds that only 31% of Europeans think the EU is going in the right direction. People do not want …
by InternationalTop2405 It’s no surprise that the search term “recession” has spiked in recent years, as the global economy has taken a turn for the worse. What is surprising, however, is how much interest there is in this topic from around the world. People are clearly worried about their financial future and are looking for …
By Graham Summers, MBA Inflation has very likely bottomed for 2023. The inflation data published in the U.S. is based on year over year comparisons. When the Consumer Price Index (CPI) comes out at 5%, what it’s really stating is that a basket of goods and services costs ~5% more currently than it did a …
by Michael I am not one of those people that believe that everything in our society was better decades ago when I was growing up. But without a doubt, those that are running our society today have ruined so many of the things that were truly great when I was a child. Among other things, …
Current freight market explained in one graphic pic.twitter.com/iSLemeT2ud — Ben Tschirgi (@BenTschirgi) July 18, 2023 These are the REAL initial economic indicators of a recession/depression. Obviously started at least a year ago. h/t Simian_Stacker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJi2TaSvd8E Detransitioned boy castrated by doctors warns kids about perils of gender ideology: ‘Patient for life’ A young male, who formerly identified as a transwoman, who was castrated and became a “patient for life” as part of “gender-affirming care,” wants to warn others not to follow in his footsteps. He discussed his story of resilience …
#recession … #Tech Bubble 3.0 edition https://t.co/Eqq0KrS0eF — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) July 21, 2023
by Michael Most people that live in the western world don’t realize that global hunger has been absolutely exploding and has now become a major worldwide issue. According to the UN, 2.4 billion people do not have enough food to eat on a consistent basis, and 900 million of them are facing severe food insecurity. Unfortunately, things are about …
by EuphoricTrilby JUST IN: Speaker McCarthy accuses the government of being weaponized against presidential candidate Donald Trump while it protects the Biden family. Is the government weaponized? Felony counts against Trump: 71 with more coming.Felony counts against Biden: 0 Biden family:-… pic.twitter.com/BJLv6WhdPH — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 18, 2023 Trump is about to be indicted …
A teacher in the Olympia School District was privately communicating with a 10-year-old student about her gender identity, and even invited the girl to her house and suggested she set up a private email account and delete messages, “…otherwise when your mom looks, you will be outed instantly.” Alesha Perkins, who has put a spotlight …
350k unaccompanied minors came across the border since 2021 85k of them have “gone missing” Possibly the largest child-trafficking op in history and nothing is being done about it — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 17, 2023 Biden Regime is the largest child trafficking cartel in the world. Tim Ballard explains their complicity…pic.twitter.com/kqafFJoUFv — BorisZMcIntosh (@BorisZMcIntosh) …
Nothing substantive and speculation at best outright bullshitting at worse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgUX_cIgRdQ h/t Disenfranchised Godzilla1980
The Biden administration, the media, Democrats, and Republicans are all either willfully ignorant or blithely unaware of the looming economic crisis that’s about to hit. Inflation is part of the problem, but we’re going beyond job creation reports and the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank. It’s a crisis that could cause all the dominoes to …
The Bloomberg dollar index has fallen to the weakest vs peer currencies in more than a year. pic.twitter.com/yA8jmUJwsc — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) July 13, 2023 DXY has broken down to new 52-week lows Reaching levels seen in April 2022 pic.twitter.com/HYpmPEae0s — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) July 13, 2023 h/t SilverStorey
by Michael Inflation is going down! Isn’t that wonderful? When many less educated Americans hear this news, they will think that prices are going down. But that is not true at all. In fact, prices are still going up. They are just going up at a slower rate than they were before. According to the …
According to Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel, the U.S. economy appears to be “progressing smoothly, with a resilient consumer impervious to the impact of higher borrowing costs.” These spenders are the “YOLO (you only live once) consumers” who, Siegel believes, are spending the last of their cash reserves on traveling and enjoying the summer. (Bill Gross) …
by Chris Black Measuring wealth through traditional liberal economic metrics like GDP per capita is absurd. Jackson, Mississippi has a higher GDP per capita and greater PPP than Berlin, Germany for example. Nobody in their right mind would argue living standards are higher in the former. The poorest states in America regularly compete with the …
