The American Dream Is Dead: For The First Time, Less Than Half Of Americans Believe They'll Ever Own A Home

Housing becomes even less affordable, and more people end up renting, and so rents go up,… until something breaks or is broken.

By Michael Every of Rabobank: US stocks decided to stage a hefty rally yesterday “because stocks”. That’s not that unusual for said market, but the excuse for why this happened was intellectually lazier than usual.

Apparently it was housing starts data that did the trick at 0.3% m/m rather than -1.6% expected. If so, we hardly have firm foundations for such optimism. First, it’s a volatile series. Second, builders reported soaring prices for the stuff needed to construct homes across the board. Third, starts of single-family homes --you know, the American dream-- were -1.7% m/m, while starts of multi-family units --you know, the American nightmare-- were up 7.5%. In short, fewer houses and far more luxury condos and low-end rental housing to squeeze all the people into who, despite living in a land with nothing but land, can no longer afford a home.

From Russian MoD Telegram Channel

We warn the countries of the “civilized West” led by the United States in advance that the Russian Federation has an operational evidence base about the upcoming next terrible crimes of the Kiev regime.

Emergency statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine (April 19, 2022)

According to the available reliable information, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) is preparing another provocation to accuse the servicemen of the Russian Federation of so-called war crimes with the mass destruction of civilians in the Odessa region.

To this end, in the near future it is planned to dress one of the SSU units in the uniform of Russian servicemen and make a demonstrative shooting of local residents.

Photo and video footage of this action with alleged “Russian atrocities” will be published by Ukrainian and Western news agencies to immediately promote fakes.

Energy Execs Tell Boris Johnson "Fuel Poverty" Will Crush Households Into Debt & He Sends Our Money To WW3 Nazis

Whilst the British people sink further into poverty and starvation due to the same wars he's stoked for a foreign power PM Boris 'Shabbos Goy' Johnson sends our much needed tax money to fund Israel's man Zelensky and his neo-Nazis overseas!

By Tyler Durden: Living standards in Britain continue a death spiral as a large number of customers will go into debt due to soaring power bills, according to Bloomberg. 

European electric utility executives told MPs on the business, energy, and industrial strategy select committee in parliament that emerging signs show an alarming number of customers have trouble paying their power bills. 

European electric utility E.ON SE's chief executive officer Michael Lewis told lawmakers that customer borrowings would increase by 50%.  

"We are expecting a severe impact on customers' ability to pay.

"That will see a significantly larger number of people moving into fuel poverty ... and a consequent significant increase in bad debt.

"Government action won't be nearly enough to mitigate the full impact of the price increase," Lewis said.

The Associated Press Have Been Caught Whitewashing A Little Palestinian Toddler’s Death For The Jews

AP shows yet again its affinity for whitewashing the Jewish apartheid regime Israel’s crimes: this time, downplaying the death of a toddler at the whims of The Jews' harsh racist permit system. AP rarely covers Palestinian deaths in detail – it’s disappointing that when they did report on one, they used the classic propaganda technique of misrepresenting the context.

By Kathryn Shihadah: The Associated Press (AP) reported on the tragic death of the Palestinian toddler Fatma al-Masri in an article that failed to capture the true context of the story. Without accurate framing, the article is flawed and misleading.

This is not the first time AP has buried the brutality of Israel’s siege over Gaza (see reading list below) – and won’t be the last – but for Fatma’s sake, IAK wants to set the record straight.

Cognitive Biases: Three Common Types Illustrated

By Jono Hey:

In a world of information overload, we can fall victim to all sorts of cognitive biases. Since they can lead us to generate false conclusions, Visual Capitalist's Jamie Robinson notes that it’s particularly important to understand what these biases are and how they work, as the consequences can become quite drastic.

Confirmation bias, sampling bias, and brilliance bias are three examples that can affect our ability to critically engage with information. Jono Hey of Sketchplanations walks us through these cognitive bias examples, to help us better understand how they influence our day-to-day lives.

Confirmation Bias

Sergei Lavrov's Full Interview With "India Today" TV Channel

"We have come to a very straight forward conclusion, we cannot rely on our Western colleagues in any part of our life which has strategic significance, be it food security, be it defense, be it high tech for the future of mankind."

Russian News: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gave an interview to the Indian TV channel "India Today".

Is Covid Actually Snake Venom?

PP: "Watch the Water" is a hugely successful/popular "documentary" that purports that Remdesivir is actually snake venom, and that what we call Covid is really people's reactions to snake venom. Worse, that municipal water systems are the means for distributing the toxins to people. Leave aside that snake venom could not be produced in such quantities as to poison entire nations. Leave aside that snake venom wouldn't survive a trip through stomach acid. What about all the people who have well water that still got sick?

Snake venom. Graphene and Nanotechnology. These are the latest conspiracies that could be planted into the ether as a way to discredit anyone opposed to mandates and experimental vaccines. Don't be fooled, BUT more importantly, don't allow yourself to made into a fool.