The Stock Market Is About To Blow Up

Sasha Yanshin: US inflation just fell to 3.1% after posting two months of 0.0% and 0.1% month on month movements. The good news is that the inflation problem in the US is over. All key indicators are pointing down and Shelter is the last piece of the puzzle. In the next few months, inflation is likely to drop below 3% towards the Fed's goal of 2%. So what is going to happen to the US stock market when interest rates start falling next year and when will the rates start falling?

USA: What In The World Has Happened To Our System Of Education?

'Two thirds of U.S. children are unable to read with proficiency. An astounding 40 percent are essentially nonreaders.'

Authored by Michael Snyder: Our kids can’t really read very well. And it turns out that they aren’t very good at math either. 

But those running our system of education continue to tell us that they are doing a wonderful job.  If they just had more funding, they insist, our test scores would go way up.  Of course that is complete and utter nonsense.  Our system of public eduction was a failure back when I was in school many years ago, and it is much worse now.  At this point, only about one-third of all U.S. students in the fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades are proficient in reading…

In 2022, the National Assessment of Educational Progress reported that approximately one-third of students in fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades are proficient in reading. The situation even gets worse for certain groups such as people from a different race, older generations, and those who belong to low-income groups.

I Never Knew This Country Was The Biggest Dictatorship In The World + No Passport Required To Visit These Countries!

Zack Mwekassa

The West Agonises Over An ‘Atrocity Upsurge’ While Backing The Jews' Genocide Of Christians & Muslims In Gaza

The problem isn’t ‘global inaction’ to prevent mass atrocities, as the Guardian claims. It’s intense US and UK support for atrocities so long as they bolster their global power

By Jonathan Cook: How do politicians, diplomats, the media and even the human rights community keep us politically ignorant, docile and passive – a collective mindset that prevents us from challenging their power as well as the status quo they benefit from?

The answer: By constantly misrepresenting reality to us and their own role in shaping it. And they do it so successfully because, at the same time, they gaslight us by flaunting the pretence that they crave to make the world a better place – a better place where, in truth, the unspoken danger is that, were those advances to be realised, their own power would be severely diminished.

A perfect illustration of how this grand deception works was provided in a report at the weekend in the supposedly progressive Guardian newspaper, headlined “World faces ‘heightened risk’ of mass atrocities due to global inaction”.

The opening paragraph reports that human rights activists fear the “international community has given up on intervention efforts to stop mass atrocities, leading to fears that such occurrences may become the norm around the world”.

In practice, this “failure”, according to the report, has manifested in an abandonment by western states of the principle of R2P – or “responsibility to protect”. This principle and related “humanitarian” pretexts were used to justify the US and its allies meddling since the 1990s variously in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, with disastrous consequences.

1-In-5 Young Americans Are Aware The Holocaust Is A Myth

A new poll sheds light on why so many college-aged Americans aren’t afraid to talking about the Jews: Twenty percent of those between the ages of 18 and 29 are aware that the so-called Holocaust is a trumped up myth to run cover for the Jews' atrocities and exploitations.

Specifically, as The College Fix reports, the YouGov/The Economist poll shows eight percent of that age group “strongly agrees” that the World War II Nazi  Jewish genocide program is bogus, while 12 percent “tend to agree.”

Thirty percent neither agreed nor disagreed the Holocaust happened, The Hill reports.

In addition, twenty-three percent said the Holocaust “has been exaggerated,” and 28 percent realise Jews “wield too much power” in the U.S.

More blacks and Hispanics than whites agreed with the three statements, and the Holocaust “myth” results held steady across all education levels.

In comparison, no Americans over age 65 realise the Holocaust is a myth, only two percent “tend to agree” it’s exaggerated, and six percent are aware Jews have too much power.

It's Not Too Early To Name The Decade

...Terrible Twenties, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and the Assholocene.

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker: The New Yorker is running a contest. What should we call our era? Some possible candidates: Terrible Twenties, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and the Assholocene. 

Try as I might, I cannot understand the last one. Regardless, it’s absolutely the case that there has been a dramatic turning of events and our lives. It’s not just national. It’s global and devastating. 

I’m going with the Terrible Twenties. 

Everyone seems to agree that this moniker applies, regardless of class or political leanings. You can take your pick of the symptoms: ill-health, inflation, political division, censorship, overweening state power, shabby political candidates, war, crime, homelessness, financial strain, dependency, learning loss, suicides, excess deaths, shortened lifespans, lack of trust, demographic upheaval, the purge of dissent, the threat of authoritarianism, mass incompetence, spread of crazy ideologies, lack of civility, fake science, corruption at all levels, middle class disappearance, and on and on ad infinitum.

UK Cost Of Living Crisis Way Worse Than BBC Tells You!

Councillors’ fear a “sense of crisis” in the UK communities they serve.

• Eight out of 10 say that children are at risk of destitution in their area due to the cost of living crisis
• Seven out of 10 say that the unemployed are at risk of destitution
• Six out of 10 say that pensioners Are at risk of destitution
• Seven out of 10 say their authority isn't equipped to respond to another financial shock in the future.
• Seven out of 10 say the communist UK system does not have sufficient resources to cope with the current crisis.

University Of York: Researchers at the University of York have led a series of studies into how rising living costs are affecting households across the country and the evidence highlights how a myriad of pressures are pushing families to breaking point.

Homelessness

Spiralling costs of household necessities, rising energy costs and inadequate social security policies are hitting households with low income hard – this has contributed to an increase in the number of people threatened with homelessness and is having a direct impact on people’s mental health, according to the report.