The Worst Economic Gloom In 50 Years

'This is the gloomiest that Americans have been about their own personal finances in at least five decades.'

By Michael Snyder: We haven’t seen anything like this in decades.  Energy prices are soaring to unprecedented heights.  Food shortages in some parts of the world are starting to become quite severe.  Rampant inflation is out of control all over the globe.  Meanwhile, economic activity is slowing down everywhere that you look.  Some are comparing this current crisis to the “stagflation” of the 1970s, but I believe that is a far too optimistic assessment.  Just about everyone can see that economic conditions are rapidly deteriorating, and there is a tremendous amount of alarm about what the months ahead will bring.

According to a brand new Wall Street Journal-NORC survey that was just released, the percentage of Americans that believe that the state of the U.S. economy is “poor or not so good” is 83 times larger than the percentage of Americans that believe that the state of the U.S. economy is “excellent”…

A severe pessimism grips the U.S. economy and Americans report the highest level of dissatisfaction with their financial situation in at least half a century, poll results released Monday show.

Russia: Tango Needs To Be Danced Together - West Is Still Breakdancing, Alone

RN: Answers to media questions by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov during a press conference following the meeting of the CSTO Ministerial Council of Foreign Affairs, Yerevan, June 10, 2022. Lavrov commented on recent statements by Polish President Andrzej Duda that the leaders of France and Germany should not have direct contact with the Russian authorities in order to resolve the Ukrainian issue. In addition, Lavrov commented on the decisions taken by the "Ukraine = Big Israel" President of Ukraine the Jew Volodymyr Zelensky on the special rights of the Poles, which are equal with the Ukrainians in everything except the right to vote.

China Won't "Hesitate To Start A War" Over Taiwan As Series Of Private Warnings Conveyed To US

Beijing says it's ready to "fight to very end" and "smash to smithereens any American plot"

By Tyler Durden: A new report by Bloomberg on Sunday has detailed a series of instances that Chinese officials have privately conveyed to their American counterparts that the Taiwan Strait does not constitute international waters, upping tensions given the Biden administration has been sailing navy warships through the contested waters on a monthly basis. 

"The statement disputing the US view of international law has been delivered to the American government by Chinese officials on multiple occasions and at multiple levels, the person said," Bloomberg writes. "The US and key allies say much of the strait constitutes international waters, and they routinely send naval vessels through the waterway as part of freedom of navigation exercises."

The Biden administration is said to be "alarmed" by the private warnings, given that "It’s not clear whether the recent assertions indicate that China will take more steps to confront naval vessels that enter transit the Taiwan Strait," according to the report. This also suggests China could take a more assertive stance in the South China Sea, where US warships have been goading China.

US Begins To Give Up On Proxy War Stooge Ukraine

"We have lied about every fucking war we have been in. ...The US was desperate for this to happen for fucking years, ...shit!"

Lee Camp & Eleanor Goldfield

Kremlin Responds After Warmongering Polish EU Official Says West Should Give Ukraine Nukes

"Sikorski is provoking a nuclear conflict in the center of Europe... if his suggestions are fulfilled, these countries will cease to exist, as will Europe as well." -Volodin

By Tyler Durden: Starting in April, dangerous rhetoric related to regional nuclear aspirations began coming out of Poland - apparently directed as a 'threat' to Russia amid the invasion of Ukraine. Early that month, for example, ruling Polish party leader, Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski suggested that a "tougher" anti-Russian defense posture would include Poland being "open" to having nuclear weapons stationed in the country.

Photo: Poland's nuclear warmongering Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski

But this weekend has seen the rhetoric heighten even further, eliciting a fierce response from Moscow, when Poland's European Parliament Deputy and former Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski suggested that the West give nukes to Kiev. "The West has the right to give Ukraine nuclear warheads so that it can protect its independence," Sikorski said according to regional sources.

The US Empire Acts Like A Textbook Manipulative Sociopath

'Propaganda only works if you don’t know it’s happening. Censorship only works if it doesn’t draw attention to the information being censored.'

By Caitlin Johnstone: One of the great sources of distress in people’s lives is that we don’t get to be the narrator of other people’s stories about us. That we don’t get to control what other people are thinking and saying about the things we do and the kind of person we are.

We’ve all been there in some way at some point.

“If he really knew me he’d like me.”

“If they’d understood what I meant by that joke they wouldn’t have gotten offended.”

“If she could see my heart and my intentions she’d understand why I did what I did.”

“No no, that’s not what happened; they’re getting it all wrong and it’s making me look like the bad guy.”

The United States Has Joined The Ranks Of Shithole Countries

'The people in Washington have to be the most stupid in the world.'

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: The Biden regime has turned the United States into a laughing stock. Not that the US wasn’t already a laughing matter, but now, oh boy!, even patriots are laughing.

You know those sanctions that were going to bring down Russia? Well, Biden’s sanctions drove up, not down, Russian oil shipments and revenues by 300,000 barrels a day as reported by the Wall Street Journal, and doubled the price of gasoline to Americans as reported by the American Automobile Association. https://www.rt.com/business/556989-us-fuel-prices-surge-record/

You know all those tanks and weapons promised to speed Ukraine’s defeat of Russia, well, sorry, the Russians aren’t supplying us with the titanium necessary for tank armor.

The United States government is so stupid and incompetent that the Washington morons do not yet comprehend that by becoming involved in Russia’s limited intervention in eastern Ukraine, formerly part of Russia, Washington is doing more than making the West combatants in the conflict and, thereby, potential targets.

Israel NGO Refers Jewish Israel To Int’l Criminal Court For Torture Of Indigenous Gentiles

Public Committee Against Torture in Jewish anti-Gentile apartheid regime Israel says that after 30 years of fighting torture, it had “reached the unfortunate conclusion” that Israel has no wish to end torture, honestly investigate victims’ complaints and prosecute those responsible.

By Lubna Masarwa: An Israeli anti-torture body has referred its own country to the International Criminal Court (ICC) after concluding that Israel is “not interested and unable to stop the use of torture against Palestinians”.

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) said on Friday it had demanded that Israelis involved in torture be tried as part of an investigation by the Hague-based ICC over suspected war crimes committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Hold The Line + The New Abnormal: Never Forget!!!

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Biden Throws Zelensky Under The Bus: Ukraine Leader 'Brushed Off' Invasion Warnings

 "There was no doubt," Biden said. "And Zelenskyy didn't want to hear it."

By Tyler durden: President Joe Biden on Friday told a donors conference in Los Angeles, California on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas that Ukrainian President Volodymyr "Ukraine = Big Israel" Zelensky brushed aside US warnings saying a Russian special operation in Ukraine was imminent. He described the situation ahead of the Feb.24 invasion and his communications with Zelensky, according to The Associated Press:

"Nothing like this has happened since World War II. I know a lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating," Biden said, according to the outlet. He added the US had data that showed Russian President Vladimir Putin was going to invade.

"There was no doubt," Biden continued. "And Zelenskyy didn't want to hear it."

They Plan On Repeating “Putin’s Price Hike” Until People Believe It

The illusory truth effect. ...Westerners are paying more because of western policies chosen by western policy makers, and we’re being trained to look at our shrinking bank accounts and yell, “Damn you, Putin!”

By Caitlin Johnstone: President Biden used the phrase “Putin’s price hike” again in a reaction to Friday’s Consumer Price Index report revealing continued high inflation, showing once again that the US government believes Americans are idiots.

“Make no mistake about it: I understand inflation is a real challenge to American families. Today’s inflation report confirms what Americans already know: Putin’s Price Hike is hitting America hard,” Biden said in a statement. “My administration is going to continue to do everything it can to lower prices for the American people.”

Which is of course absurd. Prices were already soaring and inflation was already at a 40-year high before Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February, and there was never anything inscribed upon the fabric of reality which said the US needed to respond to that invasion with an economic war that has made everything worse.

UK Column News - BBC China Deception, The PPE scandal, Ukraine And Much More

"The price of petrol is so high that it would be cheaper to buy cocaine and just run everywhere!"

Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Vanessa Beeley.