[ZeroHedge] It takes a lot of gumption to go on television and repeatedly lie to more than 300 million Americans. I honestly don’t know how Joe Biden does it. I suppose that after you have been lying for your entire career, lying comes as naturally as breathing does. Sadly, there are still millions of Americans that are falling for his lies after all this time. Biden would like for us all to believe that the economy is “booming”, that the southern border is under control, that our communities are safe, and that Ukraine is going to win their war against Russia. Our entire society is literally crumbling all around us, and Biden and his minions have brought us to the brink of global war. I am entirely convinced that he has been the worst president in U.S. history, and that is really saying something.
There are a few numbers that Biden can cherry pick to try to make himself look good, but here are 21 facts that Joe Biden doesn’t want you to know…
1. It takes the typical U.S. household $1,069 more a month just to purchase the same goods and services that it did three years ago.
2. Two-thirds of the respondents to one recent survey indicated that they had to take action to deal with rising financial stress within the past year. Those actions included “cutting back on spending, skipping monthly bills, or taking an additional job”.
3. Home insurance rates have risen by 38 percent since 2019.
4. Home rental prices are up 30 percent since Joe Biden entered the White House.
5. A whopping 61 percent of U.S. renters cannot afford the rent on a median-priced apartment in the United States right now.
6. Gasoline prices are up 46 percent since Joe Biden entered the White House.
7. The average rate on a 30 year fixed mortgage is up 148 percent since Joe Biden entered the White House.
8. According to Zillow, the monthly mortgage payment on a typical home in this country has almost doubled during the past four years.
9. One recent poll discovered that 44 percent of retired Americans are considering going back to work because the cost of living has become so oppressive.
10. New home sales fell 11.3 percent last month.
11. Pending home sales are dropping at the fastest rate ever recorded.
12. According to the House Budget Committee, there have been more than 8 million migrant encounters nationwide while Joe Biden has been in the White House. We truly are in the midst of an immigration crisis that is far greater than anything that we have ever witnessed before.
13. Thanks to our unprecedented immigration crisis, the homeless population in the city of Chicago actually tripled in just one year.
14. Murder rates are up by double digit percentages in many major U.S. cities this year.
15. Continuing jobless claims just shot up to the highest level in almost three years.
16. The number of job openings in the United States has dropped to the lowest level in more than 3 years.
17. Rite Aid just announced that it will be closing 27 more stores. That is on top of more than 500 stores that it has already decided to shut down.
18. Walgreens plans to close approximately one-fourth of its 8,600 U.S. stores. If the economy really was “booming”, why would they be doing this?
19. Today, 20 percent of the entire population of the state of California is living in poverty.
20. According to one recent survey, 46 percent of Americans don’t even have 500 dollars saved up.
21. So far, the U.S. has spent a total of approximately 175 billion dollars on the war in Ukraine, and the Russians are still winning.
Over the past three and a half years, there has just been one epic failure after another.
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It may actually not be deliberate lying from Biden
That is the sad truth
Have a look at Dr John Campbell's video yesterday on Lowy Body Dementia - i posted today in the Opinion section
For those who do not know, Dr Campbell has made thoughtful and compassionate YouTube videos almost daily for years. He used to teach nurses for the NHS system in Britain and has written textbooks on anatomy (he is a nurse practitioner PhD kind of doctor)
When covid hit he very calmly went through the published science and official data every day and slowly transformed from trusting the health authorities through confusion and disbelief to now recommending the gene-vax be pulled off the market until it is properly made safe.
His short videos are just a joy of understated excellence in rationality
[RT] The French president could be on the verge of regime-changing himself, with his establishment party’s support below that of the opposition
The latest French national polls show a final face off between the anti-establishment right and left, and the total decimation of President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party. Looks like he may have fooled himself into thinking that dumping all over the political chessboard was a big-brained three-dimensional move.
In the wake of the anti-establishment National Rally party winning the European elections by a landslide, with more than double the score of Macron’s party, the usual suspects started chewing up the scenery with riots and unrest. All the National Rally needs to do is film it to create a campaign ad for themselves heading into the French national elections that Macron called in a double-or-nothing bet with the French people. Because Macron did that. And it’s the National Rally that has long campaigned on the promise of putting an end to it.
It finally looks like enough French voters aren’t scared into denying Le Pen’s party the opportunity. The far-right label just doesn’t act as the kind of knee-jerk deterrent that it once did. And why should it? “France is on the brink of all-out civil conflict,” headlined Britain’s Telegraph. That has happened under Macron, not Le Pen, as he rammed through his establishment agenda piece by piece with his designated prime minister invoking Article 49.3 of the French Constitution to ram through legislation without a vote at least 23 times, totally overriding the democratic process – the second most since the Fifth Republic began in 1958. Its use to move the goalposts on retirees and make them work longer when France is a global taxation champion that robs them of hard earned cash their entire working lives, under the pretext of getting it back when they retire, would explain why the majority of retirees who voted massively for Macron no longer tell pollsters that they will. His support has dropped to just 28%, according to the latest Ifop poll.
According to Le Monde, Macron said of his snap election call: “I’ve been preparing this for weeks, and I’m thrilled. I threw my unpinned grenade at their legs. Now we’ll see how they manage.” Looks like they’re managing just fine, actually. Macron’s party? Not so much. Next time, try putting a little more oomph behind that grenade toss, so it doesn’t just risk rolling back and blowing up in your face. The latest Ifop poll predicts the establishment’s total elimination after the first round of voting on June 30 with a mere 19% of the vote, and the two top parties heading to the second round on July 7 being the right and left anti-establishment at 35% and 26% respectively. And if lawlessness and violence keeps plaguing the streets between now and then, voters will fully understand that it was Macron who lit the match and the left that figured dumping fuel on the fire by trying to present the defeat of their right wing opponents as the solution to calming the unrest was somehow a winning strategy. Odds are that they’ll feel blackmailed and only be more motivated to vote accordingly. Ask German Chancellor Olaf Scholz how all the protests against the anti-establishment so-called “far-right” AfD worked out for him. They came in second, making gains in the EU vote, and his party came in third with its worst ever showing. Turns out that voters don’t really like to feel that they’re somehow being manipulated.
Macron may think that he incited panic for survival in opposing political camps – the president of the establishment right’s Les Républicains proposed an alliance with Le Pen, then briefly barricaded himself inside party headquarters so his colleagues couldn’t gather to oust him. And the smaller anti-establishment right party Reconquête, founded by Eric Zemmour, ended up kicking out four of its five elected Eurodeputies when Marion Marechal (Marine Le Pen’s niece and number one on Reconquête’s EU electoral list) joined forces with her aunt’s party instead of dividing the vote. But Macron would have barely been able to settle in with his popcorn before the sideshows ended.
It’s just such a big mystery how it’s come to this, and how the establishment in France and in Europe totally lost the plot.
In May 2023, Reuters reported that the EU had approved $1.61 billion to buy out Dutch farmers whose cattle were deemed overly enthusiastic with their belching, peeing, and defecating. The farmers then started a political party called the Farmer-Citizen movement, backing the anti-establishment Geert Wilders, whose party won the general elections in November 2023, then went on to a second place finish (and a six seat gain) in the EU vote.
In Germany, as farmers and truckers gathered at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to protest the EU establishment’s crushing bureaucracy on everything from climate change to Ukraine, the misplaced priorities and inability to make ends meet resonated so loudly with the average German that 69% of them backed the protest movement – which would explain the second place finish of the anti-establishment party (the AfD) attacked by the establishment as being in cahoots with the farmers. Turns out that a whole lot of Germans were, too.
In France, 90% of voters backed French farmer protests and were disgusted when Macron showed up at the annual Paris International Agricultural Fair with a bunch of riot squad goons who unloaded their tear gas on presumably innocent cows (although who knows, maybe they were silently setting off some planet-killing farts) while he ran from an initial confrontation with angry farmers. And well, what do you know. It turns out that 90% support for the farmers roughly translated into 93% of French communes voting for the National Rally in the EU elections.
Surely it’s all just a big coincidence. Who knew that messing with people’s food and livelihood while focusing on costly ideological priorities that are mainly of interest to the little elite cabal in charge would ever be the recipe for regime change? But the question now is whether Macron, having bet it all and lost, would cling to power like leaders he denounces. Or whether he’d abide by his own stated democratic principles and resign, as the majority (57%) of French say they’d want him to do.
[ZH] Poland and the Baltic States just requested EU funding to finance what they now call the “EU Defense Line”, which is really just the latest rebranding of January’s “Baltic Defense Line” that was then renamed the “Baltic Shield” before its latest iteration. It was during this project’s second conceptual phase that it paired with Poland and set the basis for a joint “Shield” initiative. Here are five background briefings for those readers who haven’t closely followed this project:
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Viktor Lavrinenko
[REGNUM] Recently, an official decision was made at the level of the European Commission: Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has been nominated for the post of EU Commissioner for Foreign Policy. She has already announced that she is leaving the post of head of the Estonian government, and they are looking for a successor.
All that remains for Kallas to take up her new post is to pass a hearing in the European Parliament, but this is expected to be just a necessary formality that is unlikely to prevent her from taking up the promised post.
The appointment of Callas, who was nicknamed “the princess of war” in her homeland for her irreconcilable attitude towards Russia, means that the European Commission has chosen the path of continuing confrontation.
"TOO AGGRESSIVE"
Kaja Kallas is one of those politicians who are most uncompromising towards Russia - this "merit" was noted several months ago by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, which declared Kallas wanted.
Last year there were rumors that they wanted to appoint her as the head of NATO, but the appointment did not take place, since this is really very dangerous: a nervous, unrestrained person who hates Russia at the head of a military bloc opposing Moscow.
However, Callas eventually received a different position, although less prestigious, but also very significant. She is tipped for the post of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and it is claimed that everything has already been decided. Frankly speaking, few people were delighted with this candidacy due to the specific personality of the Prime Minister of Estonia.
Among those who have been highly critical of Kallas's new post is her own compatriot, Jana Toom, an MEP. Toom says she is "infuriated" that the people behind the appointment "don't even try to pretend that the European Parliament plays any role here."
She reminds us that after the hearings, the EP technically approves the candidates and confirms the composition of the European Commission. "Last time, we sent home as many as two candidates. At the very least, the offended Giorgia Meloni (the Italian Prime Minister, who reacted negatively to Callas's appointment to the European Commission. - Ed.) will make sure that Callas's start is as unpleasant as possible, and as we know, she will have something to ask during the parliamentary hearings," Toom predicts.
Jana Toom expects that Kallas will be busy making scandalous and provocative statements in her new position. The MEP recalls how Kallas recently visited the Estonian parish of Võrumaa, where residents are protesting against the expansion of the Nursipalu military training ground located there.
The Prime Minister failed to convince residents of the strategic necessity of this object and angrily said that "evil people" live in Võru County, which greatly offended the residents of Võru County. "You can imagine that after an unsuccessful visit abroad, the EU High Representative says: evil people live in this country," Toom predicts.
Yana Toom's colleague in the Centre Party, Estonian MP Aleksandr Chaplygin, spoke even more harshly about Kallas's new appointment.
"I have serious doubts about the success of European diplomacy under Kaja Kallas. Firstly, she is too aggressive. Secondly, she is overly emotional and is not always able to control her words.
And, finally, she will be hampered by the role of an eternal victim, which is very strange for the daughter of a high-ranking communist and later a high-level European official,” writes Chaplygin.
THEY WRITE “MANGY DOGS”
By "eternal victim" Chaplygin means the role in which they decided to present Callas to the average European, who previously knew little about her. The Bild publication and the radio station Radio Free Europe (recognized in Russia as an undesirable organization) informed their audience that "European diplomacy will be headed by Putin's sworn enemy, whose family was repressed in the USSR."
It is hard to find a more graphic example of malicious manipulation of public opinion. Indeed, Kallas's maternal grandfather was repressed during the Soviet era. However, her father, Siim Kallas, was a high-ranking Soviet official, which Western propagandists try not to mention.
In 1972, shortly after completing his studies, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and had a very impressive career in the Soviet Union. Kallas Sr. worked in the Ministry of Finance of the Estonian SSR and headed the Estonian branch of the Soviet Savings Bank. Later, Siim Kallas, known as a very shrewd person, headed the daily socio-political newspaper in Estonian published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party and became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
In the early 90s, Kallas already commanded the main state bank of the independent Republic of Estonia. It was then that he pulled off a scam with several other high-ranking officials.
Estonia was the first of the Baltic countries to switch to its own currency. At the same time, Tallinn pledged to transfer the collected 1.4 billion rubles to Russia, but the money went to Chechnya. The buyer of the ruble cash could not be identified. As a result of this deal, Estonia lost at least $1.5 million, but some people gained a lot of money.
In 2010–2014, Kallas, who had by then “outgrown” tiny Estonia, held the posts of Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Transport. In this position, he developed hyperactive lobbying activities, defending the need to build the Rail Baltica railway route, which will run from Poland through the Baltic States to Finland.
And he got his way: the European Commission approved this obviously unprofitable project, which has not been implemented to this day, but which serves as a reliable “feeding trough” for Baltic officials.
Apparently, the Callas family managed to somehow instill trust in the highest ruling elites of the West, to prove to them their loyalty and usefulness, since already the second representative of this family behind the scenes receives the post of European Commissioner.
But, of course, the stories about the Kallas family, who suffered under the Soviet regime, make anyone who is familiar with the family's past smile bitterly. Estonian publicist Eino Ingerman angrily called for the "journalist" who wrote about this to be sent by parcel to Professor Preobrazhensky: "let him return him to his natural, original state - a mangy dog."
Ingerman writes that the appointment of Kaja Kallas as the EU's head of diplomacy puts a "fat end" in the history of this union, and adds that Kallas is one of those who "lead Europe to decline, into darkness."
In turn, Kaliningrad political scientist Alexander Nosovich, who specializes in studying the Baltic countries, recalls that Callas is one of the least popular politicians in Estonia - this is evidenced by both opinion poll data and the publication of open letters calling for the resignation of the government.
At home, they don’t like her because under her rule the country fell into an economic crisis, and in this situation, Callas couldn’t find anything better than raising taxes. Nosovich puts Callas, who has a “stigma in fluff,” on a par with former Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite.
"BALTICIZATION" OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Let us note that the same Lithuania under Grybauskaite was called “a country of one problem” in the EU. The only thing that worried Vilnius under this president (and this tradition was fully picked up by Grybauskaite’s successors) was the “aggressive machinations of the Kremlin” in all directions, which needed to be “repelled.”
It can be predicted that when Kaja Kallas begins to lead European diplomacy, the entire European Union will become a “union of one problem” - simply because Kallas is not interested in anything else except Russia and the fight against it, there is nothing else in her political portfolio. When such a figure heads the EU foreign policy service, this will mean the “Balticization” of the European Union, its fixation on one direction.
Until now, the European Union considered itself a global player and actively tried to promote its interests in Asia, Africa and South America.
The same Josep Borrell at the head of the EU foreign policy service was a vestige of the time when Spain and Portugal saw their role as being bridges between Brussels and Latin America.
However, the current situation forced the Spaniard Borrell to become a mouthpiece for Russophobia, which looked quite unnatural - Russia and Spain are separated by a considerable distance and have no reason for conflict.
"So Kaja Kallas will fit in very organically in place of Josep Borrell. And symbolically. She will be a symbol of the fact that the EU has dampened its ambitions on the world stage, withdrawn from Africa, withdrawn from South America and devoted itself entirely to inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia," Nosovich believes.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev also drew attention to Kallas’ new appointment. He recalled in his Telegram channel that while the Estonian prime minister was “screaming hysterically at the whole country about the Russian threat,” her husband Arvo Hallik, one of the owners of the transport company Stark Logistics, “did business with Russian companies with considerable benefit” and for 2022–2023 "scored about 1.5 million euros."
When these facts about Kallas's husband, who hysterically demanded that Estonian businessmen not have any dealings with Russia, came to light, a chorus of voices began to sound that the hypocrite prime minister should resign. But Kallas clung to her seat and could not be pushed aside.
Dmitry Medvedev writes with evil irony that Callas is “well versed in protecting human rights,” hinting that in Estonia, under this prime minister, a decision was made to liquidate Russian schools, and a hunt is underway for political activists and journalists who defend the interests of the local Russian community.
Kallas is also the author of the famous phrase "visiting Europe is not a right, but a privilege." And all "human rights protection" in Estonia under Kallas was reduced to the legalization of gay marriages...
In general, of course, the fact that it is Kaja Kallas who will “steer” the EU’s foreign policy looks like considerable nonsense. After all, the diplomacy of a giant entity, which includes some of the oldest and respected nations, will be headed by a representative of a small subsidized country on the eastern outskirts of the community, extremely unpopular in her homeland.
It is worth recalling that the Estonian Reform Party, led by Kallas, performed rather poorly in the recent European Parliament elections, managing to put forward only one candidate.
In other words, Kaja Kallas will be speaking on behalf of the entire European Union, while in fact representing almost no one, which is a manifestation of blatant anti-democratic behavior. And such an imposition of one's will on large nations will not lead to anything good.
However, one cannot deny at least one positive fact from this appointment: Estonians, having gotten rid of their hated prime minister, will at least breathe a sigh of relief.
[American Greatness] One wonders what thoughts passed through the fevered mind of Officer Lila Morris as she struck the seemingly lifeless Rosanne Boyland over the head with a branch, then struck her again, and then struck her a third time so hard that the branch snapped in half.
If Morris thought Boyland a hateful white supremacist who deserved her fate, one could, if not forgive her, at least understand how she came to think that way. For the last two years, Morris had heard little else about these MAGA minions and the monster who led them.
President-elect Joe Biden had set the tone when he launched his presidential campaign in April 2019, implying President Donald Trump had called the neo-Nazis involved in the Charlottesville dust-up "very fine people." No major candidate has ever begun a presidential campaign with a more divisive and slanderous opening gambit (one that Snopes conceded was false just this past week).
Biden continued the slander throughout the campaign. Just four weeks before the 2020 election, he weighed in on the well-timed bust of an FBI-massaged plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. "There is a through line from President Trump’s dog whistles and tolerance of hate, vengeance, and lawlessness to plots such as this one," fumed Biden. "He is giving oxygen to the bigotry and hate we see on the march in our country."
If Morris feared the depredations of these Hun-like hordes, she was in good company. "Just remember, we’re on the right side of history," Rep. Val Demings told a colleague as they huddled fearfully in the House gallery on January 6. "If we all die today, another group will come in and certify those ballots."
"White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways," congressional drama queen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told CNN’s Dana Bash. "There’s a lot of sexualizing of that violence. And I didn’t think that I was just going to be killed. I thought other things were going to happen to me as well." When Bash asked AOC if she thought she was going to be raped, AOC answered, "Yeah, yeah. I thought I was."
The left has been feeding its base a steady diet of racial fear and loathing for generations. Ocasio-Cortez is Puerto Rican. Demings and Morris black. Also black is Michael Byrd, the Capitol Police lieutenant (now captain) who shot and killed January 6 protestor and Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt. Babbitt and Boyland were both white. The phrase "had the races been reversed" is such a manifest truism that pundits on the right no longer bother to complete the thought
If the shooting death of the attractive 35-year-old Babbitt was too public to ignore, the death of the obscure 34-year-old Boyland was not. Biden’s incoming Department of Justice preferred to keep it that way. The nature of that death raised troubling questions not only about race but also about sex.
[BEE] WASHINGTON, DC — Following the disastrous Presidential debate, First Lady Jill Biden announced she will not drop out of the race despite growing calls from within the party to do so.
"Over my husband's dead body!" Mrs. Biden declared. "The nomination is MINE. You hear me, Joe Scarborough? MINE! Now get back to work, fools!"
Many on the left have called for President Biden to step down after his mental decline was put on national display, however Jill Biden has forcefully refused. "Joe isn't going anywhere!" screamed Ms. Biden as a frightened Joe tried to appeal for help. "Shut up, Joe! I didn't drag your bag of bones through primary season to quit now. Get a juice box and get back on stage!"
With even liberal outlets like the New York Times calling for Biden to step aside for a younger, living candidate, the Biden campaign has thus far remained unmoved. A defiant Jill Biden returned to the campaign trail Thursday in an effort to reassure supporters she is still in the game. "Look how alive Joe looks! Who's a good boy?! We're not going anywhere. Four more years!"
As of publishing time, Jill Biden announced Joe would be placed in a cryogenic sleep until after the election and she would continue to run the country in the interim.
[YouTube] Dr. Jordan Peterson sits down with trauma surgeon and whistleblower, Dr. Eithan Haim. They discuss the Texas Children’s Hospital, their illegal continuation of gender affirming care, the pathology and lies attached to the treatments, and why Dr. Haim blew the whistle when so many in his field remain silent (or worse, lie).
Dr. Haim is a General and Trauma Surgeon in Greenville, Texas. He recently finished his general surgery training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where he was a resident from 2018 to 2023. During this time, he helped expose Texas Children’s Hospital, the largest children’s hospital in the world, for lying to the public about the existence of their pediatric sex change program.
This episode was recorded on June 19th, 2024
Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3KrWbS8
[Defense Opinion] A far-reaching study by Navy researchers has found that exposure to munitions blast waves from combat and training may be causing brain injuries the aggregation of which is resulting serious and often deadly ailments such as depression, PTSD and suicide.
Years of prior research with animals has already documented an association between exposure to pressure waves from munitions blasts, known as overpressure, and behaviors mimicking depression. But the new findings are particularly important because they validate that the same phenomenon is occurring in U.S. military members, echoing what some advocates for veterans have been saying all along as suicide rates have dramatically climbed.
"The current research suggests a similar pattern in humans, which may also inform our understanding of the possible associations between overpressure and suicide that has been posited elsewhere," researchers from the Naval Health Research Center found.
In another key finding, the Navy research "is the first to document an association between overpressure exposure and self-reported diagnoses of chronic fatigue syndrome specifically, though again the mechanism for this effect is still unclear."
The researchers theorize that undiagnosed symptoms arising from overpressure exposure may impair the ability to get high-quality sleep, a factor in suicidal ideation. "Alternatively, it is possible that the shockwaves associated with overpressure may damage certain regions of the brain like the thalamus, which has been implicated in sleep-wake cycles. Given the importance of both suicide and sleep in military populations, understanding these associations more fully represents exciting avenues for future research," they concluded.
Medical records from thousands of service members analyzed
The researchers analyzed survey data collected between 2011 and 2013 from 138,949 service members and focused much of their analysis on incoming blasts from enemy munitions, such as improvised explosive devices, and outgoing blasts occurring when service members fire their own weapons in training or combat.
Service members exposed to repeated incoming enemy blast waves had higher risks for PTSD and depression than those exposed to only one incoming blast or no blast. Repeated exposure to both enemy blast waves and blasts during training or combat also increased the risks of migraines and PTSD.
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I have a book by the son of a Marine who was on Okinawa. His Father was knocked down by a huge explosion from Japanese munitions being detonated. He suffered horrible headaches and eventuly killed himself.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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