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Britons facing 'permanent' reduction in living standards - report


RT
Thu, 09 Feb 2023 12:04 UTC
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© Tolga Akmen/AFP
UK households are suffering a "permanent" decline in living standards as wages lag behind double-digit inflation and families struggle to pay their bills, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has warned.

According to a forecast by the UK's oldest independent economic research institute released on Wednesday, 7 million households, which is the equivalent of one in four, will be unable to cover their energy and food bills once the government starts scaling back its subsidies program in April.

Energy prices remain high, while inflation is running above 10%, more than five times the Bank of England's 2% target. NIESR said the target will not be reached until the second half of 2025.

Grocery inflation alone soared to a new record of 16.7% in the four weeks of January, taking the average annual food shopping bill in the UK to £5,504 ($6,781), up £788 ($974) from last year, according to the latest research by Kantar.

NIESR economists warn that middle-income households will be hit hardest by the cost-of-living crisis. While the poorest families receive additional state aid, the middle classes will face a decline of between 7% and 13% in their disposable income, or as much as £4,000 ($4,800). NIESR director Jagjit Chadha said:
"What we've seen is that the shocks that have come along have progressively made us poorer per person. This malaise seems to be affecting large parts of the advanced world but on many measures the UK looks as though it's towards the bottom of performance and I think that's a great concern."
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Anonymous student in the UK reveals what it's really like to be at school today as trans hysteria grips our schools

Anonymous
Daily Mail
Wed, 08 Feb 2023 22:00 UTC
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After becoming increasingly upset by the school’s acceptance of transgender ideology, this female student has decided to expose the truth about life in an ongoing culture war
She's 14 and attends a co-educational state secondary in South-East England — where she says one in ten children in her year identifies as trans or non-binary. After becoming increasingly upset by the school's acceptance of transgender ideology, this female student has decided to expose the truth about life in an ongoing culture war.

The other day, I went to the school office to get a new copy of the timetable. The teacher I spoke to used 'they/them' pronouns about me, asking another member of staff, 'they have lost their timetable, can they have a new one?'

He knows me really well and it's clear that I'm a girl. I felt furious he didn't just say 'she'. But it's not just the odd teacher here or there; I am regularly asked if I am in the process of transitioning.

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MH17 probe suspended


RT
Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:47 UTC
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© Dominique Faget/AFPWreckage of Malaysian airliner near Shsaktarsk, Ukraine
The international investigation team says it cannot determine who operated the missile that shot down the Malaysian Boeing...

Investigators behind the criminal probe into the July 2014 downing of Malaysian flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine said on Wednesday they had not been able to find sufficient evidence that could lead to new prosecutions and are therefore suspending the investigation. The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) stressed, however, that the case will be resumed if new information comes to light.

"The investigation has now reached its limit. All leads have been exhausted," said Dutch prosecutor Digna van Boetzelaer as the JIT issued its latest report on the tragic incident.

According to the JIT, the Malaysian Boeing was shot down by a BUK surface-to-air missile. In their report, the team claims there are "strong indications" that the air defense system was provided to anti-Kiev rebels in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on the personal orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

They admit, however, that there is not enough information to meet the "high bar of complete and conclusive evidence," which is why the investigation cannot make any definitive accusations. The team also stated that it has been unable to confirm the identities of the Russian officers believed to have been operating the BUK system allegedly responsible for the tragic incident.

Comment: The PTB are determined to tag Russia with this tragedy. They discount testimony regarding fighter jets as the cause. See below:

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116-year-old Seattle business to close shop over homeless encampment safety concerns: 'We're tired'

Hannah Everman and Jeremy Harris
KOMO News
Thu, 09 Feb 2023 19:05 UTC
Thea Sand closing business in seattle homeless
© KOMO NewsThea Sand is the fifth-generation owner of Emmanuel's Rug and Upholstery Cleaners in SODO in Seattle.
A business in Seattle's SODO neighborhood has survived everything from world wars to the Great Depression and even multiple pandemics, but says it can't continue to stay open anymore due to the homeless crisis downtown.

Thea Sand, the fifth-generation owner of Emmanuel's Rug and Upholstery Cleaners SODO, said she is closing her business and leaving Seattle due to the persistent health and safety issues from nearby encampments.

"We've just kind of had it with what's happening in Seattle with our euphemistically termed by the city council 'unhomed neighbors,'" said Sand.

She described the situation outside her business, saying they've had trucks stolen from their locked lot, and every Monday morning they arrive to graffiti and needles on the ground. She even arrived to a burning mattress in the parking lot one morning.

Comment: When a city puts out messages like these, it shouldn't be surprised when it attracts a certain type of people: thus driving out its productive residents (read tax base):

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Roger Waters says Ukraine is 'not really a country' and is run by 'Nazis' amid row with Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour for being a 'Putin apologist'

John James
Daily Mail
Thu, 09 Feb 2023 14:03 UTC
roger waters UN security council
© AFP via GettyPink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters told the United Nations Security Council that Russia's invasion was 'not unprovoked'. The 79-year-old (pictured) had been invited to address the 15-member council by Moscow.
The row between former Pink Floyd bandmates is deepening after Roger Waters claimed that Ukraine is 'run by Nazis' and is 'not really a country' just days after David Gilmour echoed accusations that he is 'antisemitic'.

Gilmour's wife Polly Samson, 60, had made a series of claims about Waters labelling him 'antisemitic to (his) rotten core' as well as a 'Putin apologist' - in a post which was retweeted by her partner.

Waters rebuffed the claims, which he called 'wildly inaccurate' and 'incendiary', adding that he is 'taking advice on his position'.

Comment: As Roger Waters knows better than anyone, the price for speaking the truth is always a hefty one.

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Journalist arrested at Ohio governor's press conference

Brady Knox
WashingtonWashington Examiner
Wed, 08 Feb 2023 22:55 UTC
evan lambert arrested
© NewsNationNewsNation correspondent Evan Lambert was arrested Wednesday during a news conference Ohio authorities were holding about a train derailment.
A NewsNation reporter was arrested at a press conference for Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH).

Correspondent Evan Lambert was arrested after arguing with police. They had demanded that he be quiet because he was broadcasting during DeWine's press briefing on the train derailment near the small town of East Palestine, the Hill reported.

Lambert faces charges of disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing. NewsNation has protested the arrest as a violation of the First Amendment.
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I thought I was saving trans kids. Now I'm blowing the whistle

Jamie Reed
The Free Press
Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:09 UTC
Jamie Reed
© Theo R. WellingJamie Reed at home in Missouri.
There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What's happening to children is morally and medically appalling.

I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor.

For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases with teens and young adults who were HIV positive. Many of them were trans or otherwise gender nonconforming, and I could relate: Through childhood and adolescence, I did a lot of gender questioning myself. I'm now married to a transman, and together we are raising my two biological children from a previous marriage and three foster children we hope to adopt.

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Fauci obliterated by critics for charging up to $100K for speaking engagements: 'The audacity of this man'

Yael Halon
Fox News
Mon, 06 Feb 2023 07:00 UTC
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© J. Scott Applewhite/Pool/AFP via Getty ImagesDr. Anthony Fauci responds to questions by Sen. Rand Paul during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on July 20, 2021.
Fauci is slated to deliver the 2023 Yale Medical School commencement speech in May.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was chastised online on Sunday after critics discovered that the retired NIAID director, who was once the highest-paid federal U.S. government employee, is charging up to $100,000 for speaking engagements.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' rapid response director Christina Pushaw on Sunday tweeted a screenshot from the Leading Motivational Speaker's Agency's website, which lists Fauci as a "motivational" and "health care" keynote speaker with a price tag that ranges from $50,000 to $100,000.

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Poll reveals dark mood of Canadians

Lorne Gunter
Toronto Sun
Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:51 UTC
Justin Trudeau
© Blair Gable /REUTERSPrime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives to discuss health care with provincial and territorial premiers in Ottawa, Feb. 7, 2023.
It's a little surprising that 67% of Canadians polled by Leger for the National Post agree with the statement, "It feels like everything is broken in this country right now."

That's a variation on the common poll question, "Is the country headed in the wrong direction?" and I have seldom seen a negative answer so high.

It might even be doubly surprising because the "Canada is broken" mantra is closely aligned with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. For a lot of poll respondents, agreeing that the country is dysfunctional is equivalent to admitting they kind of, sort of think Poilievre might be onto something.

But what is really, truly surprising is that the most pessimistic Canadians are women and younger people, not grumpy, old men.

Women think Canada is broken more than men do, by a margin of 70% to 64%, just as Canadians under 55 are even more pessimistic than those over 55 - 72% to 61%.

Totally unsurprising is the fact that Westerners are more convinced Canada is a mess than are the residents of other regions. Given that the Trudeau government goes out of its way to anger and repress the West, it's consistent that nearly three-quarters of Manitobans, Saskatchewanians and Albertans feel the country isn't working.
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Jordan Peterson sold out to the war party

Joe Shanley
openbookreport.substack.com
Sun, 29 Jan 2023 06:06 UTC
Jordan Peterson
"I don't really regard myself as a political figure"

When Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson first burst onto the news cycle in 2016 he was seen by many as a principled iconoclast among the spineless intellectuals who was speaking out against an approaching toleration left. Protesting the gender identity rights bill C-16, he was thrusted into the public eye when he made viral Youtube videos warning that such a law would force compelled speech on a slope towards big-brother state overreach. Beloved and hated by many, years of interviews, public lectures, and debates has made Peterson one of the most influential intellectuals on Earth — but with his recent partnership with the conservative media giant The Daily Wire, he has been shifting closer to the neocon-prointervention war-wing ideologies of the world, cozying up to their version of tolerationism while lamenting the others. Attacking woke leftist ideology is still the ex-professors main grift, but now he has stuck his feet in the water of the "promoting democracy through regime change" faction of conservatives. He sold out to the war party, and may never come back around.

Like so many of the contrarian figures that challenge pervading narratives about culture, there is something immensely likeable about Peterson. Self-described as a critic of academic neo-Marxist post-modernism, he will use his Harvard psychologist background to attack leftist gender ideology and progressive views on environmental fanaticism. Part of his appeal comes from pushing back on cultural narratives that attempt to marginalize and insult responsible and competent people. He capitalizes on our personal need to rebel. Only, the rebellion is in the culture war, not the institutional. Be it his ignorance, his desire for capital, or ability to stay within the guidelines of the system, Peterson has come to promote and greenlight some of the most hawkish, pro-interventionist, and pro-war narratives.
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