Biden has Covid - again! Or is it 'Paxlovid rebound'? Whatever the case may be with the demented 'leader of the free world', it's patently clear that understanding of 'the science' of seasonal respiratory viruses remains as elusive to Our Dear Medical Authorities as ever. Media blathering aside, the sheer paucity of 'Covid deaths', coupled with widespread ennui towards 'anti-pandemic measures', means The Rona is done for justifying further lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

Also on this week's NewsReal, Joe and Niall track Nancy Pelosi's plane across the Pacific Ocean to explore the likelihood of war between the US and China over Taiwan's future, lampoon the latest insane 'energy-saving measures' Western governments are imposing on people to 'defeat Putin / save the planet', and list the latest Ukrainian atrocities projected onto Russia as that awful country continues disintegrating under the weight of its own lies.


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The circus around Pelosi's trip to Taiwan is a clear sign that something incredibly reckless and stupid is about to happen.
In October 2019, Jake Sullivan, who became U.S. National Security Advisor in 2021, stated in an interview that the U.S. needed a clear threat to rally the world and play the role of saviour of mankind and that China could be that organizing principle for U.S. foreign policy. In the 2019 interview, he acknowledges that the problem was that people were not going to believe that China is a global threat, that their view of China is too positive and that the United States would need a "Pearl Harbour moment," a real focusing event to change their minds, something he calmly stated that "would scare the hell out of the American people."

According to Sullivan, from the same man who called for Libyan and Syrian military interventionism, American exceptionalism needed "rescuing" and "reclaiming," not of course with actual qualitative actions that would earn one's position as a model of true democratic governance with American citizens and the world, but rather through ever aggressive PR and media shame-based social conditioning, labeling whoever points out the clear hypocrisy of these statements as "threats to national security." Actors like Sullivan have shown that they are willing to do anything to achieve that "Pearl Harbour moment," even if acts of terrorism on their own people are required in order to paint their "enemy" as a monster in the eyes of their citizens.

This is by no means a new strategy. Operation Gladio is a perfect example of how NATO conducted a decades-long secret war against its own European citizens and elected governments under the guise of "communist terrorism."

In 1962, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, proposed Operation Northwoods, which was a proposed false-flag operation against American citizens, which called for CIA operatives to both stage and actually commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets and subsequently blame the Cuban government in order to justify a war against Cuba. The plan was drafted by General Lemnitzer specifically and has a striking similarity with NATO's Operation Gladio.

The logic of Northwoods was the stripe of Gladio. The general staff inclined towards prefabricated violence because they believed benefits gained by the state count more than injustice against individuals. The only important criterion is reaching the objective and the objective was right-wing government.

There's no shortage of black pills for those in the conspiracy reality community to swallow. In fact, it's difficult to avoid swallowing a mouthful of them every time you scroll through the news feeds. Just look at these stories from the past few days:
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And get a load of this one:

You get the point. It's almost impossible to browse the news anymore without giving up all hope for the future of humanity. We're all going to be fed into the maw of the technocratic slave system and have our fingers broken by our new chess-playing robot overlords and there's nothing we can do about it.

Poland and South Korea signed a framework agreement on Wednesday for what is being hailed as Seoul's largest ever arms deal. South Korean manufacturers will supply almost 1,000 tanks, over 600 artillery pieces, and nearly 50 fighter jets to the Eastern European nation.

The multi-billion-dollar deal will be among the largest and most significant Polish defense orders in recent years and will substantially strengthen the country's armed forces, Poland's Defense Ministry announced in a press release.

The orders are divided into two stages, according to the press release. The first stage covers 180 K2 tanks and 48 K9 howitzers, the first deliveries of which are expected this year. Stage two will include over 800 enhanced K2PL tanks and 600 K9 howitzers and will involve technology transfers: both weapons will be produced in Poland starting in 2026.

Britain's High Court has denied the Venezuelan government's access to its nearly $2 billion worth of gold reserves held in the Bank of England, ruling in favor of the country's US-sponsored opposition figure Juan Guaidó.

After a four-day trial, the court ruled on Friday that the British government recognizes Guaidó as Venezuela's interim president, despite his eroding support even among the opposition.

The ruling also states that control of the gold should fall to a board of advisers appointed by the country's divided opposition but not to a board named by the elected government of President Nicolas Maduro.

Norway's foreign ministry said it "deeply regretted" an incident after which security footage was shared on social media appearing to show a Norwegian consul insulting Russians at a hotel reception.

In the video, posted on a Telegram channel reputed to be close to the Russian security services on Saturday, a woman introduced as Elisabeth Ellingsen, Norwegian consul in the Arctic city of Murmansk, appears exasperated as she waits for a clean room.

"I hate Russians... Just give me a room... I'm used to clean rooms, I'm from Scandinavia," she says in the edited version of the footage on the Mash channel.

Rather than making money harder to get, the U.S. government needs to focus on the other side of the demand vs. supply equation.

In prescribing cures for inflation, economists rely on the diagnosis of Nobel laureate Milton Friedman: inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon — too much money chasing too few goods. But that equation has three variables: too much money ("demand") chasing (the "velocity" of spending) too few goods ("supply"). And "orthodox" economists, from Lawrence Summers to the Federal Reserve, seem to be focusing only on the "demand" variable.

The Fed's prescription is to suppress demand (borrowing and spending) by raising interest rates. Summers, a former U.S. Treasury Secretary who presided over the massive post-2008 bank bailouts, is proposing to reduce demand by raising taxes or raising unemployment rates, reducing disposable income and thus people's ability to spend.

But those rather brutal solutions miss the real problem, just as Summers missed the crisis leading up to the 2008-09 crash. As explained in a November 2021 editorial titled "Too Few Goods - The Simple Explanation for October's Elevated Inflation Rates," we don't actually have too much consumer money chasing available goods.

The sanctions on Russia could split the global economy into geopolitical blocs, experts predict.

Russia's military operation in Ukraine and the subsequent Western sanctions on Moscow might push the global economy into geopolitical fragmentation, the IMF warned in a report published on July 26.

"A serious risk to the medium-term outlook is that the war in Ukraine will contribute to fragmentation of the world economy into geopolitical blocs with distinct technology standards, cross-border payment systems, and reserve currencies," the report states.

According to the IMF, such a split would prevent the global community from jointly addressing global problems.

"Fragmentation may also diminish the effectiveness of multilateral cooperation to address climate change, with the further risk that the current food crisis could become the norm," the authors of the report warn.

We know it'll happen, just not what form it'll take.

The perennial topic that seems to keep coming up over and over in Dissident Right circles is that of the coming collapse. Will it happen? If it does, what will it look like? Once it's done, what will the results entail? Burning questions, one and all. I've been known to talk about this question myself over the years in conjunction with applying Turchin's demographic-structural theory (DST) to Current Year America. Honestly, it's on everybody's minds specifically because it is obvious that the current system is so broken that it cannot continue much longer.

Yet, there are always a few folks who don't like to think about it, and thus don't like for you to think about it either.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday in response to Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) announcing that he will not support President Biden should he run for reelection that there is a lot of ground to cover between now and then.

"The president intends to run in 2024 — we are a ways away from 2024. We are going to continue to focus on doing the business of the American people, by delivering for families, by lowering costs for families, as we have seen," Jean-Pierre said.

She mentioned two legislative wins for Biden this week — an emerging deal in the Senate on a sweeping tax reform and climate bill and the $280 billion semiconductor chips and science bill heading to his desk.