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'I'm wondering when we voted to go to war?' - US Congressman


RT
Wed, 18 May 2022 22:27 UTC
Chip Roy
© AP/Greg NashCongressman Chip Roy • House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing • October 21, 2021
Congressman Chip Roy (R-Texas) has condemned House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer for stating that the US is "at war," presumably with Russia. Roy hammered Democrats and Republicans alike for deepening America's involvement in the Ukraine conflict in order to "feel good about ourselves."

In a video clip posted by Roy's press office on Wednesday, the Texas Republican took aim at Hoyer for declaring on Friday that the US is "at war," and that critics of the Democratic Party should "focus on the enemy" instead of rising energy costs at home.


Comment: Biden, the destructor-in-chief, has neither tolerance nor reason. It is above his comprehension and beneath his pay scale.

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Arrow Up

UK inflation jumps to 40-year high of 9% as food and energy prices spiral

Elliot Smith
CNBC
Wed, 18 May 2022 02:05 UTC
Market
© Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty ImagesUK Office for National Statistics estimates inflation would have been higher around 1982
U.K. inflation soared to a 40-year high of 9% in April as food and energy prices spiraled, official figures revealed Wednesday, escalating the country's cost-of-living crisis.

Consumer prices rose by 2.5% month-on-month, fractionally below expectations for a 2.6% climb in a Reuters poll of economists, which had also projected a 9.1% annual increase.

The 9% rise in the consumer price index is the highest since records began in their current form in 1989, outstripping the 8.4% annual rise posted in March 1992 and well ahead of the 7% seen in March of this year. The U.K.'s Office for National Statistics also said its estimates suggest that inflation would have last been higher "sometime around 1982."

From April 1, the U.K. energy regulator increased the household energy price cap by 54% following a surge in wholesale energy prices, including a record rise in global gas prices. The regulator, Ofgem, has not ruled out further increases to the cap at its periodic reviews this year.


Comment: Inflation dramatically rises in Austria, highest since 1981:
Inflation in Austria has jumped to its highest level in over 40 years, media reported on Wednesday, citing data from the country's federal statistics agency Statistics Austria. CEO Tobias Thomas said in a statement:
"In April 2022, consumer prices again increased significantly compared to last year - by 7.2%. We saw such a high rate of price growth in Austria for the last time in October 1981. Then the price of oil jumped sharply due to the Iran-Iraq war. Now, along with fuel and energy prices, food prices are the decisive factor."
According to the agency's calculations, transport costs increased by an average of 17.7% after having already jumped by 15.9% in March. The growth is attributed to higher fuel prices, which spiked 49.1% in April. This also hit airfares, which rose by 45% last month. Household energy costs also skyrocketed, increasing by almost 29%, while food prices surged by 8.4%.

This week's data shows that the cost of an average weekly shopping basket rose 14% in April compared to last year.

Austria is among a growing number of Western states to suffer from soaring consumer prices. Inflation in Britain hit a 40-year high last month at 9%, while prices have also been growing at record-breaking speed in the US, Germany and other nations.

The spike in prices follows the introduction of economic sanctions against Russia in response to its military operation in Ukraine. The measures were meant to destabilize Russia's economy, but they appear to have backfired on nations that imposed them.
Consequences: Europe and the West bite their own hands to punish Russia.

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Bizarro Earth

Global famine likely this year - Putin aide


RT
Thu, 19 May 2022 12:56 UTC
Hands bread
© Getty Images/mariusFM77'Breaking Bread'
The attempt by the US to take over Ukraine's grain reserves may spark a humanitarian crisis in the country and lead to grain shortages globally, President Vladimir Putin's aide, Maksim Oreshkin, said on Thursday.

According to the official, a global famine could break out by fall this year.
"It is important that in the conditions, for example, of a global famine that will occur closer to autumn, by the end of this year all over the world, Russia should not suffer, but be fully provided with food."
The main reason for this potential global famine, in his opinion, is the increase in the cost of wheat on the world market which stems from Washington's irresponsible monetary policy.
"Until about 2020, wheat prices on the world market were stable, but following the increased printing of the dollar, which started around July 2020, prices started rising sharply."
Oreskin referred to Washington's measures to curb the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy. However, the Biden administration's more recent actions are likely to worsen the situation, which is already dire.
"In fact, what America is trying to do with Ukraine now is to take out the grain reserves that Ukraine currently has in its possession - just another action that dooms Ukraine to serious humanitarian problems, but also dooms the global community to having big problems with hunger."

Comment: As the saying goes: Separate the wheat from 'the chaff'.

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Bullseye

Nina Jankowicz's appalling record, not her critics, sank the Disinformation Board

Robby Soave
Reason
Wed, 18 May 2022 19:33 UTC
nina Jankowicz
© Screenshot via YouTubeNina Jankowicz
And The Washington Post's wildly one-sided account of Jankowicz's fall was an exercise in government PR.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has placed a "pause" on the newly-minted Disinformation Governance Board; its first executive director, Nina Jankowicz, has resigned.

The board's existence, which was announced just three weeks ago, prompted serious concerns from many civil libertarians and inspired Ministry of Truth comparisons. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tried — and largely failed — to address these concerns by noting that the board would serve in merely an advisory capacity and not have any actual power to police speech. That the Disinformation Governance Board did a bad job of communicating information about itself did not exactly instill confidence, and evidently DHS has now realized that the entire project is a bad idea.

It's unclear whether plans for the board will be un-paused in the future; Jankowicz had initially decided to resign, reconsidered when she was told the pause might be temporary, and then ultimately left anyway.

Comment: The U.S. citizenry has dodged a bullet for the moment. Rest assured though, there will be future attempts to instate a 'Ministry of Truth'. They just have to figure out how to package and market it more effectively. Stay alert.

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Russian Flag

Ongoing surrender at Azovstal "on far bigger scale than Kyiv has acknowledged"

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 19 May 2022 19:24 UTC
red cross surrender azovstal
© Associated PressRed Cross staff overseeing the neonazi surrender in Mariupol on May 18, 2022
Russia's defense ministry has now revised the numbers of Ukrainian fighters to have emerged from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol upward to more than 1,700 soldiers that have left the plant. A new Reuters headline has stressed that there's ongoing "silence from Kyiv" as the surrender is on a much larger than expected scale:
Moscow said on Thursday that 1,730 Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Mariupol over three days, including 771 in the past 24 hours, claiming a surrender on a far bigger scale than Kyiv has acknowledged since ordering its garrison to stand down.
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Bad Guys

Lost in the past: Bush refers to Russia's Ukraine invasion as 'Iraq War ' in speech slip-up

Jesse O'Neill
New York Post
Wed, 18 May 2022 14:48 UTC
george bush
© Twitter / Sahil KapurFormer President George W. Bush mistakenly labeled the Iraq war as a "wholly unjustified and brutal invasion.", in a speech on May 18, 2022
Former President George W. Bush mistakenly conflated the Iraq invasion his administration oversaw with Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine in a Wednesday speech from Dallas.

Bush, 75, immediately corrected himself after calling the Iraq occupation "wholly unjustified and brutal" while discussing election integrity at an event at Southern Methodist University's George W. Bush Institute, footage showed.

"Russian elections are rigged. Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from the electoral process," the two-term president said.

"The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.

"I mean of the Ukraine, heh," the gaffe-prone Republican said while shaking his head, squinting and smirking.

Comment: Why are Dubya's "thoughts" even relevant. It's common knowledge that Darth Cheney was actually running the White House. Let him go back to painting in obscurity.

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Eye 2

Best of the Web: New controlled food system is now in place and they will stop at nothing to accelerate their control

Corey Lynn
Corey's Digs
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
vertical farming

Comment: The following is easily one of the most comprehensive assessments we've seen of the global elite's takeover of the West's food systems....


"Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world." This famous quote by Henry Kissinger is ringing more and more true by the week. The globalists already control the majority of the money, are moving ever so swiftly to convert the energy system over into systems they are all invested in, and have been taking drastic measures to control the food industry while running much of it under the radar. If they control the seeds they control the food, and if they control the food they can use the digital ID to control consumer access to the food. While a rash of fires suddenly destroy food processing, meat, and fertilizer plants, during a time where farmers are hurting and supply chain issues are kicking in, an entire traceable food infrastructure system has already been built in multiple cities and is making its way across the globe.

Imagine a day where farmers markets no longer exist, you can't drive over to your local farmer to buy produce or cuts of meat, and the only food growing outside of the globalists secured indoor vertical farming and lab grown meat facilities, is in your windowsill, garden, or greenhouse.

- The indoor vertical farming industry was valued at $5.5 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach $19.86 billion by 2026. Urban indoor farming controlled by the globalists is the future of food they have reimagined, and it's already in thousands of grocery stores without people realizing it. Whereas the U.S. is leading in this industry, this is a global agenda with vertical farms popping up across the globe.
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Turkey's Erdogan puts the brakes on NATO's nordic expansion

Selcan Hacaoglu
Bloomberg
Mon, 16 May 2022 06:51 UTC
Mevlut Cavusoglu during a NATO meeting in Berlin, on May 1
© Hannibal Hanschke/Getty ImagesMevlut Cavusoglu during a NATO meeting in Berlin, on May 15.
  • Erdogan voices firm opposition before talks on Sweden,
  • Finland Turkish president calls Sweden 'nesting ground' for terrorists
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he won't allow Sweden and Finland to join NATO because of their stances on Kurdish militants, throwing a wrench into plans to strengthen the western military alliance after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

At a press conference in Ankara late Monday, Erdogan poured cold water on expectations that Turkish opposition to the enlargement plan could be easily resolved. The remarks were his clearest indication that he intends to block membership for the two countries, or at least extract concessions for it, since they announced their intentions to join over the weekend.
"These two countries lack a clear stance against terrorism" and "Sweden is a nesting ground for terrorist organizations,"
Erdogan said. He also said that Turkey wouldn't allow countries that impose "sanctions" on Turkey to join NATO, an apparent reference to restrictions on weapons sales imposed by several European nations.

Comment: See also:

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Black Magic

EU & US to fund proxy-war in Ukraine with $20 billion - and counting

Laurence Norman
Market Watch
Wed, 18 May 2022 07:15 UTC
EU Ukraine flag
© Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images
The European Union's executive agency proposed for the first time up to 9 billion euros ($9.5 billion) in assistance to help Ukraine pay its bills through the rest of 2022, matching U.S. plans to provide $8.5 billion in immediate short-term aid, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.

The money, which will need to be signed off by EU member states, comes on top of a EUR1.2 billion loan this spring, as Europe and its western allies seek to help President Volodymyr Zelensky pay debts and keep providing basic services for Ukrainians amid the Russian invasion.

The International Monetary Fund has estimated Ukraine needs around $5 billion in assistance to keep the country running amid a massive economic slump caused by Russia's invasion. The IMF disbursed $1.4 billion of emergency financing on March 9 to Ukraine.

Ukraine's government expects the economy to contract by around 45% this year.
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USA

Get ready to be muzzled: The coming war on so-called hate speech

John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Wed, 18 May 2022 22:05 UTC
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech." — Benjamin Franklin
Muzzled Jefferson
© A Government of Wolves.com
Beware of those who want to monitor, muzzle, catalogue and censor speech.

Especially be on your guard when the reasons given for limiting your freedoms end up expanding the government's powers.

In the wake of a mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, carried out by an 18-year-old gunman in military gear allegedly motivated by fears that the white race is in danger of being replaced, there have been renewed calls for social media monitoring, censorship of flagged content that could be construed as dangerous or hateful, and limitations on free speech activities, particularly online.

As expected, those who want safety at all costs will clamor for more gun control measures (if not at an outright ban on weapons for non-military, non-police personnel), widespread mental health screening of the general population and greater scrutiny of military veterans, more threat assessments and behavioral sensing warnings, more surveillance cameras with facial recognition capabilities, more "See Something, Say Something" programs aimed at turning Americans into snitches and spies, more metal detectors and whole-body imaging devices at soft targets, more roaming squads of militarized police empowered to do random bag searches, more fusion centers to centralize and disseminate information to law enforcement agencies, and more surveillance of what Americans say and do, where they go, what they buy and how they spend their time.

All of these measures play into the government's hands.

As we have learned the hard way, the phantom promise of safety in exchange for restricted or regulated liberty is a false, misguided doctrine that serves only to give the government greater authority to crack down, lock down, and institute even more totalitarian policies for the so-called sake of national security without many objections from the citizenry.
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