The American and British leaders are fully backing Israel to escalate its criminal aggression in the Middle East. In so doing, Washington and London are being exposed for the arch-criminal regimes that they are.

An all-out war against Iran is on the brink. The consequences will be abysmal, yet the U.S. and British rulers are shameless, reckless - and ultimately stupid - in their complicity.

In a few days, on October 7, the Israeli regime will have conducted 12 months of non-stop genocidal destruction of Gaza. There is no sign of that monstrous war of extermination coming to an end. The Israeli regime is completely out of control, acting with impunity and shocking violation of all laws and moral norms.

More than 41,000 Palestinian people have been killed. Some estimates put the real death toll at over 100,000 and even as high as 200,000. This slaughter of women and children is supposed to be justified by the incursion of Palestinian militants on October 7 last year in which some 1,200 Israelis were killed - many of them by their own security forces using reckless firepower. The Hamas incursion was in response to years of inhumane, genocidal siege on the Gaza Strip by Israel.

The actions of the Israeli regime are wholly indefensible. Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli leaders have gotten away with mass murder because of the diplomatic and - more importantly - military support from the United States, Britain and other Western states.

The genocide in Gaza and the other Palestinian enclave of the West Bank has been infernally compounded by Israel's expansion of aggression in the region. The past two weeks have seen Israeli forces indiscriminately bombing Beirut and other Lebanese civilian areas, causing 2,000 deaths and over one million people displaced from their homes. The orgy of violence is engulfing the entire region. The Israeli regime is also bombing Syria, Iraq and Yemen, as well as Iran in assassination missions.

Israel's murderous conduct has been going on for decades - indeed for 76 years since its inception as an illegal colonial state in 1948, established by British and American machinations at the then newly formed United Nations.

The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, has significantly heightened the risk of a large-scale military conflict in the Middle East - one that could be disastrous for the region and even for the world at large.

The tensions, which have already reached a critical level, may now erupt into a full-blown war which will affect not only Lebanon and Israel but possibly other regional powers like Iran and Turkey. With Hezbollah - Iran's primary military and political asset in the region - now practically decapitated, a pressing question arises: How will Tehran respond? Or will it respond at all?

Nasrallah's death could trigger a series of retaliatory strikes and large-scale military operations, which would further destabilize the situation in the region and pose a threat to global energy markets and international security. Considering the recent assassinations of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and one of Hezbollah's founders, Fuad Shukr, in Beirut, it's clear that Israel isn't about to stop.

However, it's important to note that the death of Hezbollah's leader was not really unexpected.

A water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking supplies and boil water notices.

One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs repair, endangering hundreds of millions of commuters. More than 42,000 bridges across the country, carrying about 167 million vehicles each day, are in disrepair.

It is estimated that 300 million people could face power outages across the United States between 2024 and 2028, due in large part to widespread power grid failures.

No wonder U.S. infrastructure received a C- on the Infrastructure Report Card.

America is falling apart.

Foreign Minister Israel Katz has banned Antonio Guterres from entering the country for his failure to condemn Iran.

Israel has declared UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata after he called for a ceasefire following Iran's attack on the Jewish state and condemned the widening of the conflict in the Middle East.

On Tuesday, Tehran launched several salvos of missiles in what the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) called a response to the recent Israeli killings of the heads of Hamas and Hezbollah, and of an Iranian general who was in Lebanon.

In a statement on X on Wednesday, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced that Guterres is no longer allowed to enter the country, and accused the UN chief of failing to denounce Iran's "abhorrent attack."

"Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran's heinous attack on Israel, as almost every country in the world has done, does not deserve to step foot on Israeli soil. Guterres also has yet to denounce the massacre and sexual atrocities committed by Hamas murderers on October 7" and has not made any effort to declare the Palestinian militant group a terrorist organization.

"Guterres will be remembered as a stain on the history of the UN for giving backing to terrorists, rapists and murderers from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and now Iran."

Irresponsible policies disguised as "support for Ukraine" could lead Europe to social collapse in the long term.

The controversy over Ukrainian agricultural products continues. Ukrainian food products have simply invaded the European market and are driving thousands of farmers out of business. Despite the protests and political pressure, no EU decision-maker seems interested in changing this tragic scenario. However, the crisis seems to have even deeper dimensions and could be a real time bomb for the entire European society.

The Bulgarian government recently asked the European Commission to pass a resolution banning the import of Ukrainian chicken eggs. According to the Bulgarian authorities, the large amount of cheap Ukrainian eggs on the European market is hurting Bulgarian producers, who rely on egg sales as a vital part of their business. Thousands of Bulgarian farmers are going bankrupt, and the crisis is only expected to get worse in the near future.

The problem is not limited to eggs or Bulgaria. Selling grain, meat, dairy products and everything that is produced in the countryside seems to be no longer an attractive business in Europe. Since 2022, protests for change have been taking place in all parts of the European continent. From Poland to France, no European farmer is happy to see his products being replaced on the market by massive quantities of cheap Ukrainian agricultural items.

A web of NGOs is collaborating with government agencies to facilitate the resettlement of refugees - and Biden-Harris policies have only exacerbated the migrant crisis, sources told the Caller.

Immigration was thrust into the public spotlight as towns in America were overwhelmed with migrants, from Springfield, Ohio to Aurora, Colorado. Bureaucracies and non-profits often work in tandem to resettle refugees, and NGOs have only grown in influence under the Biden-Harris administration, experts said.

Capital Research Center's Parker Thayer told the Caller in a statement:

"It's undeniable that the Biden Administration's border policy has benefited the network of immigration NGOs that receive massive government contracts and grants to deal with the logistical and humanitarian problems that mass illegal immigration has caused."

While it's difficult to quantify precisely how much NGOs have benefited, Thayer pointed to a USA Spending database. It shows that since 2020, federal spending on loans, grants, and contracts with the keyword "immigrant" has skyrocketed by almost tenfold.

"Normally, Western politics gives us actors who are trying to play the role of politicians. Walz is like an actor who is trying to play the role of an actor trying to play the role of a politician. Almost everything about him is just a few degrees off-centre. He's like what would happen if you endowed Chat GPT with a human body and sent it off to campaign for political office." — Eugyppius on Substack

Tuesday night's veep palaver could be the last time you see the frightened animal known as Tim Walz for the duration of the campaign. He's famous for his wild body language — jumping around on stage, flapping his arms — but this time the action was all concentrated in his face. You saw his eyes bug out, dart left and right, as if something fierce was coming at him (it was), and more than a few times, his head jerked around sideways so hard you wondered if it might do a whole three-sixty.

His mouth, a pain-inflected frown in repose, turned down so deeply it looked like he had sashweights hanging from the corners. Altogether, his face said more than the embarrassing mishmash of mangled English that came out of it. I expect to see a few Tim Walz masks on the little goblins begging for Kit-kat bars the night of October 31.

A case could be made that Iran's Ballistic Retaliation Night, a measured response to Israel's serial provocations, is less consequential when it comes to the efficacy of the Axis of Resistance than the decapitation of Hezbollah's leadership.

Still, the message was enough to send the Talmudic psychopathologicals into a frenzy; for all their hysterical denials and massive spin, Iron Toilet Paper and the Arrow system were de facto rendered useless.

The IRGC made it known that the volley of missiles was inaugurated by a single hypersonic Fatteh 2 which took out the Arrow 3 air defense system's radar - capable of intercepting missiles in the atmosphere.

And well-informed Iranian military sources stated that hackers went on heavy cyberattack mode to disrupt the Iron Dome system just before the start of the operation.

The IRGC finally confirmed that just about 90% of the intended targets were hit; the implication was that each target was supposed to be visited by several missiles, with some getting intercepted.

It's open to wide speculation how many F-35s and F-15s were ultimately destroyed or damaged on two air bases, one of which, Nevatim, in the Negev, becoming literally inoperable.

The Iran-Russia military entente - part of their soon to be signed comprehensive strategic partnership - was in effect. The IRGC used the recently supplied Russian electromagnetic jammer to blind Israel-NATO GPS systems - including those of U.S. aircrafts. That explains the Iron Dome far off hitting the empty night skies.

In a concerning development, the Houthi rebels in Yemen have been sending a series of threatening emails to Greek shipping companies operating vessels in the Red Sea. The messages warn that ships traveling through the region face the risk of attack if they have any connections to Israel.

The email campaign began in May, with the first message arriving in the personal inbox of a senior executive at a Greek shipping firm. The email, written in English, was sent by the Yemen-based Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center (HOCC) - a body established in February to liaise between Houthi forces and commercial shipping.

The message warned that one of the company's vessels had violated a Houthi-imposed transit ban by docking at an Israeli port, and would be "directly targeted by the Yemeni Armed Forces in any area they deem appropriate." The email went on to say the company would face "sanctions" if the ship continued to enter ports affiliated with "the usurping Israeli entity."

We don't even have the decency to fake as though we care about our own citizens anymore.

Part of what I love about having this blog is that it is cathartic for me when I want to be heard, understood, or otherwise just bitch and moan about things in the world of finance, the economy, and politics that I find askew.

From the jump, one of the things I have written about is how dead wrong both sides of the political aisle have our fiscal and monetary policy. With monetary policy, both parties have quietly fallen in line under the mutated breed of Keynesian economics our Federal Reserve implements, which rests on the sole idea of printing money and praying that either hyperinflation doesn't occur or the economy doesn't collapse.

Republicans occasionally criticize the Federal Reserve and pepper in objections here and there about our abuse of the dollar, but when all is said and done, they fall in line behind monetary policy as it stands today. Democrats have gone full non sequitur and, through the miracle of faux-intellectual academic bullshit squared, have somehow convinced themselves that none of the basic rules of economics — such as debits and credits and supply and demand — exist anymore.