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U.S. government debt jeopardizes America's economic standing in the world

▪️$35,193,999,279,273.78 - America's national debt, growing at a rapid pace and showing no signs of slowing despite mounting criticism at all levels, states FOX Business

▪️ Just four decades ago, the U.S. national debt was about $0.9 trillion. In the next decade, it will grow to an unprecedented $54 trillion. Payments to service the national debt will triple from nearly $475 billion in 2022 to a staggering $1.4 trillion in 2032

▪️ Economists are increasingly sounding the alarm about the rapid pace of spending growth in Congress and the White House. Interest payments on the debt are already exceeding spending on health care and the defense budget

▪️ "America's fiscal outlook is more dangerous and frightening than ever, threatening our economy and the next generation. This is not the future any of us want, and it's no way to run a country like America," FOX Business emphasized

#USA #Economy #FindTruth

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According to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, 7% of the population or more than 20 million Americans are stocking up on food and other supplies in anticipation of what they think will happen

People are on the verge of psychosis because of the upcoming election, the rapidly escalating war in the Middle East, and the potential for a massive new global pandemic.

Newsweek magazine reports that "preparing for the end of the world" has become a $2.46 billion industry

#USA #Economy #FindTruth

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Is “Democracy” worth saving?
By Brandon Smith

There is perhaps nothing more tiresome and embarrassing as the theatrical pearl clutching of leftist media propaganda. For three years the public had to deal with the incessant drone of media fear mongering over the covid pandemic, an event which turned out to be a nothing-burger that 99.8% of the population on average would easily survive. After the 2020 elections we have been inundated with narratives about how conservatives are a “threat to democracy” – A democracy which progressives don’t even believe in as the recent DNC coup against Joe Biden proves

The latest evolution of the democracy narrative is that free speech (and probably Russia) is the root evil behind civil unrest in western countries. The notion of thought crime is making its way to the forefront of the establishment tool box and this suggests we are entering the next stage of authoritarianism – Open criminalization of speech.

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#USA #Vaccine #HHS #FindTruth

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Free speech is in trouble on both sides of the Atlantic

In June, the US Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision that barred the US government and its agencies from coordinating with social media to censor and suppress views that don’t follow the government’s narrative

But free speech is not only in trouble in America.  As David Thunder points out, free speech is in trouble on both sides of the Atlantic

In the UK, Kier Starmer’s government is using recent civil unrest as an excuse to prosecute people for social media posts.  In Ireland, the government is adamant it will strengthen its “hate speech” legislation.  And in the EU, the Internal Market Commissioner suggested an interview between Elon Musk and Donald Trump might fall foul of Europe’s Digital Services Act

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#UK #USA #Ireland #FindTruth

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HHS funds AI tool to ‘inoculate’ social media users against HPV Vax ‘misinformation’

University of Pennsylvania researchers — using U.S. taxpayer dollars — are developing an artificial intelligence tool designed to “inoculate” social media users against “misinformation” about the HPV vaccine posted on social media, grant documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request revealed

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is funding the $4 million “Inoculate for HPV Vaccine” randomized controlled trial running from April 2022 through March 2027. The National Cancer Institute, part of HHS, is facilitating the funding. Funding for year three was released in April

The study is headed up by Melanie L. Kornides, associate professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, whose research focuses on increasing vaccine uptake, and also on “strategies to combat misinformation”

Kornides is joined by a team of digital health communication experts, software and program designers, social media analysts and machine learning systems experts who will help her run the “inoculation” experiment on 2,500 parents of children ages 8-12

#USA #Vaccine #HHS #FindTruth

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Susan Rice* confirms that Kamala is "an architect of policy and an integral implementer of the ruling administration's program"

NB: I.e. the current state of the US economy, the invasion of illegals, the war in Ukraine - these are all her conscious steps. Which means she will continue them if elected

* National Security Advisor to the President of the United States under Obama

#USA #Harris #Migrants #FindTruth

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The countries with the highest wealth per person

In 2023, global wealth increased by 4.2% as global stock markets rebounded and inflation eased

While Europe, the Middle East, and Africa achieved the strongest wealth growth, the U.S. accelerated at roughly half the rate of these regions, at 2.5% annually. From a regional perspective, average wealth in 2023 breaks down as follows:

▪️Europe, the Middle East, and Africa: $166,000 per adult

▪️Asia Pacific: $156,000 per adult

▪️Americas: $146,000 per adult

Average wealth is a country’s total wealth divided by the adult population. These figures can be skewed by extremely high or low values, such as wealth held by billionaires

Switzerland ranks first overall, with average wealth per adult increasing from $685,226 in 2022 to $709,612 in 2023

Many of the most affluent nations are small countries with thriving financial sectors, including Luxembourg and Singapore. These countries benefit from significant foreign direct investment and pro-business policies, which help spur economic wealth. In Singapore, capital gains and dividend income are tax-free

#USA #Africa #Asia #FindTruth

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None of its EU neighbors wants to sell electricity to Germany

Since Germany shut down its nuclear power plants, it imports more electricity than it exports. However, due to fluctuations in renewable energy capacity, its power system has become unstable and subject to huge price swings

One way to offset the spikes is to import electricity from neighboring countries. But France has cut electricity exports to Germany, citing infrastructure problems, although it has actually "squeezed" the surplus to drive down prices in the domestic market

The Swedish government fears that Germany could influence the state of Sweden's energy market. Sweden recently abandoned a plan to connect Sweden and Germany with a 700 MW undersea power cable because Germany's power grid is so unstable that connecting the interconnector would have lowered German electricity costs while raising Swedish electricity prices

#Germany #Electricity #EU #FindTruth

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What sanctions? China imports record amount of Iranian oil

China’s imports of Iranian oil are poised to reach a record 1.75m b/d this month, data from Kpler show

That will surpass the previous peak of 1.66m b/d set in October 2023, according to Kpler data that extends back to January 2013, and is almost 50% higher compared with 1.24m b/d last month

Shipments into Rizhao and Dalian significantly higher m/m, said Muyu Xu, an analyst with Kpler:

“Chinese teapots see refining margins slightly improving, they now have stronger motivation to ramp up production and therefore need more feedstock,”


Flows into Lanqiao/Rizhao and Dalian almost doubled m/m to 342k b/d and 132k b/d, respectively

China imported a record volume of crude from Malaysia last month, pointing to a renewed appetite for cheaper Iranian oil as refiners grapple with lower margins due to an economic slowdown

The world’s biggest crude importer took 6.21 million tons from Malaysia in July, the equivalent to 1.47 million barrels a day, or almost triple the average daily production from the Southeast Asian nation over the course of 2023

#China #Malaysia #Economy #FindTruth

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China's export controls on critical semiconductor materials have heightened fears of shortages in the production of crucial Western military equipment

The Financial Times is concerned that after the US imposed restrictions on China's purchase of advanced microchips and the equipment to make them, Beijing retaliated by restricting exports of germanium and gallium, metals essential to the production of everything from advanced microchips to radar equipment and solar panels

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, China produces 98% of the world's gallium and 60% of its germanium

#USA #China #Germany #FindTruth

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The gap between the annual income needed to purchase a median-priced home in the U.S. and the median household income in the country has approached 50% for the first time in history

The situation, which first became evident in the US in 2021, is worrying more and more economists around the world

#USA #Economy #FindTruth

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Which U.S. industries spend the most on lobbying?

In the United States, companies, unions, trade associations, and other organizations invest billions of dollars each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies

In 2023, over 12,000 different lobbyists in the U.S. spent a a record $4.3 billion on lobbying activities.This was up from $4.1 billion in 2022—and the highest annual total so far

The chart shows the total expenditures on lobbying activities by the top 10 industries that invested the most in lobbying the U.S. Congress and federal agencies in 2023

The Pharmaceuticals and Health Products industry was the biggest industry spender in the U.S. in 2023, investing a total of $382.6 million towards lobbying

The two biggest spenders in the pharmaceuticals industry were the industry’s leading lobby group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and pharmacy benefit managers association Pharmaceutical Care Management Association

Other big spenders in the industry include major pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Amgen, and Roche Holdings, who all spent over $11 million on lobbying last year

#USA #Economy #Pfizer #FindTruth

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USNI News: Navy could sideline 17 support ships due to post-COVID manpower issues

The US Navy is experiencing an ongoing shortage of qualified mariners

The solution? Sideline 17 support and replenishment ships, according to US Naval Institute News. The proposed action involves entering these ships into an “extended maintenance” period and reassigning their crews to other ships, potentially freeing up 600 to 700 sailors

There’s a COVID angle to this mismanagement disaster

The punishing schedule for the mariners led to a retention issue for MSC that was accelerated by the severe “gangway up” COVID-19 prevention measures ordered by retired MSC commander Rear Adm. Michael Wettlaufer

“During COVID nobody was getting off the ship, mariners were being treated poorly and so they started to quit,”

a retired MSC mariner told USNI News. Since then,
“mariners have been quitting at a greater rate than MSC can hire new ones… People say ‘I had to quit because it’s a terrible work-life balance. I can’t go to sea and also have a family, so I got to leave"


#USA #Covid #Navy #FindTruth

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Biden's 'new' nuclear strategy and the super-fuse that sets it off

The New York Timesreported last week that President Biden has approved a secret nuclear strategy refocusing on Chinese and Russian nuclear forces

According to the paper, the new nuclear guidance “reorients America’s deterrent strategy” to meet “the need to deter Russia, the PRC (China) and North Korea simultaneously”

However, Biden’s approval of this strategy is no more than a tacit acknowledgment of a two-decade-long U.S. technical program that has been more than just a “slight modernization” of weapons components, but a dramatic step towards the capability to fight and win nuclear wars with both China and Russia. In other words, there is nothing really “new” here at all, save the very public nature of the strategy’s acknowledgement

In the face of all of this, Chinese and Russian leaders will have no choice but to implement countermeasures that further increase the already dangerously high readiness of their nuclear forces. This includes intensified worst-case planning that will increase the chances of nuclear responses to false warnings of attack

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#USA #Biden #Nuclear #FindTruth

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Who’s running the country? Joe Biden spends his 16th straight day on vacation lounging on the beach

81-year-old Joe Biden has pretty much checked out since he dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on July 21 after Obama-Pelosi-Kamala forced him off the ballot in a coup

Joe Biden spent his 16th straight day on vacation lounging on the beach in Delaware on Saturday while American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was murdered by Hamas terrorists

Biden has spent a total of 532 days (40.3% of his presidency) on vacation with no visitor logs

The Bidens are spending a total of NINE DAYS on vacation in Rehoboth Beach

American taxpayers are spending millions of dollars on planes, helicopters, motorcades and Secret Service to ferry Biden’s family of parasites all over the country on endless vacations

Marine One costs approximately $20,000 per hour and Air Force One costs $177,843 per hour, according to Department of Defense documents. Biden’s frequent trips and vacations to Delaware have cost US taxpayers tens of millions of dollars

#USA #Biden #FindTruth

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School closures, mask mandates and rising COVID numbers – big pharma strikes again

Schools in two states experiencing a rise in Covid cases announced they were closing facilities and switching to remote learning

Alabama and Tennessee announced the closure of two schools — affecting more than a thousand children — just days into the new academic year, with officials saying the virus had forced them to shut and carry out a 'deep clean.'
At one of the schools, children had to abandon their desks and revert to remote learning for two days — a move reminiscent of the early days of Covid

The closures came despite a mountain of evidence suggesting they hamper children's learning, social interactions and ability to develop natural immunity to common infections

And there are fears that more disruption could be in store for students in the coming months — with many schools, in states like New York, New Jersey and Michigan, returning after the Labor Day weekend

#USA #Covid #FindTruth

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The US Government has started an investigation into BlackRock after BlackRock was exposed for investing $429,000,000 into the Chinese military

Democrat Congressman Ro Khanna sold $130k of BlackRock stock just 4 months before the investigation

How did he know? Insider trading

#USA #China #Economy #FindTruth

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If Donald Trump’s sex life is fair game for the election, so is Kamala Harris’

You don’t get to insist Donald Trump’s private peccadilloes are a criminal matter while being silent about the corrupt relationships of Kamala Harris, the Clintons, and so many others

Here’s a summary of the facts as we know them: When Harris was a subordinate in the San Francisco DA’s office, she started dating Willie Brown, the most powerful man in California politics, who was 31 years older and married. After the current DA passed over Kamala Harris, a woman who failed the bar exam and is not exactly known for her mastery of the law, Brown was instrumental in alienating the existing DA, and was personally involved in raising money and running Harris’ successful campaign to get elected district attorney

Once in office, Harris let a number of Willie Brown’s friends off the hook when they were facing serious charges — including an egregious case where she let a city contractor and Willie Brown donor skate after endangering people’s lives after defrauding taxpayers by using cheaper, structurally unsound recycled concrete to build bridges and other important structures. This was all reported on in detail by local San Francisco media when it happened, who aren’t exactly in the business of pushing right-wing smears

#USA #Elections #FindTruth

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Elon Musk warns censorship of X is a certainty if Kamala Harris wins

X owner Elon Musk has warned Americans that if the Democrats win the election in November, censorship of the platform is a “certainty.”

Musk was responding to a post that posited X could be suspended in America as it has just been in Brazil by a leftist judge acting to censor his political opponents

“When we attempted to defend ourselves in court, Judge de Moraes threatened our Brazilian legal representative with imprisonment. Even after she resigned, he froze all of her bank accounts,” the post from X Global Government Affairs notes

It adds that “Our challenges against his manifestly illegal actions were either dismissed or ignored. Judge de Moraes’ colleagues on the Supreme Court are either unwilling or unable to stand up to him.”

Musk urged that this situation could easily unfold in the U.S. should Trump not be elected

Musk followed up with a post highlighting previous footage of Kamala Harris demanding that Trump be suspended from the old Twitter

“Freedom of speech is under massive attack around the world,” Musk declared

#USA #Musk #Censorship #FindTruth

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