No ‘joy’ on Labor Day: inflation sends cost of cookouts soaring

Americans felt less “joy” when firing up their grills and getting their marinades ready past Labor Day weekend, realizing that some of the classic barbecue staples were costing them a lot more

It all begins with firing up the grill, which costs more than it did three and a half years ago. According to data from the Bureau of Labor statistics, the price of propane, kerosene, and firewood has risen 16% from January 2021 to July 2024

Staples of the basic all-American cookout are up too, meaning hamburgers and hotdogs are going to cost you. According to Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, the price of ground beef has risen 26% since January 2021, when former President Donald Trump left the White House

Similarly, hotdogs are 25% higher than they were in January 2021. The price of chicken has also jumped. Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, not seasonally adjusted, shows the price of fresh and frozen chicken parts 23% higher now than in January 2021. Matters are worse if Americans are looking to roast a whole chicken for their long weekend, as a fresh whole chicken is up 27%

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Maduro is ‘de facto’ Venezuelan President despite alleged vote irregularities, says EU

The European Union has declared that the left-wing “strongman” Nicolás Maduro is the “de facto” president of Venezuela  – despite concerns surrounding the country’s presidential elections in July

While the incumbent Socialist leader had claimed to have won the vote, numerous governments — including the US — expressed doubt over the result, arguing that independently-gathered data indicated that opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia was the real victor

EU foreign affairs head Josep Borrell announced that, while the EU believes there were irregularities in the election result, the bloc would not be taking a similar stance to some of its allies

Instead, Borrell said the bloc would continue to recognise Maduro as being Venezuela’s leader, all be he one without a democratic mandate

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Countries That Most Actively Purchased Physical Gold from 2013 to 2023 (According to Official Statistics) — Data from VisualCapitalist

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Four New England towns impose tyrannical lockdowns after “extremely rare virus” infects ONE person

Four towns in Massachusetts – Douglas, Oxford, Sutton and Webster – are imposing indefinite "voluntary" lockdowns after one person tested positive for an "extremely rare virus" called Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE)

Every night from now on, residents and visitors to these four towns will be frowned upon if they are spotted outside their homes after dark, this to stop the spread of the potentially deadly mosquito-borne illness

This most recent case of EE is the first since 2020 to be confirmed in Worcester County by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH)

The Oxford Board of Health voted to support the recommendation that people remain indoors after 6:00 pm every night from now through at least September 30 since the EEE virus apparently only spreads after the sun sets. Beginning on October 1, Oxford's lockdown time will start an hour earlier at 5:00 pm every night and remain that way until the first hard frost hits the region

The lockdowns are "voluntary" in the sense that there will be "no enforcement," officials say, if residents refuse to comply. There is a catch, though, as anyone who wants "to use town fields outside these recommendations ... will have to show proof of insurance and sign an indemnification form"

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China's robot makers chase Tesla to deliver humanoid workers

China dominates the market for electric vehicles. Now it's chasing Tesla in the race to build battery-powered humanoids expected to replace human workers building EVs on assembly lines

At the World Robot Conference in Beijing in late August over two dozen Chinese companies showed off humanoid robots designed to work in factories and warehouses, with even more displaying the made-in-China precision parts needed to build them

China's push into the emerging industry draws from the formula behind its initial EV drive more than a decade ago: government support, ruthless price competition from a wide field of new entrants and a deep supply chain

The robotics effort is backed by President Xi Jinping's policy of developing "new productive forces" in technology – a point made in brochures for the conference

The city of Beijing launched a $1.4 billion state-backed fund for robotics in January, while Shanghai announced in July plans to set up a $1.4 billion humanoid industry fund

Goldman Sachs forecast in January the annual global market for humanoid robots would reach $38 billion by 2035, with nearly 1.4 million shipments for consumer and industrial applications. It estimated the cost of materials to build them had fallen to about $150,000 each in 2023, excluding research and development costs

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For 2022, 73,654 people died from fentanyl overdose in the U.S., more than doubling from 2019

Fentanyl deaths in the U.S. have risen steadily every year for the past decade. The drug is mostly produced in foreign clandestine laboratories and smuggled into the U.S. through Mexico, including with the help of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens crossing the U.S. border

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Western nations are highly vulnerable to cyber calamity

As most people are aware, this month there was a sweeping internet outage across the US which led to a failure in roughly 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices. Disruptions included banks, airline networks, emergency call centers, online retailers and numerous corporate networks. The outage is estimated to have caused at least $5.4 billion in profit losses and it only lasted about a day

The alleged cause of the breakdown was Crowdstrike, a cyber-security company that uses large scale data updates to Microsoft Windows networks to counter cyber threats

Cyber attack is the next most likely global disaster. There are millions of Americans out there ready for a systemic collapse. According to surveys around 30% of adult Americans now consider themselves preppers. But that leaves 70% of the population in a daze, unaware and panicking should the supply chain break. Will they care who was behind the attack? Probably not. They’ll be far more concerned with simple survival

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Elon Musk offers free cellular Starlink for emergencies worldwide as space race  

SpaceX's Starlink "Direct to cell" service, in partnership with mobile carrier T-Mobile, will be offered free worldwide for connecting to emergency services

"After thinking it through, SpaceX Starlink will provide emergency services access for mobile phones for people in distress for free,"

Musk wrote on X, adding, "This applies worldwide, subject to approval by country governments. Can't have a situation where someone dies because they forgot or were unable to pay for it"
 
Musk's comments come as SpaceX has asked the Federal Communications Commission to let it begin commercial operations of its "direct to cell" technology, as AT&T and Verizon have demanded the FCC terminate the request on the premise Starlink satellites will generate an abundance of radio interference

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Weapons makers see huge cash flow influx amid global tensions

As wars in Ukraine and the Middle East continue to rage, Vertical Research Partners forecasts top weapon manufacturers will experience record cash flow during the coming years

The analysis, which was commissioned by the Financial Times, reports, “The leading 15 defense contractors are forecast to log free cash flow of $52 billion in 2026,” with the “Five top US defense contractors are forecast to generate cash flow of $26 billion”

The cash flow in 2026 will be double the 2021 numbers. The record numbers are part of an upward trend for weapons makers already benefiting from a surge in global military spending and conflict

Washington is driving the worldwide arms race. The US military budget is about the same as the next ten countries combined. Additionally, under President Joe Biden, Washington funneled billions in weapons to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan

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Kindergartners warned of ‘inescapable death spiral’ of climate change by NASA’s ‘Climate Kids’ webpage – Warned Entire US Cities Will Be Underwater

NASA’s “Climate Kids” webpage offers fun environment-related educational activities, films, and video games for children in kindergarten. It also warns children that the world is undergoing cataclysmic warming, sea levels are rising, global ice coverage is diminishing, and their future may very well be doomed

Climate Kids proclaims that the cost of fossil fuels is “pollution, the destruction of landscapes and natural habitats, oil spills in the ocean, and nasty fracking chemicals in the ground,” while the “biggest problem of all” is global warming. The website separately shows an image of what it says may soon occur to the United States’ Eastern Seaboard: a calamitous sea level rise covering entire cities, including New Orleans and Miami. The website fails to include a timeline for such an event

NOAA Education Portal, which is managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is another government-managed webpage that, like NASA’s Climate Kids, includes a curriculum with catastrophic language about global warming. Courses linked on the portal, for example, encourage students to foster negative emotions about the state of the environment into taking action

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Vancouver's street scene in summer 2024

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FDA lets chemical companies decide if recycled plastics are safe for food containers

Recycled content in food packaging is increasing as sustainability advocates press manufacturers to cut their use of virgin plastic

Since 1990, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency responsible for ensuring food contact materials are safe, has approved at least 347 voluntary manufacturer applications for food contact materials made with recycled plastic, according to a database on its website

Approvals have tripled in recent years, from an average of 7 to 8 per year through 2019, to 23 per year since then, and they continue to climb. The FDA has already approved 27 proposals through June this year

Other than Coca-Cola, most manufacturers seeking approval are petrochemical giants such as Eastman Chemicals, Dupont and Indorama; and lesser-known plastic packaging manufacturers, including many from China, India and other countries

The end buyers of the recycled materials aren’t included in the FDA database, but many popular brands are using recycled content. Cadbury chocolate bars come in a wrapper marketed as 30% recycled “soft plastic packaging”

The agency’s approval process for recycled plastics is voluntary and ignores the potential risk of chemical mixtures, researchers told Environmental Health News (EHN). Companies can seek guidance on their recycling process, but they are not required to

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RFK Jr: There has to be “a reckoning” for “immoral, homicidal” COVID criminality

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that individuals who engaged in “criminal” behaviour during the pandemic still need to be held accountable

Kennedy, who is in line for a health related position in Donald Trump’s administration should he be elected, declared recently that there needs to be a “reckoning” brought upon those responsible

Speaking at the Limitless Expo, Kennedy explicitly referenced Anthony Fauci, noting “I wrote a book about Fauci. It’s a great book. There are 2,200 footnotes in the book… I invited people to find problems with the book… And nobody ever told us any factual error in that book”

He charged that Fauci and others used their positions during COVID to enforce

“totalitarian controls that were not science-based”

“It’s a story, really, of people involved in really terrible, immoral, homicidal criminal behavior. There still has to be a reckoning” for Covid,”

Kennedy urged

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The Middle East is on fire again

Israel, surrounded by unfriendly countries, is escalating the conflict from an obviously losing position. Its army is far inferior in numbers to that of its opponents, Iran, reinforced by allied forces from Syria and Lebanon

As the experience shows, the size of the army in general and infantry in particular is a key parameter of a modern conflict

So without US assistance, primarily diplomatic, Israel will very quickly lose a war initiated by itself. The U.S. is reluctantly being dragged into a conflict that it knows it is losing, with vague goals and unpredictable results, and with the threat of half of the Middle East turning into "Afghanistan"

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A common situation in the London Underground

Police officers are walking around with automatic weapons, but their task is not to protect citizens from migrant rapists, but to protect those very migrant rapists from angry locals

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Hundreds of doctors resign from British Medical

According to British media, hundreds of doctors are not only going public to express their anger with the British Medical Associations’ decision to reject the Cass Review’s findings on the dangers of puberty blockers – and many are resigning

The Telegraph says:

“Doctors with decades of experience have resigned from the British Medical Association because of the union’s opposition to the Cass review”

On August 1 the British Medical Association – the U.K. doctor’s union – called on the government to lift the ban on puberty blockers for minors and called for a pause on the implementation of the National Health Service’s Cass Review

Initially, 1,000 senior physicians from across the U.K. responded by publishing an open letter to chairman of the BMA, Professor Philip Banfield; that number is now up to 1,400, with 900 of those being BMA members. Among their accusations is that the 69-member council passed their policy at a “secretive and opaque” meeting

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How inflation has changed in countries around the world over the last 4 years

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UK Prime Minister Starmer says it was a "tough choice" for him to cancel the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners, but what can you do, you have to "strengthen the foundations of the economy" for a brighter future

And in other news: PM Starmer has decided to allocate £11.6bn for overseas climate change aid, as well as allocating £3bn a year to Ukraine and paying for a £223m contract with KPMG to train civil servants

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Climate change lawsuits gaining in popularity as climate alarmists try to protect their profit stream

According to the journal Nature, 2,666 climate litigation cases had been filed around the world by the end of last year. Not surprisingly, the U.S. was leading the world in climate litigation cases with 1,745, followed by the UK with 139 and Australia and Brazil with 132 and 82, respectively. Just 8% of the recorded cases came from low and middle income countries

Some of them are related to the fact that the Paris Climate Agreement, which is considered legally binding, saw countries vow to keep their average temperatures within 1.5 degrees Celsius of their pre-Industrial levels. It's considered nearly impossible to measure this accurately thanks to the imprecision involved in measuring temperatures down to a tenth of a degree, especially in pre-industrial times

Many of the companies that are facing these lawsuits are not fossil fuel companies, although they are often targets of the climate change crowd despite alarmists themselves still relying on fossil fuels. Instead, the targets are companies that produce a variety of goods and services ranging from tobacco and paper to media and health services

A considerable number of these lawsuits are filed by NGOs and individuals who stand to gain from perpetuating the belief that it is possible for these companies to control the climate

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Liberal research paper explores how to manipulate Americans into eating less red meat

A new liberal study from the University of Southern California explores how language might be used to influence Americans to eat less red meat

The findings, published in the journal Climatic Change, suggest that changing how people talk about food could impact dietary choices, especially in the context of “climate change”

The research team, composed of three professors and one doctoral student, conducted a survey of over 5,000 participants across the political spectrum, including Democrats, Republicans and independents. The study was driven by the hypothesis that red meat consumption significantly contributes to climate change and that linguistic adjustments could encourage people to opt for more “climate-friendly” foods

In the introduction, the study noted that

“people’s attitudes can be influenced by … variations in terminology”

Interestingly, the study found that willingness to reduce red meat consumption correlated strongly with political affiliation

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The Harris-Biden admin made America’s debt bomb worse to win an election

The White House has been weaponizing economic policy to temporarily inflate the stock market — but they can’t hide the impact of overspending forever

The U.S. economy is slowing, and economic health is weaker than the Harris-Biden administration’s economic data has led investors to believe. Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the U.S. added 818,000 fewer jobs over the last 12 months (from March 2023 to March 2024) than previously reported. The largest reductions to estimated job-gains were in high-paying professional and manufacturing jobs, too

A large reason for the miss is that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has incorrectly estimated the start and death of businesses (the birth-death adjustment) since the Covid lockdowns and stimulus, which has incorrectly pushed estimates of job creation higher

The birth-death adjustment was likely skewed post-stimulus because of the many business entities opened to facilitate PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loan fraud. This could mean a large number of added jobs since 2021 are fake. Even if the data is correct, most of the existing gains have gone to foreign born workers

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