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In all my years of writing, I have never seen more economic pessimism than I am seeing right now. Over the past couple of months there has been a monumental shift in public sentiment, and now just about everyone realizes that we are heading into very troubled economic times. Of course there were still a few economic optimists that were searching for a ray of hope, but the Federal Reserve left no room for optimism when it announced the largest interest rate hike in 28 years on Wednesday. When the Fed aggressively raised rates in the early 1980s, it resulted...

Dozens of container ships are piling up outside Germany’s largest seaport by volume, known as the Port of Hamburg. It’s the third busiest port in Europe and the 15th largest globally and could be plunged into chaos next week as dockworkers may strike. German newspaper Die Welt reports congestion at Hamburg is worsening, and container ships have to wait two weeks before entering the port. “The waiting times are unsatisfactory,” a spokesman for shipping company Hapag-Lloyd said, referring to Hamburg. Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), a top European port and transport logistics company, said the reason for increasing congestion...

Posted May 9th, 2022 at 6:01 AM (CST) by Bill Holter & filed under Bill Holter. Over the years, many have continually asked “when”? When will the system break down? Well, I have some good news and some bad news for you. The good news is; you are watching the collapse in real time with your own eyes. The bad news? You are watching the collapse in real time with your own eyes! This will be short and sweet. 1. Inflation is raging as the continual money printing, expansions of debt, and deficit spending have finally overwhelmed the financial engineering...

The 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown in central Pennsylvania was and remains the worst accident of its kind in the United States, but, as a new documentary shows, it could have been so much worse. In the four-part Netflix docuseries “Meltdown: Three Mile Island,” which debuted Wednesday, May 4, Rick Parks — a former leading engineer at the facility — reveals how cover-ups, falsifications of safety tests and downright dangerous corner-cutting caused the terrifying nuclear event and could have potentially triggered a second, bigger one that would have affected a huge chunk of the Eastern Seaboard. What Parks found...

Leftist Outrage over the Leaked Draft Supreme Court Decision is PRICELESS!8 minute video.

A combination of shocks is rippling through emerging market economies and has sparked soaring food and energy inflation, power blackouts, and social unrest. Countries with the weakest balance sheets and high debt loads appear to be sliding first into turmoil. This could be the beginning innings of an emerging market crisis last seen in the 1990s when socio-economic distress toppled governments, according to Bloomberg. Already, skyrocketing food and energy prices have caused turmoil in Sri Lanka, Peru, Egypt, and Tunisia. The chaos could broaden as some emerging market countries, heavily saturated with debt, could be shocked by higher debt-servicing costs...

VIDEOCongratulations to the Freedom Convoy truckers in Ottawa! You caused a ruling elite on the city council who sneered at you for being a "small fringe minority" with "unacceptable views" to turn into a wailing bunch of blubbering mental cases, including one councilman who actually did break out crying, as you can see in this video. You can see here segments of the Ottawa City Council meeting on February 16, 2022 in which the council members were reduced to bitterly hurling invective at each other and the mayor in the midst of a collective nervous meltdown led prominently by Diane...

Corporate Media in Absolute MELTDOWN Over Canadian Trucker Convoy https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1491582735735009284

Capitol Hill staffers have been anonymously airing their frustrations about pay so low they sometimes qualify for public aid and members of Congress whose masks come off behind the scenes on the account 'Dear White Staffers.' The account, which brands itself as 'Congressional BIPOC s**tposters on Capitol Hill,' shares salacious stories of members who mistreat their staff, amid a campaign to unionize that has attracted the approval of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Asked about the account in her weekly news conference, Pelosi initially declined. Later asked again about staffers' push to unionize, the speaker said: 'Well,...

VIDEOPatricia Cornwall via her character of Petra in "Baywatch" comments on her Delta Karen meltdown about 30 years later.

Yesterday, perhaps the greatest “Let’s Go, Brandon” troll since the inception of the phrase occurred. Joe and Jill Biden were calling children to wish them a merry Christmas when a father on one of the calls managed to slip in a “Let’s Go, Brandon” before things were shut down.The president then repeated it and say “I agree,” in an awkward moment where he appeared to not be aware of what was happening. Here’s what that looked like if you haven’t seen it.BREAKING: Joe Biden was taking calls from the NORAD Santa tracking program and a dad ended the call with...

VIDEOAngry Bernie is FUN to watch. Here we see Bernie Sanders going full RAGE over the apparent sinking of his beloved Build Back Broke bill. Ironically, what little chance that bill might have had was sunk even lower by Bernie's hissy fit attack upon Senators Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema.

As Rachel Maddow,, Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid watch the results come in for the Virginia governors race, they discuss the campaign strategies of the Democrats, and how the party is being run in 2021

It was a horrendous night on Tuesday for liberals as Republicans were poised to sweep into power in previously blue Virginia and running a close race for New Jersey’s governor’s mansion. And with that, MSNBC was beside itself with DEFCON-1 levels of hysteria that showed, at least for one night, that the far-left cable journalists and pundits had learned nothing. MSNBC again turned to Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Nicolle Wallace to lead their coverage from 6:45 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern and, quite simply, it was a rhetorical bloodbath with unhinged hatred about Republicans having “turned the suburbs” into...

VIDEOPolitical strategist and media analyst Matthew Dowd has just announced his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Texas. As you can see, Dowds own words out of his mouth paints him as a complete nutcase without a chance in hell of winning that race. The fun part will be to see his inevitable mental deterioration from its current low spot as the campaign progresses. Oh, and don't worry, the DUmmie FUnnies will capture each and every one of Dowd's entertaining mental meltdowns on the campaign trail.

Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion ‘Build Back Better” plan is in deep trouble. Moderates believe it’s too expensive and radicals think it doesn’t go far enough.But what the Build Back Better plan suffers from is a lack of clarity about what’s in it for the American people. The bill would expand several popular government programs — with dental, vision, and hearing aid benefits added for Medicare, and Obamacare subsidies expanded and extended.But Joe Biden has gotten sidetracked in recent weeks as reality came calling and he had to answer. The Afghanistan debacle and the return of high rates of pandemic infections...

<p>This Fourth of July holiday we might pause for a moment from our festivities to ask how we collectively lost our minds over the last 15 months—and are we yet regaining any semblance of our sanity?</p><p>A pandemic caused by the leak of a Chinese-engineered virus and its coverup was cause enough for nationwide madness. But the spread of COVID–19 was followed by a nationalized and often politicized “flatten-the-curve” quarantine that soon ensured a stir-crazy nation. Tens of millions saw no people, and heard nothing human other than what was fed to them through television and computers. No wonder they grew paranoid, conspiratorial, and angry, and soon forgot the therapeutic nature of personal interaction and the shared humanity of being in the physical presence of others.</p>

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), now a political contributor for NBC News, said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Republicans ousting Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her leadership role was “cancel culture.” [cut] Think how far the Republican Party has fallen. That now, not only do they accept people committing insurrection and sedition against our government, not only do they accept the president of the United States committing a fraud, a big lie on our democracy, which we treasure. Not only are they doing that, they’re continuing to sit silently as they oust a truth-teller.” She added, “You know, and I...

Rep. Liz Cheney blasted Donald Trump in a fiery floor speech on the eve of her likely ouster from House GOP leadership. She claims that her party is enabling former President Trump’s falsehoods about his election loss to undermine American democracy. The Wyoming representative has never taken a stand like this against the Biden socialist agenda or the violent Leftist rioters in our major cities. Cheney, who currently serves as chair of the House Republican Conference will clearly not back down in her rants against the former president. “Every one of us who has sworn the oath must act to...

VIDEOThe Tom Cruise meltdown in which he curses out and threatens to fire the crew on the "Mission Impossible 7" movie set could prove to have more entertainment value than the movie itself. In fact, it is my recommendation that Cruise incorporate his unhinged rant into the closing credits of the movie.