Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/financial-strain-american-households-hits-retailers-hard

If anyone still believes that the U.S. economy is doing just fine, they should take a closer look at what is happening to the retailers that depend upon the faithful American consumer to “shop, shop, shop” to keep the economy afloat. American consumers are rapidly running out of firepower, and now, so too are the retailers that depend on them.

Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/car-repos-rise-23-yoy

The private debt crisis is becoming apparent in America after car repossessions jumped 23% during the first half of 2024. Data shows that 1.6 million Americans will have their car repossessed by the bank before the end of the year, a slight increase from the 1.5 million autos repossessed in 2023 and a drastic upturn from the 1.1 million in 2021.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/602056-lindsey-graham-war-iran/

Lindsey Graham has introduced legislation that could drag Washington into a war with Tehran if Israel is attacked. US Senator Lindsey Graham has introduced legislation that would authorize military action against Iran if Hezbollah attacks Israel, or if Washington determines Tehran is on the cusp of acquiring nuclear weapons. The second resolution would authorize the US president to “use all necessary and appropriate force against the Islamic Republic of Iran” if the president determines that Iran “is in the process of possessing a nuclear weapon” or “possesses uranium enriched to weapons-grade level, possesses a nuclear warhead, or possesses a delivery vehicle capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.”

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/602052-eu-removed-hundreds-ukrainian-children/

The reasons for removing these children from their families vary, Lutsik explained. Ukrainian parents may not be aware of the host countries’ laws and approaches to parenting, he said, citing cases of minors being scolded loudly in public or walking to school unaccompanied.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/602075-us-deploys-forces-israel/

The Pentagon will send additional military resources amid the escalation between West Jerusalem and Tehran. Washington has ordered more destroyers, cruisers, and an additional fighter squadron to the Middle East to defend Israel amid rising tensions with Iran, the US Defense Department said on Friday. In addition, the US has ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to relieve the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier currently deployed in the Middle East.

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2024/08/03/factbox-300-days-of-israeli#more31031

The genocidal war on Gaza launched by the Israeli regime on October 7 last year completed 300 days on Thursday, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction with nearly 40,000 Palestinians killed. Human rights watchdogs, however, believe the death toll is much higher as thousands remain missing, trapped under the rubble and ruins. In the past ten months, the Israeli military has dropped 82,000 tonnes of explosives on Gaza, carried out 3,457 massacres in the territory, and displaced almost the entire 2.3 million population, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2024/08/02/orban-s-insight-into-the#more31030

The Ukrainian Conflict was a “red pill” for him and he elaborated on the ten ways in which it opened his eyes to reality. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban elaborated on the global systemic transition and his country’s grand strategy within it during a lengthy speech at the Balvanyos Free Summer University and Student Camp over the weekend. The over 11,000-word English transcript was published on Monday, which the present piece will summarize for the reader’s convenience. It began with him reaffirming that it’s his Christian duty to promote peace and mocking the EU for its Orwellian “war is peace” mantra.

Link: https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=292320

Last month, New Zealand’s Ministry of Health published an interim update to its Pandemic Plan. The Pandemic Plan they used during the Covid pandemic was published in 2017, so if you thought things were draconian last time, just you wait until the next one.

Link: https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=292291

It’s no secret that the U.S. military has been unable to attract new recruits, and attempts to try and entice young Americans to enlist have backfired. Sometimes embarrassingly so. In April, Military.com reported the U.S. Army inked an $11 million deal with WWE wrestler and media personality Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to produce media campaigns to lure young Americans to enlist.

Link: https://www.rt.com/russia/602058-russia-god-military-enlistment/

The clip promotes military service while focusing on religious diversity and national unity. The Russian Defense Ministry has released a promotional video designed to encourage citizens to enlist in the military, placing strong emphasis on different ethnicities and religious denominations coming together to face a common enemy. The 90-second clip released by the ministry on Friday depicts a fierce battle, apparently between Russian and Ukrainian forces. On a sweltering summer day, several Russian soldiers are seen ducking into a trench under artillery fire, with one making the sign of the cross and saying an ‘Our Father’ prayer in front of a small Orthodox icon of St. George – one of the most venerated figures in Christianity, often associated with victory on the battlefield.

Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-08-02-dod-finds-2b-accounting-errors-ukraine-aid.html

The Department of Defense (DoD) has discovered accounting errors amounting to $2 billion in aid sent to Ukraine. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed this discovery in a July 25 report, noting that the DoD has faced challenges in accurately valuing defense articles sent to Kyiv due to unclear accounting definitions. This valuation errors applied to missiles, ammunition and other equipment, according to the report.

Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-08-02-state-department-refusing-label-idf-war-crime.html

The U.S. Department of State has declined to categorize the rape of an illegally detained Palestinian prisoner by Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teiman detention facility as a war crime. Al Quds reporter Said Arikat questioned State Department spokesman Vedant Patel about the incident. The prisoner, who sustained severe rectal injuries, was transferred to a hospital and is reported to have suffered damage so severe that he could not walk.

Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-08-02-dr-roger-marshall-investigation-bias-censorship-propaganda-google.html

A prominent Republican doctor who is seeking a U.S. Senate seat in the state of Kansas has announced the launch of a full investigation into Google over bias and censorship claims. On X, Dr. Roger Marshall revealed that he wants to get to the bottom of Google's restrictions on the free flow of information, seeing as how it has become the world's number-one search engine.

Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240803/israeli-assassination-spree-has-untied-hezbollahs-hands-for-broader-and-deeper-strikes-iran-says-1119621616.html

Mideast tensions reached new highs this week in the wake of the assassination of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas political bureau chief and top negotiator Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Hezbollah, Iran and Yemen’s Houthis have vowed to “punish” Israel for the killings.

Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240803/israels-claimed-right-to-provoke-enemies-with-impunity-does-not-work-anymore-1119619518.html

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed earlier in an attack on his residence in Tehran after he took part in the inauguration of newly elected Iranian President. The IDF also announced that a strike in a suburb of Beirut killed a commander of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, Sayyed Mohsen also known as "Fuad Shukr."

Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/you-cant-feign-bravery-in-a-situation-like-that-musk-on-why-hes-voting-trump/

illionaire Elon Musk sat down with podcast host Lex Fridman and told him why he supports Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States. Musk gave a number of reasons, but most prominent among them was Trump’s “courage under fire”.

Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/migrant-shelter-costs-massachusetts-exceed-1-billion-next-several-years-state-predicts

Gov. Maura Healey’s administration expects to spend more money than originally anticipated over the next fiscal year on the emergency shelter system housing migrants and local families, according to revised estimates released this month. Shelter-related costs are now projected to top $1 billion in fiscal year 2025 if caseloads remain the same, an increase from the $915 million state budget writers first said they expected to spend and a sign that officials do not forecast a slowdown in demand.

Link: https://palexander.substack.com/p/my-opinion-on-that-sick-imo-rapist

In 46 seconds Carini quit and forfeited the match as she took two devastating blows to her head from this MAN, this would be rapist sick filth Mia Thomas type animal, would be pedophile, he needs to be tuned up properly and have a real fight with men like him, who would discipline him and school him and punish him and tune him up good, for the blows he delivered to the female Carini…where the fuck are the feminists today? where are the EFFin women like Gloria Steinem, and Camille Paglia, and Gloria Allred, the Ambulance Chaser of 'Feminism', where are these women? Where is #MeToo?

Link: https://palexander.substack.com/p/suicide-surge-due-to-devastaing-harms

Very sad, tragic, gut wrenching e.g. Trinidad & Tobago young woman kills herself after adverse effects from Pfizer shot; Italian swimmer personal trainer kills himself; Hang them high! who did this! What we lost was lives, freedoms, liberties across over 3 years. Governments maximally abusing us with power they took fraudulently. For a fake fraud ‘IFR’ (infection fatality rate) of 0.05% so called ‘pandemic’. 0-19 years, IFR 0.0003%, near zero. We cannot find one healthy child in the US, Sweden, Germany etc. that was exposed to COVID and died from COVID. Not one. Across 3 years of COVID.

Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/70-students-believe-speech-can-be-damaging-physical-violence-survey

The study, released on Tuesday, reveals several key findings, including that 70 percent of students “believe that speech can be as damaging as physical violence,” as two in three students report “self-censoring” on some topics during classroom discussions. Republican students self-censor more, with 49 percent self-censoring on three or more topics versus 38 percent of Democrats and 40 percent of independents. “Republicans also tend to be more likely to report self-censoring on gender or LGBTQ+ issues (55%), racial issues (44%), and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) issues (33%) than Democrats (32%, 30%, 15%) or independents (41%, 37%, 26%),” the results show. 1,678 currently enrolled college students aged 18 to 24 participated in the poll from March 7-28. Only 43 percent of these students feel that freedom of speech is very secure or secure today — that’s down from 73 percent of students who felt the same in 2016.