JAPAN - Amid fear of what China might do in the coming years, Japan is reaching out to turn a former enemy into an ally while increasing its military spending. On Saturday, World War II foes Australia and Japan signed a security agreement to share intelligence and assist each other. The deal was inked by Prime Ministers Fumio Kishida and Anthony Albanese in the western Australian city of Perth, according to the Voice of America. “This landmark declaration sends a strong signal to the region of our strategic alignment,” Albanese said, according to VOA. Meanwhile, according to Reuters, Japan is rebuilding its military in a way not seen since before World War II to prepare for what some policymakers fear is an inevitable showdown with China. Japanese officials fear any invasion of Taiwan will touch Japanese islands near Taiwan, much as Chinese missiles came within 100 miles of those Japanese-held islands when China was erupting in protest over the visit of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.
USA - Oil prices and President Joe Biden’s continued draining of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) have dominated the headlines over the past few weeks, but analysts say a more impactful and serious crisis on the energy front looms: a diesel fuel shortage. Diesel doesn’t get as much of the limelight as oil and gas, but it should because diesel fuel is the industrial lifeblood of the United States, and the price of diesel alone probably has a more significant impact on inflation and the prices you’re paying at the grocery store over any other factor. Without ample amounts of diesel, semi-trucks don’t move, farms are shut down, and critical manufacturing sectors are crippled.
USA - Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known by his initials AMLO, recently announced that US Secretary of State Tony Blinken proposed opening all borders between the US, Mexico, and Canada. President Obrador: “I think that Mr Blinken spoke about consolidating the region of North America. And we agree on that.” The plan would open up our borders permanently to the drug cartels running Mexico today. It is the latest insanity proposed by the Biden regime to permanently destroy the United States.
USA - A near-record number of US chickens and turkeys have died in this year's outbreak of avian flu, as a different form of the virus than farmers battled before has infected more wild birds that then transmit the disease, officials said. More than 47 million birds have died due to infections and cullings. This has spurred export bans, lowered egg and turkey production, and contributed to record prices of the staples ahead of the US holiday season. The outbreak exacerbates economic pain for consumers grappling with soaring inflation. In 2015, 50.5 million birds died in the deadliest US outbreak, the nation's worst animal-health event to date. Indiana turkey farmer Greg Gunthorp said grocers, online retailers and other buyers have called searching for whole turkeys and breasts. Antibiotic-free turkey breasts are selling for $7-$9 per pound wholesale, compared to about $3 before the COVID-19 pandemic, he said.
USA - Photos and satellite imagery from the central United States show how the region’s worst drought in at least a decade has pushed the Mississippi River and its tributaries to drop to record lows this month. Across the river basin, dozens of gauges have fallen below their low-water threshold. The Mississippi River was at historically low levels from Illinois to Louisiana this week, and many of these gauges will continue to see decreasing water levels as the forecast remains stubbornly dry. Drone video of the Mississippi River near Memphis shows how far the mighty river has contracted away from its banks. The river dropped to minus-10.75 feet there earlier this week, according to data from the National Weather Service, which was the lowest level ever recorded in Memphis.
USA - It has to get really bad soon in order to get really good later. If you have an addiction, then the way to deal with it is to fully explore the negative consequences, and not be in denial of them at the moment of (poor) choice. We live in a society addicted to technological convenience, careless consumption, and idolatry (not least of the self). Underpinning all this are compromised and captured systems of finance, religion, education, media, law, etc — which will all have to collapse and be reformed in time. No more putting off the consequences of the poor choices of the past! That means we need a financial, economic, political, cultural, and social implosion the likes of which has not happened in living memory. And that’s great! Because it is the fastest and least painful way through this mess. It is easy to focus on how the geopolitical world is damaged, but less comfortable to face up to how we degrade ourselves. An apocalypse is merely the revealing of what is, and the stripping away of pretence and illusion. We may not like that it has to get superficially worse in order to become fundamentally better, but that is how the world works — paradoxically.
USA - It’s been revealed by sources within the US Department of Justice that direct messages sent through Facebook by American users, along with public postings, have been rigorously monitored, and reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) if they express anti-government, anti-authority views, or if they question the legitimacy of the November 2020 presidential election’s outcome.
EUROPE - Josep Borrell, the European Union’s top diplomat, has been in the news lately. In response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s increasingly belligerent rhetoric, Borrell announced that a Russian nuclear strike against Ukraine would provoke “such a powerful answer” from the West that the Russian army would be “annihilated.” Borrell’s off-the-cuff remarks do not constitute official EU policy, but his words may reflect an important transformation underway within the EU. Once, the EU sought to rise above the fray of great power struggles, claiming it offered a peaceful alternative to violence and coercion. Now, key European leaders seem to be trying to remake the DNA of the European Union. Despite some searing criticism of Borrell’s choice of words and skepticism among pundits about the entire idea, the EU looks as if it is refashioning its identity into something that looks much more like a traditional power player — albeit one that is not a country itself.
GERMANY - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday called for an expanded European Union, telling a gathering of European social democrats that it would then be able to better pull its weight in global affairs. Since assuming office, Scholz has made European Union expansion to include the Balkans and other nations a major plank of his foreign policy. It has taken on more urgency since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which became a candidate for EU membership early this summer. "An EU with 27, 30, 36 states, with then more than 500 million free and equal citizens, can bring its weight to bear even more strongly in the world," Scholz said at the congress. The EU currently has 27 members. "I am committed to the enlargement of the EU. That the EU continues to grow eastward is a win-win for all of us," he said.
USA - Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), Publisher of The Solari Report and former Assistant Secretary of Housing (Bush 41 Admin.), says what is coming for the economy is pain – and lots of it. CAF explains, “We are either in a major correction or we are going to go into a bear (market), and a lot of it depends on many different politics. If you look at the money being pumped out... on climate change, on green energy, environment and all these different new sort of scams, it depends on how they inject money. It’s either a major correction or it could turn into a bear (market). There is no way to tell because it is purely political.” Various Fed presidents are repeatedly saying the central bank is going to continue raising interest rates. Why? CAF says, “I think they are going to keep raising interest rates. If you are Federal Reserve, you are playing a global game, and what you have to do is protect the reserve currency status. In short, the Fed will defend the dollar and the world reserve currency status no matter how hard the stock market crashes, no matter how much the economy crashes, no matter how much the bond market crashes and no matter how much the housing market crashes.
UK - The Liz Truss tragicomedy, almost by accident, showed that we are a country in terrible debt. We live on a reputation for solvency that we no longer deserve. Jeremy Hunt’s cancellation of the Truss Package on Monday morning was delivered and timed to placate the money markets. Our supposedly sovereign Parliament had to wait for hours to be told the same thing. Let us look at the extent of the mess which this crisis has revealed, like a flash of lightning in pitch darkness which shows a traveller he is on the edge of a precipice.
USA - We have flesh eating bacteria, open air drug markets, millions of rats and lots of Fentanyl. Once upon a time, Ronald Reagan described America as a “shining city on a hill” that the rest of the world could look to for inspiration. Well, those days are gone. So what is our pitch now? Come visit America where you can watch people buy fentanyl-laced drugs in our open air drug markets and where addicts are free to defecate on the sidewalks whenever they want.
ASIA - The possibility of Saudi Arabia joining the BRICS shows the world is moving on from Western dominance. Two decades on from its emergence as a marketing ploy, the concept has enjoyed an unlikely upturn. Since 2006, BRIC/BRICS has been the format for regular meetings at a ministerial and then the highest political level. As the political community emerged (it should be stressed - strictly informally), a criterion was formed of its own accord. That BRICS is a group of countries with full sovereignty, ie able to pursue fully independent policies.
USA - Exactly one week after Biden’s fateful decision, the US was hit by one of the worst natural disasters in our history. Hurricane Ian will go down as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. The utter devastation that we are witnessing in southwest Florida is difficult to comprehend, and it will literally take years for the region to recover. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, it was just a Category 3 storm. Hurricane Ian was a very strong Category 4 storm when it finally made landfall, and it very nearly hit Category 5.
USA - Underage Chicago teens show off their firearms following their 8th-grade graduation. America here's a big part of your problem.
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