US economy to hit wall this year – experts warn..

US economy expands 5.7% in 2021, but Omicron hit looms ...

Analysts are predicting the US economy will slump this year after 2021’s 37-year high growth – as stimulus spending drops, Federal Reserve interest rates are hiked, and Covid variants continue to plague supply chains.
Former Economic Council chief under Donald Trump, Joseph LaVorgna, told CNBC that “it’s not a recession, but it will be if the Fed gets too aggressive”.
Goldman Sachs and Bank of America have trimmed their first-quarter GDP outlooks from 2% and 4% to just 0.5% and 1% respectively, with its full-year view pitched at 3.2% and 3.6%.

‘META-RAPE’: Woman alleges virtual sexual assault in Horizon Worlds..

A UK woman has alleged four male characters “virtually gang raped” her avatar within 60 seconds of joining Zuckerberg’s ‘Meta’s Horizon Worlds’ , who she claims told her, “Don’t pretend you don’t love it.”
Nina Jane Patel – VP of Metaverse Research for Kabuni Ventures – was inundated with comments to her blog post revelations calling it a “desperate cry for attention.”
Cyber legal expert Joseph Jones added it was unlikely she had a strong case for harassment given the difficulty in tracking down the real-life people.

 

 

Ukraine’s National Bank Deputy Gov. Using Position to Launder Money

According to Russian Media – Propaganda?
First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ukraine Kateryna Rozhkova is being investigated under suspicions of money laundering and tax evasion. (New Europe)
Rozhkova has been accused of moving money out of the Central Bank through a number of unaffiliated individuals tied to Global Partners in the US for a total amount of $314 million.
It comes as many Western nations have pledged to plough potentially billions of dollars of aid into Ukraine.

Alec Baldwin Launches New Podcast Despite Mounting Lawsuits..

With legal battles widening over the Rust film set shooting, Baldwin is branching out into the podcast world. (Sky News)
During the trailer for the true-crime series, the actor says he’s looking into the “deception and greed and forgery in the art world.”
Due to the fatal shooting of a producer in New Mexico, a new state bill is being introduced which will require film productions to have gun training or lose tax benefits.
Art as a form of distraction

PPE Waste Fast Becoming ‘New Danger’..

The huge amount of medical waste trashed since the outbreak of Covid-19 has become a health and environmental hazard. (World Health Organization)
“We find that people are wearing excessive PPE,” the public should, “become more of a conscious consumer,” a WHO technical officer said.
Recent data shows 87,000 tons of medical waste was created between March 2020 and November 2021 due to the Covid response.
Another human made crisis?

Farmed Salmon- Most Toxic Food in the World?

Fish farms pollute the aquatic environment and spread disease to wild fish.

Food testing reveals farmed salmon is one of the most toxic foods in the world, having more in common with junk food than health food.

Story at-a-glance:
  • Aquaculture promotes itself as a sustainable solution to overfishing, but it actually takes 1.5 to 8 kilograms (3.3 to 17.6 pounds) of wild fish to produce a single kilogram (2.2 pounds) of farmed salmon.

Continue reading “Farmed Salmon- Most Toxic Food in the World?”

VIDEO – Mass Restaurant Brawl Kicks Off Over Steak Shortage

A massive melee involving dozens of people in Pennsylvania’s Bensalem at a Golden Corral restaurant has been posted on social media this week.
US law enforcement said more than 40 people were involved in in the brawl, which started after a customer got angry that the buffet ran out of steak, accusing another group of cutting the queue, according to an employee at the branch. (CBS) Continue reading “VIDEO – Mass Restaurant Brawl Kicks Off Over Steak Shortage”

VIDEO – Whoopi Goldberg apologizes – then doubles down on Holocaust remarks..

Speaking to Stephen Colbert, The View host said the “Nazis lied” and “had issues with ethnicity, not with race”.
Goldberg went on The Late Show to clarify recent comments which outraged the Jewish community for trivializing the Holocaust.
Will the “Cancel Culture / WOKE mobs go after Goldberg?

Video Link: https://rumble.com/vtwq8n-whoopi-goldberg-apologizes-then-doubles-down-on-holocaust-remarks.html

VIDEO – ‘MEGAFLASH’: World-record lightning bolt stretches 477 miles across 3 US states..

‘MEGAFLASH’: World-record lightning bolt stretches 477 miles across 3 US states
Meteorologists have confirmed this week that a massive bolt of lightning that blitzed across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in April 2020 struck 477.2 miles.
They also found that a bolt in Argentina and Uruguay in 2020 was the longest-lasting at 17.3 seconds – both world records.

Video – https://rumble.com/vtwplb-megaflash-world-record-lightning-bolt-stretches

German fuel supply firms crippled by cyberattack…

RT News:
A major petrol distribution firm and oil supplier that feed a total of 26 companies in Germany with fuel have been paralyzed by a major cyberattack that sparked fears of a fuel shortage crisis.
Oiltanking GmbH – who supply Shell’s 1,955 gas stations in Germany, among others – insisted their terminals are all operating as normal, but their 13 tank farms cannot currently load tankers as the system is entirely computerized.

NYT Sues US Govt for Hunter Biden Business Dealings

RT News: The New York Times is suing the State Department to obtain emails from Romanian embassy officials sent between 2015-2019 detailing Hunter’s business dealings there. (NY Post citing FOIA docs)

The Biden Admin has reportedly told the NYT the soonest it could turn over the information is April 2023 – well after the midterms.

The lawsuit follows a 2019 report the FBI subpoenaed JP Morgan for Hunter’s Chinese business dealings.