#zero hedge

Oh, look. Hell has a new resident.

ZACHARY PLEAT & CRAIG HARRINGTON at MMFA:

Following the June 7 release of the latest federal jobs report — which showed that employment increased by 272,000 jobs in May, far more than the expectations of 180,000 jobs — many right-wing commentators responded by denouncing the job creation witnessed during the Biden administration for mostly going to “foreign-born workers” versus “native-born.” In some cases, these commentators indirectly or even explicitly referred to the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, a white nationalist belief that immigration is being used to intentionally decrease the share of white people in the total population to benefit a left-wing political agenda. What these right-wing conspiracy theorists overlooked in their complaints about job growth among “foreign-born” workers is that nearly half of that group are already American citizens, while millions more are lawful permanent residents who legally work in the United States.

Conservatives denigrated the positive jobs report by highlighting job gain for foreign-born workers

Multiple right-wing media personalities, conservative outlets, and even Republican officials criticized the jobs report for showing gains by foreign-born workers and losses for native-born workers. On its @GOP account on X (formerly known as Twitter), the Republican National Committee posted: “Employment for native-born American workers fell by 663,000 last month per today’s jobs report.” Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni wrote: “No wonder Americans view economy so terribly: they aren't the ones w/ the jobs; native-born employment is not only millions below pre-pandemic trend, but even below pre-pandemic level, while millions more foreign workers are employed today than Feb '20, and back to trend.” Antoni later added, “All of the net job growth over the last year has gone to foreign-born workers, (a category which the Labor Dept. admits includes illegal aliens) while native-born Americans have lost a net 300k jobs.” Other responses were more explicit in connecting the jobs report numbers to immigration policy. Breitbart posted: “Border remains open, jobs report exceeds expectations. Simple as.” Former Fox News producer Kyle Becker wrote: “Where are Americans' jobs going? The Foreign Born. Illegal aliens literally ‘took our jobs.’” And MAGA strategist Alex Bruesewitz wrote: “Biden continues to put illegals ahead of Americans.”

They labeled their article ‘exclusive’.. 

In the old journalistic standard, that means that they, and only they, have the story, and or expelling it from their typewriters and computer keyboards to the planet that would read it.

 The only problem is, zero hedge, reported the same story back in October relying on the report that was published in September…

A drop in the bucket!

What is a proxy war in simple terms?

A proxy war occurs when a major power instigates or plays a major role in supporting and directing a party to a conflict but does only a small portion of the actual fighting itself.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a virtual address that reconstruction of his country is a "common task of the entire democratic world — all countries, all countries who can say they are civilized." He added, "We are uniting the democratic world...The outlook of free people always prevails."

Nope! Sorry, you lose.

Interestingly, part of that plan is to utilized seized Russian assets, as RFE/RL writes of Shmygal's words, "Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said on July 4 at the start of the two-day Ukraine Recovery Conference in Lugano, Switzerland, that Kyiv believes a substantial source of funding for the recovery should come through assets confiscated from Russian oligarchs, which he estimated at $300 billion to $500 billion."

That's like taking away Bill Gates's billions. Even though we like to but is it legal?

No one is on Ukraine's side.

Thank you for the ask!

According to the economist Stephen Moore, a measly two percent of the transmissions come from restaurants, and virtually no transmissions are due to outdoor dining. Despite the science, Democrats continue to impose these un-American lockdowns across the country. As a result, the gap between the rich and the poor is the widest it has ever been. Thanks to the lockdowns, not the pandemic, 17 million minorities are at risk of losing their homes. Forty to fifty percent of restaurants in the U.S. may go completely bankrupt within months if their doors do not open now, and the unemployment rate for service workers in New York and New Jersey has climbed to 10 percent. Republican states like Florida and Utah have unemployment rates for service workers at approximately four percent.

Additionally, Zero Hedge reported that eight million more Americans than last year are living in poverty, and 60 percent of businesses that shut down due to the COVID lockdowns have closed forever. Furthermore, almost two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck today, compared to one-fifth of Americans around the same time last year. Hardly anyone has an emergency fund left -- 60 percent more Americans today cannot handle a $500 emergency than last year. Also, more people are unable to find work. Earlier this month the Labor Department reported that 2.4 million people had been out of work for at least 27 months, the “long-term” unemployment threshold, and they expect that number to rise to five million people by the first of the year.

Also, useless school closures have kept many parents from returning to work, causing additional financial hardship. Hundreds of thousands of women alone have left the workplace since September – nearly 850,000 women compared to approximately 216,000 men. Not to mention, the price of food has skyrocketed during the lockdowns due to a disruption in our supply chain and production costs. The loss of foodservice demand due to Democrats killing the restaurant industry, hasn’t just hurt service workers. Farmers and ranchers have been forced to raise their prices for grocery stores who in turn pass on their costs to average American consumers. They have no choice; pre-lockdowns, restaurants were a major conduit for their supplies.

Lastly, with the federal moratorium on evictions about to run out on December 31, there’s no telling how many of your neighbor’s will become homeless. As many as 19 million Americans are at risk of losing their homes.

(The picture is from zero hedge)

 Whiny grandparent gamers ( gamers who are stuck in nostalgia) rejoice as you have carpal tunnel-handedly caused  Bioware Montreal to suspend operations on Mass Effect: Andromeda. Sure, the facial animations were cartoonish but they have now been fixed. The recent 1.09 patch released fixing several issues but because you prehistoric players wanted their old Shepard back, investors may have pulled possible funding for future projects in the series. Thanks a lot.

Alix Breeden at Daily Kos:

The White House’s “new media” squad is clinging to yet another conspiracy theory. During a press briefing Monday, Liam Cosgrove, a reporter for the far-right blog ZeroHedge, asked press secretary Karoline Leavitt to address a theory claiming that a number of deaths were secretly linked to Bill and Hillary Clinton.  “Trump posted to Truth Social a video highlighting what most people call the ‘Clinton body count,’” he said.

Doubling down, Cosgrove said that there was a “strange number of suicides that seem to happen in circles" surrounding the Clinton family. He then pointed to President Donald Trump's erratic Truth Social behavior over the weekend, when he posted a video captioned, “THE VIDEO HILLARY CLINTON DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE,” linking her to the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. To make matters worse, Cosgrove also confidently called the death of Jeffrey Epstein the "most famous Clinton-related death" before asking when more of the Epstein Files would be released.