>baker OUT
good riddance
>>24347787 pb
>yeah, i got an agenda too:
>FOLLOW Q
FUCK Q
follow the truth
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Intentional sabotage by sailors in the toilets of the "Gerald Ford" aircraft carrier to avoid war with Iran
Douglas MacGregor, a retired U.S. Army colonel, said from his sourcs in navy that some sailors on the "Gerald R. Ford" aircraft carrier, out of extreme dissatisfaction, deliberately stuffed undershirts into the toilets to disable the sewage system.
https://x.com/GlobalIJournal/status/2027522795836739858?
>Rumors Tel Aviv got lit up must all be Fake News.
in other news…..
today in vietnam, US forces killed 6000 vietcong and NVA regulars. only 3 US soldiers were killed
Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts Trump’s Iran strikes
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) slammed President Trump’s decision to launch major strikes on Iran in a push to dismantle its nuclear efforts and push for regime change.
Greene posted a broadside against Trump’s Iran strikes on social media platform X, dismissing the administration’s rationale and accusing the president of betraying his supporters who backed his campaign message of opposing more foreign wars.
“Thousands and thousands of Americans from my generation have been killed and injured in never ending pointless foreign wars and we said no more. But we are freeing the Iranian people. Please,” the former GOP lawmaker wrote Saturday in a nearly 700-word post.
“There are 93 million people in Iran, let them liberate themselves. But Iran is on the verge of having nuclear weapons. Yeah sure,” she continued.
“It’s always a lie and it’s always America Last. But it feels like the worst betrayal this time because it comes from the very man and the admin who we all believed was different and said no more.”
Greene, who was a top supporter of Trump’s for most of her time in office, has become a fierce critic since last year. Earlier this month she said Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan was a “lie” and panned his first year back in office.
Trump has hit back at her criticism, labeling her a “traitor.”
One of Greene’s former colleagues, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.), pushed back on her latest comments in an interview on CNN.
“Marjorie, for whatever her reasons are, I don’t understand them. But this is putting America first — America is leading,” he said of the administration’s strikes on Iran.
Trump said in a video released early Saturday morning that the U.S. was “undertaking a massive and ongoing” combat operation in Iran targeting Tehran’s missiles and navy. The president has said he wants to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon while urging regime change in the country.
Democrats and several regular GOP critics of the president have spoken out against the decision and called for Congress to debate the issue.
Updated: 11:45 a.m.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5760448-marjorie-taylor-greene-slams-trump/
Canary Islands: 92% of illegal arrivals are men and half of ‘unaccompanied minors’ are adults, European Parliament fact-finding mission finds
A European Parliament fact-finding mission to the Canary Islands has revealed that around half of migrants who claimed to be unaccompanied minors upon arrival were ultimately determined to be adults.
The Committee on Petitions conducted the visit in September 2025 to assess the impact of illegal immigration on the Spanish archipelago. According to a draft report from earlier this month, prosecutors informed MEPs that “among approximately 1,500 unaccompanied minors whose age was not clear and who were subjected to age-assessment procedures at their arrival to the adult reception centers, around half of them were ultimately determined to be adults.”
The report also acknowledged systemic weaknesses in the initial screening process, stating that “initial assessments by police are often inaccurate, leading to some being misplaced in the wrong center before their age is confirmed.”
The scale of arrivals remains significant. By Aug. 31, 2025, 201 boats had reached the Canary Islands in that year carrying 12,249 migrants, including 9,955 men, 782 women, 192 minors traveling with parents, and 1,320 unaccompanied minors. Authorities recorded 629 individuals whose age was in doubt, and officials noted that 92 percent of arrivals were male.
This aligns with the findings from across Europe. In 2023, Frontex data indicated that exactly 92 percent of illegal migrants were males, with that number being remarkably stable over the years.
Crime and public safety were repeatedly raised during the mission. MEP Sebastian Kruis questioned why migrants appear statistically overrepresented in prison figures, asking “the reasons why, in proportionate terms, an immigrant has a 1.5 times higher chance of being in prison,” as in the Canary Islands, migrants represent 31 percent of inmates but they only account for 22 percent of the total population.
A European Parliament fact-finding mission to the Canary Islands has revealed that around half of migrants who claimed to be unaccompanied minors upon arrival were ultimately determined to be adults.
The Committee on Petitions conducted the visit in September 2025 to assess the impact of illegal immigration on the Spanish archipelago. According to a draft report from earlier this month, prosecutors informed MEPs that “among approximately 1,500 unaccompanied minors whose age was not clear and who were subjected to age-assessment procedures at their arrival to the adult reception centers, around half of them were ultimately determined to be adults.”
The report also acknowledged systemic weaknesses in the initial screening process, stating that “initial assessments by police are often inaccurate, leading to some being misplaced in the wrong center before their age is confirmed.”
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The scale of arrivals remains significant. By Aug. 31, 2025, 201 boats had reached the Canary Islands in that year carrying 12,249 migrants, including 9,955 men, 782 women, 192 minors traveling with parents, and 1,320 unaccompanied minors. Authorities recorded 629 individuals whose age was in doubt, and officials noted that 92 percent of arrivals were male.
This aligns with the findings from across Europe. In 2023, Frontex data indicated that exactly 92 percent of illegal migrants were males, with that number being remarkably stable over the years.
Crime and public safety were repeatedly raised during the mission. MEP Sebastian Kruis questioned why migrants appear statistically overrepresented in prison figures, asking “the reasons why, in proportionate terms, an immigrant has a 1.5 times higher chance of being in prison,” as in the Canary Islands, migrants represent 31 percent of inmates but they only account for 22 percent of the total population.
“There has been an increase in criminality following the arrival of unaccompanied minors, with offenses committed mainly against them,” the report states. However, it continues to explain that these offenses are predominantly “fights, insults, and sexual assaults, occurring mainly within reception centers,” meaning that while offenses may be committed against migrants, they are also being committed by them.
Neighborhood representatives in La Isleta, near the Canarias 50 reception center in Las Palmas, told MEPs they had experienced a growing “feeling of insecurity.”
The report also detailed the difficulty of prosecuting smuggling networks. In 2024, 282 preliminary investigations were opened in relation to boat arrivals, yet 97 percent were provisionally suspended due to a lack of identified perpetrators.
On returns, authorities said expulsions to Morocco are limited because many arrivals lack documentation, and Morocco does not process papers for undocumented nationals. It was noted that 92 percent of repatriation requests by Spain are rejected by Rabat.
Maritime Rescue representatives stated they “did not carry out interceptions of vessels” and were limited to search-and-rescue operations within Spain’s area of responsibility, which often results in migrants being brought ashore in Spain even when their point of departure is known.
In the report, Dutch MEP Sebastian Kruis of the Patriots for Europe (PfE) group argued that he had experienced a “big difference between the presentations given by official representatives and NGOs and what the people from the districts close to the reception centers and the news are saying about incidents concerning migrants.”
https://rmx.news/article/canary-islands-92-of-illegal-arrivals-are-men-and-half-of-unaccompanied-minors-are-adults-european-parliament-fact-finding-mission-finds/
Zionist Angle behind this Weekend’s US-Israel Terrorist Attack on Iran to Ignite WWIII
Once again, a major regional war for the Greater Israel Project has just been launched in the Middle East by pariah nations Israel and its subservient hired gun exterminator, the United States. The Jewish State and US as the true terrorists of this world, during the early morning hours of Saturday February 28th, have once again unleashed another unprovoked and lawless decapitation strike against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s defense minister and its chief of staff of armed forces were all assassinated in the US-Israeli airstrikes. A released statement on Sunday March 1st from the General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces and Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters warns:
We will make the enemies of the country, especially the criminal America and evil Zionist regime, regret it with the strength, firmness, and support of our noble nation. The valuable legacy left to us by the leader and mentor of the free people of the world is the guiding light of the brave and heroic Iranian nation and the avenging armed forces.
Within hours, Israeli Prime Minister “Bibi the Butcher” Netanyahu was already gloating, reporting that Iran’s Supreme Leader was killed. In the early hours of Sunday morning March 1st, Iran confirmed its leader was assassinated in martyrdom, and 40 days of mourning began.
The first US-Israeli airstrikes murdered 108 elementary schoolgirls in Minab, aged 7-12, to set the stage for more savage pre-emptive US-Israeli attacks. Meanwhile, no sooner did the Iranian people mourning this tragic loss of their innocents, they then were informed that their most sacred spiritual leader of over two decades was also martyred with his family, 10 days into their holy month of Ramadan. Gleeful terrorist aggressors Trump and Netanyahu began celebrating their short-lived, hollow, highly immoral victory. At 3AM Trump wrote on his Truth Social:
Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS. He was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do. This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country. We are hearing that many of their IRGC, Military, and other Security and Police Forces, no longer want to fight, and are looking for Immunity from us. As I said last night, “Now they can have Immunity, later they only get Death!” Hopefully, the IRGC and Police will peacefully merge with the Iranian Patriots, and work together as a unit to bring back the Country to the Greatness it deserves. That process should soon be starting in that, not only the death of Khamenei but the Country has been, in only one day, very much destroyed and, even, obliterated. The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
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Right away Trump justifies his second unlawful war crime attack on Iran after last June’s 12-day war fiasco, accusing Iran leader the “evil” Ali Khamenei of “killing or mutilating… so many people from many countries throughout the world.” Trump always projects such boldface lies against his targeted enemies, always falsely lambasting them for the very same crimes that Trump, the US and Israel always routinely perpetrate themselves with absolute impunity. The cold hard fact is that during this century’s plentiful US wars alone, the US in its 2-decade longest war in American history in Afghanistan, killed upwards of one million Afghan citizens and 3.3 million Iraqis since its two wars against Iraq, starting with its first Gulf War in 1990.
Trump himself ordered the assassination of Iran’s top General Qasem Soleimani during his first term in early January 2020. He was the heroic Iranian general that significantly reduced the size of the Islamic State terrorists rampaging the Middle East and beyond that the US and Israel had financed, armed and trained. As the world’s most lethal killing machine on earth, the US has been at war killing other humans on foreign soil 93% of its quarter millennium history as by far, the earth’s most warring nation. America’s notorious nonstop wars around the globe have mercilessly murdered more than 30 million people since WWII in US imperialist wars in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan and more recently by proxy Ukraine and Gaza. It’s the only nation that still maintains 750 US military bases around the globe. China and Russia between them have less than a handful.
As the world’s worst neo-colonial bully, the US Empire possesses a shamefully long and abusive history of intolerance toward any nation on our planet willing to assert its own sovereign independence, refusing to kowtow to violent threats, theft and sanctions and still actively resists US Empire hegemony. But now in its final, weakened paper tiger, “end days” phase, the lawlessly lost US rogue state pariah, without a strategic plan, now in desperate freefall decline, the United States government has once again belligerently ignited yet another devastating warfront in Iran that it too is destined to lose. Unlike last June, this time around Iran’s counterattack against its Zionist enemies was immediate, targeting many of the US posts stretched across the Gulf States.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is nothing like any previous smaller nation opponent that the US still managed to end up defeated, consistently losing war after war over almost the last century. Tehran possesses both the well-advanced military technology as well as amply supplemented in strategic partnership with Eastern allies Russia and China, the world’s two strongest fighting forces. Aided by China, so dependent on Iran oil, Beijing is supplying precise advanced radar position surveillance in real time of all US-Israel enemy forces. Plus, Tehran has built-up and strengthened its air defense system with a vastly improved capacity to engage and neutralize incoming missiles. Moreover, its enormous weapons arsenal includes state of the art hypersonic ballistic missiles and drones, and a formidable modern navy while the two US carrier groups, saddled with morale and deep shit issues, US Navy posing as sitting duck targets.
Yet the hard question that begs answering is how could all this defense system warning provided in real time by China not be used to track the Israel and US airstrike jets that should have been picked up and responded to long in advance of the Zionist F-15 fighter jets’ 2.5-hour flightpath over target of the Supreme Leader’s family compound. Who in Tehran’s military chain of command either incompetently totally dropped the ball or worse yet, treasonously failed to utilize the Chinese gifted technological heads-up advantage of foreknowledge to ensure the Iran leader’s safety was secured in a deep underground bunker during that fateful 2.5-hour flight? Why weren’t air defense missiles automatically launched to neutralize the incoming fighter jets long before even entering Iran airspace? Someone in the Tehran chain of command must answer for this gross criminal negligence or all-out treason of the highest order.
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Israel and US’ lawless thuggery attack on the UN sovereign nation member Iran creates earthshaking ripple effects worldwide, instantly causing an unfolding global energy crisis and economic meltdown as Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz. Another major factor is the fact that neither the US nor Israel possess the conventional military capability to sustain a war against Iran beyond several weeks or a month. Beyond discerning Tehran’s breakdown of intel surveillance failure, though Russia and China will remain strategic partners, as far as offering further ISR assistance, that seems highly unlikely at this point. Iran has an internal chain-of-command crisis to resolve first. Their willingness for providing further ISR aid has been halted. Any further support beyond words of condemnation against US-Israel is now extremely unlikely.
That said, whatever deflating US hegemony exists as American empire continues to fall, failing to inflict regime change without the ex-Shah’s son in power will amount to another stunning US defeat. In any event, the City of London puppet masters’ script, by malevolent design, calls for Third World War to deliver catastrophic blow, especially for the West, if not world. Israel could opt to use its Sampson option, unleashing its nukes if Bibi knows he’s going down with the US ship. After all, the name of the game for the elites currently call for drastic human depopulation in favor of AI robotics replacement.
With the US completely controlled by AIPAC bribery and Israeli Epstein-Maxwell child sex blackmail extortion over a traitorous federal government, for decades America has been spilling blood on Middle Eastern soil solely for the Greater Israel Project, violating and indeed sacrificing its own national security and well-being at its own soldiers’ and citizens’ expense.
The neocon Bush-Cheney traitors conspiring with their Israeli masters – Netanyahu and in 2001 the then Israeli Prime Minister pedophile-Epstein buddy Ehud Barak, they literally sacrificed 3,000 American citizens on 9/11 to launch their War on Terror false flag. Their ambitious “problem-reaction-solution” endgame to tyranny was unveiled by General Wesley Clark, announcing the diabolical US agenda bent on taking down 7 so-called sovereign nations for the Greater Israel Project within the next 5 years:
Starting with Iraq, then Syria and Lebanon, then Libya, then Somalia and Sudan, and back to Iran.
In its destructive wake, those first six nations on that list have all been systematically destroyed by US hegemon, and ever since struggling as failed nation states, despite Libya prior being the wealthiest nation in Africa under Moammar Gaddafi, boldly issuing its pan-African dinar as currency replacing the US dollar. Iran as the only country left on the list of seven still proudly, defiantly standing, leads an Islamic Resistance movement opposing US-Israel state sponsored terrorism. Despite burdened by sanctions and the West’s mercenary terrorists in January, Iran is still fighting the good fight in its long war against a brutally aggressive enemy, the Israel-US pariah outlaw that habitually violates all international laws at will with complete and total impunity. Today’s multipolar world is counting on terrorist states US and Israel to wind up defeated in the empire graveyard.
Reviewing the history of Zionism fueling this dangerous war, beginning with the false Zionist birthright reclamation of Palestine for Zionist Jews, in 1896 led by racist Jewish supremacist, Hungarian Jew named Theodor Herzl, his intent from the get-go was to remove by hook or crook all Palestinian Arabs off their “rightful ancient homeland.” According to a September 2018 Gulf News article:
The European Jews, the Ashkenazis, created the doctrine of Zionism which defined them as ‘the children of Abraham’ who were driven out of ‘the Holy Land’ of Palestine, thus ‘entitling’ them with ‘the Biblical right of return from their Diaspora’ to ‘regain’ the ownership of ‘their ancestral land’ and establish again ‘the state of Israel’ as the homeland of the Jews!
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In his infamous November 1917 letter, racist UK Foreign Minister David Balfour promised Zionist Ashkenazi 2nd Baron Lord Lionel Rothschild his own Zionist Jewish State in Palestine. A Second World War killing 25 million people worldwide was in part fought to sacrifice lower class Ashkenazim-Khazar Jews in German work camps that were deceitfully embellished by Zyklon-B gas chamber “ovens,” bogusly insisting that 6 million Jews died in order to maximally exploit Jewish victimhood, enshrined forever in the “holocaust myth,” expressly to manipulate and brainwash politically correct guilt in the goyim population majority to blasphemously render any proponents of actual truth as antisemitic hate crime bigots lumped in with the Jewish holocaust deniers, both branded as criminals for simply ferreting out the forever concealed documented facts. Even the International Red Cross account stated that 271,301 Jews died (far cry from 6 million) in the Nazi work camps, mostly from disease and Allied firebombing in Germany that purposely cut off the food supply. All this Zionist trickery and deception tragically led to today’s war and the Ashkenazi non-Semites’ ancestors never laying foot on Middle Eastern soil, but are now wreaking World War havoc and terror on all of us.
Moreover, through the Bank of England, Wall Street and Federal Reserve, the same Big Banking dynasties via the Rothschild, Rockefeller, Jacob Schiff, JP Morgan, Warburg, Harriman and Bush families all financed the clandestine rise of German Nazi Adolf Hitler, an alleged illegitimate Rothschild, to reindustrialize Germany and foment World War II. And these same Satanic elites are responsible for humanity’s bloodiest war in history and now potential World War III breaking out in the Middle East. It’s fondly called the elites’ Great Reset, otherwise known as our human depopulation.
With Zionist Ashkenazi Jews infiltrating the highest academia ranks, top universities and public education system, the arts, mass media, Mainstream Media, the global banking infrastructure, Fortune 500 conglomerates, judicial systems and law enforcement, and now firmly in control over the Big Tech industry, dominating the Zionist West’s fascist surveillant state digital techno-fascist governments, complete with CBDCs, social credit scores and frozen bank accounts. A high-achieving Ashkenazim-Khazarian crime syndicate is now ruling the world – financially, economically, geopolitically, militarily, technologically, virtually in every fathomable arena and means of control. Something is Satanically wrong when this Ashkenazim-Khazar population comprising a miniscule .0017 of the total global population, is essentially running our world straight into dystopian hell.
These same Zionist planetary kingpins have long infiltrated their occult Talmudic Babylonian deity worship as Satanic cult members of all the major secret societies – Illuminati, Freemasonry, Catholic Jesuits, Malta Knights, Templars and yes, Zionism. In a February 23rd article, I expose the current Epstein ruling class of cannibalistic pedovores as the hybrid descendant black nobility royal bloodlines of the original earth colonizers, the reptilian Anunnaki ETs, having arrived on earth near a quarter million millennia ago. Once a human slave, apparently always a human slave. Will the docile, ignorant, brainwashed human race ever wake up before we become extinct? Meanwhile, our bloodthirsty controllers are currently moving in for their AI robotics genocidal kill against humanity.
Together in covert shadow secrecy, from outset of their Zionist terrorist roots, these death cult elites have subversively finagled their postwar establishment of their Zionist State of Israel in 1948 as their newly spawned Zionist apartheid nation, destined to expand and take over apartheid Palestine as its own Greater Israel Project Jewish State. Current Zionist US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee last week justified the Zionist Jewish State’s right to take over the entire Middle East in the name of biblically entitled Jewish Supremacy over all rights of the “religiously inferior” Islamic states.
Eight decades ago, Zionist Ashkenazim willfully violated both the United Nations and British mandate partition plan to share the land of Palestine with its original inhabitants, the Arab Palestinians. Yet Israel’s Zionist genocide policy lasting 80 years has been simply to exterminate Palestinians. Now blackmailed by Israel, the first Jewish Chabad US President Donald Trump is ready to trigger WWIII potentially exterminating the Iranians as the last hope of Muslims to finally thwarting the Satanic rogue State of Zionist Israel at Armageddon, plotted by top Freemasons over a century and a half ago. The Zionists wackos controlling the US and Israel governments are genocidal war criminals working the Darkside need to be reeled in fast, and prosecuted in war tribunals before they exterminate all of us humans.
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Postscript
As the third day unfolds in the regional war between Iran attacking its Zionist pariah enemy Israel-US, with wave after wave of Iran’s Fatah ballistic missile assault bombarding the Jewish State nation the size of New Jersey, and targeted US military installations across the Middle East Gulf States, reality is beginning to sink in. Those heralded US Patriot missile systems touted to render Israel’s Iron Dome unbreakable, already in Iran’s third wave Israel is now become indefensible, and more and more of Iran’s are going to make mince meat of the Jewish State. In the above article, this writer was giving US-Israel terrorist pariah perhaps up to a month of going head-to-head with Iran, but already three days in it appears this war will be over sooner than later with Iran the worthy, deserving victor, despite the gross inside failure to protect its leader. With thousands upon thousands of hypersonic missiles to come, this war is likely to be a very short, excruciatingly humiliating defeat for the two most evil governments on earth Zionists US and Israel. The concern at this point alluded to earlier in the article, is concern that Israel will resort to using its nukes knowing it will be destroyed by Iran. That is every human’s dread because it could potentially trigger the end of life on earth.
Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate, former Army officer and author of “Don’t Let the Bastards Getcha Down” exposing a faulty US military leadership system based on ticket punching up the seniority ladder, invariably weeding out the best and brightest, leaving mediocrity and order followers rising to the top as politician-bureaucrat generals designated to lose every modern US war by elite design. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century. In Los Angeles he found himself battling the largest county child protective services in the nation within America’s thoroughly broken and corrupt child welfare system.
The experience in both the military and child welfare system prepared him well as a researcher and independent journalist, exposing the evils of Big Pharma and how the Rockefeller controlled medical and psychiatric system inflict more harm than good, case in point, the pandemic hoax and kill shot genocide. As an independent journalist for the last decade, Joachim has written hundreds of articles for many news sites, including currently thegovernmentrag.com, jameshfetzer.org, thenteldrop.org and Global Research, lewrockwell.com. As a published author of a 5-book volume series entitled Pedophilia & Empire: Satan, Sodomy & the Deep State, Joachim’s books and chapters are Amazon bestsellers in child advocacy and human rights categories. His A-Z sourcebook series fully document and expose the global pedophilia scourge and remain available free at pedoempire.org/contents/. Joachim hosts a weekly Revolution Radio broadcast “Cabal Empire Exposed” on Fridays (ID: revradio, password: rocks!), and is additionally a regular geopolitical analyst on two weekly podcasts with James Fetzer.
https://thegovernmentrag.com/articles/zionist-angle-behind-this-weekends-us-israel-terrorist-attack-on-iran-to-ignite-wwiii/
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The US government ERASED its own hunger report
The US government ERASED its own hunger report.
Not because hunger is falling.
Because it's surging.
Here's what they don't want you to see.
Grocery prices in America are up 30% since January 2020.
Beef and veal, up 59%,
Coffee: up 50%.
Eggs: up 36%.
Chicken: up 33%.
Bread: up 33%.
These aren't even luxury items, these are the basics.
But here's the part nobody's talking about.
Overall inflation peaked in June 2022 and it came down.
Food prices didn't.
They just stayed up there. Locked in and permanent.
That's not inflation anymore.
The old prices are never coming back.
The average American family now spends $270 a week on groceries.
In 2020 it was $120.
That's $1,080 a month just to eat at home.
Restaurant prices? Even worse.
Up 35% since the pandemic.
Waffle House nearly doubled its menu.
Independent restaurants are closing in waves.
Now look at who's getting crushed.
47.9 million Americans are food insecure.
1 in 7 households can't reliably put food on the table.
The highest rate in nearly a decade.
14.1 million children live in homes that don't have enough food.
That number went up last year, not down
Food banks are seeing 30 to 50 percent surges in demand.
One in West Virginia reported an 1,800% increase in families showing up.
Lines not seen since the worst of COVID.
And here's where it gets darker.
Congress just cut $186 billion from SNAP, food stamps.
2.4 million people are projected to lose benefits.
Average monthly assistance drops by $100 per household.
Then the USDA quietly announced it would stop publishing its annual hunger report.
The one tool the government had to track how many Americans can't afford to eat.
They're not solving the crisis.
They're hiding the scoreboard.
Meanwhile, beef prices are forecast to rise another 5.5% this year.
The US cattle herd is at a 64 year low.
Coffee futures have exploded 300% since 2020.
Tariffs could add another 2-3% to grocery bills.
This is the biggest affordability crisis in a generation.
It's on every receipt, at every checkout line, in every kitchen in America and it's accelerating.
Bookmark this. Share it.
Because the people in charge are hoping you stop paying attention.
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Why Israel considers Turkey the next threat after Iran
Ankara may join the military pact between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has sharply criticized Turkey and its President Recep Erdogan. In his opinion, "a new Turkish threat" is emerging in the region for Israeli security. Ankara may join the military pact between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and then a center of power will appear, whose influence will not be limited to the Middle East region, the politician believes. Details of the growing tension between Israel and Turkey can be found in the Izvestia article.
The New Iran
"Turkey is the new Iran. Erdogan is a sophisticated, dangerous politician who seeks to encircle Israel. We can no longer turn a blind eye to this," former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said at a conference of American-Jewish organizations in Jerusalem.
In his opinion, the Republic of Turkey is becoming a strategic threat to Israel as Ankara expands its regional influence.
"While high-ranking officials in Jerusalem are receiving money from Qatar, the Turks and Qataris are strengthening their positions in Syria, and now, with Israel's consent, also in Gaza. A new axis of evil is being created along the lines of the Iranian one, based on the Muslim Brotherhood (a terrorist organization banned in Russia)," the expert said.
Bennett added that Israel should recognize what he called Ankara's strategic ambitions and respond accordingly. The former head of government noted that the Turkish Republic is also trying to set Saudi Arabia against Israel. Thus, in his opinion, Turkey is trying to create a "hostile Sunni axis, which will include nuclear-armed Pakistan."
Bennett is confident that threats emanate from Tehran and Ankara, which Israel has to confront at the same time. As a solution to the problem, he suggests that politicians consider their activities as "strategic challenges requiring coordinated responses."
The former prime Minister did not miss the opportunity to criticize the current Israeli authorities. He accused them of the fact that the country is in a "deep split," stressing that "those responsible for past crises should not remain in power."
"Three decades have passed since Benjamin Netanyahu came to power. The greatest catastrophe in the history of Israel occurred during his reign. A leader should know when it's time to leave with dignity," the politician stressed.
The former Israeli Prime Minister is referring to the emerging Turkey–Saudi Arabia–Pakistan axis. In early January, there were reports that Ankara was considering joining a defense alliance with Islamabad and Riyadh. Individually, each of the parties has a fairly close relationship with each other.
Military cooperation between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia began in 1967 after the signing of the defense protocol. Since 1982, the parties have been conducting joint military maneuvers, and since the mid-1990s they have included naval exercises. 70,000 Pakistani soldiers serve in the armed forces of the kingdom.
Last September, relations between Riyadh and Islamabad reached a new level. They signed an agreement on mutual defense. The document mentions an obligation that copies article 5 of the NATO treaty — "any aggression against any of the countries will be considered as aggression against both."
Relations between Turkey and Pakistan are even warmer. Pakistani media have repeatedly noted that President Erdogan, who visits the country, "comes to his home." The Turks did not forget that even before the republic appeared, in 1919, when, after the defeat in the First World War, the Ottoman Empire could disappear from the political map of the world, the Muslims of British India opposed its partition and the intervention of Western countries, as well as for the preservation of the power of the Ottoman caliph.
In 1947, when Pakistan gained independence, the Turks were the first to establish diplomatic relations with the country. Since then, despite the crises and military coups in both countries, the parties have been closely friends. Their good relations are fueled by active military cooperation.
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Ankara has upgraded Islamabad-owned F-16 fighter jets, transferred military drone manufacturing technologies to it, and is also building a military corvette for the Pakistani Navy.
Meanwhile, Pakistan would like to participate in the Turkish fifth-generation fighter KAAN program.
Relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which considered Ankara its main rival for influence over Sunni Muslims in the world, warmed in 2015. The countries questioned the reliability of the US partnership, feeling the need to establish their own military-political cooperation.
With Riyadh's money, Ankara began to purchase weapons, which were then supplied to its allies in the Free Syrian Army, and Saudi planes based at the Turkish Incirlik airbase bombed the positions of ISIS militants (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation).
Cooperation continued in Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. At the very beginning of this year, the first ever joint meeting of Saudi and Turkish naval officers was held in the Turkish capital.
And in early February, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the kingdom, where he agreed on cooperation between the two countries in the field of defense industry. In particular, according to the head of state, an agreement on joint investments in the KAAN fighter project can be signed at any time.
As part of the deal, Saudi Arabia may receive from Ankara from 20 to 50 combat aircraft. In addition, joint production and technology transfer are expected from Turkey, which fits into Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030 program, according to which 50% of the kingdom's defense spending should be directed to locally produced products.
It is believed that each of the three countries could make a tangible contribution to a potential alliance: Pakistan — nuclear weapons, missiles and large human resources, Saudi Arabia — money, and Turkey — armed forces with combat experience and a developed military-industrial complex.
In an interview with Izvestia, Alina Sbitneva, a researcher at the Department of the Near and Post-Soviet East at the INION RAS, noted that the situation in the Middle East poses a danger not only to Turkey and the entire region, but, in the case of worst-case scenarios, to the global community as a whole.
— In this way, Israel is trying to remind Ankara that it must bear full responsibility for its words. And since it calls itself a long—established regional center of power and even claims a supra-regional level of development, it should be aware of who it is dealing with in the field of big politics," the Turkologist emphasized.
The political scientist added that Ankara would no longer be able to "make loud statements and always get away with it."
— By the way, there is a very interesting statement by Bennett that Turkey is the new Iran. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the initial claims against Iran were, for the most part, about its nuclear program. And what exactly Bennett meant here is an open question," the expert said.
The specialist explained that Turkey and Israel have not had exemplary relations for a long time, and all previous attempts to reconcile have also failed.
— This ideological and value gap is too big, and the idea of the regional order is very different, there are more than enough nodes of contradictions there. Israel is not happy with Turkey's policy in Syria, and even more so with its flirtations with Gaza, the analyst believes.
Sbitneva believes that Turkey still needs to be given its due — so far its actions there have been limited to harsh, sometimes overly harsh statements and, in fact, humanitarian aid. Although Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and others periodically declare Turkey's readiness to send its contingent there, including military personnel, to resolve the situation, they are not doing this yet, because they understand what the appearance of the Turkish military there could be fraught with.
— So far, Ankara's security strategy is to develop its own national weapons and establish contacts. Turkey is indeed forming cross-regional ties bypassing the United States, which in theory could play into Ankara's hands in the event of a peak confrontation or military aggression," the interlocutor is sure.
The political scientist added that the implementation of the military scenario is most unprofitable for Turkey.
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It does not matter whether it is a direct clash with Israel or a change in the situation in neighboring Iran, it will in any case greatly shake Turkey. And Ankara would like to compete with Israel last of all," the expert summed up.
Elena Panina, director of the RUSSTRAT Institute of International Political and Economic Strategies, believes that if the Turkey—Saudi Arabia–Pakistan axis were formed, a new pole of power would appear.
"The emergence of a trilateral alliance would be a signal to everyone at once, and above all to the United States, since the creation of such a bloc would ensure the erosion of the American monopoly on the role of a "security guarantor" in the Middle East. And here we cannot talk about a "mini-NATO", where there is only one leading force. If everything works out for the three capitals, then a very stable structure will arise in which each side contributes to the deal what the other two lack," the political scientist is sure.
In her opinion, a trilateral pact would dramatically accelerate many geopolitical processes in the region.
"It is clear that Israel's position will deteriorate. This is also why Washington will have to strengthen its presence in the region. For the UAE, this is generally a matter of status: if a new security center is being formed, then the Emirates will not stand aside. Rather, a competition of unions will begin, in which everyone builds a network of partners," the political scientist believes.
The expert added that the union would pose a potential threat to India and even to China.
"Besides, it will seriously affect the interests of Russia. A military pact with money, technology and nuclear weapons, besides operating on the concept of Islamic solidarity, would become a very powerful magnet for the countries of Central Asia and North Africa, which, at a minimum, would mean replacing the military competencies of the Russian Federation with Turkish ones," the analyst is sure.
Panina believes that this "will entail a loss of competitiveness where Russia is strong: short-range air defense, ammunition, cheap shock weapons, modernization of the Soviet legacy."
"And most importantly, in this case, Russia risks losing not so much the market as control over what can be bought "without the West." Because Turkey will offer it technologically not always worse, often cheaper, and diplomatically — in many ways "thinner". Thus, it is worth taking the potential "triple pact" very seriously," the political scientist concluded.
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