Energy Economist Anas Alhajji explains why the official numbers are lying to you.

 "Don't be fooled by the stock market going up. The first official data of a recession is going to come out. We are going to see the stock markets basically drop."

 The real oil prices are already at $150 to $175, the market is hiding it.

 (Inflation numbers include deflationary pressure from the coming recession and the persistent inflation from money printing and supply shortages.)

 Energy economist Anas Alhajji just dropped a stark warning:

 "We are going to see suffering in the summer. Big time."

 Famine warnings, jet fuel shortages, heat waves with no LNG, and farmers refusing to plant... The damage is already here.

 (Hundreds of millions could die from famine and famine related violence and wars.)

Thomas Massie interview w/ Tucker Carlson on battling the treachery of Trump’s Republican Party, AIPAC, and the Epstein class

  Only 13 days left until the primary everyone. This is going to be a tight race, even though Massie still has the 3:1 edge in the betting markets. Please everyone do what you can to support this man until May 19 so we don’t lose our most steadfast representative for liberty in Congress. Even just subscribing to r / thomasmassie is a small step that everyone here can take

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BAH56ecbE4&t=5s

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/thomas-massie-interview-w-tucker-carlson-on-battling-the-treachery-of-trumps-republican-party-aipac-and-the-epstein-class/

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France, Italy and Belgium race toward full-blown debt crisis

 REALLY GREAT GRAPHIC DID NOT PRINT. AGAIN. SO WHAT IS WRONG WITH 4UM?

PLEASE GO TO SOURCE TO SEE IT. 

Tried it again and 4um failed again to post it.

According to the latest forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) in March 2025, UK debt interest expenditure is expected to be 3.7% of GDP in the 2025–26 financial year, amounting to approximately £111.2 billion 

  France, Belgium and Italy are are at 6.1, 5.6 and 5.5 percent interest expenditure of GDP.

 For the 2025–26 financial year, the U.S. is projected to spend approximately 3.2% to 3.3% of its GDP on net interest, which is slightly lower than the UK's expected 3.7% but still represents a historic high for the United States.

  Dollar Amount: This translates to roughly $1.0 trillion in interest payments for the fiscal year.

While the U.S. figure is currently slightly below the UK's projected 3.7%, the U.S. trajectory is steeply upward. Projections suggest these costs will rise to roughly 4.1% of GDP by 2035 and could reach 4.6% to 5.1% by 2036 depending on interest rate paths and policy changes

(THESE ARE LOW BALL NET INTEREST FIGURES. THE REAL BURDEN IS ON THE GROSS COST OF INTEREST BECAUSE GOVT AGENCIES

ARE FORCED TO BUY TREASURY BONDS. WE EARN INTEREST ON SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS INVESTED IN BONDS BUT WE PAY FOR THAT

INCOME BY TAXATION. IF EUROPE IS THAT MUCH WORSE OFF THAN THE US AND THE UK, THEN WE ARE AT THE END OF THE ROAD

FOR WESTERN STYLE DEBT BASED ECONOMIES. JAPAN COPIES THE US AND THEIR DEBT BURDEN IS TWICE THE US LEVEL.)

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/france-italy-and-belgium-race-toward-full-blown-debt-crisis/

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Hopefully the election reflects this

 Post-debate poll shows massive shift with Angelenos done with the same old failures.

4UM FAILED TO POST AGAIN.

POLL RESULTS WERE THAT REPUBLICAN SPENCER PRATT WAS AT 88%,

MAYOR BASS AT 7% AND NITHYA RAMA AT 5%.

Latest California Gubenatorial poll

 The latest polls for California’s 2026 governor’s race show a tight contest at the top, with Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra tied at 18% in a May 4–5 EVITARUS poll commissioned by the California Democratic Party. This marks the first time a Democrat has shared the lead in the party’s tracking surveys, with undecided voters dropping from 24% to 14%.

Key poll results as of early May 2026:

EVITARUS/California Democratic Party (May 4–5, 1,200 likely voters):

Steve Hilton (R) – 18%, Xavier Becerra (D) – 18%, Chad Bianco (R) – 14%, Tom Steyer (D) – 12%, Katie Porter (D) – 8%, Matt Mahan (D) – 7%.

 SurveyUSA/KGTV (May 4, similar timeframe):

Steve Hilton (R) – 20%, Tom Steyer (D) – 18%, Chad Bianco (R) – 12%, Xavier Becerra (D) – 10%.

 Becerra’s rise coincides with Eric Swalwell’s exit from the race last month, consolidating Democratic support.

(NOTE THESE ARE PRE-DEBATE POLLS AND ONE OF THE POLLS WAS CONDUCTED BY DEMOCRATS.)

https://citizenwatchreport.com/hopefully-the-election-reflects-this/

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 Full NBC4 broadcast: Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt, Nithya Raman debate for LA mayor (57 MINUTES)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-83WHHCKZDY&t=8s

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US student test scores peaked in 2013 then crashed hard despite massive school screen push, 8th grade math and reading still below pre-pandemic levels

 The U.S., 8th-grade math and reading scores peaked around 2013, started falling before the pandemic, dropped harder after 2019, and still had not really recovered by 2024.

 Sweden has brought back more printed books, handwriting and quiet reading time. In Finland, some schools have returned to books and paper after teachers complained that laptops made it too easy for students to drift into games, chats and other tabs

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/us-student-test-scores-peaked-in-2013-then-crashed-hard-despite-massive-school-screen-push-8th-grade-math-and-reading-still-below-pre-pandemic-levels/

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  Diamonds fall to their lowest value this century

4UM rejected the image address.

chart says prices are half what they used to be.

GO TO SOURCE TO SEE IT

https://citizenwatchreport.com/diamonds-fall-to-their-lowest-value-this-century/

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 eBay wants me to commit a crime in order to get a refund for a counterfeit item received

 4UM refused to accept the image Go to source.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/ebay-wants-me-to-commit-a-crime-in-order-to-get-a-refund-for-a-counterfeit-item-received/

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 Banks let foreclosure homes rot instead of cutting prices and taking the loss

There’s a house two streets from me that’s been sitting as a bank-owned REO since February- listed at $265k, probably worth $210k in current condition, and getting worse every month it sits. I know for a fact they’ve had offers. Reasonable ones. Rejected every single one. Had an auction in April, nobody met the reserve, and now the grass is knee high, there’s visible water damage on the fascia, and a window on the second floor has been cracked since March with no sign of anyone fixing it.

 The math doesn’t make sense to me- every month that passes the property loses value faster than whatever they’re trying to protect by holding the line on price, and at some point the carrying costs plus the deterioration have to exceed whatever they’d lose by just taking a reasonable offer. Is this a accounting thing where they can’t write down the loss? An internal bureaucracy problem where nobody has the authority to approve a lower number? I genuinely don’t understand what’s rational about watching an asset decay rather than cutting losses and moving on

Anyone actually been through this from the buying side or know how these decisions get made internally?

(Banks can't take the unrealized losses on their books because they will be shut down)

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/banks-let-foreclosure-homes-rot-instead-of-cutting-prices-and-taking-the-loss/

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Donald Trump says he “hopes” Hantravirus can be put under control. BBC: Scientists are currently working to create hantavirus vaccine

 NEW: President Trump says he's been briefed on Hantavirus.

 "It's very much, we hope, under control."

 "I think we're going to make a full report about it tomorrow. We have a lot of people — a lot of great people are studying it. It should be fine, we hope."

 (ONLY GOOD NEWS IS THAT THERE IS NO WARP SPEED PROGRAM TO PRODUCE A VACCINE THOUGH SEVERAL ARE WORKING ON ONE.)

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/donald-trump-says-he-hopes-hantravirus-can-be-put-under-control-bbc-scientists-are-currently-working-to-create-hantavirus-vaccine/

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VICTORY FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY: Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Democrat Gerrymandering Referendum as Unconstitutional

 In a massive win for the rule of law and election integrity, the Virginia Supreme Court has overturned the Democrat Party’s rigged gerrymandering referendum, ruling the entire sleazy process to sneak it onto the ballot was unconstitutional from the start.

 https://www.womensystems.com/2026/05/victory-for-election-integrity-virginia.html

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Migrants pile into death-trap dinghies in bid to traverse the Channel as French police watch on and do nothing AGAIN - with number of small boat crossings set to hit 200,000

 French police stood and watched migrants boarding dinghies today as total small boat crossings to England were believed to have passed 200,000.

The Daily Mail was at the scene at 4.30am in the very heart of Dunkirk, in front of the Radisson Blu hotel, when 40 migrants ran across the promenade and down to the waterline.

Around a dozen French police were there too, with two beach-buggies – funded by British taxpayers – but they did nothing to intervene as the multi-racial group headed for the sea.

 https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15801311/Migrants-death-trap-dinghies-Channel-French-police-watch.html

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Britain's deadliest gangs mapped: How Albanian mafia's influence is growing across the UK

Prisons across the South Coast are now filled with Albanian inmates, from Dorset and Devon to Hampshire and Sussex, after an invasion of Balkan gangs terrorising local communities.

Ministry of Defence prisoner statistics obtained by the Daily Mail via Freedom of Information request illustrate the scale of the Albanian offenders' influence.

Balkan kingpins have built up dominance over the criminal underworld by using links to Colombian cartels to secure the best value cocaine and exacting violent revenge on those who dare oppose them.

But now they have competition - and as the UK's demographics change rapidly, emerging gangs have been viewing and now challenging the Albanian control.

Other eastern European bosses are responding by branching out into untapped criminal markets, including seaside resorts and country towns.

Oxfordshire, home to vast swathes of the well-heeled Cotswolds, holds more Albanians in its jails than anywhere outside of London and Kent, data from all prisons in England and Wales revealed.

Now new arrivals - often asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East - are looking to make their mark on Britain's often lucrative crime circuit.

But in some areas the traditional ringleaders are holding firm after decades of dominance.

  https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15653315/Britain-gangs-Albanian-UK-mobs-crime-map.html

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