Only 25.5% of consumers now say jobs are “plentiful,” down from 26.9% in April.

Analysts warn that the disconnect between record stock markets and household sentiment is becoming dangerous.

Total U.S. M2 money supply clocked in at $22.80 trillion for April, confirming steady growth in circulating cash.

Despite high interest rates, the liquidity spigot remains wide open, fueling asset price inflation

 Fed officials are privately fretting that five years of above-target inflation has unmoored public expectations.

 Tom Barkin and others are questioning if the cumulative impact of multiple inflation waves is changing human behavior.

Real wage growth is stalling, and the era of easy, debt-fueled consumer spending is hitting a wall.

Companies are seeing profits peak, yet supply chain risks are higher than they were at the start of 2026.

When Iran talks heat up, the dollar spikes; when peace talk emerges, the dollar dumps.

The Strait of Hormuz remains the ultimate choke point for global energy prices and currency stability.

SIPRI reports that global peacekeeping capacity is down 17%, leaving the world’s trade lanes vulnerable.

Investors are finding it impossible to price in peace given the current chaotic global landscape.

 Every geopolitical headline is now an instant algorithm-driven move for the dollar.

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/consumer-confidence-cracks-under-inflation-weight-money-supply-expansion-hits-22-80-trillion-the-dollar-is-now-a-hostage-to-whatever-happens-in-the-middle-east/

(US M2 MONEY SUPPLY DID NOT HIT ONE TRILLION DOLLARS UNTIL NOVEMBER 1975 50 1/2 YEARS AGO. THAT IS A 22,648% 

IN 51 YEARS A $4 GALLON OF GAS WILL BE A MERE $90.59 IN ANOTHER 50.5 YEARS. YOU BETTER START SAVING!)

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Israel Just Made Trump’s Iran Deal Impossible

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Is there a chance that Hizballah would capitulate?

(THE ISRAELIS KILLED EVERYONE IN 7 LEBANESE VILLAGES EVEN BEFORE THE NAKBA 

IN 1948 )

Windows Update is Bricking HP Laptops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC0yvZ-tUpU

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Rufus JUST DESTROYED Windows 11 As Millions Watch Microsoft COLLAPSE!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGAguQP5CPs

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Cheap attack drones break through Israel's Iron Dome

 Since March, Hezbollah has increasingly used FPV (first-person view) drones to attack Israel, which provide pilots with a real-time image of their targets. Several Israeli soldiers have been killed in such strikes, and many more injured.

What concerns Israeli military experts is that growing numbers of these drones are not controlled by radio signals but via fiber-optic cables, unspooled from a coil. This means locating and jamming their communications has become virtually impossible with traditional electronic warfare methods.

 https://www.dw.com/en/cheap-attack-drones-break-through-israels-iron-dome/a-77235132

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 Alastair Crooke: Trump Orders EMERGENCY Meeting as Iran just WON — Israel LASHES OUT

 (Israel's Chief of Staff has said the IDF is near collapse. Morale is tanking. US military says Iran has improved their air defenses

and have refilled their missile and drone supply. They also said Iran has learned how American stages air campaigns so they 

will be more difficult to attack. The US and Europe do not understand how angry Russians are, They will not allow the UK and the EU

to send massive numbers of drones into Russia, even threatening the St Petersburg forum. The Russian people have had enough, especially

since the killing of 21 teenage school girls at their dorm which was nowhere near any military target. The Chinese are pushing their

bonds to compete with US Treasury bonds and both UK and EU bonds. Trump needs a dea. Israel will refuse and try to continue the

war. The Israeli Orthodox voters had been exempt from military service but they are running short of soldiers. Those 6 divisions in

Lebanon are undermanned. This issue could force an election. Won't be good for Bibi, especially if Israel has no gas for motorists.)

MY HOPE IS THAT TRUMP PULLS OUT AND LETS ISRAEL GO IT ALONE. IRAN CAN SHUT DOWN ISRAEL'S

REFINERIES AND PORTS SO THEY CAN NO LONGER FIGHT WARS IN GAZA AND LEBANON.)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0VoPB6mncU

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 UFO-Linked Air Force General Met Shadowy Pentagon Unit Hours Before Vanishing

Deepening concerns over the wave of expert losses tied to UFO and nuclear secrets...

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ufo-linked-air-force-general-met-shadowy-pentagon-unit-hours-vanishing

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Tulsi Gabbard To Go Nuclear On Deep State Before Leaving ODNI

Gabbard plans to release findings from a string of sensitive investigations in weekly installments..

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tulsi-gabbard-go-nuclear-deep-state-leaving-odni

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Doing The Math: UC Faculty Urges Return To Standardized Testing After Shocking Decline In Skills

..not racist anymore?

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doing-math-uc-faculty-urges-return-standardized-testing-after-shocking-decline-skills

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Food Stamp Fraud Pipeline Exposed: U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Groceries Shipped Overseas And Sold For Profit

" ... food never reaches an American table. Instead, it gets shipped overseas..."

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/food-stamp-fraud-pipeline-exposed-us-taxpayer-funded-groceries-shipped-overseas-and-sold

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SpaceX-Tesla Merger Speculation Grows As Decade Of Cross-Company Deals Reveal Deeper Integration

"A current Tesla employee told CNBC that many workers at the electric vehicle company have long expected such a transaction..."

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/food-stamp-fraud-pipeline-exposed-us-taxpayer-funded-groceries-shipped-overseas-and-sold

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 Lululemon Calls Truce With Founder Chip Wilson After Stock Collapse, Leggings Quality Implosion

Lululemon has settled its proxy fight with founder Chip Wilson, ending one of the year's top proxy battles, according to Reuters.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/lululemon-calls-truce-founder-chip-wilson-after-stock-collapse-leggings-quality-implosion

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Former Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times Reporter Claims She Was Attacked with ‘Direct Energy Weapons’ at Her Home Over Epstein Reporting

(Again 4UM failed to post photo of pretty girl.)

.https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/former-boston-globe-los-angeles-times-reporter-claims/

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Confirmation that Iran MOU contains $300 billion reconstruction fund from U.S… White House says none of it is true.

  According to Iranian lawmaker Meysam Zohourian, the draft includes a promised $300 billion reconstruction program for Iran if a final agreement is signed, as well as ending US primary and secondary sanctions under a timetable.

He said the nuclear section covers Iran not building nuclear weapons and the creation of a mutually acceptable framework for the fate of uranium stockpiles, enrichment and all issues related to Tehran’s nuclear program in a final agreement.

Zohourian added that the outline includes freezing Iran’s nuclear program in return for Washington not increasing sanctions during the negotiation period.

He said other provisions include exemptions for Iranian oil and petrochemical sales and related services, as well as the gradual release of Iran’s blocked funds by the United States if negotiations progress.

  President Donald Trump said the Strait of Hormuz would be open to all under any deal with Iran and would not be controlled by any country, while ruling out sanctions relief or financial concessions to Tehran.

 “No, the strait’s going to be open to everybody, sir. It’s international waters. Nobody’s going to control it,” Trump said. “We’re going to watch over it.”

Trump said Iran would like to control the strait, but that this would not be allowed.

“They would like to control it. Nobody’s going to control it. It’s international waters,” he said.

Asked about Oman’s role, Trump said Oman would have to act like other countries, adding in a warning that the United States would use force if necessary.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202605238115

 Speaking at a White House Cabinet meeting, Trump said Hormuz was international waters and that the United States would monitor the waterway.

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/confirmation-that-iran-mou-contains-300-billion-reconstruction-fund-from-u-s-white-house-says-none-of-it-is-true/#more-222292

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The era of quality is dead, replaced by the systematic degradation of consumer value to maximize short-term margins.

  Shrinkflation is the physical act of reducing quantity while keeping the price stable, a tactic widely observed in cereal boxes, detergent bottles, and snack bags where the unit volume is quietly shaved down to avoid triggering consumer sticker shock.

Skimpflation is the qualitative act of gutting the product from the inside, often by swapping premium ingredients like butter for margarine, cocoa butter for vegetable oil, or reducing the fruit content in yogurts and jams.

In the service sector, this manifests as extreme staffing shortages that create artificial bottlenecks, such as longer call center wait times, the reduction of hotel housekeeping services, or airlines cutting complimentary food to widen their operating margins.

  This mirrors the 1970s style stagflation trap, where corporations compensate for rising overhead and stagnant real wages by stripping the intrinsic value out of every unit sold, a practice McKinsey reports is accelerating as brands scramble to protect spreadsheet margins.

  These companies utilize cost engineering to maintain the illusion of a premium brand while actively diluting the value proposition, a strategy designed to protect spreadsheet margins at the expense of long term customer trust.

The mechanism is psychological; firms know that consumers are significantly more sensitive to a visible price hike of five percent than they are to a five percent reduction in product weight or ingredient quality.

  By masking these changes with familiar packaging designs, like the recent Mondelēz case where Milka chocolate bars were downsized without changing the look of the wrapper, corporations essentially rely on consumer inertia and brand memory to hide their extractivist practices.

   https://citizenwatchreport.com/the-era-of-quality-is-dead-replaced-by-the-systematic-degradation-of-consumer-value-to-maximize-short-term-margins/

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Signs we’re near the top:

 -US stocks ATH

-Home prices cracking

-Consumer spending/confidence = low

-Inflation back in play

-Mega cap companies & indices (Kospi) moving like meme stocks

-Long pipeline of mega IPOs (SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic)

-Record margin debt

 What am I missing? (Commercial real estate tanking, Bond rates poised to tank stocks, Chinese Bonds to tank US, UK & Euro bonds)

 https://x.com/TripleNetInvest/status/2059629002327826526

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 New Yorkers chant NYPD support right outside Mayor Mamdani house

https://citizenwatchreport.com/new-yorkers-chant-nypd-support-right-outside-mayor-mamdani-house/

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Dems Support Tucker Carlson & The Demise Of Bernie’s Movement! – Full Interview w/ Briahna Joy Gray

In this wide-ranging interview Jimmy is joined by Briahna Joy Gray, former national press secretary for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign, who argues that the Democratic Party is “fundamentally unwilling” to allow any left-center social democrat near power, and that the “vote blue no matter who” mentality serves as a shield preventing substantive debate about why Democrats refuse to adopt enormously popular policies like Medicare for All, taxing the rich, and ending arms to Israel. She criticizes Our Revolution for endorsing billionaire Tom Steyer—who made his fortune from private prisons—in the California governor’s race, calling it emblematic of progressive leaders abandoning their principles, while noting that Republicans and Democrats are both driving “towards a cliff” with only marginal differences in speed.

 Jimmy argues that the only solution is a worker rebellion modeled on the Canadian trucker protests, with railroad workers, port workers, and truck drivers shutting down the economy and demanding publicly funded elections with six-week campaign seasons, since “we ain’t going to vote our way out of this.” Gray acknowledges that Tucker Carlson and other unlikely anti-war voices have credibility because they were willing to lose their careers and standing to tell the truth about Ukraine, COVID, and Israel, while establishment progressives like AOC and Bernie Sanders were not.

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/dems-support-tucker-carlson-the-demise-of-bernies-movement-full-interview-w-briahna-joy-gray/

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Trump threatens to BLOW UP Oman. (Fox News)

During a high-stakes Cabinet meeting, President Trump warned Oman that it must allow full international access through the Strait of Hormuz under U.S. oversight. He reportedly said “Oman will behave like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up” (or very similar wording).

 The comment was made in the context of ongoing tensions over shipping in the Strait of Hormuz following the recent U.S.-Iran conflict. Trump rejected any special role for Oman or Iran in managing the waterway and demanded it stay open to all traffic.

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/breaking-trump-threatens-to-blow-up-oman/#more-222311

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