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WASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices rose by the most in 13 years in June amid supply constraints and a continued rebound in the costs of travel-related services from pandemic-depressed levels as the economic recovery gathered momentum.

The consumer price index increased 0.9% last month, the largest gain since June 2008, after advancing 0.6% in May, the Labor Department said on Tuesday.

In the 12 months through June, the CPI jumped 5.4%. That was the largest gain since August 2008 and followed a 5.0% increase in the 12 months through May. Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the CPI accelerated 0.9% after increasing 0.7% in May.

The so-called core CPI surged 4.5% on a year-on-year basis, the largest increase since November 1991, after rising 3.8% in May. Annual inflation rates have been boosted by the dropping of last spring’s weak readings from the CPI calculation. These so-called base effects are leveling off.
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That’s as messed up as Texas wanting citizens to snitch on people who get abortions.


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Ibanez wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:47 pm
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That’s as messed up as Texas wanting citizens to snitch on people who get abortions.


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No kidding, what's next, a list of all those folks who are "radicalized"?
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Is it me, or did Grampa Badfinger sound really fearful while speaking in Philly yesterday. It was the sort of speech a person who is afraid of losing control gives...needs more control.
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SDHornet wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:57 pm
Ibanez wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:47 pm
That’s as messed up as Texas wanting citizens to snitch on people who get abortions.


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No kidding, what's next, a list of all those folks who are "radicalized"?
Probably. But asking people to snitch on neighbors is getting to be a bit much...like 1930s-40s Germany.

Why don't Republicans just leave the private lives of people alone?
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Ibanez wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:47 pm
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That’s as messed up as Texas wanting citizens to snitch on people who get abortions.


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kalm wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 5:54 am
Ibanez wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:47 pm
That’s as messed up as Texas wanting citizens to snitch on people who get abortions.


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I've been up since 630 EC(b)T and have had several cups of coffee...but what the hell are you trying to say here? :suspicious: :lol:
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Ibanez wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 6:03 am
kalm wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 5:54 am

Blood is thicker than insurrection?
I've been up since 630 EC(b)T and have had several cups of coffee...but what the hell are you trying to say here? :suspicious: :lol:
I get why it’s creepy...but family members are often the best positioned to identify potentially dangerous idiot/cult members.

Representative Paul Gosar’s family comes to mind... :lol:
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kalm wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 6:19 am
Ibanez wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 6:03 am

I've been up since 630 EC(b)T and have had several cups of coffee...but what the hell are you trying to say here? :suspicious: :lol:
I get why it’s creepy...but family members are often the best positioned to identify potentially dangerous idiot/cult members.

Representative Paul Gosar’s family comes to mind... :lol:
Yeah - it goes beyond that. If I over hear my random cousin talk about her abortion, I can rat her out. It's her body, her choice (kinda like vaccines).
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Ibanez wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 6:26 am
kalm wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 6:19 am

I get why it’s creepy...but family members are often the best positioned to identify potentially dangerous idiot/cult members.

Representative Paul Gosar’s family comes to mind... :lol:
Yeah - it goes beyond that. If I over hear my random cousin talk about her abortion, I can rat her out. It's her body, her choice (kinda like vaccines).
I know but you were comparing the two. Go back to bed! :mrgreen:
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SeattleGriz wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 5:48 am Is it me, or did Grampa Badfinger sound really fearful while speaking in Philly yesterday. It was the sort of speech a person who is afraid of losing control gives...needs more control.
Not sure why Biden* is concerned about the pending PA forensic audit. After all, Biden* himself reassured everyone that it was the most secure election in our time. :coffee:
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Ibanez wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 5:53 am
SDHornet wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:57 pm

No kidding, what's next, a list of all those folks who are "radicalized"?
Probably. But asking people to snitch on neighbors is getting to be a bit much...like 1930s-40s Germany.

Why don't Republicans just leave the private lives of people alone?
East Germany is more in line with what the FBI has in mind.
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https://blog.acton.org/archives/117396- ... KUxMkdukso

CAN you "fix stupid"? Let's hope so, because if the Gen Z's don't wake up, this country is fooked:
A new poll reveals the disquieting extent of young Americans’ support for Marxism. However, it also divulges the reasons behind the popularity of collectivism and the seeds of its destruction.

The number of young Americans who have a favorable view of Marxism has increased five-fold in just one year. According to the new survey, nearly one-third of the members of Gen Z – Americans between the ages of 16 and 23 – deem “Marxism” worthy of support. The term’s favorability has skyrocketed to 30% among Gen Z respondents, up from 6% in 2019.

Gen Z’s approval of socialism also crept up nine points since last year (49% favorable in 2020, compared to 40% in 2019). The results come from the newest edition of the “Report on U.S. Attitudes Toward Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism” – which is commissioned annually by the Victims of Communism Memorial (VOC) and conducted by YouGov.

But the latest VOC poll, which was released Wednesday, contains an internal contradiction: Americans increasingly distrust the government to take care of their interests, with 87% saying they trust themselves over the government and their community (a 7% increase from 2019). This is especially the case in younger generations, with only 6% of Gen Z and 5% of Millennials trusting the government to take care of their interests, down 8% and 11% from 2019, respectively.

How can young Americans distrust the government to look after their interests yet endorse socialism, which entrusts the government with the power to redistribute wealth, direct all economic activity, and control their access to such necessities as healthcare?

The poll’s results highlight two simple answers: ignorance of socialism and a jaundiced view of the United States induced by critical theory.

Americans suffer a two-pronged ignorance of socialism: what it is and what is has done. As Simon van Zuylen-Wood explained in New York magazine last March, “the word [socialism] had lost its meaning by the time it got hot again.” Thus, 31% of VOC respondents say they believe that socialism “[m]eans a free market economy with private property” in which “the government provides ample social welfare benefits, as in many Scandinavian and Western European countries.” In reality, Scandinavian countries have tried for years to inform Americans in general (and Bernie Sanders, in particular) that they are not socialist, and that democratic socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fundamentally misunderstand the Scandinavian model. The Nordic countries jettisoned policies like the ones AOC proposes after their economies crashed during the 1980s.

Researchers have found that socialism’s popularity grew in tandem with public confusion about the economic system. Only 20% of registered voters in the U.S. associated socialism with government ownership of some (13%) or all (7%) of the economy in a Hill-HarrisX survey taken last May. One in three said socialism meant the government would “end poverty and provide basic things.” The same is true for Americans as a whole. A Gallup poll from October 2018 found that less than one in five U.S. citizens said socialism means abolishing private property, while 23% said socialism stands for “equality – equal standing for everybody, all equal in rights, equal in distribution.”

Americans also have no grasp of Marxism’s bloody past – and present. The VOC finds that 32% of Americans “think that Donald Trump is responsible for the deaths of more people” than North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Twice as many Americans (64%) “say they are unaware that the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for more deaths than Nazi Germany.”

However, young Americans are aware of one nation’s failings: their own. Gen Z is almost twice as likely to believe “America is a racist nation with a long history of discrimination” (51%) as to say that “America is a leading defender of freedom around the world” (27%). “Only 44% of Gen Z thinks that the American flag most accurately represents freedom,” the poll finds. Hence, Americans are more likely to advocate toppling statues depicting Robert E. Lee (30%) or Christopher Columbus (26%) than Marxist mass murderer Che Guevara (24%). Gen Z even believes U.S. President Trump did more to spread COVID-19 than China’s Xi Jinping.

“It shocks the conscience” that “four-in-ten Americans believe that their country is a ‘racist’ nation,” says VOC Executive Director Marion Smith. Smith attributes these views to “a total failure of our education system,” as well as the “basic dishonesty in our media and popular culture.”

“When one-in-four Americans want to eliminate capitalism and embrace socialism, we know that we have failed to educate about the historical and moral failings of these ideologies,” he says.

Or perhaps the educational establishment has indoctrinated American students too well. By the time the Pulitzer-Prize-winning 1619 Project backtracked on its central claim that the introduction of slavery represented America’s “true founding,” public schools had already taught its curriculum to “tens of thousands of students in all 50 states” … at your expense. Academia has long inculcated the neo-Marxist view of America as a patchwork of competing victim groups (racial, sexual, and gender minorities) and oppressors (straight, white, cisgender males). Discrediting the U.S. Constitution, with its checks on mob rule and embrace of a free-market economic system, as “systemically racist” represents the high-water mark of Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci’s long march through history – an effort to form a Marxist consciousness in society.

Identity politics succeeded where Das Kapital fell flat. Americans who see themselves as members of impermeable and warring tribes require the government to mediate their differences – and to assure that resources are evenly distributed between groups, according to a viral speech from Thomas Klingenstein, who is president of the Claremont Institute. But, he warns, “achieving this proportional representation requires a never-ending redistribution of wealth and power” by the federal government. “Such a massive redistribution can only be achieved by a tyrannical government” where “dissenters are silenced.” Such a government could traditionally be labeled socialist or Marxist.

To succeed, socialists “must get us to believe we are bad.” In reality, “America has brought more freedom and more prosperity to more people than any country in the history of mankind.” To further that understanding, he has unveiled a petition to declare every election day – when Americans celebrate their right of self-determination – as “America is Good Day.” The petition has been signed by such notable figures as former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, former Sen. Jim DeMint, and Hilldale College President Larry Arnn.

In the Cold War, the struggle against Marxism was geostrategic. Today, it takes place within societies and hearts. Halting socialism’s ascendancy in the United States demands that we educate young people about socialism’s history of poverty and oppression – and replace the masochism masquerading as history with an appreciation of Western civilization.
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From January to May, 711,784 migrants were encountered by Customs and Border Protection at the southern border – five times the amount during the same period in 2020 – and the Biden administration is on track to encounter 1 million by the end of July.

CBP's latest data, released in June, show that there were 180,034 encounters with illegal crossers in May, the highest of any month in the last 20 years. The spike in migration under President Joe Biden's administration continues to grow with no signs of it coming to a stop any time soon.
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Oh...

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Didn't they refer to Merkel as Fat Hillary?

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This for sure belongs here, because everyone knows if you don't buy into Climate change, you are not woke.

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SeattleGriz wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:37 pm Didn't they refer to Merkel as Fat Hillary?

The look on Merkel’s face is priceless! “ What a dummkopf!”
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Ivytalk wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 6:34 am
SeattleGriz wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:37 pm Didn't they refer to Merkel as Fat Hillary?

The look on Merkel’s face is priceless! “ What a dummkopf!”
Did you happen to catch any of the G7 videos? The whole crew acted that way towards Biden. In fairness, I realize I only saw the bad clips, but there were multiple.
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Another counter protest at the Wi spa in Los Angeles.

See, this below is what I would expect happen to me if I didn't comply with what the police asked, and I'd have deserved it.



I love how this guy shuts down her argument. She has no rebuttal after.

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SeattleGriz wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:11 pm Another counter protest at the Wi spa in Los Angeles.

See, this below is what I would expect happen to me if I didn't comply with what the police asked, and I'd have deserved it.



I could watch this all day. :lol: :lol:
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..peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard..
..But you have to go home now. We have to have peace…
..I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.
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..peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard..
..But you have to go home now. We have to have peace…
..I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.
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