“2024 Outlook: Slow growth, elevated inflation & geopolitical tensions to keep the world economy on its toes… The world will welcome 2024 in a couple of weeks. But expectations of a brighter future may be far-fetched if Moody’s latest outlook on 2024 is considered.
“Moody’s Global Macro Outlook 2024-25 suggests that the world economy will slow in 2024 as high-interest rates “percolate through credit channels to the real economy”.
“This means households would only feel the true impact of the high interest rates next year.”
“How climate change endangers global trade…
“Extensive research and forecasts have consistently demonstrated the cascading domino effect on trade precipitated by rising global temperatures. Extreme weather disrupts supply chains, damages transport infrastructure crucial for trade, restricts travel and remodels patterns of comparative advantage.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2413181
“Victoria warned against ‘very inefficient’ hydrogen buses after trial announced [Australia]…
“Australia’s push towards hydrogen-powered buses could lead to governments repeating costly and energy-intensive trials that have failed around the globe, an expert has warned. The Victorian government last week announced two Australian-made hydrogen buses will be rolled out in Melbourne’s west…”
“The UK Pushes People to Accept Pylons as It Upgrades Grids.
“The British government will start a campaign to make people warm up to the idea of new transmission towers near their homes as upgrading aging grid infrastructure becomes a choke point in the race to decarbonize the energy sector.”
“Fruit & veg shortages to be ‘new normal’ for shoppers [UK].
“Suppliers are warning of continued fruit & veg shortages following the impacts of poor weather and low retailer pricing. Empty supermarket shelves would become “business as usual” as existing challenges worsened and new ones emerged, Lea Valley Growers Association secretary Lee Stiles warned.”
“UK voters face ‘living standards disaster’, think tank says…
“British voters are set to suffer a “living standards disaster” as they face an unprecedented fall in household incomes between one national election and the next, even taking Jeremy Hunt’s new tax cut plan into account, a think tank said on Thursday.”
“Inside Jeremy Hunt’s £100bn-a-year battle with Britain’s ballooning debt pile…
“Jeremy Hunt has a £100bn headache… The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) now believes Britain will still be spending £122.5bn a year on servicing the country’s debt by the end of the decade. It revised up its forecasts for debt interest by an average of £20bn-a-year over the next five years.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/11/24/insight/
“Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing a backlash from senior members of his own party after new figures revealed migration is at an all-time high.
“Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick is understood to be pushing for a five-point migration plan while The Daily Telegraph says other Tory MPs are demanding “immediate and massive” action…”
“Huge rise in refugees sleeping rough after Home Office cuts notice period to leave accommodation.
“The number of refugees sleeping rough on London’s streets has risen by 800% in two months, following a change in Home Office policy.”
“Riots erupt in Dublin after children stabbing blamed on migrants…
“Public transport was suspended and patients advised not to travel to a nearby maternity hospital unless absolutely necessary after clashes between riot police and anti-immigrant protesters, who arrived at the scene of the attack beside the main thoroughfare of O’Connell Street.”
“Finland warns Russia it is prepared to shut all border points over migrant pressure…
“Elina Valtonen, Finland’s foreign minister, told the Financial Times that if Russia intensified its operation of allowing migrants from countries such as Yemen, Iraq and Syria to cross without documents, her country could restrict the filing of asylum applications to Helsinki airport — and so exclude its checkpoints along the land border.”
https://www.ft.com/content/5348ec64-010e-40f4-a27e-6d1252a0c537
“Poland, Czechs extend border controls with Slovakia to stem illegal migration…
“Slovakia is a transit country for migrants mostly from the Middle East and Afghanistan who are seeking to reach western Europe, especially Germany, after crossing into the European Union via Hungary from Serbia, which is not in the EU.”
“‘Fire on fire’: how migrants got blamed for Greece’s devastating blazes…
“The baseless allegation that scores of migrants had gone on an arson spree was widespread, even being shared by schoolchildren on their phones. “Three migrants found on the mountain … They said: ‘You may throw us in jail, but there’s 600 more ready to burn you,’” read one such message…”
“Geert Wilders is the EU’s worst nightmare. The far-right Dutch election winner, who backs ‘Nexit,’ will be no friend to Brussels…
“A seat for Wilders around the EU summit table would transform the dynamic, alongside other far-right and nationalist leaders already in post. Suddenly, policies ranging from climate action, to EU reform and weapons for Ukraine will be up for debate, and even reversal.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/geert-wilders-is-the-eus-worst-nightmare/
“The balance sheets of eurozone banks are showing “early signs of stress” after a rise in loan defaults and late payments by customers, the European Central Bank has warned.
“…lenders are facing pressures from higher funding costs, worsening asset quality and lower lending volumes.”
“Contraction of German economy in the third quarter confirmed.
“The German economy remains stagnant – the recent fiscal turmoil will do little to change this any time soon… it is hard to see Germany’s economic stagnation ending any time soon.”
https://think.ing.com/snaps/german-gdp-growth-q3-23-2nd-est/
“Recent PMI data for France underscores a deepening economic downturn.
“Manufacturing PMI dropped to a 42-month low, down from 42.8 to 42.6 in November, while Services PMI exhibited a negligible rise from 45.2 to 45.3. Composite PMI edged down from 44.6 to 44.5, signaling sustained contraction in the economy.”
“China property: running out of options as fallout spreads to shadow banking.
“China’s repeated attempts to tackle its worsening property crisis resemble firework displays — full of light and sound, quickly extinguished. Property stock prices have burst upwards with each new set of government measures to boost the market, only to collapse shortly thereafter.”
https://www.ft.com/content/916fbbcc-8beb-4437-bc09-d4d0bac1fbbf
“China wealth manager Zhongzhi flags insolvency, liabilities of $64 billion.
“China’s Zhongzhi Enterprise Group told investors it is heavily insolvent with liabilities of up to $64 billion, more than double its assets, as one of the country’s leading wealth managers grapples with a deepening property sector crisis.”
“Fed-up voters put Latin American leaders on thin ice.
“The election of brash Argentine upstart Javier Milei shows that an anti-incumbent trend over the past decade is becoming a fixture, analysts say. “There is no left-wing wave or right-wing wave. There is no clear ideological trend. You simply have governing parties losing,” said Ignacio Labaqui…”
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231124-fed-up-voters-put-latin-american-leaders-on-thin-ice
“Cuban ministers reveal details of food, fuel shortages amid economic crisis.
“Senior Cuban officials have over several weeks provided an increasingly dire snapshot of a deepening economic crisis in a series of televised prime-time appearances, revealing the extent of the downturn in unprecedented detail.”
“The Chairman, Senate Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs, Yahaya Abdullahi, has said that Nigeria is facing the worst economic crisis in the history of its existence.
“Abdullahi, who represents Kebbi South Senatorial District, Kebbi State, stated this at the inaugural meeting of the House Committee on Wednesday.”
https://punchng.com/nigeria-on-verge-of-worst-economic-crisis-senator-abdullahi/
“Chad struggles with soaring refugee crisis.
“Chad accommodates over one million refugees, constituting one of Africa’s largest and rapidly growing refugee populations. Ongoing conflict in neighboring Sudan has propelled hundreds of thousands across the border, exacerbating humanitarian needs while resources to address them are diminishing.”
https://www.africanews.com/2023/11/22/chad-struggles-with-soaring-refugee-crisis/
“Sudan refugees detail second wave of bloody ethnic purge by Arab forces.
“Arab-led RSF forces have pressed ahead this month with their expulsion of Sudan’s ethnic-African Masalit tribe from West Darfur. Survivors described large-scale killings of Masalit captives at a soccer field and a bridge in the regional capital. As assaults mount, some fear a possible partition of the country.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/sudan-politics-darfur-attacks/
“Clashes on border with Israel uproot thousands in Lebanon – again.
“Since the Israel-Hamas war began seven weeks ago in Gaza, the clashes on Lebanon’s border with Israel have displaced nearly 50,000 people, according to U.N. figures, and at least 13 civilians have been killed in Lebanon, Lebanese officials say.”
“Pakistani Crackdown on Iran Border Trade Sparks Protests in Southern Balochistan.
“Informal trade in oil and other goods, which previously provided people in border villages with income, has been halted without putting alternative means of livelihood in place.”
“Tens of thousands of protesters demanding a restoration of Nepal’s monarchy clash with police.
“Riot police used batons and tear gas to halt tens of thousands of supporters of Nepal’s former king who attempted to march to the center of the capital on Thursday to demand the restoration of the monarchy and the nation’s former status as a Hindu state.”
“Myanmar is gripped by the worst escalation in violence since the military seized power in a coup almost three years ago, the UN has said, with intense clashes taking place across a number of states and regions.
“The UN said an escalation in the fighting that began late in October was “the largest in scale and most extensive geographically” since the military coup, and has affected swathes of the country.”
“Financial crises damage people’s mental health – our global review shows who is worst affected…
“Manual workers (such as farmers, tradespeople and those working minimum-wage jobs) are vulnerable as they typically have less of a safety net, while small business owners are particularly susceptible to financial pressures and worries. People at either end of the age spectrum are also more vulnerable…”
“OpenAI was reportedly working on an advanced system before Sam Altman’s sacking that was so powerful it caused safety concerns among staff at the company.
“The artificial intelligence model triggered such alarm with some OpenAI researchers that they wrote to the board of directors before Altman’s dismissal warning it could threaten humanity.”
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Hi there Justin , I dont comment often , not will I in the future, because of some extreme left wingers among your base. But that’s even more of a reason to give some clarification on the mainstream politico article on the Dutch election here. As a half German I could vote in the Dutch election , did so for Wilders . While I think the climate crisis is the biggest problem on earth , I also think we are way beyond the point small countries can make a dent in warming by policy changes . In all other matters I’m on the side of the normal people , e.g. right wing nowadays
The EU has become a left liberal colossus not there anymore for Europeans but acting as a propaganda machine that uses euro taxes for globalist and unrealistic agendas , most prominently mass migration aid and shelter for refugees , especially from muslim counties . The growing muslim presence is making western europes capitals unrecognizable. White kids are being bullied in metropolitan areas for being outsiders now .
Poland the Czechs and Hungary have been right for years, so is Austria. Climate change or not , there will be no europe anymore without European values , businesses, the Judeo Christian core that was build up in centuries . The world will be , at least cultural and scientific at a great loss once (Western) Europe turnes fully foreign , which will happen with these immigration numbers
It’s a small continent , that was rich in the first place because Europeans do their own thing, the woke globalization is killing the unique hardworking enlightenment spirit . Islam is a medieval sekt as far as I’m concerned , it turns all areas where it is prominent into war zones , except where oil was around , and then with the oil money it funded a Wahhabism extremist expansion to europe
The Saudis could’ve saved their “brothers ” , instead Europe has to pay for everything and gets Saudi funded mosques on top
So enough of the politico msm crap about euro elections
And enough of the pro Hamas and pro China stuff , but I’m used to that slithering around the web so I just stay away
One thing climate related I forgot , as the Greta thunberg correction in Holland last week proved , the coupling of climate and LGBT demonstrations with pro hamas and pro muslim causes is the definition of irony and as outlandish as one can think of
The richer part of the middle east is about the most climate unfriendly area you’ll find in this world, and all the middle east .. well I would like Greta and the LGBT kids to try how friendly folks will be to them in Iran , Somalia and Egypt
These kids dont get that all that protects them and made them viable is European civilization. After that they are catfood
Politics & politicians don’t matter. All the political people are just loud chimps flinging their poo at each other while the world burns.
I don’t see any left wingers around here. You’ll have provide a direct quote of someone pushing a left wing agenda in this space to prove your assertion. By definition, to be a doomer is to be apolitical. I’m a split between apolitical & anti political (cuz they are so loud).
One of the few reasons I read this comment section is because it’s one of a few spaces where doomers can escape the political and their stupid & meaningless agendas & hopium. They already have 99% of the internet, yet like all missionaries feel duty bound to infect the remaining 1% with their ceaseless yammering & toxic agendas. Me me me it’s all about me.
I’m really starting to regret my great grand dad & the rest of the Canadian forces spilling their blood & our treasure liberating the Dutch from the Nazi’s & saving them from total starvation (Hongerwinter). Looks like Europe may resume their hostilities. Have at it, but Canada will not bail y’all out a 3rd time.
Canada has become an uber woke fantasyland itself under the ever snobby and unrealistic Trudeau so it’s the last place we expect anything from. Smug much ?
Here in the UK we have had Brexit; and a conservative party elected on a anti-immigration ticket for 14 years.
The outcome is that immigration is the highest it’s ever been. So don’t count on that changing even when voting the right wing into power.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67506641
Incoherent and illiterate racism has always been the foundation of European colonialism, and as Hitler had his Goebbels, we here at C&E have our own resident spokes-drooler.
Ethnostates have always been such hard work to keep up and keep out, and here we have an old-timer issuing such delightful nonsense as “unique hardworking enlightenment spirit.”
Ask the poor people of the Third World if what they think of vacationing Dutch or Germans or half- this or that ethno-imaginary as being “unique,” or “enlightened,” or, howler of howlers, “hardworking.”
You’re oblivious Martin . Dutch police and Teachers are quitting in drones , literally because they cant handle the issues surrounding a demographic tidal wave of migrant kids . Typing people , hard working actual Dutch cant afford housing. Single muslim men , asylum seekers are terrorizing villages surrounding the centers where they supposedly seek refuge , many are from safe countries
Intellectualism, especially the pseudo , safe in my suburb kind , will not help you past 2025
“Dutch police and teachers are quitting in drones”. – and I’m the oblivious one? That’s very 2023 – to quit work and, what, fly away? Use the drone to distribute resignation letters?
No one here is saying there are no problems, but to this world, you say – Geert Wilders? An elderly moron, who will just as stupid in governance as all the other faux populist election winners, as another commenter allude to?
“Typing people,” which of course numbers quite a few of us here, can’t even figure out that “actual” people refers to all of us, even the ones with the unbridled gall to have chosen to have been born to terrorized Third World bantustans.
You’re a member of the human species, which not too long ago emerged from the African savannah. Act on your principles – move to a “safe” country.
The Dutch elections are an expression of the utter chaos that many EU countries are in economically and administratively. The right-wing populist false turbo idea behind it is that the ‘immigration waves’ should be stopped and the old national identity should be re-matched. A total hopeless fakemission with reference to the what never existed ‘the European myth of the Aufklarung and the humanist ideal.
How this so-called ‘refugee crisis’ is to be solved nobody knows and anyone who looks at the encroaching poverty and economic chaos in North Africa and the countries around Turkey understands immediately that that is ‘mopping the tap wide open. Europe will always be within reach and the exploitation of migrant flows in all kinds of sectors will only increase amid the economic chaos that now affects almost all countries. It is interesting that the Dutch in their arrogance think that a different policy is actually possible under Wilders, who excels in the fact that he really has no clue about what in terms of energy, raw materials and economic collapse will also hit that little country behind the dykes hard in no time.
The man has no idea and his paladins certainly do not and are staggering around shouting and ranting in a foggy landscape clouded by Islam hatred.
Il find it funny… The governmentlessness and helplessness of the polder model has been totally wiped out in one fell swoop. No government is conceivable and certainly not one led by Wilders….
The downfall of the Occident has long since occurred in the decades behind us and the utopias are now being punctured one by one by a few populist knuckleheads…. That’s good because at least they will have achieved something !!!
Well just replace Macron with Le Pen and the party is complete
Zip, you truly are the poster child – euhm grandad of boomer elitist snobs safely tucked away with some money in nice areas in Europe while leaving the youth hanging in immigrant loaded urban areas where the real problems spill over slowly to suburbia
You are a true Nimby , a not in my backyard wegkijker , struisvogel type
Have fun in the French countryside , cause a lot of kids sure won’t enjoy any of that
And seeing some other comments , as expected on a site like this , many of you are absolutely oblivious to the difference between your textbook salonfahig good burger opinions, so nice sounding , and the harsh reality of urban European 21st century problems : not any euro culture anymore just a woke globalized bland pile of multiculturalism, neo liberal economic fare and boomers leaving the cities , or should I say fleeing while saying normal citizens have to be real nice to any foreigner . No thank you
You are a funny man… i do like psychologist character experts. You could learn a lot of trap there. I’d say good luck with your ‘european’ identitarian thinking….
watch out for the fashion of the brown shirts i would say
If you’d stayed in the Netherlands zip , I’m sure an eventual meeting in your daily life with the ever non brown vested and largely influential Moroccan Maffia would’ve cured you of long outdated boomer memories about 40-45
There is a segment of boomers that has touted world war 2 so long that they didn’t notice after they nice pensions that Dutch and German areas turning into bit very jew friendly Islamic zones quite fast
Cant believe some of you, but seen it all too many times now
Harmon as far as your far left comment many of us do not vote anymore and do not associate with any party anymore so you might want to knock off those comments some. There is huge amount of people in the United States that have stopped voting period and its larger than you think. Many of us are sick of the so called culture wars too. So knock that crap off we are just trying to live the best we can as things are going to crap here in the states.
Heather I’m sorry for any inconvenience. Your opinion sounds a lot more lived through and real than Zips , my countrymen escapee
I have the best experiences and all respect for the average American , and plenty family living there .
I just hate the American elite , the swamp if you like and media , for their share of woke and liberal Americanization of ideas in Europe . Much of the initial wave of neo liberalism and globalism stemmed from the coastal US elites
We Are the Whirled … and we’ll be mixed up for the rest of our lives.
Enjoy.
Thank you all for your thoughts. I liked that quote from Ignacio Labaqui in the article about Latin America: “There is no left-wing wave or right-wing wave. There is no clear ideological trend. You simply have governing parties losing.”
I guess that’s what happens when physical and related financial limits make it impossible for parties to deliver on their promises. In more prosperous times, the gentle tension between the political polarities enabled democratic stability… but now we seem destined to lurch chaotically back and forth across the political spectrum, with the rising anger, fear and disillusionment of the masses leading to more authoritarianism and personality cults.
Well. Harmon did you consider my comment on conspiracy theories yesterday a left wing or a right wing ramble.
Ich lese nicht jedes Mal alles, tut mir leid
I dont even have the time to scroll through all the daily comments here and elsewhere
What I do notice is , the times when I do engage , people on eco sites dont even respond in the slightest to the very real issues of Saudi funded mosques , unlivable inner cities in western europe , white kids being more and more marginalized, the many teachers I know quitting, police quitting, immigrants kids swamping the school system , not even properly understanding the languague
Some of you really live in a 1970 fantasy
OOps I forgot to label my reply which is below as a reply.
Well, I do not like Saudi (or any religous) Fundamentalism either. And I am not crazy about unrestrained immigration in to Europe either. Nor do I support a closed borders policy. But my reasons for what I support and do not support are mostly environmental. When large numbers of people move from one country to another a whole new set of infrastructure has to be built to accomodate the new commers.
But I can not blame the new commers for trying to get in. Their countries, Syria, Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya have all been destroyed due to unjustifiable US aggression. Or their countries are collapsing under the weight of climate change.
But I also do not blame the natives for trying to keep the new commers out. The balance sheet is not totally one sided against the new commers. For example the German birth rate is so low that I suspect that housing prices would collapse if the new commers did not create a demand for new housing. But even that is a double edged sword. Higher home prices may help those who have already bought their first home. But they are a drag for those who do not yet have any equity.
Also it is not as if only Saudi Muslims are the only misoginist people in Europe. There are plenty of European Misoginists who family backgrounds go all the way back to when Ceaser crossed the Rubicon.
In addition I wanted to add. Do really think that the Saudi Leadership has been independent actors from the time that the Saudi Ruling Family tool power until 2023. From where I sit I would say that the Saudi Royal Family was an assest of Great Britian until about 1970 when it became an asset of the United States. So if the Saudis were spreading Islamic Fundamentalism through out the world it was with the consent of the US leadership if not their outright orders.
Now it is plausible that this new crown prince is trying to chart a new course for Saudi Arabia more independent from the US. But I would not bet on it. I have come to the concludion that this apparent willingness of the Saudis to distance themselves from the US is a ruse. I think that I wrote about that several days ago.
Anyways I would like to encourage you to read through my comments about conspiracy theories that I wrote yesterday. Because I want to write soon about the Corona Pandemic Narraratives that were spread by the MSM over the past 3 going on 4 years.
To Harmon & others,
Is this a private fight or can anyone join in? 😉
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Just got off the phone with the Stupid Hypocrisy Pandemic. It told me that one’s political delusions does not make them immune. I need to call NTHE to find out what it’s take is on politics.
Look at how great the Left/Right politics have worked for the U.S.
Wonder how a societal collapse works out for all the L/R political mental disorders? Stupidity doesn’t need a L/R label.
Don’t know how many times this needs to be said: There is no place to go for any of us.
Immigrants & refugees made long dangerous trips to end up no better off? Where are all the entitled1st world citizens going to go as climate collapses?
Most problems go away if one wears blinders.
Wow Harmon, you sure love to stir web pots 🙂
I guessing that there are so many folks like you on the larger sites with hundreds of comments/post, so your type of commentary usually gets lost as a drop in the ocean of the generic text-based verbal sewerage on such sites 🙂 Not enough attention, reaction etc so you come to the little ones like this every now and then, to get your kicks.
As for Islam-hatred, there are about 2 billion of ’em, from Morocco to Indonesia, (with a couple of north/south offshoots and gaps in the geography). One quarter of the planet. A lot of them are quite secular too, never go near a mosque except for the odd family wedding or funeral etc, just like plenty of jews, christians, buddhists, hindus etc rarely go into temples, synagogues, churches etc. But all of them, have variants and sub-sects, including violent radical extreme ones. I saw a travel documentary on the Tuareg desert tribes in north africa as a variant, the men cover/veil their faces, the women dont.
Islamic holy text, the Quran, only stipulates both sexes to dress “modestly”, and rituals of “cleanliness” around covering or even shaving of body hair and personal hygiene.
The more modern history of West Asian countries, (what Western imperialism calls the Middle East), explains they have been divided-and-conquered for a couple of centuries, by the British and French colonial empires first, then the US Empire post WW2.
The US in particular, has encouraged and inflamed not just indigenous religious divergences, (like Catholics vs Protestants in christian history) but also installing “puppet” or “pet” regimes, along with aiding and funding and training the most extreme murderous factions to make those regimes socially, politically and economically unstable etc. Because while ever those countries were fighting each other and fighting within, they remained weak and controllable.
By stimulating ‘civil wars’, and bombing the crap out of it to destroy the local human habitable regions and making them unliveable, with or without climate change, by destroying their economies and preventing every attempt at recovery, rebuilding, development infrastructure etc, like currently in Syria, what the heck are US bases still doing there?
Illegal military occupation, the US supposedly, officially “withdrew” from Syria but those bases are still there, to protect certain oil fields for US fossil-fuel corporations to literally “steal” Syria’s oil.
Harmon ..
the Neo-Roman US Empire, following in the footsteps of its European predecessors, has directly created these waves of refugees you complain so bitterly about. Bad luck for Europe being geographically where it is. No skin off the US’s nose 🙂
As Kissinger I think once said, ‘Being an enemy of the United States is dangerous, but being a friend is fatal’.
And Europe in general, but Germany in particular, are reaping the consequences of such ‘friendly fire’ from both the US wars against Russia, and the Arabs/Persians, and now the cold war with China.
I heard one commentator the other night, say while Israel was America’s vicious attack dogs (occasionally slipping their leash) the EU is Americas loyal “poodles”, always ‘coming to heel’.
Nothing to do with religion, culture, or traditional so-called right or leftist politics. Empires do what empires do in their own self-interest regardless of “how they identify” LOL.
But the US has more than one elite class too, as Turchin wrote recently about Elites vs Counter-Elites – internal faction struggles lurching whichever way within the 1% that control US and global politics and economics.
I’ve hit politics,now it time for religion.
There is no proof of any god ever worshiped by the delusional.
Wonder how many words have been written by Clever Apes about UFO,Bigfoot,Ancient Aliens,ancient high tech civilizations,Santa Clause,etc.
This would be the same species that is responsible for written religious scriptures?
My problem with religion is that I don’t which of the many true gods to worship.
Thanks for one of the better thought out comments Rain.
Do keep in mind that Islam in daily life is not a national geographic exercise for German and Dutch city dwellers
The Saudi funded wahabist mosques and berber moroccans in the Netherlands have ensured a fanatical stream of islam here , and they are slowly forcing other people to live in streets dictated by Islamist outlooks
Europe doesn’t have the space and the money is also drying up very fast now
The rich middle east should’ve taken care of their own, it’s that simple really
My two home countries are disappearing , you should be happy in Oz
A little humor,as in “A sucker’s born every minute.” Few winners, many losers.
I spend $1.00 on Oregon Megabucks. Should I go to Gamblers Anonymous?
https://wolfstreet.com/2023/11/23/lithium-shortage-bubble-implodes-once-again-as-demand-and-production-both-surged/