THE IMPACT OF THE ENERGY CRISIS: The euro zone entered into a mild recession in 1Q 2023, as revised data showed a 0.1% q-on-q contraction during the period, following an also 0.1% contraction in Q4 2022. https://t.co/f2vULHAcIY

— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) June 8, 2023

It’s a small price to pay for gay marriage in Donetsk.

Europeans need to get better at shutting their filthy mouths and supporting democracy.

Reuters:

The euro zone economy was in a technical recession in the first three months of 2023, data from European statistics agency Eurostat showed on Thursday, after downward revisions of growth in both the first quarter and the final quarter of 2022.

Gross domestic product (GDP) for the 20-country euro zone fell by 0.1% in the first quarter compared with the fourth of 2022 and was 1.0% up from a year earlier, Eurostat said in a statement.

That compared with flash estimates of growth of 0.1% and 1.3% published on May 16. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast on average respectively zero and 1.2% expansion.

The revision was principally due to a second estimate from Germany’s statistics office showing that the euro zone’s largest economy was in recession in early 2023.

The contraction in Ireland’s economy widened to 4.6% from a preliminary estimate of 2.7%, although this negative was due to the impact of large multinationals on growth there.

The euro zone figure for the fourth quarter of 2022 was also cut to -0.1% from a previous reading of zero.

A recession had been expected towards the end of last year as the euro zone wrestled with high energy and food prices and as a post-pandemic spending boom faded, but initial estimates had suggested the region had avoided this.

Time to buckle up your bootstraps, bucko.

We’re in the long war against the ideology of totalitarianism, i.e., white heterosexuals.

Nothing is ever going back to normal, especially because we’re also at war with the weather and so on.

We’re turning the world into a block of ice by eating bugs.

Stop crying, bucko.

Just two more weeks.

Seems pretty reasonable.

I mean, where probably 150 times the governments of the West told us the coronavirus hoax would end in two weeks – and it was true every time.

Democracy’s track record of honesty is also as severe as its track record for prosperity and social mobility.

Reuters:

Food price inflation in France – which has been a major concern for consumers – should ease off by September, said government minister Olivia Gregoire on Sunday.

“By the time people come back from their holidays in September, we will have a visible decrease in the prices you see on the shelves and in terms of food price inflation,” Gregoire, who is a government minister responsible for small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), told France Inter radio.

Gregoire’s comments echoed those from Bank of France governor and European Central Bank member Francois Villeroy de Galhau, who said earlier this month that he expected food price inflation to start easing in the second half of this year.

Things are really just getting better better, on this endless road to utopia.

‘Food prices are second only to energy prices when it comes to the general public’s concern.’

Grocery price inflation has surged again to 17.1 per cent, adding £811 to consumers’ annual bill.

GB News Economics and Business Editor @LiamHalligan provides the latest update. pic.twitter.com/bJVgarzVYc

— GB News (@GBNEWS) February 28, 2023

Starving for the Ukraine is a very small demand the UK government is making of it’s people. The Ukraine is a democracy, and democracy is our values of who we are.

Eating is not a core value of democracy.

RT:

Grocery prices in the UK have surged to a new record of 17.1% in the four weeks of February, according to the latest figures released by market researcher Kantar on Tuesday. Milk, eggs and margarine are showing the fastest price growth, data shows.

The report says food inflation in the country is at its highest since the firm started tracking the figures in 2008, adding £811 ($980) to the typical annual shopping bill and forcing UK households to change their consumption habits.

“This February marks a full year since monthly grocery inflation climbed above 4%. This is having a big impact on people’s lives,” the head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, Fraser McKevitt, said.

He noted that surging food prices were the second most important financial issue for the public after energy costs, adding that one in four shoppers in Britain were now struggling financially.

In fact, it is better that the British people go hungry, as this will prevent them from having the energy to oppose democracy, specifically in the context of the Ukraine.

If anything, we should raise the prices of food even further, in order to stop the vicious and evil people of Britain from thinking they have a right to complain about the prices of food.

Which countries in Europe have committed the most aid to Ukraine?

🇬🇧 It’s the UK, by a sizeable chunk.

But, how does that compare to a few months ago? 👇🧵

Side note: You can read our latest coverage of the Ukraine war here: https://t.co/JYwI6RQbUg pic.twitter.com/g4x14ydWeU

— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) February 21, 2023

Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, said that it is predicting that the prices of staple items will continue to rise this year. https://t.co/69MyaK4fuK

— Axios (@axios) February 18, 2023

Working and lower middle class Americans are backed against the wall, barely able to afford food.

Seeing news of these problems, I think of that low-riding Jew Victoria Nuland claiming that the Russians want to overthrow Putin so they can live an American-style life.

There are no food shortages in Russia, I can tell you that.

RT:

The world’s biggest food corporation, Nestle, has said prices for staple items would continue to grow during 2023, after more than a year of price increases that have forced the ordinary consumer into an ongoing struggle to buy groceries.

The giant increased prices by 8.2% last year, but says this was not enough to offset a rise in its own costs that had substantially dented profits.

According to Nestle CEO Mark Schneider, Nestle’s price increases, which are expected to vary by market and category, will be “very targeted” and will only be implemented where “input cost inflation justifies it.”

“We are still in a situation where we’re repairing our gross margin and, like all the consumers around the world, we’ve been hit by inflation and now we’re trying to repair the damage that has been done,” Schneider said.

The executive provided no details on what projected increases will affect which of Nestle’s 2,000 brands, a range spanning confectionery, frozen foods, and baby formula.

“Last year brought many challenges and tough choices for families, communities and businesses,” the company’s statement reads. “Inflation surged to unprecedented levels, cost of living pressures intensified, and the effects of geopolitical tensions were felt around the world.”

This is getting to be much more extreme than the problems the third world faces.

No one in the third world is skipping breakfast, as the Wall Street Journal recently announced that people should do.

Clearly, anyone who is paying hundreds of dollars a year for a Wall Street Journal subscription is not going to be skipping breakfast to save money.

Therefore, you have to think: this article was written to explain to better off people that the peasants should just stop whining and eat less.

Probably, “American peasants should eat less” is a good argument in some contexts. But not in this context.

The problem that the US government is dealing with globally is not totally different than the problem they are facing domestically: people are questioning the legitimacy of their rule.

That is why this war against Russia is so important to them – they are attempting to assert that they are the ones in charge, and they will kill anyone who challenges their power. This is the exact thing that Joe Biden asserted in his Bloody Thursday speech. It’s the precisely same message.

That is why they are willing to just starve people, and cause every form of chaos, as they fight against Russia. They view it as existential.

RT:

Western countries don’t want to lift restrictions on Russian grain supplies, and are therefore preventing global food prices from falling, a senior Foreign Ministry official in Moscow has said.

Alexander Kinshchak, head of the Ministry’s Middle East and North Africa Department, told RIA news agency in an interview published on Friday that Russia had been forced to adjust export mechanisms as a result of sanctions in recent months.

“US and EU sanctions, which include disconnecting Russian banks from SWIFT and blocking money transfers in dollars and euros, penalizing companies that insure our cargoes, prohibiting Western vessels from entering Russian ports and closing access of domestic merchant fleet to European countries have complicated logistics, including a sharp increase in freight costs,” he explained.

“We had to promptly work out alternative transport and logistics schemes and agree on new channels and forms of financial settlements using other currencies, including the ruble,” Kinshchak said, adding that transportation and insurance prices in the Black Sea have faced additional problems due to “chaotic mining” of its waters by the Ukrainian military.

When the empire goes down on the world stage, the US government is going to lose it’s domestic control. These things are intrinsically linked, which is why I always root for the enemies of the US government – unapologetically.

The enemies of the US government have the same enemy as the people of America: the US government.

The same people who are attempting to overthrow Russia and China hoaxed you with the coronavirus and are trying to turn all your kids into faggots – and not just faggots, but mutilated faggots. It’s the same people.

Anyone who considers themselves right-wing and then sides with the US government against Russia and China is simply stupid. It is not even coherent that you would be against child trannies but be for overthrowing Russia and China. It’s all the same people.

Honestly, anyone who talks about Russia or China as a threat is a shill and a liar, or so stupid as to be worse than a liar. Every alleged foreign threat is simply a distraction from the real threat, which is coming from our own government.

“Yeah, these people are trying to cut my toddler son’s dick off, but I support them taking over the world because Ukraine and Taiwan are democracy countries” – seriously, just kill yourself.