Mortgage costs have hit their highest level in 23 years under Joe Biden, with prospective buyers now having to submit to an average rate of 7.5 percent for a 30-year home loan, up from 7.3 percent just last week and an average of 6.7 percent last year.
The rate rise puts the archetypal house and white picket fence so associated with the old-fashioned notion of the American Dream further out of reach for many young Americans, who are becoming homeowners progressively later in life, or not at all.
Home ownerships are falling across the country, with Virginia currently the worst-impacted U.S. state, with an 8.8 percent drop. North Dakota, North Carolina, Connecticut, Georgia, and Ohio have also been hit hard, seeing drops of 7.3 to 7.5 percent.
People now have to be able to put up over $2,000 a month to cover their mortgage costs in 31 states, with Hawaii the most expensive of all with costs over $5,000 a month.
Americans who give up on their home ownership dreams in favor of renting are scarcely better off, with the average single-family home costing at least $1,900 a month.
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Mortgage costs have hit their highest level in 23 years under Joe Biden, with prospective buyers now having to submit to an average rate of 7.5 percent for a 30-year home loan, up from 7.3 percent just last week and an average of 6.7 percent last year.
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Former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called for a “backlash” against what she calls “extremists” in the House GOP after Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) ouster from leadership. A group of eight Republicans sided with House Democrats on Tuesday in the vote to remove McCarthy as speaker.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) spearheaded the vote, with Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) the main contenders to take over the speakership.
“They do not represent a majority of even the Republican Party,” Clinton insisted. “When you look at the extremists in the House, they certainly don’t represent a majority of the country… Somebody has to stand up and say, ‘Enough!’
“At some point, there needs to be a backlash against the control that this small group of extremists have,” she demanded. “And I don’t know who will lead that, but let’s hope whoever becomes the new speaker will.”
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Former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called for a "backlash" against what she calls "extremists" in the House GOP after Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) ouster from leadership. A group of eight Republicans sided with House Democrats on Tuesday in the vote to remove McCarthy as speaker.
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Tino Chrupalla, a member of the German parliament and co-chairman of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), was rushed to intensive care after being reportedly “stabbed with a syringe” at a political event in Ingolstadt on Wednesday afternoon.
Chrupalla – who only last week was “debanked” – was taken to hospital after he reportedly went into an anaphylactic shock just moments before he was due to give a speech.
It is believed upon feeling sick, Chrupalla pointed to two men in the crowd who were subsequently arrested, though many details of the attack remain unclear. The Bavarian police have opened an investigation into the incident.
The attack comes just hours after the AfD’s other co-chairman, Alice Weidel, was forced into hiding with her family after authorities found credible evidence of a planned assassination attempt on her life. Weidel was due to give a speech at an AfD event celebrating the German Day of Unity on Tuesday and instead spoke via a video message.
There have been a number of attacks on AfD politicians in recent months, with the Bavarian-based party member Andrea Jurca receiving two black eyes and being forced to walk on crutches after a random attack in August. The party’s deputy leader, Beatrix von Storch, was similarly attacked after she was smeared with dog faeces while giving a talk last month.
Meanwhile, the German establishment’s anti-AfD rhetoric is becoming increasingly inflammatory, with multiple senior politicians and lawmakers attempting to ban the party.
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Tino Chrupalla, a member of the German parliament and co-chairman of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), was rushed to intensive care after being reportedly "stabbed with a syringe" at a political event in Ingolstadt on Wednesday afternoon.
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A who’s who of some of the most powerful people in media dined alongside Democrat politicians on Wednesday night to “celebrate” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. The rationale for which they were celebrating Jean-Pierre, also present, is unclear. The group included at least two major corporate media network heads: Rashida Jones, president of MSNBC and Kim Godwin, president of ABC.
Also in attendance were NBC’s chief Washington correspondent Andrea Mitchell, Hakim Jeffries chief of staff Tasia Jackson, far-Left MSNBC host Joy Reid, Biden White House deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon, CNN political correspondent Kasie Hunt, CBS News producer Shawna Thomas, CBS’s Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, Obama advisor Stephanie Cutter, radical LGBTQ Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson, and Chanelle Hardy who serves as the Head of Civil Rights at Google.
With public trust in the media near a record low, the dinner’s guest list certainly further fuels concerns about partisanship in corporate media. While senior White House staff and major media figures might rub elbows at galas and events like the White House Correspondents Dinner, having so many present at an intimate – yet nondescript – dinner for a White House press secretary is more unusual.
The attendance of Chanelle Hardy, who serves in senior management at tech-and-internet-giant Google, at a dinner with at least two senior White House staffers raises ethical concerns as well. Google is being sued by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice for violating U.S. anti-trust laws.
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A who's who of some of the most powerful people in media dined alongside Democrat politicians on Wednesday night to "celebrate" White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. The rationale for which they were celebrating Jean-Pierre, also present, is unclear. The group included at least two major corporate media network heads: Rashida Jones, president of MSNBC and Kim Godwin, president of ABC.
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Hotel reservations for the highly-anticipated Army-Navy game in Foxboro, Massachusetts, many booked by veterans, have been canceled in Democrat-dominated Massachusetts to make way for illegal aliens.
Travel agents report their clients are being told they will not be allowed to use the rooms they have booked because hotels owned by Giri Hotel Management have canceled them in order to fulfill state contracts to house migrants, drawn up in response to right-to-shelter laws.
“I have never had a hotel take rooms back and give me nothing. They sent out cancellations and walked away,” said one travel agent. “Some people have decided not to go [to the Army-Navy game], and others [had to find] space in Boston.”
Such behavior has long been common in the United Kingdom, where an ever-increasing flood of illegal aliens crossing the English Channel in small boats has resulted in dozens of hotels all over the country being booked out by government contractors to accommodate them, at a cost of $10 million a day.
Weddings and other functions are often cancelled after hoteliers are offered these lucrative bookings, with hotel staff also being abruptly fired so the government contractors can bring in their own people.
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Hotel reservations for the highly-anticipated Army-Navy game in Foxboro, Massachusetts, many booked by veterans, have been canceled in Democrat-dominated Massachusetts to make way for illegal aliens.
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Support for arming and funding Ukraine in another seemingly endless war is collapsing, with only 41 percent of respondents to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll agreeing that America “should provide weapons to Ukraine”.
Support for U.S. participation in the Ukraine war is falling among supporters of both major political parties. Among Democrats, 52 percent support arming Ukraine, but this is down from 61 percent as recently as May. Among Republicans, support for arming Ukraine stands at just 35 percent, down from 39 percent.
An outright majority of Republicans, 56 percent, believe the Ukraine war is “none of our business and we should not interfere,” as do more than a third of Democrats.
The fall in support for the war follows the apparent failure of a large-scale Ukrainian counter-offensive, involving modern Wester weapons and Western-trained forces, appearing to fail, with no significant breakthroughs anywhere along the front as the rainy season approaches.
Russian forces have in fact gained more territory than they have lost in 2023, capturing 331 square miles since January to Ukraine’s 143.
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Support for arming and funding Ukraine in another seemingly endless war is collapsing, with only 41 percent of respondents to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll agreeing that America "should provide weapons to Ukraine".
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Ukraine’s accession to the European Union (EU) would cost the bloc a whopping €186 billion ($195 billion) over seven years and require root and branch reform of the entire union, according to an internal note of the Council of the EU.
The document claims all member states would have to pay more into the EU and receive less upon Ukraine‘s incorporation, with many current net receivers forced to become net contributors. Germany, France, and the Netherlands would be required to “significant[ly] increase” their contributions as wealthier nations.
Kiev would instantly qualify for €61 billion ($64 billion) from the EU’s Cohesion Fund – allocated to many of the poorer member states to improve their infrastructure – which would render nine members, including the Czech Republic, Estonia, and Slovenia, ineligible for the funding.
It would also receive €96.5 billion ($101.5 billion) from the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, which would cut current farming subsidies given to members by 20 percent, alongside several other projects costing tens of billions.
The estimates come as the EU discusses expansion further east into Ukraine as well as eight other states, such as Moldova, Georgia, and six Balkan countries. The total cost of incorporating all nine nations would be around €250 billion ($262.9 billion). There was no consideration given to Turkey’s potential membership.
“Whilst for several policies, opportunities may outweigh the costs/risks, and enlargement will bring benefits to the current member states, enlargement will also have far-reaching impacts on the EU budget,” the document states.
Meanwhile, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that plans for Ukraine’s accession are currently “going nowhere,” highlighting Ukraine’s long-standing oppression of its Hungarian minority as a key factor.
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Ukraine's accession to the European Union (EU) would cost the bloc a whopping €186 billion ($195 billion) over seven years and require root and branch reform of the entire union, according to an internal note of the Council of the EU.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is weaponizing its resources to monitor supporters of former President Donald Trump, even creating a “distinct category of domestic violent terrorists” to target MAGA loyalists based on their political views.
After January 6th, the FBI changed its definition of “anti-government, anti-authority violent extremism,” known as AGAAVE from the attempt to further “ideological agendas” to “furtherance of political and/or social agendas,” which allowed Trump supporters to be labeled a potential domestic terrorist threat due to their politics alone.
The FBI then went further by creating AGAAVE-other to target those considered a threat but did not fall within the definition of its anarchist, militia, or Sovereign Citizen groups. The alteration was implemented without a formal announcement in October 2022 and was given the vague definition of “domestic violent extremists who cite anti-government or anti-authority motivations for violence or criminal activity not otherwise defined…”
Although the FBI does not specifically mention MAGA in its definition, government insiders accept the category predominantly targets Trump’s base. “[I]n practical terms, it refers to MAGA, though the carefully constructed language is wholly nonpartisan,” stated an anonymous FBI officer.
The definition is so broad that a senior intelligence officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said they were unsure whether it applied to a few thousand proud boys or 30 percent of the country’s electorate. “I don’t know the answer, and I can assure you the answer isn’t in any secret intelligence that the government possesses,” the officer explains.
The number of FBI domestic violent extremism investigations is skyrocketing as a result, with approximately 2,700 ongoing cases at the end of 2022: double that of spring 2020. The total number of domestic terrorism investigations is now more than 9,000, with the main target being Trump supporters.
The FBI’s clamp down on the MAGA movement is not isolated; the Department of Homeland Security and the White House are similarly working to quash it. Christopher Costa, a former White House head of counterterrorism, claims the government’s overriding aim is to focus the weight of the law on the anti-government terrorist threat from, what he calls, “a small percentage of misguided fellow Americans.”
Another senior intelligence official describes the general contempt in and around Washington for Trump and his supporters going into the 2024 presidential election: “Trump’s army constitutes the greatest threat of violence domestically… politically… that’s the reality and the problem set.”
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is weaponizing its resources to monitor supporters of former President Donald Trump, even creating a "distinct category of domestic violent terrorists" to target MAGA loyalists based on their political views.
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Adolescents are going to Planned Parenthood to get hormone replacement drugs in an effort to avoid the often months-long consultations and safeguards implemented by specialist and strongly regulated clinics.
Planned Parenthood has become one of the fastest-growing and largest hormone providers across the United States as the organization – which is more commonly known for assisting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of unborn babies every year – is willing to dish out the cross-sex hormones within 30 minutes of the first consultation. The only requirement for a teenager is a mere discussion about the potential side effects of the drugs.
Most specialist clinics, however, often undertake rigorous and thorough assessments that take up to a year to complete, with even that timeframe becoming longer due to the ever-increasing public scrutiny and attention surrounding the issue.
As a result, Planned Parenthood affiliates in Portland saw an increase of roughly 400 percent in cases involving hormone or transgender treatment between 2021 and 2022. Affiliates in Ohio reported an over 500 percent increase. One of the organization’s Knoxville-based clinics even admitted that around one-fifth of its patients in 2021 demanded hormone therapy.
One mother, whose autistic son was prescribed hormones within minutes of his first visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Jersey, argued, “It’s criminal what Planned Parenthoods all over the country are doing… And most people have no idea this is happening.”
Notably, a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry earlier this year found that transgender surgery fails to reduce the demand for mental health services.
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Adolescents are going to Planned Parenthood to get hormone replacement drugs in an effort to avoid the often months-long consultations and safeguards implemented by specialist and strongly regulated clinics.
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Only three percent of the UK’s illegal boat migrants – 1,297 people out of 35,000 (with the latter figure based on an estimated number of annual crossings) – will be removed from the country once the “Conservative” Party’s Illegal Migration Act comes into force in January next year, according to a report published this week.
The Act states that illegal migrants may only be removed to one of a number of “safe countr[ies]” in which their “life and liberty” are not threatened, including the 27 European Union Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, or Albania, among others.
Yet, the vast majority of those arriving in the UK by boat are from countries considered unsafe, such as Afghanistan, Iran, Eritrea, Sudan, and bizarrely India, meaning they cannot be removed and will be “stuck in a permanent limbo,” without the government able to do anything about it while costing up to £9.6bn ($11.5 billion) over the next three years.
British taxpayers are currently paying a staggering $10 million per day to house illegal migrants, with that figure destined to increase as more migrants arrive.
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Only three percent of the UK's illegal boat migrants – 1,297 people out of 35,000 (with the latter figure based on an estimated number of annual crossings) – will be removed from the country once the "Conservative" Party's Illegal Migration Act comes into force in January next year, according to a report published this week.
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