by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
We needed a moment like this. Needless to say, the past several years have not been easy for humanity. 2020 was worse than 2019, and then 2021 was worse than 2020, and then 2022 was worse than 2021. Unfortunately, 2023 is going to be significantly worse than 2022 was. But for a few glorious hours on Sunday we were able to forget about our troubles for a while. The greatest World Cup final ever to be played was watched by more people than any other television program in the history of the world, and it all came down to the very end. When Gonzalo Montiel’s penalty kick hit the back of the net, shouts of exultation erupted literally all over the world.
Gov’t claims people speaking out against Covid-19 lockdowns have been “radicalized”
– Govt supported coronavirus gain-of-function research from Ukraine to Wuhan, China
This U.S. Government support for Ukraine to retake Crimea is part of a plan by U.S. President Barack Obama, in which he sidelined his Secretary of State John Kerry and backed Kerry’s subordinate Victoria Nuland when she promised the then Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that he would continue to enjoy U.S. backing if he expanded his civil war against the breakaway (formerly Ukrainian) region of Donbass so as to invade also Crimea, which had broken away from Ukraine earlier — less than a month after 
