Biden once again saving the world from the Republican's disastrous trickle down economics, Trump Recession and Trumpflation.

https://www.averyjournal.com/news/national/robust-us-has-helped-improve-global-economic-outlook-imf-chief-says/article_df341cf4-175d-599d-9951-79ea4bb8d9a2.html

Strong growth in the United States has helped to lift the outlook for the world economy, but more needs to be done to stem a slide in productivity, the head of the IMF said Thursday.

"Global growth is marginally stronger on account of robust activity in the United States and in many emerging markets economies," International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva told reporters in prepared remarks.

The U.S. economy grew by a robust 2.5 percent last year, according to the US Commerce Department, far outstripping most other advanced economies.

"Robust household consumption and business investment, and an easing of supply chain problems helped," Georgieva added. "And inflation is going down, somewhat faster than previously expected."

She spoke just a few days before the IMF-World Bank spring meetings of world financial leaders in Washington, one of two such gatherings hosted each year by the international financial institutions.

Her remarks suggest the IMF now expects the world economy to grow faster than it predicted in January, when it forecast global growth to rise by 3.1 percent in 2024, and 3.2 percent in 2025.

"It is tempting to breathe a sigh of relief. We have avoided a global recession and a period of stagflation -- as some had predicted," Georgieva said. "But there are still plenty of things to worry about."

Meanwhile Trump is still in favor of Israeli war crimes

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/14/biden-netanyahu-iran-israel-us-wont-support

President Biden told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call on Saturday that the U.S. will oppose any Israeli counterattack against Iran, a senior White House official told Axios.

Why it matters: Biden and his senior advisers are highly concerned an Israeli response to Iran's attack on Israel would lead to a regional war with catastrophic consequences, U.S. officials said.

>Iran launched attack drones and missiles against Israel on Saturday night local time in retaliation for an airstrike in Syria that killed a top Iranian general.
>"More than 200 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles were fired from Iran," IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said. Most of the threats were intercepted outside of Israeli airspace, he said.
>A U.S. defense official earlier said U.S. forces in the region shot down Iranian-launched drones targeting Israel.

Behind the scenes: Biden told Netanyahu the joint defensive efforts by Israel, the U.S. and other countries in the region led to the failure of the Iranian attack, according to the White House official.

> "You got a win. Take the win," Biden told Netanyahu, according to the official.
>The official said that when Biden told Netanyahu that the U.S. will not participate in any offensive operations against Iran and will not support such operations, Netanyahu said he understood.
>U.S. Secretary of State Lloyd Austin spoke on Saturday with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant and asked that Israel notify the U.S. ahead of any response against Iran, a senior Israeli official said.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-arizona-biden-trump-presidential-election-11fe3cecb65d2365192273ebac2e9ed1
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona was already expected to be one of the most closely contested states in November’s U.S. presidential election. But a ruling this week instituting a near-total abortion ban supercharged the state’s role, transforming it into perhaps the nation’s most critical battleground.

This Sunbelt state with a fierce independent streak has long been at the forefront of the nation’s immigration debate due to its 378-mile border with Mexico and its large Hispanic and immigrant populations. It now moves to the center of the national debate over reproductive rights after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a federally guaranteed right to abortion.

Abortion and immigration have been two of this year’s biggest political issues. No battleground state has been affected more directly by both than Arizona.

“Do not underestimate this,” Democratic pollster John Anzalone, who polls for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, said of the Arizona abortion ruling. “It’s dynamic-changing.”

Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump are expected to fight hard to win Arizona after Biden carried the state four years ago by less than 11,000 votes.

In addition to the presidency, the U.S. Senate majority may be decided by the state’s high-profile contest between Republican Kari Lake and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego in the race to replace retiring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent who caucuses with Democrats.

The state Supreme Court’s ruling reviving an abortion ban passed in 1864 also added rocket fuel to Democrats’ push to add a question to the November ballot asking voters to approve a constitutional amendment protecting the right to abortion until viability, when a fetus could survive outside the womb. Later abortions would be allowed to save the woman’s life or protect her physical or mental health.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/truth-social-investors-try-to-keep-hope-alive-as-stock-tanks

Donald Trump’s acolytes gathered at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday evening to celebrate the public listing of his social media firm, even as the company’s stock continued to crater. Under the Palm Beach sky, right-wing radio host Sebastian Gorka sucked on a cigar, actor Jon Voight posed for photos, and country singer turned Bible salesman Lee Greenwood belted his runaway hit “God Bless the USA.” At the end of the song, he and the former president saluted.

In a speech, Trump encouraged investors to keep calm. “We have over $200 million dollars in cash, which is very liquid,” he said, according to a reporter from Right Side Broadcasting Network in attendance.

On Trump’s social media site, Truth Social, the mood is less ebullient. “Man I really thought we were gonna see a jump today. Especially after that party last night. There is always tomorrow,” one user lamented on Thursday morning.

“Doesn’t it seem strange that the price goes down steadily every day? Haven’t seen a green day for a while,” wondered another.

Shares of Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, have fallen more than 50 percent since late March, as the company’s dire financial position has become more clear. Last year, it brought in just $4.1 million in revenue and posted a $58.2 million loss.

Even after tanking, however, the business is still worth more than $4 billion on paper—a number that defies normal valuation metrics. Trump loyalists have helped keep the stock afloat as a way to financially support him, though TMTG remains heavily shorted by investors who believe its shares will continue to fall.

On Truth Social, retail investors are encouraging each other to keep the faith. “When the whole world is set on ruining you with everything that they have got, it’s a good sign that you are likely on the right side of things,” one person wrote on Thursday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/nobody-wants-to-move-seniors-living-on-fixed-incomes-say-they-re-being-priced-out-of-a-california-mobile-home-park-due-to-unaffordable-rent-hikes/ar-BB1lvVPs?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=789f346e3bd8435db39df713fc210a1c&ei=24

Just checked, and yup, Ukraine is still losing the war. They haven't taken shit back, they lost an additional city, and Russia destroyed Trypilska, a power plant in kyiv, one of the largest power plants in all of Europe and maybe the largest one in Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/13/ukraine-air-defences-overwhelmed-as-russia-pounds-power-stations
Ukraine air defences overwhelmed as Russia pounds power stations
Kyiv running short of missile defence systems while US military aid dries up
Ukraine’s air defences are being overwhelmed by concentrated waves of Russian bombing aimed at its power stations, acknowledged a senior presidential adviser after the destruction of an entire plant on Thursday.

Mykhailo Podolyak said Moscow was adopting new tactics of attacking power stations with up to “10 or 12 missiles at a time”, bypassing already stretched Patriot and other missile shields.

“The system is overloaded,” Podolyak said in an interview. “Now we have to see whether we can keep the system running, whether we need more air defence systems, especially against [hypersonic] ballistic missiles, and whether we can restore the destroyed facilities.”

On Thursday, Trypilska, a coal and gas fired plant south of Kyiv, was destroyed after Russian bombing caused fire to break out in the turbine hall, according to its operator, Centrenergo.

The energy company said that while no staff were killed, it had lost 100% of its generating capacity. “The scale of destruction is terrifying,” said its chair, Andriy Gota. The attack came three weeks after the same company lost the Zmiiv power station to Russian bombing near the city of Kharkiv

People who lived near the fossil fuel plant described the site being hit by multiple missile strikes shortly before 5am on Thursday, causing a fire that took several hours to put out, leaving the main building a charred ruin overlooking a lake near the country’s central Dnipro River.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40026698
The better solution would be to just add flags. scams and spam stop the second you can see you are talking to an indian. /news/ should have flags too to cut down on the spam. anyone who disagrees is literally a shill.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/baltimore-dei-mayor-criticism-brandon-scott_n_6604e6ebe4b03f25dbfd765f

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D) responded to some of the bizarre criticisms coming from conservatives following the cargo ship-induced collapse of the city’s Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning by saying the term DEI—when applied derogatorily to him—means “duly elected incumbent.”

On MSNBC’s The Reid Out, host Joy Reid prefaced her interview with Scott, who is Black, by calling attention to a tweet describing Scott as “Baltimore’s DEI mayor.” That post, which references the acronym that stands for diversity, equity and inclusion, has generated more than 25 million views, along with a clarifying community note on Twitter.

“I cannot believe I have to say this,” Reid began. “Brandon Scott was elected with 70 percent of the vote in 2020 in a city that is 61 percent Black. So by right-wing logic, a ‘diversity hire’ would have been a white man.”

Reid then asked Scott if he wanted to address the “tomfoolery” of those attacking him “for having the nerve to be Black and also a mayor.” He obliged.

“I know, and we all know, and you know very well that Black men and young Black men in particular have been the bogeyman for those who are racist and think that only straight, wealthy white men should have a say in anything,” Scott said. “We’ve been the bogeyman for them since the first day they brought us to this country. And what they mean by DEI, in my opinion, is Duly Elected Incumbent.”

Scott easily won Baltimore’s mayoral race four years ago, with the next closest candidate, an independent, acquiring just 20 percent of the vote. In the Democratic primary earlier that year, Scott had edged out the city’s scandal-plagued former mayor, Sheila Dixon. Scott is running for re-election in November, while Dixon is again mounting a bid.

Scott added that for his critics, ‘DEI’ is a euphemism.

Moroccan woman sets fire to Chinese boyfriend's house in Lagos

https://titoyin.com/f/moroccan-lady-set-her-chinese-boyfriends-house-on-fire-in-lagos
https://www.africaflavour.com.ng/2024/04/moroccan-woman-sets-fire-to-chinese.html

Police officers from the Lagos State Police Command arrested a Moroccan woman, Asmaa, 21, on Saturday, March 30th, for allegedly breaking into the house of her Chinese boyfriend, Shunxue, 41, in Oregun, Ikeja State. did. A fire had broken out.
A fire was discovered in a nearby building and the police were called. According to preliminary investigations, Asmar and Shunxue got into an argument and in a fit of rage, she allegedly set the house on fire while her boyfriend and two others were still inside.
During her interrogation, Asmar said Shunshwe took her to Nigeria and held her captive in her home for six months. She explained that he just wanted to sleep with her and that he didn't want her to work. ``He used me for six months and he doesn't want to apply for a visa for me.'' He doesn't want me to work or make money. He just wants me to sit at home. If I asked him to buy a ticket, he would say no. He wants me to stay home and free from sex for 6 months. Just sit at home and wait for him to come back from work,” said a disappointed Asma.
He said Asmar was frustrated by Shunxue's actions and wanted to commit suicide, so he set the house on fire.
Fortunately, no lives were lost in this incident. The suspect is currently in police custody along with other persons involved in the incident.
Watch videos of the couple explaining what happened below

The Republican funded group could not find a candidate who was willing to go down in history as the individual who acted as a spoiler for Joe Biden and help reinstall Donald Trump as president and have his new fascist regime end US Democracy.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4575052-no-labels-party-passes-2024-election-candidate/

The bipartisan group No Labels won’t put forward a third-party presidential ticket after failing to find a candidate.

“Today, No Labels is ending our effort to put forth a Unity ticket in the 2024 presidential election,” the group said in a release Thursday.

“No Labels has always said we would only offer our ballot line to a ticket if we could identify candidates with a credible path to winning the White House. No such candidates emerged, so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down.”

The Wall Street Journal first broke the news Thursday of No Labels’s plans.

One of this cycle’s biggest questions was whether No Labels would move forward with a third-party ticket in reaction to the unpopularity of President Biden and former President Trump.

Leaders floated former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) as possible candidates before running through a list that grew narrower as more names fell off.

Last month, the group blew past its own deadline to give an update about its strategy, extending it to mid-April. And last week, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joined a lengthy list of would-be recruits who preemptively turned down the position.

Democrats were keeping close tabs on No Labels as they devote more resources and targeted focus to third-party candidacies they deem “spoilers.” But as weeks and months passed with no candidate, some recalibrated to concentrate on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose choice of an ultra-wealthy running mate in Nicole Shanahan does not quell concerns of his potential longevity in the race.