Danger Ahead: Odds of a U.S. Recession Continues to Climb Higher

Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi stated that he believes that there is about a 35 percent chance that the country will fall into a recession in the next two years.

With year-over-year inflation sitting at a four-decade high of 8.5 percent and an increasingly hawkish Federal Reserve seeking to raise interest rates more aggressively, some notable economists and financial experts are now suggesting that the United States will eventually enter into a recession.

Originally @ https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/danger-ahead-odds-us-recession-continues-climb-higher-201997

A Russian soldier somewhere in Ukraine

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/gramotyyaroslava/4131

Nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest

The Dutch newspaper NRC publish an interview with Ukrainian refugees in Russia "Chechens saved our lives in Mariupol"

Originally @ https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/04/24/tsjetsjenen-hebben-ons-leven-gered-in-marioepol-a4117153

Brian Berletic, a geopolitical analyst and a former soldier of US Marine Corps gives insights into the so called Bucha "massacre."

He points out the faults of The Guardian narrative, that is blatantly lying about what was actually a Ukrainian punitive operation against so called "collaborators"

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/rasstrelny/13019

The mendacity in western policies

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/botcharov/1292

After yesterday's barking of Mr. Hippy at the Russian Defence Ministry and Ministry’s punch back, The Times comes out with the typical headline: Why us?

Uniper, a German company, allowed gas payment in rubles and believes that it does not contradict sanctions.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/verysexydasha/5482

Children in Mariupol laughing and having fun.

Filmed by a Russian soldier.

"The terrorist attack in Tiraspol was carried out by three unidentified persons who arrived from the territory of Ukraine, other terrorist attacks are related to this", social media say.

"The terrorist attack was carried out by three not yet identified persons. At 17:15 they drove through the field, ignoring checkpoints, from the territory of Ukraine to the Novovladimivka area, 8 km north of Tiraspol. At about 18:00 they left for the territory of Ukraine using the same route," @ rian_ru reports, citing a source in the Transnistrian administration.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/rusputnikmd/22686

Macron was pelted with tomatoes during a trip to Cergy (Ile-de-France)

Footage shows security staff rushing to shield the French president as fruits rain down on his entourage during market visit.

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/smotri_media/13254

People are singing all together Katyusha song, greeting the war veteran at the railway station in Ryazan

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/surf_noise1/11787

Ukrainian activist's POV: Five minutes ago you were in tears on European streets, calling to stop Russia's "aggression" and covered in fake blood, and now you are celebrating

No, no hypocrisy at all.

MOSCOW, April 27. /TASS/. Russia and the US exchanged convicts Trevor Reed and Konstantin Yaroshenko Wednesday, Russian Foreign Ministry told TASS.

"As a result of the long negotiations process, US citizen Trevor Rowdy Reed, previously convicted in the Russian Federation, was exchanged on April 27, 2022 for Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko, sentenced to 20 years in prison by an American court in 2010," the Ministry said.

Konstantin Yaroshenko is the owner of Rostavia (established in 1998). On May 28, 2010, he was arrested in Liberia by US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in cooperation with local police, and was later covertly transported to the US. This was the first time a Russian citizen was kidnapped by US intelligence agencies in a third country, followed by a relocation to the US. He was accused of organizing an international cocaine smuggling ring.

US student Trevor Reed was convicted in Russia for assaulting policemen. In August, 2019, he attacked policemen who arrived after local residents complained about an intoxicated man who started a quarrel with several women. When he was being transported to a police station in a car, Reed attacked the driver and his partner. The US citizen denied his guilt.

A Moscow court found him guilty of violence against a representative of the authority and sentenced him to 9 years in penal colony and a fine of 300,000 rubles in favor of the policemen. Later, Moscow City Court upheld the ruling.

Originally @ https://tass.com/society/1444065

Vladimir Putin called the ban of athletes from Russia and Belarus from the Paralympics-2022 a violation of the principles of sports and the universal declaration of human rights. He stressed that the banishment is connected to sanctions for purely political reasons.

Mr. Putin also called absurd the fact that swimmer Rylov was banned from the competition because of his presence at the concert on the anniversary of the unification of Russia and Crimea in Luzhniki.

Nevertheless, the Russian Federation will continue to hold open sports competitions within the country and will be happy to receive everyone who stands for the ideals of sports.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/glavpolit/12455

MOSCOW, April 27. /TASS/. The United States’ decision to supply to Ukraine a batch of helicopters of Russian manufacture that were originally meant for Afghanistan is a crude violation of international law and Russian-US contracts, the federal service for military-technical cooperation FSVTS said on Wednesday.

"The United States’ arbitrary decision to re-export the "Afghan" helicopters to Ukraine is a crude violation of the basics of international law and Russian-US contractual documents," the service said.

The FSVTS expressed protest against any illegal handover to Ukraine or other countries any weapons or military equipment of Russian (or Soviet) manufacture including the helicopters that the Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport provided under a major contract with the Pentagon concluded back in 2011.

"This contract and the corresponding end user certificates testify that the helicopters are to be handed by the American side to the armed forces of Afghanistan and prohibited from re-export or transfer to any third country other than the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan without Russia’s consent," the FSVTS said.

Originally @ https://tass.com/world/1444397