The big lie (German: große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth, used especially as a propaganda technique.[1][2] The German expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his book Mein Kampf (1925), to describe the use of a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." Hitler claimed that the technique had been used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist political leader in the Weimar Republic.

According to historian Jeffrey Herf, the Nazis used the idea of the original big lie to turn sentiment against Jews and justify the Holocaust. Herf maintains that Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Party actually used the big lie technique that they described – and that they used it to turn long-standing antisemitism in Europe into mass murder. Herf further argues that the Nazis' big lie was their depiction of Germany as an innocent, besieged land striking back at "international Jewry", which the Nazis blamed for starting World War I. Nazi propaganda repeatedly claimed that Jews held power behind the scenes in Britain, Russia, and the United States. It further spread claims that the Jews had begun a war of extermination against Germany, and used these to assert that Germany had a right to annihilate the Jews in self-defense.

Jill Abahsain (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Minnesota's 7th Congressional District. She is on the ballot in the Democratic primary on August 9, 2022.

President Biden has a new headache: He can't avoid the debate over whether the U.S. is in a recession, but if he dwells on it, he may hasten the very slowdown he's desperate to avoid...

In economics, psychology matters. If the country and consumers believe we're in a recession — even if we technically aren't — the economy will eventually slow down, turning Biden's inflation problem into a potential stagflation nightmare.

Presidents can't talk their way out of an economic downturn, but they do have a unique ability to set the general tone of the country. Biden, like his predecessors, likes to accentuate positive economic data.
But with a 9.1% inflation rate and potentially two quarters of negative GDP growth, Biden can’t push the glass-half-full argument too far. His initial sanguine call on inflation — insisting it would be short-term — has already eroded some of his credibility.
Driving the news: On Thursday, the Commerce Department will release the initial GDP numbers for the second quarter of 2022, with economists expecting a 0.5% increase. Still, there are plenty of worrying signs: the Atlanta Fed’s "nowcast" model suggests GDP growth will come in at -1.6%.

Biden officials have been pre-butting the numbers and challenging the yeoman's definition that a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth, as Axios' Neil Irwin reported last week. "Certainly, in terms of the technical definition, it is not a recession," Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council, said on CNN on Monday morning.
What they're saying: Biden on Monday again downplayed the recession risk...

"My hope is we go from this rapid growth to steady growth and so we'll see some coming down," he said.
"But I don't think, God willing, we're going to see a recession," he said. "I'll be surprised."

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Eric Lander, the top White House scientist who recently resigned amid accusations of workplace bullying, held on to large quantities of stock in COVID-19 vaccine-maker BioNTech while promoting vaccinations without disclosing his stake.

Lander had 90 days from his confirmation in May 2021 to divest his stocks, and, while he unloaded the bulk of them in June, he waited to sell the BioNTech shares, worth $500,000 to $1 million, until Aug. 5, according to Politico. BioNTech, with partner company Pfizer, developed the first authorized vaccine against COVID-19. By the time Lander sold off the remaining BioNTech shares, they were priced at $404.92 a share, an increase of more than $50 from two days prior…

Biden’s Interests in BURISMA ENERGY COMPANY, and a possible Russian invasion into the Ukraine by Putin, are set on an imminent course to possible collision…

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After a productive and totally #censored conversation about Covd-19 that got us barred from #YouTube for two weeks, Dylan [ @Irida.tv ] and I, delve into an hour-long discussion on man’s uncivil #history with man, and the evolution (or culmination) of #Slavery in the United States…

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Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from a US talk show after saying the Holocaust involved "two groups of white people". ABC News said Goldberg would be off-air for two weeks after her "wrong and hurtful comments". The actress and TV personality said on ABC's The View that the Nazi genocide of the Jews was "not about race"...