A steady trickle of media reports about shortages in food, energy and supplies, and increases in prices across the board, has recently become more of a gushing leak - a leak that threatens serious economic consequences for people everywhere. On this NewsReal, Joe and Niall take stock of such reports, track their likely origin to government lockdowns, and warn that things may come to a head very soon. In going along with officials' response to the pandemic, people traded temporary loss of freedom for continued prosperity. Ironically, both are now being lost... ** Podcast commences at 00:02:09 ** NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978/ Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid Direct contact: email sott (at) sott (dot) net

Also on this week's NewsReal, the stand-off at the Poland-Belarus border intensifies. Minsk accuses Warsaw of being heartless towards thousands of freezing-cold refugees from war-torn countries. Warsaw accuses Minsk of engaging in 'Directed Mass Migration'. London and Washington accuse Moscow of causing the migrant crisis and using it to 'wage hybrid war on the free world and destabilize Europe'. And Moscow accuses them back of first destabilizing the Middle East. Who's right and who's wrong?!

State media adverts currently running in the US and UK are raising awareness about myocarditis in children. What on Earth could this mean? THE Queen is still dead. Have YOU paid your respects yet? Notice #MAGACommunism trending on Twitter this week? Trump certainly did! But it's just LARPing, surely? Meanwhile in the United States of Europe, Ursula Von Der Leyen has all but crowned herself Queen Europa, decreeing phenomenal new centralized powers for Eurocrats to put 500 million people who never voted for them on an 'eat-or-heat' diet. But the main topic Joe and Niall address in this week's NewsReal [commencing at 1:09:00] is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit and 'coincidental' border skirmishes in Central Asia. Right on the eve of this major pan-Asian event - representing half the world's population - in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, border clashes flared up between Azerbaijan and Armenia, followed almost immediately by clashes between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. And this while the leaders of all four countries were present as full or partial SCO members in Uzbekistan. Is a hidden hand poking around in Central Asia? NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978 Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid Show Notes: https://www.sott.net/article/472256-NewsReal-Central-Asian-Border-Skirmishes-Flare-During-SCO-Summit

In this week's NewsReal, Joe and Niall discuss the almighty tensions building between the US and Russia over Ukraine, explaining that the key to understanding 'why this, and why now?' lies in American paranoia about increasing Russian economic and ideological influence in Europe as a whole. The Americans and the British have been pumping weapons and 'advisors' into Ukraine for the last seven years, apparently with a view to helping Kiev recapture' the breakaway Donbass republics and Crimea, thereby forcing a military response from Russia, and providing the 'justification' the Anglo-Americans seek to, effectively, ban Russia from global trade - with disastrous economic ramifications for Europe and beyond. Will war break out in some form? It's possible, and it depends on just how far beyond the pale the US regime has become. The greater threat to us all, however, is the global economic FUBAR that will result from the US regime pulling what amounts to a 'financial Samson Option' that - it hopes - will 'reset' the world back to 1945, when the USA stood tall amid an economic wasteland... NewsReal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsReal-With-Joe-Niall-100490478966978/ Joe Quinn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeQuinnSOTT Niall Bradley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niall_Diarmuid Show Notes: https://www.sott.net/article/463539-NewsReal-Ukraine-Gambit-US-Attempting-to-Destroy-Russia