July, 2020, Page 278

Italy’s police seize Daesh-made drugs worth one billion euros

The police called it the biggest seizure of such drugs in the world.

Stocks Soar Back Into Green On Yet Another Vaccine Headline

Stocks Soar Back Into Green On Yet Another Vaccine Headline Tyler Durden Wed, 07/01/2020 – 09:05 Another day, another “positive” vaccine headline (this time from Pfizer) and the algos can’t buy stocks fast enough. Statnews (yes, them again) report that: “An experimental Covid-19 vaccine being developed by the drug giant Pfizer and the biotech firm […]

Sweden Expands QE By 66%

Sweden Expands QE By 66% Tyler Durden Wed, 07/01/2020 – 09:02 With central banks having officially taken over capital markets, they are finding it impossible to not only walk away but to even slow down the rate of intervention. This morning, Sweden’s Riksbank announced it would increase the size of its asset purchase program, i.e., […]

Iran’s gas exports to Turkey resume after pipeline repairs

Iran says gas export to Turkey has resumed after Ankara finishes repairs on a damaged pipeline.

Australia Places 300k Under Lockdown As Global Cases Near 10.5 Million: Live Updates

Australia Places 300k Under Lockdown As Global Cases Near 10.5 Million: Live Updates Tyler Durden Wed, 07/01/2020 – 08:52 Summary: US reported 48k+ new cases yesterday Australia locks down 300k in Victoria Brazil imposes travel ban as deaths near 60k Tokyo reports most cases since state of emergency lifted German infection rate below R for […]

The Counter-Currents Newsletter, June 2020

1,600 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, In June, Counter-Currents celebrated its tenth anniversary of going online. Since our planned birthday party in New York City was canceled due to the pandemic, we had a three-hour birthday livestream instead, with an amazing list of guests: Kevin MacDonald, Jim Goad, Sam Dickson, Mark Weber, Mark Collett, Ricardo Duchesne, […]

Reasons To Be Cheerful (Or Fearful)? Part 1

Reasons To Be Cheerful (Or Fearful)? Part 1 Tyler Durden Wed, 07/01/2020 – 08:30 Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “The general synopsis at midnight: High Iceland 1015 expected just west of Bailey 1013 by midnight tonight. New low expected Oslo 996 by same time” July 1st… So… that was the first half of 2020. […]

After Massive Upward Revision, ADP Employment Data Shows Job Rebound Slowing In June

After Massive Upward Revision, ADP Employment Data Shows Job Rebound Slowing In June Tyler Durden Wed, 07/01/2020 – 08:21 After the last two month’s big drop in ADP employment (which was still dramatically different from BLS data), analysts expected a rebound surge in employment in June. ADP saw 19.5mm people lose their jobs in April, […]

Futures Slide In Downbeat Start To New Quarter

Futures Slide In Downbeat Start To New Quarter Tyler Durden Wed, 07/01/2020 – 08:10 Following Tuesday’s last 10 minute spike which only emerged as there were not as many sellers as some had predicted (such as JPMorgan whose forecast of $170BN in forced quarter-end selling failed to materialize), global markets have been under pressure to […]

Life In A Pod: The New Normal

If you want to go out socialising from now on, you’ll likely be doing it in a plastic pod. This isn’t some weird dystopia, it’s the new normal in 2020. “Transparent corrals for beach-goers. Dining pods. Clear boxes for students. The demand for plexiglass protective shields has never been higher.” Announced the Wall Street Journal […]

Life In A Pod: The New Normal

‘Dining pods’ are going up everywhere.

Addressing A Common Criticism Of Nihilism

Nihilism confuses people because it represents a fundamental paradigm shift not in how we think about the world, but how we perceive the world. It reverses the inherent solipsism common to high-intelligence creatures and forces us to think of the world outside ourselves. Not surprisingly, few understand nihilism beyond a media stereotype. The root of […]

China orders four US media outlets to disclose finances, staff

Beijing is requiring four US media outlets to disclose detailed information about their China operations.

European Stock Markets Suffer 3 Hour Outage Due To “Technical Issue”

European Stock Markets Suffer 3 Hour Outage Due To “Technical Issue” Tyler Durden Wed, 07/01/2020 – 07:34 Trading in Germany’s main index DAX and various other European cash and futures exchanges was halted for nearly three hours on Wednesday due to a “technical issue” at German electronic trading platform Xetra. The interruption in the fully-electronic […]

Mississippi governor signs bill removing state flag with confederate emblem

Mississippi governor has signed a bill into law that replaces the current state flag bearing a confederate emblem.

Munich Prosecutors Raid Wirecard Offices As Probe Into $2BN Accounting Fraud Heats Up

Munich Prosecutors Raid Wirecard Offices As Probe Into $2BN Accounting Fraud Heats Up Tyler Durden Wed, 07/01/2020 – 07:16 The German leadership has already scapegoated an industry group, the Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel, over the Wirecard disaster in the hope that the appearance of reform might be enough to placate Brussels and ESMA after Germany’s […]

Israeli annexation plans

Peter Tatchell describes his vision for the future — one where everyone is bisexual

“Our need to maintain sexuality differences, boundaries and identities disappears with the demise of straight supremacism and homophobia. “Homosexuality as a separate, exclusive sexual orientation and identity will begin to fade and so will its mirror opposite heterosexuality as we evolve into a sexually enlightened and accepting post homophobic society. “The vast majority of people […]

High and Low

1,719 words Like most Westerners, I got to know Akira Kurosawa through his classic samurai films: Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Kagemusha, and Ran. Thus I was surprised to discover that fully half of his thirty films are actually set in contemporary Japan over the stretch of Kurosawa’s long lifetime […]

Is Fascism Capitalism in Decay?

3P Education: Core Components of 3P Philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1W8y_PPM7U&t=24s What Is The Third Position? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHzdVHt9y10&t=67s Fascist Labor Laws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWSTaOL0IJE&t=1058s WHAT IS FASCIST PHILOSOPHY? https://www.bitchute.com/video/o78m02yzxbEY/ THE NAZI ECONOMY: https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ld8fxzEXZ2Qz/ Fascism as Philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78LcGrDJwpQ&t=1883s HEIDEGGER ON THE FAUSTIAN CORE OF FASCISM: https://www.bitchute.com/video/n60Z0XM9DT9j/ BOOKS FOR FASCISTS: https://www.bitchute.com/video/fGu08ExEFGl4/ Essay cited: https://www.cadtm.org/Socialising-the-banks-some#nb2-6 Books sourced: Adolf Hitler ‘The definitive biography’ by. John […]

First Arrests Made Under New Hong Kong “National Security” Law As Thousands Flood The Streets In Protest

First Arrests Made Under New Hong Kong “National Security” Law As Thousands Flood The Streets In Protest Tyler Durden Wed, 07/01/2020 – 06:50 At least two people were arrested Wednesday as Hong Kong protesters, undaunted by the new penalties they might face, clashed with police, with some proudly carrying the flag of Hong Kong independence […]

Peter Tatchell describes a method to nullify parents opting out of LGBT indoctrination

Peter Tatchell describes a method to nullify parents opting out of LGBT indoctrination for their children in schools at the Dublin Pride Annual Debate in June 2018. “In the UK, the government is still saying that the parents of kids should have the right to withdraw them from relationship and sex education. We’re not going […]

Italy seizes 14 tons of amphetamine pills made by Daesh in Syria

Police in Italy say they have seized a 14-ton haul of amphetamine pills made by the Daesh terrorist group in Syria.

Pilot Dies After Fiery F-16 Crash At South Carolina As Another Training Mission Goes Horribly Wrong

Pilot Dies After Fiery F-16 Crash At South Carolina As Another Training Mission Goes Horribly Wrong Tyler Durden Wed, 07/01/2020 – 06:11 A routine training mission went horribly wrong late Tuesday after a General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. F-16 crash at Shaw Air Force Base Shaw Air Force Base officials announced […]

Venezuela expels top EU diplomat

Venezuela’s government expels the head of the European Union (EU)’s mission to the country.