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  • EU Leaders Confronts China’s Xi Over Trade At Paris Summit

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2024 2:00am EDT

    EU Leaders Confronts China’s Xi Over Trade At Paris Summit By Dorothy Li of The Epoch Times The European Union pressed China over its unfair trade practices as communist regime leader Xi Jinping began his official visit aimed at bolstering relationships with European leaders. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech to […]

  • Yes, The Constitution Does Matter… A Lot

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 11:40pm EDT

    Yes, The Constitution Does Matter… A Lot Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Most of my columns for this newspaper relate to the Constitution. A common reaction among some readers—both in the online “comments” section and in direct correspondence—is that I’m wasting my time because the Constitution doesn’t matter any more. […]

  • These Are The Countries With The Most Students Studying Abroad

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 11:20pm EDT

    These Are The Countries With The Most Students Studying Abroad The world’s two most populous nations, China and India, have the highest numbers of students studying overseas. Statista’s Anna Fleck reports that, according to data published by UNESCO, more than one million Chinese students were studying abroad in 2021. India’s total was close to half of this, with around 508,000 […]

  • Wisconsin Voter Roll Transparency Challenged By Public Interest Legal Foundation

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 11:00pm EDT

    Wisconsin Voter Roll Transparency Challenged By Public Interest Legal Foundation Authored by Steven Kovac via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Public access to Wisconsin’s state voter roll is too restricted and too expensive, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a national election integrity watchdog organization. Residents cast their ballots during in-person absentee voting […]

  • India Leads Global Inbound Remittances

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 10:40pm EDT

    India Leads Global Inbound Remittances India received by far the highest international remittances of any country worldwide in 2022, according to World Bank data published in the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) 2024 World Migration Report on Tuesday. International remittances are defined as money sent from workers living abroad to their home countries.  Additionally, as Statista’s Anna Fleck […]

  • China Remains World’s Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 10:20pm EDT

    China Remains World’s Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024 Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A policeman covers a camera to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court, where Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is set for trial in Shanghai on Dec. […]

  • MQ-9 Reaper Drone, At $30 Million A Pop, Top’s Zelensky’s Wish List

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 10:00pm EDT

    MQ-9 Reaper Drone, At $30 Million A Pop, Top’s Zelensky’s Wish List Because it’s never enough… Ukraine is now eyeing the US-made MQ-9 Reaper even while Kiev awaits F-16 deliveries from the West. It is the latest long-range weapon system being sought by the Zelensky government. Politico has reported that the $30 million drone has moved to the […]

  • Trudeau Government Offers Free Access To National Parks For Migrants Only

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 9:40pm EDT

    Trudeau Government Offers Free Access To National Parks For Migrants Only Via The Post Millennial, Parks Canada has decided to offer a real break in 2024 for people looking to enjoy some of Canada’s glorious outdoors and backwoods. But only people who are newcomers and new Canadian citizens. In a Parks Canada post, the federal […]

  • Romney Cites Anti-Israel Posts As Latest Reason To Ban TikTok

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 9:20pm EDT

    Romney Cites Anti-Israel Posts As Latest Reason To Ban TikTok Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public relations battle. “Some wonder why there was such […]

  • Bad-Loans Hit Record-High As Used-Car Prices Suffer Worst Bear-Market Ever

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 8:40pm EDT

    Bad-Loans Hit Record-High As Used-Car Prices Suffer Worst Bear-Market Ever A bear market in the used car market was confirmed in November and has since worsened through April. At the same time, negative equity values are hitting new record highs while auto insurance rates have soared the most since the mid-1970s. While gas prices at the pump are […]

  • China’s 2022 Military Spending Reaches $710 Billion, Over Triple What Beijing Announced

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 8:20pm EDT

    China’s 2022 Military Spending Reaches $710 Billion, Over Triple What Beijing Announced By Frank Fang of Epoch Times China’s communist regime spent $710.6 billion on its military in 2022, more than three times Beijing’s publicly stated totals, according to a report from the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute (AEI). “Considering that the Pentagon has labeled China […]

  • The Marine Corps That Should Have Been

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 7:40pm EDT

    The Marine Corps That Should Have Been Authored by Gary Anderson via RealClearPolitics, Say what one wants about the Israeli incursion into Gaza, but not a single rocket or missile has been fired from what is left of it since the start of fighting. Compare this with the relative ineffectiveness of American efforts stop Yemen’s […]

  • Rural Western North Carolina Community Protests ‘Covert’ Plans For EV Battery Plant

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 7:00pm EDT

    Rural Western North Carolina Community Protests ‘Covert’ Plans For EV Battery Plant Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A group of residents in western North Carolina are protesting their county board’s lack of transparency over furtive moves to welcome an electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing the residents believe would pollute their […]

  • Trojan Tomato: A New GMO Is Designed To Infiltrate America’s Gardens

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 6:20pm EDT

    Trojan Tomato: A New GMO Is Designed To Infiltrate America’s Gardens Authored by Sina McCullough via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As spring gardening approaches, a new contender has entered the fray—the genetically modified (GM) Purple Tomato. Unlike its GM predecessors, the GM Purple Tomato is not destined solely for the fields of commercial agriculture—it […]

  • F-22 Stealth Fighter Suffers “Mishap” At Savannah Airport 

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 6:00pm EDT

    F-22 Stealth Fighter Suffers “Mishap” At Savannah Airport  Isn’t it remarkable that while the military-industrial complex, neoconservative warmongers, and radical leftists in the White House seem to push for further conflict in Eastern Europe without even a hint of suggesting peace negotiations with Russia, some of America’s most advanced military jets are unfit for combat? The latest example […]

  • Trump Is A Rorschach Test For The Body Politic

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 5:40pm EDT

    Trump Is A Rorschach Test For The Body Politic Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, It is no secret that Donald Trump is a hot wire that either fires up the imagination of voters or fries the brain. For those of us who experience Trump as a Promethean bringer of enlightening fire to the dark […]

  • 7 Numbers That Clearly Reveal The Direction That America Has Chosen

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 5:00pm EDT

    7 Numbers That Clearly Reveal The Direction That America Has Chosen Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Over the past several decades, America’s culture has been transformed at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking.  When I was growing up, I was convinced that I believed in a shared set of national values that most other […]

  • WTI Dips After API Reports Across-The-Board Inventory Builds

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 4:43pm EDT

    WTI Dips After API Reports Across-The-Board Inventory Builds Oil prices ended the day flat today (after touching the lowest level in almost two months on news reports said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak indicated OPEC+ could move to raise crude production). Novak told Russia’s Interfax news agency that the possibility of increasing oil production […]

  • Withdrawing From The Rat-Race Is Going Global

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 4:20pm EDT

    Withdrawing From The Rat-Race Is Going Global Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Mere mortals are left in a hopeless situation. In response, they’re withdrawing from the competition en masse. The world has changed over the past two generations in ways that don’t fit the heavily promoted narratives of “growth” and “progress.” The “growth” […]

  • Kashkari & Consumer Credit Curtail Stock & Bond Gains

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 4:00pm EDT

    Kashkari & Consumer Credit Curtail Stock & Bond Gains Another quiet macro day (although an ugly picture was painted late on by the unexpectedly weak revolving credit increase – potentially signaling a US consumer who really has hit their limit). Some FedSpeak wiped a little lipstick off the early pig’s squeeze higher as Kashkari seemed […]

  • Pfizer Stock Hit After Boy Dies Of Cardiac Arrest During Gene Therapy Trial

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 3:41pm EDT

    Pfizer Stock Hit After Boy Dies Of Cardiac Arrest During Gene Therapy Trial Stock in Pfizer dropped on Tuesday after a young boy receiving experimental gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy died during the trial. According to STAT News, Pfizer has yet to determine exactly what happened or how the boy died Pfizer has confirmed […]

  • One Third Of Stanford Students OK With Violence To Shut Down Speech; Report

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 2:40pm EDT

    One Third Of Stanford Students OK With Violence To Shut Down Speech; Report Authored by Samantha Swenson via The College Fix, More than one third of Stanford University students say using physical violence to stop a speech is acceptable in at least some circumstances, according to a new report. The Foundation for Individual Rights and […]

  • Stellar 3Y Auction Stops-Through Thanks To Jump In Foreign Demand

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 1:25pm EDT

    Stellar 3Y Auction Stops-Through Thanks To Jump In Foreign Demand The first refunding auction of the quarter just concluded when the Treasury sold $58BN in 3 Year paper, unchanged from last month’s size and matching the previous record high hit during the covid crisis. The auction priced at a high yield of 4.605%, up from […]

  • Florida Becomes First State To Ban ‘Fake Meat’

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 1:20pm EDT

    Florida Becomes First State To Ban ‘Fake Meat’ Authored by Patricia Tolson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Florida’s governor has signed a first-of-its-kind bill into law to officially ban lab-grown meat, in a bid to protect the Sunshine State’s cattle industry and its residents. Lab-grown meat is presented in the Disgusting Food Museum in […]

  • TikTok Sues US Government Over ‘Forced-Sale’ Or ‘Ban’ Law

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2024 12:20pm EDT

    TikTok Sues US Government Over ‘Forced-Sale’ Or ‘Ban’ Law As was promised and expected, TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance have sued to challenge the new US law, arguing that the law is unconstitutional. The New York Times reports, citing a petition the company provided, that the company alleges the new law violates users’ First Amendment […]