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  • Snyder: Thoughts On The “New Normal” & What We’re Losing As A Society…

    ZeroHedge - May 23rd 2021 9:20am EDT

    Snyder: Thoughts On The “New Normal” & What We’re Losing As A Society… Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, The last two years have greatly shaken America, and our country will never be the same as a result.  If you would have told someone two years ago that in 2021 millions of […]

  • Visualizing The History Of Psychedelics, Part 2

    ZeroHedge - May 23rd 2021 8:45am EDT

    Visualizing The History Of Psychedelics, Part 2 In part one of this two-part series, we unearthed the story behind the prohibition of psychedelic substances, and how strict regulations resulted in a hugely stigmatized industry. Over the last decade however, Visual Capitalist explains below that new breakthroughs proving the untapped therapeutic potential of medicinal psychedelics are coming to […]

  • Does Bitcoin Use “Too Much” Electricity?

    ZeroHedge - May 23rd 2021 8:10am EDT

    Does Bitcoin Use “Too Much” Electricity? Authored by Allan Stevo via The Mises Institute, US senator Elizabeth Warren claimed last week that bitcoin uses too much electricity. In doing so, she makes a judgment about the “correct” amount of electricity use. But it raises the question of who is entitled to make such a judgment. It’s […]

  • Finland Is The Happiest Country In The World

    ZeroHedge - May 23rd 2021 7:35am EDT

    Finland Is The Happiest Country In The World Scandinavia is still the world’s happy place, firmly holding on to the top 3 of the World Happiness Report in 2020. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, Finland, Iceland and Denmark were named as the world’s three happiest countries in the study that is based on surveys by Gallup as well as […]

  • UK Travellers Barred From Germany Amid COVID-19 Variant Spread

    ZeroHedge - May 23rd 2021 7:00am EDT

    UK Travellers Barred From Germany Amid COVID-19 Variant Spread Authored by John Besley via The Epoch Times, Britons will soon be barred from entering Germany after the country’s Public Health Institute designated the UK as a virus variant area of concern. Border Police walk in Terminal 1 of Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt, Germany, on Jan. […]

  • Escobar: The Disintegrated States Of America

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 11:30pm EDT

    Escobar: The Disintegrated States Of America Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Andrei Martyanov is in a class by himself. A third wave baby boomer, born in the early 1960s in Baku, in the Caucasus, then part of the former USSR, he’s arguably the foremost military analyst in the Russian sphere, living and working […]

  • US Army Shows Soldier’s New View With Futuristic Night-Vision Goggles 

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 11:00pm EDT

    US Army Shows Soldier’s New View With Futuristic Night-Vision Goggles  The US Army continues to modernize its forces as a great power competition between China rages. The latest technology the service branch revealed to enhance nighttime lethality on the modern battlefield is next-generation night vision goggles. Such goggles resemble something from Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon […]

  • DeSantis On Critical Race Theory: “Offensive” To Expect Taxpayers To Pay To Teach Kids To “Hate Their Country”

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 10:30pm EDT

    DeSantis On Critical Race Theory: “Offensive” To Expect Taxpayers To Pay To Teach Kids To “Hate Their Country” Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that he opposes teaching critical race theory in the state’s public schools, calling the ideas pushed by its advocates as “based on false history” […]

  • Subscription Law Enforcement Service Piloted In LA Amid Defunding Police 

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 10:00pm EDT

    Subscription Law Enforcement Service Piloted In LA Amid Defunding Police  This year, violent crime across liberal-run Los Angeles County is out of control amid the “defund the police” movement. A private security firm that describes itself as a “subscription law enforcement service” has launched a pilot program in the metro area to fix this.  Motherboard reports Citizen, […]

  • Is The Pentagon’s UFO PsyOps Fueling Russia, China War Risk?

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 9:30pm EDT

    Is The Pentagon’s UFO PsyOps Fueling Russia, China War Risk? Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, There are reasons to be skeptical. After decades of stonewalling on the issue, suddenly American military chiefs appear to be giving credence to claims of UFOs invading Earth. Several viral video clips purporting to show extraordinary flying technology […]

  • Doctors Claim A Cocktail Of Cheap Drugs Could Help India Extinguish COVID Crisis

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 9:00pm EDT

    Doctors Claim A Cocktail Of Cheap Drugs Could Help India Extinguish COVID Crisis Last week, we reported that several increasingly desperate communities across India have been embracing a controversial (at least, in the US) strategy for trying to mitigate the fallout from the crisis. Communities have been doling out inexpensive anti-malaria drugs as a prophylactic […]

  • Happy Anniversary, Taper Tantrum

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 8:30pm EDT

    Happy Anniversary, Taper Tantrum By Nick Colas of DataTrek Research Three Markets topics to discuss today: Issue #1: What are US markets trying to tell us? It would be tempting to say “Nothing” … That we’re only 3 percent off the S&P 500’s record close of 4,233, set all of 8 trading days ago. That […]

  • Cactus If You Can: Traffickers Are Cleaning Out Deserts Of Rare Succulents 

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 8:00pm EDT

    Cactus If You Can: Traffickers Are Cleaning Out Deserts Of Rare Succulents  Some of the world’s rarest cacti are found in the deserts of South America. A recent raid in Italy uncovered a smuggling network of thorny succulents, according to NYTimes.  The year’s long operation, dubbed “Operation Atacama,” was a collaborative effort that began in February 2020 by Italian […]

  • CDC’s Absurd Guidelines For Summer Camps: A Recipe For Dystopian “Fun”

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 7:30pm EDT

    CDC’s Absurd Guidelines For Summer Camps: A Recipe For Dystopian “Fun” Authored by Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities, The Center for Disease Control’s major easing of its mask-use recommendations was a welcome development, giving Americans hope that logic can triumph over the CDC’s bureaucratic inertia and its Covid-era tendency to push the most severe restrictions on human activity at every […]

  • Australia’s Defense Chief Bans All “Woke” Events Which “Distract” From Military’s Mission

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 7:00pm EDT

    Australia’s Defense Chief Bans All “Woke” Events Which “Distract” From Military’s Mission After last month’s hugely embarrassing raunchy and cringeworthy twerking dance routine incident at a formal military ceremony attempted by top officers in Sydney, Australia’s military is apparently attempting to crackdown on appeasing “wokeness” and awkward attempts at ‘keeping up with the times’ – especially […]

  • India Demands Social Media Networks Remove References To “Indian Variant” Of COVID

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 6:30pm EDT

    India Demands Social Media Networks Remove References To “Indian Variant” Of COVID Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Authorities in India are now demanding that social media networks remove references to the “Indian variant” of COVID-19, despite the fact that it originated in India. New Delhi’s information technology ministry is claiming that mentions […]

  • DOJ Seizes $90K, Charges BLM Agitator Who ‘Stormed Capitol’ And Sold The Footage

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 6:00pm EDT

    DOJ Seizes $90K, Charges BLM Agitator Who ‘Stormed Capitol’ And Sold The Footage US authorities have seized approximately $90,000 from a far-left BLM organizer who ‘stormed the capitol’ right alongside Trump supporters and sold footage he took of US Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt being shot dead by a Capitol Police Officer. John Earle Sullivan […]

  • Four Myths About Money That Ought To Die Forever

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 5:30pm EDT

    Four Myths About Money That Ought To Die Forever Authored by Robert Murphy via The Mises Institute, With the possible exception of international trade, no topic in economics contains more myths than monetary theory. In the present article I address four popular opinions concerning money that suffer from either ambiguity or outright falsehood. One: “Money […]

  • China’s Mars Rover Rolls Off Lander, Begins Probing Mission 

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 5:00pm EDT

    China’s Mars Rover Rolls Off Lander, Begins Probing Mission  Around 10:40 a.m. Saturday Beijing time, China’s first Mars rover officially drove down its landing platform ramp and began roaming the Red Planet, China National Space Administration (CNSA) said.  CNSA release another photograph (here’s the first) of the rover, called Zhurong, which touched down in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, […]

  • Oregon First State To Require Vaccination Proof For Maskless Entry Into Businesses, Workplaces, & Churches

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 4:30pm EDT

    Oregon First State To Require Vaccination Proof For Maskless Entry Into Businesses, Workplaces, & Churches Authored by Samuel Allegri via The Epoch Times, The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is requiring that people in workplaces, businesses, and religious sites show proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to be allowed maskless entry to the facilities. The state’s health authorities […]

  • GOP Congressman ‘Forgot’ To Cast Proxy Vote Which Would Have Tanked Democrats’ $1.9B Security Spending Bill

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 4:00pm EDT

    GOP Congressman ‘Forgot’ To Cast Proxy Vote Which Would Have Tanked Democrats’ $1.9B Security Spending Bill California GOP Rep. Ken Calvert somehow “forgot” to cast a proxy vote last week on behalf of Texas GOP Rep. John Carter which would have tanked the Democrats $1.9 billion supplemental security bill in response to the Jan. 6 […]

  • China Rebuffs Pentagon Chief’s Attempts To Hold Military-To-Military Talks

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 3:30pm EDT

    China Rebuffs Pentagon Chief’s Attempts To Hold Military-To-Military Talks Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, According to a report from Reuters, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has been unable to speak with China’s top military official despite multiple attempts to set up talks. Tensions have been high between the militaries of the two nations due to the increased […]

  • Utilities Are Building New Gas Plants Despite Biden’s Promise Of ‘Zero-Emission’ Electric Grid

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 3:00pm EDT

    Utilities Are Building New Gas Plants Despite Biden’s Promise Of ‘Zero-Emission’ Electric Grid As a recent study from the IEA showed, achieving the emissions goals laid out in the Paris Accords would require oil and gas companies to halt all new projects. Among other things, the report included a daunting timeline of milestones that must […]

  • “The Amazon Of Information”: Goldman Initiates On Crypto, Sees Ethereum Overtaking Bitcoin

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 2:31pm EDT

    “The Amazon Of Information”: Goldman Initiates On Crypto, Sees Ethereum Overtaking Bitcoin When Goldman officially announced two weeks ago that it was re-launching a previously rumored cryptocurrency trading team on May 6… … some joked that this was the top-tick for the crypto space: after all, the last time Goldman launched a bitcoin trading desk, […]

  • “Autopilot Abuse”: Offender Caught Sleeping In Tesla Doing 82MPH Had Been Caught Twice Before

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 2:05pm EDT

    “Autopilot Abuse”: Offender Caught Sleeping In Tesla Doing 82MPH Had Been Caught Twice Before Third time’s a charm… A man was pulled over on May 16th by the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Office, who had been alerted to “a man in a black Tesla” who was “asleep at the wheel” on the interstate.  When a patrol car […]