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  • The Tightening Of The NATO Noose

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 3:30am EDT

    The Tightening Of The NATO Noose Authored by Brian Cloughley via The Strategic Culture Foundation, NATO’s military noose round Russia’s borders is being tightened in order to force Moscow to react to surging provocation… One of the most recent developments on the NATO front line was a meeting of the so-called ‘Bucharest Nine’ which the […]

  • Dogs More Effective Than PCR Tests At Detecting COVID

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 2:45am EDT

    Dogs More Effective Than PCR Tests At Detecting COVID Scientists and public health officials have been looking at all different kinds of alternatives to individual rapid COVID-19 tests to detect the presence of the virus, and in their search, they’ve landed on some strange alternatives. Some have resorted to testing poop in public sewers to […]

  • Anti-Israel Protests Across Europe Descend Into Anti-Semitism

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 2:00am EDT

    Anti-Israel Protests Across Europe Descend Into Anti-Semitism Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, Pro-Palestinian demonstrations in cities across Europe have descended into unrestrained orgies of anti-Semitism after protesters opposed to Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip openly called for the destruction of Israel and death to Jews. The protesters, numbering in the […]

  • Brandon Smith: There Will Never Be A “Woke” US Military, Here’s Why…

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 12:00am EDT

    Brandon Smith: There Will Never Be A “Woke” US Military, Here’s Why… Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, The social justice cult never sleeps, they are forever “woke”, and they want to own the US military. They want it so bad they are frothing at the mouth over it. Whether or not they actually get […]

  • First Images Of China Rover On Mars Released 

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 11:00pm EDT

    First Images Of China Rover On Mars Released  The next battleground between the US and China is Mars. While space has always been a domain for superpower rivalry, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) successfully landed a rover, called Zhu Rong, on the Red Planet. Now two images have been sent back to Earth to show the success.  […]

  • Biden Hollows Out Trump-Era COVID Protections At The Border

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 10:40pm EDT

    Biden Hollows Out Trump-Era COVID Protections At The Border Authored by Joseph Simonson via The Washington Free Beacon (emphasis ours), The Biden administration is preparing to gut COVID-19 safety restrictions on illegal immigrants and asylum seekers and essentially reverse the Trump administration’s pandemic health protections without public notice, according to documents circulating within U.S. Customs […]

  • Pentagon Marches Towards AI Taking The Kill Shot 

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 10:20pm EDT

    Pentagon Marches Towards AI Taking The Kill Shot  Dozens of autonomous war machines capable of deadly force conducted a field training exercise south of Seattle last August. The exercise involved no human operators but strictly robots powered with artificial intelligence, seeking mock enemy combatants.  The exercise, organized by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a […]

  • Boom To Bust: How Inflation Turns Into Deflation

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 10:00pm EDT

    Boom To Bust: How Inflation Turns Into Deflation Authored by Frank Shostak via The Mises Institute, In order to understand the effects of inflation it is helpful to understand that inflation is not a general rise in prices as such, but an increase in the supply of money which then sets in motion a general […]

  • Lawmakers Demand Reinstatement Of Space Force Officer Removed For Denouncing Critical Race Theory

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 9:20pm EDT

    Lawmakers Demand Reinstatement Of Space Force Officer Removed For Denouncing Critical Race Theory Authored by Isabel van Brugen via The Epoch Times, A group of Republican lawmakers on Wednesday sent a letter to the acting secretary of the U.S. Space Force, urging him to immediately reinstate a lieutenant colonel who was relieved of his command after […]

  • Wharton Receives Anonymous $5 Million Bitcoin Gift

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 9:00pm EDT

    Wharton Receives Anonymous $5 Million Bitcoin Gift Blink and you missed the biggest crypto crash since last March: having plunged as much as 40% on Wednesday, bitcoin is up 40% on Thursday almost wiping out all its previous day’s jarring losses, with ether up more than 50% off its lows. Which is good news not […]

  • Beware The Rise Of Scamerica

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 8:40pm EDT

    Beware The Rise Of Scamerica Authored by Roibert Wright via The American Institute for Economic Research, Scams, frauds, flim flams, and grifts are nothing new to America. In fact, confidence games were old hat when Clifton Wooldridge published his 1906 classic, The Grafters of America: Who They Are and How They Work, which describes common cons in fin […]

  • Survey Shows Half Of Non-Mask Wearers Will “Definitely Not” Consent To Being Vaccinated

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 8:20pm EDT

    Survey Shows Half Of Non-Mask Wearers Will “Definitely Not” Consent To Being Vaccinated This looks like bad news for the CDC and the Biden Administration, which are desperate to entice more Americans to get vaccinated before international pressure forces the president to give away the entire US stock of vaccines (Biden announced yesterday that the […]

  • To Get America Back To Work, Congress Needs Courage

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 8:00pm EDT

    To Get America Back To Work, Congress Needs Courage Authored by Tarren Bragdon via RealClearPolitics.com, You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. You also don’t need an economist to know what happens when the government pays people to stay home. Unemployment rose to 6.1% in April despite thousands of U.S. […]

  • “That F*cking Lunatic”: New Book Reveals Obama’s ‘Candid’ Thoughts About President Trump

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 7:40pm EDT

    “That F*cking Lunatic”: New Book Reveals Obama’s ‘Candid’ Thoughts About President Trump A new book called “Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump” by Edward-Isaac Dovere, a staff writer at the Atlantic, offers an inside look at what Barack Obama really thought about Donald Trump heading into the 2020 election. Obama, […]

  • One Bank’s Case For Bitcoin $500,000: The Fed’s Balance Sheet Will Hit $40 Trillion In 2050

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 7:20pm EDT

    One Bank’s Case For Bitcoin $500,000: The Fed’s Balance Sheet Will Hit $40 Trillion In 2050 Yesterday, when bitcoin was crashing, ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood sparked some laughter (especially among the crypto bears) when in her interview with Bloomberg TV she presented her bitcoin price target: $500,000. While this was in keeping with Wood’s traditionally […]

  • Peddlers Of Russiagate Won’t Take Truth For An Answer

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 7:00pm EDT

    Peddlers Of Russiagate Won’t Take Truth For An Answer Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics.com, The Biden administration is vigorously pursuing key figures from the phony Trump/Russia collusion scandal that roiled the nation for four years. But instead of trying to punish the liars who perpetrated that fraud, it is targeting the truth-tellers who […]

  • 22 States Now Dropping $300 Weekly Unemployment Boost Amid Mounting Job Shortage

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 6:40pm EDT

    22 States Now Dropping $300 Weekly Unemployment Boost Amid Mounting Job Shortage Republican governors in nearly half of US states have all announced plans to scrap beefed-up federal unemployment benefits they say have disincentivized workers to reenter the workforce. The shift away from the $300-per-week handout started earlier this month with Montana and South Carolina […]

  • Robinhood Introduces New Product To Give Retail Traders Direct Access To IPOs

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 6:20pm EDT

    Robinhood Introduces New Product To Give Retail Traders Direct Access To IPOs A couple of months ago, we heard the first reports about Robinhood, SoFi and potentially other rival brokerages developing platforms to allow retail traders something that has, until now, been off-limits to mom and pop investors: access to IPO allocations of newly public […]

  • Cuomo’s “Vax & Scratch”: New York Will Now Reward Vaccinations With Scratch-Off Lotto Tickets

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 6:00pm EDT

    Cuomo’s “Vax & Scratch”: New York Will Now Reward Vaccinations With Scratch-Off Lotto Tickets In the latest awkward and cringeworthy “incentive” aimed at battling “vaccine hesitancy” the state of New York is now offering all residents who receive the COVID-19 vaccine for the first time next week a “free state lottery ticket” in a new […]

  • WeWork’s Losses Quadrupled To $2.1 Billion In Q1 In Latest Threat To Planned SPAC Offering

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 5:40pm EDT

    WeWork’s Losses Quadrupled To $2.1 Billion In Q1 In Latest Threat To Planned SPAC Offering WeWork CEO Sandeep Mathrani made headlines a few weeks ago when he declared during an interview that workers who prefer the WFH life to the office are typically “lazier” than their pro-commuting peers. His comment elicited backlash on social media, […]

  • Scott Atlas: Lockdowns Not Only A “Heinous Abuse” Of Power, They Also Failed To Protect The Elderly

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 5:20pm EDT

    Scott Atlas: Lockdowns Not Only A “Heinous Abuse” Of Power, They Also Failed To Protect The Elderly Authored by Isabel van Brugen and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, The lockdowns implemented to curb the transmission of COVID-19 in the United States and across the globe have not only been a “heinous abuse of power,” […]

  • Furious China Says It “Expelled” US Destroyer That “Illegally” Entered Territorial Waters 

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 5:00pm EDT

    Furious China Says It “Expelled” US Destroyer That “Illegally” Entered Territorial Waters  China is furious and has lashed out Thursday over allegations that a US warship entered Chinese territorial waters in the South China Sea. It comes two days after a PLA Navy ship followed the USS Curtis Wilbur as it conducted a “routine transit” through […]

  • Oil Prices Extend Slide As Iran Claims Sanctions Will Be Lifted

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 4:40pm EDT

    Oil Prices Extend Slide As Iran Claims Sanctions Will Be Lifted Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com,  Oil prices dropped again early on Thursday after Iran’s president said that the world powers had accepted during the latest round of talks that sanctions against Iran would be lifted. As of 10:39 a.m. EDT on Thursday, WTI Crude was […]

  • ‘The Squad’ Almost Derails Democrats’ Capitol Security Bill, Sending Pelosi And Top Dems Scrambling

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 4:20pm EDT

    ‘The Squad’ Almost Derails Democrats’ Capitol Security Bill, Sending Pelosi And Top Dems Scrambling House Democrats’ $1.9 billion virtue-signaling bill to beef up Capitol Security was almost derailed by progressive members of their own party on Thursday, after several members of “the squad” voted “no” – while three voted “present” – leading to a razor-thin […]

  • Bitcoin, Big-Tech, Bullion, & Bonds Bounce As Breakevens, Black Gold, & The Buck Breakdown

    ZeroHedge - May 20th 2021 4:01pm EDT

    Bitcoin, Big-Tech, Bullion, & Bonds Bounce As Breakevens, Black Gold, & The Buck Breakdown After yesterday’s bloodbathery, today was the big bounce back. Big-tech had bounced off the intraday lows yesterday to end unchanged and were violently panic-bid from the cash open today (only briefly stalled in their gamma-squeeze surge into tomorrow’s opex by a […]