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  • Tesla Investigating Collision That Killed One Chinese Policeman And Injured Another

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 7:19am EDT

    Tesla Investigating Collision That Killed One Chinese Policeman And Injured Another Tesla has now confirmed an accident in the Chinese city of Taizhou, in Zhejiang province, that reportedly killed one Chinese policeman, while injuring another.  “Two Chinese policemen were injured in a collision Monday,” the company’s Weibo account confirmed, according to Bloomberg early Tuesday morning. Tesla […]

  • Bitcoin Versus Gold: A Tired Debate

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 6:30am EDT

    Bitcoin Versus Gold: A Tired Debate Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Bias vs. Logic We’ve written elsewhere about the ironic over-use of logic to justify otherwise illogical biases. As Swiss-based precious metals professionals who see physical gold and silver as currency protection outside of an openly illogical (and dangerously fractured) banking system, it is more than […]

  • West Coast Ports Rush To Clear Record Ship Congestion Before “Peak Season” Arrives

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 5:45am EDT

    West Coast Ports Rush To Clear Record Ship Congestion Before “Peak Season” Arrives It’s hardly a secret that the recent collapse of trans-pacific supply chains has been among the main reasons for soaring prices, and it’s also hardly a secret that the weakest link in said supply chains are West Coast ports where congestion remains […]

  • The “Bonkers” Interview Of Bonny Prince Harry: Why The Attack On The First Amendment Should Concern All Americans

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 5:00am EDT

    The “Bonkers” Interview Of Bonny Prince Harry: Why The Attack On The First Amendment Should Concern All Americans Authored by Jonathan Turley, The media went into a frenzy this weekend when the bonny Prince Harry gave a huge Hurrumpf to the First Amendment. On a show appropriately called “the Armchair Expert,” Harry declared the First […]

  • Spanish Politician Banned From Twitter For “Hate Speech” After Saying “A Man Cannot Get Pregnant”

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 4:15am EDT

    Spanish Politician Banned From Twitter For “Hate Speech” After Saying “A Man Cannot Get Pregnant” A deputy to Spain’s far-right Vox Party was locked out of his Twitter account last week for claiming that “a man cannot get pregnant”. Francisco José Contreras was banned from his account for 12 hours, according to Fox News, for […]

  • UK Farmer Unearths WWII Amphibious Assault Tank That Disappeared 74 Years Ago

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 3:30am EDT

    UK Farmer Unearths WWII Amphibious Assault Tank That Disappeared 74 Years Ago Authored by Jenni Julander via The Epoch Times, A Crowland, UK, farmer recently dug up an amphibious WWII military vehicle that was buried under 30 feet of earth. Now, he is working to restore the Buffalo LVT-4—once thought to be lost to history. An excavation […]

  • Sweden Records More Than 30K Cases Of Side Effects Tied To COVID Jabs

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 2:45am EDT

    Sweden Records More Than 30K Cases Of Side Effects Tied To COVID Jabs As Europe pushes ahead with its vaccination program, the Nordic countries are reporting a surge in damaging side effects. In the country, the tally has surpassed 30K with the majority of these reactions reported in patients who received the AstraZeneca jab. Sweden’s […]

  • “Blood On Your Hands”: Erdogan Issues Worst Rebuke To Biden Since Taking Office

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 1:15am EDT

    “Blood On Your Hands”: Erdogan Issues Worst Rebuke To Biden Since Taking Office Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday blasted the Joe Biden administration for standing idly by while the civilian body count piles up in Gaza after one week of unrelenting Israeli airstrikes. And even more than this Turkey is outraged over new […]

  • US And Its Allies Try To Split The World In Two

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 12:30am EDT

    US And Its Allies Try To Split The World In Two Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation, America is using its post-WWII position of being the world’s hegemon, so as to compel every other nation either to join them (as a banana republic or vassal nation) or else to become their enemy […]

  • Visualizing The History Of Psychedelics, Part 1

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 12:10am EDT

    Visualizing The History Of Psychedelics, Part 1 Due to their counterculture connotations and rigid legal status, psychedelics were once considered a highly stigmatized topic. Over the last decade however, a steady stream of groundbreaking research has proven that these powerful substances have the potential to safely treat a wide range of diseases. Today, attitudes toward […]

  • Liz Cheney: Biden Military Budget ‘Too Low’ Despite Being Highest Of All Time

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 11:50pm EDT

    Liz Cheney: Biden Military Budget ‘Too Low’ Despite Being Highest Of All Time Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President Biden requested a $753 billion military budget for the 2022 fiscal year, which would be the highest of all time. But this number is not enough for Republican hawks in Congress. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WI) said […]

  • Illinois Jeep Factory Set To Lay Off 1,600 Workers Amid Global Semiconductor Shortage

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 11:30pm EDT

    Illinois Jeep Factory Set To Lay Off 1,600 Workers Amid Global Semiconductor Shortage A Jeep Cherokee factory is cutting 1,600 jobs in Northern Illinois as the auto industry continues to struggle with the global shortage of semiconductors. The U.S. arm of Stellantis announced this week is was going to cut one of its two work […]

  • Common Sense Wins As Supreme Court Backs Energy Companies Over Baltimore In Climate Case

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 11:10pm EDT

    Common Sense Wins As Supreme Court Backs Energy Companies Over Baltimore In Climate Case Via The Federalist Papers, The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of BP PLC, Chevron Corp, Exxon Mobil Corp, Royal Dutch Shell PLC and other energy companies contesting a lawsuit filed by the city of Baltimore seeking monetary damages […]

  • India Sees Cases Slow As Outbreak Spills Into Nepal; Regional Mutant Arrives In US

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 10:50pm EDT

    India Sees Cases Slow As Outbreak Spills Into Nepal; Regional Mutant Arrives In US It finally looks like India’s brutal second wave of COVID-19 is easing, as cases again slowed on Monday, while daily deaths remained near record highs. New cases dropped below 300K on Monday, to 281,386, while deaths remained stubbornly above 4K at […]

  • The Corrupted January 6 Commission

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 10:30pm EDT

    The Corrupted January 6 Commission Authored by Technofog via The Reactionary, Late last week, House Democrats unveiled their Bill to “establish the National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex.” We previously warned about the Democrats’ roadmap to use their investigative authority to further their political goals. We advised […]

  • World Economic Forum Cancels Annual Meeting After Moving It To Singapore

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 10:10pm EDT

    World Economic Forum Cancels Annual Meeting After Moving It To Singapore After initially rescheduling the forum from May to the late-summer months, the World Economic Forum has decided to cancel its annual gathering of powerhouses in the worlds of markets, business and politics, which is usually held in Davos, Switzerland, but had been moved to […]

  • Newsom Turns To Bribery, Opens Up Big Bag Of Goodies To Californians In Bid To Head-Off Recall

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 9:50pm EDT

    Newsom Turns To Bribery, Opens Up Big Bag Of Goodies To Californians In Bid To Head-Off Recall Authored by Monica Showalter via AmericanThinker.com, Politicians in trouble frequently wheel out the freebies ahead of a tough election. California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom, however, is taking it to 11. Seems, he’s not all that confident that Democrats will […]

  • One Bank Spots “A Huge Worry On The Horizon”

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 9:30pm EDT

    One Bank Spots “A Huge Worry On The Horizon” The big banks may be dismissing the current wave of soaring prices, which as we noted previously has been driven mostly economic reopening categories such as soaring used car prices where a pandemic-induced demand surge has run headfirst into temporary shortages, production bottlenecks, and supply chain […]

  • Welcome To The DarkSide: Why The Biden Administration Will Not Define The Pipeline Attack As Terrorism

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 8:50pm EDT

    Welcome To The DarkSide: Why The Biden Administration Will Not Define The Pipeline Attack As Terrorism Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column on the recent Colonial Pipeline attack. President Joe Biden and his Administration (as well as the media) has referred to the actors as “criminals” and “hacker” but notably not “terrorists.” Many cyberattacks are […]

  • EV Anxiety? World’s Largest Lithium Producer Crashes On Chilean Political Storm

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 8:30pm EDT

    EV Anxiety? World’s Largest Lithium Producer Crashes On Chilean Political Storm As we detailed earlier, as Chileans overwhelmingly chose leftist and independent candidates for the country’s constitutional convention, the new non-free-market-friendly political regime is generating a lot of uncertainly in Chilean markets. One of the biggest equity losers on the session is Sociedad Química y Minera […]

  • Taibbi: Is Slack Destroying American Companies? Q&A With Antonio Garcia-Martinez

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 8:10pm EDT

    Taibbi: Is Slack Destroying American Companies? Q&A With Antonio Garcia-Martinez Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News ​   Late last week, amid a Slack-driven furor over his confessional memoir Chaos Monkeys, Apple fired ads engineer Antonio Garcia-Martinez. I wrote Friday about the specific hypocrisy of Apple’s move — the company has the author of […]

  • Lumber Industry Has No Interest In New Mills As They Reap Rewards Of Record Prices 

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 7:50pm EDT

    Lumber Industry Has No Interest In New Mills As They Reap Rewards Of Record Prices  The problem with the North American lumber industry is that supply is controlled by just a few firms that can easily manipulate prices. For instance, WSJ reports lumber mills are in no rush to bring on additional capacity as they reap the […]

  • Biggest Shorting Of Tech Stocks By Hedge Funds In 5 Years: Goldman Prime

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 7:35pm EDT

    Biggest Shorting Of Tech Stocks By Hedge Funds In 5 Years: Goldman Prime Last week we noted that one of the clear trends to emerge as a result of the recent horrific price action in tech stocks, was the continued aggressive selling – and shorting – of tech stocks by hedge funds. The latest weekly […]

  • Incoming Geomagnetic Storm Expected To Hit Earth Tuesday 

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 7:10pm EDT

    Incoming Geomagnetic Storm Expected To Hit Earth Tuesday  This week’s solar activity report shows a geomagnetic storm watch is in effect between May 18-19. Two Earth-facing sunspots have been identified by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) satellite and could produce storms as early as Tuesday.  NASA designated the sunspots as AR2822 and AR2823 and are […]

  • GOP Chair Elise Stefanik: Justice Department Is “Trying To Block” Maricopa County Audit

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2021 6:50pm EDT

    GOP Chair Elise Stefanik: Justice Department Is “Trying To Block” Maricopa County Audit Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who was recently elected as the House Republican Conference chair, said the Department of Justice’s questions about the Maricopa County, Arizona, audit of the 2020 election may be unconstitutional. On […]