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  • EU-Turkey Relations: Erdogan Left Europe Commission President Speechless After Humiliating Snub

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2021 5:45am EDT

    EU-Turkey Relations: Erdogan Left Europe Commission President Speechless After Humiliating Snub The day after Turkey’s President Erdogan arrested ten admirals on fears of new coup rumblings over their signing a ‘treasonous’ letter, a high level EU ‘reconciliation’ meeting with Turkey didn’t go so well on Tuesday. The head of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the president of […]

  • A Trillion Here, A Trillion There

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2021 5:00am EDT

    A Trillion Here, A Trillion There Authored by Clifford Thies via The American Institute for Economic Research, The late Everett Dirksen, a long-serving Minority Leader of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate, is famously quoted as saying a billion here, a billion there, and soon we’re talking real money. That was back in 1969. At […]

  • Saudi Arabia Hopes Its ‘Patriots’ Will Start Working In Yemen’s Marib

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2021 3:30am EDT

    Saudi Arabia Hopes Its ‘Patriots’ Will Start Working In Yemen’s Marib Submitted by South Front, Saudi Arabia is showing genuine concern that Marib could be lost to Ansar Allah, and it is finding it all but impossible to defend it. On April 3rd, media reported that Riyadh had deployed US-made MIM-104 Patriot air-defense systems to […]

  • “A Great Step Forward” – EU Praises Yellen’s Global Minimum Tax, Says Deal Could Come Later This Year

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2021 2:45am EDT

    “A Great Step Forward” – EU Praises Yellen’s Global Minimum Tax, Says Deal Could Come Later This Year Few, if any, industries are going to love the higher taxes they will soon face in the US and abroad thanks to President Biden and his American Jobs Plan. But big tech has good reason to be […]

  • Fallout From Greensill Collapse Splatters British Government, Leaves Taxpayers With Big Losses

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2021 2:00am EDT

    Fallout From Greensill Collapse Splatters British Government, Leaves Taxpayers With Big Losses Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, Downing Street’s dodgy dealings with Citigroup and Greensill show just how far the British government is willing to go to line the pockets of banks and other financial firms while bleeding taxpayers dry.  The collapse of UK-based […]

  • Goldman Bought $100M Of Deliveroo Shares During “Worst IPO Ever”…And Still Made Money

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2021 1:00am EDT

    Goldman Bought $100M Of Deliveroo Shares During “Worst IPO Ever”…And Still Made Money Goldman Sachs managed to avoid billions of dollars in potential losses from the implosion of highly levered hedge fund Archegos Capital Management by breaking ranks with other syndicate banks to dump large blocks of shares representing Archegos’s exposure to a coterie of […]

  • Is The Volunteer Military Too Expensive? Or Is It Global Intervention That’s Too Expensive

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 11:45pm EDT

    Is The Volunteer Military Too Expensive? Or Is It Global Intervention That’s Too Expensive Authored by Doug Bandow via AntiWar.com, The Napoleonic Wars consumed the lives of between 2.5 million and 3.5 million soldiers, most unwilling draftees. Although defeated, discredited, and exiled after years of brutal conflict, the self-anointed emperor responsible for those deaths today […]

  • Uber Pays Blind Woman $1.1 Million After Stranding Her 14 Times

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 11:25pm EDT

    Uber Pays Blind Woman $1.1 Million After Stranding Her 14 Times Uber is shelling out $1.1 million to a woman that says she missed work, birthdays, Christmas Eve church services and was left in the dark and in the rain because drivers refused to pick up her and her dog on more than a dozen […]

  • Buchanan: For What Should We Fight Russia Or China?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 11:05pm EDT

    Buchanan: For What Should We Fight Russia Or China? Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org, Last Monday, in a single six-hour period, NATO launched 10 air intercepts to shadow six separate groups of Russian bombers and fighters over the Arctic, North Atlantic, North Sea, Black Sea and Baltic Sea. Last week also brought reports that […]

  • Where America’s Bridges Are Crumbling

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 10:45pm EDT

    Where America’s Bridges Are Crumbling Back in August 2007, the dangerous and decaying state of America’s infrastructure became a shocking reality when the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, sending vehicles crashing into the river below. 13 people were killed while another 145 were injured. In August 2018, a bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy, shocked the […]

  • NY State To Give Up To $2.1 Billion To Illegal Immigrants

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 10:25pm EDT

    NY State To Give Up To $2.1 Billion To Illegal Immigrants Just when you thought things couldn’t get more surreal, New York State’s democratic-party-dominated legislature decides to crank the virtue-signaling ‘equity’ amplifier up to 11. Embattled Gov. Andrew Cuomo – desperate for any news to distract from his dueling sex abuse and nursing home death […]

  • Here’s Why Hedge Funds Are Having Another Dismal Year

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 10:05pm EDT

    Here’s Why Hedge Funds Are Having Another Dismal Year It’s shaping up as one of those years for hedge funds. A little over three months into the new year, retail investors (as measured by a basket of retail favorite names) is up almost 20%, the S&P is up a little over 8% while he dge […]

  • Beijing Accelerating Timeline For Possible Invasion Of Taiwan, Expert Warns

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 9:45pm EDT

    Beijing Accelerating Timeline For Possible Invasion Of Taiwan, Expert Warns Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, The Chinese communist regime is accelerating its plans to invade Taiwan, an expert warns, as Beijing ratchets up military maneuvers against the island. Twenty Chinese military aircraft – including four nuclear-capable H-6K bombers, 10 J-16 fighter jets, two […]

  • China’s Digital Currency Has Nothing To Do With Bitcoin

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 9:05pm EDT

    China’s Digital Currency Has Nothing To Do With Bitcoin Authored by Peter Earle via The American Institute for Economic Research, China’s digital currency has left the testing stage and is set for a full rollout to the entire country and region. China is only the second country and the first major economy to officially launch […]

  • Biden Builds Annex At Texas Border Facility As Overcrowding Continues

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 8:45pm EDT

    Biden Builds Annex At Texas Border Facility As Overcrowding Continues So many migrants have been caught illegally crossing into the United States that the Biden administration is constructing a temporary annex facility for unaccompanied minors next to the Texas border patrol processing center which made headlines after photos and videos revealed giant rooms full of […]

  • Supreme Court Could Greenlight Warrantless Gun Seizures

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 8:25pm EDT

    Supreme Court Could Greenlight Warrantless Gun Seizures Submitted by Sovereign Man Blueprint What happened: Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments in Caniglia v. Strum on whether police can enter a home without a warrant under a “community caretaking” exemption to the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure. The case stems from a […]

  • In Biden Change Of Tune, US Mulling Boycott Of 2022 Beijing Olympics

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 8:05pm EDT

    In Biden Change Of Tune, US Mulling Boycott Of 2022 Beijing Olympics As if US-China relations weren’t bad enough at this moment, things are about to escalate further – potentially taking the Biden White House past even beyond the low-point of the trade war during the Trump presidency.  State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters […]

  • California’s Failed Response To COVID

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 7:45pm EDT

    California’s Failed Response To COVID Authored by Dr.Jayanta Bhattacharya and Dr.Martin Kulldorff via The American Institute for Economic Research, Now that we’ve “celebrated” the first anniversary of COVID-19 in California, it’s a good time to take stock of the state’s response. From the beginning, the Golden State has taken an aggressive stance toward the epidemic, […]

  • Virtue Un-Signaled? Biden Admin Mulls Restarting Border Wall Construction

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 7:25pm EDT

    Virtue Un-Signaled? Biden Admin Mulls Restarting Border Wall Construction Less than 90 days after President Biden signaled his immense virtue by halting construction on Trump’s border wall and canceling future contracts, Biden’s beleaguered Department of Homeland Security is exploring whether to restart border wall construction in order to ‘plug gaps’ in the current barrier, according […]

  • Pentagon Publishes Photos Of Syrian Kurds Training To Call In Airstrikes

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 7:05pm EDT

    Pentagon Publishes Photos Of Syrian Kurds Training To Call In Airstrikes Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Last month, US Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) trained members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) during live-fire attack helicopter exercises. JTACs direct military aircraft during combat and pictures published on a Pentagon website show the JTACs training SDF […]

  • AstraZeneca Trial Involving Minors Halted As EMA Officials Admit Link Between Jab And Deadly Blood Clots

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 6:45pm EDT

    AstraZeneca Trial Involving Minors Halted As EMA Officials Admit Link Between Jab And Deadly Blood Clots Just days after Australia’s deputy chief medical officer, Michael Kidd, acknowledged that there was likely a connection between rare blood clots and the COVID vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford, officials from the EMA, Europe’s top pharmaceutical regulator, have […]

  • Taibbi: On The Miserable Necessity Of Doing Censorship Stories In Pairs

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 6:25pm EDT

    Taibbi: On The Miserable Necessity Of Doing Censorship Stories In Pairs Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News, For roughly half a year, I’ve been running a series of interviews here on TK called “Meet The Censored,” with the aim of highlighting the scope of a growing Internet censorship issue. From now on, “Meet the […]

  • Caitlyn Jenner Exploring Run Against Embattled California Governor Gavin Newsom

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 6:05pm EDT

    Caitlyn Jenner Exploring Run Against Embattled California Governor Gavin Newsom Caitlyn Jenner is in discussions with political consultants over whether she should run for governor of California, according to Axios, citing three sources “with direct knowledge of her deliberations.” The 71-year-old former Olympian’s potential foray into politics comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) faces a […]

  • “A Gigantic Clusterf**k”: How Morgan Stanley Avoided $10BN In Archegos Losses By Selling First

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 5:45pm EDT

    “A Gigantic Clusterf**k”: How Morgan Stanley Avoided $10BN In Archegos Losses By Selling First One week ago, in our initial take on the biggest hedge fund collapse since LTCM, we explained that – in our view – the catalyst for the failure of the Archegos hedge fund, which had as much as 10x leverage allowing […]

  • New York’s Vaccine Passport Program Is Already Failing

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2021 5:25pm EDT

    New York’s Vaccine Passport Program Is Already Failing Authored by Jordan Schachtel via ‘The Dossier’ substack, Liberty advocates, rejoice! The idiocracy is going to save us from another form of COVID tyranny. Thanks to a combination of bungling authoritarians and decaying legacy corporations, these entities are simply too incompetent to pull off a functioning vaccine […]