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  • Catastrophe Is All Around Us

    ZeroHedge - Jan 6th 2021 12:05am EST

    Catastrophe Is All Around Us Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research, As a naturally optimistic person, it vexes me that the word catastrophe has echoed in my mind since early March 2020. It’s the word the great smallpox eradicator Donald Henderson used in his 2006 prediction of the consequences of […]

  • Assange “Free To Return Home” If Released By UK, Says Australian PM

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 11:45pm EST

    Assange “Free To Return Home” If Released By UK, Says Australian PM Australia remains a key nation among the so-called “Five Eyes” intelligence sharing alliance comprised also of Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States – which is why the Tuesday statement of Prime Minister Scott Morrison on WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is so significant.  Morrison said that […]

  • Los Angeles County Is Riskiest Area In The US: FEMA

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 11:25pm EST

    Los Angeles County Is Riskiest Area In The US: FEMA Authored by Isabel van Brugen via The Epoch Times, Los Angeles County has been named as the riskiest county in the United States, according to a new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) index that examines 18 types of natural disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes, floods, volcanoes and […]

  • Marines Step Up Training For China With Island Exercises Off Japan’s Mainland

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 11:05pm EST

    Marines Step Up Training For China With Island Exercises Off Japan’s Mainland Given ongoing US tensions with Beijing especially in the South China Sea region, the United States Marines are increasingly returning to the branch’s original mission of amphibious warfare reminiscent of the island campaigns of WWII in the Pacific. It’s being reported this week that this is […]

  • Epidemiologist Says Influenza Cases Are Being Counted As COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 10:45pm EST

    Epidemiologist Says Influenza Cases Are Being Counted As COVID-19 Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Top epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski says that the massive drop in influenza cases can be attributed to the fact that many are being falsely counted as COVID-19 cases. Wittkowski, former Head of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design at Rockefeller […]

  • Chinese Soldiers Outfitted With Digital Combat Device That Has “Self-Destruction Mode”

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 10:25pm EST

    Chinese Soldiers Outfitted With Digital Combat Device That Has “Self-Destruction Mode” New Delhi Television has revealed that Chinese soldiers in the Tibet Military Region will soon be equipped with new digital systems embedded in their combat gear.  Chinese soldiers will be outfitted with satellite antennas on the helmets, new night-vision goggles, and a digital control terminal on […]

  • Vietnamese Woman Dubbed Early “Super Spreader” Starts Her Own Line Of Hygiene And Self-Care Products

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 10:05pm EST

    Vietnamese Woman Dubbed Early “Super Spreader” Starts Her Own Line Of Hygiene And Self-Care Products “Every challenge is an opportunity in disguise,” the old saying goes. For Vietnamese heiress and jet-setter Nga Nguyen, her recent “challenge” was being dubbed a Covid super-spreader after she caught the virus in March 2020 during fashion week in Europe.  […]

  • China’s New Defense Law Gives Military More Control Of War Powers

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 9:25pm EST

    China’s New Defense Law Gives Military More Control Of War Powers Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, A new amendment to China’s defense law gives more control of the military to Beijing’s Central Military Commission (CMC), a defense body that oversees the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and is chaired by President Xi Jinping. The amendment came into […]

  • Is China About To Devalue The Yuan: Local Banks Start Dumping Yuan

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 9:05pm EST

    Is China About To Devalue The Yuan: Local Banks Start Dumping Yuan In our market wrap note yesterday, we said that the Chinese Yuan surged to its strongest against the dollar since June 2018, rising above 6.50, and was now “at a critical level that has prompted volatility-inducing devaluations in the past.” This was only […]

  • Save The Date! January 6th Is America’s “Rendezvous With History”

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 8:45pm EST

    Save The Date! January 6th Is America’s “Rendezvous With History” Authored by Ben Garrison via GrrrGraphics.com, Wednesday, January 6 is a red letter day. I’m sure many have the date circled on their new calendars. Probably in red ink. Soon it could be circled in fire.  It’s a protest day for many Trump supporters. They’ll be […]

  • What Is Behind Saudi’s Shocking Decision To Cut 1MM Bpd In Oil Output Today? Goldman Explains

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 8:25pm EST

    What Is Behind Saudi’s Shocking Decision To Cut 1MM Bpd In Oil Output Today? Goldman Explains The first monthly OPEC+ meeting to decide on the group’s production ended with an unexpected, in fact shocking two-month agreement: Saudi announced an unexpected and unilateral production cut of 1 mb/d in February and March, Russia and Kazakhstan will […]

  • Leaked Documents Reveal Chinese Regime’s Orders to Steal Foreign Technologies

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 8:05pm EST

    Leaked Documents Reveal Chinese Regime’s Orders to Steal Foreign Technologies By Alex Wu of the Epoch Times A series of leaked government documents recently obtained by The Epoch Times reveal that Chinese authorities have funded projects that are aimed at obtaining foreign advanced technologies through partnerships with international research institutions. Public records show that China’s […]

  • Amazon Buys 11 Boeing 767s From Delta, WestJet To Expand Amazon Air

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 7:45pm EST

    Amazon Buys 11 Boeing 767s From Delta, WestJet To Expand Amazon Air The world’s biggest online retailing monopoly, Amazon, announced on Tuesday that it is expanding its presence in the air freight logistics sector with the purchase of eleven Boeing 767-300 aircraft, which includes seven aircraft from Delta and four aircraft from WestJet. The new […]

  • The Frogs Will Boil Themselves

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 7:25pm EST

    The Frogs Will Boil Themselves Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, There’s a well-known old fable that describes a frog being boiled alive. It states that if a frog is dropped in boiling water, it will hop out. But if it’s placed in lukewarm water, it will be comfortable. Then, if the heat is turned […]

  • Human Rights Group Exposes China’s Network Of Secret Political Prisons Where 2 Canadians Are Being Held

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 7:05pm EST

    Human Rights Group Exposes China’s Network Of Secret Political Prisons Where 2 Canadians Are Being Held Following some rumblings late last week in the FT, which noted that Jack Ma, the Chinese billionaire and Alibaba co-founder (and former Chairman) who recently had a disastrous falling out with the CCP, had apparently been fired from his […]

  • Mall Of America Successfully Refinances Its Once-Delinquent $1.4 Billion Mortgage

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 6:45pm EST

    Mall Of America Successfully Refinances Its Once-Delinquent $1.4 Billion Mortgage With investment banks backstopped by essentially unlimited liquidity from Central Banks, 2021 could become the year that everybody officially refinances, kicks the can down the road one more time, and offers up their “comeback story”. And if it can happen in the mall industry, it can happen anywhere. The […]

  • Elon Musk Calls Chinese Government “More Responsible” To Its Citizens Than U.S.

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 6:25pm EST

    Elon Musk Calls Chinese Government “More Responsible” To Its Citizens Than U.S. Literally hours before it was reported that Alibaba’ Jack Ma has apparently been missing for the last two months, another well-known businessman relying on the resources of the Chinese state took an opportunity in an interview to call China “more responsible” than the […]

  • Tony Greer on Oil’s Surge, Liquidity Bonanzas, and “Inflation Hedge Paradise”

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 5:59pm EST

    Tony Greer on Oil’s Surge, Liquidity Bonanzas, and “Inflation Hedge Paradise” Real Vision senior editor Ash Bennington welcomes back Tony Greer of TG Macro to share his thoughts on the first rally of the new year. Tony arrives in high spirits as the eye-popping gains of crude oil, iron ore, and nickel authenticate his bullish-commodities […]

  • Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Transactions With 8 Chinese Apps, Including Jack Ma’s Alipay

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 5:49pm EST

    Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Transactions With 8 Chinese Apps, Including Jack Ma’s Alipay In a dramatic U-turn in US-China sentiment, which went from sheer euphoria following NYSE’s bizarre reversal late on Monday when the exchange announced it would not delist three Chinese telecom giants, sending their stocks – and the yuan – surging, to […]

  • Kenosha Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Won’t Face Charges

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 5:45pm EST

    Kenosha Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Won’t Face Charges A prosecutor in Wisconsin has decided not to charge the white police officer who shot Jacob Blake during a late-August altercation that fanned the flames of unrest during the wake of the killing of George Floyd. Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley said Tuesday that after […]

  • The US Has Lost More Than 110,000 Restaurants, Setting Stage For Commercial Real Estate Collapse Of Epic Proportions

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 5:25pm EST

    The US Has Lost More Than 110,000 Restaurants, Setting Stage For Commercial Real Estate Collapse Of Epic Proportions Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, The restaurant industry is in the midst of a complete and total meltdown that is unlike anything that we have ever seen before.  If you ask Google how many restaurants there […]

  • NYC Mayor Slams Cuomo Over Threats To Fine Hospitals During COVID Vaccine Rollout

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 5:05pm EST

    NYC Mayor Slams Cuomo Over Threats To Fine Hospitals During COVID Vaccine Rollout Even NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the latter’s plan to fine hospitals that take longer than a week to clear their COVID vaccine inventory – part of an ambitious push to vaccinate all of the state’s […]

  • Biden Taps Victoria “F*ck the EU” Nuland For Key National Security Post

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 4:45pm EST

    Biden Taps Victoria “F*ck the EU” Nuland For Key National Security Post Politico reports Tuesday that President-elect Joe Biden is tapping former senior Obama administration foreign affairs officials to serve in his cabinet. Most notably among them is neocon Victoria Nuland, who has just been tapped as Biden’s state department undersecretary for political affairs. Victoria Nuland greets […]

  • WTI Slips Below $50 After Big Product Build Offsets Some Saudi-Shocker Gains

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 4:34pm EST

    WTI Slips Below $50 After Big Product Build Offsets Some Saudi-Shocker Gains Oil prices soared today on the heels of Saudi’s self-sacrificial slashing of 1mm b/d output. They said this action was “pre-emptive” which, to us at least, does not seem like a positive catalyst – just how worried are they? How much did they […]

  • Ron Paul: The ‘Great Reset’ Is About Expanding Government Power And Suppressing Liberty

    ZeroHedge - Jan 5th 2021 4:25pm EST

    Ron Paul: The ‘Great Reset’ Is About Expanding Government Power And Suppressing Liberty Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab has proposed using the overreaction to coronavirus to launch a worldwide “Great Reset.” This Great Reset is about expanding government […]