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  • Futures Hit New Record High After House Approves $2,000 Stimulus Checks

    ZeroHedge - Dec 29th 2020 8:04am EST

    Futures Hit New Record High After House Approves $2,000 Stimulus Checks US index futures and global stocks rose for a fourth straight day, hitting new all time highs on Tuesday after the Democrat-controlled House sided with Trump and passed a bill boosting stimulus payments for most Americans from $600 to $2,000 (which will almost certainly […]

  • Ripple Plunges After Coinbase Announces It Will Suspend XRP Trading

    ZeroHedge - Dec 29th 2020 7:24am EST

    Ripple Plunges After Coinbase Announces It Will Suspend XRP Trading Submitted by Cointelegraph Major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will suspend trading for XRP in response to the SEC taking legal action against Ripple. According to a blog post published late on Monday by Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal, the exchange will fully suspend XRP trading […]

  • Blood Gold – Dubai’s “Gold Hub” & The Swiss Connection

    ZeroHedge - Dec 29th 2020 5:00am EST

    Blood Gold – Dubai’s “Gold Hub” & The Swiss Connection Authored by Peter Koenig via GlobalResearch.ca, The Middle East Eye reports there are no gold mines under Dubai’s sands with artisanal miners or children toiling away trying to strike gold. But there is the Dubai Gold Souk and refineries that vie with the largest global operations as the United […]

  • These Are The Biggest Risks To Lasting Brexit Trade Peace

    ZeroHedge - Dec 29th 2020 4:15am EST

    These Are The Biggest Risks To Lasting Brexit Trade Peace EU nations unanimously backed the deal worked out by negotiators from London and Brussels, a sign that the last-minute deal – the text of which was released on Saturday – is on track to become binding international law. Or at least, so one might think. […]

  • Organiser Of London Anti-Lockdown Protest Could Be Fined £10,000

    ZeroHedge - Dec 29th 2020 3:30am EST

    Organiser Of London Anti-Lockdown Protest Could Be Fined £10,000 Authored by Lily Zhou via The Epoch Times, The organiser of an anti-lockdown protest in London is facing the prospect of a £10,000 ($13,488) fine, the Metropolitan Police said on Monday. The Met said that officers were called on Sunday afternoon to find about 100 people gathering in Ray Lane, Southwark, in […]

  • Swiss Furious As 200 British Skiers Flee Verbier Over COVID Lockdown Order

    ZeroHedge - Dec 29th 2020 2:45am EST

    Swiss Furious As 200 British Skiers Flee Verbier Over COVID Lockdown Order After suddenly finding themselves on lockdown as Switzerland imposed restrictions on British travelers as part of its reaction to the new “mutant” B.1.1.7 that has emerged in the UK and elsewhere (a strain that the WHO just said isn’t any more dangerous than […]

  • Escobar: Turkey Pivots To The Center Of The New Great Game

    ZeroHedge - Dec 29th 2020 2:00am EST

    Escobar: Turkey Pivots To The Center Of The New Great Game Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, When it comes to sowing – and profiting – from division, Erdogan’s Turkey is quite the superstar. Under the delightfully named Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), the Trump administration duly slapped sanctions on Ankara […]

  • 2020: The Year We Lost Our Common Sense, Courage, & Civil Liberties

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 11:31pm EST

    2020: The Year We Lost Our Common Sense, Courage, & Civil Liberties Authored by Robert Bridge via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Once it became clear to the Western elite that their subjects would readily accept draconian anti-Covid measures, it encouraged them to usher in a code-red lifestyle where there will be no ‘return to normal’ […]

  • Bass Blasts “Deeply Corrupt” EU Over Imminent Landmark China Investment Deal

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 11:16pm EST

    Bass Blasts “Deeply Corrupt” EU Over Imminent Landmark China Investment Deal In contrast to the EU, the US Congress passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act in June 2019, and on September 22, 2020, the US House of Representatives passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. As The Gatestone Institute’s Judith Bergman notes, the US has sanctioned at least 28 […]

  • Biden Meddles With Donald Trump’s Middle East Legacy At His Peril

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 10:46pm EST

    Biden Meddles With Donald Trump’s Middle East Legacy At His Peril Authored by Con Coughlin via The Gatestone Institute, The incoming Biden administration has indicated that one of its top priorities will be to adopt a new approach in Washington’s dealings with the Middle East. In particular it wants to revive the flawed nuclear deal with Iran […]

  • “People Are Fed Up”: California Out Of Excuses As Coronavirus Defies Militant Lockdowns

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 10:31pm EST

    “People Are Fed Up”: California Out Of Excuses As Coronavirus Defies Militant Lockdowns California’s response to COVID-19 ranks slightly below China welding people inside apartment buildings in terms of militancy, yet the for all the measures taken by the Golden State, it’s become one of the nation’s worst epicenters for the pandemic, according to Politico. […]

  • “The Elements Of The China Challenge”: A Reply To Critics

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 10:16pm EST

    “The Elements Of The China Challenge”: A Reply To Critics Authored by Peter Berkowitz via RealClearPolitics.com, In mid-November, the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff — I serve as the director — published “The Elements of the China Challenge.” The paper argues that the core of the challenge consists of the concerted efforts by the Chinese […]

  • Russia Issues Alexei Navalny An Ultimatum: Return Now Or Face Prison

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 9:46pm EST

    Russia Issues Alexei Navalny An Ultimatum: Return Now Or Face Prison The Kremlin just upped the ante amid soaring tensions with Germany and the EU over the Alexei Navalny affair, on Monday giving the allegedly poisoned Russian dissident an ultimatum: return to Russia right away for face prison. Reuters details that “Russia’s prison service on […]

  • Will Students Return To Public Schools After The Pandemic?

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 9:31pm EST

    Will Students Return To Public Schools After The Pandemic? By Will Flanders and Cori Petersen of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty; submitted by RealClearEducation. “She’s a happy kid, a good student, and the virtual learning was a disaster for us,” said Erin Haroldson of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, whose eight-year-old daughter was receiving virtual […]

  • China To Overtake US By 2028; Ushering In Dollar’s Demise? 

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 9:16pm EST

    China To Overtake US By 2028; Ushering In Dollar’s Demise?  Americans must wake up to the ugly reality that China will overtake the U.S. to become the world’s largest economy in 2028, five years earlier than previously anticipated, after weathering the virus pandemic much better than Western countries, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research […]

  • Trump’s Parting Shot: China Rips Pro-Taiwan & Tibet Measures In Spending Package

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 8:46pm EST

    Trump’s Parting Shot: China Rips Pro-Taiwan & Tibet Measures In Spending Package China has reacted fiercely to what it says is anti-China language and policies contained in the huge $2.3 trillion spending package President Trump signed Sunday night, namely centered on Tibet Policy and Support Act and the Taiwan Assurance Act. China’s foreign affairs minister Zhao Lijian expressed the […]

  • Iran Vows “Massive Response” If Israel Crosses ‘Red Lines’ With Sub Presence In Gulf

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 8:31pm EST

    Iran Vows “Massive Response” If Israel Crosses ‘Red Lines’ With Sub Presence In Gulf Just a little over three weeks to go until President-Elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan.20 and tensions in the Persian Gulf are at boiling point given not only the presence of a US nuclear submarine but allegedly a major Israeli presence […]

  • Police Release Dramatic Bodycam Footage Of Nashville RV Bombing 

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 8:16pm EST

    Police Release Dramatic Bodycam Footage Of Nashville RV Bombing  Metro Nashville Police have released body camera footage from one of the officers who responded to 2nd Ave N, in Downtown Nashville, on Friday morning, just minutes before the explosion.  Officer Michael Sipos’ body camera footage was published on the Nashville Police’s YouTube channel on Monday. There are about […]

  • New Jersey Women Arrested For Hosting COVID Speakeasy Where Hundreds Showed Up

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 7:46pm EST

    New Jersey Women Arrested For Hosting COVID Speakeasy Where Hundreds Showed Up Two New Jersey women were arrested for hosting an illegal “makeshift bar” over the weekend, according to NBC News. Officers responded to calls at a Newark warehouse at around 12 a.m. on Sunday where hundreds of patrons were seen eating, drinking and illegally […]

  • House Votes To Override Trump Veto On Defense Bill

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 7:31pm EST

    House Votes To Override Trump Veto On Defense Bill As expected, the House on Monday overwhelmingly voted to override Trump’s veto of the sweeping defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act. The final vote was 322-87, receiving the two-thirds majority it required with 109 Republicans voting to override Trump’s veto while 20 […]

  • High School Student Sues Over Leftist “Indoctrination” In Nevada

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 7:31pm EST

    High School Student Sues Over Leftist “Indoctrination” In Nevada Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A high school senior of mixed race is suing a taxpayer-funded charter school in Nevada over the “coercive, ideological indoctrination” that is central to its Critical Race Theory-based curriculum that forces students to associate aspects of their identity with oppression. […]

  • China’s Antitrust Crackdown On Tech’s Giants Leads To Massive Losses

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 7:16pm EST

    China’s Antitrust Crackdown On Tech’s Giants Leads To Massive Losses China’s continued crusade against Jack Ma – which may or may not culminate with Beijing tearing apart his fintech giant, Ant Financial on anti-trust grounds – led to a second day of frenetic selling among China’s largest tech firms, driven by an investor panic Beijing’s […]

  • Anti-America, Anti-Trump, ‘Anti-Racist’: The 5 Most Politically-Biased Courses Of 2020

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 7:00pm EST

    Anti-America, Anti-Trump, ‘Anti-Racist’: The 5 Most Politically-Biased Courses Of 2020 Authored by Benjamin Zeisloft via Campus Reform, Campus Reform reported on multiple courses in 2020 that pushed left-wing political bias. Here are the five most biased courses of 2020. 1. Vanderbilt University More than 800 Vanderbilt students were asked on a class assignment if the U.S. Constitution […]

  • BMW Will Produce An Additional 250,000 EVs Over Next 3 Years, CEO Says

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 6:31pm EST

    BMW Will Produce An Additional 250,000 EVs Over Next 3 Years, CEO Says As if Tesla’s inclusion in to the S&P 500 and ARK Invest’s batshit insane impressive fund inflows over the last couple weeks haven’t been enough to make you consider a top in Tesla, the rest of the automotive world continues to close […]

  • The Banality Of Bill Barr

    ZeroHedge - Dec 28th 2020 5:31pm EST

    The Banality Of Bill Barr Authored by Thomas J. Farnan via The National Pulse In June, Attorney General Bill Barr sat for an interview in CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and predicted widespread fraud with mail in voting. He said: “People trying to change the rules to this, to this methodology – which, as […]