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  • We Have Become ‘Karen’ Nation

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 8:45am EDT

    We Have Become ‘Karen’ Nation Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, A week ago, I didn’t know what a ‘Karen’ was. Today I can’t stop seeing Karens everywhere I look. It’s like that moment in They Live! when Nada puts on the glasses for the first time. The problem now is […]

  • 565 Americans Have Lost Their Job For Every Confirmed COVID-19 Death In The US

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 8:33am EDT

    565 Americans Have Lost Their Job For Every Confirmed COVID-19 Death In The US In the last week 4.427 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits for the first time. Source: Bloomberg That brings the four-week total to 26.5 million, which is over 10 times the prior worst five-week period in the last 50-plus years. And […]

  • Brutal Realities & Illusions Of Normality: Angry Voters, Destitute Retirees, & Social Unrest

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 8:12am EDT

    Brutal Realities & Illusions Of Normality: Angry Voters, Destitute Retirees, & Social Unrest Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act” Trump is not a complete fool. He knows enough to move oil prices up. Threaten to start a war in the Middle […]

  • “Unprecedented Damage To The Euro Zone” – European PMIs Hammered By Record Collapse

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 7:53am EDT

    “Unprecedented Damage To The Euro Zone” – European PMIs Hammered By Record Collapse Economic activity across the eurozone ground to a halt this month as the new coronavirus sweeping across the world forced governments to impose lockdowns and firms to down tools and shut their businesses. The latest monthly PMI manufacturing and service surveys illustrated […]

  • Shocking New Data Show 90% Of COVID-19 Patients On Ventilators Won’t Survive: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 7:17am EDT

    Shocking New Data Show 90% Of COVID-19 Patients On Ventilators Won’t Survive: Live Updates Just 48 hours before Georgia was set to become the first state in the country to start reopening its economy, President Trump revealed in what sounded like an offhanded answer to a reporter’s question that he “strongly disagrees” with Gov Kemp’s […]

  • Pork Shortages To Strike America In Two Weeks 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 6:30am EDT

    Pork Shortages To Strike America In Two Weeks  We have some troubling news developing deep inside America’s food supply chain network, suggesting rapid food inflation could be dead ahead. In the last several weeks, six major US meatpacking facilities have shuttered operations because of the coronavirus outbreak. That means 15% of America’s hog-slaughtering capacity has been shifted offline, […]

  • Market Mayhem Meets Liquidity Mismatch: At Least 76 European Mutual Funds Were “Gated” In March

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 6:00am EDT

    Market Mayhem Meets Liquidity Mismatch: At Least 76 European Mutual Funds Were “Gated” In March Authored by Nick Corbishley via WolfStreet.com, The mass shuttering of open-end mutual funds, a problem that has dogged the UK’s fund industry for months, appears to have crossed over to multiple fund industries in mainland Europe. According to Fitch Ratings, “at […]

  • GM And Ford Are One Step Closer To Losing Billions On Used Car Price Plunge

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 5:30am EDT

    GM And Ford Are One Step Closer To Losing Billions On Used Car Price Plunge The finance arms of Ford and GM are inching closer to billion dollar losses as a result of a plunge in used car prices.  While the impact has been expected for several weeks, the plunge in used car prices has […]

  • Migrant Areas Of Paris Hit With 4th Consecutive Night Of Riots

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 5:00am EDT

    Migrant Areas Of Paris Hit With 4th Consecutive Night Of Riots Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Migrant areas of Paris were hit with a 4th consecutive night of rioting following an accident in which a motorcyclist was seriously injured after a confrontation with police. One clip shows firefighters trying to tackle a […]

  • Chinese Doctors’ Skin Turns “Very Dark” After Barely Surviving COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 4:15am EDT

    Chinese Doctors’ Skin Turns “Very Dark” After Barely Surviving COVID-19 Dr. Yi Fan and Dr. Hu Weifeng both survived coronavirus after being infected while treating patients in the city of Wuhan, where they both worked. But after they were placed on life support, their skin turned “very dark”. Both doctors were diagnosed back in January […]

  • CBDC: The Overarching Goal Behind The Digitisation Of Money?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 3:30am EDT

    CBDC: The Overarching Goal Behind The Digitisation Of Money? Authored by Steven Guinness, It is no revelation that central banks are actively engaged in both the research and piloting of central bank digital currencies. But the mechanics of how they are conducting their programmes is not as widely recognised. This is largely because the information […]

  • Unsealed Court Docs Expose Spanish Spy Firm Dirty Tricks: Stealing Assange’s Son’s Dirty Diaper, Tracking Mom

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 2:45am EDT

    Unsealed Court Docs Expose Spanish Spy Firm Dirty Tricks: Stealing Assange’s Son’s Dirty Diaper, Tracking Mom Bombshell revelations via court documents this week reveal how a Spanish security firm tracked the mother of Julian Assange’s fiancée, illegally recorded hours of footage of Assange’s son, and also stole his son’s dirty diapers, reported RT News. Stella Morris, […]

  • Global COVID-19 Lockdown – What You’re Not Being Told, Part 2

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 2:00am EDT

    Global COVID-19 Lockdown – What You’re Not Being Told, Part 2 Authored by Iain Davis via Off-Guardian.org, In Part 1 we looked at the reasons why questioning the coronavirus lockdown, despite the ever present allegation, does not demonstrate a callous disregard for human life. We are going to expand on why it doesn’t in this article. I […]

  • Iran Hails First ‘Successful’ Military Satellite Launch, But US Intelligence Says ‘Failure’ To Orbit

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 1:00am EDT

    Iran Hails First ‘Successful’ Military Satellite Launch, But US Intelligence Says ‘Failure’ To Orbit Amid soaring tensions with the US and on the same day that President Trump issued a provocative tweet ordering the Navy to “shoot down and destroy” Iranian gunboats in the gulf, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) announced the successful launch of the country’s first […]

  • Human Lab Rats: The US Government’s Secret History Of Grisly Experiments

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 12:00am EDT

    Human Lab Rats: The US Government’s Secret History Of Grisly Experiments Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” – Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children I have […]

  • Visualizing How Oil Prices Went Sub-Zero: Explaining The COVID-19 Oil Crash

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 11:40pm EDT

    Visualizing How Oil Prices Went Sub-Zero: Explaining The COVID-19 Oil Crash The Great Lockdown continues to turn markets on their head. Last week, Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins dug into the unprecedented number of initial jobless claims coming out of the United States, which topped 22 million in a period of four weeks. It’s just days later, and […]

  • YouTube Sides With World Health Organization On Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 11:20pm EDT

    YouTube Sides With World Health Organization On Coronavirus Submitted by ValueWalk YouTube says it will take down any videos that contradict what the World Health Organization says about the coronavirus. As the WHO finds itself in the middle of controversy over China’s handling of COVID-19, it sounds like any videos even criticizing the agency could […]

  • Liquidity Crisis Over? In Drastic Reversal, Companies Issue Bonds To Repay Revolvers

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 11:17pm EDT

    Liquidity Crisis Over? In Drastic Reversal, Companies Issue Bonds To Repay Revolvers Starting one month ago, hit by a dramatic flashback to events from the global financial crisis, US corporations panicked and rushed to obtain as much funding as they possibly could – especially since such key short-term funding markets such as Commercial Paper were […]

  • China Sends US “Contaminated” COVID Test-Kits 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 11:00pm EDT

    China Sends US “Contaminated” COVID Test-Kits  It’s bad enough that China has frozen exports of medical equipment to the US during the pandemic. Now a new report sheds light on some COVID-19 test kits from the country that were sent “contaminated.”  The South China Morning Post (SCMP) said the University of Washington School of Medicine (UW Medicine) “went to extraordinary […]

  • Techno-Tyranny: How The US National Security State Is Using COVID-19 To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 10:40pm EDT

    Techno-Tyranny: How The US National Security State Is Using COVID-19 To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision Authored by Whitney Webb via TheLastAmericanVagabond.com, LAST YEAR, A GOVERNMENT COMMISSION CALLED FOR THE US TO ADOPT AN AI-DRIVEN MASS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FAR BEYOND THAT USED IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN ORDER TO ENSURE AMERICAN HEGEMONY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. NOW, […]

  • Jerusalem’s City Hall Complex Goes Up In Flames After Molotov Cocktail Attack

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 10:20pm EDT

    Jerusalem’s City Hall Complex Goes Up In Flames After Molotov Cocktail Attack Police in Jerusalem are investigating a possible terror attack after a massive fire broke out at Jerusalem’s City Hall on Wednesday afternoon.  Given multiple building at the sprawling complex were shown in local media reports set ablaze, it appears the result of an […]

  • Watch: John Pilger’s “The Coming War On China”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 10:00pm EDT

    Watch: John Pilger’s “The Coming War On China” Authored by Caitlin Johnstone, “The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable,” Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which you can watch […]

  • Lululemon Fires Art Director Over ‘Bat Fried Rice’ Shirt

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 9:40pm EDT

    Lululemon Fires Art Director Over ‘Bat Fried Rice’ Shirt Lulumemon has issued an apology and fired its art director, Trevor Fleming, after he shared an Instagram link on Sunday to a shirt created by artist Jess Sluder featuring a Chinese take-out box decorated with bat wings and the words “no thank you” on the sleeves […]

  • Mankind’s Best Friend: Dogs Being Trained To Detect COVID-19 Odors Could Test 750 People Per Hour

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 9:20pm EDT

    Mankind’s Best Friend: Dogs Being Trained To Detect COVID-19 Odors Could Test 750 People Per Hour Authored by Elias Marat via TheMindUnleashed.com, There’s plenty of reason why dogs have historically been considered man’s best friend. For at least the past 15,000 years, dogs have served human societies in myriad ways. Whether by hunting pray, helping […]

  • Trump Says He “Strongly Disagrees” With Gov Kemp’s Decision To Reopen Georgia

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 9:04pm EDT

    Trump Says He “Strongly Disagrees” With Gov Kemp’s Decision To Reopen Georgia After a week in which President Trump deliberately courted blame for the entire coronavirus pandemic response by tacitly applauding protesters demanding that the country reopen immediately, reopening the national parks and making other remarks implying that he now regrets his decision to delegate […]