• “We Can Sh*t For 10 Years” – Dutch PM Mocks Toilet-Paper Shortage Rumors

    ZeroHedge - Mar 21st 2020 8:45am EDT

    “We Can Sh*t For 10 Years” – Dutch PM Mocks Toilet-Paper Shortage Rumors With concerns rising in the Western world that toilet paper shortages have developed due to panic hoarding among consumers amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the prime minister in the Netherlands has reassured a fellow citizen that the country has at least a decade […]

  • Watch: “Youths” Looting, Fighting At Supermarkets In London & Paris

    ZeroHedge - Mar 21st 2020 8:10am EDT

    Watch: “Youths” Looting, Fighting At Supermarkets In London & Paris Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Video footage out of London and Paris shows “youths” attempting to loot stores and start fights in response to the coronavirus outbreak. A clip showing a Sainsbury’s shop front in central London shows youths attempting to smash […]

  • ‘Vague’ Legislation Gives British Police Powers To Detain “Suspected COVID-19 Carriers”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 21st 2020 7:35am EDT

    ‘Vague’ Legislation Gives British Police Powers To Detain “Suspected COVID-19 Carriers” The Covid-19 outbreak is on the verge of hurling the UK into a nationwide lockdown, or maybe at least London for starters. We warned on Monday that “the UK has missed the critical containment window to implement social distancing policies that would flatten the curve and […]

  • NATO Cancels Massive Military Exercise ‘Defender Europe 2020’ Due To COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Mar 21st 2020 7:00am EDT

    NATO Cancels Massive Military Exercise ‘Defender Europe 2020’ Due To COVID-19 Authored by Rod Renny via TheDuran.com, NATO’s massive military exercise ‘Defender Europe 2020’ has been effectively canceled over the covid-19 pandemic. Instead of hype about Russia, perhaps the alliance should address the actual danger to Europe, analysts tell RT. The Pentagon had already deployed […]

  • From Quarantine To Tyranny To Rebellion: Where Is The Line In The Sand?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 21st 2020 12:05am EDT

    From Quarantine To Tyranny To Rebellion: Where Is The Line In The Sand? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, America is in a haze right now. It seems like half the country is in denial of the danger while the other half is awaking from apathy and frantically trying to prepare. This is creating a […]

  • China Auto Sales Continue Collapse, Plunging 50% And 44% In First And Second Week Of March, Respectively

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 11:45pm EDT

    China Auto Sales Continue Collapse, Plunging 50% And 44% In First And Second Week Of March, Respectively The coronavirus has certainly wreaked havoc on an already dilapidated global auto industry – and it’s no more evident than in China, where the virus originated and home to the largest auto market in the world. Continuing February’s […]

  • Debunking Nature Magazine’s “COVID-19 Definitely Didn’t Come From A Lab” China Propaganda

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 11:25pm EDT

    Debunking Nature Magazine’s “COVID-19 Definitely Didn’t Come From A Lab” China Propaganda Via HarvardToTheBigHouse.com, Maybe you shouldn’t blindly believe everything you read? Even if the source has a pretty solid reputation? Nature magazine has censored over 1,000 articles at the request of the Chinese government over the past several years. And it seems pretty clear that their […]

  • Italian Doctor Implores Rest Of World: “Lock Your Nations Down Now… Or Face This!”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    Italian Doctor Implores Rest Of World: “Lock Your Nations Down Now… Or Face This!” Judging by the following extremely disturbing news story from Sky News, hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman was on to something when he warned President Trump that “hell is coming.” “America will end as we know it,” warned the infamous hedge fund […]

  • From The Woke Elite To Walmart: The Surge Of ‘Preferred Pronouns’

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 10:45pm EDT

    From The Woke Elite To Walmart: The Surge Of ‘Preferred Pronouns’ Authored by Richard Bernstein via RealClearInvestigations The gender identity movement has spread from elite bastions of higher learning such as Harvard and Wesleyan to the Walmart nearest you. The giant retailer announced this month that it will allow employees to wear buttons that declare […]

  • Confirmed: Fed Bailed Out Hedge Funds Facing Basis Trade Disaster

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 10:24pm EDT

    Confirmed: Fed Bailed Out Hedge Funds Facing Basis Trade Disaster Back in December, when the world was still confused about what exactly happened before (and after) the September repocalypse – which has since exploded thousand-fold resulting in the Fed now doing daily $1 Trillion repo operations – we said that in addition to the implicit […]

  • Tucker Targets Lindsey Graham – Who Wants Trump To Boost Visas To Rich Chinese Amid Corona Crisis

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 9:45pm EDT

    Tucker Targets Lindsey Graham – Who Wants Trump To Boost Visas To Rich Chinese Amid Corona Crisis Tucker Carlson has a new target; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who the Fox News host suggested was being paid by lobbyists to push for an expansion of the EB-5 visa program that lets rich Chinese people buy their […]

  • On FDR’s Tyrannical Gold Confiscation

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 9:25pm EDT

    On FDR’s Tyrannical Gold Confiscation Authored by Jacob Hornberger via The Future of Freedom Foundation, Sometimes people say, “I guess we’ll just have to have a major economic or monetary crisis to wake people up and cause them to want a sound monetary system.” There is one big problem with that refrain, however: A crisis […]

  • Forty Year ‘Curse’ Strikes Tokyo Olympics

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 9:05pm EDT

    Forty Year ‘Curse’ Strikes Tokyo Olympics Update (1400ET): USA Swimming’s CEO is urging the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to push for the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics until next year. Tim Hinchey wrote to USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland on Friday to advocate on behalf of his governing body’s 400,000 members. Hinchey said athletes’ worlds […]

  • US Threatens Families Of Int’l Criminal Court Staff If They Try Americans For War Crimes

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 8:45pm EDT

    US Threatens Families Of Int’l Criminal Court Staff If They Try Americans For War Crimes Authored by Ben Norton via TheGrayZone.com, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened the family members of International Criminal Court staff, vowing that Washington will take punitive action against them if the court tries American soldiers for war crimes. Pompeo also […]

  • “I Lost 100%” Of My Business – Seattle Transforms Into ‘Ghost Town’ Amid Covid-19 Crisis

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 8:25pm EDT

    “I Lost 100%” Of My Business – Seattle Transforms Into ‘Ghost Town’ Amid Covid-19 Crisis An epic collapse of the gig and service economy is underway, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin warned if a trillion-dollar-plus bailout for Americans isn’t seen, tens of millions of Americans could lose their jobs. This collapse is most visible in Downtown Seattle, which has transformed into a ghost […]

  • The Inevitable Outcome Of The Oil Price War

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 8:05pm EDT

    The Inevitable Outcome Of The Oil Price War Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, One might reasonably posit that when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) signalled that Saudi Arabia was once again going to produce oil to the maximum to crash oil prices in a full-scale oil price war, Russian President Vladimir Putin probably […]

  • As Iran Hits 20,000 Cases, US Says ‘Coronavirus Won’t Save You From Sanctions’

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 7:45pm EDT

    As Iran Hits 20,000 Cases, US Says ‘Coronavirus Won’t Save You From Sanctions’ Even amid a global pandemic that’s altering daily life as everyone knows it, and with borders shut, markets collapsing, and talk of mobilizing the military domestically, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is keeping up the administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran.  “The […]

  • Boeing Suspends Buybacks And Dividends; CEO Will Work For Free Until End Of The Year

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 7:30pm EDT

    Boeing Suspends Buybacks And Dividends; CEO Will Work For Free Until End Of The Year Boeing thought it could be tricky – again – and after it repurchased tens of billions in stock in the past 7 years… … by issuing record corporate debt … … and making its shareholders extremely rich by sending its […]

  • The Economics Of Cruise Ships (& Why They Don’t Deserve A Bailout)

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 7:25pm EDT

    The Economics Of Cruise Ships (& Why They Don’t Deserve A Bailout) Authored by Zachary Crockett via TheHustle.co, In the wake of coronavirus and tanking stocks, cruise companies have sought assistance from the US government. But for decades, the industry has done everything in its power to avoid paying into the system. Cruise ships are […]

  • “Unparalleled Challenge” – Inside America’s First Locked-Down Major City, “Everything’s Out Of Our Control”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 7:05pm EDT

    “Unparalleled Challenge” – Inside America’s First Locked-Down Major City, “Everything’s Out Of Our Control” The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the US has more than doubled in the last several days. California Governor Gavin Newsom has issued a state-wide “stay at home” order amid the virus outbreak – the strongest and most restrictive measure […]

  • “Employees Are Ready To Riot”: A BofA Trader Erupts After Being Ordered To Stay On An Infected Trading Floor

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 6:38pm EDT

    “Employees Are Ready To Riot”: A BofA Trader Erupts After Being Ordered To Stay On An Infected Trading Floor With Gov. Cuomo ordering virtually every New Yorker to go home and only non-essential businesses to stay open, one would think Wall Street trading desks would be a ghost town right about now. After all, shuffling […]

  • Israel Debates ‘Total Suspension Of Individual Freedom’ In Knesset Intel Hearing

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 6:25pm EDT

    Israel Debates ‘Total Suspension Of Individual Freedom’ In Knesset Intel Hearing Is this where we’re all headed? Will the “Israeli model” soon be the reality across the West amid the coronavirus pandemic?  After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced last Saturday that authorities will tap the country’s ‘counter-terror’ technology and systems to combat the “invisible enemy” […]

  • Liberal NPCs Hate Russia, Conservative NPCs Hate China

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 6:05pm EDT

    Liberal NPCs Hate Russia, Conservative NPCs Hate China Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, The hashtag #ChinaLiedPeopleDied was recently sent trending on Twitter by “new right” pundit Michael Courdrey with the amplification of all the usual Trump bootlickers and their sheep-like followers, further feeding into the anti-China cold war hysteria conservatives have been aggressively pushing with increasingly […]

  • Vegas Strip Club Offers Drive-Thru Peep Show Amid Social Distancing Rules  

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 5:45pm EDT

    Vegas Strip Club Offers Drive-Thru Peep Show Amid Social Distancing Rules   A Las Vegas strip club is staying open during the virus crisis despite a 30-day shutdown of the city recommended by Gov. Steve Sisolak. The club is now offering patrons a chance to see dancers via a drive-through window, reported Las Vegas Review-Journal. Little Darlings […]

  • Will COVID-19 Actually Force Governments To Be More Efficient?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 20th 2020 5:25pm EDT

    Will COVID-19 Actually Force Governments To Be More Efficient? Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Well, at least there’s a bit of good news from COVID-19. In a few cases, it at least seems to be making government more efficient, and calls into question why so much bureaucracy existed to begin with. We think there’s […]