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  • Ready For Impeachment Round 2? NYT Says Republican Senators Begged Trump Not To Fire Sondland

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 11:00am EST

    Ready For Impeachment Round 2? NYT Says Republican Senators Begged Trump Not To Fire Sondland Most Americans probably tuned out after President Trump’s soaring State of the Union address Tuesday night (at an hour and 18 minutes, the speech tied President Clinton’s 1999 SOTU for fifth-longest in modern history)… Courtesy of Forbes and Statista …but […]

  • The Mysterious Origin Of The Wuhan Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 10:30am EST

    The Mysterious Origin Of The Wuhan Coronavirus Authored by Xiang Zhang via The Epoch Times, China continues to refuse to release animal sampling testing data It has been two months since the outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan and its spread has shown no signs of slowing down in China. More than 35 Chinese cities […]

  • “We’re Totally In The Dark” – Japan Not Doing Enough To Contain Outbreak, ‘Diamond Princess’ Passengers Warn

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 10:19am EST

    “We’re Totally In The Dark” – Japan Not Doing Enough To Contain Outbreak, ‘Diamond Princess’ Passengers Warn Summary: Virus death toll surpasses SARS (total: 813) New cases confirmed in UK, Spain, Singapore Passengers aboard ‘Diamond Princess’ warn authorities aren’t doing enough to protect them – and others Officials in Shenzen say they won’t block Foxxconn […]

  • Don’t Get ‘Juice Jacked’ While Recharging In Public, Cybersecurity Expert Warns

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 9:55am EST

    Don’t Get ‘Juice Jacked’ While Recharging In Public, Cybersecurity Expert Warns Do you plug your phone into free public charging stations? Be careful! According to NBC News, you may get ‘juice jacked’ by hackers who have installed malware that can tunnel and copy your sensitive personal information! Cybersecurity expert Jim Stickley demonstrates how a hacker […]

  • Game Over? Is There Any Political Risk For Stocks In This Election Year?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 9:20am EST

    Game Over? Is There Any Political Risk For Stocks In This Election Year? Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, Is there any political risk for equities in this election year? The 2016 US election has been a nirvana for US corporations who benefited the tremendously from the Republican led 2017 tax cuts that went into […]

  • Chinatown Restaurant And Tourism Sales Plunge Over Coronavirus Fears

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 8:45am EST

    Chinatown Restaurant And Tourism Sales Plunge Over Coronavirus Fears Despite the fact that there have been no confirmed cases of coronavirus in NYC, sales at Chinatown restaurants have plunged amidst the outbreak, which is looking more like a potential global threat with each passing day. Now Wah Tea Parlor’s owner, Wilson Tang, said that on […]

  • German TV Exposes The Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 8:10am EST

    German TV Exposes The Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange Authored by Ray McGovern via ConsortiumNews.com, Truth has broken through for those confused about how a publisher ended up in a maximum security prison in London with a one-way extradition ticket to court in the U.S. and the rest of his life behind bars. One of […]

  • Class 8 Heavy Duty Truck Orders Dead-Cat-Bounce 10% In January, Marking First Rise In 15 Months

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 7:35am EST

    Class 8 Heavy Duty Truck Orders Dead-Cat-Bounce 10% In January, Marking First Rise In 15 Months Coming into 2020, there was talk of the Class 8 market rebounding eventually: the comps would be easier and the backlog created in 2018 amidst a buying spree was starting to wear away. While analysts pontificated about brighter days […]

  • Coronavirus – The African Connection

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 7:00am EST

    Coronavirus – The African Connection Via Golem XIV’s blog, Like every issue of consequence, in our Age of Incomprehension, opinion about the truth concerning the  Corona virus outbreak is divided.  Either China is taking all prudent steps, the virus, while transmissible, has a low mortality rate and the West, with its travel bans, is over-reacting […]

  • Trump Supporters Attacked After Van Plows Through GOP Voter Registration Tent In Florida

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 12:19am EST

    Trump Supporters Attacked After Van Plows Through GOP Voter Registration Tent In Florida Approximately six Trump supporters were attacked in the parking lot of a Jacksonville, Florida Walmart Saturday afternoon at around 3:50 p.m. when a man in his 20s plowed through a voter registration tent, according to the local Sheriff’s Office. JSO: White man, […]

  • US Deploys “Mini-Nuke” In Deplorable Threat To World Peace

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 11:30pm EST

    US Deploys “Mini-Nuke” In Deplorable Threat To World Peace Via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The Pentagon confirmed this week that it has, for the first time, armed some of its submarines with long-range nuclear missiles which have a lower destructive power compared with existing warheads. These so-called “mini-nukes” represent – despite the diminutive-sounding name – […]

  • Visualizing The 700-Year Fall Of Interest Rates

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 11:00pm EST

    Visualizing The 700-Year Fall Of Interest Rates How far can interest rates fall? Currently, many sovereign rates sit in negative territory, and, as Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld notes, there is an unprecedented $13 trillion in negative-yielding debt. This new interest rate climate has many observers wondering where the bottom truly lies. Today’s graphic from Paul […]

  • Coronavirus ‘Super-Spreader’ Infects 57 In Hospital As China Continues To Refuse CDC Help

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 10:30pm EST

    Coronavirus ‘Super-Spreader’ Infects 57 In Hospital As China Continues To Refuse CDC Help Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, One of the coronavirus fears was the possibility of super-spreaders. That possible fear is now reality… Disturbing Details A New Report on 138 Coronavirus Cases Reveals Disturbing Details including the emergence of a super-spreader. One patient, admitted to […]

  • Syria & Russia Publish Evidence Of US Weapons Recovered In Idlib ‘Terrorist Enclave’

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 10:00pm EST

    Syria & Russia Publish Evidence Of US Weapons Recovered In Idlib ‘Terrorist Enclave’ The Syrian Army is making major gains inside Idlib in a military offensive condemned by Turkey and the United States, over the weekend capturing the key town of Saraqib from al-Qaeda linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Amid the military advance, the Syrian and Russian governments […]

  • Breaking Down The Last Decade Of “Terrible” Climate-Change In 7 Narrative-Busting Charts

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 9:30pm EST

    Breaking Down The Last Decade Of “Terrible” Climate-Change In 7 Narrative-Busting Charts Authored by Anthony Watts via WattsUpWithThat.com, This article on Grist (h/t to James Taylor, The Heartland Institute) tries to point out how “terrible” the last decade was due to “climate change”. They write: As this hottest-on-record, godforsaken decade draws to a close, it’s clear that global […]

  • Global Air Freight Just Suffered Worst Year Since 2009

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 9:00pm EST

    Global Air Freight Just Suffered Worst Year Since 2009 The International Air Transport Association (IATA) published a new report on Wednesday that showed global air freight markets declined in 2019, suggesting the global economy continues to decelerate.  Global air freight measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), plunged 3.3% in 2019 over the prior year while available freight […]

  • Fiscal And Monetary Policy Insanity – Realized Depopulation Vs. Potential Pandemic

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 8:30pm EST

    Fiscal And Monetary Policy Insanity – Realized Depopulation Vs. Potential Pandemic Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, There is great concern (rightly) about the current Coronavirus and potential for a regional or global pandemic.  The loss of life and associated deceleration of economic activity have a fair number of folks pretty concerned and market […]

  • ‘Bullets, Not Hugs’: Mexico Deploys Elite Marines To Fight Drug Cartels In Response To Pressure From Trump Admin

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 8:00pm EST

    ‘Bullets, Not Hugs’: Mexico Deploys Elite Marines To Fight Drug Cartels In Response To Pressure From Trump Admin Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has deployed Mexico’s largely sidelined elite marine force to fight drug cartels, following pressure from the Trump administration to beef up its fight against illicit substances, according to the Wall Street […]

  • Climate Activist Leaves Environmentalist Movement Because It’s “Too White”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 7:30pm EST

    Climate Activist Leaves Environmentalist Movement Because It’s “Too White” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A Filipino climate activist wrote an article for VICE saying that she left the environmental movement because it was too “white.” Those awful white people and their…trying to save the planet! “The climate movement is overwhelmingly white. So […]

  • It’s Time To Ask Again What Really Happened To Ukraine’s Missing Gold

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 7:00pm EST

    It’s Time To Ask Again What Really Happened To Ukraine’s Missing Gold Now that the Trump impeachment farce is finally over, vindicating the president and in the process for the first time boosting the president’s approval rating higher than where Obama was at this time in his first term much to the embarrassment of Nancy […]

  • Iowans Rage “They’re Dirty, Man”, Matt Taibbi Warns Des Moines Debacle Was “Waterloo For Democrats”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 6:30pm EST

    Iowans Rage “They’re Dirty, Man”, Matt Taibbi Warns Des Moines Debacle Was “Waterloo For Democrats” Authored by Matt Taibbi via RollingStone.com, In a fiasco for the ages, the blue party faceplants in Iowa… Monday, February 3rd, just before 9 p.m., the airport Holiday Inn, Des Moines. A crowd of supporters and volunteers for Senator Bernie […]

  • “End That Son Of A Bitch”: Duterte Moves To Terminate Philippines’ Military Pact With US

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 6:00pm EST

    “End That Son Of A Bitch”: Duterte Moves To Terminate Philippines’ Military Pact With US President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is moving to terminate the shaky US-allied country’s military pact with the United States after Washington revoked former police chief and now Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa’s US visa last month. The close Duterte ally […]

  • OPCW Report (Predictably) Smears Whistleblowers

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 5:30pm EST

    OPCW Report (Predictably) Smears Whistleblowers Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, The OPCW has released a briefing note summarising the recent “independent investigation” into their recent Titanic-sized leaks. (You can read the summary at the link above, or the full “independent” report here). It’s a fairly narrow statement, focusing entirely on the two unnamed inspectors (Inspector A and […]

  • Hawkish Senators Demand Twitter ‘Obey Sanctions’ By Banning Iran’s Leaders

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 5:00pm EST

    Hawkish Senators Demand Twitter ‘Obey Sanctions’ By Banning Iran’s Leaders At this rate all Iranian media sources and official accounts could soon be banned in the West, leaving journalists without a clue of what Tehran’s leaders actually think, and without official statements. The semi-official Fars news English website was knocked offline two weeks ago by […]

  • Pakistan Swiftly Passes Resolution Calling For Public Hanging Of Pedophiles

    ZeroHedge - Feb 8th 2020 4:30pm EST

    Pakistan Swiftly Passes Resolution Calling For Public Hanging Of Pedophiles Authored by Elias Marat via TheMindUnleashed.com, Pakistan’s parliament passed a resolution Friday that calls for the public hanging of convicted child killers and rapists. AFP reports that the resolution, which is non-binding, comes after a number of high-profile child sex-abuse cases have scandalized the South Asian nation […]