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  • Italian Mafia Distributes Food To Low-Income Families Under Quarantine

    ZeroHedge - Apr 11th 2020 9:45am EDT

    Italian Mafia Distributes Food To Low-Income Families Under Quarantine While much of Italy remains under lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, videos have surfaced in recent weeks of known Mafia gangs distributing free food to poor families in quarantine who have run out of cash, and local governments don’t like it according to The Guardian […]

  • Bullion Bank Nightmare As LBMA-COMEX Spread Blows Up Again

    ZeroHedge - Apr 11th 2020 9:15am EDT

    Bullion Bank Nightmare As LBMA-COMEX Spread Blows Up Again Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.com The gaping price differential between spot gold and gold futures that has been plaguing the paper gold markets in London and New York for the last three weeks shows no signs of abating and is continuing to flare up. In essence, […]

  • African Locust Outbreak Returns; Second Wave Approximately 20 Times Larger

    ZeroHedge - Apr 11th 2020 8:45am EDT

    African Locust Outbreak Returns; Second Wave Approximately 20 Times Larger Shortly before Coronavirus began sweeping the globe, the largest locust plague in 70 years was sweeping through various countries in Africa. According to the Associated Press, they’re back – with a second wave of the destructive, crop-eating insects up to 20x as large as the […]

  • Watch: Philadelphia Man Dragged Off Bus By Cops For Not Wearing Face Mask

    ZeroHedge - Apr 11th 2020 8:10am EDT

    Watch: Philadelphia Man Dragged Off Bus By Cops For Not Wearing Face Mask Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A video clip shows a man being dragged off a bus by police in Philadelphia because he was not wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus. At least four officers are seen attempting […]

  • British Suicide Rate Soars To Record High

    ZeroHedge - Apr 11th 2020 7:35am EDT

    British Suicide Rate Soars To Record High New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows the number of people taking their own lives in Britain jumped to a record high in 4Q19, reported Daily Mail.  ONS recorded 1,413 suicides for 4Q19, compared with just 1,130 over the same period in 2017, resulting in a […]

  • Is It Time For The WHO’s Pro-China Chief To Resign?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 11th 2020 7:00am EDT

    Is It Time For The WHO’s Pro-China Chief To Resign? Authored by Con Coughlin via The Gatestone Institute, As the body responsible for maintaining global health standards, the UN-sponsored World Health Organization (WHO) is supposed to adopt an even-handed approach when dealing with all member states, irrespective of how powerful they might be. It is […]

  • Singapore Oil Trading Giant On Verge Of Collapse After Banks Freeze Credit Lines

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 11:50pm EDT

    Singapore Oil Trading Giant On Verge Of Collapse After Banks Freeze Credit Lines Back in the second half of 2015, shortly after Saudi Arabia unleashed the (first) OPEC disintegration by flooding the market with oil in hopes of killing US shale (so deja vu… only back then it took it about two years for it […]

  • Is This America’s Turning Point?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 11:45pm EDT

    Is This America’s Turning Point? Authored by Robert Wright via The American Institute for Economic Research, The phrase “to jump the shark” at first referenced the point at which a television program started to lose its moorings, and its audience. Specifically, it referred to the episode of Happy Days (1974-84, ABC) when “the Fonz” (played by Henry […]

  • Confessions Of A Sado-Maso Sex Worker In A Time Of Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 11:20pm EDT

    Confessions Of A Sado-Maso Sex Worker In A Time Of Coronavirus When we say the coronavirus impact to the economy is hitting everyone – we mean everyone. And we mean hitting. It’s not just your local small business that has been crippled by everybody “staying the f*ck home” over the last month, but also your local sex worker.  One […]

  • “This Should Trouble Us Deeply” – Chilling Documentary Maps Out Likely Origin Of COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 10:55pm EDT

    “This Should Trouble Us Deeply” – Chilling Documentary Maps Out Likely Origin Of COVID-19 Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, While The Epoch Times began publishing reports of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus on Jan. 2, most outlets had yet to pick up on the story because of the CCP’s lockdown on […]

  • Mike Huckabee Sues Florida Sheriff For Threatening ‘Social Distancing’ Arrest On Private Beach

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 10:30pm EDT

    Mike Huckabee Sues Florida Sheriff For Threatening ‘Social Distancing’ Arrest On Private Beach Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a county government ordinance which has temporarily shut down beaches where his multi-million dollar Florida home is located. Huckabee filed it with his breachfront property neighbors against Walton County and its sheriff, saying the ordinance is […]

  • Whistleblower: How CDC Is Manipulating The COVID-19 Death-Toll

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 10:05pm EDT

    Whistleblower: How CDC Is Manipulating The COVID-19 Death-Toll Via GreatGameIndia.com, A Montana based physician has blown the whistle on how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is exaggerating the COVID-19 death toll by manipulating Coronavirus death certificates. Dr. Annie Bukacek, MD, is a longtime Montana physician with over 30 years of experience practicing medicine. Signing […]

  • Tokyo Olympics CEO Suggests 2021 Games Might Not Happen Either

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 9:40pm EDT

    Tokyo Olympics CEO Suggests 2021 Games Might Not Happen Either The CEO of Tokyo’s Olympic Games said on Friday that he can’t guarantee that even the postponed Olympics will happen next year, even after the delay. Toshiro Muto “I don’t think anyone would be able to say if it is going to be possible to […]

  • FBI Admits “Central Evidence” To Spy On Trump For Russia Collusion… Was Russian Disinformation

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 9:15pm EDT

    FBI Admits “Central Evidence” To Spy On Trump For Russia Collusion… Was Russian Disinformation Authored by Sara Carter via SaraACarter.com, Partially declassified footnotes from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s FBI report reveal that the most ‘central and essential’ evidence to justify surveillance of short term Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page was based on Russian disinformation, according to […]

  • World Faces “Devastating Health Consequences” As Global Condom Shortage Strikes

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 8:50pm EDT

    World Faces “Devastating Health Consequences” As Global Condom Shortage Strikes With the global economy crashed, international borders closed, air travel restricted, and major cities under government-enforced public health lockdowns, a new warning from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) specifies a global condom shortage is looming.  UNFPA says the disruption of complex supply chains and factory shutdowns […]

  • Some People’s Haircuts Are “Essential”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 8:25pm EDT

    Some People’s Haircuts Are “Essential” Authored by Adam Dick via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Politicians and the people charged with enforcing politicians’ directives really can be like the pigs in George Orwell’s book Animal Farm. The pigs’ express commandment for governing became, over time, “all animals are equal but some animals […]

  • ‘Breadlines’ Erupt Across America As Lockdowns Crush America’s “Working Poor”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 8:00pm EDT

    ‘Breadlines’ Erupt Across America As Lockdowns Crush America’s “Working Poor” The economy has crashed into a depression, 16.78 million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits, and consumer sentiment crashed the most on record. This American horror story has taken only three weeks to play out, the fastest and most severe economic crash in the country’s history, and still, we don’t know the […]

  • Bailouts Destabilize The Economy And Over-Inflate Asset Prices

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 7:35pm EDT

    Bailouts Destabilize The Economy And Over-Inflate Asset Prices President Trump recently signed a $2 trillion stimulus bill, ostensibly to support the economy through the coronavirus crisis. Pundits hailed it as a great bipartisan accomplishment that will help ease the pain of this economic slowdown. Of course, there will still be pain. And the government stimulus may […]

  • Car Sales In China Crash 40.8% YoY In March

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 7:10pm EDT

    Car Sales In China Crash 40.8% YoY In March While China continues to fake its economic recovery, pretending to reopen businesses, only to figure out it’s facing a second coronavirus wave, new stats from China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) detailed some disturbing realities the country continues to face: crashing car sales in March.  CPCA data showed car sales […]

  • This Curve Will Never Flatten Again: Fed Balance Sheet Hits $6.1 Trillion, Up $2 Trillion In 1 Month

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 6:55pm EDT

    This Curve Will Never Flatten Again: Fed Balance Sheet Hits $6.1 Trillion, Up $2 Trillion In 1 Month Here is an example of a curve that everyone wants to flatten. And here is an example of a curve that while some  – namely the bears – also wants to see collapse, it will never do […]

  • Why Mexico Fears Shutting Down Its Economy To Combat COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 6:45pm EDT

    Why Mexico Fears Shutting Down Its Economy To Combat COVID-19 Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been reluctant to impose mandatory “social distancing” orders on the Mexican population. According to USNews, López Obrador “has maintained a relaxed public attitude” toward COVID-19, and the Mexican government did […]

  • NYC Resorts To Burying Dozens Of Coronavirus Victims In “Mass Grave” On Hart Island

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 6:20pm EDT

    NYC Resorts To Burying Dozens Of Coronavirus Victims In “Mass Grave” On Hart Island Four and a half years ago, the New York Times published a feature about a man named George Bell, a Queens resident who died anonymously in his apartment, and whose body, after going unclaimed for several months, was eventually interred at […]

  • Beware The Balance Sheet Evolution After A Decade Of Reckless Financial Engineering

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 5:55pm EDT

    Beware The Balance Sheet Evolution After A Decade Of Reckless Financial Engineering Via AdventuresInCapitalism.com, Last week, we got news that Carnival became the first of many large corporations to aggressively dilute shareholders after a decade of reckless financial engineering. Visual Representation of the CCL Cap Structure… Before discussing this malfeasance of capital structure management, let’s […]

  • ‪”I See No People” – Stunning New Drone Footage Shows Jersey City’s “Stay At Home” Policy In Action

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 5:30pm EDT

    ‪”I See No People” – Stunning New Drone Footage Shows Jersey City’s “Stay At Home” Policy In Action More stunning drone video has surfaced on YouTube from account Mingomatic that shows residents of Jersey City, New Jersey, avoiding public areas and sheltering-at-home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Before we show the video, let’s take a look at changes in […]

  • “That’s Pretty Terrible, It’s A Death Signal”: Cliff Assnes’ AQR Loses $43 Billion In 2020

    ZeroHedge - Apr 10th 2020 5:10pm EDT

    “That’s Pretty Terrible, It’s A Death Signal”: Cliff Assnes’ AQR Loses $43 Billion In 2020 When financial crises strike, some funds – such as Mark Spitznagel’s Universa which spend “all their time thinking about looming disaster” – make a killing, in this case returning a staggering 3,612% in the month of March after suffering thousands […]