The Project For A New American Century & The Age Of Bioweapons: 20 Years Of Psychological Terror Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation, A little over 20 years ago, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) conducted a military exercise that involved a “hypothetical scenario” of hijacked planes flying into both the Pentagon and […]
San Francisco City Officials Don’t Want People Buying Guns During Pandemic San Francisco supervisors have filed a resolution urging health officials from six Bay Area counties to assess the ‘public health threat’ of ‘panic buying weapons’ during the a time of crisis. In other words, if you feel that the country is about to fall […]
9/11 Truth: Under Lockdown For Nearly Two Decades Authored by Max Parry via The Unz Review, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary” – H.L. Mencken As the global pandemic grips world […]
Vice, Vice, Baby! Americans (Ab)Use Porn, Booze, & Chocolate To Cope With Lockdown To cope with lockdown stress, job loss, and or just being housebound and bored over the last month, millions of Americans have resorted to watching porn, drinking beer, smoking pot, and or devouring chocolate amid coronavirus lockdowns that covers at least 90% of the […]
In Late Thriller, OPEC Production Cut Deal Collapses After Mexico Balks Earlier today we reported that following a dramatic objection to the OPEC+ production cut which was agreed upon by Russia and Saudi Arabia (but few other OPEC members), Mexico had initially threatened to quit OPEC as it refused to comply with the imposed 23% […]
Escobar: Who Profits From The Pandemic? Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Strategic Culture Foundation, You don’t need to read Michel Foucault’s work on biopolitics to understand that neoliberalism – in deep crisis since at least 2008 – is a control/governing technique in which surveillance capitalism is deeply embedded. But now, with the world-system collapsing at breathtaking […]
Sailor From Virus-Stricken Carrier Found Unresponsive As Over 400 Crew Infected The nuclear carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt coronavirus disaster has gotten worse, as on Thursday more than 400 sailors tested positive for COVID-19. Alarmingly, one sailor was found unresponsive as the ship was docked at a naval base in Guam and immediately transported to a military intensive care […]
Israel Continues Building Massive Wall Along Lebanese Border Despite COVID-19 Lockdown Via AlMasdarNews.com, The Hebrew-language Channel 12 reported that despite the coronavirus outbreak, work is continuing and ongoing these days to complete the cement barrier on the Israeli-Lebanese border to prevent any infiltration or attacks by Hezbollah. Channel 12 reported that the Israeli move is related […]
Japan To Spend Billions Relocating Production Out Of China Japan has allocated $2.2 billion (US) of its $993 billion emergency stimulus package to help manufacturers relocate production out of China amid the COVID-19 pandemic which began in the communist nation. According to SCMP, $2 billion (US) will be set aside for companies shifting production back […]
How To Protect Yourself From Long Term Pandemic Lockdown Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, It has been only two weeks since widespread pandemic lockdowns were implemented in the US and as expected the public is not handling the idea very well. Within one week there were already frantic demands for the economy to reopen […]
“We Can’t Give Our Product Away” – Farmers Toss Thousands Of Acres Of Fruits, Veggies As Sales Plummet As some misguided liberals complain about fruits “left rotting on the trees” because Trump’s immigration crackdown has left no undocumented migrants to pick the vegetables (a demonstrably false assumption), the Associated Press has offered an explanation for […]
Consider The Possibility That Trump Is Right About China Authored by Nadia Schadlow via The Atlantic, Critics are letting their disdain for the president blind them to geopolitical realities… When a new coronavirus emerged in China and began spreading around the world, including in the United States, President Donald Trump’s many critics in the American […]
“Let Them Fail” – Billionaire Explains To Gobsmacked CNBC Host How Capitalism Is Supposed To Work With millions of Americans sitting at home working on their laptops, the passive viewership of cable news channels like CNBC must be waaaay up this month, as finance nerds welcome normies to the strange and often hilarious world of […]
Why The Political Class Freaked Out Authored by Robert Wright via The American Institute for Economic Research, It’s unsurprising that governments around the world have reacted so strongly to COVID-19. I think the game-theoretic model below explains the first round nicely. It also provides insight into what round two might look like. For game theory […]
Gold Knows “There Are No Temporary Measures, Just Permanent Lies” Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, The Fed announced today that it will buy junk bonds. This exceeds its legal authority. Supposedly, it’s temporary… Under guise of virus support, the Fed Will Buy Junk Bonds, Lend to States to the tune of an additional $2.3 trillion in […]
‘Piracy’ Or America First? US Customs To Seize All Exports Of Masks & Gloves A policy that US allies in Europe have recently slammed as ‘piracy’ is set to continue, as Washington unabashedly and unapologetically continues blocking shipments from US soil of personal protective equipment (PPE) — such as gowns, gloves, and N95 face masks — which hospitals […]
The COVID-19 “Lockdowns” Are What Twenty-First-Century Mob Rule Looks Like Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, As of April 6, forty-one states have statewide “stay-at-home” decrees in place. These orders vary widely from place to place. In some states, there are long lists of exempted industries including marijuana dispensaries, liquor stores, hardware stores, and of […]
The Day The Fed Nationalized The Bond Market: The Complete Summary Of Everything The Fed Did Today Two weeks after the Fed stunned markets by doing something not even Ben Bernanke dared to do, start buying investment grade corporate bonds, today the Fed’s nationalization of the entire bond market was complete when the Fed – […]
Dr. Fauci: I Don’t Think We Should Shake Hands “Ever Again” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) was optimistic yesterday (and the media crowed about his sudden about-face) as he said he hopes to see a “light at the end of the tunnel” by the end of […]
The Elites Are Already Prepared For The Coming Collapse Of The Dollar Bubble Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,’ Today, stock market investors are hoping desperately for Weimar-style hyperinflation to boost equities prices to dizzying heights in what some call a “crack-up boom”. In terms of money creation, we are not there yet, but such […]
Media On ‘Jihad’ Against Anti-Malaria COVID-19 Treatment Since Trump Endorsed Use: AG Barr Ever since President Trump endorsed the use of an anti-malaria drug to treat COVID-19 patients, the media has been on a “jihad” against it, according to Attorney General William Barr. Touted as a “game changer” by President Trump, hydroxychloroquine – a treatment […]
Battle Of The Sexes? Arizona Lawmakers Duke It Out Over Transgender Athlete Bill Authored by Clay Robinson via CampusReform.org, The Arizona House Republicans approved a bill to ban transgender women, those born as biological males, from competing in women’s sports. Rep. Nancy Barto, a Phoenix Republican, is the sponsor of the Save Women’s Sports Act which prevents […]
Insanity: As The US Enters A Depression, Stocks Are Now The Most Overvalued Ever Two days ago, when a platoon of clueless CNBC hacks said that stocks were extremely undervalued, and must be bought (on their fundamentals, not because the Fed was about to nationalize the entire bond market and is set to start buying […]
Mish: Small Business Guarantees Are A Bucket Of Moral Fraud Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, The coronavirus Small Business Relief program is a bucket of first come first serve moral fraud. The New York Times says Small-Business Relief Effort ‘a Mess’ The Hill says Small businesses still struggling for loans even as $100B is approved The […]
Gold Soars Along With Everything Else As Fed Ends Capital Markets As We Know Them As we noted earlier, The Fed’s actions this morning mean “free markets are dead.” Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd summed up exactly what The Fed has done with its actions today: “The Fed has made it clear that it will not tolerate […]
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