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  • European Union Approves Bugs For Human Consumption

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 3:00am EDT

    European Union Approves Bugs For Human Consumption Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, The European Union’s Food Safety Authority has approved the sale of bugs as “novel food,” meaning that they are likely to be mass produced for human consumption throughout the continent by the end of the year. Can’t wait. “These have […]

  • “All The Jobs Are Gone” – Africa Facing ‘Complete Economic Collapse’ As Virus Spreads

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 2:30am EDT

    “All The Jobs Are Gone” – Africa Facing ‘Complete Economic Collapse’ As Virus Spreads The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns across the African continent could trigger an economic collapse, according to one United Nations (UN) official, who spoke with Associated Press (AP).  Ahunna Eziakonwa, the UN Development Program regional director for Africa, warned that the pandemic would likely result in […]

  • China’s Fake News : Its “Superior System” Defeats COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 2:00am EDT

    China’s Fake News : Its “Superior System” Defeats COVID-19 Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, China has “defeated” the coronavirus and declared “victory,” Communist Party media tells us. A funny thing happened on the way to victory, however. The virus is hitting China in a second wave. The second wave is claiming victims, […]

  • Austria Becomes First European State To Start Reopening Its Economy

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 1:00am EDT

    Austria Becomes First European State To Start Reopening Its Economy American liberals are having a field day right now bashing President Trump for ‘botching’ the federal response to the coronavirus outbreak. But before they get too excited, we’d like to point out a couple of things to keep in mind: first, the outbreak isn’t over […]

  • As US Consumers Slide Into Depression They Have Never Been More Bullish On Stocks

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 12:03am EDT

    As US Consumers Slide Into Depression They Have Never Been More Bullish On Stocks Not even in Khruschev’s wildest dreams did central planners ever conceive of anything so absolutely batshit insane as what is taking place in US “markets” right now. With the US economy sliding into a depression which will last at least one […]

  • Whitehead: Civil Liberty Attacks In The Age Of COVID-19 Threaten To Expose The American Police State

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 11:55pm EDT

    Whitehead: Civil Liberty Attacks In The Age Of COVID-19 Threaten To Expose The American Police State In an exclusive for MintPress, constitutional attorney John Whitehead warns that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to bring the American Police State out into the open on a scale we’ve not seen before. You can always count on the government […]

  • Argentina Defaults For Record Ninth Time

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 11:35pm EDT

    Argentina Defaults For Record Ninth Time There is a saying: three things in life are certain: death, taxes and another Argentina default. In the annals of sovereign debt there is no country that has defaulted more times on its debt, than the country formerly known as the pearl of South America –  Argentina – which […]

  • COVID-19 Has Lit The Fuse On China’s Economic-Debt Time-Bomb

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 11:15pm EDT

    COVID-19 Has Lit The Fuse On China’s Economic-Debt Time-Bomb Authored by Cary Huang, op-ed via The South China Morning Post, Beijing has a tough choice to make: tolerate an unprecedented hit to the economy or go for massive stimulus and risk explosive consequences… It should beware, a financial virus can be every bit as toxic […]

  • New Zealand PM Adds “The Easter Bunny” & “The Tooth Fairy” To List Of ‘Essential Workers’

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 10:55pm EDT

    New Zealand PM Adds “The Easter Bunny” & “The Tooth Fairy” To List Of ‘Essential Workers’ New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won global plaudits for her “compassionate” handling of the coronavirus outbreak, the Washington Post reported, and Ardern won even more praise on Monday, when she added two new job categories to the […]

  • “Horrifying Global Surge In Domestic Violence” Amid COVID-19 Lockdowns: UN

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 10:35pm EDT

    “Horrifying Global Surge In Domestic Violence” Amid COVID-19 Lockdowns: UN Authored by Jessica Corbett via CommonDreams.org, As world leaders continue to impose stay-at-home orders and many businesses, schools, and services across the globe remain shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is expressing concerns about reports of alarming increases in […]

  • ‘Lives In Danger’: Canada Lashes Out After US Blocked Export Of Millions Of N95 Masks

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 10:15pm EDT

    ‘Lives In Danger’: Canada Lashes Out After US Blocked Export Of Millions Of N95 Masks Over the weekend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will not retaliate against the US for banning exports of crucial medical protective supplies shipments into Canada, after on Friday a major shipment of masks from Minnesota-based 3M to Canada was halted by […]

  • How The Left Is Trying To Blame Capitalism For COVID-19 Deaths

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 9:55pm EDT

    How The Left Is Trying To Blame Capitalism For COVID-19 Deaths Authored by Bradley Thomas via The Mises Institute, Not hesitating to exploit a health pandemic to advance their ideological agenda, Jacobin magazine on March 26 published an article attempting to proactively blame “millions” of coronavirus deaths on “capitalism.” Titled “How Capitalism Kills during a Pandemic,” the […]

  • Amid ‘Mandatory Lockdown,’ Baltimore Officials Approve Spy-Plane To “Collect Images Of City”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 9:35pm EDT

    Amid ‘Mandatory Lockdown,’ Baltimore Officials Approve Spy-Plane To “Collect Images Of City” For years, we’ve been documenting how spy planes have been flying over the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, transforming the region into a surveillance state.  To refresh your memory, the federal government used spy planes to monitor the 2015 riots in Baltimore City. Even before the […]

  • Morton’s Parent Scrambles To Reopen Frozen Loan Market With Record-Yielding 15% Secured Paper

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 9:08pm EDT

    Morton’s Parent Scrambles To Reopen Frozen Loan Market With Record-Yielding 15% Secured Paper While investment grade bonds have recouped most of their early March losses thanks to the Fed’s takeover of the IG bond market now that the NY Fed, via Blackrock, is purchasing the LQD ETF as well as bonds in the open market, […]

  • China’s Tourist Sites Overwhelmed With Crowds After Emerging From Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 8:55pm EDT

    China’s Tourist Sites Overwhelmed With Crowds After Emerging From Lockdown A weekend national Chinese holiday called the Qingming Festival witnessed greatly relaxed restrictions across the country even as health authorities fear the coronavirus outbreak isn’t over, and as the potential for a new wave of ‘asymptomatic’ spreaders has health officials worried. It comes at a moment Beijing is […]

  • ‘Stay-At-Home’ Orders Have Created A “Perfect Storm” For Grifters, Scammers, & Spoofers

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 8:35pm EDT

    ‘Stay-At-Home’ Orders Have Created A “Perfect Storm” For Grifters, Scammers, & Spoofers Authored by John Wasik via RealClearInvestigations.com, This tax season, thousands of people may feel the same joy I experienced upon receiving a large and unexpected refund check from Uncle Sam. Unfortunately, they will also experience the dismay and fear when they find out […]

  • “Media Extinction Event”: Print Newspapers Face COVID-19 Death-Knell

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 8:15pm EDT

    “Media Extinction Event”: Print Newspapers Face COVID-19 Death-Knell Traditional print media was already on the ropes long before the crisis, in competition with exploding alternative forms of digital news and independent platforms, but the coronavirus pandemic and accompanying shutdown of the economy could prove the final death blow. Bloomberg reports at a moment newspaper staff […]

  • Gold Futures Extend Gains To 8 Year Highs After Pelosi’s Trillion-Dollar Promise

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 8:02pm EDT

    Gold Futures Extend Gains To 8 Year Highs After Pelosi’s Trillion-Dollar Promise COVID-19 appears to have impacted the deep fiscally-conservative regions of the brains of politicians more than many suspected possible as left, right, and center seem to be coalescing around the fact that moar spending is better, moar helicopter money is even better-er, and […]

  • The Great Government Gold Heist Of 1933

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 7:55pm EDT

    The Great Government Gold Heist Of 1933 Via SchiffGold.com, Yesterday marked the anniversary of the great government gold heist of 1933 ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. On April 5, 1933, the president signed Executive Order 6102. It was touted as a measure to stop gold hoarding, but it was in reality, a massive gold […]

  • Pelosi Tells Democrats Next Stimulus To Be At Least $1 Trillion As Goldman Predicts Explosion In US Debt

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 7:34pm EDT

    Pelosi Tells Democrats Next Stimulus To Be At Least $1 Trillion As Goldman Predicts Explosion In US Debt The SBA and the Treasury have yet to figure out how to distribute the hundreds of billions small business funds from the recently passed $2.2 trillion Phase 3 coronavirus rescue aid, and the US government is already […]

  • Bailing-Out The Bailed-Out

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 7:15pm EDT

    Bailing-Out The Bailed-Out Authored by Matt Taibbi via RollingStone.com, “I’ve never signed anything with a ‘T’ before,” Donald Trump quipped at the signing of the $2 trillion CARES Act. He reportedly wants his signature on coronavirus relief checks, as if they were Trump Plaza casino chips. This might be a fitting metaphor for America’s post-virus economic future. The new bailout […]

  • Small Business Rescue Loan Platform Crashes As Firms Seek Virus Aid

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 6:55pm EDT

    Small Business Rescue Loan Platform Crashes As Firms Seek Virus Aid Technical glitches plaguing the Small Business Administration’s rescue loan platform went from bad to worse on Monday, after computers running the system crashed – leaving borrowers and lenders in the lurch for hours. According to Bloomberg, citing banking industry representatives and an administration official, […]

  • Boeing Troubles Continue

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 6:35pm EDT

    Boeing Troubles Continue Submitted by Market Crumbs, Boeing has had a rough couple of years, starting with two separate 737 MAX crashes in October 2018 and March 2019, respectively, which killed a combined 346 people. Boeing saw net total orders drop to negative 87 airplanes last year, its worst in decades. For comparison, its main […]

  • Realtors Resort To Virtual Reality To Sell Homes During Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 6:15pm EDT

    Realtors Resort To Virtual Reality To Sell Homes During Lockdown Realtors across the country are dreading open houses or even showing clients homes, nevertheless, sitting in an office signing a contract, that is because masks are in limited supply, and they could catch COVID-19.  In Palm Beach, Florida, where cases and deaths are surging thanks to spring […]

  • US Army Colonel (Ret.): “Yes, The COVID-19 Pandemic Could Have Originated In A Chinese Lab…”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 6th 2020 5:55pm EDT

    US Army Colonel (Ret.): “Yes, The COVID-19 Pandemic Could Have Originated In A Chinese Lab…” Submitted by Lawrence Sellin, Let’s be clear, although there have been many attempts to do so by scientists worldwide, so far, no one knows the origin of CoVid-19, the coronavirus strain responsible for the global pandemic. CoVid-19 has several unique […]