Unprecedented Stimulus Is Fueling An Explosion Of Fraud, Governments Begin To Admit Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 03:30 Authored by Nick Corbishley via WolfStreet.com, “If you discover at a later stage that there was Mafia involvement, how do you undo what you’ve already done?” The British government acknowledged on Tuesday that it may end up […]
China & Russia To Kick Off Joint Military Exercises In Caucuses As Ties Deepen Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 02:45 It’s been no secret that over the past two years the tumultuous and historically antagonistic relationship between Russian and China has warmed, with Presidents Putin and Xi enjoying a rapid thawing of tensions amid mutual visits […]
The Global Police State Is Swiftly Rising Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 02:00 Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, There is always an excuse for the enforcement of totalitarian restrictions on the public. There is always a reason. And, often these reasons are engineered to sound logical and practical at the time. In Germany after […]
How To Steal An Election Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 00:00 Authored by Chris Farrell via The Gatestone Institute, How does one ensure their political allies are ideologically synchronized, and know exactly how to disrupt a presidential election? What about the “journalists” in the news media and the babblers on social media — how does […]
Chinese Fighter Jets Buzz Taiwan Airspace For Second Day As Pacific Tensions Soar Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 23:40 For the second day in a row, on Thursday, Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ), according to an Al Jazeera report. Taiwan was forced to scramble fighter jets as Chinese warplanes breached the air […]
Out Of The Memory Hole: The Dystopian Thread From 9/11 To The COVID Hysteria Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 23:20 Authored by Edward Curtin via EdwardCurtin.com, For anyone old enough to have been alive and aware of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and of so-called COVID-19 in 2020, memory may serve to remind one […]
Starbucks Rolls Out ‘Sippy-Cup’ Lids Nationwide Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 23:00 Starbucks announced on Thursday that all of its stores in the United States and Canada will offer strawless lids on its iced coffee, tea, espresso and Refreshers drinks, after successfully test-bedding them over the last year. The lids, modeled after those used for […]
Munk Debates: Scientific Community Has Over-Reacted To COVID-19 Threat (& The Data Proves It) Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 22:40 Via MunkDebates.com, Are we overreacting to COVID-19? Be it Resolved, the scientific community has overreacted to the threat of COVID-19 and the data prove it… Six months into a global pandemic and 63,000 scientific papers […]
Seven ‘Disturbances’ Swirl In Atlantic As Experts Brace For Active Late Season Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 22:20 Readers may recall, on Thursday, we outlined the La Nina weather pattern has likely been the culprit behind dangerous wildfires in the western U.S., and, as we highlighted as early as Aug. 13, the ‘super active’ hurricane season. As Bloomberg describes, La Nina “triggers […]
The Welfare State Did What Slavery Couldn’t Do Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 22:00 Authored by Wedny McElroy via The Mises Institute,m “The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn’t do….And that is to destroy the black family.” –Walter E. Williams, the Wall Street Journal On August 14, the Commission on Social Status […]
COVID Financial Pain ‘Much, Much Worse’ Than Expected, Warns Harvard Study Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 21:40 New findings from a survey by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, published by NPR News on Wednesday, reveal low-income minority households have experienced the most financial hardships in the virus-induced recession. The pandemic […]
Doug Casey: How To Solve The Problem Of Politics In The Divided States Of America Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 21:20 Authored by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, The terms liberal (left) and conservative (right) define the conventional political spectrum. But the terms are floating abstractions, with meanings that change with every politician. In the nineteenth century, a “liberal” believed […]
Biden Spox Melts Down Over Teleprompter, COVID Questions Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 21:08 Joe Biden’s National Press Secretary, TJ Ducklo, just gave a trainwreck of an interview on Fox News – where he shifted between anti-Trump talking points and backpedaling defensively over simple questions, such as Biden’s reliance on teleprompters, and what the former […]
Tracey: Stop Crying Foul Over Fascism Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 20:40 Authored by Michael Tracey via UnHerd.com, The Left justifies extreme and violent action by framing Trump as an existential threat to America… It might not seem immediately apparent that Joe Biden would have anything in common with insurrectionary anarchists. After all, Biden has […]
US Aircraft Caught Spying On Chinese Missile Test Disguised As “Malaysian Plane” Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 20:20 Chinese and Russian media are highlighting what they’re reporting as multiple instances of a US spy plane changing its transponder code in order to disguise itself during operations near China. The latest reported instance came Wednesday morning, involving a US […]
Iran Tells UAE It’s “Now A Target” In Response To Any Israeli Aggression Due To Peace Deal Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 20:00 Via AlMasdarNews.com, The Assistant Speaker of the Iranian Parliament for International Affairs, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, warned that after the UAE’s normalization with Israel, any Israeli aggression against Iran would bring the UAE […]
In Latest Setback For Disney, China Censors Coverage Of “Mulan” Over Xinjiang Ties Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 19:40 After angering all of America’s progressives, Disney’s “Mulan” has just achieved an even higher bar of censorship/acclaim: being banned – or at least censored – the PROC. China’s professional propagandists have given the old “tap on […]
Is Saudi Arabia’s Ambitious Vision 2030 Plan Dead? Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 19:20 Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, A $500-billion smart city. A $200-billion solar farm. Billions of dollars in investments in gas and petrochemicals. These were all facets of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 – perhaps the most ambitious economic diversification in the […]
Dr. Fauci Warns “We Need To Hunker Down To Get Through This Fall And Winter Because It’s Not Going To Be Easy” Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 19:00 In his latest round of interviews and appearances since reports emerged earlier this week that forces within DHHS were trying to muzzle the good doctor, Dr. Fauci […]
Our System Is Crumbling Right In Front Of Our Eyes Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 18:40 Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, Back in January, when the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning to catch globe attention, Selco wrote an article stating, “It’s not the virus you need to worry about. It’s the system.” […]
This Is How It Ends: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 18:00 Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, While the Federal Reserve and the Billionaire Class push the stock market to new highs to promote a false facade of prosperity, everyday life will fall apart. How will […]
Jets Wide Receiver Charged With Stealing $1.2MM In PPP Funds, Blowing It On Jewelry And Gambling Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 17:40 One day after JPMorgan admitted that several of its employees had illegally “pocketed” stimulus funds and that it was working with law enforcement after identifying cases of customers “misusing” PPP funds, on Thursday […]
NYTimes’ 1619 Project Author Says Founding Fathers “Did Not Believe In Democracy”, America Is “Not An Exceptional Nation” Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 17:20 Authored by Lela Gallery via Campus Reform, Mount Holyoke College hosted in September its Common Read Keynote with Pulitzer-winning New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to talk about The 1619 Project, which was chosen to be this […]
Why One Bank Thinks The World Is “On The Cusp Of A New Era Characterized By Disorder” Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 17:00 Back in July, one of the most respected credit strategists on Wall Street caused stunned gasps across the financial world, when he admitted that he is “a gold bug.” Deutsche Bank’s Jim […]
Steele “Acted Crazy” – FBI Handler Says “People’s Ears Were Bleeding” Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2020 – 16:40 Authored by Eric Felten via RealClearInvestigations.com, “Crazy” was the term the FBI agent used to describe the behavior of Christopher Steele, author of the now-debunked Trump-Russia dossier. “I’ve seen crazy source-related stuff in 20 years in New York […]