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  • Chinese Drones Now Deployed In Balkans After Serbia Deal – NATO On Edge

    ZeroHedge - Aug 7th 2020 2:45am EDT

    Chinese Drones Now Deployed In Balkans After Serbia Deal – NATO On Edge Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 02:45 China has delivered six military drones to Serbia after the Balkan country moved to purchase them in a controversial deal a year ago which has put NATO on edge.  Though Serbia has an official policy of military […]

  • China And The EU Vie For Hydrogen Supremacy

    ZeroHedge - Aug 7th 2020 2:00am EDT

    China And The EU Vie For Hydrogen Supremacy Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 02:00 Authored by Venand Meliksetian via OilPrice.com, Not so long ago the energy transition was primarily an idealistic concept driven by environmentalists and researchers. The most important impediment was the high costs of clean technologies. The drastically reduced price of PVs, for […]

  • Meanwhile, In Russia…

    ZeroHedge - Aug 7th 2020 1:00am EDT

    Meanwhile, In Russia… Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 01:00 A naked man standing in the middle of a bustling Russian street received a stiff knuckle sandwich from a driver who was clearly feeling a little impatient that day. Cell phone video shows the pudgy naked man strolling down the middle of a street as cars […]

  • Payrolls Preview: Just How “Big” Will Friday’s “Big Number” Be

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 11:30pm EDT

    Payrolls Preview: Just How “Big” Will Friday’s “Big Number” Be Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 23:30 Going into tomorrow’s July nonfarms payroll, the picture is mixed: The rate of jobless claims rose in the survey week, against expectations it would fall; continuing claims also rose in the reference period, even after stripping out the effect […]

  • Russian S-300 Air Defense System Spotted In Libya?

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    Russian S-300 Air Defense System Spotted In Libya? Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 23:05 Submitted by SouthFront Russia has deployed an advanced S-300 air defense system to Libya to support the forces of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar against the Turkish military and its proxies, local media reported on August 5. According to photos surfacing online, […]

  • The Bogus “Recovery”, Stress, & Burnout

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 10:35pm EDT

    The Bogus “Recovery”, Stress, & Burnout Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 22:35 Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, We have three basic ways to counter the destructive consequences of stress. We have all experienced the disorientation and “brain freeze” that stress triggers. The pandemic and the responses to the pandemic have been continuous sources […]

  • ‘Kansas Should Go F*** Itself’: Taibbi Opines On Liberal Arrogance In Lieu Of Introspection

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 10:05pm EDT

    ‘Kansas Should Go F*** Itself’: Taibbi Opines On Liberal Arrogance In Lieu Of Introspection Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 22:05 “America’s financial and political establishment has always been most terrified of an inclusive underclass movement. So it evangelizes a bizarre transgressive politics that tells white conservatives to fuck themselves and embraces a leftist sub-theology that […]

  • Trump Signs Executive Order Banning TikTok, WeChat

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 9:50pm EDT

    Trump Signs Executive Order Banning TikTok, WeChat Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 21:50 President Trump signed an executive order banning U.S. residents from doing any business with TikTok or the apps’ Chinese owner ByteDance 45 days from now. Trump said the U.S. “must take aggressive action against the owners of TikTok to protect our national […]

  • Freddie Mac Warns Apartment Loan Supply May Plunge As Virus Crushes Working-Poor 

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 9:25pm EDT

    Freddie Mac Warns Apartment Loan Supply May Plunge As Virus Crushes Working-Poor  Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 21:25 Freddie Mac’s multi-year lending outlook for apartment buildings reveals the economic devastation among the working poor due to the virus-induced recession.  Multi-family loan origination volume for apartment buildings could plunge as much as 40% in 2020 compared […]

  • Voting Fraud Is Real: The Electoral System Is Vulnerable

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 9:05pm EDT

    Voting Fraud Is Real: The Electoral System Is Vulnerable Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 21:05 Authored by Philip Giraldi via The Strategic Cultuire Foundation, The United States national election is now only three months away and it should be expected that the out-and-out lies emanating from both parties will increase geometrically as the polling date […]

  • Walmart Is Turning Its Parking Lots Into Drive-In Movie Theaters For Its Customers

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 8:45pm EDT

    Walmart Is Turning Its Parking Lots Into Drive-In Movie Theaters For Its Customers Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 20:45 In an announcement that will certainly come as welcome news for the homeless and unemployed already living in their cars in Walmart parking lots, the retailer said yesterday that effective August 14, it is going to be kicking […]

  • John Cleese: Woke People Have “Zero Sense Of Humour”; They’re Killing Comedy

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 8:25pm EDT

    John Cleese: Woke People Have “Zero Sense Of Humour”; They’re Killing Comedy Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 20:25 Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Legendary British comedian John Cleese has hit out at permanently offended woke people, insisting that they have no sense of humour and are contributing to the death of comedy. In […]

  • Farmageddon Continues As Bankruptcies Rise 8% 

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 8:05pm EDT

    Farmageddon Continues As Bankruptcies Rise 8%  Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 20:05 The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) released a new report Tuesday (Aug. 4) showing farm bankruptcies continue to increase.  AFBF found bankruptcies rose 8% over the last 12 months (from June 2019 to June 2020), with 580 filings. The Midwest, Northwest, and Southeast recorded the most bankruptcies, representing 80% of all […]

  • Water Wars And America’s Fate

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 7:45pm EDT

    Water Wars And America’s Fate Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 19:45 Authored by Martin Sieff via The Strategic Culture Foundation, India versus China, Egypt versus Ethiopia, Israel versus the Palestinians – the Water Wars are already here in the US also, yet American and European policymakers remain disastrously blind to them. This is certain to […]

  • SEC Enforcement Co-Director Steven Peikin To Abruptly Leave Agency On August 14

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 7:25pm EDT

    SEC Enforcement Co-Director Steven Peikin To Abruptly Leave Agency On August 14 Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 19:25 It has been several weeks since Elon Musk blatantly taunted the Securities and Exchange Commission by telling them to “s*** his c***”. As a result, what has happened since then? A) A just application of the law […]

  • Senate Bill To Curb Invasive Facial Recognition Software After Rite Aid Deployed In 200 Stores

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 7:05pm EDT

    Senate Bill To Curb Invasive Facial Recognition Software After Rite Aid Deployed In 200 Stores Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 19:05 Authored by Julia Conley via CommonDreams.org, New legislation put forward by Sens. Jeff Merkley and Bernie Sanders on Tuesday would curb the use of facial recognition software by corporations and help to slow the spread of “abusive” surveillance, according to […]

  • First Photo Emerges Of Top-Secret Stealth Helicopter

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 6:45pm EDT

    First Photo Emerges Of Top-Secret Stealth Helicopter Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 18:45 The Drive has published the first-ever picture of a fully intact stealthy Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter. It sheds new light on what the US military might have used, or at least a variant of it, during the 2011 Osama Bin Laden raid.  Readers may recall the special operations teams […]

  • White House Moves To De-List Chinese Companies From American Stock Exchanges

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 6:32pm EDT

    White House Moves To De-List Chinese Companies From American Stock Exchanges Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 18:32 The Trump Administration’s campaign of non-stop foreign policy agitation – from sending Alex Azar to Taiwan, to holding more military exercises in the South China Sea, to Trump threatening to ban TikTok, and imposing sanctions on firms and […]

  • Why Antifa Is The ‘Keyser Söze’ Of Social Unrest

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 6:25pm EDT

    Why Antifa Is The ‘Keyser Söze’ Of Social Unrest Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 18:25 Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in the Hill newspaper on yesterday’s hearing in the Senate, which ended abruptly with Sen. Hirono walking out after a confrontation with Sen. Cruz over his objection that the Democrats were avoiding […]

  • Daily Briefing – August 6, 2020

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 6:25pm EDT

    Daily Briefing – August 6, 2020 Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 18:25 Senior editor Ash Bennington speaks to David Bahnsen, founder and managing partner of The Bahnsen Group, about the economics of re-opening and the state of the U.S. equity markets. Bahnsen weighs the risks and rewards of reopening the U.S. economy during the ongoing […]

  • Pandemic Triggers Rapid Food Inflation As Unemployment Remains At Great Depression Levels

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 6:15pm EDT

    Pandemic Triggers Rapid Food Inflation As Unemployment Remains At Great Depression Levels Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 18:15 Food prices at supermarkets surged during the pandemic as tens of millions of Americans lost their jobs.  According to the latest seasonally adjusted data by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the virus pandemic has had a […]

  • US Negotiates First Ever Transfer Of Military Drones To Taiwan After Beijing Slams ‘One China’ Violations

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 6:05pm EDT

    US Negotiates First Ever Transfer Of Military Drones To Taiwan After Beijing Slams ‘One China’ Violations Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 18:05 Washington is upping the ante on China with what will be interpreted as a new direct frontal assault on the decades-old ‘One China’ official policy which has preserved the status quo in Taiwan.  Over […]

  • US Colleges Are Split Between In-Person And “Hybrid” Learning Plans For The Fall Semester

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 5:25pm EDT

    US Colleges Are Split Between In-Person And “Hybrid” Learning Plans For The Fall Semester Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 17:25 As public school districts in parts of the US start to reopen, small business owners around the country are turning their attention to one all-important question: how are colleges planning to reopen? And what does […]

  • Russia-China “Dedollarization” Reaches “Breakthrough Moment” As Countries Ditch Greenback For Bilateral Trade

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 5:05pm EDT

    Russia-China “Dedollarization” Reaches “Breakthrough Moment” As Countries Ditch Greenback For Bilateral Trade Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 17:05 Late last year, data released by the PBOC and the Russian Central Bank shone a light on a disturbing – at least, for the US – trend: As the Trump Administration ratcheted up sanctions pressure on Russia […]

  • “Significantly Reducing Prices” – Manhattan Developer Slashes Prices Of Unsold Luxury Condos

    ZeroHedge - Aug 6th 2020 4:45pm EDT

    “Significantly Reducing Prices” – Manhattan Developer Slashes Prices Of Unsold Luxury Condos Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2020 – 16:45 The virus pandemic and social unrest have already sparked an exodus from major cities and now, the ability to work remotely has likely contributed to the decline in luxury condo prices.  Wealthy elites, those who still have the economic mobility to flee […]