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  • 40 Privacy Groups Warn That Facial Recognition Is Threatening Democracy

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 11:00pm EST

    40 Privacy Groups Warn That Facial Recognition Is Threatening Democracy Authored by Derrick Broze via TheMindUnleashed.com, On Monday, forty organizations signed a letter calling on an independent government watchdog to recommend a ban on U.S. government use of facial recognition technology. The letter was drafted by the digital privacy advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and […]

  • India Announces $40 Billion Emergency Fiscal Injection As Economy Plunges

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 10:35pm EST

    India Announces $40 Billion Emergency Fiscal Injection As Economy Plunges India’s economy is rapidly decelerating and could be headed for a financial crisis. As an emergency response to plunging growth rates and falling energy consumption, along with a manufacturing hub grinding to a halt, the government has just announced a massive $40 billion fiscal injection […]

  • Santa Cruz Just Decriminalized Magic Mushrooms In Unanimous Vote

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 10:10pm EST

    Santa Cruz Just Decriminalized Magic Mushrooms In Unanimous Vote Authored by John Vibes via TruthTheory.com, The city of Santa Cruz in Central California has become the most recent municipality to decriminalize the use of psychedelic mushrooms. This week, the measure passed The City Council of Santa Cruz with a unanimous vote to make the investigation […]

  • Lonely Japanese Billionaire Abandons Search For Space Ho After 22,000 Women Apply

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 9:45pm EST

    Lonely Japanese Billionaire Abandons Search For Space Ho After 22,000 Women Apply A Japanese billionaire who put out a casting call for single females to join him for a SpaceX voyage around the room has called off the search, citing “personal reasons.” Yusaku Maezawa, 44, announced in January that he was looking for single females […]

  • China Bloodbath: Stocks Crash 9%; Oil, Iron Limit Down Despite Emergency PBOC Intervention, Rate Cuts

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 9:20pm EST

    China Bloodbath: Stocks Crash 9%; Oil, Iron Limit Down Despite Emergency PBOC Intervention, Rate Cuts As previewed on Friday  and again earlier today when we noted the latest trades in China’s A50 futures… … China’s reopening from the long Lunar New Year holiday was set to be a ugly, and sure enough with Chinese stocks […]

  • Aussie Academic: ‘Ethically Misguided & Downright Dangerous’ NOT To Censor Climate-Deniers

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 9:20pm EST

    Aussie Academic: ‘Ethically Misguided & Downright Dangerous’ NOT To Censor Climate-Deniers Authored by Eric Worrall via WattsUpWithThat.com, University of Melbourne “Centre for Advancing Journalism” academic Denis Muller believes climate censorship should be added to legally binding journalistic professional codes of conduct. Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change is ethically misguided and downright dangerous January 31, 2020 6.11am AEDT Denis Muller Senior […]

  • NYC Apartment Sales Crash To Near Decade Low As Government Suffocates Market With New Regulations

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 8:55pm EST

    NYC Apartment Sales Crash To Near Decade Low As Government Suffocates Market With New Regulations There’s nothing like broad overreaching government regulation to absolutely suffocate any type of market. This is a lesson that the New York City apartment market is learning first hand, as sales of apartment buildings in the city have crashed to […]

  • Coronavirus: Now That It’s A National Emergency, Is It “Too Late”?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 8:30pm EST

    Coronavirus: Now That It’s A National Emergency, Is It “Too Late”? Authored by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com, Late Friday, the US officially declared coronavirus a “national health emergency”. Some are starting to claim that it’s “too late” to do anything to stop the spread of coronavirus. Is it? Well, even if it’s too late to […]

  • Is Tech About To Suffer A “Dot Com” Bubble Collapse? It’s Suddenly All In China’s Hands

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 8:05pm EST

    Is Tech About To Suffer A “Dot Com” Bubble Collapse? It’s Suddenly All In China’s Hands For the past two weeks we warned readers (in Institutions, Retail And Algos Are Now All-In, Just As Buybacks Tumble and Never Before Seen Market Complacency, As Everyone Goes Even More “All In”) that we now effectively at the most […]

  • Coronavirus Is ‘Probably Nothing’, But “It’s Possibly Everything” For Global Markets

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 7:40pm EST

    Coronavirus Is ‘Probably Nothing’, But “It’s Possibly Everything” For Global Markets Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, In 1349, when Black Death was ravaging Europe, many of the day’s best and brightest banded together in pursuit of a common cure.  They had little choice.  Black Death was rapidly spreading across the continent.  Nothing could stop […]

  • The One Number That Could Reveal A Chinese Coronavirus Cover-Up

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 7:15pm EST

    The One Number That Could Reveal A Chinese Coronavirus Cover-Up Submitted by Chris Irons of Quoth the Raven Research – Twitter: @QTRResearch – Podcast The Wuhan coronavirus continues to wreak havoc across the globe. It caused a 600 point sell off in the Dow Jones on Friday, prompted the first U.S. quarantine in a half century […]

  • Oil Crashes Into Bear Market As Chinese Oil Demand Said To Plummet 20% Due To Coronavirus “Demand Shock”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 6:48pm EST

    Oil Crashes Into Bear Market As Chinese Oil Demand Said To Plummet 20% Due To Coronavirus “Demand Shock” While the world awaits with bated breath the clobbering that awaits Chinese assets when they reopen in a few hours after the Lunar New Year with the PBOC set to injects billions to prop up stocks while […]

  • “I Felt Like I Was In Hell” – NYT Exposes Rampant Sexism, Harassment & “Toxic Masculinity” At Victoria’s Secret

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 6:25pm EST

    “I Felt Like I Was In Hell” – NYT Exposes Rampant Sexism, Harassment & “Toxic Masculinity” At Victoria’s Secret The reaction that L Brands shareholders displayed last week following reports that Les Wexner was planning to sell Victoria’s Secret and step down from leading the parent company is all readers really need to know when […]

  • Baby Boomers Paid A 6.6x PE For The S&P In 1982. Millennials Have To Pay 31x

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 6:00pm EST

    Baby Boomers Paid A 6.6x PE For The S&P In 1982. Millennials Have To Pay 31x Submitted by Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “Let’s start with what I’d tell a 25-year-old to not do with investment capital,” answered the CIO. He’d been asked how our youth should invest for 10-15yrs. “I’d tell […]

  • Kerry Denies ‘Fu*king False’ Report He May Run For President

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 5:35pm EST

    Kerry Denies ‘Fu*king False’ Report He May Run For President Former Secretary of State John Kerry – who has been stumping for fellow ‘Burisma Dad’ Joe Biden, denied a NBC News report that he was overheard on Sunday at a Des Moines hotel explaining what he would have to do in order to run for […]

  • China Censors Top Local Media Outlet Over Claims Beijing Is Underreporting Cases, Deaths

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 4:45pm EST

    China Censors Top Local Media Outlet Over Claims Beijing Is Underreporting Cases, Deaths Let’s be honest, do you think China is reporting the actual coronavirus cases and deaths? After all, Beijing has been the master of falsifying its economic growth figures for years, what makes you think they’ll change in the reporting of the deadly virus […]

  • For The First Time Ever, A Majority Of The World’s Population Is Dissatisfied With Democracy

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 4:20pm EST

    For The First Time Ever, A Majority Of The World’s Population Is Dissatisfied With Democracy Submitted by Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “2005 marked the beginning of the global democratic recession,” wrote Cambridge University’s “Global Satisfaction with Democracy 2020”  report. “That year also marked the all-time high point for satisfaction with democracy.” […]

  • ‘Mini’ Mike Bloomberg Tries Insulting Trump, Falls Short With Awkward Height Metaphor

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 3:55pm EST

    ‘Mini’ Mike Bloomberg Tries Insulting Trump, Falls Short With Awkward Height Metaphor Mike Bloomberg attempted to punch back after President Trump made disparaging comments about his height, saying “I stand twice as tall as he does on the stage – on the stage that matters.” pic.twitter.com/Q0LMgkKbi3 — chitownguy (@jtholyk) February 2, 2020 Bloomberg was responding […]

  • Why Are Liberal Cities Such A Mess?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 3:30pm EST

    Why Are Liberal Cities Such A Mess? Authored by Steven Feinstein via AmericanThinker.com, Many major U.S. cities run by liberal Democrats are in rough shape. They are afflicted by the problems of homelessness, violent crime, gangs, and unemployment to a far greater degree than the country as a whole. Consider the following: Chicago’s violence and […]

  • Thai Doctors “Cure” Coronavirus Patient Using Powerful AIDS Drugs

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 3:05pm EST

    Thai Doctors “Cure” Coronavirus Patient Using Powerful AIDS Drugs A couple of days ago, Zero Hedge decided to highlight a string of tweets by respected epidemiologist Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding wherein he noted some unusual characteristics of the novel coronavirus (nCoV-2019) that has swept across nearly two dozen countries since emerging in the central Chinese city […]

  • Students Say ‘Keep Politics Out Of Super Bowl’

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 2:40pm EST

    Students Say ‘Keep Politics Out Of Super Bowl’ Authored by Eduardo Neret via CampusReform.org, Ahead of Super Bowl Sunday, Campus Reform Digital Reporter Eduardo Neret went to the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. to ask students about President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated, $10 million Super Bowl commercial. Neret first asked students if the NFL should prevent […]

  • Coronavirus Overkill? Gas Mask-Wearing Man Panics American Airlines Flight In Texas

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 2:15pm EST

    Coronavirus Overkill? Gas Mask-Wearing Man Panics American Airlines Flight In Texas At a moment that virus masks and other protective clothing are in high demand and are increasingly a feature among travelers at busy international hubs, a bizarre incident caused a security scare aboard an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Houston late last week. […]

  • The Economic Path Forward May Lead Over A Cliff

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 1:50pm EST

    The Economic Path Forward May Lead Over A Cliff Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, It is important to acknowledge the path forward does not always take us where we would like to go. We as a country and society do not always have as much control over our fate as we tend […]

  • BuzzFeed Journo Reportedly Blogged About Pedo Fantasies, Rape Jokes And Doxing

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 1:25pm EST

    BuzzFeed Journo Reportedly Blogged About Pedo Fantasies, Rape Jokes And Doxing A BuzzFeed senior reporter who accused Zero Hedge of ‘doxing’ a Chinese scientist has reportedly left a disturbing internet footprint rife with pedophilia and rape jokes… oh, and doxing the owners of a restaurant. Ryan Broderick, a boy-band aficionado  who runs a personal tumblr […]

  • “I Am Not A Virus”: Outbreak Leads To Shocking Rise In Racism Toward Asian People

    ZeroHedge - Feb 2nd 2020 1:00pm EST

    “I Am Not A Virus”: Outbreak Leads To Shocking Rise In Racism Toward Asian People Authored by Elias Marat via TheMindUnleashed.com, As new cases of the novel coronavirus continue to emerge across East Asia as well as in Europe and North America, another pandemic with possibly more deadly implications has also swept across the globe: […]