Futures Jump As Traders Shrug Off Fears Of New US-China Trade War, Flare-Up In Wuhan Virus Cases S&P futures rebounded from an overnight selloff, and are back at Monday’s highs as European stocks rose on Tuesday despite a selloff in Asia as dip-buyers overwhelmed concerns about a “second wave” in China which is set to test all […]
South Korea Confirms 100+ Cases In ‘Gay Bar’ Cluster, Russia Now Home To World’s 2nd-Worst Outbreak: Live Updates Summary: Russia overtakes UK to become world’s 2nd-biggest outbreak South Korea uses surveillance tech to confirm 100 cases linked to gay bar outbreak UK finds 4/10 COVID-19 deaths linked to care homes Wuhan begins latest mass testing […]
Anti-Quarantine Protesters Spotted With Rocket Launcher In Downtown Raleigh Armed protesters on Saturday lugged around an “inert” AT4 rocket launcher, an M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun, and an assortment of different weapons on the first full day of North Carolina’s Phase 1 in downtown Raleigh Saturday afternoon. The protesters, which looked like a group of mercenaries from the movie The Expendables, were spotted marching on the streets and eating […]
Geopolitics Stings Sentiment But Dip-Buying Is Relentless Submitted by Eleanor Creagh, Australian Market Strategist at Saxo Bank Summary: After a hesitant overnight session on Wall Street, Asia trades heavy as geopolitical concerns come to the fore, fears of rolling COVID-19 outbreaks mount and dollar strength tentatively resurfaces. We look to the US cash session tonight […]
Spanish Man Dies After Being Stung By “Murder Hornet” A Spanish media outlet has reported what appears to be the country’s first fatality involving a “Murder Hornet” since a NYT story set off a countrywide panic in the US (the bees have been spotted in Washington State, apparently). Here’s more from Marca: A 54-year-old man […]
Media Bashes Trump For Rushing Reopening As Dr. Fauci Leaks Senate Testimony Dr. Anthony Fauci has a simple message for the states to be delivered during his Tuesday testimony before the Senate HELP (that’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) Committee: Moving to reopen states too quickly could risk a deadly resurgence of the outbreak. Full […]
Peter Schiff: These Jobs Aren’t Coming Back Via SchiffGold.com, The US Labor Department released its April non-farm payroll report on Friday and it was as bleak as expected. As Peter Schiff put it, it was the weakest jobs report in the history of jobs reports. And even worse, a lot of these jobs are never […]
“Perfect Storm” – Cord-Cutting Erupts In Pandemic As Pay-TV Crumbles “Netflix and quarantine” has been made famous by the pandemic as cord-cutting erupts in the first quarter. Millions of people were confined to their homes in March as the fast-spreading virus terrorized the nation, many folks, some of which lost their jobs, cut traditional cable […]
Poll Finds That 9 Out Of 10 Brits Want Lockdown To Carry On Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, A new poll has revealed that the vast majority of people in Britain are happy for the government mandated lockdown to continue, with just 4 percent expressing a desire to see it lifted immediately. According […]
The World At War In 2020 May 8, 2020 marked 75 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe – VE Day. While the conflict which claimed millions of lives on European soil is firmly committed to the annals of history, Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes that conflict in the East of the […]
Riots Return To France’s No-Go Zones Authored by Guy Milliere via The Gatestone Institute, Saturday, April 18, 11 pm. Villeneuve-la-Garenne, a small town in the northern suburbs of Paris. A young man rides a motorcycle at high speed and hits the door of a police car. He breaks his leg. He is sent to the hospital. He […]
London’s Trains Packed With Commuters As PM Johnson Lifts ‘Stay Home’ Order Last night, UK PM Boris Johnson laid out the broad strokes of the first phase of Britain’s reopening even as the outbreak inside the country continues to rage. He accompanied the announcement, which focused on 5 simple principles with promises of more details […]
Who Controls The British Government Response To COVID-19, Part 1 Authored by Vanessa Beeley via Off-Guardian.org, “The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants” – Albert Camus As Britain hurtles headlong towards neo-feudalist governance with heightened surveillance, micro-management of society and an uptick in fascistic policing of the draconian measures imposed to combat […]
US Army To Develop Wearable COVID-19 Detectors With more than 5,000 service members infected with COVID-19, the Army has issued a contract notice on The System for Award Management (SAM) website, seeking “to develop a wearable diagnostic capability for the pre‐/very early‐symptomatic detection of COVID‐19 infection.” The notice titled “MTEC-20-12-COVID-19_Diagnostics” is a request for project proposals through the Medical Technology […]
Declassified Doc Exposes FBI Spy Saying Israeli Mossad Spies Need To Be F**king Kicked Out Of USA, Executed Via GreatGameIndia.com, According to a secret transcript that was just declassified, one of the spies the FBI deployed against George Papadopoulos said that Israelis and U.S. Jews are “all f—ing spies,” referred to them as “f—ing c—suckers,” […]
Fed Will Start Buying Bond ETFs Tuesday; Blackrock To Make Over $15 Million In Fees Last Monday, in response to a Gundlach tweet in which the bond king said “I am told the Fed has not actually bought any Corporate Bonds via the shell company set up to circumvent the restrictions of the Federal Reserve […]
“OBAMAGATE!” Trump Tweets Tucker Carlson’s Crushing Breakdown Why The Former President Should Be Panicking Why is former President Obama calling forth all his defensive resources now? Why did former national security advisor Susan Rice write her CYA letter? Why have republicans in congress not been willing to investigate the true origins of political surveillance? What […]
New Orleans Uses Prison Labor After Garbagemen Go On Strike Dozens of striking New Orleans garbagemen who are demanding hazard pay and paid sick leave due to the coronavirus have been replaced by inmates from a nearby prison, according to Payday Report. The workers were employed by the temp service People Ready, which contracts with […]
As COVID-19 Spreads In Meat Plants, 200 USDA Inspectors Test Positive Authored by Lillianna Byington of FoodDive, Summary: A U.S. Agriculture Department spokesperson told Food Dive that 197 field employees in the Food Safety and Inspection Service are absent from work after testing positive for coronavirus and 120 FSIS employees are under self-quarantine due to contact […]
Disinfecting Drones Could Be MLB’s Solution To Reopen Stadiums A startup in New York must be closely watching the response efforts seen in Asia and Europe because any country decimated by the virus tends to deploy an army of robot drones with sprayer devices to disinfect public areas. These drones have been seen in China, South Korea, Italy, Spain, Germany, […]
Yuan, Futures Slide After Trump Orders Retirement Fund Investment In Chinese Stocks Blocked Having threatened last week that “COVID reparation” would be paid one way or another – and following Peter Navarro’s comments echoing the same rhetoric this morning – FOX Business reports that President Trump is moving ahead with his plans to block a government […]
PBOC To Cut Rates Next: China CPI Huge Miss, PPI Prints At 4 Year Low Heading into today’s Chinese inflation print, the bond market was sending a mixed message: while consensus expected that China’s economy would be hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, the yield on China’s government bonds climbed to the highest level in […]
Snyder: It’s Much Worse Than You Are Being Told Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, For a long time I warned that our economic bubble would burst and that we would plunge into a nightmarish economic collapse. Now it has happened, and it turns out that fear of COVID-19 was the “black […]
How To Get A Free Hotel Stay (And Free Drugs) In San Francisco Even as San Francisco ushers its homeless population into ritzy hotels (at city expense), the city’s streets – particularly in districts like the Tenderloin – have seen a growing number of tents pitched by the homeless. And according to a lawsuit filed […]
CrowdStrike Had No Evidence Of Russians Stealing Emails From DNC, Declassified Transcript Shows Authored by Ivan Pentchoukov via The Epoch Times, The cybersecurity firm that investigated and remediated the alleged hack of the Democratic National Committee’s servers in 2016 found no direct evidence that hackers stole any data or emails, according to a newly declassified interview […]
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