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  • Are The Outlines of A Better World Emerging?

    ZeroHedge - May 9th 2020 11:30am EDT

    Are The Outlines of A Better World Emerging? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Once the government’s ability to sustain its enforcement with money created out of thin air vanishes, the entire order vanishes along with it. The era of waste, greed, fraud and living on borrowed money is dying, and those who’ve […]

  • Silver Coin Premiums Soar: Signal “Alt-Money” Demand As Re-Opening Recovery Hype Fades

    ZeroHedge - May 9th 2020 11:00am EDT

    Silver Coin Premiums Soar: Signal “Alt-Money” Demand As Re-Opening Recovery Hype Fades Silver is the matrix of precious metals: on the one hand, it is an industrial metal, critical to the production process in many of the world’s most in-demand products; and on the other hand, it has been ‘money’ for millennia, playing second-fiddle as […]

  • How Many Lives Will Politicians Sacrifice In The Name Of Fighting COVID-19?

    ZeroHedge - May 9th 2020 10:30am EDT

    How Many Lives Will Politicians Sacrifice In The Name Of Fighting COVID-19? Authored by Bradley Thomas via The Mises Institute, During the current coronavirus lockdown, I’d pay good money to see just one public official be asked: “How many lives are you willing to sacrifice to prevent one coronavirus death?” Thomas Sowell has repeatedly written that […]

  • Spain Prepares To Lift Lockdown Monday As Russia Celebrates 75th Anniversary Of Nazi Defeat Indoors: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - May 9th 2020 10:23am EDT

    Spain Prepares To Lift Lockdown Monday As Russia Celebrates 75th Anniversary Of Nazi Defeat Indoors: Live Updates Summary: Russia nears 200k cases as country celebrates 75th anniversary of Nazi defeat Belarus holds parade commemorating victory, with thousands bunched close together Spain prepares to lift lockdown on Monday for vast majority of country South Korea moves […]

  • “Unprecedented Crisis” – Global Luxury Goods Market Collapses, No Recovery For Years

    ZeroHedge - May 9th 2020 9:55am EDT

    “Unprecedented Crisis” – Global Luxury Goods Market Collapses, No Recovery For Years New findings published in “Bain & Company Luxury Study 2020 Spring Update” this week suggest a collapse in the global luxury goods market is underway with no recovery for several years, shredding any hope that a V-shaped recovery will be seen in the back half of 2020. The report […]

  • White House On ‘High Alert’ As 11 Secret Service Agents Currently Positive For COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - May 9th 2020 9:49am EDT

    White House On ‘High Alert’ As 11 Secret Service Agents Currently Positive For COVID-19 In the most alarming revelation yet that coronavirus is getting ever closer to severely impacting the White House, Yahoo News has unveiled documents showing that nearly a dozen US Secret Service members have tested positive for COVID-19. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]

  • Whitney: Sweden Is The Model

    ZeroHedge - May 9th 2020 9:20am EDT

    Whitney: Sweden Is The Model Authored by Mike Whitney via The Unz Review, At present, there is no vaccine for the coronavirus. That means that one of the two paths to immunity is blocked. The other path is “herd immunity,” in which a critical mass of infection occurs in lower-risk populations that ultimately thwarts transmission. […]

  • US Blasts Russia & Assad For Sending Mercenaries Into Libya To Support Haftar 

    ZeroHedge - May 9th 2020 8:45am EDT

    US Blasts Russia & Assad For Sending Mercenaries Into Libya To Support Haftar  The long-running Libyan war 2.0 which has seen Gen. Khalifa Haftar lay siege to the capital of Tripoli throughout all of last year just grew hotter, now confirmed as a full-blown proxy conflict. On Thursday the United States charged the Kremlin with illegally […]

  • Scientific Research Finds That Closing Borders Is Most Effective Way Of Combatting COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - May 9th 2020 8:10am EDT

    Scientific Research Finds That Closing Borders Is Most Effective Way Of Combatting COVID-19 Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Scientists in Brazil have found that the countries most affected by the coronavirus spread are the ones who continued to allow unrestricted travel across their borders, prompting further arguments that the most effective method of […]

  • Fatties Stay Home: Leaked UK Doc Shows Mandated Remote-Working Plan For Obese Brits

    ZeroHedge - May 9th 2020 7:35am EDT

    Fatties Stay Home: Leaked UK Doc Shows Mandated Remote-Working Plan For Obese Brits Being fat obese can double someone’s risk of going to the hospital for severe COVID-19 symptoms, a new report published by the University of Glasgow concluded this week. With that being said, a leaked document from the UK government obtained by The Sun outlines how obese […]

  • Time To Learn About Money

    ZeroHedge - May 9th 2020 7:00am EDT

    Time To Learn About Money Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, An unexpected destruction of fiat currency has been advanced by the monetary and fiscal response to the coronavirus. Financial markets have yet to discount the possibility of such an outcome, but in the coming months they are likely to awaken to this danger. The […]

  • Authoritarianism In The Age Of Pseudoscience

    ZeroHedge - May 9th 2020 12:05am EDT

    Authoritarianism In The Age Of Pseudoscience Authored by Colin Todhunter via Off-Guardian.org, Following the court decision in the US to award in favour of Dewayne Johnson (exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer and its active ingredient, glyphosate, caused Johnson to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma), attorney Robert Kennedy Jr said at the post-trial press conference: The corruption of science, […]

  • Hawaii Arrests ‘Rogue Tourists’ In COVID Contagion Crackdown

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 11:45pm EDT

    Hawaii Arrests ‘Rogue Tourists’ In COVID Contagion Crackdown As the travel and tourism industry implodes, savvy consumers, with zero f*cks given about contracting the virus, have been buying cheap airfare to Hawaii, along with heavily discounted rooms at top resorts. Around mid/late March, when strict stay-at-home orders went into effect, locals, who were confined to their homes, noticed […]

  • Bezos Uber Alles? Homeland Security’s Biometrics Database Moves To Amazon’s Cloud

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 11:25pm EDT

    Bezos Uber Alles? Homeland Security’s Biometrics Database Moves To Amazon’s Cloud Authored by Aaron Boyd via NextGiov.com, The Office of Biometric Identity Management released a privacy impact assessment as the program begins moving the nation’s biometric database to Amazon’s GovCloud… The Homeland Security Department is in the midst of migrating its central biometric database – […]

  • Military Experts Urge China To Expand Nuclear Arsenal As “Deterrence” Against US

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    Military Experts Urge China To Expand Nuclear Arsenal As “Deterrence” Against US Rising geopolitical uncertainties between the US and China have been made worse by the pandemic as new rounds of tensions are unfolding on the heels of a possible flare-up of the trade war. The new reality is that Cold War 2.0 could be materializing as both countries fall into […]

  • Beware Of Plans To “Build Back Better”

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 10:45pm EDT

    Beware Of Plans To “Build Back Better” Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, Central planners the world over disdain the free exchange of goods and services.  They believe they can better shape the world around them according to their wishes.  This fatal conceit compels them to intervene in destructive ways. Some central planners, like Fed […]

  • San Diego Unemployment Rate Nearly 27%, Breaking County Record Set During Great Depression

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 10:25pm EDT

    San Diego Unemployment Rate Nearly 27%, Breaking County Record Set During Great Depression With the worst jobs report in history under our belt, which saw a record 20.5 million jobs lost in April, and the stated unemployment rate at 14.7%, some cities have been hit worse than others by the economic fallout from the pandemic. […]

  • Staying Ahead Of The Shortages: What To Stock Up On For The Coming Year

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 10:05pm EDT

    Staying Ahead Of The Shortages: What To Stock Up On For The Coming Year Authored by Samantha Biggers via BackdoorSurvival.com, While a lot of people are concerned about food shortages, one should not forget that there are a lot of items that make life easier or at least more enjoyable that come from abroad. A […]

  • Chicago Murder Rate Soars Despite Stay-At-Home Orders, Activists Blame “Lockdown Segregation” 

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 9:45pm EDT

    Chicago Murder Rate Soars Despite Stay-At-Home Orders, Activists Blame “Lockdown Segregation”  Despite the pandemic and strict stay-at-home orders, one would naturally assume violent crime in Chicago’s inner cities would subside. But that was not the case in April, according to a new report via AP News, which said, “the city’s most deprived neighborhoods are still echoing to the sound […]

  • CV-1984: The Accelerated Rise Of Automated Robots

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 9:25pm EDT

    CV-1984: The Accelerated Rise Of Automated Robots Authored by Aaron Kesel via ActivistPost.com, CV-1984 is accelerating the spread of Orwellian surveillance devices like talking drones, facial recognition cameras, and more; but that’s not the only technology that is advancing – robots or automated machines are also speeding up their deployment to combat the spread of the coronavirus. […]

  • ‘Not If You’re Too Hot’ – Nevada Brothels Unveil Temp-Taking, Mask-Wearing Plans To Re-Open

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 9:05pm EDT

    ‘Not If You’re Too Hot’ – Nevada Brothels Unveil Temp-Taking, Mask-Wearing Plans To Re-Open Last month a brothel owner told KRNV Reno  that she had adopted safety procedures for when Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak gives the green light to reopen the state’s legal brothels. Madam Bella, the owner of Bella’s Hacienda, said reopening the state’s legal brothels will be […]

  • Is This The End Of The LNG Boom?

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 8:45pm EDT

    Is This The End Of The LNG Boom? Authored by Nick Cunningham via OilPrice.com, The glut of natural gas could lead to more cancelled LNG exports in the next few months. “It is clear that yes we face today people talk lot about the oil market, but the gas markets are suffering a lot,” the […]

  • Elon Musk Says He’s “Not The Biggest Fan” Of Warren Buffett

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 8:25pm EDT

    Elon Musk Says He’s “Not The Biggest Fan” Of Warren Buffett Elon Musk took to the Joe Rogan Podcast for a second time in a recording that was released this week, shortly after the birth of his child. The array of topics covered included Elon’s new child, artificial intelligence, why Elon decided to sell all […]

  • NY Times Accused Of Ripping Off Pulitzer Prize-Winning Stories From Russian Journalists For 2nd Time

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 8:05pm EDT

    NY Times Accused Of Ripping Off Pulitzer Prize-Winning Stories From Russian Journalists For 2nd Time Authored by Ben Norton via TheGrayZone.com, The New York Times has been accused for a second time of stealing major scoops from Russian journalists. One of those stories won the Times a Pulitzer Prize this May. The journalists who have accused the Times […]

  • Daily Briefing – May 8, 2020

    ZeroHedge - May 8th 2020 7:52pm EDT

    Daily Briefing – May 8, 2020   Ash Bennington hosts Real Vision’s Roger Hirst. Today, Bennington and Hirst explore the relationship between fundamental and technical analysis in the context of the Coronavirus crisis. The pair also discuss the role of the European Central Bank in light of the recent landmark decision by the German constitutional […]