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  • Turkey Has Recruited 11,000 Mostly Syrian Mercenaries To Fight In Libya: Report

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2020 5:00am EDT

    Turkey Has Recruited 11,000 Mostly Syrian Mercenaries To Fight In Libya: Report Via AlMasdarNews.com, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), based in Britain, reported that the number of mercenaries recruited by Turkey to fight in Libya had risen to about 11,000, including 261 killed in combat. Libyan war file image, via AFP/Bloomberg The observatory […]

  • US Navy Sends Warships Into ‘Russia’s Gulf Of Mexico’ For First Time Since Cold War

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2020 4:15am EDT

    US Navy Sends Warships Into ‘Russia’s Gulf Of Mexico’ For First Time Since Cold War The US has decided that the right time to stage its first operations in the far northern Barents Sea since the Cold War is while itself and much of the globe remains locked down by a pandemic.  “U.S. Navy surface […]

  • 18 Million People Entered The UK As The COVID-19 Pandemic Was Raging

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2020 3:30am EDT

    18 Million People Entered The UK As The COVID-19 Pandemic Was Raging Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, 18 million people entered the UK in the three months before lockdown with hardly any of them undergoing health screenings or being put into quarantine, it has been revealed. “Only 273 people out of 18.1million […]

  • 20 Years Of Putin

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2020 2:45am EDT

    20 Years Of Putin Today, May 7, 2020, marks twenty years since Vladimir Putin first assumed office as President of Russia and, as this infographic shows, he will have served 24.7 years in power by the end of his current stint in 2024. You will find more infographics at Statista As Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, […]

  • COVID-19 “Nonsense” Is Exposing Britain’s Once-Reliable Office Of National Statistics

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2020 2:00am EDT

    COVID-19 “Nonsense” Is Exposing Britain’s Once-Reliable Office Of National Statistics Authored by Iain Davis via Off-Guardian.org, The mortality statistics for COVID 19 have been incessantly hammered into our heads by the mainstream media (MSM). Every day they report these hardest of facts to justify the lockdown (house arrest) and to prove to us that living in abject […]

  • China Readies Unveiling Of Stealth Nuclear Bomber Capable Of Reaching LA

    ZeroHedge - May 7th 2020 1:00am EDT

    China Readies Unveiling Of Stealth Nuclear Bomber Capable Of Reaching LA President Trump is preparing to ‘turbocharge’ deglobalization by removing critical supply chains from China could be seen with new rounds of tariffs to strike Beijing. Heighten tensions between Washington and Beijing are expected to develop over the summer months as the “evolution of the pandemic and economic crash […]

  • America’s Design Causes It To Fail The COVID-19 Challenge

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 11:45pm EDT

    America’s Design Causes It To Fail The COVID-19 Challenge Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation, America isn’t the only country which is so corrupt as to stand at or near the top of the global coronavirus-infection rankings, but, as the June 2020 issue of The Atlantic headlines, “We Are Living in a Failed State: The coronavirus didn’t break […]

  • California County To Remove COVID-19 Patients From Homes Based On ‘Living Situation’ — Will Place In ‘Other Kinds Of Housing’

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 11:25pm EDT

    California County To Remove COVID-19 Patients From Homes Based On ‘Living Situation’ — Will Place In ‘Other Kinds Of Housing’ Officials in Ventura County, California will be expanding coronavirus testing, tracking the infected and those who they’ve been in contact with, and moving people out of their homes and into specialized housing for COVID-19 patients. […]

  • Poseidon Multi-Purpose Oceanic System And Russian Undersea Warfare

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    Poseidon Multi-Purpose Oceanic System And Russian Undersea Warfare Submitted by SouthFront, The Poseidon has been described as a “nuclear torpedo”, which is true in at least one sense, namely its propulsion. The Poseidon is, by all accounts, powered by a nuclear reactor which makes it a submersible equivalent of the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, with […]

  • ‘We Have To Adjust To New Reality’ – Pandemic Leads To Surge In Americans Drinking At Home

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 10:45pm EDT

    ‘We Have To Adjust To New Reality’ – Pandemic Leads To Surge In Americans Drinking At Home Alcohol sales for home consumption jumped $2 billion more since the start of March than last year, while a top beer producer said the increase in sales at home would not offset lost ones seen at restaurants and bars.  A […]

  • Beijing May Dump US Treasuries In Response To US Hostility, Start Its Own QE: Chinese Media

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 10:41pm EDT

    Beijing May Dump US Treasuries In Response To US Hostility, Start Its Own QE: Chinese Media In response to recent media speculation that as the blame game over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic escalates the US may cancel some of its $1.1 trillion debt owed to China, the South China Morning Post reported today […]

  • Your Genes May Determine Whether COVID-19 Puts You In Hospital Or Not

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 10:25pm EDT

    Your Genes May Determine Whether COVID-19 Puts You In Hospital Or Not Authored by Austin Nguyen, Abhinav Nellore, and Reid Thompson via The Conversation, When some people become infected with the coronavirus, they only develop mild or undetectable cases of COVID-19. Others suffer severe symptoms, fighting to breathe on a ventilator for weeks, if they survive […]

  • Putin’s Approval Rating Hits Historic Low As 3 Cabinet Members Infected

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 10:05pm EDT

    Putin’s Approval Rating Hits Historic Low As 3 Cabinet Members Infected Over the past decade, poll after poll in Russia has found President Vladimir Putin to be by far the most popular leader in modern Russia’s relatively short history (since the collapse of the USSR). He’s also of course been the longest ruling, currently serving his fourth […]

  • This Is What New Normal Looks Like After The Pandemic

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 9:48pm EDT

    This Is What New Normal Looks Like After The Pandemic Authored by Bloomberg macro commentator Ye Xie The biggest market news Wednesday was the steepening of the Treasury yield curve as the government boosted planned sales of long-term debt to fund a $4 trillion deficit this year. With short-term rates possibly staying near zero for the next […]

  • The Art Of Survival, Part 1: Taoism & ‘Warring States’

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 9:45pm EDT

    The Art Of Survival, Part 1: Taoism & ‘Warring States’ Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Longtime correspondent Paul B. suggested I re-publish three essays that have renewed relevance. This is the first essay, from June 2008. Thank you, Paul, for the suggestion. I’m not trying to be difficult, but I can’t help […]

  • Captured US Mercenary Says In Video ‘Confession’ Trump Ordered Plot To “Abduct” Maduro

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 9:25pm EDT

    Captured US Mercenary Says In Video ‘Confession’ Trump Ordered Plot To “Abduct” Maduro The nutty ‘Bay of Pigs invasion Venezuela edition’ which appears to have been an utter failure and half-baked scheme nearly from the start just took a few more bizarre turns. Two days after Venezuelan armed forces captured two US former special forces soldiers turned mercenaries […]

  • Rosenstein Asked Mueller To Investigate Already-Discredited Steele Dossier Allegations, Memo Reveals

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 9:05pm EDT

    Rosenstein Asked Mueller To Investigate Already-Discredited Steele Dossier Allegations, Memo Reveals Authored by John Solomon via JustTheNews.com, Allegations in August 2017 scoping memo instructing special prosecutor to investigate Carter Page came from dossier that had already been discredited… Then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein instructed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in August 2017 to investigate allegations against […]

  • China Considers Dropping GDP Growth Target Range For 2020 

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 8:45pm EDT

    China Considers Dropping GDP Growth Target Range For 2020  Well, it seems after China’s magical V-shaped recovery in PMIs amid the rest of the world crashing into recession, if not depression, as a result of coronavirus lockdowns, a new report via Bloomberg suggests Chinese leaders are contemplating “the option of not setting a numerical target for economic growth this year […]

  • “Buy The Re-Opening Rumor, Sell The Factual Horror”: 5 Reasons To Start Selling

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 8:25pm EDT

    “Buy The Re-Opening Rumor, Sell The Factual Horror”: 5 Reasons To Start Selling Earlier today we posted a chart of forward PE multiples which based on crashing global profits which have yet to find a bottom, showed that the disconnect between markets and reality has reached idiotic proportions. And while Bloomberg apparently took offense and […]

  • Nearly 1.5 Million More Tuberculosis Deaths Expected Due To Coronavirus Lockdowns

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 8:05pm EDT

    Nearly 1.5 Million More Tuberculosis Deaths Expected Due To Coronavirus Lockdowns Since the coronavirus outbreak forced doctors and hospitals around the world to delay most other medical care to focus 100% on combating the outbreak, lapses in vaccination routines have led to the reemergence of diseases like polio and measles. Alarmed by this trend, one […]

  • The Problem Is Not Deflation, It’s Attempts to Prevent It

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 7:45pm EDT

    The Problem Is Not Deflation, It’s Attempts to Prevent It Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, Let’s investigate the Fed’s effort to prevent price deflation. Here’s a Tweet that caught my eye. “We’re about to have deflation and the market hasn’t figure it out yet… when it does, the Fed is going to shit itself.” […]

  • Trump Resisted Pressuring China To Be More “Transparent” About Coronavirus Outbreak Back In January: Report

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 7:25pm EDT

    Trump Resisted Pressuring China To Be More “Transparent” About Coronavirus Outbreak Back In January: Report In a must-read piece detailing the evolution of the US-China relationship from productive partnership to bitter rivalry, WSJ reported that back in January, President Trump resisted pressing China to be more transparent about the emerging virus, and the risks it […]

  • What Will Schools Look Like After COVID?

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 7:05pm EDT

    What Will Schools Look Like After COVID? Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, If you’ve been wondering what it will look like when the kids go back to school, one school in Quebec has released their new guidelines and they’re shocking. Apparently, schools are going to look a lot like prison camps. […]

  • Watch: Massive Inferno Engulfs Another UAE Skyscraper

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 6:45pm EDT

    Watch: Massive Inferno Engulfs Another UAE Skyscraper A high-rise tower in the United Arab Emirates has been engulfed in a massive blaze Tuesday, and reportedly was burning out of control into the nighttime hours.  A massive fire at a residential tower in Al Nahda in Sharjah, via New Zealand Herald. The 48-floor Abbco Tower in Sharjah was […]

  • Daily Briefing – May 6, 2020

    ZeroHedge - May 6th 2020 6:34pm EDT

    Daily Briefing – May 6, 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 […]