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  • US Navy Takes Delivery Of Futuristic Stealth Destroyer (7 Years Late)

    ZeroHedge - Apr 29th 2020 1:00am EDT

    US Navy Takes Delivery Of Futuristic Stealth Destroyer (7 Years Late) After years of delays, the US Navy has finally taken delivery of its next-generation guided-missile stealth destroyer on Friday (April 24) for the next phase of developmental and integrated at-sea testing, reports Naval Today.  For the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), a 16,000-ton stealth destroyer, the construction […]

  • China’s Religious Persecution In The Age Of COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 29th 2020 12:05am EDT

    China’s Religious Persecution In The Age Of COVID-19 Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics.com, It’s a portrait of contrasts in the age of pandemic… In the United States, small but passionate protests have broken out in recent weeks as some workers and worshipers chafe at being quarantined – even as most federal and state governments […]

  • Visualizing How COVID-19 Consumer Spending Is Impacting Industries

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 11:45pm EDT

    Visualizing How COVID-19 Consumer Spending Is Impacting Industries Consumer spending is one of the most important driving forces for global economic growth. Beyond impacting some of the factors that determine consumer spend – such as consumer confidence, unemployment levels, or the cost of living – Visual Capitalist’s Katie Jones notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has […]

  • If This Is What “The New Normal” Is Going To Look Like, It’s Going To Be Horrible

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 11:25pm EDT

    If This Is What “The New Normal” Is Going To Look Like, It’s Going To Be Horrible Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Are we going to allow fear of COVID-19 to fundamentally reshape social behavior for many years to come?  It is hard to imagine a world where we are all afraid to shake […]

  • “Corona-Killing” UV Bots Could Be Deployed At Military Bases

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    “Corona-Killing” UV Bots Could Be Deployed At Military Bases Last week President Trump suggested that injecting ultraviolet light into the body could be one method in killing COVID-19. Then, a biotech company, with unproven science, touted it could send a catheter into the throat of a patient, emitting UV rays into the body to defeat the […]

  • Triumph Of The Woke Oligarchs

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 10:45pm EDT

    Triumph Of The Woke Oligarchs Authored by Joel Kotkin via RealClearEnergy.org, Like the rest of the country, although far less than New York, California is suffering through the Covid-19 crisis. But in California, the pandemic seems likely to give the state’s political and corporate elites a new license to increase their dominion while continuing to […]

  • Study Finds ‘Historic’ Drop In Math, Reading Scores Since Adoption Of Common Core

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 10:25pm EDT

    Study Finds ‘Historic’ Drop In Math, Reading Scores Since Adoption Of Common Core Reading and math scores in the US have suffered ‘historic’ declines since most states implemented the Common Core curriculum standard six years ago, according to a new study from the Pioneer Institute. While Common Core was promoted as improving the international competitiveness […]

  • Good News America – Old (Spending) Habits Die Hard

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 10:05pm EDT

    Good News America – Old (Spending) Habits Die Hard Via DataTrekResearch.com, “Everything’s going to be different” is a pretty popular phrase these days. Implicit in that idea, at least in part, is the notion that our day-to-day habits are changing as we work from home, shop more online, Zoom call with colleagues and friends, and order […]

  • Meet ‘Salus’ – The Pentagon’s New COVID-Hotspot, Panic-Buying Predicting AI

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 9:45pm EDT

    Meet ‘Salus’ – The Pentagon’s New COVID-Hotspot, Panic-Buying Predicting AI A new predictive technology developed by the Pentagon can anticipate product shortages could help military personnel move supplies to retailers or hospitals with geographical precision before a shortage develops during a public health crisis.  The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) developed the new prototype artificial […]

  • Watch: Pentagon Releases US Navy Footage Of UFOs, Confirms The Videos Are “Real”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 9:25pm EDT

    Watch: Pentagon Releases US Navy Footage Of UFOs, Confirms The Videos Are “Real” Via SaraACarter.com, The Department of Defense released Monday three unclassified videos showing the U.S. Navy’s encounters with “unidentified aerial phenomena” in an attempt to “clear up any misconceptions” regarding whether the videos – which have been circulating for years – are real.  As AP […]

  • Mnuchin Says Dead People Aren’t Eligible For Stimulus Checks

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 9:05pm EDT

    Mnuchin Says Dead People Aren’t Eligible For Stimulus Checks Two weeks ago we reported that in the rush to flood the population with plastic trinkets (i.e., $1,200 checks) just so the natives don’t get restless and realize that while they are getting scraps corporations, hedge funds, banks and PE firms are again getting billions, the […]

  • Trump Invokes Defense Production Act: Who Will Be Forced To Work At Meat Plants?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 8:45pm EDT

    Trump Invokes Defense Production Act: Who Will Be Forced To Work At Meat Plants? Submitted by Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper Over the past few weeks, nearly a dozen large meat processing plants have closed their doors due to widespread coronavirus among employees. Thousands of workers have become infected and at the time of […]

  • ‘Infodemic’: Seoul Takes Aim At CNN “Fake News” Report About Kim Jong Un’s Failed Heart Surgery 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 8:25pm EDT

    ‘Infodemic’: Seoul Takes Aim At CNN “Fake News” Report About Kim Jong Un’s Failed Heart Surgery  Last week’s avalanche of headlines regarding Kim Jong Un’s ‘disappearance’ and possible death triggered initially by a report in Seoul-based outlet Daily NK, but then amplified by a CNN suggesting the North Korean leader is in “grave danger” following heart surgery, has been addressed […]

  • Chinagate Is The New Russiagate… And Is Far More Dangerous

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 8:05pm EDT

    Chinagate Is The New Russiagate… And Is Far More Dangerous Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, I’ve become convinced the next major event that’ll be used to further centralize power and escalate domestic authoritarianism will center around U.S.-China tensions. We haven’t witnessed this “event” yet, but there’s a good chance it’ll occur within […]

  • Survey Finds 50 Million Americans Have Lost Their Job In Past 6 Weeks

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 7:45pm EDT

    Survey Finds 50 Million Americans Have Lost Their Job In Past 6 Weeks When Thursday’s initial claims report is published at 830am on Thursday, the Dept of Labor will confirm that the current depression unlike any seen before, with approximately 30 million Americans losing their jobs in the past 6 weeks alone. That number, however, […]

  • Trump Could Use “Nuclear Option” To Make Saudi Arabia Pay For Oil War

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 7:25pm EDT

    Trump Could Use “Nuclear Option” To Make Saudi Arabia Pay For Oil War Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, President Donald Trump is considering all options available to him to make the Saudis pay for the oil price war as the crash that followed has done significant damage to the U.S. oil industry. With last […]

  • Has The Recovery Started Already? What Real-TIme Coronavirus Activity Trackers Are Showing

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 7:05pm EDT

    Has The Recovery Started Already? What Real-TIme Coronavirus Activity Trackers Are Showing There was some good news in the latest coronavirus activity tracker from Goldman: signs of life amid an unprecedented collapse in aggregate demand. As the following chart tracking daily consumer prices shows, after cratering by as much as 50% into the middle of […]

  • Daily Briefing – April 28, 2020

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 6:50pm EDT

    Daily Briefing – April 28, 2020 Tyler Durden Tue, 04/28/2020 – 18:50

  • The Twilight-Zone Economies Evolving From COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 6:45pm EDT

    The Twilight-Zone Economies Evolving From COVID-19 Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, Currently, our economy is caught somewhere in the Twilight-Zone, a place that exists for moments but where wrong decisions often lead to madness. While this is happening a great deal of the population sits at home trying to ignore the reality developing outside […]

  • Jackson Mayor Suspends Open Carry Law, Citing COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 6:25pm EDT

    Jackson Mayor Suspends Open Carry Law, Citing COVID-19 The mayor of Jackson, Mississippi has used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to suspend the city’s open carry law – announcing in a Saturday YouTube video that the suspension was a response to the ongoing gun violence in the city. “The City of Jackson faces a […]

  • Why Illinois Is Broke: 109,881 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $14B

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 6:05pm EDT

    Why Illinois Is Broke: 109,881 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $14B Submitted by Adam Andrzejewski, originally published in Forbes, Illinois could soon be the first state in history to have its bonds rated as “junk.” Last month, both Moody’s MCO and Standard & Poor’s downgraded Illinois debt to just one notch above junk status. Last week, the […]

  • Store Visits Spike As States Lift Lockdowns, Even As Millions Remain Unemployed

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 5:45pm EDT

    Store Visits Spike As States Lift Lockdowns, Even As Millions Remain Unemployed In a sign that maybe it won’t take years for consumers to get over their aversion to public spaces (as CNN has suggested), Reuters reports that visits to retail stores ticked higher across the US last week, with the biggest upticks seen in […]

  • Tuesday Surprise Rocks Flynn Case: Former Lawyers Failed To Produce Another Pile Of Evidence

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 5:25pm EDT

    Tuesday Surprise Rocks Flynn Case: Former Lawyers Failed To Produce Another Pile Of Evidence Authored by John Solomon via JustTheNews (emphasis ours), The surprises keep coming in former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s legal battle to overturn his conviction in the Russia probe. Just days after the FBI belatedly produced possible evidence of innocence to […]

  • What If COVID-19 Immunity Doesn’t Last Long?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 5:05pm EDT

    What If COVID-19 Immunity Doesn’t Last Long? Many Americans who haven’t been closely following the stream of research, evolving opinions and changing recommendations of health-care professionals and organizations probably don’t realize just how little we know about the virus. Few realize that when health care professionals and epidemiologists recommend these shutdowns, they’re doing so based […]

  • US Intel Officials Believe 45,500 Corpses Were Incinerated In One Fortnight In Wuhan

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 4:45pm EDT

    US Intel Officials Believe 45,500 Corpses Were Incinerated In One Fortnight In Wuhan Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, US intelligence officials believe that the true scale of China’s coronavirus outbreak is at least FIFTY times worse than the communist state is admitting to, and that 60,000 dead bodies per month could have been […]