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  • Human Lab Rats: The US Government’s Secret History Of Grisly Experiments

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 12:00am EDT

    Human Lab Rats: The US Government’s Secret History Of Grisly Experiments Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” – Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children I have […]

  • Visualizing How Oil Prices Went Sub-Zero: Explaining The COVID-19 Oil Crash

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 11:40pm EDT

    Visualizing How Oil Prices Went Sub-Zero: Explaining The COVID-19 Oil Crash The Great Lockdown continues to turn markets on their head. Last week, Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins dug into the unprecedented number of initial jobless claims coming out of the United States, which topped 22 million in a period of four weeks. It’s just days later, and […]

  • YouTube Sides With World Health Organization On Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 11:20pm EDT

    YouTube Sides With World Health Organization On Coronavirus Submitted by ValueWalk YouTube says it will take down any videos that contradict what the World Health Organization says about the coronavirus. As the WHO finds itself in the middle of controversy over China’s handling of COVID-19, it sounds like any videos even criticizing the agency could […]

  • Liquidity Crisis Over? In Drastic Reversal, Companies Issue Bonds To Repay Revolvers

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 11:17pm EDT

    Liquidity Crisis Over? In Drastic Reversal, Companies Issue Bonds To Repay Revolvers Starting one month ago, hit by a dramatic flashback to events from the global financial crisis, US corporations panicked and rushed to obtain as much funding as they possibly could – especially since such key short-term funding markets such as Commercial Paper were […]

  • China Sends US “Contaminated” COVID Test-Kits 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 11:00pm EDT

    China Sends US “Contaminated” COVID Test-Kits  It’s bad enough that China has frozen exports of medical equipment to the US during the pandemic. Now a new report sheds light on some COVID-19 test kits from the country that were sent “contaminated.”  The South China Morning Post (SCMP) said the University of Washington School of Medicine (UW Medicine) “went to extraordinary […]

  • Techno-Tyranny: How The US National Security State Is Using COVID-19 To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 10:40pm EDT

    Techno-Tyranny: How The US National Security State Is Using COVID-19 To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision Authored by Whitney Webb via TheLastAmericanVagabond.com, LAST YEAR, A GOVERNMENT COMMISSION CALLED FOR THE US TO ADOPT AN AI-DRIVEN MASS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FAR BEYOND THAT USED IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN ORDER TO ENSURE AMERICAN HEGEMONY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. NOW, […]

  • Jerusalem’s City Hall Complex Goes Up In Flames After Molotov Cocktail Attack

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 10:20pm EDT

    Jerusalem’s City Hall Complex Goes Up In Flames After Molotov Cocktail Attack Police in Jerusalem are investigating a possible terror attack after a massive fire broke out at Jerusalem’s City Hall on Wednesday afternoon.  Given multiple building at the sprawling complex were shown in local media reports set ablaze, it appears the result of an […]

  • Watch: John Pilger’s “The Coming War On China”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 10:00pm EDT

    Watch: John Pilger’s “The Coming War On China” Authored by Caitlin Johnstone, “The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable,” Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which you can watch […]

  • Lululemon Fires Art Director Over ‘Bat Fried Rice’ Shirt

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 9:40pm EDT

    Lululemon Fires Art Director Over ‘Bat Fried Rice’ Shirt Lulumemon has issued an apology and fired its art director, Trevor Fleming, after he shared an Instagram link on Sunday to a shirt created by artist Jess Sluder featuring a Chinese take-out box decorated with bat wings and the words “no thank you” on the sleeves […]

  • Mankind’s Best Friend: Dogs Being Trained To Detect COVID-19 Odors Could Test 750 People Per Hour

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 9:20pm EDT

    Mankind’s Best Friend: Dogs Being Trained To Detect COVID-19 Odors Could Test 750 People Per Hour Authored by Elias Marat via TheMindUnleashed.com, There’s plenty of reason why dogs have historically been considered man’s best friend. For at least the past 15,000 years, dogs have served human societies in myriad ways. Whether by hunting pray, helping […]

  • Trump Says He “Strongly Disagrees” With Gov Kemp’s Decision To Reopen Georgia

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 9:04pm EDT

    Trump Says He “Strongly Disagrees” With Gov Kemp’s Decision To Reopen Georgia After a week in which President Trump deliberately courted blame for the entire coronavirus pandemic response by tacitly applauding protesters demanding that the country reopen immediately, reopening the national parks and making other remarks implying that he now regrets his decision to delegate […]

  • Mitch McConnell Says Struggling States Should File For Bankruptcy

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 9:03pm EDT

    Mitch McConnell Says Struggling States Should File For Bankruptcy Over the past month, the economic shutdown resulting from the coronavirus pandemic – which as we hear every day was “nobody’s fault” just to make sure there are no unpleasant mentions of moral hazard during the biggest bailout in history… … has emerged as the perfect […]

  • Japanese PMI Collapses To Record Low, Signals 10% Crash In GDP

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 8:47pm EDT

    Japanese PMI Collapses To Record Low, Signals 10% Crash In GDP After China’s ugliest GDP print ever, and the collapse of US economic surprise index data, it should be no real surprise that Japan’s manufacturing and services industry PMIs would plunge (despite the “everything’s fine, the Olympics is imminent” narrative puked forth by the government […]

  • Here’s Why 2/3rds Of US Oil & Gas Companies May Not Exist A Year From Now

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 8:40pm EDT

    Here’s Why 2/3rds Of US Oil & Gas Companies May Not Exist A Year From Now Authored by Bryce Coward via Knowledge Leaders Capital blog, Energy companies are facing a life or death moment in 2020 with the price of WTI crude oil falling to $13.64/barrel as of this writing. Indeed the collapse in energy […]

  • What Rebound? Hedge Funds Have Been Selling For 8 Of Past 9 Days As “Global HF Heavyweights Remain Bearish”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 8:25pm EDT

    What Rebound? Hedge Funds Have Been Selling For 8 Of Past 9 Days As “Global HF Heavyweights Remain Bearish” Today’s market rebound was impressive, but after the first major sell-off in some time on Monday and Tuesday, it was not impressive enough for Nomura’s quant Masanari Takada who writes that what is going on in […]

  • COVID-19 & Oil Below Zero: Is There A Way Forward?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 8:00pm EDT

    COVID-19 & Oil Below Zero: Is There A Way Forward? Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, Many people are concerned today with the low price of oil. Others are concerned about slowing or stopping COVID-19. Is there any way forward? I gave a few hints regarding what is ahead in my last […]

  • US Blasts “Bullying Behavior” As China Rattles Sabre In South China Sea 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 7:40pm EDT

    US Blasts “Bullying Behavior” As China Rattles Sabre In South China Sea  China is making big geopolitical moves at the moment, and it has used the cover of the pandemic to assert itself as a significant power player in the Pacific and challenge the existing world order and the US.  The existing world order, controlled […]

  • Daily Briefing – April 22, 2020

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 7:37pm EDT

    Daily Briefing – April 22, 2020 Tyler Durden Wed, 04/22/2020 – 19:37

  • Skynet Is Near – Google Scientists Create Artificial Intelligence That Evolves On Its Own

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 7:20pm EDT

    Skynet Is Near – Google Scientists Create Artificial Intelligence That Evolves On Its Own Authored by Jake Anderson via TheMindUnleashed.com, One of the biggest global players in artificial intelligence (AI) is Google and their high-tech Brain division has been pushing the envelope for years. Now scientists working for their AutoML project have a new paper in which […]

  • “There’s No Liquidity” – Mortgage Lenders Abandon “No Brainer” Best Credit Risk Borrowers

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 7:00pm EDT

    “There’s No Liquidity” – Mortgage Lenders Abandon “No Brainer” Best Credit Risk Borrowers The jumbo loan market is facing a classic liquidity crunch. A perfect storm is brewing as millions of homeowners are seeking forbearances as the economy crashes into depression from coronavirus lockdowns, and firms who usually bundle up jumbo loans have immediately exited […]

  • Expert Warns US Is On The Brink Of “Mass Civil Unrest”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 6:40pm EDT

    Expert Warns US Is On The Brink Of “Mass Civil Unrest” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, An expert with the United States Studies Centre says that America is on the brink of “mass civil unrest” that threatens to emerge out of anti-lockdown protests now taking place nationwide. Demonstrations against coronavirus stay-at-home measures […]

  • Caves, Cars, & Clogged Pipelines – Oil Traders Turn To “Oddball Storage Locations” As Demand Hits 30-Year Lows

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 6:20pm EDT

    Caves, Cars, & Clogged Pipelines – Oil Traders Turn To “Oddball Storage Locations” As Demand Hits 30-Year Lows As we detailed earlier, global floating storage is now accelerating at an “unprecedented pace” currently amounting to almost 250 million barrels, up from common estimates of 160 million bbl only last week, with at least one in 10 supertankers around […]

  • “Mr.President, Open The Economy Now” – Martin Armstrong Warns “There’s Another Agenda Going On”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 6:00pm EDT

    “Mr.President, Open The Economy Now” – Martin Armstrong Warns “There’s Another Agenda Going On” Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong says shutting down the economy is far worse that the effects of the Wuhan China virus. Armstrong says, “This is just scare mongering, and there is another agenda going on…” […]

  • New York Released – Then Retracted – A New Policy Asking Paramedics To Just Let Patients Without A Pulse Die

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 5:40pm EDT

    New York Released – Then Retracted – A New Policy Asking Paramedics To Just Let Patients Without A Pulse Die Imagine a scenario where, for whatever reason, your pulse stopped  – say because of a sudden cardiac incident or another of the myriad medical maladies that can arise without warning – anywhere in NYC. Then, […]

  • Watch Live: White House Task Force Delivers Wednesday Briefing

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 5:40pm EDT

    Watch Live: White House Task Force Delivers Wednesday Briefing Wednesday’s briefing was delayed until 5:45pmET, perhaps due to last-minute talks about the federal government’s latest relief bill, which is meant to replenish the small-business lending program that has largely shafted small businesses in favor of public companies, who are effectively being given the green light […]