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  • British Scientific Advisors: China Covering Up Full Extent Of Virus, Could Be 40 Times Worse Than Reported

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 5:30am EDT

    British Scientific Advisors: China Covering Up Full Extent Of Virus, Could Be 40 Times Worse Than Reported Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Scientific advisors to the British government have reportedly told the Prime Minister Boris Johnson that China is covering up the full extent of the coronavirus pandemic, and that things could be […]

  • “What Is Really Essential”? In The US Golf And Guns, In France Wine And Pastries

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 4:55am EDT

    “What Is Really Essential”? In The US Golf And Guns, In France Wine And Pastries Among countless other unprecedented changes and transformation, the coronavirus pandemic has unveiled an odd divergence within global cultures: the definition of what’s deemed “essential” for people across the world, and what things we really can’t do without, even though we […]

  • Will The Post-COVID-19 World Be Far Worse Than The Pre-COVID-19 World?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 4:20am EDT

    Will The Post-COVID-19 World Be Far Worse Than The Pre-COVID-19 World? Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Signs, especially in the United States, are that the post-coronavirus-plagued world will have even more inequality of wealth, within each nation, than existed prior to the plague. Billionaires are demanding to be included in the […]

  • NY Prisoners Say They’re Re-Packaging Hand Sanitizer, Not Making It From Scratch, Under Cuomo’s Program

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 3:45am EDT

    NY Prisoners Say They’re Re-Packaging Hand Sanitizer, Not Making It From Scratch, Under Cuomo’s Program Who can forget Governor Andrew Cuomo’s presser weeks ago where he exclaimed that he would be putting New York state prisoners to work making hand sanitizer? The goal was to produce 100,000 gallons of it every week to be distributed, […]

  • The EU’s Betrayal Of Italy May Be Its Undoing

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 3:10am EDT

    The EU’s Betrayal Of Italy May Be Its Undoing Authored by Francesco Giubilei via TheAmericanConservative.com, When countries are turning to China because their supranational institutions won’t help, that’s a problem… The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a greater toll on Italy than any other nation. The Italians are facing their most severe crisis since the Second World […]

  • Greenland Bans Alcohol Sales To Reduce Child Abuse As Coronavirus Hits

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 2:35am EDT

    Greenland Bans Alcohol Sales To Reduce Child Abuse As Coronavirus Hits For several weeks after the start of the global coronavirus pandemic there was a running joke that Trump’s offer to purchase Greenland was brilliant in hindsight as the northern island appeared immune to any the covid cases. That all changed on March 16 when […]

  • We Are All Totalitarians Now – COIVD-19 Brings Back Europe’s Spirit Of The Polis

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 2:00am EDT

    We Are All Totalitarians Now – COIVD-19 Brings Back Europe’s Spirit Of The Polis Authored by Guillaume Durocher via The Unz Review, The coronavirus epidemic has been highly instructive. In the face of a looming early death for millions of citizens, Western States have entered a genuine crisis in which the Schmittian sovereign – who was always […]

  • ‘Need Our Help?’ Iran’s IRGC Mocks US For Now Leading World In COVID-19 Cases

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 1:00am EDT

    ‘Need Our Help?’ Iran’s IRGC Mocks US For Now Leading World In COVID-19 Cases On the same day the United States leveled yet more sanctions against the Islamic Republic, blacklisting 20 Iran- and Iraq-based companies, officials and individuals for supporting terrorism, leaders in Tehran took to publicly mocking the US for now being the global epicenter of the […]

  • “The Plannedemic”?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 11:55pm EDT

    “The Plannedemic”? Authored by Ben Garrison A PLAN YOU CAN’T TRUST! For the past decade, Bill gates has been warning us about an inevitable pandemic. Conditioning us. Getting us used to the idea. Last year, he even held a summit on the matter and ran computer simulations to predict outcomes. Why did a former computer […]

  • Pentagon Orders Essential Staff To Deep Underground Mountain Bunker As Pandemic Prep Escalates

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 11:30pm EDT

    Pentagon Orders Essential Staff To Deep Underground Mountain Bunker As Pandemic Prep Escalates North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) & the US’ Northern Command (NORTHCOM) held a Facebook Live town hall meeting on Tuesday, March 24, informing the public how their essential teams in charge of homeland security are isolating at the Cheyenne Mountain bunker in Colorado […]

  • Putin Says ‘The Rich Must Pay’ For The COVID-19 Chaos

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    Putin Says ‘The Rich Must Pay’ For The COVID-19 Chaos Authored by Mike Whitney via The Unz Review, Vladimir Putin has decided how Russia is going to pay for the corona-virus… He’s going to tax the rich. It’s a remedy that most Americans would support if they were given the choice, but they weren’t asked. […]

  • As States Shutter Gun Stores Amid Surging Demand, Rights Activist Launches “Netflix For 3-D Guns”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 10:40pm EDT

    As States Shutter Gun Stores Amid Surging Demand, Rights Activist Launches “Netflix For 3-D Guns” Cody Wilson, the self-described anarchist and leader of the 3D-printed gun movement, is absolutely bat sh*t crazy. He released a new promo video, highlighting several ghost guns, himself wearing a 3M N-95 virus mask, and at the end of the […]

  • “I’m Terrified” – New York Turns Into “War Zone” As City’s 911 System Faces Overwhelming Onslaught

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 10:15pm EDT

    “I’m Terrified” – New York Turns Into “War Zone” As City’s 911 System Faces Overwhelming Onslaught As New York deals with its worsening coronavirus outbreak in real time, “terrified” 911 operators find themselves having to make life-or-death decisions on a whim, on a daily basis.  “It’s all a war zone,” one paramedic said.  “I’m terrified. I […]

  • “It’s Super Painful” – Bill Gates Urges 10-Week Nationwide Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 9:50pm EDT

    “It’s Super Painful” – Bill Gates Urges 10-Week Nationwide Lockdown Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates was heard on CNN Global Town Hall on Thursday (March 26) as saying six to ten weeks of lockdowns across the country is now necessary to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.  “It is super painful to drive this very high degree of social isolation […]

  • Canada Bans Passengers Showing Virus Symptoms From Domestic Flights & Trains

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 9:25pm EDT

    Canada Bans Passengers Showing Virus Symptoms From Domestic Flights & Trains Canada has over 6,243 confirmed coronvirus cases, including 64 deaths as of Sunday, which compared to the United States – at over 135,000 cases and rapidly growing – appears to be doing a much better job at fighting the spread.  Though nationwide transport systems, […]

  • The Great Madness

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 9:00pm EDT

    The Great Madness Authored by The Zman, Has the world gone mad? It certainly seems that way to some of us. Even the most cynical never imagined the government shutting down the country for fear of a virus, but it has suddenly become the new normal. The cynical, if they thought of it at all, […]

  • CFTC Quietly Bails Out Capital One

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 8:37pm EDT

    CFTC Quietly Bails Out Capital One Last Friday, around the time of the quad-witching collapse which sent the S&P to levels not seen since Trump’s inauguration, amid the flurry of headlines bombarding shell-shocked traders, was one that was particularly ominous if bizarrely incomplete. Shortly after the close, Bloomberg blasted the following headline: CFTC PROVIDING RELIEF […]

  • “The Scope For Pain Is Immense” – China’s Consumer Default Tsunami Has Started

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 8:15pm EDT

    “The Scope For Pain Is Immense” – China’s Consumer Default Tsunami Has Started One month ago we reported that “China Faces Financial Armageddon With 85% Of Businesses Set To Run Out Of Cash In 3 Months”, in which we explained that while China’s giant state-owned SOEs will likely have enough of a liquidity lifeblood to […]

  • COVID-19 Is Saving Lives

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 7:55pm EDT

    COVID-19 Is Saving Lives Authored by Prasanthi Ramakrishnan, Siddhartha Sanghi, David Schwartzman and Hayley Wabiszewski The United States death toll from the novel coronavirus has steadily increased in the last few days, with over 2, 200 COVID- 19 deaths, and more than half of the deaths in the last three days alone. The death toll […]

  • WHO Issues Statement On Taiwan After Rude Official Shills For China

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 7:35pm EDT

    WHO Issues Statement On Taiwan After Rude Official Shills For China Since the very beginning of the Chinese coronavirus epidemic, the World Health Organization has been shilling for Beijing. From WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus showering the CCP with praise for their early handling of the disease (by hunting down doctors who told the truth, […]

  • Goldman’s Buyback Desk: Companies Representing $190BN In Buybacks, 25% Of Total, Have Already Suspended Repurchases

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 7:15pm EDT

    Goldman’s Buyback Desk: Companies Representing $190BN In Buybacks, 25% Of Total, Have Already Suspended Repurchases As discussed last weekend, 2018 and 2019 were record years for buybacks, for one main reason: Trump’s tax reform allowed companies to repatriate over a trillion dollars parked offshore at nominal tax rates, which were then used to repurchase stocks, […]

  • The Fate Of The Fantastic Four (Of Financial Engineering)

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 6:55pm EDT

    The Fate Of The Fantastic Four (Of Financial Engineering) Authored by Jesse Fedler via TheFelderReport.com, It was just over two years ago I wrote about The Fantastic Four That Make FANG Look Tame. McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Boeing and 3M, known in these pages as MCBM, had seen their stock prices, as a group, soar over 120% during […]

  • New York Internet Speeds Have Plunged As Locked-Down Americans Clog Networks 

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 6:30pm EDT

    New York Internet Speeds Have Plunged As Locked-Down Americans Clog Networks  Download speeds for some US internet users have been bogged down in recent weeks as millions of Americans work from home due to ‘shelter-in-place’ public health orders enforced by federal and state governments.  Some folks have resorted to “Netflix and quarantine” and free Pornhub Premium, […]

  • ‘Dark Money’ Groups & Super PACs Target Trump With Multi-Million Dollar Coronavirus Ad Campaign

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 6:05pm EDT

    ‘Dark Money’ Groups & Super PACs Target Trump With Multi-Million Dollar Coronavirus Ad Campaign Authored by Anna Massoglia & Tatyana Monnay via OpenSecrets.org, Fueled by “dark money,” cash-flush liberal groups with ties to the Democratic Party are mobilizing to unleash millions of dollars worth of ads attacking President Donald Trump’s response to coronavirus ahead of the 2020 […]

  • “Beware A Disorderly Dollar Surge”: Goldman Says The Dollar Rally “Is Not Over”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 6:01pm EDT

    “Beware A Disorderly Dollar Surge”: Goldman Says The Dollar Rally “Is Not Over” Two weeks ago we said that the unprecedented (and continuing) surge in the dollar is the result of a historic, 12 trillion dollar margin call, as issuers of dollar-denominated debt obligations around the globe, seeing their cash flows collapse scrambled to repatriate […]