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  • US Warship Transits Taiwan Strait As Virus Blame-Game Escalates

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 1:00am EDT

    US Warship Transits Taiwan Strait As Virus Blame-Game Escalates The Wall Street Journal’s Jacky Wong pretty much sums it up: “World War 3 during a pandemic wasn’t something I expected.”  World War 3 during a pandemic wasn’t something I expected https://t.co/DanPluaFlr — Jacky Wong (@jackycwong) March 26, 2020 A US warship transited through the Taiwan […]

  • 230 Years Of Rights And Liberties Shredded: Why I Oppose The Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 12:05am EDT

    230 Years Of Rights And Liberties Shredded: Why I Oppose The Lockdown Authored by Brandon Tourbeville via ActivistPost.com, Although it was nearly twenty years ago, I can remember 9/11 like it was yesterday. I remember the shock of hearing about the planes crashing into towers, at first believing it was a tragic accident and quickly […]

  • “Help Flatten The Curve” – Pornhub Offers Free Premium Service To Everyone

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 11:45pm EDT

    “Help Flatten The Curve” – Pornhub Offers Free Premium Service To Everyone Pornhub is offering free premium accounts to anyone in the world, a statement from the company read. The new campaign is called “Help Flatten the Curve,” a move that it says could “encourage people around the world to stay home to help flatten the Coronavirus […]

  • Earn More Or Spend Less? It’s Never Been A Better Time To Look At Your Money Situation

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 11:25pm EDT

    Earn More Or Spend Less? It’s Never Been A Better Time To Look At Your Money Situation Submitted by Market Crumbs , The sudden outbreak of the coronavirus and its effects on the economy, which has ground to a halt, are being felt by just about everyone. Whether you’re an investor who has seen your […]

  • Here Is The Treasury’s (Not So) Secret Trade Printing Millions In Guaranteed, Risk-Free Profits Every Day

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    Here Is The Treasury’s (Not So) Secret Trade Printing Millions In Guaranteed, Risk-Free Profits Every Day When the Senate unanimously passed a $2 trillion economic rescue plan late last night, it was targeting tens of millions of middle-class American households many of whom had lost their jobs, and whose lives had ground to a halt […]

  • COVID-19: How A Coronavirus Broke The System

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 10:45pm EDT

    COVID-19: How A Coronavirus Broke The System Authored by Marc Saxer via ConsortiumNews,com, The corona-crisis sends shockwaves through political, economic and social systems. The status quo simply cannot continue… No one knows how long the pandemic will last, how many people will fall ill, how many lives the coronavirus will claim. But the economic and […]

  • Footage Of Indian Police Beating Lockdown Violators Goes Viral

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 10:25pm EDT

    Footage Of Indian Police Beating Lockdown Violators Goes Viral With only 500 or so cases confirmed as of Tuesday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared in a late-night address that as of midnight (at the time, only a few hours away) the entire country of between 1.3 and 1.4 billion people would be placed under […]

  • Welcome To The War On Death

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 10:05pm EDT

    Welcome To The War On Death Authored (satirically) by CJ Hopkins via The Unz Review, OK, I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some some bad news. The good news is mainly for authoritarians who missed all the fun during the War on Terror. The news is … welcome to the War on Death! […]

  • Pandemonium In The Pacific: US Carrier Diverts To Guam As COVID-19 Cases Spike Among Crew

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 9:45pm EDT

    Pandemonium In The Pacific: US Carrier Diverts To Guam As COVID-19 Cases Spike Among Crew An absolute disaster is fast unfolding aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Western Pacific causing emergency contingency plans to be put in place.  By Wednesday eight sailors aboard the carrier tested positive for COVID-19, but clearly the outbreak aboard […]

  • Wake Up! Your Fears Are Being Manipulated

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 9:25pm EDT

    Wake Up! Your Fears Are Being Manipulated Authored by Peter van Buren via TheAmericanConservative.com, We have a terrifying example in 9/11 of how this goes… Let’s calm down and figure out who has what to gain by stirring panic…   I’m not worried about the guy coughing next to me. I’m worried about the ones […]

  • Americans Coping With Virus-Inspired Toilet Paper Shortage Are Clogging Pipes In Unprecedented Numbers

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 9:05pm EDT

    Americans Coping With Virus-Inspired Toilet Paper Shortage Are Clogging Pipes In Unprecedented Numbers Millions of Americans sheltering in place at home combined with an acute shortage of toilet paper inventory in grocery stores and wholesale clubs across the country – even as manufacturers continue to insist that there’s been no cutback in production – has […]

  • Fed Balance Sheet Hits $5.5 Trillion As Discount Window Usage Soars

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 8:58pm EDT

    Fed Balance Sheet Hits $5.5 Trillion As Discount Window Usage Soars As previewed last night when we showed that in the past week the Fed has bought a staggering $587BN in Treasuries and MBS, we calculated that as of March 25, the Fed’s balance sheet would rise to a record $5.3 trillion, a phenomenal increase […]

  • Putin Front-Runs QE, Proposes Taxing Investment Outflows

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 8:45pm EDT

    Putin Front-Runs QE, Proposes Taxing Investment Outflows Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns, Russia is going to be a destination for safe-haven flows in the post-COVID-19 world. It will be due to its vast savings, prudent fiscal policy and maneuver room available in monetary policy. The biggest reason, however, for why I […]

  • President Trump Urges Governors To Rank Counties By Virus Risk In Bid To Re-Open America’s Economy

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 8:25pm EDT

    President Trump Urges Governors To Rank Counties By Virus Risk In Bid To Re-Open America’s Economy President Trump said in a letter to governors today that governments should soon be ranking individual counties across the U.S. as “low, medium or high” risk for coronavirus outbreaks, in what is likely a beginning stage attempt to get the […]

  • Dual Paths In Dark Times: Despair Or Hope For Antiwar Dreamers

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 8:05pm EDT

    Dual Paths In Dark Times: Despair Or Hope For Antiwar Dreamers Authored by Danny Sjursen via AntiWar.com, “Red” (Morgan Freeman): “Hope is a dangerous thing my friend, it can kill a man…” Andy (Tim Robbins): “Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” ~ The Shawshank […]

  • “I Would Rather Be Dead”: Calls To Suicide Hotlines Spike Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 7:45pm EDT

    “I Would Rather Be Dead”: Calls To Suicide Hotlines Spike Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Calls to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline have spiked 300% amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to KVLY, while the Sacramento Bee reports that other suicide prevention services  have similarly risen for the same reasons. “It’s so scary, it’s almost like … I […]

  • Coronavirus Rescue Bill Includes $350 Million For “Migration And Refugee Assistance”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 7:25pm EDT

    Coronavirus Rescue Bill Includes $350 Million For “Migration And Refugee Assistance” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, The $2 trillion coronavirus crisis bill that passed the Senate includes a $350 million dollar injection of cash for “Migration and Refugee Assistance,” despite the fact that open borders contributed to the spread of the COVID-19 […]

  • At US Epicenter: NY Parks Bustle, Subway Packed, Social Distancing Defied & Flaunted

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 7:05pm EDT

    At US Epicenter: NY Parks Bustle, Subway Packed, Social Distancing Defied & Flaunted New York’s explosion of confirmed coronavirus case numbers over the past several days — with the state’s total at 37,258 cases, with 5,327 currently hospitalized, and 1,290 patients in the ICU — 20,011 among these in New York City alone, is downright scary. This makes the below scenes of ‘brave’ […]

  • Locked-Down: An American Caught In China During The COVID-19-Crisis Speaks Out

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 6:45pm EDT

    Locked-Down: An American Caught In China During The COVID-19-Crisis Speaks Out Authored by Evan Villarrubia via Kunstler.com, “I feel stupid! And contagious!” — Nirvana The panic and lockdown state we are just exiting in Dali (southwestern China) has been by far the most intense historical episode I’ve ever experienced. I’ve gone through several deep emotional […]

  • Bankrupt Oil Company Trolls Its Banks, Says They May Fail Too

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 6:41pm EDT

    Bankrupt Oil Company Trolls Its Banks, Says They May Fail Too With US shale companies facing a tsunami of defaults, some companies took the initiative and filed for bankruptcy ahead of the (viral) curve, so to speak, well before of the current corona/crude chaos. One such company is EP Energy, an El Paso Corp spinoff […]

  • Chicago Mayor Warns, Those Who Go Outside To Exercise Risk Arrest

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 6:25pm EDT

    Chicago Mayor Warns, Those Who Go Outside To Exercise Risk Arrest Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened to shut down public areas on Wednesday after becoming increasingly frustrated with people disobeying the COVID-19 stay-at-home order. The mayor’s warning also made clear that anyone breaking the new measure would be fined or even possibly arrested, reported CBS […]

  • Is There Wasteful Spending In The Coronavirus Stimulus Bill? (Spoiler Alert: Bigly!)

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 6:05pm EDT

    Is There Wasteful Spending In The Coronavirus Stimulus Bill? (Spoiler Alert: Bigly!) Authored by Adam Andrzejewski via Forbes.com, Last night, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a $2 trillion “Phase III” emergency aid package to help America recover from the coronavirus lockdown. Previous phases provided funds for testing and paid family leave. Not one U.S. Senator […]

  • Insanity: Stocks Enter New Bull Market On Day Initial Claims Hit 3.3 Million

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 6:00pm EDT

    Insanity: Stocks Enter New Bull Market On Day Initial Claims Hit 3.3 Million One would think that on the day the US reported 3.3 million (!) initial jobless claims, more than 5 times the weekly peak hit during the financial crisis, and a 30-sigma event… weekly jobless claims, a 30σ event pic.twitter.com/LEO7s5TXsH — 📈 𝙻𝚎𝚗 […]

  • Disaster Looms As Millions Of Americans Set To Lose Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 5:45pm EDT

    Disaster Looms As Millions Of Americans Set To Lose Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance With a record 3.3 million people filing for unemployment due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic – the largest number of claims ever recorded in a single week since October, 1982 – millions of Americans stand to lose their employer-sponsored health insurance when they […]

  • Cuomo Approves ‘Splitting’ Of Ventilators As Some COVID-19 Patients Stay Intubated For Up To 30 Days

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 5:15pm EDT

    Cuomo Approves ‘Splitting’ Of Ventilators As Some COVID-19 Patients Stay Intubated For Up To 30 Days Andrew Cuomo and the federal government are battling it out over 20,000 ventilators believed to be idling in a federal stockpile, ventilators that the governor – who is enjoying a moment of celebrity thanks to his swift and reassuring […]