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  • The Silent War On “Q” Continues

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 11:40pm EST

    The Silent War On “Q” Continues Authored by Deborah Franklin via AmericanThinker.com, We’re living in dramatic times that are difficult to understand. One way to try to interpret them is through the cryptic clues provided by Q, which appear on an anonymous online forum and imply top-secret knowledge of upcoming events. As I wrote in […]

  • “Doomed To Failure”: Bolton Excoriates Trump On Iran, N.Korea In First Post-Impeachment Appearance

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 11:15pm EST

    “Doomed To Failure”: Bolton Excoriates Trump On Iran, N.Korea In First Post-Impeachment Appearance Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton took his former boss’s foreign policy to task during comments made at Duke University Monday night — in his first public speech since the impeachment inquiry wrapped up, and at a sensitive moment his lawyers are still wrangling over the […]

  • Dominos Are Falling – China Shutdown To Crush India’s Already-Crumbling Economy

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 10:50pm EST

    Dominos Are Falling – China Shutdown To Crush India’s Already-Crumbling Economy The supply chain shock emanating from China to other Asia Pacific countries and Europe, could become a major headache for India. Bloomberg focuses on how an industrial shutdown of China’s economy has already had a profound effect on India’s economy and could get worse. Pankaj […]

  • US & China Lead Biggest Jump In World Defense Spending In 10 Years

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 10:25pm EST

    US & China Lead Biggest Jump In World Defense Spending In 10 Years Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, New data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) has shown a roughly 4% increase in military spending for 2019, the single largest rate of growth seen in the past 10 years. The increase is being driven in large part […]

  • Beijing Cracks Down On VPNs Amid Growing Popular Backlash To CCP Censorship

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 10:00pm EST

    Beijing Cracks Down On VPNs Amid Growing Popular Backlash To CCP Censorship It looks like Beijing has finally grown tired of journalists like Epoch Times’ Jennifer Zeng circulating shocking videos depicting the true depth of the crisis on the ground in China – and the government’s almost unbelievably heavy handed response. For an example, see […]

  • IceCap Asset Management: The Invisible Zombie

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 9:35pm EST

    IceCap Asset Management: The Invisible Zombie Submitted by Keith Dicker of IceCap Asset Management “I’ll show you who I am” And with that one line – the world of invisibility was born. The 1933 blockbuster film, “The Invisible Man” launched a genre that would span decades, producing many enjoyable and many unenjoyable movies of things […]

  • Over 2,000 Former DOJ Officials Call On Barr To Resign Over Roger Stone Case

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 9:09pm EST

    Over 2,000 Former DOJ Officials Call On Barr To Resign Over Roger Stone Case Over 2,000 former Justice Department officials have called on Attorney General William Barr to step down after he stepped in last week to rescind a sentencing recommendation of 7-9 years filed by four anti-Trump career prosecutors, resulting in their resignations. “It […]

  • Would We Still Have Power & Water If We Had A Massive Coronavirus Quarantine In The US?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 8:45pm EST

    Would We Still Have Power & Water If We Had A Massive Coronavirus Quarantine In The US? Authored by Selco Begovic and Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, How long do you think a pandemic quarantine could go on with power, running water, the internet, and trash pick-up continuing to run as normal? If […]

  • Pier 1 Files For Bankruptcy After Last-Ditch Effort To Cut Costs Fails

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 8:20pm EST

    Pier 1 Files For Bankruptcy After Last-Ditch Effort To Cut Costs Fails Another retailer has failed in the “greatest economy ever,” as more than 12,000 stores closed in 2019, and mall vacancy rates across the country hit 8-year highs.  Home decor and furniture retailer Pier 1 Imports closed 450 out of 942 stores last month, a […]

  • US Operational Weather Prediction Is Crippled By Inadequate Computer Resources

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 7:55pm EST

    US Operational Weather Prediction Is Crippled By Inadequate Computer Resources Via Cliff Mass Weather Blog, U.S. global numerical weather prediction has now fallen into fourth place, with national and regional prediction capabilities a shadow of what they could be. There are several reasons for these lagging numerical weather prediction capabilities, including lack of strategic planning, […]

  • China’s Latest Data Fabrication: Home Prices “Increased” Even As Largest Home Developer Offers 25% Discounts

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 7:30pm EST

    China’s Latest Data Fabrication: Home Prices “Increased” Even As Largest Home Developer Offers 25% Discounts There has been a slew of openly bizarre, if not outright ridiculously manipulated and fabricated data out of China in the past month – which is to be expected by an authoritarian regime that for much of January arrested anyone […]

  • “The Process Failed”: US Breaks Cruise Ship Quarantine, Flies 13 Infected Americans To Omaha Facility

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 7:07pm EST

    “The Process Failed”: US Breaks Cruise Ship Quarantine, Flies 13 Infected Americans To Omaha Facility While China does everything in its power do demonstrate that the number of new cases in both Hubei province where the coronavirus epicenter of Wuhan is located, and across China, is declining with every passing day in a sign that […]

  • No One Gets Out Of Here Alive

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 7:05pm EST

    No One Gets Out Of Here Alive Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “The seasons of time offer no guarantees. For modern societies, no less than for all forms of life, transformative change is discontinuous. For what seems an eternity, history goes nowhere – and then it suddenly flings us forward across […]

  • Chicago Records Coldest Valentine’s Day In Half A Century; The Brunt Of Winter Is Likely Over – Hello Spring?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 6:40pm EST

    Chicago Records Coldest Valentine’s Day In Half A Century; The Brunt Of Winter Is Likely Over – Hello Spring? Last week’s Arctic blast was very noticeable in Chicago. Residents woke up to subzero temperatures on Valentine’s Day, one of the coldest days in nearly five decades. O’Hare International Airport recorded minus 2 degrees on Feb […]

  • Why You Shouldn’t Borrow Too Much Money, China Edition

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 6:15pm EST

    Why You Shouldn’t Borrow Too Much Money, China Edition Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, When the US housing bubble burst in 2007, most observers were focused on the threat to Wall Street banks and their massive derivative books. This was a legitimate fear, since the worst case scenarios involved the death of Goldman Sachs […]

  • ‘Black And Latino Males Don’t Know How To Behave In The Workplace’: Bloomberg Flashback

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 5:50pm EST

    ‘Black And Latino Males Don’t Know How To Behave In The Workplace’: Bloomberg Flashback Another Mike Bloomberg sound byte is coming back to haunt the Democratic presidential candidate after a 2011 clip from when he was mayor of New York City has resurfaced in which he said “enormous cohorts” of young black and Latino men […]

  • ‘CoupGate’ – A Localized Civil War Is Now Underway In The DoJ

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 5:25pm EST

    ‘CoupGate’ – A Localized Civil War Is Now Underway In The DoJ Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, At Stake A miasma of consternation lay heavy across the Potomac swamp late last week when former FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe was let off the hook for lying to his own bureau while, elsewhere across […]

  • After Mass Chicken Cull, China Approves Live Poultry From US 

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 5:00pm EST

    After Mass Chicken Cull, China Approves Live Poultry From US  The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) of China has approved the import of live chickens from the US after farmers across the country were ordered to cull tens of millions of chickens because of the Covid-19 outbreak.  The MOA had banned poultry meat imports from the US […]

  • Virginia Governor’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban Fails After Democrats Balk

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 4:35pm EST

    Virginia Governor’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban Fails After Democrats Balk Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s bid to ban the sale of so-called assault weapons has failed after Democratic Senators balked at the controversial proposal, according to Fox5. Then and now: Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) Those opposed opted to shelve the bill for a year in order […]

  • “The Situation Is Evolving” – AAPL Cuts Guidance Due To Virus Disruptions

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 4:17pm EST

    “The Situation Is Evolving” – AAPL Cuts Guidance Due To Virus Disruptions Surprise! Apple has issued a press released, admitting it does “not expect to meet the revenue guidance we provided for the March quarter” due to coronavirus related issues. In other words, the guidance we issued 19 days ago – blowing off any impact […]

  • This Is What Hedge Funds Bought And Sold In Q4: Complete 13F Summary

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 4:10pm EST

    This Is What Hedge Funds Bought And Sold In Q4: Complete 13F Summary Many years ago, hedge fund 13-F reporting season was a time of excitement for all those who find perverse delight in reverse-engineering what hedge funds owned some 45 days ago (without even having a glimpse of their offsetting short book), as if […]

  • Platts: 5 Commodity Charts To Watch This Week

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 3:45pm EST

    Platts: 5 Commodity Charts To Watch This Week Via S&P Global Platts Insight blog, The ongoing outbreak of coronavirus, known officially as COVID-19, continues to dominate commodity and energy market developments, as illustrated by this week’s pick of charts from S&P Global Platts news editors. Plus, key trends in EU and US electricity markets. 1. COVID-19 […]

  • Los Alamos Experts Warn Covid-19 “Almost Certainly Cannot Be Contained”, Project Up To 4.4 Million Dead

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 2:55pm EST

    Los Alamos Experts Warn Covid-19 “Almost Certainly Cannot Be Contained”, Project Up To 4.4 Million Dead Authored by Sharon Begley via StatNews.com, At least 550,000 cases. Maybe 4.4 million. Or something in between. Like weather forecasters, researchers who use mathematical equations to project how bad a disease outbreak might become are used to uncertainties and […]

  • Cable Sinks To Session Lows As UK Slams “Absurd” EU Trade Rules, Expects “Open & Fair” Competition

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 2:45pm EST

    Cable Sinks To Session Lows As UK Slams “Absurd” EU Trade Rules, Expects “Open & Fair” Competition The pound sinks to session lows as Boris Johnson’s chief negotiator David Frost said democracy would “snap – dramatically and finally” if Britain is forced to follow European Union law after Brexit, reported The Telegraph. Britain demands an […]

  • Why Did Twitter Just “Lockdown” WikiLeaks Account?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 2:33pm EST

    Why Did Twitter Just “Lockdown” WikiLeaks Account? Just hours after a secret meeting with Silicon Valley tech giants to discuss censorship of “misinformation” surrounding coronavirus, and just days before Julian Assange’s extradition hearings are set to continue, Kristin Hrafnsson – a WikiLeaks’ journalist – reports that the WikiLeaks’ Twitter account has been locked-down… WikiLeaks twitter […]