US Says Iran’s Satellite Launch Program ‘Cover’ For Nuclear Weapons Delivery Iran’s latest attempt to launch a satellite into orbit marked the fourth recent space launch operation in a row ending in failure, and yet Iran’s space program and Defense Ministry still praised the launch as “remarkable” and vowed to continue to program. This elicited a response from US Secretary […]
Doug Casey: How To Survive The “Deep State” Authored by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, Almost everyone looks for a political solution to problems. However, once a Deep State situation has taken over, only a revolution or a dictatorship can turn it around, and probably only in a small country. Maybe you’re thinking you should get […]
India Develops World’s First Bulletproof Combat Helmet Against AK-47 An Indian Army Major who had designed an advanced bulletproof vest against sniper rounds has now developed a helmet that can protect the wearer from a 7.62×39mm bullet, commonly chambered in an AK-47. Major Anoop Mishra developed world’s first bullet proof helmet against AK 47 bullet, […]
First Mass Quarantine Outside Of China: Vietnam Puts Area With 10,000 Residents Under Coronavirus Quarantine For most of the past decade, Vietnam had benefited from China’s rising standard of living, higher wages, as companies seeking the lowest cost producer quietly but firmly transferred supply chains to originate out of China and into lower-cost locales such […]
Dershowitz: Demonizing Defense Lawyers Is The True Road To Tyranny Authored by Alan Dershowitz via The Gatestone Institute, I grew up in the age of McCarthyism, when lawyers who represented suspected communists were blamed for the alleged sins of their clients. I never expected to see a return to that benighted time, especially by self-proclaimed […]
Opening For US Troop Exit? NATO Heeds Trump’s Call To Expand In Iraq At a NATO defense meeting in Brussels this week, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced to reporters: “Allied ministers had reaffirmed their support to Iraq and agreed in principle to enhance NATO’s training mission.” However, there appears to have been little to […]
Calculating The Californication Of America Authored by Steven Malanga via City-Journal.org, Beset by high housing costs, crippling taxes, astronomical gas prices, wildfires, and rolling blackouts, Californians are heading for the exits. That’s sparking anxiety in places where these Golden State migrants are relocating. A mayoral candidate in Boise, Idaho, recently suggested building a wall to […]
Alibaba Warns “Black Swan” Event Could Be Imminent, Triggered By Covid-19 Outbreak In China Alibaba Group’s CEO Daniel Zhang warned Thursday that the Covid-19 outbreak in China is developing into a “black swan event” that could have severe consequences for China and the global economy. Zhang told analysts during a conference call that the company’s fiscal […]
Socialism In America, 31 Years Ago Authored by Jacob Hornberger via The Future of Freedom Foundation, In my article “A Life of the Lie on Socialism,” I pointed out that one of the big challenges we libertarians face is the fact that so many Americans are still suffering from the indoctrination that has led them […]
Trump “Won’t Change His Mind” On Iran Attack Headaches Quip Despite Growing Troop Injury Count As part of the continuing saga of the evolving “truth” behind American troop injuries as a result of the Jan.8 Iranian ballistic missile attack on Ain al-Asad Air Base in Iraq, which by the Pentagon’s (seemingly weekly) changing count now remains at 109 […]
If You Want To Understand The Constitution, Don’t Ask A Lawyer Authored by Michael Maharrey via SchiffGold.com, Most Americans say the Constitution is important. Most Americans say it’s crucial for the government to stay within its constitutional bounds. But what exactly are the constitutional limits on federal power? How do we know? Well, whatever you […]
China Vows To Put An End To “Lab Leakage Of Pathogenic Samples” Seemingly providing more anecdotal evidence that the Covid-19 outbreak was caused by an accidental leak of a bio-engineered virus and not by some freak of nature in Wuhan’s market, China’s Communist Party has issued a serious “Wartime Order” demanding more care and containment […]
Here Is What Dan Loeb’s Third Point Bought And Sold In The Fourth Quarter In an age when hedge funds which still invest using fundamental analysis are a quaint anachronism of a bygone era (all that matters now is Fed liquidity and what ETFs are doing), a handful of asset managers – and their holdings […]
Foreign Aid Just Empowers Corrupt Regimes. End It! Authored by José Niño via The Mises Institute, The Senate’s vote to acquit Donald Trump on both articles of impeachment this month brought a much-needed end to the tiring impeachment saga America has been subject to in the last few months. The impeachment controversy arose when President Donald Trump initially withheld […]
Experts Say North Korea “Clearly Lying” About Coronavirus Outbreak – “They Don’t Want To Show Any Weakness” Despite the “thaw” in relations with the US over the past few year (a thaw that former Trump chief of staff John Kelly recently claimed was simply an example Kim Jong Un “playing” the US), the flow of […]
London Coronavirus Patient Took Uber To Hospital – Then They Sent Her Home The UK’s first coronavirus patient, a Chinese national who had recently been to China, took an Uber taxi to Lewisham hospital in South London after falling ill, according to The Guardian. Then they sent her home to wait for her lab results. […]
Who Will Want To Be A Millionaire In Illinois? Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, At the rate Illinois is losing people, it wouldn’t take long at all for Pritzker’s progressive tax hike to bleed away Illinois’ million-plus earners. There just aren’t that many of them to begin with. And faced with a […]
‘The Most Expensive Home In LA’ – Bezos Buys $165 Million Bachelor Pad After the absolutely bonkers revelations about how MbS phished Jeff Bezos, hacking his phone after sending a link to a video that Bezos apparently clicked, it appears the Amazon executive is celebrating his company’s $1 trillion milestone and its spectacular Q4 earnings […]
Why It’s Too Late To Contain COVID-19 Authored by Emad Mostaque via LinkedIn.com, While we may have reservations about Chinese data, there is no doubting they have done a sterling job in trying to contain the COVID-19 outbreak (as the new coronavirus symptoms are now known). However, it is not enough and we have now […]
US Navy Intercepts Advanced Iranian Weapons Bound For Yemen In Arabian Sea On Thursday the US Navy announced it has seized a vessel in the Arabian Sea bound for Yemen that was transporting advanced weaponry to Shia Houthi rebels. Crucially, a CENTCOM statement described the weapons as “of Iranian design and manufacture” and included such advanced […]
Autopilot Engaged: “The Entire Rally Has Been A Fed-Induced Perversion” Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, Another overnight coronavirus related scare as China had to greatly up its estimates of the infected, yet no worries, the market remains as much on autopilot as the Fed remains in denial about how their actions drive market behavior. […]
GOP Lawmakers Expect Trump To Withdraw Fed Nominee; White House Denies GOP lawmakers are expecting President Trump to withdraw his nomination of Judy Shelton to serve on the Federal Reserve Board following what The Hill describes as bipartisan resistance over her controversial views on central bank independence, the gold standard, and core tenets of economic […]
AG Barr Blasts Trump ‘Roger Stone’ Tweets For Making It “Impossible To Do My Job” In an unusual break with the president, US Attorney General Bill Barr told ABC News that Trump “has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case” but should stop tweeting about the Justice Department because his tweets “make […]
Federal Prosecutors Recommend 5-Year Jail Term For Corrupt Former Baltimore Mayor Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh could receive upwards of 5-years in jail for her criminal acts of conspiracy and tax evasion, according to The Baltimore Sun. “The facts establish that Pugh deliberately engaged in a broad range of criminal acts while serving as Maryland state senator […]
Fed Liquidity Drain Spoils Virus-Surge-Inspired Stock Buying-Panic The US equity market has gone full-Rick-Astley… And everyone knows you should never go full-Rick-Astley. So this happened overnight… And while futures reacted (somewhat rationally to start with), the US open sparked yet another buying panic to erase all those losses… Until, that is, The Fed pooped in […]
Featured News
Click on this icon next to any post to promote it here!
