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Pork City: Johnson Tries To Ram Through Insane Funding Package
ZeroHedge - Dec 18th 2024 10:10am ESTPork City: Johnson Tries To Ram Through Insane Funding Package Speaker Mike Johnson, (R-LA), has unveiled a 1,547-page government funding bill that has Republicans seeing red – and not just because of the looming Friday midnight shutdown deadline. Packed with disaster relief, farmer aid, and a Christmas stocking full of legislative surprises, the short-term spending […]
Final Countdown: Slovakia Warns Of “Economic Damage” As Ukraine NatGas Transit Nears End
ZeroHedge - Dec 18th 2024 7:50am ESTFinal Countdown: Slovakia Warns Of “Economic Damage” As Ukraine NatGas Transit Nears End Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has warned of financial turmoil and emphasized the urgent need to maintain Russian NatGas flows through Ukraine, as a NatGas transit agreement with Moscow is set to expire in the coming weeks. Fico was quoted by Bloomberg on Wednseday, warning about […]
Full Jet Production At Boeing Resumes In Seattle Area After Strike Turmoil
ZeroHedge - Dec 18th 2024 7:45am ESTFull Jet Production At Boeing Resumes In Seattle Area After Strike Turmoil Just over a week after Boeing resumed production of its 737 Max aircraft at its Renton factory in Seattle, Washington, after strikes in early fall, the planemaker has returned to full jet production across all programs. “We have now resumed production across our […]
Senate Democrats Propose Constitutional Amendment To Abolish Electoral College
ZeroHedge - Dec 18th 2024 7:20am ESTSenate Democrats Propose Constitutional Amendment To Abolish Electoral College Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, Senate Democrats proposed a constitutional amendment on Dec. 16 that would abolish the Electoral College and ensure the country’s presidential elections were determined by the popular vote. “It is time to retire this 18th-century invention that disenfranchises millions […]
Red Sea Oil Flows Surge As Trump’s ‘Strongman’ Image Signals De-escalation In Maritime Chokepoint Crisis
ZeroHedge - Dec 18th 2024 4:15am ESTRed Sea Oil Flows Surge As Trump’s ‘Strongman’ Image Signals De-escalation In Maritime Chokepoint Crisis Yemen’s Houthi rebels have sparked turmoil across the Southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden for over a year, targeting Western-linked container ships, tankers, and military vessels. The resulting supply chain snarls have had major implications on global trade, causing a surge […]
How Germany Destroyed Its Economy And How To Fix It
ZeroHedge - Dec 18th 2024 3:30am ESTHow Germany Destroyed Its Economy And How To Fix It Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The German economy was once a global industrial powerhouse, showing a strong resilience in times of crisis as well as significant productive growth in periods of expansion. Germany displayed robust industrial activity, solid productivity, and enviably low unemployment levels, which added to real […]
North Korean Troops In Kursk Suffer First Heavy Losses, Pentagon Says
ZeroHedge - Dec 18th 2024 2:45am ESTNorth Korean Troops In Kursk Suffer First Heavy Losses, Pentagon Says The Pentagon as well has Ukraine’s military intelligence have said that some of the first North Korean troops fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region have been killed. Dozens of the foreign troops are reportedly dead and wounded. Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, […]
Turkey Masses Troops On Syria Border For Bigger, ‘Imminent’ Invasion
ZeroHedge - Dec 18th 2024 2:00am ESTTurkey Masses Troops On Syria Border For Bigger, ‘Imminent’ Invasion Via The Cradle The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) announced the start of an operation against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern Syrian town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) on December 17. The announcement came in the midst of a build-up of Turkish […]
The Indian Model Of Financial Multipolarity Is The Most Relevant For The Global South
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 11:25pm ESTThe Indian Model Of Financial Multipolarity Is The Most Relevant For The Global South Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Few can afford to be massively tariffed by the US, let alone sanctioned, and most aren’t willing to burn their bridges with the US for ideological reasons at the expense of their immediate economic interests… […]
BDNF May Be A Key Compound For Healthy Brain Aging, Neuroplasticity
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 10:35pm ESTBDNF May Be A Key Compound For Healthy Brain Aging, Neuroplasticity Authored by Theresa Sam Houghton via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Cognitive health depends on impulses that constantly pass between the 100 million brain cells (neurons) in your brain. One particular protein, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), is instrumental in maintaining the connections that make […]
The US Is Left Out In The Cold As China And Russia Develop Arctic
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 9:45pm ESTThe US Is Left Out In The Cold As China And Russia Develop Arctic Authored by Conor Gallagher via Naked Capitalism, The RAND Corporation, one of the more influential US think tanks that help craft US foreign policy, is out with a new paper arguing that it’s time the US use a divide and rule strategy with […]
How The West Rebranded Al-Qaeda’s Jolani
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 8:55pm ESTHow The West Rebranded Al-Qaeda’s Jolani Authored by Alan Macleod via ConsortiumNews.com, Corporate media is heralding the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the emergence of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as the new leader of Syria, despite his deep ties to both Al-Qaeda and ISIS. “How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state,” runs the headline from an […]
The Danger Of White Knight Pardons: Biden Could Fundamentally Change Presidential Power
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 8:05pm ESTThe Danger Of White Knight Pardons: Biden Could Fundamentally Change Presidential Power Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in the New York Post on the news reports that President Joe Biden is seriously considering preemptive pardons for political allies. In granting what I have called “White Knight pardons,” Biden would achieve more of […]
Watch: Syrian ‘Moderate Rebel’ Removes ISIS Patch At Prompting Of American Journalist
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 7:40pm ESTWatch: Syrian ‘Moderate Rebel’ Removes ISIS Patch At Prompting Of American Journalist Video footage has recently emerged taken by journalist James Longman advising ‘rebels’ in Syria that the ISIS logo on their uniforms will be misunderstood by Western audiences. Longman, who is ABC News’ Chief International Correspondent, demonstrates a trend of American journalists going to […]
New Study Illustrates Coffee’s Unique Influence On Your Gut
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 7:15pm ESTNew Study Illustrates Coffee’s Unique Influence On Your Gut Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Coffee drinkers consistently harbor up to eight times more of a specific gut bacterium than nondrinkers, according to recent research. Photo Smoothies/Shutterstock The international study, which tracked the drinking habits of nearly 77,200 people across 25 […]
World’s Smallest Violin Plays As “Depressed” Biden Bureaucrats Can’t Find New Jobs
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 6:25pm ESTWorld’s Smallest Violin Plays As “Depressed” Biden Bureaucrats Can’t Find New Jobs Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, This is a corker. Politico is reporting that Biden Administration bureaucrats are depressed because they can’t find new jobs, and members of Biden’s “national security team” are “frantically” scrambling to find new careers before Trump dismantles the deep state. […]
Trump Team Begins Back-Channel Talks With Mexico, El Salvador On Deportation Plans
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 6:00pm ESTTrump Team Begins Back-Channel Talks With Mexico, El Salvador On Deportation Plans President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has begun reaching out through back channels to the governments of Mexico and El Salvador to prepare for his mass deportation plan, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. The conversations, which involve Trump advisers and […]
1US Conducts New Strikes In Syria & Yemen, Still With No Congressional Authorization
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 5:40pm ESTUS Conducts New Strikes In Syria & Yemen, Still With No Congressional Authorization Congress has not authorized war, and yet the United States on Monday bombed two countries: Yemen and Syria. US Central Command (CENTCOM) earlier confirmed an airstrike on a military facility of the Houthis in northern Yemen. A Houthi defense ministry building in the […]
An Open Letter To Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 5:20pm ESTAn Open Letter To Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Authored by Richard Truesdell and Keith Lehmann via American Greatness, Dear Mr. Kennedy, Of the many issues you will tackle as Secretary of Health and Human Services, we implore you to work with FCC Commissioner Brenden Carr and immediately put an end to pharmaceutical companies advertising prescription […]
“This Is A Bloodsport For Them” – Lara Logan Exposes “The Age Of Information Warfare”
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 5:00pm EST“This Is A Bloodsport For Them” – Lara Logan Exposes “The Age Of Information Warfare” Lara Logan is a South African-born journalist and war correspondent known for her extensive work in conflict zones. She gained significant recognition while working for CBS News, particularly for her coverage of the Iraq War and the Arab Spring. Logan’s […]
All Three Pillars Holding Up The Economy Have Cracked
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 4:40pm ESTAll Three Pillars Holding Up The Economy Have Cracked Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, All three pillars propping up workforce spending are cracking. Plan accordingly. Karl Marx and Henry Ford both understood the key pillar of an industrial economy: the workforce has to earn enough to buy the output of the economy. If […]
Russia’s Crude Oil Shipments Slump By 11% In Two Months
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 3:45pm ESTRussia’s Crude Oil Shipments Slump By 11% In Two Months By Charles Kennedy of Oilprice.com Russian crude oil exports by sea have dropped by 11% from a recent high in October, due to maintenance at the Baltic port of Primorsk, pressure for Russia to align with its OPEC+ quota, and increased sanctions pressure. In the […]
Biden-Harris Supplies Record $15 Billion Low-Interest Loan To PG&E For Combating “Climate Change”
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 3:25pm ESTBiden-Harris Supplies Record $15 Billion Low-Interest Loan To PG&E For Combating “Climate Change” The Biden-Harris administration has provided a low-interest loan commitment to California utility giant PG&E to tackle “climate change” and bolster its power grid. The move reflects the administration’s broader push over the first term: out-of-control compulsion to spend taxpayer funds like a […]
2025’s Best (And Worst) US States For Sound Money
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 3:05pm EST2025’s Best (And Worst) US States For Sound Money Authored by Jp Cortez via The Mises Institute, The newly-released 2025 Sound Money Index has identified Wyoming, South Dakota, and Alaska as the states with the most favorable policies toward constitutional sound money, while Vermont, Maine, and California take the most hostile stances. Released annually by the Sound Money […]
Trump Might Reverse ‘Very Stupid’ Long-Range Strikes On Russia
ZeroHedge - Dec 17th 2024 2:45pm ESTTrump Might Reverse ‘Very Stupid’ Long-Range Strikes On Russia Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President-elect Donald Trump suggested at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Monday that he could reverse President Biden’s decision to support long-range missile strikes on Russian territory. Trump said it was a “big mistake” for the Biden administration to greenlight the escalation […]