Month: February 2021

Despite denying knowledge of allegations that colleague John Weaver was sexually harassing young men, a new report suggests Lincoln Project co-founders Steve Schmidt and Reed Galen were aware for nearly a year. Schmidt, who stepped away from the group on Monday, said he was not aware of any wrongdoings by Weaver until the first public […]

US & Israel Convene Top Secret “Strategic Forum” On Iran With expected EU-sponsored US and Iranian talks toward restoring the nuclear deal (JCPOA) still at an impasse before they’ve even begun, Israel is on a full diplomatic blitz of Capitol Hill to prevent what’s it’s long claimed to be merely Tehran’s “cover” for secretly developing a […]

In Major Nuke Deal Breakthrough, Biden Tells Iran ‘We’re Ready For EU-Sponsored Talks’ A first potential major breakthrough which so far has proved elusive after Biden has stalled on prior promises to ‘immediately’ restore US participation in the Iran nuclear deal, the United States appears to have just changed its tune. An admin official has […]

“With All Games, There’s Always A Loser”: CNBC Pushes Convenient GameStop Post-Mortem Narrative On Squawk Box Monday morning Joe Kernen interviewed financial influencer Haley Sacks (a.k.a. Mrs. Dow Jones) about the GameStop chaos that had ensued over the last couple of weeks. Providing a post-mortem of the frenzy that took place weeks ago, Sacks took […]

Germany has turned back 5,000 people at its borders with the Czech Republic and Austria after introducing tighter Covid-19 controls, as Berlin says anyone trying to enter from France could face checks too. On Sunday, Germany began restricting entry on its frontiers with the Czech Republic and Austria, limiting entry to German citizens and residents, […]

Social media app Parler is back online after being booted off the servers of Amazon Web Services last month in the wake of the Capitol riots, after it was accused of allowing threats of violence to be shared on the platform. “We will not be canceled. Welcome back to Parler,” read a post on the […]

A third Covid-19 vaccine has been registered in Russia, the country’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Saturday. The drug, dubbed CoviVac, has been developed by the Chumakov Scientific Center in Moscow. DETAILS TO FOLLOW A third Covid-19 vaccine has been registered in Russia, the country’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Saturday. The drug, […]

After US Capitol Police called for National Guard troops and razor wire to stay in place through March, citing online chatter by ‘QAnon,’ two Republican members of Congress accused them of drumming up excuses for the ‘occupation.’ Several thousand troops and fencing topped with razor wire around the US Capitol – deployed after the January […]

Despite fanaticism on both sides of the war-torn Donbass, most citizens say it doesn’t matter what country they live in – they just want a decent life, a new poll has found, with those in breakaway regions happier with officials. Published by the Global Voices international reporting project – which is funded by Western NGOs […]

Italy has fined Facebook €7 million ($8.5 million) after the social network company failed to address and rectify user data practices that were flagged as a concern in November 2018. The fine was issued by the Italian Competition and Market Authority after Facebook refused to comply with a request to correct practices in its treatment […]

Furious Aussies React To “Zero Warning” Facebook Ban On News Content The pushback and reaction to Facebook’s drastic ‘retaliation’ on the Australian government has been fierce from both officials and the broader public in the hours following the Wednesday decision of the US-based social media platform to block all news sharing on the continent. Australian […]

Inflation Fears And Soaring Oil Inflows: What Happens Next By Ryan Fitzmaurice of Rabobank Summary Oil prices continue to be supported by a surge in capital inflows into broad-based commodity index products, in a stark reversal in trend from recent years Investors want to own commodities at the moment and are willing to overlook some […]

Former White House official Kellyanne Conway appeared on ‘American Idol’ to support her 16-year-old daughter Claudia, but the moment is being slammed for giving a positive image to the Trump ally. Claudia Conway was accompanied during her audition for ‘Idol’ by her father, vocal Trump critic George Conway, but her mother appeared via video chat […]

A French bill designed to stop the spread of radical Islam and defend secular values has been approved by the lower house of parliament. The legislation was proposed after the murder of teacher Samuel Paty by an Islamist attacker. The bill, aimed at defending “republican principles,” was approved by the National Assembly on Tuesday. According […]

Newsweek ‘Fact Check’ Claims India Vaccine Ban “Mostly False” While Admitting De Facto Ban Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Newsweek published a “fact check” which labeled claims that India had banned the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as “mostly false” despite admitting in the article that India has in fact temporarily banned the vaccine. Last […]

The coronavirus pandemic can only be considered beaten once everyone in the world has been immunized against Covid-19, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said, after she’d met with the G7 leaders at a virtual summit on Friday. Speaking to reporters, Merkel said she had stressed in her remarks to the group that the “pandemic is not […]

Russia’s United Aviation Corporation and Mubadala, the investment fund of the United Arab Emirates, will create a joint venture for developing and manufacturing a supersonic business-passenger jet. The conceptual design of the new aircraft could be revealed as soon as at the end of the current year, according to Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Denis […]

China has become the only country to boost both exports and imports to the European Union amid the pandemic, dethroning the US as the bloc’s top commercial partner last year. According to the data published by the European Union’s statistics office, Eurostat, the 27-nation bloc’s imports from China hit €383.5 billion ($465.6 billion) in 2020, […]

Biden, Democrats To Unveil ‘Major Overhaul’ Immigration Bill That Includes Pathway To Citizenship The Biden administration and Congressional Democrats are set to unveil what the Associated Press described as a “major immigration overhaul that would offer an eight-year pathway to citizenship to the estimated 11 million people living in the US without legal status.” The […]

Aim Of Impeachment Was To Paint All Trump Voters As Criminals: Rep. Mike Johnson Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours) Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) says Democrats used the impeachment of former President Donald Trump as a tool to paint all of his supporters with the brush of Capitol breach-related criminality. Johnson […]

A New York City public school has sent a graphic to parents, encouraging them to become “white traitors” or “abolitionists,” detailing the eight supposed stages of “whiteness.” The graphic was sent out by the principal of East Side Community School in New York City, according to a report from City Journal’s Christopher Rufo, but its […]

Don’t Accept 100% Of The Climate Change Story And You Get Labeled A Racist Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, If you do not accept any part of the climate change story, expect the worst. Climate Change Parts  Climate is Changing CO2 is the Reason Politicians Have the Solution It’s Changing Without a doubt climate is […]

Lawmakers in Moscow have voted through tough new measures and steep fines against organizations that they say exist to do the work of foreign states in Russia, as well as those who amplify and share their messages in the media. On Tuesday, the country’s parliament adopted in the second and third readings a new law […]

Dutch senators have voted overwhelmingly to pass an emergency act to continue a nationwide curfew, disregarding a judge’s ruling this week that the restriction violates the law as well as the rights of citizens. The emergency bill passed in a 45-13 vote on Friday evening, according to local media, upholding the nightly curfew in the […]

Republicans Who Voted To Convict Trump Face Backlash From Within Party Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The seven Republican senators who called former President Donald Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection are already facing backlash from within the GOP, where Trump remains a popular figure. The Louisiana GOP’s Executive Committee unanimously voted to censure […]

Pro-Independence Parties Win Catalan Elections Authored by Jordi Oriola Folch via Off-Guardian.org, For the third time in a row, the Catalan pro-independence movement wins with an absolute majority in the Catalan elections. It has won resoundingly with 74 seats, more than the 68 that establishes the majority (in the previous elections it had won with […]

Rocket fire near an airport in Iraqi Kurdistan has left one civilian contractor dead and six others with injuries, including an American soldier, a Pentagon spokesman said. Reports indicate the blasts targeted a US-occupied base. “Initial reports that Indirect Fire landed on Coalition Forces in Erbil tonight. There was 1 civilian contractor killed, 5 civilian […]

Bye Bye Brokers, Hello Blockchain Technology Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Game Stop (GME) shenanigans are another reminder of the systematic risks lurking in the financial markets. Equally important, the incident highlights how certain players prevent markets from running more efficiently. The inherent dangers and market inefficiencies are not only borne by market […]

92% Of NYC Restaurants Unable To Pay Rent In December, Study Finds  Another week, another restaurant doomsday story. According to the latest NYC Hospitality Alliance survey, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for restaurants across the metro area to pay their rent in full and on time. The return of indoor dining couldn’t come soon enough as struggling […]

Algerians have taken to the streets in their thousands in the northern town of Kherrata, demanding political change on the second anniversary of the mass ‘Hirak’ protests that started in the town and spread across the country. Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Kherrata on Tuesday, chanting “A civilian state, not a military state” […]

Florida, California Took Opposite Approaches To COVID… With Virtually Same Result How is it that California enacted draconian COVID lockdown measures, yet had nearly identical results to Florida – a state which went out of its way to avoid shackling residents with small business-killing prohibitions and mentally unhealthy isolation? CA Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) (left), […]

A UK man has pleaded guilty to violating Singapore’s Covid-19 restrictions by secretly sneaking out from quarantine to spend a night with his fiancée. He now faces up to six years behind bars. Nigel Skea, 52, and his Singaporean wife Agatha Maghesh Eyamalai, 39, have both pleaded guilty to breaking the Southeast Asian country’s quarantine […]

This madness is now global, so next up: global depression. A few days after the Covid pandemic was officially announced last year on 1/23/20, I prepared a chart projecting the course of the pandemic. In my view it still stands, with two updates: “vaccines months away” has been updated to “mass vaccinations months away” and […]

A sweeping crackdown on opposition media by politicians in Kiev is actually an inspiring effort to liberate the nation from toxic opinions, Western media cheerleaders have claimed, backing charges against a prominent blogger. On Tuesday, the SBU (Kiev’s successor to the KGB) announced that it had opened a file on popular YouTuber Anatoly Shariy, suspecting […]

Lincoln Project Fundraising Page Down After $90 Million Grift Unravels The Lincoln Project, which raised over $90 million to oppose former President Trump and his allies during the 2020 election, has shuttered their fundraising page amid the organization’s spectacular implosion. According to the New York Post, the group’s donation page has been listed as inactive […]

Luongo: Still Don’t Think Bitcoin Is #Winning? You’re A Loser! Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, Bitcoin is winning. Period. In fact, it may have already won and the people arrayed against it, no matter how powerful, are finally beginning to realize this. This week saw a slew of major announcements […]

The nursing home death warrants were signed by panicked governors using Gates-funded forecasting. By Jordan SCHACHTEL New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is finally facing the heat for his botched and criminally negligent coronavirus response policies, yet no one seems to be asking why Cuomo and select governors made the fateful decisions that led to the excess […]

Max Keiser interviews the author of ‘Daylight Robbery’, Dominic Frisby, about taxes, how they arose, and their unique qualities in America. “You design a society the way you tax it, whether that society will be prosperous or poor, the people will be free or subordinated. It all comes to the tax system, tax is power,” […]

Johns Hopkins Prof Sees US Herd Immunity By April, Fauci Fearmongers 2022 For ‘Return To Normality’ Be afraid, be very afraid (oh, and do not push back against any plans to spend trillions by the government)… that appears to be the message from Fauci and his friends in the Biden admin. After months of suggesting […]

Ukraine joining the European Union is not a matter of if, but when, according to its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who predicted Kiev would be welcomed into the 27-member bloc before the end of the decade. Speaking to a meeting of officials on Thursday, Zelensky said Ukraine has now become a “credible and responsible member of […]

A bloc of parties that support Catatonia’s secession from Spain have strengthened a grip on the region’s parliament. The number of seats won during Monday’s vote is enough for them to form the government. The three pro-independence parties have increased their majority by four seats. They now hold 74 of the 135 of the seats […]

Will “Go Crazy” Drive The Bear Out Of Hibernation? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The economy will “go crazy” this summer. There is not a day that goes by in which we do not hear an economic forecast with an extreme optimism based on pent-up demand. The argument certainly appears plausible and is widely […]

75% Of Republicans Want Trump To Play Big Role In GOP: Survey Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Three-quarters of Republicans told Quinnipiac University pollsters that they want former President Donald Trump to play a prominent role in the Republican Party, according to a survey released two days after Trump’s acquittal. […]

Texas infrastructure wasn’t ready for the winter storm that paralyzed the state this week, and it’s unfair that the working people are now forced to pay the price, a local woman, who received a shocking power bill, told RT. The pipes in her home burst, and the water was out for four days, but it […]

A 22-year-old Indian activist was arrested after allegedly helping to edit and pass around a “toolkit” giving tips on how to support ongoing farmers protests in the country, previously shared by climate crusader Greta Thunberg. Disha Ravi, a young activist from Bangalore, was taken into custody over the weekend and charged with sedition and criminal […]

The world’s largest rare-earth miner, China, is reportedly trying to calculate the damage to US defense contractors if it moves to curb supplies of the minerals vital for the country’s weapons industry. Chinese government officials reached out to industry executives, seeking to understand how badly companies in the US and Europe would be affected if […]

“Far-Reaching Violation”: Dutch Govt Ordered To Lift ‘Illegitimate’ Pandemic Curfew By Hague Court A top court in The Hague issued a “shock” ruling that curbs the power of civic authorities to impose sweeping coronavirus-related curfews which should have significant reverberations legally for similar scenarios in other countries. “The curfew must be lifted immediately,” the court […]

By Jonathan COOK The revelation that a leftwing journalist, Nathan J Robinson, has been sacked as a Guardian US columnist for criticising Israel on Twitter – and that he was pressured to keep quiet about it by Guardian editors – should come as no surprise. He is only the latest in a long line of journalists, myself […]

Commentary The Biden administration recently stated that there’s no hurry to engage with China and dialogue with allies and partners comes first. This is quite strange, because the U.S.-China relationship is undoubtedly the most important bilateral relationship in the world, involving the security, peace and stability of the United States, China, and the world on […]

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE For most of recorded history, domination by brute force has been the norm for human civilization. Someone claws their way into a position of power over the other humans, and you obey and respect him or he’ll have his goons attack you. As people became more educated and more aware of what’s […]

Cashless Society? UK ATM-Use Plummets During Pandemic According to the UK’s largest ATM network, “LINK is committed to protecting free access to cash for as long as consumers want it”. The question is, how long will the desire for good old fashioned bank notes last? As this infographic shows, the use of LINK cash machines […]

President Joe Biden has gone beyond purging the legacy of Donald Trump to scrub that of Barack Obama too, taking down the White House petitions page. The media was too busy gushing over his Valentine’s Day display to notice. All links to ‘We the People,’ the petition page launched out by the Obama administration in […]

A new Home Office advert warning Brits that “meeting up is against the law” has been savaged online. The ad, a throwback to the anti-piracy ads of the 2000s, has been called “dystopian.” Readers of a certain age probably remember the “You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy ads. Appearing before DVDs as unskippable clips, the […]

Former FBI Director James Comey is under scrutiny after a newly released email showed he may have signed a warrant based on the Steele Dossier while being unable to verify any of the information in it. Comey signed a FISA surveillance warrant in January 2017 based on the Steele Dossier, which contained allegations of cooperation […]

Extreme weather battering several US states has claimed the lives of at least 20 people, with Texas among the worst hit. Part of the state’s power grid has been knocked out as residents struggle to stay warm. The unprecedented storm has wreaked havoc on states across the country. On Tuesday, three people were killed after […]

In the final days of the World War II in Europe, the German command pursued a deliberate policy of successive partial capitulations in the West to bring as many as possible of the eastern military formations westwards and surrender them intact to the British and Americans. It was General Eisenhower how dashed German hopes for […]

The generation that fought against the Nazis could receive new protections in Russia under proposals from a Moscow-based research institute, and amid an acrimonious court battle involving opposition figure Alexey Navalny. In a letter to the country’s Interior Ministry, made available to RT on Monday, Anton Orlov, director of the Institute for the Study of […]

Rabobank: We Officially Have Central Planning With No Plan By Michael Every of Rabobank Nothing Ad(d)s Up Good morning and Happy Friday – except to those hoping to read any parts of this Daily quoted in the news via Facebook in Australia. Sorry Aussies: you are on the front line against yet another economic behemoth […]

Trump: “Biden Is Either Lying Or Mentally Gone” Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Breaking a one month silence Wednesday, President Trump appeared on a number of cable news channels, hinting at a 2024 run, a potential launch of his own social media platform, and slamming Joe Biden for lying about the coronavirus vaccine […]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has deployed 90 National Guardsmen and thousands of state troopers for disaster relief after a severe winter storm stranded nearly 4 million people without power – or heat – in sub-freezing temperatures. “Governor Abbott and the Texas Military Department have deployed National Guard across Texas to conduct welfare checks and to […]

“Pandemic Precautions” Left Some Texas Shelters Closed As Homeless Froze To Death “For over six hours, a long line of people in search of shelter stood huddled together waiting for the doors of the George R. Brown convention center to open,” local Houston media reported of the chaos that unfolded earlier this week as Texas temperatures […]

Grocery stores in Texas have become a sorry sight with empty shelves and people queuing outside after a freak winter storm caused massive power outages and completely disrupted food supply chains in the unprepared Southern state. RT’s Ruptly video agency visited one of the stores in Dallas, filming shelves and fridges that were bursting with […]

Despite the former US president’s tumultuous exit from the Oval Office as the first to be impeached – and acquitted – twice, Donald Trump remains the top pick of the majority of Republican voters for president in 2024. Trump would be a clear favorite to win the Republican primary were it held today, according to […]