Month: February 2021

Facebook has taken down the Instagram page of former president John F. Kennedy’s nephew – a prominent vaccine critic with 800,000 subscribers. The tech giant has recently stepped up its offensive on what it deems Covid-19 disinfo. Kennedy’s Instagram account with its massive following was erased on Wednesday. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had his #Instagram […]

Who Wanted Pandemic Lockdowns? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research, People of the future will look back at these 11 months and be very confused. How could virtually the entire world have thrown out settled practices of civil, economic, and cultural liberties for a virus that resisted every attempt to […]

Facebook Hires Former NATO Press Officer As Its ‘Intelligence Chief’ Authored by Alan Macleod via MintPressNews.com, Ben Nimmo, a former NATO press officer and current senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has announced Facebook has hired him to “lead global threat intelligence strategy against influence operations” and “emerging threats.” Nimmo specifically named Russia, Iran and China as potential dangers to the […]

Watch: Graham Asks “What Did Pelosi Know” About Capitol Riot? Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Senator Lindsey Graham suggested Wednesday that Nancy Pelosi knew about the pre-planned riot at the Capitol in January. In an appearance on Hannity, Graham said “Here’s what I want to know: What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did […]

A Third Of All US Homeowners Own Property Worth Double The Underlying Mortgage In the midst of a virus pandemic, with millions of Americans out of work facing housing and food insecurities, the Federal Reserve has managed to keep interest rates near zero, unleashing a real estate boom, the likes of which hasn’t been seen […]

The West’s mistake with Russia was expecting it to Westernize without any prospect of integration into Western institutions. NATO and the EU wanted a say in Moscow’s affairs while denying it a voice in broader European issues. This was both wrong and unsustainable and now has brought us to a situation where, after 300 years, […]

In 2020, marriage rates were the single sharpest dividing line between areas that voted for Trump and those that went to Biden. By Peyton ROTH, W. Bradford WILCOX The chaos and controversy surrounding the 2020 presidential election—plus election takes that stress the role of race, gender, and education in solidifying President Biden’s victory—obscure a deeper […]

Moscow’s diplomats in Washington have reacted furiously to the latest in a series of military drills carried out by American sailors off Russia’s southern coast, which is almost 9,000km away from the US mainland. On Wednesday, the US Navy announced that it had conducted maneuvers in the Black Sea, joining Turkish vessels “in an integrated […]

Russia’s navy ships have arrived in Pakistan to take part in the multinational exercise AMAN-2021. The drills are expected to see China and several NATO nations in attendance. Russian vessels arrived in Karachi on Thursday. They were greeted by Pakistan’s military officials, as well as the Russian diplomats working there, and they took a brief […]

Two US carrier strike groups have conducted joint exercises in the South China Sea. This new muscle-flexing comes days after the US buzzed China-controlled islets in the disputed waters, prompting anger from Beijing. The two groups, led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Nimitz aircraft carriers, trained in the South China Sea on Tuesday, […]

UK Economy Crashed 9.9% In 2020, Biggest Drop In 311 Years Britain’s crippled economy suffered its biggest crash in economic output in 311 years after it slumped by 9.9%. Last year’s fall in output was the biggest since modern official records began after World War Two. Longer-running historical data hosted by the Bank of England […]

Hand-wringing over Alexey Navalny is but an excuse to target Russia and the EU should not lecture anyone about human rights when it turns its back on Julian Assange and other cases closer to home, Irish MEP Clare Daly told RT. “We have this narrative of supposedly European values, whatever they are, that we’re supposed […]

Biden Cancels Emergency Border Wall Funding As DHS Prepares To Admit 25,000 Migrants Waiting In Mexico The Biden administration on Thursday canceled President Trump’s 2019 emergency declaration directing nearly $25 billion to fund the construction of new and replacement fending at the US-Mexico border. “I have determined that the declaration of a national emergency at […]

The Foundation For Potential Price Hyperinflation Is Being Laid Via Birch Gold Group, The Federal Reserve sure seems to have a tough time finding and reporting signs of rising inflation – especially when it’s hidden in other sectors like a lack of demand for energy. A recent example of the Fed’s “inflation blindness” comes from a speech […]

Speculative Mania Continues As Rationality “Goes Up In Smoke” Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Last week, we discussed how the market successfully retested and held the 50-dma and rallied enough to turn money flows back positive. We addressed this point on Thursday in our daily “3-Minutes” video (subscribe for daily updates), As previously noted: “While the money […]

Michael Burry Warns Weimar Hyperinflation Is Coming One week ago, Bank of America hinted at the unthinkable: the tsunami of monetary and fiscal stimulus, coupled with the upcoming surge in monetary velocity as the world’s economy emerges from lockdowns, would lead to unprecedented economic overheating… or rather precedented as BofA’s CIO Michael Hartnett reflected back […]

While US President Joe Biden vowed to fire anyone for disrespectful behavior, deputy White House spokesman TJ Ducklo has merely been suspended without pay and made to apologize to a reporter he had threatened. Ducklo’s suspension was announced on Friday by White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who said he apologized and sent a personal […]

Brits may have wondered if they woke up in the right century after seeing ex-prime minister Tony Blair giving his policy prescription for the Covid-19 pandemic – and being cited as an authority on the topic by major media outlets. The former Labour Party leader on Friday published his own “roadmap” out of the UK’s […]

Fossil Fuels Aren’t Going Anywhere Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, “There is no scenario where hydrocarbons disappear,” the chief executive of Baker Hughes, Lorenzo Simonelli, said during his keynote speech at this year’s annual meeting in the company. Like other executives from the industry, Simonelli acknowledged and welcomed the energy transition, but he noted that […]

China’s Finance Ministry Demands Answers From Deloitte After Whistleblower Alleges Audit Violations On NY-Listed Companies China’s Ministry of Finance has officially asked Deloitte to conduct an internal investigation after a Beijing employee anonymously went whistleblower and alleged auditing violations, according to China Daily. An employee sent out a 55 page PowerPoint deck to every employee’s […]

A poll conducted after two successive weeks of protests in support of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny has revealed that just 22 percent of Russians were in favor of the rallies, with even fewer willing to join in. In recent weeks, three unauthorized demonstrations have been organized by allies of the activist, who is currently […]

German State Forbids Drivers From Wearing Masks, Sunglasses & Hats At Same Time Germany’s Bild newspaper reports that Saxony, a region in Eastern Germany, has became the first region in the country to ban drivers from wearing hats and sunglasses while also being masked. Anybody driving in a car must be identifiable by traffic cameras, […]

Great Reset? Putin Says, “Not So Fast” Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, Did you happen to catch the most important political speech of the last six years? It would have been easy to miss given everything going on.  In fact, I almost did, and this speech sits at the intersection […]

Cambridge University Panel: Winston Churchill A “White Supremacist” Leading Empire “Worse Than The Nazis” Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, A Cambridge University panel of academics discussing wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s legacy concluded that the leader who helped defeat Hitler was actually a “white supremacist” and was leading an empire “worse than the […]

JPMorgan Predicts That The Biggest Short Squeeze Yet Begins Next Month While markets, regulators and even Maxine Waters have been obsessing over the various rolling short squeezes orchestrated by Reddit and Robinhood raiders (with or without the help of hedge funds who ended up being the biggest beneficiaries of the Gamestop surge) which first targeted […]

With artificial intelligence (AI) steadily progressing, concerns have been growing about how much innovation is too much. Cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright offers his forecast for the industry. The quest for AI is right now “one of the biggest battles” between countries around the world, he tells Boom Bust, adding that we are dealing with two […]

Protesters have clashed with French police outside of Total’s head office in La Defense, Paris as striking employees and climate activists accuse the oil giant of jettisoning jobs while failing to protect the environment. Employees of the Grandpuits refinery, who have been striking for five weeks following the announcement that the plant would be converted […]

Facebook has patted itself on the back for nuking almost all “hate speech” that supposedly violated its rules. But not only was most content deleted before anyone could flag it, users weren’t even allowed to appeal most deletions. Unveiling its Community Standards Enforcement Report for the fourth quarter of 2020 on Thursday, Facebook bragged that […]

Russian scientists have registered the first testing system to detect the ‘British’ strain of Covid-19. The news comes from the country’s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, whose epidemiology research institute developed the kit. The strain was announced by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in late December and has now been detected in many other countries, including Russia. […]

We Must Have MOAR: Almost Everyone In Washington Seems To Agree That More Free Money Will Fix The Economy Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, There seems to be a growing consensus in Washington that the only way to fix the worst economic downturn in more than 70 years is by giving out much […]

Facebook has decided to block news sharing on its Australian platform, because of a new law there that would require the Big Tech behemoth to compensate publishers for their work. A report on the dispute at TechCrunch explained that the move by Facebook was an “antisocial” campaign move that would silence “a swathe of non-news […]

New research from India suggests that a deficiency of the protein Alpha-anti-trypsin (AAT) in populations across Europe and North America may have contributed to the comparatively rapid spread of Covid-19 when compared with Asia. Published in the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution, the new study examines the role played by a lung-protecting protein in the […]

IMF Wants To Use “Digital Footprint Of Customers’ Online Activities” To Assess Creditworthiness Authored by Robert Wheeler via The Organic Prepper blog, For years, researchers have warned of a system in which the government controls every aspect of its citizens’ lives. Every citizen would have to rely entirely on the government to survive in this […]

Biden Mulls Domestic Travel Restrictions Despite Improving COVID Backdrop Despite headlines discussing COVID ‘plateaus‘ and ‘dramatic declines‘ in the United States, the Biden administration is mulling whether to impose domestic travel restrictions over concerns that “coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic,” according to the Miami Herald. Outbreaks of the new […]

Authored by Joshua Hochschild via AmericanMind.org, Let’s say you’ve long been disaffected with political parties. You don’t trust them. You care about politics, but you don’t see much promise in the standard candidates. Let’s even say you have suspicions the two parties are more interested in their own power than in helping the country. Occasionally […]

“Excellence, he is known as the Mule. He is spoken of little, in a factual sense, but I have gathered the scraps and fragments of knowledge and winnowed out the most probable of them. He is apparently a man of neither birth nor standing. His father, unknown. His mother, dead in childbirth. His upbringing, that […]

Back in the 1990s, when modern Russia emerged from the ashes of the Soviet Union, the West was the best. It offered the only realistic role model. Times have changed, but the penny hasn’t dropped yet in Brussels or Washington. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. A good illustration is how Russia has responded to […]

Anti-lockdown protestors gathered outside the Australian Open in Melbourne Park ahead of the beginning of so-called ‘circuit-breaker restrictions’ being implemented to help mitigate the spread of Covid-19. Victoria premier Daniel Andrews announced plans for the five-day lockdown which is set to begin at 11.59pm local time and run until the same time on Wednesday, amid what […]

Our Children Have a Right to a Decent Future By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel, February 08 2021 What the rebellious generation of 68 reproached their fathers for, that they had willingly submitted to a dictator and a tyranny, is happening … The post Selected Articles: Our Children Have a Right to a Decent Future appeared first on […]

Rabo: We Have All The Bizarre, Surreal, Incomprehensible Absurdity Of Kafka By Michael Every of Rabobank The Try-All Reality has more than a little of Kafka about it at the moment in many regards, except in one key respect: the achievements. When you read Kafka, nobody ever achieves anything. In ‘The Castle’, for example, the […]

MasterCard Joins Visa, PayPal On The Crypto Payments Bandwagon Less than two weeks after Visa CEO Al Kelly said the payments giant is in a position to make cryptocurrencies more “safe, useful and applicable” and may add them to the company’s payments network; MasterCard has tonight laid out in great detail why it also plans […]

A member of the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has claimed that lockdowns could be a part of people’s lives for “several years” as variants of Covid-19 mutate. Professor Sir Ian Boyd, who teaches at the University of St Andrews’ School of Biology, warned this week against the frequent lifting of lockdowns […]

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The GameStop Saga Unravels ‘Stakeholder Theory’ Authored by Jeff Deist via The Mises Institute, The GameStop saga shows some “equity” movements are more equal than others… Stakeholder theory, the corporate version of social justice, attempts to install this hopelessly amorphous concept of “equity” in the business world. Equity, unlike equality, demands different treatment of individuals […]

The Inflation Tax Is Lowering Our Standard Of Living Via SchiffGold.com, In a podcast, Peter Schiff said it smells like stagflation is on the horizon. Inflationary pressures are becoming more and more apparent. Labor costs, commodity prices and bond yields are all pushing upward – clear signs of inflationary pressure. And of course, defined correctly – as an increase […]

Google Reverses Course In Australia – Opens Paid Platform For (Some) Australian News The Australian government has possibly obtained a rare, partial victory in its standoff with Google. The US-based tech giant has appeared to reverse course as Australia holds hearings aimed at enacting legislation that would effectively force Google to pay local sources for news it […]

Rabobank: The Everything Bubble Has Become More Everything And More Bubble By Michael Every of Rabobank Oh-No-Bi-Wan Kenobi For those who haven’t seen it –and I accept there are now probably many readers who haven’t– there is a classic scene in the first Star Wars film (Episode IV) in which Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi tells […]

Iran’s foreign minister has warned that Tehran is willing to take further action and reduce cooperation with International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors if the US and European powers fail to comply with the nuclear pact. “With the new government in Washington, there is an opportunity to try a new approach, but the current window is […]

JPMorgan: Investors Have Been Asking Questions About The Potential For Hyperinflation The following excerpts from today’s JPMorgan Market Intelligence report (Afternoon Briefing) from JPM’s Andrew Tyler: EQUITY AND MACRO NARRATIVE: The CPI print today may assuage some of the building anxiety regarding inflation. While the reflation trade is approaching consensus long, investors across all asset […]

Panic Across The Plains States As Nat Gas Prices Explodes To $80 One look at the price of nat gas in the central states and you’d think it was a pennystock with a 1000% short interest: behold the price of Southern Star nat gas spot (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas). It just hit $38 and is normally […]

Does the US Still Have an Economy? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, February 11 2021 People want to know where the economy is headed.  What they should be asking is does the US still have an economy?  My answer … The post Selected Articles: Does the US Still Have an Economy? appeared first on Global Research. Does the […]

Escobar: Why Russia Is Driving The West Crazy Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Future historians may register it as the day when usually unflappable Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov decided he had had enough: We are getting used to the fact that the European Union is trying to impose unilateral restrictions, illegitimate […]

South Africa is putting on hold the rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, after disappointing study results suggested the jab offers significantly less protection against the locally prevalent variant of Covid-19. “The AstraZeneca vaccine appeared effective against the original strain, but not against the [B.1.351 South African] variant,” Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said during an […]

Relations between Russia and the West are in choppy waters, according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who says the Black Sea is the new battleground in the US-led bloc’s fight for influence and control in the region. At a joint press conference with Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on Tuesday, Stoltenberg said that “we […]

Four Chinese Regulators Meet With Tesla, Urge Company To “Operate According To China Law” It was only about 3 weeks ago that we published a piece called “Elon Musk’s Chinese Fairy Tale Will Eventually Come To An End“. The purpose of the piece was to reiterate what we have been saying for months: that Elon […]

Flashing Red? Global Inflation Breakevens Are Breaking Out Between global central bank money-printing, government fiscal support out the wazoo, and hopes for vaccine-related developments, the world and his pet rabbit is betting on inflation (and just as confidently, central planners are sure they can tame the beast should it ever get out of hand). “It’s […]

(Natural News) If America had a ‘mainstream media’ that was honest, free of political bias and still interested in keeping the people informed as was their founding mandate and the reason for a free press, then there is no way the Democrat deep state would have been able to steal enough votes to ensure a… […]

The EU is restricting the powers of London’s top diplomat in Brussels, which risks worsening the UK’s already-fractious relationship with the bloc after Brexit, the government’s EU adviser David Frost said on Tuesday. Frost is the former chief Brexit negotiator who helped secure the UK’s trade deal with the EU in December. He said a […]

Technocrats Everywhere: Central Bankers As Political Saviors Authored by Robert Aro via The Mises Institute, The word “technocrat” is seldom used by the liberty crowd. It invokes the idea of a bureaucracy using technical experts to somehow make the right decisions on behalf of the entire nation and stands as the antithesis of a free […]

Negative Rates Are Coming To The UK And US, Protect Your Savings Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Negative rates are the destruction of money, an economic aberration based on the mistakes of many central banks and some of their economists who start from a wrong diagnosis: the idea that economic agents do not take more credit or invest […]

Just a small fraction of Americans believe democracy is working very well, though most agree that a democratically elected government is essential to US society, a new poll has shown. Unfortunately, most see things getting worse. Just 16 percent of Americans believe democracy is working “very well” or “extremely well” in the US, a new […]

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts India will account for the biggest share of energy demand growth over the next two decades. The nation is projected to become the world’s third-largest energy consumer by 2030. Primary energy consumption in the country was forecast to almost double to 1,123 million tons of oil equivalent as the […]