Month: February 2021

Rights Groups Outraged After Twitter Purges Accounts Of Saudi Political Prisoners Twitter is once again being called out for its free speech hypocrisy and double-dealing when it comes to influential and wealthy foreign governments allied closely with Washington. In this latest case Twitter has purged accounts of recent Saudi political prisoners.  A number of prominent Saudi […]

The New Zealand city of Auckland has entered a three-day lockdown – its first in six months – after just three new cases of Covid-19 were recorded locally. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern imposed the lockdown after an Auckland family of three tested positive for Covid-19. The mother of the family reportedly works at […]

Covid-19 Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi denied claims that the UK government is planning to introduce a “vaccine passport” detailing which Brits have been vaccinated and which haven’t, calling the idea “discriminatory.” Asked during an interview with Sky News on Sunday whether the government is looking at the possibility of creating a vaccine passport, as […]

The Canadian espionage agency used a quote from ‘A Perfect Spy’, a novel about a double-agent who betrayed his country, in a Twitter recruitment ad, raising questions about its own ‘intelligence’. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) drew many bemused and sarcastic replies after its tweet about job postings which quoted the work by Le […]

27% Of All Household Income In The US Now Comes From The Government Following today’s release of the latest Personal Income and Spending data, Wall Street was predictably focused on the changes in these two key series, which showed a surge in personal income (to be expected in the month when the $900BN December 2020 […]

Australian lawmakers finally passed a hotly-debated law that forces tech giants to pay publishers for their content, potentially setting the stage for similar legal action in other countries. The final version of the law won approval only after some last-minute amendments that followed a week-long blackout of news content on Facebook in Australia. While both […]

The Biden administration has taken a popular meme and mutilated it, leaving what appears to be praise for Canada’s Justin Trudeau but which was hard to understand either way. Biden’s White House Twitter account posted two images in a row captioned “How it started. How it’s going” on Wednesday. The first showed Biden and Trudeau […]

“Trapped!” Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Kill authentic price discovery, you also kill markets, and in killing markets, you kill allocation of capital and risk management, and in killing those, you kill the economy… Back when prosperity was authentic, the Federal Reserve had little need for public relations. But now that “prosperity” is […]

This enchanted world is just peeping from under the Soviet shells, and grabbed her creative intuition Yuri Mamleev, brought clean water, fixing realistic in his stories and novels, not what people thought, but what is. This enchanted world is just peeping from under the Soviet shells, and grabbed her creative intuition Yuri Mamleev, brought clean […]

Commentary Do 36 Democrat House members calling for Joe Biden to relinquish sole authority over the nuclear code know something we don’t know? Not in the slightest! The idea of a man who couldn’t remember what state he is in (figuratively and literally), who refused to take a cognitive test so normative most sixth graders […]

America’s Plot For World Domination Authored by Robert Merry via TheAmericanConservative.com, Probably the most profound geopolitical development of the Twentieth Century was the rise of America as the world’s preeminent power during and after World War II. We’re still living in what Henry Luce called the American Century some eighty years after the publisher proclaimed […]

It is important to diversify and expand the India-Russia trade basket, according to India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla. The sides should cooperate in new areas that will add momentum to bilateral ties, he said. Shringla, who was addressing a meeting hosted by the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said there […]

Students Demand Removal Of George Washington Statue… At University Of Washington Authored by Angela Morabito via Campus Reform, The University of Washington’s Black Student Union has garnered nearly 8,000 signatures on a petition that demands the school remove a statue of George Washington, the school’s – and the state’s – namesake.  The petition claims the statue “perpetuates […]

Rickards: The Great Reset Is Here Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, The Bretton Woods conference of 1944 set the global financial system that still prevails today. The period 1969-1971 can be regarded as the First Reset, which involved the creation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR, ticker:XDR), the devaluation of the dollar and […]

Minsk and Moscow have integrated their militaries so closely that Belarus is essentially a military district of Russia. That’s according to the Estonian Intelligence Service, which published its annual report last week. The publication focused mainly on supposed threats posed to the rest of Europe by Russia, while also touching on China and domestic politics […]

How Does All Of This End? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research, There is a sense in the air that the pandemic is winding down, and the toxic culture of division, fear, and hatred along with it. Cases are down dramatically. Deaths too. Hospitalizations are no longer irregular. Restrictions are being repealed. […]

Kill authentic price discovery, you also kill markets, and in killing markets, you kill allocation of capital and risk management, and in killing those, you kill the economy. Back when prosperity was authentic, the Federal Reserve had little need for public relations.But now that “prosperity” is an illusion that must be managed lest the phantasm […]

Why Inflation Exploded In The 20th Century By Jim Reid, chief credit strategist at Deutsche Bank The hottest topic in markets at the moment is inflation. For a bit of background our 2018 annual Long-Term Study was entitled “The History (and Future of) Inflation” where we looked at 800 years of data on the topic. […]

Those betting on GameStop stock’s price decline, or short-sellers, lost around $1.9 billion in just two days as the Reddit crowd’s favorite “meme stock” renewed its enormous rally. Shares of the video game retailer skyrocketed over 100 percent on Wednesday, with the enormous volatility even prompting trading halts. The sudden rally brought $664 million in […]

Malcolm X from the Grassroots to the African Revolution By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 24 2021 These remarks were delivered at an African American History Month virtual webinar hosted by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition on Monday February 22, 2021. The … The post Selected Articles: What Planet Is NATO Living On? appeared first on Global Research. Malcolm […]

The founder of a front group for the Chinese Communist Party appeared at an event at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in May 2016, where he pushed a pro-Beijing argument regarding a decades-long stalemate over control of the South China Sea. The speech, by Tung Chee-hwa, the founding chairman of the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation […]

Official data released on Tuesday shows that UK unemployment reached a five-year high of 5.1 percent in the last quarter of 2020 as the government introduced its second Covid-19 induced lockdown. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that 1.74 million people were unemployed in the October to December period, an increase of 454,000 from […]

Australia’s mass vaccination drive is set to get a publicity campaign, the country’s health minister has said. There will be no advertising on Facebook, however, as the government remains locked in a bitter row with the platform. As Australia launched its mass vaccination using the Pfizer jab on Sunday, Health Minister Greg Hunt promised a […]

The volume of trade between Russia and Germany declined by 22.2 percent in 2020, year-on-year, to €44.9 billion ($54.4 billion), according to data from the German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations. The association said the Covid-19 pandemic and political disagreements led to such a massive reduction in trade turnover between the two nations. “German-Russian […]

Inflation Phases: From Deflation Repair To Inflation Despair In a new note out of Goldman’s Christian Mueller-Glissmann, the strategist looks at the impact of inflation on balanced portfolios, and writes that even as US inflation expectations have fully recovered and investors are moving from fading deflation risk to pricing an inflation overshoot (which in moderation […]

Chinese Spies Hijack NSA Hacking Tools To Use Against The US The NSA (and its army of expert hackers) has once again been hoist upon its own petard. And this time, it’s not a shadowy group of hackers using aliases like “the Shadow Brokers” that’s stealing the agency’s code. It’s the Chinese government, and its […]

This article was originally published by Charles Hugh Smith at Of Two Minds Blog.  Needless to say, few are expecting bubble symmetry to manifest now, because, well, of course, “this time it’s different.” Indeed. It’s always different and yet always the same, too. Let’s indulge in some basic logic: 1. All speculative bubbles pop, regardless […]

The biggest tyrant and fraud in the medical field, Dr. Anthony Fauci is now saying once people get fully vaccinated, they still need to avoid restaurant dining indoors and going to the movies. He said it will be safer to gather indoors again as more people get vaccinated and the COVID-19 cases drop. The cases […]

“A New World Altogether” – Global Airlines Set To “Go Live In March” With COVID ‘Passports’  Imagine a world where the ability to travel on a commercial airliner depends on passing a COVID-19 test or taking a vaccine. If a traveler tests positive or did not receive or refused to take the vaccine, they would […]

Russia Says Jihadists Are Planning “Simulated” Chemical Attack In Idlib To Get Biden’s Attention In what feels like a throwback scenario to 2017 which marked the first time Trump bombed Syria over al-Qaeda’s unverified claims of a government chemical attack on a “rebel”-held town in Idlib province, Russia’s military is now warning that anti-Assad jihadists are […]

Any young postgraduate student coming from a former communist country to the West to research economy or finance in last several decades, was destined to be stunned finding that the focus of the academy and the finance industry was much more on the “cool” concept of Mergers and Acquisitions than on economic value creation, growth, […]

This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix nebula, a cosmic starlet often photographed by amateur astronomers for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) As Big Tech continues to expand its control over all things on the internet, a new alarm is being sounded over what’s […]

Nearly 400 Twitter accounts have been shut down in the latest Silicon Valley banning spree over allegations many are linked to Moscow and work to discredit a US-led military grouping that stages war-games on the country’s border. On Tuesday, Russian media reported that the San Francisco-based microblogging platform had confirmed at least 100 of the […]

With the creation of man and the beginning of life, a great test awaited the children of Adam. At present, humanity is under such a test. The essence of testing is that a person should not commit sins in this world and should try to control his mind. But man is not without a soul, […]

Using a somewhat controversial stem cell therapy, a joint team of Japanese and US-based researchers have successfully repaired some damage in 13 patients with spinal cord injuries (SCI). SCIs can often cause permanent loss of movement and physical sensation from resultant nerve damage. While physical rehabilitation programs can partially improve outcomes, actual treatment and recovery […]

Goldman Sachs Says Urban Flight To Last For Years  Goldman Sachs expects the exodus from cities to weigh on shelter inflation. Goldman’s Jan Hatzius told clients that it could take years for urban vacancies to normalize.  Hatzius’ note, titled “Inflation Signal, Healthcare Noise (Hill),” had some excellent commentary on the urban exodus, aligning with our thoughts from […]

Was Trump ‘The Mule’? Authored by Jim Quinn via The Bunring Platform blog, “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 […]

Global Military Spending Hit Record High In 2020 With US In The Lead Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Despite the damage coronavirus lockdowns did to the world’s economy, 2020 marked a record high in global military spending, according to a new report. As always, the US was in the lead, accounting for 40.3 percent of […]

China says they made a mistake when they performed an invasive method of CCP virus testing on American diplomats. President Joe Biden says it’s important to work with communist China on climate change. But carbon emissions data suggests the regime may not keep its promises. A Taiwanese company that makes semiconductors presents a possible Achilles […]

Guest post from John Wilder at Wilder Wealthy Wise. “Wait till she finds out you’re 4’6 and peddle a Schwinn.” – Home Improvement I had a boss once who could have worked for FEMA – he showed up late, and wasn’t any help when he finally arrived. There I sat, in the middle of the highway, on […]

Research from India has indicated that people wearing glasses are far less likely to become infected with Covid-19 than those without, which appears to support health advice to wear spectacles instead of contact lenses. Covid-19 can spread in many different ways, and one of those is through germs being spread to the eyes due to […]

Riyadh has rejected the US intelligence report blaming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as “abusive and incorrect,” even as the Kingdom is unlikely to face serious punishment. “The Kingdom’s government categorically rejects the abusive and incorrect conclusions contained in the report about the Kingdom’s leadership,” the Saudi […]

Escobar: The Art Of Being A Spectacularly Misguided Oracle Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, The late Dr. Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski for some time dispensed wisdom as an oracle of US foreign policy, side by side with the perennial Henry Kissinger – who, in vast swathes of the Global South, is regarded […]

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The emergence of new Covid-19 variants means continuous vaccinations against the virus over the next few years will be a way of life, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned at a virtual summit of EU leaders on Thursday. “Due to the mutations, we may have to be able to re-inoculate for several years,” she told the […]

Damascus Says Biden Is Setting Up New Bases On Sovereign Syrian Territory Within the first few weeks of the Biden administration a handful of viral stories alleged there had been an immediate uptick in US convoys and logistical equipment headed into northeast Syria, which many took to reflect an escalation of the occupation under the new administration. […]

Spain’s former King Juan Carlos I has paid back his second tax bill after fleeing to the United Arab Emirates following his 2014 abdication in favor of his son Felipe VI amid fear of prosecution over a corruption scandal. The payment of €4.4 million ($4.9 million) was confirmed by the former king’s lawyer on Friday, […]

Deconstructing “WokeThink” Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, It Bears a Striking Resemblance to Cognitive Distortions This post was originally going to be another one about dangers of techno-utopian thinking, which is supposed to be the subject matter of my next book . That one is going slowly for the time being, but I described […]

Global charity Oxfam has accused the UK government of prolonging the war in Yemen by permitting the sale of air-to-air refuelling equipment to the Saudi state, thus allowing air assets to bomb Yemeni targets for longer. “As the US has called for an end to the conflict in Yemen, the UK is heading in the […]

Russia & West Trade Blame For Vaccine ‘Price Gouging’ & Exploitation Of Africa Westerners bringing ‘benefits’ to the African continent has long been met with deep suspicion and even hostility from local Africans, given the colonial legacy stemming especially from the 19th century ‘scramble for Africa’ period, and further a Cold War-dominated 20th century which witnessed […]

“Tyranny is trying to tread into somebody’s mind to distort it and to form it to reflect what you think is good,” says Arthur Milikh. Milikh, the Executive Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, argues that identity politics and critical race theory are a new form of tyranny over […]

The Syrian government denounced the US airstrike on the border with Iraq as an act of aggression contrary to international law, as President Joe Biden told reporters he ordered the strike as a warning to Iran. “The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the US aggression against its sovereignty,” the foreign ministry in […]

Commentators have attempted to compare Vladimir Putin to various fascist political figures from the past. In reality, the Russian president embodies a state-centred patriotism that celebrates Russia as a multiethnic community. “Putin, like Hitler, is an ultranationalist.” If one was looking for the de-facto Western orthodoxy about Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, this headline from 2014 […]

WASHINGTON—Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved of an operation to capture or kill dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in 2018, according to a declassified intelligence assessment released on Friday in a manner choreographed to limit damage to U.S.-Saudi ties Khashoggi, a U.S. resident who wrote opinion columns for the Washington Post critical […]

Trump Is “Still The Future Of The Republican Party” Says Don Jr. Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Donald Trump Jr. asserted that his father, former President Donald Trump, is still the future of the GOP ahead of his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this weekend. “If you’re […]

Stunning Levels Of Air Toxins Found In New York’s Subway System The air quality in the subway systems across the U.S. is almost downright toxic.  New research published last week shows high levels of pollution for subway riders, with the worst air quality coming from places like New York and New Jersey, according to The […]

David Rosenberg: “We’re Getting Closer To A Breaking Point” Submitted by Christoph Gisiger of TheMarket.Ch David Rosenberg, Chief Economist & Strategist of Rosenberg Research, worries that the surge in bond yields threatens the economic recovery. He warns of the consequences of today’s massive debt volumes and explains why he spots investment opportunities in the commodity […]

The United Nations has warned that white supremacy and neo-Nazi movements are an increasing threat to the world we live in, adding that people in positions of responsibility are encouraging them in a way previously unthinkable. “White supremacy and neo-Nazi movements are more than domestic terror threats. They are becoming a transnational threat,” United Nations […]

(Natural News) For centuries, India, the second-most populated country in the world, has thrived with its organic patchwork of small farmers that provide clean, healthy, nutritious food to 1.3 billion people. Billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates, the World Bank, and other crony capitalist Western entities, however, want to change that. Dr. Vandana Shiva, founder and president… […]

Via ZeroHedge Update (1815 ET): one day after the Weimar tweetstorm below, and shortly after our article came out, Burry tweeted the following: People say I didn’t warn last time. I did, but no one listened. So I warn this time. And still, no one listens. But I will have proof I warned. Indeed he […]

Europe’s Rare Earth Dependency Dilemma Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Solar panels. Wind turbines. Electric vehicle batteries and motors. These are just four of the things that need one or more of a group of minerals known as rare earths. Incidentally, these are also four of the things the EU is basing its future on. […]

Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via PJMedia.com, These are crazy times. A pandemic led to national quarantine; to self-induced recession; to riot, arson, and looting; to a contested election; and to a riot at the U.S. Capitol. In response, are we focusing solely on upping the daily vaccination rate? Getting the country back to work? […]

The Covid-19 pandemic has added $24 trillion to the global debt mountain over the last year, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) said. Government spending has accounted for about half of the increase. Corporations added $5.4 trillion to the total, while banks and households accounted for $3.9 trillion and $2.6 trillion respectively. With global debt […]

Latvia is at the forefront of an intense Hybrid War between the West and Russia, but not as the victim of Moscow that it’s deceitfully misportrayed as by the Mainstream Media, but as the villain that aggressively wages anti-Russian information warfare against the Eurasian Great Power and continues to discriminate against its own Russian minority […]

Needless to say, few are expecting bubble symmetry to manifest now, because, well, of course, “this time it’s different.” Indeed. It’s always different and yet always the same, too. Let’s indulge in some basic logic: 1. All speculative bubbles pop, regardless of source, time or place. (100% of all historical evidence supports this.) 2. The […]

Today, we sit down with Morgan Zegers, founder of Young Americans Against Socialism. She’s also recently launched a podcast called “Some Sanity.” We discuss the rise of cancel culture and how young people in America today fundamentally misunderstand what socialism actually is. American Thought Leaders is an Epoch Times show available on YouTube, Rumble, Youmaker, and […]

Another One Bites The Dust? – FinTech ‘Trading 212’ Halts Buying Of Penny Stocks Color us not entirely shocked… Less than a week after the “Game Stopped” hearings – designed not for grandstanding politicians to denigrate the professional class but to get to the bottom of how a decentralized collective of the great unwashed was […]