Check back for our regular updates on U.S. unemployment and billionaire wealth during the pandemic emergency. By Chuck COLLINS February 24, 2021 Update: US Billionaire Wealth Grows $1.3 trillion Since Mid-March 2020. As the US crosses the threshold of half a million deaths…

The Quality Of Life In The United States Is Going Down The Toilet Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Is the quality of life in America getting better, or is it getting worse?  Americans certainly have a lot more “money” than they…

Hong Kong Authorities Probe Death Of Man Who Received Covid-19 Vaccine Hong Kong’s health authority is investigating whether the death of a 63-old man is related to inoculation with the Covid-19 vaccine, it said in a statement late Tuesday. The Department of…

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…

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…

Deloitte will pay Malaysia’s government $80 million to resolve all claims related to its auditing of accounts of scandal-linked state fund 1MDB and its unit SRC International from 2011 to 2014. The Finance Ministry said on Wednesday that “The successful out-of-court settlement…

At least five people were arrested, two cars incinerated, one police car damaged, as street furniture and public bins were also destroyed, in the third consecutive night of violence in the French city of Lyon. After incidents in the Alagniers district on…

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…

President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed that he will “immediately” demand that US troops leave the Philippines if Washington ever attempts to place its nuclear weapons in the Southeast Asian country. While there appear to have been no recent statements from American officials…

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…

Arizona is recommending teachers to promote ‘equity’ and social justice through an “antiracist” agenda that sees racism in toddlers and recommends progressive and Black Lives Matter materials as the cure. An “equity and diversity” toolkit for teachers, parents and administrators posted by the…

Escape Hatches: Migration, Bitcoin, & The Ability To Get Out Authored by Joakim Book via The American Institute for Economic Research, For decades, those of us skeptical of our central banks’ monetary experiments have tried to punish them for their excesses –…

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…

US President Joe Biden said he would be “happy” to field live questions at the tail-end of a virtual event, but was swiftly cut off when the White House inexplicably dropped the video feed, leaving some viewers bewildered. “I’d be happy to…

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…

Iran’s Revenge? At Least 10 Rockets Slam Into US Base In Iraq There’s yet more significant escalation in Iraq as it appears pro-Iranian militia forces may have ‘hit back’ in a potential retaliation strike against US forces, as the Pentagon has confirmed at…

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…

BofA “Sell” Signal Triggered Any Moment… The Last This Happened Time Was June 2007 Back in mid-December, when stocks were melting up furiously daily amid unprecedented retail euphoria, which would only get crazier and crazier until eventually it forced Citi to use…

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…

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…

John Brennan, the former CIA director and perjurer who’s now an MSNBC contributor, apparently found a point on which he and his conservative critics can agree: Both sides are ashamed that he’s a white male. Responding to an MSNBC discussion Monday about…

The governor of Zamfara state has said that all 279 girls who were abducted from the Government Girls’ Science Secondary School (GGSS) in Jangebe last Friday have been released by their captors, largely unharmed. “Alhamdulillah! It gladdens my heart to announce the…

“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…

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…

Nice words, you might think. Who doesn‘t want to have a better world? Nearly everybody, I guess, but the same elites who made the plans at the WEF and other institutions are to blame for the world they created: a world with…

Alphabet subsidiary Google has pledged it will ditch the third-party cookie-based model of online advertising – and promised not to invent something similar that would allow it to keep slurping up the same kind of data. Google is serious about moving away…

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…

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…

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…

Stefan Halper’s Role In Crossfire Hurricane More Significant Than Previously Known Authored by Jeff Carlson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Newly released FBI documents shed light on two meetings between FBI Agent Stephen Somma and FBI source Stefan Halper, providing further…

Deutsche Bank: Central Banks Simply Can’t Afford Higher Rates With Global Debt So High By Jim Reid, chief credit strategist at Deutsche Bank My theme this year has been that it’s going to be very complicated for financial markets with volatility high….

Ditch The Afghanistan Experts Authored by Daniel L. Davis via RealClear World (emphasis ours), U.S. President Joe Biden is coming under heavy pressure to abandon the May 1 deadline to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. The push to move the deadline might come from…

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…

The Idea Of Secession Isn’t Going Away Authored by José Niño via The Mises Institute, Secession is a four-letter word for the millions of Americans who have gone through the conventional educational pipeline that teaches them that the American state is indivisible…

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…

The operator of a chain of holiday camps in the UK has admitted it racially discriminated against Irish guests by trying to exclude Travellers or Gypsies from using their facilities, and kept a blacklist of Irish family names. Pontins, which operates six…

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…

“Herd Immunity By August,” Russian Deputy PM Golikova Predicts After months of a ‘dark COVID’ winter in Russia, a top official projects herd immunity could be achieved by the end of summer.  Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova told TASS News Tuesday that government numbers…

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…

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….

India’s newspapers have joined the offensive against Google, urging it to raise the ad revenue share for publishers to 85 percent. The tech giant has recently faced demands to pay local outlets for news in multiple countries. The bold demand was produced…

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“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…

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…

More people in Iceland than in most countries are politically conscious and motivated to take on corruption in politics and business in Iceland than in most countries, Ron Ridenour writes. We all can learn from the Icelandic people, from their sense of…

Rocket Attack Targets US Embassy In Baghdad A Week After Deadly Erbil Assault Regional Mideast news sources are reporting a fresh rocket attack on Baghdad’s Green Zone on Monday. Explosions near the US Embassy have been reported “At least 3 Rockets target…

Boris Johnson Outlines UK ‘Roadmap’ To End Lockdowns PM Boris Johnson laid out his process for reopening the British economy on Monday morning, releasing a detailed plan that had been in part leaked over the weekend. In the UK, vaccines appear to…

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…

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…

The World Economic Forum, globalist champion of the Great Reset, has ruffled feathers online with an “out-of-touch” tweet how Covid-19 lockdowns are “quietly improving cities” across the globe. A video accompanying the Friday tweet by the WEF shows images of deserted streets,…

The Russian government could achieve its goal of de-dollarizing the economy by taking one simple step: dropping the tax it currently charges its citizens for the purchase of physical gold, an economist has said. Russian citizens would get rid of their dollar…

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…

At least 10,000 children have fallen victim to sex abuse by clergy and other officials of the Catholic Church in France since the 1950s, an independent commission set up to investigate such crimes said in its preliminary report. “It’s possible that the…

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…

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…

Former US President Donald Trump has lashed out at the Supreme Court after losing his lawyers failed to block his tax returns and financial records from being released to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. The court’s ruling was in response to Trump’s…

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…

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…

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…

(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…

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…

Socialism-In-Practice Was A Nightmare, Not Utopia Authored by Richard Ebeling via The American Institute for Economic Research, It is amazing sometimes how really short humanity’s historical memory can be. Listening to some in American academia and on social media, you would think…

A 60-day extension to the National Guard’s deployment to the US Capitol is being reviewed by the Pentagon, the Associated Press has reported. Over 5,000 troops have been stationed there since January’s Capitol riot. Capitol Police made the request for the 60-day…

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…

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…

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…

French City Removes Meat From School Lunches, Slammed For “Putting Ideology On Kids’ Plates” Consuming meat has become a cultural staple across the world. But with the surging middle class in China and elsewhere, demand for beef, pork, and processed chicken has…

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,…

Surveying both victims and perpetrators of political discrimination in the US, the UK and Canada, researchers at an academic think tank have found intolerance toward dissent is only just beginning – and things may get much worse. Purporting to be the first…

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…

“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,…

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…

Nearly 1,000 homeless people died in the UK last year, researchers said on Monday, blaming the 37 percent increase in deaths among rough sleepers on coronavirus hitting a social segment left vulnerable after a decade of cuts. The Dying Homeless Project found…

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….

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…

Among the rich tapestry of Dagestan’s combat sports culture, there is one school nurturing young generations to think, not just fight. Welcome to ‘Five Directions of the World’ – a place often known as ‘the Shaolin of Dagestan’. In the latest episode…

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…