Author: Kolozeg

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 […]

Japan Asks China To Stop Performing Anal Swabs On Its Citizens Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Tokyo has asked Beijing to stop performing COVID-19 anal swabs on its citizens after complaints that the procedure causes “psychological pain.” “Some Japanese reported to our embassy in China that they received anal swab tests, which […]

Majority Of Germans Favor Easing COVID-19 Restrictions Earlier this week, Germans were finally able to enjoy an ever so slight loosening of COVID-19 restrictions which allowed many people to dash out for badly-needed haircuts. However, as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, further relaxations are set to take substantially longer, as Europe’s economic powerhouse trails the likes of Israel, […]

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 […]

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 figure is at least 10,000,” head of the commission, Jean-Marc Sauve, told AFP, […]

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 […]

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 from privacy-invading micro-targeted ads, Director of Product Management David Temkin insisted in a […]

“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 […]

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 extension to the National Guard’s deployment to Washington DC within the last 36 […]

Is Biden Reenlisting In The Forever Wars? Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org, Thursday, in its first military action, the Biden Pentagon sent two U.S. F-15Es to strike targets of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia just inside the eastern border of Syria. The U.S. strikes were in retaliation for a missile attack on a […]

Japan’s Well-Fed Zombie Corporations Authored by Gunther Schnabl and Taiki Murai via The Mises Institute, The corona crisis has intensified the discussion about the zombification of the economy; enterprises have become more dependent on government bailouts, loans, subsidies, short-time working benefits, and loans from central banks. Governments around the world claim the measures to be […]

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 […]

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 insight into the wide scope of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump 2016 […]

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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 […]

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 about plans to place nukes in the Philippines, Duterte was on Sunday asked […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a criminal complaint in Germany accusing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other high-ranking Saudi officials of committing crimes against humanity. On Monday evening, RSF published a press release confirming they had filed a 500-page complaint with the German Public Prosecutor General of the Federal Court of Justice in […]

“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 forecast 60% herd immunity by August. She said achieving such a level would […]

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 Arizona Department of Education fully embraces the belief in “persistent racial biases in […]

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, […]

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. […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 paper of its kind to “investigate authoritarianism and political discrimination in academia,” the […]

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 assuming responsibility, for their political consciousness, their tenacity, from their culture that fosters […]

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 […]

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 Health said the man had received the shot on February 26 at Kwun […]

(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… […]

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. […]

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 […]

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? […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 of the RT Sport series ‘Dagestan: Land of Warriors’, we take you behind […]

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 release of the abducted students of GGSS Jangebe from captivity,” Zamfara State Governor […]

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 holiday parks in England and Wales, admitted it engaged in a series of […]

(Natural News) The “Texageddon” blackouts and near-collapse of all infrastructure (food, fuel, cell towers, power grid, water systems, emergency services, roads, etc.) taught us all some very difficult lessons in survival. We learned that the infrastructure is far more vulnerable than most people thought, and we saw with our own eyes that most people still… […]

Mainstream US media is under fire for publishing an article telling Americans that life won’t go back to normal even after they’ve been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 – and critics argue the message discourages vaccination. In an AP article from Saturday, which has since been republished by a number of news outlets including NBC New […]

WASHINGTON—The White House sent a letter to the Taiwanese government on Feb. 17 seeking its help to resolve a global shortage of computer chips that has wreaked havoc on the automotive industry. The letter ensured that the “future is bright” for U.S.-Taiwan relations amid threats from China. President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser, Brian Deese […]

Von Greyerz: How Will It All End? Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com, Akhlys, the Greek goddess of Misery and Poison, is exerting a major influence on the world currently. And sadly the dosage of misery and poison will increase in coming months and years. What is now crystal clear is that this excess […]

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 US Embassy area in Baghdad,” according to initial reporting by the AFP. It […]

Europe is basing its future on high-tech products and applications, but while it requires vast amounts of rare earth metals to do so, it produces next to none of these critical elements. Solar panels. Wind turbines. Electric vehicle batteries and motors. These are just four of the things that need one or more of a […]

Merkel: “No End In Sight Until World Is Vaccinated” It’s been a little more than one year since the globalists have been reshaping our lives after the outbreak of COVID-19. Even with collapsing global infections and herd immunity that may be around the corner, elites are still desperately attempting to fearmonger people to justify additional […]

Drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech wanted to charge the EU Commission €54.08 per dose of their Coronavirus vaccine, according to German media reports. The jab would have cost more than 20 times that of a rival shot from AstraZeneca. The prospective price tag was revealed on Thursday by German broadcasters NDR and WDR, and the Suddeutsche […]

BlazeTV host Steven Crowder had his Twitter account restricted after posting about a video investigative piece claiming numerous voter addresses in the 2020 presidential election were faked. “DOZENS of voter names, addresses, and pictures proving they don’t exist. Period. Today I’m tired of this s**t. Mass voter fraud is real and I can prove it,” […]

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, grounded airliners and idled factories, then notes record declines in air pollution 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 and sacrosanct. However, intellectually honest historians whose minds haven’t been warped by educational institutions […]

“America Is Back!?” Biden Is 3rd Successive President To Bomb Syria – Estimated 22 Killed “America is back!”…Joe Biden’s mantra has been particularly on the foreign policy front since taking office. Giving the public and the world a small taste of what this will mean in terms of practical action, he’s ordered the first military strike of […]

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 take questions if that’s what I’m supposed to do, Nance. Whatever you want […]

A new poll has found that 50 percent of Americans are questioning President Biden’s mental fitness, and over half are concerned about his lack of solo press conferences. Asked “how confident are you that Joe Biden is physically and mentally up to the job of being president of the United States,” 50 percent of respondents […]

Bill Gates Bankrolling Educational Organization That Says Math Is Racist Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is bankrolling an activist educational group that believes math is racist and that arriving at an objective answer is an example of “white supremacy.” Yes, really. A conglomerate of 25 educational […]

Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly urged US President Joe Biden to maintain his predecessor’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court, arguing that even if he disagrees with them, the US and Israel must stick together. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu personally called up Biden last week to request he keep the Trump administration’s sanctions against the International […]