Geopolitics

COVID Cases Are Spiking In A Dozen States With High Vaccination Rates As Europe struggles with a “third wave” of COVID infections that’s forcing more governments to reimpose at least some lockdown measures, the US is finding that the number of newly confirmed cases is climbing again, with some of the biggest week-over-week increases seen […]

Owned: A Tale of Two Americas If you’ve been searching for a documentary that breaks down the housing market historically – well, we might have found one on Amazon Prime Video titled “Owned: A Tale of Two Americas.”  The 83-minute documentary unearths the complex and often troubling history of house policies in the US in a […]

Here Comes Bitcoin’s Big Test: The Empire Strikes Back Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, One of the flaws in the revolutionary mindset is a tendency towards overconfidence. Combine absolute belief in a new idea with a couple of early wins and you get an absurd level of cockiness. This leads the would-be revolutionary to […]

UEFA will not impose any sanctions on a team of officials, led by Russian referee Sergey Karasev, who decided not to kneel in support of the Black Lives Matter campaign before Tuesday’s Champions League game at Manchester City. All of the players from both squads took the knee at the Etihad Stadium, where the English Premier […]

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has taken aim at Washington, labeling it ‘hypocritical’ and claiming it spies on its own allies, after the US designated five Chinese companies as posing a threat to national security under a 2019 law. “The US government has generalized the concept of national security, abused national power and unscrupulously suppressed Chinese […]

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter That Mumford & Sons banjo guy is a pathetic weenie who the left hates and who we despise, and who now has to live forever as a groveling coward nobody likes. Yeah, he was in Mumford & Sons and managed to find a way to make people like him less. […]

In a breakthrough that will be welcomed across the globe, University of Surrey researchers claim to have developed a highly accurate Covid-19 test using non-invasive skin swab samples. Much of the world population who have undergone Covid-19 tests have likely experienced the rather unpleasant polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, which, as many recipients attest, feels […]

By Pepe ESCOBAR Stoicism, in Ancient Greece, was pop culture —reaching out in a way that the sophisticated Platonic and Aristotelian schools could only dream of. Like the Epicureans and the Skeptics, the Stoics owed a lot to Socrates — who always stressed that philosophy had to be practical, capable of changing our priorities in […]

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong I get emails from friends in Britain who envy the US, saying if they had the right to have guns, they would be protecting their liberty. The Biden Administration has moved to force everyone to register guns. The next step is to just bust into your house and confiscate them. […]

“Don’t Lecture Us”: Alaska Summit Opens With Dueling Barbs & Epic Anti-US Tirade As predicted things are icier than ever by the end of day one of the Alaska summit in which for the first time in the Biden administration high-level in-person talks were held between China and the US, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, China’s […]

More “COVID Suicides” Than COVID Deaths In Kids Authored by Micha Gartz via The American Institute for Economic Research, Before Covid, an American youth died by suicide every six hours. Suicide is a major public health threat and a leading cause of death for those aged under 25 — one far bigger than Covid. And it is something […]

Germany Orders Most Restrictive COVID Lockdown Yet Over Easter Weekend We noted yesterday that Chancellor Angela Merkel had succeeded in persuading the leaders of Germany’s 16 states to agree to another extension of the federal lockdown. And while initial reports about Merkel’s proposal noted that Germans would receive a reprieve allowing them to spend the […]

With Biden barely aware of his surroundings, it is mere child’s play to foist Harris into the leadership role In what may become the most unexpected and, perhaps, unwanted political comebacks in American political history, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who never inspired much confidence on the 2020 presidential campaign trail, may soon find herself, […]

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Eight years after moving to Moscow to escape charges of treason for leaking information about secret American surveillance operations, former US intelligence consultant Edward Snowden is ready to apply to become a Russian citizen. On Thursday, Snowden’s attorney Anatoly Kucherena revealed that he had completed all the necessary documentation, which would soon be sent off […]

The number of unaccompanied migrant children in US custody is growing by roughly 500 per day, with some 5,000 minors currently housed in “temporary facilities” at the border, many of them well beyond the legal 72-hour limit. Roughly 10,500 unaccompanied children are held in “licensed” migrant shelters, suitable for longer-term care for minors, the Department of Health […]

Why HR1 Threatens Election Integrity Authored by Justin Riemer via RealClearPolitics.com, Much ink has been spilled warning of the ramifications should Democrats pass their election “reform” package, HR1 — and for good reason, given how the bill would upend our nation’s electoral system. Democrats claim HR1 is aimed at maximizing voter participation and ending corruption […]

Dutch news crews were attacked in two towns on Sunday while interviewing members of protestant churches that defy the Covid-19 restrictions. One man was arrested on suspicion of driving a car into a journalist. A news crew from broadcaster RTV Rijnmond was assaulted in the town of Krimpen aan den IJssel, where they arrived to […]

An anti-lockdown group staged a protest in Denmark’s capital to express their solidarity with an activist who was sentenced to two years behind bars for allegedly inciting violence at an earlier demonstration. Several hundred members of the ‘Men in Black’ anti-lockdown group took to the streets in Copenhagen on Saturday night, lighting red flares and […]

Perhaps we have collectively “lost our mind.” Perhaps what we need is not a new technology but a new way of living that uses existing technologies to echo “old ways” that worked rather well on much lower energy consumption. The Great Reset is much in the news–the proposed top-down plan for combating climate change designed […]

Newt Gingrich Locked Out Of Twitter For Criticizing Biden’s Immigration Policy Authored by Annaliese Levy via SaraACarter.com, Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich was locked out of his Twitter account for over a week after he published a tweet that criticized the Biden administration’s approach to the southern border and raised concern […]

Norwegian TV presenter Linn Wiik has proclaimed that she would “love to die” from AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine if her sacrifice would help ease public concern over the inoculation and win humanity’s war with the pandemic. “Some must be sacrificed in the war against the corona,” Wiik wrote on Monday in an opinion piece for Norway’s […]

Taibbi: The Death Of Humor Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News, The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo won the condemnation of the whole world again, with the cover pictured above. Reactions ranged from “abhorrent” to “hateful” to “wrong on every level,” with many offering versions of the now-mandatory observation that the magazine is not […]

The U.S. stock and bond markets and its entire financial system now teeter on the edge of collapse if there is even a slight hint that 1) the Fed won’t give more free candy to Wall Street or 2) the Fed has lost control of the Dead Money Economy it has created. Take a quick […]

Watch: Two Teenage Girls Carjack And Kill An Uber Driver; CNN Calls It An Accident Authored by Sara Carter via SaraACarter.com, An Uber Eats driver was killed by two young teenage girls in Washington D.C. after they carjacked his vehicle last Tuesday on March 23, in one of the most shockingly horrifying videos posted on […]

Predictable Train Wrecks On Crime And Immigration Authored by Charles Lipson via RealClearPolitics.com, If you think really hard, perhaps you can imagine more disastrous policies than throwing open our country’s southern border and abandoning criminal-law enforcement in city after city. The consequences are already emerging, and they are grim. It is important to examine them […]

Europe Stays In Lockdown Mode In early 2021, COVID-19 lockdowns remain in place across Europe, but, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, a number of countries has started to gradually ease restrictions. Previously, the reluctance of many nations to go into a full-fledged lockdown had created a hodgepodge of restrictions just short of the real deal. Despite continuing […]

Russian officials are poised to announce a ban on the Twitter social media network within weeks, if the platform fails to comply with demands to take down unlawful posts featuring child pornography, calls for suicide and drug use. That’s according to the deputy head of the country’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor. Vadim Subbotin told the Interfax […]

Former Head Of Group That Sponsors ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ Arrested On Child Pornography Charges Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, The former head of the Cream City Foundation, which sponsors Drag Queen Story Hour in Milwaukee, has been arrested on charges of possessing child pornography. Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Brett Blomme […]

Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be devastating to the U.S. military as a result of Beijing’s aggressive military development in recent years, according to a U.S. Air Force general. The outcome was based on a classified Pentagon war game simulation carried out over the years, Air Force Lt. […]

Cryptocurrency bitcoin is now more valuable than the world’s two biggest payment networks Visa and Mastercard, which have a combined market capitalization of $871 billion. According to data, bitcoin’s market cap is currently over $1 trillion. The digital coin went from zero to $1 trillion in network value 3.6 times faster than Microsoft. Bitcoin also achieved a […]

After five months of investigation, hundreds of alleged child abusers and victims have been identified in an 800-page independent report on abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany, spanning decades. According to the investigation, as many as 243 members of the clergy and laity were identified as abusers of minors, with around 50% […]

A new coronavirus vaccine factory will start rolling out tens of thousands of vials for use in immunization programs across Europe, Serbia’s president has announced, unveiling a deal backed by Russia, China and the UAE. President Aleksandr Vucic told reporters on Thursday that domestic production of the jabs would begin as early as May, with […]

Towards “One” World Currency Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, Expect Government Crackdowns In A “Global Depression” For those professing a preference for one type of government over another, an ugly reality is they all cut from the same cloth. Whether we are talking about Democracy, Communism, Socialism, or Fascism the strong link they share is […]

US pharmaceutical firm Moderna has commenced trials of its Covid-19 vaccine on kids ranging from just 6 months to 11 years old, the youngest so far to receive any Covid jab. On Tuesday, Moderna announced it had given the first doses of its jab to children in the Phase 2/3 trial, called the KidCOVE study. […]

The Bubble Of Everything: How A Debt-Driven Economy Creates More Frequent Crises Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The pace of global recoveries since 1975 has been slower and weaker, consistently evey time, according to the OECD. Recoveries take longer and happen slower. At the same time, periods of crisis are less aggressive albeit more frequent than […]

A protest against police brutality in Liege, Belgium, has spiraled into clashes and looting, after initially peaceful demonstration was hijacked by some 200 hooligans, who went on to wreck the city centre, police said. The demonstrators took to the streets of the eastern Belgian city on Saturday to protest the arrest of a black woman […]

Watch Live: ECB’s Lagarde Sharply Hikes 2021 Inflation Forecast Update: in what may have been the most anticipated notice of today’s Lagarde presser, the ECB president announced that staff inflation forecasts were revised sharply higher with 2021 Inflation now expected to rise 1.5% vs just 1.0% in December. This would be the highest annual inflation […]

France Heads Back Into Lockdown As COVID “Third Wave” Hammers Europe As a third wave of COVID infections believed to be driven by mutant strains of the virus explodes in Europe, France has just become the latest country to start reimposing lockdown measures, following in the footsteps of Italy, Germany and others. After initially resisting […]

Saudi Arabia will take the necessary measures to keep its oil resources and facilities safe and ensure the security of global oil supply, the Kingdom’s Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, said on Wednesday. On Sunday, Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they had fired 14 drones and eight ballistic missiles at oil facilities at the Saudi […]

The first aircraft with an electric motor will be demonstrated at the MAKS International Air and Space Salon, taking place on July 20-25 in Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters this week. “This is what was done with the Fund of Advanced Studies – an electric airplane based on superconductivity principles,” […]

Health regulators in Norway have put the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine on hold and Italy has banned a batch of the jab as officials in Denmark and Austria investigate 1 fatality in each country among reported recipients. The decision to ban a particular batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Italy was made by the […]

16 Countries Are Pushing United Nations To Condemn US Unilateral Sanctions Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and other countries subject to US sanctions are seeking support at the UN to push back against unilateral sanctions and the threat of force. The effort by sixteen countries and the Palestinians argues that unilateral […]

A Grim Look At The Exploding US Budget Deficit Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office paints a sorry picture of US government spending. Debt Will Be Double the Size of the Economy by 2051  The CBO estimates Debt Will Be Double the Size of the Economy by 2051  CBO estimates that […]

The French government has said that the level of Covid-19 vaccine uptake among those working in healthcare settings “is not acceptable” and said it could make the jab compulsory if vaccination rates don’t improve. “For the last year our health workers have been heroic, but the vaccination rate among them today is not acceptable,” Gabriel […]

Air passenger traffic will remain relatively low this year compared with 2019’s pre-Covid levels, but it will be better than in mid-2020, according to International Air Transport Association (IATA) director Alexandre de Juniac. He said in an interview with the Straits Times that personal and leisure travel will return from the second half of 2021, […]

Video allegedly showing a “rogue” SAS unit committing war crimes in Afghanistan has supposedly disappeared, as an investigation into the squad’s alleged “massacres” has been plagued by missing evidence and silence from witnesses. Saifullah Yar was just 19 when his family were shot dead in an SAS raid on their Afghan village in 2011. When […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has appointed a former ambassador to run a task force investigating the so-called Havana syndrome experienced by US diplomats and spies that the media have blamed on sci-fi ‘microwave weapons.’ Ambassador Pamela Spratlen will officially be the Senior Advisor to the Health Incident Response Task Force, established in 2018 […]

Inside the Great Imposture, the thing that is really scary (it has already been said) is the passivity in the face of the general decline of freedom and civilization of the Western masses. Inside the Great Imposture, the thing that is really scary (it has already been said) is the passivity in the face of […]

Several separate rallies were held in Germany’s capital city of Berlin. The largest one, with some 1,000 people in attendance according to police estimates, began at noon outside the federal health ministry. The event was not marred by any major incident, the police said, with the officers present at the scene primarily focused on checking […]

Attacks that killed 55 people in the northern Mozambique town of Palma, an area worth billions of dollars to gas companies, have reportedly been claimed by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) via its Amaq news agency. The government confirmed dozens of fatalities in the coastal town of 75,000 people near the Tanzanian border on Sunday, […]

A Canadian activist who traveled to Montreal to demonstrate against giving puberty blockers to children was attacked by black-clad assailants who allegedly punched him, stole his camera, and broke his arm him with a traffic cone. The incident occurred on Friday night in downtown Montreal, where Vancouver resident Chris Elston said he was having a […]

The Never-Ending Battle Between Leviathan And Liberty Authored by James Bovard via The Mises Institute for Peace & Prosperity, The notion that Americans will always be free is part of the catechism that is force-fed to public school students. For hundreds of years, philosophers, politicians, and reformers have touted a law of history that assures […]

The first wave of the Covid pandemic eliminated six million jobs across the EU, particularly impacting sectors dominated by temporary contractors, young people and female employees, according to a study conducted by an EU agency. Eurofound, which works to provide the EU with knowledge to help craft social, employment and work-related policies, investigated the impact […]

Ireland’s minister for foreign affairs and minister for defense, Simon Coveney, criticised the UK for trying to secure a trade deal with the United States without European Union involvement. “This idea that Britain can get there first is narrow minded thinking, frankly,” Coveney told the Times in an interview on Saturday. “It’s a perverse nationalism […]

The rate of Covid-19 infections in England has fallen again to one in 270 in the week ending March 6, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Friday, as the country braces for the easing of its national lockdown. The survey from the UK’s statistics authority shows that England’s infection rate has decreased from […]

War Games Showed US Would “Lose Fast” Against China If It Invaded Taiwan: US General Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be devastating to the U.S. military as a result of Beijing’s aggressive military development in recent years, according to a U.S. Air Force general. The outcome was based […]

Security Experts “Raise Red Flags” On Dubai Airport’s New Iris Scan Technology  Travelers at Dubai International Airport are now greeted by iris-scanners that are connected with the country’s facial recognition database, according to the Associated Press (AP).  Under the guise of the virus pandemic, United Arab Emirates (UAE) launched the contactless technology that helps stem the virus spread. Even […]

EU’s Own Goal By Playing Politics With Russian Vaccine Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The European public can see more clearly than ever that their unelected highly paid bureaucrats are risking pandemic recovery by playing politics with Russia’s vaccine. Italy is to be the first European Union state to produce the […]

How We Stumbled To The Edge Of The Cliff Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Oops. Looks like the Fed’s magic (and our luck) have finally run out. Now that we’re teetering on the edge of the cliff, it might be a good idea to retrace how we stumbled down to this crumbling, […]

The UK government has signed a deal with British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to produce up to 60 million doses of the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced. “I can today announce that the vaccine taskforce has reached an agreement with GlaxoSmithKline to finish and bottle this precious fluid,” Johnson told a […]

The V-Shaped Recovery Never Happened Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, In a display of unconvincing enthusiasm, NBC reported Friday that payroll employment “surged” in February. Specifically, total nonfarm payrolls (seasonally adjusted) grew 379,000, month-over-month which was above the expected increase of 210,000. That might sound great to some, but a closer look suggests […]

Oops. Looks like the Fed’s magic (and our luck) have finally run out. Now that we’re teetering on the edge of the cliff, it might be a good idea to retrace how we stumbled down to this crumbling, precarious ledge. As I’ve discussed for the past 15 years, there are a handful of systemic forces […]

Russia’s snowy hinterland is set for an abnormal spell of relatively warm weather this week, with the mercury pushing up well beyond normal. Last year saw record-breaking summers, thawing ice and forest fires throughout Siberia. Much of the vast Asian territory of the country will enjoy unusually moderate weather from Thursday, Roman Vilfand, the scientific […]

Russia Offers Europe Win-Win Vaccine Solution Via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The Sputnik V vaccine potentially fills the supply gaps that the EU is encumbered with. Immediately. It is now one year since the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic from the novel coronavirus and its accompanying Covid-19 disease. Worldwide, the death toll stands […]

Amid an EU-wide shortage of vaccines, Italian communities are desperate for a jab, any jab. And an answer to their plight may be a short drive away, as their neighbors, independent from the EU’s politics, have purchased Sputnik V. The Italian municipality of San Leo, in the northeastern region of Emilia-Romagna, might look like the […]

Real Madrid and Germany midfielder Toni Kroos has said he was perceived as a “Nazi” after he criticized former teammate Mesut Ozil over his bitter exit from international football. Ozil quit the German team in the aftermath of their ignominious exit at the group stage of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, claiming he had been […]

The Brewing Conflict In Ukraine Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, Enter The Putinator When Biden called Russian President a soulless “killer” on ABC News, Putin responded with the most deft bit of diplomacy I’ve seen in quite a while, openly challenging Fungal Joe to a publicly broadcast debate of substantive […]

China Approves Hong Kong Elections Overhaul To Apply “Patriotism” Litmus Test On Thursday China’s parliament approved a resolution to impose sweeping changes on Hong Kong’s electoral system which is ultimately aimed to ensure that mainland loyalists are in firm control of running the city. The new requirement of “patriotism” to run for Hong Kong’s legislature means […]

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have demanded that Amazon cough up files and communications related to its alleged “viewpoint discrimination” against the right-of-center, penning a formal request to CEO Jeff Bezos. Sent by ranking Republicans on the judiciary panel’s antitrust subcommittee, Representatives Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Ken Buck (Colorado), the letter on Thursday night […]

The Vatican’s orthodoxy office has ruled out any possibility of same-sex couples receiving an ecclesial blessing, maintaining that the Church does not approve such unions as God “cannot bless sin.” A detailed explanation delving into the Catholic Church’s stance on same-sex unions was released by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – the […]

The votes have been counted and recounted twice in Iowa’s Second District. The Republican won both times. Democrats in Congress want a third recount with rigged rules. The votes have been counted and recounted twice in Iowa’s Second District. The Republican won both times. Democrats in Congress want a third recount with rigged rules. Read […]

The Rights Of The Naturally Immune Authored by Thomas Harrington via The American Institute for Economic Research, There is an important issue that, in the midst of all the talk of vaccines, has not gotten nearly the attention it deserves: the civil rights of those who have already developed natural immunity to the SARS-CoV-2, the […]

Russia and Belarus are not just friends but have a fraternal bond. That’s according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who rubbished claims from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that Minsk has no pals on the world stage. Speaking to the press, Peskov said that Lukashenko’s statement “can hardly apply to Russia” as they are members of […]

(Natural News) Health Canada has issued a warning about blue and gray disposable face masks, which contain an asbestos-like substance associated with “early pulmonary toxicity.” The SNN200642 masks, which are made in China and sold and distributed by a Quebec-based company called Métallifer, had been part of Canada’s public school reopening plan. Students were told… […]

Indian state refiners are planning to cut oil imports from Saudi Arabia by about a quarter in May, Reuters has reported, citing its sources. This comes after calls from India to increase crude production were ignored by OPEC. The sources said, on condition of anonymity, that Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, […]

The Great American Delusion: ‘Just That One Guy’ Authored by Patrick Armstrong via The Strategic Culture Foundation, There is an objective reality: and the most powerful and strong-willed individual can only shape the future within the existing possibilities. In my career I used to participate in regular meetings with an American intelligence agency. I – […]

Before COVID, Gates Planned Social Media Censorship of Vaccine Safety Advocates with Pharma, CDC, Media, China and CIA By Robert F. Kennedy Jr, March 12 2021 In October 2019, shortly before the COVID outbreak, Gates and other powerful individuals … The post Selected Articles: 7 European Nations and Thailand Halt AstraZeneca Vaccinations appeared first on Global […]

Since the arrival of the Russian military five years ago, the Syrian government was able to retake most of the country from terrorists, while the Khmeimim Air Base has grown from a few tents into a well-protected town. The Russian military was deployed in Syria in September 2015 after Damascus approached Moscow for assistance in […]

Bitcoin Could Soon Run Head First Into U.S. Money Laundering Laws Among the challenges in regulating bitcoin will be the Biden administration’s handling of recent anti-money laundering laws put into place by the Trump administration pertaining to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.  The rules, implemented at the last-minute by the Trump administration, seek requirements for financial services […]

Brace For A Huge Retail Sales Miss: BofA Card Data Shows Collapse In February Spending One month ago, ahead of the record-breaking February retail sales report which smashed expectations in a 5-sigma beat to consensus and saw a record jump in core retail sales… … we cautioned readers that “A Blockbuster Retail Sales Report” was […]

“We Are Hungry” – Violent Protests Erupt As Lebanon ‘Hyperinflation’ Accelerates Despite the government’s attempt to crack down on illicit trading, Lebanon’s currency collapse has accelerated and with it the economy and people’s living standards. It appears the Lebanese people have had enough, and widespread protests pose the biggest threat to the nation’s stability since the […]