Geopolitics

A group of daring Russian hikers has gone viral after climbing up an active volcano in the Far Eastern region of Kamchatka. The daredevils went up to the volcano’s rim and looked inside, before cooking sausages on cooling lava. The tour group was climbing up Klyuchevskaya Sopka, the highest active volcano in Eurasia and a […]

CDC Vs. Common Sense Authored by Peter Alexander via The American Institute for Economic Research, The death of Common Sense begins with the words initiated by the morass of Bureaucracy couched in safety and security. Indeed, and according to past President Ronald Reagan, the most frightening words to hear in the English language are para […]

Watch: 3 Russian Nuclear Subs Punch Through Arctic Ice Sheet To Surface Simultaneously On Friday Russia’s Defense Ministry published video of what it touted as a “first-ever” maneuver to have taken place in the history of naval exercises and warfare. No less than three nuclear-powered submarines of the Russian Navy punched through the ice simultaneously during Arctic exercises, […]

Getting Ready For Gold’s Golden Era Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Worried about gold sentiment? Don’t be. The mainstream view of gold right now is an open yawn, and sentiment indicators for this precious metal are now at 3-year lows despite the gold highs of last August. Is this cause for genuine concern? Not […]

Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out The US Dirty War On Syria That Biden & Aides Admit To Via Pushback with Aaron Maté at The Grayzone, While Joe Biden has faced some mild Congressional pushback for bombing the Iraq-Syria border, Tulsi Gabbard says her former colleagues are ignoring the larger issue: the ongoing US dirty war on Syria. […]

Biden Is Playing A Dangerous Game In The Middle East Authored by Cyril Widdershoven via OilPrice.com, Washington’s new Middle East policies looks like sandcastle. Targeting MBS means putting region at peril. The new media frenzy about a possible full-out confrontation between the US Biden Administration and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a sign […]

The EU’s drug regulator has given its backing to the Covid-19 vaccine produced by American pharma giant Johnson & Johnson. The single-shot vaccine will need to be approved by the EU before it can be rolled out in the bloc. On Thursday, Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine became the fourth to be recommended to the EU […]

The latest data from the United Nation World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) showed that 32 percent of destinations worldwide – 69 in total – are now completely closed for global tourism as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Of those, just over half – 38 destinations – have been completely closed for at least 40 weeks, and 34 […]

“Huge Breach” – Personal Data Of 533 Million Facebook Users Leaked Online   Personal information of over 533 million Facebook users was leaked on a low-level hacking forum, according to Business Insider. Facebook users from 106 countries, including more than 32 million users in the US, 11 million in the UK, and 6 million in India, had their Facebook IDs, […]

Deutsche Bank Considers Permanent Work-From-Home Addition Several Days Per Week Just a couple of days ago, we wrote how the 4 day work week was catching on a result of the new, post-Covid work landscape.  Now, it looks like Deutsche Bank could be next big corporation to adopt similar changes. The banking giant is considering […]

Signs Are Everywhere: Businesses Have Changed Permanently As A Result Of The Pandemic Authored by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com, There is no return to the “old normal.” Employment adjusts too. But it will take years to sort out the issues these sudden massive shifts leave behind… One of the biggest permanent changes coming out of […]

Around €1 million in Covid-19 relief funds aimed at businesses might have ended up in the pockets of hardline Islamists, German media reported, citing sources in the Berlin police who opened more than 100 probes into the fraud. The misuse of coronavirus aid to finance terrorist activities was reported by German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. […]

Vice President Kamala Harris has spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu without President Joe Biden being present, the latest in a series of calls to world leaders usually conducted by the president. Harris spoke to Netanyahu on Thursday, with a White House readout of the call saying she “underscored the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to […]

“It’s Never Different This Time” – Creator Of Bond Volatility Gauge Warns Selloff Isn’t Over Ever since the 10-year yield eclipsed 1.25% last month, the market has been eying the steady ascent in yields with trepidation. Last week, the selloff in Treasuries finally forced Jerome Powell to acknowledge the growing inflationary pressures facing the US […]

The US military’s presence in Afghanistan is larger than the public has been led to believe, the New York Times has reported, as Washington mulls a full withdrawal from the country as part of a deal with the Taliban. Citing US, European and Afghan officials, the Times reported that the US has about 1,000 more […]

The New York Times has been lambasted online for bizarrely claiming that violence surrounding Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 was merely “misinformation” and likening it to Deep State conspiracy theories. The Gray Lady’s Jennifer Medina sought to unravel the mystery behind Latinos in the US voting Republican, in a Friday article titled: “A Vexing […]

Germans are voting in two state elections this Sunday, and the party of Angela Merkel may lose both of them, potentially setting the stage for defeat in September’s general election that will determine the next chancellor. Merkel will not be running for a sixth term as the leader of the German government, but her center-right […]

China Is Winning The Great 21st Century Tech War Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, China believes it is on track to take over the world. At the ongoing “Two Sessions” in Beijing, the Communist Party has publicly told us how it will accomplish its ambitious goal. If the Chinese ruling party succeeds, […]

Legislation vastly expanding the UK government’s powers to suppress peaceful protests for the sake of public order, promoted by Home Secretary Priti Patel, has been backed by the House of Commons after heated debate. Lawmakers voted 359 to 263 to pass the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill on its second reading on Tuesday. After […]

Luongo: Capital Is Sensing “This Central Bank Impotency” Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, I don’t know what’s more ludicrous at this point, the amount of central bank intervention or the whining from the markets that there isn’t enough. We’re headed for the mother of all financial crises and from my […]

The rollout of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine in Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia has been suspended as the health authorities investigate a possibly serious side effect in the form of fatal blood clots. On Thursday, Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke tweeted that the country would be suspending the use of the Anglo-Swedish vaccine, which has […]

Dozens of demonstrators, including families with small children, held a “burn the mask” demonstration outside Idaho’s state Capitol building in Boise, demanding that face covering mandates amid the Covid-19 pandemic be rescinded. Video footage on social media shows demonstrators dropping masks into a burn barrel on Saturday as people cheered and a man in the […]

U.S. Aircraft Carrier Deploys In Mediterranean As Damascus Prepares To Push On The Northwest Submitted by SouthFront, The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier and its Carrier Strike Group have entered the Mediterranean Sea. This makes it, currently, the closest aircraft carrier to the Middle East. It has been quite a while since the US […]

War Erupts Inside NATO’s Atlantic Council Over “Pro-Russia” Article Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, An article written by two Atlantic Council employees that argues Washington should consider a more realistic approach to Russia caused quite the stir within the think tank. The article, written by Emma Ashford and Mathew Burrows, says the US should “avoid a human-rights-first […]

They are assuring us that we don’t have to be concerned about “inflation” because they have everything under control.  Do you believe them?  The value of the U.S. dollar has been steadily declining for a long time, and most Americans have grown accustomed to having the cost of living rise at a faster pace than […]

A majority of Americans have expressed concern over cancel culture in a new poll released just as public figures like Piers Morgan have claimed to have fallen victim to the phenomenon. The Harvard Caps-Harris Poll, released Monday, found that 64% of Americans fear that a “growing cancel culture” is a threat to their freedom. The […]

Alrosa, the world’s leading diamond-mining company by volume, sold $361 million-worth of rough diamonds and $12 million-worth of polished gems in February, according to a report just published. Its sales of rough diamonds rose by 5.5 percent compared to the same period a year ago, while sales of polished diamonds grew threefold against those recorded […]

Livid Trump Blasts “Our Country Is Being Destroyed At The Southern Border” Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, A livid President Trump issued a statement Tuesday lamenting that the country is “being destroyed” by the Biden administration’s actions at the border, as the crisis further spirals out of control. Border crossings have surged after […]

US Admits Waging InfoWar Against Russia’s Sputnik Vaccine To “Combat Malign Influence” The Kremlin on Tuesday called out what’s it’s dubbed the “unprecedented” propaganda war against Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine. The words were issued by spokesman Dmitry Peskov in response to widespread allegations that the Untied States is actively trying to dissuade its allies from purchasing the Russian-produced vaccine. […]

Fears Of A ​​​​​​​”Return Of The 1930s Dust Bowl” Rise As Record Drought Sizzles Southwest The United States Drought Monitor publishes weekly data that shows the Western U.S. is in a historic drought. The latest Drought Monitor map shows for Mar. 4, “Dry conditions dominated much of the West and especially the Southwest and into the Plains.”  […]

Chinese Tech Giants Build Tools To Bypass Apple’s New Privacy Controls As Beijing works to bring China’s powerful tech giants to heel, the FT has published a report detailing how Chinese tech giants are working to override new privacy controls being introduced by Apple to help protect the privacy of iPhone users from ruthless digital […]

Norwegian Doctor Claims To Find Link Between AstraZeneca Vaccine And Rare Blood Clots As we wait for the EMA’s decision, a top Norwegian health official tasked with investigating a series of three high-profile cases of health-care workers under the age of 50 being hospitalized for similar cases of rare blood clots after receiving the AstraZeneca […]

YouTube has told its content creators and partners that they need to prepare for paying US taxes on their earnings – even if they live and work elsewhere. The already beleaguered video creators are taking it poorly. The video platform, owned by Google, actually updated its terms of service to tax US creators shortly after […]

Free Speech: And… It’s Gone Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, It’s no surprise to me that the war against speech is accelerating. There’s desperation in the air everywhere. From the barricading of the U.S. Capitol since January 6th to the shrill calls for continued lockdowns over a virus mostly behind […]

Austrian health officials have flagged a batch of AstraZeneca as a precaution while probing the death of a nurse who received the vaccine. Authorities say they have yet to find evidence linking the fatality to the drug, however. The decision was made after one 49-year-old woman who received the jab later died as a result […]

A cold snap recently left millions in Texas in the freezing dark. Max Keiser talks with Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s energy program, to understand who’s to blame for the massive power outage. The Texas energy market is largely not under federal oversight and relies entirely on market forces to have an impact on […]

After the US bought a seat on a Russian spacecraft to send a NASA astronaut to the International Space Station, the chief of Russia’s Space Agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin claimed that American spaceflight is still “unstable.” From 2011 to last year, the US relied on Russia’s Soyuz launch system to send its astronauts to live […]

The high speed of 5G internet can now be experienced at over a dozen of the most well-known locations in Moscow, and the locals who spoke to RT didn’t seem to share the concerns of skeptics about the technology. 5G being available to the public is a “breakthrough” because “it is the only way we […]

Taibbi: The Sovietization Of The American Press Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News I collect Soviet newspapers. Years ago, I used to travel to Moscow’s Izmailovsky flea market every few weeks, hooking up with a dealer who crisscrossed the country digging up front pages from the Cold War era. I have Izvestia’s celebration of […]

Russia Reveals Total Number Of Soldiers Killed In Syria, Blasts “Morally Bankrupt” US Policies Via AlMasdarNews.com, The First Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee of the State Duma, Andrei Krasov, announced that 112 Russian soldiers were killed during the entirety of the armed conflict in Syria, according to Sputnik Arabic. The deputy’s statements came during a meeting with […]

The quality of analysis in Western media regarding political processes in Russia has significantly decreased, and nowadays publications employ “pseudo-specialists” who write stories which “often have nothing to do with reality.” That’s according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who was responding to an article in the Financial Times (FT) that claimed Russian security forces influence […]

US Preparing Cyberattack Against Russia Over SolarWinds Hack: Report Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, According to a report from The New York Times, the Biden administration is planning cyberattacks against Russia in the coming weeks. The cyber offensive could come with new sanctions and would mark a serious escalation towards Moscow from the new administration. Anonymous […]

Julian Reichelt, editor-in-chief of German tabloid Bild, has stepped down from his job as the paper’s publisher investigates allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Meanwhile, Bild is gearing up for lawsuits. Bild’s publisher, Axel Springer, announced on Saturday that Reichelt would be stepping down as editor-in-chief to allow an investigation into his conduct to proceed […]

The Government’s War On Free Speech: Protest Laws Undermine The First Amendment Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”— George Washington It’s a given that the government is corrupt, unaccountable, […]

Resurrecting The Dead… Digitally: One Step Closer To The “Singularity” Authored by Robert Wheeler via The Organic Prepper blog, In 2017, Microsoft revealed it had patented a “chatbot” that could digitally resurrect the dead if actually built. The chatbot uses AI and machine learning technology. Essentially, the chatbot would bring our “digital persona” back to life. Friends […]

The rumored deployment of American intermediate-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region may trigger a brand new arms race and potential standoff with unpredictable consequences, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. Speaking to the press on Friday, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was responding to reports in the Japanese media that Washington and Tokyo are discussing plans to […]

Ukraine has so few foreign investors because the country is seen abroad as a place where they will get scammed. That’s according to the former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, who now heads Kiev’s National Reform Committee. “[Official] foreign investment in Ukrainian GDP is less than two percent,” Saakashvili said, speaking to TV channel Ukraine 24 […]

“Don’t Go Down The Rabbit Hole” – NYTimes Decries Critical Thinking, Tells Americans To Trust Google Instead Authored by Gavin Nascimento via The Free Thought Project, A new article from the New York Times claims that instead of engaging with someone that challenges your worldview, you should “resist the lure of Rabbit Holes” and go to more […]

Over 100 years ago, Soviet Russia became the first country in the world to legalize elective abortion. Now, MPs are considering limiting the right to choose, possibly restricting a long-standing freedom for the country’s women. On Thursday, MP Inga Yumasheva from the ruling United Russia party proposed a new law to ban private clinics from […]

​​​​​​​Dollar Bottom? USD At Major Crossroads The US Dollar faded 3.5-month highs on Tuesday morning as Treasury yields dipped, allowing more riskier currencies to rise. The latest surge in the dollar has put it at an important crossroad after stabilizing in the last three months around the 89-90 level.  With dollar shorts under strain, the latest Commodity […]

Nursing students attending the University of Pennsylvania are required to refer to their “preferred pronouns” and ask those of an imaginary patient or be punished with point deduction in one course. In an integrated human anatomy class for those looking to graduate UPenn’s nursing program, students must go through a mock examination of an imaginary […]

Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths are falling in many countries – but some governments have been in no rush to return liberties and rights to their citizens. They must be held to account. Covid Freedom Index Even as billions are set to acquire immunity to the virus in 2021 – either through vaccination or antibodies gained […]

Brace Yourselves For The Most Dramatic Shift In The Standard Of Living Ever Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, They are assuring us that we don’t have to be concerned about “inflation” because they have everything under control.  Do you believe them?  The value of the U.S. dollar has been steadily declining […]

Swiss Voters Approve ‘Burqa Ban’ Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, Swiss voters have narrowly approved a proposal to ban face coverings in public spaces. The measure comes just over a decade after citizens voted to ban the construction of minarets, the tower-like structures on mosques that are often used to call Muslims […]

Iran Lambasts EU For Lectures On ‘Acting Responsibly’ While Ignoring Israel’s Nukes Iran has lashed out at Europe and the United States’ silence and hypocrisy concerning the Mideast nation with by far the biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons. It comes after on Thursday French President Emmanuel Macron berated Tehran for “exacerbating the thorny nuclear situation with […]

The New New Deal Has Already Arrived. Thank The COVID Panic Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, We’ve entered a new era of politics and government in America, and the Left is pretty happy about it. This week, for example, The Guardian announced “Biden’s $1.9tn Covid relief bill marks an end to four decades of […]

Japan’s Government To Ban Overseas Spectators From Tokyo Olympics After a week ago it was first revealed that the Tokyo 2020 games organizing committee (to take place this summer, 2021 in late July to August.8) was seriously mulling barring all foreign spectators from attending the games on pandemic fears of a ‘superspreader’ event, Japan has confirmed that […]

RT in Germany is planning to take legal action against the tabloid Bild, after the Berlin newspaper ran a sensationalist tale that relied on leaked Telegram chats from a former employee, who claimed he had to spy for the channel. In the article published by Julian Roepcke on Tuesday, he claims that, according to Bild’s information, […]

Greek police deployed tear gas and clashed with demonstrators in the Nea Smyrni suburb of Athens after several thousand people took to the streets on Tuesday, angered by footage of the recent brutal arrest of a local man. Up to 6,000 showed up for the march against police brutality on Tuesday, according to local media […]

Journalist Anton Krasovsky says his documentary ‘Epidemic’ is being shadowbanned by YouTube. Failing to coax any sort of solution out of the platform, he is now turning to the head of Roscomnadzor, the Russian media regulator. Dear Mr. (Andrey) Lipov, A year ago, I couldn’t even imagine that I would be writing this letter with […]

More than half of all Russians would not want to work with a woman as their boss, according to a new study from the analytical center of Synergy University, which revealed that just 28.2 percent place no significance on gender. The results, published by news agency RIA Novosti, show that 86.4 percent of respondents have […]

Goldman, Bank Of America Made Hundreds Of Millions From Texas Blackouts Who needs Enron when you have taxpayer-backed “banks.” Whereas 20 years ago, it was Enron that made billions from the California electricity crisis (which it caused), a scandal which culminated with Enron’s scandalous and convoluted bankruptcy, this time it is pristine banks such as […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has wished Joe Biden well after the US leader called him a “killer” and promised that Moscow would “pay the price” for interfering in the 2020 US elections in favor of his opponent, Donald Trump. Speaking on Thursday, Putin suggested that Biden may be projecting, noting that evaluating other countries “is […]

Social media users have expressed doubt after Nigel Farage, who championed the Brexit movement, announced he would no longer be playing an active role in politics, noting that he’s made similar pronouncements in the past. In a video message posted to Twitter, Farage said he would be stepping down as leader of Reform UK, a […]

Norwegian Billionaire Jumps On Crypto Bandwagon, Predicts One Bitcoin Worth “Millions Of Dollars” It was one month ago in what was JPMorgan’s 4th consecutive – and failed – attempt to smack down cryptos when the bank’s strategist Nick Panigirtzoglou wrote that Tesla’s recent $1.5BN purchase of bitcoin would be a one-off and no other institutions […]

“This Was A Bloodbath” – Liberal Journalists Outraged After Huffington Post Fires 1/3rd Of Its Staff Just months after it was acquired by Buzzfeed in a fire sale, the Huffington Post – the once-pioneering Internet media property – has elicited an outpouring of criticism from the blue-check crowd after abruptly firing nearly 50 reporters, roughly […]

Indian authorities have reportedly given an ultimatum to US social media platforms, threatening jail time for their local employees if the companies continue to ignore official takedown requests against “damaging” information. Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter have each received written notices warning their employees could face arrest should the requests be ignored, in some cases citing […]

Thousands of protesters flooded Austria’s capital amid growing anger over the government’s remaining coronavirus restrictions. The rally resulted in scuffles and several arrests, according to reports. Austria’s Krone newspaper reported that around 15,000 people attended the Saturday rally. Demonstrators held placards reading “Kurz must go” as they chanted slogans calling for the resignation of Chancellor […]

​​​​​​​”There’s No Town Left” – Ten Years Later, Fukushima’s Eerie Landscapes Resemble ‘Ghost Town’ The largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan struck ten years ago today. The 9.0-magnitude quake triggered a devastating tsunami, killing more than 18,000 people and led to a nuclear meltdown in northern Japan.  Here’s what we wrote about the nuclear incident […]

“Investors Are On Their Own” – BofA Says Fed Won’t Intervene On Rates, Fears 1987 Replay While hedge fund honchos David Tepper and Kyle Bass were adamant yesterday that, as we have previously explains, The Fed/US Government duopoly cannot afford to allow rates to rise too much further and overseas demand for what are now […]

A middle school in Purvis, Mississippi is under fire after students were asked to pen a letter from the perspective of a plantation slave, with the assignment condemned as “hurtful” and “tone deaf” by local activists. As part of a class project, eighth graders at Purvis Middle School were told to “pretend like you are […]

Watch: Ben Carson Derides Dr Seuss Witch-Hunt: “This Is Poison In Our System” Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Former secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson described leftist attempts to cancel Dr Seuss books as ‘poison’ Thursday, adding that cancel culture on the whole stems from the fact that “socialists believe that […]

Via The Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—A group of cartel members presented Joe Biden with its prestigious “Human Trafficker of the Month” award today, marking the third month in a row the new president has received the award. Democrat presidents are constant recipients of the honor, usually winning the award many dozens of times throughout their […]

Russia is ready to supply European nations with its Sputnik V jab as it believes people “deserve” to have a choice of vaccines but it is up to the EU to allow it, said Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. “We want people to have a choice of vaccines,” Dmitriev told RT. […]

In what may sound like an eerie, next evolution of dating apps like Tinder, researchers have developed an AI system which can learn and predict which faces individual humans might find attractive based on their brain waves alone. The joint team of psychologists and computer scientists at the University of Helsinki in Finland used electroencephalography […]

An internal government investigation has found that Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic and his family were illegally wiretapped over 1,500 times, and “high-ranking officials in the Ministry of the Interior” were involved. The findings were announced by Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin after a meeting with the National Security Council, with the president declaring that an investigation […]

Watch: Fauci Admits There Is No “Science” Behind Continued Lockdown Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, In a rare moment of truth of CNN Wednesday, Anthony Fauci admitted that there is no scientific reason why people who have had the COVID vaccine are still having their freedoms restricted. CNN host John Berman asked Fauci “What’s […]

“This Is Nuts!” – Stocks Explode Higher After Fabricated CPI Print It would appear the algos missed the fact that BLS made it all up. For example… what kinda bullshit is this? pic.twitter.com/AjXvhcpQnv — HedgedIn (@noalpha_allbeta) March 10, 2021 A cooler than expected core CPI print (thanks to fabricated data) appears to have sparked a […]

House Democrats Pass Bill To Change American Voting Forever The House of Representatives in the late hours of March 3 passed a sweeping election reform bill that, if signed into law, would affect multiple aspects of the electoral process and campaign financing. As The Epoch Times’ Mimi Hguyen Ly notes, H.R. 1, also called the For […]