Geostrategy

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed Greek proposals to turn the divided island of Cyprus into a federation, insisting the only viable option is to create two separate states. Erdogan lashed out at Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis as he spoke at a meeting of his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party on Wednesday. Turkey’s […]

By Raul DIEGO Less than a month away from the one-year anniversary of the pandemic’s official declaration, policy wonks at the Atlantic Council together with former and current government officials are dissecting the “lessons” of the Covid-19 epidemic to advise the Biden administration on the steps to take in order to avert the next disaster. […]

A criminal probe into the 2020 US presidential election launched by Fulton County, Georgia district attorney will look at former President Donald Trump asking the secretary of state to “find” votes, according to media reports. Fulton County DA Fani Willis confirmed the existence of the investigation on Wednesday and said she sent letters to Governor […]

Former US President Donald Trump has launched a blistering attack on Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, calling him a “third rate” leader and pledging to support those challenging establishment candidates in GOP primaries. “The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political ‘leaders’ like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm,” the lengthy statement […]

Recovering Covid patients across the world have reported numerous lingering neurological symptoms, including fatigue, memory loss, and confusion, nicknamed ‘brain fog’ or ‘Covid brain’. Scientists may now have found the culprit. “We were initially approached by our colleagues in critical-care medicine, who had observed severe delirium in many patients who were hospitalised with Covid-19,” says […]

Local authorities in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh have asked the government to stop sending doses of the country’s homegrown Covid-19 vaccine until proper efficacy data for the jab has been provided. The health minister of the central-eastern state, T.S. Singh Deo, has written to his national counterpart, Harsh Vardhan, asking for all deliveries of […]

(Natural News) President Joe Biden has scrapped a policy mandating that colleges and universities disclose all dealings with the Chinese government and its Confucius Institutes. The policy was enacted by former President Donald Trump to encourage transparency amid growing evidence that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda was infiltrating America’s education system. Under the policy, institutions that failed… […]

The US Senate has failed to gather enough votes to convict former President Donald Trump, after a Democrat-led impeachment trial. Trump had been accused of “incitement of insurrection” after his supporters rioted on Capitol Hill. The Senate voted 57-43 on Saturday in favor of impeachment, falling short of the 67 votes needed to comprise the […]

The world needs vaccines developed in Russia and China to win the war against Covid-19, French President Emmanuel Macron said, calling the global effort a race against time as the virus causing the disease is constantly mutating. “We must work with the Chinese and the Russians so that the vaccines developed by their scientists fit […]

Trump Will Never Be Allowed Back On Twitter, CFO Confirms Former US President Donald Trump will never be allowed to have a Twitter account again after his @realdonaldtrump handle was banned, Twitter CFO Ned Segal confirmed on Wednesday. Segal stated during a CNBC interview following their earnings release: “If you are removed from the platform, […]

No, We Don’t Need A ‘Reality-Czar’: Let Truth And Falsehood Grapple Authored by Gary Galles via The Foundation for Economic Education, New York Times writer Kevin Roose recently surveyed “our truth-challenged information ecosystem” and found a proliferation of “hoaxes, lies and collective delusions.” As he put it, that limits the Biden administration’s ability to “unite a country,” because […]

Despite the fact Crimea has been de facto administered by Russia for seven years now, the American government will never view Moscow’s rule as legitimate, insisting it remains part of Ukraine. That’s according to Rodney Hunter, one of the US’ top diplomats at the United Nations, speaking at a Security Council briefing on Thursday. Hunter […]

Russia’s military may soon have a new state of-the-art Unmanned Combat Ground Vehicle for use in combat, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as for providing vital engineering and logistics support to troops in the field. The operational prototype has been created by the Signal All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute, part of the country’s state-owned defense and […]

Lockdowns Have Devastated The Global Poor Authored by Ethan Yang via The American Institute for Economic Research, In North America and Europe, it has become abundantly clear that Covid-19 and the lockdowns that followed have devastated society. In the United States, unemployment is through the roof and 2020 saw the largest economic contraction in modern history. […]

As the Biden administration moves to make it illegal to deny the participation of birth males in female sport, a number of courageous athletes and academics are beginning to speak out on the issue, warning that the presidential orders will have disastrous consequences on their profession, and possibly their lives. On the very same day […]

Oil Is Soaring Amid “Supercycle” Chatter Just days after one of our favorite macro strategists, Dylan Grice, predicted that the stage is set for “a bull market in oil“, and JPM quant Marko Kolanovic said a new oil and commodity supercycle has begun, oil is starting to get the message, and has jumped more than […]

After three diplomats were kicked out of Russia for taking part in rallies in support of opposition figure Alexey Navalny, Moscow’s representative to the EU believes it’s unimaginable that Russian officials would do the same. Last week, the Russian Foreign Ministry declared diplomats from Sweden, Poland, and Germany personae non gratae after allegedly taking part […]

Fresh economic sanctions under consideration in Brussels could lead to Russia deciding to walk away from dealings with the European Union altogether, the country’s foreign minister has said in comments broadcast on Friday. In a clip aired as a preview for an interview on the Soloviev LIVE YouTube channel, Sergey Lavrov said Moscow would seriously […]

Don’t Impeach Trump. Impeach The Deep State For Its Conspiracy To Kill The Constitution Authored by John Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And […]

The Biden administration is preparing to bring an estimated 25,000 asylum-seekers across the US border who had been waiting in Mexico under policies enacted to curb illegal immigration that have now been revoked. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to screen up to 300 people a day at two border crossings starting February […]

Where Did All The Lincoln Project’s Money Go? Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Lincoln Project has had a rough couple of weeks.  One of its co-founders, John Weaver, was accused of sexual harassment of young men and the Project attacked him as a sexual predator. As co-founders like George Conway denied any real familiarity or interaction with Weaver, […]

India’s rapidly growing oil demand and good relations with Washington make it a key element in US’s new strategy to counter China’s rapidly increasing influence in the Middle East. The release of a major report last week by the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlighting that India will make up the biggest share of energy demand […]

U.S. Wants To Negotiate With Iran As Israel And Hezbollah Exchange Threats Submitted by South Front, Hezbollah, one of Israel’s sworn enemies and a staunch ally of Iran continues its tough rhetoric against Tel Aviv. On February 17th, the group released a 2-minute video titled “Oh Zionists, You Have Military and Security Targets Within Your […]

A lawyer for former president Donald Trump said the current impeachment drive is a partisan effort that could backfire on Democrats if they lose leverage, suggesting ex-secretary of state Hillary Clinton could also be impeached. Responding to a question from Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) during Friday’s impeachment hearing, Trump attorney Michael van der Veen argued […]

If Biden really knew President Xi as well as he thought, then he wouldn’t have taken their countries’ “extreme competition” for granted. In fact, one doesn’t even have to know the Chinese leader personally to be aware that this is the wrong conclusion to make. If Biden really knew President Xi as well as he […]

Columnist Nathan J. Robinson has revealed that the Guardian fired him over a sarcastic tweet about US aid to Israel, even though he deleted it and agreed to never bring up the issue in hopes of keeping the job. “The moment I irritated defenders of Israel on social media, I was summarily fired from my […]

By Rod DREHER In Woke World, you can be cancelled not for what you said, but for what left-wing people think you said. It happened to Don McNeil, and now it has happened to Mandalorian actress Gina Carano. Excerpt: In the wake of Gina Carano’s controversial social media posts, Lucasfilm has released a statement Wednesday night, with a spokesperson saying “Gina […]

American social-networking company Twitter announced on Wednesday its financial results for the fiscal year 2020, saying it recorded a net loss of $1.136 billion against net income a year earlier. According to the company, “2020 net loss was $1.14 billion, representing a net margin of -31 percent and diluted EPS [earnings per share – Ed.] […]

“You Have 3 Choices” – How One Crypto Skeptic Sees The World Authored b Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “The value of assets may go down…” Botcoin, Tesla and Sentiment trading  There was a great chart doing the rounds on Linked-in yesterday – showing how Bitcoin and Tesla have moved in apparent lockstep since the market […]

Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is shrugging off her recent purge from House committees to co-sponsor bills that would punish illegal aliens for voting in US elections and make English the official language. Greene (R-Georgia) tweeted on Friday that she was excited to back the “Voter Integrity Protection Act,” a proposal by her colleague Andy […]

Twitter is under fire for seemingly opting to take no action when the Lincoln Project posted one of its ex-members’ direct messages without her consent. Critics saw it as a proof that “all’s fair when you hate Donald Trump.” Formed before last year’s election to oust Donald Trump from the White House and return the […]

Google Agrees To $76 Million Settlement With French Publishers  Google has reached a payout agreement with an association of French publishers after a years-long battle over how it reuses snippets of their content, according to new documents seen by Reuters.  The US tech company agreed to pay L’Alliance de la presse d’information generale (APIG) $76 […]

Global Depopulation – Two Paths, One Destination Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, Play along with me while we consider the ultimate barometers of economic wellbeing that are fertility rates and births across the developed world, China, and the RoW (rest of the world).  How fertility rates have freefallen to predominantly negative rates. How […]

French Leaders Warn That Social Justice Ideas Imported From US Are Undermining Their Society Authored by Stacey Lennox via PJMedia.com, When the French think you’ve gone too far with your wokeism, you might want to back up a bit. According to the New York Times, French politicians, high profile intellectuals, and journalists warn that ideas from the […]

The Japanese government has given a cabinet minister the task of addressing concerns about an increase in social isolation among the population, which has been linked to an uptick in suicides. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced on Friday that Tetsushi Sakamoto would oversee efforts to address the issue of loneliness and isolation. Sakamoto is already […]

Facebook has deleted the official account of actor Kevin Sorbo, marking the latest Big Tech takedown of a conservative. Sorbo, an avowed Donald Trump supporter, has been openly critical of Covid-19 restrictions. Sorbo, who starred in 1990s television series ‘Hercules: The Legendary Journeys’, said on Twitter Friday that Facebook shut down his account, which had […]

Why The UK Government Now Must, But Won’t, Abandon Lockdown Authored by David Campbell via The American Institute for Economic Research, Members of the Conservative Party have recently received an email from the Secretary of State for Health in which he proclaims himself ‘delighted’ that the Government has hit its target of ‘offering the Covid […]

While half of the population has remained largely unaffected, a significant part has been hit hard by the pandemic, with many people forced to resort to food banks, a survey by the UK’s financial regulator has revealed. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says over 40 percent of Britons are now struggling to make ends meet […]

“Feel Our Pain”, Politicians Insist Authored by Michael Tracey via Medium.com, Congress is increasingly not a place where the average member partakes in what’s generally understood as legislative activity, but rather engages in a variety of elaborate self-promotional exercises. The diminishment in the power of average House Members (as opposed to Party leaders who run their respective […]

Russia has placed a high-profile associate of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny on the interstate wanted list over his alleged role in organizing two weekends of unauthorized demonstrations in cities across the country. On Wednesday, a court in the Russian capital told reporters that Leonid Volkov, who formerly served as chief of staff to anti-corruption […]

France’s National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, oft-criticized for her party’s positions on migration and Islam, was put in the unusual position of all but defending the minority faith amid a debate with Macron’s interior minister. Gerald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior for the ruling Republique En Marche party, slammed Le Pen as having gone […]

Did The Democrats “Tank” The Second Trump Trial? Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in USA Today on the lack of a strategy by the House to secure conviction in the trial of former President Donald Trump. As I have previously noted, the House managers did an excellent job in their presentations and […]

WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden has promised that he would elevate diplomacy and seek a more coordinated approach with U.S. allies to address trade challenges posed by China. His strategy to unite friendly nations to pressure Beijing, however, faces a rift as partners like Germany and France have already signaled that they are not on the same […]

China continued to attract more foreign capital in the first month of this year, after a record 2020, when it overtook the US as a major destination for foreign direct investment (FDI). Foreign capital inflows into the Chinese mainland reached 91.61 billion yuan ($14 billion) in January, marking a 4.6 percent increase year on year, […]

The United States has sold more than a million barrels of Iranian fuel seized under its sanctions program last year, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing the US Department of Justice. The seizures were part of Washington’s economic sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program, and the US’ designation of a number of Iranian groups as […]

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has denied media reports that Russia will imminently sever diplomatic ties with Brussels, saying his government would consider extreme measures only in response to hostile actions. On Friday, Dmitry Peskov told reporters that comments by Foreign Secretary Sergey Lavrov had been taken out of context by Russian-language media. In a preview […]

In a move that can further harm Russia-EU bilateral ties, some European officials are threatening Russia with new punitive measures over jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny. RT Deutsch spoke to German entrepreneur and CEO of cold store construction company Plattenhardt + Wirth, Ingolf Mayer, to discuss the possible impact of new sanctions, should these be […]

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Just one day after a coalition of prominent civil rights groups made headlines with a letter urging the Biden administration to drop efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on espionage charges, the Biden administration has announced its intention to continue those efforts. “Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi on Tuesday said the […]

One of Belarus’ most prominent opposition figures, Maria Kolesnikova, is facing criminal charges for her alleged role in organizing long-running demonstrations against the country’s embattled leader, Alexander Lukashenko. That’s according to the headquarters of jailed former presidential hopeful Viktor Babariko, where Kolesnikova previously worked as a political adviser. On Friday, her supporters issued a statement […]

On Friday, Alexey Navalny is back in court, this time accused of defaming an elderly military veteran. You might say Russia is overly sensitive about such issues, but a similar case in Britain shows it’s hardly an outlier. Back in my youth, soldiers tended to be neither seen nor heard, and, apart from on Remembrance […]

The European Union has been influenced to take a Russophobic position by an aggressive minority, including the Baltic States and other Eastern European countries, according to Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. Speaking to journalist Vladimir Solovyov, Lavrov said the European Union’s stance towards Moscow started to become more negative in 2004, when the […]

Merkel Offered Trump $1BN For US To Drop Sanctions Against Russia-Germany Pipeline Fresh Nord Stream 2 pipeline controversy has erupted in Germany as Angela Merkel’s government stands accused of attempting to arrange a quid pro quo with top American officials to get them to call off the sanctions regimen that’s aimed at thwarting construction and completion of the project.  Berlin […]

Researchers at Sweden’s Uppsala University aim to embark on the world’s first comparative study evaluating the parade of Covid-19 jabs coming to market. They promise it will be voluntary and won’t disrupt the vaccination program. The scientists are waiting for authorization to launch a study comparing every Covid-19 vaccine that has been given the green […]

Conservative watchdog group Project Veritas has been banned from Twitter, hours after one of its tweets was blacklisted. The suspension came after Project Veritas revealed some of Facebook’s censorship mechanisms. Twitter suspended Project Veritas on Thursday evening, hours after it locked the conservative organization’s account and the account of its founder, James O’Keefe. Screenshots posted […]

This seemingly endless COVID pandemic is causing immense stress for millions of ordinary Americans.  In past articles, I have discussed the fact that surveys have shown that Americans are drinking more alcohol and taking more drugs during this pandemic.  Even more alarming, we have seen suicide rates spike over the past 12 months as well.  […]

Twitter Mocked For Refusing Indian Government’s Orders To Suspend Accounts Due To “Free Expression” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Twitter faced ridicule after it resisted demands by the Indian government to suspend accounts for spreading “misinformation,” claiming that it cherished “free expression,” despite having removed multiple prominent accounts in the U.S. for […]

Retired Navy officer Kenneth Caldwell, who’s accused of leading Oath Keepers militia members in last month’s US Capitol riot, formerly held a top-secret security clearance as an FBI section chief and consultant, his lawyer said. “He has been vetted and found numerous times as a person worthy of trust and confidence of the United States […]

Millennials Are “Mad As Hell” Authored by David Robertson via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Occupy Wall Street movement that emerged in the financial crisis of 2008 was interesting because a general sense of discontent seemed to merge. Also interesting was the lack of consensus as to the causes of dissatisfaction. More recently, the trading mania surrounding Robinhood […]

“It Would Be A Great Honor To Speak To You”: Musk Seeks To Speak To Putin In the latest surprising development from the world’s richest man, moments ago Elon Musk tweeted the official English twitter account of the Kremlin, i.e., Vladimir Putin, saying “would you like join me for a conversation” on the popular (and […]

Our Descent Into Collective Madness 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 […]

WhatsApp has confirmed users won’t be able to read or send messages unless they agree to the rules on sharing personal data with Facebook. The new T&C have sparked backlash and led to a surge in popularity of rival apps. On Sunday, the company shared the details of how the new terms of service will […]

Democrats Caught Using Fake ‘Evidence’ At Impeachment Trial Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Democrats were caught Wednesday using fake evidence during their impeachment clown show, and were forced to withdraw it, proving that they don’t care about the truth, and only about trying to punish President Trump. Impeachment managers led by Rep. Raskin […]

The world’s largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin, crossed $900 billion in market valuation on Friday for the first time in history, as the digital asset’s price hit new record highs. One of the oldest bitcoin exchanges still in operation, Bitstamp, recorded a peak price for the crypto of $49,000, resulting in a fleeting market cap of $912.69 […]

Regulators, Feds Start ‘Market Manipulation’ Probes Into Reddit Raiders, Robinhood The regulators are coming, the regulators are coming… In what appears like a full court press from every division of every agency in an effort to show they’re “doing something”, The Wall Street Journal reports that a slew of regulators and prosecutors have launched probes […]

Facebook has taken down the Instagram page of former president John F. Kennedy’s nephew – a prominent vaccine critic with 800,000 subscribers. The tech giant has recently stepped up its offensive on what it deems Covid-19 disinfo. Kennedy’s Instagram account with its massive following was erased on Wednesday. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had his #Instagram […]

Who Wanted Pandemic Lockdowns? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research, People of the future will look back at these 11 months and be very confused. How could virtually the entire world have thrown out settled practices of civil, economic, and cultural liberties for a virus that resisted every attempt to […]

Facebook Hires Former NATO Press Officer As Its ‘Intelligence Chief’ Authored by Alan Macleod via MintPressNews.com, Ben Nimmo, a former NATO press officer and current senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has announced Facebook has hired him to “lead global threat intelligence strategy against influence operations” and “emerging threats.” Nimmo specifically named Russia, Iran and China as potential dangers to the […]

Watch: Graham Asks “What Did Pelosi Know” About Capitol Riot? Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Senator Lindsey Graham suggested Wednesday that Nancy Pelosi knew about the pre-planned riot at the Capitol in January. In an appearance on Hannity, Graham said “Here’s what I want to know: What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did […]

A Third Of All US Homeowners Own Property Worth Double The Underlying Mortgage In the midst of a virus pandemic, with millions of Americans out of work facing housing and food insecurities, the Federal Reserve has managed to keep interest rates near zero, unleashing a real estate boom, the likes of which hasn’t been seen […]

The West’s mistake with Russia was expecting it to Westernize without any prospect of integration into Western institutions. NATO and the EU wanted a say in Moscow’s affairs while denying it a voice in broader European issues. This was both wrong and unsustainable and now has brought us to a situation where, after 300 years, […]

In 2020, marriage rates were the single sharpest dividing line between areas that voted for Trump and those that went to Biden. By Peyton ROTH, W. Bradford WILCOX The chaos and controversy surrounding the 2020 presidential election—plus election takes that stress the role of race, gender, and education in solidifying President Biden’s victory—obscure a deeper […]

Moscow’s diplomats in Washington have reacted furiously to the latest in a series of military drills carried out by American sailors off Russia’s southern coast, which is almost 9,000km away from the US mainland. On Wednesday, the US Navy announced that it had conducted maneuvers in the Black Sea, joining Turkish vessels “in an integrated […]

Russia’s navy ships have arrived in Pakistan to take part in the multinational exercise AMAN-2021. The drills are expected to see China and several NATO nations in attendance. Russian vessels arrived in Karachi on Thursday. They were greeted by Pakistan’s military officials, as well as the Russian diplomats working there, and they took a brief […]

Two US carrier strike groups have conducted joint exercises in the South China Sea. This new muscle-flexing comes days after the US buzzed China-controlled islets in the disputed waters, prompting anger from Beijing. The two groups, led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Nimitz aircraft carriers, trained in the South China Sea on Tuesday, […]

UK Economy Crashed 9.9% In 2020, Biggest Drop In 311 Years Britain’s crippled economy suffered its biggest crash in economic output in 311 years after it slumped by 9.9%. Last year’s fall in output was the biggest since modern official records began after World War Two. Longer-running historical data hosted by the Bank of England […]

Hand-wringing over Alexey Navalny is but an excuse to target Russia and the EU should not lecture anyone about human rights when it turns its back on Julian Assange and other cases closer to home, Irish MEP Clare Daly told RT. “We have this narrative of supposedly European values, whatever they are, that we’re supposed […]

Biden Cancels Emergency Border Wall Funding As DHS Prepares To Admit 25,000 Migrants Waiting In Mexico The Biden administration on Thursday canceled President Trump’s 2019 emergency declaration directing nearly $25 billion to fund the construction of new and replacement fending at the US-Mexico border. “I have determined that the declaration of a national emergency at […]

The Foundation For Potential Price Hyperinflation Is Being Laid Via Birch Gold Group, The Federal Reserve sure seems to have a tough time finding and reporting signs of rising inflation – especially when it’s hidden in other sectors like a lack of demand for energy. A recent example of the Fed’s “inflation blindness” comes from a speech […]

Speculative Mania Continues As Rationality “Goes Up In Smoke” Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Last week, we discussed how the market successfully retested and held the 50-dma and rallied enough to turn money flows back positive. We addressed this point on Thursday in our daily “3-Minutes” video (subscribe for daily updates), As previously noted: “While the money […]

Michael Burry Warns Weimar Hyperinflation Is Coming One week ago, Bank of America hinted at the unthinkable: the tsunami of monetary and fiscal stimulus, coupled with the upcoming surge in monetary velocity as the world’s economy emerges from lockdowns, would lead to unprecedented economic overheating… or rather precedented as BofA’s CIO Michael Hartnett reflected back […]

Six thyroid cancer patients are seeking compensation from the Fukushima nuclear plant operator over the 2011 nuclear disaster, the worst nuclear disaster, much larger than the 1986 Chernobyl incident, with 3,000 thousand times higher radiation leak than Chernobyl. Six plaintiffs, who were children at the time of the 2011 disaster, are seeking nearly five million […]

While US President Joe Biden vowed to fire anyone for disrespectful behavior, deputy White House spokesman TJ Ducklo has merely been suspended without pay and made to apologize to a reporter he had threatened. Ducklo’s suspension was announced on Friday by White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who said he apologized and sent a personal […]

Brits may have wondered if they woke up in the right century after seeing ex-prime minister Tony Blair giving his policy prescription for the Covid-19 pandemic – and being cited as an authority on the topic by major media outlets. The former Labour Party leader on Friday published his own “roadmap” out of the UK’s […]

Fossil Fuels Aren’t Going Anywhere Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, “There is no scenario where hydrocarbons disappear,” the chief executive of Baker Hughes, Lorenzo Simonelli, said during his keynote speech at this year’s annual meeting in the company. Like other executives from the industry, Simonelli acknowledged and welcomed the energy transition, but he noted that […]

China’s Finance Ministry Demands Answers From Deloitte After Whistleblower Alleges Audit Violations On NY-Listed Companies China’s Ministry of Finance has officially asked Deloitte to conduct an internal investigation after a Beijing employee anonymously went whistleblower and alleged auditing violations, according to China Daily. An employee sent out a 55 page PowerPoint deck to every employee’s […]

A poll conducted after two successive weeks of protests in support of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny has revealed that just 22 percent of Russians were in favor of the rallies, with even fewer willing to join in. In recent weeks, three unauthorized demonstrations have been organized by allies of the activist, who is currently […]

German State Forbids Drivers From Wearing Masks, Sunglasses & Hats At Same Time Germany’s Bild newspaper reports that Saxony, a region in Eastern Germany, has became the first region in the country to ban drivers from wearing hats and sunglasses while also being masked. Anybody driving in a car must be identifiable by traffic cameras, […]

Great Reset? Putin Says, “Not So Fast” Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, Did you happen to catch the most important political speech of the last six years? It would have been easy to miss given everything going on.  In fact, I almost did, and this speech sits at the intersection […]

Cambridge University Panel: Winston Churchill A “White Supremacist” Leading Empire “Worse Than The Nazis” Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, A Cambridge University panel of academics discussing wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s legacy concluded that the leader who helped defeat Hitler was actually a “white supremacist” and was leading an empire “worse than the […]

JPMorgan Predicts That The Biggest Short Squeeze Yet Begins Next Month While markets, regulators and even Maxine Waters have been obsessing over the various rolling short squeezes orchestrated by Reddit and Robinhood raiders (with or without the help of hedge funds who ended up being the biggest beneficiaries of the Gamestop surge) which first targeted […]

With artificial intelligence (AI) steadily progressing, concerns have been growing about how much innovation is too much. Cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright offers his forecast for the industry. The quest for AI is right now “one of the biggest battles” between countries around the world, he tells Boom Bust, adding that we are dealing with two […]

Protesters have clashed with French police outside of Total’s head office in La Defense, Paris as striking employees and climate activists accuse the oil giant of jettisoning jobs while failing to protect the environment. Employees of the Grandpuits refinery, who have been striking for five weeks following the announcement that the plant would be converted […]

Facebook has patted itself on the back for nuking almost all “hate speech” that supposedly violated its rules. But not only was most content deleted before anyone could flag it, users weren’t even allowed to appeal most deletions. Unveiling its Community Standards Enforcement Report for the fourth quarter of 2020 on Thursday, Facebook bragged that […]

Russian scientists have registered the first testing system to detect the ‘British’ strain of Covid-19. The news comes from the country’s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, whose epidemiology research institute developed the kit. The strain was announced by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in late December and has now been detected in many other countries, including Russia. […]

We Must Have MOAR: Almost Everyone In Washington Seems To Agree That More Free Money Will Fix The Economy Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, There seems to be a growing consensus in Washington that the only way to fix the worst economic downturn in more than 70 years is by giving out much […]

Facebook has decided to block news sharing on its Australian platform, because of a new law there that would require the Big Tech behemoth to compensate publishers for their work. A report on the dispute at TechCrunch explained that the move by Facebook was an “antisocial” campaign move that would silence “a swathe of non-news […]

New research from India suggests that a deficiency of the protein Alpha-anti-trypsin (AAT) in populations across Europe and North America may have contributed to the comparatively rapid spread of Covid-19 when compared with Asia. Published in the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution, the new study examines the role played by a lung-protecting protein in the […]

IMF Wants To Use “Digital Footprint Of Customers’ Online Activities” To Assess Creditworthiness Authored by Robert Wheeler via The Organic Prepper blog, For years, researchers have warned of a system in which the government controls every aspect of its citizens’ lives. Every citizen would have to rely entirely on the government to survive in this […]

Biden Mulls Domestic Travel Restrictions Despite Improving COVID Backdrop Despite headlines discussing COVID ‘plateaus‘ and ‘dramatic declines‘ in the United States, the Biden administration is mulling whether to impose domestic travel restrictions over concerns that “coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic,” according to the Miami Herald. Outbreaks of the new […]

Authored by Joshua Hochschild via AmericanMind.org, Let’s say you’ve long been disaffected with political parties. You don’t trust them. You care about politics, but you don’t see much promise in the standard candidates. Let’s even say you have suspicions the two parties are more interested in their own power than in helping the country. Occasionally […]

“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 nor standing. His father, unknown. His mother, dead in childbirth. His upbringing, that […]

Back in the 1990s, when modern Russia emerged from the ashes of the Soviet Union, the West was the best. It offered the only realistic role model. Times have changed, but the penny hasn’t dropped yet in Brussels or Washington. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. A good illustration is how Russia has responded to […]

Anti-lockdown protestors gathered outside the Australian Open in Melbourne Park ahead of the beginning of so-called ‘circuit-breaker restrictions’ being implemented to help mitigate the spread of Covid-19. Victoria premier Daniel Andrews announced plans for the five-day lockdown which is set to begin at 11.59pm local time and run until the same time on Wednesday, amid what […]

Our Children Have a Right to a Decent Future By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel, February 08 2021 What the rebellious generation of 68 reproached their fathers for, that they had willingly submitted to a dictator and a tyranny, is happening … The post Selected Articles: Our Children Have a Right to a Decent Future appeared first on […]

Rabo: We Have All The Bizarre, Surreal, Incomprehensible Absurdity Of Kafka By Michael Every of Rabobank The Try-All Reality has more than a little of Kafka about it at the moment in many regards, except in one key respect: the achievements. When you read Kafka, nobody ever achieves anything. In ‘The Castle’, for example, the […]

MasterCard Joins Visa, PayPal On The Crypto Payments Bandwagon Less than two weeks after Visa CEO Al Kelly said the payments giant is in a position to make cryptocurrencies more “safe, useful and applicable” and may add them to the company’s payments network; MasterCard has tonight laid out in great detail why it also plans […]

A member of the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has claimed that lockdowns could be a part of people’s lives for “several years” as variants of Covid-19 mutate. Professor Sir Ian Boyd, who teaches at the University of St Andrews’ School of Biology, warned this week against the frequent lifting of lockdowns […]

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The GameStop Saga Unravels ‘Stakeholder Theory’ Authored by Jeff Deist via The Mises Institute, The GameStop saga shows some “equity” movements are more equal than others… Stakeholder theory, the corporate version of social justice, attempts to install this hopelessly amorphous concept of “equity” in the business world. Equity, unlike equality, demands different treatment of individuals […]

The Inflation Tax Is Lowering Our Standard Of Living Via SchiffGold.com, In a podcast, Peter Schiff said it smells like stagflation is on the horizon. Inflationary pressures are becoming more and more apparent. Labor costs, commodity prices and bond yields are all pushing upward – clear signs of inflationary pressure. And of course, defined correctly – as an increase […]

Google Reverses Course In Australia – Opens Paid Platform For (Some) Australian News The Australian government has possibly obtained a rare, partial victory in its standoff with Google. The US-based tech giant has appeared to reverse course as Australia holds hearings aimed at enacting legislation that would effectively force Google to pay local sources for news it […]

Rabobank: The Everything Bubble Has Become More Everything And More Bubble By Michael Every of Rabobank Oh-No-Bi-Wan Kenobi For those who haven’t seen it –and I accept there are now probably many readers who haven’t– there is a classic scene in the first Star Wars film (Episode IV) in which Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi tells […]

Iran’s foreign minister has warned that Tehran is willing to take further action and reduce cooperation with International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors if the US and European powers fail to comply with the nuclear pact. “With the new government in Washington, there is an opportunity to try a new approach, but the current window is […]