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On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Thirteen years have passed. What sorts of payments are being conducted using Nakamoto’s cash system? Has bitcoin met Nakamoto’s expectations? Let’s be clear. In the white paper, Nakamoto plainly meant bitcoin to be used for online payments, not […]
Southwest Airlines has had another terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day – as a shortage of workers combined with an air traffic control interruption to bring the total number of canceled flights to nearly 3,100 in four days. “Crews were struggling to move and you end up in short order with aircraft and crews […]
Poland’s justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro has declared that the country won’t accept “unlawful penalties” over changes to its judicial system, rejecting a punishment handed down by the EU’s top court. The comments were made at a press conference on Thursday, after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) earlier ruled that Poland must pay €1 million […]
By Harry Wilmerding – High inflation will last well into 2022, economists say, indicating that supply chain bottlenecks will keep increasing prices and curbing production. Experts expect to see average inflation of 5.25% in December, slightly down from the current maximum predicted 5.4% figure, according to The Wall Street Journal. If inflation stays around its […]
The U.S. has seen three Republican and three Democratic administrations since the 1980s, but no matter who is in the White House, U.S. debt has been rising steadily throughout the years, also expanding the debt ceiling in the process. You will find more infographics at Statista Currently, Congress is once more called upon to raise the […]
Simon Black via SovereignMan.com. In the early summer of 1798, an Irish stone mason named Philip Cunningham reached his breaking point. Cunningham was sick and tired of English rule in Ireland. And along with 50,000 of his fellow Irishmen, Cunningham picked up a weapon and started in uprising against Great Britain. Their rebellion was a […]
No one group has done more to damage our global agriculture and food quality than the Rockefeller Foundation. They began in the early 1950s after the War to fund two Harvard Business School professors to develop vertical integration which they named “Agribusiness.” The farmer became the least important. They then created the fraudulent Green Revolution […]
Mali has summoned its French ambassador following “unfriendly and derogatory” remarks by the French president, who argued that Bamako lacks legitimacy to criticize the withdrawal of the French troops from the country. A diplomatic row raging between France and Mali deepened further on Tuesday after the Malian Foreign Ministry summoned the French envoy to express […]
The IMF has already been exploited by the US for Hybrid War ends related to the economic dimension of this unconventional campaign against Ethiopia. The American Hybrid War on Ethiopia is multifaceted, but one its most crucial components is the economic dimension. The end game is to use economic means to advance political ends, in particular the Bosnian […]
Last year, the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok was the world’s most downloaded phone application. Now, Russia’s Gazprom-Media wants a taste of the success, and is planning to launch its own domestic analogue later this year. Called ‘Yappy’, the social network has been described by its creators are an app where users can create vertical videos […]
Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com. The energy crisis in Europe exposed the complexity of a transition to green energy: it is not happening overnight, and it cannot be done successfully with the old tricks. Energy systems, markets, and grids globally need fundamental changes to legislation, regulation, and oversight in order to accommodate 100-percent zero-emission sources. And […]
As the US inches closer to a potential debt default, top officials are warning of the resulting fallout. Former Congressman Dr. Ron Paul joins the program to discuss the looming crisis and the state of inflation. For more stories on economy & finance visit RT’s business section As the US inches closer to a […]
By Pat Buchanan. For centuries up to and including the 20th, Europe seemed the central pivot of world history. Then came the Great Civil War of the West, our Thirty Years’ War (1914-1945), where all of the great European powers — Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia — along with almost all of the rest, fought […]
Chief negotiators for Serbia and Kosovo have formally reached agreement to conclude the latest round of escalation. “We have a deal,” tweeted EU special representative Miroslav Lajcak after two days of “intense negotiations.” The recent disagreement had seen Kosovo order its police to force any cars attempting to cross the border to remove Serbian license […]
European gas prices have smashed yet another record, adjusting to almost $115 per megawatt-hour in household terms, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) data showed. At the opening of trading on Friday, November futures on the TTF hub in the Netherlands reached $1199.44 per 1,000 cubic meters for the first time in history, after breaching the $1,000 threshold […]
US economy ground to a halt in third quarter. US looks dead in the water, inflation devouring demand stimulus the government poured into post-Covid economy, by David P. Goldman October 28, 2021 Washington’s stimulus policies unwittingly sleepwalked America into a stagflation nightmare. Image: Facebook Net of inventory accumulation, real GDP for the third quarter was slightly […]
Jacopo Brogi. We meet the scholar Alessandro Fanetti, author of the book “Russia: in search of the lost power” (Edizioni Eiffel, 2021) [1], to face the reality of a country that seems far away, but which is very close, however kept at a distance from the West while never moving it away from the viewfinder. […]
By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Chaos Theory is often associated with a quotation, something along the lines of “a butterfly flapping its wings in Tokyo leads to a storm in Manhattan”. I’ve always taken that to mean that if we had sophisticated enough models and data collection, we could determine that a butterfly flapping […]
In the space of nearly 500 years, Russia and Turkey have fought no fewer than 12 wars against each other. Now, even without the tsars or Ottomans, the two old rivals are standing on competing sides once again – this time in Syria. However, while backing competing factions in bloody fighting across the Middle Eastern […]
The US is playing a dangerous game of putting a public face on a policy of defending Taiwan from China, for which it has zero capability to implement. Following a recent escalation of tensions between Beijing and Taipei, Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to pursue “reunification” with Taiwan by peaceful means and warned foreign nations […]
Via Mediaite: A new poll from the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia reveals that 52% of Trump voters and 41% of Biden voters ‘at least somewhat agree’ that red and blue states should secede from the union, splitting the country. The idea that the nation’s political divide has become so toxic that we should […]
The AUKUS submarine deal that deprived France of a hefty contract with Canberra has led to a “big loss of confidence” in the Biden administration, a former foreign policy advisor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. The agreement between Washington, London and Canberra to provide Australia with nuclear-powered, yet conventionally armed submarines, which was […]
Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts I have had confirmation of my report last Saturday that Norway has terminated all Covid restrictions ( https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/09/25/norway-has-the-opposite-covid-policy-to-the-us-uk-and-eu/ ). I am uncertain whether it is an immediate termination or the beginning of a phase out. Norway’s equivalent to the CDC has downgraded Covid-19 to a strong flu. There will […]
Unlike the relationship between China and North Korea, which demonstrates a long-standing traditional friendship, the situation with South Korea is more complicated. On the one hand, high-ranking officials of China openly criticize the policy of the ROK, thereby Seoul periodically starts to claim Beijing’s interference in the internal affairs of the country. Thus, on June […]
Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo has responded to a recent Yahoo News investigation detailing Trump Administration plans to kidnap or kill Wikileaks founder Julian Assange that he makes “no apologies” for whatever measure his agency planned to take to safeguard “sensitive information” – covered in the latest Ron Paul Liberty Report. Pompeo […]
European gas prices broke new record highs on Wednesday, rising sharply to above $1,900 per 1,000 cubic meters. That is equivalent to $186 per megawatt-hour in household terms. According to data from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the price of November futures on the TTF hub in the Netherlands rose to $1,936 per 1,000 cubic meters, […]
The U.S. seems to be on the verge of despairing that Iran will return to the Vienna nuclear talks Israel thought it could intimidate Iran with its hollow military threats and by convincing the U.S. to walk out of the 2015 nuclear deal, notes the editor-in-chief of an online pan-Arab daily. Instead, it walked right […]
Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities. With Thursday’s passage of a continuing resolution that funds government operations until December 3rd, Congress dodged one fiscal cliff, but a bigger one looms ahead. The federal government has maxed out its credit, and if Congress doesn’t raise the statutory debt ceiling by October 18, the Treasury won’t be able to […]
Russia has been gradually increasing gas deliveries to Europe over the past nine months, boosting exports by 15% compared to last year and edging toward record gas deliveries via all routes, including Ukraine, Gazprom Export says. According to company CEO Elena Burmistrova, from January to September this year Russia’s state energy giant Gazprom boosted gas […]
Alexander Dugin The wedding in St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg of Grand Duke Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov shook our society. For a long time, I have not seen so much poison and rudeness against the descendant of the glorious family of Russian tsars. The impression is that the rage of the envious proletarian masses has […]
By Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog. It’s Time For All Good Men to Stop Fearing John Galt “Who is John Galt?” AYN RAND – ATLAS SHRUGGED There comes a point in every person’s life when they have to reckon with the person in the mirror. Who am I? What do I want? […]
Trade negotiations between the European Union and Australia have been postponed in the wake of Canberra’s decision to ditch a multi-billion-euro deal for nuclear-powered subs it had with France in favor of one with the US and UK. On Friday, Australia’s Trade Minister Dan Tehan revealed that trade talks with the bloc had been put […]
By Brandon Smith. The past 18 months have not been kind to small businesses. If you were unfortunate enough to live in a blue state during the onset of the covid lockdowns and you own a brick-and-mortar business then you have probably spent a large part of that 18 months closed, or struggling to stay open […]
By Aden Tate via The Organic Prepper blog, What do you suppose would happen if the President of the United States deemed it necessary, for “national security,” to flip the Internet Kill Switch? In these digital times, there should be great concern over something like this. However, normalcy bias seems to have a firm hold on a majority of […]
The US and its allies continue beating the drums of war in regards to China, but how serious is this? Will it really lead to war, or is it merely posturing meant to give the US the most favorable position on the other side of a fully ascendant China? A critical inflection point identified by […]
CDC Director Says Vaccines ‘Can’t Prevent Transmission’; Fauci Says ‘Too Early To Tell’ On Holiday Gatherings CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said last week that Covid vaccines ‘can’t prevent transmission‘ anymore despite working “exceptionally well.” “Our vaccines are working exceptionally well. They continue to work well for Delta with regard to severe illness and death – […]
The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West. The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend. Like 1.3 billion of […]
Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com. Cryptos are the antidote to repressive Central Bank Digital Currencies Yesterday I wrote up why I don’t think any kind of China-style ban on Bitcoin and cryptos would be tenable in (so-called) liberal democracies here in the West. It referenced an earlier piece that described the threefold governance structure I see competing for relevance […]
The mysterious Havana Syndrome “sonic attacks” have been back in the media of late, especially after Vice President Kamala Harris’ August tour of Southeast Asian countries was briefly disrupted over claims of a Havana Syndrome attack on US Embassy personnel in Vietnam. And most recently this week it was revealed that last month a CIA […]
Former US president Barack Obama once said Russia was a mere “regional power.” Shortly afterwards, Moscow answered his charge by helping to defeat American regime-change efforts in Syria, located in a rather different region. Moscow’s power, often denigrated and exaggerated at the same time in the characteristically contradictory style of its Western opponents, is not […]
We are witnessing an aggressive build-up by the US and its allies for a confrontation with China. The Biden administration is making massive upgrades to the US’s military capacity, and sharply reorienting it to focus on China. At the same time, the US is waging a propaganda war against China and attempting to rally its […]
What the U.S. perpetrated in Argentina is in some ways a continuation of what U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger instigated in Chile. Last month, the Argentinian Memory Museum (ESMA) in Buenos Aires was nominated for inclusion in the list of World Heritage Sites, to be approved by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural […]
Afghanistan’s US-run government was the world’s largest producer and exporter of opium, morphine, and the end-product, heroin. As it did after first seizing power in the mid-1990’s, Taliban, the Islamic anti-drug and anti-communist movement, is shutting down the Afghan drug trade. Billions worth of heroin, opium and morphine that had been flowing into Central Asia, […]
A 2,500-page report conducted by an independent inquiry into allegations of abuse and subsequent cover-ups within France’s Catholic Church has declared that a “veil of silence” allowed clergy to assault victims for decades. Jean-Marc Sauve, the president of the commission that examined the allegations, found the French Catholic Church had shown “a profound and even […]
By Peter Van BUREN. Wait, stop. I know it’s almost October, but I’m not done with 9/11. I know we just had the 20th anniversary, promised for a day to never forget whatever, and then an old-looking Bruce Springsteen rose to sing about everyone dying around him (read the room, Bruce.) Missing was a hard […]
Most of what consumes human attention is narrative; stories about what’s happening, which can be easily manipulated by the powerful. Things that are not narrative include weapons, troops, and resources. You can punch through the narrative distortion by just watching where the weapons, troops and resources go. ❖ If you believe the mainstream narrative about any US-targeted […]
Iran conducted military exercises near its border with Azerbaijan on October 1. The tensions between the two neighbors were caused by Israel and Turkey, who are allies of Azerbaijan and play divisive roles. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev commented he was surprised by Iran’s military drills; however, his country hosted joint military drills with Turkey and Pakistan beginning […]
The former ambassador of Canada in Belgrade, James Bissett, spoke sharply about the NATO aggression on the then FR Yugoslavia in 1999 and most directly accused the then world leadership. The Canadian diplomat stated that the bombing of Serbia in 1999 was a historic mistake. It was planned before the bombing. The Americans planned everything months in […]
The banquet of consequences is being served, and risk-off crashes are, like revenge, best served cold. The ideal setup for a crash is a consensus that a crash is impossible–in other words, just like the present: sure, there are carefully measured murmurings about a “correction” but nobody with anything to lose in the way of […]
Via Children’s Health Defense Big Tech and Big Pharma give campaign money to politicians who in turn receive non-public information about the corporations which they use to enrich their personal stock portfolios. The lawmakers then have influence over legislation that affects the companies in which they’re personally invested. Story at-a-glance: Speaker of the House Nancy […]
Ukraine does not yet meet the standards that would allow it to be accepted into the US-led NATO military bloc, the Hungarian foreign minister has claimed, specifically pointing to issues regarding minority rights in the country. Speaking to Russian news agency TASS, Péter Szijjártó accused Kiev of violating the rights of the Hungarian minority in […]
Gary Leupp via Counterpunch.org. Biden has infuriated France by arranging the agreement to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia. This replaces a contract to purchase a fleet of diesel-powered subs from France. Australia will have to pay penalties for breach of contract but the French capitalists will lose around 70 billion dollars. The perceived perfidy of […]
The French ambassador to Belarus has left Minsk after being ordered out of the country, AFP reported on Sunday. No explanation about the reported expulsion has been immediately available. AFP’s Sunday evening report said that Ambassador Nicolas de Bouillane de Lacoste has already departed from Minsk, and that the Belarusian authorities had set an October […]
This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead at The Rutherford Institute. “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so […]
Via Children’s Health Defense The Physicians Declaration, created by physicians and scientists during the Rome COVID Summit, accused policymakers of forcing a “one-size-fits-all” treatment strategy, resulting in “needless illness and death.” An international group of physicians and scientists signed a declaration Friday accusing COVID-19 policy-makers of “crimes against humanity” for preventing the use of life […]
Subways were packed, airlines saw a spike in reservations, and bars in Tokyo resumed selling alcohol on Friday as Japan ended its state of emergency, leaving the country without any restrictions for the first time since April. The decision to lift Covid-19 curbs was made by the government of outgoing Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga earlier […]
Mr Tim Kirby has written an excellent essay that is rather like a skeleton key for unlocking the mystery behind the moral collapse of the West. He says, in part, ‘Complaining about the “degradation” of society gets louder with each year as the average Western man becomes more depressed, sexless, drug addicted, emasculated, jobless, debt ridden and […]
A new bill to be put before Russia’s parliament could reportedly enable the government to regulate and restrict algorithms that recommend content and accounts which Moscow officials say promote social discord or break local laws. On Friday, sources within the State Duma told Moscow daily, Kommersant, that a new bill to be introduced later this […]
Via Wealthion.com. They say that history rhymes. That civilizations and societies tend to follow cycles — boom/bust, feast/famine, war/peace, cultural experimentation/a retrenchment to the “old ways”. Famed demographer Neil Howe, the author of the best-selling book The Fourth Turning, lays out his prediction that today’s society has entered the “bust” part of our current cycle — where […]
Kristoffer Mousten Hansen via The Mises Institute. Having marked the quinquagenary of the destruction of the gold standard Sunday, August 15, it is natural to be a little nostalgic for the Bretton Woods system. After all, it might not have been the classical gold standard, but at least it wasn’t as bad as the fiat […]
On this Saturday 9 October, so recently passed, Rome saw a great demonstration against the Green Pass. One hundred thousand Italians gathered in the capital to protest peacefully and demonstrate to the government that not everyone agrees with its discriminatory policy based on the green card, the Nazi laissez-passer necessary to go to work if you are […]
By Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US position on Syria is to “oppose” the country’s reconstruction and not support any attempts at normalization with the government of Bashar al-Assad. At a joint press conference with his Israeli and UAE counterparts, Blinken said the US has not “changed our position to oppose the […]
YouTube’s censorship of two German-language RT channels is part of ongoing ‘aggression’ against the outlet with both tacit and overt approval of Berlin, and will be met with adequate reprisals, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The Google-owned video platform deleted RT DE and Der Fehlende Part (DFP) channels on Tuesday, saying they attempted to circumvent […]
Amid ongoing attacks on Nord Stream 2 and the advancement of the green agenda, gas prices in Europe continue to break records. Now the cost of a thousand cubic meters of natural gas is already $ 1500. This means that it has risen in price by 5 times over the past two years. Analysts predict: […]
Germany’s national police union has said that security arrangements on the border with Poland risk being overwhelmed by a sharp rise in the number of asylum seekers making the journey to Western Europe, starting from Belarus. Heiko Teggatz, the head of the body that represents Berlin’s law enforcement officers, said that authorities would have to […]
By Jim Bovard via The Libertarian Institute. The Biden administration is embracing the same flawed “fair trade” mantra that previous administrations used to sanctify protectionist policies. Biden’s team has “largely dispensed with the idea of free trade as a goal in and of itself,” the New York Times reported. US Trade Representative Katherine Tai recently touted the Biden administration’s plans to “shape the […]
The oligarchic empire is working harder and harder to bolt down our minds in service of its agendas. Silicon Valley is working more and more openly in conjunction with the US government, and its algorithms elevate empire-authorized narratives while hiding unapproved ones with increasing brazenness. The mass media have become so blatantly propagandistic that US intelligence operatives are now openly employed by news outlets they […]
Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Norway’s prime minister, Erna Solberg, stated that the country will reopen the country on Saturday, ending Covid restrictions on businesses and social interactions. The decision to remove the strict Covid measures comes 561 days after they were first introduced to reduce the spread of the virus, with Norwegian […]
The Federal Reserve held its September Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting last week. While there was a lot of talk about the central bank tapering its quantitative easing program, the Fed didn’t announce any concrete plans to slow asset purchases. The lack of concrete action was no surprise to Peter Schiff. After the Fed meeting, Peter appeared […]
Nobody knows more about the future bullish and bearish developments of a business than its top executives. Insiders are senior executives, board members, or shareholders who hold 10% or more of a company, usually, come out on top when buying and selling stock. There are now tracking services offered to institutional and retail investors that […]
By Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times. The Texas Secretary of State’s office is carrying out a forensic audit of 2020 election results in four large counties, including Dallas and Harris counties. The office announced the audit last week but declined to provide more details. Phase one of the review is already underway, the office says. This phase […]
Via Gen Z Conservative On Aug. 3, 2021, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced “The Key to NYC” mandate which, beginning Aug. 17, requires patrons of indoor dining, indoor fitness, and indoor entertainment and performances to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. This week one of the Black Lives Matters leaders, Hawk Newsome, organized protests against […]
During their respective addresses to the UN General Assembly meeting this week, Biden and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi both expressed a desire to continue talks focused on the restoration of the JCPOA nuclear agreement in Vienna. This even as Raisi blasted the “hegemonic United States” and its nation-building efforts abroad in places like Iraq and […]
In the mid-1980s, Soviet officials saw a need to open up their economy in hope of achieving Western-style innovation and productivity. That was the decade in which Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were sponsoring the neoliberal pro-financial policies that have polarised the U.S., British and other economies and loaded them down with rentier overhead. The Soviet Union […]
By Andrew Korybko The bloc’s dual purpose in jointly thwarting shared unconventional threats and pioneering comprehensive connectivity opportunities across the supercontinent enables it to function as the core of multipolarity in the 21st century. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) heads of state summit in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe in mid-September celebrated the bloc’s twentieth-year […]
John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rurtherford Institute. “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges.” – George Carlin You think you’ve got rights? Think again. All of those freedoms we cherish—the ones enshrined in the Constitution, the ones that affirm our right to free speech and assembly, due process, […]
With European gas prices exploding overnight, and soaring as much as 40% today alone with day-ahead electricity prices across continental Europe hitting record highs – Germany is above €300 per MWh. In Spain, it surged to €288 per MWh, that’s ~550% above the 2010-2020 price average, and so on… … prices abruptly reversed course after a […]
Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News. Authorities in New South Wales are threatening to jail Australians who don’t show a COVID-19 vaccination pass when they enter businesses. Yes, really. NSW Customer Service Minister Victor Dominello threatened people who he described as “fraudsters” with arrest if they try to enter premises with “fake vaccine passports” “If […]
OneWorld is sharing the English-language version of the extended interview that Andrew Korybko gave to Iran’s Farhikhtegan about Eurasia’s fundamental geostrategic transformation in the New Cold War. 1. The US President Joe Biden has stated that one of the reasons for leaving Afghanistan was to “focus on facing the major challenges such as Russia and […]
Albania’s ambitions to expand the country’s territory pose a risk to peace in the Balkans, breaking decades of relative stability following fierce fighting after the collapse of Yugoslavia, Moscow has said, after recent tensions. On Sunday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova hit out at comments from Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama over the country’s […]
Richard Heathen. I will be posting the next part of the series titled Historical Reflections soon, however I felt I needed to write something about the upcoming meeting between Biden and Putin, in particular in response to the latest talking point cooked up in the public relations centres of the American establishment, that is American […]
By Andrew Moran. Is inflation still transitory? The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published the latest consumer price index (CPI) numbers for September, and the data suggested that the claims made by the Federal Reserve and the White House that inflation is transitory might be hogwash. From skyrocketing food prices to advancing energy costs, inflation in the United States does not […]
The US and Chinese militaries are attempting to restore positive communications at a moment tensions are continually rising in the South China Sea and particularly around Taiwan – where both sides have upped their presence in the form of warship deployments, including sail-throughs of the contested strait and aerial flyovers near the island – the […]
As for all those automated systems we have to navigate–do any of them work so well that those profiting from them actually use them? Of course not. In Marc Andreessen’s memorable phrase, “software is eating the world.” Unfortunately, it now has indigestion. Software is running into limits that (non-engineer) promoters either deny or downplay. Meanwhile, […]
China’s Global Times propaganda outlet celebrated the over three-hour-long video call between President Joe Biden and dictator Xi Jinping on Monday as a win for China, highlighting Biden’s apparent “eagerness” to make nice with the Chinese leader. The call occurred on Monday night Washington time and Tuesday morning in Beijing – a fact the Times emphasized as showing […]
The fourth industrial revolution is here, are you ready? Do you also wake-up in the morning with the feeling that everything is a bad dream and you have to pinch yourself but then realize that the bad dream is reality? The developments are threatening and also grotesque and absurd. At the same time, the situation […]
Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, pointed out in an interview with the German publication Handelsblatt, that its economic impact is more comparable to that of a world war. This applies to both the huge financial assistance provided by central banks and governments and […]
On 8 September, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, one of America’s leading security and foreign policy think tanks, published a study on NATO enlargement. Its main emphasis was on the requirements of NATO’s armed forces and the costs involved. The very publication of the study is fairly symptomatic. While discussions at the yearly summits […]
By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club. Victoria Nuland, US President Joe Biden’s envoy for European and Eurasian affairs, is in Moscow as part of an unprecedented, yet highly symbolic, move, with […]
The United Kingdom is short 100,000 qualified truck drivers after tens of thousands of them returned to the European Union during Brexit, and 40,000 heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driver tests were suspended because of the virus pandemic in 2020. The lack of drivers has roiled supply chains, resulting in higher logistical costs that could make […]
Maybe the market has been too hypnotized by the promise of cheap free money flowing forever, or maybe it remembers how the Fed stepped in last March to ensure that nobody lost any money and thus nobody wants to sell this time, or maybe it is just too used to buying every single dip so […]
I have stated very clearly that up until 1999, I was part of a vetting process where I would meet people who wanted to run for president. They were told I was there to explain how the world economy functioned, but I was told to assess if I believed they were mentally capable of comprehending […]
By Pat Buchanan. Last Friday, in a triumph for transnationalism, 136 nations, including the U.S., agreed to mandate a global corporate income tax for all nations that will not be allowed to fall below 15%. “Virtually the entire global economy has decided to end the race to the bottom on corporate taxation,” said Treasury Secretary […]
France’s Defense Minister Florence Parly has called for a review of NATO’s “strategic concept,” stating that “dialogue is non-existent” within the bloc. The remarks come amid the ongoing scandal over the new AUKUS pact. The defense minister spoke before France’s Senate on Wednesday, with talk revolving almost exclusively around the fallout of the AUKUS (Australia, […]
Amid a recent spate of covert espionage attacks on Iranian infrastructure – some publicly known and more that are possibly unknown – Iran’s foreign ministry has declared that “war with Israel has already begun”. A foreign ministry spokesmen told the major Israeli national Hebrew-language daily newspaper Maariv that “Israel has carried out attacks that were intended […]
The German elections are done and dusted. The results are both discouraging and oddly uplifting. Before I get too deep into the analysis I’m going to note a few things that stand out The direct link to the German Gov’t results site is here. Observations of the vote totals: Die Linke collapsed into the actual vote. […]
Even though the British Empire only managed to establish its first colony in Ireland in 1556, several decades after Portugal and Spain claimed land on the African continent and the Americas, Statista’s Florian Zandt points out that it still became synonymous with global conflict due to its network of dominions and colonies spanning the whole […]
The global shutdown on Monday 4 October is a really big deal. In a sense, it is comparable to a rehearsal for the end of the world. This comparison would be appropriate if we lived in the light. But since we live here in the darkness, it would be more accurate to call it the […]
By M.Roberts via AmericanThinker.com As a member of the U.S. government’s security apparatus, I have witnessed a level of groupthink that would shock even the most accredited academics associated with the leading internationalist think tanks. As the professional class of international relations thinkers and their elitist dopamine peddlers in mainstream media continue launching their crusade […]
Your Banks are Our Banks, USA Tells Turkey! Federal prosecutors can continue to prosecute a Turkish bank in a Manhattan courthouse for allegedly evading U.S. sanctions against Iran by laundering $20 billion of that nation’s oil and gas proceeds. The bank — whose majority owner is the Government of Turkey — had claimed sovereign immunity […]
By Clarice Feldman via AmericanThinker.com. There’s scarcely a place in the modern world that will not be feeling the high cost and discomfort of a shortage of energy supplies and their increasingly soaring prices. Lebanon already is. Due to a shortage of oil, the two power plants that supply 40% of that country’s electricity shut down. There […]
Both sides are using the current tension for their own ends, writes Vijay Prashad. Afghanistan and Tajikistan share a 1,400-kilometer border. Recently, a war of words has erupted between Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon and the Taliban government in Kabul. Rahmon censures the Taliban for the destabilization of Central Asia by the export of militant groups, […]
A giant data dump is once more detailing the offshore tax activities of the worlds’ rich elites. Keeping with the alliterations, the release was dubbed the Pandora Papers by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which had also coordinated the release of previous prominent leaks the Paradise Papers and the Panama Papers. The list of those […]
China’s exports rose 28% in September from the year-earlier level, more than the analyst consensus had forecast. More important is that China’s exports to the United States have risen by 31% since January 2018, when President Trump imposed tariffs on a wide range of US imports from China. At a seasonally adjusted annual rate, the […]
Sides are forming around the Iran vs Azerbaijan squabble. But this fight is not about ethnicity, religion or tribe – it is mainly about who gets to forge the region’s new transportation routes. The last thing the complex, work-in-progress drive towards Eurasian integration needs at this stage is this messy affair between Iran and Azerbaijan […]
The ruling party that has long mishandled the economy and failed to boost competitiveness will still be in power after Sunday’s polls. Commuters wear masks at a train station in Tokyo on July 28, 2021. Photo: AFP / Yasuyoshi Chiba Whatever happens in Japan’s general election on Sunday, the nation’s leader has already signaled that […]
By Michael Every of Rabobank Salo News Day Regular readers will know I am a cynic. Try writing a Daily for over two decades and not be – and events over the last 24 hours underline that fact. Indeed, you could call it a “Salo News Day” in reference to the controversial Italian film “Salò, […]
China’s state-run Global Times tabloid, which is viewed as representing the view of Beijing if with a hyperbolic slant, published an op-ed from its editorial board on Wednesday vowing that China’s military will soon confront the U.S. in a hostile exchange, American Military News reported. “The US will definitely see the PLA show up at […]
Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News. Three Swiss Guards have resigned and three others have been suspended after refusing to comply with a Vatican mandate that they get the COVID-19 vaccination. The Swiss Guards, colloquially known as the Pope’s bodyguards, had previously been ordered “to protect their health and that of the others they come […]
How much gold is there in the world? The simple answer — not much! Scarcity is one of the characteristics that give gold value. Consider gravel. It’s everywhere. You walk over it and don’t even pause. But if you spot a gold nugget on the ground, you can take that to the bank — literally. You’re probably […]
Prior to the Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan last month, Ankara had sought to promote dialogue and cooperation with the insurgent group, in particular, to ensure Turkey maintains a role in the operation of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Turkish troops provided security at the Kabul airport during the NATO occupation of Afghanistan, […]
Earlier, in his maiden speech at the United Nations General Assembly, without mentioning China by name, US President Joe Biden emphasised that democracy would not be defeated by authoritarianism, underscoring that the future will not belong to those who “suffocate their people with an iron hand”. China’s President Xi Jinping on Tuesday pledged that his […]
By Frazer Norwell of TheLocal.de. Coronavirus can now be categorised as one of several respiratory illnesses with seasonal variation, Geir Bukholm, assistant director of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), has said. For the past year and a half, Covid-19 has been classed as a generally dangerous disease. However, this could change soon as […]
By Brandon Weichert via RealClearWorld.com. “Goodbye, great power competition and hello, strategic competition,” this is what the Biden Administration’s Pentagon spokesperson recently told Daniel Lipmann of Politico. According to analysts, these comments signal a shift toward a more cooperative, even conciliatory, American posture toward the Chinese Communist Party. Further, President Joe Biden told the media on […]
Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen, who was inaugurated as the Federal President of the Republic of Austria on January 26, 2017, has taken another undemocratic, authoritarian position that anyone unemployed because of the state’s lockdowns who refuses the vaccine will lose ALL benefits. This is absolute tyranny and a disgrace to any country that pretends to be free. It […]
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is such a pariah in US media circles that pundits rejoiced that the unvaccinated president had to eat pizza on the sidewalk in New York City. Never mind that he has natural immunity, as a Covid-19 survivor. MSNBC host Joy Reid and anti-Trump commentator Keith Olbermann were among the observers whose hearts […]
Central banks continue to add gold to their reserves. Global central bank reserves increased by a net 28.4 tons in August, according to data compiled by the World Gold Council. Gross central bank gold purchases came in at 30 tons. India led the way, adding another 12.9 tons of gold to its holdings. It was the third […]
In his first ever address to the United Nations General Assembly since taking office on Tuesday, Biden pledged that “We are not seeking the new Cold War, or the world divided into rigid blocks,” in what observers took to be a clear reference to China tensions. “The United States is ready to work with any […]
So by all means, focus on the inexorable rise of stocks, cryptos and housing as “proof” of America’s soaring “wealth” while the social order unravels beneath our feet. It is a supremely tragic irony that while the corporate media ceaselessly touts America’s soaring financial “wealth,” the nation’s true wealth–its social order–is fast unraveling. While we’re […]
Joint military, taxation and court agreements in Bosnia-Herzegovina have been used to violate Serb rights and the 1995 peace deal, said Milorad Dodik, member of the country’s tripartite presidency from Republika Srpska. Republika Srpska, the Serb entity that makes up half of Bosnia, will start the process “by the end of this month, first week […]
Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News. The Vatican is set to punish employees who refuse to comply with COVID-19 certification by not paying them. Yes, really. Vatican staffers who are unable to prove they’d been jabbed or who refuse to pay for expensive negative COVID tests will be considered “unjustly absent” and paid no salary. […]
Following Warsaw’s landmark verdict that ruled Polish law takes supremacy over some parts of the EU’s treaties, the bloc’s chief has said Brussels will do everything in its power to ensure EU laws retain primacy. In a statement issued on Friday, the European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, expressed her deep “concern” over Warsaw’s […]
Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us. No group in this world is above ridicule, and that includes the mentally ill. Just because the mentally ill become an organized mob does not mean they are a victim status group deserving of special protection or special treatment. The mentally ill are the LAST people on the planet that should […]
By TheLocal Italy. Household electricity bills will rise by 29.8% for the typical family and gas bills will go up by 14.4%, Italy’s energy regulatory authority Arera confirmed in a press release last week. The new national tariffs came into effect on Friday, the start of the fourth quarter of 2021. The increase comes amid […]
Just what shape Germany’s governing coalition will take is still unclear in the aftermath of the September 26 election, which saw the Social Democrats (SPD), led by finance minister Olaf Scholz, come away with just over a quarter of the vote, at 25.7 percent. The balance of power in Germany is now held by the Greens […]
Algeria recalled its ambassador to France and accused its former colonizer of “interference,” after French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the country’s government. Meanwhile, a visa row has erupted between the two nations. The ambassador was recalled on Saturday after French President Emmanuel Macron this week criticized the “political-military system” that emerged in Algeria after the […]
John Wilder at Wilder, Wealthy and Wise. “This is a consent form to stick a wire into your brain. It’s important for hospitals to get these signed for procedures that are completely unnecessary.” – House, M.D. Anyone else see a pattern here? The Mrs. and I were both leaders (once upon a time) in that Paramilitary Organization, Boy […]
The Taliban is condemning the United States for violating Afghanistan’s airspace with drones, calling the flights a severe violation of prior US-Taliban peace agreements reached in Doha, warning of “consequences” should they continue. The statements come a week after the Pentagon said it won’t be asking “permission” to strike terrorists operating inside the country. “The US […]
The U.S. trade deficit widened to a record in August, reflecting a pickup in the value of imports of consumer goods and industrial supplies. The gap in trade of goods and services increased 4.2% to $73.3 billion, from a revised $70.3 billion in July (notably worse than the $70.8 billion defricit expected). Source: Bloomberg The value of […]
Inflation bites! Personal income rose again in August, but once again rising prices ate up all the gains and then some. Economists and pundits talk about inflation as an academic exercise. They rarely reflect on the fact that rising prices have real impacts on real people. Personal income from all sources rose by 0.2% from July […]
The Federal Reserve not only runs US monetary policy with its interest rate manipulations and its quantitative easing program; it also “regulates” financial institutions. That’s why the fact that several Fed members made multiple multimillion-dollar stock trades in 2020 even as the central bank was putting its big fat thumb on the economic scales is more than […]
Global food prices climbed back to near-decade highs in early September, reviving concerns about inflationary pressures. A newly emerging risk that many have missed and could catapult food prices even higher this fall/winter is China’s difficult harvest season as power curbs hurt the outlook for production, according to Bloomberg. Autumn harvest has begun for the world’s […]
Russia already has deployed in low-earth orbit a “nesting doll” satellite armed with a weapon that can destroy US satellites vital for communications, command and control and precision targeting, Space Force Commander General John Raymond said on Tuesday. “Russia has a nesting doll satellite [in orbit] to destroy US satellites, armed with a weapon to […]
Renewables Not So Reliable As US Hydropower Plunges 14% The transition away from hydrocarbons is not a seamless as many hope. The latest data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows a significant decline this year in hydropower generation amid historic droughts. The magical thinking about renewable energy and President Biden’s calls for the U.S. power grid […]
Here’s a study that wasn’t covered at all by the media, despite it’s chilling findings, which cut against claims by American health experts that COVID lockdowns haven’t led to an increase in suicides. A recent UK study showed 5x as many children have died via suicide since the start of the pandemic than the number […]
Oil demand will grow sharply in the next few years as economies recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said this week in its 2021 World Oil Outlook. According to the report, oil use will rise by 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd) to 101.6 million bpd in 2023, […]
By Alex Gladstein via BitcoinMagazine.com. In 1972, one year after President Richard Nixon defaulted on the dollar and formally took the United States off of the gold standard for good, the financial historian and analyst Michael Hudson published “Super Imperialism,” a radical critique of the dollar-dominated world economy. The book is overlooked by today’s economic mainstream and puts […]
Cristián Barros Dugin as a Gnostic is a metaphysical dualist, and understands the final struggle, as the culmination of a series of minor skirmishes, to be exclusively binary, literally Manichaean. At this point, the end of worldly time thus becomes the beginning of sacred time. Likewise, the space of conflict also becomes sacralised, that is, […]
During an Australian TV primetime segment this week, the well-known China-based expert Victor Gao, who is vice president of the Center for China and Globalization and once served as communist leader Deng Xiaoping’s translator, issued a chilling scenario and shock to his Aussie audience over the controversial AUKUS defense pact between the US, Australia and […]
The deepening energy crisis in Britain has reached fuel supply, with large queues spotted at petrol stations across the country. One of the providers, EG Group, has imposed a £30 limit due to a surge in demand. Long queues of cars at petrol stations were spotted across the UK on Friday, with hundreds of motorists […]
In this era of police violence, pandemic worries, and economic crisis, it is no surprise that U.S. (and local) government agencies have a poor track record of sharing information honestly and directly—especially information about their own complicity in actions and policies that are undemocratic, militaristic, racist, sexist or otherwise oppressive. Basic truths about the society […]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has joined the chorus of US lawmakers lashing out at White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci for funding ‘hazardous’ virus research and ‘despicable’ experiments on dogs. At issue are Fauci’s decisions as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a unit of the National Institute of […]
Belarus’ long-time leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has promised that a vote on the country’s new constitution will be held no later than next spring. The reforms have been presented as a precursor to him stepping down from office. Speaking on Tuesday at a meeting with members of the commission charged with drafting the new document, Lukashenko […]
Named after the famous German underground movement The White Rose (Die Weisse Rose) which distributed leaflets calling on people to resist the Nazi regime, The White Rose UK urges people everywhere to resist the medical/political tyranny being carried out under the guise of a fake pandemic. Several members of the German White Rose were caught by the Nazis […]
By Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com. Since the US carried out a drone strike in Kabul the prior Sunday (Aug.29) that witnesses say killed 10 civilians, the Pentagon and the White House have defended the bombing, claiming it targeted ISIS-K. But relatives of the victims strongly deny that any of them were affiliated with ISIS and want answers from Washington. […]
By CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory. So, the Great New Normal Purge has begun … right on cue, right by the numbers. As we “paranoid conspiracy theorists” have been warning would happen for the past 18 months, people who refuse to convert to the new official ideology are now being segregated, stripped of their jobs, banned from attending […]
If you haven’t been paying attention, you will want to start watching the price of oil again. Just before the financial crisis of 2008, the price of oil briefly shot up to 140 dollars a barrel, and experts agree that a very high price for oil would definitely unsettle financial markets now. Unfortunately, it appears […]
In his latest note, SocGen’s Albert Edwards made an ominous – if obvious – comparison: “as energy prices surge with a backdrop of central bank tightening it’s starting to feel a bit like July 2008” referring to that moment of “unparalleled central bank madness as the ECB raised rates just as oil prices hit $150 […]
If Assange is not freed then the war on truth is going to explode. All independent journalism and basic human rights are under threat. A report that the CIA was plotting to murder or kidnap Julian Assange is credible and it should not be in the least bit surprising that the agency sometimes known as […]
By Andrew Moran. Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is? It is stagflation. The sunny days that were forecast for President Joe Biden’s morning in America quickly transitioned into darkness. The post-pandemic economy is metastasizing into a boneyard filled with anemic growth, chilling price inflation, and public health guidelines of putting the COVID-19 […]
The European Union database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, and they are now reporting 27,247 fatalities, and 2,563,768 injuries, following COVID-19 injections. This database maintained at EudraVigilance is only for countries in Europe which are part of the European Union (EU), which comprises 27 countries. The total number of countries in Europe is much higher, […]
By Michael Every of Rabobank. This is the end of the Jewish festival of Sukkot, one of the less well-known holidays. (Also known as ‘The Feast of the Tabernacles’, it involves eating dinner in an outdoor booth, and waving palm, myrtle, and willow branches, with an etrog, a lemon-like citrus fruit. Really.) However, the Governor […]
The Russian government is planning to continue its established policy of eliminating the share of US currency in the country’s economy, according to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Pankin. According to the minister, all transactions processed via the US financial system can be blocked by Washington at its discretion, while the threat of anti-Russian […]
Over 7,200 physicians and medical scientists worldwide have signed the “Rome Declaration” to alert citizens about the deadly consequences of Covid-19 policy makers’ and medical authorities’ unprecedented behavior; behavior such as denying patient access to lifesaving early treatments, disrupting the sacred, physician-patient relationship and suppressing open scientific discussion for profits and power. The Declaration was […]
A man who spent several months behind bars for slapping French President Emmanuel Macron this summer has said he has received many letters in support of his “political” action. Damien Tarel told BFM TV he feels “no regret” over attacking the head of the French state. “I deplore physical violence. Nevertheless, it was just a […]
Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog. It is said the dance band on the Titanic played on as the ship went down. This was all done as a grand effort to reassure the passengers and ease the panic in their hearts. Consider the possibility that behind all the noise we hear today a similar effort is […]
Doug Bandow via AntiWar.com. President Joe Biden did what his three predecessors could or would not: halt a seemingly endless war. It took two decades, but American troops no longer are fighting in Afghanistan. An important aspect of the US withdrawal was closing Washington’s bases, which once spread across the country. Uncle Sam left Bagram […]
By Mark Thornton via The Mises Institute. The Federal Reserve has been increasing the money supply at an explosive rate. The federal budget, deficits, and the trade deficit are record levels. Governments, both foreign and domestic, have locked down people, restricting production and consumption. How should this be viewed by an economist? There is clearly […]
As Germany moves ever closer to the Russian-Chinese’s multipolarism, will it succeed in avoiding the last squeeze from the Anglo-American Empire’s death grip? As Pepe Escobar eloquently put it in his essay “Requiem for an Empire: A Prequel,” the days of clueless cold warriors dreaming of a Germany-Japan axis, and Washington’s opportunity to erect itself […]
By Daniel Lacalle. This week the wholesale price of electricity has exceeded the psychological barrier of 200 euros per megawatt hour in most countries of the European Union. Although the daily price currently only affects 15% of the energy sold, since the rest is locked for almost twelve months since last winter at much lower […]
By Peter St.Onge via CryptoEconomy substack. In the 1970’s, Saturday Night Live had a mock commercial for Shimmer Floor Wax, tagline: “It’s a floor wax AND a dessert topping!” Between supply chains, rising prices, and falling growth, we’re living in hazy times, economically. Investors don’t know whether we’re due for a stretch of serious inflation or […]
Right now, we are experiencing a new development within philosophy. It is the era of object oriented ontology. This essay will explore the nature of said development, and investigate and predict possible practical outcomes. The main feature of object oriented ontology is its proposal of a new materialism [Negarestani, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im3ZH-S2sPg], that is based on a […]
Jack Phillips and Ken Silva via The Epoch Times. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued a report (pdf) on Sept. 30 on the FBI’s applications to surveil U.S. citizens, finding “widespread” failure that “raises serious questions” and criticizing agents for not fixing flaws spotted in previous audits. The inspector general (IG) reviewed about 7,000 applications for Foreign Intelligence […]
Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us. There is a simple fact that must be understood when it comes to the fight for liberty: Such a fight cannot be won by lone individuals. Freedom requires organized resistance and it does not matter how many millions of people stand against an authoritarian regime, if they are completely isolated from each […]
The UK Ministry of Defence has inadvertently revealed its plan to spy on social media platforms in order to detect “change(s) in population sentiment.” The UK Ministry of Defence has inadvertently revealed its plan to spy on social media platforms in order to detect “change(s) in population sentiment.” Despite ostensibly being about “better use of […]
All record a surge of direct Russophobia in the CIS countries. The question is: why now? In fact, the area of interethnic relations is a very delicate topic. Everything is here in any society. Sometimes this takes on catastrophic proportions, up to clashes and pogroms. Moreover, it could result in a full-scale war. Sometimes it […]
Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog. “Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. Electricity flickers […]
Dozens of protesters against vaccine passports have swarmed a food court in New York City. Although the court has a vaccinated-only policy, the protesters were not asked to provide any proof of vaccination. A crowd of some 60 people took over the Food District area at the Staten Island Mall on Saturday in a protest […]
Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News. First year students at the University of Bath have been given armbands by authorities to signal whether they’ve been double-vaccinated, with unvaxxed students having to wear a different colour. “Freshers have been given wristbands to signal whether they are vaccinated against coronavirus amid anger at emerging “two-tier” university campuses,” […]
On Friday the government of Georgia issued the “shock” announcement that authorities have arrested Saakashvili, though perhaps entirely expected given the ex-president’s 2018 conviction in absentia stemming from accusations of abuse of office. “I want to inform the public that the third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, is arrested. He was transferred to a penitentiary […]
By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian at Koç University in Istanbul working on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory. Just a few days ago, the Presidents of Turkey and Russia met for crunch talks. The content of those discussions is now still […]
Globalist philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy reports that in the coming weeks, the French President and his Italian counterpart will announce a “Quirinal Treaty,” which is said to be modeled on the Elysee Treaty, which defines the framework for Franco-German relations. It is not the first year that the pact between Italy and France has been talked […]
Next time you read someone pontificating that the Roman Empire fell because it did something he doesn’t approve of, just smile. The Roman Empire fell because it did something the author doesn’t approve of. And the American Empire or Putin’s Russia or Communist China will fall because they also do what the author dislikes. It’s […]
The homogeneity of America was intentionally destroyed in the name of “diversity” and “multiculturalism.” Ethnic diversity can only succeed if the immigrants are assimilated to the existing language and culture. In America this happened for awhile, but it was abandoned. Multiculturalism is identical to a Tower of Babel. There is no unity and no basis […]
Authored by Matt Stoller via ‘BIG by Matt Stoller’ substack. How Uber Caused a Shortage I’ve lived in Washington, D.C. for fifteen years, and one of the many unacknowledged changes has been the disappearance of taxis. While the city has good public transportation, you could jump into a taxi for a reasonably priced convenient […]
An elite team of scientists advising the State Department concluded in 2018 that the ‘Havana Syndrome’ afflicting spies and diplomats could not have been due to a microwave weapon, but their report has just now been declassified. The report compiled by the JASON advisory group in November 2018 said that the sounds reported in eight […]
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog. You can’t have a civilization without civility. We may possess technology that is more advanced than any previous generation of Americans has had, but when it comes to how we treat one another and how we conduct ourselves, we are the worst generation in U.S. history […]
Via Blue State Conservative My critics will declare my title wrong since America is a democracy (more accurately, a republic) and not an Empire. An Empire is “a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority.” I suggest America qualifies as an Empire with Biden […]
That the neofeudal lords and their lackeys offer the debt-serfs “choices” of forced labor would be comic if the results weren’t so tragic. We know we’re close to the moment when Everything Solid Melts into Air when extraordinary breakdowns are treated as ordinary and the “news” quickly reverts to gossip. So over 4 million American […]
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has passed a bill that would legally protect a woman’s right to have an abortion. However, the vote was a tight one, and Republicans were outraged at its passage. The Women’s Health Protection Act passed the House on Friday, in a largely party-lines vote of 218-211, with only one Democrat, […]
Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog. I’ve burned a lot of bridges in my life I didn’t intend to. To describe me as volatile and opinionated is a kindness. On the best of days I’m barely fit for human consumption. Looking back my life can best be described as a series of […]
On September 5 blood may or may not be shed, but at the instigation of NATO’s Montenegrin foot soldiers feathers are guaranteed to fly. Well, what else is new? Afghanistan is said to be the graveyard of empires, but turbulence in the Balkans often is also the precursor to an empire or two being buried […]
Years of economic sanctions and political efforts from Washington have come to nothing, and work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is now nearing the final stages of completion, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Speaking at a meeting in St. Petersburg on Monday, the veteran diplomat announced that final preparations are being […]
Texas Governor Gregg Abbott signed a sweeping election integrity bill on Tuesday, after state Democrats delayed the legislation for months when they fled the Capitol in May (and spread Covid-19 throughout Washington DC). The legislature finally approved the bill last week, which Abbott signed in the city of Tyler, accompanied by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick […]
Willem Buiter via Project Syndicate. Across the advanced economies, central banks have rightly prioritized maintaining financial stability and supporting the real economy over fighting inflation with interest-rate hikes. But with financial fragility rife and public and private leverage at all-time highs, their next big test is coming. Since early 2020, central banks across the advanced […]
Since the start of the August rapid evacuation of US forces from Kabul, Russia has been flexing its military might in central Asia – in particular with military drills with its regional ally Tajikistan, geared toward protecting the porous border as Afghans fled the Taliban, which included national Afghan troops abandoning their posts in droves […]
The Macedonian Alexander ‘The Great’ Volkanovski reasserted his dominance in the featherweight division with a thrilling win against Brian Ortega at UFC 266 in a fight which prompted a wave of fanfare from some of the UFC’s biggest names. Volkanovski has been near flawless in his run to 145lb supremacy, winning 19 straight fights before he took […]
President Biden addressed the UN General on September 21 with a warning that the climate crisis is fast approaching a “point of no return,” and a promise that the United States would rally the world to action. “We will lead not just with the example of our power but, God willing, with the power of our example,” […]
For the past twenty years every 9/11 anniversary, American media goes into a frenzy with news and media outlets expressing America’s pain and suffering caused by “Islamist radicals” to a bubble which is ‘US exceptionalism’. It is also an important date for the international community, as it marks the orientalist global war on terror initiated […]
“We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify. To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths….Some were as young as three years old.” – Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First NationKukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir, May 27, 2021[1] LISTEN TO THE SHOW The discovery of an unmarked children’s graveyard on the territory […]
By James Fite Imagine nearly half the American workforce quitting or getting fired. All at once. While the country is already suffering an employee shortage crisis, no less. According to vaccine tracking by the Mayo Clinic, only about 57% of U.S. adults are fully inoculated. As the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate begins to be enforced by companies […]
Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com. Spying activity is often driving tensions between NATO and Russia. This is the case in the Baltic right now, where US and British surveillance planes are very visibly active around the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. The surveillance is being conducted by RC-135W, planes that conduct electronic surveillance, surveying the electromagnetic spectrum in […]
“Life Has Not Improved By As Much As We Hoped” – Singapore Outbreak Worsens With 80% Vaccinated Singapore has just reached a level of vaccination penetration that many other developed economies would envy: 80% of its adult population has been vaccinated. And yet, it continues to struggle with one of the worst outbreaks yet. On […]
John Wilder from Wilder, Wealthy, and Wise. “The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. It failed. But in the year of the Shadow War, it became something greater: our last, best hope for victory. The year is 2260. The place: Babylon 5.” – Babylon 5 Midnight? Common violence. Organized violence is occurring monthly. […]
By Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com. International Man: Every year, the international ruling class—the most influential world leaders, CEOs of big corporations, top academics, and even celebrities—come together at Davos. They discuss topics that interest them and prescribe their preferred policies. What’s your take on the Davos crowd and what they are doing? Doug Casey: The […]
Brian Jones via TheAmericanConservative.com. Early treatment of symptoms is the last remaining enemy of the global Covid consensus… In his March 17, 2020, article in Stat, Stanford epidemiologist Dr. John Ioannidis argued for a vast reconsideration of the societal response to the emerging SARS-COV-2 pandemic, commonly called Covid-19. For unknown reasons, the scientific and medical tradition forming […]
The Taliban has staged a military parade in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, celebrating its victory over the US and showing off numerous American-made vehicles seized during the rapid takeover of the country. A massive column of assorted military vehicles, carrying hundreds of Taliban fighters, rode through Kandahar on Wednesday. The vehicles, seized from […]
Authored by Matt Welch via Reason.com, What if every one of your non-cash financial transactions was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS? Imagine living in a world where every one of your noncash financial transactions—a restaurant meal, a Venmo transfer to a friend, maybe some bitcoin bought on the dips—was automatically reported to a […]
Massive crowds have flooded the streets of Bucharest, protesting against vaccination passports, curfews for the unvaxxed and other newly introduced restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus in Romania. An estimated 15,000 people gathered in University and Victory squares outside government offices in Bucharest on Saturday, chanting ‘Freedom without certificates’ and ‘Down with […]
The financialized American economy and State are now totally dependent on a steady flow of lies and propaganda for their very survival. Were the truth told, the status quo would collapse in a putrid heap. Go ahead and be evil, because everyone else is evil, too, because being evil serves everyone’s interests far better than […]