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Rickards: The Sky Is Falling Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, What do you think is America’s most serious geopolitical challenge – China, Russia, Iran, maybe North Korea? None of the above, apparently. According to President Biden’s Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, climate change needs to be “at the center” of countries’ […]

Rabo: “Transitory” Inflation Today; Price Controls And Rationing Tomorrow? By Michael Every of Rabobank Pricing and Poetic Justice With global cargo routes log-jammed; a key US oil pipeline still shutdown, leading to another backlog of ships idling off-shore; log-jammed cargo ships off the Israeli port of Ashkelon watching missiles being fired overhead; the US navy […]

Denying Reality Leads To Tyranny And Societal Failure Authored by Patrick Barron via The Mises Institute, The common thread that connects failed societies, from Weimar Germany to the Soviet Union, is an almost pathological insistence on denying reality. Weimar Germany denied that masses of printed money would destroy civilized society. The Soviet Union insisted that […]

Welcome To The DarkSide: Why The Biden Administration Will Not Define The Pipeline Attack As Terrorism Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column on the recent Colonial Pipeline attack. President Joe Biden and his Administration (as well as the media) has referred to the actors as “criminals” and “hacker” but notably not “terrorists.” Many cyberattacks are […]

Texas Bans Businesses From Requiring “Vaccine Passports” Authored by Mimi Nguyen Ly via The Epoch Times, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed into law a bill to ban government entities and private businesses from requiring proof of vaccination as a condition for service or entry amid the CCP virus pandemic. “Texas is open 100 percent, […]

Four Myths About Money That Ought To Die Forever Authored by Robert Murphy via The Mises Institute, With the possible exception of international trade, no topic in economics contains more myths than monetary theory. In the present article I address four popular opinions concerning money that suffer from either ambiguity or outright falsehood. One: “Money […]

Soaring commodity and house prices are further proof that inflation is here to stay and it is much higher than the Federal Reserve wants Americans to believe, according to Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert. Aside from the Fed’s money-printing, other reasons for spiking prices include de-globalization and growing tensions between the US and China, Max […]

Multiple US commentators have been celebrating the Israeli bombing of an international media tower that houses offices for AP, the BBC, and Al Jazeera. After videos were published on social media showing the destruction of the building by Israeli missiles, people from around the world – including many journalists – condemned the bombing, calling it […]

Keep It Simple: Gold Versus A Mad World Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Psychologists, poets and philosophers have written for centuries that many who have eyes refuse to see, and many who can think, refuse to think clearly–all for the simple reason that some truths, like the sun, are just too hard to look […]

Via GenZConservative Editor’s Note: This is a fictional story, like “they called themselves free born Americans,” but illuminates well the direction that America is heading. Enjoy! America had long ago slipped into the dark night of tyranny. She had failed to heed the warnings offered by many of our ancestors, between the years of 1979 […]

Imperial College Predicted Catastrophe In Every Country On Earth… Then The Models Failed Authored by Phillip Magness via The American Institute for Economic Research, The satirist Ambrose Bierce once defined prophecy as the “art and practice of selling one’s credibility for future delivery.” Covid-19 has produced no shortage of doomsaying prophets whose prognostications completely failed […]

Western countries are developing rules without the consent of the rest of the international community, and are both undermining and circumventing the United Nations. That’s according to Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister. Speaking on Wednesday at a joint press conference in Moscow with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Lavrov reiterated Russia’s support for the organization, and […]

Ethereum Soars To Record High Above $3,800 As JPMorgan Lays Out 6 Reasons Why Explosive Move Will Continue Back on April 25, we quoted a prominent billionaire VC who said that “Ethereum is the world’s most interesting trade right now” and we predicted that “Ethereum Is About To Make An Epic Breakout Over Bitcoin.“ That’s […]

Chelsea Clinton Calls For Global Crackdown On “Anti-Vax” Social Media Posts Speaking at a Vatican-organized conference meant to promote “open dialogue”, Chelsea Clinton called for a global effort to crack down on all “anti-vax” social media posts, or anything that’s ‘skeptical’ of the official narrative. The statement, made in a pre-recorded segment that featured questions […]

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) said in its annual report that in 2020 it reduced the share of the euro, the dollar and the pound in the country’s international reserves in favor of gold, yuan and other currencies. Thus, the share of the euro in Russia’s forex reserves decreased over the past year by […]

California’s Department of Education has announced that the gap between well-performing students and their less able peers must disappear, indicating that mere words are not enough – schools must deliver ‘equity’ in classrooms. Such an effort would involve faculty holding well-performing students back, even while pushing their less intellectual peers forward (as if they were […]

Australia “Ready” To Resume Dialogue With China As Beijing Ratchets Trade War The past months have seen Australia-China relations reach their lowest point in history. That decline was brought about in Canberra’s decision to join the United States in seeking to curtail China’s economic and political rise, particularly during the final year of the Trump […]

How Tax Hikes Will Be Confiscatory By Thomas Kirchner of Camelot Portfolios Confiscatory tax rates of 87% result from elimination of the step-up basis. France’s “supertax” President was ousted after one term. Nonsense academic studies appear to justify tax hikes. Offshore tax evasion is largely a myth.. Tax hikes are coming. Key proposals by the […]

Antifa Protester: “I Can’t Wait Until Black People Lynch White People” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, An Antifa protester at a demonstration near Seattle was filmed proudly proclaiming, “I can’t wait until black people lynch white people.” Yes, really. The chant was heard during a far-left black bloc protest against a Billy […]

My inspiration in throwing this together this morning is based on yesterday’s article on the pussification of Western males. Of course, this has serious national security implications for the West … IF the East has real men, not pussified Soi Boys.  Do they?  It is also for the few clueless boneheads here who sill think […]

Following The ‘Science’? CDC Shifts From “Impending Doom” To ‘You’re Free’ In 6 Weeks At the end of March, amid absolutely no signs of trouble whatsover in “the data” – and after the establishment excoriated the “neanderthal thinking” of several red states for ‘prematurely’ and ‘recklessly’ lifting their COVID restrictions, freshly-appointed CDC Director Rochelle Walensky […]

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Via International Man International Man: In a recent interview, we discussed the battle for monetary supremacy between fiat, bitcoin, and gold—but in the geopolitical sense, the country with the “best” money ultimately imposes its dominance on others. Today, the US dollar is still the global reserve currency, but the US fiscal and monetary policy now […]

Max Keiser interviews Aleks Svetski, the founder and CEO of crypto investment platform Amber, about central bank digital currencies and fiat communism. “We’ve seen the ramifications of large-scale tech companies having the ability to sensor speech,” particularly via social media, says Svetski. “Imagine an organization having capacity to sensor your human action. There’s no more […]

French military personnel who signed another letter to President Emmanuel Macron warning him about a supposedly impending “civil war” should resign so they can voice their concerns freely, the Armed Forces chief of staff said. Those among the French soldiers and officers who feel the urge to make public statements about the political situation in […]

Via ZeroHedge Update (0647ET): And just like that, the Southeast of the US is heading down a dark path similar to one of the 1970s gas shortages from Virginia to Florida to Alabama following the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. Even with Colonial set to restore systems by the weekend, shortages have already materialized as people panic […]

An international body representing a who’s-who of Big Pharma firms has rejected a US-backed proposal to lift intellectual property rights for coronavirus vaccines, insisting the move will not speed up global distribution. The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (IFPMA) criticized the IP plan in a statement on Wednesday, not long after the Joe Biden administration […]

NATO Allies “Take Over” Black Sea For Military Exercises Authored by Rick Rozoff via AntiWar.com, The title is courtesy of the Hungary-based Transylvania Now news site. The Pentagon’s Special Operations Command Europe kicked off the Trojan Footprint 21 exercise on May 3; what is identified as its premier special operations forces drills. The war games will be held […]

Putin Calls Gaza Crisis “Direct Threat” To Russia’s Security Interests; Merkel Condemns Anti-Israel Protests At a moment the United States is blocking a UN Security Council meeting and statement on Gaza, delaying it further to next week given Israel shows no signs that it’s ready for ceasefire talks following an earlier overture from Hamas, multiple world leaders […]

Billionaires, Crypto Traders Fume Over Elon Musk’s Nonsensical Bitcoin Reversal Controversy has erupted following Elon Musk’s Wednesday afternoon tweet announcing that Tesla would suspend accepting Bitcoin for purchases, citing concerns over “rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.” Musk’s tweet sent […]

PFAS Crisis: Toxic “Forever Chemicals” Found In US Mothers’ Breast Milk New research conducted by Toxic-Free Future, a Seattle-based non-profit fighting for safer products free of deadly chemicals, found that women’s breast milk, especially in the US, contains dangerous levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).  Erika Schreder, a co-author and science director with Toxic-Free Future, said […]

The warning comes amid a wave of jihadist attacks — including the beheading of a schoolteacher — committed by young men, none of whom were previously known to French intelligence services. The letter also comes after widespread public indignation over a The warning comes amid a wave of jihadist attacks — including the beheading of […]

An annual military parade was held on Moscow’s iconic Red Square as Russia celebrates victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. World War II is often called the Great Patriotic War in Russia, and May 9 is one of the country’s most revered holidays. More than 12,000 uniformed soldiers, military police officers, national guardsmen […]

Liz Cheney Lied About Her Role In Spreading The Discredited CIA “Russian Bounty” Story Authored by Glenn Greenwald via greenwald.substack.com, In an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier this week, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) denied that she spread the discredited CIA “Russian bounty” story. That CIA tale, claiming Russia was paying Taliban fighters to kill […]

Listen to this article: Nearly 200,000 protesters attended a pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on Saturday afternoon, another clear sign that support for Palestinian rights is becoming increasingly mainstream and the imperialists are losing control of the Israel narrative. The real consequence of this is that people will begin losing trust in the government and […]

Dominion, Maricopa County Rebuff Arizona Senate’s Attempt To Get Election Machine Passwords Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Dominion Voting Systems and Maricopa County officials are refusing to hand over passwords for election machines to auditors in Arizona. Contractors working for Cyber Ninjas, which was hired by the Arizona Senate, examine […]

Why Masks Are Still Mandatory Authored by Alex Hamilton via AmericanThinker.com, Joe Biden is in a pickle.   He wants to continue to convince Americans they should get the experimental biological agent (AKA “the vaccine”), but, as Tucker Carlson pointed out last week, the administration and the CDC have offered no explanation as to why you […]

“Keep As Much Money As You Can”: Hunter Biden Disclosures Offer New Details On His Chinese Financial Dealings And Associations Authored by Jonathan Turley, There are new disclosures from Hunter Biden’s laptop that offer an added perspective on his dealings with Chinese figures, including Patrick Ho, secretary general of Chinese oil giant CEFC, who was later indicted […]

Maricopa County Defies Subpoena, Won’t Release Hardware For Election Audit Over ‘Security Risk’ Update (1400ET): Wow, something must be really worrying Democrats? There appears to be a full court press effort to delay and defer any and every effort to audit Maricopa County’s election results. The Biden justice department added to pressure from Arizona’s chief […]

A man who infiltrated a group of Antifa activists in Sonoma County, California, revealed to media that the radicals have a ‘target list’ and made allusions to carrying out acts of violence. The mole told a local ABC affiliate that he felt compelled to “do something” after reading the manifesto of SoCo (Sonoma County) Radical […]

EU Lawmakers Pledge To Reject EU-China Investment Deal In First Meeting On Beijing’s Sanctions Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times, Members of European Parliament have vowed to reject the EU-China Investment Agreement that was awaiting ratification over China’s human rights abuses and sanctions by the ruling communist party. More than 30 MEPs took the floor […]

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Keiser Report hosts Max and Stacy look at how companies are starting to protect their balance sheets from the melting ice cube of excessive money printing. As central banks continue to print, “asset holders are becoming fabulously rich, so the split between rich and poor is growing spectacularly,” says Max. According to him, it’s abundantly […]

World’s Most Vaccinated Nation Sees Active COVID Cases Double In Under A Week The situation in the Seychelles, an island nation that has suffered from a recent surge in COVID-19 cases despite boasting the world’s highest vaccination rate, is going from bad to worse. Since we last reported on the Seychelles one week ago, the […]

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has blasted Israel as nothing more than a “terrorist camp” and urged the Palestinians to unite their efforts in fighting Tel Aviv.  Israel has “turned occupied Palestine into a base for terrorism,” Khamenei tweeted. “Israel isn’t a county; it’s a #TerroristCamp against Palestinians & other Muslim nations,” he wrote, adding […]

Has The Mainstream Media Finally Turned Against Bill Gates? Not long after we pointed out a report from the Daily Beast which traced the tensions in the marriage of Bill and Melinda Gates to Bill’s relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal has followed up with more reporting that confirms that Melinda […]

(Natural News) Bombshell story synopsis: Research on race-specific, self-replicating (self-spreading), weaponized vaccines was being conducted by doctors and scientists under the Apartheid regime in the 1990s, with the goal of causing self-spreading infertility and deaths among Blacks. This same research continues today, predominantly in the United States, funded by DARPA and the Gates Foundation. The… […]

Tara Reade, the former Senate aide who accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her almost 30 years ago, told RT’s Rick Sanchez that media protection enables the Democratic elite to commit sexual assaults and get off scot-free. Tara Reade, 57, worked for the current US president in the early 1990s, when she claims he sexually […]

Israel To Biden White House: Stay Out Of Jerusalem Crisis Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, With violence against Palestinians escalating in East Jerusalem, the US expressed “concerns” over the situation and the planned evictions in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. According to multiple media reports, the Israelis didn’t want to hear these concerns and told the US […]

While the Russian territory ought to be safe from the impact of the Long March 5B rocket, most of the US and Latin America, as well as Africa, Australia and South Asia may need to beware, according to a map posted by Roscosmos. Roscosmos director Dmitry Rogozin tweeted out a map of the possible area […]

“This Must Stop!” One Father’s Fight Against Pervasive Entrenchment Of Critical Race Theory In America’s Schools Authored by Andrea Widburg via AmericanThinker.com, Even as the Biden administration doubles down on Critical Race Theory, a dishonest, divisive, toxic idea holding that Whites are racist, inferior creatures who have used their unfairly obtained privilege to oppress Blacks […]

West Adds Belarus To New Axis Of Evil Authored by Rick Rozoff via AntiWar.com, So far this year, and ahead of next week’s NATO summit in Belgium, the commanders of the Pentagon’s Unified Combatant Commands and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg have denounced and thundered against Russia and China as rivals and adversaries in every […]

US And Its Allies Try To Split The World In Two Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation, America is using its post-WWII position of being the world’s hegemon, so as to compel every other nation either to join them (as a banana republic or vassal nation) or else to become their enemy […]

60% Of French Police & Military Say They Will Support Le Pen In Presidential Election Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, 60 per cent of police and military say they will support populist Marine Le Pen in next year’s French presidential election, with the number even higher among active duty police. A survey […]

Failed Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that the Arizona recount of 2020 ballots was “a continuation of the insurrection.” Read More

A pastor who became an internet sensation after chasing Canadian authorities out of his church has been detained for violating Covid-19 restrictions. Footage of the dramatic arrest was posted on his YouTube channel. Pastor Artur Pawlowski, of Calgary, Alberta, made headlines last month after he berated police for trying to shut down an Easter service […]

The Netherlands investigated fraud by the Mayday Rescue Foundation, which funded the Syrian White Helmets with over $120 million in Western government contracts. But top Dutch officials covered up the corruption. By Ben NORTON The decade-long dirty war on Syria proved to be a cash cow for some of the most prominent US and UK […]

Russia’s prime minister has said that Moscow will introduce tough new prohibitions outlawing the capture of many large sea mammals off the coast of the country, as experts recommend radical measures to save them from extinction. Speaking as part of a government meeting on Thursday, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that “we are proposing to […]

BofA: “Transitory Hyperinflation Ahead” Last week, when discussing the latest earnings call commentary, Bank of America said “Buckle up! Inflation is here”, and showed a chart of the number of mentions of “inflation” during earnings calls which exploded, more than tripling YoY per company so far, the and the biggest jump in history since BofA […]

Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Permanent Trump Ban, Feared “Serious Risk Of Violence” Facebook’s oversight board on Wednesday decided to uphold the company’s indefinite suspension of former president Donald Trump, claiming that “Trump’s posts during the Capitol riot severely violated Facebook’s rules and encouraged and legitimized violence.” The Board also found Facebook violated its own rules […]

Guest Post by Pat Buchanan Today’s billionaires’ boys club has come to understand how to make its astonishing wealth acceptable… Set up a tax-exempt foundation, fund it with billions of dollars, invite in liberals to sit on the board, and, at munificent salaries, to run it and distribute its income to liberal causes. “There are […]

Dissenters, Unite! Authored by Joakim Book via The American Institute for Economic Research, Being contrarian is hard work. You need to withstand ridicule, the loss of friends, employment, and acquaintances, face the imminent possibility that most of the time you’ll be wrong, and abandon the warm fuzzy feeling of having your otherwise friendly peers confirming your bias.  Yet, […]

Russia’s Health Ministry has authorized the use of Sputnik Light, a one-shot vaccine said to be even more efficient than two-component vaccines. The jab is the country’s fourth to be authorized since last August. Sputnik Light is the first component of the widely used Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, its researchers explained. However, the single dose […]

Censorship of political views by a private company like Facebook can undermine media freedom, the head of the International Federation of Journalists warned after the page of RT’s digital content project, Redfish, was deleted. Redfish’s account on Facebook, which had over 830,000 followers, was targeted earlier on Friday over posts that supposedly violated the platform’s […]

Large foreign IT companies that refuse to open offices and have official representation in Russia could be completely banned from having advertisements on their websites and could be prevented from accepting any form of payment. That’s according to Alexander Khinshtein, an MP for the ruling United Russia party, who says his proposed bill would not […]

Biden’s Anti-Eurasian Green Delusion And America’s Race To Irrelevance Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Many people couldn’t help but laugh when Biden told the Boris Johnson on March 26 that the USA and it’s NATO allies should create “an infrastructure plan to rival the Belt and Road Initiative” post haste. What would such […]

US Troops Accused Of Pillaging Syrian Grain Silos As Russia Warns Of Increased Occupation Syrian and Russian state sources are reporting late this week that Russia’s Defense Ministry is expressing anger over what it described as noticeably increased American military activity in Syria’s northeast region, particularly an uptick in military equipment and troop deployments to the al-Jazeera […]

A Timeline Of “The Great Reset” Agenda Authored by Tim Hinchliffe via GlobalResearch.ca, Say it’s 2014 and you’ve had this idea for a technocratic Great Reset of the world economy for some time now, but it only works if the entire planet is rocked by a pandemic. How do you go about selling your idea? “The pandemic […]

More Signs Of Slowing US Vaccine Demand Emerge As Some States Turn Down Shipments As a surprising number of Americans (mostly millennials who face lower risks) miss their second COVID-19 vaccine dose, the Wall Street Journal has become the latest MSM media outlet to point out the fact that unused jabs are piling up in […]

Digital currencies “have no intrinsic value,” according to Bank of England (BOE) Governor Andrew Bailey. He warned that people who invest in crypto should be prepared to lose all their money. A skeptic of crypto, Bailey was asked at a press conference about the rising value of cryptocurrencies. He said, as quoted by CNBC: “They […]

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is investigating reports of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine causing Guillain-Barre syndrome, as the pharmaceutical company remains embroiled in controversy over the jab’s link to blood clotting. In a meeting this week, the European Medicines Agency’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) revealed that it was “assessing reports” of the rare immune system […]

Ether Soars Above $3500 – Now Bigger Than Walmart The rise of altcoins continues as Ethereum has accelerated above $3500 for the first time ever this morning (less than 48 hours after first crossing above $3000)… Source: Bloomberg “The market is realizing how fundamentally undervalued Ether is given all the development activity on the network,” […]

An Irish High Court judge has thrown out Facebook Ireland’s attempt to stop an investigation by the country’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which had ordered the tech giant to stop sending data from its EU users to the US. “For the reasons set out in this judgment, I refuse all of the reliefs sought by […]

US Embassy In Turkey Closes For 2 Days Over Genocide Statement Backlash The US Embassy in Ankara as well as satellite consular campuses in the country have been shuttered on Monday and Tuesday ahead of expected demonstrations against Joe Biden’s Saturday Armenian Genocide declaration. Security for the embassy has also been beefed up as a “precautionary measure” […]

The American Right Is The New Target Of Washington’s “War On Terror” Authored by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute, The security walls around the US Capitol may be removed, but the federal response to the January 6 protests has only just begun. The Democrats in Washington are determined to treat the incident as on par with […]

Head Of German Police Union Calls For Ban On Anti-Lockdown Protests Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, The head of the German Police Union has called for a total ban on all anti-lockdown protests because participants are not wearing masks or practicing social distancing. Well, duh. After numerous hugely attended protests across Germany […]

Initial results of a formal review of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for Slovakia carried out by a Hungarian lab show the vaccine is reliable, said Slovakia’s health minister. Speaking in a TV interview on Friday, Vladimir Lengvarsky said the first results of the tests in Hungary had become available and they were “positive”, adding they […]

Ahmadinejad Is Back: Iranian Firebrand Announces Bid For Presidency  At a moment that Iranian domestic politics are on a knife’s edge of tension, particularly following the recent hardliner vs. ‘moderate’ row in the wake of the ‘Zarif Gate’ audio leak scandal wherein the foreign minister blasted the military establishment for often sabotaging diplomacy, the Islamic Republic’s […]

An account sharing posts from former US President Donald Trump’s ‘desk’ page – and operated by his PAC – was banned by Twitter after angry Democrats flooded the platform with demands to “#RemoveTrumpJack”. The hashtag, aimed at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, had over 20,000 tweets on Wednesday, hours after the account @DJTDesk appeared on the […]

Butting Heads with China and Russia: American Diplomats Are Outclassed By Philip Giraldi, May 14, 2021 With the exception of the impending departure of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan, if it occurs, the White House seems to prefer … The post Selected Articles: “Gaza Will Burn”: Israel’s War Cabinet Approves Escalated Aggression on Gaza […]

The volume of trade between Russia and China has reached $40.207 billion in January-April 2021. That’s 19.8% higher than it was in the same period last year, according to Chinese customs data. China’s exports to Russia were up 38.7%, reaching $18.19 billion in the first four months of the year. Meanwhile, shipments of Russian goods […]

The Inflation Monster Has Been Unleashed Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, The monster known as inflation has been unleashed upon the world and will not easily retreat into the night. This is reflected in soaring commodity and housing prices. Due to the stupid and self-serving policies of the Fed, we are about […]

Biden Administration To Ban Menthol Cigarettes… Because They’re ‘Racist’? Authored by Rick Moran via PJMedia.com, The Biden administration will propose canceling (banning) menthol cigarettes because they attack more black people than white people. Menthol cigarettes are racist. Regular flavored cigarettes don’t kill as many black people as menthol cigarettes and will henceforth be canceled. Because […]

Russian troops and military vehicles are marching across Moscow’s Red Square during Sunday’s annual V-Day parade. It is the biggest of dozens of processions taking place across Russia to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany.   Last year, the parade on May 9 was reduced to an aerial display only because of the Covid-19 pandemic. […]

A post by the Austrian chancellor has received a mixed response online. While some, including the Israeli prime minister’s son, welcomed Austria’s condemnation of Palestinian “terrorism,” others slammed Vienna’s side-taking. “Today was used as a sign of solidarity with #Israel the Israeli flag is hoisted on the roof of the Federal Chancellery,” Austrian Chancellor Sebastian […]

Euroscepticism Grows In Germany As 63% Say EU Is Excessively Bureaucratic Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Confidence in the European Commission is on the decline in Germany. It is just one of several signs of rising Euroscepticism . “Dexit” Is the New Brexit Deutschland Exit, Dexit, is the New Brexit Discussion. Germany’s far-right AfD party […]

Escobar: An Empire In Love With Its Afghan Cemetery Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, The New Great Game 3.0 is just beginning with a hat tip to Tacitus and dancing to the Hindu Kush groove… One cannot but feel mildly amused at the theatrical spectacle of the US troop pullout from Afghanistan, […]

Recently, serious developments followed by public enthusiastically are happening inTurkish inner politics. In last days, one of the most important mafia leaders in Turkey Sedat Peker whom the police officers decided to catch as a result of investigation started about him but before this he ran away from Turkey to abroad , targeted the minister […]

1 – Why did the Palestinian Islamic Jihad(PIJ) refuse to go to the future elections to the “legislative council”? The Islamic Jihad movement believes that the human being is the master of his destiny. Therefore, people have the power and they can decide its fate and destiny. 1 – Why did the Palestinian Islamic Jihad(PIJ) […]

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is being blasted for explaining why he refuses to get a Covid-19 vaccine while all congressional Democrats have been inoculated. Paul, an ophthalmologist, explained his decision on Sunday during a radio appearance on WABC 770 AM. The senator said unless evidence comes to light that people who have been infected with […]

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has given the BBC World Service an £8 million funding boost to “tackle harmful disinformation.” What that means is unclear, but the BBC has a history of waging infowars for the UK government. Broadcast in more than 40 languages to 350 million listeners per week, the BBC World Service brings […]

A Society Based On The Social Credit System Is Closer Than You Think Authored by Robert Wheeler via The Organic Prepper blog, The social credit system took yet another step forward—this time, from Down Under. Under the guise of a welfare crackdown, Australia moved 25,000 people onto a cashless card system that restricts non-essential purchases.  […]

Ayatollah Khamenei Calls Israel “Not A Country, But A Terrorist Base” As Vienna Talks Intensify In a fiery Friday sermon on the occasion of “Quds Day” — an Iranian Islamic holiday that commemorates the expected “liberation of Jerusalem” and which falls every year on the last Friday of Ramadan — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Israel a “not a […]

Banks Start Freaking Out About Soaring Inflation, Which May Not Be “Transitory” For the past few months we – unlike the Fed – have been warning readers that the US is about to get by a wave of soaring prices the likes of which have not been seen since the early 1970s (see “”Buckle Up! […]

The Criminalization Of Dissent Authored (somewhat satirically) by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory, One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but the formal criminalization of dissent, and any other type of opposition to the official ideology of the […]

The New Economic World Order After COVID-19 Authored by Fred Dunkley via SafeHaven.com, “Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.” – Chinese proverb. A few days ago, China’s President Xi Jinping issued a thinly-veiled attack on the United States, condemning its economic and military hegemony and calling for a new […]

Escobar: The Brave New Cancel Culture World Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, If we need a date when the West started to go seriously wrong, let’s start with Rome in the early 5th century… In 2020, we saw the enshrinement of techno-feudalism – one of the overarching themes of my latest book, Raging […]

“I Object…” – Is This The Start Of The Turn Against ‘Woke Tyranny’? Authored by Andrea Widburg via AmericanThinker.com, For three days, I’ve had sitting on my virtual spindle a post that Bari Weiss, formerly of the New York Times, posted on her Substack page.  It’s entitled “I Refuse to Stand by while My Students Are Indoctrinated.”   […]

(Natural News) If you had any doubt that Joe Biden’s handlers were going to use the full force of the federal government to punish as many of President Donald Trump’s supporters as possible after taking office, put those doubts to rest. Because of course Biden’s regime is going to do that. In fact, it already… […]

Ron Paul: COVID Authoritarians Are Abusing Children Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Centers for Diseases Control (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has “recommended” that children wear masks while playing. Her offered reason is to ensure Covid is not spread by “heavy breathing” of children near each other […]

Gomez-Davila, a Colombian philosopher and aphorist, wrote that science deceives in three ways: “Transforming its propositions into norms, divulging its results more than its methods, keeping silent about its epistemological limitations” [1]. Gomez-Davila, a Colombian philosopher and aphorist, wrote that science deceives in three ways: “Transforming its propositions into norms, divulging its results more than […]

Scholars Line Up To Join Anti-‘Woke’ Online Education Platform Submitted by Peter Svab of The Epoch Times, Hundreds of scholars, including some distinguished figures, have applied for positions at an online education startup that promises explicitly non-“woke” instruction in a number of academic disciplines. A college student follows a remote class in Los Angeles (Getty […]

Bitcoin Plunges Further As Musk Claims Energy Usage Trend Is “Insane” Just when you though Elon Musk’s change of heart on bitcoin could be short lived, he has again taken to Twitter on Thursday morning, furthering his “environmental” case against the cryptocurrency.  At about 0600 EST, Musk followed up on yesterday’s statement about no longer […]

The New York Times was ridiculed this week after warning that “misinformation” about the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict could prove deadly, with critics pointing out the newspaper’s own history of fake news. “Misinformation about the violence between Israelis and Palestinians has run rampant on social media,” the newspaper declared on Twitter, pointing to an article by […]

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has been acquitted in her trial for posting pictures of atrocities committed by the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group, including an image of a US journalist’s body. The far-right politician was alleged to have broken French hate-speech laws for uploading three particular images to her Twitter account […]

Guest Post by John Stossel Do I live in an alternate universe? The media tell me my side is winning. Salon claims, “We all live in Kochland, the Koch brothers’ libertarian utopia.” Tucker Carlson says, “Our leadership class remains resolutely libertarian.” What? Who? Not President Biden. Biden already spent $1.9 trillion on COVID-19 “recovery” mostly […]

Via The Babylon Bee U.S.—A new study found that anyone still wearing a mask at this point is probably just super ugly. The study looked at thousands of Americans still wearing masks and thousands who have long since thrown away all their masks. The findings were conclusive: the vast majority of people who still choose […]

Which Lifeboat Will You Choose? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, I’m sure it’s no surprise that the next five years will be risky and challenging; to the degree that we will be reliant on those closest to us, we are sharing a virtual lifeboat. Consider a scenario in which we’re on a […]

The Institute of Public Health in Norway has recommended against the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, adding to a recommendation of permanently avoiding the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab over side effect fears. In a press release on Monday, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) advised the government against the use […]

Meet The Ransomware Group Behind Colonial Pipeline Shutdown: ‘Our Goal Is Cash Not Chaos’ Here we go again as we first predicted, the Colonial Pipeline systems hack which took America’s largest fuel pipeline offline is being widely blamed on who else but…Russia – as CNN reports, “A criminal group originating from Russia named ‘DarkSide’ is believed to be responsible for […]

The latest surge in the price of the world’s second biggest digital asset, ethereum, turned its co-founder Vitalik Buterin into the youngest crypto billionaire in history. The public ether address of the Russian-born Canadian IT programmer hit $1 billion on its balance sheet after ether’s meteoric growth to $3,200 was recorded earlier this week. In […]

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE This year has marked the first time ever that trust in news media dropped below fifty percent in the United States, continuing a trend of decline that’s been ongoing for years. Mass media punditry is divided on where to assign the blame for the plummet in public opinion of their work, with some blaming it […]

The IDF has posted what was perceived as a meme on its Instagram account showing before-and-after photos of a residential tower block in Gaza following its assault on the building, which was allegedly used by “terrorists.” “Another significant achievement,” the Israel Defense Force (IDF) titled its post of Wednesday, showing “before” and “after” photos of […]

The world has entered a period full of turbulent changes since six years ago, while China-Russia relations have become even more mature, stable and resilient under the joint guidance of the two heads of state Read More

The US Government Is On Track To Top Last Year’s Record-Breaking Deficits Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, The Treasury department has issued its spending and revenue report for April 2021, and it’s clear the US government is headed toward another record-breaking year for deficits. According to the report, the US federal government collected […]

“The Social Contract Is Broken”: Why Millennials Who Lack Rich Parents Feel Increasingly Hopeless The worsening precarity of the millennial generation has been a hot topic for the financial press over the last year, and it hasn’t failed to disappoint. Thinkpieces about crushing student loan debt, rising housing prices placing home-ownership further out of reach, […]

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong A Texas man who allegedly planned to bomb an Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia was arrested Thursday, according to the US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. The FBI has filed a criminal complaint in federal court over a malicious attempt to destroy a building with an […]

One of Moscow’s top diplomats has slammed the near-total silence from Western nations as Ukraine moved to arrest two prominent opposition politicians on high treason charges, speaking as part of an exclusive interview with RT. Dmitry Polyanskiy, who serves as the first deputy representative in Russia’s Permanent Mission to the UN, said the decision of […]

China Is Trying To Break Up The Five Eyes Intelligence Network Authored by Con Coughlin via The Gatestone Institute, China is making a deliberate attempt to create divisions within the elite “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing alliance by forging closer relations with the left-wing government of New Zealand premier Jacinda Ardern. The Five Eyes alliance, comprising the […]

“The” Science Is Coming For You Again! Authored by Robert Wright via The American Institute for Economic Research, I was recently driving east from Omaha for sixteen hours and there was nothing much to do so I let the radio linger on a “public news” show that consisted of two rational-sounding adults discussing how “the” science is […]

Biden’s First Trip Outside Country Will Be To NATO Headquarters Authored by Rick Rozoff via AntiWar.com, White House Press Secretary Jen “Russia will be accountable by the international community“ Psaki announced today that her boss, President Joe “I will continue with every fiber in my being to keep America involved with troops that can shoot and […]

How Government Subsidizes Obesity Authored by Barry Brownstein via The American Institute for Economic Research, Austrian mathematician Abraham Wald was a World War II hero. He worked out of a nondescript apartment building in Harlem for the Applied Mathematics Panel. Wald’s ability to see the unseen was a significant factor in the Allied victory in […]

The Central Bank of Turkey (CBRT) has banned the use of cryptocurrencies and crypto assets to purchase goods and services, warning of significant risks in such transactions. The legislation comes into effect on April 30. The regulator said in a statement published in the Official Gazette that cryptocurrencies and other such digital assets based on […]

This article was originally published by Matt Agorist at The Free Thought Project.  Americans on both the right and the left celebrated the words of Joe Biden’s April 14th speech in which he said, “ it’s time to end the forever war….It is time for American troops to come home.” After all, the idea of ending […]

“Content Modification” – Facebook’s New Campaign Should Have Free Speech Advocates Freaking Out Authored by Jonathan Turley, In 1964, Stanley Kubrick released a dark comedy classic titled “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” The title captured the absurdity of getting people to embrace the concept of weapons of […]

Russia Is Prepared To Disconnect From SWIFT Payment System: Foreign Ministry Via South Front, Russia is preparing to depart from the international payment system SWIFT, Maria Zakharova, Russia’s Defense Ministry spokeswoman said, in an interview with RT. According to her, disconnecting from SWIFT was “hypothetical” currently, but not at all impossible. “The possibility of being disconnected […]

Actress Susan Sarandon and rock legend Roger Waters will protest the trial of Steven Donziger in New York. Donziger took on oil giant Chevron over pollution in Ecuador and won, but now he’s in the legal crosshairs himself. After nearly two years under house arrest, Steven Donziger will finally see the inside of a courtroom […]

Americans will be able to travel to the EU this summer when the bloc’s nations reopen for tourism, the head of the European Commission has said – but only those who show proof of vaccination with an “approved” jab will be let in. In what seems to be an indication of how lives will never […]

Bill Gates Urged To Provide Epstein Evidence To Ghislaine Maxwell Investigators Bill Gates is being urged to come forward with evidence about his former pedo-pal Jeffrey Epstein, after their years-long relationship continued after Epstein was a known pedophile – and has been cited by anonymous sources as a key factor in Melinda Gates’ decision to […]