Global Economy

Another COVID Myth Dies The Death Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research, Going to the grocery store in Massachusetts in 2020 guaranteed you would breathe heaps of sanitizer. A full-time employee scrubbed down shopping carts between customers. Conveyor belts at the checkout counter were blasted and wiped between every sale. […]

More than 30 college students in South Korea’s capital have shaved their heads in front of the Japanese embassy to show their opposition to Tokyo’s plan to dump more than a million tons of nuclear wastewater into the ocean. On Tuesday, crowds gathered around the Japanese embassy in Seoul to watch college students, both girls […]

EU Walks Back Embarrassing Claim Of 150,000 Russian Troops Near Ukraine Border Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The European Union had to correct a claim made by its foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, concerning Russian troops near the Ukrainian border. Borrell told reporters on Monday that there were “over 150,000” Russian troops near the border. The […]

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey says the state’s progress in the immunization campaign means the nearly yearlong school mask mandate can be repealed and that there is no need for people to present proof of vaccination. The Republican governor signed an executive order prohibiting state and local officials from requiring people to provide their vaccination status […]

US States Close Mass Vaccination Centers Due To Falling Demand As we noted a few weeks ago, America has smashed President Biden’s revised target of 200M COVID-19 jabs in arms by the end of his first 100 days in office while moving up his target for having the entire adult population vaccinated.  According to data […]

By Jeremy KUZMAROV n Wednesday April 14th, President Joe Biden announced that he would end the U.S.’s longest war and withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Over 6,000 NATO troops will also be withdrawn by that time. “War in Afghanistan was never meant to be a multigenerational undertaking,” Biden said […]

Food Prices Are Rising Aggressively, And Even Corporate Media Admits It’s Only Going To Get Worse Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Food prices are outrageous now, but they are only going to go higher.  Earlier today, I came across an NBC News article entitled “Get ready for higher grocery bills for the rest […]

Via International Man International Man: For over 2,500 years, gold has been mankind’s most enduring money. With the emergence of Bitcoin—which has piqued the interest of many—there is a new hard money option. How do you see the two as governments worldwide are engaged in the most extreme money printing experiment in history? Nick Giambruno: […]

Biden personally assured President Volodymyr Zelensky of America’s “unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s ongoing aggression in the Donbass and Crimea.” What does that mean? What are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping up to? In recent days, Russian tanks, artillery, armor, trucks and … Read more…Putin & Xi […]

‘Is Biden Really In Charge?’ Asks A Skeptical Sen. Cornyn Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) asked on Monday if Joe Biden is “really in charge,” based on the President’s much lower profile than his predecessors, and obviously scripted appearances. In a Twitter thread citing a recent Politico article, Cornyn tweeted: “The president is not doing […]

On Easter day, many chose to publish on their social profiles a painting dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ, among the countless ones that European art has handed down to us. Those who want to express eternal values, ideas and universal symbols – everything that escapes the grasp of earthly contingencies and remains immutable in […]

The Institute of Public Health in Norway has recommended that the government stop using the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine after a lengthy review of the jab. Oslo suspended its use on March 11. In a press release on Thursday, the agency said that after considering, in collaboration with external experts, the continued use of the heavily-scrutinized […]

Comply or Die: The Only Truly Compliant Person in a Police State Is a Dead One By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead, April 21 2021 These warrior cops may get paid by the citizenry, but they don’t work … The post Selected Articles: The Lockdown Paradigm Is Collapsing appeared first on Global Research. Comply or Die: The […]

Blain: Europe’s Big Bond Bonanza Will “Magnify Political Volatility” Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “Bond markets can bully anyone…” Europe’s plans for a €1 trillion bond program will create a single US Treasury scale market, but who agreed to it? The big risks are the imperfect non-democracy’s funding program will magnify political volatility, while […]

A report has claimed British police were often confused by coronavirus laws and struggled to enforce them, leaving people questioning why law enforcement were fining people based on guidelines they didn’t understand. Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) complained in the report that coronavirus restrictions were “often at short notice […]

Russian sailors will carry out a series of exercises in the Black Sea, including practicing the sinking of enemy vessels, just days after reports claimed two US warships were headed to the region – something Washington now denies. In a statement seen by local media on Wednesday, defense chiefs said that the frigate Admiral Makarov […]

An attempted comeback by Ecuadorian leftists ended in a disappointing defeat after their presidential candidate lost to an IMF-friendly career banker. Guillermo Lasso’s third attempt to become the president of Ecuador was a success on Sunday. During the first round in February, he finished 13 percentage points behind frontrunner Andres Arauz, and barely beat third-place […]

‘We Were Creating A Story — Our Focus Was To Get Trump Out’: CNN Director Busted By Undercover Veritas Operative A technical director for CNN made the grave error of sitting down with a (probably hot) undercover female journalist from Project Veritas, to whom he admitted that the network “got Trump out” with their coverage, […]

A new “threat assessment” by the US intelligence cartel has named China the number one threat to the United States today, followed by Russia, Iran, and North Korea. This has of course led to blaring news headlines like “China poses the biggest threat to the U.S., a new intelligence report says” from The New York Times, […]

America has turned into a consumption economy, according to veteran stockbroker Peter Schiff, who points out that economies can’t run on consumption because then they become “bubble economies.” According to Schiff, a vibrant healthy economy needs production “Because you cannot consume what is not first produced.”  “Since our economy is so weak and we’re unable to […]

A Third Bank Joins The Doom Chorus, Sees Painful Correction In 3 Months: Here’s Why Quietly, one bank after another is telling its clients that the music is about to end. It started with Morgan Stanley, whose chief equity strategist Michael Wilson over the weekend said that while the S&P 500 has continued to make […]

Would the US go to war with Russia over Ukraine? As tensions escalate between Moscow and Kiev, some have warned that the latter’s ‘alliance’ with Washington could spiral into a conflict between the two main nuclear superpowers. Except, of course, there is no alliance between the US and Ukraine. This week, US Secretary of State […]

Night-time curfews, sweeping business closures and severe limits on public gatherings are all part of the German government’s new bill aimed at “standardizing” Covid-19 measures to stop the third wave, German media report. Berlin is currently working on amendments to the national Infection Protection Act that would significantly tighten the lockdown restrictions and greatly reduce […]

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Facebook may have breached data protection regulations after the personal information of 533 million of its users was leaked online, Ireland’s data authority has said, as it announced an investigation into the social media giant. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) said in a statement on Wednesday that it will launch an inquiry in relation to […]

I love Caitlin, an Aussie who speaks powerful truth. And so do you! Summary; ‘Murika is run by morans. ======================= = SOURCE: caitlinjohnstone.com Intelligence sources say biggest threat to US is actually US policy A new “threat assessment” by the US intelligence cartel has named China the number one threat to the United States today, followed […]

Florida Gov. DeSantis Says Lockdowns Were A “Huge Mistake” Authored by Ivan Pentchoukov and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statewide stay-at-home order on April 1 last year locking down the Sunshine State for 30 days amid a global panic about the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak. Sitting in his office […]

Researchers from the University of Georgia have conducted a study which confirms what many already suspected; humans now tend to trust algorithms more than each other, especially when it comes to tedious tasks. The premise of the study was simple: some 1,500 participants were shown photos and asked to count the number of people in […]

Import/Export Prices Explode Higher In March, Hottest In A Decade Amid global supply chain disruptions and trillions in liquidity to support consumption, it is perhaps unsurprising that import and export price inflation is soaring. However, the scale of the moves is notable with import prices rising 1.2% MoM (+0.9% exp) and export prices rising 2.1% […]

WHO Rejects Vaccine Passport For International Travelers In a statement released following a virtual briefing on Monday, the WHO’s Emergency Committee on international health standards officially recommended that governments avoid making vaccine passports mandatory, a trend that is already catching on in the UK. Specifically, the committee advised governments “do not require proof of vaccination […]

Iran’s Military Blames Israel For Drone Attack On Oil Tanker Off Syria, Vows Revenge The blaze aboard an oil tanker near Syria’s Banias refinery has been extinguished Sunday following a suspected drone attack which was widely reported as coming “from the direction of Lebanese waters” – in the words of Syria’s oil ministry. The Guardian is […]

As the institutional figureheads find excuse after excuse to prolong the pandemic, several messaging missteps means their words fall flat As the institutional figureheads find excuse after excuse to prolong the pandemic, several messaging missteps means their words fall flat Read More

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter You can’t win, but that’s all part of the plan. Reason, rules, processes – these are the foundations of a free society, which is why the cultural left is so dead set against them. A citizen needs to be able to rely on clear rules and fixed processes to vindicate […]

Biden is saying that when Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd for nine minutes as the life drained out of him, the world, for once, was getting a good, close look at the diseased soul of America… a reflection of the kind of justice America delivers to Black … Read more…Is America Led […]

Why NATO Destroyed Libya Ten Years Ago By Manlio Dinucci, April 12 2021 Ten years ago, on March 19, 2011, US/NATO forces began their bombardment of Libya by air and by sea. The war was initiated directly by the … The post Selected Articles: Why NATO Destroyed Libya Ten Years Ago appeared first on Global Research. […]

White House Will “Share” Millions Of Unwanted AstraZeneca Jabs With Developing World While the EU sues AstraZeneca for failing to honor its vaccine delivery commitments, Washington is using its wealth of AstraZeneca jabs to make a generous donation to those economies that are less fortunate than its own. Of course, the US and de facto […]

The Mexican government has issued a warning to nine states, including its capital, Mexico City, alerting them that a device capable of causing “fatal injuries” if handled improperly found its way into the hands of robbers. Industrial radiography equipment has been stolen in a “violent robbery” of a truck near the municipality of Teoloyucan in […]

Russia’s Interior Ministry has banned entry to the country for 122 foreign nationals found to have participated in unauthorized protests in Moscow this year. The restricted individuals won’t able to return for 40 years. Speaking at a meeting about security, immigration, and interethnic relations in Russia’s Public Chamber, the head of Moscow Police’s migration department […]

The Biggest Threat To US Hegemony: China, Russia, Or Debt? Via The Mises Institute, Now that the Biden administration has settled in, it is time to reassess American policy towards Russia, China and the wider Asian scene. Is it going to be a continuation of the Trump administration’s policies, or is there something new going […]

Chinese military exercises in the Taiwan Strait send a strong signal to Taipei’s “secessionist” politicians who rely on the US’ support for the island nation’s independence, Beijing has said amid increasing tensions. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) maneuvers in the Taiwan Strait are “combat exercises” necessary to protect “national sovereignty,” Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesperson […]

The Failure Of Imperial College Modeling Is Far Worse than We Knew Authored by Phillip Magness via The American Institute for Economic Research, A fascinating exchange played out in the UK’s House of Lords on June 2, 2020. Neil Ferguson, the physicist at Imperial College London who created the main epidemiology model behind the lockdowns, […]

The U.S. Economy Is Now Run By Women So much for the patriarchy.  At the top of the helm in President Biden’s economic cabinet are numerous women. For example, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and trade czar Katherine Tai all collectively help run the economy. Many of President Biden’s economic advisors are also […]

How To Start A War Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via AmGreatness.com, Wars often arise from uncertainty. When strong powers appear weak, truly weaker ones take risks they otherwise would not.  Sloppy braggadocio and serial promises of restraint alternatively trigger wars, too. Empty tough talk can needlessly egg on aggressors. But mouthing utopian bromides convinces […]

COVID Abates, Tax And Geopolitical Risks Emerge Submitted by Paul Hoffmeister, Chief Economist at Camelot Portfolios Covid outlook continues to improve. Fed prioritizes Covid over inflation. Tax hikes to pay for spending. Relations with China and Russia introduce geopolitical risks.. The S&P 500 has continued its ascent on the back of aggressive monetary and fiscal […]

This article was originally published by Micahel Snyder at The End of the American Dream.  If we accept what they are doing to us now, they are just going to keep pushing the envelope.  Over the past 12 months, authorities throughout the western world have used the pandemic as an excuse to impose Orwellian measures […]

“You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet: The Digital Yuan Can Be Turned Off Like A Light Switch” Two weeks ago, we reported that one of the most remarkable “features” of the brand new and soon to be unrolled digital Yuan, which should not be confused with any account-based currencies or commercial bank, private or unbackstopped digital […]

An official tally of suspected side effects resulting from Covid vaccination in Sweden has surpassed 30,000, with the majority of cases occurring in people inoculated with AstraZeneca’s shot. According to the Swedish Medical Products Agency, as of last week, the Scandinavian nation had received 31,844 reports of adverse reactions linked to the rollout of Covid-19 […]

Guest Post by Pat Buchanan If red lines are to be laid down, they ought to be laid down by the one constitutional body with the authority to authorize or declare war — Congress. And questions need to be answered to avoid the kinds of miscalculations that led to horrific world wars in the 20th […]

Russia & Belarus Say US-Backed “Assassination” & “Coup” Attempt Against Lukashenko Thwarted Russian and Belarusian state sources are alleging that a major assassination and “coup” attempt of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has been thwarted by security services, which has further been dubbed in state media as an “armed insurrection” attempt which may have had the backing of […]

As a volcanic eruption cast a pall of ash over the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, tens of thousands fled – but eyebrows were raised after the island nation’s PM said they weren’t going anywhere without a Covid shot. The La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent erupted on Friday, sending […]

In a new poll, Americans were asked to rate states on their “win percentages” in head-to-head matchups, and Washington, DC came in last. The YouGov poll ranked states in matchups, but included Washington, DC, which many advocates have been pushing for statehood.  The two states to rank bottom were Alabama and Mississippi, with each winning […]

Beijing has launched a scathing attack on Washington, claiming the US has committed multiple crimes against humanity, after Secretary Blinken blasted the Chinese “genocide” against Uighur Muslims on the eve of Ramadan. Speaking on Tuesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian hit out at the US’ attitude towards Xinjiang-related issues, blasting the “insidious methods” being employed to […]

Ukraine Demands “More Weapons, More Money, More Support To Join NATO” From Biden Naturally, a CNN camera crew was in tow for last week’s visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to an area near Mariupol in Donetsk where he “walked the front line with the troops” amid renewed fighting with Russian-backed separatists in the eastern Donbass region. Days […]

“Total Chaos” – Unlawful Assembly Declared In Huntington Beach When “White Lives Matter” Clashed With Counter-Protesters  Huntington Beach police declared an unlawful assembly in Downtown Huntington Beach, California, Sunday afternoon following a “White Lives Matter” rally that resulted in social unrest.  Hundreds of people gathered in Downtown Huntington Beach for the event, but it appeared counter-protesters (representing Black […]

Top Republican Posts Video Of ‘Child Abuse’ At Texas Border Patrol Facility Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) posted video footage of numerous unaccompanied children being housed in a Donna, Texas, Border Patrol facility and said it’s tantamount to “child abuse.” “I visited the Donna […]

When Will The UK Go Back To The Office? For those with the opportunity to work from home during the pandemic, the ‘new normal’ has by now simply become, well, normal. However, as Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, with the UK’s vaccination programme bringing the country ever closer to herd immunity though, companies and employees alike are beginning […]

The United States Has Declared Defeat In Two More Wars Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, President Biden announced last week that he planned to remove all combat troops from Afghanistan by September, which he says will mark the end of what is now a twenty-year war in the central Asian country. A week earlier, the […]

The American military presence in Germany will be increased by 500 soldiers, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said, reversing the policy of former President Donald Trump. Around 500 additional troops will be permanently stationed in the city of Wiesbaden “as early as this fall,” Austin said at news conference with his German counterpart Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer […]

Peter Schiff: Inflation Is A Painful Tax Via SchiffGold.com, We’re told inflation isn’t a problem. But a quick trip out to the grocery store or to fill up your car with gas tells you otherwise. Prices are going up. Peter Schiff recently appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to talk about inflation. He said the price […]

The novel coronavirus – deemed COVID-19 – has caused unprecedented harm to South Asian countries and has significantly affected global migrtation. Economies are reeling from border closures, societies have become plagued by social distancing measures, and the political economy is faltering from diverging perceptions vis-à-vis the virus. The novel coronavirus – deemed COVID-19 – has caused […]

The IMF And World Bank, Who Pay No Taxes, Are About To Talk About Tax Hikes And Inequality By Michael Every of Rabobank Koestler-Push Inflation The IMF and World Bank spring meetings are about to kick off, where those who pay no income tax get to talk about tax evasion, tax hikes, inequality, and Building […]

Hundreds of protesters have traveled to Rome from all over Italy to vent their fury at Prime Minister Mario Draghi and his government’s strict Covid-19 measures, which are making life tough for small businesses like restaurants. At least one protester was injured as a 500-strong crowd gathered in the capital on Monday, some of whom […]

Gaslighting: How Leftists Demonize And Demoralize Their Opposition Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, We have all heard this time honored cautionary mantra: “All governments lie”. It’s not a theory, it is a fact that history has proven time after time. I would only expand on the rule and say this: All governments, all corporations, […]

53% Of Canadians On Brink Of Insolvency 53% of Canadians are on the verge of insolvency and are $200 or less away from not being able to pay their monthly bills and obligations, while 25% took on more debt during the pandemic, according to a new survey by MNP. The news comes as Canada’s MNP […]

France’s top officials have reiterated their pledge to continue fighting terrorism in the aftermath of the killing of a policewoman by a suspected Islamist outside of Paris. A terror inquiry into the incident has been launched. The murder of the policewoman was an attack on the whole of France, the country’s Prime Minister Jean Castex […]

It is the Pentagon’s mission to move from physical presence to sophisticated online operations in the near future. And, for America’s military and political communities, March proved rather fruitful when it came to various doctrines and strategies. It is the Pentagon’s mission to move from physical presence to sophisticated online operations in the near future. […]

President Xi is confronting the Biden administration with a new world view, that Beijing’s decades of not challenging the U.S. as global leader are over President Xi is confronting the Biden administration with a new world view, that Beijing’s decades of not challenging the U.S. as global leader are over Read More

After hearing about the absentee SCOTUS vote that could have determined the amount of fraud that played into the 2020 election of Josef Liden whose pre-ordained executive orders are killing our most basic freedoms…..well, someone said it much better than I can. “THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the […]

Obsessively disinfecting all surfaces may not be necessary to deal with the coronavirus, US health authorities are now saying, citing data that suggests that the odds of catching Covid-19 from surfaces are low. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the latest science brief on Monday, pointing out that “the relative risk of […]

Two British gunboats will soon be cutting through the waters off the south coast of Russia, amid escalating tensions between Moscow and the West over troop deployments and NATO military activity on Russia’s border with Ukraine. The Sunday Times reported over the weekend that a Type 45 destroyer, armed with anti-aircraft missiles, and a Type […]

Russia’s Army Begins Massive ‘Combat Readiness’ Inspection As Ukraine Tensions Soar At a moment of soaring tensions over the renewed Ukraine crisis and amid accusations out of Kiev and the Biden administration that the Kremlin is saber-rattling over heightened fighting in the Donbass region, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced Tuesday the start of combat readiness checks, according […]

‘That’s Not Orwellian, THIS Is Orwellian’: Aussies Mulling ID For Access To Facebook, Twitter, Tinder The Australian government is mulling a proposal which would require citizens to provide at least two forms of identification if they want to use social media, under the guise of ‘battling online bullying and more easily report users to authorities. […]

Balance Of Power In The Black Sea: Will The Montreux Convention Prevail? Authored by Brian Kalman exclusively for SouthFront, The current deterioration of any hopes of a lasting “ceasefire” in the eastern Ukraine, have brought not only the long smoldering conflict back into the forefront of global media attention, but have also presented an opportunity for several geopolitical […]

A double decker bus has been completely destroyed after it was set alight by protesters in Belfast, as Northern Ireland was hit by another night of violence amid heightened sectarian tensions in the region. Dramatic footage shared on social media showed people hurling Molotov cocktails at the bus while the driver was still inside as […]

Russia will end its participation in the International Space Station after it reaches the end of its planned lifespan in 2024, a senior official has confirmed. Moscow is already working on a new station to replace the current one. Moscow will “notify [partnering countries] about its withdrawal from the ISS starting from 2025,” Russian Deputy […]

Hundreds have rallied in cities across Australia against the deaths of aboriginal people in prisons and police custody. The government admitted that indigenous inmates are over-represented in the justice system. Protests and marches took place in cities, including Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on Saturday, with more rallies expected in Adelaide and Perth on Thursday. People […]

How close can Russia and Ukraine come to war without actually going over the precipice?  Over the weekend, more forces on both sides continued to pour into the conflict zone.  And on the line of separation in eastern Ukraine, there are regular reports of gunfire and shelling.  At this point, there are no negotiations on […]

Is Bitcoin Displacing Gold As An Inflation Hedge? Authored by John Authers via Bloomberg.com, Silver and Gold, and Bitcoin How to explain bitcoin? As I said a couple of weeks ago, it’s hard to dismiss the digital currency as a classic investment bubble because — unlike any of the other historical manias which have seen similarly […]

Donald Trump has blasted President Joe Biden for not sticking to the former administration’s May 1 withdrawal from Afghanistan and instead using the September 11 anniversary instead. “I wish Joe Biden wouldn’t use September 11th as the date to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan, for two reasons,” Trump said in a Sunday statement.  The first, […]

Russia’s Investigative Committee has said it will look into reports that Ukraine violated the ceasefire in the non-recognized Donetsk People’s Republic, after claims that a five-year-old boy was killed by shelling last Friday. The agency’s spokeswoman, Svetlana Petrenko, explained that it would be investigating a possible infraction of the Russian Criminal Code that seeks to […]

Production of Sputnik V, the world’s first registered vaccine against Covid-19, has started in Serbia, the Russian developers of the jab have announced. Italy, India and Iran are expected to follow suit in the coming months. “Production of Sputnik V vaccine was successfully launched in Serbia,” Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund […]

Last year Senator Bernie Sanders led a public push to reduce the insanely bloated US military budget by a paltry ten percent. His push splatted headfirst against a bipartisan solid steel wall which shut him down definitively. Sanders’ bill was killed in the Senate by a vote of 23 to 77, with half of Senate […]

German Government Pitches Plan To Reimpose Harsh Lockdown Measures After canceling Germany’s draconian Easter lockdown last month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel “took full responsibility” for her misjudgment. But,now it looks like her government is reverting to the decision that new COVID-19 restrictions need to be put in place, before spiking COVID cases lead to a surfeit […]

In Huge Reversal, China Now Calls Bitcoin “Investment Alternative” After Years Of Crackdowns With both India and Turkey cracking down on bitcoin, is China set to warm to the cryptocurrency that it has been waging a not so quiet capital control war with for the past four years? In a dramatic and material shift in […]

The Military Origins Of Facebook, Part 1 Yet another well-elaborated analysis proving that the dumb Zuckerberg is far from a “successful entrepreneur”, but just a chosen “human-face” to front military and CIA surveillance operations against all free individuals and nations! The same goes for Gates, Bezos, since for all others the banks would have called […]

Record 33% Of Young Americans Living With Parents The number of adults aged 18-34 living at home with their parents continues to accelerate to levels not seen in decades, according to Goldman Sachs, citing US Census Bureau data which found that just over 33% have returned to the nest. And while real estate in major […]

US President Joe Biden has invited his Russian and Chinese counterparts Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping to a climate summit scheduled for April, in hopes of speeding up global efforts to cut carbon emissions, the White House said. Putin and Xi were among the 40 leaders invited to the event, anonymous administration officials told reporters […]

YouTube has taken down a video of a public health roundtable hosted by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and a number of medical experts voicing skepticism about lockdowns, saying that it violated the platform’s community standards. The nearly two-hour video was first streamed on the channel of a Florida CBS affiliate in mid-March, in which the […]

US Agrees To Withdraw “Remaining Combat Troops” From Iraq In Joint Talks Starting weeks ago the Iraqi government began putting pressure on the Biden administration to enter a new round of talks over withdrawing all remaining US troops from the country – a process previously stalled amid tit-for-tat strikes between American forces and Iran-backed Iraqi […]

Iran And Israel In The World’s Most Dangerous Game Of ‘Battleship’ Submitted by South Front, Israeli and Iranian ships in the Red Sea have been subject to regular attacks in recent weeks and months. Tel Aviv and Tehran blame each other but with little evidence to support either side’s claims. On April 6th, an Islamic […]

China May Require Automakers, Including Tesla, To Store Driver Data Domestically In a move that we’re sure Elon Musk will hurriedly comply with, China is reportedly mulling the idea of making auto manufacturers store the personal data and information they collect in China domestically, according to new draft guidelines issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information […]

Russia Warns US Warships To Stay Far Away From Crimea “For Their Own Good”  At a moment the United States appears poised to send its warships near Ukraine as a strong ‘deterrent message’ against Russian forces built up near the east Ukrainian border, Russia on Tuesday warned that US vessels better stay away from Crimea “for […]

Two detachments of the Russian Army, along with three airborne units, are ready to act in the event tensions with the West escalate into full-blown fighting, Moscow announced on Tuesday following a surprise inspection of troops. After paying a visit to the soldiers, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told journalists that the personnel met the standards […]

Every Physical Silver Ounce Has Been Sold Up To 1000x Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com, The silver price is today half of the January 1980 level. That was the peak at $50 which silver reached again 31 years later in 2011. But alas, the bullion banks, aided by the BIS (Bank for International […]

Bitcoin Crashes As Much As 15% Amid Unsubstantiated Report Of Money Laundering Crackdown In a crash that started late on Saturday evening and accelerated throughout the night, Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency space plunged the most in more than seven weeks, just days after hitting a new all time high ahead of the Coinbase IPO. Bitcoin […]

UBS Predicts 80,000 More Retail Stores Will Close In Five Years The retail apocalypse has been well documented for readers (see: here & here & here) over the years as tens of thousands of brick and mortar stores nationwide have shuttered their doors. The problem today – is that millions of jobs lost during the pandemic […]

War On Cash: The Next Phase Begins Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, With so much news about an economic reopening, a border crisis, massive government spending and exploding deficits, it’s easy to overlook the ongoing war on cash. That’s a mistake because it has serious implications not only for your money, but […]

Ankara’s competition watchdog has imposed a large fine on Google after it was found to be in violation of the country’s laws and suppressing local competitors through its dominant market position. The decision was announced by Turkey’s Competition Authority on Wednesday. The fine follows the watchdog’s investigation into Google’s parent company, Alphabet, as well as […]

With Victory Day here again, World War II historical revisionism kicks back into gear. The reason this is becoming such a hot issue once again is that the debate over the past has serious implications for today’s geopolitics. It has apparently become a yearly tradition for some bad actors to try and force us to […]

“You’d Have To Shut Down The Internet” To Ban Bitcoin, Says SEC’s Hester Peirce Any government efforts to ban Bitcoin would be “foolish,” said Hester Peirce (aka “Crypto Mom”), a very Bitcoin-friendly commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), during a MarketWatch virtual conference earlier this week, according to Cryptoslate reporter Liam Frost. […]

Ahead of a May 1 deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the Biden administration had hoped the talks would yield a cease-fire agreement Ahead of a May 1 deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the Biden administration had hoped the talks would yield a cease-fire agreement Read More

Black Lives Matter Activist Charged With Anti-Asian Hate Crime Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A Black Lives Matter activist was arrested in Seattle for allegedly committing two separate hate crimes against Asian people, once again contradicting the media narrative that Donald Trump’s rhetoric on coronavirus was primarily to blame for the hate […]

255 ‘Transgender’ Inmates Request Transfer To Women’s Prisons After California Passes New Law Authored by Andrea Widburg via AmericanThinker.com, For those who are wondering how the Democrats’ “Equality Act” – requiring people to be treated according to their gender identity — will operate if passed, we’re getting some foreshadowing from California. On January 1, a […]

US Colleges Push To Mandate Student Vaccinations Before Fall Semester Authored by Isabel van Brugen via The Epoch Times, A growing number of U.S. colleges are announcing plans to mandate the vaccination of students returning to campus this fall, in line with President Joe Biden’s pledge to make all adults in the country eligible for […]

Beijing has called on Tokyo to put off a decision on dumping radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean until it has fully consulted its neighbors, claiming leakages have already had a profound impact. Speaking on Friday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Japan must adopt “a highly responsible attitude towards […]

Every four years, US intelligence community analysts try to predict what is going to happen in the next 20 years. Although events regularly take place that show how difficult it is to make predictions for even the next five years (I’m talking about predictions, not plans), the US intelligence community continues putting together these reports […]

From Saturday, France will widen regional lockdown measures to the entire country in a bid to halt rising Covid-19 infections, President Emmanuel Macron has said, while defending his government’s approach to tackling the virus. All face-to-face teaching in schools will be suspended from Monday for a week ahead of the two-week spring break, with schools […]

US researchers have unveiled a significant upgrade to the CRISPR gene editing system, which, unlike its predecessor, can target specific genes with high precision and make completely reversible changes. The new gene editing technology, developed by Whitehead Institute Member Jonathan Weissman and University of California San Francisco assistant professor Luke Gilbert, is called CRISPRoff.  It […]

Governments around the world could start clamping down on the use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to Jesse Powell, the chief executive of the Kraken exchange. “I think there could be some crackdown,” the CEO told CNBC, adding that regulatory uncertainty around crypto isn’t going away anytime soon. Powell’s words follow a recent anti-money […]

How Putin’s “Saber-Rattling” Forced A Biden Summit, Bypassing Kiev To Decide Ukraine’s Fate As the leaders of France, Germany, and Ukraine hold an urgent meeting on Friday to discussing soaring tensions in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s largescale military build-up near the border, Kiev continues to charge Moscow with aggressively stoking conflict: Addressing a news conference […]

The terms “nationalism” and “patriotism” are often used interchangeably. This is understandable, as they have somewhat overlapping meanings, both of which suffer from a certain amount of vagueness. However, there are a number of key differences between the two that are worth shedding light on. In the final analysis, we believe that the term “nationalism,” […]

By Kaylee Greenlee Daily Caller News Foundation Human smugglers advertised illegal border crossing services to migrants looking to enter the U.S. on Facebook, the Tech Transparency Project reported Friday. Facebook’s algorithm has recommended pages linked to human smugglers despite community guidelines prohibiting human trafficking and actions that exploit individuals, a Tech Transparency Project investigation found. […]

Veteran Intelligence Officials Issue Letter To Biden Urging To Avoid War In Ukraine MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)SUBJECT: Avoiding War in Ukraine Dear President Biden, We last communicated with you on December 20, 2020, when you were President-elect. At that time, we alerted you to the dangers inherent in formulating a policy toward Russia built […]

New York City police have arrested a suspect in the brutal attack on a 65-year-old Asian American woman outside a Manhattan apartment building, saying the black New Yorker was on parole for the 2002 stabbing murder of his mother. Brandon Elliot, 38, faces felony charges of assault and attempted assault as a hate crime, having […]

Escobar: Bombshell Book In Germany Revives 9/11 As A Business Model Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Saker blog, Nearly 20 years after 9/11, Germany and the German-speaking world are being hit by a formidable one-two. A ground-breaking study by gifted independent financial journalist Lars Schall, Denken wie der Feind – 20 Jahre Ausnahmezustand 9/11 und […]

Taiwan: The New Geopolitical And Economic Flash Point Authored by Ethan Yang via The American Institute for Economic Research, The island nation of Taiwan may be in the spotlight today for handling Covid-19 without a lockdown but it’s about to become one of the most contentious geopolitical flashpoints of the decade. On April 17, 2021, The South China […]

That wonderful ranting Pastor in Canada said he wasn’t sure what the following day would bring … the day after he called those armed thugs (cops) all kinds of colorful names.  Well, they closed his church.  THEY have the laws, the judges, the men with guns … and a cowardly population which meekly takes it […]

“…It’s Not Money…” – Desperate ECB Downplays Cryptos As Market Cap Soars Above $2 Trillion How do you know that cryptocurrencies are disrupting the status quo and offering ‘we, the global people’ an alternative to establishment fiat control? Simple – when the global central planning elites continue to jawbone how terrible, awful, dangerous (etc…) cryptocurrencies […]

For the wealthy and the ultra-wealthy, happy days are here again.  Even though we have just been through one of the most difficult 12 months in our history, the number of billionaires has increased dramatically during this pandemic.  That seems rather odd, but there is no denying that the rich have gotten even richer during […]

Where’s Dr. Fauci As Another Corona-Myth Dies? Authored by John Tamny via RealClearMarkets, For over a year well-to-do Americans have quite literally been “quarantining” packages shipped to them,  and that were dropped off at their residences by “science-denying” untouchables who lacked the means to similarly “shelter-in-place.” The package-terrified have usually waited 48 hours before handling said […]

Japan Poised To Allow Coast Guard To Fire On Chinese Vessels In New Legislation  New legislation being considered that would radically alter current Japan Coast Guard policy toward how it engages foreign vessels in Japan’s waters could inadvertently hurl the region toward a hot conflict involving China.  The new proposed law comes at a moment […]

Max Keiser interviews Lawrence Lepard, an independent investment adviser, about inflation and global trade. They discuss the consequences of President Richard Nixon’s decision to take the US dollar off the gold standard in 1971. That was “a horrible decision,” Lepard says, adding, “To me, so many ills that we face in our society are a […]

Debt-Fueled Spending Won’t Create Growth Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, More debt equals less growth. In October, I discussed the “2nd Derivative Effect” and the ongoing cost of the stimulus. With the passage of the $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan,” will the math of debt to growth change? Now, even Deutsche Bank credit strategist, Stuart Sparks, got the […]

Watch: Elon Musk Calls Crypto “Speculation”, Says People “Should Not Invest Their Life Savings” In It With Elon Musk slated to host Saturday Night Live this weekend, the whole world’s focus has been on whether or not Musk is going to use the platform to pump either Tesla stock or any number cryptocurrencies, which have rallied […]

Arizona Sheriff: Illegal Border Crossings May Be Underreported By 300% Authored by Stacey Lennox via PJMedia.com, On March 19th, the President of the Arizona Sheriff’s Association, Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels, wrote an open letter on the border crisis and posted it to Facebook. It lays waste to the narrative that the current policies that encourage migration […]

Watch: Diners Chant “Get Out” As Health Officials Try To Shut Down Restaurant Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A video out of Vancouver shows diners chanting “get out!” as health officials try to shut down a restaurant that opened in violation of COVID-19 lockdown laws. The clip shows a pair of health […]

(Natural News) For years, many of the world’s most powerful “three-letter agencies” – think CIA, FBI, and NSA – have gone “woke” as a cover for their devious activities and crimes against humanity. Now, large corporations are doing the same in an attempt to look virtuous, even as they rape and pillage the masses. It… […]

Ankara has backed Kiev’s bid to join NATO and vowed to expand defense industry cooperation as well as “coordinate steps” with Ukraine to reclaim Crimea, all while saying it does not seek to spite third countries. “Our main goal is that the Black Sea continues to be a sea of peace, tranquility and cooperation,” Turkey’s […]

JPMorgan: Clients Are “Increasingly Nervous”, Fear “A Market Pullback In May Or June” Much to the delight of bulls everywhere, the past month has been a relentless meltup in stocks, commodities, cryptos, and – paradoxically over the past week when we have been bombarded with stellar economic data – Treasurys as well. After dumping at […]

Biden’s Ukrainian “Putin Push” May Lead To World War III Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, Biden was in charge of much of the “Ukraine project” during Obama’s time in office. In recent weeks President Biden has been saying some rather mean-spirited things about Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Now Russian state sources are alleging […]

UBI And The Road To Serfdom Authored by David Gordon via The Mises Institute, Many people think that a universal basic income (UBI) would be a good substitute for the welfare state. Under this proposal, each person resident in a country would receive a guaranteed income, sufficient to live at a modest level. People would […]

Watch Live: Social Unrest Erupts After Police Killing Of Man In Minnesota Social unrest is unfolding in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota after a Brooklyn Center police officer shot and killed a driver during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon. According to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, investigators have arrived at the crime scene.  BCA agents and crime […]

They’re trying to roll it out around the world. It is so much more than a vaccine pass. I can’t stress this enough. It has the power to turn off your life. Or turn on your life. To let you engage in civil society or be marginalized. It’s catastrophic. It cannot be allowed to continue. Wolf […]

America Lost Its Religion: Church Membership Plunges Below 50% For First Time  Americans’ faith in organized religion continues to trend down at an accelerated pace. A new poll from Gallup shows for the first time since the public opinion polling company began asking questions in 1937, the number of Americans who view themselves as members of a […]