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‘Tweeting Is Easy, Governing Is Hard’: AOC Deemed Among ‘Least Effective’ Lawmakers According To Study While Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might be great sophist – skilled in the arts of dramaticism and hubris, her record on Capitol Hill leaves much to be desired according to a survey from the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking. Of the […]

The city of Oakland, California, has announced a “guaranteed income” project to support local low-income families – but curiously, poor white families won’t be included, leading many to slam the move as racist. Announced earlier this month, the ‘Oakland Resilient Families’ plan was described by the mayor’s office as one of America’s “largest efforts to […]

They’re Not Even Trying To Make Sense Now Authored by Patrick Armstrong via The Strategic Culture Foundation, In short, we are supposed to believe that in 2016 the Russian hacked nothing but the election and in 2020 they hacked everything but the election. The US intelligence community published a report on 10 March, widely reported in the […]

Via GenZConservative Weak men and the Collapse of Society Americans used to pride themselves on their masculinity and masculine impulses. The famous photo of the sailor kissing a girl in New York after victory was announced, Emanuel Leutze’s painting of a masculine, proud, and erect George Washington bravely crossing the Deleware, and tales of rugged […]

In Syria, The War Of Hunger Is Taking Over From The War Of Guns Authored by Patrick Cockburn via The Unz Review, Great dollops of hypocrisy invariably accompany expressions of concern by outside powers for the wellbeing of the Syrian people. But even by these low standards, a new record for self-serving dishonesty is being set by […]

Joe Scarborough Slams “Idiots” Who Oppose Vaccine Passports: “They’re Living In Ignorance And Stupidity” As we have reported numerous times, at this point, the reality that vaccine passports will essentially become an individual’s ‘passport to life’ seems like a foregone conclusion. The EU is already working on rolling out a digital system to allow residents […]

The ‘Great Reset’ – Animal Farm Version Authored by Brad Lena via AmericanThinker.com, Currently, transnational globalists are pushing for a “Great Reset.”  It helps to understand what’s coming at us if you remember that the globalist’s mindset is akin to a zookeeper’s.  Currently, the zookeepers have their animals safely confined, but there remains a modicum of hope […]

Biden Administration Urges Supreme Court To Let Cops Enter Homes And Seize Guns Without A Warrant Authored by Nick Sibilla via Forbes (emphasis ours) The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear oral argument in Caniglia v. Strom, a case that could have sweeping consequences for policing, due process, and mental health, with the Biden […]

It wasn’t China that sold out generations of yet unborn Americans to feed the military Industrial complex to the tune of nearly a trillion dollars/year. It wasn’t China that bailed out the criminal bankers for trillions more dollars. “Know your enemy” is one of the 36 strategies from the “Art of War” It was written […]

Buyers know there will always be a greater fool willing to pay more for an over-valued asset because the Fed has promised us it will always be the greater fool. I realize nobody wants to hear that most of their “wealth” is nothing more than wispy Cloud Castles in the Sky that will dissipate in […]

Playing US Politics: Saudi Arabia Targets Middle America Authored by Dr. James M. Dorsey via SouthFront.org, Amid Washington chatter about the future of US-Saudi relations, the kingdom has launched an unprecedented public diplomacy campaign to marshal business and grassroots support beyond the Beltway to counter anti-Saudi sentiment in the Biden administration and Congress. To do […]

Escobar: Ukraine Redux – War, Russophobia, & Pipelineistan Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, The deep state/NATO combo’s using Kiev to start a war to bury Nord Stream 2 and German-Russian relations… A Ukrainian serviceman walks in a fortified position at the front line with Russia-backed separatists not far away, in Avdiivka, Donetsk […]

A new analysis has found that the high speed vaccination strategy introduced in the US appears to have backfired in many states which opened up eligibility prematurely. The drive to open up vaccination programs to larger swaths of the population appears to have caused a surge in demand beyond the capacity of the medical infrastructure […]

Dollar’s Share Of Global Reserves Tumbles To Lowest Since 1995 As Yuan Hits All Time High Last week, the The IMF released the latest Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves (COFER) report for Q4 2020. It showed that the trend of global dedollarization has accelerated and while the Dollar’s share of global reserves initially […]

A top Russian diplomat has warned that the US dollar is becoming an increasingly risky currency on which to base global financial transactions, because Washington is linking its currency more and more to its foreign policy aims. Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin told RIA Novosti that recent events have undermined faith in the greenback overseas. […]

UK To Roll Out ‘Covid Passports’ For Sporting And Music Events  As we have reported numerous times, the reality of COVID-19 passports will become an individual’s ‘passport to life’ seems like a foregone conclusion. The UK intends to roll out “Covid passports” within weeks for high-profile sporting and music events.  Those who are wealthy and/or fortunate enough to […]

Why Are We Vaccinating Children Against COVID-19? Authored by Paul Alexander via The American Institute for Economic Research, The acute focus in this writing is on the vaccination of children under 12 years of age with the Covid-19 vaccines as this raises very serious and urgent issues that must be confronted by societies in terms […]

Reaction To COVID-19 Vaccine Caused Man’s Skin To Peel Off: Doctors Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A reaction to Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine caused a severe rash that eventually led to a man’s skin peeling off, doctors and the man said. “It all just happened so fast. My skin peeled off. […]

A group from North Korea has called on Japan to stop trying to “evade” responsibility for drafting Koreans into forced labor and prostitution during World War II. The issue has been the source of bad blood for decades. North Korea’s Association of Korean Victims of Forcible Drafting and Their Bereaved Families urged Japan to “apologize” […]

Don’t fancy the idea of carrying a ‘vaccine passport’ to partake in normal life again? For MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, that makes you an “idiot” and a “moron” who should crawl back to your “cave.” The Biden administration is working with the private sector to develop a standardized way for Americans to prove their Covid-19 vaccination […]

A Trillion Here, A Trillion There Authored by Clifford Thies via The American Institute for Economic Research, The late Everett Dirksen, a long-serving Minority Leader of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate, is famously quoted as saying a billion here, a billion there, and soon we’re talking real money. That was back in 1969. At […]

Pentagon Publishes Photos Of Syrian Kurds Training To Call In Airstrikes Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Last month, US Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) trained members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) during live-fire attack helicopter exercises. JTACs direct military aircraft during combat and pictures published on a Pentagon website show the JTACs training SDF […]

Protests in the UK over proposed legislation that would crack down on public demonstrations have led to ten officers being injured and dozens people arrested, according to police, who describe the event as a “policing operation.” “Today’s policing operation is still ongoing and arrest numbers may rise, but at this time, 26 people have been […]

British actor John Cleese has been both cheered and chastised for ridiculing voice actor Hank Azaria over his apology to “every single Indian person” for his portrayal of Simpsons character Apu. Azaria drew a mixed response this week when he said sorry for his portrayal of the long-running cartoon’s Indian shopkeeper Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, whose stereotypical […]

Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, and other high-profile celebrities have teamed up for a vague commercial promoting the so-called ‘WELL Health-Safety Seal,’ an expensive endorsement for business owners that many are panning as useless. “If you want to get back to your favorite places and feel confident they have put your health and safety first,” […]

Disorder Will Come… Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com, When bubbles burst, we will discover how very few superior men there actually are – as defined by Confucius: “The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility […]

Germany’s Political Crisis And The Future Of Nord Stream 2 Submitted by South Front, In a Blinken of an Eye The Biden Administration entered the White House accompanied by hopes that it would return to some kind of normal in its relations with the European Union. While Biden, unlike Obama, would not score a Nobel […]

 The year of COVID gave all of us plenty of time, even those who were able to go out every day to go to work. Finding ourselves with closed bars and restaurants, off-limits gyms and discos, unable even to leave the house for an aimlessly walk, so why not indulge in the friendly company of […]

Defiant US Soldiers Openly Questioning Why BLM Riots Weren’t Treated Like Capitol ‘Insurrection’ Soldiers “from every echelon” of the US military have been openly questioning why last year’s violent BLM and Antifa riots weren’t treated like the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a comparison which has flown sideways up the ass of the military’s top enlisted […]

Vaccination campaigns that have been rolled out across the world are bringing fresh hope to millions of music fans, who are itching to once again attend concerts and music festivals. RT’s Boom Bust talked to Steve Stewart, co-founder and CEO of Vezt, the intellectual property rights marketplace for musicians, to access the impact of the […]

YouTube Deleted 2.5 Million ‘Dislikes’ From Biden White House Videos, Data Indicates Authored by Peter Svab via The Epoch Times, YouTube has deleted about 2.5 million ‘dislikes’ from videos on the official White House channel of President Joe Biden, according to data collected and posted online by a researcher who wished to remain anonymous. YouTube recently announced that it’s […]

World banks may lose over $6 billion from the downfall of the US investment firm Archegos Capital, sources told Reuters. Regulators are closely monitoring the situation as panic spreads about the possible scale of the fallout. The sudden liquidation of the New York-based billionaire Bill Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management ignited a fire sale of more […]

Meet The Russiagate Prober Who Couldn’t Verify Anything In Steele Dossier, Yet Said Nothing For Years Authored by Paul Sperry via RealClearInvestigations, For the past four years, Democrats and the Washington media have suspended disbelief about the Steele dossier’s credibility by arguing that some Russia allegations against Donald Trump and his advisers have been corroborated […]

Russia could easily become a production site for Italian companies that are actively exporting to Eurasian markets and outside, according to Ernesto Ferlenghi, vice president of the General Confederation of Italian Industry. Russia could easily become a production hub for Italian companies that are actively exporting to Eurasian markets and outside, according to Ernesto Ferlenghi, […]

Leaders of 23 countries and the World Health Organization (WHO) have backed the idea of creating a global treaty that would bolster international cooperation in case of future health emergencies like the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The idea of the treaty received formal backing from the WHO, as well as leaders of over 20 nations, on […]

Syrian Oil Minister Reveals US Has ‘Pirated’ $92 Billion In Crude Via AlMasdarNews.com, The Syrian Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources, Bassam Tohme, said on Thursday, that the total losses in the direct and indirect oil sector in Syria have exceeded $92 billion (USD). The Syrian minister said in statements to the state-owned Al-Ikhbariya TV channel […]

Dear Readers, We are pleased to announce that the first Global Research Webinar will be held this Wednesday, March 31st, at 4:00 pm (EDT), 1:00 pm (PT), 3:00 pm (CT) The 2020-21 Worldwide Corona Crisis It will be presented by … The post The 2020-21 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Global Research Webinar, March 31st, 2021 appeared […]

The Great Donkification Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, “Right here, boys!  Right here!  Get your cake, pie, dill pickles, and ice cream!  Eat all you can!  Be a glutton!  Stuff yourselves!  It’s all free, boys!  It’s all free!  Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry!” – Pleasure Island voiceover, Walt Disney’s Pinocchio (1940) Welcome To Pleasure Island! Did you […]

US intelligence agencies have warned the Biden administration that if the United States withdraws its military presence from Afghanistan under current circumstances, the nation would be at severe risk of falling under the control of the people who live there. A New York Times article titled “Officials Try to Sway Biden Using Intelligence on Potential […]

Powell Slams Bitcoin, Says Crypto More A Substitute For Gold Than Dollar In his first of three public appearances this week, Fed’ Chair Powell spoke at a Bank for International Settlements event discussing digital currencies, where his comments had the least practical importance for the current market situation (where interest rates have emerged as the […]

Russia’s Finance Ministry has allowed the National Wealth Fund (NWF) to diversify its assets by investing part of the funds into precious metals, including gold. The share of gold, which is seen as one of the most “protective” assets, has been significantly boosted in Russia’s foreign exchange reserves, the ministry said. The step is aimed […]

Why US Troops Will Never Be Pulled Out Of Syria Authored by “Ehsani” – a Middle East expert, Syrian-American banker and financial analyst who visits the region frequently and writes for the influential geopolitical analysis blog, Syria Comment.  A friend recently asked: “Surely, the American Army is not staying in Syria forever and sooner or later they […]

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is continuing to study reports of rare blood clot events potentially linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine, but said on Thursday that the jab “is safe and effective in preventing Covid-19”. Following a review of the vaccine and reported rare incidents of blood clots among recipients, the EMA did not find a […]

Austria’s Kurz Derides EU’s “Geopolitical Blinkers” On Vaccine, Confirms Talks For Sputnik V It appears the campaign by some EU and US officials to try and ensure Russia’s Sputnik V jab stays out of Europe and Western countries isn’t going so well.  Earlier this month it was widely reported that despite European Union leaders’ fierce public criticisms of […]

A Jewish teachers’ union leader thinks Jewish parents who want to send their kids back to school are betraying their Talmudic heritage. An opponent thinks that’s an anti-Semitic argument. Now they’re both being hammered online. Teachers in Los Angeles have fiercely resisted a return to in-person learning, even as their counterparts across the country came […]

“Inflation Is Always A Political Choice” As Jim Reid leaves the Deutsche Bank credit desk for the next few weeks (“I’ll be taking holiday and sending the kids to Easter holiday camp and playing golf every day as courses in the UK open on Monday for the first time in 3 months”), his last Friday […]

Authored by Josh Kantrow via AmericanThinker.com, I was surprised to receive his text message because I had not heard from him in over a year, he had not responded to two of my texts sent eleven and nine months ago, and we used to see each other about every six to eight weeks for coffee […]

Russian state-run energy giant Gazprom increased shipments of natural gas to Europe by 30.7% in the first quarter of the current year, preliminary data shows. The impressive year-on-year surge, to nearly 53 billion cubic meters, is reportedly due to the cold (in European terms) winter season. In March, the shipments totaled 18.2 billion cubic meters, […]

The European database of suspected drug reaction reports, EudraVigilance, is now tracking reports of injuries and deaths following the experimental COVID-19 “vaccines.” This is public information of an official EU body funded by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), but it is obviously being censored by the corporate media. So is this alright with the globalists, corrupt […]

Multiple scuffles broke out on the streets of Kassel, Germany as Covid-19 lockdown skeptics and counterprotesters gathered, and police deployed mace and batons to contain the demonstration. Protests against Covid-19 restrictions in multiple major cities across the country were planned for Saturday, with the biggest occurring in the central German city of Kassel. According to […]

US Nuclear Command Says A Young Child Accessed Its Twitter Account The mystery surrounding the bizarre and seemingly nonsensical tweet sent out Sunday evening by the verified Twitter account of US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) has been solved, apparently. The below screenshotted tweet had been live for at least 30 minutes and was retweeted over 4,000 times, unleashing […]

An updated review of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine showed the jab is 76% effective against the illness, downgraded from the 79% reported in earlier tests, which US health officials said were based on “outdated” information. The pharma firm publicized the results of its 32,000-person US trial in the early hours of Thursday morning, reporting that the […]

Freedom Saves Lives Too Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, On the evening of December 12, 1799, George Washington, who at that time was 67 years old and happily retired from public life, came down with a minor cold and sore throat. The next day he lost his voice and began having trouble breathing. On […]

This essay from June 2008 continues to receive reader comments, so I’m republishing it here in 2021 as an offering to new readers. I’m not trying to be difficult, but I can’t help cutting against the grain on topics like surviving the coming bad times when my experience runs counter to the standard received wisdom. […]

UK Supreme Court Judge Expects People Will Be Forced To Wear Masks, Stay Home For Ten Years Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, British former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption has warned that “social controls” brought about by the coronavirus pandemic may be kept in place by governments for up to a decade. “It’s politically unrealistic […]

The rapidly shifting international distribution of power creates problems that can only be resolved with real diplomacy. The great powers must recognize competing national interests, followed by efforts to reach compromises and find common solutions. Over the past week the Biden administration has intensively reached out to Europe to revitalize the transatlantic alliance. In the […]

Calgary Police have been ridiculed over their official response to a scandalous Easter prayer incident in evangelical Street Church in Alberta, in which a conservative preacher chased law enforcement officers out of his property. In their statement on Sunday night, authorities said only “one uniformed officer of the Calgary Police Service attended a call to […]

Americans’ Fear Of Catching COVID-19 Drops To Record Low: Gallup By RJ Reinhart of Gallup.com, Highlights 35% of Americans are worried about catching COVID-19, down from 49% 77% say the COVID-19 situation in the U.S. is improving, up from 60% 64% report at least a fair amount of disruption to their lives, down from 70% […]

In modern conditions, countries around the world are trying to adapt to Western standards. No country is an exception to this rule. The nation is increasingly trying to move from a traditional society to a modern one. But what a modern society is, its example is seen in the image of the West. What criteria […]

Want A Job? Get A Shot! Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Mask tyranny reached a new low recently when a family was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight because their four-year-old autistic son was not wearing a mask. The family was removed from the plane even though […]

French Call To Replace English With Latin As Europe’s Official Language Via TRTWorld.com, Met with scorn for now, the sentiment against English language is moving from the fringes to mainstream politics. An anti-English movement is brewing in France. Clement Beaune, French Minister for European Affairs led a campaign for “European linguistic diversity” last month, where he emphasized […]

Russia Pitches Frosty Arctic Sea Route As Superior Alternative To Blocked Suez Canal As the world waits to see if the US Navy personnel dispatched to the Suez Canal will succeed in freeing the boat (after a successful “partial refloating” that appears to have been a dry run for a more comprehensive effort once the […]

Since President Joe Biden took the oath, there were speculations that world peace will be disturbed badly. Because President Joe Biden was in politics for a long and was an essential part of several US Administrations under various Presidents, he was the architect of anti-Russia and anti-China policies. He is still in the cold-war era […]

Autocracy Versus Democracy Or China Versus America? Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org, “I’ve known Xi Jinping for a long time. … He doesn’t have a democratic — with a small ‘d’ — bone in his body,” said Joe Biden in his first press conference as president, and then he ambled on: “He’s one of […]

Leviathan Mobilizes For Decisive Battle Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Globalist forces are being mobilised to win a last battle in the ‘long-war’ – looking to break-through everywhere. In The Revolt of the Public, Martin Gurri, a former CIA analyst, contends that western élites are experiencing a collapse of authority deriving from […]

Macedonian footballer Ilija Nestorovski has been excluded from the national team after a controversial goal celebration against Lichtenstein during which he screamed insults into the camera. The Udinese striker netted a penalty shot in Macedonia’s 5-0 drubbing against Lichtenstein but celebrated in a bit of an odd way by hurling profanities into a camera on […]

A rapid increase in China’s crude oil refinery capacity will see it dominate exports in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC), particularly to Australia where concerns are growing of a vulnerability in the supply chain, experts say. China customs data shows that the country’s exports of refined oil products to Australia rose from a few thousand tons […]

Here Come The Global Vaccine Passports Vaccination passports are being called the new “golden ticket” needed for global travel – and the hospitality industries that benefit – now that the recovery is on its way. Countries like Greece, who get a sizeable share of their country’s GDP from tourism, are looking forward to welcoming back […]

Digital Trails: How The FBI Is Identifying, Tracking, & Rounding-Up Dissidents Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Americans deserve the freedom to choose a life without surveillance and the government regulation that would make that possible. While we continue to believe the sentiment, we fear it may soon be obsolete or […]

Mutual Assured Destruction Leaves No Winners Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, Like many people, I do not find what is known as the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD to be reassuring. Today, those most fearful seem to be those people that lived through the tumultuous 1960s and the cold war, […]

Faith does not forbid Russian Muslims from getting vaccinated with Sputnik V against the coronavirus, the body of top religious scholars has decided after considering two components of the Covid-19 vaccine for Sharia compliance. The Ulema Council announced on Monday that Muslims in the Russian Federation should not be “excessively punctilious” about the vaccine, quoting […]

A trove of personal data, including full names, phone numbers and emails of a whopping 533 million Facebook users has reportedly been leaked online. The social media giant downplayed the incident, claiming that the data was “old.” A huge database that previously circulated privately, has now been published on a hacking forum for free, according […]

“Brutal” Abuse Of Power: Watch As UK Police Break Up “Unlawful Gathering” Easter Service In London Shocking footage has emerged showing the absurd lengths authorities are willing to go to enforce ‘Covid rules’ even after vaccines have been made more widely available, with tens of millions having received the jab.  UK police invaded a church […]

Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder has once again called for the speedy approval of Russia’s Sputnik V as his government considers vaccine production in the German state, and a Russian company plans to invest in it. “Generally, we need to think more freely” when it comes to vaccination, Soeder told the German newspaper FAZ on […]

The price of the world’s highest-valued cryptocurrency, bitcoin, could skyrocket as high as $300,000 in the current bull market based on its historical patterns, says Bobby Lee, co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange BTCC. He told CNBC that the bubble will burst after peaking and the crypto could see declines for years. “Bitcoin bull […]

Buchanan: Do We Not Have Enough Enemies? Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org, Asked bluntly by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos if he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is “a killer,” Joe Biden answered, “Uh, I do.” Biden added that he once told Putin to his face that he had “no soul.” Biden also indicated that new […]

The Greens are trying to derail the Russia-led Nord Stream 2 pipeline because they don’t care about German interests and only do the bidding of the US, Max Otte, economist and member of Chancellor Merkel’s CDU party, told RT. The latest polls predict that the Greens may claim 20% of the vote and come second […]

Bovard: Lockdowns Wrecked Democracy Around The World Authored by James Bovard via The American Institute for Economic Research, While the number of fatalities attributed to Covid-19 is carefully tracked by governments, few people have recognized how pandemic-spurred crackdowns have devastated democracy around the world. Emergency proclamations have entitled presidents and other government officials to seize […]

Escobar: US/NATO Versus Russia-China In A Hybrid War To The Finish Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, The unipolar moment is six feet under, the hegemon will try to break Eurasian integration and there’s no grownup in the room to counsel restraint… Let’s start with comic relief: the “leader of the free world” […]

China And Russia Are Winning The New Space Race Authored by Brandon Weichert via RealClearPolitics.com, Conflict, not cooperation, is going to define international affairs for the foreseeable future. This will be true both on Earth and, more importantly, in the strategic high ground of space. Fact is, the second space race is on. The world’s […]

A Canadian man, involved in a legal battle over his right to object to hormone treatment for his teenage trans child, has reportedly been jailed and denied bail for violating a gag order banning him from discussing the story. Robert Hoogland was denied bail by the Vancouver Supreme Court on Friday and will remain in […]

Syria’s petroleum minister has condemned US forces for acting “like pirates” as Washington continues to plunder most of the oil wealth from the country’s resource-rich northeast, where the Pentagon backs Kurdish militia groups. “Americans and their allies are targeting the Syrian oil wealth and its tankers just like pirates,” Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Bassam […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has challenged his American counterpart, Joe Biden, to a livestreamed online discussion, without a delay, and suggested they debate bilateral relations and issues of importance to the wider world. The president named the fight against the pandemic, regional conflict resolution, and strategic stability issues as possible topics, noting that he would […]

Two hospital staffers in Denmark experienced blood clots and cerebral haemorrhaging after they were vaccinated against Covid-19 with AstraZeneca’s jab. One has since died. Denmark revealed on Saturday that both staffers experienced issues less than fourteen days after being vaccinated. However, details of the incidents are currently scarce. The new report comes amid increasing concerns […]

Schools Gone Woke: One America Educator Speaks Out Authored by ‘An American Educator’ via The Critic, In a warning to teachers around the world, one American teacher opens up about the invasion of woke orthodoxy in the education sector… I am an American educator who began teaching nearly two decades ago. During that time, I […]

In Quest Of A Multipolar Economic World Order Professor Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar discuss the emerging economic world order which they define not so much as a conflict between nations, but a rivalry between two competing models of the economy. The finance capital driven model of the West with a domination of the FIRE […]

Michael Tracey: How The Censors Won Authored by Michael Tracey via mtracey.substack.com Thomas Rid testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017 On March 30, 2017, the Senate Intelligence Committee convened one of what would become an endless series of exhaustive hearings on “Russian interference in the 2016 election.” Media, cultural, and political elites — […]

Financial Capitalism: The Endgame Via Renegade Inc., Surely the biggest human failure is not learning from failure… In 2008, we had the opportunity, collectively, to reboot a broken financial system so it became fit for purpose. But instead of reconfiguring finance to serve the real economy politicians and central bankers used quantitative easing to buy […]

“Burn Your Masks!” Massive Anti-Lockdown Protests Rage Worldwide Thousands, and possibly tens-of-thousands of protesters across Europe marched on Saturday against continued government lockdowns and other pandemic restrictions based on questionable science – which have resulted in mass unemployment, destroyed small businesses, stoked widespread depression and mental illness, and cost taxpayers trillions to keep the whole […]

“A Threat To American Democracy” – Federal Judge Alleges Democrats Control Almost All Major News Outlets Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal judge this week said that the Democrat Party is close to controlling the press as he detailed what he described as shocking bias against Republicans. D.C. Circuit Court Judge […]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has sparked controversy after referring to the Easter holidays as a “long weekend,” with online commenters pointing out that the prime minister frequently mentions other religious events. “It’s the start of a long weekend, and I know that means you’d normally be getting together with your entire family for a […]

CBS News has deleted a tweet and given a new headline to what was supposed to be a straight news story on Georgia’s new voting law, after critics accused the network of blatant liberal activism. In a piece first titled, ‘3 ways companies can help fight Georgia’s restrictive new voting law,’ the network broke down […]

Is China Calling For Civilizational War Against America & The West? Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, There was a “strong smell of gunpowder” when American and Chinese diplomats met in Anchorage beginning March 18. That’s according to Zhao Lijian of China’s foreign ministry, speaking just hours after the first day of U.S.-China […]

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has dismissed accusations that Beijing is engaging in “intimidation” and “coercion” in Taiwan, and called on the US to recognize the one-China principle and refrain from coercive practices. Speaking on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian blasted Washington’s history of intimidation and international aggression as he questioned why the USS John […]

Almost one in every two people living in Moscow has developed antibodies to Covid-19, the city authorities have announced, with curfew rules, and restrictions on bars and clubs having already been scrapped as the caseload falls. Speaking as part of an interview with RIA Novosti published on Friday, Anastasia Rakova, the Russian capital’s Deputy Mayor […]

America’s Upside-Down Economy Just Took Another Bizarre Turn Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Is this a good economy or a bad economy?  Well, that all depends on who you are talking to.  For most Americans, economic conditions have been absolutely horrible ever since the COVID pandemic first arrived.  More than 100,000 […]

A ploy to encourage vaccinations by giving away donuts is weighing heavily on some Americans, already worried about unwanted weight gains during the lockdowns, even as obesity is recognized as a major risk factor for Covid-19. The chain Krispy Kreme announced on Monday that customers who bring in a valid vaccination card – showing they […]

Headed For A Collapsing Debt Bubble Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, A $1.9 trillion stimulus package was recently signed into law in the United States. Can such a stimulus bill, plus packages passed in other countries, really pull the world economy out of the downturn it has been in 2020? I […]

The price of bitcoin continues to rise as investors opt for crypto assets in an effort to find shelter from the decline of the US dollar’s purchasing power. The world’s most valuable cryptocurrency climbed 6% over the past 24 hours, trading at nearly $58,480 per token at 10:39 GMT. Another daily surge has been reportedly […]

10 Reasons Why Freedom Is Dangerous The number one thing that terrorizes us in this world and gets in the way of you having a better life… freedom! Here is JP Sears’ top ten “science-based” reasons why freedom is bad: 1. Freedom requires you to think for yourself (…think the thoughts they hand you… so […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has caught flak after he praised the legacy of Madeleine Albright, who once appeared to have justified the deaths of Iraqi children, saying that she made his country “more respected globally.” Blinken took to Twitter on Friday to hail Albright, former US ambassador to the UN and US Secretary […]

The Scottish government is to begin easing its strict Covid-19 lockdown rules in early April, with the ‘stay-at-home’ restrictions being replaced with ‘stay local’ advice, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday. From April 2, people will be advised to stay inside their local area instead of at home, Sturgeon told the Scottish parliament in […]

US prosecutors have escalated their case against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, alleging that she sexually trafficked a 14-year-old girl for pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to abuse at his home in Florida. The new eight-count indictment, which was filed on Monday in US District Court in New York, expands the six-count case that was brought against […]

Avon and Somerset Police publicly responded to an incident caught on camera this week showing a reporter being violently shoved by an officer as he filmed a protest – and many Brits are not happy with the response. After a video of Daily Mirror journalist Matthew Dresch getting attacked by a policeman on Friday evening […]

In a shockingly bigoted spiritual plea, Chanequa Walker-Barnes, an associate theology professor at Mercer University, has urged “Dear God” to help her find the “hate” she thinks “nice White people” who aren’t her “allies” deserve. The academic, who teaches pastoral care and counseling, spiritual formation, and reconciliation studies at the Baptist college in Macon, Georgia, […]

The Consent Of The Governed Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, In Holland Sunday, a protest demonstration against government Covid policies provoked a emergency order from that same government against thousands of people gathering in a place to … protest. The police and government had only “allowed” 200 demonstrators. So the […]

Australia’s spy agency is shifting the focus on how it describes the enemies it hunts. From now on, the Australian Security Intelligence Agency (ASIO) will use the term ‘religiously motivated’ instead of ‘Islamic extremist.’ “We don’t investigate people because of their religious views – it’s violence that is relevant to our powers – but that’s […]

Despite an executive order in November mandating the withdrawal of all remaining troops in Afghanistan, Trump’s promise to end the US’ longest war collapsed – and was set up to fail, according to a senior Pentagon adviser. Former US president Donald Trump made one last effort to prove he was sincere about prying the US […]

Another round of American economic measures aimed against Russia could have the unintended effect of strengthening the country’s economy, officials in Moscow have warned as Washington considers introducing new embargoes this week. “Fresh US sanctions will only intensify the process of switching away from dependency on imports in our technological supply chains,” a spokesperson for […]

“It’s Time For The Truth” – One Year After Lockdowns Began Authored by Edward Peter Stringham via The American Institute for Economic Research, One year ago, between March 13 and 16, 2020, began what most of us would agree were the most difficult days of our lives. We thought our rights and liberties were more […]

Making a case for Washington, DC statehood by saying the US should also expand to Cuba “as soon as it’s free,” a notorious neoconservative architect of US global hegemony found himself derided by liberals and conservatives alike. On Monday, as House Democrats held a hearing promoting statehood for the US capital district, Bill Kristol argued […]

Peter Szijjarto has become the first European official to receive the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, as his nation prepares to receive another batch of hundreds of thousands of doses from Russia. The minister posted a picture of himself receiving the jab on his Facebook page on Friday, as he announced that he had finalized the […]

The graduation photo that made Kaitlin Bennett famous or notorious – depending on one’s politics – has been removed from Instagram. The Facebook-owned platform termed her defense of gun rights “violence and incitement.” Bennett made a splash on the political scene in May 2018, when she posted a photo of herself with a rifle slung […]

A crowd of supporters of a notorious Ukrainian far-right leader sentenced to seven years in prison for kidnapping of a politician has vandalized the presidential office in Kiev as they demanded his release. No one was detained. Some 3,000 radicals have gathered in front of the presidential office on Saturday to mark the birthday of […]

UK Government Minister Says People Should “Call Out” Others For Hugging Their Loved Ones Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A government minister appeared on morning television to urge Brits to “call out” others if they were seen engaging “in an odd way,” such as hugging their loved ones. Yes, really. Nigel Huddleston, […]

Father Arrested After Continuing To Call His Child “She” Following Court-Ordered Gender-Transition Treatments Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is an extraordinary case out of British Columbia where a father referenced as CD was arrested after he continued to refer to his biological 14-year-old daughter (known as AB) as “she” and his “daughter” after he transitioned […]

Iranian media outlet Press TV has condemned Facebook for “censorship” after its main page was banned on the site yet again, with the platform citing violations of its “community standards” and stating the move can’t be undone. “Without any prior warning, Facebook informed Press TV on Friday that its account had been shut down for […]

Sweden Scraps Bill Gates’ Geoengineering Plot To Block The Sun Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, An effort to dim the sun to stop global warming has been scrapped by the Swedish Space Agency, who announced that the program, funded by Bill Gates, has ‘divided the scientific community’ and will therefore not be carried […]

“We Don’t Have The Money”: Argentina Warns It Will Default Again There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and Argentina defaults. And while we have seen a lot of the first in the past year, Biden is making sure we will see much more of the second in coming years, it was Argentina’s president […]

At least 33 people have been arrested for ‘breaching Covid regulations’ amid scuffles with riot police after thousands marched through central London in defiance of national lockdown and restrictions.  The anti-lockdown rally started as a peaceful march on Saturday afternoon, under the watchful eye of hundreds of police, but eventually turned ugly after the officers […]

The 4 Most Dangerous Distortions Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “Demands are one thing, solutions quite another…” As vaccine wars hot up and markets worry about interest rates and central bank action, the theme of price distortion continues to unsettle valuations. One aspect of distortion is in the increasing weight being put on ESG […]

Newly-released “nightmare” body camera footage that shows two Maryland police officers handcuff a 5-year-old boy, call him a “little beast” and repeatedly threaten to beat him has prompted outrage and calls for their dismissal. The 50-minute video – of the January 2020 incident – released on Friday by the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland […]

Australian researchers have discovered the gene responsible for a particularly nasty form of hormone-sensitive breast cancer. They believe their work may also provide a genetic trail of breadcrumbs to hunt other cancers in future. Back in 2012, researchers created a breast cancer classification called Integrative Clustering (IntClust), under which they split the disease into 10 […]

Russian National Wealth Fund Turning To Gold, Dumping Dollars Via SchiffGold.com, The Russian Finance Ministry has given the green light for the Russian National Wealth fund to diversify and invest in gold and other precious metals. According to a report by RT, this is part of a broader move to de-dollarize the wealth fund. The National Wealth Fund falls under the […]

CNN has been blasted on Twitter for using the term “accident” while describing an attempted carjacking by two teen girls that led to the death of the victim, an Uber Eats driver. The crime in question happened on Tuesday in Washington, DC and was filmed by an eyewitness. The graphic video shows a scuffle at […]

Different nations have varied justice systems, but it is agreed unanimously that child rape is one of the most heinous crimes. In Kazakhstan, the punishment is castration – and, this year, 25 prisoners have had the injection. Chemical castration works by inserting anaphrodisiac drugs that reduce the libido by blocking testosterone. According to a Kazakh […]

Manatee County officials have expanded a mandatory evacuation area around a leaking wastewater pond at an old Piney Point phosphate mine, as governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency amid fears of an “imminent” collapse. Over 300 households received an emergency evacuation alert on Saturday afternoon, after the initial danger zone that included just […]

Ten Years Ago: The US-NATO-Israel Sponsored Al Qaeda Insurgency in Syria. Who Was Behind the 2011 “Protest Movement”? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 16 2021 It was not a protest movement, it was an armed insurgency integrated by US-Israeli … The post Selected Articles: Ten Years Ago: The US-NATO-Israel Sponsored Al Qaeda Insurgency in Syria appeared […]

Woke-a-Cola: How To Destroy A World-Leading Brand In 60 Seconds Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase, “Get Woke, Go Broke.”    In the curious case of Coca-Cola, going woke may be the single biggest branding mistake in the history of marketing. In late February a […]