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WarnerMedia CEO Apologizes After Saying COVID Pandemic Has Been “Really Good For CNN Ratings” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar apologized after celebrating the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has been “really good for (CNN) ratings.” Kilar made the initial remarks during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom […]

From Birch Gold Group Since the pandemic began a year ago, the term “new normal” has become part of the American lexicon. Not “new” as in better or improved. But rather “new” as in contrast to the way things used to be. Much of the mainstream discussion argues that returning to the “old” normal isn’t likely […]

An important event took place between 22 and 24 February that not only has a symbolic significance for the Western hemisphere, but could also become an additional catalyst for the establishment of a multipolar world order. Argentine President Alberto Fernández made an official visit to Mexico at the invitation of its president, Andrés Manuel López […]

Russia’s agricultural sector has seen impressive growth in sales abroad this year, according to the latest data published by the AgroExport center under the country’s Ministry of Agriculture. In 2021, exports of agricultural products from Russia reportedly totaled more than $4.1 billion as of February 28, marking a rise of 35.8 percent compared to the […]

Mayor Sadiq Khan says he wants fewer white men working in science and engineering. His plan to “fix” the situation has sparked a furious backlash online. “There’s no good reason why 65% of people working in science and engineering should be white men,” Khan tweeted on Saturday, citing figures from the British Science Association. Khan […]

People who already had the coronavirus show rapid immune response to Sputnik V and may require just one shot of the Russian jab during vaccination, a study in Buenos Aires found. Study participants developed Covid-19 antibodies in 100 percent of the cases after both doses of Sputnik V were administered to them, a study by […]

The Global Financial End-Game Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The over-indebted, overcapacity global economy an only generate speculative asset bubbles that will implode, destroying the latest round of phantom collateral. For those seeking a summary, here is the global financial endgame in fourteen points: 1. In the initial “boost phase” of credit […]

Twitter protested “attempts to block and throttle online public conversation” as its stock price dropped amid reports Russia was slowing it down, in an effort to force the Silicon Valley giant to remove illegal content. “We are aware of reports that Twitter is being intentionally slowed down broadly and indiscriminately in Russia due to apparent […]

The head of eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, has called on Berlin to consider using Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine to accelerate the domestic vaccination campaign, adding he would gladly take the jab himself. “We should do everything possible to accelerate vaccination in Germany,” Haseloff, who is a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian […]

So Much For A ‘National Healing’ Authored by Peter R. Quinones via The Libertarian Institute, We were told the nation was in desperate need of “healing” because a large portion of the population wanted Donald Trump to “lead” the country. And if you believe that the “national healing would begin” because the “adults” are in […]

Liberals are calling journalist Glenn Greenwald anything from a shill and propagandist to a Nazi, over an interview they don’t seem to have watched, in which he described as “socialist” people they regard as anything but. In a video interview with the Daily Caller’s Christian Datoc and Omeed Malik, Greenwald said that he would “describe […]

Kissinger: Biden Must Uphold Trump Administration’s “Brilliant” Policy In The Middle East Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger has advised President Joe Biden’s administration to continue to uphold the “brilliant” policy in Middle Eastern politics achieved under the Trump administration. Kissinger, who was secretary of state under the Nixon […]

Goldman Now Sees Most Advanced Economies Reaching Herd Immunity In 3 Months The drop in global new infections has stalled in the past month, in part because more contagious variants are now spreading widely. This pattern can be clearly observed in the US, where the seven-day average of new cases in the US is decreasing […]

Covering your face in public for non-medical reasons will become illegal in Switzerland after a proposal dubbed a “burqa ban” was accepted by a narrow margin of voters in a binding national referendum on Sunday. Supporters of the “burqa ban” have prevailed in the Alpine country, with 51.2 percent being in favor and 48.8 percent […]

“I’m In A Cult!” – The Miseducation Of America’s Elites Authored by Bari Weiss via City-Journal.org, (emphasis ours) Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children’s private schools, organize in secret… The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls. They are usually […]

The Arms Race Is Back: UK To Expand Nuclear Arsenal By Over 40%, Citing “Ultimate Insurance Policy” Bringing an end to what was a prior policy of three decades of gradual disarmament, Britain will expand its nuclear arsenal by over 40%, according to a planned announcement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday. Lifting the cap […]

A Green Party politician has been labelled ‘deranged’ after she called for a 6pm curfew on men following the tragic murder of a London woman, with some urging the party to instead focus on the broadly popular green agenda. On Wednesday evening, Baroness Jenny Jones threatened to bring an amendment “to the next appropriate” bill […]

Russia-China Joint Lunar Base Sparks Fears Of Space Arms Race Conventional wisdom states the world is in a bipolar era. Though we tend to disagree with that as a multipolar international system is in the works. Multiple superpowers align forces that are the US and other Western nations, and, of course, Russia and China.  Russia […]

The region South Asia is located at a strategic point of the world. Its strategic locations is compelling leading international powers not to ignore the pivot of this region. The countries like India, Pakistan and Afghanistan makes this region more worth able as far as geo-strategic policy is concern. Major chunk of world’s population, defense […]

The company behind RT’s video agency Ruptly and RT DE Productions GmbH, which runs the German-language website and plans to launch a German-language TV channel, received a notice about their accounts being closed by Commerzbank. Ruptly GmbH and RT DE Productions GmbH have been informed by Commerzbank that it will no longer offer them its […]

The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service believes the US is becoming frustrated with the ruling political party in Georgia, a long-time client state of Washington, and is planning to provide support to the opposition. On Tuesday, Sergey Naryshkin claimed that Washington has gotten used to dictating government policy in Tbilisi, but appears to have […]

Hundreds Of Defense Contractor Lobbyists Were Behind New $264BN Nuclear ICBM ‘Boondoggle’ Authored by Jake Johnson via CommonDreams.org, A new report by the Federation of American Scientists set for publication next week will reportedly argue that US plans to spend up to $264 billion on construction and maintenance of a new nuclear missile are mostly being fueled by intense lobbying from […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis Opposes Vaccine Passports In Florida Authored by Adam Dick via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Good for Governor Ron DeSantis. In sharp contrast with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo who recently imposed “vaccine passport” requirements for people in New York to attend certain events, DeSantis is standing up for freedom and […]

Poor powerless Fed, poor starving cannibals, poor zombies turning to dust. That’s the American economy once the curtains are ripped away. Setting aside the fictional flood of zombie movies for a moment, we find the real-world horror is the cannibalization of our economy, a cannibalization that is now complete. Every organic source of prosperity and […]

Russia’s largest internet companies are teaming up with the country’s government to introduce a new tax to hit the pockets of their international competitors and funnel cash directly into the domestic market. Representatives from Russian tech giants last week met with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko to help plan a levy on foreign internet giants […]

In modern times and in public opinion, there is a time when extremism is talked about, and it is still considered a religious affiliation. The informatization of public opinion in various sectors has contributed to the fact that the phenomenon of extremism is always rooted in religion. This level of attitude has led to the […]

Radioactive Dust Is Sweeping Over Parts Of Europe From The Sahara  An alarming health disaster could be in the making as it’s being widely reported this week that radioactive dust has been sweeping out of the Algerian desert and broader Sahara region across the Mediterranean. Further scientists say the ominous sounding ‘radioactive Saharan dust’ is causing a pollution […]

“This Is F**king Crazy” – US Equities Whipsaw Dramatically At Cash Open After a dramatically exuberant post-stimulus-bill-vote spike at Sunday night’s futures open, stocks sank all night through Asia until Europe opened and the buying began. But that nothing to the chaos that was unleashed as the cash market opened with an instant puke across […]

The Founders Warned Us About Abuses Like H.R. 1 Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times, H.R. 1, the bill that would seize control of federal elections from the states, comes with an unusual twist. It supposedly promotes “access.” But it says anyone challenging its constitutionality is barred from every court in the nation […]

The Cannibalization Is Complete: Only Inedible Zombies Remain Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Poor powerless Fed, poor starving cannibals, poor zombies turning to dust. That’s the American economy once the curtains are ripped away. Setting aside the fictional flood of zombie movies for a moment, we find the real-world horror is the […]

Supreme Court Tosses Trump’s Last Election Appeals The US Supreme Court on Monday tossed the last of three cases brought by former President Donald Trump challenging his 2020 election loss, ending his quest for vindication through the courts – hardly any of which actually considered the evidence presented, and instead dismissed the cases on technical […]

By Robert WENZEL In recent months, Walgreens has closed 10 stores in the San Francisco area due to shoplifting. The thieves are brazen. In downtown San Francisco, there is a private security guard and a San Francisco police officer on duty at every store. But this is what happens. I have witnessed it myself. The private […]

Xi Jinping Calls Out US As “Biggest Threat” To China’s Development & Security China is currently signaling the world that it has mapped out its post-COVID ascent, but crucially it is now openly naming the United States as its biggest global obstacle.  Though Beijing and Washington now seem to have accepted their ongoing economic and financial rivarly […]

The Myths Of Green Energy Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via The Daily Reckoning, Finance is often cloaked in arcane terminology and math, but the one dynamic that governs the future is actually very simple. Here it is: All debt is borrowed against future supplies of affordable hydrocarbons (oil, coal and natural gas). Since global […]

The First “Global Inflationary Depression” Is Very Possible Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, It is possible that we might soon be witness to the first global inflationary depression. This is not a mix of words we normally see placed together. Several factors make this scenario possible. First, we seldom have depressions but […]

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While Covid-19 has claimed more than 2.5 million lives worldwide, the chief executive at CNN’s parent firm is looking on the bright side, telling a virtual audience the pandemic has been “really good” for the outlet’s ratings. Jason Kilar – CEO of WarnerMedia, which owns the cable network – appeared at Morgan Stanley’s “Technology, Media […]

South Korea finished its first week of rolling out long-awaited Covid-19 inoculations in the country with thousands of suspected adverse reactions to AstraZeneca’s vaccine, seven of which resulted in deaths. The number who died after the jab rose by four in the past two days, according to a report on Saturday by South Korea’s Disease […]

At long last we see action to kill war power authorizations used by three presidents. At long last we see action to kill war power authorizations used by three presidents. Read More

Restaurants, shopping centers, and gyms will reopen in Saudi Arabia on Sunday in a major easing of coronavirus restrictions by the Gulf nation, a government source told state-run SPA news agency. The decision on lifting the suspension will be implemented starting from March 7, an official source in the Interior Ministry said. This means that […]

CPI Jumps In Feb, BLS Admits It’s Making Most Of It Up Update: The BLS is basically just admitted it is all BS…“data collection in February was affected by the temporary closing or limited operations of certain types of establishments. These factors resulted in an increase in the number of prices considered temporarily available and […]

The European Parliament has scrubbed plans for its vote on the post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and EU in protest against Boris Johnson’s unilateral decision to change parts of the Northern Ireland agreement, RTE reports. Leaders of Europe’s political groups met on Thursday to agree on a date for the final vote to ratify […]

A sharp drop in Tesla’s share price this week has wiped some $27 billion from its CEO Elon Musk’s enormous fortune. The carmaker’s stock has been tumbling for four days in a row amid a wider tech sell-off. Tesla shares tumbled almost four percent to the lowest in almost three months on Friday, pushing its […]

National Guard DC Deployment To Last Two More Months About half of the National Guardsmen deployed in Washington DC will remain at the US Capitol through May 23, the Pentagon announced Thursday evening. At the direction of Defense Secretary and Raytheon board member what’s his face Lloyd Austin, approximately 2,300 troops will remain stationed more […]

China may be increasing it’s navy and armed forces while taking advantage of that “accidental” plague by aggressively moving pieces around the board, but I don’t think Xi Jinping realizes how much diversity and inclusion training we’ve had pic.twitter.com/GPJlckTH52 — War Criminal Patricius (@H0nest0bserver) March 8, 2021 China may be increasing it’s navy and armed […]

As Insurrection Narrative Crumbles, Democrats Cling To It More Desperately Than Ever Authored by Glenn Greenwald via greenwald.substack.com, Twice in the last six weeks, warnings were issued about imminent, grave threats to public safety posed by the same type of right-wing extremists who rioted at the Capitol on January 6. And both times, these warnings […]

“The Great Reset” wants to make the world unipolar again in order to move towards a globalist non-polarity, where the elites will become fully international and their residence will be dispersed throughout the entire space of the planet. This is why globalism brings about the end of the US as a country, a state, a […]

Dozens of demonstrators have taken over Paris’s Odeon Theater as part of national protests against the continued closure of cultural venues as the French government brings in tougher Covid-19 curbs. Police in the French capital closed off all entrances to the area surrounding the historic building, one of France’s national theaters, after as many as […]

The former French ambassador to the US has urged Brussels to consider retaliatory measures in response to Washington’s extraterritorial sanctions on European companies, arguing that it was time to defend EU interests. Pierre Vimont, a career French diplomat who served as envoy to the US from 2007-2010, said in an interview that extraterritorial sanctions have […]

Health Experts: Obesity Fuelling Vastly Higher COVID Death Toll Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Health experts have warned that there is a direct correlation between obesity and higher COVID-19 death tolls across the globe, findings that will not jive well with the woke trend to promote being overweight as ‘body positivity’. The London Telegraph […]

Japan Supercomputer Finds Double-Masking Doesn’t Work Many Americans are asking themselves: Is double making offering more protection against COVID-19 than a single mask?  To answer that question, we ask readers: Does anyone wear two condoms? The answer is probably no. But members of the Biden administration and at least one state governor are touting the extra […]

New Army Strategy Document Sees Arctic As Battleground With Russia & China Authored by Rick Rozoff via AntiWar.com, Last week the US Army released a new strategic policy document entitled Regaining Arctic Dominance, an exhaustive 48-page work with valuable background information and striking graphics. Because of its length an attempt to summarize it with the accuracy and comprehensiveness would be […]

Trump & Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, March 04 2021 Unbeknownst to many Americans, the U.S. military and its allies are engaged in bombing and killing people in other countries on a … The post Selected Articles: The Dangers of A “Sino-American Hot War” appeared first on Global Research. Trump & […]

EU countries have the right to acquire vaccines independently if jabs aren’t part of the bloc’s centralized procurement strategy, a European Commission spokesman said when asked about the Russian and Chinese shots. Amid shortages of EU-approved Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines against the coronavirus, some countries in the bloc have started looking for other ways […]

Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon has hit out at “disgraceful” Rangers fans who gathered in Glasgow to celebrate their side’s first title win in a decade in scenes which she described as “deeply unfair to the entire country.” Steven Gerrard’s Rangers team completed their 10-year revival to the summit of the Scottish game on Sunday, clinching […]

The Global Inflation Nightmare That You Have Been Warned About Is Here Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, If you thought that authorities all over the planet could print, borrow and spend money like there was no tomorrow without any consequences, you were being delusional.  Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, we have witnessed […]

Beijing has summoned the British ambassador to China, Caroline Wilson, over an article she penned about the Chinese government’s alleged misrepresentation of the international media, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday. China has “stern” opinions about the “inappropriate” article, the statement from the head of the ministry’s Europe department said, adding that it only […]

Too Busy Frontrunning Inflation, Nobody Sees The Deflationary Tsunami Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Those looking up from their “free fish!” frolicking will see the tsunami too late to save themselves. It’s an amazing sight to see the water recede from the bay, and watch the crowd frolic in the shallows, scooping […]

The Guardian accidentally confirmed the suspicions of a whole lot of conspiracy theorists with an article suggesting a “global lockdown every two years” was needed to meet Paris climate goals. The title was quickly changed. If carbon dioxide emissions don’t drop by the equivalent of a worldwide lockdown “roughly every two years” for the next […]

It’s common for Western observers to dismiss the emerging strategic partnership between Russia and China as merely a “marriage of convenience” and a union excessively reliant on shared opposition to US foreign policy ambitions. Russia and China: Strategic partnership or a marriage of convenience? Thus, it’s expected that under the surface, centuries of distrust linger, […]

Better late than never? The European Union has begun an appraisal of the pioneering Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, to determine whether the bloc will approve its use for immunizations. On Thursday, a statement on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) website confirmed that the review had been ordered. According to officials, […]

The dossiers open on Joe Biden’s desk are not only those of his newborn administration but also and above all those he inherited from those who preceded him, who is not the only Donald Trump. In fact, there are specific political lines that change little from administration to administration and that reflect the interests of […]

Baltimore Student Who Failed All But Three Classes In Four Years Was Ranked In Top Half Of His Class Authored by Jonathan Turley, As teacher unions fight to keep schools closed, the true cost is being felt by students who are racking up failing grades, dropping out of virtual classes, increasing drug use, and, in rising numbers, committing suicide.  […]

Bipartisan Senators Seek To Strip Biden Of War Powers Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, At long last we see action to kill war power authorizations used by three presidents. Senators Go After Endless Wars In a long overdue effort Bipartisan Senators Introduce Bill to Strip Biden of War Powers. Sens. Tim Kaine and Todd Young […]

“Profiteering Off Poverty” – The Side Of Baltimore The Media Won’t Show You Before President Trump and Republicans focused their energy on Baltimore City, showing how decades of liberal-run leadership transformed the once-thriving metro area into a “hell-hole,” readers may recall our reporting (see: here & here & here) showed a side of Baltimore that many hardly knew, […]

So This Is How The US Dollar Dies… Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Our leaders are killing the U.S. dollar, and it is being done to thunderous applause.  The House and the Senate have now both passed the 1.9 trillion dollar “COVID relief bill”, and it will go to Joe Biden’s […]

German intelligence will tap the phones and spy on the members of Alternative für Deutschland opposition, but a senior party figure says if they can just have their message heard they will pick up even more votes. News that the German intelligence services now have the legal green light to monitor phones of the populist […]

Total income in America jumped in January by 13 percent from a year ago to a record $21.5 trillion due to government stimulus checks, data showed. RT’s Keiser Report explores the economic aftermath. “For years we’ve been talking about QE and why it is basically just a transfer payment to hedge funds. They live on […]

Via The Babylon Bee NEW YORK, NY—Things have changed quite a bit in the world of Dr. Seuss, as six of his works have been pulled from publication, banned from sale on eBay, and eliminated from people’s minds using lobotomies to help fight the threat of racism. To get with the times, though, a new […]

An organisation formed in 2020 to oppose school shutdowns amid the coronavirus pandemic has launched a new campaign calling on the government to reverse recommendations that masks should be worn in classrooms. In an open letter to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson on Thursday, UsForThem argued that “you can’t teach with face coverings and you can’t […]

Cooperation between Russia and Iraq in the oil sector is “very active” in spite of all the restrictions and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. Novak, who previously served as Russia’s energy minister, met on Wednesday with Iraqi Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar to discuss the prospects […]

The BfV, Germany’s domestic intelligence service, cannot spy on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party under the authority they have to fight extremism, a court has said in an emergency injunction. The decision by the Cologne Administrative Court was taken on Friday as it continues looking into a complaint by the AfD. The court agreed […]

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Thursday that it was investigating after two people inoculated from the same batch of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine died from blood clotting and several countries stopped using the jabs. The inquiry comes after Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Latvia all suspended their rollouts of the AstraZeneca vaccine […]

The mutually reinforcing crises aren’t in the future, they’re here now, and Jay Powell’s shuck-and-jive has lost its magical powers to cloak the rot with speculative bubbles. How many more times do we have to watch Jay Powell claim his speculative bubble isn’t a bubble, and that his massive expansion of billionaires’ fortunes will magically […]

Four orangutans and five bonobos at the San Diego Zoo have become the first non-human primates to be vaccinated against coronavirus, using an experimental drug originally intended for house pets. All nine apes received two doses of a shot developed by Zoetis, a veterinary pharmaceutical company. Although the experimental jab was designed for dogs and […]

Tankers full of Iranian oil are reportedly causing a traffic jam at ports in China’s Shandong, as other countries are reluctant to snatch it up, wary of US sanctions. Congestion at one of China’s major refinery hubs was reportedly caused by soaring exports of crude from the Persian Gulf nation, which are expected to grow […]

US Sends Bombers From Norway In “Low Flyover” Of Baltics Near Russian Base Previously we detailed the Pentagon’s unprecedented move to park on an indefinite basis multiple B-1 Lancer bombers in Norway, and Russia’s corresponding (and expected) anger and denunciation of the move. The expeditionary B-1 Lancer bomber squadron recently arrived in the NATO country which shares a […]

When Does This Travesty Of A Mockery Of A Sham Finally Implode? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The mutually reinforcing crises aren’t in the future, they’re here now, and Jay Powell’s shuck-and-jive has lost its magical powers to cloak the rot with speculative bubbles. How many more times do we have to […]

Russia and the EU may be at a low point in their relationship, but the natural interests of both sides require improving them regardless of existing differences, Russia’s top envoy to the union told RT. “I believe we have no other option, both Russia and the European Union, than to try to bring those relations […]

The idea that there needs to be a ministry to make certain ethnic groups feel a greater sense of equality is of course a red flag. Hearing the idea of a “Ministry of Social Cohesion” was quite exciting for someone who writes about politics, geopolitics and ideology on a regular basis. On the surface this […]

Chinese Hackers ‘Likely To Have Netted High-Value Espionage Targets’ Using Microsoft Outlook Exploit Chinese hackers using an exploit in Microsoft’s Outlook email software likely netted “high-value espionage targets,” according to the Wall Street Journal, citing ‘people briefed on the matter.’ The victims – which range from as few as ‘tens of thousands’ to ‘higher than […]

US Services Sector Jobs Slide As Input Prices Explode Higher After a mixed picture from US Manufacturing (PMI down, ISM up), expectations for February Services data were positive and Markit delivered with a better than expected 59.8 final print, but, we we have got used to, ISM disappointed notably, dropping from 58.7 to 55.3. The […]

27% Of All Household Income In The US Now Comes From The Government Following today’s release of the latest Personal Income and Spending data, Wall Street was predictably focused on the changes in these two key series, which showed a surge in personal income (to be expected in the month when the $900BN December 2020 […]

The Canadian espionage agency used a quote from ‘A Perfect Spy’, a novel about a double-agent who betrayed his country, in a Twitter recruitment ad, raising questions about its own ‘intelligence’. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) drew many bemused and sarcastic replies after its tweet about job postings which quoted the work by Le […]

Having a video of former US President Donald Trump’s speech at CPAC may get you warnings and a deletion from YouTube, but apparently only if you’re RT, as the platform seems to selectively apply its arbitrary and capricious rules. On Tuesday, RT and its German-language channel RT DE got a notice from YouTube that the […]

“Unmistakable Message”: Top US Admiral Reveals Test Of China’s ‘Carrier Killer’ Ballistic Missile The top US commander over the Indo-Pacific region of operation has revealed new intelligence before a Senate panel on Tuesday that China’s military test launched an advanced anti-ship ballistic missile into the South China Sea. The previously undisclosed launch occurred in August last […]

BofA “Sell” Signal Triggered Any Moment… The Last This Happened Time Was June 2007 Back in mid-December, when stocks were melting up furiously daily amid unprecedented retail euphoria, which would only get crazier and crazier until eventually it forced Citi to use a bigger chart two months later to capture the market’s retail euphoria… … […]

A 50-year-old man died by hanging from a tree near one of the main farmer protest sites on the outskirts of the Indian capital Delhi. He reportedly left a note blaming the government for his actions. Tens of thousands of farmers from the states of Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh have been protesting for over […]

Australian lawmakers finally passed a hotly-debated law that forces tech giants to pay publishers for their content, potentially setting the stage for similar legal action in other countries. The final version of the law won approval only after some last-minute amendments that followed a week-long blackout of news content on Facebook in Australia. While both […]

The idea of becoming successful is the ultimate evil in the Ghetto. It is this mindset that results in people in the Ghetto shaming others from childhood into making sure they never even try to leave. Generally, when reading material of an intellectual nature, the words “growing up in the ghetto” don’t fit very well, […]

The Biden administration has taken a popular meme and mutilated it, leaving what appears to be praise for Canada’s Justin Trudeau but which was hard to understand either way. Biden’s White House Twitter account posted two images in a row captioned “How it started. How it’s going” on Wednesday. The first showed Biden and Trudeau […]

Big tech’s influence over government has only grown between the last two election cycles. Facebook and Amazon now outspend the largest tobacco and oil giants when it comes to buying political favor, a new report states. Facebook and Amazon are now the two biggest corporate lobbying spenders in the country, according to a new report […]

FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate the “domestic terrorism” at the heart of the US Capitol riot has been “metastasizing” for years, but there is no evidence of involvement from Antifa or fake Donald Trump supporters. In a Tuesday hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Wray made it clear he believed the […]

Muhammad Taimur Fahad Khan, research Associate & Media Officer at Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), deals with matters of foreign policy, Russia and its neighborhoods. – You research at Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), so in your opinion, what is role of the ISSI for developing of the foreign policy agenda of Pakistan? […]

Political campaign groups in Russia that receive funding from abroad don’t have the country’s best interests at heart, Moscow’s Foreign Ministry has complained, arguing that they really exist to serve foreign states instead. Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told listeners to the Moscow Says radio station on Thursday that these groups shouldn’t be considered as legitimate pro-reform […]

“Trapped!” Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Kill authentic price discovery, you also kill markets, and in killing markets, you kill allocation of capital and risk management, and in killing those, you kill the economy… Back when prosperity was authentic, the Federal Reserve had little need for public relations. But now that “prosperity” is […]

This enchanted world is just peeping from under the Soviet shells, and grabbed her creative intuition Yuri Mamleev, brought clean water, fixing realistic in his stories and novels, not what people thought, but what is. This enchanted world is just peeping from under the Soviet shells, and grabbed her creative intuition Yuri Mamleev, brought clean […]

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party has quit the European People’s Party (EPP) group in the European Parliament after EU MEPs voted in favor of a motion that would pave the way for Orban’s party to be excluded. “I hereby inform you that Fidesz MEPs resign their membership in the EPP group,” Orban wrote […]

Commentary Do 36 Democrat House members calling for Joe Biden to relinquish sole authority over the nuclear code know something we don’t know? Not in the slightest! The idea of a man who couldn’t remember what state he is in (figuratively and literally), who refused to take a cognitive test so normative most sixth graders […]

At least five people were arrested, two cars incinerated, one police car damaged, as street furniture and public bins were also destroyed, in the third consecutive night of violence in the French city of Lyon. After incidents in the Alagniers district on Friday and the Duchère district on Thursday, violence erupted on the streets of […]

America’s Plot For World Domination Authored by Robert Merry via TheAmericanConservative.com, Probably the most profound geopolitical development of the Twentieth Century was the rise of America as the world’s preeminent power during and after World War II. We’re still living in what Henry Luce called the American Century some eighty years after the publisher proclaimed […]

Deutsche Bank: Central Banks Simply Can’t Afford Higher Rates With Global Debt So High By Jim Reid, chief credit strategist at Deutsche Bank My theme this year has been that it’s going to be very complicated for financial markets with volatility high. The forces working in both directions (high growth and stimulus versus inflation and […]

Sweden Moves To Protect Academic Freedom After Prof Quits COVID Research Due To Harassment Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have been discussing erosion of free speech and academic freedom protections at colleges and universities around the United States. Most faculty have been conspicuously silent as their colleagues are attacked, suspended, or even fired for taking […]