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Japan Asks China To Stop Performing Anal Swabs On Its Citizens Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Tokyo has asked Beijing to stop performing COVID-19 anal swabs on its citizens after complaints that the procedure causes “psychological pain.” “Some Japanese reported to our embassy in China that they received anal swab tests, which […]

Majority Of Germans Favor Easing COVID-19 Restrictions Earlier this week, Germans were finally able to enjoy an ever so slight loosening of COVID-19 restrictions which allowed many people to dash out for badly-needed haircuts. However, as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, further relaxations are set to take substantially longer, as Europe’s economic powerhouse trails the likes of Israel, […]

Chinese Spies Hijack NSA Hacking Tools To Use Against The US The NSA (and its army of expert hackers) has once again been hoist upon its own petard. And this time, it’s not a shadowy group of hackers using aliases like “the Shadow Brokers” that’s stealing the agency’s code. It’s the Chinese government, and its […]

This article was originally published by Charles Hugh Smith at Of Two Minds Blog.  Needless to say, few are expecting bubble symmetry to manifest now, because, well, of course, “this time it’s different.” Indeed. It’s always different and yet always the same, too. Let’s indulge in some basic logic: 1. All speculative bubbles pop, regardless […]

At least 10,000 children have fallen victim to sex abuse by clergy and other officials of the Catholic Church in France since the 1950s, an independent commission set up to investigate such crimes said in its preliminary report. “It’s possible that the figure is at least 10,000,” head of the commission, Jean-Marc Sauve, told AFP, […]

A 60-day extension to the National Guard’s deployment to the US Capitol is being reviewed by the Pentagon, the Associated Press has reported. Over 5,000 troops have been stationed there since January’s Capitol riot. Capitol Police made the request for the 60-day extension to the National Guard’s deployment to Washington DC within the last 36 […]

The biggest tyrant and fraud in the medical field, Dr. Anthony Fauci is now saying once people get fully vaccinated, they still need to avoid restaurant dining indoors and going to the movies. He said it will be safer to gather indoors again as more people get vaccinated and the COVID-19 cases drop. The cases […]

Is Biden Reenlisting In The Forever Wars? Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org, Thursday, in its first military action, the Biden Pentagon sent two U.S. F-15Es to strike targets of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia just inside the eastern border of Syria. The U.S. strikes were in retaliation for a missile attack on a […]

“A New World Altogether” – Global Airlines Set To “Go Live In March” With COVID ‘Passports’  Imagine a world where the ability to travel on a commercial airliner depends on passing a COVID-19 test or taking a vaccine. If a traveler tests positive or did not receive or refused to take the vaccine, they would […]

Alphabet subsidiary Google has pledged it will ditch the third-party cookie-based model of online advertising – and promised not to invent something similar that would allow it to keep slurping up the same kind of data. Google is serious about moving away from privacy-invading micro-targeted ads, Director of Product Management David Temkin insisted in a […]

Japan’s Well-Fed Zombie Corporations Authored by Gunther Schnabl and Taiki Murai via The Mises Institute, The corona crisis has intensified the discussion about the zombification of the economy; enterprises have become more dependent on government bailouts, loans, subsidies, short-time working benefits, and loans from central banks. Governments around the world claim the measures to be […]

Russia Says Jihadists Are Planning “Simulated” Chemical Attack In Idlib To Get Biden’s Attention In what feels like a throwback scenario to 2017 which marked the first time Trump bombed Syria over al-Qaeda’s unverified claims of a government chemical attack on a “rebel”-held town in Idlib province, Russia’s military is now warning that anti-Assad jihadists are […]

Any young postgraduate student coming from a former communist country to the West to research economy or finance in last several decades, was destined to be stunned finding that the focus of the academy and the finance industry was much more on the “cool” concept of Mergers and Acquisitions than on economic value creation, growth, […]

This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix nebula, a cosmic starlet often photographed by amateur astronomers for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) As Big Tech continues to expand its control over all things on the internet, a new alarm is being sounded over what’s […]

Nearly 400 Twitter accounts have been shut down in the latest Silicon Valley banning spree over allegations many are linked to Moscow and work to discredit a US-led military grouping that stages war-games on the country’s border. On Tuesday, Russian media reported that the San Francisco-based microblogging platform had confirmed at least 100 of the […]

With the creation of man and the beginning of life, a great test awaited the children of Adam. At present, humanity is under such a test. The essence of testing is that a person should not commit sins in this world and should try to control his mind. But man is not without a soul, […]

Using a somewhat controversial stem cell therapy, a joint team of Japanese and US-based researchers have successfully repaired some damage in 13 patients with spinal cord injuries (SCI). SCIs can often cause permanent loss of movement and physical sensation from resultant nerve damage. While physical rehabilitation programs can partially improve outcomes, actual treatment and recovery […]

Goldman Sachs Says Urban Flight To Last For Years  Goldman Sachs expects the exodus from cities to weigh on shelter inflation. Goldman’s Jan Hatzius told clients that it could take years for urban vacancies to normalize.  Hatzius’ note, titled “Inflation Signal, Healthcare Noise (Hill),” had some excellent commentary on the urban exodus, aligning with our thoughts from […]

Was Trump ‘The Mule’? Authored by Jim Quinn via The Bunring Platform blog, “Excellence, he is known as the Mule. He is spoken of little, in a factual sense, but I have gathered the scraps and fragments of knowledge and winnowed out the most probable of them. He is apparently a man of neither birth […]

Global Military Spending Hit Record High In 2020 With US In The Lead Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Despite the damage coronavirus lockdowns did to the world’s economy, 2020 marked a record high in global military spending, according to a new report. As always, the US was in the lead, accounting for 40.3 percent of […]

China says they made a mistake when they performed an invasive method of CCP virus testing on American diplomats. President Joe Biden says it’s important to work with communist China on climate change. But carbon emissions data suggests the regime may not keep its promises. A Taiwanese company that makes semiconductors presents a possible Achilles […]

Guest post from John Wilder at Wilder Wealthy Wise. “Wait till she finds out you’re 4’6 and peddle a Schwinn.” – Home Improvement I had a boss once who could have worked for FEMA – he showed up late, and wasn’t any help when he finally arrived. There I sat, in the middle of the highway, on […]

Research from India has indicated that people wearing glasses are far less likely to become infected with Covid-19 than those without, which appears to support health advice to wear spectacles instead of contact lenses. Covid-19 can spread in many different ways, and one of those is through germs being spread to the eyes due to […]

Riyadh has rejected the US intelligence report blaming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as “abusive and incorrect,” even as the Kingdom is unlikely to face serious punishment. “The Kingdom’s government categorically rejects the abusive and incorrect conclusions contained in the report about the Kingdom’s leadership,” the Saudi […]

Escobar: The Art Of Being A Spectacularly Misguided Oracle Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, The late Dr. Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski for some time dispensed wisdom as an oracle of US foreign policy, side by side with the perennial Henry Kissinger – who, in vast swathes of the Global South, is regarded […]

Stefan Halper’s Role In Crossfire Hurricane More Significant Than Previously Known Authored by Jeff Carlson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Newly released FBI documents shed light on two meetings between FBI Agent Stephen Somma and FBI source Stefan Halper, providing further insight into the wide scope of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump 2016 […]

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The emergence of new Covid-19 variants means continuous vaccinations against the virus over the next few years will be a way of life, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned at a virtual summit of EU leaders on Thursday. “Due to the mutations, we may have to be able to re-inoculate for several years,” she told the […]

President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed that he will “immediately” demand that US troops leave the Philippines if Washington ever attempts to place its nuclear weapons in the Southeast Asian country. While there appear to have been no recent statements from American officials about plans to place nukes in the Philippines, Duterte was on Sunday asked […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a criminal complaint in Germany accusing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other high-ranking Saudi officials of committing crimes against humanity. On Monday evening, RSF published a press release confirming they had filed a 500-page complaint with the German Public Prosecutor General of the Federal Court of Justice in […]

“Herd Immunity By August,” Russian Deputy PM Golikova Predicts After months of a ‘dark COVID’ winter in Russia, a top official projects herd immunity could be achieved by the end of summer.  Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova told TASS News Tuesday that government numbers forecast 60% herd immunity by August. She said achieving such a level would […]

Arizona is recommending teachers to promote ‘equity’ and social justice through an “antiracist” agenda that sees racism in toddlers and recommends progressive and Black Lives Matter materials as the cure. An “equity and diversity” toolkit for teachers, parents and administrators posted by the Arizona Department of Education fully embraces the belief in “persistent racial biases in […]

Damascus Says Biden Is Setting Up New Bases On Sovereign Syrian Territory Within the first few weeks of the Biden administration a handful of viral stories alleged there had been an immediate uptick in US convoys and logistical equipment headed into northeast Syria, which many took to reflect an escalation of the occupation under the new administration. […]

Spain’s former King Juan Carlos I has paid back his second tax bill after fleeing to the United Arab Emirates following his 2014 abdication in favor of his son Felipe VI amid fear of prosecution over a corruption scandal. The payment of €4.4 million ($4.9 million) was confirmed by the former king’s lawyer on Friday, […]

Deconstructing “WokeThink” Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, It Bears a Striking Resemblance to Cognitive Distortions This post was originally going to be another one about dangers of techno-utopian thinking, which is supposed to be the subject matter of my next book . That one is going slowly for the time being, but I described […]

Global charity Oxfam has accused the UK government of prolonging the war in Yemen by permitting the sale of air-to-air refuelling equipment to the Saudi state, thus allowing air assets to bomb Yemeni targets for longer. “As the US has called for an end to the conflict in Yemen, the UK is heading in the […]

Russia & West Trade Blame For Vaccine ‘Price Gouging’ & Exploitation Of Africa Westerners bringing ‘benefits’ to the African continent has long been met with deep suspicion and even hostility from local Africans, given the colonial legacy stemming especially from the 19th century ‘scramble for Africa’ period, and further a Cold War-dominated 20th century which witnessed […]

“Tyranny is trying to tread into somebody’s mind to distort it and to form it to reflect what you think is good,” says Arthur Milikh. Milikh, the Executive Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, argues that identity politics and critical race theory are a new form of tyranny over […]

The Syrian government denounced the US airstrike on the border with Iraq as an act of aggression contrary to international law, as President Joe Biden told reporters he ordered the strike as a warning to Iran. “The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the US aggression against its sovereignty,” the foreign ministry in […]

Commentators have attempted to compare Vladimir Putin to various fascist political figures from the past. In reality, the Russian president embodies a state-centred patriotism that celebrates Russia as a multiethnic community. “Putin, like Hitler, is an ultranationalist.” If one was looking for the de-facto Western orthodoxy about Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, this headline from 2014 […]

WASHINGTON—Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved of an operation to capture or kill dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in 2018, according to a declassified intelligence assessment released on Friday in a manner choreographed to limit damage to U.S.-Saudi ties Khashoggi, a U.S. resident who wrote opinion columns for the Washington Post critical […]

Trump Is “Still The Future Of The Republican Party” Says Don Jr. Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Donald Trump Jr. asserted that his father, former President Donald Trump, is still the future of the GOP ahead of his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this weekend. “If you’re […]

Surveying both victims and perpetrators of political discrimination in the US, the UK and Canada, researchers at an academic think tank have found intolerance toward dissent is only just beginning – and things may get much worse. Purporting to be the first paper of its kind to “investigate authoritarianism and political discrimination in academia,” the […]

More people in Iceland than in most countries are politically conscious and motivated to take on corruption in politics and business in Iceland than in most countries, Ron Ridenour writes. We all can learn from the Icelandic people, from their sense of assuming responsibility, for their political consciousness, their tenacity, from their culture that fosters […]

Stunning Levels Of Air Toxins Found In New York’s Subway System The air quality in the subway systems across the U.S. is almost downright toxic.  New research published last week shows high levels of pollution for subway riders, with the worst air quality coming from places like New York and New Jersey, according to The […]

David Rosenberg: “We’re Getting Closer To A Breaking Point” Submitted by Christoph Gisiger of TheMarket.Ch David Rosenberg, Chief Economist & Strategist of Rosenberg Research, worries that the surge in bond yields threatens the economic recovery. He warns of the consequences of today’s massive debt volumes and explains why he spots investment opportunities in the commodity […]

The United Nations has warned that white supremacy and neo-Nazi movements are an increasing threat to the world we live in, adding that people in positions of responsibility are encouraging them in a way previously unthinkable. “White supremacy and neo-Nazi movements are more than domestic terror threats. They are becoming a transnational threat,” United Nations […]

(Natural News) For centuries, India, the second-most populated country in the world, has thrived with its organic patchwork of small farmers that provide clean, healthy, nutritious food to 1.3 billion people. Billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates, the World Bank, and other crony capitalist Western entities, however, want to change that. Dr. Vandana Shiva, founder and president… […]

Hong Kong Authorities Probe Death Of Man Who Received Covid-19 Vaccine Hong Kong’s health authority is investigating whether the death of a 63-old man is related to inoculation with the Covid-19 vaccine, it said in a statement late Tuesday. The Department of Health said the man had received the shot on February 26 at Kwun […]

Via ZeroHedge Update (1815 ET): one day after the Weimar tweetstorm below, and shortly after our article came out, Burry tweeted the following: People say I didn’t warn last time. I did, but no one listened. So I warn this time. And still, no one listens. But I will have proof I warned. Indeed he […]

Europe’s Rare Earth Dependency Dilemma Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Solar panels. Wind turbines. Electric vehicle batteries and motors. These are just four of the things that need one or more of a group of minerals known as rare earths. Incidentally, these are also four of the things the EU is basing its future on. […]

Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via PJMedia.com, These are crazy times. A pandemic led to national quarantine; to self-induced recession; to riot, arson, and looting; to a contested election; and to a riot at the U.S. Capitol. In response, are we focusing solely on upping the daily vaccination rate? Getting the country back to work? […]

The Covid-19 pandemic has added $24 trillion to the global debt mountain over the last year, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) said. Government spending has accounted for about half of the increase. Corporations added $5.4 trillion to the total, while banks and households accounted for $3.9 trillion and $2.6 trillion respectively. With global debt […]

Latvia is at the forefront of an intense Hybrid War between the West and Russia, but not as the victim of Moscow that it’s deceitfully misportrayed as by the Mainstream Media, but as the villain that aggressively wages anti-Russian information warfare against the Eurasian Great Power and continues to discriminate against its own Russian minority […]

Needless to say, few are expecting bubble symmetry to manifest now, because, well, of course, “this time it’s different.” Indeed. It’s always different and yet always the same, too. Let’s indulge in some basic logic: 1. All speculative bubbles pop, regardless of source, time or place. (100% of all historical evidence supports this.) 2. The […]

Today, we sit down with Morgan Zegers, founder of Young Americans Against Socialism. She’s also recently launched a podcast called “Some Sanity.” We discuss the rise of cancel culture and how young people in America today fundamentally misunderstand what socialism actually is. American Thought Leaders is an Epoch Times show available on YouTube, Rumble, Youmaker, and […]

Another One Bites The Dust? – FinTech ‘Trading 212’ Halts Buying Of Penny Stocks Color us not entirely shocked… Less than a week after the “Game Stopped” hearings – designed not for grandstanding politicians to denigrate the professional class but to get to the bottom of how a decentralized collective of the great unwashed was […]

Among the rich tapestry of Dagestan’s combat sports culture, there is one school nurturing young generations to think, not just fight. Welcome to ‘Five Directions of the World’ – a place often known as ‘the Shaolin of Dagestan’. In the latest episode of the RT Sport series ‘Dagestan: Land of Warriors’, we take you behind […]

The governor of Zamfara state has said that all 279 girls who were abducted from the Government Girls’ Science Secondary School (GGSS) in Jangebe last Friday have been released by their captors, largely unharmed. “Alhamdulillah! It gladdens my heart to announce the release of the abducted students of GGSS Jangebe from captivity,” Zamfara State Governor […]

The operator of a chain of holiday camps in the UK has admitted it racially discriminated against Irish guests by trying to exclude Travellers or Gypsies from using their facilities, and kept a blacklist of Irish family names. Pontins, which operates six holiday parks in England and Wales, admitted it engaged in a series of […]

(Natural News) The “Texageddon” blackouts and near-collapse of all infrastructure (food, fuel, cell towers, power grid, water systems, emergency services, roads, etc.) taught us all some very difficult lessons in survival. We learned that the infrastructure is far more vulnerable than most people thought, and we saw with our own eyes that most people still… […]

Mainstream US media is under fire for publishing an article telling Americans that life won’t go back to normal even after they’ve been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 – and critics argue the message discourages vaccination. In an AP article from Saturday, which has since been republished by a number of news outlets including NBC New […]

WASHINGTON—The White House sent a letter to the Taiwanese government on Feb. 17 seeking its help to resolve a global shortage of computer chips that has wreaked havoc on the automotive industry. The letter ensured that the “future is bright” for U.S.-Taiwan relations amid threats from China. President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser, Brian Deese […]

Von Greyerz: How Will It All End? Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com, Akhlys, the Greek goddess of Misery and Poison, is exerting a major influence on the world currently. And sadly the dosage of misery and poison will increase in coming months and years. What is now crystal clear is that this excess […]

Rocket Attack Targets US Embassy In Baghdad A Week After Deadly Erbil Assault Regional Mideast news sources are reporting a fresh rocket attack on Baghdad’s Green Zone on Monday. Explosions near the US Embassy have been reported “At least 3 Rockets target US Embassy area in Baghdad,” according to initial reporting by the AFP. It […]

Europe is basing its future on high-tech products and applications, but while it requires vast amounts of rare earth metals to do so, it produces next to none of these critical elements. Solar panels. Wind turbines. Electric vehicle batteries and motors. These are just four of the things that need one or more of a […]

Merkel: “No End In Sight Until World Is Vaccinated” It’s been a little more than one year since the globalists have been reshaping our lives after the outbreak of COVID-19. Even with collapsing global infections and herd immunity that may be around the corner, elites are still desperately attempting to fearmonger people to justify additional […]

Drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech wanted to charge the EU Commission €54.08 per dose of their Coronavirus vaccine, according to German media reports. The jab would have cost more than 20 times that of a rival shot from AstraZeneca. The prospective price tag was revealed on Thursday by German broadcasters NDR and WDR, and the Suddeutsche […]

BlazeTV host Steven Crowder had his Twitter account restricted after posting about a video investigative piece claiming numerous voter addresses in the 2020 presidential election were faked. “DOZENS of voter names, addresses, and pictures proving they don’t exist. Period. Today I’m tired of this s**t. Mass voter fraud is real and I can prove it,” […]

The World Economic Forum, globalist champion of the Great Reset, has ruffled feathers online with an “out-of-touch” tweet how Covid-19 lockdowns are “quietly improving cities” across the globe. A video accompanying the Friday tweet by the WEF shows images of deserted streets, grounded airliners and idled factories, then notes record declines in air pollution and […]

The Idea Of Secession Isn’t Going Away Authored by José Niño via The Mises Institute, Secession is a four-letter word for the millions of Americans who have gone through the conventional educational pipeline that teaches them that the American state is indivisible and sacrosanct. However, intellectually honest historians whose minds haven’t been warped by educational institutions […]

“America Is Back!?” Biden Is 3rd Successive President To Bomb Syria – Estimated 22 Killed “America is back!”…Joe Biden’s mantra has been particularly on the foreign policy front since taking office. Giving the public and the world a small taste of what this will mean in terms of practical action, he’s ordered the first military strike of […]

US President Joe Biden said he would be “happy” to field live questions at the tail-end of a virtual event, but was swiftly cut off when the White House inexplicably dropped the video feed, leaving some viewers bewildered. “I’d be happy to take questions if that’s what I’m supposed to do, Nance. Whatever you want […]

A new poll has found that 50 percent of Americans are questioning President Biden’s mental fitness, and over half are concerned about his lack of solo press conferences. Asked “how confident are you that Joe Biden is physically and mentally up to the job of being president of the United States,” 50 percent of respondents […]

Bill Gates Bankrolling Educational Organization That Says Math Is Racist Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is bankrolling an activist educational group that believes math is racist and that arriving at an objective answer is an example of “white supremacy.” Yes, really. A conglomerate of 25 educational […]

Former US President Donald Trump has lashed out at the Supreme Court after losing his lawyers failed to block his tax returns and financial records from being released to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. The court’s ruling was in response to Trump’s team filing an emergency order in October 2020, seeking to shield his financial […]

Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly urged US President Joe Biden to maintain his predecessor’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court, arguing that even if he disagrees with them, the US and Israel must stick together. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu personally called up Biden last week to request he keep the Trump administration’s sanctions against the International […]

It isn’t just the economy that is collapsing.  We live at a time when our entire planet and all of the systems that it supports are in the process of failing.  There are many out there that believe that if we can just reduce global temperatures a bit that everything will be just fine, but […]

1000 Extra Marines “Stay Put” In Norway As Russia Ramps Up Bomber ‘Warning’ Flights In Arctic In a hugely significant move that will put Russia-Europe relations further on edge amid an ongoing build-up of NATO forces along sensitive border regions, the large contingent of Marines that arrived in Norway last month are now expected to stay for […]

Public schools in Boston, Massachusetts are suspending new enrollment in an advanced study program citing concerns over “inequities” that supposedly emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to be more “antiracist.” Fourth-graders hoping to get into the Advanced Work Classes (AWC) program are out of luck, after Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius called […]

The schoolgirl who claimed a teacher asked Muslim students to leave the lesson before displaying obscene caricatures of Prophet Mohammed as part of his freedom-of-speech class lied about being there to avoid parental punishment. The unnamed 13-year-old girl, whose story was deemed offensive by many Muslims, effectively set off a chain of events leading to […]

President Joe Biden delivers his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2021. (Video screenshot) Iran is ratcheting up its demands of the Joe Biden administration even as the president backs away from sanctions imposed by former President Trump. The Islamic regime wants $1 trillion in “reparations.” Its negotiators are familiar with the Biden team, having met […]

How much energy, water and food will the “money” created out of thin air in the future buy? 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 […]

Liverpool’s Merseyside Police in the UK have apologised after stirring up controversy with a campaign that ominously warned Brits they could be charged with “being offensive.” Superintendent Martin Earl apologised in a statement on Monday for “any confusion” the campaign caused, declaring: “We would like to clarify that ‘being offensive’ is not in itself an […]

New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat. By Max BLUMENTHAL The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have sponsored Reuters and the BBC to conduct a series of covert programs aimed at promoting […]

Nearly 1,000 homeless people died in the UK last year, researchers said on Monday, blaming the 37 percent increase in deaths among rough sleepers on coronavirus hitting a social segment left vulnerable after a decade of cuts. The Dying Homeless Project found that 976 deaths among homeless people were recorded across the four nations of […]

Streaming platform Twitch has returned to the conventional spelling for “women” after its social media post hailing “Womxn’s History Month” – avoiding any “gender-binary language” – backfired and angered critics on all sides. Though the company took to Twitter on Monday to inform users that “March is Womxn’s History Month,” using an alternative styling of […]

Protesters have occupied three of France’s national theaters in opposition to coronavirus shutdowns, as cultural spaces have remained closed since the country’s lockdown began in October. The theater occupations come amid growing anger in the country over the continued closure of cultural sites due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, with Pau Theater, Colline Theater and the […]

Australian lawmakers have passed a law that forces tech giants like Facebook and Google fork out money for the media content. Critics argue the bill was watered down after Facebook imposed a week-long ban on Australian news. The much-anticipated bill, which is widely expected to serve as a precedent other nations such as Canada might […]

The Russian government could achieve its goal of de-dollarizing the economy by taking one simple step: dropping the tax it currently charges its citizens for the purchase of physical gold, an economist has said. Russian citizens would get rid of their dollar savings to buy up gold bullion if the 20-percent value added tax (VAT) […]

Two Bronx school district chiefs claim that they were fired, at least partly, because they refused to participate in ‘Wakanda Forever’ salutes at meetings with other superintendents and higher-ups, according to the New York Post. One of the cases involves Rafaela Espinal, formerly head of New York’s Community School District 12. Espinal earlier this month […]

Bill Gates Plugs “Next Gen” Nuclear That Solves All Issues Of ‘Safety & Economics’ For the past two months, Zero Hedge has been especially constructive on the uranium sector (and its handful of beaten down stocks), which we, and others, suspect may benefit tremendously as the sector gets swept up in the ESG euphoria many […]

Facebook Restores News Sharing As Australia Caves To Big Tech In an epic battle of wills between American Big Tech firms (Facebook and Google) and the Australian government, it looks like the Australian government is coming out on top. After Facebook blocked sharing of Australian media content last week in response to a bill that […]

Policy Risks Are Rising… Hope Is Never A Good Strategy Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “Let’s go to the other side. The view will be better over there…” No surprises from Fed-Head Jay Powell yesterday – no matter how much we fear inflation or recovery pushing rates higher, he reassured us by saying what […]

Scientists Discover ‘All-Natural’ COVID Treatment That Can Prevent ‘Cytokine Storm’ In Severe Patients A team of scientists from Israel and Iceland has published a new report showing that an extraction of spirulina algae has the potential to reduce the severity of COVID-19 in advanced cases. The research, first published in a peer-reviewed journal called Marine […]

Supermarket Calls Cops On Disabled Man For Not Wearing Mask, Tries to Make Him Wear Yellow Sticker Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, British supermarket Morrisons called the police on a disabled man who was medically exempt from wearing a face mask after attempting to make him wear a yellow sticker. Yes, really. […]

Hundreds of French academics have demanded that Minister of Higher Education Frederique Vidal leave her post. She said that ‘Islamo-leftism’ is eroding French society and has proposed to study its effects on universities. The proposed inquiry is designed to “defame” the teaching community and will have a “devastating” effect, more than 600 French academics have […]

Boris Johnson Outlines UK ‘Roadmap’ To End Lockdowns PM Boris Johnson laid out his process for reopening the British economy on Monday morning, releasing a detailed plan that had been in part leaked over the weekend. In the UK, vaccines appear to be working well and infection levels have fallen by 5x since the start […]

‘No Lockdown’-Sweden Sees COVID Deaths Plummet Quicker Than ‘Fully-Locked-Down’ UK Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, While the media in the UK is asserting lockdown measures caused COVID-19 deaths and cases to plummet, Sweden saw an even greater drop off in deaths despite enforcing comparatively minor restrictions. This morning, UK broadcaster Sky News […]

“It Must End Badly” – Munger Says Market Resembles Dot Com Bubble, Calls SPACs “Shit” Warren Buffett’s “No. 2” spoke during the annual meeting of the Daily Journal Corporation, the Los Angeles newspaper-publishing company chaired by Munger. The 97-year-old Charlie Munger is best known for his work as Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, where he […]

Anti-racism activists in New York have risen up to rally against white supremacy as they demand justice for a Filipino American man who was viciously slashed with a box cutter on the subway. Never mind that the attacker was black. Hundreds of protesters gathered at New York’s Washington Square Park on Saturday afternoon and marched […]

Conservatives are up in arms over a website that is asking people to report any acquaintance who voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. “This is insane. The Founders are rolling over in their graves,” RealClearPolitics cofounder Tim Bevan tweeted on Tuesday, including a link to the site in a subsequent tweet. This […]

China Denies Forcing US Diplomats To Do Anal COVID-19 Tests In what’s no doubt the first such diplomatic controversy in history – and perhaps also the most bizarre – the US State Department recently complained publicly over allegations China’s Foreign Ministry forced some US diplomatic personnel traveling to Beijing to undergo an anal test for […]

A New York City school administrator has been promoted to chancellor despite recent allegations by fired superintendents that she tried to force them to perform “Wakanda Forever” salutes to “black power.” Meisha Ross Porter has been named head of the largest US public school system, becoming the first black woman in the role, after Richard […]

French City Removes Meat From School Lunches, Slammed For “Putting Ideology On Kids’ Plates” Consuming meat has become a cultural staple across the world. But with the surging middle class in China and elsewhere, demand for beef, pork, and processed chicken has erupted. Global elites are pushing for societies to consume a plant-based diet because […]

Socialism-In-Practice Was A Nightmare, Not Utopia Authored by Richard Ebeling via The American Institute for Economic Research, It is amazing sometimes how really short humanity’s historical memory can be. Listening to some in American academia and on social media, you would think that socialism was a bright, new, and shiny idea never tried before that […]

Josh Frydenberg has warned that Australia’s conflict with Facebook in recent weeks is a “proxy battle” for the rest of the world, as other countries look to join Canberra in introducing regulation for social media companies. The Australian treasurer made the remark after Facebook reversed its decision to ban all news content from its pages […]

Georgian police have stormed the main office of the opposition United National Movement (UNM) and detained its leader Nikanor (Nika) Melia. The politician is being accused of inciting riots in the capital two years ago. A crowd of supporters tried to prevent Melia’s arrest on Tuesday. The officers broke into the UNM’s office in the […]

A heated row has broken out between Moscow and Brussels after the European Commission president appeared to imply Russia is putting the diplomatic benefits of its coronavirus vaccine ahead of inoculating its citizens back home. Ursula von der Leyen told journalists on Wednesday that her team has been wondering “why Russia is offering theoretically millions […]

French Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie has argued against injecting “ideology” into school lunches after the city of Lyon removed meat from the menus. Local officials said it would help them follow Covid-19 protocols. “Let’s stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,” Denormandie tweeted on Sunday. “Let’s just give them what they need to grow well. […]

Guest Post by Eric Peters A reader brings up a subject worth examining at length regarding the willingness of people to perform the various rites of the Sickness Cult even in the absence of enforcement – as in the case of people who wear their Holy Rag everywhere they go, even within their own vehicle. […]

Will The Economy Replace Ten Million Jobs By 2022? Authored by Patrick Hill via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Employment will bounce back to pre-pandemic levels by December 31st, 2021.” – Bank of America Popular forecasts call for a return to pre-pandemic levels of employment and economic activity by year-end. Really? We are not so sure.  The economy lost over 22M […]

I don’t know why anyone would want to live in Chicago at this point.  According to the latest estimate that I could find, “over 117,000 gang members” currently live in the city, and there is so much violence that it regularly makes headlines all over the globe.  Some of the wealthy areas of Chicago still […]

(Natural News) I’m calling it the “Biden Blowout” — the final fake currency printing blowout that will end the dollar empire and crush the last remnants of the once-great nation known as the United States of America. With the Biden regime now on track to print $7 trillion in 2021 alone, we are rapidly approaching… […]

A Year Later, There’s Still No Evidence Showing Governments Can Control The Spread Of COVID-19 Authored by Anthony Rozmajzl via The Mises Institute, As we approach the one-year anniversary of fifteen days to flatten the curve, we have yet to acquire any data suggesting that the past year of life-destroying lockdowns and politicized behavioral mandates […]

Damaged Fukushima Reactors Leaking Coolant After Last Weekend’s 7.3 Earthquake Two reactors at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have begun leaking cooling water following last weekend’s 7.3 magnitude earthquake, indicating that the existing damage to TEPCO’s Unit 1 and 3 reactors has worsened, according to AP, citing spokesman Keisuke Matsuo. Matsuo said the […]

The prospect of closer ties between Moscow and Beijing has long worried some analysts in the US and EU. But a new poll finds Russians are far more upbeat about their Eastern neighbors than those to their West. Researchers asked more than 1,600 people across the country for their views on three of the world’s […]

The locusts are back, and they are hungry.  Last year, an unprecedented plague of locusts devastated crops in eastern Africa, across the Middle East and throughout much of Asia.  Many were hoping that it would just be a one year phenomenon, but now the locusts have returned and one British news source is using the […]

Dem Rep. Ro Khanna: ‘We Don’t Want’ Small Businesses That Can’t Pay $15 Minimum Wage Trying to live the American dream but can’t pay $15 an hour minimum wage? Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California doesn’t think your business should exist. During a Sunday discussion on CNN‘s “Inside Politics,” Khanna said that “low-wage businesses” who […]

Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? Authored by Alex Gladstein via Quillette.com, Since its creation more than 12 years ago, Bitcoin is undefeated. Its price has leaped from $5 to $50 to $500 to $5,000 to now past $50,000. The number of global users has eclipsed 100 million. The system’s network security, number of developers, and new applications are at […]

India’s newspapers have joined the offensive against Google, urging it to raise the ad revenue share for publishers to 85 percent. The tech giant has recently faced demands to pay local outlets for news in multiple countries. The bold demand was produced on Thursday by the Indian Newspaper Society (INS), which brings together print media […]