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By Tyler Durden | 24 February 2020 ZERO HEDGE — While mom and dad on Main St. still aren’t getting the dire warning that the coronavirus has been offering up to Asia and the rest of […]
18 February 2020 CIVIL DEADLINE — Mexico is no longer playing games. They have arrested two caravan enablers on human trafficking charges. Both have accepted money to help these illegal aliens invade the United States. That […]
Whenever you see a political alignment between Jewish New York Sen. Chuck “The Schmuck” Schumer President Donald “Black Pill” Trumpenstein, it means only one thing: some Jews somewhere are somehow benefiting — and probably at […]
By Kim Christensen | 17 February 20200 LOS ANGELES TIMES — The Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation’s oldest and largest youth organizations, filed for bankruptcy protection late Monday as former Scouts’ legal […]
Socialite with links to royal family reveals she has spoken to FBI about friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ms Maxwell By Victoria Ward | 21 February 2020 THE TELEGRAPH — Ghislaine Maxwell told a former acquaintance […]
By Niall McCarthy | 29 October 2018 STATISTA — Is the age-old Russian love affair with vodka on the rocks? In recent years, more and more Russians have ditched their national drink, preferring to sip craft beer and […]
Trump followed in the footsteps of Obama and pardoned five megabanks—one of which he reportedly owes up to $300 million in outstanding loans. By Rachel Blevins | 11 January 2018 FREE THOUGHT PROJECT — While Americans […]
New York City taxpayers are on the hook for a multi-million dollar cyber center in the heart of Manhattan with deep ties to Israel’s high-tech intelligence apparatus. By Whitney Webb | February 2020 MINT PRESS […]
By Daniel McAdams | 15 February 2020 RON PAUL INSTITUTE — Those hoping the non-interventionist cause would be given some real muscle if a couple of oligarchs who’ve made fortunes from global interventionism team up and pump millions […]
At this juncture, there are 760 million Chinese — about half the population — on lock down. Nikkei reports, “On average, suppliers in the Apple iPhone supply chain are currently operating at around 30% to […]
By Tyler Durden | 15 February 2020 ZERO HEDGE — In our ongoing attempts to glean some objective insight into what is actually happening “on the ground” in the notoriously opaque China, whose economy has […]
By Tyler Durden | 14 February 202 ZERO HEDGE — Back on Monday, when analysts and investors were desperately seeking clues whether China has managed to reboot its economy from the 2-week long hiatus following […]
This will become an often-played tune over the next few months, delineating how dependent Corporate America has become on China. By Wolf Richter | 17 February 2020 WOLF STREET — China’s official reaction to the coronavirus […]
Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign recently deployed ads in the form of memes all across Instagram, The New York Times reported. The memes feature screenshots of messages from the Bloomberg campaign account poking fun at Bloomberg’s public […]
By Tyler Durden | 12 February 2020 ZERO HEDGE — On Wednesday morning, Nokia, Vodafone, BT, Deutsche Telekom, HMD, AT&T, Sprint, Cisco, Facebook, Intel, Royole, Sony, Amazon, LG, Vivo, Ericsson, and Nvidia all withdrew from […]
WW Note to Readers: There appears to be some sort of formatting glitch in our system that is putting a line through links. The line is merely a formatting issue. The links do work. By […]
By Tyler Durden | 12 February 2020 ZERO HEDGE — The leading cruise ship operator in Asia, Carnival Corporation & plc, reported Wednesday that if it was forced to suspend all cruise operations from ports in China and […]
Gillette invented the toxic ad. Then, Proctor and Gamble (P&G) followed with clown-world commercials. Now, Scandinavian Airlines has perfected it. What you are about to see is called “marketing” (aka a sales pitch) by those […]
By Eli Clifton | 9 January 2020 RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT — On the same day dust was settling was from President Trump’s decision to assassinate Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Qasem Soleimani, a striking news story […]
10 February 2020 FRONT 14 — Millions of dollars that were sent from the estate of disgraced billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein into a bank he owned – but appeared to never have operated as a […]
By Tyler Durden | 26 November 2018 ZERO HEDGE — A new “secret” police study has found that Chinese crime networks could have laundered over $1B through Vancouver homes in 2016 alone, and that a surge in the city’s […]
On Wednesday, Trump’s “flavor ban” went into effect. Essentially, it bans the sale of fruit- and mint-flavored e-cigarettes that come in pre-filled cartridges. It’s one baby step in the right direction but a far cry […]
4 February 2020 BBC — Seven alleged fraudsters are going on trial in Paris accused of impersonating a French minister to trick wealthy victims out of more than €50m (£42m). Investigators say the scam involved a […]
6 February 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS — Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has reported to prison to begin serving a three-year prison sentence for a corruption conviction, according to federal records. Baca, 77, who […]
Mayor “Pete the Cheat” Buttigieg comes across as a model globohomo candidate of “The Blob,” a nickname for the informal permanent kakistocracy that forms America’s intelligence and foreign policy apparatus. He has a stable of […]
By Tyler Durden | 7 February 2020 ZERO HEDGE — Russia’s Defense Ministry has issued a rare scathing public condemnation of the latest round of Israeli airstrikes which occurred Wednesday night into the early hours of Thursday morning […]
This post is a sequel to yesterday’s topic: “Coronavirus (nCOv) as a Black Swan Event.” The downside of kakistocratic rule is that shit happens, and usually it is because of their expediency and abject failure […]
The U.S. Air Force recently unveiled its newest recruitment tool, an online video game that lets you carry out targeted killings by drone in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. By Alan Macleod | 31 January […]
Black Swan Event: An unpredictable event that has potentially severe consequences. Characterized by its extreme rarity and its severe impact. Can cause catastrophic damage to an economy and, because they cannot be predicted, can only […]