Neueste Heute 15.06.2024 14.06.2024
The Summer Of Living Dangerously
16.06.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Summer Of Living Dangerously Authored by Pepe Escobar, So Le Petit Roi in Paris was predictably crushed in the European polls. He has called parliamentary snap elections, dissolving the Assemblée Nationale in an act of blind, puerile revenge on French citizens, de facto attacking French institutional democracy. That doesn’t mean much anyway,...
Storm Pilot Photographer Captures Breathtaking Images From 40,000 Feet
16.06.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Storm Pilot Photographer Captures Breathtaking Images From 40,000 Feet Authored by Deborah George via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), From 40,000 feet high, storm pilot photographer Santiago Borja captures a series of breathtaking images of the most intense of storms. (Courtesy of Santiago Borja) A former software systems engineer, Mr. Borja is from...
"Freaking Brilliant New Trend": Write "Vote Trump, End Taxes On Tips!" On Server Checks
16.06.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Freaking Brilliant New Trend": Write "Vote Trump, End Taxes On Tips!" On Server Checks About a week ago, former President Trump floated the idea of canceling taxes on tips at a campaign rally in Las Vegas. By Thursday of last week, Republican lawmakers were delighted by the idea and how it could generate new Trump voters ahead of the November elections...
"No Place in the Public Discourse": The Connecticut Bar Association Warns Lawyers Critical Of Trump Prosecutions
16.06.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "No Place in the Public Discourse": The Connecticut Bar Association Warns Lawyers Critical Of Trump Prosecutions Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org, This week, I have received emails from Connecticut bar members over a message posted by President Maggie Castinado, President-Elect James T. (Tim) Shearin, and Vice President Emily A. Gianquinto...
House Passes $883 Billion Annual Defense Bill With Anti-DEI Amendments
15.06.2024, 23:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Passes $883 Billion Annual Defense Bill With Anti-DEI Amendments Authored by Jackson Richman and Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on June 10, 2024. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times) The House of Representatives on June 14 passed its annual defense policy bill with GOP-approved culture war...
RFK Jr. Says US Should 'Vastly Scale Back' Its Military Budget
15.06.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - RFK Jr. Says US Should 'Vastly Scale Back' Its Military Budget Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., on June 12, 2024. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outspoken critic of U.S. involvement in “forever...
Americans Must Criticize Our Corrupt Courts
15.06.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Americans Must Criticize Our Corrupt Courts Authored by Carson Holloway via RealClearWire, Editor’s Note: The group quota regime is a revolutionary threat which aims to overthrow the political order of the United States and the Constitution that underlies it. In its maneuvers for political power, this revolutionary enemy already operates on a set...
Federal Judge Overturns ATF 'Pistol Brace' Rule
15.06.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Federal Judge Overturns ATF 'Pistol Brace' Rule Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A pistol stabilizing brace is seen in this undated photo. (Michael Clements/The Epoch Times) A federal judge in Texas has overturned a rule issued by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that targeted pistol attachments...
NIH Documents Show $1.6 Billion Long COVID Initiative So Far Falls Short Of Goals
15.06.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NIH Documents Show $1.6 Billion Long COVID Initiative So Far Falls Short Of Goals Authored by Megan Redshaw, J.D. via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Naeblys/Shutterstock) It’s been more than three years since Congress directed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate the long-term effects of COVID-19—and there are still no answers...
DOJ Won’t Pursue Criminal Contempt Charges Against Garland
15.06.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DOJ Won’t Pursue Criminal Contempt Charges Against Garland Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in Congress in Washington on Sept. 20, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times) An official from the Department of Justice (DOJ) told House Speaker Mike...
NATO Expansion: A New Detailed Timeline
14.06.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Expansion: A New Detailed Timeline The official website of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has since January of this year featured an entire page which seeks to "debunk" what it calls "Russian disinformation on NATO". The series of "myths" that the official NATO page sets out to dispel in one section mocks the very term "NATO expansion"—strongly...
Searching For The Truth About The Raid At Mar-a-Lago
14.06.2024, 18:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Searching For The Truth About The Raid At Mar-a-Lago Authored by Julie Kelly via RealClearInvestigations, Top officials at the Department of Justice are downplaying recently disclosed documents showing FBI agents were authorized to use deadly force during their 2022 raid of Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. Responding to Trump’s claim that...
Despite 400% Cost Increase And Poor Reliability, F-35 Approved For Increased Production Rate
14.06.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Despite 400% Cost Increase And Poor Reliability, F-35 Approved For Increased Production Rate Authored by Mike Fredenburg via The Epoch Times, After more than 900 F-35s being delivered under so-called low-late production, the Pentagon has authorized the F-35 for full-rate production that will eventually deliver more than 2,400 planes. This huge milestone...
Here Is How Much Income You Need For Comfortable Living Across U.S. States
14.06.2024, 16:06 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - According to the MIT Living Wage Calculator, Massachusetts tops the list, requiring $116,022 yearly, while West Virginia is the most affordable at $78,790. To live comfortably, a person in the top 11 most expensive states in the union must earn more than $100,000 annually. Bruno Venditti of Visual Capitalist created this map, which illustrates the […]...
Watch: Biden Wanders Off On His Own At G7 Meeting Like A Dementia Patient
14.06.2024, 14:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Biden Wanders Off On His Own At G7 Meeting Like A Dementia Patient Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Joe Biden’s cognitive decline was on show for the entire world at the G7 summit in an Italy Thursday as he randomly wandered off from the other dignitaries during a sky diving demo. While everyone else concentrated on the military...
The Confiscation Of Reality
14.06.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Confiscation Of Reality Authored by Sinead Murphy via The Brownstone Institute, The UK Meteorological Office has just reported that we have enjoyed the hottest May on record. Meanwhile, those of us who have lived in the UK during May have endured unseasonal cold and rain, and have complained to one another constantly about it. Welcome to the...
Which Countries Have Universal Health Coverage?
14.06.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Which Countries Have Universal Health Coverage? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Universal Health Coverage (UHC) means that everyone has access to a full range of health services - from emergency interventions to palliative care - without financial difficulty. In this graphic, Visual Capitalist's Julia Wendling uses data from CEOWorld...
Timely Lessons About Tyranny From The Father Of The Constitution
14.06.2024, 05:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Timely Lessons About Tyranny From The Father Of The Constitution Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.” - James Madison James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become mere “parchment barrier...
This Is The Income Needed To Live 'Comfortably' In Every US State
14.06.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This Is The Income Needed To Live 'Comfortably' In Every US State Individuals in the top 11 most expensive states in the U.S. need an annual income exceeding $100,000 to live comfortably. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, shows how much income single adults need to live comfortably in each U.S. state. SmartAsset calculated the income...
The Washington Post Makes Last Plea to Keep the Laptop "Conspiracy Theory" Alive
14.06.2024, 04:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Washington Post Makes Last Plea to Keep the Laptop "Conspiracy Theory" Alive Authored by Jonathan Turley, Across the media, journalists have recognized that the Hunter Biden laptop is authentic and, as established early by American intelligence agencies, not “Russian disinformation.” With the authentication of the laptop in the Delaware trial...
Why Americans Aren't Buying Biden's "Strong Economy" Propaganda
14.06.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Americans Aren't Buying Biden's "Strong Economy" Propaganda It's become a bit (or more than a bit) of a joke: Biden is doing everything in his power - and beyond that too now that Fed Chair Jerome Powell has admitted what we have been saying all along and that the White House has been "overstating" jobs - to prove to America just how great his "economic...
Doug Casey On How The Climate Hysteria Is Lowering Your Standard Of Living
14.06.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Doug Casey On How The Climate Hysteria Is Lowering Your Standard Of Living Authored by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, International Man: The carbon hysteria extends far beyond oil and gas companies. One overlooked area is household appliances. Politicians are implementing increasingly stringent regulations for dishwashers, washing machines, and...
OpenAI Expands Lobbying Army To Influence Regulation
14.06.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OpenAI Expands Lobbying Army To Influence Regulation A new report from the Financial Times reveals that OpenAI is expanding its international lobbyist Army, aiming to sway politicians and regulators who are tightening their grip on artificial intelligence. OpenAI's move to expand its lobbyist team from three at the start of 2023 to 35 and soon...
OPEC Slams IEA For "Dangerous" Forecast Of Peak Oil Demand By 2030
13.06.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OPEC Slams IEA For "Dangerous" Forecast Of Peak Oil Demand By 2030 By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Peak oil demand is not on the horizon, OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais said on Thursday, blasting the International Energy Agency’s prediction that global oil demand will peak before 2030. Some net-zero scenarios suggest that oil should...
Russia To Export Coal To India Via Iran. It's A 4-Alarm-Bells Fire...
13.06.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia To Export Coal To India Via Iran. It's A 4-Alarm-Bells Fire... Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Hello sanction lovers. What are you going to do about this? Russia Plans Coal Exports to India Via Iran ShippingNews reports Russia plans coal exports to India via Iran Russia has announced plans to export coal to India using Iran’s railways...
The Inflation Pain Persists
13.06.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Inflation Pain Persists Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The newest inflation data is out, with a familiar spin. Once again, we are told that it is easing, cooling, settling down, and generally less worrisome. So just relax. Once again, the reality is different from the spin. So much common language in economics is metaphorical and...
Merrick Garland Thinks He's Judge Dredd, Ignores Contempt Vote Over Biden 'Dementia' Tapes
13.06.2024, 19:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Merrick Garland Thinks He's Judge Dredd, Ignores Contempt Vote Over Biden 'Dementia' Tapes Attorney General Merrick Garland, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by Barack Obama following the death of Antonin Scalia (only to be blocked by Senate Republicans), issued a defiant statement after being held in contempt of Congress on Wednesday by the GOP-controlled...
Could Not Care Less: Europe Just Shot Itself In The Foot With Chinese EV Tariffs
13.06.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Could Not Care Less: Europe Just Shot Itself In The Foot With Chinese EV Tariffs By Bas van Geffen of Rabobank Could Not Car Less The European Union has announced punitive tariffs on Chinese EV manufacturers. This is bound to cause a further deterioration in global trade relations. Yet, equity markets did not seem to be all that worried, and instead...
NATO Tells Ukraine It Must Win The War To Become Full Alliance Member
13.06.2024, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Tells Ukraine It Must Win The War To Become Full Alliance Member NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has announced that Ukraine and its future assistance will be a major focus of discussion in a Defense Ministers meeting Thursday and Friday, which comes parallel to the G7 summit happening in Italy, where both Biden and Zelensky are meeting...
"Predistribution" Of Free Money: Former Fed Vice-Chair Wants To Restart LBJ's Great Society
13.06.2024, 16:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Predistribution" Of Free Money: Former Fed Vice-Chair Wants To Restart LBJ's Great Society Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Listen to this silliness from Alan Blinder, Princeton Economics professor and vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1994-96. In Praise of the Great Society Blinder wants to raise the minimum wage, encourage unions and...
Initial Jobless Claims Surge To 10-Month Highs
13.06.2024, 14:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Initial Jobless Claims Surge To 10-Month Highs Did we suddenly get a peak at reality? The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits for the first time surged last week to 242k (up from 229k and well above the 225k exp). That is the highest since August 2023... Source: Bloomberg On an NSA basis, claims exploded higher. The last three weeks...
Middle Class Destruction: The Real Story Behind America's Declining Economy
13.06.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Middle Class Destruction: The Real Story Behind America's Declining Economy Authored by Peter Reagan via Birch Gold Group, It probably comes as no surprise to you that, these days, the middle class, the backbone of the nation, are struggling. “Gasping for air,” as Newsweek puts it. Here’s the original press release from the National True Cost...
Elon Musk Says Shareholders Back His Pay Package & Texas Move
13.06.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Musk Says Shareholders Back His Pay Package & Texas Move Tesla shares surged more than 7% in premarketing trading in New York after Elon Musk announced on X late Wednesday that both Tesla shareholder resolutions—one involving a 2018 pay package nixed by a Delaware judge earlier this year and another on moving the company's legal home from...
Fossil Fuels: The Best-Kept Secret In Our World Today
13.06.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fossil Fuels: The Best-Kept Secret In Our World Today Authored by Jason Isaac via RealClearEnergy, Apparently, you can litigate anything these days, and it’s gotten far more insidious than suing McDonald’s over hot coffee being, you know, hot. A new climate activist group called Our Children’s Trust is suing state and federal government agencies...
Le Pen Vows To Deport Foreigners Who Push "Totalitarian Ideology" In France
13.06.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Le Pen Vows To Deport Foreigners Who Push "Totalitarian Ideology" In France Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, National Rally leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to shut down radical mosques and deport Islamists with dual nationality in her first major speech after winning the EU elections in France. “Give me one reason, only one, to keep...
Is Wellness A Gateway To Right-Wing "Fascism"?
13.06.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Wellness A Gateway To Right-Wing "Fascism"? Authored by Robert Malone via The Brownstone Institute, I know the Guardian is a left-wing socialist rag... ...but even for them – their article titled “Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline” is so over the top obnoxious and bigoted that I can’t help...
Why Nearly Half Of US Online Job Postings Are Fake
13.06.2024, 04:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Nearly Half Of US Online Job Postings Are Fake Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Amid complex hiring processes, a shadow is spreading in the American business world. Companies are using fake online job openings to project an image of growth, keep existing employees motivated, and cultivate a pool of possible future...
19-Story 'First-Class' Housing Tower Opens On LA's Skid Row, Features Art & Music Rooms
13.06.2024, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 19-Story 'First-Class' Housing Tower Opens On LA's Skid Row, Features Art & Music Rooms The price tag for a 'first-class' high-rise for the homeless and drug addicts in the utopian progressive hellhole neighborhood of Skid Row, located in downtown Los Angeles, has topped nearly $600k per unit. The building comprises 228 studios and 50 one-bedroom...
US Drug Shortage Reaches Decade High: US Pharmacopeia Reports
13.06.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Drug Shortage Reaches Decade High: US Pharmacopeia Reports Authored by Amie Dahnke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Drug shortages are the highest in a decade, with 2023 topping the charts, according to United States Pharmacopeia’s first annual Drug Shortage Report (USP). “The number of drug shortages has increased over a decade, with 125...
'No Excuses': Can A Return To Traditional Discipline Save Public Schools?
12.06.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'No Excuses': Can A Return To Traditional Discipline Save Public Schools? Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearInvestigations, On a bright morning in May at the Columbus Collegiate Academy Main, orderliness is on display. Students in khakis and blue tops carrying bulging backpacks walk briskly in line through the front doors of the single-story brick...
How Many Millennials Will Be Rich Enough To Buy The Boomers' Millions Of Unaffordable Bungalows?
12.06.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Many Millennials Will Be Rich Enough To Buy The Boomers' Millions Of Unaffordable Bungalows? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Absent demand from tens of millions of wealthy, high-income buyers, asset valuations will fall as Boomers sell off assets to fund their retirement. There's a peculiarly flawed logic behind the widely held...
The Warsaw-Based "Ukraine Communications Group" Is The New "Disinformation Governance Board"
12.06.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Warsaw-Based "Ukraine Communications Group" Is The New "Disinformation Governance Board" Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This multilateral platform, which brings together Western propagandists on a pro-Ukrainian pretext, can be wielded by the US Government to meddle in the coming presidential election much more effectively than ever before...
Finland In First NATO Deployment Parks Jets On Russia's Doorstep
12.06.2024, 19:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Finland In First NATO Deployment Parks Jets On Russia's Doorstep NATO's two newest members - Finland and Sweden - have already seen their militaries quite busy as part of recent joint exercises with the alliance. For the first time this week, another milestone has been achieved as Finland has deployed fighter jets to another NATO country, in a further...
Did The Defense Make Jail More Likely For Hunter Under The Sentencing Guidelines?
12.06.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Did The Defense Make Jail More Likely For Hunter Under The Sentencing Guidelines? Authored by Jonathan Turley, For months, I have been expressing disbelief that Hunter Biden and his defense team were going to take the gun case to trial. Even on the eve of the trial, I thought that the defense might snap into sanity and plead out the case. The reason...
Our Apocalyptic 'New Normal': Most Global Conflict Since WWII, Most Billion-Dollar Disasters Ever, & Most Hungry People In History
12.06.2024, 14:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Our Apocalyptic 'New Normal': Most Global Conflict Since WWII, Most Billion-Dollar Disasters Ever, & Most Hungry People In History Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, Our world is witnessing apocalyptic events so frequently that many of us are starting to become numb to it all. Major wars are raging all over the globe...
CPI Preview: "Optimism For A Low Print"
12.06.2024, 14:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CPI Preview: "Optimism For A Low Print" If May was a month that brought us that much closer to the Fed's "soft landing" soft landing, where jobs slumped and CPI came slightly below estimates (as we predicted), June has been a mirror image with last week's payrolls report coming in red hot (if one can claim that a 600K+ drop in full-time jobs is a red...
US Prepares To Expand Secondary Sanctions On Russia
12.06.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Prepares To Expand Secondary Sanctions On Russia More than two years into the war in Eastern Europe, it's time to ask: What have Western sanctions against Russia actually accomplished? Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted about Russia's economic resilience and ability to withstand international sanctions. The West's attempts...
Mastercard Launches Its Biometric Retail Payment System In Europe, Using Poland As A Testing Ground
12.06.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mastercard Launches Its Biometric Retail Payment System In Europe, Using Poland As A Testing Ground Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, “Buy with your eyes, pay with your glance!” After running pilot tests in Brazil and parts of the Asia Pacific for roughly two years, Mastercard is finally rolling out its biometric retail payments...
FOMC Preview: From Three Rate Cuts To Two
12.06.2024, 04:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FOMC Preview: From Three Rate Cuts To Two Coming just hours after the May CPI print, tomorrow's - and the month's - main event is the FOMC decision due at 2pm ET, when the Fed is widely expected to leave rates on hold at 5.25-5.50%, and the statement will likely also largely be reiterated after slight tweaks in the May statement. Attention will fall...
Afghanistan's Taliban Reports $80 Million In Crude Oil Sales In 10 Days
12.06.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Afghanistan's Taliban Reports $80 Million In Crude Oil Sales In 10 Days Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, The spokesperson for the Taliban's Ministry of Mines and Petroleum reported that the group had successfully sold $80 million in crude oil. China's CAPEIC’s investment of $49 million in Afghanistan has helped boost the country's daily crude...