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The Glue Binding Democracy And A Free Economy Has Melted
18.06.2024, 22:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Glue Binding Democracy And A Free Economy Has Melted Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, And that's how democracy and a free economy die... An astute reader asked me to clarify the difference between individual sacrifice and shared sacrifice in the context of the Common Good, which as he rightly noted, dictatorships use as the...
Federal Judge Blocks Biden's Rewrite Of Title IX
18.06.2024, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Federal Judge Blocks Biden's Rewrite Of Title IX Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, On Monday, the Biden Administration’s attempt to rewrite federal Title IX regulations was temporarily blocked by a federal judge in Kentucky. As ABC News reports, United States District Judge Danny Reeves described Biden’s new regulations as “arbitrary...
CBO Figures Out How To "Math", Raises 2024 US Budget Deficit By $400BN To $1.9 Trillion
18.06.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CBO Figures Out How To "Math", Raises 2024 US Budget Deficit By $400BN To $1.9 Trillion This should come as a shock to exactly nobody. Last week, the Treasury reported that in May, the US government collected $323.6 billion in tax receipts, it spent more than double that, or some $670 billion... ... resulting in a May budget deficit of $347 billion...
AI: "Existential Crisis" Or Excuse For Cronyism?
18.06.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AI: "Existential Crisis" Or Excuse For Cronyism? Authored by Joshua Mawhorter via The Mises Institute, Several months ago, I was on a long car trip with my dad, and we listened to a podcast that gave some commentary on the following headlines from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal: “AI Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry...
Biden Officials To Attend Bitcoin Roundtable In DC: Leaked Report
18.06.2024, 15:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Officials To Attend Bitcoin Roundtable In DC: Leaked Report U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna, representing California's 17th congressional district, is set to host a Bitcoin and blockchain roundtable in Washington D.C. in early July, according to a private email sent by Khanna's Office, seen by Bitcoin Magazine. Bitcoin Magazine's Nik Hoffman reports...
Only 28% Of The Public Has "High Confidence" In Higher Education; New Poll Finds
18.06.2024, 14:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Only 28% Of The Public Has "High Confidence" In Higher Education; New Poll Finds Authored by Jonathan Turley, A new poll conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago (commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) shows that only 28% of Americans have a lot of trust in higher education. Academia has continued to alienate much...
Australian Premier Creates Ministry In Charge Of 'Changing Men's Behavior'
18.06.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Australian Premier Creates Ministry In Charge Of 'Changing Men's Behavior' The development of totalitarian governments always coincides with sweeping efforts to socially engineer the population to adhere to less rebellious behaviors. Specific groups that present a threat to the regime are usually identified and targeted with propaganda or indoctrination...
Hot On The Campaign Fail: Secret Service Agent Robbed, WH Spox Mocked After Biden Propped
18.06.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hot On The Campaign Fail: Secret Service Agent Robbed, WH Spox Mocked After Biden Propped This weekend wasn't great for the Biden campaign - after a viral video showed the president 'freezing' on stage during a star-studded 'weekend at Biden's' event in LA, and a Secret Service agent getting robbed at gunpoint that same night. Oh, and then Biden had...
Israel Says It's On "Brink" Of Wider War With Hezbollah
18.06.2024, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Says It's On "Brink" Of Wider War With Hezbollah There's been obvious escalation for several weeks at the Israel-Lebanon border, as we've been documenting. But on Sunday Israel's military issued one of the most dire alarms yet, saying it is on the brink of a full-scale war with Hezbollah. "Hezbollah's increasing aggression is bringing us to the...
How Trump Wins The Debate – And The Election
18.06.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Trump Wins The Debate – And The Election Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, It’s the demeanor, stupid. The public already overwhelmingly supports Donald Trump on the issues. But what many of them worry about is his demeanor. In other words, does he “act presidential”? So, on June 27, when Trump joins President Joe Biden on CNN...
No Charges In Deadly ATF Arkansas Home Raid
18.06.2024, 01:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - No Charges In Deadly ATF Arkansas Home Raid Authored by Beth Brelje via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The use of deadly force was legal and justified in the March 19 early morning fatal shooting of Bryan Malinowski by federal agents in his West Little Rock, Arkansas, home, according to Pulaski County Prosecutor Will Jones, who said in a June 14 letter...
Xi Said US Is Trying To 'Goad Beijing' Into Attacking Taiwan
17.06.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Xi Said US Is Trying To 'Goad Beijing' Into Attacking Taiwan China’s President Xi Jinping told European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen that the United States was trying to "goad Beijing into attacking Taiwan," according to officials aware of the exchange, which took place a little over a year ago but is just now being revealed. Xi has also been...
5 Stocks Account For 60% Of The S&P's YTD Return: Charting The S&P 5 vs The S&P 495
17.06.2024, 21:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 5 Stocks Account For 60% Of The S&P's YTD Return: Charting The S&P 5 vs The S&P 495 Nvidia (NVDA) accounts for 34% of the 14% SPX year-to-date gain, and five stocks have accounted for 60% of the S&P 500 total YTD return; MSFT, NVDA, GOOGL, AMZN, and META have collectively surged by 45% and now comprise 25% of the S&P 500 equity cap. A key reason for...
Schumer Seeks Bill To Ban Bump Stocks After Supreme Court Ruling
17.06.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Schumer Seeks Bill To Ban Bump Stocks After Supreme Court Ruling Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called for legislation to outlaw bump stocks after the Supreme Court struck down a President Donald Trump-era ban on the gun accessory. A 6–3 opinion by the high court found that the Bureau...
Japan Threatens To Sanction India Under Biden’s Influence
17.06.2024, 14:31 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - In response to potential sanctions influenced by President Biden, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi announced considering action against companies in India, Uzbekistan, UAE, and China at the recent G-7 summit. If this turns out to be true, India might believe that its American benefactor set Japan up for this, which would make...
How Does Crypto Perform In An Inflationary Recession
17.06.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Does Crypto Perform In An Inflationary Recession By Sebastian Bea of Coinbase Asset Management A pinch of paranoia is an essential ingredient in the risk management toolkit as markets hunt to humiliate hubris. Investors are tasked with monetizing megatrends. Macro risks are seen as a nuisance for growth-focused investment styles. But macro risks...
It Would Be A Bad Idea For Japan To Sanction Indian Companies On Anti-Russian Pretexts
17.06.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It Would Be A Bad Idea For Japan To Sanction Indian Companies On Anti-Russian Pretexts Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, India might conclude that Japan was put up to this by its American patron if it comes to pass, which could then complicate their multilateral efforts to manage China’s rise. Tribune India cited Japanese media to report that...
The Changing Nature Of Nuclear Deterrence
17.06.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Changing Nature Of Nuclear Deterrence Submitted by Tuomas Malinen of GnS Economics Issues discussed: Tactical vs. strategical nuclear weapons. Mutually asserted destruction (MAD) as the foundation of nuclear deterrence. The shaky foundations of modern nuclear deterrence, and growing risk of a tactical nuclear strike. When I was around eight years...
"No Place In The Public Discourse": The Connecticut Bar Association Warns Critics Of Trump Prosecutions
17.06.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "No Place In The Public Discourse": The Connecticut Bar Association Warns Critics Of Trump Prosecutions Authored by Jonathan Turley, 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 warning them about criticizing...
One In Three People Are Boycotting Brands Over Gaza War, Poll Finds
16.06.2024, 18:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - One In Three People Are Boycotting Brands Over Gaza War, Poll Finds Via Middle East Eye More than one in three people say they are boycotting a brand viewed as supporting a side in Israel's war on Gaza, with oil-rich Gulf states and large Muslim-majority countries leading the way. The latest edition of an annual Trust Barometer report from public...
Education Nightmare: Baltimore & Chicago Public Schools Spend, Spend, Spend As Test Scores Drop
16.06.2024, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Education Nightmare: Baltimore & Chicago Public Schools Spend, Spend, Spend As Test Scores Drop Baltimore City and Chicago Public Schools are spending taxpayer monies like there's no tomorrow, yet math and reading test scores are shockingly low. Radical leftists, who are embedded in these school systems, along with the officials in City Halls...
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,...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
US Nuclear Attack Sub, Canadian Warship In Cuba Just Behind Russian Naval Group
14.06.2024, 21:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Nuclear Attack Sub, Canadian Warship In Cuba Just Behind Russian Naval Group A US Navy fast-attack submarine has surfaced and arrived in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, just on the heels of a group of Russian warships having arrived in Havana merely the day prior. The American nuclear-powered USS Helena arrived at the US base on Thursday, while a Canadian...
Stanford's Spooky 'Disinformation' Research Center Closing Up Shop
14.06.2024, 19:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stanford's Spooky 'Disinformation' Research Center Closing Up Shop After it was exposed as a quasi-government "disinformation" academic research center, and several lawsuits later, the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) is being shuttered after founding director Alex Stamos left his position in November, and research director Renee DiResta left last...
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...
French Development Banks Pulls Bond Sale As Macron Sparks EU Market Meltdown
14.06.2024, 15:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - French Development Banks Pulls Bond Sale As Macron Sparks EU Market Meltdown Sacre bleu!! The implications of French President Macron's shock announcement of snap legislative elections after sustaining a hammering from the far-right Rassemblement National in European elections are starting to show up in some much more worrying systemic signals for the...
Dengue Surge Grips Latin America
14.06.2024, 14:01 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Lessons from COVID-19 are shaping the region’s response to a record outbreak....
There Are Only Downsides To Prolonging The War In Ukraine
14.06.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Are Only Downsides To Prolonging The War In Ukraine Authored by Connor O'Keefe via The Mises Institute, Last week, President Joe Biden and a number of top American and European officials met in Normandy to attend a ceremony marking the eightieth anniversary of the D-day invasion. In a pair of speeches, Biden recounted the operation that he...
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...
As Inflation Rises, Prepare For Crime
14.06.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As Inflation Rises, Prepare For Crime Via SchiffGold.com, Inflation breeds desperation, and desperation breeds crime. As central banks in Europe and Canada cut interest rates, and expectations remain that the Fed will wait to cut until at least September if it cuts this year at all, our endlessly-wise global central bankers, the benevolent all-knowing...
China Blasts US For Using Ukraine Crisis As Pretext For Sanctions
14.06.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Blasts US For Using Ukraine Crisis As Pretext For Sanctions Just ahead of the upcoming Ukraine peace summit set to be held in Switzerland on June 15–16, China's foreign ministry has blasted Washington's "extremely hypocritical" stance on the war. Spokesman Lin Jian said in a daily briefing that the West is feigning that it's "striving for peace"...
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...
Blinken Says Haggling Must Stop After Hamas Requests Changes To Gaza Ceasefire Framework
13.06.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blinken Says Haggling Must Stop After Hamas Requests Changes To Gaza Ceasefire Framework Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shared his frustration on Wednesday over changes Hamas has requested to a new ceasefire proposal to bring the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip to a close. Mr. Blinken, along with other...
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...
Gov. DeSantis Declares Emergency As South Florida Swamped By Heavy Rains
13.06.2024, 16:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gov. DeSantis Declares Emergency As South Florida Swamped By Heavy Rains A tropical disturbance has swamped South Florida with torrential downpours, flooding city streets and highways and sparking life-threatening conditions for millions of residents. The governor has declared an emergency over flooding concerns. The National Hurricane Center...
Europe Not Allowed To Lean Conservative? Warnings Of "Crisis" Abound After Shocking Elections
13.06.2024, 10:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe Not Allowed To Lean Conservative? Warnings Of "Crisis" Abound After Shocking Elections Some analysts are calling the results of the recent European parliamentary elections "shocking" while others suggest this was not the right-wing wave that some were expecting. Needless to say it was enough to start a firestorm in the western media and compel...
Intel Halts Multibillion Chip Plant Expansion In Israel, Still 'Committed' To Region
13.06.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Intel Halts Multibillion Chip Plant Expansion In Israel, Still 'Committed' To Region Via The Cradle The US-based chip giant Intel Corp is halting a $25 billion chip manufacturing project in Israel, the local publication Calcalist reported this week. The Israeli news agency writes that Intel’s decision to stop the building of the multibillion-dollar...
Late Bedtime Linked To Higher Rates Of Depression And Anxiety, Large-Scale Study Finds
13.06.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Late Bedtime Linked To Higher Rates Of Depression And Anxiety, Large-Scale Study Finds Authored by Zena le Roux via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), You relish those late nights, burning the midnight oil as a badge of honor. But that exhilarating lifestyle of staying up into the wee hours may be silently sabotaging your mental health. (Stephen Bridger/Shutterstock)...
Hezbollah Rains Down 160 Rockets On Northern Israel As War Expands
13.06.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hezbollah Rains Down 160 Rockets On Northern Israel As War Expands The Israel-Hezbollah war continues spreading and expanding along the border region, as on Wednesday the Shia paramilitary group backed by Iran fired some 160 missiles into Israel after the IDF killed a top Hezbollah commander, Taleb Sami Abdullah, in south Lebanon the day prior. According...
The Achilles Heel Of The Fiat Money System
13.06.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Achilles Heel Of The Fiat Money System Authored by Thorsten Polleit via The Mises Institute, The fiat money system will not disappear just like that. Any expectations or hopes to that end should be tempered. Yes, the fiat money system could collapse; yet there is a significant likelihood it will persist longer than most people might think. This...
Fed Chair Powell Admits The Biden Admin Is "Overstating" Jobs
13.06.2024, 01:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed Chair Powell Admits The Biden Admin Is "Overstating" Jobs Every first Friday of this year (here, here and here) we have spent hours deconstructing the glaring propaganda peddled by Biden's Labor Department, meant to show just one thing - how "strong" the economy is under the current administration - and exposing just how ugly the underlying labor...
Futures Set For New Record High Ahead Of CPI, Fed Double Header
12.06.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Set For New Record High Ahead Of CPI, Fed Double Header Futures are up modestly after another record close on Wall Street heading into today's double whammy of CPI, and FOMC Dot Plot update, with Nasdaq leading and small-caps lagging. As of 8:00am, S&P futures are up 0.1% to 5,390 and set to extend the stretch of record highs as traders position...
Brewing Storm: World's Top Robusta Coffee Producer Reports Smallest Export Since 2009
12.06.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Brewing Storm: World's Top Robusta Coffee Producer Reports Smallest Export Since 2009 More troubling news is brewing for coffee lovers from the world's top-producing country in Southeast Asia. New export data reveals a sharp decline in robusta beans, commonly used in instant coffee and espresso and as a filler in various ground coffee blends. This development...
Kiev's Plan To Store F-16s In NATO States Raises The Risk Of World War III
12.06.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kiev's Plan To Store F-16s In NATO States Raises The Risk Of World War III Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Ukrainian Air Force head of aviation Sergey Golubtsov told US state-run Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in an interview over the weekend that Kiev plans to store some of its F-16s in NATO states for reserve and training purposes. While...
Send This Article To People Who Say "Ivermectin Doesn’t Work For Covid-19"
12.06.2024, 05:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Send This Article To People Who Say "Ivermectin Doesn’t Work For Covid-19" Authored by David Gortler via the Brownstone Institute, If you hear your pharmacist, physician, or academic dean parrot the malignant regurgitated trope of “Ivermectin doesn’t work for Covid” or that there is “no evidence” or “no data” to support ivermectin’s...
US Lifts 10-Year Weapon Ban On Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade
11.06.2024, 23:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Lifts 10-Year Weapon Ban On Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade The US State Department on Tuesday announced that it is lifting a longtime ban on giving weapons and training to Ukraine's notorious Azov Brigade (often referenced by its earlier name Azov Battalion). The question must immediately be asked: Do Washington policy-makers think enough time...