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The Decay Of Everyday Life
17.05.2024, 23:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Decay Of Everyday Life Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, So where does this leave us? We're on our own. This month I've described what can be summarized as The Decay of Everyday Life: the erosion of the fundamental elements of everyday life: work, opportunity, social mobility, security and well-being, which includes civility...
Futures Flat At All Time High As Markets Mull Next Move
16.05.2024, 13:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat At All Time High As Markets Mull Next Move US index futures are flat after notching new record highs on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, spurred on by a miss in the US CPI print and retail sales data on Wednesday, which also boosted bets the Federal Reserve will ease policy. That inflation data, which the market was feverishly anticipating,...
"West's Governments Need War" Warns Martin Armstrong "Because Their Debts Are No Longer Sustainable"
16.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "West's Governments Need War" Warns Martin Armstrong "Because Their Debts Are No Longer Sustainable" Interview with Martin Armstrong by Piero Messina for SouthFront Martin Armstrong is one of the most influential economists of our times. Someone called him the “Forecaster”, because that was the title of the biopic film that helped make his...
Elections And Devaluations
15.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elections And Devaluations Authored by Yves Smith via NakedCapitalism.com, Yves here. It’s revealing that Serious Economist Jeffrey Frankel limits himself to third-world examples in his case studies below on post-election devaluations. Perhaps it would be unseemly to look at, say, the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, or even Australia (admittedly the latter...
Citadel's Ken Griffin Tells Qatar Audience: American Campus Chaos Is "Anarchy"
15.05.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Citadel's Ken Griffin Tells Qatar Audience: American Campus Chaos Is "Anarchy" On day one of the 2024 Qatar Economic Forum in Doha, Citadel's Ken Griffin covered a wide range of hot-button issues. He criticized the Biden administration's latest wave of Chinese tariffs, the ongoing campus crisis terrorizing American colleges and universities, global...
Israeli Tanks Plunge Deeper Into Rafah As 500,000 Palestinians Flee
14.05.2024, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Tanks Plunge Deeper Into Rafah As 500,000 Palestinians Flee Israeli tanks have been seen plunging deeper into the southern Gaza city of Rafah amid reports that some 500,000 people have fled amid the escalating ground offensive. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have initially focused their operation on the eastern section of the city, having seized...
The Broken Magic Trick Behind Dollar Dominance
14.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Broken Magic Trick Behind Dollar Dominance Authored by Peter Reagan via Birch Gold Group, The total debt owed by the United States federal government has reached incredible levels. Today, the total is $34,541,727,970,599.17 – but by the time you read this article, it’ll probably be higher. I say “probably” because the debt is growing...
Ukraine Admits Frontlines In Kharkiv Are Collapsing
13.05.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Admits Frontlines In Kharkiv Are Collapsing For the first time since Russia launched its major cross-border offensive into Ukraine's Kharkiv region (it began last Friday), Ukraine's government has acknowledged that Moscow forces have made rapid gains. Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the military administration of the Kharkov Region, has said Russia...
Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Iran And Hamas
13.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Iran And Hamas Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Warmonger in chief Lindsey Graham suggested Sunday that Israel, with the help of the US, should use nuclear weapons on Iran and Hamas fighters in Palestinian territories. Appearing on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” the Republican Senator asked “Why did we...
Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms
13.05.2024, 14:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms US equity futures extended last week's solid gains when they traded just about 1% below all time highs, as investors awaited key CPI later this week that will shape the Fed's actions in coming months. As of 7:30am, contracts on the S&P 500 rose about 0.2% (but still below Friday's highs)...
Visualizing All The World's Aircraft Carriers
13.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing All The World's Aircraft Carriers Aircraft carriers are warships equipped with a full-length flight deck for carrying, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Since they allow naval forces to utilize air power without relying on local bases, they usually serve as the capital ships of a fleet. In this graphic, Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti...
Nebraska Ends Income Taxes On Gold And Silver, Declares CBDC’s Are Not Lawful Money
12.05.2024, 16:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nebraska Ends Income Taxes On Gold And Silver, Declares CBDC’s Are Not Lawful Money Authroed by JP Cortez via the Mises Institute, With Gov. Jim Pillen’s recent signature, Nebraska has become the 12th state to end capital gains taxes on sales of gold and silver. LB 1317 is the fourth major sound money bill to become law this year, as state lawmakers...
Das Emirates-Genomprojekt kündigt die Zusammenarbeit mit dem saudi-deutschen “Gesundheits”-Projekt an
12.05.2024, 10:16 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - The Emirati Genome Programme, a groundbreaking national initiative aimed at developing a comprehensive genetic map for UAE citizens, has announced its collaboration with Saudi German Health to expand sample collection sites in Dubai. UAE citizens are encouraged to visit the Saudi German Hospital in Dubai, Ajman and Sharjah to participate in the programme...
The Latent Fascism Of Today’s Anti-Fascists
12.05.2024, 05:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Latent Fascism Of Today’s Anti-Fascists Authored by Aaron Kheriaty via the Brownstone Institute, "Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison." -Simone Weil The terms “fascist” and “fascism” are continuously bandied about today. But those who use these words most...
Gaza Truce Talks 'Back To Square One'
11.05.2024, 22:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gaza Truce Talks 'Back To Square One' For several months running there have been a seeming myriad of sometimes contradictory headlines saying a Hamas-Israel truce is "close," or "nearing the finish line" or else "stalled" or also "progressing"... Friday saw truce talks come full circle with the following Hamas statement cited in Reuters: The Palestinian...
Embracing Communist China Was Washington's Greatest Strategic Failure
11.05.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Embracing Communist China Was Washington's Greatest Strategic Failure Authored by James E. Fanell and Bradley A. Thayer via RealClearPolitics.com, From the war in Ukraine to the horrific terror attack on Oct. 7 and the subsequent conflict in the Middle East to the roiling waters of the South China Sea, the world today is in crisis. The causes are not...
Huawei's New 'Made-In-China' Smartphone Sources More Chips Locally Amid US Tech War
10.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Huawei's New 'Made-In-China' Smartphone Sources More Chips Locally Amid US Tech War With draconian export controls and blacklisting by Washington elites, Chinese tech giant Huawei is still operating and, in fact, producing new high-tech smartphones with components increasingly sourced from domestic suppliers. A new teardown analysis by tech repair...
Strengthening Our Beleaguered Military Starts With A Maritime Overhaul
09.05.2024, 05:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Strengthening Our Beleaguered Military Starts With A Maritime Overhaul Authored by Brent D. Sadler via RealClear Wire, America’s security and prosperity is at high risk today, largely because of bad policies backed up by too weak armed forces. Consider our U.S. maritime complex. Decades of neglect and inadequate investment have left our shipping,...
Democrats Join Republicans To Block Greene's Bid To Oust Speaker Johnson
09.05.2024, 01:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Democrats Join Republicans To Block Greene's Bid To Oust Speaker Johnson By Joseph Lord of Epoch Times The House of Representatives on May 8 overwhelmingly voted to block a measure to strip House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of the gavel advanced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) forced a vote on a motion to...
Did You Know Jeff Bezos’ Grandfather Was A DARPA Co-Founder
08.05.2024, 23:46 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - John Greenewald Jr., the owner of The Black Vault, mentioned in a tweet that Jeff Bezos’ grandfather was a co-founder of DARPA, raising questions about DARPA’s role in creating Amazon. Unknown to most people, Lawrence Preston Gise, the grandfather of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, was involved in the creation of the Pentagon’s top-secret...
The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway
08.05.2024, 23:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, If people have learned anything from the past few years of Ivy League elites and TV talking heads feeding them economic predictions, I hope they finally understand that the “experts” are usually wrong and that alternative analysts...
When "Making It" Becomes Hopeless
08.05.2024, 22:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When "Making It" Becomes Hopeless Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, No wonder so many people devote themselves to curating an artificial digital representation of themselves that they reckon is worthy of recognition and status. What does it take to "make it" in today's economy? As described in Withdrawing from the Rat Race Is Going...
Ukraine Passes Bill To Recruit Prisoners For Depleted Army Ranks
08.05.2024, 17:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Passes Bill To Recruit Prisoners For Depleted Army Ranks The severe manpower crisis of Ukraine's armed forces continues to be on display, particularly after the recent decision of the government to deny embassy and consular services for Ukrainian men of fighting age who live abroad but refuse to come back home. Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday...
Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Company Wins Shareholder Approval For NYSE Listing
08.05.2024, 17:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Company Wins Shareholder Approval For NYSE Listing Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI and the man who's name has basically become synonymous with AI, has won investor approval for his latest project, nuclear company Oklo, which is set to list on the NYSE Friday via a SPAC . The company, which trades as ALCC until then will debut under...
US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise
08.05.2024, 14:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise US equity futures flipped between gains and losses on Wednesday while European stocks hit an all time high as May’s rally in equities continued amid a clutch of solid earnings reports. As of 7:45am, S&P 500 futures traded down 0.2%, and was near session lows reversing...
MQ-9 Reaper Drone, At $30 Million A Pop, Top's Zelensky's Wish List
08.05.2024, 04:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - MQ-9 Reaper Drone, At $30 Million A Pop, Top's Zelensky's Wish List Because it's never enough... Ukraine is now eyeing the US-made MQ-9 Reaper even while Kiev awaits F-16 deliveries from the West. It is the latest long-range weapon system being sought by the Zelensky government. Politico has reported that the $30 million drone has moved to the top...
The Marine Corps That Should Have Been
08.05.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Marine Corps That Should Have Been Authored by Gary Anderson via RealClearPolitics, Say what one wants about the Israeli incursion into Gaza, but not a single rocket or missile has been fired from what is left of it since the start of fighting. Compare this with the relative ineffectiveness of American efforts stop Yemen's Houthis from slinging...
FBI File On Jeff Bezos' Grandfather, A DARPA Co-Founder, Has Been Destroyed
08.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FBI File On Jeff Bezos' Grandfather, A DARPA Co-Founder, Has Been Destroyed What's not widely known is that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, helped form the Pentagon's supersecret Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA—renamed DARPA) in 1958. Years later, DARPA developed the internet and spurred breakthroughs in high-speed...
Trojan Tomato: A New GMO Is Designed To Infiltrate America's Gardens
08.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trojan Tomato: A New GMO Is Designed To Infiltrate America's Gardens Authored by Sina McCullough via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As spring gardening approaches, a new contender has entered the fray—the genetically modified (GM) Purple Tomato. Unlike its GM predecessors, the GM Purple Tomato is not destined solely for the fields of commercial...
Withdrawing From The Rat-Race Is Going Global
07.05.2024, 22:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Withdrawing From The Rat-Race Is Going Global Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Mere mortals are left in a hopeless situation. In response, they're withdrawing from the competition en masse. The world has changed over the past two generations in ways that don't fit the heavily promoted narratives of "growth" and "progress." The "growth"...
Futures, Global Markets Rise On Rising Fed Cut Bets
06.05.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures, Global Markets Rise On Rising Fed Cut Bets Global stocks and US equity futures jumped to start the new week, with the S&P 500 poised to extend last week’s rally as traders grew increasingly confident in the likelihood that the Fed will cut interest rates this year. As of 7:40am, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures added 0.3%, tracking gains in...
"Economics Works In Mysterious Ways": Is China's Wealth Effect Being Substituted?
06.05.2024, 01:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Economics Works In Mysterious Ways": Is China's Wealth Effect Being Substituted? By Teeuwe Mevissen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Is the wealth effect being substituted? Summary China’s real estate market suffered heavy losses early this year while stock market investors continue to face huge uncertainty. This will add to the deterioration...
Trump Develops 'Detailed' Plan On Achieving Ukraine Peace: Telegraph
05.05.2024, 13:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Develops 'Detailed' Plan On Achieving Ukraine Peace: Telegraph Trump has long touted on the campaign trail that he can stop the Ukraine war in 24 hours while taking shots a Biden's inability to oversee a negotiation that would ultimately end the war. The Daily Telegraph is now reporting, citing an unnamed source who is said to be close to the...
The Interlocking Of Strategic Paradigms
05.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Interlocking Of Strategic Paradigms Authored by Alastair Crooke via the Ron Paul Institute, Theodore Postol, Professor of Science, Technology and National Security Policy at MIT, has provided a forensic analysis of the videos and evidence emerging from Iran’s 13th April swarm drone and missile ‘demonstration’ attack into Israel: A ‘message’...
Scientists Backtrack, Admit Proposed Virus Experiments Could Have Been Done In China
04.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scientists Backtrack, Admit Proposed Virus Experiments Could Have Been Done In China Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Scientists with close ties to China and the U.S. government is now saying that risky experiments he proposed—which some experts believe could have led to the creation of SARS-CoV-2—may have been done...
Money Is A Monopoly Government Will Never Surrender
04.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Money Is A Monopoly Government Will Never Surrender Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, A major intellectual revelation from my youth came from reading Murray Rothbard’s “What Has Government Done to Our Money?” (1963). He includes a passing opinion that private markets are perfectly capable of producing money with no help from government...
Watch: LAPD Unmasks UCLA Agitators
03.05.2024, 20:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: LAPD Unmasks UCLA Agitators Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, As the LAPD stormed onto the campus of UCLA Thursday night to end illegal encampments by agitators, they unmasked some of those they arrested and exposed their faces to the cameras. The COVID face mask has been adopted wholesale by the rabid wannabe Marxists, purely as a...
Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide
02.05.2024, 14:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide After a bizarre reversal when US stocks first slumped and then dumped after Powell's very dovish FOMC statement and press conference, US equity futures have regained their footing this morning and advanced as traders took comfort from the Fed’s signal that there’s no...
China Humiliated Blinken But Blinken Kept Begging
02.05.2024, 05:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Humiliated Blinken But Blinken Kept Begging Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, It is not clear whether a Chinese official was at the Beijing airport to bid farewell to Secretary of State Antony Blinken as he ended his three-day visit to China on Friday, but the send-off was in any event low-key and Chinese leader Xi Jinping...
Visualizing The Size Of The Global Senior Population
02.05.2024, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing The Size Of The Global Senior Population The growth of the senior population is a consequence of the demographic transition towards longer and healthier lives. Population aging, however, can pose economic and social challenges. Here, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu maps the size of the world’s population aged 65+ for 1980, 2021, and 2050...
'Intel Insidious' - Here's All The 'Grants' Given By Biden's US CHIPS Act
02.05.2024, 02:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Intel Insidious' - Here's All The 'Grants' Given By Biden's US CHIPS Act This visualization shows which companies are receiving grants from the U.S. CHIPS Act, as of April 25, 2024. The CHIPS Act is a federal statute signed into law by President Joe Biden that authorizes $280 billion in new funding to boost domestic research and manufacturing of...
AMD's Muted AI Sales Forecast Fails To Unleash Bulls
01.05.2024, 17:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AMD's Muted AI Sales Forecast Fails To Unleash Bulls Advanced Micro Devices, the second-largest maker of computer processors, disappointed investors with its sales outlook for processors used in data centers. The company also reported weak demand for chips used in gaming hardware, which could serve as a warning for Nvidia bulls as they await the...
Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms
01.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms US equities were set for a second day of losses, as investors weighed disappointing tech earnings and braced for today's Quarterly Refunding Announcement and Fed rate decision and Powell press conference where the Fed chair is expected to signal a delay to rate cuts. S&P 500 futures slid 0...
Maté: What 10 Years Of US Meddling In Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy)
01.05.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Maté: What 10 Years Of US Meddling In Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy) Authored by Aaron Maté via RealClear Investigations, In successfully lobbying Congress for an additional $61 billion in Ukraine war funding, an effort that ended this month with celebratory Democrats waving Ukrainian flags in the House chamber, President Biden...
US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024
30.04.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024 US equity futures dropped, and European markets were mixed on the last day of the month amid concerns the Fed may stick to its hawkish messaging at its meeting on Wednesday. As of 7:40am, S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures were down 0.1% while Europe’s Stoxx 600 index retreated 0.4%, while Asian...
Ukraine Army Chief Admits 'Tactical' Retreat Underway
29.04.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Army Chief Admits 'Tactical' Retreat Underway The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi has just issued a new dire assessment confirming widespread international reports that Ukraine forces are getting beaten back from the frontlines. He has confirmed that his outnumbered troops have fallen back to new positions...
Futures Rise, Yen Downgraded To Banana Republic Currency After Another Rollercoaster Session
29.04.2024, 14:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise, Yen Downgraded To Banana Republic Currency After Another Rollercoaster Session US equity futures swung between gains and losses and traded near session highs as US traders walked to their desks on Monday morning after a rollercoaster day for the Japanese yen, which increasingly looks like some 3rd world banana republic currency instead...
'Environmental Pollutant' - How A Key Climate Agenda Tool Harms Endangered Species
29.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Environmental Pollutant' - How A Key Climate Agenda Tool Harms Endangered Species Authored by Donna Anderson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As the Biden administration expands its offshore wind projects as part of its goal to reach a carbon-free energy system, whales and other marine life may become collateral damage, according to new research...
US Space Force General Says China's Military Developing Space Assets At "Breathtaking Speed"
29.04.2024, 06:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Space Force General Says China's Military Developing Space Assets At "Breathtaking Speed" Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command, recently warned about China’s “breathtakingly fast” development of space military capabilities, following his trips to South Korea and Japan. “We are seriously...
PM Orbán At CPAC: The 5 Methods Of Oppression Liberals Use To Silence Conservatives
28.04.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - PM Orbán At CPAC: The 5 Methods Of Oppression Liberals Use To Silence Conservatives Authored by John Cody via ReMix News, In the run-up to major elections across the West, including the U.S. presidential election and the EU parliament elections in June, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned that conservatives face unprecedented pressure from...