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Mainstream Finally Gets It... The AI Investment Play Isn't Tech, It's Energy
21.05.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mainstream Finally Gets It... The AI Investment Play Isn't Tech, It's Energy Almost two months ago, we highlighted what we called at the time 'The Next AI Trade' - that in fact it is not the tech itself, but the electrical power required to run the tech that is the limiting factor on the growth of AI (and Data Center) expansion. These pages have been...
Futures Flat As Investors Wait For Nvidia Earnings; Ethereum Soars
21.05.2024, 14:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Investors Wait For Nvidia Earnings; Ethereum Soars US futures are flat, reversing earlier losses, with European bourses and Asian markets all lower as the international risk-off tone carries over to the US pre-mkt, likely driven by a desire to see the NVDA print before determining near-term direction. Until then, markets are hunting...
The EU Is Spending Billions On Hydrogen-Ready, But Where's The Hydrogen?
20.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The EU Is Spending Billions On Hydrogen-Ready, But Where's The Hydrogen? Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk.com, I’m all in favor of hydrogen-powered plants to produce electricity if only we had cheap hydrogen. But we don’t and likely won’t. A Bad Bet on Hydrogen Hype Bloomberg cautions Europe’s Spending Billions on Green Hydrogen. It’s...
Fierce Fighting Gets Closer To US-Built Gaza Pier Just As Initial Aid Rolls Off
19.05.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fierce Fighting Gets Closer To US-Built Gaza Pier Just As Initial Aid Rolls Off While global coverage of the Gaza crisis has focused on the Israeli offensive in the southern city of Raffah of late, fierce battles have erupted in the north of the Strip over the last several days, especially in Jabalia, where the IDF military is in a fierce anti-insurgent...
First Images Of American Taxpayers' $350 Million Completed Gaza Pier
18.05.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - First Images Of American Taxpayers' $350 Million Completed Gaza Pier The Pentagon is 'proud'... and so is the Biden administration. But the US taxpayer?... "Today we began delivery of aid from the temporary pier on to the beach of Gaza for further distribution to the people by our partners," US Central Command announced Friday. "This unique logistics...
"The Economics Just Don't Work": Demand For Electric Semis Plunges Due To High Costs
18.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Economics Just Don't Work": Demand For Electric Semis Plunges Due To High Costs For the last year, we've been writing extensively about how high costs and low demand have made EVs uneconomical - and, as a result, unpopular to produce - for the auto industry. It turns out unionized employees extorting you on labor costs while the government mandates...
Full Fifth Circuit Hears Arguments Over the Fate Of Texas' Floating Border Wall
18.05.2024, 00:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Full Fifth Circuit Hears Arguments Over the Fate Of Texas' Floating Border Wall Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The legal saga over the fate of a 1,000-foot floating barrier on the Rio Grande has entered a new phase. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last summer ordered the deployment of the string of giant orange buoys in the river near Eagle Pass....
Ukraine Formally Asks NATO To Send Troops For 1st Time, Pentagon Mulling
17.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Formally Asks NATO To Send Troops For 1st Time, Pentagon Mulling The continued inevitable and disastrous slide into a WW3 nuclear-armed confrontation between Russian and the West continues as The New York Times reports NATO appears to actually be seriously mulling sending troops to Ukraine to serve in the role as 'trainers' at a moment Kiev...
Whistling Past The National Train Wreck
17.05.2024, 05:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Whistling Past The National Train Wreck Authored by Donald Jeffries via I Protest, There are only so many ways one can say that America is collapsing. That the Fat Lady is nearing the end of her song. That we’re running on fumes. If Yogi Berra were around, he’d say it’s over. We had a good run, as far as civilizations go. We were the light of...
Russia Orders UK Defense Attaché Out Of The Country In Tit-For-Tat
17.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Orders UK Defense Attaché Out Of The Country In Tit-For-Tat Russia has hit back at the UK's latest diplomatic moves against Moscow, on Thursday ordering the expulsion of the British defense attache from the country. "The defense attaché at the British Embassy in Moscow, A. T. Coghill, has been declared persona non grata. He must leave the territory...
Million Texans Without Power As Storm Topples Transmission Towers
17.05.2024, 03:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Million Texans Without Power As Storm Topples Transmission Towers Powerful storms tore through eastern Texas on Thursday evening, decimating transmission towers and plunging over a million residents into darkness. "Severe thunderstorms moving across the Houston metro area have a history of producing damaging winds! This destructive storm will contain...
Container Ship Lacked Backup System To Avoid Baltimore Bridge Strike
17.05.2024, 02:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Container Ship Lacked Backup System To Avoid Baltimore Bridge Strike By John Gallagher of FreightWaves Cargo vessels are not equipped with backup power sufficient to avoid situations such as the one in March when the container ship Dali struck and collapsed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, the country’s top transportation safety investigator...
After Baltimore, Now Galveston Bridge Collapses Due To A Large Barge Slamming Into it
16.05.2024, 17:10 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Following Baltimore’s incident, the Galveston Bridge collapsed after a large barge struck it. Concerns over bridge safety intensify amid infrastructure challenges across the US. America’s infrastructure is still failing while the Biden administration keeps sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg...
'So Much For Democracy'? Blinken Justifies Ukraine Canceling Elections
16.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'So Much For Democracy'? Blinken Justifies Ukraine Canceling Elections Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Tuesday and delivered a speech where he justified President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to postpone elections. Presidential elections were due to be held in March...
Escobar: De-Dollarization Bombshell - The Coming Of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem
16.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: De-Dollarization Bombshell - The Coming Of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem Authored by Pepe Escobar, Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem. Welcome to The Unit – a concept that has already been discussed by the financial services and investments working...
Large Barge Slams Into Galveston Bridge, Stranding Thousands On Pelican Island
15.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Large Barge Slams Into Galveston Bridge, Stranding Thousands On Pelican Island As the Biden administration continues funneling billions of dollars to Ukraine and with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg nowhere to be found, America's infrastructure continues deteriorating. Earlier today, a large barge crashed into a bridge in Galveston,...
Coalition Of States Sue Biden Admin, California Over Electric Vehicle Mandates
15.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Coalition Of States Sue Biden Admin, California Over Electric Vehicle Mandates Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, A coalition of Republican-led states is suing the Biden administration and the State of California in an attempt to prevent new electric vehicle mandates on truck owners and operators throughout the country from going into...
Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine's Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations?
15.05.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine's Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, There are two classic propaganda narratives used by governments when it comes to keeping the public invested in any war campaign that does nothing to advance their national interests: First, there’s the “commitment”...
Here’s Why Most Of America Is Completely Unprepared
15.05.2024, 12:56 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Amidst historical prosperity, most Americans remain unprepared for the looming threat of famine, lacking essential skills and infrastructure resilience, despite recent awakenings to economic instability and growing interest in survivalists. This reality is underscored by the dire situation in North Korea, where human rights activists, as reported by...
Emergency Blackouts Introduced Across Ukraine As Temperatures Dip
15.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Emergency Blackouts Introduced Across Ukraine As Temperatures Dip Following several weeks of stepped-up Russian aerial attacks which have pummeled Ukraine's energy and electrical grid, state power operator Ukrenergo on Tuesday announced that rolling emergency blackouts have gone into effect across the country. It comes amid a drop in temperatures which...
NATO's Newest Member Open To Hosting Nuclear Weapons
15.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO's Newest Member Open To Hosting Nuclear Weapons Via The Libertarian Institute The Swedish Prime Minister has said his country would be willing to host nuclear weapons during a war. The North Atlantic Alliance has a nuclear sharing program that has US nuclear weapons deployed in five countries. The Polish leader recently said he hopes Warsaw can...
Mass Starvation: Here's Why Most Of America Is Completely Unprepared
15.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mass Starvation: Here's Why Most Of America Is Completely Unprepared Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, The concept of mass starvation has not been in the forefront of American society for a very long time. Even during the Great Depression the US was majority agrarian and most people knew how to live off the land. In fact, the US has never...
Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons
14.05.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons A top British intelligence official has issued a new alarmist warning concerning the 'Russian threat' to the West. Anne Keast-Butler, who for the last year has headed up the UK's GCHQ, or signals intelligence operations (which is the equivalent of America's...
Clearing Demand
14.05.2024, 20:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Clearing Demand By Ahmed Bin Sulayem Since its establishment in 2005, the Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC) has been the central counterparty for clearing and settlement services to the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX). Emerging as the largest clearing house in the MENA region by volume, DCCC is now poised to play a far more multinational...
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...
Biden Administration Quadruples Tariffs On Chinese EVs
14.05.2024, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Administration Quadruples Tariffs On Chinese EVs Authored by Terri Wu via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will impose a 100 percent tariff—quadrupling the current 25 percent—on electric vehicles imported from China in 2024. In addition to EVs, the White House has significantly increased tariffs on Chinese...
Zelensky Thanks Americans For Billions In Aid, But Pleads For More Patriot Systems
14.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Thanks Americans For Billions In Aid, But Pleads For More Patriot Systems Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made another trip to Ukraine, appearing in Kiev alongside Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, and the US top diplomat vowed that some of the US aid from Biden's recently approved $60 billion for Ukraine is "now on...
US Army Major Quits Intel Agency Over 'Unqualified' US Support Of Israeli 'Ethnic Cleansing'
14.05.2024, 15:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Army Major Quits Intel Agency Over 'Unqualified' US Support Of Israeli 'Ethnic Cleansing' A US Army officer has resigned from his post at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to protest Washington's "nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel" -- support that's facilitated "the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent...
Transitioning Fleet Trucks To Electric Raises Costs By Up To 114 Percent, Report Warns
14.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Transitioning Fleet Trucks To Electric Raises Costs By Up To 114 Percent, Report Warns Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Transitioning conventional truck fleets to electric vehicles (EVs) pushes up annual operational costs, which subsequently increases economic inflation, according to a recent report from transportation...
Mass Immigration Has "Utterly Failed" Britain As New Report Debunks Myths Of Economic Growth & Fiscal Benefits
13.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mass Immigration Has "Utterly Failed" Britain As New Report Debunks Myths Of Economic Growth & Fiscal Benefits Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, The U.K.'s cumulative net migration in the 25 years up to 1997 was just 68,000. In the 25 years to follow, cumulative net migration was at least 5.8 million," a damning new report co-authored by Britain's...
China Is Facing An Epic Deflationary Crash That It Can No Longer Hide
13.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Is Facing An Epic Deflationary Crash That It Can No Longer Hide It has long been understood that most financial data provided by the Chinese government is propaganda designed to misrepresent the country's true economic circumstances. At best, their statistics provide half the truth and the rest has to be discerned through deeper investigation...
Kansas Democrat Governor Vetoes Bill Restricting Foreign Ownership Of Land Near Military Bases
13.05.2024, 01:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kansas Democrat Governor Vetoes Bill Restricting Foreign Ownership Of Land Near Military Bases Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill on Friday that aimed to prevent companies of China and other “foreign adversaries” from acquiring real property near military installations in the state...
Israeli Attacks Intensify Across Gaza, Rafah Civilians Have Nowhere To Go
12.05.2024, 23:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Attacks Intensify Across Gaza, Rafah Civilians Have Nowhere To Go Via Middle East Eye Israeli tanks have moved into eastern Jabalia in northern Gaza following a night of intense bombardment, which has killed some 19 Palestinians and flattened residential blocks, according to health officials. Israeli fire targeted ambulances near the camp's...
Citadel Ken Griffin Rises Up Against Left's "Cultural Revolution," Says Time To Embrace "Western Values"
12.05.2024, 21:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Citadel Ken Griffin Rises Up Against Left's "Cultural Revolution," Says Time To Embrace "Western Values" The woke takeover of America's higher education system, transforming classrooms into woke indoctrination camps, has been on full display over the last several years. More recently, the pro-Palestinian protests on campuses have been a shocking eye-opener...
Baltic NATO Country Says It's Ready To Send Troops To Ukraine
12.05.2024, 16:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Baltic NATO Country Says It's Ready To Send Troops To Ukraine A Baltic NATO country has belatedly jumped on board and backed French President Emmanuel Macron's idea of putting Western boots on the ground in Ukraine. Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said in an interview with the Financial Times this week that her country is prepared to...
Ukrainian Suicide Drone Attack At Russia's Volgograd Oil Refinery Sparks Fire
12.05.2024, 14:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukrainian Suicide Drone Attack At Russia's Volgograd Oil Refinery Sparks Fire In defiance of repeated warnings from the Biden administration, the Ukrainian military is ramping up kamikaze drone attacks on the Russian energy complex, a move to hamper the nation's crude oil and crude product export revenues and curtail Moscow's ability to fund President...
Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations
12.05.2024, 03:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations When people gripe about paying taxes and the government being a poor the absolute worst possible capital allocation, this is what they are talking about: $7.5 billion in investments for electric vehicles has - in two years - produced just 7 charging stations...
Watch: Northern Israel Is Literally On Fire After Hezbollah Attacks
12.05.2024, 01:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Northern Israel Is Literally On Fire After Hezbollah Attacks Starting Friday night into Saturday a series of surreal images and videos have circulated widely showing that whole swathes of northern Israel are literally on fire. The fires were largely in open field areas, but were very extensive given they were the result of about 35 rockets being...
First F-16s To Arrive In Ukraine 'Within Weeks' From West, But Will It Matter?
11.05.2024, 21:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - First F-16s To Arrive In Ukraine 'Within Weeks' From West, But Will It Matter? A high-ranking UK military source has told London's daily Evening Standard newspaper that F-16 fighters will be delivered by the Western allies to Ukraine "within weeks". The official indicated that the aircraft are due to arrive by June, or at least July at the latest...
Racist Secession? Conservatives Escape Democrat-Run Baton Rouge With Creation Of New City
11.05.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Racist Secession? Conservatives Escape Democrat-Run Baton Rouge With Creation Of New City The battle started a decade ago with conservative parents in the eastern areas of Baton Rouge, Louisiana seeking the right to send their children to better public schools. Their requests for a redistricting to build a new school in their area was denied by the...
Mapping Life Expectancy Around The World
11.05.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mapping Life Expectancy Around The World Over the last two centuries there has been significant progress in human health and longevity. Initially, in the early 19th century, life expectancy did not surpass 40 years globally, reflecting harsh conditions like extreme poverty, limited medical care, and poor sanitation. By 1950, this figure had seen notable...
Asia Embraces Coal As The U.S. Rejects It
11.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Asia Embraces Coal As The U.S. Rejects It Authored by Vijay Jayaraj via RealClear Wire, Vietnam and other Asian countries are on a coal spree! Given the dynamics of energy use in the rapidly developing industrial sector there, it is no surprise that these nations have backpedaled on big promises made at international climate conferences to reduce emissions...
Russia Launches Surprise Offensive In Kharkiv, Aims To Extend Border 10km Deep Into Ukraine
10.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Launches Surprise Offensive In Kharkiv, Aims To Extend Border 10km Deep Into Ukraine Following several more cross-border attacks from Ukraine, including direct drone hits on Russian oil facilities over the past 48 hours, Russian forces have launched a surprise ground offensive which seeks to break through front lines in the northeastern Kharkiv...
Watch: Hundreds Of Marxist Extremists Storm Tesla's Gigafactory Berlin
10.05.2024, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Hundreds Of Marxist Extremists Storm Tesla's Gigafactory Berlin All hell is breaking out at Tesla's Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg on Friday as hundreds of woke Marxist extremists storm the property. Videos on X show hundreds of people running towards the massive factory. BREAKING: Far-left extremists just tried storming a Tesla factory...
US Futures, Global Markets Storm Higher, Eye All-Time Highs
10.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures, Global Markets Storm Higher, Eye All-Time Highs US equity futures pointed to even more gains on the last day of trading, leaving the S&P 500 set for a third weekly rise — the longest run since February. The rally was given fresh legs yesterday by more earnings optimism coupled with disappointing economic data - this time the highest initial...
Is China's Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back?
10.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is China's Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back? By Simon Watkins of OilPrice.com Since the mid-1990s, China’s extraordinary economic expansion almost singlehandedly drove a supercycle in key commodities prices it required to power such growth, including oil and gas. In 2013, it became the world’s largest net importer of total petroleum and other...
CISA, FBI Resuming Talks With Social Media Firms Over Disinformation Removal, Senate Intel Chair Says
09.05.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CISA, FBI Resuming Talks With Social Media Firms Over Disinformation Removal, Senate Intel Chair Says Authored by David Dimolfetta via nextgov.com, Key federal agencies have resumed discussions with social media companies over removing disinformation on their sites as the November presidential election nears, a stark reversal after the Biden administration...
Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report
09.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report Conservative think tank Center for Renewing America floated the idea a year and a half ago that "It's time to wage war on transnational drug cartels." This comes as the drug death catastrophe in the US eclipses the entire Vietnam War every six months. The vast...
Ukraine Warns Nationwide Power Outages Coming Amid 'Massive' Russian Strikes
09.05.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Warns Nationwide Power Outages Coming Amid 'Massive' Russian Strikes Large-scale Russian aerial strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure has become an almost daily event, but Wednesday saw a "massive" wave of Russian missiles launched on vital power grid sites, according to Ukraine authorities. Ukraine is now warning of nationwide power cuts...
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,...