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The Rise of the Immortal Dictator: What Will AI Mean for Freedom and Government?
03.02.2025, 09:05 Uhr. OffGuardian - https: - “If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which …...
Escobar: The Chihuahua Energy Policy - It's A Gas, Gas, Gas
02.02.2025, 05:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: The Chihuahua Energy Policy - It's A Gas, Gas, Gas Authored by Pepe Escobar, Let’s start with the tale of an Empire bragging to the wind. Mr. Disco Inferno orders OPEC and OPEC+ to lower the price of oil, because, in his mind, that may solve the war in Ukraine – as in forcing Moscow to the table because of dwindling energy revenues. That...
Treasury Dept's Highest-Ranking Career Official Rage-Quits After Musk's DOGE Team Probes Payment System
31.01.2025, 23:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Treasury Dept's Highest-Ranking Career Official Rage-Quits After Musk's DOGE Team Probes Payment System The Treasury Department's highest-ranking career official quit after a clash with aides of Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, according to the Washington Post, citing (of course), three anonymous sources. David A. Lebryk, a decades-long...
Rubio To Visit Panama Amid Rising Tensions Over Canal
25.01.2025, 21:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rubio To Visit Panama Amid Rising Tensions Over Canal Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to make his first trip abroad next week, which will include a stop in Panama amid rising tensions over President Donald Trump’s vow to take back the Panama Canal. Secretary of State...
Migrants Not Needed: BlackRock's Fink Says 'Xenophobic' Countries Will Have Higher Standard Of Living Amid AI Revolution
23.01.2025, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Migrants Not Needed: BlackRock's Fink Says 'Xenophobic' Countries Will Have Higher Standard Of Living Amid AI Revolution Via Remix News, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock and arguably one of the most powerful men on the planet, is now openly saying that the countries with xenophobic immigration policies are going to have a higher standard of living,...
Iran's Energy Crisis
22.01.2025, 11:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran's Energy Crisis Authored by Brenda Shaffer & Dalga Khatinoglu via RealClearEnergy, Iran is experiencing a systemic energy crisis. While many times in the past, Iran has had gas shortages or refined product shortages, this time Iran is undergoing an energy meltdown, with parallel shortages of electricity, natural gas and refined products. The Iranian...
Another Door Opens...
20.01.2025, 19:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another Door Opens... Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “…there’s little political upside in defending the rights of undocumented shoplifters.” - Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times. "If past is prologue, Mr. Trump lacks the acumen to carry out his ambitious agenda. The first problem is management style. In his first term, Mr. Trump was a...
Fight Over Truck Broker Contracts Awaits Trump's Next Move
20.01.2025, 15:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fight Over Truck Broker Contracts Awaits Trump's Next Move By John Gallagher of FreightWaves In May 2020, President Donald Trump sided with owner-operators lining the National Mall with their rigs protesting alleged price gouging by truck brokers. “All they want is to be treated fairly, and we’re going to treat them fairly,” Trump told hosts of...
FEC Commissioner Sees 'DOGE Potential' In Moving Agency Out Of Washington
18.01.2025, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FEC Commissioner Sees 'DOGE Potential' In Moving Agency Out Of Washington Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Federal Election Commissioner Trey Trainor has a vision, and it’s outside the Beltway. (Left to right) Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and U.S. Capitol Building view from Arlington, Va., on Aug. 21, 2023...
Pakistan Airline Ad Depicts Plane Flying Into Eiffel Tower
18.01.2025, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pakistan Airline Ad Depicts Plane Flying Into Eiffel Tower Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, An advert created by Pakistan International Airlines has received fierce backlash for depicting one of the company’s planes flying directly toward the Eiffel tower in an image evoking the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The caption alongside the image reads...
Judge: American Airlines' ESG-Tainted 401k Breaches Fiduciary Duty To Workers
11.01.2025, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Judge: American Airlines' ESG-Tainted 401k Breaches Fiduciary Duty To Workers In a major, first-of-its-kind milestone along ESG's relentless march to its grave, a federal court has ruled that American Airlines breached its duty to employees by tapping ESG-addled BlackRock to manage part of its 401(k) plan. "The facts here compellingly established...
DOJ Sues 6 Landlords Over Alleged Algorithmic Rent-Fixing Scheme
09.01.2025, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DOJ Sues 6 Landlords Over Alleged Algorithmic Rent-Fixing Scheme Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday that it is suing six large landlords over alleged anticompetitive practices in housing rental markets, expanding the DOJ’s first case alleging algorithmic collusion. The DOJ and a coalition...
The Truth About America's Crumbling Infrastructure
07.01.2025, 20:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Truth About America's Crumbling Infrastructure Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Signs that we were once a truly great nation are all around us. Previous generations of Americans handed us the keys to the most magnificent domestic infrastructure that the world had ever seen, but now it is literally falling apart all around...
Ken Griffin's Citadel Offer Clients To Cash Out Profits After A 15% Year, But Most Decline
03.01.2025, 15:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ken Griffin's Citadel Offer Clients To Cash Out Profits After A 15% Year, But Most Decline In what was at best a mediocre year (by its own standards) for Ken Griffin's flagship hedge fund, Wellington, which generated a 2024 return of 15.1% and underperformed the S&P (which does not charge 2 and 20) by roughly 10%, Citadel invited clients to cash out...
Years Of Repeat Central Planning Mistakes Have Doomed China's Economy
03.01.2025, 13:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Years Of Repeat Central Planning Mistakes Have Doomed China's Economy Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Other than exports, no country wants to be like China. China Overindebtedness, Overbuilding and Overcapacity The Wall Street Journal reports China’s Economy Is Burdened by Years of Excess. Here’s How Bad It Really Is. Destiny deferred...
Puerto Rico Plunges Into Nationwide Blackout, Internet Connectivity Disrupted
31.12.2024, 16:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Puerto Rico Plunges Into Nationwide Blackout, Internet Connectivity Disrupted A massive blackout struck nearly all of Puerto Rico early Tuesday, leaving over 1.2 million customers without power just hours before New Year's Eve celebrations. The outage also disrupted internet services (not for those with backup power and Starlink) and was not caused...
Elon Musk: "The Fed Is Absurdly Overstaffed"
23.12.2024, 20:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Musk: "The Fed Is Absurdly Overstaffed" The Ron Paul 'Revolution' could be on the horizon as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office next month. Elon Musk, one of Trump's top advisors, wrote on X about creating efficiencies at the Federal Reserve. "The Fed is absurdly overstaffed," Musk wrote on X early Monday morning, responding...
Senate Republicans Create 'Make America Healthy Again' Caucus As RFK Jr. Continues Capitol Hill Tour
22.12.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senate Republicans Create 'Make America Healthy Again' Caucus As RFK Jr. Continues Capitol Hill Tour Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), While Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued his tour of Capitol Hill in a quest to gain backing from lawmakers, a group of Republican senators launched a new caucus to support the objectives...
Trump Selects An Actual Astronaut To Lead NASA
04.12.2024, 21:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Selects An Actual Astronaut To Lead NASA President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday afternoon that he has selected billionaire entrepreneur and veteran SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). If confirmed, Isaacman would replace Bill Nelson, a former US senator from Florida who...
What Kennedy Must Do To Defeat Regulatory Capture
30.11.2024, 04:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Kennedy Must Do To Defeat Regulatory Capture Authored by Bretigne Shaffer via The Brownstone Institute, President-Elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services is cause for celebration for anyone who cares about the pharmaceutical industry’s influence over regulatory agencies,...
Futures Jump, Dollar Dumps As Markets Cheer Bessent Pick
25.11.2024, 14:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Jump, Dollar Dumps As Markets Cheer Bessent Pick US equity futures jumped, led by a rally in small caps, as Wall Street cheered Trump’s selection of Scott Bessent as the next Treasury Secretary. As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 futures rose 0.5% to trade at 6,016, while Nasdaq 100 futs gained 0.6% with all Mag 7 stocks higher led by the +2.0% gain...
Trump Taps Covid Contrarian, Staunch Public Health Critic Makary For FDA
23.11.2024, 18:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Taps Covid Contrarian, Staunch Public Health Critic Makary For FDA In another appointment with potential to shake up the federal health regime, Donald Trump on Friday nominated Dr. Martin Makary to lead the Food & Drug Administration. Makary, a Johns Hopkins University pancreatic surgeon and author of three New York Times bestsellers, has been...
RFK Jr.'s Plans For Reshaping HHS Draw Strong Reactions
22.11.2024, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - RFK Jr.'s Plans For Reshaping HHS Draw Strong Reactions Authored by Jeff Louderbeck via The Epoch Times, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to “make America healthy again” through his platform as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The possibility of that happening has drawn praise from many Republican lawmakers and vaccine...
Pentagon Fails 7th Audit In Row, Aims For Clean Audit In 2028
18.11.2024, 11:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pentagon Fails 7th Audit In Row, Aims For Clean Audit In 2028 Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, For the seventh year in a row, the Department of Defense (DOD) has failed its annual financial statement audit, a massive undertaking meant to ensure accountability for its $3.8 trillion in assets and $4 trillion in liabilities. Despite the setback...
The Great Splainin' Cometh
15.11.2024, 22:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Splainin' Cometh Authored by James Howard Kunstler, "The meltdown has gotten so heavy liberal bureaucrats are ready to form antigovernment militias and fretting about black helicopters" - Max Blumenthal “Many Democrats were considering how to navigate a dark future, with the party unable to stop Mr. Trump from carrying out a right-wing transformation...
Vaccine Stocks Slide Further After Trump Taps RFK Jr. To Lead HHS
15.11.2024, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Vaccine Stocks Slide Further After Trump Taps RFK Jr. To Lead HHS Shares of vaccine makers slumped in premarket trading, extending losses for a second day after President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Wall Street analysts told clients this development has sparked vast uncertainty...
US Deficit Explodes: Blowout October Deficit Means 2nd Worst Start To US Fiscal Year On Record
14.11.2024, 00:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Deficit Explodes: Blowout October Deficit Means 2nd Worst Start To US Fiscal Year On Record It is only fitting that the twilight days of the Biden admin would exhibit more of the same fakeness that defined not only all of the past four years, but certainly the fakeness of that Kamala Harris presidential campaign which had a billion dollars a month...
Learning To Speak Trump, Again
10.11.2024, 21:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Learning To Speak Trump, Again By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Do we have to? Yes, I think we do. Market Results U.S. stock markets had an incredible week, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both up around 5%, and the Russell 2000 ripping up almost 9%! Interestingly, at least from my perspective as an election night bond bull, the 10-year Treasury yield...
Is BlackRock The Modern-Day East India Company?
15.10.2024, 20:57 Uhr. GreatGameInternational - https: - BlackRock, a major investment company based in the US, has reached a stunning milestone: it now manages over $11.48 trillion! This amount is comparable to the total economic output (GDP) of countries like Japan, India, and the UK combined. Over the past year, its value has jumped by nearly $2.4 trillion—which is as much as […] The post Is BlackRock...
Cybercab Arrives: Everything To Expect From Tonight's Tesla Robotaxi Event
10.10.2024, 12:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cybercab Arrives: Everything To Expect From Tonight's Tesla Robotaxi Event "The Most Important Tesla Event Ever" Tesla’s much awaited Robotaxi event, “We, Robot,” is set for tomorrow, live from Warner Bros. Discovery Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The event starts at 7 p.m. on October 10 and will be livestreamed on Tesla’s social media...
VDH: We Are In Need Of Renaissance People
07.10.2024, 23:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VDH: We Are In Need Of Renaissance People Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The songwriter, actor, country/western singer, musician, U.S. Army veteran, helicopter pilot, accomplished rugby player and boxer, Rhodes scholar, Pomona College and University of Oxford degreed, and summa cum laude literature graduate, Kris Kristofferson...
Loan For Once-Iconic Detroit Tower Goes Delinquent
03.10.2024, 20:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Loan For Once-Iconic Detroit Tower Goes Delinquent By Leslie Shaver of Multifamily Dive, The more-than-$80 million Freddie Mac commercial mortgage-backed securities loan for the rental portion of the once-iconic Detroit property Riverfront Towers has gone 30 days delinquent, according to a report Morningstar Credit shared with Multifamily Dive. Image...
The Present Monetary System Is Heading For A Breakdown
30.09.2024, 17:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Present Monetary System Is Heading For A Breakdown Authored by Frank Shostak via The Mises Institute, Many economists incorrectly assume a growing economy also requires a growing money stock, assuming that economic growth gives rise to a greater demand for money. It is held that failing to increase money to facilitate increased trade will lead...
Escobar: Will A BRICS Bretton Woods Take Place In Kazan?
25.09.2024, 05:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: Will A BRICS Bretton Woods Take Place In Kazan? Authored by Pepe Escobar, With less than a month before the crucial BRICS annual summit in Kazan under the Russian presidency, serious informed discussions are raging in Moscow and other Eurasian capitals on what should be at the table in the de-dollarization and alternative payment system front...
The Island Stuck in Limbo
17.08.2024, 12:01 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Fifty years after partition, a divided Cyprus somehow manages to get by....
Not Just Buffett: Druck, Tepper, Soros All Dumped Tech Before The Rout: 13F Summary
15.08.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Not Just Buffett: Druck, Tepper, Soros All Dumped Tech Before The Rout: 13F Summary It wasn't just Warren Buffett slashing his Apple stake by more than half: in the second quarter a veritable who is who of the hedge fund community were dumping tech exposure (just as we said at the time, but without knowing names, see "Hedge Funds Dumping Record Amounts...
Tether Mints 1.3BN USDT Since Market Bottom: Can It Push Bitcoin Above $65K?
10.08.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tether Mints 1.3BN USDT Since Market Bottom: Can It Push Bitcoin Above $65K? By Zoltan Vardai of CoinTelegraph Tether, the issuer of USDT — the world’s largest stablecoin — has minted over $1.3 billion worth of stablecoins since the market bottom, as investors prepare to buy the dip. Tether’s treasury has printed over $1.3 billion worth of USDT...
Russia's Arctic Energy Expansion: A Geopolitical And Economic Gambit
07.08.2024, 10:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia's Arctic Energy Expansion: A Geopolitical And Economic Gambit Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, Russia's Arctic Northern Sea Route allows the country to continue exporting oil to China despite sanctions, highlighting the route's strategic importance. Russia aims to significantly increase the NSR's cargo capacity, supported by vast Arctic...
The BITCOIN Act Of 2024 Explained
05.08.2024, 12:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The BITCOIN Act Of 2024 Explained Authored by Colin Crossman via Bitcoin Magazine, Following the announcement on July 27th at the Bitcoin conference in Nashville, the “Boosting Innovation, Technology, and Competitiveness through Optimized Investment Nationwide” or BITCOIN Act of 2024, introduced by Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, seeks to...
An Empire Of Lies
26.07.2024, 04:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - An Empire Of Lies Authored by Brian Maher via DailyReckoning.com, Why does government lie so repeatedly — and so atrociously? Why does it fear truth as the vampire fears garlic? The answer, we hazard, reduces to its desperate quest for prestige. Government equals authority. And an authority is an authority. Its word must be the final word. Its word...
Major Australian Pension Fund To Restrict Coal Investments
04.05.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Major Australian Pension Fund To Restrict Coal Investments By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Australian Retirement Trust, which manages $183 billion (AUS$280 billion) of retirement savings, is placing thermal coal on its exclusion list as of July 1, as it looks to have a net-zero emissions portfolio by 2050. Thermal coal includes the mining of lignite...
Norway’s Cash Flow From Offshore Fields Crashes Due to Low Natural Gas Prices
03.05.2024, 13:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Norway’s Cash Flow From Offshore Fields Crashes Due to Low Natural Gas Prices By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Norway saw cash flow from its stakes in oil and gas fields nearly halve in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period of 2023, as natural gas prices slumped and gas consumption in Europe was below expectations, said state...
Largest Oil ETF Hit With Record Outflow On Subsiding Geopolitical Risk Premium
25.04.2024, 20:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Largest Oil ETF Hit With Record Outflow On Subsiding Geopolitical Risk Premium A reduced geopolitical risk premium for Brent crude this week is likely one of the main drivers resulting in the largest daily outflows for the US Oil Fund ETF. Tensions between Iran and Israel have subsided in recent days, and it's entirely possible the White House is...
"None Of This Should've Happened": Baltimore Takes Container Ship Owner & Manager To Court Over Bridge Collapse
25.04.2024, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "None Of This Should've Happened": Baltimore Takes Container Ship Owner & Manager To Court Over Bridge Collapse Baltimore City filed a lawsuit against the owner and operator of the container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, causing it to collapse. Attorneys for Baltimore's mayor and City Council claim the bridge...
The Bad Faith Olympics
22.04.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Bad Faith Olympics Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “This is the weirdest era in human history. By far. Nothing else even comes close. Billionaires trying to kill everyone. Civil society unable to form a coherent thought. Institutions lie in smoldering ruins. Poisons handed out like candy. We are Neanderthals with iPhones.”...
Desperate To Do Whatever It Takes, Unlikely To Make Any Difference: A Dire Warning From Mario Draghi
22.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Desperate To Do Whatever It Takes, Unlikely To Make Any Difference: A Dire Warning From Mario Draghi By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “We’ve made very clear to China -- and many other countries have as well -- that they should not be supplying Russia with weapons for use in its aggression against Ukraine,” said Secretary of State...
Crib-Notes For The 'Trial Of The Century'
15.04.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crib-Notes For The 'Trial Of The Century' Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “Once someone determined Trump was so bad it was okay to lie about him, it set the precedent that the only thing that mattered was a subject’s politics.” - Matt Taibbi What fascinates us about sex, I suppose, is that most everyone wants it and seeks it...
Shares Of Morgan Stanley Sink After Multiple Federal Regulators Probe Wealth-Management Practices
11.04.2024, 21:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shares Of Morgan Stanley Sink After Multiple Federal Regulators Probe Wealth-Management Practices Shares of Morgan Stanley stumbled in the late afternoon trading session in New York after The Wall Street Journal reported multiple federal regulators are probing the investment bank/financial services company over how it vets wealthy clients who are...
Rural America Set To Be Transformed By Up To 55 Million-Acre Federal Solar Plan
28.02.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rural America Set To Be Transformed By Up To 55 Million-Acre Federal Solar Plan Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Solar energy’s appetite for vast amounts of land has prompted the Biden administration to propose designating as much as 55 million acres of public lands as potential sites for industrial-scale solar farms...