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US Vetoes Palestinian Bid For Full UN Membership
19.04.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Vetoes Palestinian Bid For Full UN Membership Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have granted Palestine status as a full UN member state, a move that goes against President Biden’s claim that he favors a two-state solution. The US was the only member of the 15-member council...
Iran’s Nuclear Crisis Has No Military Solution
18.04.2024, 21:15 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Whether Tehran weaponizes its program remains tied to threat perceptions by political leadership....
UN Security Council To Hold Contentious Vote On Palestinian Statehood
18.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UN Security Council To Hold Contentious Vote On Palestinian Statehood Friday will witness another Gaza-related showdown in a very divided United Nations Security Council, as council member Algeria has prepared a draft resolution for the body recognize a Palestinian state. It would require nine votes and no vetoes on the part of the US, Britain, France...
The Teachers' Unions Are More Political than Ever
18.04.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Teachers' Unions Are More Political than Ever Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, In the past, teachers’ unions concentrated on fighting to keep all teachers employed—competent or otherwise—laying off teachers by seniority when necessary and soaking taxpayers every chance they could. While those activities are still part of their...
The Purpose Of War According To George Orwell (1984)
18.04.2024, 00:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Purpose Of War According To George Orwell (1984) Some food for thought from George Orwell's '1984'... Does anything really ever change? (emphasis ours) The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do...
The Bitcoin-Halving Crash-Course – What Is It & Why It Matters
17.04.2024, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Bitcoin-Halving Crash-Course – What Is It & Why It Matters Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, The Honey Badger’s fourth halving is special for several reasons. The Bitcoin blockchain is secured by “Proof-of-Work” (PoW) – which is known as “mining”. In simple terms, it uses specialized computers (ASICs) which are optimized...
A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety
17.04.2024, 03:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety Authored by David Zaruk via RealClear Politics, In a far-reaching new essay in The New Atlantis, the environmental researcher Ted Nordhaus makes a damning and authoritative case that while the basic science of CO2 and climate is solid, it has been abused by the activist class in service of a wildly irresponsible...
Water In Texas: A Window Into Problems Across The US
16.04.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Water In Texas: A Window Into Problems Across The US Authored by Suzanne Gasparatto via The Epoch Times, Humans cannot live without water, yet many of us take for granted that water is readily available. As more people move to cities, adding to already crowded populations, the availability of potable water isn’t a given any longer. While this planet...
US Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Run A Fog Machine Of War: Lee Fang
14.04.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Run A Fog Machine Of War: Lee Fang Authored by Lee Fang via RealClear Investigations and LeeFang.com, Ukraine’s American-backed fight against Russia is being waged not only in the blood-soaked trenches of the Donbas region but also on what military planners call the cognitive battlefield – to win hearts and minds. A sprawling...
The Hidden Cost Of Progressivism, Part I
14.04.2024, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Hidden Cost Of Progressivism, Part I Authored by David Parker via The Epoch Times, With the U.S. Constitution, the Founding Fathers created a nation of maximum individual freedom, maximum individual responsibility, limited government, and classical liberalism. Having fled anti-democratic European aristocracy, privileged class structure, and limited...
'Surprising' Intensity Of Houthi Attacks Push French Warship To Exit Red Sea
13.04.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Surprising' Intensity Of Houthi Attacks Push French Warship To Exit Red Sea Via The Cradle France's Aquitaine-class FREMM frigate Alsace has turned tail from the Red Sea after running out of missiles and munitions repelling attacks from the Yemeni armed forces, according to its commander, Jerome Henry. "We didn’t necessarily expect this level of...
How Did Satoshi Think Of Bitcoin?
13.04.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Did Satoshi Think Of Bitcoin? Authored by Unchained CSO Dhruv Bansal via BitcoinMagazine.com, Bitcoin is often compared to the internet in the 1990s, but I believe the better analogy is to the telegraph in the 1840s. The telegraph was the first technology to transmit encoded data at near-light speed over long distances. It marked the birth of the...
The Freedom That Once Was The Internet
13.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Freedom That Once Was The Internet Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s time to declare as regards the internet of old: Requiescat in Pace. In this photo illustration an internet page is displayed on a computer screen in London, England, on April 13, 2006. (Scott Barbour/Getty Images) It’s dead. We might as...
"I Cannot Afford To Live": Americans Get Emotional As The US Economy Goes Off The Rails
13.04.2024, 01:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "I Cannot Afford To Live": Americans Get Emotional As The US Economy Goes Off The Rails Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, As we approach what is likely to be the most chaotic presidential election in U.S. history, troubling signs are starting to erupt for the U.S. economy. In fact, CNN is actually admitting that “the long-predicted...
Stamp Prices Rise By 8%, For The Second Time In 4 Months
11.04.2024, 19:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stamp Prices Rise By 8%, For The Second Time In 4 Months It's only appropriate that on the day the BLS reported that prices are once again galloping away from the Fed's 2% inflation target - and hit fresh monthly record highs - that the Post Office announced stamp prices would also rise to a record high... for the second time this year. According to...
California's Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based On Ratepayers' Income
11.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based On Ratepayers' Income Authored by Jane L. Johnson via The Mises Institute, Utility bills - for electricity, natural gas, water, and garbage - have by long-standing tradition been based on customer usage, measured in kilowatt-hours of electricity, therms or Btu of natural gas, hundred cubic feet of water...
Could US Treasuries Become The Trade Of The Decade?
10.04.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Could US Treasuries Become The Trade Of The Decade? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The expediencies and policy extremes have yet to be explored, much less exploited. Napoleon is reputed to have said, "Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything." This is the lament of someone...
Ukraine’s Cheap Drones Are Decimating Russia’s Tanks
09.04.2024, 16:30 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - But experts say they’re not a long-term solution to a lack of artillery rounds....
In The Next Several Weeks, We Could See $300 Billion Of Liquidity Leaving The System
09.04.2024, 14:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In The Next Several Weeks, We Could See $300 Billion Of Liquidity Leaving The System Submitted by Larry McDonald, creator of the Bear Traps Report and author of the newly published book "When Markets Speak" which has been #1 on Amazon over the last week across most non-fiction, finance categories. What’s Under the Surface? The heart of “conditioning...
Why US Public Debt Is Unsustainable And Is Destroying The Middle Class
08.04.2024, 17:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why US Public Debt Is Unsustainable And Is Destroying The Middle Class Authored by Daniel Lacalle, In a recent tweet, a talented financial analyst and investor stated: “The “debt is unsustainable” narrative has been around for 40 years plus. What’s astonishing to me is how the people who push this narrative never ask themselves, “Why has it...
What's So Great About The Great Reset, Great Taking, Great Replacement, Great Deflation, & Next Great Depression?
08.04.2024, 05:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What's So Great About The Great Reset, Great Taking, Great Replacement, Great Deflation, & Next Great Depression? Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move all the tables and chairs out...
The Geopolitics Of Chaos: Apocalypse Scenario IV
08.04.2024, 03:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Geopolitics Of Chaos: Apocalypse Scenario IV Submitted by Tuomas Malinen In this entry I will expand the analysis we presented in the March Deprcon Outlook of GnS Economics. Issues discussed: ‘Craziness’ driving the world towards WWIII is increasing. Geopolitics is dominating in the background, but people tend to forget it’s a two-way street...
People Are Not Inflation Idiots
07.04.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - People Are Not Inflation Idiots Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (BearFotos/Shutterstock) Commentary There’s something about employed intellectuals. When they are trashing popular wisdom and perceptions of regular people, they are truly in their element. They love nothing better. It’s a way for them to show off...
Denmark Sacks Defense Chief As Red Sea Failures Pile Up For NATO
05.04.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Denmark Sacks Defense Chief As Red Sea Failures Pile Up For NATO Via The Cradle The Danish government fired Chief of Defense Flemming Lentfer on Wednesday after it was revealed that the top military official failed to report flaws in the HDMS Iver Huitfeldt frigate's air defense and weapons systems that emerged during an attack last month by the Yemeni...
"Urban Doom Loop" Of Vacant Offices: How Far Will It Go?
04.04.2024, 16:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Urban Doom Loop" Of Vacant Offices: How Far Will It Go? Via SchiffGold.com, Even the mainstream is starting to acknowledge the massive problem of vacant office buildings littering American cities, slowly turning them into post-Covid wastelands. While a few pundits are claiming (in somewhat Orwellian fashion) that the surge in empty commercial real...
Jobless Claims: Spot The Odd (Government-Supplied) One Out
04.04.2024, 14:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jobless Claims: Spot The Odd (Government-Supplied) One Out In the real world labor market, 2024 has been a shitshow of layoffs... 1. Everybuddy: 100% of workforce 2. Wisense: 100% of workforce 3. CodeSee: 100% of workforce 4. Twig: 100% of workforce 5. Twitch: 35% of workforce 6. Roomba: 31% of workforce 7. Bumble: 30% of workforce 8. Farfetch: 25%...
Spain To Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Calls On Western Allies To Follow Suit
04.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Spain To Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Calls On Western Allies To Follow Suit Spain has been foremost among European countries which have repeatedly condemned Israel's ongoing military operation in Gaza and the resultant soaring Palestinian death toll. The EU country is also among those demanding answers for the drone strikes that killed a group...
The Great Escape From Government Schools
04.04.2024, 05:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Escape From Government Schools Authored by Jim Bovard via The Libertarian Institute, After enduring bullshit school shutdowns during the COVID pandemic, many students concluded that school itself must be bullshit and have skipped attending classes. Government bureaucrats are panicking since subsidies are tied to the number of students’ butts...
From The Recycling Bin To The Landfill: The Major Flaw In Plastic Recycling
04.04.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From The Recycling Bin To The Landfill: The Major Flaw In Plastic Recycling Authored by Cara Michelle Miller via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), People may be putting plastic into recycling bins, but most of it generally ends up in landfills or incinerated. (Avigator Fortuner/Shutterstock) Yet the demand for more plastic production continues—at a...
Bloomberg Admits '10,000 Migrant Crossings A Day' Has 'Upended The Election'
03.04.2024, 18:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bloomberg Admits '10,000 Migrant Crossings A Day' Has 'Upended The Election' While Paul 'not my child porn' Krugman and other idiots want you to believe that illegal immigration is actually a good thing for America and will boost GDP by $7 trillion, Bloomberg is a bit more realistic... Even worse for Joe Biden's handlers (i.e. whoever's running the...
Rickards: Ukraine's Starting To Get Dangerous
03.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rickards: Ukraine's Starting To Get Dangerous Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, A lot of people seem to have forgotten about the war in Ukraine. That’s a mistake. Russia is slowly but steadily defeating Ukraine, which is becoming increasingly obvious to everyone except the most anti-Russian diehards. That’s leading to desperation...
Michigan Congressman Under Fire For Suggesting 'Hiroshima & Nagasaki' Solution For Gaza
03.04.2024, 03:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Michigan Congressman Under Fire For Suggesting 'Hiroshima & Nagasaki' Solution For Gaza Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Michigan) has come under fire for saying Gaza should be handled like "Hiroshima and Nagasaki," suggesting that he was calling for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on the Strip, which could kill millions of...
Eating The Rich Won't Feed The Beast
02.04.2024, 23:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Eating The Rich Won't Feed The Beast Authored by Joakim Book via The American Institute for Economic Research, Wealth in a free society is a rough tallying score of how much economic value someone has provided to the rest of us. A rich person’s wealth — bar inheritance and cronyism — is a testament to how much they enriched us... As Johan...
TradFi Vs DeFi: De-Polarizing The Bitcoin 'To The Moon' Or 'Worthless' Battle
02.04.2024, 18:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - TradFi Vs DeFi: De-Polarizing The Bitcoin 'To The Moon' Or 'Worthless' Battle Authored by Omid Malekan, Co-Authored with Ulrich Bindseil, Director General of the European Central Bank Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have always been polarizing, even within the world of economics and finance. This divisiveness, which often pits the crypto faithful against...
When Rogue States Embrace Crypto
01.04.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Rogue States Embrace Crypto Submitted by Omid Malekan I want to talk about North Korea, but first we need to revisit El Salvador. The Central American country’s decision to buy Bitcoin is looking good, despite almost universal skepticism from The Establishment when it was announced. Some of that skepticism ultimately proved accurate — legal...
Gross Domestic Income Shows America Is In Stagnation
01.04.2024, 15:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gross Domestic Income Shows America Is In Stagnation Authored by Daniel Lacalle, In a recent CNN poll, 48% of respondents stated that they believe the economy remains in a downturn, and only 35% said that things in the country today are going well. The disparity between somber economic sentiment and a surprisingly strong headline unemployment rate and...
How Inflation Buzzwords Manipulate
01.04.2024, 14:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Inflation Buzzwords Manipulate Via SchiffGold.com, Welcome to the world of modern economics where the term “inflation” no longer signifies the increase in the quantity of money, but has evolved into a plethora of buzzwords. From “shrinkflation” to “greedflation,” these new terms and semantic shifts are by no means harmless but a manipulation...
Fire, Then Ice: Our Deflationary Future
31.03.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fire, Then Ice: Our Deflationary Future Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTWoMinds blog, Lest you weep for those whose phantom wealth will be drained away, recall that few win when a reserve currency dies. Labor can start earning the day after the reset, but the capital lost is gone for good. Outside the "everything's always fine" echo-chamber, the...
Biden Claims Saudi Arabia, Qatar 'Ready To Normalize' With Israel
30.03.2024, 16:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Claims Saudi Arabia, Qatar 'Ready To Normalize' With Israel Via The Cradle US President Joe Biden said at a campaign event on Thursday that Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are ready for a full normalization of ties with Israel. During the event – which was meant to show unity in the Democratic Party ahead of US elections in...
"Anti-Hunger Games": Zepbound Supplies At Pharmacies Dwindle As Obese Patients Rage
30.03.2024, 16:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Anti-Hunger Games": Zepbound Supplies At Pharmacies Dwindle As Obese Patients Rage Obese Americans have flocked to weight loss drugs, such as Novo Nordisk's Wegovy and Eli Lilly's Zepbound. Surging demand for both drugs has led to shortages across the country. Bloomberg spoke with nine pharmacists and technicians at CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart...
America's Minsky Moment Approaches
29.03.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Minsky Moment Approaches Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, Named after American economist Hyman Minsky, the idea behind a Minsky moment is that a financial markets crisis (especially in credit markets) is caused by a sudden and systemic collapse in asset prices, usually after a sustained period of speculative investment, excessive...
Creating "Good" AGI That Won't Kill Us All: Crypto's Artificial Superintelligence Alliance
29.03.2024, 02:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Creating "Good" AGI That Won't Kill Us All: Crypto's Artificial Superintelligence Alliance Authored by Andrew Fenton via CoinTelegraph.com, SingularityNET and the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance aim to wrest control of AGI away from Big Tech... After a year of increasingly dire warnings about the imminent demise of humanity at the hands of superintelligent...
On The Brink Of A Dramatic Change: The Digitalization Of Money
29.03.2024, 01:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - On The Brink Of A Dramatic Change: The Digitalization Of Money Authored by Efrat Fenigson via Bitcoin Magazine, The current state of Central Bank Digital Currency Projects globally summarized by Efrat Enigson, independent journalist and host of the "You're The Voice" podcast... “What underpins a world order is always the financial system. We are on...
NYC Delinquent Property Taxes Approach $1 Billion After Expiration of Tax-Lien Punishment
28.03.2024, 22:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NYC Delinquent Property Taxes Approach $1 Billion After Expiration of Tax-Lien Punishment While New York City embarks on a program to hand out some $53 million in prepaid debit cards to illegals, the city has estimated that overdue property taxes are set to reach their highest level ever, jumping 30% to over $880 million at the end of the fiscal year...
Piketty's Inequality Con
28.03.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Piketty's Inequality Con Via SchiffGold.com, If you ask a liberal politician who their favorite economist is, there are three likely responses. One response is a panicked change of topic. From the slightly more sophisticated politicians who skim the New York Times, you might hear Paul Krugman. From the politicians who style themselves intellectuals...
Baltimore Union Warns Of Job Loss Tsunami After Bridge Collapse Paralyzes Port
28.03.2024, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Baltimore Union Warns Of Job Loss Tsunami After Bridge Collapse Paralyzes Port The lengthy disruption at the Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest ports on the US East Coasts, will unleash supply chain snarls and resulting financial pressures for the local economy of Baltimore, Maryland, as it's only a matter of time before companies with direct and...
Thailand And Philippines "Charging Ahead" With Plans To Embrace Nuclear Power
27.03.2024, 18:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Thailand And Philippines "Charging Ahead" With Plans To Embrace Nuclear Power Among the growing list of countries embracing nuclear are now both Thailand and the Philippines, both of whom are "charging ahead" with plans to start nuclear reactors, according to a new report from Nikkei. In September, Thailand plans to reveal a national energy strategy...
Global CBDC Rollout Continues Apace
26.03.2024, 21:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global CBDC Rollout Continues Apace Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, Terror attacks in Moscow, ongoing genocide in Gaza, and cancer in the Royal family are dominating the headlines. Meanwhile, on the financial back pages, all over the world the implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies draws nearer. China, whose digital Yuan was...
Israel Angrily Halts Delegation To D.C. After US Allows UN Ceasefire Resolution To Pass
26.03.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Angrily Halts Delegation To D.C. After US Allows UN Ceasefire Resolution To Pass In a Monday vote, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted for the first time a resolution that calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. It was put forward by the council's non-permanent members, and fourteen countries backed the resolution, while the...