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China Is Leading The Global Nuclear-Power Build-Out
25.04.2024, 00:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Is Leading The Global Nuclear-Power Build-Out Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, China is currently constructing a total of 26 nuclear power units with a combined capacity of 30.3 gigawatts (GW), the highest in the world, according to a report by the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA) cited by local media. China's nuclear power...
First-Time Buyers Must Earn $120,000 To Afford The Average Home
24.04.2024, 20:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - First-Time Buyers Must Earn $120,000 To Afford The Average Home Earlier today we reported that for at least 40% of Americans - up from 27% just two years ago - the American Dream is dead and buried and has been replaced with the American nightmare: renting for life. And here's why: according to a new survey from Clever Real Estate, a St. Louis-based...
Cocoa Drops Most Since April 2009, Some Losses Recovered In Muti-Day Volatility Rollercoaster
24.04.2024, 19:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Drops Most Since April 2009, Some Losses Recovered In Muti-Day Volatility Rollercoaster Cocoa futures in London on Tuesday plunged the most since April 2009, tumbling as much as 8.1%, while prices slid as much as 7.7% in New York. Prices recovered some losses on Wednesday morning. It appears the downdraft was caused by fast-money traders taking...
Primary Protest Vote: 17% Of Republicans Vote Nikki Haley In Biggest Battleground State
24.04.2024, 15:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Primary Protest Vote: 17% Of Republicans Vote Nikki Haley In Biggest Battleground State On more than one occasion this primary season, the Biden-Harris campaign has been found itself on the wrong side of significant protest votes -- for example, when 13.3% of Michigan Democrats voted "uncommitted" to register their deep dissatisfaction with his handling...
What Ghana Can Learn From Taiwan
24.04.2024, 14:13 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - As vote-buying corrupts the country’s politics, the West African nation could learn from Taipei’s effective crackdown on the practice....
Germany Arrests EU Parliament Aide On China Espionage Charges
24.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany Arrests EU Parliament Aide On China Espionage Charges A staffer who worked for a high profile German member of European Parliament for years has been arrested on charges of spying for Chinese intelligence, Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday. Identified only as Jian G., he had reportedly been a staff member for...
Cannabis Use Greatest Among Lower-Income And Less Educated
24.04.2024, 01:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cannabis Use Greatest Among Lower-Income And Less Educated By Dan Witters of Gallup Nine percent of U.S. adults report that they use cannabis regularly, defined as at least 10 days of consumption per month. Regular usage differs by education and income, with the highest rates seen among those with a high school education or less (13%) and those living...
Russia Vows To Ramp Up Attacks On Western Weapons In Ukraine
24.04.2024, 00:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Vows To Ramp Up Attacks On Western Weapons In Ukraine Russia's response to the Republican-led House passing Biden's foreign aid package which includes $61 billion in new military assistance for Ukraine has been to promise stepped-up targeting of the Western weapons store houses. A new statement by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu additionally said "The...
There Is So Much For The Market To "Pass"/"Over" Right Now
23.04.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Is So Much For The Market To "Pass"/"Over" Right Now By Michael Every of Rabobank "Pass"/"Over" There is so much for markets to try to pass over right over: and they are certainly doing so. Niall Ferguson warns us again about an escalating global Cold War 2 using Tolkien as an analogy – real Tolkien, not the insult that was The Rings of Power...
Bernie Sanders To Lead Progressive Fight Against Israel Aid In Senate With New Amendment
23.04.2024, 16:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bernie Sanders To Lead Progressive Fight Against Israel Aid In Senate With New Amendment Authored by Jake Johnson via Common Dreams, US Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he would put forth an amendment to remove offensive military funding for Israel from a House-passed aid package that the Senate is set to consider this week. The amendment would...
NYU, Columbia, Yale Crack Down On Demonstrators As Anti-Israel Protests Intensify
23.04.2024, 16:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NYU, Columbia, Yale Crack Down On Demonstrators As Anti-Israel Protests Intensify Several pro-Palestinian protests at major universities have been forcibly shut down, as tension simmer over the Israel-Hamas war. NYU staff join protests (AFP via Getty Images) The protests, which have been growing in size and intensity over the last week, were met with...
'Its The Economy, Stupid!' Black And Hispanic Voters Embrace Trump On Economics And Well-Being
23.04.2024, 14:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Its The Economy, Stupid!' Black And Hispanic Voters Embrace Trump On Economics And Well-Being Authored by J.G. Collins via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Epoch Times reporter Tom Ozimek recently wrote in these pages of former President Donald Trump’s encounter with Kayla Montgomery, a young Republican political consultant whose business is to “engage...
Which Major City Will Completely Collapse First – Los Angeles, Chicago, Or New York City?
23.04.2024, 13:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Which Major City Will Completely Collapse First – Los Angeles, Chicago, Or New York City? Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, In 2024, virtually all major U.S. cities have certain things in common. First of all, if you visit the downtown area of one of our major cities you are likely to see garbage, human excrement...
Syria's President Assad Confirms Rare Direct Talks With Washington
23.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Syria's President Assad Confirms Rare Direct Talks With Washington Via The Cradle Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the Foreign Minister of the south Caucasus republic Abkhazia during an interview published on 21 April that Damascus holds dialogue with Washington "from time to time." In response to a question from Abkhazian Foreign Minister Inal...
Here Comes The Cavalry?
22.04.2024, 21:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here Comes The Cavalry? By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank Here Comes The Cavalry? The risk of imminent hot war between Israel and Iran seems to have dissipated for the time being. Israel on Friday delivered its promised response to the Iranian strike of the weekend before by hitting targets in Syria and the Iranian city of Isfahan. Reporting of the strikes...
NATO Member Rolls Out Red Carpet For Hamas Chief
22.04.2024, 21:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Member Rolls Out Red Carpet For Hamas Chief As head of NATO's second largest military, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has continued to stir controversy among allies by his Hamas-sympathetic stance. As early as last October, just on the heels of the Oct.7 Hamas terror attack, he was bluntly expressing that "Hamas is not a terror organization" but...
REPO Act Passage Has Authorized Biden To Confiscate Russian Assets & Transfer To Ukraine
22.04.2024, 16:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - REPO Act Passage Has Authorized Biden To Confiscate Russian Assets & Transfer To Ukraine When the House voted to pass Biden's long sought after foreign aid package Saturday, which will deliver over $60 billion to Ukraine, included in this was passage of the REPO Act, which paves the way for the Biden administration confiscate billions in Russian sovereign...
Not Hiring Criminals Is Now Racist Too?
22.04.2024, 14:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Not Hiring Criminals Is Now Racist Too? Via The Publica Team, Sheetz Convenience Stores Accused Of Discriminating Against Minority Job Seekers By Refusing To Consider Applicants With Criminal Record A popular US convenience store chain has been hit with a civil rights lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against minority job seekers because it requires...
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...
US To Sanction Entire IDF Battalion Over Alleged Human Rights Abuses
21.04.2024, 17:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US To Sanction Entire IDF Battalion Over Alleged Human Rights Abuses Axios is reporting what marks an unexpected and unprecedented development in US-Israel relations: the Biden administration will in the coming days announce sanctions against an entire battalion of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Three US officials told the outlet that US Secretary...
How Climate Change Narrative Is Preventing Africa From Modernizing And Gaining Prosperity
21.04.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Climate Change Narrative Is Preventing Africa From Modernizing And Gaining Prosperity Authored by Katie Spence via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Under a blazing Kenyan sun, elderly women toil on their hands and knees in the reddish-brown clay, separating the choking weeds from the small, green shoots of a finger millet crop. The women are barehanded...
Biden To Withdraw Troops From Niger As Region Increasingly Turns To Russia
21.04.2024, 13:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden To Withdraw Troops From Niger As Region Increasingly Turns To Russia In what is simultaneously a humiliating setback for the Deep State and a welcome victory for noninterventionist American taxpayers, the White House on Friday announced that US military forces will be withdrawn from Niger over the coming months. The move comes after Niger's mid-March...
Israel Fostered The Rise Of Hamas To Preclude A Two-State Solution
21.04.2024, 05:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Fostered The Rise Of Hamas To Preclude A Two-State Solution In Wednesday's ZeroHedge debate on Israel, Iran and Palestine, Dave Smith emphasized a little-known fact about the Gaza conflict -- that Israel "cynically, intentionally funded and propped up" Hamas "so they wouldn't face external pressure to give the Palestinians their freedom."...
The Siege of Leningrad, The Most Gruesome Episode of World War II: An Anniversary the West Would Rather Forget
21.04.2024, 05:32 Uhr. Global Research - https: - All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button … The post The Siege of Leningrad, The Most Gruesome Episode of World War...
'Like Toys, Not Drones': Iran Continues Mocking Israel's Attack As Contrasting Narratives Emerge
21.04.2024, 03:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Like Toys, Not Drones': Iran Continues Mocking Israel's Attack As Contrasting Narratives Emerge Iran has continued mocking Israel's limited attack which happened in the early hours of Friday morning. In a fresh interview with NBC, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian dismissed much of the initial reporting in the West concerning the strike...
Israeli Security Chief Slams 'Lame' Attack On Iran, Deepening Division Among War Leaders
20.04.2024, 19:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Security Chief Slams 'Lame' Attack On Iran, Deepening Division Among War Leaders Days ago, The Wall Street Journal featured a headline that underscored Israel's war leaders don't trust one another. This comes as they are dealing simultaneously with the operation in Gaza, repelling Hezbollah daily drone and missile attacks in the north, and of...
Middle Class Can't Afford Homes In Nearly Half Of Top 100 US Metros, Study Finds
20.04.2024, 16:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Middle Class Can't Afford Homes In Nearly Half Of Top 100 US Metros, Study Finds By Sam Bourgi of CreditNews, Housing is becoming an exclusively upper-class privilege in a growing number of cities. According to a new study by Creditnews Research, in 2024, middle-class households could afford to buy an average home in just 52 of the country’s 100 largest...
Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal
20.04.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal Authored by David Stockman via David Stockman's Contra Corner, Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely afford, and which actually...
RFK Jr Nails Down First Battleground-State Ballot Spot: Who Will Benefit Most?
20.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - RFK Jr Nails Down First Battleground-State Ballot Spot: Who Will Benefit Most? In a development that's sure to cause shudders at Democratic National Party headquarters, the independent campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr on Thursday officially secured a place on the ballot in tightly-contested Michigan. However, some polls point to Kennedy being a bigger...
How Big Tech Is Consuming America's Electricity And Water
19.04.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Big Tech Is Consuming America's Electricity And Water Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As federal net-zero policies attempt to shift transportation, heating, and other essentials onto the electric grid, one of the hottest growth sectors of America’s economy is poised to increase electricity demand exponentially,...
Cocoa Hyperinflation Accelerates As Grindings Show No Demand Destruction
19.04.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Hyperinflation Accelerates As Grindings Show No Demand Destruction Cocoa hyperinflation is insane. The latest data from the futures market shows that cocoa prices in New York surged above the $12,000 per ton level today as the pace of processing in factories remains robust. This indicates that demand destruction has yet to emerge despite...
Watch: Migrants Complain That New Yorkers Don't Learn African Languages
19.04.2024, 19:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Migrants Complain That New Yorkers Don't Learn African Languages Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A hearing held earlier this week in New York by the Council’s immigration and hospital committees saw black migrants who have arrived in the city airing their grievances about public services they have been provided, including food...
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...
West Was “Lukewarm” to Russia-Ukraine Peace Negotiations in 2022. Foreign Affairs
19.04.2024, 15:48 Uhr. Global Research - https: - All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button … The post West Was “Lukewarm” to Russia-Ukraine Peace Negotiations in...
"Eye For An Eye, A Tooth For A Tooth": Only Hamas Wants Bigger War As Iran, Israel Signal Strikes 'Done'
19.04.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Eye For An Eye, A Tooth For A Tooth": Only Hamas Wants Bigger War As Iran, Israel Signal Strikes 'Done' There has been no Iranian response against Israel for the overnight Israeli retaliation attack on the Islamic Republic. US officials have since confirmed that it was in fact an Israeli attack, yet all the while Iran's leaders are trying desperately...
Borrell Came Up With A Nifty Excuse For Why NATO Won't Shoot Down Russian Missiles Over Ukraine
19.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Borrell Came Up With A Nifty Excuse For Why NATO Won't Shoot Down Russian Missiles Over Ukraine Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This is credible enough of a reason to justify a conventional NATO intervention in defense of Israel without giving Ukraine grounds to claim that there are double standards at play. Ukraine became jealous like never...
BRICS - The Project Of The Century
19.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BRICS - The Project Of The Century Authored by Peter Hanseler via VoiceOfRussia.com, The Western media are prioritizing the Ukraine conflict, the green revolution and the woke revolution. In the shadow of this media coverage, BRICS is changing the world. We bring you the latest figures and place them in the current geopolitical environment. – An analysis...
Biden Wins Endorsement Of Kennedy Family Members
19.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Wins Endorsement Of Kennedy Family Members Authored by Emel Akan and Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Joe Biden on April 18 traveled to Philadelphia, the final stop of his three-day tour of the crucial battleground state, where he received the Kennedy family’s endorsement for his reelection campaign. President Joe...
Biden Pushing Pipe-Dream Of Israel-Saudi Mega Deal Based On Palestinian State Recognition
19.04.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Pushing Pipe-Dream Of Israel-Saudi Mega Deal Based On Palestinian State Recognition The Biden administration is keeping its dream of seeing Saudi-Israeli diplomatic normalization achieved (or rather, what is in fact originally Trump's dream set in motion via the Abraham Accords). But Biden is dangling something before Netanyahu that the Israeli...
The Terrorist Threat the West Still Ignores
18.04.2024, 22:19 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Domestic far-right terrorism has been increasingly internationalized—and requires a coordinated response....
Workers Who Had Their Middle-Class Status Offshored By 40-Years Of Neoliberalism Are Finally Vindicated
18.04.2024, 19:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Workers Who Had Their Middle-Class Status Offshored By 40-Years Of Neoliberalism Are Finally Vindicated By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank An Eye For An Eye Treasury yields fell yesterday for the first time this week. The 2-year was down 5.5bps to 4.93%, while Brent crude gave up 3% to be sitting well below the $90/bbl again. Crude is sending some interesting...
The Spear In AI's Back
18.04.2024, 13:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Spear In AI's Back Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, That real harm will result from the use of AI tools is a given. AI is like the powerful character in an action movie who looks invincible until they turn around, revealing a fatal spear embedded in their back. The spear in AI's back is the American legal system, which has been...
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...
Food Is Now An Investment – Here's Why Inflation Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon
18.04.2024, 06:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Food Is Now An Investment – Here's Why Inflation Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, One of the more difficult aspects of working in economic analysis is the problem of rampant disinformation that you have to dig through in order to get to the truth of any particular issue. In this regard, economics is very...
It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus
18.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus By Michael Every of Rabobank The Polybius Crisis Take a step back (in time), and see that our neoliberal, debt-addled, was-lower-for-longer global system is not just in a Polycrisis but a Polybius Crisis - referring to the ancient Greek historian. Polybius Methodology:...
Iran Navy Escorting Iranian Commercial Ships To Red Sea To Prevent Reprisal
18.04.2024, 02:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Navy Escorting Iranian Commercial Ships To Red Sea To Prevent Reprisal Iran has newly declared that its military will begin a mission to escort Iranian commercial ships to the Red Sea, protecting them from any potential hostile attacks or intercepts from the West or Israel, which comes as Washington and the European Union are readying expanded...
Zelensky Angry That Israel Prioritized By West, Says Ukraine Running Out Of Missiles To Defend Airspace
17.04.2024, 18:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Angry That Israel Prioritized By West, Says Ukraine Running Out Of Missiles To Defend Airspace On Wednesday Russian missiles slammed into the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, killing at least 17 people and wounding scores more, according to local officials. The attack came during a busy time of the day in a downtown district. President...
Ukraine's Opposition To The Assimilation Of Its Refugees Is Extremely Hypocritical
17.04.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine's Opposition To The Assimilation Of Its Refugees Is Extremely Hypocritical Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This is the opposite of how Ukraine treats its indigenous Russian minority... Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba warned on Friday that “It has become clear that assimilation would be extremely fast if we do not change...
Coalition Of Attorneys General File Amicus Brief Defending Ken Paxton And His Top Deputy
17.04.2024, 01:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Coalition Of Attorneys General File Amicus Brief Defending Ken Paxton And His Top Deputy Authored by Jana J. Pruet via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A national coalition of 18 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief to defend Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster in a lawsuit initiated by the State...
RFK Jr Won't Pursue Libertarian Nomination, Says Team Trump Asked Him To Be VP
17.04.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - RFK Jr Won't Pursue Libertarian Nomination, Says Team Trump Asked Him To Be VP After seriously considering the possibility, 2024 presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has declared he will not seek the Libertarian Party nomination, saying he's confident he'll achieve ballot access across the country on his own. Meanwhile, in a social media skirmish...