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Divide And Conquer: The Government's Propaganda Of Fear And Fake News
25.04.2024, 05:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Divide And Conquer: The Government's Propaganda Of Fear And Fake News Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political...
Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate
25.04.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate By John Kartch of Americans For Tax Reform President Biden has formally proposed the highest top capital gains tax in over 100 years. Here is a direct quote from the Biden 2025 budget proposal: “Together, the proposals would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified...
Russia Vetoes US-Authored UN Resolution Banning Nuclear Weapons In Space
25.04.2024, 03:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Vetoes US-Authored UN Resolution Banning Nuclear Weapons In Space Russia has just vetoed a very rare and interesting resolution set before the United Nations Security Council focused on banning nuclear weapons in space: The treaty bars signatories, including the U.S. and Russia, from placing "in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear...
Biden's $60BN Can't Fix Ukraine's Manpower & Recruitment Crisis
25.04.2024, 03:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's $60BN Can't Fix Ukraine's Manpower & Recruitment Crisis With Biden's $60 billion in funding for Ukraine now fully authorized and implemented, the question is now what? The US President on Wednesday announced just after signing the bill that the Pentagon will start sending equipment to Ukraine "in the next few hours" straight from the US stockpile...
ATF Rule-Change Creates A Trap For The Unwary
25.04.2024, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ATF Rule-Change Creates A Trap For The Unwary Authored by Christopher Roach via American Greatness, On Friday, the 31st anniversary of the massacre of Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, the ATF issued new regulations that make it more difficult to comply with federal laws regulating gun dealing and background checks. Since the 1930s, federal law has required gun...
China Is Winning Big On Smaller EVs
25.04.2024, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Is Winning Big On Smaller EVs Smaller is better...at least in the world of building EVs for the Asian market. And while less scrupulous publications might take this opportunity to make stereotypical jokes about height, we'll do no such thing and instead will simply report that according to the IEA's Global Electric Vehicle Outlook 2024, released...
Conservation Funding Helps Keep Family Farms Viable
25.04.2024, 00:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Conservation Funding Helps Keep Family Farms Viable Authored by Tom Croner via RealClear Wire, I’m an 81-year-old, seventh-generation farmer working with my son T. Richard on a multigenerational grain and hay farm in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. We grow corn, soybeans, wheat, rye, and hay. I'm proud to see him out there by himself at night, and...
Popular Iranian Rapper Sentenced To Death For Supporting 'Anti-Hijab Protests'
25.04.2024, 00:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Popular Iranian Rapper Sentenced To Death For Supporting 'Anti-Hijab Protests' A 33-year old Iranian activist and rapper who has recently been involved in anti-government demonstrations has been handed a shockingly draconian sentence by an Iranian court. Toomaj Salehi was first arrested in Oct. 2022 for publicly backing the so-called 'anti-hijab' protests...
Biden Takes Swipe At "MAGA Republicans" While Signing 'Vital' Ukraine, Israel Aid Bill
24.04.2024, 23:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Takes Swipe At "MAGA Republicans" While Signing 'Vital' Ukraine, Israel Aid Bill During Wednesday's signing ceremony authorizing the House and Senate-approved 95$ billion emergency foreign aid package, President Biden in his remarks took a swipe at "MAGA Republicans" for causing the holdup. "It’s a good day for America, it’s a good day...
Supreme Court Takes New Step In Jan. 6 Case, Orders DOJ To Explain Themselves
24.04.2024, 23:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Supreme Court Takes New Step In Jan. 6 Case, Orders DOJ To Explain Themselves Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Supreme Court on April 23 directed the U.S. Department of Justice to reply to a man convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on April 8, 2024. (Madalina...
US Steps Up Monitoring As FDA Warns Bird Flu Found In Pasteurized Milk From Grocery Stores
24.04.2024, 23:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Steps Up Monitoring As FDA Warns Bird Flu Found In Pasteurized Milk From Grocery Stores Dairy cattle moving between states must be tested for the bird flu virus, U.S. agriculture officials said Wednesday as they try to track and control the growing outbreak. AP reports that the federal order was announced a day after health officials said they...
"We Need To Splinter The UniParty Into A Thousand Pieces" - Stockman Slams Washington's Foreign Aid "Clusterf**k"
24.04.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Need To Splinter The UniParty Into A Thousand Pieces" - Stockman Slams Washington's Foreign Aid "Clusterf**k" Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, The UniParty's Day Of Infamy, Part 1 The clusterf*ck in the US House of Representatives this past weekend is surely the final straw. The dreadful grip of the UniParty on national security...
Meta Craters 13% After Revenue Forecast Disappoints
24.04.2024, 22:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meta Craters 13% After Revenue Forecast Disappoints After yesterday's eruption by the first Mag7 member Tesla, which missed across the board but gave an extremely cheerful outlook where Musk vowed he would release a lower-priced EV as soon as this year, moments ago the second, and far bigger, Mag7 member - and who really cares about Mag7 any more, it's...
The Next Global Hegemon Has To Be Even Larger Than The US
24.04.2024, 22:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Next Global Hegemon Has To Be Even Larger Than The US By Michael Every of Rabobank "Where it will end is very much up for grabs." Yesterday’s manufacturing PMIs shouted “stagflation”, even if some heard “rate cuts”. German manufacturing was 42.2, French 44.9, and Eurozone 45.6, as services were 53.3, 50.5, and 52.9 - but Europe must now...
Yen Dumped, Yield-Curve Pumped, Bonds & Bitcoin Slump
24.04.2024, 22:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen Dumped, Yield-Curve Pumped, Bonds & Bitcoin Slump Quiet macro day with Durable Goods Orders looking like a beat - but only because of sizable downward revisions - as orders and shipments are actually down on a YoY basis. Source: Bloomberg But stocks were messy with an opening bid immediately squelched and post-EU-close ramp faded into the US close...
"Situation Is Unraveling": Pro-Palestinian Protests Erupt Across America's Woke Colleges
24.04.2024, 21:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Situation Is Unraveling": Pro-Palestinian Protests Erupt Across America's Woke Colleges Colleges and universities across the country are struggling this week to keep pro-Palestinian protesters off school grounds. Students, and or perhaps a mix of professional protesters funded by radical leftist groups and dirty Gulf money, are storming campuses and...
Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime
24.04.2024, 21:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial and much awaited explanation of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the underlying alleged criminal conduct. The curious aspect of the case is that the prosecutors are...
You Only Had To Listen: Ron Paul Destroys Mike Johnson For Betraying America
24.04.2024, 19:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - You Only Had To Listen: Ron Paul Destroys Mike Johnson For Betraying America Former US Congressman Ron Paul has gone completely ham on Speaker Mike Johnson, first - writing in a recent Op-Ed that Johnson has "betrayed liberty and the Constitution" after reauthorizing FISA surveillance but casting the deciding vote that tanked an amendment to require...
Market Is Splendidly Indifferent To Rising Inflation Risks
24.04.2024, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Market Is Splendidly Indifferent To Rising Inflation Risks Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, There continues to be scant evidence of inflation hedging in markets despite clear signs price-growth risks are rising. Inflation remains in focus this week as we get the first quarter’s update for US PCE on Friday. Regardless of one data...
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...
Apple Slashes Vision Pro Shipment Projections By 50% As Demand For $3,500 Headset Craters
24.04.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple Slashes Vision Pro Shipment Projections By 50% As Demand For $3,500 Headset Craters In what will come as a surprise to exactly nobody, the revolutionary if ridiculously overpriced Vision Pro virtual reality headset, which retails for $3,500, is not selling. While it was hardly necessary - at least for anyone with a functioning frontal lobe - ...
Tennessee Republicans Pass Law Allowing Teachers To Be Armed - Democrats Cry "Fascism"
24.04.2024, 17:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tennessee Republicans Pass Law Allowing Teachers To Be Armed - Democrats Cry "Fascism" Tennessee House Republicans on Tuesday passed legislation to allow some trained teachers and school staff to carry firearms despite aggressive opposition from Democrats and gun control advocates calling for the bill to be defeated. The bill is all but guaranteed...
Hong Kong Bitcoin And Ether ETFs Officially Approved To Start Trading On April 30
24.04.2024, 17:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hong Kong Bitcoin And Ether ETFs Officially Approved To Start Trading On April 30 Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, The first wave of spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been officially approved to start trading in Hong Kong on April 30. Hong Kong’s financial regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)...
Chinese Have "Grabbed Gold By The Throat" As Capital Flight Accelerates
24.04.2024, 17:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese Have "Grabbed Gold By The Throat" As Capital Flight Accelerates “Chinese speculators have really grabbed gold by the throat...” That is how John Reade, chief market strategist at the World Gold Council, describes the scramble in the communist nation among investors looking to move money anywhere but in the yuan or Chinese assets. As evidenced...
Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors
24.04.2024, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Most NFL general managers (GMs) are optimistic and displaying overconfidence today as they prepare for tomorrow’s NFL draft. The draft is a once-a-year opportunity for GMs to acquire talent. Like investors, GMs often think they are smarter...
WTI Jumps After Bigger-Than-Expected Crude InventoryBuild
24.04.2024, 16:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Jumps After Bigger-Than-Expected Crude InventoryBuild Oil prices are drifting lower this morning, despite API reporting a surprise crude inventory draw last night, as hopes that geopolitical tensions are easing (hope is not a strategy) combined with a reduced expectation of economy-juicing rate-cuts are weighing on crude prices. Supporting the upside...
Germany Arrests Unprecedented Six Spies In Less Than A Week
24.04.2024, 16:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany Arrests Unprecedented Six Spies In Less Than A Week German security services say they've arrested an unprecedented six suspected spies in only the past week, and four of these are believed to have been working for the government of China, while the other two are suspected Russian agents. As we reported earlier, the latest case unveiled Tuesday...
Kering Tumbles On Profit Warning As Gucci Revamp Stumbles
24.04.2024, 15:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kering Tumbles On Profit Warning As Gucci Revamp Stumbles Gucci owner Kering SA's problems in mainland China are only mounting as the French luxury giant issued a profit warning. As a result, shares of the company in Paris plunged to a six-year low. Lackluster Chinese demand for the luxury goods maker, which includes the Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega...
Boeing Jumps After Beating Apocalyptic Estimates Despite Biggest Cash Burn In 4 Years
24.04.2024, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Boeing Jumps After Beating Apocalyptic Estimates Despite Biggest Cash Burn In 4 Years Having been hammered like a nail for much of 2024 as a result of incident after incident involving its flying paperweights (most recently this morning), Boeing stock enjoyed a modest rebound this morning when the airplane maker reported revenues, EPS and cash flow...
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...
Aussie Senator Says Elon Musk Should "Be In Jail And The Key Be Thrown Away"
24.04.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Aussie Senator Says Elon Musk Should "Be In Jail And The Key Be Thrown Away" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, An Australian Senator has called for X owner Elon Musk to be jailed for life for refusing to adhere to the Australian government’s demands to remove a video of the brutal attack on a Christian Bishop in Sydney last week by an apparent...
Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks
24.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks Equity futures rose for the third day in a row - last week's brutal drubbing a distant memory - with tech outperforming as Tesla soars premarket after Elon Musk vowed to launch less-expensive vehicles as soon as late this year while Texas Instruments jumped 7% after...
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...
"Let's Debunk The Myth That Mass-Migration Brings An Economic Benefit", Says Former UK Immigration Minister
24.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Let's Debunk The Myth That Mass-Migration Brings An Economic Benefit", Says Former UK Immigration Minister Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, The notion that mass immigration brings a net economic benefit to a developed nation is a myth that needs to be debunked, a former U.K. government minister who resigned over the spiraling numbers arriving...
A $250 Million War Game And Its Shocking Outcome
24.04.2024, 06:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A $250 Million War Game And Its Shocking Outcome Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, At a cost of $250 million, Millennium Challenge 2002 was the largest and most expensive war game in Pentagon history. With over 13,500 participants, the US government took over two years to design it. The exercise pitted Iran against the US military...
Senates Passes $95 Billion Aid Bill For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan, Forces Sale Of TikTok
24.04.2024, 05:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senates Passes $95 Billion Aid Bill For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan, Forces Sale Of TikTok The republicans do what they always do best: fold like cheap lawn chairs. Moments ago, in a 79-18 vote, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a long-delayed $95.3 billion foreign-aid package sending $60.8 billion in ammunition and military equipment to Ukrainian...
Chinese FX Outflows Soar, Priming The Next Bitcoin Surge
24.04.2024, 05:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese FX Outflows Soar, Priming The Next Bitcoin Surge Last October, when we pointed out that China's FX outflows had just hit a whopping $75BN - the single biggest monthly outflow since the 2015 currency devaluation - we concluded that the "unfavorable interest rate spread between China and the US will "likely imply persistent depreciation and outflow...
Biden Admin To Pay $139 Million To Victims For FBI Failures In Sex Abuse Investigation
24.04.2024, 05:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Admin To Pay $139 Million To Victims For FBI Failures In Sex Abuse Investigation By Tom Ozimek of The Epoch Times The Biden administration has agreed to pay over $138 million to victims of convicted sex abuser Larry Nassar while acknowledging the FBI’s failures to properly investigate warnings that the sports physician was exploiting his position...
"That's Concerning": US Indo-Pacific Commander Warns China Becoming More Aggressive As Economic Recovery "Failing"
24.04.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "That's Concerning": US Indo-Pacific Commander Warns China Becoming More Aggressive As Economic Recovery "Failing" One of the biggest questions of our time is whether China and the United States can escape Thucydides's Trap. It seems that, in the short term, the US will likely avoid direct conflict with China, but in the long term, there will be...
Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes
24.04.2024, 03:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Scientific American has published a piece claiming that “misinformation,” such as the notion that there are only two sexes, is “being used against transgender people” and in order to target “gender-affirming medical...
Kim Jong Un Oversees "Nuclear Counterattack" Drill
24.04.2024, 03:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kim Jong Un Oversees "Nuclear Counterattack" Drill North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw salvo launches of the country’s "super-large" multiple rocket launchers in what state media presented as simulation drills of a nuclear counterattack against enemy targets, state media revealed Tuesday. The day prior, the South Korean and Japanese militaries...
'Merit' Makes A Comeback: More Universities Reinstate Testing Requirement For Admissions
24.04.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Merit' Makes A Comeback: More Universities Reinstate Testing Requirement For Admissions Authored by Wenyuan Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Harvard, following in the footsteps of its Ivy League peers (Dartmouth and Yale) has reinstated standardized testing in its undergraduate admissions. America’s oldest private university, after popularizing...
What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good)
24.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good) Authored by Antonius Aquinas, The recent run-up in the gold price has not garnered the attention among the mainstream financial media outlets as it should. Gold has, in part, been overshadowed by the rise in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Naturally, the financial...
Amash Battling Trump-Endorsed Deep-State Doozie For Michigan Senate Nomination
24.04.2024, 02:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amash Battling Trump-Endorsed Deep-State Doozie For Michigan Senate Nomination Former Rep. Justin Amash on Monday announced that his Senate campaign had submitted the requisite signatures to appear on Michigan's Aug. 6 primary ballot. The GOP field for a shot at a Democrat-vacated seat includes an archetypal Deep Stater in former Rep. Mike Rogers, who...
Wave Goodbye To Another Set Of Freedoms With The New Digital ID
24.04.2024, 01:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wave Goodbye To Another Set Of Freedoms With The New Digital ID Authored by Graham Young via The Epoch Times, “Papers please” used to be the ostinato of totalitarian systems, at least in the movies. With the passing of the government’s Digital ID bills, Australians will have to become used to the digital equivalent - so what does that say about...
Next Ukraine Package 'Larger Than Normal' As Biden Tells Zelensky Aid Coming "Quickly"
24.04.2024, 01:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Next Ukraine Package 'Larger Than Normal' As Biden Tells Zelensky Aid Coming "Quickly" US officials have been quoted in Politico as saying the Biden White House is preparing a "larger than normal" weapons package for Ukraine to be sent quickly once Biden signs the bill into law authorizing $61 billion in spending, following the historic weekend House...
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...
Hezbollah Launches Deepest Attack Into Israel Since War's Start, On Passover
24.04.2024, 00:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hezbollah Launches Deepest Attack Into Israel Since War's Start, On Passover Hezbollah on Tuesday conducted its deepest strikes into Israeli territory since the start of the war, launching drones at Israeli military bases on the outskirts of the Israeli city of Acre. Israel's military said none of its facilities were hit, and videos circulating online...
COVID-19 Vaccine Emails: Here’s What The CDC Hid Behind Redactions
24.04.2024, 00:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - COVID-19 Vaccine Emails: Here’s What The CDC Hid Behind Redactions Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hid how a woman who suffered chest pain and other symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination received a shot because of a mandate at work, newly obtained documents...
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...