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Zelensky Thanks Zuckerberg For Helping Him Win The Propaganda War Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Facebook for its role in helping him win the propaganda war after the platform announced it would permit calls for violence against Russians. Following its move to allow praise for the pro-Ukraine…

Carnage: China Breaks, Apple Cracks Key Support, Yields Soar As Rate Hike Odds Surge The week started off badly enough with nothing short of epic devastation in China, as stocks listed in Hong Kong had their worst day since the global financial crisis amid concerns over Beijing’s close relationship with Russia, a surge in covid…

Yuan Deposits Soar At Russian Banks After SWIFT Cut-Off With Russia now officially cut off from both the USDollar and the euro, Russia’s VTB Bank is seeing a surge in Chinese Yuan deposits, attracted by the bank offering significantly higher interest rates as Putin shifts focus to ‘friendly’ nations. The state-owned bank is offering a…

Hedge Fund CIO: The Golden Era For Central Banking Is Ending And A Global “Great Famine” Is Coming By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “Defending freedom is going to cost,” declared President Biden, announcing an import ban on Russian oil. And no doubt our Commander-in-Chief is right. Everything we do comes at…

China Locks Down 17.5 Million In Shenzhen As Daily COVID Cases Soar To 2-Year High Everybody from automobile manufacturers to tablet-makers around the globe better watch out: supplies of vital microchips and other high-tech components are about to grind to a halt once again now that China is locking down Shenzhen, known as the country’s…

Ron Paul: Is Putin the New Coronavirus? Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute, President Biden’s “maskless” State of the Union signifies the near-end of the COVID tyranny we have lived under for the past two years. Fortunately for Congress, the President, and the Federal Reserve, the Ukraine-Russia conflict is replacing COVID as…

Biggest Commodity Trading Houses In The West Continue To Buy Russian Oil And Gas Despite headline-grabbing maneuvers by the big western oil giants (Shell, BP, Exxon-Mobil etc.) to simply walk away from certain Russian projects, commodity traders like Trafigura, Vitol and Glencore have all loaded cargos of oil, gas and fuel onto tankers at Russian…

FBI Whistleblower Raises Questions About Pipe Bombs Set Near DNC, RNC Headquarters: Lawmaker Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Ohio Republican lawmaker Jim Jordan said he has requested a briefing with the FBI after a whistleblower allegedly disclosed information regarding the bureau’s investigation into pipe bombs planted near the Democratic National Committee…

Major ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Expected To Bring Heavy Snow And Wind To Eastern US By Lorenz Duchamps of The Epoch Times, A significant winter storm is expected to impact a large portion of eastern U.S. regions over the weekend, bringing a variety of weather threats to those areas that include heavy snowfall and severe thunderstorms. The…

Shanghai Shutters Schools, Builds Hospitals As COVID Comes Roaring Back Across China Despite rumblings about Beijing potentially dropping its controversial zero-COVID policy, authorities in Shanghai, China’s financial capital and a city home to nearly 25 million, have decided to shutter schools and rapidly construct hospitals as the omicron variant appears to be spreading rapidly within…

When Pigs Fly: Congress Inserts Over 4,000 Pork Earmarks In Spending Bill Authored by Jonathan Turley, For years, Congress has dispensed with the pretense of informed legislative process when it comes to major bills and appropriations. The new $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill, however, took the notion of blind legislating to a disgraceful degree. Democratic…

FDA Rejects Non-mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine For Children: Company Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Ocugen said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declined to issue an emergency use authorization for Covaxin, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by its Indian partner Bharat Biotech, for children. A file photo shows a worker preparing a…

US Airlines Extend Masking Requirements For 1 Month Due To CDC Recommendation Just when frequent flyers were hoping to finally get some relief from the CDC’s masking rules, the agency has decided on Thursday to extend the requirements for another month. They are now set to expire on April 18. The TSA has previously expected…

An Earnings Reversion Is Coming Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, An earnings reversion is coming. In“earnings estimates will disappoint,” we showed the extreme bullishness of estimates entering 2022. “Despite economic growth weakening as inflation increases, liquidity reducing, and profit margins under pressure, analysts continue increasing their earnings estimates. Currently, estimates for the Q4-2022 are $219.87/share…

Data From Ukraine’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant Goes Offline, IAEA Reports Update (1536ET): Nuclear risks in Ukraine continue to mount Wednesday after another nuclear power plant has experienced issues.  The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports it has lost remote data transmission from its safeguards systems at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in southeastern Ukraine.  IAEA…

JPMorgan Bails Out Chinese Nickel Giant Facing Billions In Losses From Record Margin Call Two days ago we reported that while “plain vanilla” commodity producers such as coal giant Peabody had no choice but to pay up on their commodity margin calls (which they funded with an expensive, 11%, Goldman credit facility), others such as…

Will Putin Place Enriched Uranium On The List Of Banned Russian Exports An interesting thought from GLJ Research founder Gordon Johnson: with the US carving out an explicit loophole for Russian uranium exports (thanks Hillary), suggesting that while it may not care for Russian oil or gas the US is certainly desperate for Russian uranium,…

Putin Signs Countermeasure Decree Limiting Russian Exports After Biden’s Russian Oil Import Ban Within hours of Joe Biden announcing a far-reaching ban on all US imports of Russian oil – while warning Americans that gas prices are about to “go up further” – Vladimir Putin is reported to have signed his own counter-measure decree. Russia’s RIA…

Expect To Pay $3,000 More This Year For Gas And Food As Prices Skyrocket Prices at the pump have now soared to $4.173 per gallon for regular gasoline, according to Price Information Service (OPIS). This firm collects and calculates US pump prices for American Automobile Association (AAA). On Monday evening, prices surpassed the previous record high set…

Poland Has Made Available All Its MiG-29 Jets For US To Transfer To Ukraine In the latest major development in what’s become a “huge operation” mounted by individual NATO member states to assist Ukraine’s military, Poland has announced it is ready to transfer all of its Russian-made MIG-29 jets to the Rammstein Air Base in Germany. A…

“The Market Is Totally Dysfunctional” – Traders Concerned Russian CDS Won’t Pay Out In Event Of Default Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the financial press has been filled with stories about investors who are on the losing end of the historic selloff in Russian assets. There’s the Kentucky pension fund that lost…

Will ‘Victory Gardens’ Make Comeback As Global Food Crisis Worsens? Spring in the northern hemisphere is two weeks away, and interest in planting gardens could rise as the breadbasket of Europe was choked off by the Russian invasions of Ukraine, jeopardizing global food exports resulting in skyrocketing prices.   Even before the turmoil in Ukraine, American households…