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Russia Says Global Oil Embargo Could Push Prices Over $300 With the US reportedly said to vote as soon as Tuesday on a proposal to ditch trade relations with Russia and Belarus, including suspending oil imports despite repeated objections from Germany which has stated that a collapse in supply threatens “social cohesion”, Russian Deputy PM…

US Senate Passes Bill To End COVID-19 National Emergency Authored by Zachary Steiber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Joe Biden speaks to reporters before the start of a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 3, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The U.S. Senate on March 3 approved a…

One Bank Sees 10% Chance Of “Civilization-Ending Global Nuclear War”, Says Buy Stocks Anyway In recent days with tensions of a global war running at the highest level in decades, an apocryphal story from Art Cashin has been making the rounds across trading desks: one in which the venerable trader explains why when Wall Street…

Anti-War Protests Grow In Russia As Putin Rejects US Charge Of “Deliberate” Civilian Attacks In fresh Sunday statements, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will not stop military operations in Ukraine until Kiev government forces stop fighting, at a moment evacuation efforts in Mariupol where there are reports that some 200,000 civilians remain have…

Soaring Wheat Prices Leave These Countries Susceptible To Uprisings  Ukraine is considered the “breadbasket of Europe,” and the Russian invasion is choking off grain exports, sending global food prices to record highs. Grain prices surged to record highs last week as world food prices are now higher than they were during the 2011 Arab Spring, leaving…

Putin Threatens Ukraine With Loss Of Statehood As we detailed earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Saturday morning speech gave a wide-ranging update of the war in Ukraine, painting a positive picture essentially saying “everything is going to plan” – while taking the opportunity to war any Western nation eyeing the imposition of a…

North Korea’s Kim Launches 9th Ballistic Missile This Year While All Eyes On Ukraine With the entire world’s attention focused on Russia and Putin amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, now in the middle of its second week, it seems Kim Jong Un thought it was the perfect time to launch some rockets. On Saturday…

Google Searches For ‘Iodine Pills’ Skyrocket Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and President Putin ordering nuclear deterrent forces to be placed on “special” alert has scared the bejesus out of many in the western world who are now panic searching where to buy potassium iodide in case of nuclear war.  Potassium iodide can help block radioactive iodine from being absorbed…

Following Global Outrage, Shell Says It Only Bought Russian Oil After “Intense Talks With Governments” Yesterday, we reported that after a week of “no bid” markets for Russian seaborne oil where the discount for Urals widened more and more from spot with each passing day (while in the process making the market for non-Russian oil…

“Close The Skies Or Give Us Planes”: Zelensky Tells US House & Senate In Zoom Call At a moment that US Congress is busy prepping a whopping $10 billion military and humanitarian aide package for Ukraine, the country’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky is already making a “desperate plea” for more, telling a virtual meeting of over 300…

Coinbase CEO: “Ordinary Russians Are Using Crypto As A Lifeline” As we reported earlier this week, most popular crypto exchanges have declined requests by western officials to cut off all Russian customers, as crypto trading volume soared as investors appeared to front-run expectations for massive capital outflows as sanctions bite. While most trading denominated in…

Johnstone: Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, Kremlin-backed media outlets have been banned throughout the European Union, both on television and on apps and online platforms. RT has lost its Sky TV slot in the UK, where the outlet is also blocked on YouTube. Australian TV providers SBS and Foxtel have dropped RT,…

“We Want To See The Faces Of Our Children”: NYC Lifts Indoor School Mask Mandate, Suspends Vaccine Requirements Covid is officially over. On Friday, NY Mayor Eric Adams said that come Monday, hundreds of thousands of public school students in the nation’s largest district and their educators can ditch face masks indoors as he announced…

House Democrats Block Bill To Approve Keystone XL Pipeline For ‘American Energy Independence From Russia’ Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Legislation promoting U.S. energy independence from Russia has been blocked by House Democrats. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill on July 29, 2020. (Graeme Jennings/Pool…

Metals Traders Hit With “Hundreds Of Millions” In Erroneous Margin Calls Just in case the prevailing market chaos, which has seen intermarket funding stress spike to the highest level since the March 2020 crash in the aftermath of a overnight freakout that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant may be on the verge, metals traders’ already…

Buyer Finally Emerges For Russian Oil Offered At A Record $28 Discount After a week when not a single buyer for Russian oil was willing to step up, bifurcating the market into what was effectively a bidless market for Russian Urals crude and an almost offerless market for non-Russian oil, today – for the first…

Watch: Man Ordered To Leave Televised Q&A For Expressing ‘Wrongthink’ On Russia Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, A Russian-Australian man was told to leave a television studio after he asked a ‘rogue’ question and pointed out that there is an alternative narrative to be considered surrounding the conflict in Ukraine. The audience member…

Putin Signs Law To Seize Assets If Foreigners ‘Harm’ Russians Update (1437ET): Vladimir Putin signed several laws on Friday – including one which would seize the assets of foreigners if they harm Russians or otherwise infringe on Russian rights, according to Interfax. The threat comes in parallel with another law signed on Friday which will…

White House Considering Ban On Russian Crude Which Pinoeer CEO Warns Would Send Oil To $200 Another day, another flashing red headline that the White House is considering a ban on Russian oil imports – something it has repeatedly said earlier this week – although it has yet to make a decision: *WHITE HOUSE CONSIDERING…

Who’s Got The Gold? Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, In 1971, the US abruptly went off the gold standard, and in making the public announcement, US President Richard Nixon looked into the television camera and said, “We’re all Keynesians now.” I was a young man at the time and had previously bought gold, albeit…

Watch: Russian Trader Loses It On Live TV, Drinks To “Death Of The Stock Market” Russian stocks have crashed a stunning 98% in the last few days – even with the Moscow Stock Exchange being closed… This index includes some of the best known banks and energy producers in the world that have suddenly become…

Multiple Truck Convoys Converge In Indiana For Large Rally En Route To DC Authored by Enrico Trigoso and Mimi Nguyen Ly via The Epoch Times, Several trucker convoys comprising thousands of vehicles converged in Monrovia, Indiana, and held a rally late on Wednesday before continuing their trip toward Washington to protest against COVID-19 restrictions and…