Diplomat slams media silence on Ukrainian shelling of maternity hospital

“Where is the Western media reaction?” asks the deputy head of Russia’s mission to the UN Deputy head of Russia’s mission to the UN Dmitry Polyansky has criticized the Western media for its unwillingness to condemn the shelling of a maternity hospital in Donetsk by Ukraine. “Where is Western media reaction?” Polyansky asked in a…

European Commission to support Ukraine’s EU candidate status – Politico

The EU’s executive arm wants to send a “strong message” to Moscow, the news outlet claimed, citing unnamed officials The European Commission is to support giving EU candidate nation status to Ukraine, Politico reported on Monday. Several anonymous officials “familiar with the debate among commissioners” told the media outlet that among the factors which tipped…

Texas Power Demand Hits Record As Heat Dome Roasts State 

Texas Power Demand Hits Record As Heat Dome Roasts State  Texas power demand soared to a record high on Sunday amid a severe heat wave sending temperatures into triple-digit territory. The good news is no major disruptions were reported on the grid as households and businesses cranked up their air conditioners.  Data from the Electric Reliability…

Snyder: The Worst Economic Gloom In 50 Years

Snyder: The Worst Economic Gloom In 50 Years Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, We haven’t seen anything like this in decades.  Energy prices are soaring to unprecedented heights.  Food shortages in some parts of the world are starting to become quite severe.  Rampant inflation is out of control all over the globe.  Meanwhile, economic activity is…

Carnage!

Carnage! Well that escalated quickly. Apart from crude oil, almost all asset classes were clubbed like baby seals today as event risk anxiety (ahead of FOMC) combined with OpEx technicals ($3.4 trillion options expiration) and European ‘fragmentation’ fears and all the usual geo-political, geo-economic factors that are holding back the dip-buyers as the S&P drops…

Macron wrong about Putin – Czech Republic

The foreign minister argued that the Russian leader doesn’t care how the West sees his country French President Emmanuel Macron was wrong when he spoke about not wanting to “humiliate” Russia over its actions in Ukraine, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky has said. “Russia is the aggressor, and we shouldn’t take into account if Russia…

UK poised to send first asylum seekers to Africa

Courts are hearing last-minute appeals against 30 deportations, with the first flight to Rwanda slated for Tuesday The High Court of Justice and The Court of Appeal in London are hearing last-minute legal challenges to a new British government policy, under which asylum seekers are to be deported to Rwanda while their applications are being…

Never-before-seen photos from Guantanamo revealed by NYT

The outlet published images of the first prisoners arriving at the notorious US facility in Cuba The New York Times has published never-before-seen photos from the infamous US-run detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Washington began extra-judicially detaining and extraditing inmates from the Middle East and elsewhere to the off-shore prison shortly after the 9/11…

Biden Admin Orders 500,000 More Monkeypox Vaccines

Biden Admin Orders 500,000 More Monkeypox Vaccines Authored by Mimi Nguyen Ly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Biden administration has ordered an additional 500,000 more doses of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox, marking a big step up in the government’s response amid rising cases in the United States and around the world. An electron…

20% Of Pandemic Unemployment Payments Were Improper: GAO

20% Of Pandemic Unemployment Payments Were Improper: GAO About one in five unemployment insurance dollars paid out during the Covid-19 pandemic went to people who didn’t qualify for the benefits, according to a report issued this week by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).  At the same time it spotlighted the fiscal disaster, the congressional watchdog…

The Bill Gurley Chronicles: Part I

The Bill Gurley Chronicles: Part I By Alex of the Macro Ops Substack What if there was a way to distill all the knowledge that someone’s written over the last 25 years into one, easy-to-read document? And what if that person was a famous venture capital investor known for betting big on companies like Uber,…

West should take Moscow’s interests into account – Kissinger

The former US Secretary of State claimed that otherwise Russia might turn into “an outpost of China in Europe” The West should take Moscow’s interests into account to prevent Russia from becoming “an outpost of China in Europe,” former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has said. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Kissinger…

Chinese AI-operated drone ship completes maiden sea voyage (VIDEO)

Sub: The unmanned vessel can fight all types of enemies, local media says Beijing’s unmanned stealth combat vessel has successfully completed its three-hour maiden sea voyage off Panzhi Island in the East China Sea, Chinese media reported on Saturday. The state-run newspaper Global Times reported that the 200-ton ship can be sent into “dangerous combat…

Germany quarrels with Spain – media

Madrid has allegedly revised its supposed plans to supply German-made tanks to Ukraine amid Berlin’s concerns The German government reportedly raised the alarm over Spain’s supposed plans to provide as many as 40 German-made tanks to Ukraine, which were revealed in a media report last Sunday. Madrid allegedly had to scale back the scheme dramatically…

Fed Warns Biden Admin: Price Controls Should Stay In The History Books

Fed Warns Biden Admin: Price Controls Should Stay In The History Books As inflation soars, a growing number of progressives are blaming ‘gouging’, first by ‘Big Oil’ and now by ‘Big Shippers’, pressuring the Biden administration to impose price controls. The problem is – they never work! And as Christopher Neely, the vice president of…

Russia Issues Unusually Bitter Condemnation Of Israeli Attack On Damascus Airport

Russia Issues Unusually Bitter Condemnation Of Israeli Attack On Damascus Airport Israeli media is on Saturday describing an “unusually bitter condemnation” as Russia has lashed out at Israel’s latest airstrikes on Syria, which disabled Damascus International Airport. Following the Friday pre-dawn raid, ostensibly against Iranian weapons shipments and assets according to Israeli reports, Russia’s Foreign Ministry…

The Seven Pillars Supporting The Bitcoin Revolution

The Seven Pillars Supporting The Bitcoin Revolution Authored by Sylvain Saurel via ‘In Bitcoin We Trust’ Substack, Bitcoin is a monetary revolution that will change the world of the future. Bitcoin will not only change the world of the future forever, but it will also change it for the better. The Bitcoin system will enable…

Pentagon comments on ‘Asian NATO’

The US is not seeking to split the region into blocs, but is focused on “maintaining stability,” the secretary of defense has said Washington is not seeking to create an “Asian NATO” or stir up confrontation in the Indo-Pacific region, but rather is focused on maintaining stability, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on…

Ex-president handed jail time for ‘coup’

Jeanine Anez was found guilty of violating Bolivia’s constitution after Evo Morales fled the country Former Bolivian President Jeanine Anez has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for assuming power in a “coup” against her left-wing predecessor, Evo Morales, in 2019. The court in La Paz found Anez guilty of making “decisions contrary to…

Mystery plane flies over six NATO states

The unidentified aircraft managed to fly over several European nations without approval before its crew vanished without a trace An anonymous aircraft spotted flying out of Lithuania was allowed to cross the airspace of several other NATO members unimpeded before landing in Bulgaria, in an illegal flight still baffling aviation officials across the continent. Though…

Tesla Jumps After Board Proposes For 3-For-1 Stock Split, Larry Ellison To Step-Down

Tesla Jumps After Board Proposes For 3-For-1 Stock Split, Larry Ellison To Step-Down As was largely expected, Tesla’s latest filing – of proposals set for inclusion in its annual shareholder meeting on August 2nd – shows the company is proposing a 3-for-1 stock split. The primary purpose of the Authorized Shares Amendment is to facilitate…

It’s “Worse Than Many Can Imagine” – Kim Dotcom Fears “Controlled Demolition” Enabling A “New Dystopian Future”

It’s “Worse Than Many Can Imagine” – Kim Dotcom Fears “Controlled Demolition” Enabling A “New Dystopian Future” Authored by Alexandra Bruce via ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.net, New Zealand tech CEO, Kim Dotcom did the math on the United States’ sovereign debt and he tweeted a thread about it, saying it may the most important thread that he may ever make.…

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