Month: February 2020

Coronavirus tests U.S. medical system’s unhealthy reliance on China for drugs, supplies… 97% of antibiotics and 80% of pharmaceuticals in US are imported from China

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The basic building blocks of U.S. health care are now under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese President Xi Jinping recently warned of the “grave” situation posed by the “accelerating spread” of the coronavirus in China. Xi’s frank warnings were unusual for the seniormost official of the Chinese Communist Party and reveal the … Read more

Bill Gates help fund an event LAST YEAR called “Novel Coronavirus Pandemic Preparedness Exercise” October 18, in New York?!

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“Equally curious is the fact that Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored a novel coronavirus pandemic preparedness exercise October 18, 2019, in New York called “Event 201.”46 The simulation predicted a global death toll of 65 million people within a span of 18 … Read more

Democratic Party Is COLLAPSING, Chaos Erupts As Voters Quit, Turnout TANKS, And DNC CHEATS Bernie

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Democratic Party Is COLLAPSING, Chaos Erupts As Voters Quit, Turnout TANKS, And DNC CHEATS Bernie. James Carville appeared on MSNBC and in a now viral clip claims the Democrats are out of their minds, candidates are campaigning on fringe issues, and Trump’s approval is higher than its ever been. Panic erupted within the party due … Read more

The Pandemic Isn’t Ending, It’s Just the Beginning of Global Disorder and Depression

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by Charles Hugh-Smith When you’ve been lied to, you’ve been betrayed. Betrayal has consequences. Unsurprisingly, denying the pandemic is unstoppable and consequential is the order of the day: authorities everywhere are terrified these realities might leak through all their oh-so-obviously desperate firewalls and filters. Why are they terrified? Because they know the entire global economy, including … Read more

WeWork Debris Hits Bystanders: Two More Real-Estate Mutual Funds “Gated,” This Time in Ireland. Fitch Warns of Contagion

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“We regard liquidity mismatches as a major structural flaw.” By Nick Corbishley, for WOLF STREET: Two Irish commercial real-estate mutual funds, with a combined value of around €1.4 billion, have blocked redemptions after sustaining heavy outflows, leaving thousands of investors twisting in the wind. This has stoked fears that the liquidity issues that have dogged the UK’s mutual … Read more

End of QE-4: Fed’s Repos Drop Below Oct 2 Level, T-Bills Balloon, MBS Fall, Total Assets Down to Dec 25 Level

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Repo-blowout solved, the Fed is stepping back as lender-of-first-resort. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Total repos on the Fed’s balance sheet of February 5, released Thursday afternoon, have plunged by $85 billion from the peak on January 1, to $170 billion, below where they’d first been on October 2: Under these “repurchase agreements,” the Fed buys Treasury securities and … Read more

The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q4 2019

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Consumer credit rose to 19.3% of GDP, the highest ever. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Consumer debt – student loans, auto loans, and revolving credit such as credit cards and personal loans but excluding housing-related debts such as mortgages and HELOCs – jumped by $187 billion in the fourth quarter 2019, compared to a year earlier, or … Read more

Epidemiologist Warns, You Can’t Keep The Coronavirus Out Of The US

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Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, The United States has implemented travel restrictions in recent days to keep the fast-moving coronavirus that has crippled much of China from spreading across America. But one epidemiologist is warning it won’t work… “I have never seen instances where that has worked when we are talking about a virus at this … Read more

Cruise Ship Horror: Confirmed And Potential Coronavirus Cases On 4 Different Ships Cause A Frenzy Of Panic All Over The Globe

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by Michael Snyder If the coronavirus is not a serious threat, why are countries all over the world acting so crazy all of a sudden?  Perhaps someday we will look back and laugh about how this coronavirus outbreak caused so much hysteria, but right now government officials around the globe are certainly acting as if … Read more

Tesla Stock Price Volatility a Sign of “Frothy” Market

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Photo by Wikimedia.org | CC BY | Photoshopped   From Birch Gold Group Near the end of a bull run, it’s fairly common for “frothy” conditions to develop in the financial markets. This often occurs shortly before bubbles pop. According to Investopedia, “Froth refers to market conditions preceding an actual market bubble, where asset prices become detached from their underlying intrinsic … Read more

JONATHAN TURLEY: Nancy Pelosi should resign.

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via thehill What followed was an utter disgrace. First, Pelosi dropped the traditional greeting before the start of the address, “Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the president of the United States.” Instead, she simply announced, “Members of Congress, the president of the United States.” It … Read more

GO AWAY, YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE. Facebook and Twitter decline Pelosi request to delete Trump video.

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pic.twitter.com/QhTWvcY4Ke — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2020 via CNBC: A fierce behind-the-scenes dispute between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and Facebook erupted into public view Friday, as the speaker’s office demanded that Facebook remove a video posted online by President Donald Trump. The video in question showed Pelosi’s viral State of the Union moment ripping … Read more

At one Wuhan Hospital, 1 in 3 Infected Patients (29%) is Medical Staff

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29% — that’s the % of the 138 #coronavirus infected patients who are actually infected medical staff in one Wuhan hospital. Almost 1 in 3 patients being hospital healthcare workers is just insane. New case series report in JAMA: https://t.co/j7HPV8j8dp pic.twitter.com/3Hmu3MaE7m — Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 7, 2020 Wuhan Ordered to Put Coronavirus-Infected Residents in … Read more

Largest Democrat Forum on the Internet Panicking. Openly Hoping for Economic Collapse and Discussing How to Cause One to Remove Trump

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Largest Democrat Forum on the Internet Panicking. Openly Hoping for Economic Collapse and Discussing How to Cause One to Remove Trump This is the talk of people who deep down believe they are screwed in 2020. democrattotheend (10,318 posts) 29. Please delete this post Before it gets picked up on Twitter or right-wing sites and people … Read more

CDC: Virus is BEYOND CONTAINMENT, UNCONTROLLABLE in China, only containable in USA for another 2-4 weeks. Travel Restrictions WILL NOT STOP THIS

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Skip to about 39 min for comments about containment. Skip to about 51 min for comments about travel restrictions.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsIO6ltVpbc The United States has implemented travel restrictions in recent days to keep the fast-moving coronavirus that has crippled much of China from spreading across America. But one epidemiologist is warning it won’t work… Learn … Read more

Apple fined for slowing down old iphones

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Apple has been fined 25 million euros (£21m, $27m) for deliberately slowing down older iPhone models without making it clear to consumers. The fine was imposed by France’s competition and fraud watchdog DGCCRF, which said consumers were not warned. In 2017, Apple confirmed that it did slow down some iPhones, but said it only did … Read more

THIS Is What a Run on the Bank for Precious Metals Looks Like…

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by Money Metals The explosive price action seen in palladium recently is indicative of a physical shortage. Put simply, available inventories are failing to keep up with demand (largely from the automotive industry). Palladium Price Chart According to Refnitiv GFMS, the palladium market will be under-supplied by 883,000 ounces this year. Stresses on the physical market … Read more

Ted Cruz on Twitter: Bizarro World. Obama DOJ abusing FISA process, creating fraudulent documents to target Trump—Not Scary. Barr saying DON’T abuse power, target political opponents—“Scary”?

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Bizarro World. Obama DOJ abusing FISA process, creating fraudulent documents to target Trump—Not Scary. Barr saying DON’T abuse power, target political opponents—“Scary”?? https://t.co/wotNOI2Auj — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 7, 2020