Only 426 people have been tested in the US for coronavirus
Only 426 people have been tested in the US for coronavirus (from CDC website, figures are as of today) pic.twitter.com/WRZEZmnEms — Steve Lookner (@lookner) February 25, 2020
TIME: Empty Cities and Stalled Industrial Production, New Analysis Shows Coronavirus Has Cut China’s Carbon Emissions by 100 Million Metric Tons
TIME: Empty Cities and Stalled Industrial Production, New Analysis Shows Coronavirus Has Cut China’s Carbon Emissions by 100 Million Metric Tons One of the deadliest epidemics in decades has dented energy demand and industrial output in China, cutting carbon dioxide emissions by about 100 million metric tons—close to what Chile emits in a year. https://time.com/5786634/coronavirus-carbon-emissions-china/ … Read more
Bernie Sanders Boycotts the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Accusing Them of Bigotry – AIPAC Responds
Bernie Sanders Verified account @BernieSanders The Israeli people have the right to live in peace and security. So do the Palestinian people. I remain concerned about the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights. For that reason I will not attend their conference. 1/2 The Israeli people have the … Read more
3 Energy Sectors Most Threatened By The Coronavirus
By Alex Kimani At a time when the energy sector is weighed down by debt and reeling from low commodity prices, American energy producers are now bracing for the biggest demand shock to hit the markets in decades: the effects of the coronavirus outbreak in China and beyond. The outbreak has already claimed more than 2,600 … Read more
Stocks Plunge (or Dip?), Traders Confused: This Wasn’t Supposed to Happen. Complacency Exacts its Toll
The coronavirus is just the latest in a long series of issues successfully brushed off as irrelevant because all that mattered was that stocks went up. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. “Complacency” – brushing off big issues as irrelevant or nonexistent because they don’t fit into the buy-buy-buy scenario – has a way of serving up a … Read more
(Ethnic Profiling) Russian Police Raid Homes Looking for Chinese People
Here is the article mentioned in this video: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti…
Youth behavior trends in the United States, 9th grade, 14-15 years old
by theimpossiblesalad Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/yrbs. Accessed on 2/22/2020. Tools: Microsoft Excel and Adobe Photoshop for the visualization Interesting note: back in 2006, a secondary analysis of data explored the correlation between television viewing and the risk of sexual initiation by young adolescents. It concluded that … Read more
Europe is over (central)banked: BofE employs 4,502 staff. Bank of Japan 4,636. Fed system has 21,181 in total. The Eurosystem employs a staggering 48,509.
Europe is over (central)banked: BofE employs 4,502 staff. Bank of Japan 4,636. Fed system has 21,181 in total. The Eurosystem employs a staggering 48,509. 10k each at Bundesbank and Banque de France.https://t.co/WWsT8FDHU0 pic.twitter.com/6HfiHCNbhA — Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) February 24, 2020
The market has been on such an insane run that even after losing over 1500 points in the recent sessions, the DOW is only back down to about where it was in mid-November 2019.
Chart here: https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=.DJI Obviously, it can keep falling if coronavirus continues to spread, I get that. But I wonder if part of this isn’t JUST the virus, although that was the major causative factor. I think people were generally thinking this market needed a bit of a correction, and the virus, while a major danger to … Read more
Tim Pool: Experts Warn Coronavirus Could KILL 80 MILLION, Globalization Is COLLAPSING Due To The Pandemic
The Globalization Experiment is OVER!
Exercise DEFENDER-Europe 20 is a U.S.-led multinational exercise, including NATO’s largest deployment in 25 years
Exercise DEFENDER-Europe 20 is a U.S.-led multinational exercise, including NATO’s participation. It is the largest deployment of U.S.-based forces to Europe in more than 25 years with 20,000 soldiers deployed directly from the U.S. to Europe. https://thewatchtowers.org/exercise-defender-europe-20-is-a-u-s-led-multinational-exercise-including-natos-participation-it-is-the-largest-deployment-of-u-s-based-forces-to-europe-in-more-than-25-years-with-20000-soldier/ Some Chinese and Russians are speculating this is a pretext for an actual engagement… h/t Google_It
How To Tell If A Bear Market Is Coming! Key Indicator Shows It’s Just Around the Corner
There’s one major question I often see. It’s the question of WHEN. When will the market crash? When will a recession occur? There’s no possible way to determine exactly but we have indicators to watch that will help guide us in the right direction. From that point we can always make better judgements. But without … Read more
CIA Says Russia Is Boosting Bernie To Undermine His Campaign
This captures why Russiagate fear-mongering was never about a real threat, or about stopping Trump. It was about defending the privilege of neoliberals who lost to Trump in 2016. Bernie is now their biggest threat, so Russiagate is deployed once more. h/t failed_evolution
People in every state need to start demanding transparency in ballots and plain simple English summaries of propositions
by keptfloatin707 It’s almost proposition season and the last time around left a real bad taste in my mouth. I live in California where we recently voted yes on a 10 cent gas tax and written into the prop was a increase in vehicle registration. Well most of us knew about the 10 cents per … Read more
End the Fed: Ron Paul and James Corbett discuss the inevitable demise of the Federal Reserve
Here’s a great interview from one of the last genuine journalists still on the scene, James Corbett, and one of the last genuine politicians, Ron Paul. The Federal Reserve is at the heart of the fraudulent financial system that has been rotting society for the last century any beyond. h/t axolotl_peyotl
Coronavirus Fears Are the Catalyst for Gold’s Surge
Photo by Wikimedia.org | CC BY | Photoshopped From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: How the coronavirus could be the catalyst to push gold over $2,000, gold’s perfect storm is here, and how concerned should investors be about the dizzying repo … Read more
The Impact of International Students on the U.S. Economy
by visualcapitalist For decades, the U.S. has been the top destination for students looking to study abroad. It’s easy to see why. Not only does the country provide access to world-class economic hubs like Silicon Valley, but the U.S. is also home to 14 of the top 20 universities in the world, many of which are … Read more
When the world became unrecognizable in less than a decade
by Simon Black In the year 1520, exactly 500 years ago, a German scholar named Johan Schoner completed a map of the world that was widely considered to be humanity’s most advanced understanding of geography at that time. To us, Schoner’s map is pretty amusing. There’s scarcely any American continent. Instead he drew some amorphous blobs … Read more