There are no confirmed cases of #coronavirus in Hawaiʻi, but we're working hard to get new test kits from the CDC to our state as soon as possible. 📻 hear more in last week's interview with Hawai‘i Public Radio pic.twitter.com/y8mU6P0UOr — Senator Brian Schatz (@SenBrianSchatz) February 25, 2020
Seems that if they can get to July 2020 without a pandemic the WHO “investors” get their initial contributions back. All about the money. When the Ebola epidemic broke out in West Africa in 2014, in took several months to get large amounts money (around $100 million) to the countries that needed it, according … Read more
Alasdair says we’re getting to maximum inflationism, and there’s not a lot that the central banks can do. Here’s why… by Dunagun Kaiser with Alasdair Macleod via Reluctant Preppers
Reddit’s CEO must address this. Reddit’s CEO held an AMA today in the announcements subreddit. He announced that “users who consistently upvote policy-breaking content within quarantined communities will receive automated warnings, followed by further consequences like a temporary or permanent suspension”. I took a neutral stance, because Reddit’s CEO did admit that we as moderators act in good … Read more
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 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 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
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
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
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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. 10k each at Bundesbank and Banque de France.https://t.co/WWsT8FDHU0 pic.twitter.com/6HfiHCNbhA — Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) February 24, 2020
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
The Globalization Experiment is OVER!
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
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
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
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
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
