(Jan Nieuwenhuijs) Late 2021 the central bank of Denmark released a bar list of its monetary gold. Unfortunately, the individual serial numbers of the ingots—the disclosing of which is the main purpose of a bar list—are missing. Government entities around the world have been increasing transparency regarding gold in recent years, but still have a long way to go.
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French Election Exposes The Conflict Running Through All Western Societies
(Tyler Durden) The globalists have won.
Ukraine Bans Bitcoin Purchases With National Currency Amid Martial Law
(Tyler Durden) Ukraine’s central bank is prohibiting bitcoin buys with the hryvnia in an attempt to prevent what it calls “unproductive” capital outflows.
Germans Told To Take Fewer Showers As Energy Costs Bite
(Tyler Durden) As energy costs continue to bite thanks to the sanctions on Russia, Germans are being told to take fewer showers.
Spotify Won’t Renew Podcast Deal With The Obamas
(Tyler Durden) After a handful of D-grade, washed out artists recently quit Spotify over their virtue signaling “protests” of Joe Rogan, Spotify has turned the table and has refused to renew the contract on the Barack and Michelle Obama podcast after it expires this year.
Greenwald: Former Intel Officials, Citing Russia, Say Big-Tech Monopoly Power Vital To National Security
(Tyler Durden) When the U.S. security state announces that Big Tech’s centralized censorship power must be preserved, we should ask what this reveals about whom this regime serves
Fiat Currencies Are Going To “Fail Spectacularly”: Lawrence Lepard
(Larry Lepard) Friend of Fringe Finance Lawrence Lepard released his most recent investor letter a few weeks ago with his updated take on the monetary miasma spreading across the globe.
Bunker Down: Why Switzerland Is Prepared For The Big One
(Paige Baschuk) A nuclear fallout shelter for all 9 million residents of Switzerland? Why the country has been preparing for nuclear war for decades and what residents are expected to do in the event of one.
Denmark Is First EU Country To Scrap All COVID Restrictions
(Zero Hedge) Later this week, England is scheduled to drop its problematic mask mandate for shops and public transport, along with its highly unpopular vaccine passport regime. Up north, Scotland says it will “relax” so-called ‘work from home guidance,’ and reopen nightclubs, as well as ending venue capacity limits.
Non-Citizen Voting Push Is Part Of Agenda To Rid America Of Citizenship: Election Expert
(Zero Hedge) The recent New York City law to allow at least 800,000 noncitizens to vote in municipal elections is unconstitutional and likely to be overturned in court, said Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Heritage Foundation’s election law reform initiative and former member of the Federal Election Commission.
Cuomo’s Revenge? Ousted CNN Anchor’s Legal Team Flagged Zucker’s Inappropriate Relationship | ZeroHedge
(Tyler Durden) Politico reports that Zucker’s inappropriate workplace relationship may have come to light after Chris Cuomo’s legal team raised issues about it.
Visualizing The $94 Trillion World Economy In One Chart
(Zero Hedge) Just four countries – the U.S., China, Japan, and Germany – make up over half of the world’s economic output by gross domestic product (GDP) in nominal terms. In fact, as Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld notes, the GDP of the U.S. alone is greater than the combined GDP of 170 countries.
23 Million Afghans On Brink Of Starvation As Media Has ‘Moved On’
(Andrea Germanos) Progressive US lawmakers and human rights advocates are urging the Biden administration to immediately lift economic sanctions on Afghanistan that are fueling a humanitarian disaster and as famine threatens millions in the war-torn nation. “Aid groups have predicted that if current U.S. economic policy toward Afghanistan continues, there could be more civilian deaths this year than there were in 20 years of war,” the Congressional Progressive Caucus tweeted Sunday. “The Biden administration can, and must, act now.”
TikTok Moderators Sue After Being “Traumatized” By Content
(Zero Hedge) Back in July, a band of former Facebook content moderators rebelled against Zuck & Co., proclaiming that they would seek to invalidate NDAs that Facebook forces all its content moderators to sign so they don’t squeal to the press about the freakshow of mayhem and debauchery that they’re subjected to every day while reviewing flagged content that can include depictions of sexual abuse, violence, murder torture and mayhem (remember the Christchurch video?) and – of course – politically incorrect content and news stories, often with a conservative slant.
This Is What Happened When College Students Were Asked If “Frosty The Snowman” Is Inclusive Enough…
(Logan Dubil) With Christmas upon us, holiday songs have made their way back to the radio. But in today’s hyper-politically correct culture, some of these songs could be viewed as problematic.