(Steve Watson) In an appearance on Fox News Monday, Senator Rand Paul warned that Democrats are lying about their massive social spending bill and that it will significantly affect untold numbers of ‘ordinary’ Americans.
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“People Are Hoarding” – Supermarkets Are The Next Supply Chain Crunch As Food Shortages Persist
(Tyler Durden) It’s been 19 months since the virus pandemic began, and supply chain disruptions continue, making it more difficult for customers to find their favorite item at supermarkets nationwide. Simultaneously, the psychology of empty store shelves and President Biden’s inability to normalize supply chains forced some people to panic hoard this fall as uncertainty about food supplies mount.
China To Ban Private Investments In Media As CCP Strengthens Grip On Narratives
(Zero Hedge) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has begun laying the groundwork to ban private investments in media organizations, according to US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA).
Central Banks & The Looming Financial Reckoning
(Willem Buiter) Across the advanced economies, central banks have rightly prioritized maintaining financial stability and supporting the real economy over fighting inflation with interest-rate hikes. But with financial fragility rife and public and private leverage at all-time highs, their next big test is coming.
Not Supposed To Happen’: US State With Highest Vaxx Rate Sees Record Surge In COVID Cases
(Zero Hedge) Vermont, the state with the highest vaccination rate in the United States, is experiencing a CCP virus surge at levels not seen since the pandemic’s peak last winter.
Visualizing The World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies
(Zero Hedge) Some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies have played a central role in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why The West Can’t Ban Bitcoin The Way China Did
(Mark Jeftovic) Only a complete “dictatorship of the proletariat” can kill Bitcoin. Evergrande is being called China’s “Lehman moment” and overnight the PBC closed the loop on their clampdown on crypto with a total ban on virtual currency transactions.
Gaslighting The American People: Biden’s “Extraordinarily Successful” Withdrawal From Reality
(Zero Hedge) The Democratic Party and its apparatchiks in the media keep asking the American people variations on a single question: What are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
El Salvador Becomes First Country To Officially Accept Bitcoin As Legal Tender
(Zero Hedge) El Salvador, whose economy last year suffered its deepest crash in four decades, became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday, a real-world experiment proponents say will lower commission costs for billions of dollars sent from abroad and which could spark widespread adoption among challenged, developing countries suffering from rampant inflation, but which critics warned may fuel money laundering.The revolutionary monetary change – first previewed here in June – means businesses should accept payment in bitcoin alongside the US dollar, which has been El Salvador’s official currency since 2001 and will remain legal tender.
Scientists Warn About New Hyper-Infectious South African Variant
(Tyler Durden) Scientists in South Africa have identified a new variant that “has all of the signatures of immune escape” and very well could be the source of the next variant-driven wave of COVID cases around the world.
COVID Bailouts Have Nothing To Do With COVID
(Zero Hedge) Below, we ask a simple question: Is the ‘war on COVID’ the needed pretext for even more centralized market “performance?”
Hipster Climate Change Protesters Left Behind 120 Tons Of Trash In London
(Zero Hedge) As police stand by and allow hipster ‘protesters’ under the ‘Extinction Rebellion’ banner to bring London to a standstill again, it has been revealed that during protests two years ago, the climate change obsessed extremists dumped 120 TONS of garbage on to the streets.
Demonstrators Occupy London News Headquarters Over Pandemic Coverage
(Simon Veazey) A group of demonstrators occupied the entrance of the headquarters of ITV News and Channel 4 News in London, claiming that the media are misinforming people about vaccines and the pandemic.
“Questions Should Be Asked”: Twitter Gives Taliban A Platform While Banning American Dissidents
(Paul Joseph Watson) Questions continue to swirl over why some social media platforms like Twitter are giving the Taliban, a terrorist organization under U.S. law, a public platform having permanently banned American dissidents and the President of the United States himself.
Taliban Troll Biden On Twitter By Posing With Ice Cream
(Zero Hedge) The Taliban sent Joe Biden a message Tuesday by posing for a photograph, which later end up on Twitter, showing fighters holding ice cream cones.