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A viral – and very bizarre – video emerged Friday showing mayhem unfolding in the usually quiet small southern Texas town of McAllen. A group of Black Lives Matter protesters were seen outside local businesses in the downtown area when a man wielding a chainsaw approaches the group ordering them to “Move! Go home!”  “Don’t […]

Authored by Laurence Vance via The Future of Freedom Foundation, The Fine Wine & Good Spirits liquor stores are slowly beginning to reopen in Pennsylvania after they were all closed on March 17 in response to the spread of the coronavirus. During the time when the liquor stores in Pennsylvania were all […]

Despite according to a prior New York Times report top Pentagon brass initially ordered that National Guard helicopters assist in dispersing protests and riots which overwhelmed streets outside the White House early this week, at least one helicopter pilot has been grounded pending an investigation over low-flying maneuvers. The Black Hawk helicopter presence […]

Authored by James Bovard via The American Institute for Economic Research, The brutal killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police spurred widespread protests which have been followed by looting in dozens of American cities. CNN’s Don Lemon compared looters who plundered Neiman Marcus and other upscale stores to those at the Boston Tea […]

On Friday we officially entered the blow-off top phase of the current meltup: between a record surge in Nasdaq volume… … between a spike in equity call volumes to a decade high… … and a put-to-call ratio that plunged just shy of all time lows… … the message was clear: […]

Authored by ‘The Saker’, I have lived in the United States for a total of 24 years and I have witnessed many crises over this long period, but what is taking place today is truly unique and much more serious than any previous crisis I can recall. And to explain […]

A team of scientists headed by Shivani Bhandari, an astronomer with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia’s federal agency responsible for scientific research, has made a breakthrough discovery by pinpointing the precise location of four fast radio bursts (FRBs).  FRBs are very mysterious bursts of radio waves coming from somewhere in the universe. The average […]

Authored by James Bovard via The Mises Institute, Former president George W. Bush has returned to the spotlight to give moral guidance to America in these troubled times. In a statement released on Tuesday, Bush announced that he was “anguished” by the “brutal suffocation” of George Floyd and declared that “lasting […]

We penned a piece last week describing how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended single-use disposable items (i.e., plasticware: plastic cups, dishes, straws, and utensils) to all restaurants across the country for reopening. It certainly seemed odd, and a little illogical, that, somehow, single-use food-service items would replace traditional restaurant ware, all because the government […]

Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, Barack Obama has given his perfunctory speech about the Black Lives Matter protests taking place in America today, and it was every bit as full of pretty words and empty of actual substance… President Obama: “I want to acknowledge the folks in law enforcement that share […]

Authored by Clay Robinson via Campus Reform, A professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara who gave a lecture on the “error of American Exceptionalism,” says coronavirus is just one piece of evidence of America’s shortcomings. Rudy Busto teaches a course titled Asian American Studies/Religious Studies 71: Introduction to Asian American […]

Tropical Storm Cristobal continues to strengthen as the storm is headed to an area of the Louisiana coast littered with offshore oil platforms. A look from above of #Cristobal this morning. Winds will increase to tropical storm force Sunday morning for parts of the northern Gulf Coast. Preparation should be competed as soon […]

Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, In this week’s edition of Straight Talk Guy Adami, Dan Nathan and I are diving into the surprising jobs report, the hot topics of the widening wealth gap and social unrest, the Fed’s role in all of it, the implications of the widening rift […]

In what would be a monumental move — and we might ad good for independent media breaking the shackles of the mainstream’s ongoing attempts to police content and punish dissent — Google’s total dominance over online advertising could soon come to an end. CNBC revealed Friday that no less than 50 sate attorneys general have been investigating […]

There were clear problems with Friday’s “incredible” – as Trump put it – jobs report. First and foremost the BLS’ own admission there was a “survey error” which may have reduced the real unemployment rate by up to 3% as survey-takers mistakenly counted about 4.9 million temporarily laid-off people as […]

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via AxisOfEasy.com, Update #2: It’s been pointed out on Hackernews thread that the book is now available on Amazon! *  *  * Update #1: File under irony, some folks on Hackernews “flagged” this post as inappropriate, after hitting the top-10 and the front page. Article about Big Tech censorship, flagged as […]

Authored by Brandon Smith via Birch Gold Group, The scapegoating has already started. In almost every sector of the economy that is collapsing, the claim is that “everything was fine until the pandemic happened”. From tumbling web news platforms to small businesses to major corporations, the coronavirus outbreak and the […]

In America you are now allowed to have an opinion, as long as the thought police agrees that it is the right opinion. That is basically what Cornell University said at the end of the week last week, after Zero Hedge contributor and longtime Cornell Organic Chemistry professor Dave Collum […]

Over the past week, a significant change has taken place in the US political world and we are not talking about the unprecedented nationwide protests, riots and looting that have prompted comparisons to 1968, or the economic collapse resulting from the covid shutdowns. We are referring to the fact that […]

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, 1200 public health experts have signed an open letter asserting that Black Lives Matter mass gatherings should be encouraged because “white supremacy” is a bigger health threat than COVID-19. Yes, really. “White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and […]

Authored by Jonathan Turley, Lisa Page, the former FBI lawyer who resigned in the midst of the Russian investigation scandal, has been hired a NBC and MSNBC as a legal analyst.  The move continues a trend started by CNN in hiring Trump critics, including officials terminated for misconduct, to offer […]

Two Buffalo Police officers who injured a 75-year-old protester on Thursday, Aron Torgalski and Robert McCabe, were arraigned Saturday morning on charges of felony assault, according to The Buffalo News. The protester, Martin Gugino, was seen on video approaching the officers who were in process of clearing Niagra Square as […]

Across the US and Western Europe, the coronavirus appears to be retreating as Italy regularly reports fewer than 100 deaths per day (a trend it continued on Saturday) regions and the US is reporting nowhere close to the 3,000 new cases per day that the New York Times had characterized as […]

National Guardsmen deployed to Washington D.C. have been ordered not to use firearms or ammunition by Defense Secretary Mark Esper – who also ordered home active-duty troops that the Trump administration requested in recent days, according to The Washington Post. Esper made the decision to disarm without first consulting the […]