Nearly 100 residents of a nursing home in New Jersey are presumed to have the novel coronavirus after 24 residents tested positive and many others started exhibiting symptoms. All 94 residents of the St. Joseph’s Senior Home in Woodbridge were being transported by bus with the help of workers wearing full-body protective gear to a OneCare home roughly 30 miles away on Wednesday morning, NBC New […]
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With New York City quickly becoming a new Covid-19 hotspot, the White House coronavirus task force is urging all New Yorkers who may have left the city for elsewhere to self-quarantine as they might have been exposed. “To everyone who has left New York City over the last few days, because of the number of cases, you may have been exposed before you left,” Dr. Deborah […]
The EU’s initial response to the massive outbreak of coronavirus in Italy was largely “inadequate,” while the lack of European solidarity opened the doors for Russia and China, former Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said. The new epicenter of the dreaded pandemic, Italy, has been struggling to stop the spread of Covid-19 for weeks now. The disease has already killed more than six thousand people in […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images News that the Justice Department is seeking new emergency powers during the coronavirus pandemic went viral, so to speak, on Saturday. And whether those responding were politically on the left or the right, generally speaking, the response was a resounding “hell no.” The article at Politico that rocketed across social media explains it this way: The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for […]
In a rare moment of bipartisanship, commenters from all sides have demanded swift punishment for US senators who dumped stock after classified Covid-19 briefings. Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has called for criminal prosecution. As chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) has received daily briefings on the threat posed by Covid-19 since January. Burr insisted to the public that America was ready to […]
It’s ‘quad witch’ today, Historically, quad-witch weeks have meant a collapse in vol and surge in stocks – no matter what the news. But, this week (and last) has been different, to say the least… However, as Nomura’s Charlie McElligott explains below, today’s option expiration may stall that chaotic volatility… at least to some extent. While volatility has been extreme across all asset-classes, in equity markets, […]
Washington’s attempts to tackle Covid-19 appears to be bleak – underestimation of the threat and China-bashing make harsh measures unlikely, as state authorities do what they can to battle the virus, RT has been told. As of Wednesday, the US has a total of 6,496 confirmed coronavirus cases, including 112 deaths. While the numbers drag behind the worst-affected nations, such as Iran or Italy, the dynamics […]
The influential trader once called the Bounty Hunter of Wall Street may have been acting in the public interest as well as his own when he tweeted a warning about one of the leading biotech companies developing a novel coronavirus vaccine. Or Andrew Left may have simply been seeking to cash in amidst a global pandemic, whatever impact his actions might have on Inovio Pharmaceuticals and […]
As we have been detailing all week, this has been the worst period for Risk-Parity (or vol-targeting) funds in history, with a massive breakdown in the stock-bond correlation from historical ‘norms’… Causing Risk Parity funds in particular are to suffer the worst 4 day period on record. However, as Nomura’s Charlie McElligott believes, vol-targeting funds have essentially nothing left to sell in the Equities-space, “only” -$7.4B […]
The UK Ministry of Defense has confirmed that a British serviceman was killed in a barrage of rockets fired at a joint base in Iraq, a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Two American soldiers also perished in the attack. “Last night’s attack on UK and coalition personnel was a cowardly and retrograde act,” UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in a statement after the […]
Colorado Congressman Ken Buck proved just how easy it is to trigger the left by posting a video of him wielding an AR-15 in his office and daring Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke to try to “come and take it.” “I have a message for Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke,” Buck says in the video, which was posted to Twitter on Friday. If you want to […]
Judge Susan Criss can’t shake the image of a severed cat’s head left on her doorstep as Robert Durst stands trial for the murder of his best friend, Susan Berman. Criss said she believes it was placed by Durst, the wealthy real estate heir that once stood trial for a different murder in her courtroom. “The cat had been severed behind the shoulder blades so that […]
For the first time since Juan Guaido’s auto-proclamation as so-called interim president of Venezuela in Jan. 2019, a meeting of the Lima group (with its numerous political statements) has failed to even mention his name. All previous meetings of this spurious organization served as pledges to bring Guaido to power and seemed to constitute virtual swearing-in ceremonies. However, he has never been sworn in, nor even come […]
The future of the Zionist left alliance between Labor, Gesher and Meretz, is in doubt after a dismal election showing, reported Haaretz. According to the paper, leaders MKs Amir Peretz (Labor), Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) and Orli Levi-Abekasis (Gesher), “are expected to meet soon to decide the future of their three-party alliance”. Haaretz noted that after a “string of failures” by Meretz and Labor over three election […]
It’s a common refrain in electoral politics that Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line. But that axiom appears to have been dispensed with on Tuesday night, when several states voted for the candidate they and their party leaders best felt could do the one task they’re desperate for come November: beat Donald Trump. Former Vice President Joe Biden racked up a series of […]
Authored by Tim Kriby via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Now that Bernie Sanders has been informed that the Kremlin is trying to support him (whether he likes it or not) he has officially become a viable candidate who may actually desire to make real systemic change. In a way the Russia connection accusation can now be worn as a badge of honour by Gabbard and Trump due to […]
Opinion 18:26 GMT 28.02.2020(updated 18:27 GMT 28.02.2020) Get short URL Eight Bundestag Left Party MPs filed a lawsuit against members of Germany’s Federal Government with the Public Prosecutor General’s Office regarding the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani. Chancellor Angela Merkel and members of her government are accused of “aiding and abetting in the murder by omission”. Politicians of the left-wing faction in the Bundestag see the […]
Israeli police officers shot an innocent Palestinian teacher and left him to die, a new investigation has found. Shocking details of the killing of Yacoub Abu Al-Qiyan in 2017 have been uncovered by Haaretz, exposing the negligence of Israeli soldiers who allowed the 47-year-old to bleed to death even though medical personnel were only a few metres away. Al-Qiyan’s death has been mired in controversy from […]
A Palestinian boy who was shot in the face by an Israeli police officer has lost his left eye. Eight-year-old Malik Issa was on his way home along with his three sisters after school in the neighbourhood of Issawiya, in occupied East Jerusalem, when he was shot in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet fired by an Israeli occupation officer last week. His father told […]
No Weapon Left Behind: The American Hybrid War On China By Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture February 23, 2020 No Weapon Left Behind: The American Hybrid War On China2020-02-232020-02-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/chnias-bele-and-road-initiative-map-e1582461888483.jpg200px200px The New Silk Roads – or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – were launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013, first in Central Asia (Nur-Sultan) and then Southeast Asia (Jakarta). One year later, the Chinese economy overtook the […]
Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The New Silk Roads – or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – were launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013, first in Central Asia (Nur-Sultan) and then Southeast Asia (Jakarta). One year later, the Chinese economy overtook the U.S. on a PPP basis. Inexorably, year after year since the start of the millennium, the U.S. share of […]
India 07:29 GMT 21.02.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): In 2017, India set up a resource centre for migrant workers heading to the Gulf region, to minimise the risk of its citizens getting lured by fake job offers and prevent their exploitation. However, a large number of Indians are still lured in by dubious employment agencies and find themselves in horrid working conditions. Nearly 40 Indian […]
Last night’s Democratic presidential candidates debate at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel lived up to its hype. The New York Post summed it up best… The billionaire’s self-bankrolled presidential bid was torn to shreds in the opening minutes of Wednesday’s Democratic debate as his opponents skewered him for his checkered past on sexual harassment and his record on stop-and-frisk. While there was no clear winners – […]
Authored by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff via The Gatestone Institute, We recently witnessed two events that indicated the possible demise of liberal democracy. The implications should frighten supporters of democratic forms of government in which individual rights and freedoms are officially recognized and protected, and the exercise of political power is limited by the rule of law. The growing intolerance of many “left-wing” groups is apparent in the […]