LA To Enforce Homeless Encampment Bans In Parks, Near Elementary School In District 12 Authored by Micaela Ricaforte via The Epoch Times, The Los Angeles City Council passed a motion Nov. 30 to enforce the ban on homeless encampments in seven locations of District 12 amid the city’s growing homeless population. An ordinance passed earlier this year banned homeless encampments in the…
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88% Of Black Marylanders Support Governor’s Plan To ‘Re-Fund The Police’ Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan recently announced a $150 million proposal to “re-fund the police” despite state Democrats denouncing the move as “divisive” and “misguided.” But who cares what Democrats think, and let’s focus on the people of Baltimore City who may experience one of the most murderous years on record. We want…
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This $1.6 Trillion Market Could Cease To Exist Soon By Bloomberg Markets Live commentators Ye Xie and Amy Li By now, it’s clear that Beijing is greatly discouraging, if not completely forbidding, listings of Chinese tech companies in the U.S. What’s unclear is what Beijing will do with existing Chinese ADRs, an overwhelming majority of which used variable-interest entities to…
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Stunning Images Reveal Downtown San Francisco Is Boarded Up Amid Mass Looting San Francisco is spiraling out of control amid a massive wave of “smash-and-grab” gangs targeting retail stores. Progressives have transformed the metro area into a liberal hell-hole of surging violent crime. Retail thefts have dramatically increased due to the recent passage of ‘Proposition 47,’ which lowers the penalty…
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US Troop Pullout Date Of Dec.31 Nears, But Iraqis Are Skeptical Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, Recent reports on the deal to withdraw US combat forces from Iraq suggest that the process is just 15 days away. The hope is that they would be completed before the December 31 deadline, as Iraq’s military assures. That’s what the Iraqis want, but informed by…
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As US Retailers Struggle Against Smash-And-Grab Flash Mobs, Liberals Blame “White Supremacy” Authored by Robert Bridge via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Americans are facing a new type of crime wave that got its start in the mad liberal laboratory, where the utopian notion that going soft on criminals is going terribly awry. While threatening the traditional brick and mortar shopping…
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Fierce Taliban vs. Iran Clashes Break Out On Afghan Border Fierce clashes erupted Wednesday between the Taliban and Iranian forces along Afghanistan’s western border, Reuters reports based on local eyewitness accounts. Battlefield videos have also begun emerging showing gunfights on the border in the Nimruz region in the country’s southwest. The Afghan side is claiming that Iranian border patrols crossed into Afghan…
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Dying COVID-19 Patient Recovers After Court Orders Hospital To Administer Ivermectin Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, An elderly COVID-19 patient has recovered after a court order allowed him to be treated with ivermectin, despite objections from the hospital in which he was staying, according to the family’s attorney After an Illinois hospital insisted on administering expensive remdesivir…
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Cook County Blows Past 1,000 Homicides This Year In First Since 1994 The greater Chicago-area Cook County has this week surpassed a grim record – for the first time in almost three decades seeing more than 1,000 homicides in one year. With still a month to go until the close of 2021 the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office put out figures on…
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France Deploys Military Police To Caribbean Islands Amid Unrest Over Vaccine Mandate Authored by Isabel van Brugen via The Epoch Times, The French government has deployed military police to the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe amid intensifying protests against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic related restrictions. Following several weeks of unrest and violent protests over COVID-19 measures—including a vaccine mandate for health…
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Satyajit Das Exposes Fintech’s “Flim-Flam” Innovation Games Authored by Satyajit Das via NakedCapitalism.com, Investment in fin-tech (the untidy agglomeration of finance and technology) has reached a record $91.5 billion, double that of 2020. In the last quarter, there were over 40 fintech unicorns (start-ups valued at over $1 billion). The sector now attracts around 20% of all venture capital. But its…
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South Africa Sees Cases Double As White House Extends Federal Mask Mandate Update (1800ET): Now that the first case of the omicron variant has been confirmed in the US (even though Dr. Anthony Fauci insists that all of the case’s close contacts have been identified and tested, and that there’s no sign of additional cases – at least not right…
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NYC Prisons Face Crippling Staff Shortages As Thousands Defy Mayor’s Vaccination Mandate Outgoing NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has been widely criticized for seeming and acting out of touch with New Yorkers. And during his final weeks in Gracie Mansion, the intensely unpopular Democratic candidate may unwittingly handicap the already struggling NYC jail Riker’s Island. To wit, the AP reports…
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WHO Recommends People Aged 60 & Above Postpone Travel Due To Omicron Variant Concerns Authored by Isaac Teo via The Epoch Times, The World Health Organization is recommending people 60 and older to postpone their travel plans over Omicron variant concerns. The WHO, which named Omicron as a variant of concern (VOC) on Nov. 26, says it is monitoring the spread of the variant,…
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Kremlin Says Half Of Entire Ukrainian Army Is In Donbass As Blinken Warns Putin: US “Prepared To Act” A Wednesday statement out of the Russian Foreign Ministry has charged Kiev with stoking tensions along the Ukrainian border. The statement alleged that over 100,000 Ukrainian troops and military hardware have been moved into the restive Donbass region, where the national forces…
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The Long Cycles Have All Turned: Look Out Below Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, But alas, humans do not possess god-like powers, they only possess hubris, and so all bubbles pop: the more extreme the bubble, the more devastating the pop. Long cycles operate at such a glacial pace they’re easily dismissed as either figments of fevered imagination…
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Omicrout The market peaked intraday just ahead of Powell and Yellen’s hearing as it became clear that the Fed Chair was not going to walk-back his hawkish position. Things escalated from there with stagflationary-fear-inducing comments from Fed’s Williams. And then the big kahuna ‘Omicron in the US’ headline took stocks down again. Small Caps were the worst performer today. S&P…
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Millions Of Americans Are Scrambling To Become Independent Of The System As It Collapses All Around Them Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Once upon a time, all of the major institutions in our society were running super smoothly, and most people could rely on the fact that they would always be there when they were needed. But…
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Guess Who’s Seated Next To Anderson Cooper For CNN’s On-Air Cuomo Suspension Announcement When CNN’s Anderson Cooper uncomfortably informed the network’s audience yesterday that Chris Cuomo has been suspended indefinitely following the release of new documents revealing he leveraged media sources to help dig up dirt on his brother’s sexual misconduct accusers, Cooper was seated right next to the man who as everyone knows was literally caught in…
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Stocks, Bond Yields Extend Plunge After ‘Omicron Hits US’ Headline Update (1420ET): Reports that the Omicron variant has arrived in the US sent stocks and bond yields legging further down… The Dow and Nasdaq just joined Small Caps in the red for the day… And 30Y Yields are down 8bps from their intraday highs, back at yesterday’s lows… That is…
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