US Already Planning How To "Choke" Chinese Submarines In Case Of Conflict

A hugely significant weakness and set-back for the Chinese Navy and particularly its submarine capability was featured inrecent Nikkei analysis, which found that its coastal system already has geography working against it, ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/submarine-chokepoint-control-chinas-coast-puts-us-allies-huge-advantage

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Chelsea Clinton Calls For Global Crackdown On "Anti-Vax" Social Media Posts

Speaking at a Vatican-organized conference meant to promote "open dialogue", Chelsea Clinton called for a global effort to crack down on all "anti-vax" social media posts, or anything that's 'skeptical' of the official ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chelsea-clinton-calls-global-crackdown-anti-vax-social-media-posts

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US Navy Seizes Massive Weapon Shipment From Stateless Vessel In Arabian Sea

The guided-missile cruiserUSS Monterey(CG 61) seized a massive shipment of illicit weapons last week that was being transited through international waters of the North Arabian Sea, according to theUS Navy.

A Sikorsky SH-...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-navy-seizes-weapon-shipment-stateless-vessel-arabian-sea

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China Enforces New Boundary With Nepal At Summit Of Everest To Keep Infected Climbers Out

In the latest sign that Beijing is warily eyeing the outbreak in India as it spills over its borders into neighboring Nepal, China has set up a "line of separation" at the summit of Mount Everest to prevent ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/china-enforces-new-boundary-nepal-summit-everest-keep-infected-climbers-out

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UK Rail Disruption Caused By Train Cracks Expected To Last for Weeks

Authored by Alexander Zhang via The Epoch Times,

The ongoing disruption to Britains rail services, which were caused by problems found in Hitachis high-speed trains, is expected to continue for weeks.

Rail companies said over ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/uk-rail-disruption-caused-train-cracks-expected-last-weeks

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EU Urges US To Ramp Up COVID Vaccine Exports As Desperate Nations Turn To China

In the latest edition of his substack newsletter "BIG, Matt Stoller tackled the Biden Administration's decision to back a proposal at the WTO to waive IP protections for COVID-19 vaccines produced by Moderna, BioNTech...

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/eu-urges-us-ramp-vaccine-exports-world-turns-china

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Rabo: "Transitory" Inflation Today; Price Controls And Rationing Tomorrow?

By Michael Every of Rabobank

Pricing and Poetic Justice

With global cargo routes log-jammed; a key US oil pipeline still shutdown, leading to another backlog of ships idling off-shore; log-jammed cargo ships off the ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rabo-transitory-inflation-today-price-controls-rationing-and-industrial-policy-tomorrow

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Jim Grant: The Fed Can't Control Inflation

Via SchiffGold.com,

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell insists inflation is transitory. As prices have spiked throughout the economy,Powells messaginghas essentially been, Move along. Nothing to see here.

Peter Schiff has been saying the central ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/jim-grant-fed-cant-control-inflation

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Billionaire Alan Howard Returns Money From Secretive Hedge Fund After Record Run

Just weeks after Brevan Howard last made the headlines on reports that it was buying bitcoin as a hedge against de-dollarization, the firm's billionaire co-founder Alan Howard has reportedly started returning assets ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/billionaire-alan-howard-returns-money-secretive-hedge-fund-after-reporting-record-gains

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"His Womanizing Was Well Known": Flood-'Gates' Open As Biographer Details Microsoft Founder's Salacious Past

Before Bill Gates was known as an elitist nerd masquerading as a leading vaccine expert, the Microsoft co-founder was a hard-partying womanizer who recruited local strippers to attend naked...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/his-womanizing-was-well-known-flood-gates-open-biographer-details-microsoft-founders

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States Urge Facebook To Abandon Plan For Children's Instagram

Authored by Janita Kan via The Epoch Times,

A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general is urgingFacebookto abandon its plans to create a platform for children under the age of 13.

The attorneys general sent a letter to Facebooks CEO ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/states-urge-facebook-abandon-plan-childrens-instagram

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Watch: Sen. Paul Shreds Fauci Over 'Gain-Of-Function' Funding

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) went to town on Dr. Anthony Fauci Tuesday during a Tuesday hearing in front of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee.

Paul alleged that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had used a middle-...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-sen-paul-rips-fauci-over-gain-function-funding

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The Worker Shortage In New Jersey Is Getting Ridiculous

New Jersey 101.5 talk show host Dennis Malloy, via NJ101.5

You've no doubt seen help wanted signs in store windows all over New Jersey.

At a local garden center this weekend the guy helping me find stuff and checking me out looked a little ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/worker-shortage-new-jersey-getting-ridiculous

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Hedge Funds Descend On Puerto Rico As Biden Tax Threat Looms

With President Biden and the Democrats on the warpath to separate the richest Americans from their income, hedge funds managers are starting to expand into Puerto Rico - leaving open the possibility of relocating to the island to obtain ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/hedge-funds-descend-puerto-rico-biden-tax-threat-looms

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Penn State Administrator Who Failed To Report Sandusky Sex Crimes With Minors Received $330,699 Public Pension

By Adam Andzejewski of OpenTheBooks.com, submitted by RealClearPolicy.com,

In 2001, Gary Schultz was Penn States senior vice president for finance and business when he was told that ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/penn-state-administrator-who-failed-report-sandusky-sex-crimes-minors-received-330699

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Le Pen Warns Macron "Danger Of Civil War" Looms If He Doesn't Handle Islamist Problem

The French government and much of the public has reacted with outrage after another open letter issued by military personnelhas warned that France is headed for "civil war" if it doesn't handle its Muslim ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/le-pen-warns-macron-danger-civil-war-looms-if-he-doesnt-handle-islamist-problem

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Buffett's Refusal To Split Berkshire Stock Is Creating A 'Y2K-Like' Problem For Nasdaq

After years of lackluster performance, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has seen its Class A shares climb 20% so far this year, bolstered by the reflation trade that has sapped tech stocks. But Buffett's old-...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/buffetts-refusal-split-berkshire-stock-creating-y2k-problem-nasdaq

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Goldman Announces Formation Of New Crypto Trading Desk

2018 was not a good year for bitcoin, and for cryptos in general: after hitting an all time high of (only) $20,000 in December of 2017, much of the remainder of 2018 was spent with the crypto bubble deflating, with early crypto investors first...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-announces-formation-new-crypto-trading-desk

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Tesla Admits Its Still "Firmly In Level 2" Autonomy, Won't Have Full Self Driving By Year's End

Elon Musk said in January of this year that he was"highly confident [a Tesla] will be able to drive itself with reliability in excess of human this year."

To many of us, we knew it was nonsense. Musk ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tesla-admits-its-still-firmly-level-2-and-wont-have-full-self-driving-years-end

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Ayatollah Khamenei Calls Israel "Not A Country, But A Terrorist Base" As Vienna Talks Intensify

In a fiery Friday sermon on the occasion of "Quds Day"an Iranian Islamic holiday that commemorates the expected "liberation of Jerusalem" and which falls every yearon the last Friday of RamadanIran's ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ayatollah-khamenei-calls-israel-not-country-terrorist-base-vienna-talks-intensify

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COVID Vaccine Makers Prepares For Long Legal Battle As US Backs IP Waiver

Now that Germany has broken with the US over the question of whether to back a waiver for COVID vaccine IP that's been proposed at the WTO, pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer that were planning on COVID-19 vaccines becoming a...

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid-vaccine-makers-prepares-long-legal-battle-us-backs-ip-waiver

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Wal-Mart, Sysco Fine Suppliers As Labor Shortages Cause Surge In Late Orders

From the gas pump to the grocery aisle, Americans have been suffering from "sticker shock" for the first time in years. While the Fed continues to insist that inflationary pressures will be "transitory", sell-side banks ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/wal-mart-sysco-fines-suppliers-labor-shortages-cause-surge-late-orders

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Johns Hopkins Doctor Dismisses Walensky Fear-Mongering: "Most Of The Country Is At Herd Immunity"

Authored by Scott Morefield via Townhall.com,

Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, disputed CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky's contention that COVID-19 variants could set back the...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/johns-hopkins-doctor-dismisses-walensky-fear-mongering-most-country-herd-immunity

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The Blockchain And The Future Of Everything

Authored by Ethan Yang via The American Institute for Economic Progress,

Writing, money, and ledgers, are the three basic building blocks that allowed humanity to progress past the days of foraging for berries and hunting wild game to the advanced ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/blockchain-and-future-everything

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Screw Lumber, Just 3D-Print Your Next Home

With lumber prices up 67% since the start of this year and up 340% from a year ago, according to Random Lengths, a wood products industry tracking firm, adding tens of thousands of dollars to new residential builds, there is a viable new option to ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/screw-lumber-just-3d-print-your-next-home

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Demand For Ass Implants Booms During Pandemic

In the early days of the virus pandemic, things didn't look so hot for the field of plastic survey. Hospitals were overrun with COVID-19 infections and banned all elective procedures, limiting plastic surgeries. But sometime after, when the economy ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/demand-ass-implants-booms-during-pandemic

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Dream Chaser Spaceplane Cleared To Resupply Space Station

The Dream Chaser spaceplaneenteredinto a Use Agreement for Space Florida's Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) to land after resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2022.

The uncrewed, robotic spaceplane will be ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/dream-chaser-spaceplane-cleared-resupply-space-station

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ARKegos: Cathie Wood Admits Bill Hwang Seeded Her ETFs, As Questions Swirl About Trade Similarities

Just hours after we wrote an article titled "ARKchegos Looming" on Thursday, which compared ARK Invest's Cathie Wood to Bill Hwang and started to ask some critical, pointed questions about how many ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/weekend-wood-ark-founder-admits-bill-hwang-seeded-her-etfs-says-she-likes-setup-flagship

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Ethereum Soars To Record High Above $3,800 As JPMorgan Lays Out 6 Reasons Why Explosive Move Will Continue

Back on April 25, we quoted a prominent billionaire VC who said that "Ethereum is the world's most interesting trade right now" and we predicted that "Ethereum Is About To Make An Epic ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ethereum-soars-record-high-above-3800-jpmorgan-lays-out-6-reasons-why-explosive-move-will

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Hedge Funds Are The 'Most Short' Junk Debt Since Lehman

A month ago we warned that The Fed's incessant intervention had put distressed investors out of business as the remarkable rally in even the lowest quality junk debt ('CCC or triple hooks') had created party time for zombie companies ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hedge-funds-are-most-short-junk-debt-lehman

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