United States

DeSantis Announces Legislation To Ban Social Credit Scores, ‘Woke ESG Financial Scam’

By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | February 13, 2023 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday announced a proposal to eliminate ESG banking and prohibit the financial sector from implementing social credit scores that would otherwise prevent Floridians from obtaining loans, lines of credit and opening bank accounts. “Today’s announcement builds on my commitment to protect […]

Hungary wants apology for ‘outrageous’ claims by US official

RT | February 14, 2023 Hungary blasted the US over what it says are “outrageous” and “false” accusations of anti-Semitism, leveled by a senior diplomat against Budapest. Foreign Ministry spokesman Mate Paczolay added that while Washington later admitted the mistake, it has not issued a public apology. On Tuesday, speaking to the Index news site, […]

Tanker Rates To Haul Gasoline Soar 400% After Russian Sanctions

By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | February 14, 2023 Clean product tanker rates soared last week after the European Union and G-7 nations targeted Russia’s petroleum sales. Restrictions on Russian crude exports began in early December. The sanctions have been a ploy by Western countries to limit Russian crude and crude product exports, though […]

‘Damn Stupid’: US Journalist Behind Nord Stream Bombshell Takes Aim at Biden, Legacy Media

By Wyatt Reed – Sputnik – 14.02.2023 In his first interview since publishing his bombshell story on the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh fleshed out the details of his explosive report exposing the role of the US Navy in blowing up critical German-Russian energy infrastructure. American journalist Seymour Hersh […]

The Consent Factory

CJ Hopkins So, Matt Taibbi is going after the Consent Factory. No, not my blog. The actual Consent Factory. The unimaginably powerful, mostly decentralized, global-capitalist propaganda apparatus that manufactures what passes for “reality” in our increasingly totalitarian age. Or he is going after the US division of it, anyway. Needless to say, I’m pretty excited. …

Snowden: US Creates Panic Over Downed Objects to Distract Attention From Nord Stream Blast

RT | February 14, 2023 The media frenzy over “spy balloons” and unidentified flying objects over North America is sadly not about first contact with extraterrestrials, but an engineered panic for political misdirection, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said on Monday. “It’s not aliens. I wish it were aliens. But it’s not aliens. It’s just the ol’ engineered […]

Ballooning Rhetoric: Aliens, Escalation and Airborne Surveillance

Things are getting rather bizarre at the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Its increasingly prominent commanding chief, one General Glen VanHerck, has abandoned any initial sense of frankness in discussing the destruction of an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon on February 4. Since that disproportionately violent event, more public relations […]