Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Hidden Cameras and Secret Trackers Reveal Where Amazon Returns End Up
October 10th, 2020Via: CBC: It’s safe to say that online shoppers like the promise of easy — and even better, free — returns. But it may surprise consumers to learn what can actually happen to all those unwanted items. A Marketplace investigation into Amazon Canada has found that perfectly good items are being liquidated by the truckload […]
BOJ Joins Fed And ECB In Preparing Rollout Of Digital Currency
October 10th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: First it was the Fed, then the ECB, and now the BOJ: the world’s central banks are quietly preparing to unleash digital currencies on an unsuspecting population in one final last-ditch attempt to spark inflation and do away with the current monetary orthodoxy which has failed to push living conditions for the masses […]
Just 59 Americans Have More Wealth Than Half the Country’s Population
October 9th, 2020Via: New York Post: The 59 Americans whose fortunes have ballooned amid the coronavirus pandemic now have more wealth than half the nation’s population, new data show. The poorest 50 percent of Americans, or roughly 165 million people, collectively owned about $2.08 trillion in wealth in the second quarter of 2020, according to Federal Reserve […]
Six Chicken-Industry Officials Are Indicted in Price-Fixing Probe
October 7th, 2020Via: Wall Street Journal: Six current and former chicken-industry executives were indicted on price-fixing charges, expanding the U.S. government’s antitrust prosecutions in the $65 billion poultry industry. The charges, made public Wednesday, target executives from several different chicken companies, including Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. , and provide new details about the alleged conspiracy. Prosecutors said the […]
Operation Warp Speed is Using a CIA-Linked Contractor to Keep Covid-19 Vaccine Contracts Secret
October 7th, 2020Via: The Last American Vagabond: $6 billion in Covid-19 vaccine contracts awarded by Operation Warp Speed have been doled out by a secretive government contractor with deep ties to the CIA and DHS, escaping regulatory scrutiny and beyond the reach of FOIA requests. Last Tuesday, while most Americans were distracted by the first US presidential […]
Over 6,000 Scientists Sign ‘Anti-Lockdown’ Petition Saying It’s Causing ‘Irreparable Damage’
October 7th, 2020Via: Newsweek: More than 6,000 scientists have signed an anti-lockdown petition saying that coronavirus policies are causing “irreparable damage.” The petition, which is named the Great Barrington Declaration after the town in Massachusetts it was signed in, was written on October 4 and has signatures from at least 2,826 medical and public health scientists, 3,794 […]
Top US Food Bank Warns Of Nationwide “Meal Shortages” In Next 12 Months
October 7th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: The virus pandemic and resulting recession, crushing millions of households, has produced a new era of hunger nationwide. After seven months of the coronavirus chaos, triggering widespread unemployment and the collapse of small businesses, millions of Americans are going hungry for the first time in their lives ahead of the holiday season. Tens […]
Millions Risk Losing Power Over Unpaid Utility Bills
October 6th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: Millions of Americans are facing a dire situation of being without power or water as their utility bills pile up, and as state and local protections which allowed for deferred payments amid the pandemic come to an end.
Dark Journalist – Catherine Austin Fitts: The Deep State Chaos Op
October 3rd, 2020Packed with very interesting information. This is the best summary of recent events that I’ve come across. Via: Dark Journalist: Related: Solari
JPMorgan’s Gold And Silver Manipulation “Crime Ring”
October 1st, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: There was a time when the merest mention of gold manipulation in “reputable” media was enough to have one branded a perpetual conspiracy theorist with a tinfoil farm out back. … All that changed in November 2018 when a former JPMorgan precious-metals trader admitted he engaged in a six-year spoofing scheme that defrauded […]
