Tag: Zero Hedge

Prices of edible oils have been rising across the world. Palm oil, the world’s most consumed vegetable oil, surged to a new record high, spreading concerns about persistent global food inflation. 

Malaysia’s palm oil futures soared more than 40% this year, while soybean oil is up more than 50%. Prices of canola oil are also at a record.  

Bloomberg notes the reason for the price surge is “because of the emergence of pent-up demand as economies reopen after COVID, the outlook for more use in renewable fuels as

Authored by ‘Blaise Edwards, M.D.’ via AmericanThinker.com,

I find myself in the position that I must use an alias for fear of reprisal.  Those days may be quickly coming to an end, as hospitals are denying requests for vaccine exemptions with impunity.  I will likely soon be out the door, with nothing to lose.  Even if I survive this round, if the “pandemic” continues, it won’t be long before I am shelved like a can of spam.

Doctors need to be called out.  From early in the pandemic, it was like a mass hypnosis or

What’s the best way to build a biometric database? Well, you can steal fingerprints, faces, irises, and voice scans of millions of Americans, like US intelligence agencies, have done, or you can go the more ethical route and give people free cryptocurrency for their unique biometric data.  

That’s precisely what several Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are doing with their new start-up, Worldcoin, using orb-shaped devices to scan people’s eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency. 

This is very weird. 

It gets even weirder. 

Worldcoin, founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Alex Blania, and Max

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

A deleted government report exploring how to make the public alter its behavior to accept the new ‘green economy’ reveals how COVID-19 restrictions have created a population with a “deep set reverence” for authority and a “powerful tendency to conform.”

The report was inadvertently published by the British government before being hastily pulled down, but numerous journalists were able to retrieve its contents.

The document explored how to weaponize behavioral psychology to ‘nudge’ the public into supporting measures and adopting behavior without

Update (Sunday): The container ship that lost dozens of containers in heavy seas west of the US-Canadian border Friday has reportedly caught fire Saturday. 

#Breaking Radio call from ZIM KINGSTON (container ship which lost ~40 containers off the coast of Vancouver yesterday) requesting assistance from the Victoria Coast Guard due to a container fire on board. ZIM KINGSTON is currently anchored ~5 miles from Victoria. pic.twitter.com/nTKxbO5j2e

— IntelWalrus (@IntelWalrus) October 23, 2021

The Maltese-flagged ZIM Kingston is now anchored at Constance Bank, in the Straits of Juan

Authored by Gordon Chang via 19fortyfive.com,

“He is just too old and likes to bluff, doesn’t know what he is talking about,” tweeted China Daily’s Chen Weihua on Friday, referring to President Joe Biden.

On Thursday, Biden told CNN’s Anderson Cooper he would defend Taiwan.

“Yes, we have a commitment to do that,” the President said, responding to a question about what the U.S. would do if China attacked the island republic.

Chen’s dismissive comment confirms that America’s deterrence of China is eroding fast.

“Biden

Forget Elon Musk’s Tesla Cyberquad ATV because there’s a new form of transportation for the offroad enthusiast now available, and it looks like something out of Star Wars. 

Sweden’s Jetson Aero has begun manufacturing a personal electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that will zip around the skies at 63 mph. 

The Jetson One eVTOL is an octocopter with four arms that produce 88 kW (118 horsepower) at full throttle. The pilot sits in an aluminum/carbon fiber frame and controls the craft via a throttle

Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com,

In recent years, America’s unsuccessful attempts at containing China as a rival hegemon has only served to promote Chinese antipathy against American capitalism. China is now retreating into the comfort of her long-established moral values, best described as a mixture of Confucianism and Marxism, while despising American individualism, its careless regard for family values, and encouragement of get-rich-quick financial speculation.

After America’s defeat in Afghanistan, the geopolitical issue is now Taiwan, where things are hotting up in the wake of the AUKUS agreement. Taiwan is important because it produces

Authored by Paul Sullivan via OilPrice.com,

Australia is a country nearly the size of the continental US with a population of about 26 million people.

It is a country with vast open spaces. Most of its population is found on its east coast in New South Wales and Queensland, some population centers in Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territories and on the island of Tasmania. Most of the larger populations in these areas are in a few cities and their suburbs with lots of open space between them

Identifying real estate bubbles is a tricky business. After all, as Visual Capitalist’s Nick Routley notes, even though many of us “know a bubble when we see it”, we don’t have tangible proof of a bubble until it actually bursts.

And by then, it’s too late.

The map above, based on data from the Real Estate Bubble Index by UBS, serves as an early warning system, evaluating 25 global cities and scoring them based on their bubble risk.

Reading the Signs

Bubbles are hard to distinguish in real-time as investors must