Drug shortages are often common during an epidemic. However, the FDA has reported the first shortages linked to the COVID-19 Coronavirus according to ABC News. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it’s been alerted to the first manufacturing shortage of an unnamed drug, due to a viral coronavirus outbreak that began in China and […]
Archive | February 28, 2020
Stock Markets Suffer Their Worst Week Since The Great Crash Of 2007-2008
I have been consistently warning about a massive stock market crash coming, and while nobody could have seen the coronavirus coming, I noted the deadly effects it would have on trade and which would naturally affect the markets. I noted that the most likely winners would be the plastics industry, biomedical industry, and precious metals […]
Florida Wastes Time Arresting Low-Income People Trying To Help Themselves
Unlicensed or under-the-table work is a fact of life in the construction business. Because of this and the unskilled nature of the job, or skills that can be acquired by manual labor, it attracts many people who are poor, either from the US or Central America. While it is true that “licensed” contractors do provide […]
Swarms Of Locusts Destroy Huge Swaths Of Land In East Africa
Shoebat.com noted how locust plagues have been assaulting East Africa, destroying crops and causing havoc. It has become so bad that the Wall Street Journal has picked up the story, noting that the bugs of Biblical plagues have destroyed huge areas of farmland, provoking fears of a famine. Across Somalia, desert locusts in a swarm […]
Will The COVID-19 Epidemic Affect Trump’s Credibility?
Crises are not uncommon to life, and the Trump presidency has been practically defined by one crisis after another, the biggest one being the complete abandonment of his 2016 platform, having exchanged it for handouts and favors for himself and his friends, unlimited handouts for Israel and the interests of the Israeli lobby, and the […]
Saudi Arabia Suspends Pilgrimage To Mecca Due To The Virus Spread
Millions of people every year flock to Mecca to make the Hajj or, outside of the month of Ramadan, the Umrah pilgrimage. However, pilgrimages have been suspended due to the COVID-19 coronavirus reports the Times of Israel. Saudi Arabia on Thursday halted travel to the holiest sites in Islam over fears about a new viral […]
How Nationalists Are Using The Coronavirus To Gain Power
In this video I talk about the potential political dangers of the coronavirus: