Archive | May, 2020

CNBC reports now that President Trump claims to be taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off the effects of COVID-19. President Donald Trump said Monday that he has been taking anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for over a week to prevent coronavirus infection even though it is not yet a proven treatment. “I happen to be taking it,” Trump […]

Uber, the company made famous by single and slightly intoxicated Millennial women at parties (“I’m calling an Uber”), recently submitted an apology from the CEO, who said according to CNN that he moved to lay off 25% of the company’s work force. Uber informed staff on Monday that it is cutting another 3,000 employees as […]

By Theodore Shoebat 73% of Germans have a negative of the United States because of the coronavirus crisis as we read in Reuters: Germans view the United States less positively since the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis while their attitudes towards China have improved, a survey showed on Monday. In the poll of 1,000 Germans […]

Most people live paycheck-to-paycheck, and there are a lot of reasons for this. There is overspending, but the main problem has been directly related to the financialization of the economy taking place since the 1970s, which is that in order to live an “average” American life, costs rise so much that one eventually has to […]

By Theodore Shoebat “They came to kill the mothers” were the words of Frederic Bonnot, the head of Doctors Without Borders in Afghanistan, when he spoke about how Islamic terrorists entered a maternity ward and murdered mothers on their beds and even butchered two newborns. The AP reported on this horrifying story: A U.S. official […]

By Theodore Shoebat Many people in the United States are so unstable that they cannot handle a lockdown which people in supposed “third world” areas like the West Bank have been able to psychologically manage better. One man in Tennessee went so ballistic that he took a machete and attacked a couple, as we read […]

By Theodore Shoebat Scientists are in the beginning stages of developing a vaccine. So far they have created one and its initial tests have had positive results, with antibodies that fight against coronavirus being produced. As we read in CNBC: Moderna’s closely watched early-stage human trial for a coronavirus vaccine produced Covid-19 antibodies in all […]

A lot of people are looking forward to “reopening”, but is it worth one’s health? Many seem to think so, but as TheHill.com reports, there are consequences, such as in the case of Texas, which Saturday reported 1801 new COVID-19 cases in the largest single increase since the beginning of the entire crisis. Texas reported […]

US Health Secretary Alex Azar according to a report from Reuters by way of Yahoo! News says that in spite of the reopenings around the country, there have been no serious spikes in COVID-19 cases. Authorities are not seeing spikes in coronavirus cases in places that are reopening but are seeing increases in some areas […]

Is the future bright? Some may say yes, but AP News reports that with the economic problems caused by COVID-19, a lot of recent graduates are not seeing a future of anything but dreariness. Mere months ago, the graduates of the Class of 2020 seemed all but assured of success. The economy was booming. The […]

I have reported on Shoebat.com that the college “industry” will be under serious financial threats due to the fact that it has been built on an unsustainable model of continual student debt. The COVID-19 incident exposed this problem and now as Business Insider reports, colleges are starting to feel the fallout of the economic changes. […]

Trump is facing another election this fall, and there are many challenges that he has. However, the one that some view as the most challenging is not his poll numbers, but the death toll as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which The Hill reports may be his biggest problem with voters. Now, in a […]

According to the Federal Reserve Bank Chairman in a report from the BBC, one may reasonably expect the current recession to last until at least the end of 2021. The chairman of the US Federal Reserve has warned that the American economy may not recover from the coronavirus pandemic until late 2021. Jerome Powell added […]

I have written for a while that Putin wants to revive the USSR in the image of the mass-murderer Stalin, who he openly idolizes. This itself has been a source of a lot of scandals, including a recent situation where a new Orthodox church painted images of Stalin and Putin along with other living Russian […]

I have been saying on Shoebat.com that there is no meat shortage, but only a manufactured one. Now it is not just us, but Business Insider that report there is no meat shortage, just the perception of one. Fears have grown in recent weeks that the US will face a meat shortage in the coming […]

Right now the US and China are locked in a trade war that could escalate into a real war. Israel, the “greatest ally” of the US, has a long and notorious history of playing both sides in a conflict, a pattern that goes back to Medieval times and before. In an interesting event, the Chinese […]