One of the most unfortunate and sad trends in the US has been the decline of the family farmer, which owing to the effects of mass agriculture has been stripped of his livelihood and to this, forced to become a slave of corporate production and stockholders. His profits have been destroyed, and with little to […]
Archive | January, 2021
India Moves To Ban Bitcoin, Launches A National Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency is one of the ways of the financial future, but to think it would bring about a panacea of financial freedom is to ignore the human experience of the struggle between the controllers and the controlled. Some speculated that while cryptocurrencies would continue, independent coins would eventually be outlawed by governments in order to […]
Hundreds Of Thousands Flee Central African Republic Into All Surrounding Nations
Continual humanitarian crises inflict the nation of Central African Republic, where fighting between rival groups has destroyed the nation and created ‘apocalyptic’ conditions. Now according to Reuters, at least 200,000 people have fled all neighboring countries, prompting another regional refugee crisis. More than 200,000 people have fled fighting in the Central African Republic (CAR) since […]
Portugal Becomes The Seventh Nation In The World To Legalize Euthanasia
As the Church goes, so goes the world, according to the saying, and this has become very clear with the declining influence of the Church and the increase in paganism and other ideas of the ancient world making a strong return in modern times. According to Reuters the nation of Portugal, which as a creation […]
Canada Moves To Decriminalize More Drugs
One trend to watch that I have discussed here on Shoebat.com is the move to decriminalize and legalize drugs of all kinds. It is happening in the Western world, but it is a global trend for all nations that while varying from nation to nation, is happening and will be important to watch. In another […]
Marriage Rates Crash In China
All societies are made up of people, and no matter what one says, nothing can ultimately replace the people, for if the people disappear, the society disappears. The tale of every society can be written in this way, that as peoples change or go, societies change and go. Man makes society for himself, not the […]
Italy Stops All Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia And United Arab Emirates
Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations are major purchasers of weapons from Western countries. However, Saudi Arabia is going to be short one customer as Italy has moved to halt the sale of thousands of weapons to the nation as Al-Jazeera news reports. Italy has halted the sale of thousands of missiles to Saudi Arabia […]
Putin Warns Of A War Of “All Against All”
President Putin of Russia, as CNBC reports, made a series of scathing remarks and warnings, saying that due to COVID the world is heading down a similar path that preceded World Wars I and II, and that if caution is not taken, a “war of all against all” could happen. President Vladimir Putin warned on […]
Biden Expands US Laws On Abortion, Rescinds Previous Policies
Something that can be said about Democrats is that when they say “I’m going to do X”, often times they mean it, especially if it is something that is not necessarily or objectively is bad. Biden, following in this line, as the BBC reports, has done exactly that with rescinding previous bans from the Trump […]
A Closer Look At Some Curious Personalities In Media
People have used the term “enemedia”- enemy media -to describe the people in the media who take a position that those on the political right disagree with. In fairness, it is rather obvious that many in the press have a ‘left wing’ bias. However, there are also some who have a right wing bias, as […]
Game Stop, Speculators And The Manipulation of the World
By Theodore Shoebat My thoughts on the Game Stop controversy and financial manipulation:
Stores Close And Robots Rise
CNBC broke out bad economic news today, but nothing of surprise here at Shoebat.com, which was foreseeing this trend for a long time, of at least ten thousand stores closing because of economic issues related to the current pandemic. One retail research and advisory group predicts as many as 10,000 stores could be closed in […]
2020 Was The Worst Year For Economic “Growth” Since The End Of World War II
The effects of COVID are ongoing and will continue as long as the ‘restrictions’ for the pandemic continue on business intercourse. However, remember as I have said that what COVID is doing is not so much ‘destroying’ the economy, but exposing what already existed and was going to cause major problems in the future. It […]
Proud Boys Leader Is “Prolific” Informant For Police, Law Enforcement
I have said this before, and I will say it again because it is a point worth repeating. Almost all of the so-called “leaders” of these strange, racially-charged “nationalist” movement are directly tied to the government, which encourages said tensions in order to “root out” real potential threats. The government has been doing this for […]
The Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Reveals That American German Tensions Never Left
By Theodore Shoebat The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is causing tensions between the US and Germany, or really they are merely revealing that tensions never left:
Violence Worsens As Countless Are Dead And Millions At Risk Or Refugees In Tigray
While the world is paying attention to other news, there does not seem to have been a lot of focus given to Tigray. The tiny region in northern Ethiopia with a separatist history has been the site of a terrible conflict that has resulted in countless dead and millions at risk or displaced, and as […]