| Armored Humvee Stolen From Military Base Ahead of Planned Armed Protests at State CapitolsPosted: 17 Jan 2021 10:58 AM PSTOn Friday morning, someone stole an armored military Humvee from a National Guard facility in Los Angeles, California.FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said the Humvee is a combat vehicle with advanced armor.The bureau is offering a $10k reward for information leading to the recovery of the Humvee, the FBI tweeted Saturday.A green camouflage #Humvee was stolen from @CaArmyGuard in #Bell CA on Friday. Identifiers include Bumper# 40BSBHQ6; Admin# WV57TO-HQ06/M1165A1; Reg# NZ311R & Battalion 40TH BSB. Please call 3104776565 to claim a #reward up to 10K for info leading to the recovery #BOLO### pic.twitter.com/BGDaAzauF2— FBI Los Angeles (@FBILosAngeles) January 17, 2021A couple of pictures of the missing Humvee were also attached to the tweet. The vehicle is decked out in “green camouflage,” and bulletproof armor can clearly be seen on the windows.The bureau said, “Identifiers include Bumper# 40BSBHQ6; Admin# WV57TO-HQ06/M1165A1; Reg# NZ311R & Battalion 40TH BSB” are visible on the vehicle.The theft of the combat vehicle comes days before the FBI has warned of “armed protests” at all 50 state capitols and the US Capitol in Washington, DC, ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.“Armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from Jan. 16 through at least Jan. 20, and at the US Capitol from Jan. 17 through Jan. 20,” the FBI said.So the theft of the combat vehicle makes you wonder if someone or some group will use the vehicle during armed protests expected in the coming days… or is this yet another false-flag-enabling event designed to inspire a crackdown on “domestic terrorism” and the passage of Patriot Act II.Republished from ZeroHedge.com with permissionThe post Armored Humvee Stolen From Military Base Ahead of Planned Armed Protests at State Capitols appeared first on We Are Change. |
WATCH: Over 10,000 Protesters in Vienna March Against Coronavirus RestrictionsPosted: 17 Jan 2021 09:16 AM PSTAt least 10,000 people marched through the streets of the Austrian capital on Saturday to protest coronavirus restrictions, calling on Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s government to resign as his administration recently spoke of extending the measures.Demonstrators in Vienna, many without masks, held signs that said “Kurz Must Go” and “Make Influenza Great Again.”One social media user posted a video of the protest in Vienna. The user said, “massive protest in Vienna now. No one wearing a mask!”#protestwien #wien #NoMasks #COVID19 #coronavirus @metropole_vie @orfbrk @ORF @CNNBrasil @GloboNews @cissamalan @AndreiaSadi pic.twitter.com/HKi932nmIj— Karoline de Oliveira (@karolineoliro) January 16, 2021According to RT News, “two rallies took place in different parts of the city, which rarely sees large protest action, before uniting into a single march of around 10,000 people. Most in the crowd ignored police calls to abide by social distancing rules and wear facemasks. On the contrary, the people greeted each other with kisses, hugged, and danced.”At least 500 counter-protesters were present, denouncing the “anti-mask lunatics.”RT posted a video of the massive protest that seemed orderly.Since last March, Austria has entered its third lockdown, a move by the government to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19. Nearly 390,000 infections have been recorded since the start of the pandemic and 7,000 related-virus deaths.Kurz’s official announcement of more coronavirus restrictions could come as early as Sunday. Lockdowns and restrictions across the euro-area economy due to the resurgent pandemic could produce a double-dip recession.Bloomberg noted that research desks at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and UBS Group AG downgraded their euro-area economic forecast because of the lockdowns.High-frequency indicators in the euro-area economy have been stumbling since late summer. Goldman Sachs analysts have pointed out that “confidence” issues could develop, or “demand issue,” as it said, not enough people will voluntarily get vaccinated.With 55 Americans and 29 Norwegians dead shortly after taking the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines produced by companies such as Pfizer – the entire recovery based on vaccine hope and monetary/fiscal packages could derail economic recoveries in the West.To sum up, people are getting angrier about additional lockdowns as vaccine deaths are causing the unimaginable to happen: an increase in vaccine mistrust.Republished from ZeroHedge.com with permissionThe post WATCH: Over 10,000 Protesters in Vienna March Against Coronavirus Restrictions appeared first on We Are Change. |
UFO in Cape Hatteras? Viral Video Sparks Debate of Mysterious Flying ObjectPosted: 16 Jan 2021 08:34 PM PSTDays before the CIA released a large cache of files involving unidentified flying objects (UFOs), following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by podcaster John Greenwald Jr., social media was a buzz about a UFO last week over North Carolina’s Outer Banks area.According to the regional newspaper The News & Observer, photographer Wes Snyder captures what appears to be a mysterious object in the night sky. “The object was visible for just under 3 minutes total, so I doubt it’s a meteor, (or) shooting star as those typically only last a few seconds,” Snyder posted on YouTube.Judging by the video, the object appears to have corners. Here’s the video in full.“I spent a night at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse shooting time-lapse photos to create an upcoming video. While I was looking through my footage, I realized there was something in the video that I could not explain,” he wrote on Facebook. “It’s much larger than your typical plane appears, and it’s moving way faster than clouds.” Snyder said the best explanation is that it may be “space junk or a satellite burning up in the atmosphere.”Comments on Snyder’s Facebook post agreed that it certainly wasn’t a meteor.“It’s not a meteor,unless somebody reported one crashing somewhere within the surrounding towns or counties, cuz it was way to close. Anybody with common sense knows that it cannot a shooting star. WavyTv 10 did a special a while back about the pilots at Norfolk Air Force Base and the unidentifiable things they have witnessed over the years. So I’m gonna say it’s Extraterrestrial. I bet that the airport on Hatteras Island would have some sort of record of it. So would NASA and the Air Force Base,” wrote Regan Wynne.Someone else wrote, “I’d say the best bet would be a stage of the space x rocket.”Another said, “Space station or a satellite fly by.”Authorities have yet to identify what exactly flew by the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.But with the recent CIA dump of UFO files, it certainly makes you wonder if life beyond Earth actually does exist.Republished from ZeroHedge.com with permissionThe post UFO in Cape Hatteras? Viral Video Sparks Debate of Mysterious Flying Object appeared first on We Are Change. |
| U.S. State Department Says It Has Evidence Supporting COVID Lab Escape TheoryPosted: 16 Jan 2021 01:46 PM PSTNearly a year to the day that ZeroHedge raised suspicions over the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak – and were called ‘conspiracy theorists’ for it – the US State Department just revealed that they have new information suggesting it could have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).In a Friday statement, the state department announced that while they haven’t determined whether the COVID-19 pandemic “began through contact with infected animals or was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, China,”the US government “has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses.”State Department: “The U.S. government does not know exactly where, when, or how the COVID-19 virus…was transmitted initially to humans. We haven’t determined whether the outbreak began thru contact w/ infected animals or was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.” pic.twitter.com/16zjr9duUS— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) January 16, 2021“This raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli’s public claim that there was “zero infection” among the WIV’s staff and students of SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses.” Zhengli, known as “Batwoman,” was notably scrutinized in 2015 over her work creating chimeric bat coronaviruses through ‘gain-of-function’ research to more easily infect humans.According to the State Department, “starting in at least 2016 – and with no indication of a stop prior to the COVID-19 outbreak — WIV researchers conducted experiments involving RaTG13, the bat coronavirus identified by the WIV in January 2020 as its closest sample to SARS-CoV-2 (96.2% similar).Further, “The WIV has published a record of conducting “gain-of-function” research to engineer chimeric viruses. But the WIV has not been transparent or consistent about its record of studying viruses most similar to the COVID-19 virus, including “RaTG13,” which it sampled from a cave in Yunnan Province in 2013 after several miners died of SARS-like illness.”Secret military activityThe State Department further noted that “Secrecy and non-disclosure are standard practice for Beijing,” adding that “For many years the United States has publicly raised concerns about China’s past biological weapons work, which Beijing has neither documented nor demonstrably eliminated, despite its clear obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention.”According to the release, “Despite the WIV presenting itself as a civilian institution, the United States has determined that the WIV has collaborated on publications and secret projects with China’s military. The WIV has engaged in classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017.”Pompeo on the offensiveOn Saturday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed the CCP for ‘covering up’ the Wuhan Virus, saying in a tweet that the “CCP disappeared the doctors who knew,” and “still refuses to let the world in to see what it wrought.”“CCP lied about where the virus came from,” Pompeo added.CCP closed travel inside China and allowed the world to suffer. America invents vaccines for the world. Every human being can see this contrast. pic.twitter.com/NTSQAOIUIW— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 16, 2021China has repeatedly rejected charges that the virus might have emerged from a laboratory. The U.S. didn’t say how it obtained the new information about illnesses at the lab.The comments, also noted in a State Department fact sheet, come as China faces criticism for initially preventing some members of a WHO mission from entering China as part of an effort to trace the origin of COVID-19, saying they hadn’t passed health screenings. While the experts were eventually granted clearance, China had already been criticized by the WHO for delaying the mission’s plans to visit the country.China has been under scrutiny since the outbreak exploded in and around Wuhan, but the Trump administration also sought to pin more blame on authorities in Beijing after the pandemic took off in the U.S. and deaths soared. –Japan TimesThe State Department release comes amid China barring entry to two members of a WHO team that was finally allowed to investigate the origins of the pandemic because they tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies. China has demanded that the remaining 13 members undergo two weeks of quarantine in Wuhan.Republished from ZeroHedge.com with permissionThe post U.S. State Department Says It Has Evidence Supporting COVID Lab Escape Theory appeared first on We Are Change. |
New Lockdown in China Triggers “Chaos and Panic” at Grocery Stores as Prices Soar 50%Posted: 16 Jan 2021 01:29 PM PSTChina’s battle with increasing coronavirus caseloads hitting ten-month highs has undoubtedly clouded the economic recovery while officials have lockdown more than 28 million people across multiple municipalities, reported Reuters.Hebei officials have put three cities – Shijiazhuang, Xingtai, and Langfang – into lockdowns last week to mitigate the virus from spreading further. Beijing authorities expanded screening and prevention measures as cases continue to rise.Last Wednesday, Heilongjiang province declared a virus pandemic emergency. Also, the city of Suihua, in west-central Heilongjiang province, has put 5.2 million people under lockdown.“The worsening coronavirus situation will impact economic activity, and markets may need to temper their expectations for strong pent-up consumption demand in the coming LNY holidays,” Nomura wrote last week.One possible reason behind increasing caseloads in China could be due to frigid temperatures as the polar vortex splits into two and dumps Arctic air into certain parts of the country. Goldman Sachs recently told clients that when temperatures dip, expect virus outbreaks to accelerate – and that is exactly what is happening in China.Last week, an alleged video published on Twitter handle @TruthAbtChina shows the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) law enforcement or health officials or some governmental agency placing “seals” on apartment doors to make sure people abide by new lockdown orders.People have been escaping quarantined communities in the recent lockdowns in China. In response, the CCP is putting a seal on the door of each apartment. The stickers say: If the seal is broken, there will be legal consequences.Dec 31, 2020 thru Jan 7, 2021 pic.twitter.com/SkxSEbuFi7— Things China Doesn’t Want You To Know (@TruthAbtChina) January 9, 2021As one would think, locking down tens of millions of people would generate panic among the working-class population. @TruthAbtChina unveiled Saturday that “People are hoarding food in the wake of the forced lockdowns all over China.”The Twitter account added, “In an attempt to keep food on the shelves, grocery stores have more than tripled the price of many food items. This has only amplified the chaos and panic in grocery stores.”The video allegedly shows from multiple Chinese cities of people panic hoarding food between Jan. 7-14.People are hoarding food in the wake of the forced lockdowns all over China. In an attempt to keep food on the shelves, grocery stores have more than tripled the price of many food items. This has only amplified the chaos and panic in grocery stores.January 7th-14th, 2021 pic.twitter.com/NxnQOduSnM— Things China Doesn’t Want You To Know (@TruthAbtChina) January 16, 2021If Twitter police delete the video – we saved a segment of it in GIF format. Hong Kong tabloid-style newspaper Apple Daily reported Saturday morning that “grocery prices Shijiazhuang in northern China have soared by 50% as authorities started a citywide lockdown on Jan. 6 to stem the coronavirus outbreak.”So maybe there’s some truth to @TruthAbtChina video of Chinese panic hoarding food.New data from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price Index showed world food prices rose for a seventh consecutive month in December.Everyone’s favorite permabear, SocGen’s Albert Edwards, who, unlike Goldman Sachs, is starting to worry about soaring food inflation.Could soaring food inflation in China result in social destabilization? Republished from ZeroHedge.com with permissionThe post New Lockdown in China Triggers “Chaos and Panic” at Grocery Stores as Prices Soar 50% appeared first on We Are Change. |
Billionaire Rothschild Dies of Sudden Heart Attack at 57Posted: 16 Jan 2021 01:14 PM PSTBillionaire Baron Benjamin de Rothschild, chairman of the iconic Edmond de Rothschild Holding and the 22nd richest man in France with a net worth of €4.3 billion, has died at 57.“Ariane de Rothschild and her daughters are deeply saddened to announce the death of husband and father, Benjamin de Rothschild, following a heart attack in the family home in Pregny (Switzerland) in the afternoon of January 15, 2021” the family said in a press release on Saturday.????DISPARITION – 22ème fortune de France, le Baron Benjamin de Rothschild a succombé hier à une crise cardiaque à l’âge de 57 ans (famille à l’AFP). pic.twitter.com/4xzP3xwyXS— ?Le Globe (@LeGlobe_info) January 16, 2021The namesake company confirmed his death on Saturday, offering condolences to his wife, children and family. In a statement on its website it said that the entrepreneur developed the entity “in an exceptional way during all these years” and was “passionate about finance, speed, sailing and automobiles, wine enthusiast, Benjamin de Rothschild was also an active philanthropist.”Visionary entrepreneur, passionate about finance, speed, sailing and automobiles, wine enthusiast, Benjamin de Rothschild was also an active philanthropist, namely involved in developing innovation within the Adolphe de Rothschild Foundation Hospital. With his unique character, Benjamin de Rothschild never ceased to transform and modernise his legacy, in line with the family’s values.Born on July 30 1963, Benjamin de Rothschild was the son of Edmond – scion of the Rothschild banking family of France – and Nadine de Rothschild. He headed the group created by his father since 1997. Benjamin de Rothschild was chairman of the board of directors at Edmond de Rothschild Holding SA, the umbrella entity of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, specializing in private banking and asset management.Benjamin de Rothschild most recently made the news in early 2019 when he took the Swiss Bank Edmond de Rothschild (Suisse) S.A. private. The Swiss branch of the sprawling Rothschild banking dynasty – once one of the world’s richest families, and according to some, still the richest – was created by Baron Edmond de Rothschild, whose parents fled to Switzerland during World War II. He created the group in 1953, later buying a Swiss private bank and branching out into asset management.The banking dynasty has spawned countless labyrinthine and convoluted financial entities which have helped obfuscate its financial exposure. The Edmond de Rothschild Group has financial assets distributed around the globe and in the form of investments in hedge funds via a fund of funds operation with over 173 billion francs in AUM. The Chateau de Pregny – also known as the Rothschild Castle – where the banker died, is located near Lake Geneva. The estate has belonged to the family since it was built in 1858 by the Swiss banker, Adolphe Carl de Rothschild. He bequeathed to a cousin, Maurice de Rothschild of the Rothschild banking family of France, who in turn left it to his son, Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild. The property remains in the family and as at 2013 is the principal residence of Edmond’s widow, Nadine.Republished from ZeroHedge.com with permissionThe post Billionaire Rothschild Dies of Sudden Heart Attack at 57 appeared first on We Are Change. |
