A 2nd Syrian Helicopter Brought Down By MANPAD In Only A Few Days Another Syrian military helicopter has been shot down by the jihadist insurgents now threatening western Aleppo amid fierce fighting in both Idlib and Aleppo provinces. A surface-to-air missile, likely a MANPAD, was fired on the chopper by Turkish-backed militants in the countryside of the […]
Italy: Salvini Facing Show Trial For “Kidnapping” Migrants Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, The Italian Senate has voted to strip former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini of parliamentary immunity so that he can face kidnapping charges for refusing to allow migrants to disembark from a ship at a port in Sicily. If Salvini, […]
In latest Embarrassment For Macron, Former Advisor Ends Mayoral Bid After Explicit Texts, Video Emerge French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval ratings already appeared to be at rock-bottom levels as yellow-vest wearing rioters sacked his country’s capital city and an 800-year-old monument to Roman Catholicism suffered a devastating fire on his watch. But it appears he […]
EU Is Now Deaf To Their Coming Defeat Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, Yanis Varoufakis once described negotiating with the European Union like you’re singing the Swedish National Anthem. No matter what proposal you put in front of them, they acted like they didn’t understand and simply reiterated terms. But, […]
Fiat Chrysler To Shut Serbia Plant As Covid-19-Shock Paralyzes Global Supply Chains It’s certainly plausible that the global economy is in the early stages of grinding to a halt. Already, we’ve noted that two-thirds of China’s economy is offline, with major industrial hubs idle and 400 million people quarantined. The next phase of the supply chain […]
Many People In NATO Countries Say “No” To Supporting A NATO Ally In Military Conflict With Russia Authored by Adam Dick via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, NATO is marketed as providing each member nation with the benefit that the other member nations are committed to coming to its aid militarily in […]
The Geopolitics Of Biological Weapons, Part 1: A Useful And Timely Factual Overview Authored by Larry Romanoff via GlobalResearch.ca, The US government and its many agencies and educational and health institutions, have for many decades conducted intensive research into biological warfare, in many cases strongly focused on race-specific pathogens. In a report to the US […]
How Couples Meet, Then & Now Today’s daters are taking matters into their own hands. Seemingly no longer satisfied with the potential partners that life throws at them at work, in school and in their circle of friends, Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports that an increasingly large number of heterosexual daters is opting to meet their partner […]
Escobar: The Siren Call Of A “System Leader” Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, A considerable spectrum of the liberal West takes the American interpretation of what civilization consists of to be something like an immutable law of nature. But what if this interpretation is on the verge of an irreparable breakdown? Michael […]
“I Have No Idea What To Do Now”: South Korean & Japanese Firms Screwed By Shortage Of Chinese Migrant Workers Since COVID-19 went global just over two weeks ago, we’ve spent a lot of time discussing how China’s economic shutdown is going to impact the global economy. But by focusing on giant companies like GM […]
We’re All In This Together: A Case For Not Giving Up On The American Dream Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” – Benjamin Franklin Listen: we don’t have to agree about everything. We don’t even have to agree about most […]
Coal Shipping In US Industrial Heartland Collapses To 35-Year Low President Trump vowed to make “Coal Great Again” and restore the industrial heartland. But it seems as Trump’s many campaign promises to coal miners have been broken, as there’s hardly a peep from the administration about the imploding industry. Take, for instance, a new report […]
Chinese Province Authorizes Private Property Confiscation To Fight Covid-19 Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity. You can now pay $2500 to be told you’re […]
India’s Modi Is Building Trump’s Wall (But It’s Not What You Think) India is building Trump’s wall. Not that wall — but a wall specifically being erected as part of his first ever presidential visit to India set for February 24 to 25, where he and the First Lady will meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “strengthen the United […]
7 Charts To Love On Valentine’s Day Authored by Bilal Hafeez via MacroHive.com, It’s easy to paint gloomy pictures of the world whether looking at market valuations, climate change or health scares. However, not all is lost, there are some things to appreciate. So I thought given it is Valentine’s Day, I’d find seven charts […]
Mexico To Unload Presidential Jet, Sells $80 Million Of Raffle Tickets To Super Rich Everyone thought Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) was absolutely nuts when he wanted to unload the luxurious presidential plane. However, there were no buyers earlier this year, so he floated the idea of raffling the jet off with 6 […]
Harvard Expert Warns, Coronavirus Likely Just Now “Gathering Steam” Authored by Alvin Powell via The Harvard Gazette, The number of confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus have continued to surge inside China, sickening tens of thousands, with a death toll of more than 1,000. But outside the Asian giant the numbers remain a fraction of […]
Online Trading Academy Sued By FTC For Bilking Boomers Out Of $370 Million An investment training program called Online Trading Academy (OTA) collected $370 million for classes over six years, misleading predominantly baby boomers in how to time the stock market. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday, Feb 12, charged the California-based operation for overstating how easy it was to […]
John Brennan Under DOJ Scrutiny, As John Durham’s Criminal Investigation Expand Authored by Sara Carter via SaraACarter.com, U.S. Attorney John Durham – charged with the criminal probe into the FBI’s Russia investigation of the Trump campaign – has been questioning CIA officials closely involved with John Brennan’s 2017 intelligence community assessment regarding direct Russian interference in the […]
Chaos Is Coming: US To Start Testing People With Flu Symptoms Brace for chaos: in a few weeks, the next person to sneeze may be arrested quietly pulled aside by the authorities and tested for coronavirus. People in the US experiencing flu-like symptoms will be screened for the latest coronavirus that originated from China, officials […]
The Biometric Threat Authored by Jayati Ghosh via Project Syndicate, Around the world, governments are succumbing to the allure of biometric identification systems. To some extent, this may be inevitable, given the burden of demands and expectations placed on modern states. But no one should underestimate the risks these technologies pose. Biometric identification systems use […]
China Admits That More Than Half A Million People Have Had “Close Contact” With The Infected Beijing’s bug push to get everybody back to work isn’t going so well. And just as health experts warned President Xi before he gave the order, the decision to try to get some of the economy churning again has […]
Debt, Deficits, & The Path To MMT Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In September 2017, when the Trump Administration began promoting the idea of tax cut legislation, I wrote a series of articles discussing the fallacy that tax cuts would lead to higher tax collections, and a reduction in the deficit. To wit: “Given today’s […]
While Sanders Lead Pack In Primary Polls, Oddsmaker Has Bloomberg Beating Trump In General Election While Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is now favored to be the likely Democratic nominee following Joe Biden’s implosion, Democratic voters are going to need to think long and hard about whether a socialist whose policies would wreak economic havoc can possibly […]
Roger Stone Demands New Trial After Anti-Trump Juror Outs Herself Over Social Media Former Trump adviser Roger Stone requested a new trial on Friday just one day after the lead juror in his November trial hates President Trump and actively posted anti-Trump material online during the trial. Stone’s new lawyers requested the new trial on […]
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