Archive Monthly Archives: July 2018
China's Oil Futures Contract Is Beginning To Show Its Teeth
Authored by Rory Hall via The Daily Coin, So far so good. Petrodollar will be showing signs of wear-and-tear in the very near future. We have been documenting the demise of the dollar hegemony for the past several years and the past two years the pace of the demise seems to be moving like a […]
Continue reading"I Go Days Without Eating": Some Amazon Workers Left Homeless After Workplace Injuries
Workplace safety incidents have been a major topic of discussion at certain high-flying companies over the last couple of months, but one of the names that hasn’t recently been mentioned has been Amazon. With the release of a new report by The Guardian early this week, that may very well change. Amazon employees who suffer […]
Continue readingDebunking The Putin Panic With Stephen Cohen
Via TheRealNews.com, Part 1 President Trump’s warm words for Vladimir Putin and his failure to endorse U.S. intelligence community claims about alleged Russian meddling have been called “treasonous” and the cause of a “national security crisis.” There is a crisis, says Prof. Stephen F. Cohen, but one of our own making… AARON MATE: It’s The Real […]
Continue readingUS Treasuries, JGBs Rally As Bank Of Japan Shifts To "More Flexible" Bond-Buying Plan
After a few years of relative apathy, today’s Bank of Japan statement is greeted with considerable anticipation as it may well have some significant impacts on global markets, judging by the last two weeks’ action after hints at BoJ policy shifts. Background: Japan’s economy is shrinking once again… Industrial Production is plunging… As a reminder, […]
Continue readingBRICTS: Turkey Is Getting Off The US Reservation
Authored by Tom Luongo, This year’s BRICS Summit was a big show. No question. The main event was provided by Turkish President cum Dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan wants to a a “T” to the acronym, making them the BRICTS. Erdogan also made it very clear Turkey’s shift away from the West will proceed faster […]
Continue readingNATO Is A Goldmine For US Weapons' Industries
Authored by Brian Cloughley via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Countries of the NATO military alliance have been ordered by President Trump to increase their spending on weapons, and the reasons for his insistence they do so are becoming clearer. It’s got nothing to do with any defence rationale, because, after all, the Secretary General of […]
Continue readingSpain's "Fragile Tolerance" At Risk As Socialist PM Sees "Obligation To Help" Migrants
With the migrant crisis continuing to peak for Europe’s Mediterranean nations, and as it has lately become politically disastrous for others like Germany, resulting in a half-baked quick fix offered by the European Union to pay out 6,000 euros ($7,000) for each migrant a country takes in, statements coming Spain’s political leaders suggest its reputed “tolerance” as […]
Continue readingChild Brides In Turkey
Authored by Burak Bekdil via The Gatestone Institute, Where would you like your daughter to be when she is 13? In school, or in bed with a grown man? The answer to this question is largely beyond argument in much of the world. In Islamic societies, however — including non-Arab and theoretically secular Turkey — […]
Continue readingThe US 2019 Defense Budget Bill: Congress Defies The New World Order
Authored by Alex Gorka via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The House and Senate versions of the draft National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2019 were unveiled by Congress on July 23. Both include a provision to temporarily bar the transfers of F-35 joint strike fighters (JSF) to Turkey. According to the final 2019 […]
Continue readingFacebook, Zuck Sued By "Shocked" Shareholders As "The Truth" Emerges
Following a disappointing earnings announcement that wiped out about $120 billion of shareholder wealth, Facebook, its CEO and CFO, are being sued by a shareholder potentially opening the floodgates for sore-losing stock market gamblers the world over. “As a result of Defendants’ wrongful acts and omissions, and the precipitous decline in the market value of […]
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