September 2017 archive

Irma Begins To Lash Florida With Hurricane-Force Winds, Tornadoes Reported With just hours left until landfall, sometime on Sunday morning, Hurricane Irma is edging ever closer to Florida and has started to batter the state with Hurricane force winds as millions brace for the impact of the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade. According …

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A Nuclear North Korea Is Here To Stay Authored by Doug Bandow via The National Interest, North Korea staged its sixth nuclear test. It was probably a boosted atomic rather than hydrogen bomb, as claimed by Pyongyang, and there’s no evidence that the weapon has been miniaturized to fit on a missile. But the test …

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Private-Plane Taxes: Another Way The Poor Subsidize The Rich Wealthy CEOs and athletes have found a loophole that allows them to minimize their tax bills while traveling in style – all at the expense of the everyday traveler who flies commercial and must bear an outsize percentage of aviation taxes in the US. According to …

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Did Benjamin Netanyahu Just Panic? Authored by Alistair Crooke via ConsortiumNews.com, Is Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu pushing the panic button over the collapse of the Saudi-Israeli jihadist proxies in Syria and now threatening to launch a major air war… A very senior Israeli intelligence delegation, a week ago, visited Washington. Then, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

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Undercover In North Korea: "All Paths Lead To Catastrophe" Authored by Jon Schwartz via The Intercept, The most alarming aspect of North Korea’s latest nuclear test, and the larger standoff with the U.S., is how little is known about how North Korea truly functions. For 70 years it’s been sealed off from the rest of …

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Merkel, Schulz Agree: "It's Clear, Turkey Should Not Become An EU Member" Having blasted Germany for "abetting terrorists," Turkish president Edrogan was on the receiving end of some ire this weekend as the refugee crisis and the EU deal with Turkey dominated the TV debate between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition ally SPD challenger …

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New NGO Racket: Smuggling, Inc. Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, Although the European Union successfully bribed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last year — inducing him to slow the flow of migrants heading through Turkey into Greece — Italy has received almost 100,000 people so far this year. This summer, even more …

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De-Dollarization Accelerates: China Readies Yuan-Priced Crude Oil Benchmark Backed By Gold Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, The world’s top oil importer, China, is preparing to launch a crude oil futures contract denominated in Chinese yuan and convertible into gold, potentially creating the most important Asian oil benchmark and allowing oil exporters to bypass U.S.-dollar …

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Coming To A Town Near You: Expert Warns That No-Go Zones Are Growing In America Authored by Daniel Lang via SHTFplan.com, Nothing epitomizes the failure of Europe’s immigration policies more than the notorious “no-go zones.” For decades the West has opened its borders to people who don’t share their values, and the West has utterly …

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Six Banks Join UBS's "Utility Coin" Blockchain Project Here’s a piece of news that the remaining human members of Wall Street’s FX sales and trading desks probably don’t want to hear. According to the Financial Times, six of the world’s largest banks have decided to join a blockchain project called “utility coin” that will allow …

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