January 2018 archive

Today’s News 11th January 2018

Israel Confirms It Has Spies Operating Inside Iran In a rare admission an Israeli intelligence chief confirmed early this week that Israel has spies currently operating on the ground in Iran. Yossi Cohen, the director of Israel’s Mossad – the country’s powerful national intelligence and special operations agency, addressed Israeli policy and the recent Iran …

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Today’s News 10th January 2018

Highly Classified Satellite Plummeted Into Indian Ocean After SpaceX Launch, Official Confirms After the launch of the secretive Zuma satellite into outer space aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, reports circulated that the new eye in the sky, which is worth billions, “is presumed to be a total loss after it failed …

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Today’s News 9th January 2018

Only 1-In-5 South Koreans Expect Korean War In 2018 Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that he has a bigger nuclear button than North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The tweet was the latest in a series of spats between the two and many observers fear the squabbling could spiral into nuclear war. Despite the tensions, …

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Today’s News 8th January 2018

How Three European Oligarchs Looted 100s Of Millions From Ukraine Via AlJazeera.com, Three Ukrainian oligarchs traded part of around $1.5bn in illicit assets traced to cronies of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, an exclusive investigation by Al Jazeera revealed on Sunday. They did so as the war-torn country struggled to return suspected misappropriated funds to …

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Today’s News 7th January 2018

Fusion GPS Bank Records Handed Over; May Shed Light On Payments From Russian Embezzler The bank for opposition research firm Fusion GPS handed over financial records on Friday, after a Federal judge struck down the firm’s attempt to conceal the records from the House Intelligence Committee the previous day.  At issue are 70 financial transactions from 2016, …

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Today’s News 6th January 2018

Trump Cuts The Gordian Knot Of Foreign Entanglements Authored by Patrick Armstrong via The Strategic Culture Foundation, President Trump is a new phenomenon on the American political scene.   Not a professional politician begging for funds but a rich man who spent his own money and raised money on his own name: he arrived in …

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Today’s News 5th January 2018

Would Trump Nuking North Korea 'Make America Great Again'? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review, If Trump is willing to accept the enormous loss of American life — which are the only people that he cares about as the US President — then turning the Korean Peninsula into Asia’s nuclear panhandle would indeed “Make …

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Today’s News 4th January 2018

Who's Really Got The Biggest Nuclear Button? Currently, there are an estimated 14,555 nuclear warheads in the hands of just nine countries. Statista’s Martin Armstrong points out that at the top of the list, as compiled by the Federation Of American Scientists (FAS), are of course Russia and the U.S.With a combined arsenal of over 13,000, this particular hangover from the Cold …

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Today’s News 3rd January 2018

SpaceX Will Launch Mysterious Project Zuma On Thursday SpaceX has come a long way since one of its rockets exploded on the launch bad in September 2016 (though the company has assembled a humorous bloopers reel to show that it has a sense of humor about its humble beginnings). And on Thursday, it will launch …

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Today’s News 2nd January 2018

US, China Stocks Start 2018 With A Bang US, China Stocks Start 2018 With A Bang Tyler Durden Mon, 01/01/2018 – 23:33 Ethereum Surges As 2018 Starts With Dollar Freefall Ethereum Surges As 2018 Starts With Dollar Freefall Tyler Durden Mon, 01/01/2018 – 22:50 Oil Advances As Iran Turmoil Trumps Libyan Pipeline Restart Oil Advances …

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