April 2018 archive

These Are The Men & Women Most-Admired By Brits In 2018 In 2002, David Attenborough was named among the 100 Greatest Britons by a BBC poll. And as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, the veteran broadcaster and naturalist is still the most admired man in the UK, according to a new YouGov survey. Widely considered a national …

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The Global Smartphone Boom Has Peaked, IMF Warns As it turns out, Apple executives aren’t the only ones who should be worried about slowing smartphone sales: The trend has the potential to hammer global economic growth – especially in Asia, where the rise of mobile technology has created increasingly complex supply chains. The IMF highlights …

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Tech Firms Promise To Fight Back Against Government Spying In an announcement ostensibly meant to put Russian and Chinese hackers on notice – but we imagine is truly intended to reassure wary foreign customers that American cloud computing firms wont’ turn their data over to the NSA – 31 tech titans from around the world …

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Stoltenberg Brushes Off Greece-Turkey Tensions: "Not An Issue For NATO" In the last two months, tensions between two NATO member states have escalated dramatically – Turkey has threatened to invade Greek islands, Greece has responded, and Greeks now see Turkey as the greatest threat to their existence. But, the rapidly souring tensions between Greece and …

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US Tanks In Europe Get Invisible Futuristic Missile Shield To Counter Russian Threat Back in March, we detailed how the United States Army M1 Abrams tank, an American third-generation main battle tank, was in the process of being upgraded with an invisible missile shield that will destroy all chemical energy anti-tank threats and other threats before reaching …

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The War Machine Springs To Life Over Syria Update: A few short hours after the initial writing of this report, the US, the UK and France conducted a missile air strike against Syria  Authored by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com, NATO has drawn 1st blood. Will Russia respond? The events of the past few days involving Syria, the …

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A Map Of The Syrian War: Who Is Who (And Where) On Thursday, just 24 hours before Trump ordered airstrikes on Syria for the second time in just over a year, we said that “with war likely set to break out in Syria at any moment, a question many Americans are asking is… where is …

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Visualizing America's Cruise Missile Diplomacy President Donald Trump has threatened the use of missiles against targets in Syria. “Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart!’”, he tweeted, referring to Russia as an ally of the Syrian regime which stands accused of having once more used chemical weapons against targets in …

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Europe's Civilizational Exhaustion Authored by Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone Institute, Islam is filling the cultural vacuum of a society with no children and which believes — wrongly — it has no enemies. In Sweden, by 2050, almost one in three people will be Muslim. The European mainstream mindset now seems to believe that “evil” …

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Iranians Panic – "Can't Find Dollars" After Government Enforces Currency Controls Yesterday saw the Iranian Rial crash to a record low 60,000 per USDollar on the unregulated markets, according to Tasnim News agency, having lost more than a third of its value in the last six months. This prompted an angry response from Iran’s First …

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