April 2018 archive

UK's Top Doctor Demands Ban For "Killer" Kitchen Knives Hot on the heels of London Mayor Sadiq Kahn’s city-wide ban on knives, The Express reports that one of Scotland’s leading doctors has called for a ban on “killer” kitchen knives. Dr John Crichton, the new chairman of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland, wants …

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The Richest 1% Will Own Two-Thirds Of Global Wealth By 2030, Report Finds Back in November, Credit Suisse highlighted an alarming – yet altogether unsurprising – milestone in the increasing concentration of global wealth that has been perhaps the most influential force behind the populist revolts that rocked the US in 2016 and have continued …

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"Events Today Could Lead To The Last War In The History Of Mankind", Veteran Putin General Warns The fallout from the Salisbury nerve agent attack reminds us of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which was the most immediate catalyst – of many parallel narrative and sequences of events – that ultimately resulted in World …

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Why A Dollar Collapse Is Inevitable Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, “Naturally, the smooth termination of the gold-exchange standard, the restoration of the gold standard, and supplemental and interim measures that might be called for, in particular with a view to organizing international credit on this new basis, will have to be deliberately agreed …

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Trade Is A Matter Of Survival For China Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, Many investors are familiar with the fact that President Franklin Roosevelt closed all of the banks in America and confiscated all of the privately-owned gold by executive order in the early days of his administration, which began in 1933. …

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Frankfurt Is Winning The Battle For London's Bankers Since the UK voted to leave the EU, its biggest financial institutions have been observing the slow moving  Brexit negotiations with a degree of discomfort. Last month, as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, Theresa May warned that the UK’s financial companies could lose full passporting rights and single market …

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Tech Giants Race To Create An Alternate Reality Submitted by Michael Scott for SafeHaven Virtual reality, augmented reality, immersive reality, mixed reality and finally merged reality … Welcome to the world of digital layering, awash with cutting-edge technologies that are mostly powered by rather dorky and clunky hardware, but fascinating nonetheless. The digital reality industry …

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Israel Announces Deal To Resettle African Migrants In Western Countries; Hours Later Netanyahu Walks Back Hours after Israel announced the planned resettlement of 16,250 African migrants to Canada, Italy and Germany – which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was a “good agreement” which “protects the interests of the state of Israel,” – Netanyahu reversed course …

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London Murder Rate Overtakes New York Amid Spike In Stabbings, Shootings London has surpassed New York City’s murder rate for the second month in a row, due mostly to a spike in knife crime and shootings which left 15 Londoners dead in February – nine of whom were age 30 or younger, and 22 dead in March vs. …

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Lockheed Martin Patents Nuclear Fusion-Powered Fighter Jet Lockheed Martin has secretly been developing a game-changing compact nuclear fusion reactor that could potentially fit into a fighter jet. The Maryland-based defense contractor recently obtained a patent associated with its design for a fully compact fusion reactor, after filing for the patent in 2014. If the latest patent from …

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