May 2018 archive

Today’s News 31st May 2018

US, Turkey Said To Reach Deal For Withdrawal Of Kurdish Forces From Key Syrian Town Turkey has announced a new agreement with the US which will involve the pullout of all Kurdish forces from the contested northern Syrian city of Manbij — something which the US State Department disputed as recently as Tuesday.   The newly built US forces base …

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Today’s News 30th May 2018

Mapping The 'Real' Europe – From 'Swedone' To 'Quitaly' First Brexit, now Quitaly… who’s next?   Source: Maps On The Web Italy & The Euro Cannot Be Saved By Mass-Immigration Via GEFIRA, The ongoing euro crisis has never been and will never be solved. The native European populations are shrinking and this will have a …

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Today’s News 29th May 2018

Turkey May Purchase Russian Stealth Fighters, If Delivery Of US F-35s Is Halted A U.S. Senate committee swiftly passed the latest version of a $716 billion defense bill last week, including a hard-hitting measure to block Turkey from acquiring Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jets. Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Senator Thom Tillis …

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Today’s News 28th May 2018

First Greece, Now Italy, Portugal Next? While most investors are focused on Italian politics – the parallel currency ‘mini-BoT’ fears and potential for a constitutional crisis – Spain is now facing its own political crisis amid calls for a no-confidence vote against Rajoy. However, ‘Spaxit’ remains a distant concern for investors as another member of …

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Today’s News 27th May 2018

Brazilian Military Deployed To Break Up Trucking Strike As State Of Emergency Worsens A nationwide trucking strike in Brazil entered day six on Saturday, as blocked roads have prevented critical food and supplies from reaching their destinations. The protests, triggered by a 50% spike in fuel prices over the last year, have resulted in the declaration of a …

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Today’s News 26th May 2018

Jim Jatras: Forget Kim. It's Time For A Trump-Putin Summit…Now! Authored by James George Jatras via The Strategic Culture Foundation, In the aftermath of US President Donald Trump’s cancellation of his scheduled June 12 summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, the gathering clouds of global conflict are getting thicker and darker: Korea: The cancellation is …

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Today’s News 25th May 2018

Escaped Ebola Patients Risked Spreading Virus At Packed Prayer Meeting Two Ebola patients who escaped from a quarantine in the Democratic Republic of Congo attended a prayer meeting with 50 other people, raising the possibility that those exposed could reignite the Ebola epidemic that was on the edge of spreading throughout the world back in …

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Today’s News 24th May 2018

What Backlash? Facebook Usage Jumped After Cambridge Analytica Scandal Not unlike the stock itself, it looks like Facebook users “bought the dip” on using the social media platform after the Cambridge Analytica scandal: the backlash that we were warned about for Facebook as a result of this scandal never happened. In fact, Facebook usage numbers were actually …

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Today’s News 23rd May 2018

100s Of White South African Farmers Apply To Australia For Humanitarian Rescue Back in February, after literally years of scandal, abuse, and incompetence, South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma was finally forced to resign last week, and new President, Cyril Ramaphosa, was supposed to represent a positive, new chapter for South Africa. However, as Simon Black …

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Today’s News 22nd May 2018

"It's Ridiculous" – Parents Furious As Australia Seeks To Ban Use Of "Boy" Or "Girl" In Books “For goodness sake, this is social engineering gone crazy… Leave kids alone to be kids. Stop trying to destroy kids’ childhoods…” That is an example of the furious reaction from parents in Victoria, Australia where the local city …

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