Rome Has A Big Problem With Burning Buses Yesterday, a public bus caught fire on Rome’s Via del Tritone. The number 63 bus quickly become engulfed in flames but thankfully, the driver and passengers escaped unhurt. Interestingly, as Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, the sight of a burning bus in central Rome is nothing new with people blaming …
May 2018 archive
May 10
Today’s News 10th May 2018
Putting London's "Soaring" Homicide Rate In Perspective London has a problem with rising violent crime, that is unfortunately a fact. According to Metropolitan Police statistics, there was a 51 percent rise in murders from financial year 16/17 to 17/18. Picking up on the issue, U.S. President Trump said at an NRA rally on Friday that …
May 09
Today’s News 9th May 2018
Firepower: Russian Troops Get New Kalashnikov Assault Rifles As the United States Army marches towards acquiring the LSAT (Lightweight Small Arms Technologies) light machine gun for their infantry, Russia’s Defense Ministry recently purchased the newest family of Kalashnikov assault rifles for Russian soldiers. Russian soldier aims the new AK-12 assault rifle. (Source: Sergey Bobylev, TASS) The Russian Defense Ministry …
May 08
Today’s News 8th May 2018
UK New Car Registrations Are Set To Tumble In the case of a no deal Brexit, in which the country must resort to WTO rules for international trade, the negative effects on the UK car industry could be devastating. The current uncertainty surrounding the type of deal that will be struck with the EU is already …
May 07
Today’s News 7th May 2018
Meanwhile In Greece… Less than a week after the Greek government sent additional police forces to reinforce its land border with Turkey as fears mount over a sharp rise in the number of refugees and migrants crossing the frontier, The Guardian reports that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced down protests from citizens Thursday upset over …
May 06
Today’s News 6th May 2018
As US Military Effectiveness And Diplomacy Fade, Many Countries Start Ignoring Washington Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Diplomatic work continues in some of the areas with the highest geopolitical tensions in the world. In recent days there have been high-level meetings and contacts between Turkey, Iran and Russia over the situation in …
May 05
Today’s News 5th May 2018
What May 2018 Has In Store: It's Difficult To Understate The Looming Dangers Authored by Peter Korzun via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The month of May is always associated with V-E Day. The sentiments of “never again” were strong 73 years ago, in 1945 when the UN was founded. Since then Europe has put a …
May 04
Today’s News 4th May 2018
Furious Migrant Mob "Forcefully Prevents" German Police From Deporting Asylum Seeker It appears that nationalists were on to something when they warned about “no go” zones in Germany, Sweden and other European countries that have taken in millions of migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and elsewhere since 2015. While progressive Europeans scoffed, a report by …
May 03
Today’s News 3rd May 2018
Germans Pay The Highest Income Tax Last week, the OECD released the latest edition of its “Taxing Wages” report which focuses on the net personal average tax rate in different nations. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy points out, it takes into account income tax and social security contributions paid by employees without family benefits as a share of …
May 02
Today’s News 2nd May 2018
German Foreign Minister Demands IAEA Analyze Israel's Evidence Against Iran Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to review Israeli accusations against Iran “as soon as possible,” in order to “clarify whether it actually provides evidence of a violation,” reports Bild. After the Israeli revelations about a secret continuation …
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