July 2018 archive

Spain's "Fragile Tolerance" At Risk As Socialist PM Sees "Obligation To Help" Migrants With the migrant crisis continuing to peak for Europe’s Mediterranean nations, and as it has lately become politically disastrous for others like Germany, resulting in a half-baked quick fix offered by the European Union to pay out 6,000 euros ($7,000) for each migrant a …

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"Urban Jungle At Night": Amsterdam Police Powerless To Stop Late-Night Mayhem  “Scooters race against traffic or through pedestrian areas. There is shouting, thefts, and poo on the streets. There is violence.” -Arre Zuurmond After turning a blind eye to rampant drug use and out-of-control tourists, Amsterdam’s Red Light District hs become an “urban jungle at night,” …

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Entering A 1984 World, Trump-Style Authored by Michael Klare via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The pundits and politicians generally take it for granted that President Trump lacks a coherent foreign policy. They believe that he acts solely out of spite, caprice, and political opportunism — lashing out at U.S. allies like Germany’s Angela Merkel and …

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Watch Ocasio-Cortez Flub Her Way Through Simple Question On Democratic Socialism The “new face” of the Democratic party, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, botched yet another simple question about her political views that sheer spunk and tenacity couldn’t overcome.  During an appearance on last night’s Daily Show, host Trevor Noah pitched Ocasio-Cortez perhaps the slowest softball he could – asking …

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"We Fear For Our Lives": First 50 White South African Families Start Resettlement In Russia Just weeks after we reported that white South African farmers, facing racial genocide, had begun seeking refuge – from the violent attacks and death threats of their own government’s policies – in friendly foreign nations such as Australia, RT reports  …

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Russia Unveils 20-Ton Sixth Generation Drone Fighter Russian defense industry sources have recently unveiled a massive, 20-ton stealth drone fighter to be flight-tested later this year — will be the prototype for their sixth-generation jet, according to TASS, a Russian state-owned media outlet. According to the defense official, the sixth generation jet program “has not yet …

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The Danes Are Europe's Biggest Wasters Data released by Eurostat shows that across Europe, levels of municipal waste generation vary considerably between countries. You will find more infographics at Statista Broken down by kilograms per capita, municipal waste generation is highest in Denmark at 777 kg in 2016. Romania was at the opposite end of the scale with just …

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Europe Can't Rely On The US To Maintain World Order, Merkel Warns Having been called a “foe” by President Trump last week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed that she was right to say a year ago that Europe could no longer rely on the United States to impose order on the world, and that it …

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Visualizing The World's Largest Megacities By 2100 Throughout the course of human history, the biggest cities have always seemed impossibly large. For many millennia, it was almost unfathomable for a city to sustain more than 1 million residents. In fact, as Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins notes, it wasn’t until the 19th century that the largest cities globally, …

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America's Derangement Syndrome A Danger To World Peace Via The Strategic Culture Foundation, It is significant that Presidents Putin and Trump have both spoken out against “haters” among America’s political establishment who would rather see conflict between Russia and the United States instead of a normalization of bilateral relations. Following their landmark, successful summit this …

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