August 2018 archive

Seattle Airport Employee Hijacks Plane, Does Barrel Roll, Then Crashes With Fighter Jets In Hot Pursuit A 29-year-old mechanic at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport reportedly hijacked a Horizon Air Q400 with no passengers on board, performed aerobatic maneuvers, and then crashed into the ground a short while later with at least one, possibly two F-15 fighter jets …

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Europe's Thinnest Market In 18 Years Sends Ominous Signal While US investors are fighting each other off to buy stocks (well FANG stocks), Chinese and European equity markets have suffered in recent months amid growth concerns and trade war fears. One might not know it looking at the Euro Stoxx 50 Volatility Index hovering just …

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Pfizer Faces Shrinking Sales, Stiff Competition From India As Viagra Patent Expires Getting a chemically-induced erection is about to become much cheaper, as pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s patent on its blockbuster erectile dysfunction (ED) drug, Viagra, expires in April 2020.  Approximately one in ten adult males will suffer from ED on a long-term basis, with many more suffering …

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London Is The World's Airbnb Capital 10 years ago, in early August 2008, the website Airbedandbreakfast.com went online, marking the birth of Airbnb. Back then the three founders, Brian Cheky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk wanted to help short-term travelers find affordable accommodation and provide renters with an opportunity to make an extra buck by renting …

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Migrant Urges Germans, Austrians To Give Refugees "Their Homes and Money" A Syrian refugee living in Austria, Aras Bacho, has suggested in an open letter published in the daily newspaper OE24 that ordinary Austrians and Germans should participate in the integration process of migrants. According to him, integration requires “both sides to work,” meaning that …

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92% Of Turks Believe In Human Rights… A new Ipsos MORI poll of 23,249 adults in 28 countries has explored feelings about human rights across the world. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, one of its core findings is that 43 percent of people globally agree that everyone in their country enjoys the same basic human rights. When …

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Here's Why 3D-Printing Guns Are A Win For World Peace And A Potential Death Blow To Tyranny Authored by Matt Agorist via ActivistPost.com, As the debate continues about whether or not 3D-printed firearm plans should be banned, even the ostensible pro-2nd Amendment folks are worried that shooting rampages will occur as a result of these …

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A Chinese Spy Worked In Senator Dianne Feinstein's Office For Twenty Years We can only imagine the twenty-four hour media blitz that would be unleashed if this had happened with the Trump campaign, or on anyone’s staff even remotely associated  with President Trump past or present. But when the story first broke in the middle of this week of …

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Victor Orban's 5 Tenets To Rebuild Europe Excerpted from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech at the 29th Bálványos Summer Open University and Student Camp: …I have formulated five tenets for the project of building up Central Europe. The first is that every European country has the right to defend its Christian culture, and the right …

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Terror Charges Dropped Against British Ex-Soldier Who Fought In Syria As the war in Syria is showing signs that it could be winding down, more “foreign fighters” from Europe and the West are returning to their home countries, most especially jihadists who are in some instances (though notably not all) being charged and tried upon their …

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