January 2019 archive

Today’s News 11th January 2019

Erdogan To Trump: Leave Syria Now Before We Strike Turkey has threatened to strike the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia if the United States delays its troop withdrawal from the country, according to The Guardian.  “If the [pullout] is put off with ridiculous excuses like Turks are massacring Kurds, which do not reflect the reality, we will …

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Today’s News 10th January 2019

China Car Sales Collapse: First Annual Drop In Over 20 Years After we previously reported that UK car registrations just fell at their sharpest rate since the financial crisis, the sharp plunge of auto sales in China has also continued: retail sales of passenger vehicles – which include sedans, MPVs, mini-vans and SUVs – in China …

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Today’s News 9th January 2019

How The US Spent Billions To Change The Outcome Of Elections Around The World: A Review Authored by Danny Haiphong via BlackAgendaReport.com, The U.S. military state overthrows democratically-elected governments that it deems to be a threat to corporate interests. “There is plenty of evidence that the United States is the most depraved and dangerous “meddler” …

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Today’s News 8th January 2019

New Video Emerges Of "Saucer-Like" Chinese Stealth Drone  China Central Television (CCTV) on Saturday published a video showing a “saucer-like” drone performing flying tests, and state-run media outlet Global Times claimed that the new drone’s stealth technology would allow it to fly undetected. The Global Times, citing a CCTV report, said China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation had developed China’s …

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Today’s News 7th January 2019

'Fat Cat Friday' – FTSE 100 CEOs Have Already Out-Earned The Average Worker For 2019 Friday marked the so-called ‘Fat Cat Friday’ in the UK – the day on which the average FTSE CEO earns the annual wage of the average full-time worker. As Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, according to the latest calculations by the High Pay Centre and …

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Today’s News 6th January 2019

Mass Exodus: More People Left New Jersey Than Any Other State In 2018 Over the last four decades, United Van Lines has published its National Movers Study, which tracks customers’ state-to-state migration trends over the past year, revealed a mass exodus of residents from New Jersey than any other state in 2018. Last year, New Jersey displaced Illinois to take the top spot on …

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Today’s News 5th January 2019

Is The World Safe From Global Conflict In 2019? Authored by M.K.Bhadrakumar via The Indian Punchline, Armageddon: Will it come on Trump’s watch? Is 2019 going to be the year of the Armageddon? The answer is a definitive ‘No’. As 2018 ended, the potential for war was looming and Russian President Vladimir Putin even refused …

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Today’s News 4th January 2019

Alhambra: Nothing To See Here, It's Just Everything Authored by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners, The politics of oil are complicated, to say the least. There’s any number of important players, from OPEC to North American shale to sanctions. Relating to that last one, the US government has sought to impose serious restrictions upon …

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Today’s News 3rd January 2019

Break The Cycle: In 2019, Say No To The Government's Cruelty, Brutality. And Abuse Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”—Edmund Burke Folks, it’s time to break the cycle. Let’s make 2019 the year we say no to the laundry list of abuses – cruel, …

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Today’s News 2nd January 2019

"It Was A Very Bad Year" – 1000s March In Hong Kong Protests At China Repression 2019 kicked off with anger in Hong Kong as thousands of demonstrators marched to demand full democracy, fundamental rights, and even independence from China in the face of what many see as a marked clampdown by the Communist Party …

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