February 2019 archive

The Data Behind Surging NBA Team Valuations Submitted by Visual Capitalist At the beginning of this decade, the NBA was not on firm footing. More than half of the league’s teams were losing money, and negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement were looming. Today, however, the NBA has undeniable momentum, buoyed by hefty broadcast …

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Man Jailed After Police Find 3D Printed Gun And US Lawmaker Kill List A Dallas man has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison after officers discovered a 3D-printed assault rifle and a hit list of US lawmakers in his backpack, despite a court order that banned him from owning a gun, stated US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy …

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Asymmetrical Warfare And 4GW: How Militia Groups Are America's Domestic Viet Cong via Ammo.com, “It is interesting to hear certain kinds of people insist that the citizen cannot fight the government. This would have been news to the men of Lexington and Concord, as well as the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The citizen most certainly can …

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Guess Where European Workers Go On Strike Most Frequently This week, the Irish health system was plunged into further chaos as nurses held three consecutive days of strike action. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation already held three 24 hour strikes in its row over pay, recruitment and the retention of staff. Thousands of patients have …

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London Gangs: A Tragic Remnant Of British Colonialism Authored by T.T.Coles via Counterpunch.org, London is plagued by street gangs. By the year 2016 there were an estimated 3,600 gangsters. According to government figures, these form some 225 gangs. Of these, 58 gangs are regularly active and are thought by police to be responsible for two-thirds of gang-related …

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$200 Million Ghost Town Of Castles, Created By Turkey's Recession More than 500 hundred chateaux have been abandoned at the Burj Al Babas luxury housing development in Turkey after its developer filed for bankruptcy last November. The homes were crafted for wealthy Gulf investors in Turkey’s northern Bolu province, but as soon as the country slipped into an economic recession, the land development project …

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Turkish Government Wages War With "Price-Gouging Terrorist, Traitors" As Food Inflation Soars Food prices in Turkey have been soaring since the lira’s sharp, violent depreciation last summer. The rise in prices is not only a result of the currency’s depreciation which made the Turkish lira one of the worst performing currencies in the world, but …

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Sweden Extends Border Controls, Citing "Continued Threat To Public Order" A few short months after Sweden was harshly criticized over its border controls in a Schengen report released in September, the country announced this week that it will extend border control measures for an additional three months. “The decision is based on the government’s assessment …

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Venezuela Is An Opportunity For Russia And China To Change The World Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, Nothing better illustrates Washington’s opposition to democracy and self-determination than the blatantly public coup Washington has organized against the properly elected president of Venezuela. Washington has been trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government for years. Washington wants the …

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American Suspension Of INF Treaty Is Aimed At China Authored by Anatoly Karlin via The Strategic Culture Foundation, So it’s done. The US has suspended its participation in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and Russia soon followed suit. This almost certainly spells an end to this late Cold War relic, which banned the two …

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