April 2019 archive

China's Multi-Billion Dollar Greece Investment Plunged In "Unprecedented Limbo" By Local Bureaucrats “The challenges for Chinese enterprises to succeed in managing BRI projects is not showering the dollars and yuans, but winning hearts and minds,” a China research fellow at London-based think tank Chatham House told the South China Morning Post in a bombshell full report detailing …

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Helen Mirren Rages: "F*ck Netflix", There's "Nothing Like Sitting In A Cinema" Actress Helen Mirren has had enough of Netflis, and she’s letting the world know. The actress, who is most famous for roles in in “The Queen” and “Gosford Park,” recently said on stage in Las Vegas: “I love Netflix, but fuck Netflix. There’s nothing …

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Hundreds Of Migrants Battle With Greek Riot Police After 'Fake News' About Open Border False rumors that the Balkan states were preparing to open their borders to allow the tens of thousands of migrants who have been stuck in Greece for years to travel on to Europe have led to days of skirmishes between Greek …

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Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between The Vatican, The CIA, & The Mafia Authored by via Off-Guardian.org, On the hot summer morning of Aug. 2, 1980 a massive explosion ripped apart the main waiting room of the Bologna railway station. Eighty-five people were killed and hundreds more injured. Though at first blamed on Italy’s legendary …

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How Brzezinski's Chessboard Degenerated Into Brennan's Russophobia Authored by Mike Whitney via The Unz Review, “Russia is an inalienable and organic part of Greater Europe and European civilization. Our citizens think of themselves as European. That’s why Russia proposes moving towards the creation of a common economic space from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, …

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Even The Machines Can't Comprehend Brexit: 'Blizzard' Of Headlines Renders Pound Untradeable For Algos Since June 23, 2016, trading the British pound has been fraught with peril for both carbon-based and mechanical counterparts. Though it outperformed most other G10 currencies during Q1 (even as the risk of a disorganized ‘no deal’ Brexit appears to have …

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Deutsche Bank's Decades-Long History Of Compliance Failures Exposed Christmas just came early for Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff. As the leaders of the House Financial Services Committee and House Intelligence Committee ramp up an investigation into Deutsche Bank’s lending relationship with the Trump Organization (the first round of subpoenas has already been sent and Waters …

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How A 'No Deal' Brexit Could Lead To The "Lehmanization" Of Europe Odds of a ‘no deal’ Brexit next week have risen markedly over the past week, as the Commons has twice failed to coalesce around a viable alternative to Theresa May’s deal, while once again rejecting the “best possible deal” negotiated between the prime …

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London Real Estate Suffers Largest Drop In A Decade London continued to lead the pack amid the UK’s weakening property market at the start of 2019, according to Bloomberg, which reports that prices have fallen the most since the financial crisis a decade ago.  <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> Values in the capital dropped 3.8% year-over-year according to the …

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Saudi Arabia Went On Arms Buying Rampage Over Past 2 Years: Study Despite Saudi Arabia coming under intensified international scrutiny after last year’s brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a new study shows Riyadh has been on a record-setting weapons buying spree over the past two years.  And who …

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