August 2019 archive

Think Trump Is Hitler? Go To Dachau Authored by Peter van Buren via The American Conservative, You won’t find any shallow hashtags at the former concentration camp, just quiet, powerful reality… <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> Right now, someone in the media is finding another excuse to proclaim that Trump is Hitler, America is Germany …

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Diamond Crisis: De Beers Sales Crash 44% As Demand Plummets The Financial Times states that De Beers’, the world’s largest diamond miner, has seen a collapse in sales this month, as the entire industry is on the brink of a downturn amid weaker consumer demand and the proliferation of lab-grown stones. De Beers said Wednesday …

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29% Of London Homeowners Are Panic Selling Homes Ahead Of Brexit Deadline  The pound sterling has lost nearly 10% of its value in the last 120 days, as a no-deal Brexit has become more likely. The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, has fallen into a bear market in …

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After Trump Leaves France, Macron Warns World "Is Living The End Of Western Hegemony" Having skulked off stage following his joint press conference with President Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron took the opportunity to bash Trump and embrace Putin (presumably after getting permission from Angela Merkel). <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> “We are living the …

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UBS Turns Bearish On Stocks For First Time Since Financial Crisis With more than $2.48 trillion AUM, UBS Global Wealth Management is one of the world’s largest asset managers. And now, for the first time since the financial crisis, the Swiss bank has dropped its rating on equities to ‘underweight’ as it braces for a …

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EU Citizens Moving To UK Halved Since Brexit Vote New statistics published by Britain’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the number of EU citizens moving to the UK for work has halved since the Brexit referendum. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, in the year ending June 2016, the number of people moving to the UK for …

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Could We Be Wrong About Where "The Big One" Will Strike? Earthquakes Are Occurring In Areas We Never Expected Authored by Dagny Taggart via The Organic Prepper blog, Last week, a county in central Kansas experienced something quite unusual for the region: within a five day period, there were eleven earthquakes. Kansas is not a …

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'This Is An Appalling Kowtow To Beijing' – Hong Kong Workers Fired For Supporting Protests They’re calling it the “white terror”. Employees at Hong Kong-based companies, most notably the airline Cathay Pacific, are being fired or otherwise dismissed for supporting the anti-extradition bill (now pro-democracy) protests. On Friday the head of Cathay’s Flight Attendants’ Association …

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"I Feel So Scared": Why Crewmembers Of Hong Kong's Biggest Airline Are Terrified Of China Roughly a week to the day that pressure from Beijing forced out the CEO Of Cathay Pacific airlines and one of his deputies (both “quit” under pressure from Beijing’s airline regulator and mainland companies aligned with the CPC), the Washington …

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Germany Threatens Refugee Status Of Migrants Who Take Syria Vacations Migrants in Germany who return to Syria for holidays may lose their refugee status, according to German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer.  <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> “If somebody, a Syrian refugee, regularly takes holidays in Syria, he cannot honestly claim to be persecuted in Syria,” Seehofer told Bild …

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