Germany's East Is Shrinking According to forecasts from the 'Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln', Germany's population is going to increase to 83.1 million by 2035. As Statista's Martin Armstrong notes, the main reason for this is the record number of immigrants and asylum seekers which arrived in the country in 2015. You will find more statistics at …

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Fukushima Operator Given Green Light To Restart Nuclear Reactors Via TheAntiMedia.org, The Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has received approval to operate reactors for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. On Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said TEPCO’s two reactors in northern Japan met new and stricter safety standards. The authority unanimously approved the draft …

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Caracas Or Catalan – Nightstick Democracy At Its Finest… Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, The last several days in Venezuela have been absolutely mind-blowing. Pretty much all the stories you’ve heard are true– countless people eating out of garbage cans, the appalling shortages of basic staples like food, medicine, and even soap… and the …

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Google Reports Record Level Of Government Data Requests Google has just released its biannual transparency report disclosing the number of requests governments send for users' private data. As Statista's Niall McCarthy details, in the first six months of this year, the search engine giant received 48,941 requests for data while 83,345 accounts were specified in those requests. You will …

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"This Is A Crisis Greater Than Any Government Can Handle": The $400 Trillion Global Retirement Gap Submitted by John Mauldin of Mauldin Economics Today we’ll continue to size up the bull market in governmental promises. As we do so, keep an old trader’s slogan in mind: “That which cannot go on forever, won’t.” Or we …

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God is Dead From the Slope of Hope blog: That’s something I’ve got in common with Private Pyle: he wants to be different. For whatever reason, I’m a contrarian to the core. Indeed, one of the appeals of messing around with personal computers back in 1980 was that practically nobody else was doing it (in …

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Here Are The Cities Of The World Where "The Rent Is Too Damn High" In ancient times, like as far back as the 1990s, housing prices grew roughly inline with inflation rates because they were generally set by supply and demand forces determined by a market where buyers mostly just bought houses so they could …

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UK Public Schools Forcing Girls As Young As Four To Wear Muslim Veil Research published in The Sunday Times this week revealed that eight state-funded British schools are forcing children to wear the Islamic hijab along with other Muslim female dress code requirements, which includes girls as young as four. The findings are based on …

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Why Political Correctness Fails (When What We Know "For Sure" Is Wrong) Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, Most of us are familiar with the Politically Correct (PC) World View. William Deresiewicz describes the view, which he calls the “religion of success,” as follows: There is a right way to think and a right …

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A Failing Empire, Part 1: Russia & China's Military Strategy To Contain The US Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Looking at the global political landscape over the last month, two trends are becoming more apparent. The infamous military and economic power at America’s disposal is declining, whereas in the multipolar field, …

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