Despite the fact that Washington had already sanctioned more than 80% of Iran’s economy, so the notion that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials still have any exposure to the Western financial system is a little ridiculous, President Trump delivered on his promise to impose new sanctions on the Supreme leader and other… Read More
Authored by “Selco” via The Organic Prepper blog, There are numerous reports that an influx of migrants is overwhelming the already-fragile system in the Balkans. You may think this is not pertinent if you don’t live in Europe. But just like the collapse of Venezuela, the Balkan War, and the collapse of Greece, there are patterns of behavior… Read More
(Reuters) – A U.S. judge has found three large Chinese banks in contempt for refusing to comply with subpoenas in a probe into North Korean sanctions violations, the Washington Post reported, adding one of them could lose access to the U.S. financial system. FILE PHOTO: A man rides past a Bank of Communications branch in… Read More
Europe’s top human rights body has voted to allow Russia to return as a member of its parliamentary assembly, dividing the 70-year-old watchdog tasked with monitoring civil liberties among its 47 member states. Russia was suspended from the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) in 2014 over Moscow’s behavior toward Ukraine, including the annexation of… Read More
JOHANNESBURG, June 25 (Reuters) – Jacob Zuma, unseated as South African president last year over corruption allegations, will attend a judicial inquiry into government graft during his tenure even though he believes it is prejudiced against him, his lawyer said. Zuma’s African National Congress party forced him to step down in February 2018 after years… Read More
Shocking video purporting to show an acid attack in progress went viral after it was uploaded to the internet. Though over the weekend it was unclear exactly what had happened in the dramatic footage showing two men throwing something into a vehicle on a London roadway, after which two victims frantically got out of their… Read More
South African bank notes featuring images of former South African President Nelson Mandela (R) are displayed next to the American dollar notes in this photo illustration in Johannesburg, file. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s rand firmed early on Tuesday, boosted by a dollar slide to multi-month lows against other major currencies as investors… Read More
Authored by Thomas Kirchner and Paul Hoffmeister via CamelotPortfolios.com, With protests by yellow vests in France approaching their six month anniversary and the European economy showing signs of not a temporary dip, but prolonged weakening, it is a good moment to take a step back and analyze the current situation as well as its implications… Read More
MOD Resources, the Sydney-listed company developing the T3 project in Botswana’s emerging Kalahari copperbelt, today threw its weight behind an improved takeover offer from compatriot, Sandfire Resources which will pay A$167m for the company. In January, Sandfire’s tested the waters with MOD making a preliminary A$0.38 per MOD share offer. At the time, this represented a… Read More
The German government can’t locate over 160 German “Islamic State” sympathizers who left home to fight with the terrorist organization and may have returned to Germany, according to Welt am Sonntag. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> The Federal Ministry of the Interior speculates that most of them were likely killed in combat, but that they could have “succeeded… Read More
AN obscure company called Manzolwandle Investments wants to start coal mining operations on the doorstep of the Kruger Park’s southern border, near Komatipoort. It has has already submitted a scoping report, which is an initial assessment of a mining project’s viability. Local residents are concerned and it is sure to get on the radar screen… Read More
Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, Whatever you think of BoJo, we mustn’t normalise smear tactics and tabloid nonsense… <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> Three days ago the police were called round to the flat shared by perspective Tory leader, and likely future Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds. There had apparently… Read More
Once upon a time, some of the most beautiful cities in the entire world were on the west coast, but now those same cities are degenerating into drug-infested cesspools of filth and garbage right in front of our eyes. San Francisco is known as the epicenter for our tech industry, and Los Angeles produces more… Read More
China, having claimed most of the South China Sea for itself, has published a new report that suggests helicopter drones could soon be deployed to its militarized islands. The AV500W vertical take-off and landing unmanned helicopter manufactured by Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) has completed its first-night operation under challenging conditions, showing that the… Read More
[Reuters] Stocks suffer trade jitters, dollar braced for more Fed talk [Reuters] Dollar weighed by Fed prospects; Swiss franc, gold shine on geopolitics [Bloomberg] Gold Jumps to Highest in Almost 6 Years Fueled by Rising Risks [Reuters] Trump ‘comfortable with any outcome’ from pivotal Xi talks: official [Reuters] China, U.S. trade officials talk ahead of Trump-Xi meeting [Reuters] Trump privately talks… Read More
Authored by Patrick Cockburn via The Unz Review, President Trump’s last-minute change of mind over launching US airstrikes against Iran shows that a military conflict of some description in the Gulf is becoming highly probable. His hesitation was most likely less connected with an Iranian surface-to-air missile shooting down a US surveillance drone than with his instinct… Read More
Less than 48 hours after columnist (and soon to be book author) E. Jean Carroll accused (in a New York Magazine article) Donald Trump of raping her in a dressing room in high-end department store, Bergdorf Goodman, in the 1990’s, CNN had gleefully invited the accuser on to discuss the details of this horrific act… Read More
Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, By the summer of 1936, Europe was in a state of perpetual crisis. Hitler’s rise to power, German invasion of the Rhineland, Spanish Civil War, Fascist Coup attempt in France, etc. World War was just a few years away. 25-year old Scotsman with a proper Scottish name – Fitzroy… Read More
In an exclusive, ChannelNews reveals Apple is facing hundreds of millions of dollars in penalty payments to Samsung because iPhone demand has fallen. Apple “demanded” that Samsung construct one of the world’s biggest OLED manufacturing facilities exclusively for iPhone screens. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> Overconfidence of Tim Cook, not adjusting forecasts for trade wars… Read More
Via EIA.gov, The Strait of Hormuz, located between Oman and Iran, connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s most important oil chokepoint because of the large volumes of oil that flow through the strait. In 2018, its daily oil flow averaged 21… Read More