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Rhine River At Dangerously Low Water Levels Could Cause Production Hell For German Firms
Rhine River At Dangerously Low Water Levels Could Cause Production Hell For German Firms A series of heatwaves across Central Europe this summer has brought record-breaking temperatures to Germany that sparked dangerously low water levels on the Rhine river, one of the continents most important shipping routes, which could decrease manufacturing and disrupt supply chains that might tip […]
Russian Nuclear Reactors Taken Offline In 2nd Serious Incident In Under A Week
Russian Nuclear Reactors Taken Offline In 2nd Serious Incident In Under A Week In a deeply worrisome development related to Russia’s network of ten nuclear power plants nationwide, two of them suffered significant operating incidents in under only one week, causing multiple reactors to be take offline. Russia’s TASS reported that a “transformer short circuit” at the Kalinin nuclear power plant […]
No, Rate Cuts Were Not Discussed: ECB Insiders Out Draghi as Fabricator & Schemer, and Talk to Reuters
No, Rate Cuts Were Not Discussed: ECB Insiders Out Draghi as Fabricator & Schemer, and Talk to Reuters Draghi’s shenanigans get hilarious, months before his term ends. So here’s ECB President Mario Draghi, whose term ends in October, and he’s at the ECB Forum in Portugal, and in a speech on Tuesday titled innocuously, “Twenty Years of […]
This Assange Supporter Excoriating The Press Is The Best Thing You’ll Watch All Day
This Assange Supporter Excoriating The Press Is The Best Thing You’ll Watch All Day Julian Assange’s latest US extradition hearing was a brief affair which saw the WikiLeaks founder’s next hearing scheduled for sometime after the end of February, nearly at the end of his 50-week sentence for a bail conditions violation. According to Reuters Assange was lucid and spirited enough to argue […]
US Condemns Russian-Syrian Airstrikes As “Rebels” Urge External Intervention
US Condemns Russian-Syrian Airstrikes As “Rebels” Urge External Intervention Here we go again in what now seems a yearly exercise: the United States has put Russia and the Syrian government on notice as both ramp up airstrikes on Idlib province in Syria’s northwest. The last time Russian jets and the Syrian Army prepared for a major assault […]
Lira Tumbles, Turkish Stocks Enter Bear Market After US Issues Ultimatum; Russia Furious
Lira Tumbles, Turkish Stocks Enter Bear Market After US Issues Ultimatum; Russia Furious The Turkish Lira tumbled as much as 1% against the dollar, leading a decline across emerging markets… … while Turkish stock market losses accelerated as the Borsa Istanbul 100 Index falls 1.5%, declining for a 6th day and 13 of the past […]
Reuters: OPEC’s Oil Production Drops To Lowest Since 2015
Reuters: OPEC’s Oil Production Drops To Lowest Since 2015 OPEC’s oil production in March 2019 fell to its lowest level since February 2015, as Saudi Arabia cut more than it had pledged under the output cut deal and Venezuela continued to struggle amid U.S. sanctions and a major blackout, the monthly Reuters survey showed on Monday. The […]
China Offers To Help Venezuela Restore Power As Maduro Accuses Trump, Guaido Of “Sabotage”
China Offers To Help Venezuela Restore Power As Maduro Accuses Trump, Guaido Of “Sabotage” China offered on Wednesday to help Venezuela repair its power grid after the country was plunged into its worst blackout on record, now in its sixth day, reports Reuters. With the power blackout in its sixth day, hospitals struggled to keep equipment running, food rotted […]
Chinese Data Leak Reveals Millions Of People Actively Tracked By Surveillance Network
Chinese Data Leak Reveals Millions Of People Actively Tracked By Surveillance Network A data leak discovered by a Dutch internet expert has revealed over 2.5 million people who are under active surveillance by a Chinese government contractor, reports Reuters. An exposed database maintained by Shenzhen-based facial-recognition technology company SenseNets Technology revealed ID card numbers, birth dates […]
Maduro Urges Supporters To Hit Streets As Russian “Security Contractors” Arrive In Venezuela
Maduro Urges Supporters To Hit Streets As Russian “Security Contractors” Arrive In Venezuela Update: Maduro – now backed by Russian military contractors, has urged his supporters to take to the streets to defend the legitimacy of his government. The Venezuelan leader has vowed that his country won’t turn into a “Syria or Libya” situation, and that the […]
German Business Blasts Trump’s NordStream 2 Sanctions As “Attack On EU Sovereignty”
German Business Blasts Trump’s NordStream 2 Sanctions As “Attack On EU Sovereignty” A German business group said on Friday that any attempts by the United States to stop Europe from buying Russian gas in the form of additional sanctions against Moscow would be an attack on European sovereignty, reports Reuters. “If the U.S. decided to sanction […]
How Mainstream Media Join the US Government Offensive Against Iran: Case Study of Reuters
How Mainstream Media Join the US Government Offensive Against Iran: Case Study of Reuters Summary: A 2013 news investigation of Iranian corruption by Reuters news service has been cited by at least four books published one after another, the most recently in 2018. It has also been cited by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in […]
Wikileaks Warns Reporters Not To Publish 140 “False And Defamatory” Statements About Julian Assange
Wikileaks Warns Reporters Not To Publish 140 “False And Defamatory” Statements About Julian Assange WikiLeaks is sick and tired of mainstream media outlets publishing inaccurate and at times defamatory claims about its founder, Julian Assange. So in a recent email to journalists who regularly cover the organization, Wikileaks described 140 “false and defamatory” claims about […]
Commentary: 2019 will be the year of more state control
Commentary: 2019 will be the year of more state control A signature theme of the new year is the possibility of a malign confrontation between the world’s greatly enhanced capacity for electronic surveillance and the weakening of democratic control. The antidote to that risk is the democratic spirit and civil freedoms – both of which […]
French Police Brace for Fifth Wave of Yellow Vest Protests
French Police Brace for Fifth Wave of Yellow Vest Protests France is set to deploy tens of thousands of police and gendarmes across the country on Saturday, including 8,000 in Paris, to deal with a fifth weekend of Yellow Vest protests – just days after three people were killed and 13 injured after a mass shooting […]
