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Plastic Apocalypse: Dangerous Microplastics Now Turning Up In Human Stool
Plastic Apocalypse: Dangerous Microplastics Now Turning Up In Human Stool Last month we revealed how high levels of dangerous microplastics had been detected in some of the most remote regions of the world. Now there are new reports that microplastics are turning up in human stool, a new study suggests. The study, Detection of Various Microplastics in Human Stool: A […]
Sluggish Oil Demand To Keep A Lid On Oil Prices Amid Global Recession Fears
Sluggish Oil Demand To Keep A Lid On Oil Prices Amid Global Recession Fears John Kemp, senior market analyst of commodities at Reuters, cites a new report via B.P.’s finance chief that indicates global oil consumption will be less than 1 million barrels per day this year, an ominous sign that the global economy is quickly deteriorating. […]
Australia Deploys World’s First Law To Fight Online Extremism
Australia Deploys World’s First Law To Fight Online Extremism In the first application of a controversial new law passed in the wake of the March terror attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, Australian authorities have ordered five websites to remove extremist content or face prosecution, according to the Financial Times. The material includes video taken by the […]
Amazon Chaos: “BlackRock Is Literally Reaping Profits As The World’s Jungles Burn”
Amazon Chaos: “BlackRock Is Literally Reaping Profits As The World’s Jungles Burn” According to a new report from the Friends of the Earth U.S.; Amazon Watch; and Profundo, Larry Fink’s BlackRock Inc is one of the top investors in companies “responsible for tropical forest destruction in the Amazon and around the world.” The report called BlackRock’s Big […]
Saudi Arabia can destroy Iran in 8 hours: Saudi prince
Saudi Arabia can destroy Iran in 8 hours: Saudi prince BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:20 P.M.) – A Saudi prince posted on Twitter Thursday that Saudi Arabia’s military could destroy Iran in eight hours if they wanted to. Prince Abdullah bin Sultan bin Nasser Al-Saud tweeted a video on Thursday that showed some of the Gulf kingdom’s […]
China Cuts Required Reserve Ratio Releasing $126BN In Liquidity; Yuan Surges
China Cuts Required Reserve Ratio Releasing $126BN In Liquidity; Yuan Surges As had been widely previewed in China’s official financial press in recent days, on Friday the PBOC announced it would cut the required reserve ratio (RRR) for all banks by 0.5% effective Sept. 16 (and by 1% for some city commercial banks, to take effect in […]
It’s Happening Again: Maersk Halts Asia-Europe Loop Amid Global Slowdown
It’s Happening Again: Maersk Halts Asia-Europe Loop Amid Global Slowdown Growth in the world continues to collapse into late summer, so much so that Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) had to “temporarily suspend” their AE2/Swan Asia to North Europe loop until mid-November, removing 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) a week from trade, reported The Loadstar. […]
Albert Edwards On How It All Ends: “In The Next Recession, The S&P Will Drop Below 666”
Albert Edwards On How It All Ends: “In The Next Recession, The S&P Will Drop Below 666” Back in August, we wrote that after decades of waiting, for Albert Edwards vindication was finally here – if only outside the US for now – because as per BofA calculations, average non-USD sovereign yields on $19 trillion in global debt […]
Navy, Marine Corps Begin Arctic War Exercise To Counter Russia and China
Navy, Marine Corps Begin Arctic War Exercise To Counter Russia and China The US Navy and Marine Corps are conducting a month-long war exercise in Alaska against the rising threats of Russia and China in the Arctic region. A massive threat to the US is that Russia and China are trying to establish the Belt and […]
US Military Surrounding Venezuela With New Deployment In Guyana
US Military Surrounding Venezuela With New Deployment In Guyana The US military has effectively surrounded Venezuela, ahead of a possible military intervention. We’ve reported in the past that the Pentagon is jointly working with Colombia, Brazil and other regional partners on how to crush Venezuela’s economy so that President Nicolás Maduro would step down. Now there’s a new […]
Floridians Brace For Dorian As Hurricane Weakens To Category 3
Floridians Brace For Dorian As Hurricane Weakens To Category 3 Hurricane Dorian has weakened from a Category 4 storm down to Category 3, now with winds of 120 miles per hour, but experts and officials say it’s too soon for Floridians to relax. The storm stalled over the island of Grand Bahama for a day, staying […]
Argentina Imposes Currency Controls
Argentina Imposes Currency Controls Late on Friday, when we noted that according to Argentina’s next president, Alberto Fernandez, the country’s upcoming bond default, its 9th since declaring Independence, was the IMF’s fault as much as that of outgoing president Mauricio Macri, we pointed out that Buenos Aires has a more pressing problem: running out of money. Specifically, we […]
US Slaps New Tariffs On China; One Minute Later China Retaliates
US Slaps New Tariffs On China; One Minute Later China Retaliates The biggest reason for last week’s torrid stock market rally was rekindled “optimism” that the escalating trade war between the US and China may be on the verge of another ceasefire following phone conversations, fake as they may have been, between the US and […]
EU Antitrust Chief: “Google And Facebook Are Sucking Up Data From Every Corner”
EU Antitrust Chief: “Google And Facebook Are Sucking Up Data From Every Corner” This is the full transcript of speech delivered by Margrethe Vestager, the European Union Antitrust Chief, held at the Business Forum of the German Ambassadors’ Conference, Berlin, 27 August 2019: Ladies and gentlemen, It’s a great pleasure, and an honour, to be here with you […]
The Real “Helicopter Money”: Since 2009, China Has Created $21 Trillion Of New Money, More Than Double The US
The Real “Helicopter Money”: Since 2009, China Has Created $21 Trillion Of New Money, More Than Double The US Back in the days of the Fed’s QE, much of thinking analyst world (the non-thinking segment would merely accept everything that the Fed did without question, after all their livelihood depended on it), was focused on […]
