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Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte hammered home his new policy on car smuggling by overseeing the demolition of dozens of seized luxury vehicles worth almost $1.2 million.
Some 29 smuggled high-end vehicles, including models of BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes Benz and Corvette, were simultaneously crushed by road rollers at three of the country’s ports on Tuesday. Continue reading “Demolition Duterte: Philippines leader bulldozes luxury cars to send message”
Japan and China have agreed to resume bilateral military education exchanges after a six-year hiatus, Japanese media report. The move comes amid a territorial row in the East China Sea between the two nations.
On Monday, senior Chinese Army officers met with the chairman of Japan’s Sasakawa Peace Foundation in charge of the program, Yohei Sasakawa, in Beijing, according to Japanese media citing an official. The sides also stressed that the move would promote bilateral defense cooperation, Sasakawa said. Continue reading “Japan & China agree to resume military exchange program after 6yr break – media”
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Jacob Zuma will not give the state of the nation address in parliament this week because of concerns that lawmakers would disrupt the speech, officials said Tuesday, reflecting the weakened state of a leader under intense pressure to resign because of scandals.
The embarrassing decision to postpone Thursday’s speech, a major event in which the president lays out a national agenda, added to the momentum against Zuma, an astute political operator who appeared to be running out of options after years of fending off allegations of wrongdoing. Continue reading “South Africa’s embattled president won’t give key speech”
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks swung to a loss on Tuesday after seesawing rapidly between positive and negative territory a day after the Dow and S&P 500 posted their biggest one-day declines in more than six years and stocks overseas extended the rout.
European shares remained lower, while losses for MSCI’s widely tracked 47-country world index broke $4 trillion. Continue reading “Wall Street swings to loss in choppy trading; bond prices rise”
As more and more cities and towns privatize everything, the use of smart meter parking apps (SMPA) continues to grow.
Which is a good thing right?
Wrong, cities and towns are using SMPA’s like ParkMobile, StreetLine, ParkMe, Park Smarter and SmartParking to collect all kinds of personal information. Continue reading “Law enforcement uses smart meter parking apps to spy on everyone”
Trump took aim at Democratic lawmakers who refused to applaud during his speech last week when he mentioned his achievements during his first year in office, a reaction he called “un-American”, The Hill reported.
“Can we call that treason? Why not?” the President said during a speech in Ohio, adding that “They certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.” Continue reading “Trump Accuses Democrats of ‘Treasonous’ Behavior”
Fort Russ – RT Russian – translated by Inessa Sinchougova
Citing intelligence sources, the representative of Donetsk, Eduard Basurin, has stated that British instructors have arrived in the Donbass, at the locations of the Ukrainian Forces.
“In the area of 93rd separate mechanized brigade in the vicinity of the city of Volnovaha, a group of foreign instructors has arrived – led by a representative of the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom, for the purpose of training of Ukrainian servicemen on how to carry out sabotage and subversive activities,” said Basurin. Continue reading “What’s brewing? British, American, Canadian advisers arrive in Donbass”
Has anyone noticed how the stock market has been extremely volatile? And how nearly everyone is soothed when industry specialists scramble to prop up our failing economy? And it’s not only happening in America – all over the globe, markets have been up and down more than usual. The last time the system showed this much volatility, the crash of 2008 occurred.
I’m no financial expert, but there seems to be a collection of very, very bad signs. When markets slowly freefall and no one in the media is talking about it, that means it’s time to sit up, pay attention, and be prepared to take immediate actions. Continue reading “How to Survive a Stock Market Crash”
President Trump is set to establish a “National Vetting Center” on Tuesday to improve the vetting process of individuals coming into the United States, according to a White House daily schedule.
The national security memorandum Trump plans to sign will give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other government agencies a six-month deadline to establish the center, CNN reported Monday. Continue reading “Trump to establish National Vetting Center for immigrants, visitors”
WEB Notes: Before I provide our opinion, I want you to hear from the experts.
“The market got phony again. It’s a shame. It can’t handle the volume and it can’t handle this level of selling. It’s OK. It happens periodically and it freaks people out at home. We can spin any tale we want, but what I am saying is that the market doesn’t work at certain points.” said Jim Cramer of Mad Money (CNBC).
Continue reading “Why The Stock Market Plunged 1,175 Points On Monday”
Solari Report – by Catherine Fitts
The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. Although the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence spending since 2007, it has not divulged how it uses the money or how it performs against the goals set by the president and Congress. (Gellman, Barton and Miller, Greg, U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary, Washington Post (08/31/2013) available at https://cyber-peace.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/%E2%80%98Black-budget%E2%80%99-summary-details-U.S.pdf).
US President Donald Trump’s campaign-promise breaking offer to give amnesty to “double” the number of “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA) illegal aliens will instantly flip the number of US citizens under the age of 18 into a nonwhite majority, and will cost at least $134 billion per year.
Trump’s offer was detailed in a recent tweet in which he specifically stated that he intended to “double the number of recipients” for an amnesty. By this it is meant that Trump intends to offer amnesty to at least 1.6 million invaders rather than the 800,000 currently enrolled in DACA. Continue reading “Trump’s DACA Amnesty Will Mean Instant Nonwhite Majority of Under-18s”
Democratic Sen. Tom Carper says ‘dreamer’ illegal immigrants should be hired to replace millions of Americans who supposedly are too unskilled, uneducated, unethical or drugged up to work for companies.
“I think the business community is saying that to the administration [and] they are certainly saying that to those of us in the Congress, and we should focus on that,” Carper told MSNBC. Continue reading “Democrat Sen. Carper: Discard Millions of Americans so Illegals Can Get Jobs”
The Defense Logistics Agency has 25,000 employees and processes 100,000 orders a day from the military and other federal agencies, for everything from food and fuel to maps and medical supplies.
According to Politico, the $40 billion-a-year logistics agency failed to document construction projects worth $800 million in 2016 alone, raising serious questions about the ongoing audit of the Pentagon that is scheduled to be completed this year. Continue reading “Pentagon Loses Track of $800 Million”
A Colorado sheriff’s deputy and a suspect were killed and four others, including three law enforcement officers, were wounded on Monday in a shooting that sprang from an auto theft investigation, officials said.
Officers from three Colorado agencies investigating an auto theft were confronted by a man at an apartment complex in Colorado Springs about 4 p.m., Colorado Springs Police Chief Pete Carey said at a press conference. A civilian was among the injured, he said. Continue reading “Colorado deputy, suspect killed, four others wounded”
On February 5, Smithsonian magazine published a column to prove gun control existed in the Wild West and inadvertently demonstrated that gun control failed then, in Tombstone, Arizona, as it does now, in Chicago, Illinois.
The Smithsonian article opens by challenging a romanticized view of the Wild West, positing instead an image of cattle town after cattle town where firearms were heavily regulated. Continue reading “Smithsonian: Wild West Had Gun Control (and it Failed Then Too)”