by Dr. Eowyn Today, the BBC is scheduled to broadcast an animal documentary, Spy in the Snow, narrated by David Tennant, on how dangerous life is for creatures in the Antarctic. To promote it, BBC One put out a video clip showing a giant petrel preying on a group of Emperor penguin chicks. Giant petrels are … Read more
by Martin Armstrong The major influential German news weekly, Der Spiegel, has suspended two of its senior editors following the scandal involving a reporter Claas Relotius admitted faking stories for years. Relotius, who is 33, resigned after admitting that he had made up stories and invented protagonists in more than a dozen articles in the … Read more
Rampant unaffordability and a slew of other reasons. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. In the fourth quarter of 2018, prices in prime regional housing markets in England and Wales fell by 0.9%, according to global real estate agency Knight Frank. For the whole year, priced dropped by 0.6%, compared to 2017. The rate … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The price of going upscale: New cars are too damn expensive, and Americans aren’t buying them anymore. Based on new-vehicle sales data this year through November, plus my own estimates for December, for the year 2018, sales of new cars plunged 13% to 5.5 million units; and sales of new trucks … Read more
Dec. 29, 2018 – Mary Greeley News – An American health worker who was possibly exposed to Ebola while treating patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo was evacuated to the United States Saturday and placed in a secure area at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, hospital officials said. The person has no symptoms … Read more
Gateway Pundit reports In the last two weeks the US Border Patrol have Arrested a MS-13 gang leader, An agent was assaulted by an illegal alien, An agent rendered life-saving first aid, And agents rescued a man from drowning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tb4WNGvHq0 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018… In the last two weeks the US Border Patrol have: ** … Read more
The stock market has found itself on shaky ground. Many investors have piled on and bought the dip. With nearly a decade of bull market behind them, investors feel very confident about many more years of growth ahead. Unfortunately, they forgot to acknowledge the Fed and their desire to slow down the economy at this … Read more
There is no way out of this mess, that’s for sure. Markets are wild, the real economy is weak, tensions are high. Yet the mainstream media and the propaganda they force feed the public is never ending. I guess there’s nothing really new about that. What’s different about 2019 than 2017 and previous years is … Read more
Associated Press for the Western Journal reports, Russia’s new strategic weapon has rendered any missile defenses useless at a small fraction of their cost, officials said Thursday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaOxMgOHeZk Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-off… Russia’s new strategic weapon has rendered any missile defenses useless at a small fraction of their cost, officials said Thursday. The Avangard hypersonic glide … Read more
Initial Reports Say American Newspapers Are Under Cyberattack By Foreign Entity, And Is Preventing Distribution “#BREAKING: Initial reports that a cyberattack from a “foreign entity’ has hit newspapers across the United States, preventing distribution of well-known papers such as the @latimes & multiple others, source says- LA Times” #BREAKING: Initial reports that a cyberattack from … Read more