CHINA - A top adviser to the Chinese government has warned that Beijing risks a currency blow-up akin to Britain's traumatic ordeal in 1992, if it continues trying to defend its exchange rate peg amid a deepening deflation crisis.
USA - The United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that police officers can lie to suspects in regards to a traffic stop — even when no violation has occurred. The ruling essentially gives police officers carte blanche to stop anyone they want for absolutely no reason — merely acting on a hunch.
USA - Yet another reason why taxes are going up, cities and states are going broke, and the world is approaching financial implosion. As if the world needed another dangerous and volatile factor in the mix of looming economic downturn.
USA - Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $5.06 billion to settle claims it misled mortgage bond investors during the 2008 financial crisis, the US Department of Justice said on Monday.
EUROPE - Europe must move away from “self-defeating” austerity and embrace “progressive” reform, the prime ministers of Greece and Portugal have declared.
EUROPE - Brussels is poised to force US nationals to apply for visas for travel to Europe, in response to Washington refusing to allow all Europeans to travel to the States visa-free. The European Commission on Tuesday considered whether Americans crossing the Atlantic should require additional travel documents, a move motivated by the stricter regulations the US imposes on some European citizens.
USA - The US Air Force has deployed B-52 long-range bombers to the Middle East for the first time since the Gulf war ended over 25 years ago to begin striking the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, officials said Saturday.
UK - Isn’t it disgusting? Isn’t it funny? The woman who fell in love with her son. But laugh I did not, as I read the tale of Kim West – the 51-year-old who entered a romantic relationship with her child 30 years after giving him up for adoption.
USA - Veteran DJ Lewis in Wisconsin claims he was 5 feet away from RNC chairman Reince Priebus when he overheard that the GOP’s voting machine had been purposely rigged to keep Donald Trump under 50 percent. Lewis said he recorded the chairman’s conversation, but the mainstream media is refusing to run the story. “Already have tried 8 different places. I even taped his conversation and they tell me that is illegal,” wrote Lewis.
UK - This month, 50 world leaders gathered in Washington DC to talk about what measures could be taken to prevent terrorists from accessing nuclear or radiological material. It was the latest in a series of summits which have made important progress in securing nuclear materials.
USA - More and more women are finding it difficult to get pregnant, with mounting evidence suggesting chemicals used in plasticisers and pesticides are responsible. The consequences are estimated to cost the EU €1.4 billion per year, EurActiv Germany reports.
USA - Disagreement is not hatred, and the truth is not hate speech. Somebody needs to tell that to President Obama. If you have ever wondered whether President Obama has an abiding hostility to people of Christian faith, wonder no more. He believes we are a threat to national security. If you are a sincerely devoted follower of Jesus Christ, your president believes you are a potential domestic terrorist.
USA - The film Vaxxed, exposing criminal fraud at the CDC and the CDC’s concealment of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, was shut down in Houston. Locked out 2 days ago. It was supposed to open at the Worldfest Houston International Film Festival, but Hunter Todd, the head of the Festival, admitted in writing that “high government officials” in Houston had threatened the Festival — so Vaxxed was axed.
GERMANY - Islamic State militants are eyeing German cities as targets for future attacks and are recruiting supporters from among newly-arrived migrants amid the radicalization of local Arabic-speaking communities, the German domestic intelligence chief has said.
USA - The global growth slowdown has no end in sight as policymakers drag their heels on reforms and a “robot revolution” threatens living standards, the World Bank’s chief economist has warned. Ahead of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring meetings this week, Kaushik Basu said he expected the global economy to expand by just 2.5 percent this year.