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Smith's suicide, Kaspersky's contracts and pot-selling robotic blonde mannequins + this day in history w/Chappaquiddick and our song of the day by Beach House on your Morning Monarchy for July 18, 2017.

The card companies are offering thousands of dollars in upgrades on card technology but, in exchange, merchants must stop accepting cash. So far, merchants do not want to risk losing business and are not receptive to the scheme. [...]

This week on the New World Next Week: Russia rolls out its Visa/Mastercard alternative; it's Gladio B redux as a German soldier is caught posing as a refugee to stage terror; and the Austrian government wants to tax your tweets.

This week on the New World Next Week: Russia rolls out its Visa/Mastercard alternative; it's Gladio B redux as a German soldier is caught posing as a refugee to stage terror; and the Austrian government wants to tax your tweets.

(MPN) In 2011, a Swiss study confirmed what many already knew or suspected: bankers run the world. The study, completed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, found that “a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions,” essentially forming a network of global corporate control.

(ANALYSIS) — President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order temporarily banning all refugees, as well as people from six majority-Muslim countries, from entering the United States.
In contrast to the fanfare that accompanied Trump’s rollout of January’s ill-fated travel ban, Monday’s signing was a decidedly more low-key event. Trump signed the executive order out of public view. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson later outlined the details.

A man sells balloons wearing a Mickey Mouse costume with an US flag on his hat in a tourist area in Madrid, Spain. (AP/Andres Kudacki)
On Thuesday, EU lawmakers voted to force Americans to apply for visas when traveling to Europe in response to Washington refusing to allow all Europeans to travel to the States visa-free.

FILE – Israeli security detain an Associated Press photographer during a Palestinian protest in Yatta in the West Bank on Saturday (AP Photo)

 
(REPORT) — Israel will stop issuing work visas to Human Rights Watch staff, the NGO said on Friday, as Israeli ministries accused the group of being “fundamentally biased” against the state.
The New York-based watchdog, which has written critical reports about the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, applied months ago for a visa for its Israel and Palestine director, US citizen Omar Shakir.

Izzy Berdan, of Boston, center, wears an American flags as he chants slogans with other demonstrators during a rally against President Donald Trump’s order that restricts travel to the U.S., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Boston. (AP/Steven Senne)

It is also to include a total ban on refugees.