The Recipe for Singapore's Prosperity
Singapore is also very good in areas other than fiscal policy. It is a shining example of the benefits of open trade. It ranks very highly for rule of law. And there’s very little regulation.
Singapore is also very good in areas other than fiscal policy. It is a shining example of the benefits of open trade. It ranks very highly for rule of law. And there’s very little regulation.
Could riding the waves be the ultimate meditation? Professional surfer and author Sam Bleakley suggests what the oceans can teach us about our place in the natural world
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In today’s show originally broadcast on July 17 2017, TBR Radio’s Andrew Carrington Hitchcock interviews Harald Hesstvedt Scharnhorst, to discuss his excellent autobiography about Harald and his family entitled, “An Immigrant Remembers.” We discussed: the need for a more complete history of Northern Europe; the Jewish Intrigue with respect to the First World War; the…
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Hungarian President Victor Orban authorized billboards and posters at bus stops featuring a photo of George Soros in opposition to Soros' efforts to increase immigration to Europe. [...]
(ANTIWAR.COM) — With umpteen different factions with vested interests in the figures coming out different ways, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has become one of very few groups even trying to document the overall death toll of the Syrian War.
In Denmark, the minimum wage jumps up by 40% when a worker turns 18. Thus the authors, Kreiner, Reck and Skov, ask what happens to the employment of young people when they hit their 18th birthday? Answer: employment drops dramatically, by one-third.
Here, white are the nights
Where moonwalk the women in white.
I lie in the nude and close my eyes
And they roll a cool moon down my spine
And laugh like the patter of hailstones
That strum my sun bleached heartbeat strings.
The Iraqi authorities on Sunday cast doubt on claims that the ISIS leader and purported ‘Caliph’ Ibrahim Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is actually dead following his reported death in a Russian air strike on Raqqa.
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. [...]
Dicamba is key to Monsanto's biggest-ever biotech seed launch, which occurred last year. Its Xtend line of soybeans and cotton will replace earlier products that contained glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup Ready. [...]
Two unidentified teens were arrested in connection with five recent incidents of acid attacks by robbers on mopeds. Since 2010, there have been more than 1,800 reports of attacks using corrosive substances in London. [...]
Sputnik – 17.07.2017 Tel Aviv has come out in opposition to the Russian-US ceasefire deal in southern Syria. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, Russian Middle East expert Boris Dolgov said it was noteworthy that Israel is now supporting those militant groups which both Moscow and Washington classify as terrorists. Israel has voiced its opposition to the […]
Coffee has been banned and permitted in various places throughout time. Some rulers were even skeptical of coffee because it was brewed and consumed in places where people could indulge in vices like gambling and tobacco use or perhaps exchange unorthodox ideas that were a threat to their power. It seems absurd in retrospect, but political control of all things coffee is no laughing matter.
The British socialized health-care will shut down the child’s life-support so he may "die with dignity", in accordance with the UN Convention on Children's Rights. [...]
(COMMONDREAMS) — President Donald Trump’s six-month approval rating is the lowest of any president in the past 70 years.
By Ron Paul | July 17, 2017 On Friday the House overwhelmingly approved a massive increase in military spending, passing a $696 billion National Defense Authorization bill for 2018. President Trump’s request already included a huge fifty or so billion dollar spending increase, but the Republican-led House found even that to be far too small. […]
In truth, to eat a Big Mac is not a human right that nature provides. Its existence was not inevitable; it had to come into being through human effort, marketing, promotion, hard work, high risk, daring, suffering, and (the theme of the film) persistence, in a society where enterprise is valued and people are free to take risks in the service of others.
Trump won Kansas' 4th district-- around Wichita-- by a big margin: 60.2% to 33.0%. But KS-04 isn't really Trump country. In the caucuses, Cruz came in first 7,963 (58.3%) to Señor Trumpanzee's 3,012 (22.0%). That same day Bernie swept every district in Kansas. He won the 4th with 69.8%-- 6,588 votes to Hillary's 2,846-- but with more than twice as many votes as Trump got! Think about that for a moment.
Waste water produced by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident will be dumped into the sea, the head of TEPCO – the Japanese company responsible for cleaning up the mess – says. As you can imagine, fishermen and environmentalists are spitting mad. [1]
The Pacific Ocean will become home to about 580 barrels of water tainted with tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, which was used to cool the nuclear power plant’s damaged reactors. That’s nearly 770,000 tons of waste.
An ice cold beer can be refreshing, and a glass of wine can be relaxing, but is alcohol safe for your heart? Alcohol consumption in moderation has a reputation for being heart-healthy, and a new study of nearly 2 million people seems to confirm that, but only to a certain degree.
Couldn’t have the Russian claim of killing Baghdadi stand!Russia : We Might Have Killed Baghdadi Public Relations and Perception Management...........Previous commentary “The US is investigating Russia's claims? I would think the US should have no doubt that Russia didn't kill Baghdadi because the US has already killed him several times.”And sure enough some mouthpiece for the coalition is claiming that Baghdadi is still alive. He's 99% sure.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called the US seizure of Russian embassy property in the United States, “daylight robbery”. He added,
“It looks like some highway thieves are commenting on this situation”.
He implicated the Obama administration as guilty of trying to make thigns more difficult for Donald Trump via their preferred target, Russia.
Lavrov stated,
“…how else they (Obama officials) could ruin (Moscow’s) relations with Washington in such a way that the Trump administration would fail to restore them”.
Israeli authorities have reopened the Noble Sanctuary upon which the al-Aqsa Mosque is situated after closing the area to worshippers and pilgrims for the first time in two decades.
The closure came after two Israeli policemen were killed by three Arab-Israeli citizens. The three Arab-Israelis were subsequently shot dead.
The reopening of the Noble Sanctuary complete with vast security barriers and checkpoints has angered locals who worship at the ancient holy site.
The «Monthly Harvard-Harris Poll: June 2017» is the latest poll in that series, and it scientifically sampled 2,258 U.S. registered voters, of whom (as shown on page 30) 35% were «Democrat», 29% were «Republican», and 30% were «independent»). It indicates (page 24) that 37% «approve» and 63% «disapprove» of «the way the Republican Party is handling its job». It also indicates (page 25) that 38% «approve», and 62% «disapprove», of «the way the Democratic Party is handling its job».
South Korea has moved decisively away from the militant rhetoric of impeached President Park Geun-hye. When current South Korean President Moon Jae-in was inaugurated in May of 2017, he stated clearly, “I am willing to go anywhere for the peace of the Korean Peninsula if needed”.
Now, South Korea’s Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon has said,
The US arts and crafts dealer Hobby Lobby was sued by the US government over the smuggling of looted Iraqi artefacts into the United States.
The “one country, two systems” model is not perfect, but it is a pragmatic and realistic approach to reunifying the mainland and Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau. It allows the two sides time (50 years or longer) to come up with solutions that could bridge the development gap – economic, political, social and cultural – between the three sides. What’s more, mainland China will never allow any of the three to declare official independence.
Doug McKenty of The Shift invited me on his show to talk about my new book National Security Cinema.
With it’s goal to overthrow Assad (and help the now feuding Qatar and Saudi Arabia build its energy pipeline through Damascus into Europe), falling apart in spectacular fashion, the regime in Brussels is left with nothing more than sanctions, in its petty effort to punish Assad for reclaiming the country he was elected to govern, and defeating the ISIS-Al Qaeda invaders.
It took just under a week for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go from cautious optimism about the ceasefire jointly established in south-western Syria between Russia, Jordan and the United States to total opposition.
On 10 July Netanyahu said the following of the ceasefire,
Democrat Congressman, and outspoken Russia-hater, Adam Schiff (D-CA) has been forced to admit that on ABC’s “This Week” that collusion between the DNC and Ukraine is an issue.
When then-President-elect Trump appointed former neurosurgeon and presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson to be Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, I…
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Without much of a counter, Leonid Bershidsky's Johnson's Russia List-promoted Bloomberg article of July 13, presents the image of Russia as a US adversary, thereby (essentially) excusing Kiev regime-Democratic National Committee (DNC) collusion against Donald Trump during the 2016 US presidential election - unlike the not as well substantiated claim of a Donald Trump-Russian government cooperation against Hillary Clinton in the same period.
When ten American sailors found themselves captives of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Persian Gulf last year, then-Secretary John Kerry secured their freedom in less than sixteen hours. He used a remarkable instrument to score this stunning victory: A telephone.
North Korea’s nuclear deterrent is a logical – not crazy – reaction to U.S. “regime change” wars in Iraq and Libya, two countries attacked after they surrendered their WMD stockpiles, reports retired Col. Ann Wright. By Ann Wright Despite the…Read more →
The issue of “tolerance” can be complicated, even paradoxical, such as extending tolerance to intolerance with the possibility that the intolerance will ultimately eliminate tolerance, explains Lawrence Davidson. By Lawrence Davidson In case you haven’t noticed, the United States is…Read more →
ΑΝΤΙ ΣΧΟΛΙΟΥ: Κάποτε o Άπτον Σινκλαίρ είχε πει: “Μου είναι δύσκολο να κάνω κάποιον να καταλάβει κάτι όταν ο μισθός του εξαρτάται από το να μην το καταλάβει.” [‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.’]
There are signs that a US military operation against Iran is imminent. The administration is pushing Congress for the authority to build new «temporary» facilities in Iraq and Syria. Its policy statement says the armed forces are hamstrung by legal restrictions on the ability to expand military infrastructure in Syria and Iraq.
It is far from unusual in recent times: a spate of terrorist activity, followed by police seemingly agog, then the call for cavalry, usually in the form of military forces to guard vital installations and furnish the public with a reassuring presence. Unfortunately, such moves tend to take place long after the horse has bolted, an ineffectual measure in terms[Read More...]
I view Saudi Arabia as a dysfunctional manifestation of Islam. In the same way, I view Israel as a dysfunctional manifestation of Judaism. This is not to mean, I hasten to say, that either Judaism or Islam is inherently at odds with the social, cultural or political lives of its adherents or with universal moral values. The point I am[Read More...]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday there will be no mercy for traitors. Speaking at a rally in Istanbul to mark one year of a failed coup, Erdogan warned to “chop off the heads” of traitors. The opposition says his call for “chopping off the heads” may return the capital punishment abolished in August 2002, in a bid[Read More...]
Our PM is a MASTER BLUFFER, a characteristic learnt sitting at the feet of Guru Golwalkar. Modi ji has completely washed off his hands from the culpability of crimes being committed by ‘gau rakshaks’ by saying “All (state) governments should take stringent action against those violating law in the name of cow protection.” Thus it is not the Hindutva gang[Read More...]
The Ancient Greeks knew: “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” No less a figure than the late Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CIA made use of this saying by recruiting the Muslim Brotherhood to fight a proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, which led to the[Read More...]
“What type of poem am I?” I am as formless as the clouds, and as elegiac as the silence, in the itinerary of the noise. I am not a classic written by the author God. The rhythms of my verses are supplied by the parable of their tears. I am not in me, though I abide within myself. I am[Read More...]
A woman works at a textile factory in Tai’an City, east China’s Shandong Province [Xinhua]China’s GDP rose 6.9 percent year on year in the second quarter of 2017, flat from the first quarter, official data showed Monday.
The pace was slightly higher than previous market consensus of 6.8 percent and well above the government’s annual target of “around 6.5 percent.”
In the first half, the growth rate was also 6.9 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a statement.
The PUCL condemns the action of Mumbai Police for registering on 16th July, 2017 a criminal case of defamation and obscenity against the comedy group, `All India Bakchod’ (AIB) for allegedly caricaturing the PM, Narendra Modi. According to the police AIB had on Thursday, 15th July, tweeted a picture of a Modi look-alike standing in a railway station, peering into[Read More...]