Category: Editors’ Picks

EU Imposes The World’s Largest Carbon Tax Scheme
22. 12. 2022 No Responses

EU Imposes The World’s Largest Carbon Tax Scheme

To prevent “carbon leakage” the European Parliament Reached a Deal on a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, CBAM for short. An EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will be set up to equalise the price of carbon paid for EU products operating...
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Musk Will Resign As Twitter CEO After ‘Finding Someone Foolish Enough To Take Job’
21. 12. 2022 No Responses

Musk Will Resign As Twitter CEO After ‘Finding Someone Foolish Enough To Take Job’

Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday night that he would step down from the CEO role at Twitter Inc. after finding a successor. This comes two days after he asked users whether he should step down — most respondents answered “Yes.” “I will...
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Dassault is preparing flagship bizjet Falcon 10X
20. 12. 2022 No Responses

Dassault is preparing flagship bizjet Falcon 10X

Dassault’s new flagship Falcon 10Xis going after the Bombardier Global 7500 and Gulfstream G700 to claim the title of the world’s largest business jet. The French airframe maker says the 10X will have the largest interior in its class. The...
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Two-Thirds Of Voters Believe Social Media Engaged In Politically-Motivated Censorship
19. 12. 2022 No Responses

Two-Thirds Of Voters Believe Social Media Engaged In Politically-Motivated Censorship

The December Harvard CAPS Harris Poll is out this week and Mark Penn and his colleagues have some interesting results to share. Despite the refusal of many in the media to cover the Twitter files, nearly two-thirds of voters believe Twitter shadow-banned us...
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BIS sets a limit of 2% on crypto reserves among commercial banks
18. 12. 2022 No Responses

BIS sets a limit of 2% on crypto reserves among commercial banks

Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) sets a limit of 2% on crypto reserves among commercial banks. The new standard limits crypto reserves among banks to 2% by 2025,...
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Interview with Michael Hudson
17. 12. 2022 No Responses

Interview with Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson is an American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, former Wall Street analyst, political consultant, commentator and journalist. He is a contributor to The Hudson Report, a weekly economic and fin...
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Fresh Missile Barrage Leaves Cities Across Ukraine Without Power Or Water
16. 12. 2022 No Responses

Fresh Missile Barrage Leaves Cities Across Ukraine Without Power Or Water

Russia launches at least 76 missiles at critical infrastructure. Commander of Ukraine’s Armed Forces Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi tallied that Russia launched 76 missiles at critical infrastructure throughout the country. He then claimed that national air defen...
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UN adopts resolution on Syrian, Palestinian sovereignty over natural resources in Zionist regime-occupied territories
15. 12. 2022 No Responses

UN adopts resolution on Syrian, Palestinian sovereignty over natural resources in Zionist regime-occupied territories

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a resolution declaring that Syrians and Palestinians have sovereignty over their natural resources in the Zionist regime-occupied tracts of land in the strategic Golan Heights and the West Bank, including ...
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Slovakia Ordered 152 Swedish IFVs CV90 Mk IV
14. 12. 2022 No Responses

Slovakia Ordered 152 Swedish IFVs CV90 Mk IV

Slovak Ministry of Defense announced that it had signed an agreement worth 1.37 billion USD for the delivery of 152 Swedish infantry fighting vehicles CV90 Mk IV. The Swedish Combat Vehicle 90 or CV90 has proven suitable for the subarctic...
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President Joe Biden announced a $36 billion bail-out of financially troubled pension plans
13. 12. 2022 No Responses

President Joe Biden announced a $36 billion bail-out of financially troubled pension plans

Pension funds need an annual profit of 6 to 7% to function. And how do you achieve that when government bonds have yielded 0 to 2% p.a. for the past 11 years? Yeah, using a government bail-out! The funds are...
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Borrell: EU military stockpiles ‘depleted’
12. 12. 2022 No Responses

Borrell: EU military stockpiles ‘depleted’

Josep Borrell – Vice-President of the European Commission: EU military stockpiles ‘depleted’ Darkest hour for warmongers – “Demilitarization of Ukraine” morphed into “Demilitarization of NATO”.  “We have given weapons...
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Dutch Gov’t Attempts To Forcibly Close 3,000 Farms To Comply With ‘Green’ Agenda
11. 12. 2022 No Responses

Dutch Gov’t Attempts To Forcibly Close 3,000 Farms To Comply With ‘Green’ Agenda

Dutch farmers protesting for months over the government’s radical ‘green’ plan to slash nitrogen emissions by 50% – 95% could soon face forced buyouts of their land. “For agricultural entrepreneurs, there will be a stopping schem...
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Turkish stealth UAV Kızılelma will be a substitute for the undelivered Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
10. 12. 2022 No Responses

Turkish stealth UAV Kızılelma will be a substitute for the undelivered Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

Turkish manufacturer Bayraktar announced that its first indigenous stealth supersonic unmanned fighter aircraft Bayraktar Kızılelma, has passed the first test runs. This is a very positive signal that the program is on the right track. Kızılelma is planned...
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JUUL Settles More Than 10,000 Lawsuits For $1.2 Billion
9. 12. 2022 No Responses

JUUL Settles More Than 10,000 Lawsuits For $1.2 Billion

Bloomberg just reported that e-cigarette maker Juul Labs has agreed to pay $1.2 billion to resolve about 10,000 lawsuits targeting the e-cigarette maker as a major cause of a US youth-vaping epidemic, according to people familiar with the matter. In...
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Wind auction nets $757M in California
8. 12. 2022 No Responses

Wind auction nets $757M in California

For the first time in history, the U.S. government on Tuesday started auctioning off sites for offshore wind development near America’s Pacific coast. The Bureau of Ocean Land Management (BOEM) took bids for the rights to develop wind turbines in...
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