French riot police were pictured brandishing Heckler & Koch G36 semi-automatic rifles with 30-round magazines near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Saturday afternoon, reports the Daily Mail. The deployment of rifles with presumably live ammunition visible through the magazine…
PG&E Sparked at Least 1,500 California Fires – Now the Utility Faces Collapse
PG&E Corp. equipment started more than one fire a day in California on average in recent years as a historic drought turned the region into a tinderbox. The utility’s unsuccessful efforts to prevent such blazes have put it in a…
Newmont Mining to buy Goldcorp in $10 billion deal to create world’s largest gold producer
Newmont Mining said it would buy Goldcorp in a deal valued at $10 billion. The deal will create the world’s biggest gold producer by output. Newmont Mining said on Monday that it would buy smaller rival Goldcorp in a…
A Sustainable Eco-Resort Is Coming To The Bahamas
As Forbes revealed: Star Resort Group Inc. announced plans to build Port St. George Resort, The Bahamas’ first ever eco-engineered luxury waterfront destination. The 882-acre mixed-used tourist development will span coast to coast on Long Island, often described as the most…
Tulsi Gabbard, the intrepid congresswoman who has over the years given the Neocons and war machine heart attacks, is running for president in 2020
“I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week,” she told CNN. Gabbard (D-Hawaii) tells us exactly: “There are a lot of reasons for me to make this decision. There are a lot…
The World’s Largest 10 Economies in 2030
Today’s emerging markets are tomorrow’s powerhouses, according to a recent forecast from Standard Chartered, a multinational bank headquartered in London. The bank sees developing economies like Indonesia, Turkey, Brazil, and Egypt all moving up the ladder – and by 2030, it estimates that seven…
$3.5 Trillion A Year – America’s Health Care System
If the U.S. health care system was a country, it would have the fifth largest GDP on the entire planet. At this point only the United States, China, Japan and Germany have a GDP that is larger than the 3.5 trillion…
Apples Cuts iPhone Production For Second Time In 2 Months
In the latest batch of bad news for Apple and its suppliers, Nikkei reported late Tuesday that, for the second time in two months, the world’s formerly biggest company has cut production on its newest batch of smartphones (which it unveiled during a widely panned…
China probe lands on dark side of the Moon
The Chinese robotic probe Chang’e 4 has landed on the dark side of the moon, becoming the first manmade craft to alight on the unexplored surface, according to reports from Chinese state media. The probe reportedly landed in the South…
Yoga Retreats In Sri Lanka
3 Days City Escape Yoga Weekend Lagoon View, Koggala, Sri Lanka ($190) Sri Lanka Yoga Weekend It’s so nice to escape from city life to the jungles and allow yourself to relax, reconnect with nature, and yourself. Come and enjoy…
NASA published the first photo of Ultima Thule on edge of our solar system
In an incredible world-first, NASA has released an image from a historic flyby of Ultima Thule, a bowling pin-shaped celestial object at the edge of our solar system some 6 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away. The New Horizons spacecraft…
Lifestyle – Remote Workers Enjoy Sri Lanka
As beach life is not reserved for billionaires only, european and american remote workers enjoy the hospitality of Sri Lanka. One notebook and a villa for $250 a month – that’s all they need. Sri Lanka has hundreds villas for…
Congo cuts internet for second day to avert ‘chaos’ before poll results
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday began counting ballots from a presidential election marked by delays and fears of violence and vote-rigging, straining hopes for its first-ever peaceful transfer of power. After a relatively bloodless vote, election officials…
Turkey Tops China As World’s Top Jailer Of Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists, an advocacy group, has released its annual census showing the number of journalists imprisoned across the world. More than 250 journalists are behind bars for the third consecutive year and the CPJ said that an authoritarian approach…
Holiday Villas for Rent – Sri Lanka
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