Well this should steal the jam out of the green-shoot-brigade’s donut. Housing Starts and Permits unexpectedly tumbled in March. Housing Starts fell 0.3% MoM (against expectations of a 5.4% rebound) and to make matters worse, February’s 8.7% plunge was revised down to a shocking 12% collapse… This is the weakest level of Housing Starts since […]

With contribution from SouthFront China’s China Central Television has briefly revealed the country’s new hypersonic aircraft under development. According to the report, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation is currently working on a hypersonic vehicle, which is capable of traveling on the speeds of about 5-20 mach for about 5 hours. China’s aggressive push […]

Twenty-one years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, a resurgent ‘New IRA’, which has taken responsibility for a car bombing and a series of parcel bombs discovered at landmarks in London and Glasgow, was blamed on Thursday for the killing of a journalist during riots in the city of Londonderry, Northern Ireland’s second-largest […]

With a corruption scandal – the revelations contained within the so-called INA papers – threatening to upend his administration, and criticism of his government intensifying ahead of a visit to Washington later this month, Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno appears to be cracking down on opposition voices, including outspoken supporters of Julian Assange. RT reports that […]

In the world of gaming, it’s always big news when new consoles are announced. So this week, when Sony hinted at the specs for its forthcoming PlayStation, there was the usual oohing and aahing. But along with excitement and speculation, there came a lingering sense of surprise. After all, this was never supposed to happen. […]

Authored by Rob Evans via The Guardian, Half of England is owned by less than 1% of its population, according to new data shared with the Guardian that seeks to penetrate the secrecy that has traditionally surrounded land ownership. The findings, described as “astonishingly unequal”, suggest that about 25,000 landowners – typically members of the […]

Six months since Der Speigel revealed a 2016 report detailing the cost of Germany’s Nazi occupation of the nation during World War II, the Greek Parliament voted Wednesday to demand Germany pay reparations for those damages. As we noted previously the audit report, ready since August 2016, claims Greece is entitled to €269.5 billion of […]

Authored by Tom Luongo, Like many I was horrified on so many levels by the news of the fire which engulfed the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The thing that makes me truly sad is that my first reaction to the news wasn’t basic human safety concerns. My first reaction was to jump to […]

As revealed in the newly released Statista Digital Economy Compass, the world created an enormous 33 zettabytes of data in 2018. If that number means nothing to you, you’re surely not alone. While the size guide at the bottom of this infographic might be of help, a more effective way to provide some context to […]

Authored by Manlio Dinucci via GlobalResearch, Everyone against everyone else – this is the media image of chaos which is spreading across the Southern shores of the Mediterranean, from Libya to Syria. It is a situation before which even Washington seems powerless. But in reality, Washington is not the sorcerer’s apprentice unable to control the […]