Robot submarine finds “holy grail of shipwrecks” with up to $17 billion in treasure
"British warships sunk the San Jose and its crew of 600 in 1701. Colombia and Spain both say it belongs to them."
"British warships sunk the San Jose and its crew of 600 in 1701. Colombia and Spain both say it belongs to them."
"While Turkish President Erdogan was busy talking up his currency and begging his people not to sell Lira for dollars, his air force was once again running interference with Greece."
"On the 18th of May, the Five Star-Movement and the League struck a deal to form a populist government. One of their government’s pledges is to deport half-a-million migrants."
"'We are not going to do any violence to the traditional definition of a security that has worked for a long time,' U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton told CNBC Wednesday."
"This toxic mix – rising interest rates and record high consumer debt in relationship to disposable income – has now started to bite the most vulnerable consumers once again. And for them, debt service is getting very difficult."
"While making 100-year loans to an insolvent country with a long history of default is especially insane, it’s important to realize there are a lot of 'Argentinas' out there today."
Unfortunately, the case is a mess, and resolves far less than you may think.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (June 8, 2018) – An attempt to make Vermont’s industrial hemp licensing program federally compliant failed this year, allowing farmers in the state to continue developing a viable hemp industry and nullifying federal prohibition in effect. The comprehensive farm bill (S276) passed by the Senate included provisions modifying the state’s industrial hemp licensing…
"Why wouldn’t the CIA and the Pentagon effect a domestic regime-change operation on November 22, 1963?"
"This is the unintended output of regime change, of toppling a tyrant and attempting to socially engineer a foreign society. Once the war begins, once society is destabilized, the chips fall where they may."