Atlas Monitor | 25 June 2015 Scotland faces the prospect of a second referendum on independence from the UK if it is to stay in the European Union. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that a second referendum is on the table. Sturgeon said it was a ‘democratic outrage’ that Scotland would be forced…
BBC | 24 July 2016 BBC forecast: UK votes to leave the EU Based on analysis of the remaining undeclared counts, the BBC forecasts that UK has voted to leave the European Union by 52% to 48%. Read more
BBC | 24 June 2016 Led Zeppelin did not plagiarise the opening chords of the rock epic Stairway to Heaven from the US band Spirit, a Los Angeles jury has found. It said the riff Led Zeppelin was accused of taking from Spirit’s 1967 song Taurus “was not intrinsically similar” to Stairway’s opening. But it…
Stuff | 22 June 2016 GPS devices could be installed in every Auckland car, tracking where and when the driver goes around the city, as part of moves to introduce a form of road tolling in the city, the Automobile Association says. The government has done an about-turn on its earlier opposition to motorway tolls and now says…
The Express | 22 June 2016 IT IS one of the world’s biggest conspiracy theories – that the west was involved in plotting, organising, and even carrying out the 9/11 terror atrocities to provide the grounds for the military strikes on the so-called Axis of Evil. While many of the theories are bizarre, one longstanding…
Breitbart | 23 June 2016 Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in which Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four flights—crashing one into each of New York City’s Twin Towers, another into the Pentagon, and the fourth into a field in Pennsylvania—a whopping 580 people have been convicted of terrorism in the United States. An even…
Clifford Cunningham | 23 June 2016 As citizens of the United Kingdom prepare to cast their votes in a nationwide referendum to decide whether or not to leave the European Union, a plan detailing the initial framework for the creation of a European Union army is being kept hidden from the public until the day…
CNBC | 23 June 2016 The popular, needle-free FluMist influenza vaccine has not protected kids or adults against flu for years and should not be used this coming flu season, experts said Wednesday. The surprise decision, sure to dismay children and needle-phobes, could also leave pediatricians short of vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and…
Japan Times | 23 July 2016 BERLIN – NATO would currently be unable to protect the Baltics against a Russian attack, the commander of U.S. ground forces in Europe, Gen. Ben Hodges, said in a news report Wednesday. “Russia could take over the Baltic states faster than we would be able to defend them,” Hodges…
Global Research | 23 June 2016 Selected Articles: Brexit: What Is It About? What is at Stake? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 22 2016 If you read the presstitute media, Brexit—the referendum tomorrow on the UK’s exit from the EU— is about racism. According to the story line, angry rightwing racists of violent inclinations want to leave…