Winter Watch original articles and aggregated world news.
It’s funny how facts and data work. It separates men from boys and reality from rhetoric. Data, for example, enables us to discern what blowhard Donald “The Red Queen” Trump has really done about his […]
Monday’s veto at the Security Council marked the first time the US has used its veto power since 2011. By Tovah Lazaroff | 20 December 2017 THE JERUSALEM POST — The United States has publicly […]
By Chris Tomlinson | 17 December 2017 BREITBART — The increasing costs of population growth in Sweden, driven almost entirely mass migration, have forced the government to seriously consider raising the national retirement age to […]
By Tyler Durden | 17 December 2017 ZERO HEDGE — It’s been a little over three weeks since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) called the Supreme Leader of Iran “the new Hitler of the Middle East”, escalating the war of […]
‘President Trump’s historic recognition of Jerusalem will secure his place in history as the first American president to take that step since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.’ 13 December 2017 JERUSALEM […]
By Tyler Durden | 14 December 2017 ZERO HEDGE –Back in May when the Chinese domination over Bitcoin was ending, we predicted that it would shift over to Japan, specifically, we said that “just as the […]
By Tyler Durden | 14 December 2017 ZERO HEDGE — Greece’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Russian national Aleksandr Vinnik, the purported mastermind of what US authorities have described as a $4 billion bitcoin […]
8 December 2017 THE NEW OBSERVER — White people — in the form of so-called “institutional racism” — are to blame for the fact that far more nonwhite youth than whites are arrested by police in […]
“How do you operate with people who are basically, with all due respect, a bunch of Orthodox Jews who have no idea about anything,” — Haim Saban VETERANS TODAY — Editor’s Note: These remarks below by Haim Saban, one […]
Nearly half of Israelis fear that their democracy is in ‘grave danger,’ Israel Democracy Institute’s annual report shows By Judy Maltz | 12 December 2017 HAARETZ — More than half of Jewish Israelis believe that the Orthodox community […]
Wash, rinse, repeat. The lugenpresse reports: A 32-year-old Australian citizen of Afghan descent with a history of drug problems was arrested in Melbourne, Australia, after a white Suzuki SUV was driven into a crowd of […]
Trump’s declaration “adds insult to ongoing injury and is practically guaranteed to fan the flames of violence,” argue scholars By Julia Conley | 8 December 2017 COMMON DREAMS — As protests and violence intensified in the […]
Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard won two world champs silver medals She became the first New Zealand man or woman to medal at the event The former top male lifter has attracted attention since competing as […]
By Tyler Durden | 6 December 2017 ZERO HEDGE — Google has announced the latest escalation in its battle to censor “extremist” content on its platforms, a covert campaign to censor conservative voices. The company plans to […]
Interior minister expects to discuss proposal next week in attempt to improve surveillance capabilities By Thorsten Severin | 4 December 2017 INDEPENDENT — The German government is considering legal changes that would oblige operators of car and house […]
By Tyler Durden | 5 December 2017 ZERO HEDGE — On the heels of a weekend full of threats and promises from governments, bankers, and the mainstream media, Bitcoin was lambasted once again overnight, this time by The […]
By Tyler Durden | 1 December 2017 ZERO HEDGE — Over the past couple of years, Europe has experienced a record influx of asylum seekers fleeing conflicts in Syria and other predominantly Muslim countries. Not surprisingly, […]
Slave markets have sprung up in Libya following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Sub-Saharan African migrants heading for Europe are captured by gangs and exploited. By Josh Robbins | 30 November 2017 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES — A […]
Netanyahu needs a war because he’s desperate, and because a war might answer two of his more immediate needs By Bradley Burston | 29 November 2017 HAARETZ — Benjamin Netanyahu needs a war. He needs it to be […]
As Bitcoin continues its mania, warnings are coming in fast and furious. For those unfamiliar with the price action of historic thin-air manias, here are a couple prime examples- the Dutch Tulip Mania and the […]
Steinhoff International Holdings is emerging as the poster child of oligarch banking in this cycle. Using debt, it acquired nine companies in the past two years, including Mattress Firm Holding in the U.S. When you […]
By Czakal | 24 November 2017 Diversity Macht Frei –Last weekend in Marseille, graffiti appeared on the shutters of Jewish shops. … The businesses were not chosen at random according to representatives of the Jewish […]
24 November 2017 BUSINESS TECH — S&P Global Ratings on Friday evening lowered its long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating on the Republic of South Africa to ‘BB’ from ‘BB+’ and affirmed the ‘B’ short-term foreign […]
Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. — Proverbs 16:18 With one dictate through his pie hole, Trumpenstein demonstrated his willingness to burn any remaining good will among Muslim nations in order to […]
Deal Expected to Face More Resistance in Congress By Jason Ditz | 23 November 2017 ANTIWAR — With international complaints about war crimes mounting, and a vote on US involvement in Yemen having just been derailed […]
23 November 2017 REUTERS — A top Israeli diplomat was rebuked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for suggesting that American Jews have a poor commitment to service in the U.S. military. Asked in an […]
By Chris Riotta | 3 December 2017 NEWSWEEK — Jared Kushner failed to disclose his role as a co-director of the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation from 2006 to 2015, a time when the group funded an Israeli settlement […]
Professor Stuart Russell, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) expert at the University of California, said allowing machines to kill humans would endanger freedom and security By Jamie Bullen | 21 November 2017 MIRROR — Killer robots capable of […]
By Tyler Durden | 19 November 2017 Submitted by Elijah Magnier, Middle East based chief international war correspondent for Al Rai Media ZERO HEDGE — Hezbollah has raised its military readiness on the whole Lebanese territory in […]
Under government proposals adults will be able to choose their own sex legally Charities claim this will lead to spike in trans inmates transferring to female jails But campaigners say putting trans inmates in male […]