Everything counts in large amounts: Greek banks prepare plan to raid deposits...
July 2015 – ATHENS, Greece – Greek banks are preparing contingency plans for a possible “bail-in” of depositors amid fears the country is heading for financial collapse, according to bankers and...
View ArticleFinancial markets rattled: Euro falls as Greece votes ‘No’ to bailout package
July 2015 – GREECE – The euro fell sharply on Monday (local time) in Asia-Pacific trading after Greeks overwhelmingly rejected austerity measures demanded in return for bailout money. The euro...
View ArticleDisaster looming: Banks down to about $550 million dollars – enough cash on...
July 2015 – GREECE – Greek bank reserves are being rapidly depleted, which could plunge the over-indebted country into economic collapse. As creditors stopped funding the Greek banks, the country’s...
View ArticleChina’s stock market loses 8.4 percent in hours – This may be the start of...
August 2015 – BEIJING – Asian stock markets took a battering in the first hours of Monday trading, exacerbating last week’s worldwide stock sell-off over fears that China’s sluggish economy may only...
View ArticleStock up on canned food for stock market crash, warns former Gordon Brown...
August 2015 – FINANCIAL – A former adviser to Gordon Brown has urged people to stock up on canned goods and bottled water as stock markets around the world slide. Damian McBride appeared to suggest...
View ArticleU.S. stocks stage dramatic reversal, erasing rally and raising new fears
August 2015 – FINANCIAL – U.S. stocks plunged in the last hour of trading Tuesday to wipe out a day-long rally, adding fresh uncertainty to markets that had seemed to be on the rebound. The wild swing...
View ArticleEuropeans distraught, divided as migrant crisis worsens
September 2015 – EUROPE – The sheer numbers flooding across the Mediterranean, the harrowing images of children drowned at sea and of desperate families scrambling to board trains, have divided people...
View ArticleWorsening crisis: migrants stream into Austria, swept west by overwhelmed...
September 2015 – HUNGARY – Hundreds of exhausted migrants streamed into Austria on Saturday, reaching the border on buses provided by an overwhelmed Hungarian government that gave up trying to hold...
View ArticleOn the brink of economic collapse: Gaza could soon become uninhabitable, UN...
September 2015 – MIDDLE EAST – A hard-hitting new United Nations report says Gaza could become uninhabitable in less than five years if current economic and population trends continue. It cites what...
View ArticlePanicked super rich buying boltholes with private airstrips to escape if poor...
September 2015 – ECONOMIC COLLAPSE – Super rich hedge fund managers are buying ‘secret boltholes’ where they can hideout in the event of civil uprising against growing inequality, it has been...
View ArticleGreek island of Lesbos ‘on the verge of explosion’ with more than 15,000...
September 2015 – GREECE – The Greek island of Lesbos is “on the verge of explosion” with the arrival of more than 15,000 mainly Syrian asylum seekers pushing local resources to the limit, the...
View ArticleWar expands in Yemen – 10,000 coalition troops in country now battling...
September 2015 – JEDDAH – Emirati and Bahraini soldiers who were “martyred” in Yemen will be treated as Saudis “materially and morally,” said Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, SPA reported on...
View ArticleFight for Holy Land only a matter of time: ‘Druse no obstacle to ISIS...
September 2015 – JERUSALEM – Syrian Druse in the southern Jabal al-Druse region are no obstacle to Islamic State reaching the Golan Heights, a top Israeli Druse figure told The Jerusalem Post on...
View ArticleBRIC countries facing unprecedented collapse – U.S. wins major round of...
September 2015 – GLOBAL ECONOMY – Brazil, which saw its credit rating downgraded to junk last week, is only the latest BRICs economy to crumble in the face of a strong dollar, a global trade slowdown...
View ArticleInterest rates must rise ‘relatively soon,’ says Bank of England’s Martin Weale
September 2015 – ENGLAND – A Bank of England policymaker has said interest rates need to rise “relatively soon”, adding to signs that support is gradually building for the first increase in British...
View ArticleEconomist warns U.S. interest rate rise could trigger global debt crisis
September 2015 – ECONOMY – Debt ratios have reached extreme levels across all major regions of the global economy, leaving the financial system acutely vulnerable to monetary tightening by the U.S....
View ArticleThe world economic order is collapsing, and this time there seems to be no...
November 2015 – GLOBAL ECONOMY – Europe has seen nothing like this for 70 years – the visible expression of a world where order is collapsing. The millions of refugees fleeing from ceaseless Middle...
View ArticleRepublican presidential candidate Rick Santorum: World War III has started
December 2015 – WASHINGTON – “We will not start World War III by taking out (Iran’s) nuclear capability. We will stop WWIII. WWIII is underway in the world today. Everybody needs to understand that....
View ArticleThe shrinking middle class: one more sign of America’s economic collapse
December 2015 – ECONOMY – For the first time in over four decades, the number of middle class Americans is now smaller than the number of those Americans who are classified as either rich or poor. The...
View ArticleSweden’s army chief warns of World War 3 inside Europe ‘within a few years’
February 2016 – STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Sweden, which has not officially been at war in over 200 years, will soon be pulled into a European conflict according to an internal army document sent to soldiers...
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