Above Photo: A protest against US sanctions in Caracas, Venezuela in August 2019 (Benjamin Norton). Major Switzerland-based bank Credit Suisse forecasts Venezuela’s real GDP growth to be 20% in 2022 and 8% in 2023. This is despite an illegal US blockade, which starved the government of 99% of its revenue, according to the top UN expert on sanctions. The major Switzerland-based bank Credit Suisse has predicted that Venezuela’s real GDP growth will be 20% in 2022. The prominent Western financial institution also forecasted that Venezuela’s real GDP will increase by an additional 8% in 2023. These predictions come despite an illegal […]
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Above Photo: An evacuated resident points in the direction of his home following a flash flood, which came as Tropical Storm Henri made landfall, in Helmetta, New Jersey on August 22, 2021. Tom Brenner / AFP via Getty Images. ‘Wake-Up Call.’ “This decade we’re in right now is one of the most consequential decades for our climate future,” said one scientist. Ocean levels along the U.S. coastline are projected to rise by an average of 10 to 12 inches over the next three decades, worsening the threat of flooding in dozens of highly populated cities, according to a new report released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and […]
President Trump’s influential supporter Rupert Murdoch is telling close associates he believes Joe Biden will win the election in a landslide. The Australian-born billionaire is disgusted by Trump’s handling of COVID-19, remarking that the president is his own worst enemy, that he is not listening to advice about how best to handle the pandemic, and that he’s creating a never-ending crisis for his administration, according to three people who have spoken with Murdoch. In response to an email inquiry for this story asking him if he believes Biden will win in a landslide and his thoughts on Trump’s handling of coronavirus, […]
According to oil and gas titan Total, its business focus, as well as that of its European peers, will shift towards low-carbon energy sources in the next few years, as the oil market becomes increasingly obsolete. A leading French oil and gas company, Total, anticipates a potential peak for oil in the coming decade before it reaches a plateau by 2030, noting that natural gas “remains key” for the energy industry, according to Total’s president of strategy & innovation Helle Kristoffersen, cited by Bloomberg. While the French energy giant’s forecast is considerably more conservative than that of its British rival BP, who […]
According to oil and gas titan Total, its business focus, as well as that of its European peers, will shift towards low-carbon energy sources in the next few years, as the oil market becomes increasingly obsolete. A leading French oil and gas company, Total, anticipates a potential peak for oil in the coming decade before it reaches a plateau by 2030, noting that natural gas “remains key” for the energy industry, according to Total’s president of strategy & innovation Helle Kristoffersen, cited by Bloomberg. While the French energy giant’s forecast is considerably more conservative than that of its British rival BP, […]
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates is feeling “pessimistic” about the foreseeable future, warning that COVID-19 deaths, including in the US, could skyrocket again to the levels registered during the first wave of the pandemic, unless governments jointly take decisive action. Bill Gates told The Telegraph at the launch of the annual Goalkeepers report, which reviews the world’s progress against the UN’s Sustainable Development programme, that the raging healthcare crisis could draw the world backward as far as to the 1990s in terms of headway. “We’ve been set back about 25 years”, he said. “I would expect substantially more deaths from […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106834/58/1068345846_0:120:1280:840_1200x675_80_0_0_60b41f57ae698df2453f4501c713151d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Ashutosh Kumar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009151080459685-asian-development-bank-predicts-9-contraction-in-indian-economy-this-year-due-to-covid-19/ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a $266 billion stimulus package on 12 May to help the nation’s industrial sector and economy overcome the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday said the Indian economy will witness a contraction of 9 percent due to the difficulties caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth for fiscal year (FY) 2020 ending on 31 March 2021 is forecast to contract by 9 percent as the pandemic weighs heavily on economic activity and consumer sentiment […]
The new report comes on the heels of predictions by market analysts and hedge funds that the US dollar could lose over a third of its value against the euro and slide against other currencies in the coming months owing to poor US economic performance and ballooning debt in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. The world is “on the cusp” of a new era marked by instability, disorder and the fragmentation of the previous period of globalization, Deutsche Bank, the largest bank in Germany and one of the largest financial institutions in the world, has predicted in a new report. […]
President Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen tossed out a “theory” Tuesday night that the president will resign if he loses the presidential election this November in order to pave the way for Vice President Mike Pence to pardon him for any federal crimes he’s supposedly committed. Cohen—who is currently serving a three-year prison sentence under house arrest after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations, lying to Congress, and tax evasion—appeared on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show to promote his memoir Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump. Early in […]
Renowned filmmaker Michael Moore predicted in 2016 that Donald Trump would win the presidential election despite all leading US polls claiming otherwise and tipping Democrat Hillary Clinton as the hot favourite. Donald Trump is heading for victory in the 2020 November presidential election in the US, buoyed by the “off the charts” enthusiasm displayed by his supporters, says renowned filmmaker Michael Moore. The author of Fahrenheit 9/11 and other award-winning documentaries, a staunch Democrat supporter, warned in a Facebook post that President Trump’s reelection campaign was wielding massive momentum in key battleground states such as Minnesota and Michigan. Cautioning that Trump […]
UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya said that he will come out on top when the he meets fellow undefeated standout Paulo Costa next month as the two clashed in a heated television interview ahead of the UFC 253 main event. The two middleweight rivals have built a simmering rivalry for much of the past year, with Brazilian standout Costa stating that he will be the man to hand the flashy champion his first defeat in mixed martial arts – a claim rubbished by Adesanya in the expletive-ridden interview with ESPN. READ MORE: ‘I’m p*ssed off!’ UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya delivers IMPASSIONED SPEECH […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007121079864635-exit-poll-predicts-narrow-victory-for-polish-incumbent-duda-in-presidential-election-runoff/ In the first round, Duda came first with 41.8 percent of the votes cast, falling short of the 50 percent needed to ensure victory without the need for a second round. Source link
Predictions about the end of the European project have long been bandied about in the corridors of power and in newspaper columns. However, one Finnish MEP has joined the long list of those making the claim that the end may be on the horizon. The European Union is on track to “inevitably” collapse due to increasing concerns over the bloc’s plan to further centralise power in Brussels, a Finnish MEP has told The Express. Laura Huhtasaari, an MEP for the Finns Party and a well-known Eurosceptic in her country, has said that the EU’s continued attempts to bring member states under […]
One startup founder has done the math and he thinks the true value for the COMP token right now should be more like $40. The governance token for the Compound lending platform has been trading between $172 and $215 over the last seven days, according to CoinGecko, after touching a yield-farming-fueled high of $373 on June 21. Pankaj Balani, CEO of Delta Exchange, a derivatives marketplace for cryptocurrency, ascribed COMP’s high prices to “initial euphoria.” Read more: What Is Yield Farming? The Rocket Fuel of DeFi, Explained Delta Exchange said the analysis was provided to help the market better price governance […]
Professor Helmut Norpoth from Stony Brook University told Lou Dobbs on August 16th, 2016, that Donald Trump had an 87% chance of winning the 2016 Presidential election. Professor Norpoth is a political science professor at Long Island’s Stoney Brook University. His model has been correct since 1996 on predicting the popular vote. TRENDING: BREAKING: Epstein Confidante Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested, Sources Say We reported that his 2016 forecast rested on a model that tracks cyclical movements in American presidential elections. It goes back to 1828, when popular voting became widespread and the two-party system took hold. Over nearly two centuries, American presidential […]
The UK’s central bank has recently improved its assessment of the cumulative GDP loss in 2020 from 17 percent to 8 percent, as the easing of lockdown restrictions have driven up demand and economic activity. The Bank of England’s chief economist Andy Haldane has said that Britain is on track for a V-shaped economic recovery after a faster-than-expected rebound from the coronavirus slump. The UK economy was already two months into the recovery amid pent-up demand and consumer spending, Haldane said in a Bank webinar on Tuesday. “It is early, but my reading of the evidence is so far, so V,” […]
Is the game up for “black gold?” Well, Russia’s energy minister won’t go that far but he believes its importance in the worldwide energy marketplace is set to significantly decline. This has serious implications for oil producers. Alexander Novak thinks the current pandemic and the growing competitiveness of renewable sources will lead to a greener market. Speaking during an online conference of the World Energy Council, dedicated to the impact of Covid-19, Novak predicted the effects that coronavirus will have on the sector. Firstly, the Russian official explained that lifestyle changes, such as less flying and fewer car trips, would mean […]
While normalcy is gradually returning to Finland, reports have been urging the authorities to prepare for a second wave of the epidemic amid a slow economic recovery. Economic activity in Finland will see a steep decline as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the Bank of Finland said in a fresh 2020-2022 economic forecast. According to the forecast, the local economy will shrink by about 7 percent in 2020. However, while warning of an exceptionally large degree of uncertainty, the central bank projected a partial rebound and growth of around 3 percent in 2021 and 2022. In the worst-case scenario, the […]
by Phil Giraldi, with The Unz Review [ Editor’s note: Some might think Phil is beating a dead horse with his relentless continuing coverage of the Israeli security threat to the US. On the contrary, when one attacks you relentlessly, you must counter attack them relentlessly or just accept your being subjugated. Our Congress of course has chosen the latter road to travel to avoid the political pain of having “the Lobby” run primary candidates against them, a below the radar political terror weapon that has proven to be most effective. I apologize for what might appear as crudeness, but the […]