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Submitted by David P. Goldman via PJMedia.com, A fit of high dudgeon has gripped many of my Republican friends, ex-friends, and soon-to-be-ex-friends now that Donald Trump has all but won the Republican nomination. My advice to them: get over it. This presidential race will look like Alien vs. Predator. I’m for Predator, without a second’s […]Read More

With nearly $37 billion loaned to Venezuela since 2008, China (via its China Development Bank) had long been a source funding for the socialist country. It was easy to see how a partnership between the two would be mutually beneficial, as China would have a closer relationship with the country that as of 2015 supplied […]

If the US presidential election has devolved into a comical soundbite free-for-fall, then the UK has its hands full with Brexit, and how the two opposing camps are approaching the UK’s vote to exit the Eurozone on June 23. On one hand there are the fearmongers who comprise the “stay” campaign, among which such glowing […]

By “inciting young people against the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government in the night and calling for understanding in the day”, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is a dangerous hypocrite whose condemnation of oil installation vandalism should not be believed, the Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) said on Sunday. The State Chairman of the […]Read More

With only seven months left in 2016, the office of Nigeria’s Vice President, Mr. Yemi Osinbajo, announced again on Saturday that President Muhammadu Buhari’s social investment programmes would be directly affecting at least eight million Nigerians this year. The Senior Special Assistant for Media and Publicity to the Vice President, Mr. Laolu Akande, who spoke […]

The confidence in the European banking system is decreasing on an almost daily basis. Six years after the global financial crisis, most of the European banks are still struggling to meet the minimum requirements of the regulatory bodies that are supervising the ‘health’ of the financial system. After the GFC, the European system had to […]

Following a recent vocal critique by Mark Cuban of the state of the 2016 presidential election, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks said that Anti-Trump Republicans courted him to run for president in a third-party bid, according to a WaPo report. Cuban, who rejected the advances, nonetheless expressed confidence about his ability to take […]

Submitted by Mike Shedlock of MishTalk Reader Asks “What Will Happen When Robots Take Our Jobs” Reader Peter is concerned about the future of jobs, living wages, and displaced workers in a robotic society. Specifically, Peter asks “how do you think the evolution of robotics will play out?” Hello Mish At dinner with friends last […]

Donald Trump certainly knows how to manipulate the media and ruffle some feathers in order to get a reaction, this we know. Trump’s plan to build a wall on the Mexican border doesn’t need to be rehashed here, but one person who has let Trump’s rhetoric on the subject get under his skin is former […]Read More

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (right), fielding questions from stakeholders and residents during the Y2016 First Quarter Town Hall meeting, at the Ikorodu Town Hall, Ikorodu, Lagos, on Thursday, April 14, 2016. The Lagos State government has reiterated its commitment to deal with land grabbers, popularly known in local parlance as “Omo Onile”, causing […]

President Buhari with Prince Charles and Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby at Clarence House London, United Kingdom on 12th May 2016. The Open Alliance, a coalition of Nigerian civil society groups that seeks transparency in governance and public finance has commended Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, for publicly committing to make the West African nation a […]

On Friday 6th of November 2015, in the South-East largest city of Onitsha, Anambra State, thousands of anti-government demonstrators, primarily under the aegis of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, staged a “Million Man March”, a demonstration against the continued detention of their group leader and managing director of Radio Biafra: Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. This is […]