Ebola Outbreak In West Africa
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Tobacco kills. Higher taxes and advertising controls work
It is well known that tobacco smoking kills. But it also exacerbates poverty, contributes to world hunger by diverting prime land away from food production, damages the environment and reduces economic productivity. Second hand smoking also affects other people’s lives. Despite many attempts to prevent it, a global tobacco control treaty became international law in…
Mother Had Relations With Her Young Children To Win Over Men Online
A NSW mother who conducted sex acts on her three young children to win the fondness of men on the internet has been jailed for at least 17 years. The mother pleaded guilty to 8 charges, including possessing child abuse material and sexual intercourse with a person under ten; Photo: GfycatThe unidentified woman, 31, taped…
Texas Donut Store To Conduct Deliveries Using Scary Clowns For Halloween
By now, Stephen King really should have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for warning everyone that clowns are up to no good. That was what his novel “It” did for society, with a movie adaptation of the same title, featuring a certain clown creature named Pennywise. Oh, and Pennywise may have also single-handedly…
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Burglar Throws Rock At Bulletproof Glass, Gets Hit In The Face [Video]
Maryland law enforcement shared security camera footage of a thief throwing a rock that ricocheted off some bulletproof glass and struck the man in the face. Police have dubbed the man who attempted to break a bulletproof window the ‘Bad Luck Bandit’ after surveillance video caught him being struck in the head by a brick…
Jesus To Arrive Again In 2060 And Bring End Of The World, Says Isaac Newton
Here we go again, take notes Hollywood, especially after that botched movie about the Mayan-predicted apocalypse called “2012.” While every once in a while, apocalyptic predictions stir up the imaginations of society, often they are not credible. However, what if they were predicted by a very prominent scientist? How about if it was Isaac Newton,…
America is trying to change the way trade rows are settled
ONE of President Donald Trump’s more improbable achievements has been to make international trade negotiations into front-page news. Less visibly, his officials have turned the legal systems for settling trade disputes into hotly contested topics. Not only is dispute settlement one of the last obstacles between America and Canada reaching a new North American Free…
Is China losing the trade war against America?
WHEN Donald Trump tweeted on August 5th that tariffs were working “big time”, American media sprang into action to test the claim (see article). In China, editors were more circumspect. No major Chinese-language newspaper reported his tweets. One of his claims—that China’s stockmarket has fallen 27% in the past four months—was an exaggeration. But why…
American creditors say China should honour pre-Communist debts
print-edition icon Print edition | Finance and economics Sep 27th 2018 LIKE many Americans, Jonna Bianco believes President Donald Trump to be “a tireless defender of the American people against Chinese economic aggression”. Ms Bianco, a Tennessee cattle-rancher, is president of the American Bondholders Foundation (ABF), which represents more than 20,000 owners of bonds issued…
Private equity is piling into health care
LAST month KKR, a private-equity firm, announced that it would buy Envision Healthcare, one of America’s largest providers of doctors to hospitals. The deal was valued at $9.9bn, including debt. If shareholders agree to the sale, it will be the largest in a string of health-care investments by KKR, including an ambulance service, a company…