Australia

Back in 2007, the ratings agencies were so woefully behind the eight ball in understanding and reporting the credit risks in the U.S. financial system that it was nearly impossible to tell from day to day whether they were really just that incompetent or if they were complicit in the biggest financial fraud in history.  Regardless of which you believe is more likely, they seem intent upon not making the same mistake again...at least not in Australia. 

Is it going to be another May 17, when US stocks tumbled as concerns of a Trump impeachment over obstruction of justice and impeachment surged ahead of Comey's tetimony?

Overnight, S&P500 futures accelerated their decline following yesterday's WaPo report that Special Counsel Mueller has launched a probe into potential obstruction of justice by Trump...

Authored by Wayne Madsen via Strategic Culture Foundation,

In a rare public announcement, Britain’s signals intelligence agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), issued a rare public statement concerning a charge by an American former judge that it conducted electronic surveillance of president-elect Donald Trump after his upset victory on November 8, 2016. GCHQ stated:

Laurel Hubbard, a 39-year-old transgender who was a man until a few years ago, won her first international women’s weightlifting title in Australia on Monday, demolishing four national records and beating the next closest competitor by [...]

Australia has announced plans to ban all unvaccinated children from attending school, in harsh new rules introduced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnball.  Turnball says that parents need to vaccinate their children or suffer the humiliation of being excluded from the education system. Under the new law, unvaccinated children from nursery preschool and childcare centers will be excluded from attending.