Europe

This Sunday, Turkey will vote in a hotly contested referendum on the presidential
system, whose outcome could place sweeping new powers in the
hands of President Tayyip Erdogan and herald the most radical change to
the country's political system in its modern history.

The package of 18 amendments would abolish the office of prime minister and give the president the authority to draft the budget, declare a state of emergency and issue decrees overseeing ministries without parliamentary approval.

Authored by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,

It is widely known that the U.S.-led NATO intervention to topple Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 resulted in a power vacuum that has allowed terror groups like ISIS to gain a foothold in the country.

While global interest rates have risen from all time lows, starting around mid-2016 when the China (not Trump) reflation trade hit and has since fizzled, in the process cutting the amount of negative-yielding debt by almost half, the reality is that rates still remain painfully low; so low that many banks have recently issued pieces asking if the world - awash in record debt - can handle a sizable increase in rates.

A Government of Morons

Paul Craig Roberts

Authored by Danielle DiMartino Booth,

Quizzically-inclined quantum physicists quench their intellectuality by quoting philosophers first, then their fellow scientists.

It is in fact questionable whether quantum physics would have come into being if not for George Berkeley’s 1710, “A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.” Berkeley’s most famous saying is, ‘esse est percipi,’ or, ‘to be is to be perceived.’ He elaborated using the following examples: