USA - Tropical Storm Fernand has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and three other disturbances are spotted as the center of Hurricane Dorian finally begins to move away from the Bahamas and towards the US mainland. Fernand has prompted a tropical storm warning for Mexico's northeast coast. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) says slow strengthening is expected before the storm moves inland. Fernand, the sixth named storm in the Atlantic, is located about 185 miles east north-east of Tampico, Mexico, packing maximum sustained winds of 40mph. 'A motion toward the west-northwest is forecast tonight and Wednesday. This motion could bring the center of Fernand near or over the coast of northeastern Mexico late Wednesday,' the NHC said Tuesday. Forecasters also said that 'the entire tropical Atlantic basin has become quite active'.
UK - Boris Johnson last night demanded a snap general election after rebel MPs pulled off an extraordinary coup to allow a block on Brexit until next year plunging Westminster into outright chaos. Twenty one Conservative MPs - including NINE ex-Cabinet ministers - were sacked minutes after siding with Labour to seize control of Parliament’s agenda from 3pm today. The hot potch cross-party majority of 27 will today attempt to ram a new law through the Commons in just four hours.
USA - Scientific study after scientific study is showing that too much time on social media can be extremely harmful both mentally and physically. But even though most of us know this, very few of us actually alter our behavior in a meaningful way. When Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and other major social media platforms first emerged, we welcomed them with open arms. They were a lot of fun and they allowed us to interact with family, friends and society as a whole in ways that we had never been able to do before. But they were also extremely addictive, and they rapidly became transformed into dumping grounds for just about everything toxic, negative and malevolent that you can possibly imagine. Today, many of us spend far more time on social media than we do with real people, that has enormous implications for our future.
UK - Patience is a virtue, but it’s becoming an exceedingly rare quality in modern society. According to a new survey of 2,000 British adults, all of the luxuries of modern life have made most people incredibly impatient — across pretty much every aspect of their lives. Three quarters of those surveyed said they believe the dominance of digital technology, such as smartphones and on-demand TVs, are to blame for this ever growing lack of patience. Respondents reported becoming frustrated after just 16 seconds of waiting for a web page to load, and after 25 seconds of waiting for a traffic light to change.
UK - The government has launched a “Get Ready” for no deal Brexit campaign, signalling Prime Minister Johnson’s dedication to delivering on the will of the people on October 31st. Michael Gove launched the largest ever public information campaign on Sunday, with TV advertisements, billboards, social media ads set to be rolled out in the coming weeks. The campaign is also expected to employ online seminars, leaflets, and information stands at targetted events, with the programme and website aimed at British citizens living in or planning to visit the EU, European nationals living in the UK, those in the food and drink industry, and exporters to the EU.
UK - If Boris Johnson is a racist, fascist, Nazi what does that make actual racist, fascist, Nazis? This is a question probably beyond the intellectual capacity of the hundreds of unemployables, malcontents, and cry-bullies who turned out in London and elsewhere over the weekend to protest against what you and I might call the eminently justifiable prorogation of parliament…This is what the protestors over the weekend insisted was a Nazi-like ‘fascist prick”’ dictator’s ‘coup’ against ‘democracy.’ That’s because having mostly been to ‘Uni’ and having read something like Racism Awareness or Tree Hugging and Transgender Toilet Studies — most likely at either the London School of Economics (LSE), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) or the University of Easy Access (UEA) — they will have had every last vestige of common sense and critical awareness educated out of their tiny... brains.
UK - Nigel Farage announced his Brexit Party will not field candidates against the Conservative Party in the event of a general election to "put country before party" if no deal Brexit is delivered. "If Boris Johnson says, ‘look, we are leaving, we’re going to have a clean break, we will after that negotiate a free trade agreement and no more,’ and deliver a genuine Brexit then we would - the Brexit Party – put country before party. We’d tell Mr Johnson, ‘right, we want to help you in any way we can'."
EUROPE - Italy and Spain are both on the brink of political turmoil this week, with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte trying to stitch together a coalition to block out right-winger Matteo Salvini, and Spain’s leader Pedro Sanchez races against time to strike a deal to prevent yet another general election. Meanwhile, in Spain, acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez will today set out plans he hopes will convince left-wingers Unidas Podemos to support his last-ditch attempt to form a government and avoid a repeat election - which would be the fourth since 2015.
GERMANY - Recently a party represented in the German parliament (Bundestag) published its program for the military. The program is not secret. The voters going to the polls in 2 German states on September 1 could know this program. Up to 28 percent of the voters have chosen the party with this program. It wants to further militarize Germany. The 28 percent party is calling for a radical "restoration of the German Bundeswehr."
UK - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shot down the notion that he wanted an early election to secure Brexit, insisting Monday that it wasn’t the way to get a deal done. Johnson decried parliamentary action set for Tuesday that is meant to delay Britain’s departure from the European Union, arguing that it would “chop the legs” out of the UK position. He spoke moments after lawmakers posted a copy of the proposed bill on Twitter, making clear that they would press the government to seek a delay if there’s no deal.
CHINA - Following what many have described as the most violent weekend yet after 86 days, or 13 weeks of pro-Democracy protests in Hong Kong, which have led to the arrest of at least 1,117 residents, where the local police is now deploying water cannon in response to "rioters" using petrol bombs, China appears to have finally had enough and on Sunday, Beijing issued a stern ultimatum to not only Hong Kong protesters, but also the West, reiterating that it will not tolerate any attempt to undermine Chinese sovereignty over the city.
USA - New concerns are being raised that online conservative media outlets could face federally imposed censorship going into the 2020 elections. Years after Republicans on the Federal Election Commission claimed Democrats were targeting conservative speech on outlets like the Drudge Report, the liberal head of the FEC is teaming with an anti-Trump free speech advocacy group to host a symposium targeting online “disinformation.”
ARGENTINA - Argentine bonds collapsed to new record lows on Monday after the government brought back currency controls in a desperate bid to stem the plunge in the peso. Mauricio Macri’s government will restrict buying of foreign currencies as it attempts to counter a huge depreciation in the peso that threatens to deepen the country’s recession and trigger its ninth debt default. Investors wanting to exchange the peso for a foreign currency will need permission from the central bank, reintroducing controls last seen under his fiercely anti-investor predecessor, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
ISRAEL - On September 25, the 5,780th anniversary of the day on which Jewish tradition holds the world was created, the Sanhedrin is holding a conference for the emerging Organization of 70 Nations. The conference will culminate in an animal sacrifice made by representatives of the nations on the Mount of Olives in which they will renew the covenant made by Noah upon leaving the Ark.
USA - When confronted with the Fed's claims that there's no inflation in the economy, most Americans who don't have a PhD in economics would probably react with a mixture of confusion, frustration and disbelief. The Fed likes to treat inflation like a giant mystery that can't be cracked. But anybody who has been to a restaurant, supermarket or paid a rent check over the past decade can tell you: Prices are rising much faster than the CPI would have you believe.
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