Posts Tagged ‘investors’

Billionaire Investors Backing A Marijuana Boom In 2017

The biggest multi-decade opportunity for investors right now is the Canadian government’s legislation to legalize recreational marijuana by this time next year—and the first companies to win government approval will the high-risers. In a sector that’s already seen stocks bust the borders with 1000% spikes, there is one company that currently […]

Investors flee to gold, German bonds as political worries rise

Reuters– World stocks fell while safe-haven gold and German government bonds were in demand on Tuesday as tension in the Middle East, an election in Britain and upcoming testimony from the former head of the FBI pushed investors away from risky assets. European stocks fell early on Tuesday after leading Arab powers cut ties with […]

Iran annually spends rls. 100b for immigrants’ vaccination: Official

July 18, The Iran Project – Head of Iran Health Ministry’s communicable diseases center says Iran annually spends a total of rls 100 billion  for the vaccination of legal and illegal immigrants and refugees. Speaking to a reporter on Monday, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, head of the Health Ministry’s communicable diseases center said the Health Ministry’s […]

Racist Black Rapist to White Victim: ‘That’s for 400 Years of Slavery You Bitch!’

Former Vanderbilt University football player Corey Batey was sentenced by a judge to 15 years in prison on Friday. The victim was a 21-year-old woman at the time she was discovered unconscious at a university dorm in 2013 after being raped by four men, including Corey Batey. The Tennessean reports on both the horrific nature of […]

Yemen attack: 42 killed in suicide bombings claimed by Isis

 Bombers struck as soldiers broke their fast during holy month of Ramadan      Four bomb attacks have killed 43 people at security checkpoints in a southern Yemeni city, in an atrocity claimed by Isis. The militants struck at sunset as Yemeni soldiers broke their fast during the holy month of Ramadan. At least 38 […]

German MPs file war crimes suit against Erdogan

The suit has been lodged with federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe, the legal team which devised it told state broadcaster ARD on Monday. Lawyers Britta Eder and Petra Dervishaj told ARD their clients saw it as “a moral duty to bring a suit here in Germany against the systematic war crimes taking place in […]

Normalization of relations between Turkey and Russia: Conditions and possibilities

Recent remarks by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about political and economic costs of tensions in bilateral relations between Russia and Turkey and a subsequent letter sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on the occasion of Russia’s national day were indicative of the Turkish side’s determination for normalization of relations with Russia. […]

Iranian navy to stage 20 war games by March 2017: Commander

Speaking to reporters in the northern city of Rasht on Sunday evening, Sayyari announced that an electronic warfare exercise was held earlier last week by the naval forces, adding that by the end of this Iranian year, 20 war games are planned to be staged. Sayyari then praised the Navy’s military might and said Iran’s […]

How hyper-secular laws create instant terrorists

If you were forced to nominate the most important political story of 2016, you’d have to look far and wide to find a better nominee than the election of Sadiq Khan, the Muslim son of a Pakistani immigrant, as the mayor of London. Khan’s triumph is more than a story about diversity conquering bigotry. His […]

How hyper-secular laws create instant terrorists

If you were forced to nominate the most important political story of 2016, you’d have to look far and wide to find a better nominee than the election of Sadiq Khan, the Muslim son of a Pakistani immigrant, as the mayor of London. Khan’s triumph is more than a story about diversity conquering bigotry. His […]

How hyper-secular laws create instant terrorists

If you were forced to nominate the most important political story of 2016, you’d have to look far and wide to find a better nominee than the election of Sadiq Khan, the Muslim son of a Pakistani immigrant, as the mayor of London. Khan’s triumph is more than a story about diversity conquering bigotry. His […]

How hyper-secular laws create instant terrorists

If you were forced to nominate the most important political story of 2016, you’d have to look far and wide to find a better nominee than the election of Sadiq Khan, the Muslim son of a Pakistani immigrant, as the mayor of London. Khan’s triumph is more than a story about diversity conquering bigotry. His […]

How hyper-secular laws create instant terrorists

If you were forced to nominate the most important political story of 2016, you’d have to look far and wide to find a better nominee than the election of Sadiq Khan, the Muslim son of a Pakistani immigrant, as the mayor of London. Khan’s triumph is more than a story about diversity conquering bigotry. His […]

Biologist Targeted for Exposing the Gender Bending Pesticide Poisoning America

Christina Sarich, StaffWaking Times Biologist, Tyrone Hayes is a soft-spoken professor at the University of California with a big message. One of the most commonly used pesticides in agriculture, atrazine, is responsible for feminizing amphibians, according to his research. More importantly, the chemical is effectively eliminating male chromosomes at an alarming […]

Iran’s President urges long-term plans for environmental protection

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to conserving the environment, calling for long-term plans on environmental issues. Despite a whole host of political and social concerns and security problems in the region, the first item on the agenda at the first cabinet session in 2013 was a scheme to save […]

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Won’t be Charged for Molesting 4 Boys

Isn’t it interesting how politicians are so frequently caught with their pants down (sometimes literally) doing or approving of unspeakable acts? There’s doubt about it, positions of power have a tendency to attract the worst human beings, or inspire the worst behaviors in otherwise good people. Dennis Hastert would certainly fall under the former […]

Jolfa chosen for tourism award

Jolfa in East Azarbaijan Province has been nominated as one of Iran’s top tourist cities during the Norouz holiday (March 20 – April 1), according to Ahmad Hamzezadeh, the tourism deputy at the provincial office of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism. Prior to the beginning of the holiday, tourism officials had said that they […]

Indian FM due in Tehran on April 16

TEHRAN (FNA)- Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj is scheduled to visit Iran on April 16 for talks, business news website, Livemint, reported on Wednesday. Swaraj’s visit aims at re-energizing ties with Tehran following the lifting of US-led trade sanctions on the strategically important West Asian nation. Swaraj will co-chair a meeting of the India-Iran Joint […]

Amtrak train derails near Dodge City, Kansas

     The Latest on an Amtrak passenger train that derailed in southwest Kansas. (all times local): 8:15 a.m. Federal investigators are headed to the scene of an Amtrak train derailment in southwest Kansas. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway says the agency is sending a team to investigate Monday’s derailment. He says more information […]

Syrians march against planned Israeli Annexation of the Golan Heights

Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Syrians in the Israeli occupied Syrian Golan Heights came out to march against Israel’s planned annexation. Israel is currently using the Golan as staging ground for the direct and proxy war on Syria. Human rights abuses against Syrians are rampant. The discovery of substantial oil resources is an additional incentive for […]

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