Since the 1980s, the UAE has been a major transit hub for gems, minerals, metals, and contraband from around the world. During that decade, the once-sleepy emirate, known for its fishing and pearl diving industries, transformed into a center for transnational capital—including arms trafficking, diamond smuggling, and money laundering.
The Metropolitan police have arrested disgraced former UK ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, who has been under investigation over allegedly leaking sensitive government data to late financier and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - UK Defense Secretary John Healey said that he wants to be the first in the role to send British troops to Ukraine.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the chief instruments of global capital, has been calling on China for some time to reorient its economic policies and reduce its reliance on exports, with the implied threat there will be retaliation from other major powers if it does not do so.
Iran has not backed down in the face of the increasing US military presence in the Middle East, much to the frustration of President Trump. Meanwhile, there have been further student protests in Iran.
Iran: Trump 'curious' as to why Tehran hasn't 'capitulated'
Too often I dream
Our lousy world leaders
Spirited from the ice cream
But to the world’s horrors
Replacement would be
Stung evermore by the bee
Imagine Rubio Hegseth or Vance
Taking over the Donald’s trance
Spinning the macabre dance
Of a debauched Epstein stance
Only Parliamentary nerds noticed. One such nerd Rex Patrick noticed and reports on a transparency dummy spit by Labor on the floor of the Senate.
Formal Business
