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After more than doubling from 1982 to 1986, the Black Monday on October 19, 1987 finally sent stock markets around the world crashed. On that fateful day, The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell approximately 508 points to 1,738.74 (22.61%). The terms “Black Monday” and “Black Tuesday” are also used on October 19 and October 20, 1929 – the Great Depression. […]
... written on Oct 12 2016Two months ago, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama as founder while Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as co-founder of terror group ISIS. Of course, what Trump meant was both Obama and Clinton were responsible for the rise of the militant group, not directly running the terror group’s operation. Naturally, Clinton […]
... written on Oct 11 2016Majority of Muslim countries that subscribe to Saudi Arabia’s version of Wahhabism dare not publish this piece of news, more so if they receive millions of dollars in aid from the wealthy kingdom every year. It was the same denial on the discovery that Wahhabism as the main source of global terrorism, as identified by […]
... written on Oct 10 2016Will there ever be a World War 3? That’s a trillion dollar question everyone has been asking, and not many believe there would be one. If you’re looking at a World War 3 as an extension of World War 2, then obviously it would not happen simply because it would involve the unleashing of nuclear […]
... written on Oct 07 2016She received 7 “encourage” votes and 7 “discourage” votes. As the highest-placed woman candidate, UNESCO Chief Irina Bokova was a favourite to become the first woman secretary-general of United Nations. However, the Bulgarian politician who recently caught in a “Lead by Example” Award fiasco only finished fourth in the race for the top UN job. […]
... written on Oct 06 2016The Swiss attorney general’s office seems to be very frustrated. About 10 months ago in January, the Swiss authority revealed it suspected that about US$4 billion has been misappropriated from “Malaysian state companies.” The attorney general’s office also said they have discovered at least 4 cases involving allegations of criminal conduct between 2009 to 2013. […]
... written on Oct 05 2016What’s it like playing chess with Obama? – asks a top official of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin replies – “It’s like playing chess with a pigeon. First it knocks over all the pieces, then it shits on the board, and finally it struts around like it won.” That was, of course, a popular joke in […]
... written on Oct 05 2016As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Aleppo was Syria’s largest city with a population of 2.5 million people. That was in early 2011 before the conflict starts. The Syrian Civil War started in March 2011. But it wasn’t until 19 July, 2012 that the Battle of Aleppo officially began. And since then hundreds of thousands […]
... written on Oct 03 2016Deutsche Bank, a 146-year-old bank employing more than 100,000 employees is like JPMorgan Chase to the U.S. and Maybank to Malaysia. As Germany’s biggest lender, the “German Bank”, as Deutsche Bank literally means, is perceived to be too big to fail. But that was exactly what financial experts told everyone including their hamsters about Lehman […]
... written on Sep 30 2016President Barack Obama thought his “veto” power means he was the most powerful man in the world, or at least in the United States. Of course, the U.S. system, being one of the most democratic, was designed in such a way that nobody can possess absolute power. And Obama learns it the humiliating way, less […]
... written on Sep 29 2016
