Month: June 2022

How to Stop Inflation from Deflating Your Savings

No, you aren’t imagining things. Everything costs more than it did before, and these higher prices make it hard to balance the budget while saving and thinking about retirement. But you can stop inflation from deflating your savings! In April, the Bureau of Labor released the latest data from the Consumer Price Index (CPI), revealing inflation’s steady creep…


Is Reincarnation Real? WWII Soldier Awakes From War Trauma Speaking Russian, Paints Like Dead Russian Artist

One real account of war and hardship, perseverance, and metaphysical transformation has captured the imaginations of investigators of the paranormal for over 70 years. It could be a clue proving the existence of reincarnation. “Have you ever heard a story so powerful that it reverberated loudly through your interior landscape? Or it stopped you cold…


Rex Murphy: Trudeau Should Keep His Nose out of Our Neighbour’s Top Court Decisions

Commentary From the far reaches of Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali, the prime minister of Canada swiftly offered his response to a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. He was even more swift in reaction than some American politicians, to whom of course the decision has actual relevance. I know it is redundant…


Our Problem With That Very Real Place, Hell

Does hell really exist? Jordan B. Peterson in a recent address to Hillsdale College said that “if you don’t believe in hell, then you haven’t thought about it enough!” I am reminded of that wonderful moment in Christopher Marlowe’s play “Doctor Faustus” where Faustus asks Mephistopheles why, since he is a devil, he isn’t in hell….


Russian Missiles Strike Across Ukraine, Says Kyiv

KYIV—Russian missiles rained down across Ukraine on Saturday, hitting military facilities in the west and the north as well as a southern city. Russian artillery and air strikes pounded the twin cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in the eastern Luhansk region on Friday, smashing into a chemical plant where hundreds of civilians were said to…


Philippine Central Bank Hikes Key Interest Rate for Second Time Amid Rising Inflation

The Philippine Central Bank (BSP) raised its key interest rate for the second straight month to curb inflation, raising the key policy rates by 25 basis points to 2.5 percent effective June 24. The change, which had been widely anticipated by analysts, followed a 25-basis-point rise in May, the country’s first interest rate increase since…


In Remembrance of Apple Daily

June 20, 1995 was the first print edition of Apple Daily in Hong Kong. June 24, 2021 was the last print run of Apple Daily. The raid of Next Digital, the parent company of Apple Daily and Next Magazine in Cheung Kwan O by 500 police in June last year, has been more than surreal….


IMF Slashes US Growth Forecast, Sees ‘Narrowing Path’ to Avoid Recession

WASHINGTON—The International Monetary Fund on Friday slashed its U.S. economic growth forecast as aggressive Federal Reserve interest rate hikes cool demand but predicted that the United States would “narrowly” avoid a recession. In an annual assessment of U.S. economic policies, the IMF said it now expects U.S. Gross Domestic Product to grow 2.9 percent in…


Photographer Snaps ‘Nanosecond’ Instant Entire Cheetah Family Together in Same Tree, Other Ultra-Rare Moments

“You’re only as good as your last photograph,” said renowned wildlife photographer Paul Goldstein. He spent nearly 30 years honing his craft and knows what must align to produce something truly original. He’s photographed jaguars in the Pantanal, tigers in India, a mother polar bear nursing, myriad animals in Africa, and aurora borealis dancing above 10,000-year-old…


A Kind Stranger Helps Single Homeless Father of Two

It’s heartbreaking to see people suffering hard times, but it’s also heartwarming to watch compassion like this. God bless these people! (Video courtesy of BI Phakathi) …