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COSCO Denies US Claims Its Container Ships Serve As Beijing's Global Spy Network China's state-owned shipping giant COSCO rejected a report published last week alleging that the company had concealed advanced surveillance equipment aboard its cargo ships to monitor US military communications near the coastlines of target nations, including the US. Reuters quoted COSCO on Friday as calling the allegations "totally unfounded" and false. What Reuters reported on Tuesday: The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the U.S. assessment of the Chinese program, said COSCO has a decades-long intelligence-collection partnership...

As Stocks Hit Record Highs, Americans' Consumer Confidence Collapses To Record Low With the "mini war" still ongoing (albeit with a 'ceasefire' in place), expectations were for UMich consumer sentiment to continue languishing at record lows in final May data released this morning. And it did, with the headline sentiment - along with both Current Conditions and Expectations - all plunging to record lows... Source: Bloomberg Yep... Americans have never been more miserable... Black Friday, meh; 9/11, nothingburger; GFC, fleshwound... “The cost of living continues to be a first-order concern, with 57% of consumers spontaneously...

A US-born advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was tasked with “relocating” Palestinians from Gaza after President Trump announced plans last year for a “Gaza Riviera” that would involve the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population, according to a report from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. An Israeli source told the paper that Caroline Glick, […]