#Business: Predicting Oil

When asked on the trajectory of oil prices, the delegation skirted the question, with Al Sheikh instead joking to the packed ballroom that he would probably be making money rather than talking about it if he could predict them. Two days before, the Saudi energy minister told a conference in Istanbul the oil price could recover to $60 a barrel by year’s end.

Crude prices between $50 to $60 a barrel would ensure adequate global supply, officials from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait said at a conference in London on Tuesday.

Saudi officials pledged to boost non-oil revenues, cut spending to achieve fiscal balance by 2020 and retain current credit ratings, said Pavel Mamai, the co-founder of hedge fund Promeritum Investment in London. He also attended the London presentation and plans to bid for the bonds. "The message was that this is a young government that believes the country structurally wasn’t going in the right direction and decided to change that," he said.

"The fact that they committed to continuing with economic adjustment even if oil prices were to rebound I think is commendable and investors will like that," said Mohammed Elmi, an emerging-market money manager at Federated Investors U.K. in London, who will consider buying the bonds. "The interest level goes beyond your traditional emerging-market

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#Technology: Actress going braless accidentally flashes breasts during interview on Facebook Live

An actress has been left red-faced when she accidentally flashed her breasts during a Facebook Live broadcast. Argentine star Virginia Gallardo, 29, was about to be interviewed by the actress Flor Vigna, in her Facebook Live program when the huge flash occurred. www.mirror.co.uk

#Religion: A bitter truth, often glossed over in the name of "tradition," is the religious teachings and the responsibilities of a Muslim woman. Most glossed over is the violence that men are still allowed to inflict on their women in the name of their religion and culture on such a massive part of the planet.

This brutality not only takes place in ISIS-held territory but across most Muslim societies. All around you, you see women killed, molested, imprisoned, maimed and incarcerated while their men sugar-coat the abuse as "modesty", "honour", "divine law" or even "justice". In addition to warning would-be ISIS recruits of the horrors that await them if they jump onto the bandwagon of terrorist organizations, let us take a look into "normal" Muslim societies. Women in Saudi Arabia, in the name of laws and "traditions", are kept effectively non-existent. They are forced, outside the house to wear full-body covering, abayas . Most full coverings for women are black, which absorbs heat, and are made of non-porous, cloth -- not cotton -- in the scorching heat. Women are also not allowed to drive, they cannot leave the house without a male guardian, they are liable to be flogged, stoned to death or beheaded if found guilty of...

#Technology: The media drones immediately went on the attack:

Within hours, The Washington Post ‘s Eric Wemple called Swann’s report “a gem of video slime”. The Daily Beast ‘s Ben Collins ran a denigrating profile of Benn Swann, calling him a “truther”. Gizmodo ‘s Bryan Menegus published an article calling Swann a “CBS imbecile” who “just fanned the Pizzagate flames for no reason”. Swann’s own station, CBS46, scrubbed his Pizzagate report. You won’t find it listed on the station’s page on Swann , which shows that Swann’s last “Reality Check” on “ Why reports on Trump are fake news ” was aired on January 12, 2o17, 6 days before the one on Pizzagate. Even more troubling is the fact that, after his Pizzagate report was aired, Ben Swann disappeared and was not seen anchoring CBS46’s evening news since.

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