It has been a busy Christmas shopping season — but will it have been a profitable one for retailers? We are in a completely different environment to 10 years ago. Just as Lloyds Bank’s consumer spending power index reached a new high for November, a report by GfK market research found consumer confidence at […]
At an estimated .9 billion and growing, the proposed Site C Dam on the beautiful Peace River in northeastern B.C. has been criticized. If built, Site C would violate First Nations’ rights under Treaty 8, rendering them irrelevant to the point of mo… http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-suzuki/site-c-dam-alberta_b_5910142.html
By Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin dismissed Western sanctions as “utter foolishness” on Thursday and said they would not stop Russia developing into a stronger economic power. Attempting to take the higher ground in a speech to foreign and Russian investors, Putin said he was relaxed about the measures imposed on […]
Labour today launched a fightback against David Cameron’s promise of massive tax cuts, accusing the Prime Minister of failing to explain how they could be afforded. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron-cant-explain-how-7bn-tax-giveaway-will-be-funded-says-labour-9769781.html
Brazil international Dani Alves is planning to leave Barcelona at the end of this season and join an English club, the full back confirmed on Wednesday. http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/manchester-united-and-chelsea-target-dani-alves-i-will-move-to-a-premier-league-club-next-summer-9768996.html
The American public should be rightfully fearful of any policy maker who claims the gift of prophesy with regards to Mesopotamia, for in the words of Paul in his letter to the Corinthians, today we may speak as children, but soon we must put away our… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-ritter/syria-through-a-glass-dar_b_5916334.html
If there’s one thing we should have learned over the past 13 years of war, it’s that war is good business for those in the business of war. Unfortunately, while profits for the Pentagon’s contractors increase, so does the cost to taxpayers in billion… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-hartung/who-will-profit-from-the_b_5915794.html
The academic crisis is even more dire than Iraq in war-torn Syria, where universities have been occupied or destroyed and thousands of students and professors have been displaced, threatened, or killed…. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allan-e-goodman/what-will-become-of-syria_b_5862984.html
Dude, your mesclun’s so mellow…. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/marijuana-salad-dressing_n_5850416.html
The atrocious murder of David Haines puts the United Kingdom and in particular Prime Minister David Cameron front and center in the evolving battle against ISIS. It’s not as though he is short of work, with a referendum in Scotland this week and a problematic relationship with the European Union among current elections next year […]
The U.S. isn’t returning combat troops to Iraq, President Obama insists, despite his top general’s suggestion that the Pentagon could consider that option. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/17/politics/obama-isis/index.html?hpt=imi_c2
Yahoo Finance spoke with Former OMB Director David Stockman and economist James Galbraith about how war with ISIS will affect the financial markets and the U.S. economy. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/warning-on-war-with-isis–it-will-spook-the-financial-markets-124017066.html