How the CIA Hoodwinked Hollywood Since its inception, the agency has wooed filmmakers, producers, and actors in order to present a rosy portrait of its operations to the American public. -AtlanticThis is a good article by the Atlantic, a neo-con publication that aspires to be a "thought publication."This article rehearses the history of the CIA in Hollywood and, in fact, is fairly comprehensive a...Read More
This is the first picture of the ISIS fanatic who killed 84 people including at least ten children found on an ID card next to his body after he was shot dead by police in the 25-tonne lorry he used as a murder weapon on his mile-long killing spree. The killer, named locally as French Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a married father of three, mounted pavements at high speed and ploughed thro...Read More
How the CIA Hoodwinked Hollywood Since its inception, the agency has wooed filmmakers, producers, and actors in order to present a rosy portrait of its operations to the American public. -AtlanticThis is a good article by the Atlantic, a neo-con publication that aspires to be a "thought publication."This article rehearses the history of the CIA in Hollywood and, in fact, is fairly comprehensive a...Read More
That's why I pledge that in my first 100 days as president, we will make the biggest investment in new good-paying jobs since World War II. We need more jobs you can support a family on, especially in places that have been left out and left behind, from Coal Country, to Indian Country, to inner cities, to every place that has been hollowed out when a factory closed or a mine shut down. -Recent H...Read More
Republicans Should Embrace A Hillary Clinton Presidency ... Republicans who abandon Trump should admit that a Clinton presidency is hardly apocalyptic. In fact, having Clinton would be a boon to Republicans. – NewsweekThe new Newsweek, complete with a renewed print edition, seems strongly pro-Hillary Clinton and has recently published two eye-opening articles that seem to take journalistic...Read More
Silver jumps 50 percent, but beware the devil’s metal ... Silver prices have leapt nearly 50 percent so far this year, reversing three years of losses, but history shows investors hoping to hop aboard the bandwagon should be wary. -ReutersSilver is back at two-year high as gold marks its first gain in five sessions, according to MarketWatch.But you wouldn't know about that from Reuters (...Read More
By monopolizing the mining of rare-earth metals, China could dictate the future of high-tech ... This year, global consumption is expected to be about 155,000 tons, far more than the 45,000 tons used 25 years ago. Demand will only grow - likely at an accelerated pace - as the world tries to rein in climate change. At the moment, only China can satisfy that hunger. Yet in 2010, Beijing cut rare-e...Read More
That's why I pledge that in my first 100 days as president, we will make the biggest investment in new good-paying jobs since World War II. We need more jobs you can support a family on, especially in places that have been left out and left behind, from Coal Country, to Indian Country, to inner cities, to every place that has been hollowed out when a factory closed or a mine shut down. -Recent H...Read More
Republicans Should Embrace A Hillary Clinton Presidency ... Republicans who abandon Trump should admit that a Clinton presidency is hardly apocalyptic. In fact, having Clinton would be a boon to Republicans. – NewsweekThe new Newsweek, complete with a renewed print edition, seems strongly pro-Hillary Clinton and has recently published two eye-opening articles that seem to take journalistic...Read More
Silver jumps 50 percent, but beware the devil’s metal ... Silver prices have leapt nearly 50 percent so far this year, reversing three years of losses, but history shows investors hoping to hop aboard the bandwagon should be wary. -ReutersSilver is back at two-year high as gold marks its first gain in five sessions, according to MarketWatch.But you wouldn't know about that from Reuters (...Read More
By monopolizing the mining of rare-earth metals, China could dictate the future of high-tech ... This year, global consumption is expected to be about 155,000 tons, far more than the 45,000 tons used 25 years ago. Demand will only grow - likely at an accelerated pace - as the world tries to rein in climate change. At the moment, only China can satisfy that hunger. Yet in 2010, Beijing cut rare-e...Read More
In this special episode of the 2016 Summer Solutions series of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy talk to Jim Rickards, author of The New Case for Gold, about gold as a solution to the world's debt problems. They also discuss the solution that the leading global powers will present: rolling up the world's bad debt into the Special Drawing Rights (SDR), which is why China has been buying SDRs on the...Read More
A testing company needs to be well versed in not just the Fire Alarm functionality, but also in the diversity of detection in the building and how to efficiently and effectively test each type so that it is measurable and in line with the manufacturer's specifications.Read More
The Unites States is seeking the support of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in pressuring China to remove export duties on certain minerals that give it an unfair trade advantage.Saying that China agreed to remove duties ranging from 5% to 20% on antimony, cobalt, copper, graphite, lead, magnesia, talc, tantalum and tin when it joined the WTO 15 years ago, Washington filed a new WTO challenge...Read More
It's a familiar story for mine developers, when their projects overlay or sit near to sensitive ecosystems. Environmental groups state their intention to protect the animal or plant species at risk, sometimes taking legal action to oppose the project. Many times they are successful, especially with the strict regulatory framework found in the United States, where baseline studies are known to tak...Read More
Canada's Hudbay Minerals' (TSX, NYSE:HBM) proposed Rosemont copper mine in Arizona scored a key legal victory this week after a Court of Appeals overturned Tuesday a 2015 ruling blocking its air quality permit.The appeals panel's decision, Tucson.com reports, eliminates one of three pivotal regulatory hurdles still blocking the $1.5 billion mine's go-ahead.While the project is now heading into w...Read More
The recent appointment of a Chinese government official to the board Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.A & TCK.B) (NYSE:TCK), Canada's largest diversified miner, has some worried about sovereignty issues in the country's resource sector.Canada has no regulations regarding members of foreign governments sitting on local companies' boards, but it does require at least 25% of the members to be Canadian citiz...Read More
A majority of Americans disapprove of the FBI’s recommendation not to charge Hillary Clinton with a crime over her handling of email while secretary of state, and a similar number in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say the issue leaves them worried about how she would handle her responsibilities as president if elected. Most also say the email controversy won’t affect their vote i...Read More
I can’t think of any governance red flags during the Steve Jobs era at Apple (the one exception being the stock-option backdating issue, which was settled). By contrast, there have been many at Tesla. Perhaps the Tesla bulls would say that the combination of Musk’s brilliance as well as the potential size of the electrical car market more than compensates for a few red flags. My gues...Read More
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