‘Serious failings’ at BBC let Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall go unchecked ... Dame Janet Smith report finds 'climate of fear' at BBC 'Macho culture' led employees to keep quiet ... She concluded that "an atmosphere of fear still exists today in the BBC possibly because obtaining work in the BBC is highly competitive and many people no longer have the security on an employment contract"....Read More
Lying Press? Germans Lose Faith in the Fourth Estate “Mendacious swine journals” reads this sign held by a German protester at a recent PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden, listing various German media outlets ... Germans are losing faith in their media. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mistrust of refugee crisis media coverage. Where did journalists go wrong? And how much of this ske...Read More
Lying Press? Germans Lose Faith in the Fourth Estate “Mendacious swine journals” reads this sign held by a German protester at a recent PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden, listing various German media outlets ... Germans are losing faith in their media. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mistrust of refugee crisis media coverage. Where did journalists go wrong? And how much of this ske...Read More
EU referendum: Leaving EU a ‘leap in the dark’ says Cameron ... The prime minister says his only agenda is what is best for the country ... David Cameron has warned that leaving the European Union “could hurt working people for years to come”, as he put the case for staying in the EU to MPs. He said the choice was between an “even greater Britain” by staying in,...Read More
EU referendum: Leaving EU a ‘leap in the dark’ says Cameron ... The prime minister says his only agenda is what is best for the country ... David Cameron has warned that leaving the European Union “could hurt working people for years to come”, as he put the case for staying in the EU to MPs. He said the choice was between an “even greater Britain” by staying in,...Read More
HPV Sharply Reduced in Teenage Girls Following Vaccine, Study Says ...The vaccine for human papillomavirus, a cause of cervical cancer, has proved effective, but immunization rates remain low ... A vaccine introduced a decade ago to combat the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer has already reduced the virus's prevalence in teenage girls by almost two-thirds, federal researchers...Read More
HPV Sharply Reduced in Teenage Girls Following Vaccine, Study Says ...The vaccine for human papillomavirus, a cause of cervical cancer, has proved effective, but immunization rates remain low ... A vaccine introduced a decade ago to combat the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer has already reduced the virus's prevalence in teenage girls by almost two-thirds, federal researchers...Read More
Retail sales in Canada fell 2.2% in December from November on a seasonally adjusted basis, but not adjusted for inflation, to C$43.2 billion ... But just because retail demand is crummy doesn't mean that retail prices can't power higher. Stagflation comes to mind. Now happening before our very eyes. And forget deflation, however much central bankers bandy the term about like a cudgel to justify th...Read More
Retail sales in Canada fell 2.2% in December from November on a seasonally adjusted basis, but not adjusted for inflation, to C$43.2 billion ... But just because retail demand is crummy doesn't mean that retail prices can't power higher. Stagflation comes to mind. Now happening before our very eyes. And forget deflation, however much central bankers bandy the term about like a cudgel to justify th...Read More
The article in question, about DeMarcus Cousins showing support for embattled head coach George Karl, was published February 13 … Now when you click on the article on Amico Hoops, it immediately redirects you to Sactown Royalty … it’s probably a lesson learned for Amico’s site. Just because you throw a link up at the bottom doesn’t mean you can just take someone else&...Read More
The article in question, about DeMarcus Cousins showing support for embattled head coach George Karl, was published February 13 … Now when you click on the article on Amico Hoops, it immediately redirects you to Sactown Royalty … it’s probably a lesson learned for Amico’s site. Just because you throw a link up at the bottom doesn’t mean you can just take someone else&...Read More
Starbucks CEO warns the U.S. presidential elections are turning into a 'circus' … CEO Howard Schultz criticized the presidential candidates for making 'bombastic attacks' without 'respect' for each other. He warned the run-up to the U.S. election had 'turned into something none of us has ever seen before… almost a circus.' – Daily MailThe outspoken...Read More
This is becoming very concerning.The momentum to "ban cash", and in particular high denomination notes like the 500 euro and $100 bills, is seriously picking up steam.On Monday the European Central Bank President emphatically disclosed that he is strongly considering phasing out the 500 euro note.Yesterday, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers published an op-ed in the Washington Post about...Read More
Why Buying Gold Won't Save You from the Zombie Apocalypse … Despite any advice you might have heard to the contrary, gold bullion is far from a good investment, even if the world is coming to an end. The idea of having a hedge against the end of the world and the collapse of our financial institutions might be alluring. But actually, buying and storing significant amounts of gold bullion...Read More
February 5, 2016Sovereign Valley Farm, ChileThirteen years ago my life changed forever.Colin Powell, then US Secretary of State and the most credible person in George W. Bush's cabinet, made the case for war in Iraq on February 5, 2003.As a young military intelligence officer at the time, watching from a makeshift Army base in Kuwait not far from the Iraq border.Back then I was a true believer...Read More
Starbucks CEO warns the U.S. presidential elections are turning into a 'circus' … CEO Howard Schultz criticized the presidential candidates for making 'bombastic attacks' without 'respect' for each other. He warned the run-up to the U.S. election had 'turned into something none of us has ever seen before… almost a circus.' – Daily MailThe outspoken...Read More
This is becoming very concerning.The momentum to "ban cash", and in particular high denomination notes like the 500 euro and $100 bills, is seriously picking up steam.On Monday the European Central Bank President emphatically disclosed that he is strongly considering phasing out the 500 euro note.Yesterday, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers published an op-ed in the Washington Post about...Read More
Why Buying Gold Won't Save You from the Zombie Apocalypse … Despite any advice you might have heard to the contrary, gold bullion is far from a good investment, even if the world is coming to an end. The idea of having a hedge against the end of the world and the collapse of our financial institutions might be alluring. But actually, buying and storing significant amounts of gold bullion...Read More
February 5, 2016Sovereign Valley Farm, ChileThirteen years ago my life changed forever.Colin Powell, then US Secretary of State and the most credible person in George W. Bush's cabinet, made the case for war in Iraq on February 5, 2003.As a young military intelligence officer at the time, watching from a makeshift Army base in Kuwait not far from the Iraq border.Back then I was a true believer...Read More
Loy wonders why we acquiesce in the appalling realities of global inequities and sleep so peacefully at night. He finds his answer in Rodney Dobell’s explanation that “lies largely in our embrace of a peculiarly European or Western [but now global] religion, an individualistic religion of economics and markets, which explains all of these outcomes as the inevitable results of an object...Read More