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Blair to Eradicate European Culture to Create a United States of Europe

March 24, 2016 / www.thedailybell.com

Tony Blair has warned against “flabby liberalism” and says there needs to be a tougher centre ground approach to issues such as tackling extremism and responding to the refugee crisis ... He argues that education against extremism and intolerance will come to be seen as an international obligation – in the way that environmental policy, such as tackling pollution, is addressed...Read More

Blair to Eradicate European Culture to Create a United States of Europe

March 24, 2016 / www.thedailybell.com

Tony Blair has warned against “flabby liberalism” and says there needs to be a tougher centre ground approach to issues such as tackling extremism and responding to the refugee crisis ... He argues that education against extremism and intolerance will come to be seen as an international obligation – in the way that environmental policy, such as tackling pollution, is addressed...Read More

Commodity bulls twisting in the wind

March 23, 2016 / www.mining.com

On Wednesday investors curbed their enthusiasm for commodities, sending everything from copper and gold to oil and iron ore sharply lower.But despite nervousness returning to metals and mining markets this week, 2016 is still looking decidedly better for the sector. Year to date gold is holding onto 15% gains, silver and platinum are up 10% while bellwether copper's trading nearly 15% higher than...Read More

Animation: How China trumps the US in trade

March 23, 2016 / www.mining.com

Donald Trump claims that America keeps "losing" at trade with China.While the number he cites is exaggerated, it's also not far off. Today's animation shows the last 30 years of history of trade between the USA and China.The U.S. trade deficit with China reached record proportions in 2015.With a difference of $365.7 billion between imports and exports, it is not only the largest trade deficit with...Read More

Mitsui posts first loss ever amid $2.3bn copper, gas write-downs

March 23, 2016 / www.mining.com

Japanese trading firm Mitsui & Co warned Wednesday is set to post its first annual loss since being established in 1947 after a sustained rout in energy and metal prices forced it to book $2.3 billion (260 billion yen) in write-downs on projects from South America to Australia.The Tokyo-based firm, Japan's second biggest trading house, expects a net loss of 70 billion yen ($623 million) in the fis...Read More

Can the market handle legal marijuana?

March 23, 2016 / www.thedailybell.com

Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People ... pulls back the curtain on the true motivation of the United States' war on drugs. -Huffington PostThe Huffington Post article, excerpted above, blames the Nixon administration for the "war on drugs" and is based on a cover story in Harper's magazine by Dan Baum.Baum’s long article eventually makes the case for...Read More

Can the market handle legal marijuana?

March 23, 2016 / www.thedailybell.com

Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People ... pulls back the curtain on the true motivation of the United States' war on drugs. -Huffington PostThe Huffington Post article, excerpted above, blames the Nixon administration for the "war on drugs" and is based on a cover story in Harper's magazine by Dan Baum.Baum’s long article eventually makes the case for...Read More

Skeena's Netolitzky goes back for more high-grade gold at Snip

March 23, 2016 / www.youtube.com

Ron Netolitzky's Skeena Resources has inked a deal with Barrick to acquire the historic Snip high-grade gold mine, a deposit Netolitzky discovered in his first big score in British Columbia's Golden Triangle.Read More

Skeena's Netolitzky goes back for more high-grade gold at Snip

March 23, 2016 / www.youtube.com

Ron Netolitzky's Skeena Resources has inked a deal with Barrick to acquire the historic Snip high-grade gold mine, a deposit Netolitzky discovered in his first big score in British Columbia's Golden Triangle.Read More

Kevin's Impressions - Impersonations

March 23, 2016 / www.youtube.com

Kevin Spacey's Impressions or impersonations of 8 famous peopleRemastered: audio-visually enhanced, noise reduced, converted to widescreen 16:9Read More

Fiona On Scene: Frank Giustra on Shaw TV

March 23, 2016 / www.youtube.com

Businessman and philanthropist Frank Giustra was a speaker at the recent Forum For Women Entrepreneurs and spoke to us on the red carpet about his business success, his award winning olive oil and how he's helping Syrian Refugees.http://shawtv.comhttp://shaw.caTwitter: @goWestCoastTVFacebook: goWestCoastTVRead More

Dr. Scott Gibson - 2016 New England Festival of Young Preachers

March 23, 2016 / www.youtube.com

Dr. Scott Gibson - 2016 New England Festival of Young Preachers, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary,March, 12, 2016Read More

The end of the global diversified miner?

March 22, 2016 / www.mining.com

Driven by low commodity prices, large mining companies will shift away from diversification strategies to concentrate on increasing competitiveness in specific sectors, predicts research firm BMI.The process is already underway at the top diversified firms including at number one miner BHP Billiton which back in 2014 embarked on what it called "portfolio simplification" to focus on iron ore, copp...Read More

Rising prices, equities suggest end of mining bear market near

March 22, 2016 / www.mining.com

Recent stock charts are making it tempting to declare a five-year-long bear market for mining finally over.Since mid-January, mining stocks have rallied, key commodity prices appear to be making their way up from a bottom, a number of financing and acquisition deals have been struck and, for the first time in years, the mood at the recent Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conve...Read More

EarthWorks: Ignoring best practices, four BC/Alaska transboundary mines risk Mount Polley disaster

March 22, 2016 / www.mining.com

Juneau, AK; Ottawa, ON; Washington, D.C., March 22 - In the midst of deliberations over the British Columbia Mining Code, an international coalition today released, "Post-Mount Polley: Tailings Dam Safety in British Columbia", a new analysis revealing that four major BC mine projects in the Alaska/British Columbia transboundary region fail to implement the recommendations of the Mount Polley exp...Read More

Forget QE Through Banks, The ECB Now Wants To Directly Hand Out Cash

March 22, 2016 / www.thedailybell.com

The lords of finance are losing their touch. Institutions which dragged the world from its worst depression since the early 20th century are finally seeing their magic desert them, if conventional wisdom is to be believed. -UK TelegraphWe have read a deluge of mainstream media articles about central banking problems and the article quoted above is no exception.When the mainstream media trumpet...Read More

Forget QE Through Banks, The ECB Now Wants To Directly Hand Out Cash

March 22, 2016 / www.thedailybell.com

The lords of finance are losing their touch. Institutions which dragged the world from its worst depression since the early 20th century are finally seeing their magic desert them, if conventional wisdom is to be believed. -UK TelegraphWe have read a deluge of mainstream media articles about central banking problems and the article quoted above is no exception.When the mainstream media trumpet...Read More

Live and Solo In Pensacola, Florida | Live | Tommy Emmanuel

March 22, 2016 / www.youtube.com

Recorded 2013 in Pensacola, Florida, this full-length video contains 17 tracks of Tommy exactly how you want him: live, solo and acoustic!Previously self-released as a CD/DVD set and only available at live shows, Tommy has made the full show available here on his YouTube channel for all! You can download the audio from iTunes http://smarturl.it/LiveandSolo, or purchase a physical CD/DVD (while sup...Read More

The richest and poorest countries in the world

March 21, 2016 / www.mining.com

The world economy is complex, but today's series of maps will allow you to simplify your understanding of the relative wealth of people around the globe.Global Finance Magazine recently collated data from the World Bank on Gross National Income (GNI) per capita for 204 countries.Each country was placed in one of four groups:Low income: $1,045 or lessLower-middle income: $1,046 to $4,125Upper-middl...Read More

Copper price jumps to 20-week high

March 21, 2016 / www.mining.com

In New York trade on Monday copper for delivery in May consolidated recent gains to reach a 20-week high after customs data from top consumer China showed a huge jump in imports of the red metal.Copper changed hands for $2.3020 per pound or around $5,075 a tonne in lunchtime trade on Tuesday, up o.8% from Friday's close. If the most active futures contract closes above $2.30 it would be the...Read More

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