Last week's announcement that Saudi Arabia — easily one of the world's most brutally repressive regimes — was chosen to head a U.N. Human Rights Council panel provoked indignation around the world. That reaction was triggered for obvious reasons. Not only has Saudi Arabia executed more than 100 people already this year, mostly by beheading (a rate of 1 execution every two days)...Read More

Lightning talk at Meteor Devshop SF - http://devshop.meteor.com/Read More

Louis C.K. talks about some of his formative experiences, like doing drugs when he was a kid, how he got his start in standup, and how his comedy evolved.Read More

Christine Lagarde speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Image from Wikipedia.With China emphasising consumption over investment, there 'could be a prolonged period of low commodity prices', said Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of International Monetary Fund.Lagarde, who was speaking to the Council of the Americas today, said China is transitioning to a new growth model,...Read More

Collahuasi cutsOn Wednesday copper futures staged a comeback from six year lows hit earlier in the week as supply disruptions from top producing countries Chile and Peru lift sentiment in beaten down sector.On the Comex market in New York copper for delivery in December surged as much as 4.7% to a session high of $2.3575 or $5,200 a tonne. Today's advance lifted the red metal out of bear territor...Read More

#Peru: 3 people dead in protests against mining project #LasBambas | http://t.co/bFce77m5kf (esp) via @laprensaperu pic.twitter.com/TFyNiXWcO7- Revolution News (@NewsRevo) September 29, 2015Protests at MMG's Las Bambas mine in Peru resulted in four fatalities and 16 people seriously injured yesterday, said the company in statement.A state of emergency has been imposed at the Apurimac region near t...Read More

Hillcore Group to Join Forces with Yaletown in Financing of Solegear's Commercial Growth OpportunitiesVancouver, BC - Solegear Bioplastic Technologies Inc. (TSX-V:SGB) (the "Company" or "Solegear") is pleased to announce that Hillcore Group ("Hillcore") has led the first tranche (the "First Tranche") of a non-brokered private placement of common shares (the "Shares") of the Company (the "Private...Read More

Criminal justice reform is a contentious political issue, but there's one point on which pretty much everyone agrees: America's prison population is way too high. It's possible that a decline has already begun, with the number of state and federal inmates dropping for three years straight starting in 2010, from an all-time high of 1.62 million in 2009 to about 1.57 million in 2012. But...Read More

Criminal justice reform is a contentious political issue, but there's one point on which pretty much everyone agrees: America's prison population is way too high. It's possible that a decline has already begun, with the number of state and federal inmates dropping for three years straight starting in 2010, from an all-time high of 1.62 million in 2009 to about 1.57 million in 2012. But...Read More

This is a MUST listen!Bill Bonner, founder of Agora Financial, joins the show to discuss the hysteria preceding Janet Yellen's announcement last week that the Fed would not raise interest rates. We also consider various ugly endgames for the US dollar, and whether federal debt will all come crashing down with a bang or a whimper.Read More

Tommy Tiernan, Ireland's most successful comic, unleashes his high energy brand of comedy at the 2006 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal.Want more Y2K comedy? Watch here: http://bit.ly/1ohvRfxRock, Chappelle & C.K.! Laugh with the legends: http://bit.ly/1LUVEWcSUBSCRIBE For More Stand Up: http://bit.ly/1ShFiDPJ4L on Facebook: http://bit.ly/1qbX9p0J4L on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1RG2uuIJust For Lau...Read More

Over reliance on Iran's oil sector have hurt mining, says Mehdi Karbasian, managing director of a group pushing for mine development in the country."During the past decades, due to the huge investments made in the oil industry. The foundation of the Iranian economy was based on this industry and the government paid less attention to making big investments in other sectors," said Karbasian last mo...Read More

In mid-August, China shocked markets by devaluing the yuan.Today's infographic looks at the impact this had on global currencies using three different timeframes:1 day, 1 week, and 1 month.In the grand scheme of things, China's mid-August currency devaluation spree was a drop in the bucket. Since the Financial Crisis, countries have routinely printed money, kept rates pegged artificially low, and...Read More

Australia's minerals industry professionals have experienced another surge in unemployment. The mining industry is now losing highly skilled professionals as they pursue alternative work.The organisation representing minerals professionals, the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), today released annual survey results highlighting an alarming increase in unemployment amongst hi...Read More

Woodbridge, ON - Titanium Transportation Group Inc. (TSX-V:TTR) ("Titanium" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has appointed Nia Karabatsos as General Counsel. Ms. Karabatsos joins Titanium from the Business Law Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP.Ms. Karabatsos has a wealth of experience in corporate and commercial law, with emphasis on negotiating and executing mergers...Read More

Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally "boy play," and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on mili...Read More

Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally "boy play," and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on mili...Read More

Please see the technical report entitled "Updated Technical Report and Preliminary Economic Assessment for the Black Butte Copper Project, Montana" dated July 12, 2013 (the "PEA"), which is available on SEDAR, for more information. The PEA is preliminary in nature, it includes inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have the economic considerations applied to...Read More

As the deep sea mining industry chases investors at the Asia Pacific Deep Sea Mining Summit, a new critique by the Deep Sea Mining Campaign reveals indefensible flaws in the Environmental and Social Benchmarking Analysis of the Solwara 1 project commissioned by Nautilus Minerals. The proposed Solwara 1 deep sea mine, situated in the Bismarck Sea of Papua New Guinea, is the world's first to rec...Read More

Volkswagen's scheme to cheat on emissions tests could have been found out earlier if the automaker—and indeed all automakers—hadn't been able to block car-owners from digging into the software that runs their vehicles, digital rights advocates say.The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA)—the controversial US law governing di...Read More