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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Spacey's Impressions or impersonations of 8 famous peopleRemastered: audio-visually enhanced, noise reduced, converted to widescreen 16:9Read More
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, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary,March, 12, 2016Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
I'm writing to tell you that I'm getting concerned about my boss, Bill Bonner...He's been emailing me from an isolated ranch in South America at 9,240 ft... using a computer that runs on solar power...Read More