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Let’s all screw the 1 percent: The simple move Obama could make to strengthen the rest of us
December 27th, 2014 | Source: Salon.com
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Nicaragua’s canal: Chinese construction is due to start—but of what?
December 22nd, 2014 | Source: The Economist
ON DECEMBER 22nd an odd couple—Nicaragua’s left-wing government and a Chinese-born telecoms magnate—say they will begin the realisation of a dream that has captivated Nicaraguans for generations: the construction of an inter-oceanic canal to rival Panama’s. According to Manuel Coronel, an octogenarian who runs the canal authority, their intentions are now beyond dispute. “When the bride and groom set a date, you know it’s serious,” he says.
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Ebay joins Google and others in dumping Alec over climate stance
December 21st, 2014 | Source: The Guardian
The online retailer is the latest tech giant to leave the right wing lobbying group over its position on climate change
Ebay announced on Thursday it’s severing ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) because of the lobbying group’s views on climate change. The online marketplace is the latest technology firm to part ways with the rightwing organization over environmental concerns.
GlobalView: Climate Change in Perspective
December 19th, 2014 | Source: Bloomberg View
GlobalView: Climate Change in Perspective
A brilliant interactive presentation from the editors at Bloomberg View a real must see...
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Fifa hits new low after Michael Garcia resignation
December 18th, 2014 | Source: BBC
As the sun set over the Atlas Mountains, and the sound of the evening call to prayer drifted across the city, all seemed calm.
At Marrakech's finest hotel, La Mamounia, famous for being Winston Churchill's favourite bolt hole, Fifa's top executives - the select few who run world football - were checking in ahead of their final meeting of the year.
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Opening of Relations Could Bring Cuban Stars to Major League Baseball
December 18th, 2014 | Source: NYT.com
At a dinner in one of Fidel Castro’s palaces in 1999, Castro and several of Major League Baseball’s senior executives discussed one of the few bonds between Cuba and the United States: baseball.
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Wall Street is expanding, and the economy is worse off for it.
December 17th, 2014 | Source: Washington Post
A black hole for our best and brightest
The thing Deborah Jackson remembers from her first interviews at Goldman Sachs is the slogan. It was stamped on the glass doors of the offices in the investment bank’s headquarters just off Wall Street, the lure of the place in two words, eight syllables: “Uncommon capability.”
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Newtown two years on: More guns, more school shootings
December 15th, 2014 | Source: CS Monitor.com
Two years after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., school shootings in the US continue at the rate of nearly one a week. Most Americans think the main problem is mental illness, not lack of gun control.
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Halving of malaria deaths 'tremendous achievement'
December 9th, 2014 | Source: BBC
Global efforts have halved the number of people dying from malaria - a tremendous achievement, the World Health Organization says.
It says between 2001 and 2013, 4.3 million deaths were averted, 3.9 million of which were children under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa.
Each year, more people are being reached with life-saving malaria interventions, the WHO says.
In 2004, 3% of those at risk had access to mosquito nets, but now 50% do.
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