The American campaign against the Islamic State is being largely fought from the sky. And even that aerial effort is being shortchanged, military insiders tell The Daily Beast.
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‘Fixed Fortunes’: Corporate Donors Spent $5.8B on Political Influence, Received $4.4T in Financial Benefits
November 17th, 2014 | Source: Sunlight Foundation
The Sunlight Foundation is releasing “Fixed Fortunes,” a groundbreaking analysis and dataset of the money the biggest corporate political donors put into campaigns and lobbying and what they get in return.
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Google develops site to help combat illegal fishing
November 13th, 2014 | Source: FT
Google has waded into one of the most politically fraught environmental issues with a free tool that gives anyone with an internet connection the power to track down illegal fishing boats that experts say are causing up to $23bn in economic losses each year.
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Congress to vote on Keystone pipeline in high-stakes challenge to Obama
November 13th, 2014 | Source: The Guardian
Senate and House of Representatives schedule votes to support controversial pipeline, hours after president announced historic emissions deal with China
Both chambers of the US Congress will vote on a bill to approve the controversialKeystone XL pipeline in the coming days, in what could amount to an immediate challenge to Barack Obama’s efforts to reduce global carbon emissions.
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The Untapped Value of Overseas Experience
November 11th, 2014 | Source: Strategy + Business
How skilled return migrants can be your company’s agents of change.
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The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare
November 6th, 2014 | Source: Rolling Stone
VNN is very happy to see Matt Taibbi return to his regular beat @rollingstone
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How Guy Fawkes became the face of post-modern protest
November 5th, 2014 | Source: The Economist
ON NOVEMBER 5TH Britons up and down the country will light bonfires and set off fireworks to mark the execution of Guy Fawkes, a 17th-century Roman Catholic terrorist. More recently activists have appropriated the day as one of mass protest.
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Baghdad Mansions Sell for $1 Million With Islamic State at Gates
November 3rd, 2014 | Source: Bloomberg
Islamic State militants may be at the approaches to Baghdad yet members of Iraq’s Shiite Muslim elite are offering cash for $1 million homes in the capital’s sought-after Zayouna neighborhood.
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This airline is making flights to Europe as cheap as $99
October 30th, 2014 | Source: Washington Post
Wow Air, the roughly three-year old discount air carrier, is going where few other ultra low cost airlines have gone: across the Atlantic. And if all goes according to plan, it's going to do it much cheaper than anyone else.
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