Country ... North Korea
POLITICS ... IF THE NORTH KOREAN REGIME COLLAPSED ... NIGHT AND DAY
America and China have done too little planning for a Korean crisis
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People ... Leonhard Euler
Mathematician
Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment. By Ronald Calinger. Princeton University Press; 669 pages; $55 and £37.95.
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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Generational Shift
A New Generation of Entrepreneurs Is Out to Save the World--and Make Money Doing It ...
For the first time in nearly 30 years of investing in early-stage, social good organizations, Echoing Green's latest fellows demonstrate a shift to for-profit business models.
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Workplace Conditions
Work-Life Balance
Guardian sustainable business ... How the ‘first-in-last-out’ ethic is creating a culture of overwork
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Energy ... Coal
The True Cost of Coal
The True Cost of Coal ... a paper prepared by GroundTruthTrekking
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Deforestation
Progress or not?
Nestle, PepsiCo, and other big corporations promised to protect forests. Who’s following through?
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Deforestation
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) ... Completely Worthless, or Just Mostly Worthless?
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Initiatives
HRC ... Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign ... the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization
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UK POLITICS
PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY
Theresa May’s first prime minister’s questions: our writers give their verdict ... In the first PMQs of the post-Cameron era, May was greeted with cheers as she stood up – but how did she fare overall?
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Transportation ... Rail
UK ... Southern Scandal
OPINION ... Rail transport ... The Southern scandal has gone on long enough. GTR must lose its contract
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The Accountancy Professions
Concentration
From 2000 ... Breaking Up the Big 5 ... For months, the SEC has railed about auditor independence and quality. Is there really a problem?
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Patrick Moore
GreenPeace / Prager University
Why I Left Greenpeace ... an explanation of the trajectory of GreenPeace activity over many decades
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Food ... The GMO controversy
Understanding the science
Golden Rice and Why You Should Not Fund Greenpeace
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Food ... Nutrition
The GMO Controversy
PBS NewsHour ... GMO debate grows over golden rice in the Philippines
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Importance of Skills
OECD Report
OECD (2016), Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills, OECD Publishing, Paris.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264258051-en
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Companies
Schibsted, Telenor and Singapore
Schibsted, Telenor and Singapore Press Holdings team up in online classifieds
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Industry
Africa / Telecom
2012 ... Top Ten largest telecoms companies in Africa
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People / Ideas
Ernest Lowe
Some of the key people ... Resources for a Prosperity Without Growth Economy
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Turkey
About Erdogan
Turkey’s Elected Dictator ... It is high time for the United States and EU to condemn the unruly way in which Erdogan exercised his power.
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UK ... BREXIT
Brexit Means Brexit: May’s Time or May…hem? ...
Message to London: The UK’s relationship with the EU cannot be reduced to satisfying purely economic and financial interests.
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Economic Performance
Free Trade and Moral Hypocrisy
U.S. elites claiming moral superiority by demanding that other people do the sacrificing on trade issues is unprincipled hypocrisy.
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Banking and Finance
How Markets Need to Work
American Bystander, Reforming Global Finance ... Don’t Pity the Poor JP Morgan Shareholder ... Accountability has to be the key underpinning of modern capitalism.
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Richard Phillips
Globalist Contributor
Richard Phillips ... Globalist Contributor ... navigation to many of his articles as of 160721
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Energy ... USA
Fracking
Massive Fracking Explosion in New Mexico, 36 Oil Tanks Catch Fire ... Down Deep: Unearthing the Truth About Hydraulic Fracturing
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Person ... Paulynn Cue
Dialog
Some dialog with Paulynn Cue
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Elizabeth Warren
USA ... ELECTION 2016
Elizabeth Warren Tells Stephen Colbert After Trump's Dark Speech: We Need to Get Serious About the Problem on America's Hands
Warren: 'I don’t know anybody left in America who isn’t afraid of Donald Trump.' 'He Sounded Like A Two-Bit Dictator'
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Initiatives
WELLcertified
WELLcertified ... a system of certification for buildings based on the health and wellness of their living environment
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USA ... Politics 2016
About the GOP
VOX ... The Republicans waged a 3-decade war on government. They got Trump.
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DONALD TRUMP
THE TRUMP SAGA
Elizabeth Warren On Trump: 'He Sounded Like A Two-Bit Dictator'
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USA ... Politics
About the GOP
Ezra Klein ... Donald Trump’s nomination is the first time American politics has left me truly afraid
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City - New York
Cornell Tech Campus ... Passive House
BREAKING NEW GROUND: NYC TAKES THE LEAD IN PASSIVE HOUSE ... Cornell Tech’s 26-story, 352-unit residential tower will redefine the city’s skyline
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Transport ... Rail
The State of the US Rail Transport System
A video about California Trains! 1 Hour, 150+ Trains! ... lots of trains ... nothing very modern
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Transport ... Rail
Passenger rail transport systems
Video ... Top 10 Fastest Train in the World ... none in the USA
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TESLA
MASTER PLAN
Tesla Master Plan by Elon Musk, Part Deux ...July 20, 2016
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Initiative
10.Thousand.Girl
About 10ThousandGirl.com ... an Australian initiative to help girls / women with financial understanding ... some material from their website 160724
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Terrorism
Middle East ... Somalia / Turkey
Turkish Airlines was real target of Somali plane bomber ... The Daallo Airlines A320 was forced to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu following the incident last week.
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AIRLINES
SWISSAIR
Swissair became the first airline in the world to commercially operate the new Bombardier C Series
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Education
e-Learning in Africa
Out of Africa: e-learning makes further education a reality for tens of thousands ...
As the eLearning Africa conference gets underway in Addis Ababa, there is a growing recognition that online courses can boost further education access
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Peter Swannick
Linked In Connection and Group Organizer
Group ... Valuing Non-Financial Performance
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Initiatives
Corporate Social Responsibility Institute (CSRI)
Liad Ortar ... Corporate Social Responsibility Institute ... The elders are challenging the -S- (sustainability) word
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Initiatives
Corporate Social Responsibility Institute (CSRI)
Tax Justice / Privatization and Regulation / Capital Markets / Sustainability Reporting
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US ELECTION 2016
Democratic Convention 2016
EXCLUSIVE: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange on Releasing DNC Emails That Ousted Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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US ELECTION 2016
Democratic Convention 2016
Chaotic Start to DNC, As Wasserman-Shultz Resigns in Disgrace, Only to be Elevated by Clinton to Key Campaign Role ... At first Sanders is vindicated by e-mail hack, and DNC apology; but Hillary turns the tables.
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WORLD
The Game of Life
Tom Engelhardt ... Looking Back on My Life, and a World That is A Disheartening Mess ... Looking at my mortality, in a world of constant American war.
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ECONOMY ... USA
The Airline Industry
Profits Are Sky-High, But Airlines Keep Coming Up With New Ways to Gouge You With Fees ...
The tickets themselves may be reasonable, but they'll get you with the fees.
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Workplace Conditions
Fox News ... the Murdoch / Ailes organization
Kissing, Touching, Oral Sex: Fox News Employees Say Harassment Problem Goes Way beyond Roger Ailes ...
A dozen women told the New York Times that they were sexually harassed.
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Workplace Conditions
Fox News ... the Murdoch / Ailes organization
25 Fox Employees Come Forward: Forced Dates, Demands for Oral Sex ... A culture this depraved won't change overnight.
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HEALTH
Big Pharma (unethical) Marketing
You Won't Believe the Outrageous Ways Big Pharma Has Bribed Doctors to Shill Drugs ... Think lap dances, trips to the Caribbean, and countless free lunches.
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ELECTION 2016
WHY TIM KAINE?
Robert Reich: Does Hillary Get It? Tim Kaine is as vanilla middle as you can get
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UK POLITICS
OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY
WILLIAM HAGUE ... A new industrial revolution is coming. Is Theresa May ready for the chaos it could unleash?
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