Anglo-American Landscapes: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Let’s give children the ‘store of human knowledge’ : In flattering kids as ‘digital natives’ for whom the past is irrelevant, we degrade a vital adult mission: transmitting knowledge. (Frank Furedi, 11/18/09, spiked) Although education is celebrated as one of the most important institutions of society, there is a casual disrespect for the content of what children are...
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
This week the British people listened to the Daily Mall’s Peter Oborne present, on Channel 4, his devastating account of the Jewish lobby’s control of their government. Now we know that virtually all the principal politicians in the UK of both parties, like their brothers across the lake in our House and Senate, take “contributions” from the Israeli lobby machine ensuring that...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The FTSE 100 fell and the banks collapsed. But as Patrick Collinson reports, the only shares that didn't go up in smoke were tobacco companies In a decade dominated by the rise of China, the expansion of the internet and the proliferation of mobile phones, the best stockmarket investment was – cigarettes. Analysis of the companies in the FTSE 100 in January 2000, prepared for Guardian Money...
Online Journalism Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Like in the music or art fields, we, the Spanish-speaking people, allways look to the Anglo-American world to see what the new trends and innovation about digital journalism are (and laugh when Rupert Murdoch opens his mouth). But now we can show our own example of a news site that tried to survive in this ecosystem and… died. But it’s all about trial and error! I’m talking about...
The Second Life Great Expedition (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
TANALOIS2 di Alo e Tani A group of Italians enjoying art in the virtual snow. This may be just me, but I notice that the French, Italian, Spanish, Swiss, Belgian crowd in Second Life seems to make nicer SIMS and enjoy Second Life more for the art of it. I also notice that Eurozone events have larger groups. In the Anglo-American SIMs (the vast majority) its more sex groups or commercial exchange. But...
Legal Profession Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I'm sitting in the University of Michigan Law Library (by courtesy!) reading a delightful and irreverent essay on Anglo-American common law as a discipline by Peter Goodrich at Cardozo. Here's the abstract of Intellection and Indiscipline...
France24 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Europe's main stock markets retreated on Thursday following losses in Tokyo and overnight on Wall Street, as investors digested mixed economic data and outlooks for the global economy. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index eased 0.10 percent to 5,336.80 points in late morning trade, as miners recoiled in line with metals prices. Anglo American slumped 2.65 percent to 2,560 pence and Xstrata shed 2.53...
Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
by Dani Rodrik project-syndicate.org (2009) Something happened in late August that I never thought I would see in my lifetime. A leading policymaker in the Anglo-American empire of finance actually came out in support of a Tobin tax - a global tax on financial transactions. The official in question was Adair Turner, the head of the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority, the country's chief financial...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The transition into Thai has given the Anglo-American music a penetrating note, as if high-pitched percussive instruments are being quickly struck and pieces of metal are being clashed. Americans, says the American in the room next to the one in which I'm sitting, have not heard of Cliff Richard, so if you're American I'm not sure how useful it will be to learn that the 1960s Thai pop genre known as...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
• Test case against South African firm over exposure to dust • Black workers suffered most in apartheid era, lawyer claims Tens of thousands of goldminers in South Africa have contracted lung diseases because employers failed to protect them from breathing in harmful dust, it was claimed today. Eighteen former workers who suffer from silicosis or silico-tuberculosis are bringing a test case...
Business Report (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Anglo American has announced the appointment of Jack Thompson to its Board as a non-executive director with immediate effect.
Mineweb - Daily news headlines (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
China Minmetals appears to still be in acquisition mode after its takeover of OZ Minerals, casting its eye upon Anglo American's zinc assets and a stake in the Hunan Nonferrous Group.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
In his Hugo Young lecture, David Cameron shows his social and political illiteracy, in two critical senses ( Big society can fight poverty. Big government just fuels it , 10 November). First, there is no remedy for the inequalities associated with unregulated markets other than Nordic-style, universal welfare states. Such regimes do not suffer from the perverse incentives of the minimalist, Anglo-American...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
THE hoo-ha surrounding the appointment of Sir Philip Hampton, the chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland, as a non-executive director of mining giant Anglo American last week jus
Elton Mogg Photography (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Hannah & John were married in St Nicholas Church in Pyrford but held their reception nearby at Hannah's parents home in a large marquee in the back garden. Hannah got ready at the house which allowed her to oversee all the preparations and made for a really relaxed bridal party. John is from Texas and throughout the day there were little touches of the Anglo American link up. This was a relaxed,...
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carrolltrust | 19/08/2009
Howard Hughes Hughes Aircraft Corporation controlled by the Summa Corporation Romaine Street Los Angeles California the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Maryland USA. The Carroll Global Corporation Carroll Aircraft Corporation Carroll Anglo-American Corporation and Maine Investments Gibraltar "named" in forensic compelling criminal evidence FBI and Scotland Yard Carroll Foundation Trust Dossiers submitted
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