Bill Blain: Fast-Evolving News on Iran, Gold and Boeing
"Gold hit $1620 last night before sliding back a tad."
"Gold hit $1620 last night before sliding back a tad."
"Lebanon, another Muslim-dominated Arab country, introduced sex education to 12- and 14-year-old students in 1995, but the program was withdrawn in 2000 "over concerns of perversion"."
Viktor Orbán: "Europe is quiet. A mysterious force seals the lips of European politicians, and paralyses their arms."
The point is, how will the region find a future for a young population that is out-running the continent’s water and (useful) land resources, if fossil fuel cannot be the employment driver?
According to most accounts, even if questionable, the US checked with Russian partners about Russian forces being present there before engaging in the firefight at the Conoco oil plant. If true, the most probable solution to this mystery is that the Russian military did not know that Russian contractors were present near the plant that day.
Other traditionally deeply Christian nations like Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland need to jump on board too and follow Hungary’s bold lead. The parties that still –laughingly – dare to call themselves Christian Democrats in the European parliaments need to throw their cowardly and contemptible “me-too” open borders liberalism and cultural appeasement overboard at long last too.
All over the globe, the mood is turning sour. Anger and frustration are bubbling over, and protests are becoming violent in major cities all across the planet.
Reflecting the obsessive focus on a deal with the European Union, the Department for International Trade's efforts at signing trade deals with non-EU states has fallen well short of expectations.