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Stop Wars: Street artist turns Yoda into activist for peace
Art Basel took over Miami this week, but perhaps one of the most moving pieces of art released in Miami this week wasn't featured in a some posh gallery with a polished concrete floor, but on the streets of the Wynwood art district. Artist Eduardo Kobra, well known in the street art scene for his massive, colorful murals, turned Yoda from Star Wars into an activist for peace, holding a stop sign w
Colombia says it found the San Jose, a sunken ship full of treasure
Colombia has found the wreckage of the San Jose, a Spanish galleon that sunk off Cartagena more than 300 years ago and is thought to be full of treasure, the country's president tweeted Friday. The ship was carrying gold, silver, gems and jewelry when it was attacked by a British warship and sunk in June 1708. Estimates of the treasure's value vary, from around $1.5 billion to between $4 billion a
Warning issued over spate of squirrel attacks
A rather feisty tree-dweller has been hitting the headlines in northwest Novato over the last few weeks. There's a dangerous beast on the loose in Cal...
Incredible close-up images of Pluto revealed
NASA has released breathtaking new images of Pluto's surface taken by the New Horizons probe. As if the previous images returned by the spacecraft wer...

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Delay in Dungeness Crab Fishing Season Offers a Big Climate Lesson
Toxic algal bloom that’s poisoning sea life is linked to an incredibly persistent patch of warm water off the West Coast
Zimbabwe’s Crocodile Factory Farms Under Fire
Animals packed into dirty pools, concrete pits and slaughtered inhumanely for “luxury” bags and belts, say animal rights activists
Peddling a New Model of Urban Farming
Bike-riding farmers in Orlando, Florida are helping communities produce their own food – right on their own front lawns
Seeking Crop Elders
Scientists and crop breeders are racing to identify the wild ancestors of domesticated plants before a warming world hastens their demise

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Maryam Nawazie’s ordeal at Goldsmiths University
Over on Harry’s Place, Sarah AB has posted an interesting piece:“Earlier this week I posted on the disgraceful treatment Namazie received from Goldsmiths ISOC.  As many will have already seen, this prompted surreal solidarity messages from Goldsmiths’ LGBT and feminist societies.  Surreal, because the solidarity was for the ISOC not for Namazie.”I had to have a look on YouTube, where the video of
Terrorist sympathisers part 2
(Apologies -  posted a day late due to distractions)One click in our sidebar takes you swiftly to the Guardian’s ever-changing top stories.  Landing upon a media-round-up (several pieces about Alan Yentob, Strictly cum dancin’ and complaints that there were too many repeats on “festive TV”) my attention wandered to their sidebar, headed “Most Popular”. Giant lizard gives Australian man a fright.Im
Let's not bomb Luton
This house is divided over Syria. (chez Sue, not the HoC) One side says bombing ISIS may not be perfect but it’s a start. The other side is sorely tempted to offer the trusty old  internet cliche: “what could possibly go wrong”?After the BBC’s misguided optimism over the Arab Spring (which should have indicated that your shiny new Arab World was not full of right-on pro-libertarian dudes whose pas
We are all terrorist sympathisers now. Or are we?
Norman Smith was positively jumping with excitement this morning while reporting what David Cameron allegedly said last night about members opposed to bombing DAESH in Syria. According to the Guardian he was:  “warning them against voting alongside “Jeremy Corbyn and a bunch of terrorist sympathisers”.Norman’s theory was that Cameron had dropped his own bombshell and had blown his Syria pitch alto

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That would be who
From Investopedia:The Employment Cost Index (ECI) is a quarterly report of compensation costs that is released in the final month of the quarter... All non-farm industries are covered, with the exception of federal government employees (which only make up 2-3% of the work force).Federal government employees are people. For people, we use the word "who". Therefore:... federal government e
Quality
From Chapter 17 ofZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenanceby Robert M. PirsigTo reinforce the idea that they already knew what Quality was he developed a routine in which he read four student papers in class and had everyone rank them in estimated order of Quality on a slip of paper. He did the same himself. He collected the slips, tallied them on the blackboard and averaged the rankings for an o
Bernanke he will Rogoff, even weather if
I don't care what your name is and who your friends are; it is careless and inconsiderate to write like this:I cannot claim—we cannot claim—to know whether Bernanke he will Rogoff or Krugman and Summers are correct here, or even weather if Bernanke he and his committee had found the nerve, and rolled double-or-nothing one more time to boost the American high-powered money stock to $9 trillion, we
Blattman on Klein on Better Communication
Chris Blattman summarizes Ezra Klein's talk on how to popularize research.Key points:1. "Tell people what’s new and surprising right away, and tell them immediately what they should walk away thinking."2. "... start telling people why they should read in the title."3. "... it helps to link your work to the broader issues that people care about."4. "People like an

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Nicaraguans can grow their own food, but not without land
     Who has the right to own land?      In countries like Canada, we decided some time ago that it’s either government, aboriginals or people with enough money to buy their own piece of tierra firma, and many of us get by just fine without owning land. While almost 70 per cent of Canadians own their own homes, it’s not a prerequisite to happiness.      But the issue is more complex in countries l
On going viral and feeling hope: My letter to the prime minister
I have a Facebook post that is in the midst of going viral. You know, like that '70s commercial for Breck shampoo, where one woman tells two friends, and they tell two friends, and next thing you know the TV screen is full-up with people telling each other about shampoo.Anyway, I have often fantasized of going viral for some of my posts around sex work, but this wasn't one of them. This was a post

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Death Bed Confessions
As I was working to get information arranged for a web site that would feature many of the new scans of the Ramey Memo, I came across an article, “Part II: Death Bed Confessions – Roswell 1999: What’s New?” My first thought was that legally, what they were talking about wasn’t actually a death bed confession since we weren’t dealing with a crime and some of the people seemed to be old but not nece
The Temple, Oklahoma UFO Occupant Sighting
It has been claimed that the only case involving occupants, creatures associated with a landed UFO that was labeled as “Unidentified” was that from Socorro, New Mexico told by Lonnie Zamora in 1964. Although somewhat hidden in the Project Blue Book files, there is another that took place almost two years later. Hynek mentioned it in his book, The Hynek UFO Report, but he doesn’t give a location an
The 1949 Roswell UFO Crash
The other day, as I was looking over some of my old files and interviews I found an interview that I had done nothing with at the time. At the risk of offending all those who get annoyed if I mention Roswell and accuse me of being obsessed with it, I thought this might be of interest. I remember nothing about this interview. It took place in late 1995 with Colonel Claude N. Burcky, who, in 1947 wa
The Ramey Pictures
I hadn't realized that the pictures of Ramey would become so important and there would be a few who thought you can't understand this without seeing the "missing" Ramey picture. There has been an offer to share this picture with others, though it seems that permission must be obtained from another, I found this which came out of the trip to the University of Texas at Arlington in April.

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Hilary Benn's Appalling Speech
It doesn't take much to be Labour's leader-in-waiting these days. There's David Miliband, failed leadership candidate and proud former owner of a 0.5% contact rate. Dan Jarvis is another - distinguished military service makes him a front runner regardless of what he says and does. And there is Hilary Benn, the man who electrified the political establishment and their media hangers ons with a simpl
Jeremy Corbyn's Syria Crisis
1. The media's reduction of the drive to bomb Syria to a crisis in the Labour Party says a great deal about their desire to do Jeremy Corbyn in. That, however, doesn't mean the party isn't in crisis.2. Even if Jeremy had a team of super canny Malcolm Tuckers around him and ran a smooth media operation with nary a hitch, questions of peace and war were always going to present his leadership with se
The Cameron Plan for Syria
While the contributions ring out in the House tonight, Dave's scheme for Syria has finally taken on some flesh. Well, that assertion is perhaps too generous. Vapours would be more accurate. But a plan of sorts exists, which is more than bombing for appearance's sake, or bombing and hoping for the best.Dave's grand strategy got a full airing on this evening's Channel 4 News via his Philip Hammond a
The Complexity of the Oldham By-Election
Labour didn't just win the Oldham by-election. We smashed it. Contrary to all expectations, the narrow win some expected (or, indeed, had hoped for) was surpassed by a very healthy majority and a significant increase in the proportion of the vote won. As a safe seat, UKIP should never have been in contention anyway so it was great news for the leadership that the first "proper" electoral

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Work for one another
I'm a bit of a Murray Bookchin bunny, as may be divined by perusing the link at the bottom of this rant. Please bear with me.In the 1970s and 1980s I was a member of a forestry services cooperative, The Hoedads, Inc., as recounted in my book, Iron Buddhas. While our initial contract bid bonding was put up by the founders by attaching liens on their real estate, we capitalized our bonds and other c
Planning? What planning?
When it's raining out or otherwise makes it difficult for us to appreciate the joys of getting out of our robes and into gum boots, there are other homestead-y things we can do, such as pottering about in the kitchen or sewing.Planning? What's that?Oh, actually we do have a plan. It has kind of settled in, though, and does not need much updating. Two posts ago, we talked about how the satellite vi
100 Views
100 Views of Life at Stony Run Farm Photos from 1993 to 2015 in chronological order, showing the sweep and cycle of the seasons on a small exurban homestead. It's a little heavy on the last seven years, which is when I finally had what you might call a camera. Oh, well.
Zones
We haven't talked much about zones at Stony Run Farm. Basically, the farther you have to go to get up from your rock in the cave or easy chair in your house and do something to water, feed, clothe, shelter, or remunerate yourself and yours, the higher the zone number. If you are well organized your lower-numbered zones are those closer to where you get up, and are those more frequently visited. If
One another

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New Election Logo
What is really meant, though it hasn't been officially adopted yet.
It was 40 years ago today....
Updating a previous post. Did I always have that haunted expression? So obvious in hindsight, but so difficult to recognise at the time? Life hasn't been easy since transition. There have been issues, medical, legal and social. But none insurmountable, and I think my expression on the latest photo says it all.Photo from the "Class of 75" 40 year reunion, which I attended on the 21st

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Cancer arises from stress-induced breakdown of tissue homeostasis
Note: The full article, with 80 footnotes, is HERE-PDF. (and ALTERNATIVE-LINK) Is it time to abandon mutation-centric metastasis as the dominant paradigm? Does ‘seed and soil’ do more harm than good? By Denis G. Rancourt  , PhD Abstract Part-I:  I critically review the context of cancer research, where it has been advanced that most published research findings are false, that medicine
Dear honourable Sayyid Ali Khamenei
Dear honourable Sayyid Ali Khamenei:Although I am not young in years, I read your November 29, 2015, letter to Western youth (in English, en français) with great interest and fascination. The letter excited both my intellect and my heart. Iran is truly blessed to have a servant such as you. In Canada, we have only disingenuous and self-interested petty politicians who vie for corporate and USA
Paris -- Who made the terror?
By Denis G. Rancourt   The US and its allies murdered one million civilians in Iraq, using indefinite sanctions and war, destroyed all public infrastructure, and gutted all institutions. Do you think that would cause some people to be pissed off and desperate? These “leaders of the free world” went on to inflict the same such “humanitarian” medicine on Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria (
AEI Award for Netanyahu Is Meant to Repair the US-Israel Split: Prof. Denis Rancourt -- Truth NGO
AEI Award for Netanyahu Is Meant to Repair the US-Israel Split: Prof. Denis Rancourt Truth NGO, 08 November 2015 06:08 The conservative Washington D.C.-based think tank American Enterprise Institute has announced that it would grant the Irving Kristol Award 2015 to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recognition of his contributions to democratic leadership and the role

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Strange Stuff for Saturday...
 do some goings on strike you as really odd, or is it just me?It seems that the FBI managed to do a complete inspection of the home of terrorist killers Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik in record time.  Then on Friday morning, somehow or another, the media was allowed to enter and take a gazillion pictures.The Daily Mail posted a photo array that, if bound up, would qualify as a coffee tabl
Treason, Cowardice, and the Islamic Invasion: Why States Must Revitalize The Militia...
by Publius Huldah.Publius Huldah is a retired litigation attorney who now lives in Tennessee. Before getting a law degree, she got a degree in philosophy where she specialized in political philosophy and epistemology (theories of knowledge). She now writes extensively on the U.S. Constitution, using the Federalist Papers to prove its original meaning and intent. She shows how federal judges and po
Refugee Resettlement: Are you paying attention?...
I can honestly say, I wasn't.Bonner county, Idaho, immediately to the north of us,  met yesterday to finalize a resolution that declares their opposition to the relocation of refugees from the United States Refugee Resettlement Program.On Monday, Boundary County, which is adjacent to the Canadian border also passed a resolution: Boundary County Commissioner’s meetings, held in Bonners Ferry, usual
Have you heard of the Bunny Friend Park shooting?...
thought not.17 people shot in Bunny Friend Park on November 22They's be having a partay, doncha know. This guy has been charged with 17 counts of attempted murder.Joseph "Moe" Allen, 32, will face 17 counts of attempted first-degree murder for his role in the Bunny Friend Park shooting Sunday (Nov. 22). (Orleans Parish Sheriff's office)  From Mad World News:There Was A Giant Mass Shootin

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Triple suicide blast kills dozens on Lake Chad island
At least 30 people were killed and 80 injured in a triple suicide bombing attack on a market day.
Iraq summons Turkey ambassador over troop 'incursion'
Baghdad calls deployment an incursion but Turkey's prime minister says part of a long-running training mission.
Macedonia border closure leaves refugees with no hope
Thousands stuck at Macedonia's border with Greece as Skopje classifies them as "economic migrants".
India blames industrialised nations for deadly floods
Devastating flooding in Chennai reflects climate change caused by developed countries, environment minister says.

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Stephen Curry / Another Bob Cousy And Opiate For Our Troubled Times
Despite only accounting for five percent of the global population, an astounding 31 percent of the world's mass shootings occur in the United States ~ including the recent mass shootings in San Bernardino, California. There were more gun sale background checks on this year's Black Friday than any other single day on record, according to the FBI. Amidst, this darkening cloud of gun violence, like a
An Old Cherokee Tale Of Two Wolves
                 One evening an old Cherokee Indian told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, ‘My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all.One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, h
Concord Vet Center Paves Way For Needed Heart Centered Approach To Vet Rehabilitation.
                        A heart centered cause versus symptom rehabilitation approach, fueled by gratitude and forgiveness, for active duty veterans suffering from PTSD has been implemented at the Concord Vets Center with great success. Under the direction of Salvador Ueda, MSW, and the encouragement of team leader, Jeff Jewell ~ a total of 18 Band of Brother's transformation support groups have b
Russia, France, Britain, United States / In Isis Blowback Syrian Death Trap
The aftermath of a barrel bomb attack in a rebel-held area of Aleppo, Syria, earlier this month. Credit Karam Al-Masri/Agence France-Presse Syria is rapidly becoming a blowback death trap for all the major countries involved; Russia, France, Britain and the United States with Israel an active silent partner. ISIS is making it a death trap for each participant with the recent Russian Airline tra

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As We Shift - Shorten the Trip with 3 Steps
Steve Z., who is a friend of mine, mentioned a few days ago that he expects us to look back on now, this most recent 2015 moment, and realize it was the beginning of active disclosure.   Here’s what he said… “I think we're in the middle of disclosure and don't even realize it. It's dribbling out all over the place. It's kind of like not recognizing the hallmarks of a decade until you're in the nex
GAIA PORTAL: Crystal elementals descend from above
Crystal elementals descend from aboveby ÉirePortCrystal elementals descend from above.Magic points are noted by all Gaia beings.Unification becomes priority energetically.Life paths are unveiled as individuals relax.Portentions are released, as collectives embrace.ÉirePort | November 30, 2015 at 22:22 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-wo
GAIA PORTAL: Holistic flights appear to all
Holistic flights appear to allby ÉirePortHolistic flights appear to all.Caressing energies flow through Gaia portals.Sunscreens no longer necessary.Storms of Pacific encompass.ÉirePort | December 4, 2015 at 09:09 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-wv
CHINA: Foreigners drawn in as fear and loathing grip China's finance industry
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-markets-fear-idUSKBN0TN0MU20151204Foreigners drawn in as fear and loathing grip China's finance industryMarkets | Fri Dec 4, 2015 5:56am EST Related: CHINASHANGHAI/HONG KONG | BY ENGEN THAM AND MICHELLE PRICEA man walks past an entrance to an exchange office of China Haitong Securities, in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, China, October 26, 2013.REUTERS/STRINGER

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A3 Newsletter: From the Louvre to Louisiana
While the National and International community rally to the support of Albert Woodfox, time seems to have stood still in Louisiana where the long struggle to achieve freedom for Albert Woodfox after four decades in solitary confinement for a crime he did not commit drags on nearly three years after a federal judge once again overturned Albert's conviction.In France, the newly released " Cruel
Amnesty Intl. USA's "Write for Rights" campaign focuses on Albert Woodfox, calling for his immediate release
 (Amnesty International artwork)Today, in conjunction with the "Write for Rights" campaign, Amnesty International USA issued an email action alert focusing on Albert Woodfox, where Amnesty reiterated the organization's call for Albert's immediate release.Along with urging supporters to add their name to Amnesty's online petition to Louisiana Attorney General James Caldwell, Amnesty is al
A3 Newsletter: Court Rules Albert Can Be Retried a Third Time
PHOTO:  A 'cardboard cutout' of Albert Woodfox is displayed in downtown London, England during a November 7 protest march organized by Amnesty International UK. If you have not yet done so, please take action by joining Amnesty's call to "Free Albert Woodfox!"MEDIA COVERAGE:  Esquire: "The Absurdity of Retrial"  II  Washington Post  II  NY Times  II  The Independent (UK)  II  T

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Revisiting South Africa’s Bomb
There is a new book onSouth Africa’s Apartheid-era nuclear weapons program by Nic von Wielligh, who participated in the program. Originally published in Afrikaans as Die Bom: Suid-Afrika se Kernwapenprogram, the book is now available in English. (The title is translated literally as The Bomb: South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Programme.) The CNS office in Vienna …
The JCPOA and the Broader Conclusion
On 2 December 2015, the International Atomic Energy Agency released its final assessment on past and present outstanding issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program. Here in the United Kingdom, the report did not hit the front pages, as the parliament was debating whether the country should extend its military engagement in the Middle East to Syria. …
Second-Term Blues for Arms Control
The “Arms-Control Enterprise” is taking a beating as the “Nuclear Enterprise” is recapitalized. These trend lines have become starker during the Obama administration’s second term, mirroring the declining fortunes for arms control during President Bill Clinton’s last four years in the White House. While Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush did surprisingly well …
Campaign Against Red Mercury
Red Mercury. It does not exist and anyone promising you riches for it is a conman. Following CJ Chivers massive story in the New York Times magazine about the red mercury hoax, inlcuding efforts by groups like ISIS to obtain what they think is an ultra-secret nuclear material, Jeffrey talks to Michael Moore about the …

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Analyzing The Paris FALSE FLAG...YES, It Was Another FALSE FLAG...of course
Below: picture of Bataclan in Paris where suicide bombers exploded. Really???The point of this post is to acknowledge that people around the world are waking up to the fact that governments do FALSE FLAGS and blame Muslims to keep the "war on terror" going and to strip liberties from citizens in their countries in the name of keeping them safe from the Muslim terrorist FALSE FLAGS they'r

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"Credit where credit is due." - Oil Sands Companies Demonstrate Leadership On Climate Change
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Nov. 22, 2015) - Four of Canada's largest oil sands producers have come together to demonstrate leadership on climate change. Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Cenovus Energy Inc., Shell Canada Limited and Suncor Energy Inc., support the Government of Alberta's climate plan related to the oil and natural gas industry, which includes a carbon pricing regime couple
The REAL Reason That Stephen Harper DID NOT Resign His Seat When He Resigned as PM And Party Leader ...
"Words don't mean much to Stephen."Preston ManningOur outgoing Prime Minister does not want to testify at the criminal trial of Senator Mike Duffy. He wants to use his Parliamentary 'privilege' to try and stay off the witness stand. If there is any justice in Canada, the courts will NOT allow him to flaunt parliamentary privilege in a criminal case.  (It just gets worse and worse with th
The Flotsam And Jetsam That Is The Conservative Federal Caucus ....
A defeated, yet still highly offensive group of political like minds will join together in Ottawa today. They are known as the Conservative Party of Canada Federal Caucus.  While in power they raised the debt of Canada by tens of billions. They enriched their corporate sponsors with embarrassingly huge amounts of tax dollars. They badly dented the CDN Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They are, and

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Economic News , Data & Views ( December 5 , 2015 ) ----- Fed Watch Begins ---- All Around The Horn For Europe , After a Busy Week ( Climate Change Summit / Refugee Situation / Greece Updates / Russia & Ukraine Items / ECB Items ----- Emerging Nations / Asia Updates ( China / Opec / Commodities / Turkey / South Korea / South Africa / Venezuela / Iran )
Post NFP - what might the Fed do on December 16th ?Holger Zschaepitz ‏@Schuldensuehner  17h17 hours ago#Gold jumps most since April as traders expect a dovish hike by the Fed. http://bloom.bg/1MZLXTp  Holger Zschaepitz ‏@Schuldensuehner  18h18 hours agoDow soars >2% and Fear Index Vix plunges 17% as markets markets cheer US jobs data as goldilock-ish. Christopher Vecchio ‏@CVecchioFX  Dec 4It's Ha
MENA Report ( December 5 , 2015 ) - Iraq/ Syria Regional War Updates ( Iraq calls on Turkey to "immediately" withdraw forces, including tanks and artillery, it has deployed in the country's north without Baghdad's consent / Syria Proxy War - Battlefield and Political Updates ) ..... Libya In Focus ( State of play - internal political and battlefield conflicts , ISIS threats continue to roil Libya ) ...... Yemen ( State of play )
Links ........German Parliament Approves ISIS War in SyriaUS Looks to Ignore Iraqi PM's Objection on TroopsUS Downplays Turkish Acquisition of ISIS OilEU Intel Sees Britain as ISIS' Next TargetUS Struggling Over 'Moderate' Syrian Rebels Once Tied to al-QaedaIraq Demands Turkey Withdraw Newly Deployed 'Trainer' TroopsTroops in Anbar Among 81 Killed Across IraqIran Says Russia Free to Use Airspace t
Economic News , Data & Views ( December 4 , 2015 ) - Europe In Focus ( Data Splash for Friday from around the EZ - Retail Sales in focus , Thursday's brutal selloffs in equities , bonds and sharp euro rise put down to " Post ECB Rate / QE Decisions & Draghi Press-Conference " disappointments - today market activity will be highlighted by OPEC and US Employment Data - Non Farm Payrolls & Employment Situation Report ) ...... Asia and Emerging Nations Update ( Opec in focus - data and news from China and Japan drive news flow ! )
Europe......FRANCE 24 English ‏@France24_en  58s59 seconds ago#Germany :Lower House of Parliament approves joining military campaign against IS in #Syria http://f24.my/YTliveEN  FRANCE 24 English ‏@France24_en  6m6 minutes agoVIDEO - Europe migrant crisis: Thousands try to push their way on the Greek border with… http://f24.my/21B5MI2  Ioan Smith ‏@moved_average  1h1 hour ago#Eurozone | Nov Retail

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