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THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission has released its first review of the rapidly growing buy now pay later industry.

ONLINE grocery shopping has grown significantly, up 39.7% in value sales during the 12 months to October 2018 versus the prior year - well ahead of the total grocery market which grew...

Can you remember a November as cold and snowy as this one has been?  I certainly cannot.  Over the course of this month, the United States has been hit by freakishly cold and snowy weather...

America is littered with thousands upon thousands of church buildings that aren’t being used anymore.  As you will see below, between 6,000 and 10,000 churches are dying in the...

In a letter to CEO Jeff Bezos, eight members of Congress expressed concern with Amazon's decision to make its Rekognition software available to law enforcement...

The crossover scores sew front and rear fascias and diamond-quilted interior leather.

With David Swanson and Caleb Maupin Writers, Dandelion Salad November 28, 2018 RT on Nov 28, 2018 Julian Assange is in the headlines once again with WikiLeaks saying it’s ready...

by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation November 27, 2018 The latest potentially disastrous flare-up in violence...

The U.S. economy is definitely deviating from the script, and we just got more evidence that “Housing Bubble 2” is bursting.  Experts were expecting that new home sales in the...

There is a growing consensus that once the next economic crash finally arrives that it will be significantly worse than what we experienced in 2008.  This is something that I have...

Soft power was always a term best suited for eunuchs. It relies on persuasion, counsel and an air of seduction.

Saudi sports diplomacy is proving to be a mirror image of the kingdom’s challenged domestic, regional and foreign policies. Overlorded

The Australian government has proposed a new law that would give intelligence officers broader powers to use firearms during undercover operations abroad...

A senior North Korea expert in the United States Central Intelligence Agency, who has been instrumental in the ongoing negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang, has tendered...

          I get it; everyone loves St. Bob. But why does this focus group have to include our cat, Simon? We got that wingnut out of a box of free kittens and he turned out to be a Chartreux...

          Quick quiz: When was Joni most likely to get caught breaking a law? Answer: When she took a Sharpie pen over to the local high school at night, and corrected the punctuation...

Ukrainian leader says Putin wants his whole country, asks for NATO help Thomas Escritt, Andrew Osborn, Reuters, Nov 29 2018 BERLIN/MOSCOW – Pres Poroshenko on Thursday accused...

Israel’s espionage crimes in Gaza and abroad Maureen Clare Murphy, Electronic Intifada, Nov 28 2018 Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar displays a pistol with a silencer abandoned...

Sabine Jessen is the National Director of the Oceans Program for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. Speaking to IPS at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Nairobi...

Women make up about half of the over 120 million people whose livelihood depend on the blue economy. But women play only a marginal role in the blue economy with most of them earning subsistence...

Donald Trump and Paul Manafort in 2016. Mark Reinstein/MediaPunch /IPX Austin Sarat, Amherst College Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, may be...

Embed from Getty Images WASHINGTON — It should go down in history as the “I Have a Gut” speech. President Trump, asked Tuesday by The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker and Josh...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives will soon ban bump stocks, appliances that enable semi-automatic weapons to behave like machine guns, according to late breaking...

On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) gave a speech detailing her views on foreign policy, in an unofficial preview of what might come for her 2020 platform should she run...

Natural Capital Finance Alliance https://encore.naturalcapital.finance/ ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure) is a tool to help users better...

U.S. Geological Survey https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2018/5131/sir20185131.pdf [The Hill]  The first-of-its-kind U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report, released late Friday...

In 2015 an organization called the Integrity Initiative was created "to counter disinformation and other forms of malign influence being conducted by states and sub-state actors...

By trusting that there is a rule of law in the West, the Russian government is digging Russia's grave while it allows Washington's Ukrainian Nazis to murder Russian people. The Russian...

Scientists have discovered a horrifying new species of wasp in the depths of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Named Zatypota, the species was identified ...

A mysterious 'earthquake' rippled around the entire world earlier this month and yet nobody felt a thing. The event, which originated in the Indian Oc...

A powerful winter storm is affecting parts of eastern Canada, causing a massive power outage in Nova Scotia, high water levels and heavy pounding surf. At the peak of the storm, nearly...

Four waterspouts formed almost simultaneously near a beach in Koh Lipe in the Andaman Sea, southern Thailand on November 25, 2018, stunning holidaymakers in the area. This rare weather...

In a statement released Thursday, the 14 leaders of the conference said it's irresponsible to attempt gene editing on eggs, sperm or embryos, except in lab research, because not enough...

U.S. life expectancy has declined for the third year in a row, largely because of opioid abuse and suicide, new government statistics show.

Missourians overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to reduce corruption and gerrymandering. Weeks later, Republicans are already trying to weaken the measure...

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