We begin with this photograph of Lucas Duplan, entrepreneur extraordinaire:
I first wrote about young Mr. Duplan in this post nearly two years ago. My post was about this new firm, Clinkle, garnering tens of millions of dollars in funding to create an app which would let you give little goodies (they called them "treats") to your friends based on how much you used your credit card.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – a major donor to the Hillary Clinton campaign – has aired an instructional video on national television in which an Islamic family doctor teaches men in the country how to ‘properly’ beat their wives. The video aired in the country in early February, 2016. The Kingdom’s government is said to have approved the instructional video for public service airtime on national television. After airing the video in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government released the controversial video in the United States via the Washington DC-based Middle East Media Research Institute.
Submitted by Joseph Jankowski via PlanetFreeWill.com,
The latest EU foreign policy document, titled “A Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign And Security Policy“, calls for an extension of the Union's influence in regions as far as Central Asia and Central Africa.
It also outlines “gradual synchronisation and mutual adaptation” between different member states’ individual defence strategies.
The executive summary of the document reads:
Refuse To Celebrate July 4th Militarism
From the Archve:
Militarist Bunkum, May 19, 2014
The recent back and forth events between China, the US, and various other countries including Japan as it relates to the South China Sea are well known at this point, however Taiwan has now entered into the picture as well.
Last Saturday, the Chinese government said it had stopped a communication mechanism with Taiwan because of the refusal of the self-ruled island's new government to recognize the "one China" principle.
Reuters explains