UNDP
Invitation to comment on Publication
A Joint Report by UNDP - UNRISD ... Global Trends: Challenges and Opportunities in the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
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Investment
IRMagazing / ESG Conference
Conference Agenda ... Why is ESG important for investors and shareholders, and why should companies take interest?
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Open file 15952
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Investment
IRMagazing / ESG Conference
Speakers / Bios
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Middle East / Oil
Quatar / OPEC
Why is Qatar leaving OPEC?
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Jem Bendell ... IFLAS
IFLAS releases its 2nd Occasional Paper on themes of leadership and sustainability
New Paper on Deep Adaptation to Climate Chaos ... “Deep Adaptation: A map for navigating the climate tragedy”
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Economics
Trade
The deceptive promise of free trade | DW Documentary
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Open file 15956
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Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Stupidity
Oops! Satellite Imagery Cannot Predict Human Development Indicators
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Social Media
The Enemy Within
Why Facebook and Twitter Aren’t Stopping the Flood of False and Toxic Content ... Tech insiders and experts expose the dark side of the wildly lucrative social media business.
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Contemporary Commentary
David Susuki
Consumer society no longer serves our needs
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The Trump Presidency
Sleaze on Steroids
When the Manafort Plea Deal Blew Up, It Was Good News for Oligarchs
Prosecutors were interested in what he knew about Oleg Deripaska and Dmytro Firtash.
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US China Trade / Competition
Going to be Hard-Ball
‘Shocking’ Huawei Arrest Threatens to Upend Trump-Xi Trade Truce ...
U.S. seeking extradition of daughter of Huawei’s founder ...
Move stokes fears U.S. seeking to deny China key technology ...
Why Huawei's CFO Was Arrested in Canada
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The Trump Presidency
Donald and Melania at the Bush 41 memorial service in DC
Every President Recited The Apostles’ Creed Except Trump, And People Definitely Noticed ... Trump didn’t recite the profession of faith during the funeral for former President George H.W. Bush.
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Energy / Electricity
Coal generation becoming more costly
35% of coal capacity costs more to run than new renewables in 2018, increasing to 96% by 2030
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Activism
Action Network
Open Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders urging opposition to US militarism
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The Military Industry Complex
Wasted Trillions
How the Feds wasted $5 trillion ... Nearly four times as many Sunni Islamic militants are operating around the world today as on Sept. 11, 2001, despite nearly two decades of American-led campaigns to combat Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, a new independent study concludes.
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Activism
Environmental Defense Fund / Action Network
Trump's latest attempt to block climate action ... Roll-back of rules related to new coal fired generating stations
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Open file 15966
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USA / Immigration
Positive for the USA
FINANCE ... Passage from India: Are Immigrants a Drain on the U.S. Economy?
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Finance / Cities
Funding Modalities
Smart Money: Developing New Funding Mechanisms for Smart Initiatives
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Digital Future
Better UX for better Profit
Customer Journey Mapping Is at the Heart of Digital Transformation
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Banking
Deutsche Bank
FINANCE ... Will Deutsche Bank Survive Its Latest Crisis?
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Accountability
Dirty Money for Good Things
A major think tank resignation has the political class asking about the ethics of accepting donations from oligarchs ... Right-wing anti-Kleptocracy think tank Hudson Institute turned over by revelation of oligarch donor
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US Politics
Green New Deal
The Democrats Need a Clear Economic Vision. Here’s Where to Start. ...
The rising left wing of the party is leading the way, and the People’s Budget and Green New Deal show how Democrats can transform the economy.
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US Politics
Remembering Bush 41
George H.W. Bush Was an Enemy of the Working Class (TPB note: Not the way I see history ... but an interesting perspective)
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US Politics
Green New Deal
Sanders' climate change town hall featured something rarely seen in U.S. media: an in-depth discussion of solutions to the climate crisis. (YouTube)
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Sustainability / SASB
Good that they are trying ... but not so good what they are accomplishing
Sustainability ... CalSTRS CIO backs long-haul investment
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The Trump Presidency
White House Staff
Breaking: Trump Says Chief of Staff John Kelly Is Leaving ... The two men have reportedly stopped speaking in recent days.
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US Banking and Finance
By no means 'squeaky clean'
Wall Street's corruption runs deeper than you can fathom ... As an employee at the Federal Reserve in 2011, three years after the dissolution of Lehman Brothers, Carmen Segarra witnessed the results of this deregulation firsthand
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Thought Leaders
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky: Here's why Americans know so much about sports but so little about world affairs
The way the system is set up, there is virtually nothing people can do anyway to influence the real world.
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US Politics
Bush 41 ... RIP
Trump fumed about sharing the spotlight with Bush Sr. — but was proud of his behavior at funeral: report
Trump heard no open rebukes from the Bush family or other speakers at the service.
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Sector / Accountancy
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers History ... (TPB Note: A good starting point, but not quite what I remember)
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Technology / Communications
The Chinese Company Huawei
Huawei CFO accused of fraud by US authorities ... How Huawei used the UK to become a global giant ... Chinese company’s focus on 5G development is worrying politicians and intelligence services
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Climate Change
Some people are not on board
Should You Worry About Global Warming? ... by Bill Bonner (TPB note ... I cannot believe the Bonner perspective ... which is sad ... and dangerous)
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Thought Leader / Shelly Palmer
Computer Science versus Common Sense
My New Side Hustle Changed My World, and It May Change Yours
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Professional Firm ... PwC
The Maxwell Saga
How Coopers lost the plot on Maxwell, but kept its heads
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Professional Firm ... PwC
The Maxwell Saga
PwC faces pounds 400m lawsuit over Maxwell audit failure
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Professional Firm ... PwC
The Maxwell Saga
UNHEEDED WARNINGS AIDED MAXWELL'S RISE AND FALL
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News
PBS Newshour
Shields and Brooks on Mueller developments and congressional dynamics
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News
PBS Newshour
Shields and Brooks on Cohen filings and Bush’s legacy
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Technology / Social Media
Google
What does Google know about me? ... Promoted by DuckDuckGo
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Climate Change
This is pure trivia
This Badass 15-Year-Old Just Stood in Front of a Bunch of World Leaders and Totally Called Them Out ... “Our leaders are behaving like children,” she told the UN summit.
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Climate Change
Democratic Leadership
At Bernie Sanders’ Big Climate Change Town Hall, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Steals the Show
“This is going to be the Great Society, the moonshot, the civil rights movement of our generation.”
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Bad Behavior
Carlos Ghosn and Nissan
Carlos Ghosn and Nissan have been indicted in Japan
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Open file 15992
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Technology / Security
China / Huawei
Arrest of Huawei CFO Has Economic, Political Implications
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Open file 15993
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Middle East
Iran and Oman
Oman and Iran launch fourth direct container shipping service ... The route between Iran’s port city of Jask and the Omani port of Al Suwaiq, joins three others already in operation.
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International Development
ICT / Blockchain
Blockchain Use Case Failure: 43 Projects and Zero Impact ... monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning, (MERL)
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Open file 15995
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Economy / UK
Financial Sector -v- Everything Else
City of London pays record-breaking £75bn in taxes
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Open file 15996
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Wages / Employment
Low wages in the UK
The rise of the low pay workforce ... The UK is experiencing record levels of employment, with over 32 million people in work. But ...
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Open file 15997
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Measureiment / Quantification
Ideas from various sources
An effective way to measure value creation ... using concepts of Modified Weighted Average Cost of Capital (MWACC),
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Open file 15998
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Patents / Intellectual Property
Very High Stakes
China bans sale of most iPhone models after granting Qualcomm an injunction against Apple
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SPARE
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