Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingRepublicans are giving a whole new meaning to Carl Von Clausewitz’s famous military theory “war is the continuation of Politik by other means.” ... “Groups like ISIS want to claim that they are the true leaders of over a billion Muslims…who reject their crazy notions” said the president ... Indeed, some view it as either a conservative or liberal movement dependent on their notion of Islam....
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How often do you see a Godzilla-sized lizard knocking your door? On Wednesday a Thai resident captured a video of his encounter with a giant reptile, who was knocking on his door trying to get into his house. Attanai Thaiyuanwong found this huge lizard trying to make his way into his place and within no time shared the photos of it on Facebook ... . ....
A decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) governing body Friday will force Russian track and field athletes to miss the Rio Olympics after the sport's governing body decided unanimously to keep a ban in place ahead of the Games, SkyNews reported.In November, the IAAF provisionally suspended the country’s athletes from competition....
Earth's most remote continent has officially caught up to the rest of the planet. That spells disaster for us all. We’re officially living in a new world. Carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, setting a new high year after year. There’s a notable new entry to the record books. The last station on Earth without a 400 parts per million (ppm) reading has reached it. A little 400 ppm history....
Copy this link http.//www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36561720. A UK exit from the European Union could mean the UK misses out on up to 5.6% of GDP growth by 2019, the IMF has warned. Brexit is the "largest near-term risk" to the UK economy, the IMF said in its annual UK economic outlook ... But the Economists for Brexit campaign said the consensus that a UK exit would be bad for the economy was "based on flawed EU-centric models"....
Vote Leave, the official campaign, claims that energy regulations handed down by the European Union add millions to the cost of generating energy and that drives up prices for UK households and businesses. It claims that getting out of the EU would allow the UK to cut prices, which would be particularly important for low-income homes living in fuel poverty ... “UK families pay £400 a year to subsidise the Common Agricultural Policy”....
Copy this link http.//www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36565036 ... In February the ex-chief of the defence staff signed a Downing Street letter calling for the UK to stay in the EU ... There are five days to go until the UK decides on its future in the European Union, in a referendum on 23 June ... Why this issue matters What the leave and remain sides are saying about the UK's global role and defence in the #EUref campaign....
The IMF used its annual report on the British economy to say Brexit would plunge the UK into recession next year and that it could see no economic advantage in leaving the EU ... Previous IMF interventions have drawn an angry response from leave campaigners who have already said the fund should not interfere in the UK’s democratic process ... Under that scenario, the UK would fall into recession in 2017, IMF officials said....
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Copy this link http.//www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36548114 ... So how might the UK's Nordic neighbour react to Brexit?. On Friday morning, as the UK digests the results of the EU referendum, Swedes will be tucking into pickled herring and dancing around maypoles as part of their annual midsummer festivities ... "Swedes are a little bit in love with the UK," he says ... "If the UK leaves, that's a big thing....
Investors and pension savers are bracing themselves for a period of turbulence as the UK prepares for an EU referendum that threatens to trigger a fresh crisis in global markets. Polls this week showing increased support for Brexit prompted a sharp market sell-off and a drop in the value of sterling, amid uncertainty over the economic implications of the UK leaving the EU....
The UK stock market ended a choppy week on a stronger note, rebounding from a four-month low as traders nervously shuffled their positions in the final days before the EU referendum. Risk aversion continued to pervade UK and global markets over the week, with figures showing more than $1bn (£700m) was pulled out of UK equity funds, the second biggest outflow over the past decade....
For the UK, including Scotland, the vast majority of environmental standards are drawn from EU legislation...Back in the 1980s, the UK was known as the “dirty man of Europe” when we pumped raw sewage regularly into rivers and seas and produced more sulphur dioxide and acid rain than any other European nation. We could have done something about this as the UK standing alone but we did not....
The UK government’s cuts to education funding could be to blame for a rise in young British people joining terror groups like Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, a student leader has said ... Bouattia, the first Muslim woman to become NUS president in the organisation’s history, became leader of one of the UK’s largest students’ bodies in a closely-fought election in April....
Will you be better off if the UK votes to stick with our continental friends? That’s certainly what the Remain camp argues ... This figure is based on a Treasury analysis that looked at how the UK’s gross domestic product – in effect, the value of our economy - would be affected by a Brexit ... These numbers are based on the same Treasury forecasts about the size of the UK economy in the years following a Brexit....