“New frontier”, “No going back”; we have heard it all before and have seen these endeavours fail. What is new this time is that one of the creators of “Big Brother” is part of this scheme, and the TV rights could actually fund the whole colonization effort.
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Clinton is also working a book about her time at the State Department and deciding how she’ll pursue her interest in furthering the advancement of women and girls, the source said.
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Britain’s secret intelligence service MI6 paid at least 90,000 pounds (6,000) to former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who died after being poisoned in London in 2006, The Sunday Times has reported.
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Writers, journalists and other cultural figures in Sweden were supported by the CIA during the Cold War, reports Swedish Radio News. The US intelligence service had great influence on a gruop called the Swedish Committee for Cultural Freedom that included the then editor of newspaper Dagens Nyheter and the writer Vilhelm Moberg.
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According to a former US ambassador to Mali, “To get them freed, France paid a 17-million-dollar ransom. Like all ransoms, it was paid indirectly, through the Malian government, which forwarded at least some of the funds to the Salafists”
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A new chapter in online video is about to begin. YouTube is prepping to launch paid subscriptions for individual channels on its video platform in its latest attempt to lure content producers, eyeballs, and advertiser dollars away from traditional TV, according to multiple people familiar with the plans.
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It pays far more to the artist, but ultimately makes little sense to Spotify’s long-term business model. And with that, Spotify has terminated the paid download option within its European service, a feature that never quite made it to America.
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Turmoil in countries such as Greece, Portugal and Spain has scared off companies from signing contracts with potential clients, despite Britain being in dire need of fresh business.
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German companies should receive a subsidy if they take on the long-term unemployed, state governments are set to propose on Friday. Up to 75 percent of the new salary should be paid by the state, if necessary for several years.
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Figures from the House of Commons Library show that for a typical litre of petrol costing 138.3p, 81p goes to the Treasury in fuel duty and VAT.
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