Looks like Groupon is circling the drain. Again.
Told you so. Twice. They’ve been running on empty since 2011.
NBC Portland reports Groupon cutting 1,100 jobs, shutting down operations in 7 countries
How to make $700 million last four years
On China and its maritime ambitions
“I’m not sure this administration would recognize provocation if it were slapped in the face.”
– Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), in reference to China’s recent provocative cruise through the Bering Sea.
“I agree that the South China Sea is no more China’s than the Gulf of Mexico is Mexico’s”
– Adm. Harry Harris, Jr., commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Source: News from The Associated Press
With Jon Stewart’s Departure…
Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday Arctic seed vault | Reuters
That’s kind of heavy, when you think about it.
Syria’s civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of seeds from a “doomsday” vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies, officials said on Monday.
Source: Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday Arctic seed vault | Reuters
With South African pulpit, Mao speaks from beyond the grave
The US, it says, is trying to destabilise China on three fronts: by portraying it as the world’s worst polluter and a danger to the environment; by parading to the world counter-revolution in China as a popular uprising and counter-revolutionaries as human rights activists; and by exploiting China’s dispute with some of its Asian neighbours over the North and South China Sea islands to rally these neighbours against China.
