A dog is not a man’s best friend, but his atlas.

A map is a tool of practicability. It’s meaning is derived from it’s purpose. It’s beauty in it’s design. It’s intention is it’s architecture and it’s accomplishment in it’s guidance of our geographical thoughts.

The art of cartography is a principle of life, often overlooked and under-appreciated. From a tube to a treasure map, they are visual artefacts which enable us to understand situations in a geotemporal context. An explanation more than the simplicity of exploration; the intrigue of a map is in it’s history as much as it’s reason. We integrate a map into the Globalist Website, with the belief that global news as much as a map, frames the way in which we perceive the world. Headlines as much as borderlines underline our understanding of global relations…

So why not enhance you understanding of global relations and have a read of Breakfast and the Papers from a global perspective…

‘Abenomics’ sinks back into recession
Japan has fell back into recession, with a second quarter of negative economic growth. With Japanese GDP unexpectedly falling by 1.6%, President Shinzo Abe is considering a snap election in a bid to re-legitimise his intensive governmental spending spree. One of the impacts of the surprising economic downfall is this year’s Christmas celebrations, with a nationwide shortage of butter threatening the cooking of Christmas goodies.
http://time.com/3588181/japan-recession-abenomics/

ISIS beheading video- an act of desperation?
US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig has been beheaded by Isalmic State militants, in a video which also shows the beheading of 18 Syrian troops near Dabiq in the Aleppo Province.The video shows the militants as unmasked jihadists from a diversive background, believed to be highlighting their ability to recruit from around the world, as they try to combat the airstrikes of the American coalition.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/abdul-rahman-kassig-soldier-peace-loving-isis-victim-n249696

‘Koala diplomacy’ at G20 meeting
At the Brisbane G20 meeting, world leaders have warned of a second global economic crash as ‘red warning lights are flashing’ as a prophecy in the instability of global capitalist markets. In a ‘soft power; tactics leaders received a cultural koala bear hug, helping to reconcile great power diplomacy to and reduce political tensions especially between that of Vladmiri Putting and Steven Harper .
http://www.smh.com.au/business/g20/australia-suffers-another-cringeworthy-moment-during-g20-summit-20141117-11nxg9.html

China and Australia sign unprecedented free Trade Deal
To the back-drop of the G20 Brisbane Summit, Australian Prime Minsiter Steven Harper and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have signed an unprecedented major regional trade deal. The framework of the free trade network comes after a decade of deliberation, with plans to open up markets in a deal set to raise billions of dollars in daily bilateral transactions.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/17/us-australia-china-trade-idUSKCN0J010C20141117

FARC Deal suspended following Kidnapp
Columbia Officials have suspended long run peace deals with Marxist-rebel group FARC after aArmy General Ruben Dario Alzate was abducted by two civilians on Sunday afternoon while travelling by motor boat along the river in the nation’s capital.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/11/rebels-snatch-colombia-army-general-2014111742645164617.html

Burkina Fassou
Burkina Faso have chosen it’s former Foreign Minister Michael Kadando to lead the country in it’s interim period, following the signing of a mandate on Sunday to commence a year long transition period towards the elections.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/africa/-Michel-Kafando-Burkina-Faso-interim-president/-/1066/2524764/-/yamntcz/-/index.html

Can Band Aid sav the world (again?)
On the 30th Anniversary of the Band Aid single, stars from Ed Sheeran to One Direction have re-recorded the Christmas Classi ‘Do they Know it’s Christmas?’ in efforts to raise money for the global campaign against Ebola. However in the age of digial music streaming,how much money a charity song can make in the age of streaming is up for question
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30079237

Erin Duffy
Globalist President