Month: May 2013

May 5, 2013 0

When Eli Was a Little Bunny

By News Desk

The choices are Explicit Endorsement with Quantification: abstract explicitly states that humans are causing more than half of global warming. Explicit Endorsement without Quantification: abstract explicitly states humans are causing global warming or refers to anthropogenic global warming/climate change as a given fact.

May 4, 2013 0

Shinzo Abe Seeks Constitutional Changes for a More Militaristic, Authoritarian Japanese Society

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Please consider Japan PM’s ‘stealth’ constitution plan raises civil rights fears Shinzo Abe makes no secret of wanting to revise Japan’s constitution, which was drafted by the United States after World War Two, to formalize the country’s right to have a military – but critics say his plans go deeper and could return Japan to its socially conservative, authoritarian past. Now he is seeking to lower the hurdle for revising the constitution as a prelude to an historic change to its pacifist Article 9 – which, if strictly read, bans any military. That would be a symbolic shift, loosening restrictions on the military’s overseas activities, but would have limited impact on defense as the clause has already been stretched to allow Tokyo to build up armed forces that are now bigger than Britain’s.

May 4, 2013 0

Israeli Airstrikes Signal Western Desperation in Syria

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The Fortune 500-funded (page 19) , US foreign-policy think-tank, Brookings Institution – which has blueprinted designs for regime change in Libya as well as both Syria and Iran – stated this specifically in their report titled, " Assessing Options for Regime Change ." Image : The Brookings Institution, Middle East Memo #21 " Assessing Options for Regime Change (.pdf) ," makes no secret that the humanitarian "responsibility to protect" is but a pretext for long-planned regime change. …. Brookings describes how Israeli efforts in the south of Syria, combined with Turkey’s aligning of vast amounts of weapons and troops along its border to the north, could help effect violent regime change in Syria:  "In addition, Israel’s intelligence services have a strong knowledge of Syria, as well as assets within the Syrian regime that could be used to subvert the regime’s power base and press for Asad’s removal