Month: May 2015

May 5, 2015 0

JS-Kit / Echo Comments Defunct

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May 5, 2015 0

UN Peacekeepers: Enemies of International Law

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Links UN Peacekeepers: Enemies of International Law May 6, 2015 ( Valery Kulikov  – NEO ) – The recent scandal involving the sexual abuse of African children carried out by members of a UN peacekeeping mission, despite numerous efforts of this international organization to play it down, will not be ignored.

May 5, 2015 0

Why Jim Hansen Worries

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Tweet Back in 1988, in the original GCM, Hansen summarized the situation going forward.  The most important part of this figure is that grey band, and the implication that the world would soon enter that region, as indeed it has.  The top end of the gray Eemian is well below 2 C  pre-industrial, something that scared Hansen thirty years ago, because he knew what that meant for the world

May 5, 2015 0

Greece Talks on Hold; IMF Admits Haircuts Needed as Surplus Turns to Deficits

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Pierre Moscovici, the European commissioner for economic affairs, warns Debt Talks on Hold Until Greece Agrees Reforms . Greece’s eurozone creditors will not discuss how to get the country’s sovereign debt back on a sustainable path until Athens agrees to a new economic reform programme that would release €7.2bn in desperately needed bailout funds, the EU’s economic chief said on Tuesday. Pierre Moscovici, the European commissioner for economic affairs, said debt issues “can only be discussed after we have agreed a reform programmeâ€