Month: May 2015

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May 13, 2015 0

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Turn Out the Lights
May 12, 2015 0

Turn Out the Lights

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Tweet While the proposed $300 million budget cuts to NASA Earth Science emerging from the House Science Committee have been receiving a lot of press , the knives of science denial are out for other agencies that study climate issues. DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research program gets a cut of 42 million from its current $592 million, and the proposed $612 million.  The BER program support climate research at such places as Lawrence Livermore and other DOE labs

IMF Works on Contingency Plans for Greek Default; Greece Says Deal Difficult; Timeline of Obligations
May 11, 2015 0

IMF Works on Contingency Plans for Greek Default; Greece Says Deal Difficult; Timeline of Obligations

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The Wall Street Journal reports IMF Works With Greece’s Neighbors to Contain Default Risks . The International Monetary Fund is working with national authorities in southeastern Europe on contingency plans for a Greek default, a senior fund official said—a rare public admission that regulators are preparing for the potential failure to agree on continued aid for Athens. Greek banks are big players in some of its neighbors’ financial systems.

CONFIRMED: US "Operation Rooms" Backing Al Qaeda in Syria
May 11, 2015 0

CONFIRMED: US "Operation Rooms" Backing Al Qaeda in Syria

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Links CONFIRMED: US "Operation Rooms" Backing Al Qaeda in Syria US policy think-tank Brookings Institution confirms that contrary to propaganda, US-Saudi "moderates" and Turkey-Qatar "Islamists" have been coordinating all along.  May 11, 2015 ( Tony Cartalucci – NEO ) –  The war in Syria continues to drag on, with a recent and renewed vigor demonstrated behind an opposition long portrayed as fractured and reflecting a myriad of competing foreign interests. Chief among these competing interests, the public has been told, were the US and Saudis on one side, backing so-called "moderate rebels," and Turkey and Qatar on the other openly backing Al Qaeda and its various franchises including the Islamic State (ISIS). Image : The conflicts in Syria and Iraq are far from internal