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Tweet There has been an ethically lacking attempt by the usual suspects, Lomborg, Pielke, the Breakthrough folk and now Matt Ridley to claim that coal is necessary for the developing world to prosper and we will all be so rich in the future that doing nothing now about climate change does not matter.
Links Don’t Replace Facebook, Disrupt It November 11, 2014 Â ( Tony Cartalucci – LocalOrg ) – Facebook is a problem. It is undoubtedly being used by special interests to manipulate and monitor entire populations both within the United States and well beyond.
Links ISIS is America’s Dream Rebel Army US policy paper reveals desire for construction of full-scale extraterritorial army to invade Syria. Such an army is being built in Iraq and Turkey and it’s called "ISIS." Â November 10, 2014 ( Tony Cartalucci – NEO ) – The corporate-financier funded and directed policy think tank, the Brookings Institution, has served as one of several prominent forums documenting and disseminating US foreign policy. It would host in part the architects of the so-called "surge" during the nearly decade-spanning US occupation of Iraq, as well as battle plans for waging a covert war against Iran now well under way.
More: Ukraine Split in Two; Expect Major Rebel Advance
Tweet About twenty years ago, just after the collapse of the DDR Eli and Ms. Rabett found themselves on a cold winter night in the middle of Erfurt Germany
The Financial Times reports Catalan Leaders Hope Poll Turnout Will Send Independence Signal .
Bloomberg reports Climate Model Predicts Very Cold Winter in Northern Hemisphere . About 14.1 million square kilometers of snow blanketed Siberia at the end of October, the second most in records going back to 1967, according to Rutgers University’s Global Snow Lab
It seems the Council on Foreign Affairs left out some key sentences in its transcript of A Conversation With Alan Greenspan . The conversation is between Alan Greenspan and Gillian Tett, U.S
For further discussion, please see Ruble Slide Continues; Russia Forced to Abandon Currency Intervention as Reserves Dwindle . Right for Wrong Reason
Money Won the Election! The Center for Responsive Politics projects the 2014 mid-term election will cost roughly $3.67 billion. When all is said and done, Team Red (all Republican candidates, parties, committees and conservative outside groups) will spend $1.75 billion on this election.