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Links Don’t Survive the "Collapse" – Prevent It December 5, 2012 (LocalOrg) – Cuba, Thailand, New York City. All three have faced either economic or natural disasters
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves
A month earlier, Turkey was strafing villages in northern Iraq . In June 2012, the BBC reported in their article, " Turkey in new air strikes on Kurdish rebels in Iraq ," that:Â Turkey’s military has confirmed further air strikes against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq
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A modest carbon tax has modest carbon reduction results Been meaning to highlight Brad Plumer’s post on a paper about the effect of a carbon tax on emissions (full paper here ). Â A tax of $20/ton, with an inflation-adjusted 4% annual increase, knocks emissions down 14% by 2020, and a larger number in 2050 if you believe economic projections that far in the future
US Repeats Syrian Chemical Weapons "Warnings" US repeats same tired, desperate accusations that the Syrian army is preparing to use "chemical weapons." December 4, 2012 (LD) – Once again, the US has issued a warning against Syria deploying "chemical weapons" citing "intelligence reports that the Damascus government is preparing such munitions for possible use." No evidence was provided, nor any reasonable explanation as to why the Syrian government would deploy such weapons when, after over 2 years, the majority of the Syrian people still stand behind the government while terrorist forces flooding over Syria’s borders have been faced with constant tactical and strategic defeat. Image : ( via the Guardian ) "Chemical containers in the Libyan desert. There are concerns unguarded weapons could fall into the hands of Islamist militants.
More Nannycrat Insanity: EU Wants to Ban Youth Unemployment Youth unemployment is shockingly high in Greece, Spain, and Italy as shown by Europe’s Most Tragic Graph by The Atlantic . Young workers in Greece and Spain are facing an absolutely egregious work drought, where half of high-school and college-graduates ready to find a job aren’t finding one
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