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US Savagery Visited Upon Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Now Visits Bangkok US ambassador’s appointment portended deadly attack. August 17, 2015  (Tony Cartalucci – LD) – A deadly blast tore through downtown Bangkok on Monday evening as people rushed home from work. Over 15 are reported dead, and over 80 injured, many seriously – missing limbs or sustaining life-threatening injuries.
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Yahoo News would report in their article, " Shootings at Chattanooga military facilities leave 4 Marines, gunman dead; act called ‘domestic terrorism ‘," that: A U.S. official told the Associated Press that Abdulazeez had not been on the radar of federal law enforcement before Thursday’s shooting. But also added: His father had been investigated several years ago for "possible ties to a foreign terrorist organization" and added to the U.S. terrorist watch list, according to a report in the New York Times, but that probe did not surface information about Abdulazeez, the paper said
See the original article here: What Catholic opinion on the death penalty tells you about the encyclical’s future effect
UN’s 2011 Homicide Study – .pdf available here . When comparing two nations, the United Kingdom and Japan, whose populations are for all intents and purposes "disarmed," we still find immense, seemingly inexplicable disparity in the number of homicides. Despite both nations being disarmed and having almost no "gun-related homicides," according to UN statistics , Japan and the UK still have an astronomical gap in homicide rates
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Tweet Maxim Lott sees the slope of the line for the last 17 years as being virtually flat. I imagine that if he went for a run and came to a hill, he wouldn’t even notice it. The NASA data he cites is here  (which doesn’t include any of the scorching 2015 data), and his article here
Russell Seitz said… PP:I have always deplored the elision of science and advertising, but I question the historicity of Oreskes narrative . State of the art advertising best practices began shaping environmental consciousness raising campiagns a decade before the Climate Wars began, and from what I’ve observed ,those practices were enbraced with professional zeal by P-R operatives on both sides
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