November 27, 2014
"Neutrality" Gone Mad: Should GM Have to Promote Toyota?
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Hard hitting global and local news
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The Financial Times reports Russia-Iran Nuclear Reactor Deal Raises Eyebrows . Russia has agreed to build eight new nuclear reactors in Iran in a deal raising eyebrows in Washington and Europe as fraught international talks to curb Tehran’s atomic ambitions near their deadline
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 US Destroying Syria’s Oil Infrastructure Under Guise of Fighting ISIS November 1, 2014 ( Maram Susli – NEO ) – The US is considering bombing pipelines in Syria, which it claims is in an attempt to cut off the huge profits being made by ISIS from captured oilfields. The Independent quotes  Julieta Valls Noyes, the deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs during a visit to London, that ISIS was making $2 million a day off oil sales and that the US would consider airstrikes as well as “kinetic strikes against some pipelines" and "actual physical action to stop the flowâ€
The US NED website now has a page dedicated to disavowing evidence it is behind "Occupy Central." Titled, " The National Endowment for Democracy and support for democracy in Hong Kong ," NED claims:Â In the wake of recent pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, state controlled Chinese news outlets have published erroneous reports that the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has played a central role in the protests. NED would go on to admit that it is extensively funding political activity in Hong Kong.
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In the US Army’s West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) 2008 report titled, " Bombers, Bank Accounts and Bleedout: al-Qa’ida’s Road In and Out of Iraq ," it stated unequivocally that (emphasis added): During the first half of the 1980s the role of foreign fighters in Afghanistan was negligible and was largely unâ€noticed by outside observers. The flow of volunteers from the Arab heartland countries was just a trickle in the early 1980s, though there were more significant links between the mujahidin and Central Asian Muslims—especially Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Kazakhs.
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