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October 2, 2014 0

Terrorism and Turmoil: US Containment of China

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Links Terrorism and Turmoil: US Containment of China October 2, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci – LD) – With Hong Kong’s "Occupy Central" fully exposed as US-backed sedition , readers should be aware that this latest turmoil is but one part of a greater ongoing campaign by the United States to contain and co-opt the nation of China.  As early as the Vietnam War, with the so-called "Pentagon Papers" released in 1969, it was revealed that the conflict was simply one part of a greater strategy aimed at containing and controlling China. Three important quotes from these papers reveal this strategy

May 13, 2014 0

Something Scary Comes This Way

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Tweet Two papers have appeared today which, in the words of Richard Alley, are the equivalent of the guys over in the corner screaming bloody murder.  Both describe the coming, and in their view, inevitable collapse of the West Antarctic ice shelf at some point in the next 200-900 years.  While the exact time of collapse is not predictable, the inevitability is, and 200 years is not so long in the future. Rignot, Mouginot, Morlighem, Seroussi and Scheuch map the observed retreat of these grounding glaciers, and over the past twenty years, and yes, once they let go, there is nothing holding the ice shelf back from lurching into the Southern Ocean.  They conclude Using two decades of ERS-1/2 data, we document a continuous and rapid retreat of the grounding lines of Pine Island, Thwaites, Haynes, Smith and Kohler glaciers, which drain a large sector of West Antarctica on a retrograde, submarine bed, a configuration deemed unstable by ice sheet numerical models (e.g. Favier et al., 2014, Katz and Worster, 2010; Parizek et al., 2012) unless normal and tangential ice shelf buttressing could increase significantly (Gudmundson, 2013), which is unlikely.

February 15, 2014 0

Big Pharma’s Profits Over People & How to Hit Back

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February 15, 2014  ( LocalOrg ) – In Slashdot’s " Big Pharma Presses US To Quash Cheap Drug Production In India ," it states: "Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), are leaning on the United States government to discourage India from allowing the production and  sale of affordable generic drugs to treat diseases such as cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis . India is currently on the U.S

January 26, 2014 0

Peer Preview

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Tweet A neat little Indian carryout opened near Eli’s house, and they play this stuff non stop.  Food is good too. For those interested in peer review try this about how a cat became a co-author to deal with the editor demanding a second author if the text used the pronoun we and the pre-word processor delight of retyping a paper to meet the demands of peer review. “Why was I willing to do such an irreverent thing

November 18, 2013 0

"Gold is an Asset the Girl Carries"

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Please consider Gold-Laden Brides in India Defying Singh as Culture Wins by Bloomberg writer Swansy Afonso. As the sound of traditional drums, trumpets and cymbals ushers Amrita Mannil into the wedding hall, she’s adorned by four finely crafted necklaces, rings, 16 bangles, a glistening belt, dangling chandelier earrings and a stone-encrusted head piece to match the silk borders of her dress. She’s wearing about 800 grams (1.8 pounds) of gold