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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

15 December - Netvibes - Public

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Indefinite detention: 'Architecture of fascist state'

Radio host, Ralph Schoenman says that under the new law the US military will be entitled to “disappear” American citizens for offences that are never even made public

‎'Imagine allowing the government to deny people accused of involvement with terrorism (undefined), including U.S. citizens arrested within the United States, the right to a trial by jury. Imagine allowing indefinite imprisonment for those accused without even proffering charges against them. Goodbye
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‎5th and 6th Amendments. On some government agency's unbridled order: just pick them up, arrest them without charges and throw them into the military brig indefinitely. This atrocity deserves to be repeatedly condemned loudly throughout the land by Americans...' Ralph Nader, Reader Supported News
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President Barack Obama would like the world to know that the US can do whatever it damn well pleases, thank you very much.
 
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As U.S. troops prepare to leave Iraq, thousands of contractors are moving in to make a buck in the country devastated by war. And one of them is the world's ...

China's epic hangover begins

China's credit bubble has finally popped. The property market is swinging wildly from boom to bust, the cautionary exhibit of a BRIC's dream that is at last coming down to earth with a thud. 

Homelink property website reports that new home prices in Beijing fell 35pc in November from the month before. 

‎"The recent European Union summit was a disaster. British Prime Minister David Cameron isolated Britain from Europe, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel isolated the eurozone from reality."
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The euro will survive, but the zone will shrink, sending shock waves around the world. But sometimes shock waves are needed to break the ice and start the water flowing again.
Don't give up. Get angry.
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While it can be disheartening to see the smallness of those in power, don't let it get you down, for they want us to become so disheartened that we give up.
 

China’s 1st aircraft carrier almost online

 

Center for Media and Democracy and Reader Supported News shared a link.
readersupportednews.org‎'The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years. In an exclusive interview with The Independent, Igor Semiletov, of the Far Eastern branch of ...
"Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane - a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide - have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years."
 Time for a new geopolitical climate bloc: Part 2  
Geopolitically, Durban proved illuminating: Brazil, earlier believed to be on the way to becoming a champion on climate change, turned out to be more interested in its agribusiness and oil interests. ALBA, comprised of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador... sought to shame the US and others into taking more collective action and to limit any increase in temperature to one degree Celsius but ALBA was simply seen as an annoyance by most of the other nations.
‎"Plans to develop an open-pit iron mine in northwestern Wisconsin are the latest flash point in a growing national debate that weighs the prospect of new jobs against concern about environmental damage."
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Wisconsin project would create jobs, but environmentalists question the impact.

 

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