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January 26, 2018
The US Finally Tells the Truth About Its Military Objective in Syria
“If the U.S. wants to counter Iran and al-Qaeda and bring peace to Syria, logic dictates that the U.S needs to try a brand new strategy altogether and respect international law for once.”
My what a novel idea. Imagine the US respecting international law.
We turned Al Qaeda-less Iraq into an Al Qaeda haven (with Al Qaeda financier SA help). We made a low level Afghan faction Taliban into a national powerhouse. The same with Boko Haram. Libya is now a slave trade/illegal immigration center. The Balkans is the place to go for trade in human organs and drugs.
All now Christian-less of course. The Syrian population should be very afraid.
http://theantimedia.org/tillerson-truth-syria/
Written by Darius Shahtahmasebi
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed)— After over a year of flip-flopping and reversing its position on Syria and its president, Bashar al-Assad, the U.S has finally admitted the real reason its military continues to violate Syria’s sovereignty. From the Washington Post:
“After months of incoherence, the Trump administration has taken a step toward a clear policy on Syria and its civil war. In a speech last week, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson bluntly recognized a truth that both…
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Forget Socialism And Markets, It’s Time For Universal Healthcare – The System We Need And How To Pay For It
I’ve been fighting for universal publicly funded health care for all Americans since 1988 and still haven’t given up – despite moving to New Zealand and receiving free health care from their publicly funded system.
SPECIAL REPORT By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze
After decades of suffering under a private “market-based” healthcare economy, Americans who were also suffering under high unemployment rates, lower living standards, and high stress, found themselves burdened by a private health insurance industry that charged exorbitant rates while denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions and refused to pay out for needed medical care for many whom it did cover.
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Politics of the War on Drugs Still Targets People of Color
It’s not hard to understand why someone like Sessions, with a history of racism, would love the war on drugs: In reality, it was always a war on a very particular set of people — and you can probably guess who those people are.
❝ THE HUGE FAILURE we know as the “war on drugs” is back in full force under the Trump administration, thanks in no small part to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s retrograde tough-on-crime approach to drugs. It’s not hard to understand why someone like Sessions, with a history of racism, would love the war on drugs: In reality, it was always a war on a very particular set of people — and you can probably guess who those people are. And yet despite Sessions’s best efforts, there’s been a lot of progress on legalizing marijuana; opinions are changing and, in a lot of places, so are laws.
❝ At the intersection of these pushes to legalize weed and the so-called war on drugs, there are a bevy of major scandals unfolding, all of which are ravaging communities of color. And here’s the thing about these scandals: They can’t simply be blamed…
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January 25, 2018
Davos: “Zombie” TPP Trade Deal Threatens Our Fractured World
Now that Canada has backtracked on their opposition to the zombie TPP-11, it is due to be signed in Chile on 8 March.
By Friends of the Earth International
Global Research, January 24, 2018
Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth International, the world’s largest grassroots environmental network, has warned that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal could threaten people and planet if signed and ratified by national parliaments in March this year.
The remarks came as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Australian Trade Minister and other leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos (23-26 January) celebrated the conclusion of the deal between 11 countries in Asia-Pacific.
Sam Cossar-Gilbert, Friends of the Earth International trade campaigner, said:
“It is no wonder the corporate elite at Davos are celebrating this zombie TPP deal. It enables foreign companies to sue governments in secret trade tribunals for almost any measure that harms their expected profits.”
The topic of this year’s World Economic Forum “Creating a shared future in a fractured…
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Pennsylvania Senator Moves To Repeal Pharmaceutical Vaccine Immunity
Folmer wants to repeal the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) which serves to give immunity to pharmaceutical companies whose vaccines are connected to vaccine injuries. Vaccines are the only injuries pharmaceutical companies are shielded from in terms of litigation.
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Pennsylvania’s Senator Mike Folmer truly believes that parents should be given the right to make an informed decision in regards to vaccines and their children. Folmer has introduced a new legislation called Informed Consent which aims to rectify this situation. This means doctors would need to explain both benefits and risks associated with vaccines.
Additionally, Folmer wants to repeal the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) which serves to give immunity to pharmaceutical companies whose vaccines are connected to vaccine injuries. Vaccines are the only injuries pharmaceutical companies are shielded from in terms of litigation. (source)
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Hidden History: There Were 15 (not 13) Colonies in the Revolutionary War
The Lost History of America
First Documentary (2018)
Film Review
This documentary traces the hidden history of St Augustine (Florida), the first permanent European settlement in North America. It was founded in 1565 by Spanish colonists, 42 years before the English founded Jamestown (Virginia), the first “official” North American colony. History textbooks gloss over the fact that England had 15, not 13 North American colonies at the time of The Revolutionary War. They always neglect to mention East and West Florida (which were transferred from Spain to England by the 1763 Treaty of Paris. For two main reasons 1) because the Florida colonies fought for the British rather than the colonists and 2) because under Spanish rule, both East and West Florida outlawed slavery and offered sanctuary to runaway slaves.
After the war, the US ceded East and West Florida to Spain as a reward for Spanish financial and military support. However the land came the condition, imposed by Secretary of State (and slaveholder) Thomas Jefferson, that both colonies would cease to provide sanctuary for slaves from northern states.
The Seminole tribes ignored Jefferson and continued to shelter runaway slaves in Florida swamps where slave catchers couldn’t pursue them.
In 1812, the governor of Georgia raised a private army, assisted by the US Navy, to invade Florida in a military action known as the Patriot’s War. A coalition of Seminoles and freed slaves attacked the new plantations opened up by northern settlers, burned them and freed their slaves. In 1818 General Andrew Jackson launched the infamous Seminole War in retaliation.
In 1821, Spain officially ceded Florida to the US, forcing most of the free African families who had founded St Augustine to flee to the Bahamas – where the British had banned slavery.
January 24, 2018
Erdogan Moves Against Pentagon’s Kurd Allies, Deflating Plans For 30,000 Man Border Protection Force
Lots of backtracking here by the US in regards to their 30,000 troop border force. It would appear the principal US aim in backing Syria’s kurds is to “balkanize” Syria by creating a separate Kurdish state. A move Turkey (with Russian support) was quick to block.
Tillerson to media: “That entire situation has been mis-portrayed, mis-described, some people misspoke. We are not creating a Border Security Force at all.”
Pentagon spokesman Adrian Rankine-Galloway says of the 8,000-10,000 YPG militiamen in Afrin: “We don’t consider them as part of our ‘Defeat ISIS’ operations, which is what we are doing there and we do not support them. We are not involved with them at all.”
How US went from supporting Syrian Kurds, to backing Turkey against them – in just 9 days
Turkish tanks cross into the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in Syria on January 22. / Reuters
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been left flailing as Washington desperately struggles to avoid being shut out of Syria by its own allies – following a crisis it helped provoke just…
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The Citizen Scientist Who Discovered Modern Climate Change
Citizen scientist who first discovered effects of carbon dioxide on global temperatures in 1938.
Climate Denial Crock of the Week
I’m excerpting a small part of a fascinating, long piece in Wired – describing the research of the early 20th century engineer Guy Callendar – who detected and predicted the greenhouse effect well before it took hold in the mainstream of science. Although Svante Arrhenius had theorized (presciently) about the problem decades before, Callendar made some of the first observations actually demonstrating the effect.
TODAY GUY CALLENDAR is a historical footnote, but tomorrow he will have a chapter of his own. Born in 1898, Callendar was the son of Britain’s leading steam engineer, a successful academic and inventor who raised his children in a 22-room mansion. A greenhouse on the grounds was converted into a laboratory for the children until one of Callendar’s three brothers blew it up trying to make TNT. The same brother put out Callendar’s left eye. Undeterred by the subsequent lack of depth perception, he…
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Coal vs. Renewable Energy
Solar, wind, and battery prices are dropping so fast that, in Colorado, building new renewable power plus battery storage is now cheaper than running old coal plants. This increasingly renders existing coal plants obsolete.
OK, so solar just took a blow via new tariffs. Here’s a story about renewables to brighten your day. From ThinkProgress 1/10/18:
Solar, wind, and battery prices are dropping so fast that, in Colorado, building new renewable power plus battery storage is now cheaper than running old coal plants. This increasingly renders existing coal plants obsolete.
Two weeks ago, Xcel Energy quietly reported dozens of shockingly low bids it had received for building new solar and wind farms, many with battery storage (see table below).
The median bid price in 2017 for wind plus battery storage was $21 per megawatt-hour, which is 2.1 cents per kilowatt-hour. As Carbon Tracker noted, this “appears to be lower than the operating cost of all coal plants currently in Colorado.”The median bid price for solar plus battery storage was $36/MWh (3.6 cents/kwh), which may be lower than about three-fourths of operating coal capacity. For context…
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January 23, 2018
Marijuana ‘Sanctuary State’, Massachusetts could become the first!
New state law would ban local and state law enforcement from assisting in prosecution of federal marijuana states.
Two state representatives want to turn Massachusetts into a sanctuary state for marijuana, filing legislation that would prohibit state and local police from participating in federal cases against people or licensed operators who follow state cannabis laws.
“We have a state law, it’s valid, and we think it should be respected,” said state Representative Dave Rogers, who filed the bill Friday, along with fellow Democrat Mike Connolly. “If federal law enforcement has something different in mind, they can use their own resources, because Massachusetts taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay to do something that goes against our laws.”
The bill is a response to the decision earlier this month by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end the US government’s hands-off marijuana policy and give federal prosecutors discretion to enforce the federal prohibition on the drug, even against state-licensed cannabis operations. Rogers called the shift in policy “retrograde and mindless,” noting that…
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