By Kent Klein U.S. President Barack Obama and the top House Republican have met again to discuss a looming fiscal crisis. Thursday’s visit to the White House by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, was the second this week. President Obama and Speaker Boehner met for 50 minutes, with the so-called “fiscal [...]
Obama, US House Leader Boehner Meet Again on ‘Fiscal Cliff’
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Spy Agency Conducts Surveillance On All US Citizens
The Obama administration overruled recommendations from within the US Department of Homeland Security and implemented new guidelines earlier this year that allow the government to gather and analyze intelligence on every single US citizen. Since the spring, a little-know intelligence agency outside of Washington, DC has been able to circumvent the Fourth Amendment to the [...]
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Five Injured In Hebron Clashes After Teenager Shot Dead
Five people were hurt Thursday in Israeli-Palestinian clashes in Hebron, West Bank, as Palestinians protested the fatal shooting of a teen by Israeli soldiers. Israeli military forces fired tear gas at Palestinians, sending five demonstrators to the hospital, and detained four young people, described as between the ages of 8 and 14, the Palestinians Ma’an [...]
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Tap Responds To Media Speculation Regarding Potential Sale Of Gas Assets
Tap Oil Limited issued a statement regarding media speculation in today’s The Australian Financial Review regarding the potential sale of some or all of Tap’s interest in the Zola and Tallaganda gas fields. Tap said it is focused on commercializing its portfolio of exploration and development assets. These assets include the significant Zola gas discovery [...]
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Hindus Hail Bill Ending Gender Disparity In British Royal Succession
Hindus have applauded publication of the bill granting girls equal rights to British throne succession. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that “it was a step in the right direction”. It was long overdue and it would bring an end to the centuries old chapter of British royal gender [...]
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US: Chained CPI Cuts Social Security Benefits While Raising Taxes On Lower- And Middle-Income Workers
A leading deficit reduction proposal is to “tweak” the official inflation measure used to annually adjust Social Security benefits, other government programs, and income tax brackets. Proponents of this proposal argue that a relatively new inflation measure, the Chained CPI, is more accurate than the current index and the decrease in benefits to the programs [...]
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Will Regulators Damn Keystone XL? – OpEd
By Daniel J. Graeber Starting Tuesday, U.S. regulators will hold regular meetings on oil and natural gas pipeline safety standards. A series of pipeline issues, ranging from a deadly gas pipeline explosion in California, to a massive oil spill in Michigan, have brought pipeline safety to the forefront of the American energy debate. The safety [...]
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Scientists Find Mega-Oil Field … 1,300 Light Years Away – OpEd
By James Burgess Have our wishes been answered? Scientists have found an oil field which contains 200 times more hydrocarbons than there is water on the whole of the Earth. Time to wave peak oil goodbye forever … but before you do I should probably inform you of the tiny hiccup in any plan to [...]
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Patrick Buchanan: The Fall Of The House Of Labor – OpEd
In 1958, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, his eye on the 1960 GOP nomination coveted by fellow Californian Richard Nixon, went home and declared for governor. Knowland’s plan: Ride to victory on the back of Proposition 18, the initiative to make right-to-work the law in the Golden Land. Prop. 18 was rejected 2 to 1. [...]
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The Sociological Backdrop Of The Malala Tragedy – Analysis
Public insecurity is one of the major problems Pakistan is facing today. Over the years, there has been a consistent increase in the dissent among a considerable section of the Pakistani populace especially in the Frontiers. Because the state has utterly failed in the areas of development, egalitarian treatment of people, Security arrangements for common [...]
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Australian Police Issues Warning About Google Maps
A few days after police in Australia warned that Apple Maps was sending drivers off into a waterless, scorching desert-like national park, another Australian authority, this time in Colac, has issued a warning about Google Maps, according to SlashGear. The issue, according to Colac authorities, is that Google Maps sends drivers down a one-way road [...]
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Oil Rises As Survey Shows China Manufacturing Recovery
The price of oil rose above $86 a barrel Friday, Dec 14, boosted by a survey that showed the recovery in China’s manufacturing is gathering strength, The Associated Press reports. Benchmark crude for January delivery was up 65 cents to $86.54 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile [...]
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US Increases Sanctions Against Iranian Proliferation Networks
The U.S. State Department announced Thursday that it has imposed more sanctions on Iran’s nuclear proliferation networks. Specifically, the Secretaries of State and Treasury have imposed sanctions on seven Iranian private sector companies and five individuals for proliferating weapons of mass destruction. These entities and individuals were designated because they provide the Iranian government goods, [...]
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France Favors A Strong Win-Win Partnership With Morocco – OpEd
France does not want to lose its hegemony in Morocco and is preparing to sign an “exceptional partnership” with the North African country. France was until late last year the largest investor and trading partner of Morocco. Not anymore because its southern neighbor, Spain, snatched this position this year. The two countries are strong allies [...]
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Exclusion Of Colombian Women From Peace Process – Analysis
By Diana Londono Earlier this year, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-FARC) expressed its willingness to negotiate a peace treaty with the government of President Juan Manuel Santos. Santos, an ardent supporter of peace in Colombia, has defended this decision to pursue peace negotiations with the militant group, fending off [...]
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The Gulf Of Guinea: The New Danger Zone
Rising piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, which supplies around 40 per cent of Europe’s oil and 29 per cent of the U.S.’s, demands effective regional security cooperation and better economic governance to prevent the region becoming another Gulf of Aden. The Gulf of Guinea: The New Danger Zone, the latest report from the International [...]
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Most US Workers Have Seen Little Benefit From Economic Growth – OpEd
The U.S. government has implemented a wide array of policies over the last three decades that have led to a massive upward redistribution of income. As a result, most workers have seen little benefit from the economic growth over this period. Not surprisingly, the wealthy people who have benefitted from the policies that have redistributed [...]
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Ralph Nader: Fracking’s Lure, Trap And Endless Damage – OpEd
Say what you will about Yoko Ono’s art, there is no denying that she is unique. Who else will put several $100,000 full-page notices in The New York Times displaying only the word “Peace” or “Imagine Peace” in small type with the rest of the page blank? No elaboration, no examples of the ravages of [...]
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Congress Outraged By Secrecy Behind Obama’s Drone War
Members of the US Congress convened in Washington on Thursday to discuss the United States’ ongoing extrajudicial slayings of Americans and foreigners overseas using unmanned drones. On Capitol Hill, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) led a House Judiciary Committee discussion that demanded more transparency from President Barack Obama over how his administration carries out the targeted [...]
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Senate Report Criticizes Harsh CIA Interrogation Methods
By Vladimir Gladkov The Senate select committee on intelligence has approved a long-awaited report on interrogation techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency in the so-called fight against terrorism, and it will be handed over to the Obama Administration. According to its authors, the report clearly shows that the use of so-called “enhanced-interrogation techniques” was [...]
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