Attribution of extreme weather events?
by Judith Curry
The National Academies has published a new report: Attribution of extreme weather events in the context of climate change.
The authors of the report are:
by Judith Curry
The National Academies has published a new report: Attribution of extreme weather events in the context of climate change.
The authors of the report are:
Sputnik – March 14, 2016 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday that it is necessary to broaden the definition of terrorism to include supporters of terrorism — even people who are not directly involved in any kind of terror activity. “It’s not only the person who pulls the trigger, but those who made that possible who should also be defined as terrorists, regardless […]
Vladimir Putin has just ordered the withdrawal of the Russian forces in Syria: “I consider the objectives that have been set for the Defense Ministry to be generally accomplished. That
In surprise move, Putin announces withdrawal plan, says Russian objectives achieved as Syria marks 5 years of bloody proxy war…
--tenuous cease-fire holds, as some opposition groups agree to join peace talks
--an American man from Virginia who was fighting with Daesh reportedly defects, and is captured by Kurdish fighters
--US builds new prison for captured terrorists in Iraq, reports Military.com
Over the weekend, NBC News posed the question Who Does Wall Street Want to Be President? Short version: anyone but Trump. One guy, Asher Edelman, who spent 30 year on Wall Street buying and selling distressed companies, even backs Bernie-- but he runs a New York art gallery now.
Shawn Helton
21st Century Wire
GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is a populist candidate among a bevy of warhawk rivals – yet many still wonder how the real estate mogul has marched virtually unabated towards the 2016 Republican nomination.
Media Monarchy plays Quincy Jones, Les Baxter, Last Shadow Puppets and more on #MixlrMusic for March 14, 2016. ♬
This should be a call to action.
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Putin claims that Russia has largely achieved their goals in Syria.
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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 209. A patent litigator friend of mine in Houston, Sandeep (Sandy) Seth, and I have squabbled about intellectual property law before. So he came over to my house and we had a little conversation where I tried to find a way to get him to see why IP law should […]
By Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli. Chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights This article was originally published in The Indicter In the first part of this series [1] The Indicter exposed that a former paid agent of Sweden’s Security Police had intervened with Amnesty Sweden (the Swedish section of Amnesty International), directly dictating its…
A landmark case about the dirty-money and politics that go into keeping Big Food and Big Biotech afloat was just decided.
Judge Anne Hirsch awarded a summary judgment in a suit brought against the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association by Attorney General Bob Ferguson, finding the GMA guilty of a money laundering scheme that shielded members’ identities as they helped to defeat Washington’s 2013 GMO labeling ballot initiative, I-522, with their donations.
By Barbara Erickson | TimesWarp | March 14, 2016 When the Pew Research Center found that 48 percent of Israeli Jews would like to expel or transfer Palestinians from their land, the press took notice. Although this finding was one result among many in an extensive poll, media outlets everywhere devoted their headlines to this striking […]
21st Century Wire says…
A surprise announcement from Moscow this afternoon…
RT
Robots that took two years to design immediately died after entering reactors leaking radiation in Fukushima.
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21st Century Wire says…
After last Friday night’s clash between Democratic Party students and Republican Trump supporters in Chicago, mainstream media outlets, Republican and Democratic candidates are all taking aim at Donald Trump going into the pivotal Super Tuesday primary contest.
This weekend, millions of Brazilians took to major city streets (again) to protest the hydra of corruption gushing from Petrobras, Brazil’s largest oil company and the government amidst deepening economic recession. Calls for the impeachment of sitting Workers’ Party (PT) president (and former Chair of Petrobras), Dilma Rousseff filled the air. (I can’t wait to see the frenetic state of things when I swing by there in two weeks for talks and book research.)
Stun gun disguised as iPhone available online leading to arrests.
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Unilever settles Indian compensation case after viral video success; Newly discovered bacteria can eat the most common type of plastic; and Oregon's labeling law the latest in ongoing GM salmon saga.
Unilever settles Indian compensation case after viral video success; Newly discovered bacteria can eat the most common type of plastic; and Oregon's labeling law the latest in ongoing GM salmon saga.
Portland missiles, ISIS star and bloody purge + this day in history w/the Gold Standard and our song of the day by M. Ward on your Morning Monarchy for March 14, 2016.
“I never thought I would hear myself saying that the President of the United States is afraid of the CIA."
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Russia’s envoy to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin Press TV – March 14, 2016 Russia opposes the imposition of any new sanctions on Iran over its recent ballistic missile tests, saying the missile launches did not violate UN resolutions. In response to a question on whether new sanctions should be imposed on Iran over its […]
After price-gouging sick Americans for its pharmaceutical drugs, Pfizer plans to slip under the IRS’s radar and dodge an estimated $35 billion tax bill by merging with a foreign company (a $160 billion buyout).
The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) unanimously voted last week against the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, adding to a growing number of opponents to a proposed ballot measure that would decriminalize cannabis in the state.
Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is currently treating an American health care worker who was diagnosed with Lassa fever, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said on Sunday.
Emory is the same hospital which treated 4 Ebola patients in 2014.
The patient, a physician’s assistant who had been working with a missionary organization in Tongo, was transported from West Africa to Atlanta at the request of the U.S. State Department after doctors suspected she had the virus. [1]
Posted more than two years ago.An earlier version.And a still earlier one.
Sputnik – 14.03.2016 NEW DELHI – India conducted another successful test of the Agni-I medium range ballistic missile from Abdul Kalam Island off the country’s shores on Monday morning, the missile’s developer said. “The missile [launch] test was held as a part of the exercise of the Strategic Forces Command and was successful,” the Indian […]
Press TV – March 14, 2016 According to disclosed data, the German government has approved several deals for the export of arms to countries in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia as the kingdom continues its deadly aggression against the impoverished nation of Yemen. According to an Economy Ministry letter seen by Reuters on Monday, […]
Despite a media blackout on the case...
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RT | March 14, 2016 Military invisibility technology could breach the laws of war if developed and put into use, according to former Royal Air Force (RAF) commodore and legal expert William Boothby. In a report in the journal Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict, due to be published by Oxford University Press in […]
The Clinton campaign's strategy against Donald Trump, or Sherman's march to the sea? (Click to enlarge; source)by Gaius PubliusI'm just presenting this, and genuinely for your information. I'd be shocked if the Clinton team weren't preparing to take on Donald Trump should Clinton win the nomination.
Secretary of State Kerry urged President Obama to launch secret missile attacks inside Syria without admitting the U.S. role, a plan that Obama rejected, according to a new report cited by Gareth Porter. By Gareth Porter Jeffrey Goldberg’s newly published book-length…Read more →
From the Archive: As a young warrior and senator, John Kerry stood up to politicians who spread propaganda that got people killed. But, as a Secretary of State in his 70s, Kerry has become what he once challenged, Robert Parry reported in 2014.…Read more →
The organized Jewish community and the liberal, leftist establishment have been attacking and denouncing Donald Trump for months now. As of late, their overwrought, childish attempts to demonize and discredit Trump and his millions of supporters have become more and more obvious and truly pathetic.
Press TV – March 14, 2016 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says any military operation in Libya requires the approval of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Lavrov said during a joint press conference in Moscow with visiting Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui on Monday that Russia is aware of some plans for military involvement […]
Dr. David Duke is a graduate of Louisiana State University with a BA in History. He pursued a PhD in the largest university in Ukraine and in 2005 completed his Doctoral Defense in Kiev. Duke is a former member of the House of Representatives from Louisiana and is the author of the books “Jewish Supremacism,” “My Awakening” and “The Secret Behind Communism.” Dr.
Dr. David Duke is a graduate of Louisiana State University with a BA in History. He pursued a PhD in the largest university in Ukraine and in 2005 completed his Doctoral Defense in Kiev. Duke is a former member of the House of Representatives from Louisiana and is the author of the books “Jewish Supremacism,” “My Awakening” and “The Secret Behind Communism.” Dr.
Federal prosecutors declined to charge police officers in 12,703 out of the 13,233 civil rights complaints that were filed between 1995 and 2015.
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By Miko Peled | American Herald tribune | March 14, 2016 Tom Friedman thinks that if it weren’t for Hamas, Gaza would be another Singapore. If you look up Singapore you will find that it is an island city-state off southern Malaysia, with a population of about 5.5 million people and a GDP total of […]
The US government is behind-the-scenes developing another huge intervention quagmire in Africa.
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Who doesn’t laugh at drug commercials with their before-and-after scenes of life-changing improvements accompanied by numerous terrifying side effects? But these drug ads continue because they work. Beyond the overt manipulations, there are more covert ones—including techniques that diminish the impact of the required warning section.
Who doesn’t laugh at drug commercials with their before-and-after scenes of life-changing improvements accompanied by numerous terrifying side effects? But these drug ads continue because they work. Beyond the overt manipulations, there are more covert ones—including techniques that diminish the impact of the required warning section.
Haaretz’s original headline for an article by Amitai Etzioni, a noted Israeli-American academic. By Richard Silverstein | Mint Press | March 10, 2016 SEATTLE — Haaretz is famed in many circles as Israel’s leading liberal newspaper. In 2011, the New Yorker’s managing editor, David Remnick, deemed it “easily the most liberal newspaper in Israel and […]
A family mourns one of the 37 people killed in the suicide bomb blast in Ankara March 13 [Xinhua]
Turkish fighter jets carried out retaliatory air raids against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq’s mountainous region Monday as the country’s president vowed he was undeterred in the war against terrorism.
The air raids, which struck 18 PKK positions including training camps and ammunition depots, came less than a day after a suicide bombing at a crowded downtown commercial area in the capital Ankara killed at least 37 people.