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University students across Puerto Rico organized a national strike that sparked demonstrations and protests on May 1, 2017, as reported by David Cordero, Sarah Vázquez, and Ronald Ávila Claudio for the Metro. The strike, el Paro Nacional, resulted from public outrage over announced austerity measures affecting education and pensions, as well as outrage over the lack of transparency in the process through which those measures were approved.

In November 2017, Mother Jones’ Kiera Butler reported on the animal rights activist group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) and their “bold new animal liberation movement: no masks, no regrets, all the risk.” Eight of the group’s members recorded themselves, in the middle of the night, rescuing a calf from Zonneveld Dairies Inc. outside of Fresno, California. Zonneveld, a Land O’Lakes supplier, is one of roughly 64,000 commercial dairies.

If you heard mention of people being shackled on the deck of a ship out in the ocean for weeks or months exposed to the elements and with only a bucket for a bathroom, you might assume the full story is about the cruel actions of pirates or slave traders from centuries past. However, as reporter Seth Freed Wessler recounts, the United States Coast Guard routinely subjects individuals alleged to be involved in the transport of cocaine between South America and Central America to such conditions.

The US general in charge of the war in Afghanistan has announced that with the new US strategy we are “turning the corner” in the 16 year war. Where have we heard that before? Over and over since the election of Hamid Karzai in 2004! Turning the corner? Hardly! Today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:

By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | November 28, 2017  https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut4/diagnostics.html   We are all too familiar with graphs showing how much global temperatures have risen since the 19thC. The HADCRUT version above is typical, and also very precise, with fairly tight error bars even in the early part of […]

Press TV – November 29, 2017 Honduras was in a state of limbo on Tuesday as presidential election results began to trickle in after a 24-hour delay, with a TV host’s surprise lead suddenly starting to plunge, prompting him to claim that electoral fraud was taking place. President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who won US praise […]

By Tony Cartalucci – New Eastern Outlook – 29.11.2017 The United States Air Force’s 59th Medical Wing’s molecular biology branch recently was revealed to have been collecting specifically Russian RNA and synovial (connective) tissue samples, prompting fears in Russia of a possible US directed ethnic-specific bioweapons program. TeleSUR’s article, “‘Ethnic Bomb’ Feared as US Air Force Confirms […]

Unlike most any other debt, student loan debt can’t (normally) be dismissed in bankruptcy, and millions of graduates and non-graduates are struggling to live out the American dream saddled with thousands of dollars in student debt, and in some cases bleak job prospects to pay it back.

Fast food nihilism, CRISPR kits and dead head transplants + this day in history w/the murder of Natalie Wood and our song of the day by Ty Segall on your Morning Monarchy for November 29, 2017.

click on ‘cc’ to see the English subtitles Translation by: http://sayed7asan.blogspot.com Transcript: […] When we get to the point where Iraqi leaders will announce their final victory against ISIS and

It’s true, as the authorities would have us believe, that those urban slums are built largely of wood with a treacherously hotchpotch electrical supply running through them – and it’s no surprise they so readily catch fire. But the underlying problem here isn’t one of unregulated building, it’s the absence of – the non-regulation if you like – property rights. That is why there are more fires where the land is of higher value.

The ICTY has proven to be what we expected it to be, a kangaroo court, using fascist methods of justice that engaged in selective prosecution to advance the NATO agenda of conquest of the Balkans as a prelude to aggression against Russia. NATO uses the tribunal as a propaganda weapon to put out a false history of the events in Yugoslavia, to cover up its own crimes, to keep the former republics of Yugoslavia under its thumb, and to justify NATO aggression and occupation of Yugoslavian territory. It is a stain on civilization.

Iranian-American Bijan C. Ghaisar, who was shot by the United States Park Police in state of Virginia on the evening of November 17, 2017. Press TV – November 29, 2017 Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has condemned the “brutal” murder of an Iranian man by the US police in the state of Virginia. “The […]

By James M. Dorsey / Mid-East Soccer.
Time will tell, but Saudi Arabia’s gamble to pressure Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed, Lebanese Shiite militia, by forcing Saad Hariri, the country’s prime minister, to resign, may be paying off despite widespread perceptions that the manoeuvre backfired.

By Staff, InsideClimate News
Kathleen Hartnett White's nomination for the top White House environment post is headed for a Senate confirmation vote.

At her confirmation hearing in early November, Kathleen Hartnett White repeated her claim that CO2 is not a pollutant. "As an atmospheric gas, it is a plant nutrient," she told senators. Credit: Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Video

What could I possibly have to say about Matt Lauer? I'm not sure if I ever saw him on TV-- and certainly not on the gossipy morning show he did on NBC. He is accused of sexually assaulting a female staffer in 2014 at the Sochi Winter Games. She complained to H.R. on Monday and he was fired on Tuesday night and by this morning it pushed Señor Trumpanzee's antics out of the top news story slots everywhere-- including on Lauer's own show.

By Ryan Maye Handy / Chron.

Photo: Michael Paulsen

A thick cloud of fog and morning light engulfs several 285ft tall 2.5 MW Clipper wind turbines at the BP Sherbino Mesa II Wind Farm, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, in Fort Stockton. After cutting its solar program ... more

About three-quarters of the world’s dictatorships currently receive military assistance from the United States. This is a strange record for a nation that consistently justifies its sweeping foreign interventions as aimed at “promoting democracy” and “thwarting evil dictatorships.”
The post US Provides Military Aid To More Than 70 Percent Of World’s Dictatorships appeared first on BSNEWS.

By James M Dorsey / Pragati.

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MEMO | November 29, 2017 A former Israeli soldier was deported from Colombia for alleged links to a criminal network suspected of drug trafficking, child prostitution and tax offenses that spanned across several countries in Latin America. Forty-three-year-old Assi Moosh was expelled by Colombia and returned to Tel Aviv under escort by immigration officers last […]

Chuck Ochelli joins me in the first hour to discuss all the recent news regarding the JFK assassination. Chuck tells us about JFK Lancer Conference, where he gave a presentation and received an award commending him for his work on JFK. We then move onto the recent release of files on the assassination. Chuck and I discuss some of the sensationalism surrounding them such as the Hitler in Colombia files. We also talk about the files that documents the US government’s idea to use Soviet planes in false flag attacks in Russia.

This was Barack Obama's original position, and he reiterated it often during his 2008 campaign. "If a mandate was the solution," he said in an interview, "we could try that to solve homelessness by mandating that everybody buy a house. The reason they don't have a house is they don't have the money." It was a good argument then; it's an even better argument now.

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by Judith Curry
In private, climate scientists are much less certain than they tell the public. – Rupert Darwall

By Brian CLOUGHLEY | Strategic Culture Foundation | 29.11.2017 In May this year the Carnegie Endowment for Peace assessed that “The security environment in Afghanistan is still precarious… the government remains heavily dependent on foreign aid… the combination of a weakening Afghan regime and an unchecked Taliban resurgence could lead to the catastrophic collapse of the Afghan […]

We no longer have a media worthy of the name; we have a propaganda machine. A Ministry of Truth stretching from the ‘’soundly conservative to utterly reactionary’’ to use Ralph Miliband’s apt description. A daily scripted fog-horn ramping up the population for war against Russia; and we have been brought to this impasse by a cabal of fanatics ensconced in an ideological bubble – the neo-conservatives – who are frankly deranged.

People so quickly forget these days how that fraud "SITE" group run by that despicable and most ugly, Rita Katz, used to put out their periodic and absolutely laughable "Bin Laden tapes" to try to scare the gullible American public with bullshit "terrorist threats".... Then after the US government disposed of their phony "bin Laden", the scumbags over at SITE changed gears and tried the same scare mongering with their "ISIS tapes" with their absolutely laughable and ridiculous "beheading" themes and imagery.... And yet the majority of the American people fell for that crap as well! ...

Most people are not tempted to commit mass killings but, obviously, some are. Casual observation suggests that mass killers are nearly always losers – in the Merriam-Webster sense of "a person who is incompetent or unable to succeed." Of course, not all losers have the preferences of mass killers, but for some of them, mass killing is not out of the realm of utility.

The United States Air Force’s 59th Medical Wing’s molecular biology branch recently was revealed to have been collecting specifically Russian RNA and synovial (connective) tissue samples, prompting fears in Russia of a possible US directed ethnic-specific bioweapons program.

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Music is more widely available than ever, but artists struggle to be paid. How can musicians be fairly rewarded in the digital age?
The post 5 possible solutions to music piracy appeared first on Positive News.

Stalemate: That’s the word of choice being used by U.S. generals to describe the Afghan War. What, exactly, is a stalemate? I played chess at an early age, caught up in the Bobby Fischer craze of the early 1970s, and I still play occasionally. In chess, a stalemate is a special kind of draw, and an often frustrating one.

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As the US and its E.U. partners continue to levy punitive sanctions on Russia, the BRICS are responding with new financial initiatives to help their members break-out of the US and European financial trading monopoly.
Currently, both China and Russia are surging ahead as the world’s top Central Bank buyers of gold, further consolidating their position to be able to weather a global dollar crisis which many expert believe is inevitable. When exactly that happens is still anyone’s guess.

Recently, in a small town in Pennsylvania, an insurance agent for Nationwide Insurance noticed a certain plant growing in a garden on the property he was inspecting. This insurance agent identified the plant as marijuana and notified the police about this nefarious behavior. An elderly couple lived at that property, and while the husband was out at the time, the wife was dragged from her home, in her underwear, while police proceeded to ransack the home for four hours. They found nothing illegal. And that marijuana plant that started this whole debacle? Actually a hibiscus.

This article analyses new evidence which has come to light since the UN OPCW JIM report was issued which suggests the reports conclusions regarding Khan Sheikhoun need to be reconsidered and the matter looked at afresh. The new evidence and analysis presented in this article relates to the possibility the crater in Khan Sheikhoun was […]

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To put it mildly, the UK has a been a rebel when it comes to European integration. The list of enlargement power grabs by the EU is long but the UK, meanwhile, has been an advocate for more free trade. Britain's opposition inside the European Council has been a necessary counterweight. Does their departure mean that no opposition is left?

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Finska senaten som drev igenom självständigheten 1917.Tobias Svanelid undersöker hur Finland minns 6 december 1917, dagen då Finland utropades som självständig nation, och så granskas bioaktuella Churchill-filmen.Det har gått 100 år sedan Finland blev självständigt, och jubileumsåret har uppmärksammats stort såväl i Finland som i Sverige. Men vad ska vi egentligen minnas ifrån den 6 december 1917 och hur självklart var det egentligen att Finland skulle bli ett självständigt rike?

Finska senaten som drev igenom självständigheten 1917.Tobias Svanelid undersöker hur Finland minns 6 december 1917, dagen då Finland utropades som självständig nation, och så granskas bioaktuella Churchill-filmen.Det har gått 100 år sedan Finland blev självständigt, och jubileumsåret har uppmärksammats stort såväl i Finland som i Sverige. Men vad ska vi egentligen minnas ifrån den 6 december 1917 och hur självklart var det egentligen att Finland skulle bli ett självständigt rike?

Hayek’s ultimate hope is that each reader of his book will understand the important role they play as individuals. As Hayek has demonstrated in his book, the individual is the greatest threat to the totalitarians and the collectivists of the world. The individual has been a thorn in the state’s side that has prevented it from total abuse of power since the beginning of time.

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By Yassir Al Zaatara | The New Khalij | November 27, 2017 Leaked information about Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” varies in some details, but the one thing that is consistent is that there will be no more on offer than autonomy for parts of the West Bank, without Jerusalem. There will be no […]