Adam Tucker: More Fish Than Plastic in Ocean by 2050?

03 Environmental Degradation
Adam Tucker
Adam Tucker

There Will Be More Plastic Than Fish in the Ocean by 2050

There will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050, warned the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in a report published Tuesday. The report, The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the Future of Plastics, was produced by the foundation and the World Economic Forum with analytical support from McKinsey & Company.

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Antechinus: Cheney, Rothschild, and Fox News’ Murdoch to Drill for Oil in Syria, Violating International Law

10 Transnational Crime
Antechinus
Antechinus

Cheney, Rothschild, and Fox News’ Murdoch to Drill for Oil in Syria, Violating International Law

Genie Energy is an American-based oil and gas company with major investors and advisors comprising a who’s who list of war profiteers—Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, Lord Jacob Rothschild, and James Woolsey. The president of their Israeli subsidiary is Efraim “Effi” Eitam, an Israeli military commander.
Genie Energy will soon be drilling into a vast oil and gas reserve located in the Syrian Golan Heights territory occupied by Israel since 1967. The move would be in clear violation of international law, specifically the Annex to the Fourth Geneva Convention.

CounterPunch: Obama’s Death Toll at Home & Abroad

07 Other Atrocities

counterpunch squareObama Speech Ignored His Death Toll at Home and Abroad

While trumpeting the private death toll from guns, Obama ignored the 986 people killed by police in the United States last year according to The Washington Post‘s database.

To add a Euro flair to the evening, Obama could drape tri-color flags on a few empty seats to commemorate the 42 medical staff, patients, and others   slain at a  last Oct. 3 when an American   AC-130 gunship   blasted a French Médecins Sans Frontières‎ hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

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Barack Obama: Kill List Exposed: Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of U.S. Citizens “Has No Geographic Limit”

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism
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My legacy, and proud of it.

Kill List Exposed: Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of U.S. Citizens

The Obama administration’s internal legal justification for assassinating U.S. citizens without charge has been revealed for the first time. In a secret Justice Department memo, the administration claims it has legal authority to assassinate U.S. citizens overseas even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the United States. We’re joined by Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “If you look at the memo … there’s no geographic line,” says Jaffer. “The Obama administration is making, in some ways, a greater claim of authority [than President Bush]. They’re arguing that the authority to kill American citizens has no geographic limit.” [includes rush transcript]

Berto Jongman: Allen Dulles as Traitor Who Saved Nazis — David Talbot (Devil’s Chessboard) Interview with Salon

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

“Every president has been manipulated by national security officials”: David Talbot exposes America’s “deep state”

From World War II though JFK, “The Devil's Chessboard” explores how Allen Dulles used the CIA as a tool of elites

In some ways, because of people like the Dulles brothers, and other like-minded people in the U.S. government and military, we didn’t defeat the Third Reich so much as repurpose them for the Cold War.

Mongoose: Germans Warn Saudi Arabia Destabilizing Middle East

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call
Mongoose
Mongoose

German spy agency warns of Saudi intervention destabilizing Arab world

Germany's foreign intelligence agency BND has released a disparaging report on Saudi Arabia. Their assessment says the country is destabilizing the Middle East with proxy wars in Yemen and elsewhere in the region.

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