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Mini-Me: US Closing Military Bases in Europe

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U.S. to cut European military bases to save cost, Pentagon says

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — The U.S. military will divest an air base in Britain and return it and 14 other facilities in Europe back to their home nations, the Pentagon said on Thursday, in a bid to save the U.S. government about 500 million U.S. dollars annually. The restructuring will pull thousands of U.S. military and civilian personnel out of the 15 sites mostly in the United Kingdom and Germany over several years, the Pentagon said in a statement. Read full article.

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Richard Winger: US Electoral Reform Update

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To help future “other” presidential candidates, we need a change in the rules for the Commission on Presidential Debates; we need to eliminate the electoral college; we need ballot access reform in many states; we need to advance ranked-choice voting.  There are areas of activism proceeding right now in all those areas:

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Owl: Paris 12 – An Israeli False Flag?

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, Government, IO Deeds of War, Peace Intelligence
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The mainstream media has offered various theories for reasons motivating the savage and barbaric mass killings in Paris, but one the MM (Mainstream Media) has neglected to mention is that it was a false flag attack, and none especially say it was conducted by Israel. But as usual in such attacks, there are the same patterns appearing indicating that such was indeed done by or on behalf of (by French intel, as noted below), Israel, as indicated in article below, written by an observant Wisconsin blogger. The pattern is: when a country opposes Israel, that country's citizens suffer some mass murder from terrorists within a few months of the opposition-to-Israel action.

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Evan Ellis: China CELAC Americas

02 China, 08 Wild Cards, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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Mientras que esta semana los líderes de china y CELAC se reúnen en Beijing, para incluir conversaciones de $20MM en ayuda adicional para Venezuela, le escribo para compartir con Ud. mi último artículo sobre el impacto de la RPCh sobre el entorno estratégico de América Latina y el Caribe, publicado en la edición español de la revista del Ejercito de los EUA, “Military Review.”

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Stephen E. Arnold: Seismic Shift in Learning from Reading to Video — Implications for Search and More… PBI Push Books versus Pull Video!

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Why Video Is Booming

I read “The Average College Freshman Reads at 7th Grade Level.” I find this fascinating. No wonder folks are baffled when it comes to framing a query using Boolean logic. Little wonder that youthful search “experts” are clueless about the antics of search vendors from the 1980s. These folks cannot and will not become the type of readers I encountered when I was in college in 1962.

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