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Greece — more austerity, less liberty

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more austerity, less liberty

While the EU is keen to expose increasing authoritarianism in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, it tellingly turns a blind eye on the erosion of press freedom in Greece, the country on which it has foisted a raft of self-defeating austerity measures, argues a British columnist.

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Israeli Government threatens military intervention to Syria

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General Benny Gantz

By Lisa Karpova | Pravda.ru The Chief of staff of the army for the defence of Israel, General Benny Gantz, visited the Golan Heights region and pointed out that the operations of the Syrian forces against armed groups could lead to military interference with the Israeli regime. The Israeli regime threatened, this Sunday, to pursue a [...]

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Earth on Acid: The Present & Future of Global Acidification

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GSA Climate change and extreme weather events grab the headlines, but there is another, lesser known, global change underway on land, in the seas, and in the air: acidification. It turns out that combustion of fossil fuels, smelting of ores, mining of coal and metal ores, and application of nitrogen fertilizer to soils are all [...]

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58 percent of eligible US voters boycott presidential election

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PressTV At least 58 percent of eligible voters in the United States have decided not to participate in the US presidential election, arguing that their votes will have no effect on their future, a report says. The figure is higher than the combination of voters who will cast their ballots either for the incumbent President [...]

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Satellite imagery identifies ‘inflation’ of volcanoes prior to eruption

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By Olivia Solon | Wired Geophysicists have found evidence in satellite imagery to suggest that several volcanoes “inflated” with the rise of magma prior to eruptions. Estelle Chaussard and Falk Amelung from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science analysed data from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to investigate the deformation of [...]

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Nuclear Power Safer Despite Fukushima Accident, Says IAEA Chief

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IAEA

RTT A year after reporting on the devastation caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told the world body’s Member-States that nuclear power is safer than before the disaster. In a statement on Monday to a General Assembly meeting on the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s activities [...]

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Obama’s woman in secret talks with Tehran

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By Alex Fishman | Ynet One of US president’s senior advisors is secretly making efforts to establish line of communication with Iran.A Chicago lawyer is the key player behind the secret talks between the US and Iran. Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday. A close friend of Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett is assisting the US government communicate behind the scenes [...]

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How Fox News Created a New Culture of Idiots

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By Aaron James | Random House Publishing Group via Alternet Cable news has created an entirely new breed of blowhards — and the style has infected banking and even the arts. Assholes largely share a thick sense of moral entitlement. Just as hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, late 19th and early [...]

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Baltimore announces city-wide surveillance roll out that records passenger conversations on city buses

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Surveillance

By J. D. Heyes | Natural News The surveillance society continues to grow unabated, as the city of Baltimore becomes the latest governmental entity to trample civil rights in the name of “public safety.” According to the Baltimore Sun, city officials have now authorized the recording of private conversations on public buses “to investigate crimes, [...]

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West’s ‘Scramble for Africa’ terror pretext in Mali

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By Finian Cunningham | VNN The mobilization of Western military involvement in Mali – allegedly to combat “al-Qaeda” and other so-called jihadist groups – is the new pretext for a neo-colonialist “Scramble for Africa”. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (L) speaks with British Foreign Secretary William Hague before an EU Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting on [...]

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Lockheed Martin to lay off 123,000 and other defense contractors may follow

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Lockheed Martin

From the Trenches World Report President Obama’s administration has asked Lockheed Martin to delay its announcement of the layoffs of 123,000 employees to make the unemployment numbers look much better. Lockheed Martin is one of several defense contractors ready to lay off tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people after the election. These [...]

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New Jersey Contracted RFID Evacuee Tracking Tech Just Days Before Sandy Formed

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By Aaron Dykes | Infowars Presciently, the State of New Jersey announced a 5-year contract for RFID tracking technology used to assist in evacuation by identifying and monitoring the location of evacuees and emergency assets during hurricanes or other disasters just four days before Hurricane Sandy began to form. A press release was published October [...]

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