The TPP Investment Chapter, published today, is dated 20 January 2015. The document is classified and supposed to be kept secret for four years after the entry into force of the TPP agreement or, if no agreement is reached, for four years from the close of the negotiations. Julian Assange, WikiLeaks editor said: "The TPP has developed in secret an unaccountable supranational court for multinationals to sue states. This system is a challenge to parliamentary and judicial sovereignty. Similar tribunals have already been shown to chill the adoption of sane environmental protection, public health and public transport policies."
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks editor said: "The TPP has developed in secret an unaccountable supranational court for multinationals to sue states. This system is a challenge to parliamentary and judicial sovereignty. Similar tribunals have already been shown to chill the adoption of sane environmental protection, public health and public transport policies."
Under a proposed bill currently being considered in Texas, doctors wouldn’t be allowed to ask their patients whether there are any firearms in their homes—and could be subject to punishment from the Texas Medical Board if they do initiate any conversations about gun safety in the office. The lawmaker who’s sponsoring the measure, Rep. Stuart Spitzer (R), is backed by the National Rifle Association and the Texas State Rifle Association. He believes that the federal government is inappropriately reaching into doctors’ offices to figure out who owns guns.
The lawmaker who’s sponsoring the measure, Rep. Stuart Spitzer (R), is backed by the National Rifle Association and the Texas State Rifle Association. He believes that the federal government is inappropriately reaching into doctors’ offices to figure out who owns guns.
The inconvenient truth is that only military action like Israel’s 1981 attack on Saddam Hussein’s Osirak reactor in Iraq or its 2007 destruction of a Syrian reactor, designed and built by North Korea, can accomplish what is required. Time is terribly short, but a strike can still succeed. Rendering inoperable the Natanz and Fordow uranium-enrichment installations and the Arak heavy-water production facility and reactor would be priorities. So, too, would be the little-noticed but critical uranium-conversion facility at Isfahan. An attack need not destroy all of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, but by breaking key links in the nuclear-fuel cycle, it could set back its program by three to five years. The United States could do a thorough job of destruction, but Israel alone can do what’s necessary. Such action should be combined with vigorous American support for Iran’s opposition, aimed at regime change in Tehran.
Rendering inoperable the Natanz and Fordow uranium-enrichment installations and the Arak heavy-water production facility and reactor would be priorities. So, too, would be the little-noticed but critical uranium-conversion facility at Isfahan. An attack need not destroy all of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, but by breaking key links in the nuclear-fuel cycle, it could set back its program by three to five years. The United States could do a thorough job of destruction, but Israel alone can do what’s necessary. Such action should be combined with vigorous American support for Iran’s opposition, aimed at regime change in Tehran.
The email appears to have been accidentally sent to de Blasio’s spokesperson, Amy Spitalnick, as well as to Tucker Carlson. In the email, Buckley Carlson, who occasionally writes for the Daily Caller, makes several offensive comments about Spitalnick after she asked for a correction on a piece about the mayor.
GOP Rep claims Obamacare costing $5 million per enrollee. Turns out he's off by about $5 million, by cgvjelly Get this: science denier David Koch sits on boards of America's science museums. Let's kick him off!, by citisven INo, Fox (not) News, Just Plain NO on Your Wisconsin John Doe Propaganda, by Puddytat
Get this: science denier David Koch sits on boards of America's science museums. Let's kick him off!, by citisven
INo, Fox (not) News, Just Plain NO on Your Wisconsin John Doe Propaganda, by Puddytat
The map reflects both the country's population density and its topography: The Northeast corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C. becomes one big mass of roads, while in very flat and/or less populated parts of the country, like the Midwest, the roads form clear grids. In the West you can see winding roads over the mountains and white spaces in the locations of Glacier National Park, Yellowstone, the Badlands, and other government-protected areas. WestCoastBestCoast94 also created individual maps for each of the states. Here's California.
WestCoastBestCoast94 also created individual maps for each of the states. Here's California.
The rules [slated only for public and tribal lands] include requirements for publicly disclosing the chemicals used by operators in hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, within 30 days of the completion of a well. Additional requirements include inspections of wells to ensure integrity of the cement barriers lining wells, reporting of the geology of the well site and regulations of storing fracking chemicals at well sites. [Lynn Helms, director of the state Department of Mineral Resources] said the new rules could impact an estimated one-third of spacing units in the Bakken and Three Forks formations in North Dakota. He said the largest negative impact could be on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, where nearly one-third of oil production in the state occurs.
[Lynn Helms, director of the state Department of Mineral Resources] said the new rules could impact an estimated one-third of spacing units in the Bakken and Three Forks formations in North Dakota. He said the largest negative impact could be on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, where nearly one-third of oil production in the state occurs.
As part of the Guardian newspaper's recently launched "keep it in the ground" campaign, Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein appears in a new video on Wednesday in which she argues the current moment is ripe for the world to take advantage of the dramatic drop in global oil prices by kicking the fossil fuel industry "while it's down." [...] Her list of demands include: "No drilling in the arctic... No expansion of the tar sands... more fracking bans like the ones in New York state and Scotland," and a call to support and broaden the calls for fossil fuel divestment worldwide while ramping up the needed and available solutions to the climate crisis.
Her list of demands include: "No drilling in the arctic... No expansion of the tar sands... more fracking bans like the ones in New York state and Scotland," and a call to support and broaden the calls for fossil fuel divestment worldwide while ramping up the needed and available solutions to the climate crisis.
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