Nuclear Calendar -- March 10, 2015 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Scheduled national and international events related to nuclear weapons and proliferation issues. March 10, 2015 March 6-15 House of Representatives recess. March 10 9:30 a.m., Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on "Posture of the Department of the Navy," with Raymond Mabus, Navy Secretary; Adm. John Greenert, Chief of Naval Opera ...

IMF Lowers Global Growth Forecast by Most in Three Years | Andrew Mayeda

Jan. 20, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- The IMF made the steepest cut to its global-growth outlook in three years, with diminished expectations almost everywhere except the U.S. more than offsetting the boost to expansion from lower oil prices. The world economy will grow 3.5 percent in 2015, down from the 3.8 percent pace projected in October, the International Monetary Fund said in its quarterly global ou ...

Trade Secrets | George Monbiot

George MonbiotWhy will no one answer the obvious, massive question about TTIP? Jan. 13, 2015 (Monbiot.com) -- When a government proposes to abandon one of the fundamental principles of justice, there had better be a powerful reason. Equality before the law is not ditched lightly. Surely? Well read this and judge for yourself. The UK government, like that of the United States and 13 other EU membe ...

A Pink Slip for the Progress Fairy | John Michael Greer

Oct. 22, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- If you’ve ever wondered just how powerfully collective thinking grips most members of our species -- including, by and large, those who most forcefully insist on the originality of their thinking -- I have an experiment to recommend: go out in public and advocate an idea about the future that isn’t part of the conventional wisdom, and see what kind of reaction ...

End to Fed stimulus, China slowdown spark world sell-off | Richard Hubbard

LONDON (Reuters) - Clear signals from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it will soon stop pumping money into the global economy and data pointing to slower growth in China sparked sharp falls in bonds, shares and commodities on Thursday. Emerging markets, many of which have been primed by the cheap Fed cash, saw some of the biggest selling as investors rushed to the exits. MSCI's benchmark index for ...

Know Your History: Beware Democrat Heroes | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Oct. 26, 2012 “In dreams begin responsibilities.” - W.B. Yeats On Oct. 26, I attended an Occupy Wall Street (OWS) event called “Enemies of the State: Solidarity for Bradley” -- in support of whistleblowers in general, but Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, in particular. One of the speakers -- while calling for less secrecy and more transpare ...

Trans Pacific Partnership: Corporate Escape From Accountability | Paul Craig Roberts

July 2, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Information has been leaked about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is being negotiated in secret by U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Six hundred corporate “advisors” are in on the know, but not Congress or the media. Ron Wyden, chairman of the Senate trade subcommittee that has jurisdiction over the TPP, has not been permitted to see the text or to ...

Ghana Cracks Down On Gays (Sydney Star Observer)

July 21, 2011 (Sydney Star Observer) -- Ghana’s Western Region Minister, Paul Evans Aidoo MP has ordered the immediate arrest of all homosexuals in the country’s west. Aidooo has tasked Ghana’s Bureau of National Investigations and security forces to round up the country’s gay population and has called on landlords and tenants to inform on people they suspect of being homosexuals. “All efforts ar ...

Murdoch heads for a Fall (Mike Whitney)

July 08, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Boy, this is about as sleazy as it gets... Imagine that your 13-year old daughter has been kidnapped and you have no idea where she is. So you frantically call her cell phone over and over clinging to the faint hope that she might still be alive. And, then, a miracle happens; you notice that messages on her phone have been deleted signalling that she' ...

This crisis has an exit (Ellen Brown)

June 7, 2011 (Asia Times) -- Countries everywhere are facing debt crises today, precipitated by the credit collapse of 2008. Public services are being slashed and public assets are being sold off, in a futile attempt to balance budgets that can't be balanced because the money supply itself has shrunk. Governments usually get the blame for excessive spending, but governments did not initiate the c ...

Bageant Moves On: We don't last, and there's no warranty (Fred Reed)

This will mean little perhaps to those who do not know Joe Bageant, but I write it for those who do. Or want to, which makes sense Mar. 27, 2011 (Jocotepec, Mexico) -- Joe lived awhile down the lake. We would visit him in the afternoon, Vi and I, and find him, a bear of a man, bearded mountain Buddha, writing on the porch of his one-room place in Ajijic. Always he wore his old fishing vest, in wh ...