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  • Global-warming debate shouldn’t exclude role of livestock
    5/22/2013 - Anonymous

    The struggle to halt global warming ordinarily focuses on fossil fuel consumption and use, currently exemplified by the Alberta tar sands and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico. It would be foolish to disregard that, but what if the rapidly expanding livestock industry has been overlooked as a major contributor to global warming?

    A paper published in World Watch that provides a strong argument that animal agriculture is significantly undercounted as a contributor to global warming. What makes this study interesting is that, in contrast to unsupported claims about methane sometimes made by vegan and animal-rights activists, it grounds its arguments squarely on carbon dioxide.

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  • Debt jubilee: Revolutionary change or reform to stabilize capitalism?
    5/15/2013 - Anonymous

    By Systemic Disorder

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  • Syria Endgame Approaching Fast
    5/15/2013 - Anonymous

    The tempo of events in Syria has increased in recent weeks. The government forces have scored significant battlefield victories over the rebels, and this has provoked a number of responses from the U.S. and its anti-Assad allies: a mixture of war provocations and peace offers.

    With Obama’s blessing Israel fighter jets recently attacked Syria on three separate occasions; in one massive air strike on a military installation in Damascus 42 Syrian soldiers were killed. Soon after Obama finally agreed to a peace conference with Russia, which had been asking for such talks for months.

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  • Local Fights Against Austerity Are Growing Across the U.S.
    5/08/2013 - Anonymous

    Between sequestration, with its damaging impact on workers and the entire economy, and the billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other necessary social programs that President Obama is pushing, it is evident that the economic policies of both major parties are not intended to promote a recovery for working people. You cannot lift up a nation’s economy while slashing away at its consumers’ pocketbooks. In order to justify their defiance of this elementary law, both Republicans and Democrats start talking the language of “austerity,” that is the notion that economic policy must be guided by reducing budgetary deficits first and foremost, and that workers exclusively must be made to pay the cost.

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  • Greece’s depression is IMF’s idea of ‘progress’
    5/08/2013 - Anonymous

    By Systemic Disorder

    The International Monetary Fund congratulated itself last week for the splendid job it is doing in Greece, declaring the country “is making progress in overcoming deep-seated problems.” With an unemployment rate of 27.2 percent, an economy that has shrunk by at least 20 percent and children going hungry, one has to shudder at the thought of what a lack of success might look like.

    The depression in Greece is the logical conclusion of austerity, but while Greece is the first in Europe to arrive it is not alone — the composite eurozone unemployment rate reached a record 12.1 percent in March. The eurozone unemployment rate rose to 24 percent for men and women below the age of 25; the European Union-wide rate is nearly as high.

    The IMF’s solution? Eliminate more jobs. The IMF graciously mentioned that Greece’s wealthy don’t pay taxes, but nonetheless focused on more structural adjustments in its report.

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  • Karl Marx Birthday
    5/07/2013 - Anonymous

    May 5th was the birth date of Karl Marx, one of humanity’s most influential theorists.

    His most popular text, The Manifesto of the Communist Party, emphasizes not simply the possibility but the probability of social revolution in capitalist countries, including the U.S. Arguing that capitalism operates only in the interests of the capitalists, who comprise an ever smaller percentage of the population, while the vast majority find themselves thrown into the working class with increasingly poorer working conditions, Marx concluded it was simply a matter of time before working people would organize themselves, seize the reins of power, and begin to reorganize society so that it operated in their interests, that is, in the interests of the majority.

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  • The Onion Website Joins the U.S. Anti-Syria Club
    5/04/2013 - Anonymous

    The Onion is the most famous fake news website in the world, adored by millions who visit the site regularly for a cheap laugh as well as sharp political satire. But even fake news has certain responsibilities. 

    Recently The Onion began publishing articles that framed the Syrian conflict according to the very biased views of U.S. politicians and mainstream media. Suddenly The Onion’s objectivity and satire was reduced to regurgitating the war mongering that the website had previously mocked.

    For example, a recent satirical Onion article was entitled: “‘Help Has To Be On The Way Now,’ Thinks Syrian Man Currently Being Gassed.”

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  • Austerity or Keynesianism: Can’t we do better than this?
    5/02/2013 - Anonymous

    By Systemic Disorder

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  • Ding Dong! Thatcherism and sexism are alive
    4/24/2013 - Anonymous

    By Systemic Disorder

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  • PERSONS OF INTEREST - Boston Bombining - 'tactical guys' ID'd
    4/22/2013 - Anonymous

    http://theminorityreport.forummotion.com/t1335-identity-of-the-khaki-wea...

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