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Conservative Icon Richard Viguerie on the Republican 'Civil War': 'BradCast' 10/21/2015
2015-10-22 06:17:41| Chemicals - Topix.net
Alex Doukas of Oil Change International explains the results and what it will mean. PLUS: More 'voter fraud' fraud in KS; Webb drops out; Several huge green stories... Obama Admin finally shuts down Arctic oil drilling; Accountability coming for Exxon Mobil?; Electrifying changes for auto industry; PLUS: Canada's Conservatives out, Liberals in!... Former felon Anthony Papa on criminal justice reform and his '15 years to life' for a first-time, non-violent drug crime.
Global warming helped trigger Syria's civil war
2015-03-02 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Manmade global warming helped spark the brutal civil war in Syria by doubling to tripling the odds that a crippling drought in the Fertile Crescent would occur shortly before the fighting broke out, according to a groundbreaking new study published on March 2. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to attribute the drought in Syria in large part to global warming. In doing so, it provides powerful evidence backing up the Pentagon and...
Civil War Profiles: A Union general, a female spy and two Delawareans in the Shenandoah Valley
2015-02-20 04:15:41| Chemicals - Topix.net
Anyone who held Unionist political leanings while living in Winchester, Va., during the Civil War years had to be particularly circumspect to avoid the wrath of secessionist neighbors. Therefore, when a young schoolteacher named Rebecca Wright received a note furtively delivered to her from Union Maj.
Intervention in civil war far more likely in oil-rich nations
2015-01-28 01:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Conspiracy theorists have long insisted that modern wars revolve around oil. Now research suggests hydrocarbons play an even bigger role in conflicts than they had suspected. According to academics from the Universities of Portsmouth, Warwick and Essex, foreign intervention in a civil war is 100 times more likely when the afflicted country has high oil reserves than if it has none. The research is the first to confirm the role of oil as a dominant motivating factor in conflict, suggesting hydrocarbons...
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Bananas, the Colombian Civil War and the U.S. Supreme Court
2015-01-13 11:44:33| Agriculture - Topix.net
Last week, a group of Colombian plaintiffs asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive their lawsuit against banana giant Chiquita . This case presents an opportunity for the Supreme Court to clarify its 2013 decision in Kiobel v.