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The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called for a carbon tax late Wednesday at the IMF/World Bank annual meeting in Lima, Peru. Meanwhile, reports show that more and more places are adopting carbon taxes, in largely successful efforts to use market forces to increase clean energy development. Climate change is […]
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Now Is The Time For A Carbon Tax, IMF Chief Says
October 31st, 2015 
Awake Goy 
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Tags: bee, expert, pesticides, punished, researching, turned, USDA, whistleblower 
No Comments »USDA Punished Bee Expert Turned Whistle-blower For Researching Pesticides
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy Entomologist Jonathan Lundgren has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging the USDA retaliated against him because of his research on the adverse effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on bees and monarch butterflies. Lundgren was photographed this summer near Brookings, S.D. Dan Gunderson | MPR News file A top federal bee scientist from South Dakota […]
USDA Punished Bee Expert Turned Whistle-blower For Researching Pesticides
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy Entomologist Jonathan Lundgren has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging the USDA retaliated against him because of his research on the adverse effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on bees and monarch butterflies. Lundgren was photographed this summer near Brookings, S.D. Dan Gunderson | MPR News file A top federal bee scientist from South Dakota […]
Report: Flood Of Western Weapons Fueling Unrest, Extremism Across Middle East
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy ISIS fighters parade in a commandeered American Humvee taken from Iraqi security forces down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq (AP Photo) Western nations—led by the United States—are selling large quantities of weapons to governments in the Middle East and North Africa, providing little oversight for how these […]
Report: Flood Of Western Weapons Fueling Unrest, Extremism Across Middle East
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy ISIS fighters parade in a commandeered American Humvee taken from Iraqi security forces down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq (AP Photo) Western nations—led by the United States—are selling large quantities of weapons to governments in the Middle East and North Africa, providing little oversight for how these […]
Hobby Lobby Owners Suspected Of Illegally Importing Looted Iraqi Artifacts
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy Recovered antiquities are displayed at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Nearly 400 artifacts looted from Iraq amid the chaos of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein were recovered by the Iraqi authorities recently from several sources. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) (ANTIMEDIA) […]
Hobby Lobby Owners Suspected Of Illegally Importing Looted Iraqi Artifacts
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy Recovered antiquities are displayed at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Nearly 400 artifacts looted from Iraq amid the chaos of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein were recovered by the Iraqi authorities recently from several sources. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) (ANTIMEDIA) […]
Untangling America from the American Empire
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy Those calling for an end of the Empire don’t seem to realize that the federal state’s vast entitlement programs are ultimately funded by the Empire. The Status Quo would have us believe that America and its Empire are one entity. This is handy for those with Imperial designs but it is false: America […]
Untangling America from the American Empire
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy Those calling for an end of the Empire don’t seem to realize that the federal state’s vast entitlement programs are ultimately funded by the Empire. The Status Quo would have us believe that America and its Empire are one entity. This is handy for those with Imperial designs but it is false: America […]
When Palestinian ‘protection’ stands in the way of equality
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. As the killing continues in Jerusalem, Hebron and other parts of the West Bank, the viral video of Rabbi Arik Ascherman’s encounter with a Jewish settler in the West Bank continues to […]
When Palestinian ‘protection’ stands in the way of equality
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. As the killing continues in Jerusalem, Hebron and other parts of the West Bank, the viral video of Rabbi Arik Ascherman’s encounter with a Jewish settler in the West Bank continues to […]
Ghada Karmi comes to New York and DC
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy Thank you for this intro and information, Phil. I’ll let folks know. Somewhat related to your piece, I found this article and link over at Taxi’s site: “I’m Longing for Palestine While Living the American Dream My father was born in Palestine and raised in a refugee camp; I was born and raised in our […]
Posted in World News Tags: attacks, blame, citizens, fear, govt, israel, limit, majority, movements, palestinian, revenge, Violence No Comments »Majority of Palestinian citizens of Israel blame gov’t for violence, fear revenge attacks, limit their movements
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy After violence took hold of Jerusalem at the beginning of October, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged that the fault lay with the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and the Islamic movement of northern Israel. He accused them of inciting attacks against Israelis, and spurring demonstrations across the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza that have led to […]
Posted in World News Tags: alleged, attacker, dead, injuries, israeli, palestinian, shot No Comments »‘No Israeli injuries’ — and another Palestinian alleged attacker is shot dead
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy Violence – West Bank and Jerusalem Palestinian killed after alleged attack attempt north of Jenin JENIN (Ma‘an) 31 Oct — A Palestinian was shot dead Saturday after an alleged attack attempt on an Israeli security guard at the al-Jalama military checkpoint north of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army and media said. […]
Israeli police raid East J’lem hospital three days in a row, injure patients with rubber bullets
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy Amid weeks of violence in Jerusalem, Israeli police and special forces raided an East Jerusalem hospital for a third day in a row on Thursday and fired tear gas, sound grenades and rubber bullets into the medical compound, injuring three patients. Israeli police first burst into Makassed hospital in the Mount of Olives neighborhood on Tuesday with […]
Video: Israeli soldiers run over Palestinian, attack medics
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 31 October 2015 This video shows Israeli soldiers in a military jeep deliberately running over a Palestinian youth at high speed on Friday and then attacking medics and journalists. Separately, on Saturday, Israeli occupation forces shot dead a Palestinian youth in the northern occupied West Bank. The incident […]
Posted in World News Tags: columnist, defends, Holocaust, lie, melanie, netanyahus, phillips No Comments »Columnist Melanie Phillips defends Netanyahu’s lie about the Holocaust
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy David Cronin Media Watch 30 October 2015 Benjamin Netanyahu is following a trend set by British imperialists. (IsraelinUSA/Flickr) Few pundits have defended Benjamin Netanyahu’s by now infamous claim that a Palestinian leader gave Adolf Hitler the idea of exterminating Europe’s Jews. One exception is the right-wing British columnist Melanie Phillips. Writing in The Jerusalem Post […]
Death as an Advisor
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy M.J. Higby, ContributorWaking Times “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” – Hunter […]
Record radiation at Fukushima power plant could kill person in under 1 hour – reports
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy The mortal radiation reading was taken in a small room, using a remote-controlled robot, where a pipe leads to the containment vessel of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, JIJI Press reported, citing Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO). The reading of 9.4 sieverts (Sv) per hour was taken during […]
‘We are flying home:’ Grief & disbelief in Russia over shocking Sinai air crash
October 31st, 2015 Awake Goy FOLLOW Russian passenger jet crashes over Sinai LIVE UPDATES Kolavia flight 7K9268 from Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh resort to Russia’s St. Petersburg was carrying 217 passengers and 7 crewmembers. An overwhelming majority of people on board were Russian nationals. Three Ukrainians and one Belarus national are also reportedly among the crash victims. The catastrophe is the […]
