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Global Research – by Martin Khor

The investor-state dispute system, whereby foreign investors can sue the host-country government in an international tribunal, is one of the issues being negotiated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.

In the public debate surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), an issue that seems to stand out is the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system. It would enable foreign investors of TPPA countries to directly sue the host government in an international tribunal.   Continue reading “The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA): When Foreign Investors Sue the State”

Fox News – by Jeremy A. Kaplan

Who do you sue if you’re hit by a satellite?

A defunct satellite from the European Space Agency the size of a Chevy Suburban is set to plunge to Earth somewhere between Sunday night and Monday afternoon — and experts say there’s no way to precisely determine where it will crash.   Continue reading “A 2,000-pound satellite may crash in your backyard Sunday night”

Fox News

A Texas man had the book thrown at him when he failed to return an overdue study guide to a local library, resulting in his being booked by police and slapped with a $200 fine, KWTX.com reported.

Jory C. Enck, of Copperas Cove in central Texas, was arrested Oct. 23 on an outstanding warrant after he allegedly failed to return a GED study guide that he checked out in 2010. He was released on a $200 bond and given a court date, in accordance with a local ordinance.  Continue reading “Texas man reportedly arrested due to overdue library book”

Fox News

A panel of Florida legislators on Thursday easily defeated an effort to repeal the state’s controversial “stand your ground law” Thursday following hours of passionate testimony.

The vote by a committee of the Republican-controlled House, which seemed unlikely just a few months ago, comes after the trial of George Zimmerman renewed scrutiny of the self-defense law that was first passed in 2005.   Continue reading “‘Stand your ground law’ survives Florida House vote”

Reuters – by LESLEY WROUGHTON AND FREDRIK DAHL

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday important gaps needed to be bridged in high-stakes talks with Iran on curbing its nuclear program and he would meet Tehran’s foreign minister shortly to try to clinch an interim deal.

“I want to emphasize there is not an agreement at this point,” Kerry said shortly after arriving in Geneva, tempering rising anticipation of a breakthrough that would reduce the risk of a Middle East war over Iran’s nuclear aspirations.   Continue reading “Kerry says aims to close ‘important gaps’ in Iran nuclear talks”

New York Post –  by Julia Marsh and Reuven Fenton

A Manhattan dad is not lovin’ McDonald’s right now.

Attorney David Schorr slapped a court-appointed shrink with a defamation lawsuit for telling the judge deciding a custody battle with his estranged wife that he was an unfit parent — for refusing to take his son to the fast food joint for dinner.

“You’d think it was sexual molestation,” Schorr, 43, told The Post Thursday. “I am just floored by it.”   Continue reading “Dad ‘unfit parent for refusing son McDonald’s’”

The Daily Caller – by Robby Soave

Toy nerf guns — the weapon of choice for students participating in Missouri State University’s semi-annual “Humans vs. Zombies” live-action game — may be the latest casualty of irrational anti-gun hysteria at American universities.

Humans vs. Zombies, a once-per-semester tradition at the Springfield campus, involves students using toy nerf guns to shoot foam bullets at each other. Almost 500 students played the most recent iteration of the game last month.   Continue reading “The War on Fun: Missouri State want to ban nerf guns”

I am taking an online two-year business degree course at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York. Listed below is an assignment in my health class. I find this unacceptable for a college assignment, but then again so is most of the education I am receiving.

I can only assume that the powers to be, want to see how there propaganda is influencing today’s students.   Continue reading “Intruding College Assignments”

Can serious-minded fiction play a role in creating a better understanding of critical contemporary social/political issues like 9/11? Is there a body of 9/11-related fiction? This seems to me a subject worthy of editorial inquiry.

Thanks to the Internet and an increasing number of enterprising and courageous individuals, the information now available on a 9/11 cover-up is voluminous and convincing. But my perception is that Americans’ understanding of this wealth of evidence, or willingness even to consider it, is a small fraction of what it could and needs to be in a nation requiring “eternal vigilance” by a responsible citizenry to remain free. The choir is being preached to with brilliance and passion, but it’s time to enlarge the congregation. Exponentially.   Continue reading “FALSE FLAG: a fact-based narrative with fictional characters about the 9/11 cover-up”

New York Times – by CHARLIE SAVAGE

WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to assist with overseas counterterrorism investigations by exploiting the company’s vast database of phone records, which includes Americans’ international calls, according to government officials.

The cooperation is conducted under a voluntary contract, not under subpoenas or court orders compelling the company to participate, according to the officials. The C.I.A. supplies phone numbers of overseas terrorism suspects, and AT&T searches its database and provides records of calls that may help identify foreign associates, the officials said. The company has a huge archive of data on phone calls, both foreign and domestic, that were handled by its network equipment, not just those of its own customers.   Continue reading “C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data”

WND – by F. MICHAEL MALOOF

WASHINGTON – Who, or what, is behind the “purge” of top-level U.S. military officers during the Obama administration, with estimates of the number of senior officers fired during the last five years edging toward 200?

According to Retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, formerly the deputy commanding general of the Pacific Command, who has served as a Fox News senior military analyst , a good part of the blame belongs to Obama’s close adviser, Valerie Jarrett. Rampant “political correctness” due to her influence, Vallely tells WND, is now permeating the military and negatively affecting everyone from top generals to the ranks of the enlisted.   Continue reading “General blames ‘Night Stalker’ for military purge”

USA Today – by Ray Locker

The Pentagon may expand its system of propaganda websites aimed at various audiences around the world despite attempts by Congress to kill the program, Special Operations Command documents released Tuesday show.

Tampa-based SOCOM has opened up a search for potential contractors to run the command’s Trans Regional Web Initiative, a collection of news websites run by various combatant commands throughout the world. The command’s request called for any interested companies to send information about how they would continue to maintain the sites or develop new ones.   Continue reading “Special operations may add propaganda websites”

Daily Mail

A South Dakota mom’s blog post ranting against her sons’ school’s rules against toy guns has gone viral and won her friends and enemies.

Stephenie Metz, 29, says that, despite a society that might frown more and more on toy guns, she’ll always let her sons play with theirs.

‘I feel like this teaches them to do the things they want to do, while respecting others’ rules and regulations,’ Metz writes in a post that also criticizes bullied girls who ‘contemplate suicide’ and parents who pay too much attention to their children.   Continue reading “Mom’s angry blog against schools stopping boys being boys with controls on toy guns goes viral”