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Jerusalem Pushes Forth With Settlement Plans
Source: ABC News
JERUSALEM August 25, 2013
Jerusalem pushed forward Sunday with plans to construct 1,500 apartments in east Jerusalem in a move that could undermine recently renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
City spokeswoman Brachie Sprung said city officials had approved plans to lay down infrastructure for the project. She called the move a "standard and bureaucratic process" and said final government approval was still required. Actual construction is still years away, she said.
Still, the move comes just after Israelis and Palestinians resumed talks after a five-year stalemate. Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem is one of the thornier issues separating the two sides.
The city is pushing development in the neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, a project that has also raised tensions with the U.S. Israel first announced the plans in 2010 during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Israel, sparking a diplomatic rift with Washington that took months to mend.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israel-probes-palestinian-minors-abuse-claims-20060769
Good old-fashioned lebensraum. (Yeah, like that's way outta line!)
An ecological Gramm-Rudman
That's what the planet will do if we continue the way we've been doing business. The older people here (present!) can explain to younger folk what Gramm-Rudman was. Spread the term around. Let people know that Nature takes harsh corrective measures when the environment is threatened, and that we are now the Numero Uno threat.The planet isn't going anywhere. But WE are, if we don't smarten up!
NYT: Getting Ready for the Next Sandy
This report, from the President’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, identifies 11 climate-related disasters costing an estimated $110 billion in damages in the last year alone. It makes 69 recommendations that Shaun Donovan, the task force chairman and secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, calls “the most important step the federal government has taken so far to incorporate the realities of climate change into the way we recover from disasters.”
The proposals range from urging better cooperation among government agencies to recommendations for hardening and backing up the electrical grid to ensuring the availability of fuel and cellphone coverage.
Some of the detail is telling. There are, for instance, federally funded projects that require as many as 40 different permit and review procedures, stalling rebuilding or relief projects for up to four years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/opinion/the-next-hurricane-and-the-next.html?hp&_r=0
Infrastructure aside, ya know how ya know global warming is real? The military-industrial complexes of all the major powers are prepping for it.
"Higher Education Has Never Been More Important" President Obama
Handgun In 5 Year Old Kindergartener's Backpack Goes Off At School
"...they can't keep track of kids who are carrying deadly weapons."
It's time to Sing the Praises of Ted Cruz
Little-known fun fact: He did backup vocals on this!
Anthony Weiner Drops From First After Revelations: Poll
Source: Wall Street Journal
The latest revelation that Anthony Weiner continued to engage in sexually explicit conversations on the Internet following his 2011 resignation from Congress has dramatically hurt his standing in the race for New York City mayor, sending his unfavorability rating to an all-time high, a new poll from The Wall Street Journal-NBC 4 New York-Marist showed.
Among registered Democrats, including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate, 25% support City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and 16% support Mr. Weiner, a 14 percentage point swing in Ms. Quinn's favor compared with a poll taken several weeks ago. The poll put Mr. Weiner in a statistical tie for second place with Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and former City Comptroller Bill Thompson, who had 14%, while Comptroller John Liu was at 7%.
Ms. Quinn has regained her status as the clear front-runner in the race.
Mr. Weiner's unfavorability rating surged to 55% in the poll—the first to be taken since he admitted on Tuesday that he continued to send lewd messages and photos following his June 2011 resignation—compared with an unfavorability rating of 36% in June.
Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324110404578627701686283948.html
Gone flaccid.
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