Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Obama Administration Moves to Block Drilling in Parts of Alaska Interior Department Plans to Designate Nearly 13 Million Acres in Refuge as Wilderness
The Obama administration is moving this week to designate areas of Alaska off limits to oil and natural gas drilling in its latest effort to bolster its environmental legacy.
The Interior Department announced>>>
Our Unstable World Points To Large War Looming On Horizon
I know you are all busy but please take time to read this article as it just may save your life and those of your loved ones. mc
Posted 12/03/2014 06:42 PM ET
The world is changing and becoming even more dangerous — in a way we've seen before.
In the decade before World War I, the near-100-year European peace that followed the fall of Napoleon was taken for granted. Yet it abruptly imploded in 1914. Prior little wars in the Balkans had seemed to predict a much larger one on the horizon — and were ignored.
The exhausted Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were spent forces unable to control nationalist movements in their provinces. The British Empire was fading. Imperial Germany was rising. Czarist Russia was beset with revolutionary rebellion. As power shifted, decline for some nations seemed like opportunity for others.
Read more here>>>
A Smooth Saudi Succession, but a Rough Road Ahead
Karen Elliott House
The death Thursday of Saudi Arabia’s 90-year-old, long-ailing King Abdullah is hardly a surprise, nor are the ascensions of his 79-year-old brother Prince Salman as Saudi king and 69-year-old Muqrin, another brother, as crown prince. But the quick choice of Mohammed bin Nayef as the kingdom’s new deputy crown prince is surprising—and is significant domestically and internationally.
The 55-year-old Prince Mohammed>>>
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