Monday, January 5, 2015

late December 2014 news brief, updated

People are slowly turning their shoulders into the New Year of 2015. A few things stay the same.

UPDATE: After months of bombing Gaza and a turbulent end of 2014, in the new year, Israel wants to hold onto tax revenue gathered  for the Palestinian Authority. In a rare disagreement, the US officially rebukes them.


Who knew this happened?


First on the Republican led agenda of the incoming 114th US Congress, is a vote on the KXL pipeline.


 Today's Pope Francis spent part of the Christmas week blasting Vatican bureaucracy. Listing fifteen such problems with the Curia were the members being boastful, carrying out a "terrorism of gossip" and maintaining a kind of 'spiritual Alzheimer's". On new year's eve, he called for global action on climate change.


This is still happening:

In the US, in a seasonal dump of information, the GOP admit it's House investigations found that problems with the IRS don't in fact extend to the White House. It took many years and several more months to find that out and now, as Darrell Issa loses his Ethics Commission Chairmanship, what was a great political plum for the right, is lost as well.

In an odd twist, Turkey's President has a new 110- room 'White Palace'.

An interview on CBC with Nick Broomfield talking about his documentry on the slayings of maybe as many as 100 women in Los Angeles over a 25 year period. "Tales of the Grim Sleeper" will debut as a feature film on HBO in early 2015 and a trailer is here.


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