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.
The US sides with the Palestiniains, criticizing Israel's withholding of PA tax revenue. http://t.co/ypsHYbmOb3 pic.twitter.com/kSBRd8ySzQ
— AJE News (@AJENews) January 6, 2015
Who knew this happened?
A nuclear plant leaked oil into Lake Michigan for two months straight http://t.co/4Pb5unGLCL pic.twitter.com/NJvomCCOMZ via @thinkprogress
— Shawna (@S_WhiteBear) January 6, 2015
First on the Republican led agenda of the incoming 114th US Congress, is a vote on the KXL pipeline.
DOW Drops 300 Points As Oil Falls Below $50 Barrel http://t.co/WHLpfZLwMI WTF? Republican Solution: PUSH KXL. pic.twitter.com/IEI4Gsk4Of
— Captain Clarion (@citizensrock) January 5, 2015
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.
#PopeFrancis Calls for Action on Climate Change, Environmental Damage Caused by Capitalism http://t.co/stu0yRPmoX pic.twitter.com/Rbr8TDoGbV
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) January 5, 2015
This is still happening:
The shining city on a hill. pic.twitter.com/pq7yRP7F1n
— Captain Clarion (@citizensrock) January 5, 2015
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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