Monthly Archives: April 2016
US imprisons citizen who investigated ISIS
US Citizen vs. ISIS: An Online Sleuth Lands in Jail. Toby Lopez was a supremely ordinary guy. He sold Toyotas and lived with his mother in a tidy rancher here with a cherry tree out front. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/us/an-amateur-vs-isis-a-car-salesman-investigates-and-ends-up-in-prison.html?_r=0 After a high school friend was killed in Afghanistan, Mr. Lopez heard on CNN that the Islamic State […]
United Nations officially backs global carbon taxing
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are pressing governments to impose a price tag on planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions, using economic leverage and technical assistance that institutions like the United Nations cannot muster. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/us/politics/carbon-pricingbecomes-a-cause-for-the-world-bank-and-imf.html The campaign by two of the largest international lenders comes as world leaders have begun to sign the Paris agreement […]
Dirty Babylon 