Geopolitical – Week of 09.15.13

Linus Torvalds Admits He’s Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux
Slashdot | 19 September 2013
At the Linuxcon conference in New Orleans today, Linus Torvalds joined fellow kernel developers…

Matt Drudge and Alex Jones: 17-year Old Bloggers
Infowars | 19 September 2013
Feinstein and Schumer are preparing to wage war on the alternative media…

Republican Online Sales Tax Goals Satisfy Both Sides
Bloomberg | 18 September 2013
Advocates and opponents of letting states require out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes…

America, Russia and Syria: The Weakened West
The Economist | 21 September 2013
In July 1972 Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt, suddenly decided to turf out thousands of Soviet military advisers…

Vladimir Putin Might Seek 4th Presidential Term In 2018
The Huffington Post | 19 September 2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he could run for a fourth presidential term in 2018…

Russia Calls U.N. Chemical Report on Syria Biased
The New York Times | 18 September 2013
Russia sharply criticized the new United Nations report on Syria’s chemical arms use…

Australia’s New Government Abolishes Climate Change Body
Radio Australia | 19 September 2013
The new Australian Government has continued its radical shake-up of the public service…

SWIFT Suspension? EU Parliament Furious about NSA Bank Spying
Spiegel Online | 18 September 2013
Revelations the US is spying on international bank transfers have angered European parliamentarians…

Fact Sheet: President Obama’s Climate Action Plan
The White House | 25 June 2013
We have a moral obligation to leave our children a planet that’s not polluted or damaged…

House GOP Ties Government Funding to Health Law
The Wall Street Journal | 18 September 2013
House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), under pressure from conservatives…

Brazil Data Plan Aims to Keep US Spies at Bay
BBC News | 18 September 2013
Brazil is considering ways to make local use of the internet less dependent on US-based services…

Twitter’s Private Filing Signals New Wave of Secrecy
Bloomberg | 14 September 2013
Twitter Inc., the business that thrives on a culture of excessive sharing…

US Plays Monopoly, Russia Plays Chess
Asia Times | 16 September 2013
Americans see individual pieces of geopolitical real estate in isolation…

Larry Summers Withdraws Name From Fed Consideration
The Washington Post | 15 September 2013
Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary and senior White House economic adviser…

Federal Database to Include Your Children?
WND Education | 14 September 2013
The federal government is laying the foundation for a national database…

Chart of the Day – Government to Workers: You’re Fired!
Pragmatic Capitalism | 12 September 2013
One of the more interesting things during the recent recovery is that it has occurred almost entirely without aid from government employment…