…R Fleming.[8]   In post-Cold-War Russia, this long-standing hope for an ice-free Arctic has grown stronger. In the Arctic-Circle year-round deepwater port of Arkhangelsk, hundreds of miles due north of Moscow on Russia’s White Sea, Vladimir Putin recently told CNBC during the 4th International Arctic Forum that “Climate change brings in more favorable conditions and improves the economic potential of this region.” Putin added, “Today, Russia’s GDP…

…1 March, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/03/01/world/europe/ap-eu-greece-varoufakis-interview.html?_r=0   Ian Traynor and Jennifer Rankin, ‘Greek crisis’, 12 July, 2015, Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/12/greek-crisis-surrender-fiscal-sovereignty-in-return-for-bailout-merkel-tells-tsipras   Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, ‘Crippled Greece yields to overwhelming power as deal looms’, Telegraph, 11 July, 2015, https://w…

…//www.wnd.com/2001/08/10531/ HOW THEY DO IT The aeroplanes involved are non-commercial. They use afterburner jets. In the 1970s, the US National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) tested the possibility of deliberately creating condensation trails with JP-4 jet fuel and no chemical additives. The author wrote: ‘The Sabreliner aircraft has twin jet engines each capable of consuming 1200 lb hr-1 of fuel. In the contrail experiments we used…

…rt by the British House of Lords concedes. ‘However, it provoked a national-democratic backlash in Ukraine that ended up strengthening Viktor Yushchenko and increasing international criticism at Putin’s foreign policy toward Ukraine’.9 The importance of oil and gas. The UK’s trio of subversive institutions has been working hard to oppose democracy in Ukraine. They are the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), the British Council, and the Dep…

…shed a year before Brexit.   Worth over £40m, Wheeler is a former barrister-cum-investment banker. He was a major Tory donor until he shifted to UKIP in 2011. Wheeler had backed ministers Liam Fox and David Davis—both Eurosceptics—for Tory leaders against Cameron, whom he criticized for his stance on the Treaty of Lisbon. In 2008, he sued the Labour government for its ratification of the Lisbon Treaty without a referendum. ‘Hedge funds like … mark…

…le East. ‘In the late 1990s, all the way up to 9/11, [Bin Laden’s second-in-command Ayman] al-Zawahiri and other mujahideen operatives were meeting regularly with senior U.S. officials in the U.S. embassy in Baku to plan the Pentagon’s Balkan operations with the mujahideen’—terrorists armed and trained by Britain and America in the late-1970s to late-1980s. ‘We had support for these operations from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, but the U.S. oversaw a…

…nity. May we have a statement to say that those vaccinations should remain free?’   Leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom (Tory) replied: ‘I take on board the hon. Lady’s point about the review of vaccinations. I am not aware of that specific review of those particular vaccinations, but I am sure that the Secretary of State for Health will take her views on board’.   Umm. Let’s see…   Dr T.J. Coles is author of The Great Brexit Swindle (20…

…ober, 2012, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Pros-to-Being-a-Psychopath-176019901.html   2. Quoted in Maia Szalavitz, ‘The psychopathic trait successful presidents have in common’, Time, 13 September, 2012, https://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/13/health/psychopathic-presidents-traits-time and James Silver, ‘The Startling Accuracy of Referring to Politicians as ‘Psychopaths”, The Atlantic, 31 July, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/heal…

…ed Press, 20 December, 2010, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/2010-extreme-weather-dead_n_798956.html   Anthony H. Cordesman, 2003, The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics and Military Lessons, Center for Strategic and International Studies (p. 297)).   The Lancet cited in Sarah Boseley, ‘100,000 Iraqi civilians dead, says study’, 29 October, 2004, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/29/iraq.sarahboseley   5. Harlan Ullman and James Wade,…

…olicy/magna-carta-can-still-challenge-the-orthodoxy-and-help-resolve-todays-democratic-difficulties/   Owen Bowcott, ‘Justice campaigners propose boycott of Magna Carta anniversary summit’, Guardian, 1 February, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/feb/01/global-law-summit-magna-carta-boycott   Michael Cross, ‘Magna Carta ‘still essential today’’, Law Society Gazette, 15 June, 2015, https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/magna-carta-still-essenti…