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John Byrne
Raw Story
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Only one in four Americans know how many votes a Senate filibuster requires. One in three know the name of the chairman of the Republican Party. One in two know the Democratic leader of the US Senate.
Health care? Fewer than one in three Americans even know that no Republicans voted […]

Patrick Jenkins and Tom Braithwaite
Financial Times
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Some of the world’s most prominent bankers have come out in favour of a global bank wind-down fund, a concession from the industry after weeks of fighting proposals for new taxes in the US and Europe.
Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank, told the Financial Times […]

Ben Webster
London Times
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.
Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited […]

From The Nation:
In September Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, delivered on an electoral promise and refused to renew Washington’s decade-old, rent-free lease on an air base outside the Pacific coast town of Manta, which for the past ten years has served as the Pentagon’s main South American outpost. The eviction was a serious effort to fulfill […]

From Alternet:
No sooner did Defense Secretary Gates admit during a visit to Islamabad that Blackwater is in the country, than the Pentagon rushed to “clarify” his remarks.
On Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that Blackwater is operating in Pakistan. In an interview on Express TV, Gates, who was visiting Islamabad, said, “They [Blackwater and another […]

Tim Webb
London Guardian
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Banks and investors are pulling out of the carbon market after the failure to make progress at Copenhagen on reaching new emissions targets after 2012.
Carbon financiers have already begun leaving banks in London because of the lack of activity and the drop-off in investment demand. The Guardian has been told […]

Rik Myslewski
The Register
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Most of the uproar over full-body scanners has focused on privacy concerns. There’s one larger question, however, that hasn’t received much scrutiny by the chattering classes: do the damnable things work?
One German TV station says “Nein.”
By way of Americablog comes a video of a man easily concealing the makings […]

Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
Monday, January 25th, 2010
The IPCC and its deeply conflicted chairman are starting to smell very badly, and not just because of Climategate:
The chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Rajendra Pachauri’s Energy […]

Dead nemesis has impeccable timing once more as he blames U.S. for climate change

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, Jan 29th, 2010
A new audio tape said to contain the voice of Osama Bin Laden has been broadcast on Al Jazeera television in which he squarely blames the U.S. and other large industrialized countries for global warming.
“Al-Qaida leader Osama bin […]

Individuals and businesses in Austin and a plethora of other states to be taxed for emissions of life-giving gas carbon dioxide

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet.com
Friday, January 29, 2010
Globalists intent on ushering in a zero-growth post-industrial society are bypassing the federal government’s stuttering efforts to implement the cap and trade scam […]

Paul Armstrong
CNN
Friday, January 29, 2010
Davos, Switzerland (CNN) — Bill and Melinda Gates announced plans Friday to invest $10 billion in the fight against a number of illnesses including AIDS and said the record donation could save nearly nine million lives.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, they said the […]

Richard Allen Greene and Hada Messia write on CNN World:

Pope John Paul II used to beat himself with a belt and sleep on a bare floor to bring himself closer to Christ, a book published Wednesday says.The late pope had a particular belt for self-flagellation and brought it with him to his summer residence, according […]

Chuck Baldwin
Friday, January 29, 2010
In Patrick Henry’s immortal “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” speech, he said, “[I]t is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth.” Never have Henry’s words been truer than they are today. For […]

Philip Giraldi
Campaign For Liberty
Friday, January 29, 2010
The National Security Act of 1947 created the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA was supposed to become a central office where all the information being collected by the US government could be pulled together and analyzed. The intention was to avoid another Pearl Harbor which, at […]

Muriel Kane
Raw Story
Friday, January 29, 2010
The Palestinian resistance group and political party Hamas has accused Israel of being behind the killing of one of its senior operatives in Dubai and is vowing revenge.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found murdered in his hotel room on Monday, the apparent victim of deliberate electrocution. The Dubai government […]

TIMOTHY O’HARA
Keys News
Friday, January 29, 2010
Coral bleaching is a condition often associated with the summer doldrums, but extreme cold weather, like what the Florida Keys experienced earlier this month, also can cause coral to bleach and die.
This month’s cold snap has the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and other coral conservation groups […]

By Nick Allen in Haiti for the Telegraph:
Orphans in Haiti are being offered for sale to foreigners for as little as £30 amid warnings that up to one million children in the country have been left vulnerable to abuse and trafficking in the wake of the earthquake.
In a remote area north of Port-au-Prince, a man […]

Via Technoccult:
Klint Finley: Could you give us a brief overview of what “neurodiversity” means, or at least what it means to you?
Kassiane: Neurodiversity, the word, simply means the whole variety of different brain wirings people have…from the different kinds of normal to the different kinds of not so normal. Then there’s Neurodiversity, the movement which […]

After reading Gizmodo’s “8 Things That Suck About the iPad” and seeing this image illustrating that article for me, I really though the iPad was nothing more than a bulky, expensive iPhone. But there is one difference, it’s not a phone — something that you want to be totally reliable (work all the time). While […]

What would you do with a meteorite if it crashed into your office?  Sell it?  Make a dragon-slaying sword with a black blade?  The doctors in the story resisted the temptation to do any of these things, and decided to donate their meteorite to the Smithsonian so everyone could see evidence of the strangest day […]