Things added in November, 2008
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Dissenting Scientist Banned from Australian TV
• According to official data, in every year since 1998, world temperatures have been getting colder, and in 2002 Arctic ice actually increased. Why, then, does a popular Australian botanist, author ...With Friends Like This, Who Needs an Enemy?
• US intelligence officials kept a file on former prime minister Tony Blair's "private life", a former US navy communications operator claimed today. David Murfee Faulk, who worked at a listening post ...
NYC Churches Ordered Not To Shelter Homeless
• Twenty-two churches have stopped providing shelter to homeless New Yorkers - on city orders. With temperatures below freezing on Saturday, the churches had to follow ...
The United States For Sale: $7,760,000,000,000
% "The U.S. government is prepared to provide more than $7.76 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers after guaranteeing $306 billion of Citigroup Inc. debt yesterday. The pledges, amounting to half ...
Madame Secretary of State’s Juggernaut of Petulance
• Read about the first signs of a brewing storm in the Obama camp as Mrs. Clinton demands and gets a purge of her critics before accepting Secretary of State ...
The Obama Presidency: Change?
• White House counsel: Greg Craig, 63, former counsel to Bill Clinton Chief of staff: Rahm Emanuel, 49, Political director under Bill Clinton Secretary of Health and Human Services: Tom Daschle, 60, former ...
Cops raise Taser safety claims
• Metro officers hurt during training sue company, say warnings didn’t suffice. [caption id="attachment_71" align="alignright" width="290" caption="Taser Lawsuits from the Thin Blue Line"][/caption] An interesting article. Trends of things to ...
An ECO Machine that can pull water out of the air
• Anybody who has used a de-humidifier knows how this works. The add-on goody to this machine is a water filtering element. I'm skeptical though. How long will it ...Inhofe: Paulson Threatened Martial Law
• Senator James Inhofe (R-Ok.) said yesterday on KFAQ (Tulsa radio station - hosted by Pat Campbell) that it was Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson who personally told Congressmen that there would ...
GE: It’s All About the Green Buck
• [caption id="attachment_59" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="GE Building in New York"][/caption] GE has made NBC it's own internal advertising outlet by instituting "Green Week" on NBC. Yes, GE is probably the ...
Green Scheme Madness
• "Johnny, be sure to clean that plate or the town council will be here to shackle and flog us!" Future UK Mom at the dinner table [caption id="attachment_54" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Piles of ...
It Started with Gun Control. The UK’s Accelerating Police State Mentality.
% From my perch over here in the United States, I find it interesting how the UK's march from a normal society to a police-state/nanny-state embarrassment really started when they began ...
Active Killers Desperately Seeking Gun Free Zones
% Sharp as a Marble turned me onto this new study. Although the fact that "active killers" almost exclusively seek out "gun free" zones for their attacks has been old ...
Spy Agencies Make Lousy Futurists
% "U.S. economic and political clout will decline over the next two decades and the world will be more dangerous, with food and water scarce and advanced weapons plentiful, U.S. spy ...
A Cruel Twist for Liberals – Hawks appointed by Obama
% The LA Times reported today that Democratic activists are concerned that most of the candidates for top security posts in the new Obama Administration voted for the ...
Motorists could face driving ban after two speeding tickets
• More police-state madness from our friends in the UK: Motorists could be automatically banned from the road after two speeding tickets under government reforms unveiled today. The tougher measures would apply ...