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Mathematicians, Legendary Physicist, IPCC Expert Throw Wrenches Into UN Climate Summit Mathematicians, Legendary Physicist, IPCC Expert Throw Wrenches Into UN Climate Summit http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/e...e-of-un-report Mathematicians, Legendary Physicist, IPCC Expert Throw Wrenches Into UN Climate Summit As UN’s Paris summit approaches, one of France’s top mathematics consultancies, a legendary physicist, and a former IPCC author have joined France’s best-known TV weatherman, Philippe Verdier, in delivering black eyes and severe body blows to the increasingly discredited global-warming alarm lobby. As host of the United Nations climate summit this December, the French government is pulling out all stops to make it a “success,” striving...

B-2 Stealth Bomber Crashes on Guam 11 minutes ago HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — A B-2 stealth bomber crashed at an air base on Guam but both pilots ejected safely and were in good condition, the Air Force said. Thick black smoke could be seen billowing from the wreckage at Andersen Air Force Base, said Geanne Ward, a resident in the northern village of Yigo who was on the base visiting her husband. Ward said she didn't witness the crash but noticed a rising plume of smoke behind the base's air control tower. She said crowds began to gather as emergency...

Dozens of U.S. banks will fail by 2010: analyst Fri Feb 1, 2008 3:39pm EST By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of U.S. banks will fail in the next two years as losses from soured loans mount and regulators crack down on lenders that take too much risk, especially in real estate and construction, an analyst said. The surge would follow a placid 3-1/2 year period in which just four banks collapsed, all in the last year, RBC Capital Markets analyst Gerard Cassidy said in a Friday interview. Between 50 and 150 U.S. banks -- as many as...

Economists Rethink Free Trade It's no wholesale repudiation, to be sure, but something momentous is happening as doubts begin to creep in by Jane Sasseen BW Magazine Over the Limit Do Bond Insurers Need CPR? Nothing Spreads Like Subprime News You Need to Know The Fed's Race Against Recession This Issue February 11, 2008 Housing Meltdown Previous Issue Next Issue Story Tools post a comment e-mail this story print this story order a reprint digg this save to del.icio.us Many ordinary Americans have long been suspicious of free trade, seeing it as a destroyer of good-paying jobs. American economists, though,...

Elites Float U.S. Bank Bailout Plans The wretched scenario that I had reported on in the United Kingdom may be coming to America. If you even slightly care about this issue at all (and you should), you need to become politically involved. What the bankers are asking for is a bailout, and they will package it in the most populist way to get it passed. Or they will have it passed in any way possible, much like they did the Federal Reserve Act or the income tax amendment. CTB readers know that I have already laid out the new public...

Ice Returns as Greenland Temps Plummet On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of prominent world leaders have visited in recent years to get a first-hand impression of climate change, temperatures have dropped so drastically that the water has frozen over for the first time in a decade. “The ice is up to 50cm thick,” said Henrik Matthiesen, an employee at Denmark’s Meteorological Institute who has also sailed the Greenlandic coastline for the Royal Arctic Line. ‘We’ve had loads of northerly winds since Christmas which has made the area miserably cold.’ Matthiesen suggested the cold weather marked a...

NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face 11.13.07 PASADENA, Calif. – A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade-long time scales. The results suggest not all the large changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of long-term trends associated with global warming. The team, led by James Morison of the University of Washington's Polar Science Center Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, used data from an Earth-observing satellite and from deep-sea pressure gauges to monitor Arctic Ocean circulation from 2002...

Analysis: Violence in Abrahamic faiths By SHAUN WATERMAN UPI Homeland and National Security Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- There are similarities between violent extremists of all the Abrahamic religious faiths, according to a new study of ultra-Zionist settlers in Israel, fundamentalist Muslims in Britain and white supremacist Christians in the United States. The study found that extremists of all three religions shared a black-and-white, them-and-us mentality; saw themselves as victims; and tended to be drawn from alienated communities that were either culturally or geographically isolated from the mainstream of society. The study, conducted by the East-West Institute, a non-partisan...

Opponents of U.S. sovereignty plan to sneak their agenda around Congress Red China to monitor non-Chinese shipments within U.S.? Wes Vernon July 9, 2007 The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) — whose U.S. operation conducts its business in secrecy in the bowels of the U.S. Department of Commerce — is plunging ahead with a program that may end America as we know it. We can argue all day over to whether this is another case of "unintended consequences." (This column does not buy that.) The SPP appears to lead ultimately to a North American Union (NAU) or "community." Under that...

At the link provided you will see that the FDA is trying to sneak past the public in an attempt to control certain vitamins and minerals. Please, if you feel as concerned as I do, make comments at this site to the FDA on your thoughts regarding this continued "Nanny State" invasion of America. I have Lupus and modern medical science doesn't offer many solutions to my condition, whereas, I find a great deal of relief in certain B-complex vitamins and certain minerals. I am frightened of the possibilies people like me could face if the FDA enacts this "Guidance...

CNN Airs Terrorist Sniper Killing US Soldier Del Williams October 19, 2006 CNN aired a terrorist sniper killing a US soldier. They blacked out the screen when the bullet hit, but that did not stop the sound or description that they went on to share. According to CNN, “The graphic video of 10 sniper attacks was obtained by CNN -- through intermediaries --from the Islamic Army of Iraq, one of the most active insurgent organizations in Iraq.” Are critics correct in their assessment that CNN is full of terrorist sympathizers? Well, after their report on “In the Footsteps of Bin...

local6.com Shanghai Constructs Underground Bunker Capable Of Sheltering 200,000 People POSTED: 2:20 pm EDT July 31, 2006 UPDATED: 2:24 pm EDT July 31, 2006 SHANGHAI, China -- Shanghai has constructed a massive underground bunker complex capable of sheltering 200,000 people from a nuclear attack, a local newspaper reported. The million-square-foot complex connects to shopping centers, office buildings, apartment buildings and the subway system via miles of tunnels, the Shanghai Morning Post said in an exclusive report. The newspaper said the complex has water, electricity, lighting, ventilation and protective doors, and can support life for as long as two weeks. The...

Create an e-annoyance, go to jail By Declan McCullagh Story last modified Mon Jan 09 04:00:00 PST 2006 Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess. This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of Usenet, is buried...

New York Times Accused of Toying with Treason By Jim Kouri, CPP www.MichNews.com Dec 28, 2005 From our chutzpah file comes this story: today's New York Times reports that defense lawyers in some of the country's biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda. In an article written by James Risen, who wrote the original NSA spy article, the lawyers said in interviews that they wanted to learn whether the men were monitored by the agency and, if so,...

(Snip) China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials. U.S. defense and intelligence officials say all the signs point in one troubling direction: Beijing then will be forced to go to war with the United States, which has vowed to defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack. China's military buildup includes an array of new high-technology weapons, such as warships, submarines, missiles and a maneuverable warhead designed to defeat U.S. missile defenses. Recent intelligence reports also show that China...

'The extent of the corruption is staggering,'' Sen. Norm Coleman told me. He is a freshman Republican from Minnesota completing his second year in Washington, and he was talking about the United Nations and its pious secretary-general, Kofi Annan. Coleman's comments are not the mere musings of an insignificant rookie senator, but the considered judgment of a committee chairman whose careful investigation reached the hearing stage today. After winning his seat against former Vice President Walter F. Mondale in 2002, Coleman was rewarded with the chairmanship of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He is conducting what could be the...