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Climate change sceptics and lobbyists put world at risk, says top adviser

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

• Chance to limit warming squandered, says scientist • World needs to prepare to cope with at least 3-4C rise Climate change sceptics and fossil fuel companies that have lobbied against action on greenhouse gas emissions have squandered the world's chance to avoid dangerous global warming, a key adviser to the government has said. Professor Bob Watson, chief scientist at the department for...

"Deniers" Proved Right!

Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

It was obvious to me when the Anthropogenic Global Warming crowd cried: “debate over!” and, in the same breath, called their critics “deniers,” that AGW was a political movement, not science. After all, scientific methodology tests hypotheses against observable data; rigorous science is not influenced by consensus or conventional wisdom. Scratch the surface of AGW, and we discover...

The former British police officer who wants to bring down Barack Obama

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Conspiracist prominent in movement claiming president is an imposter Neil Sankey has spent his life investigating organised crimes. As a former British police officer with almost 20 years experience, he was seconded to elite units of Scotland Yard through most of the 1970s and now runs his own private detective agency in California. Over the years he has been involved in some big investigations. As...

• The former British police officer who wants to bring down Barack Obama - Count Us Out

Despite Senate vote Barack Obama's health Bill faces many hurdles

Times Online (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

He may have won a key victory with the Senate vote but President Obama faces many more hurdles before he can secure a health reform Bill on his desk to sign into law.

Islamic group CAIR files complaint with US School Department over Islamic prayer in school

Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

My sympathies go out to this child - who has been so frightened into thinking that if she doesn't make all the required prayers in a day - her God will reject her. There is a bit of he said she said here - though it could be that CAIR doesn't have all the facts - the school district says the child can pray quietly in the school - but coming from the child's uncle - it seems that the family are demanding...

Fort Hood gunman paralysed by bullet wounds, lawyer says

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Major Nidal Hasan in pain and not a flight risk, hearing told Major Nidal Hasan, who has been charged with 13 murders over the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas, is paralysed from the neck down, incontinent and in severe pain, according to his lawyer. The lawyer, John Galligan, told a hearing by a military magistrate yesterday that the army psychiatrist, who is accused of killing 12 soldiers and a civilian...

Detecting Military Radicalism in the Wake of Fort Hood

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

The first congressional hearing in the aftermath of the Fort Hood massacre took place Thursday morning, with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing from security experts, including a retired general and a former top White House advisor. Lieberman wanted to hear from FBI officials about missed signals that Nidal Malik Hasan exhibited radical viewpoints and created concern...

Political correctness and Ft. Hood killings

Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

New York ( CNN ) -- Just hours after the first reports of the tragedy at Fort Hood surfaced, a divisive dialogue was developing on the talk shows and in the Internet blogosphere. On one side were those arguing that shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's apparent bloodlust was an unfortunate byproduct of an overtaxed military forced to fight a multifront war against an uncertain enemy. Television...

Barack Obama finalises Afghanistan troop surge

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Barack Obama is expected to announce his long-delayed plans for a troop surge in Afghanistan next week with a promise of between 3,000 and 7,000 extra troops from Nato allies — including Britain, so as to stop this looking like America’s war. An announcement by the US president is anticipated before the meeting of Nato defence ministers in Brussels on December 3. American officials suggest...

• Barack Obama finalises Afghanistan troop surge - Times Online

Jimmy Carter hails the role of UAE's Takatof in Habitat for Humanity programme

UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Chiang Mai - Former US President Jimmy Carter hailed the role played by the volunteers of Takatof International Volunteering Programme in supporting the Habitat for Humanity's annual Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project 2009 in the Chinag Mai in Th

Aftermath of the Fort Hood atrocity

Financial Times (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

The reluctance to consider the Fort Hood atrocity a terrorist act is both striking and bizarre. The idea of turning the war on terror against its own citizens appals the US. This is why the country hopes the killer was out of his mind, rather than an ordinary terrorist

Did Michelle Obama Drive Oprah Out of Chicacgo?

Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

There can be only one Queen of the Windy City, bitch.. The National Inquirer reports on how the First "Lady" has usurped and exiled the Doyenne of Daytime: A distraught Oprah Winfrey is telling pals her "thank you" for helping Barack Obama win the presidency has been a knife in the back. A jealous first lady has frozen the talk queen out of the White House inner circle, say insiders....

Cathy Ashton grilled on her agenda as EU Foreign Minister

Global Dashboard (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

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Global warming – Are we being lied to?

staffjam | 19 hours ago

The media is chock full with articles of scientists, environmentalists and Carbon Billionaires (Al Gore) – stating how mankind is destroying the planet with our use of fossil fuels and other contaminents. The fact that industry is causing ecological and environmental damage is without doubt, but are we really the cause of the high greenhouse gas levels, or should we be more concerned with natural

Sting's plea

BBC News (Free subscription) | 56 minutes ago

Rock star urges Brazil to listen to tribal fears

Global warming – Are we being lied to?

staffjam | 19 hours ago

The media is chock full with articles of scientists, environmentalists and Carbon Billionaires (Al Gore) – stating how mankind is destroying the planet with our use of fossil fuels and other contaminents. The fact that industry is causing ecological and environmental damage is without doubt, but are we really the cause of the high greenhouse gas levels, or should we be more concerned with natural causes...

Invitation to the PS Rama Yade: "a joke" (Government - 18h26 )

wposteruk | 06/11/2009

The vice-president of the PS region Ile-de-France on Wednesday offered "asylum" to the Secretary of State for Sport

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