Global Warming May ‘Stop’, Scientists Predict

Source: London Telegraph
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor
Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said.

Have your say: Do you believe in global warming?
Arctic ice melting ‘faster than predicted’
Weather Channel boss calls global warming ‘the greatest scam in history’
Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they [...]

Networks continue to ignore NY Times’ military analyst story, but all find time for Hannah Montana

Source: Media Matters
Since The New York Times reported on the hidden ties between media military analysts and the Pentagon on April 20, the three major broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — have still not mentioned the report at all, according to a Media Matters for America search* of the Nexis news database.
Times [...]

Home prices fell by record across U.S.

Source: International Herald Tribune
Home prices in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas fell in February by the most on record, pointing to an imbalance between supply and demand that shows no sign of ending.
The S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index dropped 12.7 percent from a year earlier, more than forecast and the most since the figures were first published in [...]

Pentagon cuts funding for Iraq under pressure from Congress

Source: Google News

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has withdrawn a 171-million-dollar funding request to build police stations in Iraq after demands from Congress to have Baghdad take on a greater share of reconstruction costs, according to a letter released Tuesday.
Writing to Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, [...]

Video: Money as Debt

Paul Grignon’s 47-minute animated presentation of “Money as Debt” tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its “Duncan Initiative” received high praise from those who previewed it. I recommend it [...]

No Country for Old Men

Source: Truthdig

By Robert Scheer
Would President John McCain forget who made that 3 a.m. call to the special White House phone? I suspect that his aides would not just let him nod off back to sleep, even if they were intimidated by the prospect of one of his alleged intemperate outbursts, but might our septuagenarian president [...]

Quote of the Day - In order to make a man…

“In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing,
it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.”
- Mark Twain

Oops! Chinese factory unintentionally made ‘Free Tibet’ flags

Source: Foreign Policy Blog
Ah, globalization at work: Workers at a factory in China’s southern Guangdong province were making “Free Tibet” flags, naively unaware of what the colorful flags — banned in China — represented.
The owner of the factory said the orders for the flags had been placed from overseas.

Food crisis appeal from Sierra Leone foreign minister

Source: Avaaz
Dear friends,

Rocketing prices threaten to starve millions and make us all less secure — sign the emergency petition for action to stop the world food crisis
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Have you noticed food costing more when you shop? Here’s why — we’re plunging headlong into a world food crisis. [...]

U.S. Credit Card Debt Soars to Unprecedented Heights

Source: What Really Happened
U.S. Credit Card Debt Soars to Unprecedented Heights

Studies indicate that credit card defaults and related write-offs increased drastically since 2006. Today, lenders write off 33 percent more in credit card debt than they did two years ago.
And as people are forced to use their credit cards just to eat, the problem will [...]