A U.S. ClimateGate?

Hoaxes: Climate researchers and the Weather Channel’s founder accuse NASA of the same data manipulation as Britain’s Climate Research Unit. Were weather stations cherry-picked to hide the temperature drop? We recently commented on how our space agency for two years refused Freedom of Information requests on why it has had to repeatedly correct its climate [...]

No Climategate FoI prosecutions

By Bishop Hill I’ve  just come off the phone to the investigations office at the Information Commissioner’s office. I had made a request for information to UEA that, while only peripherally related to Climategate, has now turned up some interesting new information. My original request was from a couple of years ago, asking for any [...]

Copenhagen dampens banks’ green commitment

By Tim Webb 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 that [...]

Quote of the Day – The biggest government conspiracy…

The biggest government conspiracy of all is the claim that there are no government conspiracies! Michael Rivero

Video of Houston Police secret aerial drones Boing Boing

Our rights go marching one by one…

Video – Keith Olbermann Special Comment: Freedom Of Speech Has Been Destroyed – 01/21/10

CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ARREST OF 5 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES FOR TREASON

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Five members of the Supreme Court declared that a “corporation” is a person, not a “regular person” but one above all natural laws, subject to no God, no moral code but one with unlimited power over our lives, a power awarded by judges who seem themselves as grand inquisitors in an  [...]

Securing Disaster in Haiti

By Peter Hallward The BBC’s Mark Doyle found the same thing in an eastern (and less badly affected) suburb. ‘Their houses are destroyed, they have no running water, food prices have doubled, and they haven’t seen a single government official or foreign aid worker since the earthquake struck.’ Overall, Doyle observed, ‘the international response has [...]

Delaying aid for a photo-op

By Jesse Hagopian | January 25, 2010 EVERYTHING YOU need to know about the U.S. aid effort to assist Haiti in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake can be summed up by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s touchdown in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, January 16: they shut down the airport for three hours surrounding her arrival [...]

There is no help. We need food and water. Urgently

Haiti eyewitness: Tom Phillips in Port-au-Prince In front of the presidential palace, its roof folded in like a collapsed soufflé, Marcellus Samuel, a Haitian preacher, grabs my notebook and scribbles frantically on to the page. “There is no help. Everybody is sleeping in the streets. We need food, water and clothes,” he writes. “URGENTLY!” Around [...]