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Ramesh-backed paper questions another IPCC claim

Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times India has once again challenged the UN's climate science body - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) --- through a new scientific paper. The Environment ministry sponsored paper says that human induced global warming is much less than what the R K Pachauri headed IPCC had said. The cause is reduced impact of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) on formulation of low clouds over earth in the last 150 years, says a paper by U R Rao, former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, released by Environment minister Jairam Ramesh.

Falun Gong Excluded from Vancouver’s Chinese New Year Parade Yet Again!

Recently the Parade Preparatory Committee for the Year of the Rabbit 2011 Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival Celebration rejected the Vancouver Falun Gong group’s application to participate in the annual Chinese New Year parade under the pretext that they don’t accept any new groups.

Obama detached from reality of his regulation

President Obama has allegedly given up cigarettes but his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal makes us wonder what they're now smoking in the White House.

Spain’s Great Photovoltaic Bust

By P Gosselin, No Tricks Zone blog The German online TAZ here reports on Spain’s solar energy industry debacle in an article with the headline:

I Believe She’s Amazing Flash Mob - Toronto Eaton Centre

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Islam Does Not Allow Compromise

During a news conference with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad last week American Vice President Joe Biden said "We are not the enemies of Islam and we embrace those who practice that great religion in our country."

Media MIA for Returning Heroes

Two airmen from the Vietnam War came home last week. Are you surprised to read this? There is reason to be surprised. CNN and most other national news outlets either refused to cover it or did not even know that it was happening.

Climate Change & Civilisation Collapse

Dr. Benny Peiser Like most things, collapse explanations are subject to fashion, and the one most in the limelight today is climatic change … Right now mega-drought is the ‘hot’ explanation for the Classic [Maya] collapse, and the usual bandwagon effect is in full career among many of my colleagues, although others remain properly suspicious of drought as the triggering mechanism. --David Webster, The Fall of the Ancient Maya, London 2002

North Korean border guards kill five defectors

(Source: Seoul USA) Five North Koreans were shot dead and two others wounded by North Korean border guards on the Chinese side of the border when they tried to flee North Korea, a source said January 9. The high-level source in Changbai in the Chinese province of Jilin said the seven individuals left Hyesan, Yanggang Province, and walked across the frozen Apnok (or Yalu) River and reached the Chinese side on December 14. Five of them died instantly under intense gunfire by North Korean border guards who ran after them. The two others were wounded and taken to the North.

Suggestions for economic recovery

Here's some more thought to go with the way to use a Home Mortgage to Recover the Economic System in America.

Going broke by going green

President Obama’s healthcare program came under intense scrutiny in 2010. As we enter 2011, we need to open our eyes to what is really going on behind his green energy propaganda, as well. To some, it may not seem as desperate an issue as healthcare, but it will grow to become just as devastating to those citizens among us who are poor, because access to affordable energy affects everything we do.

USA Enslaving the world

You are a disgrace to Canada. Where is the balance in the article? Where is the recognition or acknowledgement of daily terrorist atrocities committed by the Zionist Israel against the Palestinian people? How can you continue to vilify the victim? How is it even legitimate to claim that Palestinians even have the power to commit the crimes that you claim when they do not comprise a nation but are an occupied, colonized people with no infrastructure, access to basic necessities and are reliant on Israel the basic necessities of life for which they have failed to provide which is a violation of the Geneva Conventions? How can Israel and Israeli apologists legitimize their claims while possessing one of the most modern and deadly militaries in the world?

Spectacle in Arizona

The Tucson event, nationally broadcast, to memorialize the tragic, senseless loss of human life in Arizona, was filled with absurd contradictions, tempered by examples of heroic human caring. Is it really such a mystery as to why violence is endemic in the media, the arts, politics and daily life?

“Lethal Engagement” a must read to understand the threat of Islam and Obama’s part

An unbelievable story is unfolding that is a glaring example of the liberal mind set both because of its naivete’ and its bubble mentality. Joseph Klein’s outstanding new book “Lethal Engagement” is laying out the Islamic concept of deception called takiyya. Radical Islam is seeing Barack Obama fulfill his promise to fundamentally change our beloved America. Klein outlines the real agenda of the Middle Eastern religious political ideology which is to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and to undermine and conquer the United States and Western civilization, and the brilliant author shows us how they’re doing it!

Vatican not collaborating with Discovery Channel’s exorcism series, says spokesman

Source: Catholic News Agency, Vatican City, (CNA/EWTN News). The Vatican's Press Office director Fr. Federico Lombardi has denied claims that there is any official collaboration between the Holy See and the Discovery Channel for a series called “The Exorcist Files.” Publicity for the show was “misleading.”

Tax Scam Leader Gets More Than 17 Years

By Del Quentin Wilber, Washington Post Staff Writer Harriette Walters, a former mid-level D.C. tax office manager, was sentenced yesterday to 17 1/2 years in federal prison, capping the prosecution of the largest embezzlement in District government history.

Climate of Hate

Two things are abundantly clear now that the dust has settled after the recent tragic shootings in Arizona which left six dead, fourteen wounded and nearly killed Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

The PC Is Dead

By John R. Quain It was fun while it lasted, but as of 2011 the era of the desktop computer is officially over.

Halifax, Nova Scotia – The people of Colchester North had no say on Casey move

The Atlantica Party is crying foul over today's move by MLA Karen Casey to cross the floor to the Liberal Party. "Ms. Casey's decision to jump ship and join the Liberals is unfair to the people of Colchester North," says Atlantica Party leader Jonathan Dean. "Ms. Casey has been a Tory for decades, served as Tory Leader, and was elected as a Tory so her constituents deserve say. Without the ability to Recall her the people of Colchester North have no say."