Democrats have warned their opponents in Congress against seeking to wreck Barack Obama’s second term by adopting confrontational strategies that risk bringing Washington to a standstill. One of Barack Obama’s senior advisers, David Axelrod, said it was no longer “business as usual” and the American public did not want to see a return to the [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 18:09
Thursday, 08 November 2012 18:06
Climate-lovers are happy about some of the hawks elected on Tuesday. But they’re also cheering the unceremonious dismissal of several congressional climate villains. That includes four of the lawmakers that the League of Conservation Voters deemed the “Flat Earth Five” and spent $3 million to unseat: 1. Ann Marie Buerkle, a Republican from New York’s 24th [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 18:03
Israel squirms and wriggles like a worm on a fishhook over the Turkish trial into the deaths of nine unarmed humanitarian aid volunteers on board a ship bound for Gaza. Tel Aviv has called the hearing in Istanbul a “show trial” with no legal foundation or meaning at all since, rather predictably, the four military [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 18:00
Picture: Lauri Andler (CC) Looks like we may soon look to sugar as a new fuel source. Think it’ll make your car hyper, too? Via e! (Read more…) Science News: A long-abandoned fermentation process once used to turn starch into explosives can be used to produce renewable diesel fuel to replace the fossil fuels now [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 17:58
The storm that hit the U.S. East Coast Oct. 29 exposed the harm done by capitalist priorities in the crucial areas of essential health care and electric power for millions. Some 400 available industrial-scale generators sat unused while four major New York City hospitals located in flood zones and two New Jersey hospitals were forced [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 17:52
In over 50 years of voting and 25 years of working professionally in the world of politics and public policy I had never seen such outrageous and persistent lies, distortions and intellectual insults from a presidential candidate. Repeatedly, Romney sold his soul to first get the Republican nomination and then attempt to win the presidency.…
Thursday, 08 November 2012 17:45
Romney advisers are telling CBS News that there wasn’t one person on the Romney campaign who saw the loss coming, and the GOP presidential candidate was “shellshocked” by the results. Here’s what they have to say: “We went into the evening confident we had a good path to victory…I don’t think there was one person who saw [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 17:44
Karl Rove’s meltdown over the battle for Ohio made for interesting television Tuesday evening, but in spite of his poor call on the election and despite the fact that Rove’s two electioneering PACs spent $170 million almost entirely on losing candidates, the former Bush adviser isn’t letting up. He’s even got a whiteboard to argue [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 17:33
Republican political strategist Karl Rove on Thursday claimed that President Barack Obama was re-elected because he was able to suppress voters. During an appearance on Fox News, Rove claimed that Obama had not gotten more people to vote for him, compared to 2008. Instead, Obama successfully retained his 2008 supporters and convinced voters not to [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 17:26
For anyone who looks up in the sky every so often, the reality of geoengineering—what are often referred to as “chemtrails”—can no longer be easily dismissed.
Thursday, 08 November 2012 17:19
In an exclusive interview with RT, Syrian President Bashar Assad said he will not leave Syria. Assad also spoke on the calls for armed foreign intervention in Syria, and the possible fallout on the country’s internal conflict and across the region.…
Thursday, 08 November 2012 17:18
http://www.thedevilstrifecta.com/2012/10/good-bye-red-states.html Good Bye Red States! Dear Red States: We’re ticked off at your neanderthal attitudes and politics and we’ve decided we’re leaving: … “Legitimate rape” is almost reason enough! (Read more…) We in New York intend to form our own country and … Continue reading →
Thursday, 08 November 2012 17:15
If there’s any good to come out of Hurricane Sandy, it could be that the storm provided a platform for several big-name politicians—Andrew Cuomo, Michael Bloomberg, and as of Tuesday night President Obama—to finally connect the dots between extreme weather and climate change. But although the polls show extreme weather to be a top motivator [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 17:06
Yesterday, we were offered ‘hopes and prayers’ by Gluskin Sheff’s David Rosenberg. However, as he warned then, there are some things to be worried about. From the wide gaps in voting patterns across socio-economic lines and the expectations that populist policies will be the hallmark of Obama’s second term to the mixed-to-negative data across employment [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 17:02
Il premier Monti ha celebrato la giornata delle forze armate con una visita «a sorpresa» in Afghanistan. Ai militari italiani a Herat ha ribadito che «non siete l’espressione di una nazione in guerra: siamo qui per assicurare a questo paese sicurezza, stabilità e prosperità».…
Thursday, 08 November 2012 16:30
Paging H.P. Lovecraft… Via Scientific American: Something scientists have come to understand is that slime molds are much smarter than they look. One species in particular, the SpongeBob SquarePants–yellow Physarum polycephalum, can solve mazes, mimic the layout of man-made transportation networks and choose the healthiest food from a diverse menu—and all this without a brain [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 16:26
From snaps of Cary Grant or John Lennon, to Leonid Brezhnev whispering in Richard Nixon’s ear, the International Herald Tribune newspaper puts a century of photo archives up for auction in Paris this month. Around 2,500 shots by the paper, grouped into 300 lots, will go under the hammer on November 19 at the Drouot [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 16:23
The gunman who shot US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in a massacre that left six others dead in Arizona was given seven life sentences plus 140 years in jail on Thursday, local media reported. “He’ll never have the opportunity to pick up a gun again,” said Judge Larry Burns, according to Tucson, Arizona’s KVOA TV, as [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 16:21
Some people logging onto Twitter on Thursday were greeted with word that their passwords were reset due to concerns their accounts may have been breached by hackers. The San Francisco-based one-to-many text messaging service said the routine security precaution was accidentally applied to more users than intended. Twitter did not specify the number of accounts [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 16:13
Market watchers are stunned, stunned we tell you, that we didn’t bounce today after yesterday’s 1-year record plunge in stocks. Whether AAPL led the market or the market led AAPL is irrelevant, there is one clear fact, everyone and their pet rabbit Clive is looking to reduce exposure to that anchor-like alpha-destroyer. Gold once again [...]
Thursday, 08 November 2012 16:13
Iraq suffered a second day of attacks that were spread across the country. At least 13 Iraqis were killed and 44 more were wounded. This latest spate of violence began on an otherwise quiet Tuesday with an attack on an army base. Also, two of fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi’s staff were sentenced to death, [...]
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