Friday, 07 January 2011 08:39
'A leading professor and member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has proposed that nations need to end democracy in order to solve the theory of man made climate change.
David Shearman, an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Adelaide, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University’s Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences and Law School, has authored several books on climate change, one entitled The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy. In this he declares that “…authoritarianism is the natural state of humanity”.'
Friday, 07 January 2011 08:23
'Another big California health insurer has stunned individual policyholders with huge rate increases — this time it's Blue Shield of California seeking cumulative hikes of as much as 59% for tens of thousands of customers March 1.'
Read more: Blue Shield of California Seeks Rate Hikes of as Much as 59% for Individuals
Friday, 07 January 2011 08:19
Friday, 07 January 2011 08:09
'The Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive new steps to prevent more WikiLeaks embarrassments, including instituting “insider threat” programs to ferret out disgruntled employees who might be inclined to leak classified documents, NBC News has learned.
As part of these programs, agency officials are being asked to figure out ways to “detect behavioral changes” among employees who might have access to classified documents.'
Read more: Obama Tells Federal Agencies to Spy on Their Own Employees
Friday, 07 January 2011 07:51
'The last four months of 2010, nearly 500 earthquakes rattled Guy, Arkansas. The entire state experienced 38 quakes in 2009. The spike in quake frequency precedes and coincides with the 100,000 dead fish on a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River that included Roseville Township on December 30. The next night, 5,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings dropped dead out of the sky in Beebe. Hydraulic fracturing is the most likely culprit for all three events, as it causes earthquakes with a resultant release of toxins into the environment.
A close look at Arkansas’ history of earthquakes and drilling reveals a shocking surge in quake frequency following advanced drilling. The number of quakes in 2010 nearly equals all of Arkansas’ quakes for the entire 20th century. The oil and gas industry denies any correlation, but the advent of hydrofracking followed by earthquakes is a story repeated across the nation. It isn’t going to stop any time soon, either. Fracking has gone global.'
Friday, 07 January 2011 07:46
'William Michael Daley will be the long-standing successor to the former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who left the administration last year in the hope of running for mayor of Chicago.
W. Daley, a longtime Illinois political activist, will now hold the chief of staff in the White House, where he will have a part in the prospective staff's access to the Oval Office and what President Obama's Capitol Hill agenda should be.
Daley, as a top executive at JP Morgan Chase Bank, was paid as much as $5 million a year supervising the Washington lobbying efforts for JP Morgan -- the US second largest bank. He also served on the administration board at the giant defense contractor Boeing and Abbott Laboratories -- the global drug company.'
Read more: Obama Names Vice Chairman of JP Morgan as White House Chief of Staff