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GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Climategate 2 emails just keep on giving.

"Steve Hilton, the Prime Minister’s director of strategy and ‘green guru’, is the latest person to admit to doubts about climate change. ‘I’m not sure I believe in it,’ he announced at a meeting of the Energy Department, prompting one aide to blurt out: ‘Did I just hear that correctly?’"

And

"Britain’s leading green activist research centre spent £15,000 on seminars for top BBC executives  in an apparent bid to block climate change sceptics from the airwaves, a vast new cache of leaked ‘Climategate’ emails has revealed."

That's tax dollars their spending to do this because all this pseudo-research is funded by government. Here's why I call this global warming research pseudo-science:

"You and I have been interacting, albeit at a distance, since I first asked you for your data some five years ago. I asked for your data in part because I was astounded by your answer to Warwick Hughes when he asked for the same data. You replied to Warwick at that time,“Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?”"

The frauds are not engaging in the scientific method. Instead, they are intentionally thwarting the scientific method. Therefore, while their research has the appearance of science, it is not science. It is political activism posing as science. In other words, it's a pseudo-science and the people engaging in it or pseudo-scientists.

Problems with government mandated carbon trading schemes? Who would have guessed?

FOREIGN POLICY:

Thanks to decades of US government aggression in the Middle East, Islamists win elections in Morocco. Think about how much better off we'd be if Americans had simply engaged Middle Easterners in mutually beneficial trade for all those decades instead of allowing our government to prop up dictators and bomb them.

WAR:

Yesterday I said it seemed unlikely the NATO attack on Pakistani forces was a mistake. Today we learn that it was intentional, reportedly prompted by Pakistani forces firing on NATO ground forces. Pakistan denies.

"NATO officials have complained that insurgents fire from across the poorly defined frontier, often from positions close to Pakistani soldiers, who have been accused of tolerating or supporting them."

Despite this, NATO attacked the Pakistani bases. What is obvious is, just as government intervention in our lives and economy creates chaos, crime and death at home, it does the same abroad. Our government's foreign policy of aggression and war is making enemies faster than our troops can take them out, and the result is we are all less safe.

POLITICS:

Republican establishment icon Peggy Noonan supports Ron Paul's foreign policy. If Paul can make inroads with the establishment on foreign policy, he could win the nomination.

The NATO bombing of Pakistani soldiers prompted one person to ask if Ron Paul has been right all along. The video from 2008 shows he has been.

MEDIA:

This picture exposes the US media big-time.

MISC:

Scientists believe they have discovered the world's funniest joke. I don't think it's that funny.