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FEDERAL RESERVE:

The US government is upset that North Korea doesn't honor the Fed's monopoly on counterfeiting money.

Hillary Clinton wants to run the World Bank.

HEALTH CARE:

Antibiotic use in pigs produced super-bug affecting humans.

The licensing of dentists artificially restricts the supply of dentists, creating higher prices. The ADA opposes increasing licenses.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Australia's Labor party is imploding because of its support for a carbon tax.

I've been reading about global warming for a decade or more, and I've made the following argument many times, but I don't remember seeing anybody else make it.

"There are literally thousands of feedbacks, each of which either reinforces or opposes the direct-warming effect of the extra CO₂. Almost every long-lived system is governed by net feedback that dampens its response to a perturbation. If a system instead reacts to a perturbation by amplifying it, the system is likely to reach a tipping point and become unstable (like the electronic squeal that erupts when a microphone gets too close to its speakers). The earth's climate is long-lived and stable — it has never gone into runaway greenhouse, unlike Venus — which strongly suggests that the feedbacks dampen temperature perturbations such as that from extra CO₂."

It's funny that this author claims this is the standard argument of skeptics, but I've never seen it.

Climate fraud confesses to email fraud. He might well be prosecuted over this. The EPA is covering up over half a million dollars in grants it paid to this fraud.

WAR:

Claim that US troops are in Syria, starting a civil war, just like in Libya. This is an incredible video. The Syrian government is learning the hard lesson that it doesn't pay to be friendly with US government. One day it calls you an ally, the next it's foment revolution against you. Secretary of State Clinton has already predetermined the rebels will win.

"There will be increasingly capable opposition forces. They will from somewhere, somehow, find the means to defend themselves as well as begin offensive measures."

How many people are we going to allow our government to kill? The majority of Syrians support Assad.

FOREIGN POLICY:

At least the New York Times is reporting that US intelligence does not believe that Iran is building a nuclear bomb. With all the propaganda about that being tossed around, it's nice to see a prominent mainstream source report this.

POLITICS:

Specter calls Santorum a liar. They're all liars.

Santorum may be crashing.

British newspaper explains Paul's delegate strategy. You don't see many articles like this in the US press.

MISC:

UK minister proposes to heat a swimming pool with energy from a crematorium.