Treasury prices slip after strong economic reports

Did Jones Delete Emails?
It turns out that Muir Russell didn’t bother asking, since that would have exposed Jones to potential liability. But in a surprising new turn of events, it seems that VC Acton sort-of did what Muir Russell was supposed to do - ask Jones whether he had deleted emails. The Guardian reports Acton’s Testimony as follows: Prof Phil Jones told the University of East Anglia’s boss that he did not delete any of the emails that were released from the university last November,...

Wheres Andrew Cuomos tax return?
It’s the Friday before Election Day — do you know where Andrew Cuomo’s Tax Returns are? Because I don’t. Like some of my colleagues, I’ve been asking for them for two weeks, on and off. I’ve sent e-mails. I’ve made calls. I’ve reached out to Cuomo’s Campaign staff and his Government aides. It’s being looked in to, I’m told. Cuomo filed for an extension on his Income taxes in April, which means they would have been done Oct. 15. John ...

No teen scandal, I love women: Berlusconi
AFP Italy's Silvio Berlusconi said on Friday he loved Life and women and would not change his ways as critics demanded information about his relationship with a teenage girl who alleges she partied with him. Stories about the 17-year-old Moroccan named Ruby have been splashed over the front pages in Italy ever since she told magistrates in Milan she had been to a number of parties in Berlusconi's private villa in Arcore. "I am a very playful person, full of life. I Love Life, I Love women," t...

Alleged abuse victim arrested in priest's beating
SAN Jose, Calif. — William Lynch’s life spiraled out of control in the 35 years since he alleges he and his brother were molested by a Jesuit priest: He struggled with depression, had nightmares and tried to kill himself twice. Authorities believe that anger and pain erupted when Lynch lured the Rev. Jerold Lindner to the lobby of his Jesuit Retirement home by pretending he had news of a death in the priest’s family and beat him severely in front of shocked witnesses. Lynch, 43...

Audio: The global warming battle you havent heard of
The campaign against California’s Proposition 23, which would suspend the state’s landmark Greenhouse Gas law, has been fueled by Hollywood star power and millions from Silicon Valley bigwigs, like the founders of Google. But just down the ballot from Prop 23 is a much less discussed initiative that, some say, could be just as influential: Proposition 26. Prop 26 would expand the definition of a “tax” under California law to include some state and local fees. At first blu

Defeating Islamic jihadism requires combating its narrative
Richard Barrett from the UN’s Al Qaeda / Taliban Watchdog group and Tom Parker of Amnesty International earlier this week postulated that the U.S. cannot rely on Counterinsurgency tactics in its war against violent Islamic radicalism but must focus on undermining the message of Terrorist Leaders with their followers because, as Ryan French writes at the World Policy Blog, the West will likely suffer another successful attack from a patient and determined foe.  As the Taliban have boas...

Delusions, dollars and climate
Get the best in Southern California Opinion journalism delivered to your inbox with our Opinion L.A. newsletter. Sign up » to pick a single issue whose treatment exemplifies the forces at work in this Midterm Election, the best choice would be one over which there's been relatively little contention — Climate Change. That's not because there is any broad agreement among the Candidates on the severity of Global Warming or human activity's contribution to it. To the contrary, the ques...

Watch the Pea
At the hearings yesterday, after being stonewalled by Muir Russell about Muir Russell’s refusal to investigate Jones’ delete-all-email request, Stringer turned his attention to Acton, who claimed that he had carried out his own investigation, the results of which were on the UEA website. Here is a rough transcript: Stringer - … Prof Acton, are you satisfied that these questions weren’t asked? That people in your university were sending out emails suggesting that emails be...

Comedy and U.S. politics central to Stewart rally
Sheldon Alberts, Postmedia News Washington Correspondent · Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 WASHINGTON — Is Jon Stewart being serious? As the comedian prepares to host his Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear Saturday on the National Mall in Washington, the burning question among his fans is whether Mr. Stewart is really just doing it all as a gag, or as part of a concerted effort to influence American Political discourse ahead of the Nov. 2 Midterm Elections. Likely it’s a little a bit o...

Iraq: HRW Wants New Inquiry of Journalist's Death
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- A Human Rights group on Friday denounced a regional government's investigation into the slaying of Kurdish Journalist critical of authorities in Iraq, calling for a more independent inquiry. Freelance Journalist Sardasht Othman's handcuffed and bullet-ridden body was found near the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul and authorities concluded he had been killed by Insurgents. Many Kurds in the autonomous region where he lived, however, blamed authorities for his killing ...

State Department Sponsors Saudi Trip of Pro-Iran Apologist
By Barry Rubin There are days when you think: No, this nightmare can't be real! Is the Obama Administration really so bad? Have the policymakers really taken leave of their senses? And then you see this: The U.S. Consulate-General in Saudi Arabia "hosted Dr. Trita Parsi, founder and President of the National Iranian American Council.....Dr. Parsi chaired a roundtable luncheon hosted by CG [Consul-General] Tom Duffy. This event was very well-received by the audience, a mix of prominent academics...

White House Should Coordinate Geoengineering Research to Help Fight Climate Change
The White House should come up with a strategy for federal research into large-scale intervention in the Earth's Climate system that could help tackle Climate Change, a new Watchdog report concludes. The Government Accountability Office found in its report more than 50 current studies, totaling slightly more than $100 million, focusing on piecemeal strategies to reverse Climate Change, but none directly addresses what would happen if adventurous programs on Carbon Dioxide reduction and solar rad...

An Inconvenient Truth Biological Productivity of the Tundra Has Increased Since 1981, Perhaps Due to Warming.
Is that a scary thing? In its October 14, 2010 issue, Nature magazine (p. 755) reports on a paper by JMG Hudson and G HR Henry, Increased plant Biomass in a High Arctic heath community from 1981 to 2008, Ecology 90:2657-2663 (2009). (PDF ) It notes that, based on data collected from study plots over a 13-year period and survey data covering 27 years on the tundra of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, an area where both temperatures and the length of the growing season has increased in re...

Obama Rides To Perriellos Rescue
By Laura Meckler President Barack Obama kicks off a weekend of campaigning with a rally for Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello , who put his career on the line for the president’s agenda and now faces an uphill Reelection fight in his conservative Virginia district. On Saturday, Mr. Obama headlines events for Senate Candidates in Philadelphia; Bridgeport, Conn., and Chicago, before ending his campaign season with a rally in Cleveland for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland . Election Night Updates Get breaking...

Biodiversity, the Left’s Next Big Hoax
Rebranding Global Warming as "Climate Change" won't keep the dying Hoax alive; too many people have caught on that it's a lie. It's time for our moonbat rulers to invent a New crisis in an attempt to justify their never-ending war on our freedom and wealth. Biodiversity might work: With all the shamelessness of a Goldman Sachser trading in his middle-aged wife for a hot, pouting twentysomething called Ivanka, the green movement is ditching "Climate Change". The newer, younger, sexier model's nam...

Only One in Three Buy The Consensus
Despite a constant drumbeat of apocalyptic warnings from the press and a “scientific consensus”, only one in three Americans believes that the earth’s Climate is Warming, and that the warming is caused by humans. In 2006, AGW believers comprised 50% of Americans, and as recently as April 2008 47% percent were in the AGW camp. These are the results of a study released on Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. In 2006, 79% believed that the earth’s Climate was warming. Tod...

Robert Reich (Halliburton and the Upcoming Election)
Next Tuesday Americans will be deciding whether to hand over even more of our government to corporations that have been plundering America  - such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, WellPoint Insurance, Massey Energy, and Halliburton, the giant Oil services company. Not every large corporation is irresponsible, of course, but plunderers that get away with it gain a competitive advantage over the more responsible, and thereby lead a race to the bottom. Case in point: The staf...

State unveils new rule for battling climate change
(10-30) 04:00 PDT Sacramento - -- The most Controversial piece of California's efforts to battle Climate Change, a cap-and-trade program for large Polluters, was unveiled Friday by the California Air Resources Board just Days before the state's voters will decide whether to put the entire effort on hold. The proposed cap-and-trade Regulation, which is more than 3,000 pages long, would take effect beginning in 2012 and eliminate 273 million metric tons of Carbon Dioxide from the air by 2020, l...

Distilling the Human Element in the Climate Challenge
Michael Schlesinger, a Climate scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with decades of experience studying and teaching about Global Warming, read the post on psychoanalysts’ exploration of the human response to Climate Change and responded with a query, as follows: Andy, I think you are on the right track with this. But, that said, I think the possibility for “Mumbo-Jumbo” here is very large. So, can this approach be boiled down to a few simple declarative ...

Distilling the Human Element in the Climate Challenge
Michael Schlesinger, a Climate scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with decades of experience studying and teaching about Global Warming, read the post on psychoanalysts’ exploration of the human response to Climate Change and responded with a query, as follows: Andy, I think you are on the right track with this. But, that said, I think the possibility for “Mumbo-Jumbo” here is very large. So, can this approach be boiled down to a few simple declarative ...

'Lack of data' on carbon targets
The Welsh Assembly Government's goal of Carbon reduction is being hindered by a "concerning lack of data", according to a cross-party committee. In a report, the assembly's sustainability committee said more information was needed to learn what effect policies were having. It said Carbon reduction needed greater priority in government policy. The assembly government said the report did not take into account its latest Climate Change Strategy. Devolved areas The assembly gov...

Green Change: If you want real change, vote Green
Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Gary Ruskin has written a piece at Green Change entitled “If you want real change, vote Green”: Ladies and gentlemen, the results are in. Democrats in Washington have enjoyed a rare opportunity during the last two years. With control of the presidency and giant majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate, this was the Democrats’ best chance in more than 30 years to take charge and lead. Let’s take stock of where they led us. ...

A Boot to the Head ...from Michael Moore
By Michael Moore There she was, thrown to the pavement by a Republican in a checkered shirt. Another Republican thrusts his foot in between her legs and presses down with all his weight to pin her to the curb. Then a Republican leader comes over and viciously stomps on her head with his foot. You hear her glasses crunch under the pressure. Holding her head down with his foot, he applies more force so she can't move. Her skull and brain are now suffering a Concussion. The young woman’s name ...

Buy a Candidate. Continue the Pollution!
BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM Atlanta https://blog.buzzflash.com/node/11860 The American Mainstream Corporate Controlled Media at work once again doing their very best to cover up the atrocities committed during the Bush unnecessary, illegal, preemptive war in Iraq.  "It's not just the government that's been out to discredit Ausaage or perhaps try to prosecute/persecute him. On Sunday, the New York Times ran a front page 'profile' of the leader of Wikileaks that many reders in the comment sess...

Kiyotaka Akasaka: Natural Value at Bargain Prices
2010 was supposed to be the year that the world reversed the loss of biodiversity. Countries have failed to reach this target, however, and species are becoming extinct at far more than 100 times the natural rate. Worse, it has seemed like the political will to Change course simply was not there to do anything about it. Then came the Nagoya Biodiversity Conference, and the negotiations looked like they could get bogged down in a bottomless web of national interests that would have made agreeme...