If any of your idiot friends still believe in AGW, make them read this letter

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100021272/if-any-of-your-idiot-friends-still-believe-in-agw-make-them-read-this-letter/
The climate ought not to be used as a shoddy pretext for international bureaucratic-centralist dictatorship. We committed Europeans have had more than enough of that already with the unelected but all-powerful Kommissars of the hated EU, who make nine-tenths of our laws by decree (revealingly, they call them “Directives” or “Commission Regulations”). The Kommissars (that is the official German word for them) inflict their dictates upon us regardless of what the elected European or any other democratic Parliament says or wishes. Do we want a worldwide EU? No.

Climategate: You should be steamed

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6795858.html
Climategate reveals how predetermined political agendas shaped science rather than the other way around. It is high time to question the true agenda of the scientists now on the hot seat and to bring skeptics back into the public debate.

TSA tries to assuage privacy concerns about full-body scans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/03/AR2010010301826.html?hpid=topnews
It has come to this.

Already shoeless, beltless and waterless, more beleaguered air passengers will be holding their legs apart, raising their arms and effectively baring it all as they pass through U.S. airport security checkpoints.

Children reaching age 3 without being able to say a word, survey finds

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6974590.ece
Children are reaching the age of 3 without being able to say a word, according to a survey that also found boys are almost twice as likely to struggle to learn to speak as girls.

The average age for a baby to speak their first word is 10 to 11 months. However, a significant minority (4 per cent) of parents reported that their child said nothing until they were 3.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Linked to Body Scanner Manufacturer

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/01/02/group_slams_chertoff_on_scanner_promotion/
The Boston Globe         January 4, 2010
WASHINGTON - Since the attempted bombing of a US airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports.

What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. Chertoff disclosed the relationship on a CNN program Wednesday, in response to a question.

An airport passengers’ rights group on Thursday criticized Chertoff’s use of his former government credentials to advocate for a product that benefits his clients.

Bono net policing idea draws fire

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8439200.stm
In a move that drew significant criticism, Bono went on to suggest that the feasibility of tracking down file-sharers had already been proven.

He hinted that China's efforts prove that tracking net content is possible.

John McLaughlin: Freedom is “Most Overrated” Political Issue of 2009

Retired U.S. General: “in next 30 to 100 days a very high probability US airliner will come down.”

“We have got to go to very, very strict screening and we’ve got to use profiling. And I mean, be very, very serious about the profiling. If you are an 18-28-year-old Muslim man, then you should be strip searched. If we don’t do that, there’s a very high probability that we’re gonna lose an airliner.”

All Hectic.

December was coldest month in 28 years

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0104/breaking26.htm
Last month was the coldest December for almost 30 years over most of the country, Met Éireann has said.

In its monthly summary, the forecaster said December was the coldest month for 28 years for most of the country and the coldest of any month since February 1986 at a few stations.

Organic food is no healthier, study finds

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE56S3ZJ20090729
[Editor's note: the previous post on Matt Monarch reminded me of this story back in July...]

LONDON (Reuters) - Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study published Wednesday.

Banned on YouTube: Matt Monarch's Raw Food World: Coconut Keifer, Episode #340

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=101882596
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www.TheRawFoodWorld .com
You guys are not going to believe this!!! The Raw Food World TV Show was BANNED from YouTube!!! Check this video out!... and... learn how to make coconut keifer ;-)

YEMEN: Connect the Dots...

9/11 commission chairman says would-be plane bomber ‘did us a favor’

http://rawstory.com/2009//01/911-commission-chairman-wouldbe-plane-bomber-did-favor/
The Republican chairman of the Bush Administration's 9/11 Commission declared Sunday that the would-be-terrorist who tried to blow up a plane en route to Detroit "probably did us a favor."

The GOP chairman's quote raised eyebrows; by his logic, the Sept. 11, 2001 attackers may also have "done us a favor" by drawing US attention to extremism in Afghanistan.

Afgan Attacker Was CIA Informant

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/cia-attacker-driven-pakistan/story?id=9463880
The suicide bomber who killed at least six Central Intelligence Agency officers in a base along the Afghan-Pakistan border on Wednesday was a regular CIA informant who had visited the same base multiple times in the past, according to someone close to the base's security director.

Pope urges lifestyle changes to save environment

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6000G220100101
Recalling that world leaders had gathered in Copenhagen last month for the U.N. climate conference, the pope said action at a personal and community level was just as important to safeguard the environment.