Iceland may be the first Western democracy to be forced into South-American style debt-slavery. The IMF, in concert with the UK and the Netherlands, has attempted to strongarm the recently impoverished Island of 317,000 into paying over 3.6 billion pounds ($6.3bn) — $86,000 per Icelandic family — at 5.5% interest for the next generation. The [...]

A United Nations report on climate change that has been lambasted for its faulty research is under new attack for yet another instance of what critics say is sloppy science — guiding global warming policy based on a study of forest fires.

It appears Michael Mann, who as a scientist is supposed to be disinterested in the outcome of his research, is benefiting greatly from publishing information about global warming which has been proved to be not credible.

A London newspaper reported yesterday that the unsubstantiated Himalayan-glacier melt figures contained in a supposedly authoritative 2007 report on climate warming were used intentionally, despite the report’s lead author knowing there were no data to back them up.

The world’s leading climate change scientists have been caught out making unfounded claims about global warming for the second time in just over a week.

AFP (2010-01-22)
France is in “tough” talks with drug companies to cancel orders for millions of swine flu vaccines and insists on scratching the deals instead of renegotiating them, its health minister said on Friday.
France earlier this month moved to cancel purchases of 50 million swine flu vaccines after ordering far more than needed, but was [...]

Baptist Press / E. Calvin Beisner (2010-01-22)
One of the most alarming warnings in the 2007 Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was that Himalayan glaciers — on which hundreds of millions of people depend for regular water supply from their annual contraction and recovery — are in grave danger from [...]

The vast majority of the talking heads on television are still speaking of the current economic collapse as if it is a temporary “recession” that will soon be over. The truth is that the foundations of the U.S. economy have been destroyed by an orgy of government, corporate and individual debt that has gone on for decades.

The Ohio Section of the American Institute of Professional Geologists has adopted a position statement rejecting global warming alarmism and calling on Congress to defeat legislation aimed at restricting carbon dioxide emissions.