Hard hitting global and local news
The Daily Ticker’s Lauren Lyster conducted an interesting interview today with British Member of Parliament Kwasi Kwarteng on gold and balancing the budget . To play the video, click on the preceding link.
In Reuters’ article, " Tens of thousands of Syrians abroad vote in early poll ," it reported:Â Expatriates and those who have fled the war were casting their ballots at dozens of Syrian embassies abroad ahead of next week’s vote inside the country that opponents have dismissed as a farce as the fighting rages in its fourth year. Several countries that oppose Assad, including France, have blocked the voting but Syrian government media said people were still able to participate in many countries
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Illinois Has Worst Pension Crisis, Needs Boldest Reforms, Not More Tax Hikes Governor Pat Quinn passed Illinois’ largest tax hike on record immediately after he was elected.
Some links for the bunnies Magnus Westerstrand discusses the hidden Bengtsson and his media gambit. I am sad to have witnessed the changes in Lennart Bengtsson’s media presence over the last few years. At first it was just a few comments in local media such as this article in UNT 2009 stating among other things that a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would only result in a temperature increase of about 1 o C as a result of the logarithmic forcing of CO 2 . This is misleading, of course, because it ignores feedbacks which increase that number substantially.
Read the article: BLS Employment Projections Through 2022: How Many Jobs Require a College Degree?
Read the article: BLS Employment Projections Through 2022: How Many Jobs Require a College Degree?
Via translation from Les Echos please note a Sharp Rise in French Unemployment The number of Class A job seekers reached 3,626,500 in April. At this rate, the threshold of half a million more unemployed since the election of François Hollande will be reached this summer
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Dano has a question for the late Lee Atwater ———————————— Recent breathless articles about the consensus being false (remember back in the day when they spelled it ‘concencus’?), arrogant certainty about models being unable to tell us the climate in 2035, endless parroting the received wisdom of “no warming for 17 years (or 15, or 18…)…sigh…bunnies have heard these recycled talking points a billlll-yunnnnnn times, right? Well, we’re going to hear them a lot more often in the run-up to the American mid-term elections