Hard hitting global and local news
Growth of output eases to marginal pace Quickest rate of job shedding since March 2009 Marked falls in input costs and output charge January data signalled a deterioration of operating conditions in China’s manufacturing sector for the first time in six months.
and then TonyLearns shows the other side now But Mosher says Tamino is a(an almost) complete incompetent. Isn’t that a devastating rebuttal? Then I read Judith post of Tamino and arctic temps.
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Three cheers for a group of nine California students who are fed up with tenure rules that protect not only incompetent teachers, but also sexual predators. Reuters reports California students challenge teacher employment rules in lawsuit . A group of nine California students will challenge employment rules they complain force public schools in the most populous U.S.
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves.
Leaving aside religious debates on global warming, UC Berkeley professor B. Lynn Ingram says California water woes could be just beginning . As 2013 came to a close, the media dutifully reported that the year had been the driest in California since records began to be kept in the 1840s
I happen to like US treasuries on the basis the economy is slowing much more than anyone thinks. Short-term, who knows?
Next consider House passes farm bill, crop subsidies preserved . After more than two years of partisan squabbles over food and farm policy, the House passed and sent to the Senate Wednesday an almost $100 billion-a-year, compromise farm bill containing a small cut in food stamps and preserving most crop subsidies. The measure, which the House approved 251-166, had solid backing from the Republican leadership team, even though it makes smaller cuts to food stamps than they would have liked.
January 29, 2014 ( ATN ) – Thaksin Shinawatra’s proxy regime, currently ruling in Thailand, have again attacked protesters, this time with the deadly 40mm M-79 grenade launcher – a weapon of war used extensively by pro-Thaksin terrorists in violence that left 92 dead in Bangkok in 2010 . Thai PBS reported in their article, " Lard Phrao protest site comes under M-79 grenade attack ," that: The protest site of the Network of Students and People for the Reform of Thailand (NSPRT) was attacked by M-79 grenade launcher again before dawn today, causing injury to a protester.