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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.
Bloomberg reports Emerging Market Slowdown to Last for Years Unilever (UNA) Chief Executive Officer Paul Polman said the economic slowdown in emerging markets is here to stay as many countries need to enact structural reforms to adjust to new conditions after the boom of recent years.“They are still relatively stronger economies, but still fragile,†Polman said. “And you see that growth coming off now a little bit, obviously not being helped either by lower demand coming from Europe and the U.S
Excerpt from: URGENT: Thai Police Threaten to "Shoot-to-Kill" Anyone Using Vehicles to Remove Barriers
Inquiring minds are investigating the Fight for 15 website. Here is a snip. Stand with striking Chicago fast food and retail workers! We, hundreds of fast food and retail workers, went on strike at 30 stores in the Loop and the Magnificent Mile to demand $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.
ABC News reports White House Declares Obamacare Website Fixed, But Problems Persist Two months after the troubled launch of its signature health care initiative, the Obama administration on Sunday announced that its online insurance marketplace now functions smoothly for the “vast majority†of consumers seeking to shop for and enroll in coverage. Today “is not a magic moment but a process of continual improvement over time,†said Julie Bataille, communications director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which manages the website
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The Washington Post reports Puerto Rico confronts a rising economic misery . Boxes and wooden crates filled with household items bound for the U.S.
Tweet In the latest rendition of Salby Tunes Eli wandered over to the Scottish Sceptic’s summary of Murry Salby’s talk in Edinburgh. The Scep did a reasonable job of summarizing the talk, which appears of a piece with Salby’s Hamburg seminar . That was well shredded by the Weasel in penance for his sins. Still, there does appear to be something new, Salby is now claiming that the increase in CO 2 mixing ratio is due to thermal decomposition of soils. Eli was feeling obscure at the time so the Bunny inquired Now Eli is but an ‘umble Rabett, innocent as the bunnies of the field, a little bunny foo foo as it were, (fair warning) and it occurs to him that there is a significant indicator of CO2 emission by combustion and not warming, contained in the Keeling curve but not much remarked upon and certainly not mentioned by the Good Dr.