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March 24, 2013 (LD) – The Western media monopolies, the same media houses that willfully and repeatedly told lies regarding “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq to help sell the corporate-financier engineered invasion and occupation of the Middle Eastern nation for a decade, have been very busy since. They helped sell NATO and its corporate-financier backers’ war of aggression and subjugation against Libya, and has been attempting to sell a repeat of the atrocities committed in North Africa, this time in Syria. They certainly have their hands full
From our German friend, Jörg Zimmermann a reminder that good planning requires good scientists and good politicians:  Global warming is harder and harder to deny. Plots of global temperature are clearly moving upward. The Arctic sea ice melt reached a new record low this year, which definitively confirmed what we suspected in 2007, that the Arctic has entered a new climatic regime. Thus, we are now more and more concerned about the impact that global warming will have. One of the most discussed topics this year in Germany was how city dwellers will deal with increasingly common heat waves. But first I want to tell you a story of a professor, who pasted grains of sand on paper …
and now, let the ownage begin.these statistics come from "A Chronological Listing of Early Weather Events"these are the temperature highs in the United States for 1894Tucson, Arizona (106° F, 41.1° C)Yuma, Arizona (113° F, 45.0° C)Little Rock, Arkansas (103° F, 39.4° C)Fort Smith, Arkansas (105° F, 40.6° C)New Haven, Connecticut ( 94° F, 34.4° C)New London, Connecticut ( 90° F, 32.2° C)Wilmington, Delaware (101° F, 38.3° C)Washington, D.C. ( 97° F, 36.1° C)Pensacola, Florida ( 93° F, 33.9° C)Key West, Florida ( 90° F, 32.2° C)Augusta, Georgia ( 92° F, 33.3° C)Savannah, Georgia ( 94° F, 34.4° C)Payette, Idaho (107° F, 41.7° C)Lewiston, Idaho (105° F, 40.6° C)Chicago, Illinois ( 96° F, 35.6° C)Cairo, Illinois ( 95° F, 35.0° C)Indianapolis, Indiana ( 97° F, 36.1° C)Lafayette, Indiana (100° F, 37.8° C)Dubuque, Iowa (102° F, 38.9° C)Keokuk, Iowa (102° F, 38.9° C)Logan, Iowa (110° F, 43.3° C)Topeka, Kansas (101° F, 38.3° C)Elk City, Kansas (115° F, 46.1° C)Dodge City, Kansas (106° F, 41.1° C)Louisville, Kentucky ( 96° F, 35.6° C)Lexington, Kentucky ( 93° F, 33.9° C)New Orleans, Louisiana ( 99° F, 37.2° C)Shreveport, Louisiana (101° F, 38.3° C)Eastport, Maine ( 91° F, 32.8° C)Portland, Maine ( 97° F, 36.1° C)Baltimore, Maryland ( 97° F, 36.1° C)Boston, Massachusetts ( 97° F, 36.1° C)Nantucket, Massachusetts ( 85° F, 29.4° C)Marquette, Michigan (100° F, 37.8° C)Detroit, Michigan ( 96° F, 35.6° C)Saint Vincent, Minnesota (100° F, 37.8° C)Saint Paul, Minnesota (100° F, 37.8° C)Vicksburg, Mississippi (100° F, 37.8° C)Saint Louis, Missouri ( 98° F, 36.7° C)Billings, Montana (103° F, 39.4° C)Helena, Montana ( 94° F, 34.4° C)North Platte, Nebraska (103° F, 39.4° C)Omaha, Nebraska (106° F, 41.1° C)Winnemucca, Nevada ( 94° F, 34.4° C)Carson City, Nevada ( 90° F, 32.2° C)West Milan, New Hampshire ( 90° F, 32.2° C)New Brunswick, New Jersey (100° F, 37.8° C)Cape May, New Jersey ( 90° F, 32.2° C)Santa Fe, New Mexico ( 84° F, 28.9° C)Albany, New York ( 97° F, 36.1° C)New York City, New York ( 96° F, 35.6° C)Charlotte, North Carolina ( 93° F, 33.9° C)Kitty Hawk, North Carolina ( 90° F, 32.2° C)Bismarck, North Dakota (101° F, 38.3° C)Williston, North Dakota (100° F, 37.8° C)Cincinnati, Ohio ( 95° F, 35.0° C)Columbus, Ohio ( 97° F, 36.1° C)Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (104° F, 40.0° C)Fort Sill, Oklahoma (108° F, 42.2° C)