Global warming hiatus

"Natural variations over the next 10 years might be heading in the cold direction, [but] if you run the model long enough, eventually global warming will win"

Complete article here.

The drums of war ...

My fellow American citizen,

The media is conditioning the American people for war once again.

The same rhetoric, the same propaganda -- albeit more refined -- that was used before the invasion of Iraq is now being employed vis-à-vis Iran.

The following video documents the frightening similarities between what is being said now about Iran and everything that we were told about Iraq before the war which later turned out to be false:

Remember, we were told that there was "irrefutable evidence" that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. Five years later, the weapons have yet to be found. Now, we are being told that Iran is racing to build nuclear bombs, even though a recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report showed that the Iranians halted their weapons program in 2003.

America cannot afford to go to war with Iran! We have already lost over 4,000 men and women in Iraq. We are currently borrowing over $2 billion a day (mainly from China and Saudi Arabia) to pay for the war in Iraq, in addition to printing more dollars that are backed by nothing. We have $9.5 trillion in public debt, while our total debt reaches upwards of $50 trillion ($50,000,000,000,000).