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"Global Warming Has Stopped"? How to Fool People Using "Cherry-Picked" Climate Data

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Peter Gleick - Feb. 06 - The current favorite argument of those who argue that climate changes isn?t happening, or a problem, or worth dealing with, is that global warming has stopped. Therefore (they conclude) scientists must be wrong when they say that climate change is caused by humans, worsening, and ultimately a serious environmental problem

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Why Are the Chinese Buying Record-Quantities of Gold?

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - Jan. 30 (News) - One answer, among many, stands out

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What's Funny About Taxes? Ask the World's First "Stand-Up Economist"

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Carol Pinchefsky - Jan. 26 (Comedy News) - Dr. Yoram Bauman is an environmental economist at the University of Washington who has an unusual second career: stand-up comedian. Calling himself "the world's first stand-up economist," Bauman spends his spare time performing in comedy clubs, such as Carolines on Broadway, as well as more scholarly venues, such as the American Economic Association. He also authored The Cartoon Introduction to Economics.

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If You Thought SOPA Was Bad, Just Wait Until You Meet ACTA

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By E.D. Kain - Jan. 23 - Video Image by mermadon 1967 via Flickr When sites like Wikipedia and Reddit banded together for a major blackout January 18th, the impact was felt all the way to Washington D.C. The blackout had lawmakers running from the controversial anti-piracy legislation, SOPA and PIPA, which critics said threatened freedom of speech online. [...]

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This Is America's Moment, If Washington Doesn't Blow It

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Joel Kotkin - Jan. 19 - The vast majority of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, and, according to a 2011 Pew Survey, close to a majority feel that China has already surpassed the U.S. as an economic power.

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Even the Warmists Don't Believe In Global Warming

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Louis Woodhill - Dec. 29 - It is obvious that even if "climate change" is happening, and even if it is a bad thing, it is not going to be reversed by reducing CO2 emissions.

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Ron Paul Should Be The Next President Of The United States

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Jason Raznick - Dec. 07 - Image via Wikipedia The United States of America may potentially be on the precipice of a Greek-style debt crisis within a few years, and our economy is increasingly looking like it may be at risk of entering another recession - and the Financial Crisis 2.0 could make the Great Recession look tame.

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The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah!

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:32:22 -0800

Forbes - Dec. 02 - Rick Ungar / The Policy Page: The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah! — I have long argued that the impact of the Affordable Care Act is not nearly as big of a deal as opponents would have you believe. At the end of the day, the law is - in the main - little more than a successful effort to put an end …

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Bad Accounting Killed the US Economy

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

populist.com - By Bob Burnett - Nov. 02 (News Analysis) - In each case Dell accepted the proposal because from a perspective of making money, it made sense: Dell’s revenues were unaffected and its profits improved significantly. However, the next time ASUSTeK came back, it wasn’t to talk to Dell. It was to talk to Best Buy and other retailers to tell them that they could offer them their own brand or any brand PC for 20% lower cost.”

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U.S. Economy Is Five Years Into Its Own Lost Decade As Recession Appears Unavoidable

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Agustino Fontevecchia - Oct. 05 - Despite resistance to the idea of Japanese style lost decade in the U.S., the economy has grown on average 0.7% a year since the beginning of the deleveraging cycle that started when the housing bubble began to burst, and it will be stuck at low growth rates for time to come, despite Bernanke's efforts.

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Why Anti-Science Ideology is Bad for America - Forbes

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:53:10 -0700

Forbes - Aug. 31 - Why Anti-Science Ideology is Bad for AmericaForbesHe is an internationally recognized climate and water expert and works at the intersection of science and policy, including issues related to the integrity of science. His work addresses the critical connections between water and health, ...Whistle-Blowers Say Obama Fails ScientistsBloomberg“Whistle-Blowers Say Obama Fails to Save Scientists From Meddling”Climate Science Watchall 3 news articles »

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Get Real: Hurricane Irene Should Be Renamed "Hurricane Hype"

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Patrick Michaels - Aug. 27 - More hurrican insanity threatens the east coast.

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How USA Today Slips $82 Million a Year Onto Your Hotel Bill

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Jeff Bercovici - Aug. 02 (News) - Gannett Co., the publisher of USA Today, has been profiting to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year from these small charges.

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An Unemployment Report That Screams Spectacular Failure

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Charles Kadlec - Jul. 12 (Opinion) - Spectacular failure. These words came to mind as the dismal employment data for June were released last Friday. After the biggest spending binge in peacetime American history, the unemployment rate is stuck above 9%, while in May fewer than 20,000 jobs were created in what was once a vibrant U.S. economy. Adding in discouraged workers drives the combined rate to 16.2%. Wage rates fell, as did the average workweek.

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Here's The Legal Complaint WikiLeaks Is Threatening To File Against Visa, MasterCard

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Andy Greenberg - Jul. 01 (News Report) - More than six months have passed since Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and others cut WikiLeaks’ purse strings. And if that blockade lasts six more days, the secret-spilling group plans to take its financial fight to the courtroom. If Visa Europe and MasterCard Europe haven’t re-opened payment WikiLeaks by next Thursday, the group and its payment provider DataCell plan to file a complaint with the E.U. Commission against the two companies as well as the Danish payment processor Teller, according to Sveinn Andri Sveinsson, the Icelandic lawyer for WikiLeaks and DataCell.

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Polar Ice Rapture Misses Its Deadline

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By James Taylor - May. 26 (Opinion) - While Harold Camping spends this week trying to wipe egg off his face after real-world events spectacularly falsified his prediction that the Christian rapture would occur on May 21, global warming alarmists are similarly trying to wipe egg off their faces after real-world events spectacularly falsified their predictions of an imminent polar ice rapture.

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Slow Growth Will Destroy America

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Rich Karlgaard - May. 12 (Opinion) - America must get back to 3.5%-plus annual growth or the country will cease to exist as we know it.

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Facebook Responds To Julian Assange's 'Spying Machine' Allegations

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Forbes - May. 03 (News) - Julian Assange called Facebook the world's "most appalling machine ever invented."

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Bradley Manning 'Broke The Law,' Obama Says (VIDEO)

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Apr. 22 (News) - President Barack Obama said Pfc. Bradley Manning broke the law following a fundraiser in San Francisco, Calif. on Thursday, Forbes reports.

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Prana Biosciences Skyrockets On Parkinson's Drug Success

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Al Zheimer - Mar. 22 (News) - Prana Biotechnology today announced the publication of new data on the ability of PBT2 to repair the damage in an Alzheimer's affected brain thereby facilitating the restoration of cognition in Alzheimer's Disease. The findings help to explain the rapid improvement in cognition previously reported in transgenic Alzheimer's mice and in patients in a Phase IIa clinical trial.

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The Wisconsin Lie Exposed - Taxpayers Actually Contribute Nothing To Public Employee Pensions

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:11:36 -0800

Forbes - Feb. 25 - Pulitzer Prize winning tax reporter, David Cay Johnston, has written a brilliant piece for tax.com exposing the truth about who really pays for the pension and benefits for public employees in Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker says he wants state workers covered by collective bargaining agreements to "contribute more" to their pension [...]

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USA Inc.: Mary Meeker’s Deep Dive Into The Federal Budget

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:43:03 -0800

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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:49:43 -0800

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The Deepening Mysteries of U.N. Financial Disclosure

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Claudia Rosett - Nov. 15 (News Analysis) - Many areas want looking into. These range from assorted fiascos of U.N. peacekeeping and sanctions regimes, to such questions as who’s actually benefiting from U.S. money given to the U.N. (now more than $6 billion per year) and from the credibility that U.S. support lends to the institution (priceless). But a common theme running through all of this is the U.N.’s continuing failure to provide transparency and accountability. On that score, there’s a certain sorry entertainment value — as well as serious questions — to be found in browsing the U.N.’s current version of financial disclosure, as practiced by senior U.N. officials.

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Denying the Catstrophe: The Science of the Climate Skeptic’s Position

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Warren Meyer - Oct. 16 (News Analysis) - What skeptics deny is the catastrophe, the notion that man’s incremental contributions to CO2 levels will create catastrophic warming and wildly adverse climate changes. To understand the skeptic’s position requires understanding something about the alarmists’ case that is seldom discussed in the press: the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming is actually comprised of two separate, linked theories, of which only the first is frequently discussed in the media.

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