90 Degrees in Winter: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like | The Nation

90 Degrees in Winter: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like | The Nation: "Beginning in mid-March, however, its various offices began issuing bulletins that sounded slightly shaken. “There’s extremes in weather, but seeing something like this is impressive and unprecedented,” Chicago NWS meteorologist Richard Castro told the Daily Herald. “It’s extraordinarily rare for climate locations with 100+ year long periods of records to break records day after day after day,” the office added in an official statement."

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Will Nuclear Megaton Shockwave Avert Earth-Bound Asteroid? « Zen Haven

Will Nuclear Megaton Shockwave Avert Earth-Bound Asteroid? « Zen Haven: "A well-placed nuclear explosion could actually save humanity from a big asteroid hurtling toward Earth, just like in the movies, a new study suggests.

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a United States Department of Energy facility in New Mexico, used a supercomputer to model nukes’ anti-asteroid effectiveness.

They attacked a 1,650-foot-long (500-meter) space rock with a 1-megaton nuclear weapon — about 50 times more powerful than the U.S. blast inflicted on Nagasaki, Japan, to help end World War II. The results were encouraging. “Ultimately this 1-megaton blast will disrupt all of the rocks in the rockpile of this asteroid, and if this were an Earth-crossing asteroid, would fully mitigate the hazard represented by the initial asteroid itself,”"

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Florida state workers face random drug tests under new law | Reuters

Florida state workers face random drug tests under new law | Reuters: "The Republican governor signed the Drug-free Workplace Act, which will permit state agencies to randomly test up to 10 percent of their employees, his office said on Monday.

Tests could be conducted once every 90 days under the measure, which takes effect July 1. It would allow agencies to fire or discipline employees the first time they test positive for drugs.

Employers could choose to refer such employees to an alcohol and drug rehabilitation program."

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Obama to tout green energy ‘investments’ at solar facility employing 5 workers, relying on $54 million in taxpayer subsidies | Nevada Journal

Obama to tout green energy ‘investments’ at solar facility employing 5 workers, relying on $54 million in taxpayer subsidies | Nevada Journal: " President Obama will tout investments in “renewable” energy Wednesday at the local Copper Mountain Solar 1 plant, although the plant has only five full-time employees.

The plant, owned by San Diego-based energy company Sempra, was built in late 2010 at a cost of $141 million. Funding included $42 million in federal-government tax credits and $12 million in tax-rebate commitments from the state of Nevada.

Construction of the plant involved over 300 part-time jobs, but currently only five full-time employees operate the plant, a Sempra spokeswoman confirmed. That comes out to $10.8 million in tax-dollar subsidies per employee."

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IRS may share tax info with police to fight fraud | Reuters

IRS may share tax info with police to fight fraud | Reuters: "In a move that could spark concerns over personal privacy, the IRS said it is considering a pilot program in Tampa, Florida, where identity theft and refund fraud are rife.

"We are limited in what we can supply to local law enforcement," said Steven Miller, deputy IRS commissioner for services and enforcement.

Tax return information is normally kept tightly secret by the IRS. Under the program, exceptions could be made, with the permission of victims of identity theft and tax refund fraud, so that bogus tax return documents could be shared with police."

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Obama seizes control over all food, farms, livestock, farm equipment, fertilizer and food production across America

Obama seizes control over all food, farms, livestock, farm equipment, fertilizer and food production across America: " "We told ya so" just doesn't quite cut it anymore. As the American sheeple slept, selfishly refusing to take a stand against tyranny, the Obama administration has been plotting what can only be called a total government takeover of America.

On March 16, 2012, President Obama issued an executive order entitled, "NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS." (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order...)"

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Toulouse Armed Stand-Off: Gunman Mohammed Merah In Shoot-Out With Police After Seven Murders | World News | Sky News

Toulouse Armed Stand-Off: Gunman Mohammed Merah In Shoot-Out With Police After Seven Murders | World News | Sky News: "An al Qaeda-linked gunman accused of killing seven people on a bloody gun rampage through France may have had a new attack planned for today, it has emerged.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy told Jewish community representatives the suspected Islamist gunman besieged in Toulouse had planned another attack, a Jewish leader said.
Nicole Yardeni, head of the CRIF Jewish group in the Midi-Pyrenees region, said Mr Sarkozy had told them the shooter "already had a plan to kill again" and that "he planned to kill this morning""

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Paris. A bomb exploded outside the Indonesian Embassy - Terrorism - West france.fr

Paris. A bomb exploded outside the Indonesian Embassy - Terrorism - West france.fr: "According to preliminary results, the police were tipped off by someone who took care of trash and saw a bag placed under the window of the embassy.

"He looked inside, opened it and thought he recognized an explosive device as he saw a bottle with son. He dropped the bag, he left and called police. The device exploded at that time " , told the chief of staff of the police prefect of Paris Jean-Louis Fiamenghi, who was on site Wednesday morning."

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China's monopoly on rare earths may soon be broken - environment - 21 March 2012 - New Scientist

China's monopoly on rare earths may soon be broken - environment - 21 March 2012 - New Scientist: "It's a rare fight. The US, Europe and Japan have lodged a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization over China's export of rare earths – or lack of it.

China produces 95 per cent of the global supply of the 17 metals, which are used in technologies from cellphones to wind turbines, but it has set up quotas restricting exports.

Despite their name, rare earths can be mined on most continents, although the cost of extraction has been too high to be economical. China's quotas may have helped push up demand – and prices – enough to make extraction cost-effective."

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FBI Linked to Yet Another Domestic Terrorism Plot -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

FBI Linked to Yet Another Domestic Terrorism Plot -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "In its latest effort to panic the American public, the FBI last month fabricated an alleged al Qaeda terror plot against the U.S. Capitol Building. According to reports published by Russian news outlet RT and others, after arresting an intoxicated American-born drug dealer of Moroccan descent, FBI agents drove him to the Capitol and handed him a fake bomb before summarily rearresting him on Feb. 17.

Over the course of a year, 29-year-old Amine El Khalifi, who was clearly mentally ill and often high on cocaine and other drugs, was persuaded by an FBI informant to agree to attack the U.S. Capitol. Because El Khalifi didn't have a gun, a bomb or a car, the FBI informant graciously offered to provide him all three - and thus El Khalifi was driven to the U.S. Capitol building by the FBI, handed a gun and a bomb, and then arrested as an "al Qaeda operative." "

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