Glenn Beck: Climate Change = Climate of Fear

In this video CNN’s Glenn Beck takes on the fear mongering of the global warming movement in his special “Exposed: The Climate of Fear”. Glenn Beck is very popular on CNN and this video is very easy to watch and entertaining. But it is informative as well. It does a good job of refuting Al [...]

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The Miraculous Ethanol Cure: Not Quite What You Think

Along with the climate change movement comes the movement for renewable energies, one of which is Ethanol–produced from corn and sugar plantations. It’s a natural alternative to petroleum and is a cleaner and cheaper fuel. The push for ethanol and similar alternative fuels is one of the fiercest lobbies especially in US politics.
Should it be? [...]

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Michael Milken and Muhammad Yunus On The Credit Crisis

Veteran interviewer Charlie Rose features legendary bond trader Michael Milken (of the 80s junk bond era) and economist and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus who founded Grameen Bank which pushed micro-credit in Bangladesh.
These two distinguished individuals share fantastic insights on the Bangladesh micro-credit experience and how lessons from self-employment are relevant to the global [...]

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Sustainable Development = Food Scarcity?

This alert comes from CO2Science.Org

In a paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, four British scientists report that “agriculture accounts for 80-90% of all freshwater used by humans,” that “most of that is in crop production,” and that “in many areas, this water use is unsustainable.” As a [...]

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The Weird Mathematics Behind The Kyoto Treaty

Some interesting info I encountered, which I bet 95% of people are ignorant about regarding the climate change facts. This is regarding the famous Kyoto Protocol or Kyoto Treaty.
In case you aren’t up to speed about the Kyoto Protocol, from wikipedia:
The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [...]

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Testing The Idea of Man-Made Global Warming

I love this quote:
science is not about consensus, it is about testing hypotheses
This was said by Australian geologist, Bob Carter, who recently did a presentation which examines the premises of man-made global warming against accumulated weather statistics and temperature changes on the earth in the past.
Carter’s research is very timely in an age when the [...]

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What Ben Stein Said And Didn’t Say About Christmas

Coming from ronnie’s insight on the need to fill spiritual emptiness from our article on climate change, I just happen to remember that I read an email that echoes something of this sentiment–coming from a theist perspective.
I received via chain email Ben Stein’s live confession (c. 2005) about Christmas, being a Jew, and atheism. Here’s [...]

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Eye To Eye: Obama on McCain, McCain on Obama

Part of good critical thinking is exercising your ability not just to point out the weaknesses in your opponent but their strengths. This and more sentimental issues help us compare and contrast Senators McCain and Obama.
Good clip.

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Obama and McCain dance off their differences

It’s amazing what’s possible with today’s digital imaging coupled with a great sense of humor:

Note: watch out for the surprise challenger.

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Peter Schiff on Glenn Beck: Threat of Martial Law 10/09/08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MiBn8QnpDE&feature=related
Like him or loathe him, last night CNN’s Glenn Beck became the only mainstream media source thus far to address on national TV the reality of the situation Americans are facing with the manufactured financial implosion – the direct threat of domestic martial law and a global financial dictatorship.

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