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Pigford's Original Black Farmers Unhappy Over Massive Fraud - Media Ignores

bigjournalism.com

December 10, 2010

Remember when Brian Williams showcased the story of Pigford whistleblower Jimmy Dismuke's firsthand account of fraud in the case?

"Even if you got a potted plant, that makes you a farmer," Dismuke recalled of the meetings he attended with Thomas Burrell, President of the Black Farmers and Agriculture Association. "I thought that was pretty odd because I was really a farmer. I didn't know that was the easy way you could farm and get money!"

Stuxnet still out of control at Iranian nuke facilities

hotair.com

December 9, 2010

Old theory: Stuxnet is a fiendishly clever mega-virus designed by an elite team of U.S./Israel hackers to basically explode Iran's nuclear facilities from the inside.

New theory: Stuxnet is an alien computer code passed to U.S. intelligence by cyborg time travelers who journeyed here through the Matrix to save our world from Iranian nuclear aggression before it's. too. late. Media theory: Stuxnet is something Obama and Hillary came up with in their spare time while messing around on the computer, because they're just that smart and capable. Nothing can be ruled in or out, my friends.

EPW report on China's supposed "green" leadership

hotair.com

December 8, 2010

In fact, China produces less than 1% of its domestic energy in the form of non-hydro renewables.

While Thomas Friedman writes paeans to China's authoritarian regime and its ability to use its command economy to dictate development of renewable energy sources, the truth is that China is heavily invested in coal. In an exclusive first look at the report for Hot Air readers, the report shows that China is on a course to dominate the oil markets in both production and consumption - partnering with our adversaries to get to a dominant position, while China already leads the world in coal...

DHS confirms cheaper to deport every illegal alien than allowing them to stay

examiner.com

December 8, 2010

On December 3, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Nelson Peacock, responding to request from several U.S. Senators, including Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), wrote: "Our conservative estimate suggests that ICE would require a budget of more than $135 billion to apprehend, detain and remove the nation's entire illegal immigrant population." In July 2010, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) released the results of a study which examined the costs of illegal immigration at the federal, state and local levels. The study found that U.S. state and local governments shell out $84.2 billion annually in various services (law enforcement, schools, social services, etc.), with California taxpayers alone, spending $21 billion on illegal aliens every year.

NPR, PBS Soon Extinct?

bigjournalism.com

December 8, 2010

We have to cut something to pay for the extra 13 months of unemployment benefits!

(Especially as we wait for tax cut revenue to replenish the coffers, though the coffers would fill up more and quicker if we had more economic stability beyond two measly years since no business owner/employer sketches anything out for such a short amount of time.)

Chart of the ... year

hotair.com

December 7, 2010

This chart demonstrates the folly of the Obama administration's insistence that we have been experiencing a recovery and any sort of significant growth in job creation.

After hitting the nadir of job losses relative to our peak inter-recession employment, we have essentially flatlined for far longer than any other post-recession period. Nothing in the data shows a hint that we will soon break out of that pattern either, and Ben Bernanke says we'll probably go four to five more years on this same trajectory.

Supreme Court to hear key climate-change appeal

hotair.com

December 6, 2010

The Supreme Court signaled its interest in the debates over global warming, the use of courts to impose costs on energy producers, and potentially the reach of executive branch agencies.

The court accepted an appeal from eight states over a lawsuit that would have forced by court order energy producers to lower greenhouse-gas emissions, a blow to the plaintiffs that wanted to limit energy production by filing public-nuisance lawsuits...

New Fed study suggests net job creation from Porkulus was...zero

hotair.com

December 6, 2010

Instead of adding two million jobs to the economy, the Fed finds that any new jobs added had disappeared by August of this year.

Well, all anyone needed to do was look at unemployment over the last 19 months to figure that much out. We have had 19 months of joblessness at 9% or higher, a record in the post-WWII era, despite the administration's insistence that the outlay would curtail the extension of unemployment. That number is lower than it should be, thanks to a generational low in the workforce-to-population ratio, too. The number of the unemployed and discouraged workers didn't drop; in fact, those numbers have grown since Porkulus.

"Rich people aren't here so let's pick their pockets when they aren't looking."

therealrevo.com

December 3, 2010

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) explains that if taxes aren't immediately raised on a small minority of the population who already pay a disproportionately large percentage of all taxes, it is the same as if we are being held hostage by Republican terroris

He also explains that, since none of the people in the room will receive the tax increase he is promoting, it is totally cool to impose it on those not present. He is flabbergasted that everybody doesn't see the wisdom in his argument. Here is a thought, Senator: Don't raise the taxes of anyone and cut the size of your damned Leviathan state.

What Social Signals Do Google and Bing Really Count?

searchengineland.com

December 1, 2010

Both Google and Bing have added many social search features over the past year. There's also been talk about using "social signals" to help rank regular search results.

But are either of the major search engines actually using those social signals to rank regular search results? A bit, they tell me. In particular, your stature on Twitter could help influence how a page ranks in web search. I gave Bing and Google six questions about how they use social data from Twitter and Facebook. In particular, I wanted to know how that data influenced regular web search results, not the impact it has on the dedicated social search tools they have.

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