British scientists are investigating whether an ordinary hosepipe can be used to shoot particles into the atmosphere - like an erupting volcano - and cool down Earth. A prototype balloon has been built and will be hoisted into the air next month from an abandoned airfield in England in a £200,000 experiment. ...read
Former FBI agent and interrogator Ali Soufan talks about dysfunction and rivalries inside the government's counterterrorism agencies that led to missed opportunities — as well as the ineffectiveness of enhanced interrogation techniques on collecting intelligence.
Categories: 2012, Campaign money, Republicans
Political contributions from drug maker Merck to Texas Gov. Rick Perry are substantially higher than he said at Monday night's CNN/Tea Party Express debate.
Perry low-balled the number, saying the contribution was just $5,000. But since 2001. Merck has given Perry a total of $28,500.
In the debate, Rep. Michele Bachmann accused Perry of mandating a statewide innoculation program using the Merck-made vaccine Gardasil after the pharmaceutical giant gave money for his 2006 campaign.
Perry said the contribution was just $5,000 and said: "And if you're saying I can be bought for five thousand — I'm offended." But the 2006 contribution was actually $6,000.
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Pictures taken by Charles Cushman, of Indiana, are even more impressive today - as they were taken on pricey colour Kodachrome and look far more recent than they actually are. He went around the city taking photos of architecture such as the Brooklyn Bridge and other parts of the Manhattan skyline - and it's hard to believe they were taken while World War Two was going on.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is moving at a historic pace to try to diversify the nation's federal judiciary: Nearly three of every four people he has gotten confirmed to the federal bench are women or minorities. He is the first president who hasn't selected a majority of white males for lifetime judgeships.More than 70 percent of Obama's confirmed judicial nominees during his first two years were "non-traditional," or nominees who were not white males. That far exceeds the percentages in the two-term administrations of Bill Clinton (48.1 percent) and George W. Bush (32.9 percent), according to Sheldon Goldman, author of the authoritative book "Picking Federal Judges."
For those eager to put some math to the rhetoric coming from the White House over the president's jobs creation plan, and that should be everyone, here is a quick and dirty estimate based on the numbers being thrown around of a 2 percent GDP increase in year 1 and 1.9 million jobs created or saved...most saved, as in those you can't really quantify. Said otherwise, roughly a $300 billion increase in GDP yields 1.9 million jobs. So far so good.
The new Bugatti Veyron L'Or Blanc super sports car is seen during the Volkswagen car group preview show ahead of the Frankfurt international car show. The world's biggest motor show opens to the public on Saturday and runs until September 25.
The Mercedes F125 concept car
The BMW i8 concept car uses a three-cylinder internal combustion engine teamed with an electric motor to deliver fuel consumption in the region of 94mpg and 0-62mph acceleration in less than five seconds
...The interior of the Citroën Tubik concept nine-seater
The new Volkswagen VW Up! is presented in Buggy and Eco versions
President Obama demands "more effective, co-ordinated" fiscal policy, reflecting the anger of Americans who blame Europe for the current economic turmoil, as JP Morgan warns EMU crisis is nearing "endgame".
Republican Bob Turner, (l) is leading Democrat David Weprin in New York's special election to replace disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner.
The race to succeed disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner appears to be headed for a photo finish Tuesday as Republicans sought to tap voter anger with President Obama to win the heavily Democratic district for the first time since 1923.
Public opinion polling shows Republican Bob Turner with a slight lead over Democrat David Weprin in the special election that was supposed to be a cake walk for Weprin with Democrats. That has prompted national Democrats to engineer a last-minute rescue effort, including pouring cash into the race and sending in their heavyweights to try to save Weprin, a state lawmaker who has tried to focus on his independence from Washington and close ties to the community.
Doonesbury character Roland Hedley reads actual excerpts of an upcoming Sarah Palin biography, frantically seeking to give them a positive spin.
In the world of juicy book leaks, this one takes the cake.
Fox News reporter and Doonesbury cartoon character Roland Hedley (fictional) leaked details about Joe McGinniss’s unauthorized biography of Sarah Palin (real) in comic strip in papers Tuesday by cartoonist Garry Trudeau.
A promotions genius, author McGinniss first made headlines when he appointed himself Ms. Palin’s biographer, moved to Wasilla, Alaska, and rented the house next to Palin’s, the better to observe her comings and goings (and prompted an angry Facebook response from the former governor). This time, McGinniss gave out several copies of his unreleased biography of Palin,“The Rogue: Searching for Sarah Palin,” including one to Doonesbury cartoonist Trudeau, who previewed the book in Tuesday’s Doonesbury comic strip.
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 06: Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) admits to sending a lewd Twitter photo of himself to a woman and then lying about it during a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel on 7th Avenue on June 6, 2011 in New York City. Weiner said he had not met any of the women in person but had numerous sexual relationships online while married. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
The White House is girding for a political loss in the heart of New York on Tuesday. They’re also spinning up an explanation that won’t entirely result in the blame landing on the low popularity of the president. As in Massachusetts, where Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley was faulted by the White House and many others for tone-deaf campaigning, Democratic candidate Dave Weprin may see the undercarriage of that new White House campaign bus.
FACT: Historically, Republicans have been on the forefront of creating public funds for basic science research. One of the agencies that's most endangered by budget cuts, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was established by Republican President Richard Nixon. Though this agency has done some of the most important work to uncover the dangers of environmental hazards like the growing ozone hole, Democratic President Barak Obama argued just over a week ago that the agency needs to go.
The National Science Foundation has been a darling of Republicans since its founding in the 1950s. Under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, funding for NSF doubled, and the administration praised the role of basic science research. Indeed, the last time we saw cuts to science funding comparable to those over the past few years, it was during the Democratic Clinton Administration.
Today, some politicians are arguing that science funding should bear the brunt of the coming budget cuts. Republican Senator Tom Coburn has sponsored an extensive study of how NSF's funding is "wasteful." But many politicians, from both parties, still support science funding, and historically Republicans have worked hand-in-hand with Democrats to expand budgets for science research of all kinds, from environmental science to medicine.
Speaking during a visit to a work and welfare support centre in Brixton today, David Cameron said: 'We are getting rid of the old idea that you can get your welfare without conditions being put on that. Benefits claimants whose poor language skills are preventing them from getting a job will be referred to specialist free English language training courses. The Prime Minister is pictured talking to employment specialist, Shahida Din.
The 10-year-old beluga at the Shimane aquarium in Japan has perfected the technique over the last three years and now stuns visitors with her unique talent. She uses her mouth to blow the water to make a current, then her blow hole to break the current into a ring shape.
Leila Lopes hugged runner-up Miss Ukraine, Olesia Stefanko, before having her crown firmly placed on her head at the pageant held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The business student from Angola's seaside city of Beguela, dazzled the panel of judges with both her beauty and brains.
“The misnamed ‘Arab Spring,’ really a convulsion of a dying society, began with food shortages. Egypt imports half its caloric consumption, 45% of its people are illiterate, its university graduates are unemployable, its $10 billion a year tourism industry is shuttered for the duration, and its foreign exchange reserves are gradually disappearing.”
As President Obama, shown volunteering last year at a soup kitchen, struggles with a stalled economy, a new report finds more Americans living in poverty than at any time since the '50s — a 6 percent jump in just a year.
OBAMASCARE: 1.5 million lose health insurance from employers...
2 million added to gov't rolls...
Another federal judge rules against Obamacare...
President Obama's plan to require individual Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty exceeds the powers granted both the president and Congress by the Constitution, a federal district court judge ruled Tuesday in Harrisburg
Federal District Judge Christopher C. Connor said the federal government's power to regulate interstate commerce does not give it the power to compel individual citizens to purchase products against their will.
"The nation undoubtably faces a health-care crisis," Conner said. "Scores of individuals are uninsured and the costs to all citizens are measurable and significant.
“The federal government, however, is one of limited enumerated powers,” Conner continued, “and Congress' efforts to remedy the ailing health care and health insurance markets must fit squarely within the boundaries of those powers."
46.2 million Americans are now poor...
22% of children in poverty...
Dramatic drop in median income...
Likely to worsen...
Data released by the Census Bureau today showed the proportion of people living in poverty climbed to 15.1 percent last year from 14.3 percent in 2009, and median household income declined 2.3 percent. The number of Americans living in poverty was the highest in the 52 years since the U.S. Census Bureau began gathering that statistic. Those figures may have worsened in recent months as the economy weakened.
The wages of class warfare.
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