Like US, UK has been starving small and medium sized businesses

Tweet "Given evidence of continued impairment in the flow of credit to some parts of the real economy, notably small and medium-sized businesses"...

10/7/11, "Bank of England governor fears crisis is 'worst ever'," BBC

"Bank of England governor Mervyn King has said this financial crisis could be the worst the UK has ever seen.

His comments came after the Bank authorised the injection of a further £75bn into the economy through quantitative easing (QE).

Explaining the move Sir Mervyn told Sky News: "This is the most serious financial crisis we've seen at least since the 1930s, if not ever."...

"Mervyn King wrote to the chancellor earlier on Thursday, setting out the MPC's case for expanding the asset purchasing programme.

In his letter of response, in which he authorised the move, Chancellor George Osborne said: "I agree that an increase in the ceiling would provide the MPC with scope to vary the stance of monetary policy to meet the inflation target."

In his speech to the Conservative Party conference earlier in the week, Mr Osborne said that the Treasury would look into "credit easing" - a way to underwrite loans to small businesses who are struggling to get credit now.

He confirmed this in his letter to Mr King: "Given evidence of continued impairment in the flow of credit to some parts of the real economy, notably small and medium-sized businesses, the Treasury is exploring further policy actions. Such interventions should complement the MPC's asset purchases.""...

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All of this was predictable, preventable, and in the private sector would often result in jail time. Government is the best place to be today if you like white collar crime. ed.

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Bad parenting creates adolescents and young adults who drink to excess

Tweet 8/27/11, "Parenting style strongly affects drinking, Demos says," BBC

"Parenting style is one of the strongest influences on how a child drinks as a young adult, a study suggests.

• Independent think tank Demos studied data based on more than 30,000 children born in the UK in the last 40 years....

Data used in Demos's study came from the 1970 British Cohort Study and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children....

It found that a "tough love" style of parenting was the best way to ensure children drank more responsibly when they were aged between 16 and 34.

The research also suggests that being too authoritarian with children could be as ineffectual as being too casual.

Researchers found that the best approach was for parents to be warm and affectionate until the age of 10 and then combine this with more discipline. Then at ages 15 to 16 there should be more supervision.

It found high levels of parental attachment when children were aged under five significantly

• reduced the chances of them drinking excessively later in life.

Demos's study found children more than eight times more likely to drink excessively at that age and

• over twice as likely to binge drink when they were 34."

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Thick Arctic Ice increasing for 3 years per NSIDC, $cientific American has access to same data but says the OPPO$ITE

Tweet 4/8/11, "Scientific American vs NSIDC," Real Science, S. Goddard

• Scientific American, April 7, 2011 inaccurately says thick Arctic Ice has decreased. NSIDC chart shows it has increased for the past 3 years ('Figure 5' NSIDC article, bottom of page):
  

4/7/11, "Government Shutdown Would Put Arctic Study on Ice," Scientific American

"Over the past several years, the proportion of older, thicker Arctic sea ice has fallen, leaving polar waters dominated by thinner ice* that forms in the fall and melts in the summer."...(last paragraph, page 1) (*see end of this post re "thin ice")

• Following is NSIDC actual ice chart and data:
  

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4/5/11, "Ice extent low at start of melt season; ice age increases over last year," NSIDC

"New data on ice age shows that the amount of older, thicker ice has increased slightly over last year."...(item in first paragraph, but it's actually increased for 3 years per NSIDC chart below, 'Figure 5' near bottom of page on NSIDC site). "Older ice has been increasing for the last three years. Apparently SA lacks access to the Internet"
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*Regarding 'thin ice'

*Researchers found they were mistaken in believing 'thin ice' would melt more easily, as in SA article item above. This notion about thin ice has been proven false according to NSID (citation below). There is so much money at stake that apparently some people want the facts kept quiet.

Arctic Sea ice maintains 30 year level, Arctic Research Center

• "Thirty years of sea ice data. The record begins at 1979, the year satellite observations began (Source: Arctic Research Center, University of Illinois)"

"Why were predictions so wrong? Researchers had expected the newer sea ice,

• which is thinner, to be less resilient and melt easier.

Instead, the thinner ice had less snow cover to insulate it from the bitterly cold air,

• and therefore grew much faster than expected, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center."...

1/1/09, "Sea Ice ends year at same level as 1979,"

"Rapid growth spurt leaves amount of ice at levels seen 29 years ago," Daily Tech, M. Asher

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P.S. The Scientific American article title expresses concern about a "government shutdown." This topic is only in the news because Obama chose not to pass a budget in October 2010 when he had majorities in both the House (overwhelmingly) and the Senate. Did Scientific American wonder then why the American people were treated so cavalierly while their country was in such crisis?
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Reference: http://www.scientificamerican.com"...

"http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2011/040511.html




via Tom Nelson

Hamilton College invites admitted liar Al Gore to give commencement address and will disgracefully award him an honorary degree

Tweet Gore said he lied about the efficacy of corn ethanol in an attempt to get elected president. NY Mayor Bloomberg said in 2008 US ethanol policy will ensure starvation and death, as rising food prices "always do." Knowing all this, Hamilton College invites Al Gore as an example of what?

• Fraud and mass murder?

3/3/11, "Hamilton College announces Al Gore will give commencement address," WKTV News, Clinton, New York

"Former Vice President Al Gore will deliver the commencement address at Hamilton College this spring. The 45th vice president will deliver his speech in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

• Gore was most recently in Central New York, and Hamilton College, in April of 2007. He was a speaker in the college's Sacerdote Great Names.

Gore will also be awarded an honorary degree along with longtime benefactor of the college Patsy Couper. A 1989 Hamilton graduate, Paul Lieberstein, will also be honored. Lieberstein is co-executive producer, writer and actor in the NBC sitcom "The Office."

• Gore will deliver his speech at the college's 199th commencement on Sunday, May 22nd.

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11/22/10, Reuters: On the rise of food prices, Gore "said there was no doubt

• biofuels have an effect" on food prices.
  

"The size, the percentage of corn particularly, which is now being (used for) first generation ethanol definitely has an impact on food prices.

• "The competition with food prices is real.""...

11/22/10, "US corn ethanol "was not a good policy"-Gore," Reuters

The US ethanol industry will consume 41% of the US corn crop this year....

"Total U.S. ethanol subsidies reached $7.7 billion last year according to the International Energy Industry, which said

• biofuels worldwide

• received more subsidies

• than any other form of renewable energy."...

(continuing, Reuters)

GORE: ""It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for (U.S.) first generation ethanol," said Gore, speaking at a green energy business conference in Athens sponsored by Marfin Popular Bank.

• "First generation ethanol I think was a mistake. The energy conversion ratios are at best very small....

He explained his own support for the original programme

• on his presidential ambitions.

"One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for

• the farmers in the state of Iowa because
  

• I was about to run for president.""...

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2/11/08, "Bloomberg slams U.S. energy law over corn ethanol" Reuters by Louis Charbonneau and Timothy Gardner

"A new U.S. energy law will cause an increase in global food prices and lead to starvation deaths worldwide

because it continues to promote corn ethanol, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday.

• "People literally will starve to death in parts of the world,
• it always happens when food prices go up," Bloomberg told reporters

after addressing a U.N. General Assembly debate on climate change....

"Cuban leader Fidel Castro blasted the Bush administration's biofuels policy as "genocidal" in a series of articles last year, saying

• they threatened to worsen global hunger by pushing up prices for food crops used to make ethanol."...

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ObamaCare support fading, Journolister Ezra Klein having palpitations

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2/9/11, "ObamaCare support melting away," Washington Post, Jennifer Rubin

"Pretty much as expected by conservatives, Obamacare has remained unpopular with the public. It's under attack in the courts. And now, vulnerable Senate Democrats are running for the hills. ABC News reports:

"We're looking at everything humanly possible. I've always had a concern and a problem with the mandate, that we were forcing it, basically saying by the law of the land you have to buy the product," Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV, told ABC News today. "But on the other hand, I know that's been the linchpin. I'm looking for flexibility any way I can."

Manchin is one of the moderate Democrats trying to figure out how to repeal the individual mandate. While talks are still in the early stages, Manchin hopes the push will take shape sooner rather than later.

Joining him in these efforts could be a handful of other Democrats who are also up for reelection in 2012: Nebraska's Ben Nelson, Missouri's Claire McCaskill, and Montana's Jon Tester.

You can understand why liberals might be starting to panic. So earnest Obamacare supporters are rushing in. Ezra Klein offers his contribution:

Replacing the individual mandate wouldn't be particularly hard. All we need is another policy that does the same thing -- specifically, discourages free-riders who don't want to buy insurance until after they get sick and thus leave the rest of us paying for them.

Not only is the repeal of the individual mandate no big deal, it's actually better for the Dems! Ezra announces, "The danger, as I say at the end, is not that the law does get changed, but that it doesn't. That the GOP won't let it thrive and the Democrats won't let it die and so it just limps along." (I guess the "historic legislation" was

• badly crafted, after all.)

This is not one of the more effective spin-squad efforts. To begin with, Democrats are running from Obamacare Their willingness to push for a major revision, one vehemently opposed by the White House, of the "historic legislation" is

• not a helpful sign for the saleability of the plan in the 2012 election.

As for the politics, Ezra has missed a key stumbling block: House Republicans and more than 40 Senate Republicans

• will not vote for an individual mandate-lite,
  

if you will. They want to repeal Obamacare outright or defund it. Remember, the Republicans are running and governing on repeal and replace. In other words, Obamacare can't be fixed in their eyes because the entire premise of the legislation and the cost it entails are unsustainable. Oh, and the president is opposed to it, too. In other words, virtually

• everyone save the nervous Senate Democrats is opposed to the idea of fiddling with the individual mandate.

Eventually the choice for red-state Democrats will be: Defend Obamacare as is or vote to repeal it. In the realm of electoral politics this is a

• "heads I win, tails you lose" proposition for the Republicans."

Sarah Palin was unknown in 2007 when Arizona shooter first targeted Giffords. They still want you to think Palin made him kill.

Tweet Did the NY Times object when George Bush was burned in effigy? The NY Times liked the clubhouse GOP who were happy being in the minority, and now begs the clubhouse GOP to join with them against the 'embarrassing' Tea Party. They and other media still try to paint Loughner --obviously incoherent and mentally ill, and who singled out Congresswoman Giffords as much as 4 years ago-

• before anyone outside of Alaska had ever heard of Sarah Palin

• and at a time when the Tea Party did not even exist...

as motivated to murder due to an anti-abortion belief obtained from Sarah Palin.

Even if 'political rhetoric' were the culprit in 2007, all he could have seen at that time were violent images against George Bush and war. (Examples below).

Loughner facts they hate, source link next to each:

1. His known confrontations with Giffords were easily accomplished as he lived with his parents "about a five-minute drive from the shootings." He also may have heard her speak at Pima Community College. AP

2. Loughner saved a letter from Giffords from 4 years ago (when her would have been 18 or 19, Sarah Palin was unknown and the Tea Party did not exist). "Instead, Loughner may have had some self-generated dislike of Giffords that stemmed from when he first spoke to her at an event in 2007.

Court filings indicate the FBI seized papers from his home Saturday that talked of planning an assassination of Giffords and also included a letter she sent him four years ago thanking him for attending the event.

One Loughner friend, Bryce Tierney, told Mother Jones magazine that Loughner had harbored a grudge against Giffords for more than a year, saying that he considered her a "fake."" McClatchy

3. He had had numerous run-ins with the police. "Between February and September, Loughner "had five contacts with PCC police for classroom and library disruptions," the statement said. He was suspended in September 2010 after college police discovered a YouTube video in which Loughner claimed the college was illegal according to the U.S. Constitution. He withdrew voluntarily the following month, and was told

• he could return only if, among other things, a mental health professional agreed he did not present a danger, the school said."AP (Where were this kid's parents?)
  

4. He was a high school drop out. McClatchy.

5. The Fox News report suggesting a link to supremacist groups has been discredited. The Real News Journal

6. He was expelled from an 8 week course at Pima County College after 3 weeks for "incoherent outbursts." McClatchy

7. Loughner was a daily pot smoker and drank heavily at least once to the point of hospitalization "and almost died." AP

8. He was an "ardent atheist" and believed "the government was behind 9/11." He did not engage in political discussions. AP "He had no coherent political ideology." (Reuters).

9. Here's the piece they're trying to make fit the anti-abortion motive (AP): "When other students, always seated, read their poems, Coorough said Loughner "would laugh at things that you wouldn't laugh at." After one woman read a poem about abortion, "he was turning all shades of red and laughing," and said, "Wow, she's just like a terrorist, she killed a baby," Coorough said."...

(Laughing about abortion shows someone not connected with the subject at all, not someone with a serious investment in it. ed)

"He appeared to be to me an emotional cripple or an emotional child," Coorough said. "He lacked compassion, he lacked understanding and he lacked an ability to connect."" AP

10. He had made numerous death threats against many people (no mention of abortion rights.) He never mentioned Giffords, guns or politics. Reuters.

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Below, "Peaceful political rhetoric" available in 2007 when he targeted Giffords was about hating and bombing George Bush in his 'f-ing house':

"KILL BUSH, BOMB HIS F--- HOUSE," Anti war protest March 18, 2007, San Francisco
via zombietime.com

• George Bush burned in effigy, November 2004, San Francisco. No calls to "TONE DOWN THE RHETORIC" of left wing speech: via Zombietime.com

"NYT: 'It's Legitimate to Blame Republicans and Their Most Virulent Supporters in the Media'" Newsbusters, 1/10/11

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In 2009 an Islamic member of the US Army slaughtered 13 innocent Americans. His violent ideas and emotional problems were known but the Army kept moving him through the system. We were told not to jump to conclusions about anything. The media was hushed.

• (No mention of the US Army being accessories to murder via political correctness, or the killer being confrontational about Islam during work concurrent with references to violence and death).

Reference: 9/16/10, "The Tea Party's Snarl," NY Times Editorial

• Part of it may be that Sarah Palin does not need the NY Times and symbolizes their loss of authority. ed.
  

Mariano Rivera at Rangers-Coyotes game, 12/16/10

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NY City Hall ghostwrote letter to help Ground Zero mosque group while St. Nicholas Church destroyed by Islam at Ground Zero gets bupkis

Tweet 12/24/10, "City Hall ghostwrote GZ mosque's letter," NY Post, Sally Goldenberg

"Dozens of e-mails between Mayor Bloomberg's aides and developers of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero reveal a cordial, if not downright cozy, relationship and the length to which a top city staffer went to help the project -- even drafting a letter for the group

• soliciting support from the community board, and providing the fax number to send it.

In one exchange, Community Affairs Commissioner Nazli Parvizi penned the draft of a letter to be sent by Daisy Khan, a key sponsor of the project known alternately as Cordoba House or Park51,

• to the chairperson of Community Board 1, Julie Menin,

• as the panel prepared to vote on its recommendation on the project.

The letter drafted by Parvizi thanked Menin for being open-minded about the plan for a mosque and cultural center -- which by then had become a flashpoint issue around the nation.

Parvizi e-mailed the draft to Khan and her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf -- ending with the salutation, "Best, Daisy,"

• indicating that she actually was preparing Khan's letter to a city agency.

She also included the fax number and mailing address for CB1 -- which ultimately voted in favor of the project in May --

• and offered further assistance.

The letter -- which Menin said she never received -- thanked her personally for "giving us an audience to share our vision of the Cordoba Center in Manhattan."

"We are incredibly saddened by the media distortion on what this project actually is and to whom it serves," Parvizi went on to write, according to a May 14 e-mail the Mayor's Office made public yesterday.

• Opponents of the plan were furious.

"The mayor was touting, ironically, government

• not being involved in religion,
  

and here you have the mayor's staffer assisting in a public-relations campaign on behalf of a mosque and Islamic center," said Debra Burlingame, whose brother was a pilot of one of the hijacked planes on 9/11.

"I think this is highly improper.""

St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero was completely destroyed by Islamic terrorists in 2001 but gets no help from NYC.