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Bejeweled bra exposed in NY

Victoria's Secret model Adriana Lima stuns New York wearing a new two million dollar diamond, sapphire, and topaz studded bra. Tara Cleary reports. The bra is valued at $2M. Adriana Lima is priceless. http://www.reuters.com/news/video/story?videoId=163940796&videoChannel=2602 added by: ThatCrazyLibertarian

New ‘dog only’ beer hits shelves

With dogs snacks there's now a dog beer for your pet to wash it down with. Yes, the PR slogan is 'a beer for your best friend'. The company producing the Dog Beer in Poland, states the beer is non-alcoholic but is a blend of beef extracts and malt, meaty beer! “Dog owner Wiktor Piotrowski was among one of the first to buy the product when it was released in Poland this week. After enjoying some frosty suds with his pet he said: ‘My dog loves it. Now when we go for a walk we can both go to the pub.”-Metro added by: Mcellie

Giant Extra-Galactic Planet Found

Astronomers discovered a gaseous planet which is atleast 25 percent heavier than Jupiter and 400 times heavier than Earth. The planet reportedly orbits … http://bit.ly/ealwMJ added by: itgrunts

Obama pay freeze 2010

US President Barack Obama, seen here on November 10, has proposed a freeze on most government pay in a move designed to trim the country#39;s massive deficit. On the eve of a face-to-face meeting with his Republican adversaries, Obama said the freeze — which must be approved by Congress — would save more than five billion dollars in the rest of the 2011 fiscal year and in 2012. US President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a two-year freeze on most government pay, as a fierce political battle

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Wisconsin school hostage situation 2010

Students and parents wait in a parking lot near Marinette High School as they await word on a hostage situation at the school Monday night Nov. 29, 2010 in Marinette, Wis. A student armed with a handgun burst into a classroom at the eastern Wisconsin school on Monday, taking nearly two dozen students and a teacher hostage at the end of the school day, authorities said. A student armed with a handgun burst into a high school classroom in eastern Wisconsin on Monday, taking more than 20 students

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On Today: Matt Lauer Fails to Convince Republican to Go Obama’s Way and Raise Taxes

NBC's Matt Lauer, on Tuesday's Today show, invited on soon to be House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on to discuss today's meeting of Republican congressional leaders with Barack Obama, and in the process tried to force Cantor to move in the President's direction on raising taxes. The Today co-anchor opened the conversation by wondering if Cantor was going into the meeting in the mood for “compromise or confrontation” and then quickly brought up the issue of extending the Bush era tax cuts as he pressed: “Could you not see possibly raising taxes just a little bit?” on those making over $250,000 a year. Cantor responded that job growth and tax cuts were intertwined as he educated Lauer: “We want to make sure that we're doing everything to get people back to work right now and that means we've got to ensure that taxes don't go up on anybody, especially on the small businesses that we're expecting to create jobs so we can finally bring the unemployment down.” read more

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WikiLeaks next target – the banks

Just a day after their big scoop WikiLeaks announced plans to release tens of thousands of internal documents from a major US bank. The revelations will be made public early next year, according to Forbes Magazine.WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange declined to identify the bank, but he said that he expected that the disclosures, which follow his group's release of U.S. military and diplomatic documents, would lead to investigations, Reuters reports. Bank revelation will be a “megaleak” Talking to Forbes, Assange said: “We have one related to a bank coming up, that's a megaleak. It's not as big a scale as the Iraq material, but it's either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you define it.”He declined to identify the bank, describing it only as a major U.S. bank that is still in existence.Asked what he wanted to be the result of the disclosure, he replied: “I'm not sure. It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume.”He compared this release to emails that were unveiled as a result of the collapse of disgraced energy company Enron Corp.”This will be like that. Yes, there will be some flagrant violations, unethical practices that will be revealed, but it will also be all the supporting decision-making structures and the internal executive ethos … and that's tremendously valuable,” Assange said.”You could call it the ecosystem of corruption. But it's also all the regular decision making that turns a blind eye to and supports unethical practices: the oversight that's not done, the priorities of executives, how they think they're fulfilling their own self-interest,” he said.Assange also told Forbes that WikiLeaks has material on many businesses and governments, including Russia, and that it has some documents on pharmaceutical companies, which he did not identify. added by: sbacker

Ultra Elitist Environmental Group: Halt Economic Growth, Institute Rationing

Ultra elitist environmental group The Royal Society has published a series of papers to coincide with the latest round of UN climate talks, in which influential scientists suggest that politicians should force the population of the developed world to adhere to a system of rationing in order to stave off rising global temperatures. The papers suggest that 1930s and 40s style crisis rationing should be implemented by Western governments in order to reduce carbon emissions. Such a move would see “limits on electricity so people are forced to turn the heating down, turn off the lights and replace old electrical goods like huge fridges with more efficient models. Food that has travelled from abroad may be limited and goods that require a lot of energy to manufacture.” the London Telegraph Reports. “The Second World War and the concept of rationing is something we need to seriously consider if we are to address the scale of the problem we face,” one Royal Society affiliated professor states. Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, added that in his view, economic growth in the developed world should be completely halted within the next two decades if the planet is to avoid mass upheaval in the form of rising sea levels, floods, droughts and mass migration. “I am not saying we have to go back to living in caves,” he said. “Our emissions were a lot less ten years ago and we got by ok then.” Ironically, Anderson’s point here reveals a fundamental flaw in the theory of anthropogenic warming, namely that CO2 emissions have increased, yet temperature rise is slowing. By all accounts, the warming trend observed predominantly throughout the 1980s and 90s stopped just over a decade ago. Even the Royal Society itself was forced to admit this fact in a recently published guide, titled ‘Climate change: a summary of the science’ which was altered following multiple complaints from 43 of the Royal Society’s own members that “knowledgeable people” were seeing through brazenly alarmist climate change rhetoric. The Met office concurs that global warming has been slowing for some time, and the admission was also recently noted by Professor Phil Jones, the figure at the head of the Climategate scandal. It is hardly surprising to see the Royal Society still pushing a de-industrialization agenda, however, given it’s history and cadre of members and patrons. The Royal Society, a 350 year old establishment outfit, has traditionally been the most vocal proponent for the hypothesis of AGW. It was the former president of The Royal Society, Lord May, who made the infamous statement “The debate on climate change is over.” When he was head of the Society, May told government advisors: “On one hand, you have the entire scientific community and on the other you have a handful of people, half of them crackpots.” The Royal Society has thrown its full weight behind the global warming movement, lending its absolute support for legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions by 80%, a process that will devastate the global economy and drastically reduce living standards everywhere. It has been even more vehement than national governments in its advocacy of the man-made cause of global warming, calling for such drastic CO2 cuts to be made in the short term, not even by the usual target date of 2050. Not surprising then that The Royal Society was also intimately tied to efforts to Whitewash the Climategate emails scandal. The society has also conducted extensive research into geoengineering the planet, and continually lobbies the government to divert funding into it. A recently published lengthy UK Government report drew heavily upon the Society’s research and concluded that a global body such as the UN should be appointed to exclusively regulate world wide geoengineering of the planet in order to stave off man made global warming. This information becomes even more disturbing when you consider the mindset of those who make up the membership of the Society. It is riddled with renowned eco-fascists, open eugenicists and depopulation fanatics. One notable member is James Lovelock, an eco-fascist who advocates ending democracy and instituting an authoritative elite to oversee global climate management and a radical stemming of the human population in order to combat climate change. He is also a patron of the Optimum Population Trust, a notorious UK-based public policy group that campaigns for a gradual decline in the global human population, which it refers to as “primates” or “animals”, to what it sees as a “sustainable” level. Lovelock is also an ardent advocate of geoengineering. In 2007 Lovelock proposed laying vast swathes of pipes under the world’s oceans in order to pump water from the bottom of the seas – rich in nutrients, but mostly dead – to the top. The idea being that the action would encourage algae to breed, absorb more carbon and release more dimethyl sulphide into the atmosphere, a chemical known to seed sunlight reflecting clouds. Such methods are also covered in the Commons report. Another member is Jonathon Porritt, former chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, one of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, who has stated that Britain’s population must be cut in half from around 60 million to 30 million if it is to build a sustainable society. Porritt, also a member of the Optimum Population Trust, a connection that caused raised eyebrows when it was announced that Porritt was to be a part of a forthcoming Royal Society“Objective” Global Population Study. Also on the Royal Society’s working group for their global population study is another of their patrons, and another OPT member, BBC darling wildlife broadcaster and film-maker Sir David Attenborough. Attenborough has called for a one child policy like that of Communist China to be implemented in Britain. The proposal is one of the OPT’s main initiatives. Again, how is this man’s influence going to result in an “objective” study on population? Another member of that working group is Cambridge economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, also a fellow of the OPT. Professor Malcolm Potts, another member of the working group was the first male doctor at the Marie Stopes Abortion Clinic in London, he also advised on the UK’s 1967 Abortion Act. Marie Stopes was a prominent campaigner for the implementation of eugenicspolicies. In Radiant Motherhood (1920) she called for the “sterilisation of those totally unfit for parenthood [to] be made an immediate possibility, indeed made compulsory.” That group, according to her, included non-whites and the poor. Stopes, an anti-Semite Nazi sympathizer, campaigned for selective breeding to achieve racial purity, a passion she shared with Adolf Hitler in adoring letters and poems that she sent the leader of the Third Reich. Stopes also attended the Nazi congress on population science in Berlin in 1935, while calling for the “compulsory sterilization of the diseased, drunkards, or simply those of bad character.” Stopes acted on her appalling theories by concentrating her abortion clinics in poor areas so as to reduce the birth rate of the lower classes. Stopes left most of her estate to the Eugenics Society, an organization that shared her passion for racial purity and still exists today under the new name The Galton Institute. The society has included members such as Charles Galton Darwin (grandson of the evolutionist), Julian Huxley and Margaret Sanger. Read More: http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2010/11/ultra-elitist-environmental… added by: GLOBALPOLITICAL

Obama to propose two-year pay freeze for federal workers

WASHINGTON — President Obama will announce Monday morning that he wants to freeze pay for federal employees for the next two years, a move the administration says would save more than $5 billion between now and 2012. The freeze would not apply to military personnel but rather to all other civilian employees on the federal payroll. Congress would have to approve the proposal in order for it to take effect. The plan is part of Obama's effort to contain the $1.3 trillion federal deficit, and will be followed by more proposals for spending reductions over the next few months, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said Monday morning. The president's announcement lands as a pre-emptive strike on congressional Republicans, who are preparing a plan to slash federal pay and workforce next year. It comes in advance of a meeting between the Democratic president and GOP leaders at the White House on Tuesday. “Clearly, this is a difficult decision,” said Jeffrey Zients, Obama's chief performance officer and the Office of Management and Budget's deputy director for management. Federal employees are hard-working, he said, and “central to delivering services to the American people. We believe it's the first of many difficult steps ahead … to put our nation on sound fiscal footing.” In other steps aimed at reining in the deficit, Obama has previously frozen salaries for senior White House officials and proposed doing the same for all political appointees across the government. His administration is also working on scouring out what they call “excesses” in federal contracting and on reducing loss through improper payments. Obama has also directed federal agencies to dispose of excess real estate. The president's announcement will come this morning in remarks to the press at the executive office building next to the White House. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/sc-dc-1130-obama-freeze-web-20101… added by: iGoogle