INDIA
Feel the love -Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) proposes higher property tax and a new tax on professionals -times of india
Where Your Taxes Go- On paying the salaries of 22,800 fake employees of the Delhi municipality -
Vishnu Som breeds muslim victimhood -
Mind Your Own Business, Chacha -
"If you look at them – from Chacha Manmohan to Sonia and Rahul to Advani to Jyoti Basu – you will find that they have no businesses of their own. They make their living by interfering in the affairs of other people. They tell others what to do."Legalize prostitution if you can't curb it - Supreme Court -times of india
Hindustan Times' greenwash of school kids.
Students get a blatantly one-sided view from the newspaper -lnc blog
Gopinath Munde's daughter’s wedding a hit but city traffic hurt -Cops attend to their masters as the public suffers -indian express
After having driven out the TATAs, Nandigram expects jobs from the Mamta's railways --the telegraph
'Poor' states top in poll expenses -times of india
NRI entrepreneur returns disappointed to U.S. -new york times
He said he left earlier than he expected because of a “troubling nexus” of business, politics and publishing that he called “draining on body and soul.”commercial messages
WORLD
Obama speech - a pleasant surprise -, powerline
"Obama seems to have learned how to speak to an international audience without apologizing for, or otherwise disrespecting, his country"Abolish the Nobel Peace Prize -, pajamas media
Classy left -Labor celebrates Bob Hawke’s 80th birthday by gawping at “John Howard” in a bikini -
Hollywood & Howard Zinn’s Marxist education project -michelle malkin
REVIEW: Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Is a Big, Dull, America-Hating, PC Revenge Fantasy -,big hollywood
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Leftists want to push China's 'one child' policy on the rest of the world -, american thinker
Sarah Palin gets liberals' goat with her climate change op-ed in the Washington Post
Excerpt -"But while we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather changes. We can say, however, that any potential benefits of proposed emissions reduction policies are far outweighed by their economic costs"GREENIE WATCH
Carbon tariffs -A Thoughtless Tax
Challange to IPCC to provide evidence
Met Office pressures scientists to support the alarmist view on Global warming
One scientist said that he felt under pressure to sign the circular or risk losing workApplying the Precautionary Principle Consistently -, the volokh conspiracy
"environmentalists apply the precautionary principle to global warming, but not to the risks created by policies intended to alleviate global warming"A green, sustainable future that doesn't work -, washington examiner
Why does the Government of India behave as if its doing the world a favour when it agrees to cut carbon emissions...? -, Indian Express
"If they(NGOs) cared more about real issues and less about personal promotion and the international conference circuit, we would today have succeeded at least in cleaning the Ganga and the Yamuna. Hundreds of thousands of crore rupees of taxpayers’ money have been spent on cleaning these ‘sacred’ rivers that have been reduced to sewers and they are no less polluted today than they were when the supposed cleaning process began."Environmental brainwash -Terrifiying children for a political cause -
The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero-, watts up with that
"What this does show is that there is at least one temperature station where the trend has been artificially increased to give a false warming where the raw data shows cooling."Schools punish meteorologist for not believing in the global warming cult
"When I visited the school last year, I told the students that the polar bears were not drowning and that their numbers have been increasing. I also showed them reasons to believe that nature has changed climate in the past and would likely continue to do so in the future. One of the students then went home and told the parents. Apparently this did not fit the parents’ understanding of what is going on in the Arctic."
Harry_Read_Me.txt file -One of the most damning pieces of evidence in Climategate (so far) -, pajamas media
Carbon trading fraudsters in Europe pocket €5bn - telegraph(uk)
"large-scale organised criminal activity had “endangered the credibility” of the current carbon trading system. "Despite claiming to be an expert on this subject(climate crisis), Al Gore refuses to debate anyone
Video -UN Security Stops Journalist’s Questions About ClimateGate
OBAMA WATCH
What's Obama got against England? , daily mail
Obama Appointee Sobers Up, Finally Shows For Work -
Obama’s Bad War -, the corner,nro
A Tale of Three Obama Speeches -, commentary
Can't Hide the Decline: Obama Hits New Polling Lows
Reminiscent of Indira Gandhi's days-IRS Hires Hundreds for New Unit Targeting Rich -Newsmax
STATE OPPRESSION WATCH
INDIA
Jaipur blasts accused tortured on Eid -ndtv
nearly a dozen Muslim inmates at the Jaipur Jail were allegedly thrashed by prison authoritiesSenior police officials' plight -a drop in hafta! - dna india
Probe demanded into beating of lawyer by Chhattisgarh police
Police torture is rising, warn civil libertarians -times of india
"Crime branch officers gave him electric shocks on his genitals. They made him drink his urine and forced him to do "unmentionable things" with a bitch."
"If you pass by a deserted lane next to the charge room of many police stations in the city, you can hear cries for help from those subjected to third-degree torture," says criminal lawyer Majeed Memon.
POLL WATCH
India
World
12/09/2009
Miss him yet? Bush rising in popularity as Obama drops
- Obama 50%
- Bush 44%
12/08/2009
Savings Trumps Environment for Making Homes Greener
- Saving money 71%
- Improve the environment 26%