Alternet article is especially disapointing...

Congratulations morons!!! Atlanta the most toxic city in America: America's Most Toxic Cities - http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/02/toxic-cities...
In Atlanta, Ga., you'll find southern gentility, a world-class music scene--and 21,000 tons of environmental waste. In spite of its charms, the city's combination of air pollution, contaminated land and atmospheric chemicals makes it the most toxic city in the country.

SuperFreaks: Smart, arrogant, ill-informed - http://www.desmogblog.com/superfreaks-smart-a...
This, however, doesn't stop him from offering enthusiastic answers to a bunch of other questions on which his knowledge seems, at best, shaky and, at worst, agenda-driven to the point of dishonesty. For example, when condemning the entire community of climate modellers, he says that they dishonestly manipulate their results in order to increase their chances to get research funding.
("Everybody turns their knobs" - that is, adjusts the control parameters and coefficients of their models - "so they aren't the outlier, becuase the outlying model is going to have difficulty getting funded.") If he has evidence of this, he should report it. If not, he should apologize.
This is a favourite denier talking point, as are some of Wood's other bromides like the alleged scientific failure to take water vapour into account. It's the kind of blather that superannuated old contrarians (stand up Feeman Dyson) spout in order to entertain themselves at dinner - in which context this could all be interesting and fun.
But Levitt and Dubner, without working quite hard enough to check the facts, offer it all up as worthy material on which to rest international policy. Not.

Mr President, tear down this wall: German leader likens the struggle against global warming to the Berlin Wall - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-11-03-germa...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday urged the U.S. Congress to take action on climate change.

Obama urges climate action as Europe ups pressure on U.S. - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-11-03-obama...
President Obama on Tuesday said it was "imperative to redouble our efforts" to combat global warming, as European leaders pressed Washington to take action on climate change ahead of next month's summit in Copenhagen.

The absurd New York Times attack on Gore - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-11-03-is-jo...
Al Gore’s back in the public eye, promoting his new book, which naturally raises the question: which mainstream press outlet will be the first to do a vapid hit piece? Today we have our answer. Also, check out the smartest and crankiest responses to Gore's book, Our Choice.

36% of World's Flora and Fauna Now Threatened With Extinction - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/36-pe...

GOP Senators Boycott the Climate Bill - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/gop-s...
There is no cure for stupid.... Mainly its James "I wish I had a brain" Inhofe (R-Exxon/Oklahoma branch) being the supreme moron that he is...if we were to poke a hole in his head...I really do think oil would spill out...

How Sweet It Is! Dem Owens Wins in NY 23rd! A Congressional Race that Pitted a Palin, Bachmann, Beck, Limbaugh-Backed Teabagger Against a Dem, After the GOP Candidate Dropped Out. -- And Dem Wins in Northern NY Distric for First Time in Living or Dead Memory. Thanks Sarah for Going All Roguey!
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33608691/ns/polit...
Democrat wins seat in heavily GOP area of N.Y. Race reveals split between moderates, conservatives in Republican party

EPIC OBAMA FAIL, WTF??? FCC Fine Print Could Undermine an Open Internet - http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/09/11/02/...
As predicted, Obama lied about protecting Net Neutrality, THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT PROGRESSIVE ISSUE: " Buried in the fine print of the FCC’s proposed Net Neutrality rules is a potential loophole that if left open would undermine the future of Internet freedom.
So says a group of prominent law professors who on Monday told the FCC that its proposed rules don't sufficiently define what the agency means by its use of the terms "non-discrimination" and "reasonable network management." ... The professors are concerned with the contradictory and unclear definitions of key terms that are at the heart of the proposed Net Neutrality rules.
Without clear and reliable definitions of "non-discrimination" and "reasonable network management," we could see the types of blocking that occurred in 2007 when Comcast secretly barred customers from using file-sharing applications such as BitTorrent. Allowing ISPs this much leeway would effectively eliminate Net Neutrality." This isn't a loophole.
This is a giant 'do whatever the hell you want' kiss to corporatized control.

Don't pay attention to the 'mini con-servative revolution in their own minds/lack thereof': David Sirota: Today's Alleged "Bellwether" Elections Aren't Bellwethers & Don't Say Much About Nat'l Politics
- http://www.openleft.com/diary/15776/why-tuesd...

Republican Malfeasance Update: As GOP Holds Up Unemployment Extension, Nearly 200,000 Lose Their Benefits - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/as-g...

MIT Analysis Confirms That H.R. 3962 Will Deliver Substantial Savings - http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?opt...

You might not think it has anything to do with American politics... yet.

Some background:
Ukraine had one confirmed swine flu death, as of June.
(c.f. The World Influenza Centre http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/wic/docs/h1n1cases0... )

Last week, they had a few more. Only this time, they kind of freaked out, and put travel restrictions in place.

By November 1st, Four *doctors* had died of flu in Ukraine's Ternopol and Lvov regions. It was announced by Health Minister Vasily Knyazevich at the Sunday meeting of the operative headquarters for the prevention and treatment of H1N1 flu.

By November 2nd, the latest government update was
255516 Influenza cases
15810 Hospital Admissions
235 Intensive Care
70 deaths
(get google to translate http://www.moz.gov.ua/ua/main/press/?docID=13969 for you)

In the last few days, the WHO has sent a team in. Confused reports are coming out. Some in the government say there's nothing to worry about. But people on the ground say different.

Go to your favourite search engine/trusted news source and please confirm for yourself.

Then when you've done that, go and look up Joseph Moshe, a microbiologist, who apparently tried to blow the whistle on Baxter BioPharma. He said their Ukrainian labs were deliberately preparing to release a bio-weapon. This was 3 months ago.

Decide for yourselves if its a coincidence or not.

Please, if you do one thing today, just spend a few minutes verifying this. Don't email it or send it on to anyone, until you've checked for yourself.

...was a smoke screen created by GOP insiders as an attempt to re-brand their party without actually changing their ideologies. Its ultimate purpose was to garner opposition to the President and democratically-controlled congress, then deceitfully present it to the rest of the American public as proof that the President's support was crumbling.

It backfired when individuals started to create their own interpretations as to what the "movement" represents; adopting their own candidates and attacking democrats and republicans alike. Meanwhile, as its creators scramble to label these new antagonists as "moderate" conservatives and claim it was all part of their plan, the fact of matter is that these people are far more right-wing, twice as crazy, and the harbingers of their party's destruction.

Watching the GOP try to control the monster it created is as captivating as watching a black hole implode.

Like I said before, I'm just outside the district, but have had the pleasure of being bombarded with Hoffman (and Owens) ads on TV for the last month.

In my opinion, Hoffman lost because he was against "government takeover of healthcare." About two weeks ago, when the barrage of ads really became unbearable, Hoffman had an ad that stated what a great guy he was, including being a family man and NAVY VET, blah, blah, blah, and then he said he was the ONLY CANDIDATE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF HEALTHCARE. Now I know, that the first thing I thought was "gee, I hope you don't partake in the VA, then, because that would make you a hypocrite." I know other voters thought the same way. In fact, his campaign must have got the message, because this commercial ran only twice more before it was ditched permanently. This commercial was nowhere to be seen in the last week running up to the election.

Here's something for all POLITICIANS to understand: Upstate NY wants single payer healthcare. There are no more manufacturing, high-paying, high-benefit, employer-sponsored healthcare, pension, jobs left here. We're being murdered with high property taxes, state taxes, and no employment opportunities. The least we could have is some help in getting healthcare. Sheesh.

And another thing the DEMOCRATS should understand: it's time to stand up and rally for single payer Medicare for all. You see, with all the Owens ads that we up here were bombarded with over the past month, NOT ONE mentioned the health care debate. That man was afraid to talk about the one thing the WE NEED, because he thought he would lose. I have no respect for that. He just wanted to get elected, that's it. Like all politicians. Well, if he had a brain in his head, he would have got elected by a larger margin if he cared to actually find out what the people in his district really wanted instead of listening to FOX news.

Bah.

What evern happened to oily tits anyway?

Has her 15 minutes of fame passed

Hopefully like a kidney stone?

shorting these stocks. He knew damn well CIT was going to tank as do his buds. Cramers job is to get suckers to invest and pump up a stocks "value" right before a stock tanks.

Thanks especially for the Existentialist Cowboy.