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Opinion
- No Need to Panic About Global Warming

By WSJ
Friday, January 27, 2012
A candidate for public office in any contemporary
democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do
about "global warming." Candidates should understand
that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all scientists demand
that something dramatic be done to stop global warming is
not true. In fact, a large and growing number of distinguished
scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic actions
on global warming are needed.......... more
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POLITICS
President
Obama tries to push past Solyndra

By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN and DARREN SAMUELSOHN
Thursday, January 26, 2012
11:26 PM
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Colo. — President Barack Obama isn’t
letting Solyndra scare him away from pushing a green
energy agenda. Pivoting off a State of the Union
address in which he vowed not to “walk away
from the promise of clean energy,” Obama doubled
down Thursday by highlighting incentives for windmills,
solar panels and natural gas vehicles during visits
to key battleground states Nevada and Colorado.................more-
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BUSINESS
Ford
hit by commodity costs, international operations

By
Deepa Seetharaman, Ben Klayman and Bernie Woodall
Friday, January 27, 2012
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Ford Motor Co posted a lower-than-expected fourth-quarter
profit on disappointing results outside North America
and rising commodity costs.Excluding one-time items, Ford's
operating profit fell to $1.1 billion, or 20 cents per
share, from nearly $1.3 billion, or 30 cents per share,
a year earlier.Analysts, on average, expected an adjusted
profit of 25 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters
I/B/E/S. In premarket trading, Ford shares fell more than
5 percent to $12.15 from Thursday's close of $12.79...................................more
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Obama
Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA

By Paul Joseph Watson
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Months before the debate about Internet
censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of
web users, President Obama signed an international treaty that
would allow companies in China or any other country in the world
to demand ISPs remove web content in the US with no legal oversight
whatsoever. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was signed
by Obama on October 1 2011, yet is currently the subject of
a White House petition demanding Senators be forced to ratify
the treaty ...........................more
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| FBI
seeking social media monitoring tool

By AFP
Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:39 PM
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation
is looking for a tool to mine social media for intelligence
tips. The US domestic law enforcement agency is asking information
technology contractors about the feasibility of building a
tool that would "enhance its techniques for collecting
and sharing 'open source' actionable intelligence." The
January 19 open request was published on a website offering
federal business opportunities and was first reported by New
Scientist magazine...........................more
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State
told to help enforce ban on fees
By Ashly McGlone
Thursday, January
26, 2012 6:44 PM
The state bears some legal responsibility for enforcing
an often-ignored provision of the state constitution
that blocks schools from charging fees for public
education, a judge ruled this week. The American
Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit in September
2010, and the state tried to argue that local school
districts were the ones responsible for upholding
the law — not the state. The ACLU filed the
suit after the group did a survey that found $550
band fees at Carlsbad High School, $1,097 cheer
fees at Clairemont High and $395 color-guard fees
at Patrick Henry High School...............more
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State
Senate hits stalemate on universal healthcare for
California

By
Patrick
McGreevy in Sacramento
Thursday,
January 26, 2012
State lawmakers deadlocked Thursday over a controversial
measure that would provide universal healthcare
in California. In a vote in which some Democrats
did not participate, the measure received only 19
of the 21 votes needed for passage in the Senate,
but it was put over for another possible vote next
week. [Updated, 12:55 p.m. Jan. 26: Senate leader
Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said later Thursday
that the bill will "probably not" make
it out of the Legislature by a deadline next week.
The proposed legislation is a vehicle "to raise
the visibility of the issue," Steinberg said.
"I don't think that there is any reasonable
prospect that in the short term ...........more
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