Backing it Up

A couple of times a week or so I check in and post the many links to the stories I cover on New Media nad Politics to back up what I say. I can always go deeper, but am rarely challenged to do so. Which is okay, I spend a lot of time on research as it is. Still, any time I miss something or forget to post a link please write me. It'd make my day. Here's the "stuff" for Thurs and Fri of last week

Now one month's weather is just weather okay? But Joe over at climateprogress.org covered it because of the media furor in the U.S. about all the snow they had received and how that was proof(?) that there was no climate change. He pulled out the satellite data from the NOAA on January of this year and guess what? Warmest ever! http://bit.ly/bVKfdL

Now things like this are why scientists believe AGW is happening http://bit.ly/aAE4VU and this http://bit.ly/be4G3k and this http://bit.ly/cO8mOR and this http://bit.ly/cgNz9y get the picture?

And there will be no easy fixes for climate change http://bit.ly/aXcwmz - I call it Global Weirdness as you never know what you're going to get. And despite what the deniers claim, trees will not become unstopable killing machines http://bit.ly/cKLO82 (funny).

I spoke of the belicose rhetoric coming out of the U.S. State department all week long starting with Glennzilla on Hillary "getting tough" with military dictatorships http://digg.com/d31J7mS Of course Iran was always foremost on her mond; now here's what Mahmoud said in televised speech as reported by Al Jazeera http://bit.ly/agiy1B Rueters reported the same thing http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100216/ts_nm/us_iran this is how the AP reported it http://bit.ly/daj1mB 

Surprising that a newswire would be so into war-mongering http://bit.ly/bD7p25 Here's the article that was filled with falsehoods it was subsequently ppulled from the wires http://freedomsyndicate.com/fair0000/ap.html

And former UN Ambassador Bloiton sets news standards for belicosity on Iran war-mongering http://bit.ly /9xbngx 

There's something greedier than Wall Street bankers http://bit.ly/9La48q U.S. health insurers!

Here's a a two-part backgrounder I never really had time to cover about how the richest 1% in the U.S. have captured the lion's share of wealth and influence from Alternet.org http://www.alternet.org/economy/145667/ & http://bit.ly/bTSFvV

To make you happy here's some Rachel http://bit.ly/dgZuBI

That's all for now. Talk to you in the mornings!