Climategate Ignored by U.S. Corporate Press

And to think that newspapers in the U.S. wonder why they have become bankrupt irrelevancies.

The absolutely stunning global warming revelations this weekend by the man in the middle of the ClimateGate scandal have gone almost completely ignored by America’s press.

As NewsBusters reported Saturday, Phil Jones, the head of the British Climatic Research Unit at the heart of ClimateGate, told the BBC: the recent warming trend that began in 1975 is not at all different than two other planetary warming phases since 1850; there has been no statistically significant warming since 1995, and; it is possible the Medieval Warm Period was indeed a global phenomenon thereby making the temperatures seen in the latter part of the 20th century by no means unprecedented.

Read more at Newsbusters.

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Goldman Sachs Accused in Vote-Rigging Scheme

Goldman Sachs is the expert at high-frequency trading, so it’s only natural they should be involved in this sort of thing.

The Robin Hood Tax campaign alleged that a Goldman computer was one of two computers that allegedly “spammed” the internet poll with more than 4,600 “no” votes in less than 20 minutes on Thursday.

Technical staff for the Robinhoodtax.org.uk website said the “no” counter increased at a “dramatic rate” from 3.41pm.

The number of “no” votes jumped from 1,400 to 6,000 before campaigners – who are calling for the introduction of 0.05pc tax on banking transactions – tightened the site’s security.

Robin Hood’s security team claimed it traced the erroneous votes to two computers, one of which is allegedly registered as belonging to Goldman.

Read more at The Telegraph.

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Bomb Explodes Outside JPMorgan Office in Greece

You’ve got to hand it to the Greeks: They aren’t confused about who’s responsible for the crisis their country’s in.

After spending the past few weeks rocking the world’s financial markets over its debt woes, it was Athens itself that got rocked by a bomb blast outside a JPMorgan Chase office in the historic city.

Sources confirmed to The Post that a small to midsized explosive went off late in the day yesterday on the street, but that no employees were hurt.

“We have two employees at that facility and both were unharmed,” said a JPMorgan spokesman who declined to say whether the bank was beefing up security at its offices in Greece.

Another source said that the two JPMorgan staffers were at work when the explosion occurred, but added that the force of the bomb wasn’t great enough for either employee to have directly felt its effects.

Read more at The New York Post.

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Feds Invade an Amish Farm in Pennsylvania

The Feds can’t stand people who live off the grid.

Kinzers, PA – At 9:40 a.m. last Thursday, February 4, only a few miles from the scene of the Nickel Mines Amish massacre of 2006, another drama against the Amish began as agents of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came onto the property of Amish farmer Dan Allgyer, without permission, claiming to be conducting an investigation. Agents Joshua Schafer and Deborah Haney, from the Delaware FDA office, drove past Allgyer’s “No Trespassing” signs and up his driveway almost to his barn, where Allgyer happened to be outside. Allgyer approached the car, the agents got out and Allgyer asked them why they were there. They produced a piece of paper, asked Allgyer if he was Dan Allgyer, which Allgyer confirmed, asked him his middle initial and phone number, entered the information on the paper, told Allgyer they were there to do an inspection and started reading the paper to him, saying it gave them jurisdiction to be there.

Read more at the National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association.

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