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In an analyst note, Bofa/ML's Ethan S. Harris drops a bit of a bombshell prediction: We expect a moderate slowdown in the beginning of next year, as two small policy shocks—another debt downgrade and fiscal tightening—hit the economy. The “not-so-super” Deficit Commission is very unlikely to...

A skeptical physicist ends up confirming climate data Back in 2010, Richard Muller, a Berkeley physicist and self-proclaimed climate skeptic, decided to launch the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project to review the temperature data that underpinned global-warming claims...

A new report coming from a Russian ship have UH researchers changing their predictions. Since the March 11th earthquake and tsunami, researchers have been predicting it would take about two years for the debris from Japan to hit Hawaii's west-facing beaches.“We have a rough estimate of 5...

Don't know how many but hey, it's the thought that counts. Since some 'ordinary' letters from Barry have turned up for sale by the recipients, you'd think someone might have already showed-off their Obama-check. But that's for the 'checkers' to investigate. It's decent he did it but a shame...

Good man. vid/pics/delicious tears: Firefighter revives dog, mouth to snout - Good News - TODAY.com

Good news. The federal government has tabled a bill to end the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly on wheat and barley sales in Western Canada. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz made the announcement in Stittsville, Ont., and has long said the move will give farmers the right to select to whom...

A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Audio Data courtesy of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by the Canadian Space Agency. 20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the...

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, Soviet officials were vilified for hiding the impacts from the public. But when Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accident took place last March, public officials in Japan and Canada alike jumped straight into Chernobyl-style damage-control mode...

The reeling housing market has come to this: To shore it up, two Senators are preparing to introduce a bipartisan bill Thursday that would give residence visas to foreigners who spend at least $500,000 to buy houses in the U.S. The provision is part of a larger package of immigration...

The Richest People in America List - Forbes

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will spend $28 million to re-gird Canadian loins - presumably to make us more patriotic - by extolling the War of 1812. It would appear the Conservative government, unhappy with the level of our chest-thumping, disappointed by our seeming lack of patriotic...

Sources tell ABC News that the president will announce today that US troops in Iraq will draw down to zero by the end of the year. A White House official says that at approximately 11:30am today, President Obama convened a secure video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to...

Can you say Solyndra? :lol: Company is backed by venture capitalist Al Gore. (Hi OWS ;-) ). With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it...

No kidding. Desertec is the largest solar power project ever conceived. It is designed to provide a significant portion of the electricity needs of participating countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and up to 15 per cent of Europe's electricity needs by 2050. The...

Kayaking with Redondo Beach Blue Whales, with underwater footage and Lunge feeding GoPro - YouTube

Someone affiliated with the Department of Energy has been going back to make changes to press releases posted on the Internet weeks and months ago, CNBC has found. The changes occurred in two press releases from the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program — the same program that has...

A jury has found Sommit Luangpakham guilty on all 10 charges of dangerous driving causing bodily harm and leaving the scene of an accident in the 2009 crash injuring five cyclists in Kanata, Ont. Luangpakham, 47, testified Monday he fell asleep and only woke up when the wind hit his face...

Buyout behemoth Carlyle Group is pressing ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would value the firm at roughly $8.5 billion -- little more than half the value of its closest competitor, Blackstone Group, The Post has learned. The politically connected Washington firm is...

Security engineers say it is likely the new variant, Duqu, was created by the same government agencies thought to be behind Stuxnet, an attack that heralded a new era of state conflict online. But while Stuxnet was created to cause physical damage to Iran’s uranium enrichment...

A cross-country political dogfight over shipbuilding contracts ended in a win for both coasts Wednesday, as the federal government awarded $33 billion in contracts to drydocks in Halifax and Vancouver and froze out Quebec. Irving Shipbuilding in Halifax will receive a $25-billion naval...