Guest essay by Rolf E. Westgard

In his 2007 Noble Prize acceptance speech, former Vice President Al Gore warned that the “Arctic ice could be gone in as little as seven years.” Last week, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reported:

“The North and South Poles are not melting.” In that report, oceanographer Ted Maksym noted that polar ice “is much more stable than climate scientists once predicted and could even be much thicker than previously thought.”

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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/01/13/al-gore-wrong-again-polar-ice-continues-to-thrive/

The neocons are flipping out over a column at the Ron Paul Institute that suggests the Charlie Hebdo Massacre was a false flag operation.

Here’s neocon Field Commander Bill Kristol:

Continued:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/01/robert-wenzel/i-am-paul-craig-roberts/

Well that didn’t take long. Just three days after the French government hosted dozens of foreign leaders in a “unity rally” to defend free speech in the wake of last week’s shooting at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, France has begun arresting its citizens for actually exercising free speech.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/01/daniel-mcadams/a-noxious-cloud-of-hypocrisy/

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The right of people to express their opinions publicly without governmental interference, subject to the laws against libel, incitement to violence or rebellion, etc.

The right, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, to express beliefs and ideas without unwarranted government restriction.

The right to express information, ideas, and opinions free of government restrictions based on content and subject only to reasonable limitations…

There is only speech, and government opposition to it.

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http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2015/01/freedom-of-speech.html

This morning’s market is more erratic than Claire Danes off her lithium. Gold is soaring, the euro’s plunging, US treasury yields are in free fall, junk bonds are faltering, copper is bouncing, oil has rolled over, the Russell 2000 momos are getting mauled, the swissie has shot the moon, the Dow is knee-jerking down, correlations are failing……and the robo traders are flat-out lost.

All praise the god of price discovery!

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http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/in-praise-of-price-discovery-the-market-is-off-its-lithium/

Charlie Hebdo Puts Muhammad on Cover of Post-Attack Issue – WSJ.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/01/no_author/in-solidarity-with-a-free-press/

Good one. Just 9 minutes.

Published on Mar 2, 2012

Igor Kufayev replies to a question on reclusive way of life versus householder’s in relation to our time: ”…In a day and age we live now, spirituality is no longer a luxury of a few, it’s more of a necessity… You don’t need to call it spiritual practice if you don’t want to. It’s a type of a psychological and mental hygiene, just as you brush your teeth in a morning and take your shower, in the same way people need to practice silence from time to time… ”

via Igor Kufayev ~ Mental Hygiene – YouTube.