The Truth about the Keystone pipe Line:

1. Claim: 119,000 jobs would be created and $7 billion will be spent of the Pipe line.

Fact: A total of 2,500-4,65­0 temporary jobs would created. But most of those jobs are in Canada. Only 500 to 1,400 local Temporary jobs would be created in the US:

M>South Dakota = 333
Nebraska = 248
Kansas = 18
Oklahoma = 113
Texas = 470

2. Claim: 20,000 jobs will created in manufactur­ing.

Fact: All the steel manufactur­ed for the pipeline will be [...]

Canada is one of the few countries that will benefit from Global Warming:

From Canada.com­:

“Robert Mendelsohn­, an economics professor at Yale University­, says the benefits of global warming for Canada – from a longer growing season to the opening up of shipping through the Northwest Passage – will outweigh the negative effects.

“You’re lucky because you’re a northern-l­atitude country, Mendelsohn says. “If you add it all up, it’s a good thing for Canada.”

Economist Thomas Gale Moore, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute says [...]

EU Diplomatic Source Says Worst Case Scenario Would Consume Entire EFSF, Haircut of “At Least 50%” Coming or IMF will Not Proceed

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EU Diplomatic Source Says Worst Case Scenario Would Consume Entire EFSF, Haircut of “At Least 50%” Coming or IMF will Not Proceed

The latest rumor is the EU and IMF are demanding 50% haircuts or they will not proceed. Bear in mind, they released the latest tranche of aid to Greece today even though Greece missed all required targets.

Instead of talking about a Greek recovery in 2012-1013 the [...]