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CIBC Chief Economist Jeff Rubin warns that car industry in the US has undergone fundamental changes, a “correction that will yank 25 million cars off American roads over the next five years and kill 200,000 more jobs as half the country’s 51 auto plants are permanently shut down.” Industry consultant calls the report “Alarmist.”

“Climate is known to be variable,” as Discovery’s scientists conceded, but “according to a new study, global warming may have hit a speed bump and could go into hiding for decades.” They don’t know why temps have “flatlined,” but they know “”When the climate kicks back out of this state, we’ll have explosive warming.”

“Andrei, you mean to tell me you’ve lost another submarine?” At some point one has to consider that perhaps this really is a massive reason why politicians are always talking about raising taxes on the rich to compensate for tax shelters and non-payment: perhaps they assume everyone is doing it because they do it themselves?

First big leak of the new Foggy Bottom leadership? Essential subtext: Medvedev gets to scrap the interceptor system by proxy if they pressure Iran to stop building nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles. Official sources say “no direct quid pro quo,” but in reality it sounds like the direct opposite.