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Conservative group Alec trains sights on city and local government
TheGuardian | Ed Pilkington | 03/06/14

The rightwing group Alec is preparing to launch a new nationwide network that will seek to replicate its current influence within state legislatures in city councils and municipalities.

The American Legislative Exchange Council, founded in 1973, has become one of the most pervasive advocacy operations in the nation. It brings elected officials together with representatives of major corporations, giving those companies a direct channel into legislation in the form of Alec "model bills". ... "stand-your-ground" laws, being one of them ... Read more

Exploring a 'Deep Web' That Google Can't Grasp
NYTimes | Alex Wright | 02/22/08

One day last summer, Google's search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth address to the list of Web pages it knows about. But as impossibly big as that number may seem, it represents only a fraction of the entire Web.

Beyond those trillion pages lies an even vaster Web of hidden data: financial information, shopping catalogs, flight schedules, medical research and all kinds of other material stored in databases that remain largely invisible to search engines. ... Read more

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The Ultimate Guide To The Deep Web
sickchirpse.com | author | 09/10/13

There's a part of the internet known as the deep web. The deep web is called the deep web because of its massive size, it's literally 'deep'. According to The Guardian, you can only access 0.03% of the internet via search engines like Google and the rest is what makes up the deep web. The deep web is truly anonymous -- you can't even get on it unless you yourself are anonymous.

You can't just access the deep web from a normal web browser -- like Firefox for example -- you can only access the deep web through a deep web browser. The most famous of these deep web browsers is called Tor and this is the one we recommend you get if you're looking to get onto the deep web. ... Read more

the Hidden Wiki.net
thehiddenwiki.net | author | website

For many who do not know, the deep web is a tremendous section of the world wide web that isn't accessible via regular queries through yahoo, google or various other search engines.

Doing a search online these days can be compared to pulling a net across the surface of the sea. Even though a large amount may possibly be captured in this net, there's still a great deal of info which is deep, and for that reason,it will be missed. ...

Climate buffoons' real motives: 5 reasons they still spout debunked garbage
Salon | Lindsay Abrams | 03/06/14

The overwhelming majority of Americans, and nearly all scientists, believe that climate change is real and caused by human activity. Yet some very loud, very wrong people continue to insist otherwise. The drought and the floods have both become excuses to debate whether climate change was responsible, and from there, to question the legitimacy of climate science. The heat wave Down Under was ignored in favor of the United States' chilly weather -- and yet, per Rush Limbaugh, the polar vortex itself was a "hoax" created by the left. In the wise words of Pat Robertson, it's "idiocy" to believe in global warming because it's cold outside. ...

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Climatologist Who Predicted California Drought 10 Years Ago Says It May Soon Be 'Even More Dire'
thinkprogress.org | Joe Romm | 03/07/14

... First, though, as I've reported, scientists a decade ago not only predicted the loss of Arctic ice would dry out California, they also precisely predicted the specific, unprecedented change in the jet stream that has in fact caused the unprecedented nature of the California drought. Study co-author, Prof. Lisa Sloan, told me last week that, "I think the actual situation in the next few decades could be even more dire that our study suggested."

"Where the sea ice is reduced, heat transfer from the ocean warms the atmosphere, resulting in a rising column of relatively warm air," Sewall said. "The shift in storm tracks over North America was linked to the formation of these columns of warmer air over areas of reduced sea ice." In January, Sewall wrote me that "both the pattern and even the magnitude of the anomaly looks very similar to what the models predicted in the 2005 study. ... Read more