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Household energy bills are expected to fall by £50 a year as a result of cuts in green levies to be announced in George Osborne’s Autumn Statement next week.

Final negotiations between the Big Six energy firms and ministers are taking place this weekend and suppliers could announce a reduction in prices as soon as Sunday. Some are also expected to pledge that they will freeze prices until spring 2015, unless wholesale energy costs rise.

David Cameron promised on Friday that by “eroding” the levies on gas and electricity bills, the Government will deliver “sustainably low energy prices” and help households struggling with the rising cost of living. The Daily Telegraph has been given details of the reforms under negotiation ahead of the Chancellor’s appearance in the Commons on Thursday.

Energy bills expected to fall £50 a year following cuts to green levies – Telegraph

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Arctic sea ice moving up into new territory.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013

– John Kerry, US Secretary of State

John Kerry: We Can’t Ignore the Security Threat from Climate Change

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013?

James Hansen : ‘This is the last chance’

6/23/2008

“We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes,” Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. “The Arctic is the first tipping point and it’s occurring exactly the way we said it would.”

Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer.

NASA warming scientist: ‘This is the last chance’ – USATODAY.com

June 26, 2013

The alarming loss of sea ice which has grown worse each summer over the past several decades, has taken a sharp turn for the worse: this year the loss is right in the middle, the most resilient part of the ice cover. This could lead to a completely ice-free Arctic Ocean by September.

Unprecedented hole is growing in Arctic sea ice – Fairfax Climate Watch

Why Arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | Sierra Club Canada

The Chicago Tribune says that Obama’s father was not an American, and that his mother was a communist.

“Naivete” is a euphemism for Ann Dunham’s motivation. Friends describe her as a “fellow traveler”, that is, a communist sympathizer, from her youth, according to a March 27, 2007, Chicago Tribune report. Many Americans harbor leftist views, but not many marry into them, twice. Ann Dunham met and married the Kenyan economics student Barack Obama, Sr, at the University of Hawaii in 1960, and in 1967 married the Indonesian student Lolo Soetero

Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy.

If you like your failed Soviet economic system, you can keep your failed Soviet economics system.

Obama says he defends the rights of flat earth bitter tea-baggers who cling to guns and religion, whom he doesn’t have time to debate and he hopes none work for the government.

Obama Refers to Tea Party Members as ‘Tea-baggers’

It has been almost a year since Sandy Hook, and Obama has done nothing to promote school security.

I also haven’t heard anything about him putting a “gun-free zone” sign up on his daughter’s school.

Colorado was the only state in 2007 with less than 20% adult obesity.

Happy Thanksgiving! Watch America get fatter by state over 25 years

In an effort to protect tourists from violent crime, the State Department has released the following map. They advise tourists to stay away from any county which voted for Obama (blue) and particularly precincts which voted 80+% for Obama.

After driving down a snow and ice covered I-25 last week with dozens of cars in the ditch, I made it to the airport and left the safe climate of Colorado to travel to the tropical hell pictured below.

Note the disfigured pine trees and sea encroaching on the beach, which was 120 metres lower only 20,000 years ago.

On the airline flight option page, I declined to purchase carbon offsets, and used the money instead for an extra shot of tequila.