Controversies of the day

The Libor Scandal at Barclays was done in clear sight, but never mind.
Illustration HERE.



more HERE

Instapundit has links and asks
The New York Fed knew about this scandal in 2007. Tim “Turbo Tax” Geithner was President of the New York Fed at the time. Now he’s Treasury Secretary. Charles Gasparino asks What Did Tim Know?
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At least three different "waves" of American Indian migration occured, according to the latest DNA studies.
Podcast on the book 1491, which notes how the pre Columbia history of the Americas is being rewritten.
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The LATimes reports on trying to get the DNA sequence for this lowly fruit.

I can hear the anti GM types shouting now: NO FRANKENBANANAS!

For most countries, bananas are merely a fruit supplement in their diet, but in Sub Sahara Africa, they are a major source of daily food calories.and their demise from a pest could lead to thousands of deaths from malnutrition.

Factoid: The Banana was developed as a food by the people of Papua New Guinea about 7000 years ago.