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Jello & Deducing Climate Change

I hope you played with your food when you were young. Perhaps you experimented at some point with pushing a drinking straw through Jello.

We Have Seen The Future - It Is Greece

Greece – the Road Not Taken Greece is now being forced to go hat in hand to the European Union and the IMF for a massive ...
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FartMachine.com Delivers Tons Of Fun

Nobody wants to admit it, but everybody farts. Whether it is an audible rip or silent but deadly, everyone has to pass gas sometime. We all share this human trait....
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Greece, China – Keep An Eye On Both

Greece—The International Moral Hazard Fund (aka IMF) to the Rescue...
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Beware Of The IMF Bearing Gifts

The Economist is referring to the Greek financial crisis. Readers of my last piece Privatize the Gains, Socialize the Losses must know what I think of The Economist’s recommendation....
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Helping Our Global Neighbors: One Bronx Solution To The Haiti Crisis

The following is New York City Councilman Fernando Cabrera's statement on the current HAiti earthquake crisis....
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The Crisis Of 2008 - The Last Chapter

“It is frequently thought that relieving an alleged shortage of money will solve all social problems. Even today, with an economic crisis raging, the response ...
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The Heat Is On

He lied like a finance minister on the eve of devaluation....
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The Export Model

So the world may turn.The US is in a serious consumer led debt deflation. Unemployment will rise further. The realization has now come that the US third quarter GDP numbers were juiced up by the government’s cash for clunkers program, the $8000 credit to new homeowners and a modest inventory swing. These weren’t such good numbers as the market figured out a day later. Now we are starting to hear about a “W” recovery....
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Celebrating Columbus Day

Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492 in the Julian calendar and October 21, 1492 in the modern Gregorian calendar, as an official holiday....
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14 Billion People Died In 14,000 Wars

It is a well-known fact that 70 percent of identical twins, even if they were separated at childhood, often share each other’s fate, even if it’s criminal. Investigators often come across situations that seem unbelievable....
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Palestine - Hell On Earth

The purpouse of this article is to allow our readers the opportunity to face the stone-cold facts about a subject, on which we as a nation, and most of the rest of the "civilized" world, know practically nothing....
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Is China In A Real Estate/Stock Bubble?

Answer: Probably not. The Chinese authorities are as aware of recent history as anyone else....
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Coco Chanel's 126th B-day Anniversary

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion....
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Little Boy's & Fat Man's Sad Anniversary

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America at the order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman. After six months of intense firebombing of 67 other Japanese cities, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed on August 9, 1945 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki....
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Major Aid Deployment To Pakistan

International disaster relief charity ShelterBox is dispatching urgently needed aid to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis in Pakistan where hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the fighting between the army and militants in the north west of the country....
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The Turkish Atrocities In Bulgaria

More than 5,000 of the 7,000 inhabitants of the town of Batak, including women and children, were raped, slaughtered, beheaded or burned alive by Ottoman irregulars who left piles of dead bodies around the town square and church in 1876, giving start of the April Uprising....
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Remembering Myanmar

David Eby reflects on his experience delivering aid in Myanmar one year ago after the devastation caused by a category 4 storm. Attached please find a photo of a tent city dubbed “Three Mile Camp” set up by ShelterBox....
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US Troops Want To Stay

The US military command in Iraq addressed the Iraqi government yesterday with a request to revise the terms for the US troops to pull out from the war-torn country....
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No New Luxury Suit For Lenin

The body of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Great October Revolution, will be left without a new suit this year due to the economic problems in Russia. Lenin’s clothes have not been changed after two months of prophylactic measures, although there is a strong need to have the mummy displayed in new clothes....
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Jello & Deducing Climate Change

I hope you played with your food when you were young. Perhaps you experimented at some point with pushing a drinking straw through Jello.

We Have Seen The Future - It Is Greece

Greece – the Road Not Taken Greece is now being forced to go hat in hand to the European Union and the IMF for a massive
image

FartMachine.com Delivers Tons Of Fun

Nobody wants to admit it, but everybody farts. Whether it is an audible rip or silent but deadly, everyone has to pass gas sometime. We all share this human trait.
image

Greece, China – Keep An Eye On Both

Greece—The International Moral Hazard Fund (aka IMF) to the Rescue
image

Beware Of The IMF Bearing Gifts

The Economist is referring to the Greek financial crisis. Readers of my last piece Privatize the Gains, Socialize the Losses must know what I think of The Economist’s recommendation.
image

Helping Our Global Neighbors: One Bronx Solution To The Haiti Crisis

The following is New York City Councilman Fernando Cabrera's statement on the current HAiti earthquake crisis.

The Crisis Of 2008 - The Last Chapter

“It is frequently thought that relieving an alleged shortage of money will solve all social problems. Even today, with an economic crisis raging, the response
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The Heat Is On

He lied like a finance minister on the eve of devaluation.
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The Export Model

So the world may turn.The US is in a serious consumer led debt deflation. Unemployment will rise further. The realization has now come that the US third quarter GDP numbers were juiced up by the government’s cash for clunkers program, the $8000 credit to new homeowners and a modest inventory swing. These weren’t such good numbers as the market figured out a day later. Now we are starting to hear about a “W” recovery.
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Celebrating Columbus Day

Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492 in the Julian calendar and October 21, 1492 in the modern Gregorian calendar, as an official holiday.
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John Ryan

is a Clifton Park, New York native, a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City and a freelance reporter and photographer. He received a bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy in 2003. He served two tours in Iraq as a platoon leader in the U.S. Army, wrote a 160-page guide to capture insurgents and earned a Bronze Star for meritorious service before being discharged as a captain in 2008. He is a certified personal trainer and will represent Ireland at the World Lacrosse Championships this summer (2010).