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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.
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 ...
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....
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....
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....
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....
Is China In A Real Estate/Stock Bubble?
Answer: Probably not. The Chinese authorities are as aware of recent history as anyone else....
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....
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....
Vernacular Politics: Islamists’ Clout In Turkey
Turkey’s experiment as a secular, westernized state represents not only an anomaly, but the prototype of secular modernization in the Middle East. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder the Turkish Republic in 1923, embarked on a series of social and political reforms, abolishing Islamic institutions, positions, and insignia to secure Turkey’s position as a modern democracy....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
Man Pretends To Be A Sexy Girl
The Internet today is full of fake and trash. One of the latest incidents showed that net surfers can only...
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