" Four of the wounded are in a critical condition, including a young child. A Defence Ministry official said the incident occurred during a demonstration of hostage-freeing techniques at a barracks in Aude. The soldier who fired the shots has been detained. It is not...
" As a property journalist of two decades standing – with some successful property calls under my belt – it therefore seems only fair to flesh out what was a very broad-brush prediction: namely that the selling prices of houses will fall by 60 per cent in this downturn...
"A team of about 300 scientists, governments, first responders and industries worked for more than a year to create a realistic crisis scenario that can be used for preparedness, including a statewide drill planned later this year. Published by the U.S. Geological Survey and...
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"Hillary Clinton recently revealed what a Clinton Presidency would consider in response to a scenario in which Iran attacks Israel: "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran...In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider...
Best way to control the price of a highly desired product is to claim it is scarce.Scientists have known for many years that oil is not a fossil fuel. Recent reports have revealed that."The Peak Oil Deception: Squeezing Energy for Profit
While energy needs are set to grow...
" As this blog has been predicting in Hillary's darkest days...she will be the next president and she will find a way to destroy Obama. She has done it. Obama was running on a hope and dream campaign that just...
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"Night of the Living Fed
Paul Krugman is writing about The Face-Slap Theory."The scariest thing I’ve read recently is a speech given last week by Tim Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Geithner came as close as a Fed official can to...
"Europe has an especially high concentration of world-class art collections, many of which are housed in modest institutions. The art in Zurich was housed in a 19th-century villa, as opposed to a large-scale museum with a complicated entrance. Further, most security personnel...
"Microsoft is currently in the final stages of cooking both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. In December 2007, the first public builds of Vista SP1 and XP SP3, namely the Release Candidates became available for download.
In the second week in...
"Climate change will affect national parks, forest reserves and other protected areas around the world, in some cases altering conditions so severely that the resulting environments will be virtually new to the...
"a patent application filed by IBM (and dug up by Zatz Not Funny!). When DVDs are inserted for playback, the disc would check to see if the viewer had purchased the ad-free version or the (presumably) lower-priced version with unskippable commercials"
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High ranking military experts say an attack would lead to world economic chaos, or even what Bush calls 'World War III.'"US Vice President Dick Cheney -- the power behind the throne, the eminence grise, the man with...
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"MIAMI - The Hialeah teenager had a harrowing tale to tell a Coast Guard investigator: Mysterious hijackers stormed aboard a boat on the high seas near the Bahamas and shot and killed four crew members,...
A massive computer crash at Russian section of the the International Space Station brought down the navigational and live-support systems. Officials say they'll probably be able to fix it pretty quickly and doubt they'll have to evacuate, but this is still some pretty ominous...