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Uccisa in casa per duemila euro
Rapina a Torino: la donna, 72 anni, aveva mani e piedi legati

... la piu' potente economia sommersa del pianeta ...
... l'unica soluzione fattibile ...
... eliminare il proibizionismo ...
... aprire le oppium houses ...
... con distribuzione gratuita ...
... e polizia armata alla porta ...
... mandare tutta la distribuzione in fallimento ...

# posted by intcoex : 11:24 PM

BBC finally acknowledges Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia. Thank you

The British Broadcasting Corporation prepared a program which gave evidence of Georgia’s crimes committed against the people of South Ossetia. Tim Whewell, a BBC correspondent, visited the region, where the battles took places in August of this year, and interviewed eyewitnesses of those events. The program was aired on the radio October 28, the BBC reports. It has also been uploaded on the website of the company.

...

Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband told the BBC that Tbilisi’s actions were irresponsible, although he continued with saying that Russia’s response to the Georgia-led aggression was disproportionate and incorrect.

Daniel Fried, Assistant to the US Secretary of State, said that the USA had repeatedly warned Georgia of the inadmissibility of the use of force against South Ossetia. Fried said that he was not certain whether the Georgians attacked the civil population of South Ossetia indeed, although the actions of the Georgian army raised serious concerns with the US administration.

Georgia invaded the then-unrecognized republic of South Ossetia August 7. Russia responded to the Georgian aggression immediately by sending its troops to South Ossetia to defend the local population.

The conflict triggered the most serious crisis in the post-Cold War relations between Russia and the West.

... NATO used to be a difensive alliance ...
... admitting countries with agression based foreign policies ...
... will inevitably lead to a world war ...
... european nations should leave NATO ...
... and regroup under the UEO ...
... before is too late ...

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# posted by intcoex : 12:29 PM

Californians float a plan: Return of the zeppelin

# posted by intcoex : 1:09 AM

When it happened, Miller was in California's Central Valley, where each February, when the almond trees burst into extravagant pink-and-white bloom, hundreds of beekeepers descend with billions of bees. More than 580,000 acres of almonds flower simultaneously there, and wild pollinators such as bumblebees, beetles, bats and wasps simply cannot transport enough pollen from tree to tree. Instead, almond ranchers depend on traveling beekeepers who, like retirees in Winnebagos, winter in warm places such as California and Florida, and head north to the Dakotas in the summer, where fields of alfalfa and clover produce the most coveted honey.

This annual bee migration isn't just a curiosity; it's the glue that holds much of modern agriculture together. Without the bees' pollination services, California's almond trees — the state's top export crop — would produce 40 pounds of almonds per acre; with the bees, they can generate 2,400 pounds. Honeybees provide the same service for more than 100 other crops, from lettuce to cranberries to oranges to canola, up and down the West Coast.

...

Recently, however, even the simple task of understanding bees has become more difficult. Like much of modern agriculture, beekeeping has changed. Where Nephi used trains and telegraphs to conduct his business, John Miller's tools of the trade are semi-trucks and contracts and spreadsheets and amortization schedules. Where Nephi made his income from honey, most beekeepers now derive all of their profit from pollination fees. Nor could Nephi expect the kind of nationwide, devastating losses that John Miller and his colleagues experienced during the almond bloom of 2005. Thirty years ago, there were nearly 4 million bee colonies in the U.S. Today, fewer than 2.5 million remain, thanks to a reddish-brown parasite so tiny it could stand on the head of a pin, and to a malady so new no one is sure of its origin.

# posted by intcoex : 10:27 AM

But a fifty percent market decline? That’s just not conceivable. Even the hedge funds do not have that much power. The federal plunge protection team—known as the "men in black" by floor traders—would never allow them to do something so disastrous. This has caused some to speculate that the "men in black" are parties to the bets.

These remarks probably give some indication of the chaos going on right now in the U.S. and world economies. The only real solution is a new world financial system based on the concept of credit as a public utility. This is what should be implemented to replace the present system of institutionalized usury.

Richard C. Cook is a retired federal analyst, whose career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, and NASA, followed by twenty-one years with the U.S. Treasury Department. His articles on monetary reform, economics, and space policy have appeared on Global Research, Economy in Crisis, Dissident Voice, Atlantic Free Press, and elsewhere. He is the author of "Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age." His website is at www.richardccook.com.

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# posted by intcoex : 8:58 AM

Saving What Can Still Be Saved
The global financial crisis has also started to hit countries once thought to be immune from it, like China, Russia and the Gulf States. The International Monetary Fund believes the worst is yet to come.

... the whole world economy is at risk at this point ...
... while the politicians in washington live like arrogant architects ...
... in the pockets of the american pharaos bankers ...
... sucking the blood of the united states and the world ...
... the common people are losing everything planetwise ...
... the only solution possible ...
... is eliminating the parasite vultures that can only profit of disgraces of the others ...
... after dismantling and confiscating all bank properties planetwise ...
... socialist countries and capitalistic countries ...
... may find short term relief both with socializations and privatizations ...
... to re-establish a wise balance between public duties and private enterprise ...
... and go back to the REAL economy of technology and production ...
... instead than the financial speculation economy of paper and smoke ...
... the alternative for the countries that are not able ...
... to take monetary policy out of the hands of the bloodsucking vultures ...
... is a giant crash, riots, hurban warfare and revolutions ...
... and maybe also wars and invasions ...
... some said they were right the egyptians ...
... probably true ...
... and they were right the romans that were writing on marble ...
... as well ...

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# posted by intcoex : 8:11 PM

More than 1,000 dinosaur footprints along with tail-drag marks have been discovered along the Arizona-Utah border. The incredibly rare concentration of beastly tracks likely belonged to at least four different species of dinosaurs, ranging from youngsters to adults.
The tracks range in length from 1 to 20 inches (2.5 to 51 centimeters).

... apparently the species are mccainsaurus and romneysaurus ...
... just joking ...

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# posted by intcoex : 11:23 AM

"There is definitely room to introduce a comprehensive Israeli plan to counter the Saudi plan that would be the basis for a discussion on overall regional peace," Barak told Israel's Army Radio.
He noted the "deep, joint interest" with moderate Arab leaders in containing Iran's nuclear ambitions and limiting the influence of the radical Islamic Hezbollah movement in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Analyst Ghassan Khatib, a former minister in the Palestinian Cabinet, said interest in the plan was "a little bit late" but welcome.
"I strongly believe that the Arab initiative is the best approach to peace between the Arabs and the Israelis," he said. "It fulfills all the legitimate objectives of Israel and those of the Palestinians and at the same time it has this regional dimension and it reflects one of the rare issues on which Arabs have consensus."

# posted by intcoex : 7:21 PM

Montezemolo: "Finanza creativa addio, ripartiamo dalle fabbriche"

E’ troppo presto per dire cosa accadrà e come cambierà il mondo. Di certo la crisi è strutturale e sarà ancora molto lunga. Fino ad ora ne abbiamo sperimentato soprattutto gli effetti finanziari e solo le prime ricadute che avrà sull’economia reale e sui consumi.

... certo, quando le banche pensano di essere come il cristo ...
... che moltiplica i pani e i pesci ...
... e moltiplicano i miliardi senza riserve ...
... il risultato diviene ovvio, prima o dopo ...
... per questo i banchieri hanno smantellato bretton wood ...
... se si permette alle banche di creare valuta ...
... si genera il moto fraudolento perpetuo ...
... loro invece di stampare dollari ...
... stampano crediti inesigibili ...
... a loro non costa nulla aggiungere un po' di zeri qua e la' nei libri contabili ...

# posted by intcoex : 1:57 AM

«Avviene, tuttavia - osserva Papa Ratzinger - che non sempre gli scienziati indirizzino le loro ricerche verso questi scopi. Il facile guadagno o, peggio ancora, l’arroganza di sostituirsi al Creatore svolgono, a volte, un ruolo determinante». Secondo il Pontefice, «è questa una forma di "hybris" della ragione, che può assumere caratteristiche pericolose per la stessa umanità. Ciò - precisa - non significa affatto limitare la ricerca scientifica o impedire alla tecnica di produrre strumenti di sviluppo; consiste, piuttosto, nel mantenere vigile il senso di responsabilità che la ragione e la fede possiedono nei confronti della scienza, perchè permanga nel solco del suo servizio all’uomo».

... certo i brevetti genetici degli ibridi di monsanto ...
... che potenzialmente possono contaminare ed asservire ...
... la produzione alimentare del pianeta ...
... ad interessi di corporazioni di wall street ...
... ed i brevetti sulla proprieta' intellettuale ...
... costruiti di proposito per mettere a tacere chi si oppone a certi monopoli ...
... di spionaggio industriale e di truffe finanziarie internazionali ...
... non contribuiscono a dare una immagine "disinteressata" ...
... di un settore dell' amerikkka degli avvoltoi ...

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# posted by intcoex : 5:27 AM

'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'
The linguist and public intellectual Noam Chomsky has long been a critic of American consumerism and imperialism. SPIEGEL spoke to him about the current crisis of capitalism, Barack Obama's rhetoric and the compliance of the intellectual class ...

... One must not forget that this country was founded by religious fanatics. Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns ...

... George Orwell wrote that nationalists, who are practically the whole intellectual class of a country, not only do not disapprove of the crimes of their own state, but have the remarkable capacity not even to see them. That is correct. We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

... now is all clear ...
... moro was the christ of the new pyramids of the inquisition ...
... and the pyramids invoked are the same ones of nazi germany ...
... the start of the new absolute power of the churches world conspiracy ...
... directed by the same bankers that gave you 1929 ...
... and the coming 2009 new market crash ...
... amerikkka could as well close the government ...
... and substitute the governors and mayors with pastors ...
... so they can preach the hate they have in their heart ...
... instead than lying about "exporting a democracy" ...
... that is a church theater ...

... may you all live interesting times ...

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# posted by intcoex : 9:28 AM

GE 3rd-Quarter Profit Falls, Hurt by Finance Unit (Update1)

By Rachel Layne

Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- General Electric Co. profit declined for a third straight quarter, eroded by lower earnings at its finance arm during the deepest U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Profit from continuing operations fell 12 percent to $4.48 billion, or 45 cents a share, from $5.11 billion, or 50 cents, a year earlier, matching the average analyst estimate. Revenue rose to $47.2 billion from $42.5 billion, the Fairfield, Connecticut- based company said today in a statement. GE said it will meet its revised profit forecast for 2008.

GE, a 106-year-old economic bellwether whose products range from lightbulbs to power-plant turbines, generated higher profit from its energy, technology and NBC Universal businesses. This year those earnings have been overshadowed by investor concern the global credit crunch will sap the finance units known as GE Capital. Finance profit declined 33 percent in the quarter.



... here is not the effect of technology ...
... even if it would be nice to see more revolutionary designs ...
... like some breaktrough LED lumination items ...
... and some creative new multi-fuel engines for short range ...
... guess the issue is GE capital ...
... burried in commercial real estate like loans ...
... still GE sounds a solid company ...
... may need to "lean" some of the burocracy and processes ...

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# posted by intcoex : 4:01 AM

Eccleston pensa al motore
unico per la stagione 2010



... l'idea e' interessante ...
... ma sarebbe ora di sperimentare tecnologie moderne ...
... per esempio il disegno francese della quasi-turbine ...
... oppure in modo piu' conservatore ...
... il disegno felix wankel ...
... e' necessario un grande passo ...
... per arrivare a propulsori modulari ...
... e integrazione idrogeno-combustione-elettromagnetismo-inerzia ...
... interoperabilita' e disegno modulare ...
... sono la base di propulsione unificata ...
... terra - mare - aria ...
... l'era dei motori a pistoni e' alla fine ...
... trasformare un dinosauro in un cavallo da corsa ...
... costa piu' che sperimentare nuove razze ...
... una logica vecchia di cento anni ...
... rilegherebbe la formula nella nostalgia del passato ...
... mentre dovrebbe essere nel futuro ...
... dove era agli inizi del secolo scorso ...

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# posted by intcoex : 10:18 PM

Polls: Obama leads in Ohio and Wis., tied in Ind.
By The Associated Press – 2 days ago
THE POLL: Washington Post-ABC News poll of 772 likely Ohio voters (20 electoral votes).
THE NUMBERS: Barack Obama, 51 percent; John McCain, 45 percent.


... amazing ...
... after an administration that multiplied by ten the national deficit ...
... put the country in two vietnam-like wars at the same time ...
... eliminated civil rights ...
... jump started the cold war ...
... and finally sank it's own economy ...
... bringing down the stock exchanges of the planet with it ...
... there are still 45% of americans willing to vote republican ...
... if people were reasonable, the GOP would be extinct like the dinosaurs ...
... the conclusion is sad ...

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
George Bernard Shaw

# posted by intcoex : 8:51 PM

THE WORLD FROM BERLIN
Leaders 'Don't Grasp Scale of the Abyss Facing EU'
The EU's failure to agree a unified strategy to tackle the financial crisis shows that its leaders don't grasp how serious it is, write German commentators. It's time for politicians to stop blaming the bankers and to realize that at this point, only the state can avert a very dangerous crisis of confidence.


... don't think so ...
... a unified response from europe ...
... would permit world kleptocrats to speculate ...
... while mixed reactions, country by country ...
... can deter the kleptocrats ...
... from stealing out of the mess they created ...
... the important part is the eu has to backup national policies ...
... confusing or contrasting ...
... liking it or not ...
... each member has to respect the other members sovranity ...
... we are all on the same boat ...
... we can orderly evaquate like the doria ...
... or we may sink like the titanic ...
... we have one advantage over america ...
... we are compartimented ...
... while here they are all blaming each other ...
... because they can't close the compartment doors ...
... we can try to fix them one by one ...
... hoping it may work ...
... we may end up with half europe nationalizing banks and insurances ...
... and half privatizing public dinosaurus ...
... or both and or either ...
... but thats the beauty of a compartimented economy ...
... at worse or at best produces half losses and half gains ...
... but europe is known to be more parsimonious than america ...
... so I guess we can live with that ...

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# posted by intcoex : 5:24 AM

How airlines have betrayed us
Fees, bait-and-switch tactics, other shenanigans have travelers miffed


... just a word in defense of airlines ...
... next time you go to the gas station ...
... ask them for an estimate ...
... for filling up, you may need, let's say ...
... sixty thousand gallons of kerosene ...
... see what is their best price ...
... is a miracle they are not all bankrupt ...

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# posted by intcoex : 10:54 PM

... brands ...


... the dole brand ...



... the busch brand ...



... the mccain brand ...


:)

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# posted by intcoex : 5:35 PM

Tidal power, sometimes called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into electricity or other useful forms of power.

Although not yet widely used, tidal power has potential for future electricity generation. Tides are more predictable than wind energy and solar power. Historically, tide mills have been used, both in Europe and on the Atlantic coast of the USA. The earliest occurrences date from the Middle Ages, or even from Roman times.[1][2]

... interesting, nobody talks of tides for power generation ...
... I guess there is no bread and butter there ...
... it does not get political campaign contributions ...
... from the big oil and car industry ...

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# posted by intcoex : 8:53 PM

Dear SPIEGEL ONLINE,

This article was exceptional from beginning to end. I do detect a bit of disappointment, and I have to say, why? Where were you all when Bush was elected in 2000? Didn't the papers read "How can 54 (million) Americans be so stupid" in 2004 when he was reelected? How could Europe actually be so fooled? We in the middle-class -- the X-generation who have no social security, pension or medical insurance -- saw it from the get-go.

And I have to say, hooray.

But isn't it about time that Europe does something? Isn't it well past time that Europe works to manage the economic, financial, environmental and physical world along with Asia and the Americas instead of sitting back and letting America -- led by W., of all people -- make foolhardy decisions for eight long years? Bush was wrong to not work with other countries in the Iraq crisis. Was this not a sign that Europe should have taken more drastic steps to work together on other major issues then?

To have gone along with the financial crisis hook, line and sinker is absurd and exhibits the same avarice, greed and selfishness the world over. How can those of my generation, the fortysomethings who are now managers, buy into this in Europe? None of us were even born during the time of war when America was hailed a redeemer. There is no excuse, and I must say that American greed deserves to go down with Bush and his cronies.

... thank you for thinking with your brain ...
... too many people here AND in europe borrow empty brains of others for the purpose ...
... the people of europe have the same problem of the people in america ...
... they are lead by corrupted political figures at the service of multinationals ...
... they are financially raped by usury bankers and zillions of "charitable" parasites ...
... they have been lied to in the past thirty years by interested politicians ...
... who's ethics are worse than prostitutes and sold to the highest bidders ...
... one thing is freedom of private enterprise or ethics / religious views ...
... another is abuse of a religious-kleptocratic-plutocratic cartel ...
... that as much here as in europe, is stripping the people of their pity wealth ...
... to mantain pharaonic priviledges ...
... it seems that the western world wants slavery back ...
... we have to remember who the slavists were ...
... in europe and america ...
... and not repeat an ignoble history ...
... it seems that the western world wants colonialism back ...
... we have to remember who the colonialists were ...
... in europe and america ...
... and not repeat another ignoble history ...
... newer modern version, slavism and colonialism of currency ...
... specifically europe has failed in containing public sectors costs ...
... straining workers salaries instead than modernizing ...
... a middle age style legislative and government system ...
... and america has failed in controlling the abuses of a private sector ...
... that practices in violation of its constitution ...
... legalized corruption as its method of manipulating the country ...
... and legalized fraud as its method of monetary policy ...
... both the systems have a legalized embezelment of public money ...
... trough "tax exempt" "charitable" organizations ...
... and the europeans pay with understandard wages and social security ...
... and the americans pay with understandard medical assistance and social security ...
... they were right the romans that were writing on marble ...

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# posted by intcoex : 8:27 AM