Monthly Archives: November 2010

Jonas: Don’t call it terrorism

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Jack

On Monday morning, life imitated the movies. Two Iranian scientists were driving in separate cars on different routes in slow-moving traffic in northern Tehran. The physicists were on their way to Shahid Beheshti University, when two motorcyclists passed them. Apparently, … Continue reading →

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World November 30th, 2010 (10)

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Jack

#1 — BBC | US court sentences Somali pirate to 30 years A US court has sentenced a Somali man to 30 years in jail for attacking a US warship off the coast of Somalia. [...] #2 — BBC | … Continue reading →

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Canada November 30th, 2010 (10)

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Jack

#1 — CNews | WikiLeaks spills Canadian terror details OTTAWA – The former head of Canada’s top intelligence agency told American officials that Canadians have an “Alice in Wonderland” worldview and that courts have tied intelligence agents in knots as … Continue reading →

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Mead: Dead Green Treaty Stinks Up The Room

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Jack

What a difference a year makes.  Last year at this time, the Great Green Delusion — that the United Nations process could deliver a treaty that would stop global warming dead in its tracks — was the hottest idea in … Continue reading →

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Sharma: The Triumphant Return of Hayek

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Jack

Last year the consensus opinion was that we are all Keynesians now. Virtually everyone in the commentariat believed that John Maynard Keynes’s solution for the Great Depression—heavy government spending to resuscitate the economy—was also the answer to today’s global downturn. … Continue reading →

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Afternoon Update November 29th, 2010 (22)

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Jack

Canada #1 — CNews | Mob, gangs linked to more unsolved murders MONTREAL – Cops in British Columbia and Quebec are solving fewer murders than their counterparts in other provinces, a trend being blamed on higher levels of gang violence … Continue reading →

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WikiLeaks: Open secrets (8)

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Jack

Never in their wildest nightmares could politicians, bankers, dissidents, world leaders and government officials have imagined that their confidences would be thus distributed How secret is "secret?" That is the first question posed by the publication today of material derived … Continue reading →

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States Diverting Money From Climate Initiative (1)

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Jack

In New York, government officials found $90 million to pay for schools by dipping into money generated by a multistate greenhouse gas initiative. In New Hampshire, the state took $3.1 million from a similar environmental fund. And in New Jersey, … Continue reading →

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Graff: Worst of times, best of times: A tale of two Irelands (1)

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Jack

DUBLIN, Nov 26 (Reuters) – Country A is drowning. A catastrophic recession has thrown a tenth of its workforce out of jobs in just two years. Firms are shutting, banks are barely solvent and the IMF has been called in … Continue reading →

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