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Goldman Sachs: The Creators Of The Euro Knew It Was Doomed From Day One

By   /  July 27, 2012  /  Economy  /  No Comments

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By Simone Foxman | Business Insider Goldman Sachs Chief European Economist Huw Pill exposes a terrible irony about the eurozone in a video filmed this month: at the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, both those who loved and hated the prospect of a European Monetary Union actually thought that the euro would see a crisis that would [...]

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Russia seeks to reopen its naval bases in Soviet era ally countries, including Cuba and Vietnam

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PressTV Russia is planning to expand its military muscles in some of Moscow’s soviet-era ally countries including the Latin American country of Cuba, Asian country of Vietnam and the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles. According to the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Moscow is holding talks with the some countries outside of the Russian territory [...]

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My government is corrupt, admits Karzai

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Afghanistan’s Western-backed President Hamid Karzai admitted Thursday that his government was corrupt and issued a sweeping directive for reform ahead of the withdrawal of international troops in 2014.

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Turkey sets up secret anti-Assad rebel base with Saudi Arabia and Qatar – reports

By   /  July 27, 2012  /  Breaking News, Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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RT Turkey is directing the rebel fight against Bashar Assad, after setting up a secret base on its border with Syria, with help from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. It devises tactics and supplies weapons for the uprising, according to Reuters sources. It is unclear how long the base, described as the “nerve center” of the anti-Assad campaign [...]

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The Most Luminous Stars Prefer Company

By   /  July 27, 2012  /  Science & Technology  /  No Comments

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By Belinda McCallum | The Epoch Times Almost three-quarters of the hottest, brightest stars or O-type stars in our universe have a companion star, according to new data from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT). This figure is much higher than previously realized. Most of these pairs or binaries also experience disruptive [...]

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Night shifts raise heart attack risk

By   /  July 27, 2012  /  Health  /  No Comments

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By IANS | TopNews Shift work can dramatically increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, warn researchers. A study of two million people found shift workers are almost 25 percent more likely to suffer, the Daily Mail reported Friday. Night shift workers run the highest risk of 41 percent, says a study published on [...]

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Extremist Militants Gathering in Akkar, Aleppo “Mother of Battles”

By   /  July 27, 2012  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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Al Manar Syrian daily, al-Watan, reported that extremist militants were gathering in the northern Lebanese region of Akkar and along the northern border with Syria. The daily said that the militants who hold Arab and foreign nationalities are more than 150, adding that they using RPGs (Rocket-Propelled Grenades) and shooting at Syrian forces at the [...]

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Rabbis Who Endorsed The Murder Of Non-Jewish Babies Won’t Be Prosecuted, AG Says

By   /  July 27, 2012  /  In Other News  /  No Comments

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EuropeanPhoenix Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur will not be prosecuted for their book Torat HaMelech. Shapira and Elitzur wrote in Torat HaMelech that non-Jews who are non-combatants could be killed in times of war. Even babies in their cribs could be killed, they wrote,  “if there is a good chance they will grow up [...]

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‘Time Running Out’ to Avert Global Food Crisis: Experts

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Common Dreams The record drought gripping half the US will help push food prices up by 3 per cent to 4 per cent next year, according to the US Department of Agriculture. “In 2013 as a result of this drought we are looking at above-normal food price inflation. … Consumers are certainly going to feel [...]

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The Greatest Crimes Against Humanity Are Perpetrated by People Just Doing Their Jobs

By   /  July 27, 2012  /  In Other News  /  No Comments

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By Chris Hedges | Truthdig The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings. They are the careerists. The bureaucrats. The cynics. They do the little chores that make vast, complicated systems of exploitation and death a reality. They collect and read the personal data gathered on tens of millions [...]

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Iran bolsters ‘retaliation capability’ to strike at US warships in Persian Gulf

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ANI Iran has expanded its fleet of fast-attack boats and submarines in the Persian Gulf in a bid to quickly destroy U.S. ships if hostilities erupt, according to analysts. U.S. and Middle Eastern analysts claimed that the new systems, many of them developed with foreign assistance, are giving Iran’s commanders new confidence to strike at [...]

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Harvard Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ – Published in Federal Gov’t Journal

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PRNewswire via Market Watch Harvard University researchers’ review of fluoride/brain studies concludes “our results support the possibility of adverse effects of fluoride exposures on children’s neurodevelopment.” It was published online July 20 in Environmental Health Perspectives, a US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ journal (1), reports the NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF) [...]

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