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Map: Where Americans Are Moving. Click on any county in the country that you are interested in.
Arab League Asks For No-Fly Zone Over Libya
Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami
Rant of the Week: 3/13/11-3/19/11
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Rant of the Week: 3/6/11-3/12/11
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Read this as an explanation. Then watch this starting at the 2:54 mark (everything else is boring).
Not bad for an old guy. And everyone swears that this was for real. No cheating to make him look better.
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Portrait of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron. Those interested in painting should watch the embedded clip.
China’s holdings of US debt jump 30 percent. Not really news. Just something that we would already know if Brad Setser was still blogging. Also falsifies all those stories about China unloading US debt.
Fernando Alonso has criticised his government’s decision to lower the national speed limit to 68mph, warning that it will be “difficult to stay awake” at that speed. A silly story, but we sympathize. Of course, we have trouble staying awake at any speed so what do we know?
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Interesting quotes in this article…
“It is not even take it or leave it. It’s done. Ireland’s only role in this now is to implement the programme agreed with the EU, IMF and European Central Bank. Irish voters are not a party in this process, whatever they have been told,” said the diplomat.
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“We have a hostage, it is called the euro,” he said. “The euro is insolvent. The only question is whether Ireland should be sacrificed to keep the Ponzi scheme going. We have to have a Plan B to the misnamed bailout, which is to go back to the Irish Punt.”
My money is on the later quote. Just how is the EU going to stop the Irish voters from changing the agreement. Invade Ireland?
“I Won’t Pay” movement grips debt-ridden Greece Did someone try to tell the people of Greece that they had no say? If not, they might want to start soon before all the agreements there fall apart as well.
Fears for UK infrastructure as copper thefts reach all-time high