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"It seems likely that the English language will borrow from Chinese as trade, cultural and personal connections between China and the west grow." econ.st There are almost no recent Chinese borrowings in the English language.
“Frankly, it would be pretty pointless to explore it any further unless we wanted to study how things die.” www.theonion.com CONSTELLATION HYDRA—Dashing the hopes of those among them who believed the faraway world would surely prove habitable, astronomers...
"The historical evidence suggests that Thomas Walker died at sea in 1797 when his own crew mutinied and threw him overboard." www.slate.com BUNCE ISLAND, Sierra Leone—Twelve American presidents owned slaves, eight while serving in office, and at least...
emergency management http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/nation/jan-june13/detroit_06-14.html www.pbs.org The city of Detroit is facing difficult decisions in the face of billions of dollars of debt. Emergency manager Kevyn Orr laid out a last-ditch plan to...
Bowe: "So ... so it is bridged until we can pay you back ... which is never." (Both laugh) http://www.businessinsider.com/anglo-irish-bank-tapes-2013-6#ixzz2XAdGDxoF www.businessinsider.com Where'd you get the 7 billion figure? 'Picked it out of my arse.'...
"The U.S. Corporation shall be closed, repealed and replaced by our original United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, which together create and protect our representative government. Our government was intended to be a public trust, not a privately-run...
"Petraeus' move to private equity points to the deep-rooted connections between the US military, the "state", and the most parasitic sections of finance capital." www.wsws.org KKR, the giant leveraged buyout firm, has hired General David Petraeus, the...
snubbed? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350553/President-Obama-lands-South-Africa-WONT-visiting-ailing-statesman-Nelson-Mandela-condition-remains-critical-stable.html www.dailymail.co.uk President Obama has landed in South Africa, the second...
"I agree to Fight For the Future's privacy policy and consent to having my information shared with third parties for the sole purpose of facilitating delivery of these letters to Congress." www.stopwatching.us By now you've heard that the U.S. gov't is...
"is this what you all do for a living?" http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/06/18/watch-russell-brand-takes-over-morning-joe-makes-fun-of-our-newsroom/ tv.msnbc.com Russell Brand explains basic manners and mass media disinformation to our three stammering hosts...
"founding document of the corporatocracy" reclaimdemocracy.org In 1971, Lewis F. Powell, a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
fast food smuggling http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/world/middleeast/tunneling-kfc-to-gazans-craving-the-world-outside.html www.nytimes.com Palestinians in Gaza who crave KFC meals must order from across the border in Egypt, and the food-delivery odyssey...
TINLA http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/06/28/opengov-voices-hack-the-budget-or-try-to/ sunlightfoundation.com Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by the guest blogger and those providing comments are theirs alone and do not reflect the opinions...
and gives the change back http://laughingsquid.com/diapered-monkey-buys-himself-a-drink-from-a-vending-machine/ laughingsquid.com At Tohoku Safari Park in Japan, a squeaking capuchin monkey in diapers grabs some coins and buys himself a grape juice by...
because its gone http://www.4thmedia.org/2013/04/16/federal-reserve-refuses-to-submit-to-an-audit-of-germanys-gold-held-in-u-s-vaults/ www.4thmedia.org Germany did finally send some staff to the FED, and they were permitted only into the vault’s anteroom...
"At times wiping away beads of sweat, the President read from paper because the teleprompter wasn't working." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2344442/Obama-makes-historic-speech-Brandenburg-Gate-Berlin.html www.dailymail.co.uk President Obama...
"Border Hammock by Murat Gok in Istanbul, Turkey"
"Morris, a black-and-white kitten with orange eyes, is running for mayor of Xalapa in eastern Mexico with the campaign slogan "Tired of Voting for Rats? Vote for a Cat." And he is attracting tens of thousands of politician-weary, two-legged supporters...
"When UC students presented the university's Regents with evidence that big banks were robbing the school with manipulated interest rates, the Regents laughed. A year later, the Regents are suing Bank of America for manipulated interest rates."
contagious http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829234.300 www.newscientist.com Recent riots in places like Brazil and Turkey behave like a contagious disease – and conditions are perfect for their spread
* Pioneered spot market for crude oil * Indicted over illegal oil sales * 'Babe Ruth of asset concealment' www.huffingtonpost.com LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - Marc Rich, father of modern oil trading and founder of the group that became Glencore Xstrata,...
hey mike http://inhabitat.com/nyc/could-citi-bike-spin-classes-be-used-to-generate-pedal-powered-energy-for-nyc/ inhabitat.com Could the popular Citi Bike spin classes be used to generate pedal-powered energy for NYC?
"11 consecutive days of protest against mafia corruption in government"
"know your whistleblowers!" reason.com Six of nine prosecutions of leakers under the Espionage Act happened under Obama's term in office
btw http://facecrooks.com/Internet-Safety-Privacy/New-York-Times-Former-Facebook-Security-Chief-Joined-NSA-in-2010.html facecrooks.com In another twist in what was already a complicated story about Facebook's involvement in the National Security Agency's...
