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| Tuesday, 01/01/2013 | |
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| technology | 01/01/2013 |
| Pakistan: YouTube Allowed And Banned In Three Minutes | |
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 Because of the movie-trailer "The Innocence of Muslims" the Pakistani government has decided to ban all YouTube access. After three months of criticism, the government decided to allow access to YouTube again - but only for three minutes. |
| Saturday, 12/29/2012 | |
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| society | 12/29/2012 |
| Austria: Death Penalty for Climate Deniers and the Pope? | |
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 An Australian professor for "systematic music psychology" at the Austrian University of Graz has called for the death penalty for "global warming deniers" and the Pope. |
| Wednesday, 10/10/2012 | |
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| technology | 10/10/2012 |
| Self Inflating Tyres Invented | |
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| Goodyear's Air Maintenance Technology (AMT) system automatically keeps tires inflated to the optimum pressure by harnessing the flexing energy of the rolling tyre. Currently available only for trucks, the technology should be able to safe fuel, reduce maintenance costs, prolong the lifetime of tyres and increase safety by keeping tyres on optimal pressure. |
| Sunday, 09/30/2012 | |
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| society | 09/30/2012 |
| USA: Distrust of Mainstream Media at Record Levels | |
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| According to a Gallup poll, a solid majority of 60 percent of Americans have little or no faith in the media to report the news accurately and fairly. Only a majority of Democrats trust the mass media, while less than a third of Republicans and independents do. |
| Friday, 09/14/2012 | |
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| science | 09/14/2012 |
| Organic Foods Offer No Health Benefit | |
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| Scientists analyzed 200 studies that examined differences between organic and conventional food and found no evidence for health benefits. |
| Saturday, 08/18/2012 | |
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| politics | 08/18/2012 |
| USA: Obama Creates Racial Quota System For School Discipline | |
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 According to a new executive order, penalties for unruly students shall no longer be solely dependent on their individual behaviour, but shall depend on the student's racial and ethnic group. A new bureaucracy for African Americans is created to enforce this racial quota-system in the schools. |
| Thursday, 08/09/2012 | |
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| politics | 08/09/2012 |
| USA: IRS "Loses" 5 Billion Of Taxpayer Money | |
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| The Internal Revenue Service has paid more than $5 billion in tax "refunds" to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011. |
| Friday, 08/03/2012 | |
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| society | 08/03/2012 |
| Egypt: Muslims Call For Destruction of the Pyramids | |
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 Islamist political victories in Egypt have invigorated the debate in certain circles over what to do with the country’s pre-Islamic historical sites (wich means pretty much all historical sites in Egypt). |
| Thursday, 07/19/2012 | |
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| society | 07/19/2012 |
| Papua New Guinea: Disgruntled Patients Eat 7 Witch-Doctors | |
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| Because the witch-doctors were charging exorbitant fees and even demanded sex as payment for their services, their customers have formed a group to hunt them down, eat their brains raw and making soup out of their penises. |
| Sunday, 07/15/2012 | |
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| science | 07/15/2012 |
| Vaccines Merge to Form Lethal Virus | |
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 The usual procedure to create a vaccine against viruses is to use create a harmless version of the virus from the disease. In Australia, chickens were vaccinated with two vaccines. The two viruses from the vaccines have merged and formed a new virus, which is killing the animals. |
| Wednesday, 07/11/2012 | |
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| society | 07/11/2012 |
| USA: Tuberculosis outbreak kept secret | |
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| A tuberculosis outbreak in Jacksonville (Florida) was one of the worst in 20 years, resulting in 13 deaths and 99 illnesses, including six children. Even though the infectious strain appeared in other parts of Florida, it was kept secret from the public. |
| Saturday, 06/23/2012 | |
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| business | 06/23/2012 |
| How Microsoft Destroys Nokia | |
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 Former Microsoft manager Stephen Elop became CEO of Nokia in 2010 - and created the worst business desaster in history. |
| Thursday, 06/14/2012 | |
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| technology | 06/14/2012 |
| Windows Malware Was Undetected For More Than Two Years | |
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 Recently, a new generation of computer malware has been detected on computers running Windows. It has now been revealed that Antivirus companies has been unable to detect these programs for years. Unlike previous malware, these programs have not been created by amateurs. |
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| politics | 06/11/2012 |
| USA: Citizens Demand "Do Not Kill List" | |
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 As a reaction to President Obama's "Kill List", citizens now petition for a "Do Not Kill List". |
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| technology | 06/07/2012 |
| Wordwide IPv6-day Ignored, Again | |
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 Just as last year, yesterday there was "IPv6-day", but the world ignored it - what is wrong with the world? |
| week 21 | |
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| business | 05/25/2012 |
| Bullet Loans | |
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| One of the most dangerous (and until a short time ago very popular) banking "products" were so-called "bullet loans", a loan where the rates are not used for repayment, but for an investment funds which supposedly can be used to pay back the loan at the end of the loan term. |
| science | 05/22/2012 |
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| The Dying Cult of Global Warming | |
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| In it's heyday, the leader of the "global warming" cult even won the Nobel Peace Price, but in late years the whole alarmism has died down and the whole CO2-scare will soon be a thing of the past. |
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| business | 05/18/2012 |
| The Purpose of Banks | |
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| Banks fullfill a very important function in society, by storing money securely, paying interest for investors and making loans to debtors. It is especially the middle class and the poor who profit from stable banks. A rich man is able to buy a factory as an investment, mere mortals cannot and have to rely on banks. |
| business | 05/14/2012 |
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| Why One Should Not Buy Bank-Stocks | |
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| Banks are investing money, therefore their stocks are even more indirect and inscrutable than normal stock funds. |
| week 19 | |
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| business | 05/09/2012 |
| USA: Paid By The Taxpayer | |
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 The U.S. government was not an example for fiscal responsibility for a long time (maybe never), but the Obama administration has - despite being in a recession - set new records for spending money on questionable things. |
| week 18 | |
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| business | 05/05/2012 |
| The Government and Subprime-Mortgages | |
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| Would government regulation have helped? |
| politics | 05/01/2012 |
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| USA: Evidence For Fraud in 2008 Presidential Elections Surfaces | |
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| Internal emails of the Stratfor company, which provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations and government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, provide evidence of voting fraud in the 2008 presidential elections. |
| week 17 | |
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| business | 04/28/2012 |
| Why Funds Cannot Work in the Long Run | |
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| An investment-funds promises to earn money on the stock exchange without caring about the companies in which it is invested and without risk - unfortunately that is just an illusion. |
| business | 04/24/2012 |
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| How the Central Banks are Manipulating the Price of Gold | |
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| The German gold-expert Walter Eichelburg is forecasting a price of $20,000 per ounce. |
| week 16 | |
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| business | 04/20/2012 |
| European Central Bank Employees Fear Inflation | |
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| The employees of the ECB demand a guarantee against inflation for their pensions. The belief in the promise of stability by the central bank seems to falter. |
| society | 04/18/2012 |
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| USA: The Story Behind a "Racist Murder" | |
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 Over the whole world the media reported the death of Trayvon Martin, but not very truthfully. |
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| 2nd quarter · 2012 | |
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| business | 04/16/2012 |
| How the Stock Exchange Works | |
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| Many socialists (from both the national and the international variant) see the stock exchange as some fundamentally evil institution which should be regulated, strictly controlled or even completely forbidden. The other extreme are "mainstream"-economists, most bankers and many politicians (very often the same who request strict regulation) who see the stock exchange (indirectly, through funds) as an investment or pension scheme for everybody. |
| history | 04/11/2012 |
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| The First Americans Might Have Been Europeans | |
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 New archaeological evidence suggests that America was first discovered by Stone Age people from Europe – 10,000 years before the Siberian-originating ancestors of the American Indians set foot in the New World. |
| politics | 04/02/2012 |
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| Why Iran was Cut Off the Banking System | |
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 The reason why Iran was cut off the global Banking System (SWIFT-system) is little known. |
| 1st quarter · 2012 | |
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| business | 03/25/2012 |
| Short Summary of the Bernie Madoff Scandal | |
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| Bernie Badoff has run the biggest private pyramid-scheme which encompassed about 65 billion dollars. How was it possible for that to happen? |
| politics | 02/13/2012 |
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| US-army officer Describes Afghanistan War | |
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 Lieutenant colonel Daniel L. Davis, who served in Operation Desert Storm, in Afghanistan in 2005-06 and in Iraq in 2008-09 has spent the whole year 2011 in Afghanistan in his second combat deployment and has interviewed more than 250 US-soldiers and many Afghan security officials, civilians and a few village elders in that time. |
| business | 02/05/2012 |
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| Summary of the Great Depression | |
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 Officially, the Great Depression was caused by evil, anonymous and mysterious forces, but a rational investigation yields a completely different picture. |
| politics | 01/21/2012 |
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| Is our security defended in Iran? | |
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 The pacifism of the European left dissapeared together with the Red Army. |
| politics | 01/17/2012 |
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| Summary of situation around Hormuz | |
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 Also, the US has given 84 F-15 fighter jets to ally Saudi-Arabia, has declared to continue the drone campaign in Iran and has moved aircraft carrier Carl Vinson into the Arabian Sea, which has joined aircraft carrier John C. Stennis, which has been already stationed outside of the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 4th quarter · 2011 | |
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| business | 12/18/2011 |
| Manipulation of the market basket and economic growth figures | |
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| Economic growth is officially defined as the nominal growth of the gross domestic product minus the official inflation. The inflation is calculated with a market basket. By selecting the goods in the market basket accordingly, the official figures of economic growth can be increased. |
| politics | 11/30/2011 |
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| USA: Short Summary of Solyndra scandal | |
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 In 2009, the Obama administration invested half a billion dollars in an unproven upstart energy company which was largely owned by Oklahoma's wealthiest man and Obama fundraiser George B. Kaiser via two investment vehicles. The company went bankrupt in September 2011, just as predicted two years earlier. |
| business | 11/27/2011 |
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| Short summary of Keynesianism | |
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| Keynes was his whole life a politician in the British Empire, but still he is today usually called an economist. He triggered the so-called "Keynesian Revolution", which had substantially influenced our current economic system. But what is Keynesianism and what does it mean for us today? |
| society | 11/13/2011 |
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| USA: The crime problem of "Occupy Wall Street" | |
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 One underreported aspect of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement is the seemingly rampant crime problem which the movement itself seems to see as rather embarrassing. One branch even told rape victims not to go to the police and offered counseling - for the rapists. On top of that we saw a gang killing and a suicide within the group. |
| business | 11/07/2011 |
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| Greek bailout will cause much bigger problems in the future | |
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 German chancellor Angela Merkel said that "it must be prevented that others come seeking a haircut". The good news is that Merkel seems to have understood moral hazard. The bad news is that there is no more a good way out of the crisis left because in the European Union, crime does pay - if on a large enough scale. |
| 3rd quarter · 2011 |
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