Monday, September 6th, 2010 | Post a comment

Soft bears say the US economy wil limp along just shy of a double dip
Goldilocks has played a trick on America. Growth is not warm enough to prevent hard-core unemployment climbing to post-war highs and sticking at levels that corrode the body politic, but not yet cold enough to overcome the fierce resistance of the Fed’s regional hawks for a fresh blast of stimulus.
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Monday, September 6th, 2010 | Post a comment

Man walks past gate in Oranienburg just north
A man walks past a gate in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg just north of Berlin, in 2006.
A senior Iranian cleric, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, dismissed the Nazi Holocaust of Jews during World War II as a new “superstition” for the West, media reported on Saturday.
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Sunday, September 5th, 2010 | Post a comment

‘One side of the Earth has lurched to the right … up to 11ft and in some places been thrust up,’ he said. ‘We went and saw two houses that were completely snapped in half by the earthquake.’
moving one side of the earth 11ft to the right
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | Post a comment

Tens of thousands of Muslims have poured into the heavily guarded Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem for the last Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan.
Israeli police put the number of worshippers at 160,000 to 170,000, while Muslim authorities said it exceeded 200,000.
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | Post a comment

Photo: AFP
Pakistani Shi’ite Muslim men are seen at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Quetta, 03 Sep 2010
Pakistani officials say a suicide bombing killed at least 43 people Friday in the second attack on the country’s Shi’ite minority this week.
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