Dollar up,…no down after Bernanke testimonial in US Congress, Yen down…nope up, Euro getting stronger against dollar by the day provided EU stays, Yuan long term up, gold up, uncertain crude, interest rates up…not so sure, so are bonds, stocks – known for their lift-like movements historically now looks like a spacecraft searching for elements beyond [...]

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It’s Chinese New Year, and the Chinese are celebrating. In China, there are traffic jams, busy airports and bus stations, and general chaos as people go home to celebrate with their families. And in much of SEAsia, those with Chinese ancestry are also celebrating. But here in the Provinces of the Philippines, except for promotions [...]

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What is Nancy Pelosi thinking ? She puts a possible inmate -to be, on the Homeland Security Committee. It is just a matter of time before his legal troubles are front and center in the news headlines. Rep. Jefferson got a brief delay in his down slide, when the politicians on Capital Hill were able [...]

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The Cricket World Cup 2007 is round the corner. For all the millions of cricket lovers, it is time to watch their favourites perform and debate who has done better. To have a dispassionate assesment of performance and to arrive at the “Man of Worldcup 2007″ in a scientific and transparent manner, there is a [...]

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By Honey Gillard On Thursday night, ‘Shallow Hal’s’ Gwyneth Paltrow hit down the hammer as prices inflated, at a diamond jewellery auction, in which she held at the St. Regis hotel in New York City, in honour of an American Cancer Society benefit reception. Gynweth, 34, was raising money in the name of an organization [...]

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An interesting article found its way onto my reading list this week. It was titled, “Kill the Death Penalty” by Sunhil Dutta, [The Nation, Feb. 9, 2007] who just happens to be a Los Angeles policeman. Dutta wastes no time in identifying his stance on capital punishment – he’s dead set against it, calling it [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog “A love for tradition has never weakened a nation; indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.” – Sir Winston Churchill Posting to my blog every day for the last 10 months has taught me a lot about the challenges and threats we face as a society and [...]

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Internet crime is a growing problem. Every week, we seem to read of large scale data breaches, and spam is filling up our inboxes, despite the spam filters designed to stop it. The spam getting past these filters is often riddled with deceptive lures (links) to all sorts of porn sites. In turn, these sites [...]

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Here is a refreshing change of pace. According to Editor and Publisher, New Mexico Radio station KSFR has made a new policy to eschew usage of newswire stories based on quotes from “unnamed officials” or other unattributed sources. News director Bill Dupuy sent the following message to his news staff: Effectively immediately and until further [...]

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I listened to Bush’s redirect of attention to Afghanistan yesterday and was not much surprised at the (usual) misinformation conveyed. One has the sense that he does not give a damn what the country thinks now and his choice of venues (the American Enterprise Institute) was fairly typical of the protected environments into which he [...]

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Russian medical observers were pleasantly surprised to learn that two thirds of Germans surveyed actually agree with Russian President Vladimer Putin’s recent statements claiming that American policies have led to “a very dangerous unipolar world” and that they now openly support his call to create a bipolar one instead.   Up until then, many of [...]

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By Honey Gillard Former vice-president & star of ‘The Inconvenient Truth’ Al Gore has declared an international campaign to endorse global warming consciousness around the globe. The Campaign, ‘Save Our Selves’ – which is pretty self-explanatory – for a Climate in Crisis is focused on Live Earth. Live Earth is a 24-hour show, which will [...]

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By Honey Gillard   Miss. Christina Aguilera claimed that she is reaching for a new note – acting.   The petite diva was quoted saying that she will be looking into making the tricky transition from music into film and television whilst touring the Europe and the US with her “Back To Basics” tour.   [...]

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