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By Dr. Cesar Chelala
13/01/08 "ICH" --- NEW YORK—The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has painted a dramatic picture of the situation of children in Iraq and warned that increased assistance is needed to improve their dire situation.
According to UNICEF, an estimated two million children suffer from poor nutrition, disease, and interrupted education. One child dies every five minutes because of the war, and many more are left with severe injuries.
Of the estimated four million (…)

Biggest Swiss Bank UBS May Be Split Up, Face More Writedowns
By Carey Sargent
Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) — UBS AG, Europe’s biggest bank by assets, may split its investment banking and money management operations into two separately traded companies, SonntagsZeitung reported, without saying where it got the information.
The bank, based in Zurich, may also take another $5 billion to $8 billion in writedowns following the collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market, the newspaper said. UBS on (…)

The road is a place of discussion like the entrances to buildings, pub, bars and the rest that concerns the public. It is in the public space that a public debate can have space. It is a place where the public can confront our elite caste of politicians and union leaders, Vice Chancellors and comfortable servant-journalists. All places where the elite caste talk, control and package the news, are monopolized and not accessible by university workers.
They are safe behind barricades of (…)

True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu. Awesome Videos!!!
True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu! Video Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Adg7KEqxPU&feature=related
True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu Video Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY_E73HqnPc&feature=related
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True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu Video Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS6fvb9XKuY&feature=related
True Power Of Shaolin (…)

Poor Bill Clinton. Until Hillary lugged him into the race, mostly because of her lackluster showing, his reputation as a President was fairly good. Of course the most impressive feature of his Administration was the infamous balanced budget, which he, and now Hillary, claim was the reult of their efforts. This is but one of countless claims that aren’t true, at least not completely true. At the time Bill actually insisted the budget couldn’t be balanced, while Newt Gingrich, who had (…)

Tony Blair to take up £500,000 job as political adviser to US company
Phillip Webster – Times Online January 10, 2008
Tony Blair is to take a job with JPMorgan Chase, the international financial services and investment banking group, The Times learnt last night.
The former Prime Minister is to be a political adviser to the American firm which operates in more than 50 countries and whose assets are put at $1.5 trillion, with interests also in commercial banking and private equity. (…)

Vomiting bug ’hits three million’ Almost three million people have been affected by the norovirus stomach bug so far this winter, figures suggest.
Surveillance from the Health Protection Agency shows cases in England and Wales are double those seen last year.
Doctors advise people to stay at home for 48 hours after symptoms have gone to cut the risk of the bug spreading.
The HPA said the norovirus season began unusually early. For every one of the 1,922 reported cases, it is (…)

Cyclical Evolution By David Glenn Cox
There once was a being named Orso, a sojourner among the galaxies. Then it came unto him the creatures that would destroy his faith in all that he held sacred. Creatures to whom reality was but a concept and to whom truth was but a belief and logic was what ever they said it was. Truth was to them like an ocean wave crashing on the shore; its validity would climb up onto the sandy beaches only to and just as certainly then to retreat back from where it (…)

Scientists Use Sunlight to Make Fuel From CO2
By Chuck Squatriglia 01.04.08, 8:00 PM
Sandia researcher Rich Diver checks out the solar furnace which will be the initial source of concentrated solar heat for converting carbon dioxide to fuel. Eventually parabolic dishes will provide the thermal energy.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico have found a way of using sunlight to recycle carbon dioxide and produce fuels like methanol or gasoline.
The Sunlight to (…)

Cleveland sues 21 banks over subprime mess
Posted by Henry J. Gomez and Thomas Ott January 11, 2008 05:01AM
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson took aim at Wall Street on Thursday with a lawsuit against 21 major investment banks that he said have enabled the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis here.
The one-of-a-kind suit, filed in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, accuses venerable institutions such as Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo of creating a public (…)