Day: November 3, 2011

News

Greek Referendum Called Off, Military Leaders Dismissed, Government’s Collapse Feared.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has called off plans for a referendum on the proposed bailout package for Greece’s crippling sovereign debt but this has not shored up support for the embattled Socialist Prime Minister as his government is now expected to collapse in a confidence vote this Friday. The opposition New Democracy Party backed the […]

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The Inner Mongolia City of Ordos(鄂尔多斯): City of the Future.

China’s revelation that it cannot bailout the eurozone countries from their current fiscal quagmire might be due in part to its own bubbling financial crisis in the form of large, uninhabited real estate developments scattered throughout the country and into which billions in stimulus money were poured. One such place is a city in Inner […]

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Television

Downton Abbey: Series 2 – Episode 7.

So the war is over and Downton Abbey has transformed back into a glorious country estate after having been used as a convalescent home for injured British soldiers. Cora intimates that she wanted to have the valet Bates sacked because of Bates’ wife’s suicide, a suggestion by which Lord Grantham is both appalled and visibly […]

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Militia Blogger Accused of Inspiring Retirees in Terror Plot.

Four retirees from Georgia allegedly formed a militia and hatched a plot to assassinate unnamed politicians and use the deadly toxin ricin in targeted attacks against the government. Mike Vanderboegh, Alabama blogger and militia activist, is accused of inspiring the plot, a charge that he repudiates. Vanderboegh has blogged about Americans being disenchanted with the […]

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