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Despite the economic slump, SUV sales are back up in the US. However, the automotive trend in Japan has been the reverse: in recent years, tiny cars called Kei have become ubiquitous. So small as to make Mini Coopers look bloated, Kei cars are seen as the future of transportation, as they are ideal for coping with high gas prices, tough parking, and traffic congestion. Toyota is considering introducing them in America, and would be made here by the Big Three "if Detroit had any sense," Wired writes.
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Smarting from the last two elections, the Republican Party is busy soul-searching to find out what went wrong and recapture America's imagination as the party of the future. These efforts have centered around Rebuild The Party, which allows average Republicans to voice their thoughts on a course of action/change of direction. Here's what they've concluded: Truck Nutz for all Americans. The future awaits!
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Because we love them all so much ... Mostly just pictures, this somewhat skeptical look at conspiracy theory should serve as almost a beginner's guide.
Chemtrails: Chemtrail conspiracy theorists believe that some contrails, which consist of ice crystals or water vapor condensed behind aircraft, actually result from chemicals or biological agents being deliberately sprayed at high altitude for some undisclosed purpose.
The staple of right-wing radio shows in the US, there is fevered speculation that the chemicals being sprayed are part of a wider plot that involves the so-called New World Order and is being directed by shadowy forces within the government. The existence of chemtrails has been repeatedly denied by federal agencies and scientists.
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It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula E = mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.
A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France's Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world's mightiest supercomputers, have set down the calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons, the particles at the nucleus of atoms.
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Since 1999, the following events have either caused or been the symptom of the present economic crises:
1) Year 1999: Introduction of the euro to world financial markets
2) Year 2000: Collapse of the Dot-com bubble
3) Year 2000: Iraq dumps the US dollar and switches to the euro
4) Year 2005: Rewriting the U.S. Bankruptcy Law
5) Year 2006: Discontinuance of M3
6) Year 2006: Iran moves from US dollars to the euro
7) Year 2006/07: Subprime Market Collapses
8) Year 2007: Run on The Bank in the US and UK
9) Year 2007: 52% Support U.S. Military Strike Against Iran
10) Year 2008: US comptroller general and head of the Government Accountability Office resigns
11) Year 2008: US and UK impose Short selling ban
Implications: Expansion of War or New Sustainable Paradigms?
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The American surveillance society is one of the worst in the world. According to Privacy International and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, we are among the nine most “endemic” surveillance societies. The U.S. is supposed to be the beacon of liberty, the example to all the world of what a society of liberty under law ought to look like. But we have become an embarrassment.
Several facets of the surveillance society exist: the police state at the air port, massive biometrics databases of innocents, implantable microchips, secret spy forces, and much more. This report covers just one piece of our massive surveillance society: airports.
Part I: AIRPORTS
You’ve just walked into an airport. Don’t make a joke about a bomb, or you’ll be arrested. Dump out your water before you go through the line. And if you haven’t properly put your personal items in the correct sized zip-lock bags, they will be confiscated.
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we are among the nine most “endemic” surveillance societies. The U.S. is supposed to be the beacon of liberty, the example to all the world of what a society of liberty under law ought to look like. But we have become an embarrassment.
Several facets of the surveillance society exist: the police state at the air port, massive biometrics databases of innocents, implantable microchips, secret spy forces, and much more. This report covers just one piece of our massive surveillance society: airports.
Part I: AIRPORTS
You’ve just walked into an airport. Don’t make a joke about a bomb, or you’ll be arrested. Dump out your water before you go through the line. And if you haven’t properly put your personal items in the correct sized zip-lock bags, they will be confiscated.">
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CNBC.com: Given the speed at which the federal government is throwing money at the financial crisis, the average taxpayer, never mind member of Congress, might not be faulted for losing track. CNBC, however, has been paying very close attention and keeping a running tally of actual spending as well as the commitments involved.
Try $4.28 trillion dollars. That's $4,284,500,000,000 and more than what was spent on WW II, if adjusted for inflation, based on our computations from a variety of estimates and sources.
Not only is it a astronomical amount of money, its' a complicated cocktail of budgeted dollars, actual spending, guarantees, loans, swaps and other market mechanisms by the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and other offices of government taken over roughly the last year, based on government data and news releases.
Some 68-percent of the sum falls under the Federal Reserve's umbrella, while another 16 percent is the under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, TARP, as defined under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, signed into law in early October. (The TARP alone is bigger than virtually any other US government endeavor dating back to the Louisiana Purchase. See slideshow.)
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NBC News: President-elect Barack Obama is expected to name Sen. Hillary Clinton as his pick for secretary of state after Thanksgiving. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports.
The Obama team and the Clintons have worked out potential problems including complex financial disclosure issues for former President Bill Clinton and his international foundation that operates in 27 countries, the officials told NBC News.
Senator Clinton is understood to be prepared to accept an offer and has had substantive conversations with President-elect Obama about issues, roles, and responsibilities, they said. One week after the former primary rivals met to discuss the idea of Clinton becoming the nation's top diplomat, the two sides were moving quickly toward making it a reality.
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