Monthly Archives: June 2011

The US Federal Reserve “does not own any gold at all.” … “What appears on our balance sheet is gold certificates.” … — [VIDEO]

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Who said the French press does not publish anything about the French politicians’ sex life? — [DOCUMENT]

The DSK affair illustrates the difference between France and America. I’ll leave it to you. Just in passing, here’s a Paris Match article on Emile Servan-Shreiber’s father (a media tycoon turned failed politician) about a time when he had concurrently … Continue reading

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The Belo Monte dam project in the Amazon rainforest has been OK’ed. — [VIDEO]

NYT. BBC. Wikipedia: The Belo Monte Dam (formerly known as Kararaô) is a proposed hydroelectric dam complex on the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil. The planned installed capacity of the dam complex would be 11,233 megawatts (MW), … Continue reading

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Midas Oracle’s stats about John Delaney’s death. — [ANALYTICS]

Out of curiosity for SEO, here are some key stats about our coverage of the InTrade CEO‘s horrific death. Note that these stats don’t encompass the frontpage readers and the feed subscribers (so, we would add many hundreds more, actually). … Continue reading

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NASA’s Langley Research Center scientists are investigating low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), which is sometimes labeled “cold fusion”. — [PODCAST]

Dennis Bushnell (2 iTunes podcasts): The most interesting, and promising, at this point, in the farther term, but maybe not so far, is low-energy nuclear reactions. This has come out of [22] years of people producing energy but not knowing … Continue reading

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