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Though IMVVHO all it sadly would take to get a Space going again is for the Chinese to put men/women in orbit or especially on the Moon.............. The "Gagarin + Kennedy" model of starting a Space race. The issue is that while Chinese have already put people in orbit -eliciting no meas...

After 50 years of manned space travel, the only remaining means of human transportation to low Earth orbit is a modified version of the 1967 Soviet expendable spaceship, launched by a slightly modified version of the very launcher which propelled the first man into space in 1961 after having launche...

Portugal's debt is unsustainable. That is the only possible conclusion A report for the Kiel Institute for the World Economy said Portugal would have to run a primary budget surplus of over 11pc of GDP a year to prevent debt dynamics spiralling out of control, even in a benign scenario of 2pc annua...

Similar to Russia claiming that their invasion of Georgia was a requested "intervention." Actually Russians do not claim that their 2008 intervention was requested by Georgians. They are just saying that Georgian break of ceasefire through surprise shelling at night of the city of Tskhinv...

However, the SU under Stalin did exactly what they stopped the Nazi's from achieving and exceeded the Third Reich's tally of murdered innocents by tens of millions. No, Hitlerian Germany was destructive on a level entirely different to the Stalinist Soviet Union. Most of the 40 million killings wit...

The problem is that there isn't enough gold (or precious metals) to base a currency on. What else could be used? How 'bout...I don't know....carbon :o Jokes aside, it's a very solid bet that if trust in ability of present fiat currencies to act as store of values was to disappear, then gold & s...

might be a dumb question, im full of dumb. why exactly is their not enough gold ? wont it just get more expensive when the world economy grows ? You're right of course. The fact that gold is priced today low enough that all gold produced to date wouldn't be enough to be used as monetary reserve for...

I don't recall the last time I purchased anything labelled Made in Russia. You have to admit their cultural achievements, especially literary but also musical, artistic, and scientific, loom large. Even if they don't manufacture all the mechanical amusements. Indeed. Another -litterally vital for t...

Reason, Russia or China or Iran still backwards nothing do to with greatness of their culture or people, but history of world of last few 100 yrs. Russia is not backwards: education levels, scientific achievements testify to the opposite. Russian history has been a mess during the last century, pri...

Seems, where west, Europe, is weak and helpless .. in energy .. a bottleneck and key for western hopes in the future , is working at normal capacity, it transports 1 million barrels per day The population of what they call now "Azerbaijan", in reality Iranian provinces (annexed by Russian...

US election 2012: Mitt Romney attacked by Republican rival for speaking French Newt Gingrich has launched a new political attack advertisement against his Republican rival Mitt Romney – accusing him of speaking French. (...) It then delivers its coup de grace: a clip of a promotional video Mr Romne...

Western Europe, circa 2012
Fall of market spectacle economy




Who knows why, I particularly like that picture.

Kinda like killing the dictator and parading him around town against all decency and morals. Islamic and otherwise. That's why Italy never formed a republic after stringing up Mussolini and suffers from chaos and civil war to this day..... What's Italy got to do with it? This (warning: shocking ima...

US carrier may face problems if returns to Persian Gulf: IRGC general TEHRAN, Jan. 4 (MNA) – IRGC Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri warned on Wednesday that if the U.S. aircraft carrier, which had left the Persian Gulf because of Iran’s naval war games, returns to the sea, it may face problems. “We...

Getting to the core of the matter, domination of Iran looks attractive to America not primarily because of Russia nor China, but because of the Gulf, which concentrates by far the globe's largest reserves of fossil energy. It goes a bit farther than the Gulf. All other issues related to Iran are se...

if Iran is militarily attacked , Pandora box is opened to unforeseen event .. but .. one thing will be sure .. west will lose control of Middle Eastern Oil and will be pushed out of that space A Pandora box would be opened, yes. And quite disastrous consequences would follow, which is the reason wh...

Getting to the core of the matter, domination of Iran looks attractive to America not primarily because of Russia nor China, but because of the Gulf, which concentrates by far the globe's largest reserves of fossil energy. As fossil energy becomes scarcer and scarcer with peak oil reached and beyond...

It's still too early to fight over ideologies, says Nadshih. First, the foundation has to be laid, a modicum of reconstruction. "You Europeans collaborated with our autocrats for decades -- don't start talking about the danger of Islamism now. I would also rather have liberal political parties...

Is War Imminent in the Straits of Hormuz? Since 24 December the Iranian Navy has been holding its ten-day Velayat 90 naval exercises, covering an area in the Arabian Sea stretching from east of the Strait of Hormuz entrance to the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Aden. The day the maneuvers opened Irani...

Everything which concerns Europe... To start with some unusual thoughts, here is A Conversation about Europe by Dmitry Orlov, the student of parallels and differences between the Soviet collapse and what he believes is the future inevitable collapse of the US and other industial economies. No matter...

A series of peeks into 2012 by Evans-Pritchard of financial comment at Daily Telegraph Not to be taken entirely seriously of course, I believe AEP is no fool to believe predictions are possible... but he offers an entertaining series of possible crisis consequences this year. Crisis, unemployment, ...

However, how many imminent crashes has the ZH site predicted in the last year? What cannot continue forever, won't. That being said, too many people want to believe they can predict the "won't" timing... Tangentially, Japan chose the F-35 over the Typhoon. ... Is your new nickname related...

durian Yeltsin ruined Russia .. leaving things to crooks to plunder Russia and escape to London and Tel Aviv .. leading to Russian lady doctor brain surgeon to prostitute for 50 dollars .. Harvard Business gurus promising him this and that, permanent drunk Yeltsin not realizing they no friend but e...