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Where does it end…

admin @ December 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Tribune Co has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after struggling under a heavy debt load, according to a court document filed with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Delaware on Monday.The privately held publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, which took on about $13 billion of debt when it went private last […]

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Car dealer offers second car for free: till Dec 15th

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Car dealer offers second car for free
Buy one, get one free: it’s a familiar sales pitch for happy-hour cocktails or last season’s fashions, but now a Belgian car dealer is luring customers with just that line.
Antwerp-based Cardoen, which sells about 10,000 new and nearly new cars per year, started the promotion at the end of […]

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Millions on Wednesday as retirement savings evaporated, jobs disappeared

admin @ October 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The worst financial crisis since the 1930s was stark reality for millions on Wednesday as retirement savings evaporated, jobs disappeared, stock market values slipped again and a dramatic cut in interest rates by central banks from Europe to Asia did little to stem three weeks of near panic.
What the International Monetary Fund termed a major […]

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Space rock found on collision course with Earth

admin @ October 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet

For the first time, astronomers have found an object on a certain collision course with Earth. Fortunately, it is so small it is not expected to cause any damage, burning up in the atmosphere somewhere above northern Sudan in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. It may, however, produce a brilliant ’shooting star’.
The space rock, […]

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4000 US Soldiers dead…stay tuned for more…

admin @ March 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet

I’ve said it before…every politician wants to do something that will put them into the history books…and not just as a footnote…
9/11 took us to Afghanistan
Bush couldn’t get OBL
Failure
So Bush decided to make Saddam a target…an easy target…after all Daddy went and walked all over them…
So…Saddam was sleeping with OBL and AQ
this was the first […]

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Fidel Castro Resigns

admin @ February 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Raul Castro, Cuba’s likely new leader after his ailing brother Fidel Castro bowed out on Tuesday, is a pragmatist more concerned with putting food on Cuban tables than spreading revolution abroad.The outwardly dour Raul Castro, 76, lacks his elder brother’s charisma and has lived in his shadow for decades.
But he is seen as a ray […]

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