The almighty dollar is mighty no more.
It has been declining steadily for six years against other major currencies, undercutting its role as the leading international banking currency. The long slide is fanning inflation at home and playing a major role in the run-up of oil and gasoline prices everywhere.
Speaking in Paris last week, Sarkozy made it clear there would be no reworking of the document simply because it had been turned down by Ireland. EU leaders had struggled for more than a year to redraft the text after the French and Dutch referendum no verdicts.
'There will be no treaty part III,' he said, indicating that the Irish would be expected to hold another referendum or show agreement through a parliamentary vote.
The medical staff, from the northern town of Grudziadz, are being investigated over medical trials on as many as 350 homeless and poor people last year, which prosecutors say involved an untried vaccine to the highly-contagious virus.
'It is time to reopen the debate over GM crops,' said Chris Leaver, professor of plant science at Oxford University and a long-term supporter of GM.
'Earth's population will reach 9 billion by 2040.
We need crops that offer better nutritional quality, can withstand drought, use fertiliser more efficiently and resist diseases and pests. GM can contribute to achieving that.'
Such claims will infuriate Britain's green lobby, which sees the promotion of the new 'nutritionally enhanced' crops as a cynical marketing exercise.
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Posted: 8:47:28 PM
Another 911: Debunking the Debunk ... with NEW insights ... pls share ...
(German and english language)
(It says 'june' but when you scroll down, you will find the message for july 6)
Well, I am expecting a wave of Golden Light to envelop the planet in the next few weeks, and as we prepare for this next huge step in our evolution, we are being taken right down to our own personal “bedrock” to see the foundation illusions on which we have built our old lives and beliefs.
The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forces.
Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water.
Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better;
It has no equal.
The weak can overcome the strong;
The supple can overcome the stiff.
Under heaven, everyone knows this,
Yet no one puts it into practice.
Therefore the sage says:
He who takes on the humiliation of the people
is fit to rule them.
He who takes upon himself the country's disasters deserves
to be king of the universe.
The truth often sounds paradoxical.
The internet giant Google has been told to hand over the personal information of every person who has ever watched a video on YouTube as part of a billion-dollar court case in the US.
* NSW police wants stun guns for all frontline officers
* 86pc believe policing more dangerous than in past
* WA police want DNA from everyone arrested