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Did you know, that the “Human caused Global Warming” hypothesis didn´t originate in the 1980s, but actually in the 1880s?
Although, until the late 1970s, the hypothesis was considered “a curiosity”, since it contradicted observed events.
Did you further know, that at first this hypothesis wasn´t publicly promoted by scientists or even environmentalists, but by an UN [...]

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Look at the map!
In spite of the deal Iran has made with Russia and France about it´s nuclear enrichment program, Israel is still threatening an attack.
If Israel wants to attack Iran from it´s own territory it has to fly over Iraq. There is no other way.
We know that many Shiites in Iraq sympathize with Iran. [...]

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Once again, in one of the bloodiest attacks ever, two bombings killed and injured over 800 people.
(update:In the first reports those were called suicide bombings, now we hear about car-bombs of cars parked in a parking garage.)
Nearly a whole street was flattened.
This surely is not the kind of destruction which can be caused by [...]

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The world has gone topsy turfy up here in the North Atlantic.
The latest news is, that our own Prime Minister might have sabotaged the possible Norwegian loan, which would have freed us from the grips of the IMF.
She herself has apparently written an e-mail to the Norwegian Prime Minister asking him to stop off his [...]

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Since I could no longer find the article online, it was first published in the print-edition of Morgunblaðið, and the blogger who posted it last year has closed his blog,  I am now here republishing the article.
It states that the main-advisors who advised the Icelandic government and the privatization committee came from the British bank [...]

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Having had a bit of trouble with my internet-connection, I´m back now for a very small report on my country´s troubles, which isn´t so different from American troubles, I think.
We are equally broke.
Today the new financial plan has come out. It´s about large cut-downs of at least 10% in health- and other services, over 50% [...]

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