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What do you see first in newspaper?

Many people have many interests, So when newspaper is in your hand what is your first choice to read? Healines, horsocpe, sports news, economic news or ..? Pls give your view.

Liberal Democratic Press

It seems that the press is becomming the mouthpeace and protector of the Democratic party. In the recient economic news they fail to mention that the the Bush taxcuts have produced more tax revenue...

Checking Day to Day Economy News?

Hi, Do you check day-to-day Economy News,Share Market Prices,Bank Interest rates,Export-Import Figures etc? As for me,I have a keen interest in day to day economic News,as well as major or minor...

China’s Grapes of Wrath

The number of middle class and wealthy Chinese is growing in China, but the distribution of wealth is increasingly disproportionate. And the situation is worsening with the nouveau riche paying the...

Zimbabwe to chair UN committee on sustainable development? HEH.

The country of Zimbabwe, whose economy is in collapse with 80% unemployment and a 200% inflation rate is due to head the UN’s Committee of Sustainable development. The Commission, created in...

Pennsylvania Cigarette Taxes to be Collected

The state IRS is after you if you bought cigarettes on the internet.  They say that collectively there are $10.4 million dollars owed from this discount way of purchasing your smokes. One person...

Sorry Germany, we don’t do asparagus fields anymore

Or do you know any Germans (or Americans) who would be willing to dig up white asparagus out in the hot sun a few weeks each spring for five or six euros (roughly $7 or $8) an hour? No, I don’t know...

To be Poor is Glorious……

Deng Xiao Ping is credited with the quote “ To be Rich is Glorious”.Many in China made it their guiding philosophy and became rich and in the process created wealth that made others wealthy. But that...

Global warming alert

The “We’re all gonna die” hype this year is global warming. Guess I’ve been through too many similar scares in the past to hyperventillate. But the irony is that a lot of the...

Asian Town on the Detroit Riverfront

Dominic Pangborn is continuing to grow his world-renowned clothing and graphic design business in Detroit, now expanding into a long-abandoned factory along the Detroit River. Pangborn is one of the...

Oops there goes another rubber check…

News Item: NJ pension funds in a black hole $25 billion, on the low end.  $56 billion, on the high end. Those are the numbers being bandied about to describe the shortfall in New Jersey public...

Why Venture Communism in Berlin now?

My startling piece on?leftist scene? activities in Berlin yesterday not only raised a few eyebrows among the more vigilant of you defenders of democracy out there everywhere, it also seems to have...

ADB projects India’s growth to slow down to 8 pc

Growth of the Indian economy is expected to slow to 8% in 2007-08, from 9.2% in the current fiscal, according to the Asian Development Bank Outlook 2007.?A soft landing is a likely outcome,? said...