Tag: france
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FDA to Review Safety of Aeroshot’s Inhalable Caffeine
from ap: U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement. AeroShot went on the market late last month in Massachusetts and New York, and it’s also available in France. Consumers…
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1/12 Pop Occulture: Hand Horns, Horses & Friday Fate
#Satanism Growing Among Iranian Youth // Are Satanists responsible for fatal UK horse mutilations? // French parents win case over son’s demonic name // Fate of West Memphis Three in ‘Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory’ // Bankster Backstory Behind Friday the 13th
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greece risks meltdown after bailout vote bombshell
video: greek bailout referendum stirs strong feelings* from reuters: The Greek government faced possible collapse on Tuesday as ruling party lawmakers demanded Prime Minister George Papandreou resign for throwing the nation’s euro membership into jeopardy with a shock call for a referendum. Caught unawares by his high-risk gamble, the leaders of France and Germany summoned…
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greece has weeks left before bankruptcy
greece falls into ‘death spiral’: rising debt, no growth from ap: Greece has enough money to pay pensions, salaries and bondholders through mid-November, the finance minister said Tuesday, as global markets sank on worries that a messy default could bring down European banks and trigger another global recession. The Athens Stock Exchange general index tumbled…
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Sexual Assault Charges Against Ex-IMF Chief Kahn Dismissed
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, one of France’s leading politicians, has walked free from a New York courtroom after a judge ordered the dropping of sexual assault charges against him for allegedly attacking a hotel maid. The move could resurrect his seemingly dead political career in France, and almost brings an end to a dramatic legal tussle that…
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8/11 Binge & Purge: Hunger Thieves, Blaming Bambi & the Toothburger
Pilfered peppers in city gardens; tomatoes, too: community gardens find theft is a fact of life // More farmers markets mean more jobs // E. coli found in deer droppings in oregon strawberry patch linked to outbreak; 14 sick, 1 dead // Human tooth found in hamburger in France
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6/30 binge & purge: false floods, seed supplies & record highs
feds buying up farmland they flooded; soros in on it* video: odd letter from corps upsets property owners in kansas city, mo* georgia’s harsh immigration law leaves crops rotting in fields* free the florida ‘food terrorists’* amid record-high food prices, monsanto grows q3 profits 77%* monsanto trying to take over world seed supply, nation by…
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french woman sues opus dei, claims brainwashing
from afp: A French woman claiming to have been brainwashed by the secretive Catholic society Opus Dei is suing it for allegedly keeping her illegally as a domestic servant, she told AFP Tuesday. Catherine T., who asked not to be identified by her family name, said she joined a hoteliers’ school in northeastern France in…
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fbi lab reports on anthrax attacks suggest another miscue
from mcclatchy: Buried in FBI laboratory reports about the anthrax mail attacks that killed five people in 2001 is data suggesting that a chemical may have been added to try to heighten the powder’s potency, a move that some experts say exceeded the expertise of the presumed killer… The apparent failure of the FBI to…
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Northern Europe’s Farmers Fear Drought As Bad As 1976
Farmers in northern Europe are finding themselves caught between a hard place and a rock-hard place as an unusually dry spring turns to summer.
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markets go wild after imf head kahn arrested for sexual assault
from washington post: A New York criminal court judge denied bail to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, after he was charged with attempting to rape a housekeeper at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Strauss-Kahn, also charged with a criminal sex act and unlawful imprisonment, made his first courtroom appearance after being pulled…
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restored ‘trip to the moon’ debuts on cannes opening night
from hollywood reporter: Before CGI and 3D, there was French film pioneer Georges Melies, the forerunner of modern-day movie magic. His newly restored 1902 short A Trip to the Moon will precede Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris to open up this year’s Cannes Film Festival. A must for any film student or special effects lover,…


