Tag: switzerland
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econocrash: unemployment, bank closures, survivalism & logic bombs
beijing rocked by 26m lost jobsfrom independent: An estimated 26 million poor rural Chinese are now without jobs after pinning their hopes on the once-booming manufacturing sector, where work has dried up due to the global economic slowdown, a government advisory body said. The figure was released one day after Beijing warned of “possibly the…
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‘end of the world’ machine breaks down again
from press tv: The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) says its particle collider will be shut down due to a helium leak into its tunnel. “There has been an incident in a test. One section of the machine will have to be repaired,” CERN spokesman James Gillies announced on Saturday. The collider, the largest…
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cern super collider begins testing this weekend
from wired: The Large Hadron Collider, soon-to-be the world’s most powerful atom smasher, begins testing this weekend. CERN will fire the first test beam through one of the particle accelerator’s sectors. “It’s, ‘Let’s see what happens,’ ” Judy Jackson, head of the Office Communications at Fermilab, told Popular Mechanics. “It’s a very complex machine. This…
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real id, tecsar, davos, the black pope & wal-mart
let the governors’ rebellion against real id begin!from no quarter: Montana governor Brian Schweitzer – who, by the way, speaks fluent Arabic from his years in Saudi Arabia as an irrigation developer – “declared independence Friday from federal identification rules [”Real ID”] and called on governors of 17 other states to join him in forcing…