Day: November 18, 2011

News

Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 3 – ‘Lord Snow’ Review and Synopsis.

    [Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 2 – ‘The Kingsroad’]   Spoilers ahead.   This episode opens with the former denizens of Winterfell arriving in their new home, the appropriately named King’s Landing. The sets on this show are as impressive or more so than those HBO showed off in its series Rome. […]

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Science & Technology

Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Budget Slashed Due to China Concerns.

Congressional Republicans frustrated with the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s collaboration with China on many high profile, high technology projects have responded by slashing the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s budget by 32% or from $6.6 million to $4.5 million. The budgetary slash is not expected to result in the loss of personnel […]

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Passengers Asked to Help Airline Purchase Return Fuel.

Charter airline Comtel stranded hundreds of its own passengers on the runway in Amritsar, India, asking them for money to help pay for the cost of refueling. Passengers would not be allowed to leave until they gave the airline another $200 or about 10,000 rupees. This was not the first time Comtel extorted its customers […]

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iPhone Top Business Phone Ahead of Blackberry.

From ZDNet:   “While for the same third-quarter in 2010 when the iPhone’s share of the market was just over 31 percent, the BlackBerry in this past quarter dropped to just 32 percent. The iPhone excelled this past quarter by significantly increasing its enterprise user share to 45 percent. Android nearly doubled its share from last year, […]

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Oppression in Belarus Akin to Soviet Era: Aleksandr Lukashenko Europe’s Last Stalinist Dictator.

Without a doubt, Belarus is Europe’s most oppressive state with regards to civil and personal liberties. While many like to point to Putin’s Russia as an example of an emerging dictatorship, it is rather in the Soviet relic of Belarus that one will find an old school, Stalinist dictator in the form of Aleksandr Lukashenko. […]

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Russian General Nikolai Makarov Warns of Potential Increase in Conflicts with Russia’s Neighbors.

In an address meant to warn NATO away from further expansion eastward, Russian General Nikolai Makarov lamented the unfortunate situation likely in the future in which Russia sees increased conflicts and tensions with her neighbors. Not only does Russia see these conflicts as increasing in number but also in scope, with some even potentially involving […]

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Bond Prices on the Rise in Europe as Fears of Contagion Spread Across the Euro Zone.

European Commission President Manuel Barroso says that the euro zone is facing a “systemic crisis,” while Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean Claude Junker reiterated his call for the formation of euro bonds to save the continent from economic calamity. The interest rates on bonds rose dramatically in France, Belgium, Austria, Finland and the Netherlands, demonstrating lack […]

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