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New Mogul: business, leadership, management and financial news aggregator		05 Sep 09
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Thanks to Mike B for sharing this link: newmogul.com

Who travels with 134 billion dollars in a suitcase?

22 Jun 09

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On Thursday, June 11, 2009 Italian police of the Guardia di Finanza seized US$134 billion of United States bearer bonds at the border with Switzerland at Chiasso. The bonds include 249 Treasury bonds worth $500 million each, and ten $1 billion Kennedy Bonds. Bearer bonds are unregistered bonds that are redeemable by whoever is in possession.

curageousideas.blogspot.com/2009/06/134-billion-dollars-in-bearer-bonds.html

Are they fraud?

JSmineset writes: Governments in times of war counterfeit the opponent’s currency and government bearer bonds to balloon the money supply, inflicting injury by inflation. These instruments, even not in official figures, act the same as a massive increase in the money supply. $134 billion is not massive by today’s standards but how do you know this is the only suitcase? Nobody is that stupid with funds of this size, even if they are counterfeit. You can be sure there is more where this came from. The probability then is that the $134 billion is not all of it and might just be the tip of the iceberg.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_bond

Some images: images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=bearer+bonds&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=

A similar story from 2001: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1180171.stm

A lot of updates here: www.greenenergyinvestors.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=6834&view=findpost&p=113920

Mindset

30 Nov 08

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There is some hope .. after all on the green front. Maybe the big and established car companies get some inspiration from this, or from the good old Tesla.

ww2.autoscout24.de/magazine/mz_search.aspx?article=67323 I would probably buy one.

A big thanks to Michael for the link.

energy from ocean currents

30 Nov 08

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Very very good article.

www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/3535012/Ocean-currents-can-power-the-world-say-scientists.html

This, combined with simple solarthermal power generation is the future.

www.desertec.org/concept.html

New forum for Latinos living around lake Starnberg		25 Nov 08
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La idea es juntar a todos los latinoamericanos y personas de habla hispana que vivan en la zona de Starnberger See y alrededores y tengan ganas de compartir experiencias con otros hermanos. s2.elforo.de/latinosensta/

Einstein's messy desk		23 Nov 08
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as I am such a chaotic person myself, I like it :-).

new energy blog		01 Aug 08
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good.myupdat.es/

Sex sells ..

12 Feb 08

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Surprise, surprise .. :-). Men buy the DSL connections :-).

Took this picture in Hamburg at Hansenet (alice, Telekom Italia).

The model is Vanessa Hessler and she is playing in the latest Asterix movie.

Shiny polar cloud		11 Dec 07
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I came across this great article on Slashdot.

Dryad talk		16 Nov 07
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Dryad is the Microsoft copy from map-reduce. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhE5JCP2Ak

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