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See the original post: US-Canada Claim Iran-Al Qaeda Ties Despite US Funding Al Qaeda in Iran for Years
Read More: China PMI barely Above Contraction; Chinese Stocks Slump as Manufacturing Slows
In the preceding post Eli pointed en passant to an article by EO Wilson where he let the cat out of the bag For many young people who aspire to be scientists, the great bugbear is mathematics. Without advanced math, how can you do serious work in the sciences? Well, I have a professional secret to share: Many of the most successful scientists in the world today are mathematically no more than semi-literate
My speech, " A Brief Lesson in History ", is available at Wine Country Conference Speaker Presentations . The videos are the actual presentations, and we are making a couple of them available each week for three weeks
Read more here: Graph Shows Who Is And Who Isn’t Paying Their Fair Share of Taxes
Link: URGENT: Boston Bombing Suspects’ Aunt ID’s Naked/Alive Detainee as Slain Nephew – FBI Lies
Tweet Some news and rumors still seem to spread more by word of mouth than online. One of them for me is the issue of potential misuse of solar tax credits in the US, as opposed to feed-in tariffs done elsewhere. Solar tax credits are transferable and cost-based – the higher the cost of the system, then the greater the tax credit that can be sold to other businesses
Tweet Climate sensitivity: how has the Earth responded in the past?
Netherlands is underwater in more ways than one. Der Spiegel reports Underwater: The Netherlands Falls Prey to Economic Crisis More than a decade ago, the Dutch central bank recognized the dangers of [the housing] euphoria, but its warnings went unheeded. Only last year did the new government, under conservative-liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte, amend the generous tax loopholes, which gradually began to expire in January.