December 6, 2012 0

France Unemployment Rate Hits 10.3%, Youth Unemployment at Record High 24.9%; New Business Activity Plunges

By News Desk

Reuters reports French jobless rate hits 10.3 pct, highest in 13 years France’s unemployment rate rose to 10.3 percent in the third quarter of 2012, its highest since the third quarter of 1999, from 10.2 percent in the previous quarter, data published by national statistics office INSEE showed on Thursday. Youth unemployment rose more markedly, with the jobless rate edging up to 24.9 percent, from 23.6 percent, among people under 25 years old

December 6, 2012 0

The DARPA Vacuum

By News Desk

Links The DARPA Vacuum December 6, 2012 (LD) – A conscious, pragmatic movement, as well informed as it is technically competent, pursuing advanced localism , post-scarcity and the reduction of disparity, elitism, insidiously imposed social engineering, and economic interdependency, has little to fear as it moves forward. However, as the paradigm-shift exists now – there lacks any clear vision for the future, or situational awareness of the present

December 5, 2012 0

In Memoriam (1920-2012)

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

December 5, 2012 0

NATO Missiles in Turkey to Point at Syria

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A month earlier, Turkey was strafing villages in northern Iraq . In June 2012, the BBC reported in their article, " Turkey in new air strikes on Kurdish rebels in Iraq ," that:  Turkey’s military has confirmed further air strikes against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq