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• Monday: Watch Dubai and the international response closely.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Dubai is one of the seven emirates of the UAE. It is a monarchy and has been ruled by the Al Maktoum family since 1833. The source of it’s wealth is primarily finance and banking. What little oil it has is almost depleted. Over the past decade Dubai’s spending has been profligate to the point of being obscene. The ...
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• The Daily Habit: History

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 142
  Anglo Saxon Booty Worth $5,5 Million http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091126/lf_nm_life/us_treasure_britain  
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• Letters: Dont reform the monarchy – abolish it

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  If parliament has time to discuss the royal succession and is concerned about issues of equality ( Royal succession law is outdated, Brown tells MPs , 26 November), it should simply abolish the monarchy altogether. It is typical of parliament to remedy the most egregiously indefensible aspects (sex discrimination, ...
  1 day ago

• Gordon Brown Proposes Updating Royal Succession Rules

  
  Moo News Moo News - Entertainment, Sports, Showbiz, Celebrities & TV — Authority: 521
  Gordon Brown has once again put his foot in his mouth with the Buckingham Palace when last night he announced to the media that he would like a massive overhaul for the current monarchy. The Prime Minister said that the 300-year old laws regarding succession for the throne were outdated.  He further announced his ...
  1 day ago

• What Dubai Says About Capitalism: Not Much

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  You sort of just knew Dubai was going to implode.  Or if you didnt, you sure should have. Bloomberg reports: Dubai is shaking investor confidence across the Persian Gulf after its proposal to delay debt payments risked triggering the biggest sovereign default since Argentina in 2001.   The cost of ...
  2 days ago

• The Daily Habit: Politics

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 142
  Sarkozy Burying Camus http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091124/wl_time/08599194239200    
  3 days ago

• Royal succession: What the law says

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The Act of Settlement , passed in 1701 at a time of widespread fear of Catholics, decrees that only Protestant heirs of Princess Sophia, granddaughter of James I, may take the British throne. Neither Catholics, nor those who marry a Catholic, nor those born out of wedlock, may remain in the line of succession. More ...
  3 days ago

• Royal succession law outdated, Gordon Brown tells MPs

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • PM plans to raise issue at Commonwealth meeting • Boost to campaign to abolish ban on Catholics The abolition of "outdated" laws that ban Catholics from marrying into the royal family will be raised by Gordon Brown at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting that opens in Trinidad and Tobago on Friday. In ...
  3 days ago

• The New Citizenship Guide Presents Newcomers With A Deeper Picture of Canada

  
  Canada's World — Authority: 418
  Earlier this month, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney unveiled Discover Canada (PDF here ), a new guidebook for immigrants preparing to take the citizenship test. While the release of a government brochure rarely becomes headline news, this particular publication generated a surprising amount of ...
  3 days ago

• The Jane Andrews I knew | Libby Brooks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The press portrays the former royal aide as a gold-digging harpy because our society cant deal with the complexities of abuse The twirling cursive on the envelope made her dispatches instantly recognisable. I began corresponding with Jane Andrews, who absconded from an open prison in Kent last Sunday , in the autumn ...
  3 days ago

• Former royal aide back in custody

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Jane Andrews, convicted of murdering her boyfriend, found safe and well, police say The former royal aide and convicted murderer Jane Andrews, who escaped from an open prison in Kent at the weekend, has been found safe with three people thought to be family members and is back in custody, police said today. ...
  3 days ago

• The Daily Habit: Culture

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 142
  Animal Sacrifice in Nepal http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_as/as_nepal_animal_sacrifice  
  4 days ago

• Police step up hunt for ex-royal aide

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Officers say Duchess of Yorks former personal assistant, who absconded from open prison, does not pose threat to public Police said today that the convicted murderer and former royal aide Jane Andrews did not pose a threat to the public, as they stepped up their search for her. Andrews, who was the Duchess of ...
  4 days ago

• The Cost Of The Upcoming Second Bailout: Democracy Itself

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Or so claims none other than bailout abuser extraordinaire, the International Monetary Fund. As the TimesOnline reports: "Dominique Strauss-Kahn told the CBI annual conference of business leaders that another huge call on public finances by the financial services sector would not be tolerated by the “man in the ...
  5 days ago

• The FDIC, Recursive Exceptionalism, and the Fall of the Republic

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Historically, the appearance of recursive exceptionalism is a highly predictive harbinger of republican (and, as it happens, imperial) decline, eventual fragmentation (typically violent in character) and collapse. It was no accident that the Roman Republics decline followed hard upon the unspoken disposal of ...
  5 days ago

• a funny thing.

  
  FUCKING DANCE — Authority: 116
  being totally honest here, i dont actually care who Monarchy are anymore. we get it. theyre good. theyre wizards of all things cool-pop-synth-pop. yadada ya. but theyve done this pretty brilliant remix of Penguin Prison s track A Funny Thing. it is great. you should probably listen to it. Penguin Prison - A ...
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• The Machine is Just Hype.

  
  Salacious Sound — Authority: 428
  For a lot of music fans, Hypemachine’s charts have become a way to find “the best new music on the internet”. For others it has acted as a promotional tool. For most, its nothing more than a way to find new tracks. Generally speaking the charts are biased to artists we’ve already heard of, tracks that have ...
  6 days ago

• The Daily Habit: Politics

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 142
  Iran Begins War Games http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_war_games;_ylt=AkLFZTBjVXFB.AJtEvuCZii9F4l4;_ylu=X3oDMTJrOXQ5czdzBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMTIyL21sX2lyYW5fd2FyX2dhbWVzBGNwb3MDMwRwb3MDMwRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3JpZXMEc2xrA2lyYW5iZWdpbnN3YQ –
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• Pass notes No 2,687: Lady Gaga

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The outrageous pop singer has been booked for the Royal Variety Performance Age: 23. Appearance: Topshop sales assistant trying to convince a credulous police officer shes an extraterrestrial being. Its a great look, and one adopted behind closed doors by a surprising variety of people – so why should I care ...
  6 days ago

• And after, an overwritten rooster

  
  saaleha.com — Authority: 104
  At 2am, the magnificence of the night was defiled by unholy shit spewing from the house five doors away. She stuffed the comforter into her ears and began to think really loudly. But there was this one note. Stubborn and self-preserving; it crawled to the top of the aural shitpile, jack-booting the doof-doof-waas ...
  1 week ago

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