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• Bengal to ask Tata Motors to return Singur land

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Kolkata, Dec 26 (IANS) The West Bengal government is in talks with Tata Motors for getting back the land leased to the automobile major for its Nano small car project in Hooghly district’s Singur, officials said Saturday.“They have taken the land on lease from us for a specific project, but as it will not come ...
  17 hours ago

• Mulled Wine, a Timeless Taste of the Divine?

  
  Gherkins & Tomatoes — Authority: 425
  Mulled Wine (Photo credt: ) “He has given us plenty of merriment, I am sure,” said Fred, “and it would be ungrateful not to drink his health. Here is a glass of mulled wine ready to our hand at the moment; and I say, ‘Uncle Scrooge’!” “Well! Uncle Scrooge!” they cried. “A Merry ...
  3 days ago

• Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen;

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves. Just like the British in the late 1700s, mother England wanted to maintain control. Americans protested a tea tax. But the Boston Tea Party, throwing the tea into Boston harbor, wasn’t enough to rally Americans against the British. George Washington ...
  1 week ago

• Review: Peasants & Travelers backpack

  
  Doobybrain.com — Authority: 568
  If you haven’t heard of Peasants & Travelers , you should keep them on your radar because the young company is putting out some great looking products for travelers wishing to go about in style. The company is founded and headed up by Jee Kim, a fashion designer with history at Gucci, Neiman Marcus, Williams ...
  1 week ago

• Singur welcomes railway proposal, but sceptical

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  By Soudhriti BhabaniSingur (West Bengal), Dec 16 (IANS) Mahadeb Das’ 12-bigha (4.8-acre) land, which fell within the plot earmarked for the Tata Motors small car project here, was acquired by the state’s Left Front government in 2006. Das was not among those farmers who willingly gave up their land for the Nano ...
  1 week ago

• Left Front partner admits drawbacks in West Bengal land reforms

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Kolkata, Dec 11 (IANS) West Bengal’s ruling Left Front partner, the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB), Friday conceded that the combine has failed to provide the people an alternative livelihood to agriculture despite carrying out comprehensive land reforms during its 32-year stint in power.“We have undertaken ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fourth harvest in medieval Catalonia?

  
  A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe — Authority: 117
  Things that I should know: according to Deirdre Larkin at the Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , one of the people who runs the marvellous blog there on their medieval garden, in Spain and Portugal the acorns of the holm oak, which are sweeter than regular acorns, are still sometimes used to make meal for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recently Appearing On Fantasy Magazine

  
  Cat Rambo — Authority: 466
  Kimberly Unger reviews iPhone game "Stay" from Anthrophagy . Wheatlands Press asks for support in the form of pre-orders for the next Polyphony anthology . Pixel-stained techno-peasants rejoice and raise your voices in celebration of Free-e-day Cynthia Ward reviews Nights Master by acclaimed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gold rising is not a bubble; it is an omen of the future defaults of governments.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Gold rising is not a bubble; it is an omen of the future defaults of governments. Paul Krugman scoffed and derided analysts who said gold would rise to $1500. Apparently, the Nobel prize went to head and he stopped listening to reason or knowing history. To wit, since the 1500’s governments have been defaulting on ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Bag Lady

  
  Boutique Caf — Authority: 426
  I am the bag lady. I received a weekender bag from Peasant & Travelers and i love it. It is made for a man, yet perfect for me. It is a metro man’s bag. Designer Jee Kim has designed a refined and contemporary line that delivers exceptional detailing that marries style and function for men. But…hold up. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Arming Goldman With Pistols Against Public

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 123
  LOL “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol. The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Several observations in China.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  1). Home size in China include walls, balcony and doorway, 130 sqm is equivalent to about 1050 sq ft in the USA while the price is based on 130 sqm, not the 96 sqm. 2). When you buy property based on listing price, you can only buy “maopi fan”, bare bone apartment, there is no window, no bathroom, no electric ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dangers of an Overheated China (unsustainable production by political imperative)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  November 29, 2009 ECONOMIC VIEW Dangers of an Overheated China By TYLER COWEN PRESIDENT OBAMA’S recent trip to China reflects a symbiotic relationship at the heart of the global economy: China uses American spending power to enlarge its private sector, while America uses Chinese lending power to expand its public ...
  3 weeks ago

• Peruvian Gang killed victims to extract their fat (pre-Columbian savagery coming to the US)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  A Peruvian gang that allegedly killed people and drained fat from their corpses for use in cosmetics may have been inspired by a grisly Andean legend. Hilarió Cudeña Simon, the alleged ringleader, linked the crimes to tales of demonic assassins, known as Pishtacos, who purportedly waylaid victims in pre-Columbian ...
  4 weeks ago

• Fright Club

  
  Lemur King's Folly — Authority: 125
  I rather enjoyed Fight Club where Tyler Durden suggests that raiding liposuction clinics for fat to later be rendered to make soap to sell back to the now-thin rich once-obese affluent clientele.How beautiful is that, huh?It seems that art imitates life.  I certainly hope life didn’t imitate art in this ...
  5 weeks ago

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