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The beginning of the end of the airline industry in the US? Or “why I won’t fly to the US”
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Update: The Daily Kos has this comment:
Improvements in airport security have historically not worked. Yet, in response to a failed terrorism attempt, a struggling industry in a struggling economy, and the poor saps stuck as its customers, will have to deal with more restrictions imposed not because there’s any empirical support for their [...]
British banks caught overextended again
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According to the British newspaper, the Daily Mail Online,
Today it emerged that:
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was Dubai World’s biggest loan arranger since January 2007, according to JP Morgan
HSBC has an estimated £9.6billion in loans and advances to UAE customers
Barclays has an exposure of around £3billion
And, according to a recent newsletter from Amnesty [...]
Atlas Shrugged revival
(The first part of this post is cross-posted from another blog of mine). As well as re-reading Atlas Shrugged for the next session of my Reading Group, I’ve also assigned The Fountainhead to a returnee student whose English is fluent. I’ve been creating worksheets for him, and will be posting them online, possibly here.
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Aoyama Gakuin University forcing students to carry tracking devices!
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In a good example of journalese, the JapanProbe headline screams:
Aoyama Gakuin University forcing students to carry tracking devices
with a picture of an iPhone.
At least one of the commenters is alert and informed, and effectively counters the title’s hyperbole:
Comment by jikku
2009-05-17 18:34:27
The title of this article is misleading. The students of Aoyama Gakuin’s School [...]
Is anyone minding the store?
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Mousetip to Douglas French at Mises Institute.
And speaking of “enough”….Here’s another video of Grayson questioning Geithner.
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Why the John Galt strategy won’t work
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The Mogambo Guru (TMG, as he phrase it) is a regular contributor to Bonner and Wigginson’s “The Daily Reckoning” and in a recent piece he explains why the John Galt strategy won’t work, and at the same time, why Michelle Malkin’s strategy won’t work, either:
Dr. Helen Smith, who is a Tennessee [...]
No swine flu in Japan yet, but universities have already reacted… with panic!
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Completely unpredictably, out of the blue … from the ever watchful Japan Probe.
Guardian Weekly English-teaching resources
An email recently reminded me that the Guardian Weekly (British, online newspaper) has an EFL section, including lesson plans based on GW articles. The articles aren’t too exciting, but might be useful.
