Investers who bail out the state with their savings get 50% return in 10 years

The bond is intended to suck in cash to fund key infrastructural projects to help Ireland out of recession.

The Government does not expect to attract anything like the €15 billion pumped into SSIAs, but the long-term interest rates have been made unusually lucrative to soak up whatever spare money is still available.

The Short, Hard Life of a Slave Laborer for China

With the actual U.S. unemployment rate teetering at around 20 percent, our lopsided “free trade” treaties with China must be seriously reexamined. Particularly interesting is a recent photo that surfaced, which American outsourcers don’t want us to see.

Facebook Credits: The World’s First Major Virtual Currency?

Facebook is projected to do over a billion dollars in revenue this year, more than some small countries, and its 400 million strong userbase is larger than the population of most big ones. So why shouldn’t the social network have its own private currency? In the future, we may pay for some goods not with dollars, yen or euros, but with Facebook Credits.

Green Party leader John Gormley promised to outlaw the chemical if elected to government

A study on the safety of fluoride in public drinking supplies will not be available until 2012 – more than five years after Green Party leader John Gormley promised to outlaw the chemical if elected to government. It is already nearly three years since the study was promised in the Programme for Government.

Three-year-old boy arrested as suspected terrorist in France

A three-year-old was arrested as a suspected terrorist and held at a French police station for more than two hours, it emerged today.
Last Thursday the pair were arrested as they returned to their car after visiting a leisure centre.

Wearable Sensors Watch Workers

Office workers who make time to chat face to face with colleagues may be far more productive than those who rely on e-mail, the phone, or Facebook, suggests a study carried out by researchers at MIT and New York University .

Remember that ash cloud? It didn’t exist, says new evidence

new evidence shows there was no all-encompassing cloud and, where dust was present, it was often so thin that it posed no risk.
The satellite images demonstrate that the skies were largely clear, which will not surprise the millions who enjoyed the fine, hot weather during the flight ban.
Jim McKenna, the Civil Aviation Authority’s head of airworthiness, strategy and policy, admitted: ‘It’s obvious that at the start of this crisis there was a lack of definitive data.

BRIC: The new world order

Brazil, Russia, India and China are booming whilst many other countries are struggling economically, or even crashing.

When their leaders recently convened in Brasilia for their second BRIC summit, they all underlined their commitment to a more democratic global governance.

Big Brother to track your medication compliance with electronic transmitters in pills

NaturalNews) Now that the U.S. government has achieved its monopoly over health care, new technologies are in the works that will allow the government to remotely monitor and track whether ordinary citizens are complying with taking medications prescribed by conventional doctors. One new technology described at the U.S. Senate Committee on Aging allows “pills to be electronically outfitted with transmitters” which would track the patient’s compliance with medications and broadcast that information back to government health care enforcers who check for “compliance and efficacy.”

Eurozone edges closer to endgame as Greek contagion hits Portugal

The eurozone “lurched towards the endgame” yesterday as Standard & Poor’s finally relegated Greece’s sovereign credit rating to “junk” status, downgraded Portugal by two steps to A-, and the yields on Greek debt climbed beyond 15 per cent, a signal that the market regards a default as virtually certain.