Every once in a while, something comes along that stuns you. It’s the most creative use of money or power ever. This story sounds like something two teenage madras students would daydream about:
You want to do what?WTF?
When an elderly gent places an order for 500 leggy lovelies to attend a party in Rome, scenes of a saucy nature would seem to be guaranteed.
Not, however, when the customer happens to be Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
…the 67-year-old Libyan dictator suggested they convert to Islam.
Madman or Muppet?
Each of the women were given a Koran and Green Book, the leader’s views on democracy and his political philosophy
“Imagine the device that unites everything that you carry along: a mobile phone, a player, your credit and discount cards, your apartment and your car keys. We have imagined it and now introduce you to the future.” (Plus Minus)
The device in size of a credit card 54×85,6 mm (C’ALL) will replace all those. Moreover it can work as:
“When you’re admin of a group, you can basically do anything you want with it,” the group’s Web page states. “You can change it’s name, and the groups members won’t even get a notification of it. You can send mails to all members and edit info.” An evildoer could seize a widowed group (such as the hypothetical group “Sweet Valley High LoOoOoVeS Robert Pattison,” for instance) and change the name to something offensive (like “The Coalition for Pedophile’s Rights”), thereby damaging the image of the group members.
For now the weak dollar is helping America’s exports. But it is also spooking holders of U.S. debt, whose continued purchases of U.S. Treasury bills allow Washington to fund its deficit spending. Last week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that the Reserve Bank of India had bought 200 tons of IMF gold reserves, the biggest single purchase by a central bank in 30 years. That pushed the price of gold past $1,100 an ounce, the latest record breaker in a string of new highs, as the market anticipated gold buying by other central banks to hedge against a falling dollar.
In a very significant transaction for the Inland Empire, Superior Quality Foods — the Ontario-based maker of ‘Better than Bouillon’ and other products — was sold to Southeaster Mills. The deal was handled by Randy Krauthamer of MRC Worldwide. ‘Better the Bouillon’ is the #2 bouillon in traditional US grocery stores and #1 in organic-oriented stores. SQF’s other products are sold to leading branded and private label food manufacturers who use the firm’s products in frozen entrees and soups.
…each of the two beams has as much energy in it as an aircraft carrier underway. If the LHC suddenly lost its ability to keep the beam circling around its vacuum pipe, all that energy would have to go somewhere – with results on the same scale as being rammed by an aircraft carrier.
Ella ja Aleksi is a Finnish musical group featuring two four-year-old rappers .
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