Posts Tagged ‘than’

More Than Dozen Banks May Get Rate Cut

  Michael J. Moore and Dakin Campbell Bloomberg October 14, 2011 UBS AG (UBSN), Lloyds Banking Group Plc (LLOY) and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) had long-term issuer default grades cut by Fitch Ratings, which put more than a dozen other lenders on watch negative as part of a global review. UBS’s long-term […]

Occupy Wall Street more popular than Obama

  RT October 14, 2011 While politicians and the mainstream media waited weeks to acknowledge Occupy Wall Street, it looks as though the public hasn’t ignored the movement. A new poll shows that more Americans favor the protests than they do President Obama. A new poll released on Thursday from Time assessed Americans’ opinions of […]

US to Experience Stagflation Worse Than 1970s: Jim Rogers

Deepanshu Bagchee CNBC October 14, 2011 The U.S. economy is likely to experience a period of stagflation worse than the 1970s, which would cause bond yields to spike, commodity bull Jim Rogers told CNBC on Friday. Rogers said governments were lying about the inflation problem and the recent rally in Treasurys was a bubble. “As […]

Reading skills of English teens ‘worse than the Chinese’ as they lag behind by a year-and-a-half

  Daily Mail October 12, 2011 The reading standards of English teenagers have been condemned following a respected survey that found they lag a year-and-a-half behind their Chinese peers.  Ministers will warn today of a ‘stark gulf’ between the ability of 15-year-olds here and those from other leading countries.  Their concern follows the analysis of […]

BPA levels in humans far higher than previously thought

S. D. WellsNatural News October 10, 2011 New studies reveal that levels of BPA are massively higher in humans than previously assumed, causing major concern for what has been downplayed by the packaging industry as a false alarm. BPA, or Bisphenol-A, leaches into food from plastic packaging and from the linings of canned foods, causing […]

US incomes ‘fell more after than during recession’

AFP October 10, 2011 US household incomes fell more in the two years following the end of the recession than during the downturn itself, according to a New York Times report published on its website. A study by two former Census Bureau officials said inflation-adjusted income fell 6.7 percent, to $49,909, between June 2009 — […]

Reliance on government benefits even higher than during depth of recession

  Zachary RothThe Lookout October 6, 2011 More evidence that for many, the “recovery” hasn’t been much better than the recession. Nearly half of all Americans lived in a household that received some kind of government benefit during the first three months of last year, the Wall Street Journal reports, based on new Census data. […]

Obama Has Increased Debt More than All Presidents from Washington Through H.W. Bush Combined

  Terence P. Jeffrey CNS News October 6, 2011 The Obama administration passed another fiscal milestone this week, according tonew data released by the Treasury Department. As of the close of business on Oct. 3, the total national debt was $14,837,099,271,196.71—up about $44.8 billion from Sept. 30. That means that in the less-than-three-years Obama has […]

Obama Has Now Increased Debt More than All Presidents from George Washington Through George H.W. Bush Combined

Terence P. Jeffrey CNS News October 6, 2011 The Obama administration passed another fiscal milestone this week, according tonew data released by the Treasury Department. As of the close of business on Oct. 3, the total national debt was $14,837,099,271,196.71—up about $44.8 billion from Sept. 30. That means that in the less-than-three-years Obama has been in office, […]

Monster asteroid has a mountain taller than Mount Everest, scientists say

UK Daily Mail October 5, 2011 A giant asteroid hurtling through our solar system’s asteroid belt boasts a mountain that makes Everest look like an ant hill, it has been claimed. Detailed scans of the surface show it is as big as the volcanoes of Hawaii – measured from the ocean floor. Data provided by […]

Health care pay millions of pounds more than they needs to for drugs

  Melanie Newman and Oliver Wright The Independent October 5, 2011 The National Health Service is spending almost £25m a year on supplies of an antidepressant drug despite evidence that it has little clinical advantage over an almost identical medication which costs a fraction of the price. An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism […]

Flu Shots Contain More than 250 Times the EPA’s Safety Limit for Mercury

  Anthony Gucciardi Infowars.com October 3, 2011 Thimerosal is a widely used vaccine preservative that is present in the majority of flu shots and other vaccines. Thimerosal is 49% mercury by volume, an extremely toxic chemical element that wreaks havoc on the nervous system, neurological function, and overall biological function [1]. Each dose of flu […]

More than 13,000 being held by coalition in Iraqi prisons; Less than 2% have been convicted

  Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com November 15 2005 Recent documents leaked to RAW STORY reveal that as of Nov. 8, coalition forces in Iraq held 13,514 in Iraqi prisons. The documents also reveal the grim landscape of Iraq’s internment system, in which just two percent of those detained been convicted. A slide created by Detainee Operations […]

America: More Than a Failed Dictatorship

We Really Are Gangsters   By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor    It is one thing if you can’t ask a kindergarten teacher about world affairs or politics.  In America, you can’t ask members of congress, military leaders or even our president.  You certainly can’t ask the majority of members of what we still call “the […]

US Has More Serious Problems Than Europe: Jim Rogers

CNBC Sept 27, 2011 Global markets have been whipsawed in recent weeks as uncertainty over Europe’s debt situation persisted. But renowned investor Jim Rogers says the U.S. economy has more serious problems than Europe. “Europe has a few bad, bankrupt states, so does America. We’ve got Illinois which is bigger than Greece, we’ve got California, […]

Euro Debt Crisis Is Worse Than US in 2008: George Soros

Jeff Cox CNBC.com Sept 25, 2011 WASHINGTON—Europe lacks the same mechanisms that the U.S. had to deal with its financial crisis three years ago, making the dangers even greater, billionaire investor and activist George Soros said. The U.S. Treasury Department in 2008 helped devise and implement the myriad liquidity programs used to recapitalize big banks […]

Debate: Faster than light neutrinos – Q&A

  Guardian September 24, 2011 What has been discovered? A fundamental subatomic particle, the neutrino, seems to be capable of travelling faster than the speed of light (that is, the speed of a photon through a vacuum). Why do physicists believe nothing can go faster than light speed? At the turn of the 20th century, Albert Einstein […]

FTL: Faster than light particles found, claim scientists

  Ian Sample Guardian September 23, 2011 It is a concept that forms a cornerstone of our understanding of the universe and the concept of time – nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. But now it seems that researchers working in one of the world’s largest physics laboratories, under a mountain in central […]

Particles travel faster than light, say scientists

AFP Sept 23, 2011 PARIS — Physicists reported Thursday that sub-atomic particles called neutrinos can travel faster than light, a finding that — if verified — would blast a hole in Einstein’s theory of relativity. In experiments conducted between the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland and a laboratory in Italy, the tiny […]

New High: 37% Say Their Home Is Worth Less Than Remaining Mortgage Payments

Rasmussen Sept 20, 2011 The percentage of American homeowners whose home is worth less than what they still owe on it has hit the highest level in nearly three years. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of 753 homeowners finds that 37% say their home is not worth as much as what they still owe on […]

Apathy, Ignorance And Passive Indifference Are Worse Than Government Corruption And Organized Evil

Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 15, 2011 In 1946, French writer Albert Camus wrote, “the mind is always a step behind reality. History races ahead while the mind meditates.” That statement was never more true than on the morning of September 11, 2001. It seemed like history took off on a rocket ship with only […]

Americans are poorer than ever

More Americans were living in poverty last year than in the entire 52 years that the US Census Bureau has been tracking the figure, new reports say. Demographers raking over the 2010 census info have revealed that 56.2 million people in the US were living below the poverty line last year, which puts the percentage […]

More Mexico youths die from violence than car wrecks, report says

  L.A. Times September 13, 2011 As Mexico’s drug war grinds on, violent homicide has overtaken car accidents as the leading cause of death of young people in the country, reports the Mexico City daily El Universal (link in Spanish). Government statistics reviewed by the newspaper show that in 2008 and 2009, the second and […]

No Hiding Place From Crisis Bigger Than Lehman: Economist

Patrick Allen CNBC Sept 12, 2011 Carl Weinberg, the chief economist at High Frequency Economics is very worried about Europe. His central forecast is that the debt crisis will lead Europe into a depression that will mean soaring unemployment, deflation and zero interest rates for the foreseeable future. After months of inaction, Weinberg believes the […]

State Pension Age to be Lifted to 67 a Decade Earlier Than Planned

Awakening The World … … Every Heart Makes A Difference And The Non-Compli-Dance New times now added for the Americas and Australia/New Zealand. Read more … New David Icke App Now Available Europe … Australia … New Zealand … the United States David Icke’s round-the-world tour between September and December Australia and New Zealand dates […]

Google uses more power than Salt Lake City as vast data farms suck up electricity

  Daily Mail September 9, 2011 Google has revealed how much energy it consumes to power YouTube, Gmal and its other services in the internet ‘cloud’ – and it’s enough to power the capital of Utah. But bosses behind the search engine giant have launched a defence of the unprecedented reveal of its energy consumption. […]

Gold rebounds more than 1 pct ahead of Obama speech

Rujun Shen Reuters Sept 8, 2011 Gold prices bounced back more than 1 percent on Thursday, boosted by bargain-hunters after the previous session’s fall of 3 percent, ahead of a speech by U.S. President Barack Obama that could allay recession fears. Obama will lay out a jobs package worth more than $300 billion later on […]

SOROS: Eurozone Crisis Could Be Worse Than Lehman

  Gus Lubin Business Insider Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Legendary investor George Soros says the lack of central European authority could make this crisis worse than 2008. He tells the New York Times: “This crisis has the potential to be a lot worse than Lehman Brothers. That is why the problem is so serious. You need a crisis […]

‘Thinner than paper’ display screen technology is now a reality

  Geek.com September 7, 2011 E Ink is already doing swift business in the growing e-reader market, but just like any technology company, it can’t sit still for fear of being overtaken or made redundant. With that in mind, the company has used IFA 2011 to show us some future products and the latest updates […]

More Slaves Today Than Ever Before In History

  Washington’s Blog September 6, 2011 You would assume that – as messed up as things may be today – at least there is not widespread slavery, as in ancient Egypt or the American south. But as Time Magazine noted last year: Despite more than a dozen international conventions banning slavery in the past 150 […]

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