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Everybody wants to know about Neel Kashkari. What they really want to know is what he plans to do with the $700 billion he has been put in charge of. For now - what we do know.
1. Kashkari’s 35-years old. Just a young pup.
2. Kashkari was born in Stow, OH. Stow is nowhere, located between [...]
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Neel Kashkari is being put in charge of the $700 billion bailout/rescue funds.
Kashkari is/was the Treasury’s assistant secretary for international affairs.
And here are 12 other things we know about Neel Kashkari.
He is now the interim head of the Treasury’s new Office of Financial Stability.
We are in trouble when we have to have someone in charge [...]
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Santa may live at the north pole and Norway may be on the top of the globe, but only in Asia can you be at the top of the world.
Greenpacks.org researched the locations of the world’s tallest mountains. The top 14 are all in Asia - China, Nepal, Pakistan.
All 14 are over 8,000 meters. The [...]
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The submarine USS Grunion SS 216 was found off an island in the Aleutian chain says the U.S. Navy.
The USS Grunion disappeared July 30, 1942 with it’s 70 crew members after conducting operations against Japanese forces. The Japanese had seized the the Aleutian island of Kiska.
The sons of the commander of the sub, Lt.-Commander Mannert [...]

There’s a game going around called Sarah Palin Bingo.
I guess people are thinking they will need to keep themselves busy this evening during the VEEP debate. They might try paying attention. But, then playing Sarah Palin Bingo might do the trick.
Words like Alaska, Tax Relief, Family, Russia, Hockey Mom, God, Country First, Job creation [...]
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I woke up this morning to find 6 (!!!) emails awaiting me from friends and people I don’t even know telling me that the People’s Republic of China girl - Zhang Zilin - won the China Miss World 2007. Strange! I had no idea people are that into Miss World or that they consider me as being [...]
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Damn, this guy is hilarious. After finding out about this guy, I couldn’t stop watching his show and rolling on the floor listening to his insights about Asians, Chinese folks and Chinese language.You gotta check those out:  Good stuff.Copyright © 2007 fiLi's world. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are NOT reading this [...]
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Conan’s been my favorite night show for years, back in the time when I was actually watching the occasional night show. One of his biggest projects is bashing nationalities due to a peculiar incident with the Ukrainians : Awhile ago, Conan did a bit where he showed fake Euro coins.  One of those coins made [...]
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During March earlier this year, I discussed using SEO as means to promote the Taiwanese blogosphere in “English Taiwan : The websphere, the blogosphere, traffic, SEO and the need for a profound change“. I got mixed responses - few supported, most criticized. I don’t want to raise the whole issue again as it’s almost a religious debate, [...]
 
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Donuts. I’m been following Israeli newspapers for a long time, looking for Taiwan related articles that don’t have anything to do with China, and after over a year the first one I find is about Donuts. Donuts!It’s a bit hard to believe, but on the back on yesterday’s Haaretz was a big photo from Taipei [...]
 
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