I see an economic diasater coming...

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trash into cash.heres a great story!http://www.popsci.com/article/science/scientists-turn-cigarette-butts-electrical-storage  triffid




In essence, the scientists burned the filters in a nitrogen-rich environment, and this made the filter fibers grow pores, further increasing their surface area. According to their results, published in the journal Nanotechnology, these burnt-in-nitrogen fibers stored more energy than materials previously used in supercapacitors. With further research, this could be great news for both electrical storage and ashtrays everywhere.

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Ebola is worse than what we are being told.I personally think it will be worse than the flu epidemic that swept the world in 1917.Six months from now we will know if im right or not.Good luck to you all.Triffid

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I no longer have internet at home so I have to use a public computer to post here... for now.triffid




Still alive and kicking however.

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Russia in trouble with its ruble  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-06/russia-reserves-fall-7-9-billion-biggest-drop-since-may.html?cmpid=yhoo




The Bank of Russia sold foreign currency in October for the first time since May as the price of oil, the country's chief export earner, plunged to a four-year low. Sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies after Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in March have stoked capital flight, undercutting the ruble and stoking inflation.
The regulator said yesterday it will spend $350 million only once a day to support the ruble when it breaches its trading band, another step toward a free floating currency. It will conduct additional interventions at undisclosed quantities periodically without announcing it in advance.
"Intensifying pressure" on the currency pushed the central bank to withdraw its "active support" for the ruble two months before the planned shift to a free float, according to Natalia Akindinova, director of the Development Center of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Another challenge that still awaits the Russian currency this year is the peak in corporate repayments on external debt next month, she said.

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I have wifi again.Watching PBS newshour last night they talked about the unemployment rate dropping to 5.9% in the USA.Butttttt the government is counting all part time employees working over 35 hours total a week as fulltime even if they have to work three parttime jobs to do it.And with no benefits. 1.2 million americans are working parttime with no benefits.triffid