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Wine Fraud Victimizing Investors

8 Feb

With investments in the wine industry at an all-time high from the Far East and 2009’s crop considered the best in a generation, many investors believe now is the perfect time to invest in wines. However, the BBC details a new, but potentially costly, risk of an investment: a group of companies that have defrauded wine investors of nearly 30 million pounds.

In the piece, the BBC speaks with Jim Budd, an investigative journalist who specializes in wine fraud. He claims that there are over 60 companies in the UK that he would never purchase any wine from. One investor said that he lost 50.000 pounds that he couldn’t afford to lose.

Let the buyer beware!

More than £30 million in wine fraud may occur annually

Unexploded WWII Bomb Forces 6,000 Evacuations in Paris

8 Feb

More than 6,000 Parisians were forced from their homes this weekend after builders found an unexploded WWII Royal Air Force bomb on the grounds of French carmaker Renault.

The 1000 pound device was located in Boulogne-Billancourt, on the outskirts of the city. Experts believe it fell 69 years ago during a bombing run that sought to avoid civilian casualties. More than 400 policemen evacuated anyone whose home lay within 400 meters of the bomb, because it was considered “live and dangerous.”

In typical French fashion, though, the builders actually first discovered the bomb in January, but couldn’t diffuse it until this past weekend.

“The bomb was originally found by builders carrying out work in late January, but experts have only been able to start diffusing it today. The area is now completely safe,” a spokesman for the mayor’s office in Boulogne told The Telegraph.

Technicians diffuse WWII bomb found in Paris

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Egyptian Protests Cannot Stop Love

8 Feb

The newly redesigned Gawker  published a photograph of a couple who got married in Tahrir Square, despite the recent wave of protests in Egypt.

Couple gets married in Tahrir Square in spite of recent protests.

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Winner of the “Most Insensitive Super Bowl Ad”

6 Feb

Drum roll please… And the winer is Groupon with this ad about Tibet. Starring Timothy Hutton.

PS: Green and Yellow. Green Bay won.

What’s Going On With the Bush Family?

5 Feb

Two surprising stories from the Bush family this week.

1) Bush’s Daughter Comes Out in Favor of Gay Marriage: Barbara Bush filmed an advertisement in support of gay marriage. In the ad, she says “everyone should have the right to marry the person they love.” She joins people like Meghan McCain and Mary Cheney who differed with their parents on social issues. As president, of course, George W. Bush supported a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. But since he left the White House, he’s taken several surprising positions. Including…

2) Bush Worries Country is Becoming Too “Nativist”: Speaking at Southern Methodist University last month, the former president expressed hope that a “rational immigration policy” would be developed in the future. Presently, though, he worries that the country is becoming too “nativist,” and returning to the era of xenophobia that existed in the 1920s. His historical analysis was somewhat spotty, but the point is an excellent one.

 

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