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Topic: Drought Spreads Across Australia/US Grain Prices Soar |
skiwi
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Forum: Australia & New Zealand Discussion Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:35 am Subject: Re: Drought Spreads Across Australia/US Grain Prices Soar |
MELBOURNE has recorded its driest September in more than 150 years as the drought continues to plague southeastern Australia.
Just 12mm of rain fell in the city, the lowest since records began in 1 ... |
Topic: The DTCC - The unknown 20 trillion dollar company |
skiwi
Replies: 0
Views: 188
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:35 am Subject: The DTCC - The unknown 20 trillion dollar company |
Hell! I just grow lots of things and stay out of debt.
Anything left over my three boys seem too get
So the way the financial scene is playing itself out
does anyone any wiser know if this ... |
Topic: 2008 Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone Season |
skiwi
Replies: 1394
Views: 52865
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:09 am Subject: Re: 2008 Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone Season |
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/ike_09_15/ike13.jpg
So that's where all those missing houses ended up
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/big ... |
Topic: 2008 Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone Season |
skiwi
Replies: 1394
Views: 52865
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:04 pm Subject: Re: 2008 Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone Season |
http://www.millennium-ark.net/NEWS/08_USA/08_USA_pics/080915.tree.on.house.jpg
Poor tree
A single home remains standing amid a scene of devastation in Gilchrist, Texas
http://images.th ... |
Topic: Housing and Economic Collapse - In Progress #3 |
skiwi
Replies: 872
Views: 50411
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:04 am Subject: Re: Housing and Economic Collapse - In Progress #3 |
| Fears that the collapse of Lehman Brothers could cause worried banks to freeze lending to each other and customers prompted central banks around the world to aggressively add liquidity to money market ... |
Topic: 2008 Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone Season |
skiwi
Replies: 1394
Views: 52865
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:41 am Subject: Re: 2008 Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone Season |
| Rescue crews worried daybreak would bring a nightmare scenario: Thousands who defied evacuation orders and became trapped in submerged communities. Already, dozens of calls had come into 911 dispatche ... |
Topic: US could walk all over Russia... |
skiwi
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Forum: Geopolitics Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:10 pm Subject: Re: US could walk all over Russia... |
| If you're going to post the ramblings of some third party could you at least pick a post that has a single sentence with some coherency to it. OR DIDN"T YOU NOTICE!! |
Topic: 2008 Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone Season |
skiwi
Replies: 1394
Views: 52865
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:12 pm Subject: Re: 2008 Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone Season |
Ike's already a Cat 3 ahead of schedule and what's this about a course change?
800 PM EDT WED SEP 03 2008
THIS SPECIAL ADVISORY IS TO UPDATE THE INTENSITY OF IKE. SATELLITE IMAGES INDICATE THAT ... |
Topic: 2008 Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone Season |
skiwi
Replies: 1394
Views: 52865
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:13 pm Subject: Re: 2008 Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone Season |
Colourful
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http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT07/refresh/AL0708_PROB34_F120_sm2+gif/023114.gif |
Topic: 2008 Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone Season |
skiwi
Replies: 1394
Views: 52865
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:24 am Subject: Re: 2008 Hurricane/Typhoon/Cyclone Season |
Go Gustav Go! My slogan for the week
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Topic: Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf |
skiwi
Replies: 42
Views: 3126
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Forum: Environment Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:53 am Subject: Re: Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf |
Thanks for the local weather report!
Better than ours
Tornadoes and gale force wind gusts caused thou-
sands of dollars worth of damage in Northern Buller
today... |
Topic: Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf |
skiwi
Replies: 42
Views: 3126
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Forum: Environment Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:37 am Subject: Re: Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf |
Meanwhile nearby
CHILLY: Anchorage could hit 65 degrees for fewest days on record.
The coldest summer ever? You might be looking at it, weather folks say.
Right now the so-called summer of '0 ... |
Topic: 'No ordinary storm' to strike New Zealand |
skiwi
Replies: 1
Views: 687
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Forum: Australia & New Zealand Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:57 pm Subject: Re: 'No ordinary storm' to strike New Zealand |
Looks ominous enough looking out at the edge of it from a southwest perspective
A weather front that one forecaster says could be "the most intense sub-tropical storm of the decade" is expecte ... |
Topic: Housing & Economic Collapse - In Progress - #2 |
skiwi
Replies: 1580
Views: 99516
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:46 am Subject: Re: Housing & Economic Collapse - In Progress - #2 |
| You guys saw that the Aussie bank NAB marked their CDOs to market and took a 90% or $900M loss, right? Once the American markets digest that, it will blow out the levees that the Fed and Treasury hav ... |
Topic: 'No ordinary storm' to strike New Zealand |
skiwi
Replies: 1
Views: 687
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Forum: Australia & New Zealand Discussion Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:37 pm Subject: 'No ordinary storm' to strike New Zealand |
Happy to be just watching this one after several days of wind and hail
have hammered my tamarillo crop
Some of you in the North Island must be battening down for this one
..The unnamed low which ... |
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