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Some things just need to be said. From Baron Bodissey @ Gates of Vienna (Oct 4): Becoming the MSM As longtime readers will recall, the trouble began on October 19th, ...

Oil above as global stocks gain, dollar drops VIENNA ? Oil prices rose above a barrel Tuesday, helped by a jump in global stock markets and a weaker ...

Kole named AP’s chief of bureau for New England NEW YORK ? William J. Kole, a veteran bureau chief and foreign correspondent for The Associated Press, has been named AP’s ...

Hard disks should not sound like buzz saws . # Slashdot article “FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire & Denial” …gets met with ire ...

Austrian ski star Hermann Maier retires at 36 VIENNA ? This is usually Hermann Maier’s time of year ? a ski season about to begin and an Olympics just months ...

Apparently there’s an epidemic of Muslim youths raping white girls in Scandinavia and Australia . From the blog Gates of Vienna, April 29, 2009 : ...

The oldest and most celebrated choir in the world will appear at Our Lady of Fatima early next year.  The Vienna Boys Choir will perform for one night ...

In 1896 the Viennese authorities decided to invest in large-scale gas and electric utilities, so they constructed what became Europe’s largest gas plant. After nearly a century long run the ...

Karlskirche, or St. Charles’ Church, in Vienna was built in the 18 th century and is a stunning building.  The dome and columns of the church make for a ...

OK originally, the person I didn’t want to be this week was going to be Caster Semenya but we have done her/him (whatever) to death and I think everyone will ...