http://www.balancednewsblog.com Left and Right, both sides get a fair shot. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:40:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/03/ultrasound-machine-ages-wine/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/03/ultrasound-machine-ages-wine/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:40:11 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=4382 Casey Jones says the £350 gadget uses ultrasound technology to recreate the effects of decades of ageing by colliding alcohol molecules inside the bottle.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/03/ultrasound-machine-ages-wine/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/03/swiss-bank-ubs-cutting-2000-jobs/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/03/swiss-bank-ubs-cutting-2000-jobs/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:31:45 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=4380 UBS has said it will cut 2,000 investment banking jobs and will reorganise the unit after being hard hit by sub-prime losses.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/03/swiss-bank-ubs-cutting-2000-jobs/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/02/robber-uses-craigslist-to-hire-decoys/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/02/robber-uses-craigslist-to-hire-decoys/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:59:02 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=4378 Craigslist ad to hire a dozen unsuspecting decoys to help him make his getaway following a robbery outside a bank on Tuesday. He then made his escape in an inner tube on the Skykomish River.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/02/robber-uses-craigslist-to-hire-decoys/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/01/steve-fossetts-clothes-found/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/01/steve-fossetts-clothes-found/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:51:28 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=4376 Fossett's name, clothes and cash, were found in a rugged, forested area near the town of Mammoth Lakes in the eastern Sierra Nevada.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/01/steve-fossetts-clothes-found/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/01/uk-bankers-say-50k-savers-guarantee-not-enough/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/01/uk-bankers-say-50k-savers-guarantee-not-enough/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:48:57 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=4374 guarantee all deposits; UK banks say Ireland's move is unfair competition.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/10/01/uk-bankers-say-50k-savers-guarantee-not-enough/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/29/mccain-links-to-gambling/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/29/mccain-links-to-gambling/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:16:09 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=4372 Senator John McCain was on a roll. In a room reserved for high-stakes gamblers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, he tossed $100 chips around a hot craps table. When the marathon session ended around 2:30 a.m., the Arizona senator and his entourage emerged with thousands of dollars in winnings.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/29/mccain-links-to-gambling/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/29/bailout-plan-rejected-by-congress/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/29/bailout-plan-rejected-by-congress/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:55:23 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=4370 rejected a $700-billion Wall Street bailout that would have been the biggest government intervention in the financial system since the Great Depression, sending the stock market into a sharp downturn and leaving President Bush's plan to bailout the economy in doubt.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/29/bailout-plan-rejected-by-congress/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/28/bradford-bingley-to-cost-uk-taxpayers-300bn/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/28/bradford-bingley-to-cost-uk-taxpayers-300bn/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:30:07 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=4368 £150 billion of potentially toxic mortgage debt following the nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley, one of the country’s biggest mortgage lenders.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/28/bradford-bingley-to-cost-uk-taxpayers-300bn/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/26/german-police-capture-terroristst-on-plane/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/26/german-police-capture-terroristst-on-plane/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:38:13 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=4366 seized two suspected terrorists from a Dutch passenger aircraft at Cologne airport Friday shortly before it was due to take off for Amsterdam, officials told CNN.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/26/german-police-capture-terroristst-on-plane/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/26/700-billion-talks-collapse/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/26/700-billion-talks-collapse/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:35:04 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=4364 verbal brawl in the Cabinet Room of the White House, urgent warnings from the president and pleas from a Treasury secretary who knelt before the House speaker and appealed for her support.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/09/26/700-billion-talks-collapse/feed/