[steorn] quinlan about to become billionaire

Enormous claims: In 2003 Steorn undertook a project to develop more efficient micro generators. Early into this project the company developed certain generator configurations that appeared to be over 100% efficient. Further investigation and development has led to the company’s current technology, a technology that produces free energy… meaning never having to refuel your car or recharge your mobile phone. Black Quill is a devotee and says: A couple of months back, Steorn was the most searched-for item on Technorati, but of late there is only a silence. I want to know why the major energy suppliers don’t buy it up and shelve it and why nothing more has been heard but I hope it is real and that Quinlan makes a packet.

[thor’s quiz] try these for size

1.......In what war did the crucial Battle of Bunker Hill take place?
2.......The ancient region of Nubia is in which two modern countries?
3.......In which century did the Black Death reach Britain?
4.......Air Force One is the US President's plane. What is Marine One?
5.......At the beginning of the War of American Independence, what was considered to be the 14th colony?

6-10 and answers here.

[china] one truck cuts 28 000 people’s water

Something like this would make front page news anywhere else in the world. As it happened in China, it barely rated a mention. An oil truck overturned on Thursday October 26, dumping 33 tons of wash oil into a river in north China's Shanxi Province, and contaminating an estimated two million cubic meters of water, forcing water supplies to nearly 28,000 people to be cut. Investigations show that the overloaded truck, which had a capacity of only 31.5 tons, overturned due to a brake failure. Meanwhile, an oil spill in the Songhua Riverhas been brought under control and will not threaten drinking water in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, state authorities said Saturday. Just thought you might like to know. Stop yawning.

[us economy] all's not roses approaching christmas

Wal-Mart, Target and Gap are heading for poor Christmases. Wal-Mart says it expects its November figures to be "approximately flat", Gap was among the poorest performers with a 7% fall in like-for-like takings and Target achieved a 3.9% rise but missed estimates of a 4.2% increase. The economy’s expansion of only 1.6% during the third quarter was the weakest rate since the first quarter of 2003. Julian Jessop of Capital Economics said he saw a 30% chance of a recession occurring. "Considering oil prices have fallen and the strength of the stock market, confidence should be very strong but the fact that it is not suggests there is something else going on." Lowered oil prices and a slowing housing market have been blamed by some.

[thor’s day] all souls day

Welcome to the Sumerian Enlil’s, the Babylonian Marduk’s, the Greek Zeus’, the Roman Iuppiter’s and Thor’s Day. May it be happy and productive for you. Today is also All Souls Day, when we remember the souls of the departed, of any colour and of any persuasion. Today is the day to remember our grandparents, parents and any others we miss and as such, maybe you'd agree it’s an important day in the calendar.

[defending the west] falling at the final hurdle

[ Photo of window in St Peter's Basilica]

Melanie Phillips, Minette Marrin, Johnathan Pearce and Tom Paine are hardly Christian apologists and yet look where they’ve independently found themselves. Melanie Phillips says: The crucial insight here is that only a strong indigenous faith has the capacity to resist Islamisation. That is why the collapse of Christianity in Britain and Europe and its steady replacement by secularisation is so catastrophic for the defence of the west. Read what the others have to say.