Mickey Z

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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

No Gun Ri, NASA gets risky, and how to rank your wealth

“On summer nights when the breeze is blowing, I can still hear their cries, the little kids screaming,” said Edward Daily. This U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War was talking about the killing of hundreds of refugees, mostly women, children and old men at No Gun Ri on July 26-29, 1950.

To read my complete article, please click here:
http://www.counterbias.com/353.html

And here’s something Greg Elich just sent me:
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20050725/480100000020050725100900E7.html

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The New York Times says:

“With a new realism born of disaster, NASA says that the risk of catastrophic failure during the space shuttle Discovery’s mission is about 1 in 100, more than twice as great as an upbeat estimate issued before the loss of the Columbia in 2003.”

How valuable is such a risk assessment? Hard to say for certain, but as journalist Karl Grossman explained in 1994: “Before the (1986) Challenger accident, NASA based the likelihood of a catastrophe at 1 in 100,000. The came the Challenger, and now it’s 1 in 74.”

It was better than 1 in 200 in 2003 and now, it’s 1 in 100. Do you get the feeling this is not unlike picking a number out of a hat?

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The Global Rich List

Where do you rank?
http://www.globalrichlist.com