The Perth Mint's website show the 1 oz 2011 Silver Koala priced at US $41.88, reflecting a premium of $5.57 or 15.34%. The one-tenth oz version is priced at $13.76, reflecting a premium of $10.13 or 279%. (All prices at time of post)
The Coin Silver Calculator app was developed recently to offer real time prices on silver and convert the worth of your coin silver lying around the house into its actual worth according to the spot price.
It takes an entire civilization to build a toaster. Designer Thomas Thwaites found out the hard way, by attempting to build one from scratch: mining ore for steel, deriving plastic from oil ... it's frankly amazing he got as far as he got. A parable
A Seattle man’s trial in Albuquerque on charges of making trouble at an airport security checkpoint is getting attention from civil liberties groups all over the country.
MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN:
While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer a
Martin Luther King advocated civil disobedience as means to achieve equality. Not moral wrongs, but refusal to adhere to the rules that prescribed the orderly society that kept blacks subservient to whites. If one accepts that notion that there are
Martin Luther King Jr. could hardly believe his eyes when he left the segregated South as a teenage college student to work on a tobacco farm in Connecticut.
"On our way here we saw some things I had never anticipated to see," he wrote his father
Thanks to Toshiba's new generation of micro-nuclear reactors, the dream of some engineers may finally become a reality. No, the reactors aren't small enough to fit into the DeLorean Dr. Emmett Brown drove in "Back to the Future," but they are com
It’s MLK Day. The mail doesn’t run, the stock market and banks are closed—and oh yes—schools too. But no fireworks, beer or gift giving. There won’t even be any mattress sales. But there will be some tribute breakfasts—Mimosas will not be available a
Abandoned foreclosures are increasing as mortgage investors determine that, at sale, they can’t recoup the costs of foreclosing, securing, maintaining and marketing a home, and they sometimes aren’t completing foreclosure actions.
The parties assembling these loans into trusts knew damn well that State Law required recordation of interests and that they were marketing these loans as fully-secured by the underlying real estate. They decided, on their own initiative, to forego.
Right off the bat I can tell you that attempting to force people to identify themselves on a national level doesn’t have much to do with the Department of Commerce’s official mission. We should all be feeling skeptical about this ID scheme.
Our nightmare scenario should be that something happens to us like happened to the Soviet Union... It suddenly just falls apart. And I think the trigger, the catalyst if you want to switch to chaos theory the butterfly in the tropical rainforest...
Samsung just received confirmation for a patent that describes an unmanned automatic shooting mechanism that is designed to support and replace security forces in locations such as airports, harbors, and nuclear power plants.
With the current discussions about the mental health of the shooter and the references to his anti-government views. I remembered this article at Freedom's Phoenix and wondered...
Psychiatric manual: Nonconformity and freethinking is now classif
“$12.3 trillion of our taxpayer money!” shout the bemused spectators as pigeons emerge from the showman’s gloved hands. “We could have used that money to build roads and bridges, pay down the state’s debts, keep homeowners in their homes!”
Greece's culture ministry says archaeologists on the island of Crete have discovered what may be evidence of one of the world's earliest sea voyages by humans.
A ministry statement says archaeologists from Greece and the U.S. have found rou
Neandertals are often portrayed as very backwards or primitive,” said Amanda Henry, lead researcher and a post-doctoral researcher at GW. “Now we are beginning to understand that they had some quite advanced technologies and behaviors.”
Dr. Hen
Iris scanners can capture scans on individuals in motion who are six feet away, laying the groundwork for iris scans to become de facto national ID cards, which can be implemented without our knowledge or consent.
Previous efforts in the 1990s to recover nuclei in cells from the skin and muscle tissue from mammoths found in the Siberian permafrost failed because they had been too badly damaged by the extreme cold.