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While
the precise impact of the fall resurgence of 2009-H1N1 influenza is
impossible to predict, a plausible scenario is that the epidemic could: produce infection of 30-50% of the U.S. population this fall and winter, ... lead to as many as 1.8 million U.S. hospital admissions during the epidemic, ... [and] cause between 30,000 and 90,000 deaths in the United States."

—Report to the President on U.S. Preparations for the 2009-H1N1 Influenza, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Aug. 7, 2009

"The economy went into freefall and is still falling and we don't know where the bottom will be until we get there and there's no sign that we are anywhere near a bottom."

—George Soros at Columbia University, Feb 20, 2009

Chris Wallace: "Best guess: Will the president end up giving McChrystal the troops he wants, or will he change the war strategy?"

Charles Krauthammer: "I think he doesn't and McChrystal resigns.

—Fox News Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009

"Brown
will be tempted to fight on, but if he is well advised and sensible, he
will see that this cannot go on. He will concede what Tony Blair also
eventually also conceded when the pressure grew too great -- that he has no wish to be an impediment to Labour's electoral success. He will step down soon, maybe today, certainly this weekend."

—Martin Kettle, The Guardian, June 5, 2009

"I'm very pleased to announce that we've
had a breakthrough in negotiations in Honduras. I want to congratulate
the people of Honduras as well as President Zelaya and Mr. Micheletti
for reaching an historic agreement.... I
cannot think of another example of a country in Latin America that
having suffered a rupture of its democratic and constitutional order
overcame such a crisis through negotiation and dialogue."

—U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Oct. 30, 2009

"I
think if they [Israel] are to do anything, the most likely period is
after our elections and before the inauguration of the next president. I don't think they will do anything before our election because they don't want to affect it. And they'd have to make a judgment whether to go during the remainder of President Bush's term in office or wait for his successor."

—John Bolton, Fox News, June 22, 2008

 "It will have to make a decision soon, and it will be no surprise if Israel strikes by year's end. Israel's choice could determine whether Iran obtains nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future."

—John Bolton, The Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2009

"This is going to unleash rampant inflation around the world, rampant confusion in the currency markets. You're going to have currencies gyrating all over the world. Bond markets are going to start to collapse, and then we're going to have a real problem. The stock market understands this. They're unleashing an inflationary Holocaust because they don't know what else to do."

—Jim Rogers, CNBC, Oct. 10, 2008

"If
we do nothing, I can guarantee you that within a decade, a communist
Chinese regime that hates democracy and sees America as its primary
enemy will dominate the tiny country of Panama, and thus dominate the
Panama Canal, one of the world's most important strategic points."

—Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), Dec. 7, 1999

there were 2.2 million people in Germany with a fortune of more than 500,000 euros.

If they all paid the tax for two years, Germany could raise 100bn euros to fund ecological programmes, education and social projects,