Falling Skies is V because aliens have come, not in peace, and they have wiped most of us out.

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Lurking behind all this is the fear that Virgin France and its bigger rival, the Fnac chain, will be wiped out by US multinationals who will come to dominate the French market.

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In 2007, about one third of the US domesticated bee population was wiped out as a result of a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), with some commercial hive owners losing up to 90% of their bees.

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Its subsequent bankruptcy, the biggest in US corporate history, left investors nursing heavy losses and wiped out many employees' retirement savings.

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Why would they risk another move that could potentially just get wiped out hours later by a move from the Fed Instead, if the US makes no move, and the BoJ wants to get back in, perhaps Wednesday is the day for that.

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