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"Comedians" in cars...

or driving Miss 'Crazy'?

At Consortiumnews, we mix today’s journalism with historical analyses on a wide range of topics, showing how current events fit into a larger context, an approach often lacking in the mainstream media. So a selection of our stories from 2015 is an intriguing way to look back – and to understand – the year just ended. “Rebuilding the…

A major fire is raging at a deluxe skyscraper hotel in Dubai. The luxury Address Downtown Dubai hotel is on fire, just hours before a planned fireworks display. Crowds had gathered for the New Year’s Eve celebrations outside, when the fire broke out. Officials say that at least 16 people have been injured. mosalsalat hindiya YouTube video: Outlook India reports: Dubai’s government media office tweeted that a “fire has been reported in the Address Downtown hotel. Authorities are currently on-site to address the incident swiftly and safely”. The cause of the blaze was not immediately known.

New Year’s celebrations came grinding to a halt in Dubai after a five-star hotel was engulfed in a fire just moments before a spectacular fireworks display was due to begin.  The huge building caught fire at 9:30pm Dubai time, with flames engulfing over 40 stories of the 63 story building. Dailymail.co.uk reports: Those who escaped described how people climbed over each other in their rush to escape the burning building. One Briton was forced to carry his disabled mother on his back.

In one of the greatest analogies for China's slow-moving, pollution-puking economy, the impact of this small bump in the road sums up the fragility of the credit-fueled slow-motion truck-wreck that the central planners have created...

...and then the wheels fell off...