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• Berlusconi plots trips ‘to stall his trials’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Rome (Italy), Nov.8 (ANI): Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of planning more than a dozen foreign trips in an attempt to ensure that two trials, in which he is to be accused of bribery and fraud, move so slowly that the judges will have to abandon them.Two cases against him will be [...]
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• Life’s paradoxes: On watching the fall of the Berlin Wall in Honolulu, November 1989

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy  recalls how, twenty years ago in Honolulu, he called his three-year old to the television to watch the fall of the Berlin Wall with him as a historic event — even while he had to battle as an individual against the most vicious tyranny unleashed against him by the Government of one ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 433
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Judge not sympathetic toward Two-Ton Tony

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 592
  From the Queens Campaigner : After the attorney representing former state Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio argued that his client was a hardworking public servant who bent over backward for his constituents, U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald expressed reservations about the defense’s statements. “Someone ...
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• “Freedom of the Press belongs to the man who owns one.”

  
  American Red Tory — Authority: 112
  So said some wag famously.  There’s just one problem with that: “Presses” — as well as radio or TV stations, cable and satellite broadcasting outfits, etc. — in this day and age are usually owned by corporations.  Major ones, anyway. AND CORPORATIONS HAVE NO RIGHTS, ONLY PRIVILEGES.  ONLY “NATURAL ...
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• China sends mob “godmother” to prison

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 618
  Download audio file (1103095.mp3) Download MP3 A Chinese woman known as the “Godmother of the underworld” was sentenced to 18 years in jail today for bribery, illegal gambling, and other gang activity. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad has been watching the trial in Beijing.
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• The Energy Security Through Transparency Act of 2009 (S. 1700)…A Bad Bill

  
  Corporate Compliance Insights — Authority: 125
  By Michael Koehler, CCI Featured FCPA ColumnistThe Energy Security Through Transparency Act of 2009 (S. 1700), while however noble its intended purpose, is akin to “swatting a fly with a bazooka.” (This is only a summary of the article. Click on the headline to view the entire article at Corporate Compliance ...
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• This Joke Is Funny Because Its So Close to the Truth

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 472
  Here is a joke that speaks uncomfortable truths about the legal profession. Because of the lawyers last names in this little tale, Im guessing it originated in a state with a large Hispanic population--perhaps Texas or California. Based on my experience, this story cuts across all nationalities and state borders. It ...
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• Fighting corruption in Afghanistan

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 618
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai has vowed to remove the “stigma” of corruption, a day after winning a new five-year term. In his first remarks since being declared winner of August’s fraud-marred poll, he also pledged to lead an inclusive government. President Barack Obama has asked Karzai to intensify efforts to ...
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• DOB bribery business-as-usual under Bloomberg

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 592
  From the NY Times : Mayors have been grappling with inefficiency and corruption within the city’s Buildings Department for decades. John V. Lindsay’s buildings commissioner so tired of allegations of graft that he suggested the agency give its inspectors uniforms without pockets. But Michael R. Bloomberg took ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 433
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• Buildings Dept. Woes Have Persisted Despite Bloomberg’s Overhaul

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  The agency, which has long wrestled with corruption graft, has largely been a blemish on the mayor’s record.
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• Taliban leader rejects U.S. attempts to lure away fighters with money

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 582
  Kabul, Afghanistan : A top Taliban political leader delivered a message Friday to President Obama, calling his attempt to lure away Taliban fighters with money "an old weapon that has failed already." "The Mujahedeen of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan are not mercenaries and employed gunmen like the armed ...
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• Leaked report reveals dozens of Congressmembers under investigation

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  Internal investigations into the conduct of several House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics. Revelations of the mostly preliminary inquiries by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct — ...
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• I’ve run out of memory.

  
  I'm Laila Yuile, and This Is How I See It — Authority: 122
  Computer memory that is.Let me assure you, this is QUITE an inconvenience, not to mention very frustrating! As a result, today you are going to get this crappy message rather than the really revealing post I’ve been working on about a large company involved in BC public projects…that has a very ” ...
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• New Post Highlights ‘Web of Influence’ Entangling Chevron Corporation in Bogus Ecuador Lawsuit

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 567
  If you’ve been following my extensive coverage — more than two-dozen posts during the past six months — about the bogus lawsuit Chevron Corporation has been fighting in Ecuador for more than 16 years, you should appreciate a new post at The Amazon Post blog. Full of interactive graphics, the post ...
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• Corzine, Obama, Goldman Sachs, Governor Jon Corzine, Chairman of Goldman Sachs, Obama contributions, Corruption, Bailout money

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  On Monday, Barack Obama will make his third visit to New Jersey to campaign for Governor Jon Corsine, former chairman of Goldman Sachs. Obama and Corzine have a lot in common. They both are tied to corruption figures and to Goldman Sachs. Yesterday, October 29, 2009, from Citizen Wells “It is only fitting that ...
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• VECO cover-up continues in Barbados – CEO Bill Allen gets 3 years prison for bribing Alaska politicians

  
  Barbados Free Press — Authority: 502
  Alaska Senator’s Son was paid US$243,250 in “consulting fees” The corrupt former head of VECO Corporation – the same company that built the Oil Terminal and the new Dodds Prison in Barbados – has been put in jail for 3 years for his leading role in VECO’s ongoing policy of using bribes to obtain ...
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• The aftermath of the Langford administration

  
  Wade on Birmingham — Authority: 478
  What happens to Jefferson County and Birmingham after mayor Larry Langford is convicted of bribery?
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