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• Blackwater Authorized $1 Million in Secret Payments to Silence Iraqi Officials

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 729
  To buy their silent support. The NYTimes : Four former Blackwater executives said in interviews that Gary Jackson, who was then the company’s president, had approved the bribes, and the money was sent from Amman, Jordan, where Blackwater maintains an operations hub, to a top manager in Iraq. The executives, ...
  7 hours ago

• KBR may have poisoned 100,000 people in Iraq

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 134
  So many ways to rip off the government and so little time.  KBR, once again in the spotlight for yet more malfeasance.  Back in May we found that KBR was paid $80 million in bonuses for contracts to install electrical wiring in Iraq , wiring that electrocuted American soldiers.  Now we find they may have exposed ...
  19 hours ago

• Aleksei Dymovsky in YouTube plea for Putin to end police corruption

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  A Russian policeman has triggered a political storm by breaking a code of silence over corruption in the ranks, in videos posted on the internet. Major Aleksei Dymovsky, a senior drugs trafficking investigator, accused corrupt police chiefs of ordering officers to jail innocent people and claimed that it was ...
  21 hours ago

• This Week’s 3 Best Football Highlights (That Weren’t Plays)

  
  InGameNow — Authority: 552
  Buck Laughlin approves. Most people watch football for the hard hits and scoring, which means that this week most people missed some of the best action between the downs. Both in the college and NFL ranks, tv commentators took a few liberties with their mics still hot, which always make for great bloopers. In a ...
  1 day ago

• Creative Kids (Part 2): 7 Ways to Teach Flow

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  In my previous post , I shared why its a good idea to help kids learn to enter a flow state more often. Here is the how : 7 tips for helping your (or any) child get the benefits of entering and staying longer in the flow zone: 1. DISCUSS THE CONCEPT OF FLOW. Learn the signs of flow (one way is to keep ...
  2 days ago

• My favorite thing today: Chad Johnson attempting to bribe the...

  
  philadelphia will do — Authority: 548
  My favorite thing today: Chad Johnson attempting to bribe the official with a dollar bill. Well, Tim Donaghy did get released from prison recently. Maybe he’s an NFL referee now. ( 1080px version )
  2 days ago

• This Week’s Weirdest Bribe?

  
  China Droll — Authority: 116
  Obama, Obama, Obama day and night. Apart from getting a totally undeserved Nobel’s peace prize; I’m really ashamed of my fellow countrymen the Norwegians there (guess how many people on the committee are of “middle eastern descent” though) it seems all he’s done so far is not being George W. Bush. As much ...
  4 days ago

• China sentences woman crime boss to 18 years in jail

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Chongqing (China), Nov 3 (IANS) A court here Tuesday sentenced the head of an organised criminal network to 18 years in prison.Xie Caiping is dubbed as “godmother of the underworld” in southwest China. Twenty-one other people, including officials who offered protection to the gang members, were given jail terms ...
  1 week ago

• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Opium, Rape and the American Way Reawaken as Obama Weighs Afghanistan Strategy

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Chris Hedges, was posted to Common Dreams.org, November 2, 2009 The warlords we champion in Afghanistan are as venal, as opposed to the rights of women and basic democratic freedoms, and as heavily involved in opium trafficking as the Taliban. The moral lines we draw between us and our adversaries ...
  1 week ago

• 15 States Including California Are Suing Amgen – Alleging Kickbacks and Overfill Billings to Boost Sales of Aranesp

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  The drug, Aranesp is used with chemotherapy and chronic renal failure to increase red blood cells and was approved by the FDA in 2001. We are hearing more about drug marketing today and now it’s spilling over to the “biotech” drug companies for investigation. The suit states that providers were bribed and ...
  1 week ago

• Make yourself a slave to the world

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 148
  Proverbs 15:27 [show/hide]ERROR: You have exceeded your quota of 5000 requests per day. Please contact the developer of this application if you have questions. (If youre the developer and have questions about this error message, please contact Crossway.)27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he ...
  1 week ago

• Teenage convictions overturned after judge took bribes from private detention centres

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Thousands of teenage criminals have had their convictions overturned in Pennsylvania because the judge who issued them is charged with taking bribes from private detention centres.
  1 week ago

• Mexican traffic cops demanded bribe from US lawmaker

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Cancun (Mexico), Oct 29 (EFE) Many traffic police personnel of Cancun are under investigation for demanding a bribe from a US tourist who turned out to be a legislator from the US’ state of Minnesota, a media report said.Mexican Municipal controller Jorge Rodriguez Carrillo said that the extortion complaint was ...
  1 week ago

• City inspector charged with receiving bribe

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 164
  About to accept a cash payoff for helping a business owner get out of a heavy fine for having asbestos in an apartment building, an inspector from the citys Department of Environment allegedly made a pledge. "All your headaches are gone," inspector Michael Cease allegedly was recorded as saying last month. Federal ...
  1 week ago

• IDC, Gartner, NPD, and Other Corruptible ‘Analysts’

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 158
  More news about analysts that sell their opinions and how Microsoft is using these
  1 week ago

• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Veteran Army Officer Urges Afghan Troop Drawdown

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Gareth Porter, was posted to ipsnews.net, October 15, 2009 WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (IPS) - A veteran Army officer who has served in both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars warns in an analysis now circulating in Washington that the counterinsurgency strategy urged by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal is likely to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Surging Through the Khyber Pass - Echoes from Vietnam: Dying again in Afghanistan

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Larry Ray, was published by the Rag Blog, October 4, 2009 Forty three years ago as a young civilian correspondent and documentary filmmaker, I stepped off the plane in Saigon knowing nothing about the history of that country or its people, and little or nothing about why Americans were fighting and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Help Your Significant Other Part II

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Sometimes it seems like you just cannot get off of the couch. Or out of the bed. Not wanting to move, not going to move. There?s nothing that you want to do. So what are you, the significant other, watching this lethargy, to do? Obviously, you cannot drag your boyfriend [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Book Review: When East Eats West--The Street-Smarts Guide to Business in China By Sam Goodman

  
  BASIL & SPICE--FINANCIAL WELL BEING — Authority: 129
  By Loyd Eskildson The goal of Goodmans book is to allow readers to avoid making elementary China business mistakes; it is not a corporate etiquette guide or a comprehensive how to book on doing business in China. Where East Eats West largely is a recounting of Goodmans early efforts to launch Beijing Sammies, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Estrada seeks redemption in Philippine election (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 514
  AFP – Riding one of the Philippines’ iconic “jeepney” mini-buses used by the poor, Joseph Estrada burst into Manila’s dockside slums to begin a seven-month drive aimed at returning him to the presidential palace. See the rest here: (AFP)"> (AFP)">Estrada seeks redemption in Philippine ...
  2 weeks ago

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