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• US Senators Act to Force Recognition of Jerusalem as Capital - Politics & Govt - Israel News - Israel National News

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  Seven United States senators have sponsored a bill that would abolish the “security” waiver that American presidents have used to prevent implementing a 1995 law declaring that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Kansas Republican Senator Sam Brownback, a long-time supporter of Israel, introduced the bill and ...
  3 hours ago

• Not enough evidence to charge KPK leaders: Team

  
  Indonesia News Blog — Authority: 142
  The presidential fact-finding team has said police do not have enough evidence to charge the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders with abuse of power, bribery, or extortion. As the team completed its first week and prepared to report to the President on Sunday, public demands for the resignation of both ...
  3 hours ago

• Post-independence land-grabbing in Kenyan uncovered

  
  Kenya Imagine — Authority: 115
  Business Daily publishes a must-read report on land grabbing and settlement schemes (not the noun) in post colonial Kenya. Alcohol and greed feature prominently.
  6 hours ago

• Officials Irritated by Deprivity

  
  Mystress Lady Evyl — Authority: 423
  A new acquaintance made me aware of this story. I don’t even know the people involved or was aware of their art but I was quit irritated with the situation and felt bad for those involved. . RemyFX, a Montreal special effects masterful artist, was arrested October 29th because of his work. Well not his work but ...
  7 hours ago

• The Outrage of Pretzel Ethics

  
  snaggletoothie of the Loyal Opposition — Authority: 510
  ********************************************** When the Republicans do it she calls it an abuse of power. When she does it she is shamelessly happy. She might lack the ability to be an ethical person. Instead she is talented at gaming the system while demanding ethical behavion from those she would manipulate. ...
  8 hours ago

• Geithner Opposes "Tobin Tax" on Financial Transactions

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  "Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner indicated that the Obama administration does not support such a tax during an interview with Sky News after wrapping up a meeting of the G20 in St. Andrews, Scotland. "A day-by-day financial transaction tax is not something we are prepared to support," Geither said, adding, "this ...
  8 hours ago

• Joseph Cao: the lone Republican to vote for ObamaCare

  
  Kim Priestap's Political Insights — Authority: 480
  The House passed – although barely – a massive $1.8 trillion health care bill that would put the health care of millions of Americans who are currently in private insurance plans in the hands of the US government. Democrats like to complain about how awful it is to have to deal with an insurance company, but ...
  9 hours ago

• The Enemy Within

  
  Political Byline — Authority: 614
  (H/T Wizbang Politics ) The sick part is Democrats are in lock step with these terrorists. Related Posts: An Interesting Movie Other Side of the Story">The Automotive Bailouts: The Other Side of the Story Terrorist plot to blow up Jewish Synagogues in the Bronx thwarted Bob Barr, The Right ...
  11 hours ago

• State Worker gets beat up at a SEIU meeting

  
  Political Byline — Authority: 614
  Your Unions hard at work! The Video is here , and boy does it ever show the damage. The Story: A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose allegedl corruption within the union. ...
  12 hours ago

• Not abolished

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 588
  DPF this morning does the usual fawning greasejob on Rodney Hides apology, complete with thinly veiled threats of political utu: I think MPs from all parties should be wary of using the subsidised overseas travel perk that exists for MPs who entered before 1999. It got abolished for more recent MPs for a reason, ...
  12 hours ago

• How Your Illinois Reps Voted on Stupak’s Abortion Amendment

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 428
  -By Warner Todd Huston One of the compromises that Speaker of the House Pelosi made to smooth the waters for her healthcare legislation was the Bart Stupak (D, Mich.) Amendment that stripped abortion funding from the healthcare legislation. So which of our Illinois Representatives voted in support of the Stupak ...
  12 hours ago

• Chrome 3.0 Is Now Stable, With Fixes

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 583
  The version 3 of Google’s Chrome browser is now considered stable, and does have some fixes for some things that were causing some to wonder why things were not functioning well. ( But the new and fun stuff is found in the version 4 builds .) The stable version of Google’s Chrome browser has just received an ...
  12 hours ago

• More Union Violence: State Worker Beat Up At SEIU Meeting

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  From CBS 13 in Sacramento: A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose allegedl corruption within the union.  Ken Hamidi is a state worker at the California Franchise Tax ...
  13 hours ago

• Ghana: Ghana Water Company under fire

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 125
  The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) is under fire from both the allAfrica.com”>government and anti-privatisation activists for poor service delivery and corruption. In the wake of this criticism, Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL), the private operator which supports GWCL since 2006 as part of a World ...
  14 hours ago

• Of Course They Dont, The Wall Street Owns Them

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 452
  Click for full size Note: These numbers are inflation adjusted So, after Gordon Brown finally comes out in favor of a Tobin tax on financial transactions , Timothy "Eddie Haskell" Geithner comes out categorically against it : A day-by-day financial transaction tax is not something we are prepared to ...
  16 hours ago

• Yeah, Lets Let Mr. Observant Watch Over the Financial System

  
  MoltenThought II — Authority: 619
  Barney Frank, the would-be-watchdog who is perpetually surprised by people breaking the law in his presence.
  16 hours ago

• U.S. STANDS FIRM IN SUPPORT OF WALL STREET WHILE THE REST OF THE WORLD TAKES THE ECONOMIC CRISIS SERIOUSLY

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 131
  MR. GEITNER, MR. SUMMERS AND OTHERS WHO ARE ON THE ECONOMIC TEAM DESERVE some CREDIT FOR BRINGING US BACK FROM AN ECONOMIC PRECIPICE THAT WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN A DEPRESSION FAR DEEPER AND LONGER THAN THE GREAT DEPRESSION. AND THEY SHOULD BE CUT SOME SLACK BECAUSE THEY WERE HANDED A PLATE ON WHICH THE ECONOMY WAS ...
  17 hours ago

• How to earn Rs 10 crores+ a month

  
  B Shantanu's Blog — Authority: 125
  More than two years ago, in a post dealing with politics and corruption, I wrote : This is a subject with such rich pickings (pun unintended)…that I am seriously considering a series on “How to earn Rs XYZ crores in X years” focused on politicians (- feel free to write in with tips and information). ...
  17 hours ago

• In Goldman, Sachs We Trust

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 763
  photo: Carrie Sloan via Flickr That’s the title of Chapter IV of John Kenneth Galbraith’s book The Great Crash 1929 . The description of the activities of GS in the months prior to October, 1929, are eerily similar to those of GS in the run-up to the great crash of 2008, as described by McClatchy . ...
  17 hours ago

• New Labour’s Skills Policy: R.I.P.

  
  EcoLogics — Authority: 120
  a badly misguided, if not corrupt policy will be replaced by a return to good ole Thatcherite slash—and—burnism.
  17 hours ago

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