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Bank of America has had a tough time finding a new CEO willing to accept the pay restrictions that came with the bailout. But recruitment will be easier once the bank pays back its $45 billion owed in a few days freeing itself from government oversig
In Somalia's main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a sort of stock exchange meets criminal syndicate. The gangs have made millions of dollars from ransoms that has drawn financiers
As Pakistan's military fights escalating battles with Islamic extremists and with the country's civilian government, the country's journalists, especially those who are critical of the military, are increasingly caught in the crossfire.
Corporate executives expect a value-added tax to be considered by the U.S. Congress in the next 5 years. 57% expect Congress to consider legislation, and one-third said they would need at least a year to update their systems to comply.
Comcast Corp struck a deal to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal from General Electric Co, creating a media superpower that would control not just how TV shows and movies are made, but how they are delivered to the home. The deal has been discu
How much does the U.S. government really trust Canada? Maybe less than you think. Espionage warnings from the Defense Department caused an international sensation a few years ago over reports of mysterious coins with radio frequency transmitters, unt
They have come up with every possible excuse for concealing the background data on which their findings and temperature records were based. This in itself has become a major scandal
"superimposed on this overall trend" were "partly higher temperatures and salinities from 180 to 560 AD and 750-1160 AD," which they say "may be ascribed to the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods, respectively,"
his also suggests a long pattern into which we also can fit the cold weather that ended the Roman Empire in the fifth century. The cycle appears to be around 1200 years long. Our minima can then be isolated as 1700AD, 500 AD, 700BCE, 1900BCE, and 3
What's Happening 12/2/09 *ALERT!!! - Possible Air Alert* I can’t confirm or deny the information in this copied email, but with today’s upside-down sanitarium of a world we’re in right now… if there’s ANY truth to this, people need to know & be
U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, a Libertarian hero and former Republican presidential candidate, will speak at Phoenix and Tempe forums this week.
Here's my son who the court took from me when I refused to drug him for ADHD. It’s terrible – just look at how distracted this kid is – he can’t pay attention – he can’t sit still – he’s rambunctious – his mind wanders – he’s so endangered! HE NEEDS
When Ira Hayes was alive, his image was captured in one of the most famous battle photographs ever taken - the World War II picture of U.S. Marines raising the flag over Iwo Jima. Now, more than a half-century later, it turns out that Hayes' image
The White House on Wednesday invoked the separation of powers to keep Desiree Rogers, President Obama’s social secretary, from testifying on Capitol Hill about how a couple of aspiring reality television show celebrities crashed a state dinner for
Inner City Broadcasting, owns 17 commercial stations nationwide faces a possible financial collapse because of pressure by Goldman Sachs and GE Capital to repay nearly $230 million in debt and they want a bailout.
A former top climate scientist for NASA is in the news. Mark Schoeberl was found guilty of steering lucrative contracts to his wife Barbara’s company.
The witness was Edward M. Egan, then the Roman Catholic bishop of Bridgeport, Conn. The question was about a priest who had been accused of sexually molesting children. “I didn’t make a decision one way or the other,” said Bishop Egan, whom the la
Al-Qaeda followers are inside the United States and would like to attack targets here and in other countries, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday night. The secretary's comments were striking not only for their content -- t
The founder of Blackwater Worldwide acknowledged he helped the CIA with secret programs targeting top al-Qaeda leaders, a role he says was intended to give the agency "unattributable capability" in sensitive missions.
The Washington Times, which gained a strong foothold in a politically obsessed city as a conservative voice within the mainstream media, is about to become a drastically smaller newspaper. Nearly three decades after its founding by officials of th
As struggling communities around the country wait for more help from the $787 billion stimulus package, one region is already basking in its largess: the government-contractor nexus that is metropolitan Washington. [surprise]
On the radio, Ernie discusses his dying dog, "Warf," who got sick back when his family of six plus two dogs were poor reminded me of one of the funniest "The Simpson's" episodes in Season 3, "Dog of Death."
DON SEARLES, Mattoon I and more than half of the American people are fed up with the Obama administration and Congress turning our nation into the bankrupt Socialist States of America. We are fed up with out of control government spending, pork
It is Europe's dirty secret that the list of nuclear-capable countries extends beyond those in Britain and France who have built their own weapons. Nukes are stored in Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands and planes can deliver them.
I have to say, I have mixed feelings about the White House party crashers. On the one hand, they're symptomatic of an out-of-control fame-whore culture, a society that demands entitlement while pridefully creating nothing. They're shameless over-priv
The Salvation Army and a charity affiliated with the Houston Fire Department are among those that consider immigration status, asking for birth certificates or Social Security cards for the children.
Section 215 allows the federal government to demand tangible records from any business, organization, entity, person—and even the public library—and then places a gag order on them about speaking of the demand. Many believe this act violates the righ
A Maricopa County sheriff’s detention officer has refused to comply with a judge’s order to publicly apologize for looking at an attorney’s papers in court without the lawyer’s knowledge or consent. However, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said
An Italian who lost his left forearm in a car crash was successfully linked to a robotic hand, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts, scientists said Wednesday. During a one-month experiment conduc
On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two. In many ways, the split followed predictable patterns, requiring a hybr
