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Hong Kong Graft Watchdog Arrests New Minister – 13 July 2012

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Hong Kong Graft Watchdog Arrests New Minister – 13 July 2012

Posted on July 13, 2012 by lucas2012infos 

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog said Thursday it had arrested a minister for allegedly abusing his housing allowances, plunging the new government into scandal.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said it had arrested four people including a minister and a senior civil servant for allegedly violating their government housing allowances.

Throwing a Lifeline to Youthful Offenders

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Posted: 07/06/2012 5:58 pm

Co-Founder, Think Outside the Cell Foundation

The Supreme Court took an important step in the right direction when it barred mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles convicted of murder. And the reasoning behind the court's majority opinion underscores the need for this nation to go even further to rescue young people ensnared by the criminal justice system.

To anyone who's lived to tell about their years as a teenager -- or survived being the parent of one -- the court's rationale should be beyond question.

Geithner Made Recommendations On Libor In 2008, Documents Show

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While president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy F. Geithner pressed British regulators to reform the way a critical global benchmark called the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, is calculated, according to a June 1, 2008, e-mail obtained by The Washington Post.

Writing to the head of the Bank of England, among others, Geithner made six recommendations, which included eliminating incentives that could encourage banks to manipulate the rate and establishing a “credible reporting procedure.”

“We would welcome a chance to discuss these and would be grateful if you would give us some sense of what changes are possible,” Geithner wrote.

Portuguese Doctors Go On Strike Over Budget Cuts

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Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:50PM GMT

A man sits in the Hospital Sao Jose waiting room while two doctors give information about the strike to the patients during the doctors’ strike in Lisbon on July 11, 2012.

A man sits in the Hospital Sao Jose waiting room while two doctors give information about the strike to the patients during the doctors’ strike in Lisbon on July 11, 2012.

 

We have no doubt that the strike will be a resounding success and that the protest will assemble thousands of white coats.”

Mario Jorge Neves, head of the National Federation of Doctors

Federal Reserve Predicts New Economic Crisis

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Published: 12 July, 2012, 20:09

A recent meeting of the US Federal Reserve revealed that members of America’s central bank are not very optimistic about the future of the country’s economy.

Even though the Fed is at odds regarding what to do in terms of helping economic growth — and it still remains unclear whether or not a third round of quantitative easing (QE3) is to come — the official forecast from the bank suggests that the US may be sliding into a crisis.

Details from the Fed’s last meeting have been released to the public, and the minutes from that gathering reveal that the economists that oversee much of the inner-workings of the country’s fiscal policy remain concerned with the state of America.

Among the items discussed in the meeting ishow a lack of initiative on the part of the US Congress could bring further strain on America’s economy, specifically that a failure to avert tax hikes and planned massive spending cuts later this year could be catastrophic.

Stolen Haitian Relief Money

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Juny 10.2012
 

Two children are seen at a refugee camp in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on 05 February 2010. Former US President and United Nations special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, promised more efforts and help to stop the co-ordination problems in the distribution of the assistance provided by the international community after the 7,0 12 January earthquake. EPA/Ulises Rodriguez
Two children at a refugee camp in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
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Following Haiti's catastrophic January 12, 2010 earthquake, billions of dollars in relief aid were raised. Suffering Haitians got virtually none of it.

 

Hundreds of thousands remain homeless. A cholera emergency still exists. On June 19, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent said:

 

Inside Israel's Secret Wars: Mossad's Elite "Kidon Killers"

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by Dr. Ismail Salami
Global Research, July 11, 2012

A new book reveals that a department known as Kidon within the Mossad has dispatched assassins into Iran in order to murder the nuclear scientists, thereby stunting the country’s nuclear energy program.

 

Authors Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman in their book Spies against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars state that the notorious spy agency has killed at least four Iranian nuclear scientists, including targeting them with operatives on motorcycles, an assassination technique used by the elite killers at Kidon.
 

The Kidon killers "excel at accurate shooting at any speed and staying steady to shoot and to place exquisitely shaped sticky bombs" and consider it their hallmark.
 

Kidon, known to be one of the world's most efficient killing machines, is technically described as a little Mossad within Mossad.
 

Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF's Lawsuit Over Government's Massive Spying Program

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July 2, 2012

Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF's Lawsuit Over Government's Massive Spying Program

 

 

EFF Asks Court to Reject Stale State Secret Arguments So Case Can Proceed

San Francisco - Three whistleblowers – all former employees of the National Security Agency (NSA) – have come forward to give evidence in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) lawsuit against the government's illegal mass surveillance program, Jewel v. NSA.

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