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BEIJING — Local officials in Shandong Province have apparently found a cost-effective way to deal with gadflies, whistle-blowers and all manner of muckraking citizens who dare to challenge the authorities: dispatch them to the local psychiatric hospital.
Read the rest online: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/world/asia/09china.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

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Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the insurer whose bonuses and perks are under fire from U.S. lawmakers, offered cash awards to another 38 executives in a retention program with payments of as much as $4 million.
The incentives range from $92,500 to $4 million for employees earning salaries between $160,000 and [...]

The people who created this committee clearly had no idea how to feign concern to appease the masses.
Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor who chairs the Congressional Oversight Panel, which is monitoring the Treasury’s spending of the bailout money, appeared this afternoon before a House commmitee to testify about the report — better characterized as [...]

“Congress wanted to guarantee that the $700 billion financial bailout would limit the eye-popping pay of Wall Street executives, so lawmakers included a mechanism for reviewing executive compensation and penalizing firms that break the rules.
But at the last minute, the Bush administration insisted on a one-sentence change to the provision, congressional aides said. The change [...]

In the past several years climate change crusaders have become even further indoctrinated with the belief that climate change is man made even though there is no “evidence” this is the case.
I personally would love to hear evidence beyond that of Al Gore’s supposed “documentary”. Not only are his claims absolutely false, he also claims [...]

Incredible… We shouldn’t be giving any bailouts, let alone to a credit card company.

“They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios…”

I just wonder what defines a terrorist? Wanton killing of innocent civilians? Or has it become something else? Has it transcended to the mere accusations of terrorism? Notice they even admit their evidence in some(read that: most, or all) cases wouldn’t get a conviction in our courts due to the method in which they extracted [...]