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Obama Enjoys Overwhelming Hispanic Support

Hispanic Americans, the fastest growing minority group in the United States, favor President Barack Obama over presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney by a huge margin, a potentially decisive factor in the Nov. 6 election. Hispanics are critical because of the complex state-by-state system for choosing the U.S. president. They could tip the vote in the […]

May 03rd, 2012

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Obama Enjoys Overwhelming Hispanic Support

Hispanic Americans, the fastest growing minority group in the United States, favor President Barack Obama over presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney by a huge margin, a potentially decisive factor in the Nov. 6 election. Hispanics are critical because of the complex state-by-state system for choosing the U.S. president. They could tip the vote in the […]

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Was This 16-Year-Old, Killed By A US Drone, Really A Terrorist?

He walked quietly between his two friends as he entered the conference hall in one of the best hotels in an exclusive enclave of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. The carpeted room filled with chairs draped in white as if for a wedding, usually hosted business conferences. But this event was different. The smart suited-business […]

April 24th, 2012

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Was This 16-Year-Old, Killed By A US Drone, Really A Terrorist?

He walked quietly between his two friends as he entered the conference hall in one of the best hotels in an exclusive enclave of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. The carpeted room filled with chairs draped in white as if for a wedding, usually hosted business conferences. But this event was different. The smart suited-business […]

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City Bank ‘Cheats’ Europe In €600m Tax Avoidance Trading Scheme

  Some of the city of London’s biggest banks are behind a huge tax avoidance trade ‘cheating’ European countries of hundreds of millions of euros a year in a development that sheds fresh light on David Cameron’s decision to wield Britain’s EU veto to protect the Square Mile. A two-month study by the Bureau has […]

April 24th, 2012

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    Nick Mathiason
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City Bank ‘Cheats’ Europe In €600m Tax Avoidance Trading Scheme

  Some of the city of London’s biggest banks are behind a huge tax avoidance trade ‘cheating’ European countries of hundreds of millions of euros a year in a development that sheds fresh light on David Cameron’s decision to wield Britain’s EU veto to protect the Square Mile. A two-month study by the Bureau has […]

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CIA Open Government Policy Not Doing Enough for True Transparency

(MintPress)-The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is seeking permission from President Obama to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen to allow strikes against terrorism suspects based on observations of suspicious behavior without knowing the identities of those who could be killed. The expansion would allow the CIA to strike targets based on intelligence showing suspicious […]

April 20th, 2012

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CIA Open Government Policy Not Doing Enough for True Transparency

(MintPress)-The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is seeking permission from President Obama to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen to allow strikes against terrorism suspects based on observations of suspicious behavior without knowing the identities of those who could be killed. The expansion would allow the CIA to strike targets based on intelligence showing suspicious […]

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Obama renews call for tax fairness

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is stepping up his election-year insistence that the wealthy pay a greater share of taxes, planning Tuesday to renew his call for Congress to raise taxes on millionaires. Hoping to draw a sharp contrast with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Obama will outline his support for the so-called “Buffett […]

April 10th, 2012

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Obama renews call for tax fairness

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is stepping up his election-year insistence that the wealthy pay a greater share of taxes, planning Tuesday to renew his call for Congress to raise taxes on millionaires. Hoping to draw a sharp contrast with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Obama will outline his support for the so-called “Buffett […]

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America’s new data centre makes UK surveillance plans seem petty

In the small town of Bluffdale in the Utah desert, the US government is halfway to completing a gargantuan complex designed to store and trawl through billions of phone calls, emails, and other global communications. As the UK government reveals its own plans to carry out mass surveillance, a lengthy piece in May’s Wired reveals the full […]

April 04th, 2012

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America’s new data centre makes UK surveillance plans seem petty

In the small town of Bluffdale in the Utah desert, the US government is halfway to completing a gargantuan complex designed to store and trawl through billions of phone calls, emails, and other global communications. As the UK government reveals its own plans to carry out mass surveillance, a lengthy piece in May’s Wired reveals the full […]

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Audit: Gas lines tied to fracking lack oversight

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Government auditors say federal officials know nothing about thousands of miles of pipelines that carry natural gas released through the drilling method known as fracking, and need to step up oversight to make sure they are running safely. Amid the gas-drilling boom, private companies have put in hundreds of small gathering […]

March 23rd, 2012

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Audit: Gas lines tied to fracking lack oversight

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Government auditors say federal officials know nothing about thousands of miles of pipelines that carry natural gas released through the drilling method known as fracking, and need to step up oversight to make sure they are running safely. Amid the gas-drilling boom, private companies have put in hundreds of small gathering […]

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