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The United Nations this week went on the offensive to refute a blistering report that UN Secretary-All-function Ban Ki-moon deliberately crippled the agency in charge of investigations of his bureaucracy, preventing the hiring of qualified officials. The report came from Inga-Britt Ahlenius, a Swedish auditor, who recently left her job as head of the investigative unit [...] Three out of every four lobbyists who represent oil and gas companies previously worked in the federal government, a proportion that far exceeds the usual revolving-door standards on Capitol Hill, a Washington Post analysis shows. Read more: Mineral Management Serv, Revolving Door, Washington Post, Oil Lobby, Congress Revolving Door, Gulf Oil Spill, BP Gulf Oil [...] Today, there are over 5,000 new tales listed on Google News from media sources around the world announcing a groundbreaking breakthrough in the prevention of AIDS in Africa. Here is a sample of some of the headlines. “WHO, UN Hail ‘Groundbreaking’ The makings of AIDS Gel” ~ Voice of America “Groundbreaking’ gel halves HIV infection rates” ~ [...] The Shirley Sherrod affair is one of those tales that has absolutely no ambiguity to it. Alex Pareene basically captures what happened in the subhed of his authoritative explainer: “Andrew Breitbart lies about a USDA appointee, and a cowardly White House forces her out as a result.” That’s basically it! We can all see for [...] When President Obama signs legislation that’s being called the most sweeping set of reforms to hit the fiscal industry since the 1930s, some very prominent bankers will not be present. Politico’s “Morning Money” reported yesterday that the Obama administration did not extend invitations to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein for [...] Flooded in the revelations that BP has been manipulating press cinema to make their response look more urgent, the original photo of their Command Center has been located, revealing other priorities BP seems to have besides cleaning up their image. This picture has really not been Photoshopped or altered in any way. For [...] Bill O’Reilly took on the media over its coverage of the New Black Panthers scandal Monday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.” O’Reilly took on Howard Kurtz, who said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Sunday that Fox News was “pushing” the tale, and Bob Schieffer, who told Kurtz that he missed the tale because he was on vacation. [...] Bill O’Reilly took on the media over its coverage of the New Black Panthers scandal Monday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.” O’Reilly took on Howard Kurtz, who said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Sunday that Fox News was “pushing” the tale, and Bob Schieffer, who told Kurtz that he missed the tale because he was on vacation. [...] The top-secret world the government made in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist surrounded by it or exactly how many agencies do the same work. Read [...] According to the Jerusalem Post, the endless flattery of Israel, a virtual full-court suck-up, has produced nothing. Israelis do not entrust Obama, meaning they suspect that, in his heart, he may not adore everything about Binyamin Netanyahu and his policies. (One can only hope). Here is the latest poll. But the White [...] |
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