NY official accused of using funds for own project

A suburban New York county official has resigned after being accused of assigning a government employee to design the covers for two novels he was writing.

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Wal-Mart may not have a AAA rating but it seems even safer then the government right now. What would you rather invest in, given the facts I am all for Wal-Mart.

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KANJWANI, PAKISTAN -- From the busy and bucolic scene in this Punjab province village, it is hard to tell that Pakistan is in the throes of a national sugar crisis.

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Government Got BONUSES TOO! Post Office General Got Over $140,000

Our beloved Post office general got a PERFORMANCE bonus of over $140,000, and the post office LOST Millions of dollars last year. Some of the government staff even got $14,000 in bonus money.

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Threats keep Orakzai security men from duties HANGU: Around 595 Levies personnel in Orakzai Agency have stopped performing their duties following Taliban threats, a source in the local administration told Daily Times on Monday.

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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao would meet in New York later this month before the meeting between Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Indian External Affairs Minister S.M.

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Something seems wrong here

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I wanted to put this under politics but common sense won out

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eco-projects. science+technology.

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there is a sucker born every miniute open govt?

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WHAT ME WORRY I WATCH MAD TV

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govt can't paper over economy's cracks

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Just Say No to Drug Czars

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Obama Supporters Are Least Intelligent, Least Informed Voters In America: Zogby Poll

I'd like to give a thank you to a very conservative member of this site, Donald Turnbull, whose seed turned me onto this video and, following back to the original source, the website for what looks to be a super documentary in the making called How Obama Got Elected by John Zieg …

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Malcolm Turnbull got hold of the Dorothy Dix list, too - he made a great show of helpfully passing it across the desk to the Prime Minister, who gave him a long, cold stare of complete loathing, and refused to touch it.

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Domestic travellers leaving Melbourne Airport over the next six weeks will be asked to test new security scanners that can see through clothing. - Body scanner trial - Voluntary testing - 'Possible to see genitals'

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GOOD QUESTION Why NOT give the MONEY to THE people with BAD debt

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Under the proposed Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), internet service providers (ISPs) would be required to link 'black boxes' to their servers to record all internet traffic, including details of emails, VoIP telephone conversations, instant messages and browsing habi …

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MOTORISTS will face pump prices as high as $1.70 a litre within days and more than $1.80 by July after fresh Middle East tensions propelled world oil prices to record highs.

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Saffron rise: BJP stakes claim on Karnataka (ibnlive) BJP appears close to forming govt in Karnataka (Deccan Herald) We'll sit in Oppn if we don't get 113 seats: BJP (Indian Expre

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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING

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John Howard, embattled Prime Minister of Australia has constantly refused to offer an apology to the Aborigines for the destructive impact of colonisation and settlement. Aborigines were only legally acknowledged as original inhabitants of the land after the 1992 Mabo land case.

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The idiotic enemy within... Contractors and US government employees are sharing hundreds of secret documents on peer-to-peer networks, in many cases overriding the default security settings on their P-to-P software to do so, according to a company that monitors the networks.

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No FEAR II - Asylum for America's Federal Workforce

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the 1967 Protocol overriding limitations by date of the 1951 Geneva Convention, serves with that Convention as "the principal international instruments established for the protection of refugees and their b …

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The Indian government plans to set up a series of orphanages to raise unwanted baby girls in a bid to halt the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses, according to a senior government official.

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