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  • Where Greuel went wrong

    Wendy Greuel has been a high-profile public servant who believes in Los Angeles and has devoted much of her career to improving it. But boy, did she run a lousy campaign for ...

  • Austerity IMF 1 Osborne 0 | Editorial

    George Osborne that the UK remains a "long way from recovery"; that "persistent slow growth could permanently damage medium-term growth prospects"; that, six years on from the collapse of Northern Rock, British banks are still not back to "healthy functionality"; and that the centrepiece of the chancellor's last budget - the help-to-buy scheme aimed at ...

  • Mali Prospects for Improved Human Rights

    Whether it concerns training the Malian Army in the laws of war (an aspect included in the European Union's training program to be extended to four battalions of the Army), or the fight against corruption (which played a significant role in giving rise to the current crisis and deprives the country of resources required for respecting social rights), or the setting up of a "truth, ...

  • Despite reforms Myanmars ethnic violence continues

    -- When the European Union recently lifted economic sanctions on Myanmar, it closed a decades-long chapter designed to encourage democratic reform in the country. Although an arms embargo remains in place, the action will send an unequivocal message of "mission accomplished." But while the EU is celebrating the "new Myanmar," Rohingya Muslims in the western part of the ...

  • St. Paul More LGA is a license to save not to spend Pioneer Press editorial

    After more than a decade of less than it expected, an increase in "local government aid" to St. Paul from the Minnesota Legislature is "a welcome change of pace," according to Mayor Chris Coleman. LGA is disbursed according to a complicated formula, based on need, to help provide for basic city services. Next year St. Paul expects an additional $10.1 million -- the largest ...


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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday [DVD]

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday [DVD]

Credit should be given where credit is due: The filmmakers behind Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday tried. They really tried. Doing something original or different with the ninth installment of the Friday the 13th slasher franchise, which was largely derivative to begin with, was a significant task. That the end result is convoluted, lacking in logical coherence, and somet ... ...

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  • How Benjamin Franklin Invented A Weight Loss Program Using Balloons

    Ask a great inventor to invent, and that's exactly what he'll do. Sometimes the ideas pop out like cannon bursts: "consider this " or "maybe this?" or "Wait! How about THIS!" Ben Franklin did that with balloons. In the 1780s, Franklin was America's ambassador to France, living in Paris, where all over town, people were experimenting with balloon ...

  • A New Accountability Agenda

    The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was founded in 2003 with the goal of strengthening governance by increasing transparency over revenues from the oil, gas, and mining sectors. EITI has contributed to much greater disclosures of information and helped spur dialogue in many countries. But EITI has not made progress toward its ultimate purpose of enhancing accountability in ...

  • Don Gale Changing the world with GAL

    Donald Gale has dreams, big dreams, dreams so big they can only be properly expressed by writing about this super serious dreams to change society with an ...

  • Topic of the day Apple tax hearings

    Yesterday Apple Inc. CEO was called before a congressional hearing as to why Apple failed to pay $30 billion in taxes last year. But did they do anything wrong? Legaly, no, most opinions from around the web ...

  • Banks still want big bailouts

    The nation’s biggest banks are waging an outrageous fight against a bipartisan Senate bill seeking to protect taxpayers from bailing them out. Renewed interest in curtailing reckless financial practices was sparked by Attorney General Eric Holder’s admission earlier this year that he is afraid to prosecute the banks that brought about the worst downturn since the Great Depression. ...

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