Bank Investors Redefine Bad News
By ERIC DASH
Results that would have once been viewed as disastrous are
now seen as good, even great, by some.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/business/23bank.html?th&emc=th

LOL - what chutzpa! -- hank

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Business: Bank Sues Analyst for Defamation
By LOUISE STORY
BankAtlantic said it has sued Richard X. Bove, a prominent
banking analyst, accusing him of defamation and negligence
over a recently published research report.

Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/business/22bove.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

poi hank comments

Touchy aren't we? Or are the banks just too powerful

and arrogant?

July 22, 2008 at 1138 am

July 22, 2008

Pool Builder Is Charged in Drowning

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW HAVEN (AP) — The president of a swimming pool company was charged with second-degree manslaughter on Monday in connection with an accident last year in which a 6-year-old boy drowned in Greenwich, Conn., after his arm was trapped in a powerful suction drain.

Greenwich police officials said that the president of Shoreline Pools, David Lionetti, “recklessly caused the death” of the boy, Zachary Cohn, by failing to have his company install mandated safety devices in a pool that the company built for the boy’s family. The police contended that the safety devices would have prevented the boy’s death. ....

MORE AT http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/nyregion/22
pool.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

Bush Prods Congress, as Financers Are Inspected
By STEPHEN LABATON
Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said examiners are
inspecting the books of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/business/economy/22treasury.html?th&emc=th

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FRAUD ON THE INTERNET?

Probably! A $10 monthly charge appeared on our GM Master Card,

for "Discount Shoppers". Joan and I don't remember signing up

for it , and we never received anything for it.

I contacted the GM Master Card, which is now handled

by HSBC Card Service. They asked me to

phone the "Discount Shoppers" and ask them to discontinue me

from their services. HSBC gave me the phone number.

I could never get a real person to answer the phone.

At "Discount Shoppers" you get a recording

"All of our agents are busy attending to

customers who are pleased with our service,

and are inquiring how to sign up friends to our

generous, worthwhile plan.

Please hold on for the next available agent.

You call is important to us."

(I jest of course, but we all know the message by now.)

I called back HSBC and told them that I cannot contact

"Discount Shoppers" and asked HSBC to discontinue

paying "Discount Shoppers" any more money

from our credit card account.

They said they would and asked if I thought

this unauthorized transaction was a fraud.

I said yes, because certainly, Joan and I

do not remember signing up for something

that would take $10 a month from our

credit card account.

Some one had told me, that we might have ordered

something on line and checked off a box

which asked "Do you want to be advised

of discounts in the future?"

Could be, but we don't remember reading

"It will only cost you $10 a month".

HSBC fraud department sent me an e mail

asking me to attest to the fact that I believe

this was and is a fraud, so I filled out the

e mail and sent it back to them.

Today, July 19, 2008

in the mail I get a notice from HSBC

that they had sent me a form in the U.S. Mail

to fill out and return, and the notice told

me that I had failed to do that.

The date of this notice from HSBC is July 11.

Then I open another letter from HSBC,

today, July 19, and it is dated July 9,

asking me to fill out the form and

send it back to HSBC.

Wow! Bureaucracy out of control!

Even those who seem to be on our side.

Oh, well, this is the age of

LOSING CONTROL OVER YOUR LIFE AND AFFAIRS!

Hey, Phil, do I sound whinny to you?

----You rich bastard!

Oh boy, more complaints coming to POI .

LOL - hank, July 19, 2008 at 3:28 PM

Criminal probe ended, Apple CEO still has hurdles

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Directing protection toward consumers
Even as regulators drafted rules to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Federal Reserve announced new borrower-protection guidelines that should halt rampant rip-offs by sub prime mortgage lenders.

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Government of the developer, by the developer and for the developer obviously operates in a "fact-free" zone! Developers crashed the economy, but our dear leaders don’t seem to care. They just keep forking it over. The story below underscores, again, why we need Florida Hometown Democracy: too many elected officials just can’t and won’t say NO. Even when we are out of water, even when the “market” is crashed, even with $4.00 + a gallon gas! Notice I’m not even mentioning what the people might want for their future quality of life! The growth machine is programmed to pave over every square inch of the state, regardless of the consequences.

Einstein rightly said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” Don’t think the system will suddenly fix itself or even that the “market” will fix it. The story below proves that the market is really irrelevant to developers. They want their maxed-out zoning regardless of the facts on the ground.

We have filed our motion for preliminary injunction in Federal Court asking the court to put the Florida Hometown Democracy amendment on the November 2008 ballot. Stay tuned.....!

OrlandoSentinel.com

COMMENTARY

Innovation Way attracts parasites bent on building

Mike Thomas

July 8, 2008

Innovation Way is supposed to save us from a future of tearing ticket stubs, flipping condos and building homes for phantom buyers.

Alas, some parasites from our old economy are lining up to feed on this planned high-tech corridor.

The purveyors of more rooftops see Innovation Way as an opportunity to expand them out to the curvature of the Earth.

You almost have to laugh at the folly. We have a real-estate crisis, fed by a massive glut of homes, dragging our economy to depths not seen in decades. The epicenter is in outlying areas, where speculator homes sit empty, yards are overgrown and values are plunging.

And yet last week we hear Deseret Ranch wants to expand the urban-service boundary -- which serves as the dividing line between urban and rural development -- by 4,600 acres around Innovation Way . That would allow up to 10,000 homes in areas so outlying the cows get lonely.

This follows an earlier attempt to include another nearby parcel about the same size in the urban boundary. The County Commission said no, but negotiations are ongoing.

This is amazing.

If a rhesus monkey pushes the yellow circle to get a banana and gets a huge electrical jolt instead, you can bet it won't do that again.

I would equate the housing situation here as a huge jolt, which begs the question: Are we dumber than monkeys?

We shall see today. The Orange County Commission is voting on the Deseret property.

The staff initially panned the idea. But now to make it palatable the staff has negotiated provisos, including one that Deseret couldn't begin development until 2018 unless Innovation Way really took off.

In that highly unlikely event, the date could be moved up.

But if Innovation Way flops, Deseret still could develop in 2018. Put another way: Deseret can't lose.

But the county sure can if all we get is another 10,000 homes in the boondocks soaking up water we can ill afford to spare.

Given the very iffy nature of creating a high-tech corridor in Orange County , that is a very real possibility.

So why should the county agree to this? Staffers say it would allow the various government agencies to include the property in infrastructure planning for Innovation Way .

This is an excuse, not a reason. Everyone involved can plan whatever they need to plan. There is nothing magical about being in or out of the urban boundary that precludes planning.

If the land is needed for Innovation Way , the planning can be implemented. If not, the cows can keep it.

There isn't so much as one road built out in Innovation Way, much less a laboratory and a scientist in need of a $500,000 bungalow.

So what's the rush with throwing more land in the mix? Shouldn't we at least wait until someone has cloned an armadillo out there?

It is not the county's job to accommodate Deseret or take the risk out of the ranch's development plans.

Growth management around here means that when a developer asks for something extraordinarily stupid, you negotiate him down to something that's just really stupid.

"You know what would be nice, if someone just said no once in a while," says County Commissioner Linda Stewart.

She plans to do that at the meeting today. I would hope Mayor Rich Crotty, a driving force behind Innovation Way , joins her.

Otherwise his visionary dream for a new economy begins to look like nothing more than just another Florida real-estate scam.

Mike Thomas can be reached at mthomas@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5525.

For more details about the Deseret plan, see reporter Kevin Spear’s excellent article, Homes, homes on the range in Orange County near Orlando International Airport?

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/community/news/lakenona/orl-deseret0508jul05,0,1231681.story

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July 10, 2008

RADIO SHACK RECALL

======================

I got a recall notice from radio shack

concerning the power converter I use for my marine radio.

I was instructed to take the faulty power converter,

which is wired wrongly, and might catch on fire,

to a local radio shack, where they take

the power converter away from me

and send it out for repairs. When it

is repaired and ready, I go back

to the radio shack store and get

my power converter back.

It would seem more fair,

and the reasonable thing to do,

to replace a faulty item which was sold to me

with a brand new one that is in proper working condition.

Do I ask for too much?

If the situation were reversed, corporate America

would demand the same of us,

and would be backed up by law

passed by its mistresses, in Congress and the Senate.

Are we ready yet to protest and revolt?

I am.

For the first time in my life,

I am prepared to go out on the streets

with protest activist groups,

and protest against the fleecing of America

by our government and corporate America.

Sincerely,

hank springer

July 10, 2008 at 10:03 am

poimages@cfl.rr.com

Construction Company Admits To Stealing Woman's Electricity, Apologizes
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5z2laSLm6.html>

POI editorial on POI's

PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE PORT ORANGE AREA web page.

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In The Money: Number Of Millionaires Rises
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5yP5S5jvZ.html>

WAY TO GO TRILATERAL COMMISSION!

--- HANK

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Business / World Business: Russia: Bank of New York Fights $22.5. Billion Claim
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
Lawyers for the Bank of New York Mellon were in a Russian
court to defend the bank against a $22.5 billion claim
filed by the Russian customs service relating to a money
laundering scandal in the late 1990s.

Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/worldbu
siness/01fobriefs-BANKOFNEWYOR_BRF.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

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.......

The potentially hazardous CFL is being pushed by companies such as Wal-Mart, which wants to sell 100 million CFLs at five times the cost of incandescent bulbs during 2007, and, surprisingly, environmentalists.

It's quite odd that environmentalists have embraced the CFL, which cannot now and will not in the foreseeable future be made without mercury. Given that there are about five billion light bulb sockets in North American households, we're looking at the possibility of creating billions of hazardous waste sites such as the Bridges' bedroom. ....

more at http://www.financialpost.com/story.h
tml?id=aa7796aa-e4a5-4c06-be84-b62dee548fda

Contractors Being Audited After Paving Orange County Roads
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5yxUZcAyQ.html>

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NY financial adviser gets prison for scamming clients
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Peter Dawson was sentenced Tuesday on Long Island after pleading guilty last year to two felony counts of grand larceny and one count of scheme to defraud. ...

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June 17, 2008 at 10:05 am

SHOPPER DISCOUNTS

1 800 889 8776

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Last month on our credit card,

there was a $10.00 item for

Shopper Discounts.

I never got around to asking Joan

if she knew anything about

that charge, and in this month's credit card bill,

it showed up again. We have no idea what

this Shopper Discounts is all about.

I called my credit card company

and they advised me to call the Shopper Discounts

at the 1 800 number, cancel the account

and get a confirmation number.

I called the 1 800 number and got

a recording, which I listened to on my speaker

phone, for one hour.

"All of our customer representatives are busy

helping other customers. Your call is important to

us, so please hold". "hold" was pronounced

with an accent, perhaps Indian.

I will call again this afternoon,

but have no hopes of getting a real person

to answer the phone. Must be a lot of

people trying to get out of this credit card item.

I suspect that either Joan or I had placed an

order for something on the web and

we were asked, or did not see a box

checked off that read

"Yes, send me discount coupons"

or something like that.

Everywhere you turn, somewhere is there

with their hands out, to take your money,

con you out of it, or even rob you.

--- hank

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http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/shopper-discounts-800-8898776-ct-c72280.html

http://leblog.exuberance.com/2006/03/why_does_wlisho.html

http://shopper-discounts.pissedconsumer.com/shopper-discounts-scam-20080607123361.html

Here are a couple of sites that explain how these companies get your credit card information.

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June 18, 2008 at 2:47 PM

I thank Cindy for the links to the info on

companies getting our credit card information.

I would like all to know, that I do not always

respond by e mail to thank POI readers for

items they submit for the POI web site.

I spend more time in the field,

taking videos for TV News Media.

I can update the POI web site right from my van,

and receive my road runner mail.

But I cannot reply via road runner,

and thus there are not many responses by me

to people whom I should thank.

Hope you understand --- hank

CEOs See Pay Rise In '07 Amid Slow Economy
CEO compensation rose even higher in 2007 despite a sluggish economy, an
Associated Press analysis finds.

MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5yCtWHfM5.html

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AP IMPACT: CEO pay chugs up in '07 despite economy

Dockery on 'right track'

Thanks to state Sen. Paula Dockery for standing up for the people of Florida and for exposing the CSX rail deal for what it is: special interests and bureaucrats doing their dastardly best to take the citizens of Florida for a ride! Her June 4 column not only brought to light the sordid details of the CSX/FDOT rail deal (or "raw deal" may be more appropriate), it proposed an alternative solution in the Amtrak plan, which would save the taxpayers of Florida millions of dollars and has worked successfully in other states.

If only more of our elected officials were as committed to the citizenry they are elected to represent as they are to the special interests they choose to represent, maybe, just maybe, we could get this beautiful state and wonderful country back on the "right track."

I applaud the efforts and commitment of Sen. Dockery and state Rep. Dennis Ross (who is working with her to bring a sensible mass transit plan) and thank them for honoring their promise to represent the people.

ROGER E. KANDETZKE, Port Orange

READ MORE LETTERS TO THE DAYTONA BEACH NEWS-JOURNAL AT

http://www.news-journalonline.com/opinion.htm

Federal Investigation Into Faulty Tire Valve Stems Being Used in U.S.
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5yCtWJLZl.html>

I HAD 4 FAULTY TIRES DUE TO THE TIRE VALVE STEMS BREAKING APART.

I HAD ALL THE TIRE VALVE STEMS REPLACED. --- HANK

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Audits Find Road Contractors Leaving Less Pavement Than Required
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5yx5S97za.html>

POI COMMENTS: WHAT A BUNCH! DEVELOPERS, CONTRACTORS,
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. WHAT A BUNCH! DON'T YOU JUST LOVE THEM?
In the city of Port Orange the city council allows them to build
streets too narrow for cars to park by the curbs. What a bunch!
--- hank

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Commissioner Questioning Spending Of Lynx During Budget Crunch
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5yx5S9a03.html>

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Attorney General Rings Up Calling Card Companies
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5ywoEqwGO.html>

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EPA fines national builders, including 3 locally active
Four national builders have agreed to pay $4.3 million in fines for failing to control storm water runoff on construction sites across the country, including 13 subdivisions in Volusia and Flagler counties.

POI HANK COMMENTS: I HOPE SOME DAY WE WILL BE ABLE TO STOP

BUILDERS FROM MAKING DEVELOPMENTS WITH STREETS TOO NARROW.

IN A NUMBER OF DEVELOPMENTS IN PORT ORANGE, PEOPLE CAN'T PARK

THEIR CARS IN THE STREET NEXT TO THE CURBS, BECAUSE THE STREETS

ARE TOO NARROW, WHEN CARS GET PARKED ON BOTH SIDE OF THE STREETS.

THE SOLUTION TO THIS BY THE CITY OF PORT ORANGE IS TO ISSUE SUMMONSES

TO CARS PARKED CURBSIDE WHEN THEY ARE DIRECTLY PARKED OPPOSITE

OTHER CARS PARKED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET. SO, HOME OWNERS

MOVING INTO NEW DEVELOPMENTS ARE MADE ACCOUNTABLE WHEN THE

STREETS ARE TOO NARROW FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES TO EASILY DRIVE

DOWN THE STREET. IT IS TIME TO MAKE THE CITY OF PORT ORANGE AND

THE DEVELOPERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR NOT BUILDING NEW COMMUNITIES

WITH ADEQUATELY WIDE STREETS. I GUESS THE DEVELOPERS , WHO HAVE

LOBBYING GROUPS WHICH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES LISTEN TO, MORE THAN

THE CITIZENS, (TELL ME I AM WRONG - POIMAGES@CFL.RR.COM ) , SAVE A

COUPLE OF HUNDRED THOUSANDS DOLLARS BY NOT BUILDING WIDE ENOUGH

STREETS. JUST THINK HOW THESE EXPENSIVE NEW COMMUNITIES WILL LOOK

WHEN GROWING FAMILIES GET 2 OR 3 CARS, AND THEY HAVE TO START PARKING

ON THE FRONT LAWN. BUT, USUALLY, WE CITIZENS ARE WRONG IN OUR

OPINIONS, AND WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE FACTS. SO, TELL ME I AM WRONG.

-- HANK POIMAGES@CFL.RR.COM, JUNE 12, 2008 AT 8;54 AM

Friday, June 6, 2008 -- 11:35 AM ET
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Intel Said to Be Facing Antitrust Investigation

The Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal antitrust
investigation of Intel, the world's largest maker of computer
microprocessors, for anticompetitive conduct, according to
government officials and lawyers involved. They said that
Intel; its rival, Advanced Micro Devices; and several
computer makers have begun to receive subpoenas from the
commission.

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na

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Surveillance Video Released Of Suspects Beating Wal-Mart Employees
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5yngNuXaC.html>

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Jobless Rate Increase Highest In 2 Decades
May's unemployment rate increases to 5.5 percent, the largest monthly increase
since 1986.

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3,000 Continental Jobs, Capacity To Be Cut
Continental Airlines plans to eliminate 3,000 jobs and decrease capacity by 11
percent in the fourth quarter.

MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5ylKuaWiL.html>

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Four GM Pickup, SUV Plants To Close
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5yj9nhkIh.html>

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Former area executive going to prison

The former chief executive of a defunct lawyer-referral business in Lake Helen will report Aug. 11 to begin serving a nearly five-year term in federal prison.

Daniel J. Rubin, 36, was sentenced Friday to 57 months behind bars for securities fraud and conspiracy, said Bob Nardoza, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Rubin had pleaded guilty in March of last year to answer charges related to a "pump-and-dump" scheme involving the stock of several small corporations. He also agreed at the time to forfeit $2 million to the government.

Rubin had taken control of Lake Helen-based 1-800-ATTORNEY in 2002 and briefly ran for mayor, although he dropped out of the race over questions about his residency.

A restitution hearing is scheduled for July 31, Nardoza said.

VISIT http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Business/Headlines/bizBIZ09060308.htm

Americans Falling Behind on Utilities

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Ethanol's Dirty Little Secret Could End Up Costing You
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5yhbz8nbv.html>

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Bus Driver Could Lose Job Over Child Support
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5yhbz7YiO.html>

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POI HANK COMMENTS:

It is really scary to get into a computer/bureaucracy catch 72.

Every time we see a doctor on a Halifax Hospital property,

we keep our fingers crossed that the billing department

will send its claim for reimbursement to our correct

medical insurance. Because if they don't,

after 90 days, the medical insurance company will not

pay, and then party city Halifax Hospital expects us

to pay our bill, despite their negligence in sending

the claim to the correct medical insurance which pays

for doctors' services no matter where they

are performed.

Halifax Hospital sends claims for payment for doctors' services

to Empire Blue Cross and they automatically gets

denied. Then Halifax Hospital sends us a notice

that our medical insurance has denied payment

for medical services rendered.

Of course they do, and Blue Cross Empire denials to

pay for doctors' services must come to

Halifax hospital in the thousands.

We can tell them until we are blue in the face,

United Health Care pays for doctors' services

covered under the Blue Cross Empire Plan.

It is not our fault that it is set up that way.

But it is Halifax Hospital's fault

that they can't send the request for payment

to the correct medical insurance company.

Congressman Feeney's office told me that

there is no law mandating Halifax Hospital

to send a request for payment from a medical

insurance company, (third party billing) as long as

the have already billed two insurance companies.

And in our case, the only two medical insurance

companies they like to bill is Medicare

and Blue Cross Empire.

I kid you not. Stupidity reigns in this

nation in our congressmen's offices.

But I tell you,

we the people would not be able to get away with

such stupidity. Just think about how they got

all loop holes closed to make sure that we

are accountable if we don't do the correct thing. By the way,

when you go to a bank now a days,

even just to open a new checking

account, bring a lawyer with you.

We can not trust our banks any more.

If you want me to enumerate,

ask me.

-- hank

June 2, 2008 at 10:05 am

poimates@cfl.rr.com

After Caesareans, Some Women See Higher Insurance Cost

By DENISE GRADY

With individual insurance, prices differ based on a person’s medical history; a past Caesarean can mean higher premiums.

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POI HANK COMMENTS:

I understand that McCain favors private enterprise

taking over social security. How would you feel

about AllState handling your social security?

You know, businesses and corporations have a way

of changing their names and starting up new businesses,

with the same old management principles in place.

-- hank, May 31, 2008 at 8:48 PM

American Cuts Flights, Planes As Oil Soars
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5xZD4nAU0.html>

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Report that peanuts will no longer be served on some flights.

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Found in the New Yorker

www.newyorker.com

SEE MORE CARTOONS AT

WWW.CARTOONBANK.COM

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Men Accused Of Attacking Wal-Mart Employees Inside Store
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5ydjR9EIX.html>

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Business: Florida Pension Fund Is Suing A.I.G.
By JENNY ANDERSON
The fund accused A.I.G. and a number of its top executives
of understating the company's exposure to the subprime
mortgage crisis in order to inflate its stock price
artificially.

Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/business/22insure.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

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Business: Beware the Dreaded Piggyback Loan
By FLOYD NORRIS
So-called piggyback loans have been highly vulnerable to
homeowners who walk away when property values fall.

Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/business/16norris.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

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Great Britain, May 15, 2008

Bank chief raises the spectre of British recession

Mervyn King braced Britain for a grim two years of economic misery with a vicious squeeze on people's living standards

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2 school employees resign over missing money, food

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Newsweek Editor Declares Era of 'American Exceptionalism is Over'

http://www.mrcaction.org/r.asp?U=6948&RID=15956965

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US: City Council in Bay Area Declares Bankruptcy
By JESSE McKINLEY
The unanimous vote was cast after efforts to squeeze
concessions out of Vallejo City employees failed and with
the city facing a $16 million shortfall for the fiscal
year.

Full Story:
http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tn
t&tntget=2008/05/08/us/08bankrupt.html&tntemail0=y

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Audit Reveals Questionable Spending By University Of Central Florida
MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wftv.com/tu/5wPriw7NX.html>

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Business: Unsold Homes Tie Down Would-Be Transplants
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
The housing slump is distorting the normal working of the
American job market, restricting workers' ability to pursue
better career opportunities.

Full Story:
http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tn
t&tntget=2008/04/03/business/03labor.html&tntemail0=y

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Business: New A.I.G. Jab at Ex-Chief Focuses on Fiduciary Duties
BYREUTERS
The company has filed a complaint in New York State Supreme
Court against its former chief executive and six other
former directors and officers.

Full Story:
http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tnt
&tntget=2008/03/28/business/28aig.html&tntemail0=y

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Business: F.D.I.C. Prepares for Higher Bank Failures
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Federal bank regulators plan to increase staffing 60
percent to handle an anticipated surge in troubled
financial institutions.

Full Story:
http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tnt&tntget
=2008/03/25/business/25apfdic-web.html&tntemail0=y

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Business: A.I.G. Accuses Greenberg of Misappropriating Shares
By REUTERS
American International Group has filed a complaint in New
York Supreme Court accusing its former chief executive
Maurice R. Greenberg and six others of breaching their
fiduciary duty.

Full Story:
http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tnt&tntg
et=2008/03/27/business/rtaig-web.html&tntemail0=y

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March 27, 2008 12:22 AM
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Business: Citigroup Resolves Claims That It Helped Enron Deceive
Investors
By ERIC DASH
Citigroup said it would pay $1.66 billion to the Enron
Bankruptcy Estate, which represented Enron creditors caught
up in one of the biggest corporate scandals.

Full Story:
http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tnt&t
ntget=2008/03/27/business/27enron.html&tntemail0=y

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Business: Justice Dept. Is Gathering Data on Mortgage Industry
By REUTERS
The F.B.I. is in the middle of a criminal investigation
focusing on 17 firms that may have engaged in corporate
fraud, an F.B.I. official confirmed this week.

Full Story:
http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=t
nt&tntget=2008/03/22/business/22subprime.html&tntemail0=y

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Gas Consumption Falls As Prices Rise
As gas prices rise, consumers are combining errands, sharing rides and using
public transit more.

MORE DETAILS: <http://www.wesh.com/tu/5wsOv7u29.html>

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The New York Times
My Alerts: Books and Literature
March 17, 2008 12:19 AM
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Books: The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical
Marketers' Dirty Tactics
By JANET MASLIN
Melody Petersen has written an angrily illuminating book on
drug-related corporate malfeasance and patient peril.

Full Story:
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COMMUNISM FAILED TO TAKE

THIS NATION DOWN

BUT OUR GREEDY CORPORATIONS

AND POLITICIANS ARE ACCOMPLISHING

THE FEAT!

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March 11, 2008

Obama today said that Lou Dobbs has been shouting

to send all illegal immigrants home.

51 percent of people polled on the Lou Dobbs show

think that Obama need not apologize

for the intentional distortion of

Lou Dobbs position.

And so it begins.

The faithful followers of a charismatic Obama

are now ready to throw away reality

for the sake of their hopes

in the savior of this nation.

Those of us who want control of our

illegal immigration are prejudiced

and hate mongers. At least

that's what is said and implied.

I see the hate mongers coming

from those who want amnesty.

Ironic, that Mexican advocate groups

are now pointing their fingers at Bush,

for the Nazi type round ups of

illegal immigrants by ICE.

Bush? Who has allowed illegal

immigrants to cross our borders

for the last 8 years?

No one is safe from what is happening in

this nation.

And I hear talk hosts complain

that is what is going on with

Boeing and AirBus is unbelievable.

Indeed, are they too part of

the con game going on in America.

Unbelievable?

I guess it is unbelievable that

the Tri Lateral commission is

behind all these unbelievable things happening

in America today.

Marc Simone said that the poor working

prostitute was making only $82 a minute

and now she has the misfortune

to be linked to Spitzer. LOL

Wonder if that prostitute might be Mexican.