Bob Morris @ Nov 27th 2006 18:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
The contracts were worth 2.3 billion, so that’s about a 10% kickback.
Top execs of the company are facing prison and this looks to be a mega-scandal indeed as it could blow up the second-largest wheat exporter on the planet.
The Australian has full coverage.
Bob Morris @ Nov 27th 2006 14:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
“This is more than deeply disturbing,” Bloomberg told a packed news conference at City Hall Monday morning. “It sounds to me that excessive force was used but that’s up to the district attorney to find out.”
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Witnesses at the scene say the police failed to identify themselves and that the young men thought they were fleeing thugs from within the nightclub.
One officer fired 31 times, which means he had to reload at least once. Yet no one in the car had a gun or was shooting back.
Bob Morris @ Nov 27th 2006 06:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
Jordan’s King: Middle East faces civil wars in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.
Bob Morris @ Nov 27th 2006 00:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
The NYPD police officers who fired 50 times into a car, killing a man to be married that day, claimed he had a gun. He didn’t.
The officers have been stripped of their weapons, which is highly unusual, and it appears they violated police procedures by firing on a moving car.
One hopes there is a real investigation with real answers, rather than the usual whitewash and evasion.
Too often big city police seem like just another gang with guns. It doesn’t have to be this way, y’know. I can’t imagine many cops are happy with the current situation either, being mistrusted and feared by much of the populace.
In Great Britain, I’m told, the local cop often doesn’t even carry a gun and is viewed as a rather friendly figure. Sure would be nice if we could have that here too.
Lately here in L.A. there’s been a couple of hideous drive-by shootings where small children were killed. I’m equally stupefied and sickened by that violence too.
How did it ever get this crazy? And how do we get back to something approaching normalcy?
Bob Morris @ Nov 27th 2006 00:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Rafael Correa, a leftwing economist and ally of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, is trouncing his right wing opponent in the runoff for president of Ecuador.
Bob Morris @ Nov 27th 2006 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
From BrickBurner
Gayle McLaughlin, a member of the City Council and an activist in the Green Party, has officially won the title of mayor of Richmond, CA. Not only is the population of the city 103,000 - the largest mayorality ever won by the Greens in the US, but 3/4 of the population is African-American or other minorities.
Puts to rest any thoughts the Green Party is just Anglo tree-huggers, doesn’t it?
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