After the opening of the former Soviet Union to the West, the economy of Russia and its satellite countries came under control of criminal groups. The reason is fairly simple. The only people who knew anything about business were people who had participated in what was know...
opinion by ishambat | 5 wks ago 58 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
In days long past, Americans seemed able to get past politics to personally pursue what was inevitably in the best interests of America. Those days seem long gone. There is...
opinion by Mortal | 13 wks ago | updated 13 wks ago 366 views | 7 recommendations | 2 comments
Integrated Asset Services(www.iasreo.com) today released its IAS360 House Price Index (HPI). Based upon the timeliest and most granular data available in the industry, the index for national house prices moved ahead another 1.2% in June.
With June’s gains--the...
created by ESKCSG | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 96 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
SHANNA MOAKLER RESIGNS FROM POST AS MISS CALIFORNIA PAGEANT DIRECTOR Just one day after learning that Carrie Prejean will keep her Miss California crown, state pageant director Shanna Moakler resigned. According...
The UMNO Disciplinary Board has knocked out Malacca Chief Minister from the UMNO Deputy Presidency race. It bars Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam from contesting any post. The decision is an unusual one. Mohd Ali, the...
opinion by WisdomMountain | 42 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago 204 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
LETS systems throughout the world will be flourishing in this economic downturn.LETS is a worldwide barter system started in Canada many years ago by Michael Linton.Barter has existed as long as people got...
;Can a president be fairly evaluatedand rated just as he is leaving office. " When asked, which is not often, what I thought of this president, I usually replied, in my jaundiced, freedom-of-speech opinion, that ...
According to an article at TPM Election Central, in a show of integrity that chose principle over wages, up to 40 workers in Hobart, Indiana at Americall, a call center that hired workers to...
created by Karen Hatter | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 622 views | 68 recommendations | 15 comments
The political crisis in Latin America has intensified, with Bolivian president Evo Morales accusing the United States of giving aid to the breakaway rebel region in the east. Morales expelled the American...
created by Dave Keating | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 222 views | 18 recommendations | 2 comments
Factcheck.org, which is identified at its website as a ".... nonpartisan, nonprofit "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics", issued a...
created by Karen Hatter | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1150 views | 51 recommendations | 15 comments
According to reports, UK ministers are planning to request that the Metropolitan Polive commissioner of London to step down, after he has been embroiled in a series of controversies including accusations of institutionalized racism within the department."Ministers, officials...
created by Dave Keating | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 137 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Russia's parliament has backed a motion urging the president to recognise the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Both houses voted unanimously in favour of the non-binding motion, which analysts say could help President Dmitry Medvedev...
"NATO will assist Georgia in seven directions – Robert Simons, the special representative of NATO to Georgia , stated the following after his meeting with Giorgi Bakradze , the chairman of the Parliament of Georgia. As Robert Simons stated the chairman of the Parliament of...
The cartoon says: "Research Concludes: "WE ARE DESTROYING THE EARTH" and the two fellows with the government briefcase say, "Could you kindly rephrase that in equivocal, inaccurate, vague, self-serving and...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 504 views | 6 recommendations | 8 comments
About time that one of tennis' big guns put their head above the net to speak out on the max fixing allegations and Navratilova has done that." WIMBLEDON legend Martina Navratilova has called for a lifetime ban...