The 10 biggest-earning animals

"How much money does your hard work bring in? A salary of £30,000 or £40,000 might seem good going, but for a number of superstar animals, that's peanuts - not worth getting out of bed for. Below are...

The Citizens Dividend Liberates Everyone

EXCERPT: This Robin Hood scenario has rarely happened in history. More efficient than trying to capture wealth downstream, after the elite has accumulated it, is to capture wealth upstream, preventing an elite from forming. A tax on income or sales or property captures wealth...

UN relief workers strike in Jordan demanding pay hike.

Employees of UNRWA, the agency responsible for educating Palestine refugees in Jordan went on a day's strike demanding hike in salaries and better health care. The agency appealed last November to oil-rich Arab...

Ryan Howard asks for US$18 million from Philadelphia in arbitr...

Baseball is getting expensive. $18 million for playing a game isa very good deal but considering the incomes of the owners maybe it is fair. " Ryan Howard and the Philadelphia Phillies could be headed toward...

Congress Christmas Bonus 4700 Dollars, performance based?

While congress is complaining to financial companies that they are receiving pay and bonuses that are not based on performance, they gave themselves their annual pay raise.  The raise comes out to 4700...

Clinton’s nomination constitutional?

"Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution says the following: “No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments...

Legal Group says Clinton can't be Secretary of State

Here is an Opinion by Legal Newsline.  Politisite is a Conservative but sees the Nomination of Senator Clinton as a Positive Move my the Obama Campaign.  There was an issue during the Nixion...

JAL - What a CEO Example

It seems as though JAL President and CEO Naruka Nishimatsu is a great example of a hard working, just and fair CEO. According to a recent interview by CNN Reporter, Kyung Lah, we can see that JAL's CEO is way...

Want to know what your state taxpayer dollars pay for? LA Gov. Jindal new web...

"BATON ROUGE -- Want to know what the state Office of Business Development spent last year on employee salaries ($4,349,216.48)? How much the lieutenant governor's office has spent so far this year on travel and training ($117,881.49)? Or the annual salary of Insurance...

Weirdness is what they need now

"Normally a trade your favorite team can't make isn't going to excite you much. That's one of the things that make the salary cap a bad thing - it keeps fan hallucinations down to an artificially low level."

The Two Way Street

Lured by high tax free salaries westerners move to work in Dubai and similar locations. Such moves are not a one-way deal. The attractive pay and luxury home require that you agree to live by the cultural mores...

UN: Governments must do more for women

" © AP 2008-09-19 02:20:04 - UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Women are outnumbered 4 to 1 in the world's legislatures, women earn 17 percent less than men, and more than 500,000 women die every year from...

Mexico's Supreme Court slams Walmart's labor practices

"Mexico's top court on Thursday backed a Walmart employee who had complained that vouchers handed out by the company as part of its salary payments could only be spent in the company's stores. The practice of vouchers "that come from the worker's salary only to be exchanged...

Mexico's Supreme Court slams Walmart's labor practices

US retailer Walmart -the largest private employer in Mexico with 157,000 employees- has been slashed by Mexican Supreme Court. It has been paying its employees a "salary only to be exchanged in the...

Canada's spreading cannabis crop

"Canada's spreading cannabis crop In the first of two pieces on organised crime accompanying his Radio 4 series How crime...

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