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Elliot & the Emperor Girls
Well, the conscience of business, and payback.....
Elliot Spitzer, currently Governor of New York, who brought a number of lawsuits against Wall Street villians who cheated investors while New York's Attorney General, has made a number of enemies. Very rich, patient enemies.
So, it is a bit surprising that he, with the example of Bill Clinton so recently before him, would end up getting caught in an investigation into an international prostitution ring....
The Emperors Clubl (by the way, the link takes a few minutes to load on most machines, it's getting quite a few hits at the moment)....more of the story and links here Post Chronicle
So, while landlords in Washington, D. C. let tenants live in squalor so they can force them to vacate the premises, which can then be converted into condominiums in newly gentrified neighborhoods, earning the slumlords millions,
see Washington Post
and in China, exporting of new green technology comes at the cost of dumping toxic waste on villages (many of the newly rich have no particular citizenship, their passport is issued by the country of Money) Washington Post ,people like Mr. Spitzer used to bring legal actions against them.
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Mr. Spitzer was one of the good guys. At least from the point of view of the 98% or or 99% percent of the population that does not control all of the world's money.
Mr. Spitzer has always been controversial, but here's a link with a quick partial list of some of his professional actions News BBC
Reportedly, the enormously wealthy are having a good laugh over the end of Mr. Spitzer's career.
I'm just wondering..... should his career be over?
Do other countries view sexual scandals the same way as the States?
Blood Moon
Wired and David Warren have nice comments on the Blood Moon that will be visible tonight.
No other visible until 2010 ...
Well, the political season in the States is more hopeful than it's been in years....
Everybody's talkin', and I'm feeling the excitement as much as anyone.
Though, now that Barack Obama appears, as of this date, to be the Democratic nominee, I'm feeling disappointment for Hillary.
To me John McCain is the honorable, Senator Obama is the hope, and Senator Clinton is the worker. Actually, if there were only a way to get an administration in which each figured prominently...
Well, it's likely two will still be Senators when it's over. And contribute someway, somehow, somewhere...
As we say good-bye to the old (hopefully), the Department of Homeland Security (on behalf of whom, really?) lost in it's efforts to cripple another union in America. Washington Post ..
time is marching on. ..
Blood Moon
Ice Skating in Mexico City
YouTube
has a nice video.
Some say the potholes should be filled in, but others say that ice skating, for free, for the first time, is just too much fun to be missed. The International Herald Tribunehas a nice blurb on it.
The skating is free, and a lot of folks say if the public money is going to be spent badly anyway, why not something free for the people. The Washington Post also has a slideshow on folks tying on their skates for the first time....
Most of us have heard about the good work of Doctors Without BordersDoctors Without Borders , not the most cheerful site, though they do tremendous good. And if it is real news you are after about political actions in the world you will find it there.
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... and he's not going to take it anymore.Borders Stores
Lee Iacocca is angry about the incompetence, coupled with a clueless arrogance, displayed by the current administration in the U.S.A
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Ah, well.
The world is waiting for the ABC television network special, this month, about the lady who provided female companionship, of disputed type, to stressed Washington, D.C. gentlemen
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Reuters reports that the European Commission sent formal charges to Apple and several major record companies accusing them of restricting the methods of purchase of music in Europe. The European Union has rules that forbid restrictive business practices.
Apple has said that it wanted to offer an iTunes store available to anyone, however, the major record companies denied Apple that option
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An Ithica, New York man once taught first grade school in Zambia. He found a way to re-gift used working Cornell University computers to Africa, without the association, stigma or fact of "technology dumping", the sending of useless non-working electronics, sometimes disguised and described as aid, to Africa.
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Business Week has published an interesting article that says...."One-quarter of the publicly traded, venture capital-backed companies started in the past 15 years in the U.S. were founded by immigrant entrepreneurs, according to "American Made: The Impact of Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Professionals on U.S. Competitiveness," a 2006 national survey commissioned by the National Venture Capital Assn. The current market capitalization of these firms exceeds $500 billion, and they employ more than 220,000 people in the U.S. and 400,000 internationally. Immigrants have had the greatest impact in the fields of IT, life sciences, and particularly in the high-technology manufacturing sector, where 40% of publicly traded, venture-backed firms operating in the U.S. today were founded by immigrants. "
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