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(Passenger Daniel Perry is escorted off of a United Flight originating in Hong Kong. To add further drama and confusion to the story of Edward Snowden, NSA Spying and Central Intelligence Agency involvement, a passenger on a U.S. bound flight out of Hong Kong Monday claimed that intelligence agents had detained him, were going to kidnap him, take him to a safe house, [...] The U.S. Postal Service says it plans to stop delivering first-class mail on Saturdays beginning later this summer, CBS News and The Associated Press reported. The plan only affects first-class mail; mail-order medicines, packages and priority and express mail would still be delivered on Saturdays, CBS News reported. The cut is expected to mean a savings of about $2 billion annually, according to the AP. [snip] http://www.kcci.com/news/project-economy/Postal-Service-to-end-Saturday-mail-service/-/9356884/18428662/-/u76a70z/-/index.html
The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service says it [...] A visit from a Croatian woman who claims to see the Virgin Mary on a daily basis drew thousands of people to a small Alabama town this week. Many people travelled for days to be near the self-proclaimed visionary while one Washington woman even sold her home to take the trip. Despite skepticism of prominent Catholics, the faithful said they trekked to Sterrett with hopes of hearing a message from the mother [...] A visit from a Croatian woman who claims to see the Virgin Mary on a daily basis drew thousands of people to a small Alabama town this week. Many people travelled for days to be near the self-proclaimed visionary while one Washington woman even sold her home to take the trip. Visionary: Thousands of Americans trekked to Alabama to see Marija Pavlovic Lunetti, a Croatian woman who claims to see the Virgin [...] Can Spain really bail it out? If yes, at what cost?
The government has already spent 4.5 billion euros to prop up Bankia and the entire rescue is now seen totaling some 20 billion euros and still growing. How big will the Bankia bailout package grow today? €20 bn? €30 bn? place your bets. via Yahoo: Bankia will ask the state for more than 15 billion euros ($19 billion) to bail it out when its [...] A public works employee was fired after he turned in a gun he had found on the ground while he was working. John Chevilott, of Wayne County, Michigan, lost the job he held for 23 years after he turned in the fully-loaded snubnosed revolver while on his job mowing the lawn earlier this month. But Mr Chevilott’s supervisors at the county’s department of public works said the worker violated a policy of [...] Tim Ross, The Telegraph
Under-performing civil servants will be identified and fired under plans to rank all government officials by ability.
David Cameron is growing increasingly impatient with institutional failures and his ministers have complained privately about regularly receiving “useless” advice from below-par officials. Ministers are determined to change the culture of the Civil Service, in which, they say, “lazy” staff get away with poor performance because managers are unwilling to have “difficult conversations”. Sweeping [...] A federal judge declared Gov. Rick Scott’s order requiring drug testing for some 85,000 state workers unconstitutional Thursday, saying the governor showed no evidence of a drug problem at the agencies to warrant suspicionless testing. The ruling marks the second blow to Scott’s proposals regarding drug testing. The governor also suspended a state law he supported that required drug testing for welfare recipients last year after a lawsuit [...] 1) Manhattan – King of the TBTF/BFF of the FRBNY Welfare ZIRP/QE/POMO/TARP/TALF Taxpayer Fleecing 2) Washington D.C.-Maryland-Virginia Government Worker & Contractor Corridor, where they’re working short hours for long pay and union benefits (for life and thereafter) to improve the nation (/sarc). 3) North Dakota – Obviously, near record crude oil prices have lit a fire under the U.S.’s version of Alberta.
If you’re not on the government teat, like D.C-Maryland-Virginia Fed Employee/Contractor [...] London, England [Editor's note: Professional money manager Tim Price is filling in for Simon today from London. His thoughts below on gold, bonds, and the false pretext of investing in equities is delightfully insightful.] “No government has ever commanded the resources at the disposal of our ungodly Leviathan, which consumes about 25% of the product of the world’s richest country. It is driven by a voracious alliance of government’s own employees, and [...] From Simon Black of Sovereign Man Is This A “Jobs” Super Committee? Earlier this month, some economic luminaries in the United States Congress introduced a new bill, H.R. 2835. The bill intends to “establish a joint select committee of Congress to report findings and propose legislation to restore the Nation’s workforce to full employment…” Great idea, fellas. After failing to ignore your way out of [...] First thing this week, the United States will have hit its $14.3 trillion congressionally-mandated borrowing limit and the federal government will be running on fumes. While the treasury says it can continue funding Uncle Sam’s $3.8 trillion annual spending spree by tapping into what is effectively an emergency credit card — borrowing from government worker retirement funds and cutting off federally-backed state and local bond programs [...] May 11, 2011 Following in the footsteps of a rather ignominious list of nations like Argentina and Hungary, the government of lreland is set to take its ‘fair share’ of private retirement funds. Drowning in debt and faced with unpopular, unrealistic, ridiculously unpopular austerity measures, the government has announced that it will now tax private pension savings in order to raise 470 million euros (roughly $675 [...] Irish voters go to the polls today, with anger over the collapse of the economy and the cost of rescuing banks expected to result in the biggest shift of political power in the country’s history. Enda Kenny’s Fine Gael will emerge as the biggest party and may form a government with the Labour Party or the support of independent lawmakers, polls suggest. Fianna Fail, which dominated Irish politics for eight decades [...] Below are the average hourly costs for all workers broken down by Private Industry and State/Local government. The total cost includes benefits. Wages are just that….the amount they are paid. State/Local government employees…………….$39.81 per hour total cost Source: BLS So on wages, the average government worker makes 34% more than the average worker in private industry. Meanwhile, the [...] |
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UNNAMED CAIN ACCUSER WORKS IN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
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Karen Kraushaar has been a competitive equestrian and longtime government worker.
BY M.L. NESTEL AND DEBORAH HASTINGS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Herman Cain claims sexual harassment accusations threatening to derail his presidential campaign are a smear campaign. But friends and family of one accuser say she is a principled and dedicated professional who was only trying to right a wrong no woman should suffer in the workplace.
Karen Kraushaar, a 55-year-old former [...]