| With greed as buzzword, how can Americans back Edwards?
I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. The long history of how American business corporations treated their workers like dirt is available to anyone who wishes to look at any history of America. It would seem that it is the natural instinct of most corporations to keep doing the same thing. The only thing that prevents it is a strong federal government.
So Much for “Inevitability”
Barack Obama dealt Hillary Clinton a devastating blow in Iowa.It wasn't just his decisive win in the caucuses. Watching the speeches after the vote told you all you needed to know about the candidates. Obama, surrounded by young supporters, gave the speech of his career–embodying optimism and inspiring his supporters with a sense of nobility and mission. What a different face the United States would project to the world under President Obama. Young people, including young women, are inspired by what his leadership says about our culture–that we are a multi-ethnic nation that can unite around the idea of democracy, equal opportunity, and justice. Although having a first woman President would be historic, too, you don't get that feeling from Clinton. Hillary, grappling with her third-place finish, stood surrounded by ghosts of Clinton Administrations past–a sad and puffy-looking Bill over one shoulder, an elderly Madeleine Albright (she of the infamous assessment that the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children due to U.S.
'Yo-yo tactic' prompts loan officer to question automobile sales ...
In October, she selected an unused, white Nissan Altima at North Texas Nissan in Corinth, signed the paperwork with salesman Brian Hall, turned over her old car as a trade-in, and took her new car home."I just fell in love with the car," said Judy Miller, a senior loan officer with Maverick Residential Mortgage in Gainesville.Miller had the car for two weeks when Ruth, one of Hall's assistants at the dealership, called to tell her the bank could not accept the terms she and Hall had agreed on."I was told that everything was a done deal, and I would begin making payments on my car on Nov. 26," she said. "I was shocked."Miller explained to Ruth that she had a copy of her signed contract."They couldn't just change the terms," Miller said she told the assistant.Then Ruth told Miller about a car contract provision Miller had never heard of."She informed me that the dealership had done a 'spot delivery' and that they could, in fact, change whatever they wanted," Miller said.Miller had the option of agreeing to a new contract with new terms or bringing back the new Nissan.Miller turned to the Internet where she said she found lots of auto dealership horror stories."I could not believe what I was reading," she said.
Japan Mobile TV in the News
A so-called digest version of official baseball games, offered free of charge via the operators Yahoo! mobile portal, will include games from Japanese major league baseball teams including; the Chiba Lotte Marines, Tohoku Golden Eagles, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters along with the company-owned Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. The service sounds very much like the product offered by Tokyo-based Craftmax as described in our video interview conducted back in spring 2005. While we're on the mobile TV topic, several stories around the web caught our eye here this morning. Bansai TV If TV can go the bonsai way and shrink to wallet size, how will this affect those who make movies? Simple! Look to Japan for inspiration again and transform film making to a 'haiku: the terse traditional Japanese verse form of three lines, of five, seven and five syllables.
Wolves boss cool on signings
Mick McCarthy insists he is still on the look out for new signings but admits it is “unlikely" that there will be any more players coming in before the January transfer window shuts. Wolves have six days to make permanent signings before the window shuts and while McCarthy has not ruled out more players joining new boys Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and David Edwards he is happy with the squad he already has. There are funds to sign more players available but the club have been staunch in their desire to stick to the “young and hungry" blueprint that served them well last season. “Will there be any more signings? We'll see – I've got nothing in mind. I'm not expecting any but we're still looking," McCarthy said. .
Bathinda, January 25
Bhucho (Bathinda), January 25 Sukhbir Badal, the acting president of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is only trying to bluff people with his plans for mega projects, said Captain Amarinder Singh, the former chief minister of Punjab.
Former CM Captain Amarinder Singh speaking to media persons near Bathinda on Friday. Tribune photo: Kulbir Beera Subsidised medicines at civil hospitals
Faridkot, January 25
With a aim of providing medicines at subsidised rates to the patients, the state would offer shops in all civil hospitals of the state to private players and non-government organisations (NGOs) after a competitive bidding. Health minister, Punjab, Lakshmi Kanta Chawla, informed this during a state-level function held to observe Anti-leprosy Day in Nirog Bal Ashram at Kotkapura near here today.
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