... independence - as the United States is now trying to become more energy independent. McCain's energy policy has six actions: 1. Expand domestic oil and natural gas exploration and production, use the U. S. reserves of natural gas to provide immediate relief to consumers, and lift the ban on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf so that offshore drilling can take place. 2. Use incentives to reform the transportation ... credit to consumers who buy a zero-carbon emissions vehicle. The second is a $300 million prize to any company that successfully develops a high powered vehicle battery...

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A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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... veto because they knowingly included measures that Brown had previously announced he would never sign into law, such as higher taxes without voter approval and accounting sleight-of-hand. The Democrats' plan included raising local sales tax and reviving the sale of state buildings that Brown had previously deemed too costly (Goldmacher). The main reason Brown is having such trouble finding someone to back his ... allies refuse to allow the voters the opportunity to reform pensions and control state overspending" (York). Brown fired back that the Republicans have adopted "a rejectionist ...

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... complete plan on his campaign website, www.BarackObama.com. The high points are: 1. Provide short-term relief in three ways: (a) enact legislation that closes loopholes in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations that allow oil speculation to artificially distort the market; (b) require oil companies to share their profits with the American people in the amount of $500 for individuals and ... $1000 for families; and (c) sell approximately 10 percent - 70 million barrels of crude oil - from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 2. Help create five million new jobs by investing $150...

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... World did, in fact, give Payne a cell phone "for the last 11 years," but that "it was not a personal gift." She also added that the allegations were "abhorrent and particularly upsetting as Sara Payne is a dear friend" (Somaiya). However, Payne's charity, Phoenix Foundation, released a statement suggesting that they did not believe in Brook's innocence. "Today is a ... interfered with a murder investigation, allowing the murderer to go free for years while committing two more murders. In September, public hearings will take place. These hearings plan to make good use of eyewitnesses. Lo...

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... to release tear gas (Donadio). If Parliament failed to approve these measures, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund vowed to withhold the next installment of funds from the financial bailout that began last year. Without the austerity plan, Greece faced a deepened recession, heightened unemployment, and crumbling living standards. In their current state, Greece is unable to raise money in the private ... market and will not be able to pay its bills without the loan (Chu). "The choice ... is simple: Either we press ahead with the road of change, a road that is difficul...

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... to compete - from the tax code to the regulatory system" (Dennis). In an attempt to reconcile the differences between his administration and the US Chamber of Commerce, Obama walked the block to the Chamber headquarters. Once there, he joked "I'm in the interest of being more neighborly. Maybe we would have gotten off on a better foot if I had brought over a fruitcake when I first moved ... in. But I'm going to make up for it." The two groups got off on a bad start after the Chamber spent tens of millions of dollars fighting Obama's health-care bills, opposing key elements of the financ...

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... campaign, presidential candidate Herman Cain suddenly recalled the financial settlement he was a part of years before. In the late 1990's, as the head of the National Restaurant Association, Cain battled two sexual harassment claims involving two different women, although he later remembered the first accusation and denies remembering the second accusation altogether (Oliphant). "My general counsel said this started ... out where (an accuser) and her lawyer were demanding a huge financial settlement. I don't remember a number. ... when pressed later by radio host, Laura Ingraham, Cain ...

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... election was unlike any other, in a number of ways. There was the possibility of a female vice-president pitted against the possibility of an African-American president - both potential history-making moments. Voting turnouts broke some records, and with the election of Senator Barack Obama, the United States allowed a new era of American politics to be ushered in. And the way it all happened was revolutionary, too ... . The Internet has, it seems, forever changed the way Americans experience their political lives. The Internet has infiltrated our everyday lives in countless ways: We bank...

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... as "We don't want our country to turn into Nazi Germany." Shouted by an angry person that looks like someone you can trust, those words, regardless of their validity to the issue, can make it appear that the healthcare proposal is evil and that the Senator hosting the town hall is an SS recruitment officer. It is a foregone conclusion that some sort ... rhetoric will completely negate the fact that the lawmakers in both cases will agree personally with 99% of the proposed bill, and given the freedom to act without the threat of losing their job, most of these elected officials would hav...

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... . While certainly 6.5 million households that now receive signal via antennae rather than from satellite or cable will turn on their sets on the day of the switch to see snow, the fact is that those folks represent about 2% of the American populous, and tend to be people who don't consider television to be a priority or who may find greater productivity as the result ... of the death of their television signal. While some might argue that the switchover unfairly affects the poor, people who cannot afford neither new televisions, nor the ... the United States is that landfills will pick ...

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... himself with his own human nature and true aloneness in the world. The fact is that men cannot be collectively conscious of the natural world, in so forth that the realization of the forces of nature and a natural state of being scares one when they realize they are alone. Men are, therefore, stuck in a position of staying a part of a machine of their own making, an unnatural force ... individual who is growing self-conscious. At the same time it is consciousness of nature, which first appears to men as a completely alien, all-powerful and unassailable force, with which men's relations a...

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... homo- or heterosexual parents. (Note that many states allow homosexual couples to adopt children, but not to legally marry). The definition of marriage has got some opponents struggling up in arms, too. Traditionally, the definition of marriage is the union of a man and a woman. For them, it is the term "marriage" that is the stumbling block, not the legal rights the status confers. This ... would be satisfied to allow same-sex couples to have the same legal benefits of married couples, without actually conferring upon them the status of being "married". The term this camp would prefer ...

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... existence already that denies same-sex couples to marry. They worry that the wording of the amendment is too vague and that there will be problems for both straight and gay couples who are not married and only involved in a civil unions. Social conservatives got their vote after millions of dollars were used for the ballot drive to attempt to keep the court system from ... legalizing gay marriages in the state of Florida. The opposition was also funded well, with a goal of portraying Amendment 2 as an overacted and unneeded ban, saying that it could throw legal doubts over partner benef...

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... trade secrets from her former company, Motorola Inc., but was acquitted of charges of economic espionage for China. Jin illegally downloaded 1,000 of the company's proprietary documents, which included important business secrets before trying to board a plane to Beijing. Federal agents found the files on her computer and other electronic devices during a random security search at the airport (Kelleher). Jin simultaneously ... government has many spies attempting to steal business secrets (Kelleher). US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald highlighted the importance of the matter to the US govern...

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... booed by the audience (MSNBC). "You want to be commander in chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient," Obama reprimanded during the annual dinner of the Human Rights Council, the largest gay rights organization in the nation. "We don't believe in standing silent when that ... gay people couldn't serve the country openly, who reject the progress that we've made," Obama said. "We're not about restricting rights and restricting opportunities. We're about opening up rights and opening up op...

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... defense team can successfully convince the jury that Sowell was provoked by post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses. Sowell, who is an ex-Marine, abused the bodies after the women had died, and then stashed their bodies around his house, prompting neighbors to complain of a foul stench, which they believed was coming from a neighborhood sausage shop. On July 22nd, he ... was convicted of 11 counts of aggravated murder and more than 70 other charges, including abusing corpses and kidnapping. The defense attorneys are pressing for a life sentence without ... it will be d...

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... until it is determined that the book does not contain any state secrets (Fendel). Relations began to sour when Barak forced Olmert into resignation as prime minister when accusations of financial and administrative impropriety began to flood in (Kalman). According to some recently published excerpts, Olmert revealed many state secrets in his books, many ... of which concern Barak. Olmert accuses Barak of being indecisive and timid, as well as trying to prevent "daring security operations" while Olmert held the position of prime minister. These accusations look particularly bad on Barak ...

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... , she advised the Greek government to come to terms with the political differences that exist and approve the austerity measures that are currently preventing the country from receiving their next installment loans from the IMF and EU. Additionally, she lectured Greece's creditors, which consist mostly of French and German banks, on their ability to compromise (Rooney) "It must be done in ... a concerted, collective way," she said. "All the lenders must come to the bedside of Greece and Greece must itself take charge in a responsible manner" (Rooney). She is also a surprising successor b...

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... to redeem themselves, MF Global, headed by Jon S. Corzine, the former New Jersey governor, attempted to seek an agreement to sell a majority share of the company to a rival brokerage firm. Unfortunately for the company, the deal fell through, and they were forced to file for bankruptcy instead. An immediate investigation ensued to discover whether MF Global used customer's funds to support its ... MF Global intermingled customers' money with company funds breaks a fundamental rule of Wall Street regulations. Although Corzine has not been accused of any wrongdoing just yet, as head of th...

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... Progress. At the same time, median family income was declining faster for the minority groups than for whites (The Huffington Post). "The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times of Hispanic households," wrote a market analyst (Chung). While these reports revealed some startling figures, they also provided a few reasons for the discrepancies between ... as an asset. In fact, the richest households garner much of their wealth from stock, while middle and lower class families gain their wealth from housing. In a recent speech, Obama acknowledged ...

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... 's anger more, there is no doubt about it," said Landis. "Clearly the regime believes they have got to use more force and they have to get on top of this before it expands into more towns and gets beyond the capabilities of the security forces to be in all places at all times" (Derhally). Countries from around the world have stepped up to condemn ... force will end the crisis" (Derhally). Despite early attempts to reconcile with al-Assad and make him an anti-Israel alliance with Iran, President Obama and Washington now condemn the leader after he showed that "he is completely incapable a...

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... servicing standards (Schwartz). Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo suffer the most from bundling troubled home loans and selling them as sound investments. They will claim 40 percent of the industry's mortgage-related losses - $25 billion of that could belong to Bank of America, the most of any of the major banks. Prior to this settlement, Bank of America paid out or ... second quarter to cover the payout. As soon as the settlement is complete, Bank of America is going to redirect its efforts its redirecting investor attention away from the scandal and on to the ...

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... among the once unified party on foreign policy issues (Parsons). The controversy sparked just after a NATO airstrike went tragically astray, killing nine people and injuring 18. The air raid missed the intended target of a military missile site and struck an apartment building, crushing residents under the debris who were asleep inside. Several other homes on the quiet street were also damaged ( ... McDonnell). "NATO regrets the loss of innocent civilian lives and takes great care in conducting strikes against a regime determined to use violence against its own citizens," said Canadian ai...

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... published an article in The New Yorker magazine claiming that ex-members of the congregation revealed secrets of abuse, both physical and psychological, and how the church brought escapees back through psychological, emotional, spiritual, and physical force if need be (Lengel). In 2009, two of the church's top members, Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, went on record for the first time since leaving ... as Scientology's leader. The issues included physical abuse of staff, mental abuse and cruelty, high pressure marketing tactics, character assignation, and threats. Miscavige was reported to...

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