SEC seeks papers in alleged NM investment scheme

Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:13 PM EST

By Tim Korte, Associated Press (Clipped by Jenny Litt)

The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked for documents from a former state investment officer who claims New Mexico taxpayers lost more than $90 million in an alleged "pay-to-play" scheme involving contributors to Gov. Bill Richardson's failed presidential campaign.

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The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission Will Investigate Past But To What End, Look at Foreign Companies

Seeded on Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:58 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)

In the Republic of the Philippines or Hong Kong, People's Republic of China or Indonesia, it is understandable to some degree that corruption or inaction is their Standard Operating Procedures.

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Bush reportedly rejected Israeli plea to raid Iran

Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:49 PM EST

By Associated Press (Clipped by Jenny Litt)

President George W. Bush rejected a plea from Israel last year to help it raid Iran's main nuclear complex, opting instead to authorize a new U.S. covert action aimed at sabotaging Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, The New York Times reported.

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Embassies of the World Vacant and Abandoned

Seeded on Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:02 PM EST (tedmeinhover.com)

Seeded by Julio Preysler (Clipped by Jenny Litt)

Many countries either build new embassies or cannot afford to maintain previous embassies in Washington, DC.

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'Control of corruption' - A Philippine Belief that the U.S, is always the Bad Guy

Seeded on Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:36 AM EST (Inquirer.net)

The Philippine people in one of their most esteemed newspapers, that appears online as well as in print, named the Inquirer, which is sometimes reminiscent of the U.S.

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The Current Global Financial & Economic Crisis: Most Comprehensive discussion I've found on the subject

Seeded on Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:02 PM EST ()

Seeded by Blearc (Clipped by Jenny Litt)

I went looking for the total dollar value of direvitives, I found it world wide the number is 500 to 600 Trilion dollars. The total yearly GDP for all the worlds economies is only 50 Trillion Dollars.

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2002 PLDT (NYSE: PHI) (TEL.PS) Takeover Scrapped Due to Accusations by PLDT, Metro Pacific, Smart Communications, First Pacific, ePLDT, Makati Medical Chairman or CEO Manuel V. Pangilinan of Conflict-of-Interest?

Seeded on Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:56 PM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by Julio Preysler (Clipped by Jenny Litt)

in 2002, First Pacific Company Limited (0142.HK) (ADR: FPAFY) then Executive Chairman Manuel Pangilinan, whom now serves as Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of First Pacific and Chairman of the Board of Directors of PLDT (NYSE: PHI) (PSE: TEL) which owns numerous telec …

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2008 Profile of PLDT (NYSE: PHI) Chairman Manuel Pangilinan - Forbes.com

Seeded on Sun Dec 21, 2008 4:16 PM EST (Forbes)

Seeded by Julio Preysler (Clipped by Jenny Litt)

The official biography of Manuel Pangilinan, the face of ethics and corporate governance of the new, honest and transparent business model of the Republic of the Philippines.

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New Comment Threads are Live (For Some People)

Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:48 PM EDT

By Newsvine Blog (Clipped by Jenny Litt)

Beginning today, we are rolling out a completely rewritten comment system. Some users may notice the changes immediately, and others may notice the new stuff several days later.

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Gloria Arroyo at the Helm Seven Years Later: The Sorry State of the Philippines under the EDSA 2 President

Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:22 AM EST

By Jesusa Bernardo (Clipped by Jenny Litt)

If you wish to get an objective and accurate picture of the state of the Philippines under Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo, get yourself independent data that are untwisted or unmanipulated by the propaganda machinations of the administration and, to a very limited extent, of the opposit …

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suicide, and how to prevent it.

Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:01 AM EDT

By Zaki (Clipped by Jenny Litt)

I was doing a tag search on Newsvine for "suicide" to see how many our users have written an article about the subject. Unfortunately I was not able to find anything. When I mean suicide, I am not talking about an individual per se, but about suicide act in itself.

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