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Spend less than you take in.
When cutting spending, try cutting big ticket items first.
Pay down more than the minimum payment on debts.
Round expenses up and round revenue down.
Do not create unnecessary obstacles to creating new business & jobs.
Facing one of the biggest budget shortfalls of any state, Illinois took the risky step of jacking up income and corporate taxes even as its economy struggles to shake off the recession.
In a deal hammered out by the state's Democratic leadership, the lame-duck legislature pushed through a 67% increase in the state income tax and a 45% increase in the corporate tax....
Republicans blasted the vote. "The General Assembly has found a way to maintain its runaway spending in the short term without addressing the fiscal crisis facing our state," said newly sworn-in state Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka.
here's today's news regarding a us citizen who (it would seem) has done nothing wrong but who has been tortured by Kuwaitis and put on the US no-fly list so he can't get home to the US.
Hopefully he wasn't on the same tour group as these other Somali men....
A 24-year-old local Somali man has been indicted in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on charges of conspiring to provide support to terrorists.
Omer Abdi Mohamed, an unemployed employment counselor and father of a 2-month-old boy, was indicted on charges of conspiracy to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" people in foreign countries, according to an indictment filed Tuesday but made public Thursday.
Mohamed, of Minneapolis, is the sixth Somali man with local ties to be charged in connection with a two-year-old federal counterterrorism investigation aimed at finding out who recruited as many as 20 area men of Somali descent to return to their homeland and train and fight with the terrorist group, Al-Shabaab. The probe is considered to be one of the most sweeping international counterterrorism investigations since Sept. 11, 2001.
So, he traveled to Yemen and Somalia to study....... Arabic and Islam? I'm sure it means nothing.
Suggesting it "failed" suggests that there is only one possible outcome, and it's the one you want. And that's not diplomacy.
Suggesting it "failed" means there is an outcome agreed upon by many nations as being unacceptable that at this point still seems almost inevitable. It is the outcome that they want to avoid, and have offered many alternatives and incentives to avoid. It is still diplomacy until shooting starts - thats how you tell the difference.
All 20 detainees are known or suspected members of Iran's elite Quds Force, the arm of the Revolutionary Guard Corps responsible for Iran's foreign operations and recently sanctioned by the Bush administration as a supporter of terrorism, the officials said....
In Baghdad, the U.S. military also briefed reporters on about 5,300 weapons caches discovered by U.S. and Iraqi forces this year -- twice the number found in all of 2006 and much of the material from Iran, Smith said. The caches include roadside bomb components, rockets, mortars, C4 explosives, land mines and rocket-propelled grenades.
... a senior WikiLeaks activist told The Sunday Telegraph that she and others had resigned from the organisation because of their deep concern about its treatment of sources and "lack of transparency with relation to large sums of money".
This newspaper has learned that one of WikiLeaks's main funding channels, the Germany-based Wau Holland Foundation, has been issued with two official warnings by charity regulators after failing to file financial records....
WikiLeaks, which says its operating costs are about $200,000 (£125,000) a year, claims to have raised more than $1 million (£625,000) in donations in the first eight months of this year alone, before most of its highest- profile leaks were published.
Since then, according to one person connected with the group, further "serious amounts of money" have come in, mostly in small sums through the WikiLeaks website. However, in its four-year existence, the group and its associated organisations have never produced any accounts.
WikiLeaks promised to publish accounts in August, but did not do so. It now says it will provide them by the end of the year.
I doubt Assange opened the Swiss account to stash the Wikileaks cash so that it could be revealed as part of this next round of leaks. So... that sounds like a lot of cash.... with no transparency...
Please go and actually read up on what Assange and WikiLeaks does, has done, and is about... and no you cant use FoxNews or any republican hate rag as a information source.
So, only the compliant media that supports your viewpoint can be used to argue against you? No matter how well documented or reasoned the dissenters are*? I assume you don't lose many arguments.
*I forget, now that a liberal Democrat is president, is dissent still the highest form of patriotism?
I sort of wonder if this is an olive branch from Wikileaks to the US government. After all, the United States has been pressuring Switzerland to allow investigators to peek inside Swiss accounts for awhile now.
This isn't an olive branch at all. The US Government already achieved much of what it wanted in 2009.
A Swiss Bank Is Set to Open Its Secret Files By LYNNLEY BROWNING - Published: February 18, 2009 UBS, the largest bank in Switzerland, agreed on Wednesday to divulge the names of well-heeled Americans whom the authorities suspect of using offshore accounts at the bank to evade taxes. The bank admitted conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and agreed to pay $780 million to settle a sweeping federal investigation into its activities.
It is unclear how many of its clients’ names UBS will divulge. Federal prosecutors have been examining about 19,000 accounts at the bank, but UBS ultimately may disclose the identities of only a few hundred customers....
As part of the settlement, UBS agreed to cooperate with a broad summons issued by the Justice Department to turn over the names. Under the terms of a so-called deferred prosecution agreement, the bank and its executives could be indicted if UBS didn’t identify the customers.
UBS has said it is closing the offshore accounts of its American clients. But under the deal with the United States authorities, the bank must provide periodic written evidence of that to prosecutors. UBS earned $200 million annually from the business.
Prosecutors suspect that from late 2002 to 2007, UBS helped American clients illegally hide $20 billion, letting them evade $300 million a year in taxes.
So no, this isn't Assange helping the US, it is Assange doing what he can to screw people with secrets (legal or otherwise).
I'm sure there is a word to describe the overall situation.... i.. something...
... a senior WikiLeaks activist told The Sunday Telegraph that she and others had resigned from the organisation because of their deep concern about its treatment of sources and "lack of transparency with relation to large sums of money".
This newspaper has learned that one of WikiLeaks's main funding channels, the Germany-based Wau Holland Foundation, has been issued with two official warnings by charity regulators after failing to file financial records....
WikiLeaks, which says its operating costs are about $200,000 (£125,000) a year, claims to have raised more than $1 million (£625,000) in donations in the first eight months of this year alone, before most of its highest- profile leaks were published.
Since then, according to one person connected with the group, further "serious amounts of money" have come in, mostly in small sums through the WikiLeaks website. However, in its four-year existence, the group and its associated organisations have never produced any accounts.
WikiLeaks promised to publish accounts in August, but did not do so. It now says it will provide them by the end of the year.
If M$ can prove access to it's source code was exploited by government to break the security of the program, regardless of the damage done to the public's perception of the security of the program, than M$ is fully entitled to damages done by the purposeful and malevolent attack upon one of it's core revenue streams.
I doubt they will be able to, even if it's true. Such activity would almost certainly be regarded as a State Secret and shielded as such.
He has been denied a speedy trial and has suffered punitive treatment in pre-trial detention.
Allegedly. Isn't that for the courts to decide? I very much doubt they would take any risks with his treatment that could be used to his favor legally.
FYI - It was two years almost to the day from the arrest of Timothy McVeigh (April 19, 1995) till his trial started (April 24, 1997). He was arrested the same day as the bombing, and was identified as the likely bomber in two days. That case would seem far more straightforward than some of the case against Manning.
He inflicted significant damage to the national security of the United States. He divulged more classified documents than any other case I have ever heard of. I don't think it is clear if anyone knows if he still has more waiting to divulge. He also has the secrets in his head. The US government is still scrambling to contain the damage.
Of course he's depressed, whether he's innocent or not, the prospect of facing a long prison term is inherently depressing. Being innocent does not ensure that you won't end up doing time.
The US Army intelligence analyst, who is half British and went to school in Wales, appeared to sink into depression after a relationship break-up, saying he didn't "have anything left" and was "beyond frustrated".....
Mr Manning, who is openly homosexual, began his gloomy postings on January 12, saying: "Bradley Manning didn't want this fight. Too much to lose, too fast."
At the beginning of May, when he was serving at a US military base near Baghdad, he changed his status to: "Bradley Manning is now left with the sinking feeling that he doesn't have anything left."
Five days later he said he was "livid" after being "lectured by ex-boyfriend", then later the same day said he was "not a piece of equipment" and was "beyond frustrated with people and society at large".
His tagline on his personal page reads: "Take me for who I am, or face the consequences!"
Unless whoever you're donating to is on one of the secret government terrorist lists, or a front for terrorists, or might possibly theoretically maybe help someone who turns out to be connected to a terrorist.
The lists aren't secret, and it would defeat the purpose if they were. (In fact it would be kind of stupid to make them secret.) Have a look... try to find your favorite organizations.
Countries generally don't give a flying shit about such clauses. The law always overrides individual agreements.
Oddly enough, that view doesn't seem to apply to Wikileaks. Wikileaks reportedly recently had servers in the US again. I'm not sure if twitter has any business offices or technical presence in Europe.
For a second I actually thought your post was for real. But when I read your list of "sources", I understood that you were ironic.
Well played, sir.... but that is really the only play you can make, isn't it? The facts are pretty much indisputable, so you've got to try to discredit the source in some way. You can't kill the message, so kill the messenger. I doubt it will work, but what else can you do?
(c) Whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, receives or obtains or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain from any person, or from any source whatever, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note, of anything connected with the national defense, knowing or having reason to believe, at the time he receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain it, that it has been or will be obtained, taken, made, or disposed of by any person contrary to the provisions of this chapter; or
(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or
(g) If two or more persons conspire to violate any of the foregoing provisions of this section, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be subject to the punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such conspiracy.
Actually, you don't have to be accused of anything to be held indefinitely without trial in the US anymore.
If you are captured making war on the United States as a terrorist in Al Qaeda or one of its affiliates, or actively assisting them with funding, intelligence, etc., that is more or less the case. Otherwise,... not so much. Ordinary murderers, rapists, arsonists, embezzlers, thieves, and other criminals in the US still have the same rights they have always had. Political dissent is just a legal as ever.
Sweden's International Public Prosecution Office in Gothenburg issued an arrest warrant for the secretive activist on November 18, citing "probable cause of suspected rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion....
Some of Assange's supporters have accused unnamed forces of framing him for the alleged sexual assaults on two Swedish women in Sweden in August, in order to undermine his campaign to publicise secret documents.
The elusive activist's lawyers have not taken this tack, however, arguing instead that the prosecutor should not need to arrest him simply to question him, as he had proposed several dates and times for questioning.
Meanwhile, WikiLeaks' crusade has continued, with this week's dump of the first of around a quarter of a million secret US State Department cables online and a barrage of leaks in world newspapers....
Many countries around the world, including the United States, have denounced the theft and exposure of the cables as a criminal act that undermines global stability and diplomatic practice."
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here's today's news regarding a us citizen who (it would seem) has done nothing wrong but who has been tortured by Kuwaitis and put on the US no-fly list so he can't get home to the US.
Hopefully he wasn't on the same tour group as these other Somali men....
Sixth area Somali man is indicted in probe
So, he traveled to Yemen and Somalia to study....... Arabic and Islam? I'm sure it means nothing.
Reports: Al Qaeda's Leaders In Yemen Relocate to Somalia
Suggesting it "failed" suggests that there is only one possible outcome, and it's the one you want. And that's not diplomacy.
Suggesting it "failed" means there is an outcome agreed upon by many nations as being unacceptable that at this point still seems almost inevitable. It is the outcome that they want to avoid, and have offered many alternatives and incentives to avoid. It is still diplomacy until shooting starts - thats how you tell the difference.
State Sponsors: Iran
Hassan Nasrallah in the Late 1980s: Lebanon Should Become Part of the Greater Islamic Republic Ruled by Leader of Iran, Who Should Appoint all Islamic Rulers
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu Al-Gheit Warns That a Nuclear Iran Would Force the Arabs to Join the Nuclear Race
Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi of the Iranian Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution: By 2022 - Maybe Much Earlier - Israel Will Be Annihilated
Former Senior IAEA Official Yousri Abu Shadi: Iran Is Capable of Producing Nuclear Bombs in Less Than Two Years
Al-Siyassa: Iran Will Have Three Nuclear Bombs by 2013; One Will Go to Hizbullah
Iranian TV: Swine Flu - A Zionist/American Conspiracy
General Commander of the Iranian Army Ataollah Salehi: It Will Take Us 11 Days "to Wipe Israel Out of Existence"
French Comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala tells Iranian TV about His New Children's Song "Holocaust Pineapple" and States: Most Slave Traders Were Jews; More Freedom of Speech in Iran Than in France
EXCLUSIVE: Iraq Weapons -- Made in Iran?
Intelligence Officials Say Weapons Responsible for Increasing U.S. Deaths in Iraq
U.S. Says It Will Release Nine Of 20 Iranians Captured in Iraq - Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Stuxnet targeted Iran, not Russia.
That's the point - now you won't have to wonder anymore.
I think there is still plenty to wonder about...
Now Wikileaks suffers its own leaks - 12 Dec 2010
I doubt Assange opened the Swiss account to stash the Wikileaks cash so that it could be revealed as part of this next round of leaks. So... that sounds like a lot of cash.... with no transparency...
Please go and actually read up on what Assange and WikiLeaks does, has done, and is about... and no you cant use FoxNews or any republican hate rag as a information source.
So, only the compliant media that supports your viewpoint can be used to argue against you? No matter how well documented or reasoned the dissenters are*? I assume you don't lose many arguments.
*I forget, now that a liberal Democrat is president, is dissent still the highest form of patriotism?
I sort of wonder if this is an olive branch from Wikileaks to the US government. After all, the United States has been pressuring Switzerland to allow investigators to peek inside Swiss accounts for awhile now.
This isn't an olive branch at all. The US Government already achieved much of what it wanted in 2009.
So no, this isn't Assange helping the US, it is Assange doing what he can to screw people with secrets (legal or otherwise).
I'm sure there is a word to describe the overall situation.... i.. something...
Under mansion arrest: Country bolthole lined up for WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange... as he begs judges not to reveal his address
Now Wikileaks suffers its own leaks - 12 Dec 2010
If you think that "the poor" in modern nations have nothing (or very little) to lose, you obviously haven't traveled much.
Now, now, don't be too hasty. One needn't go any great distance to be a fellow traveler.
It continues to make almost everything more convenient, including ruining you.
Methinks thou dost protest too much.
If M$ can prove access to it's source code was exploited by government to break the security of the program, regardless of the damage done to the public's perception of the security of the program, than M$ is fully entitled to damages done by the purposeful and malevolent attack upon one of it's core revenue streams.
I doubt they will be able to, even if it's true. Such activity would almost certainly be regarded as a State Secret and shielded as such.
And they are pining for the fyords..
That's fjords. :)
Yes, it's called getting let out after the Revolution is over.
No State survives forever. The only question is whether Manning will live to see the day.
In the United States? I doubt it. If he was European, I'm guessing he would only be in his mid 60s.
He has been denied a speedy trial and has suffered punitive treatment in pre-trial detention.
Allegedly. Isn't that for the courts to decide? I very much doubt they would take any risks with his treatment that could be used to his favor legally.
FYI - It was two years almost to the day from the arrest of Timothy McVeigh (April 19, 1995) till his trial started (April 24, 1997). He was arrested the same day as the bombing, and was identified as the likely bomber in two days. That case would seem far more straightforward than some of the case against Manning.
By comparison, Timothy McVeigh was kept confined for about 2 months prior to initial court proceedings, and trial started within 6 months.
Not quite. McVeigh's trial started two years after his initial arrest.
April 19, 1995 - McVeigh arrested
April 24, 1997- McVeigh's trial begins
He is not violent or pose a danger to others.
He inflicted significant damage to the national security of the United States. He divulged more classified documents than any other case I have ever heard of. I don't think it is clear if anyone knows if he still has more waiting to divulge. He also has the secrets in his head. The US government is still scrambling to contain the damage.
He is right where he belongs.
Of course he's depressed, whether he's innocent or not, the prospect of facing a long prison term is inherently depressing. Being innocent does not ensure that you won't end up doing time.
He also has had problems with his love life.
Unless whoever you're donating to is on one of the secret government terrorist lists, or a front for terrorists, or might possibly theoretically maybe help someone who turns out to be connected to a terrorist.
The lists aren't secret, and it would defeat the purpose if they were. (In fact it would be kind of stupid to make them secret.) Have a look... try to find your favorite organizations.
Terrorist Designation Lists
Countries generally don't give a flying shit about such clauses. The law always overrides individual agreements.
Oddly enough, that view doesn't seem to apply to Wikileaks. Wikileaks reportedly recently had servers in the US again. I'm not sure if twitter has any business offices or technical presence in Europe.
Now that you put it that way, I can see the burning cars and places of worship all across France in my mind right now. ;)
That's nothing new.
Why 112 cars are burning every day
France's New Year's Tradition: Car-Burning
Anti-Semitic Violence Sweeps France
France: Thickening Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism seen rising among France's Muslims
For a second I actually thought your post was for real.
But when I read your list of "sources", I understood that you were ironic.
Well played, sir.... but that is really the only play you can make, isn't it? The facts are pretty much indisputable, so you've got to try to discredit the source in some way. You can't kill the message, so kill the messenger. I doubt it will work, but what else can you do?
I think it's possible he's covered....
18 U.S.C. 793 : US Code - Section 793: Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
Actually, you don't have to be accused of anything to be held indefinitely without trial in the US anymore.
If you are captured making war on the United States as a terrorist in Al Qaeda or one of its affiliates, or actively assisting them with funding, intelligence, etc., that is more or less the case. Otherwise,... not so much. Ordinary murderers, rapists, arsonists, embezzlers, thieves, and other criminals in the US still have the same rights they have always had. Political dissent is just a legal as ever.
And Assange, not being an American, is pretty much incapable of treason against the USA.
But he is fully capable of Espionage, as well as a number of computer crimes.
Interpol issues alert for WikiLeaks' Assange