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According to an InsiderMonkey report, a number of Google, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) insiders sold off millions in shares just before the crash that was caused by the accidental release of disappointing Q3 financial results for the Internet giant.
In just three days toward the end of September Google chairman Eric Schmidt executed 226 transactions, selling off more than 211,000 shares at prices between $742 and $764 per share. He pocketed $158 million.
Both CEO Larry Page and co-founder Sergey (…)

THE GREATEST NATURAL RESOURCE THAT ANY NATION HAS IS ITS PEOPLE The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by The People.– The Ninth Amendment “When we contemplate the fall of empires and the extinction of nations of the Ancient World, we see but little to excite our regrets than the mouldering ruins of pompous palaces, magnificent museums, lofty pyramids and walls and towers of the most costly workmanship; but when (…)

The Office of the Compliance Adviser/Ombudsman of the World Bank (CAO) highlighted the main achievements of the successful dialogue process between Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited, owner of the San Antonio Sugar Mill, and the Chichigalpa Association for Life (ASOCHIVIDA) in a document whereby the parties agreed to end the mediation of the CAO as of June 30 of this year.
The agreement signed by Nicaragua Sugar and ASOCHIVIDA highlighted the efficiency of the results of this dialogue (…)

I ask you, why can’t I choose not to serve a gay couple or someone of colour or any other type of person with whom I don’t choose to associate with?
OK, I realise that the U.S. Constitution protects against numerous types of discrimination by the Government and so it should, but why can’t I as an individual discriminate? What’s wrong with that?
Say, I don’t like green people. I don’t want them in my shop. It’s just a thing I have about green people. You know... the way they talk or walk. (…)

$4.2 Billion Worth Just Before American Election
… by Bob Nichols
(San Francisco) The Premier of Iraq journeyed many miles to the United States’s enemy, Russia, to sign on the dotted line for Russian weapons worth US$4.2 Billion Dollars, the Russian news agency RIA NOVOSTI released October 9, 2012 in Moscow.
RIA Novosti reports “MOSCOW, October 9 - Russia will deliver attack helicopters and mobile air-defense systems to Iraq in arms deals worth $4.2 billion signed earlier this year, (…)

The 11th anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan (7 October 2001) has just passed. The US War on Terror has had a disastrous impact not just on Iraq , Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya and other Muslim countries but also upon the US itself and on Australia, one of America’s most slavish allies. The War on Terror was precipitated by the 9-11 atrocity that in the view of many science, engineering, architecture, aviation, military and intelligence experts must have involved the American (…)

Press TV
Canadian Government Turns Blind Eye to Aboriginal Rights
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/...
A Canadian Aboriginal rights activist tells Press TV that the Canadian central government has grossly violated the rights of the aboriginal minorities in that country. Terry Nelson praised the Iranian government for its condemnation of Canada’s treatment of aboriginal people, saying that only the Iranian Embassy in Canada had responded to complaints...
Please forward this (…)

Some businesses will have used DealMonster, the UK-based regional deal voucher service run by the Johnston Press. If you’ve never heard of them before, it’s a service similar to Groupon, but without the Internet presence or ability to reach millions of potential customers.
DealMonster’s sales pitch compares to Groupon. Their selling point is that they usually retain less of the sale, taking a smaller commission and they don’t keep the money they collect from un-redeemed vouchers, like (…)

None, really. This is because men, women and teens die in seven minutes in the wrecked reactor buildings; robots croak in about two hours.
It is not enough time. This will continue for at least ten (10) years; more likely much longer.
Why? The radioactive particles get more lethal during the first 30 years as one radioactive metal changes to Plutonium 239, the more lethal bomb making isotope grown in reactors....
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According to a Telegraph article published last August, Esther Rantzen, the founder of ChildLine, was herself a sex abuse victim. In a revealing video, Rantzen says that a "relative" abused her but that her mother didn’t believe the story.
Well, perhaps she wasn’t telling the truth then.
Rantzen has recently been making shocking claims against Jimmy Savile and many people will be quick to accept her statements because she was the founder of a children’s charity that deals with any issue (…)