Russia prepares for war against Ukraine
Pravda is issuing the same type of "down with the
Ukraine" government it used against Georgia, before the Russians invaded Georgia
More corrupt Democratic politicians - In
Massachusetts A conspiracy charge was added Tuesday to an indictment
against former Democratic Party state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson.
Ukraine’s Viktor Yushchenko plays dangerous games
with illegal arms sales
Viktor Yushchenko has all chances to become the biggest spender in Ukraine’s
history. The parliamentary committee for the investigation of illegal shipments
of Ukrainian arms to “third countries” concluded that the Ukrainian president
was involved in the loss of $2.3 billion from the nation’s budget. It touches
upon the arms shipments to both Georgia and Africa. The threat of impeachment is
hanging over the Ukrainian president.
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(AP) The
presidents of Russia and Argentina called for a world not
dominated by the United States as the two countries signed
deals Wednesday to cooperate in energy, agriculture and
science and other areas.The agreements dealing with nuclear
and conventional power, scientific research and food exports
underlined Russia's growing interest in ...
Prosecutors say a former
Democratic Massachusetts state senator and a Boston city councilor conspired to
personally profit from their power by accepting a bribe from a businessman in
exchange for a liquor license.
A conspiracy charge was added
Tuesday to an indictment against former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson. She pleaded
not guilty Monday to eight counts of attempted extortion for allegedly accepting
$23,500 in bribes to help arrange the license.
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Hill sources: Democrats, White House get auto
deal
WASHINGTON (AP) - Majority Democrats and the Bush White House have finalized a
deal to spend $14 billion on emergency loans for struggling U.S. automakers,
congressional officials said Wednesday. Strong opposition lingered among some
Republicans.
(AP) Only three of
25 reporters who died violently in the last two years in
Mexico were killed because of their work, the country's
special prosecutor for crimes against journalists said
Tuesday.Octavio Orellana said most of the reporters who died
were bystanders in attacks against other people, were killed
in accidents ...
(AP) A senior
Mexico City police commander who oversaw raids in the
capital's gang-filled Tepito neighborhood was slain in a
drive-by shooting outside his home, officials said
Tuesday.Victor Hugo Moneda, who led the city's investigative
police, was killed as he was getting out of his car Monday
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Viewership for President-elect Barack Obama's weekly YouTube "fireside chats"
has tanked, dropping more than 50 percent since his initial video three weeks
ago.
"I've heard a lot of puffed-up rhetoric about how this is going to change the
face of politics and how it's going to be FDR's fireside chats. The data doesn't
back it up," said David Burch, marketing manager for TubeMogul, which tracks
YouTube video views.
FADING: President-elect Barack Obama uses his YouTube videos as a tool to reach
out to the American public.
The first video address, released four weekends ago, drew 789,868 viewers over
its first three days and is nearing 1 million total, according to TubeMogul's
figures. But the second video was viewed 451,077 times in three days,
Thanksgiving weekend's video garnered 152,222 views, and this weekend's fourth
installment had about 370,000 views as of Monday evening.
Interest in Mr. Obama's postelection YouTube channel, ChangeDotGov, is down
substantially overall compared with the heady days of his campaign, when
BarackObama.com regularly cracked the top 10 channels and some of his videos
drew more than 5 million views.
The drop from Mr. Obama's campaign to the transition may have been inevitable,
given what the campaign achieved. Mr. Obama compiled a list of e-mail supporters
13 million strong, raised money from about 4 million of them, and drew millions
of them to BarackObama.com to look for videos, exchange ideas and generally
express their admiration for the candidate.
Now, he's no longer their candidate. Instead, he has to strike a balance as
president that appeals to even those who didn't vote for him or weren't part of
his movement.
Mr. Obama's campaign didn't immediately have a comment on the numbers. But
members of his new-media team, speaking at a symposium in New York last week,
said the difference between a candidate and a president is affecting how the Web
site is run.
"The relationship is different," Joe Rospars, the campaign's director of new
media, told the Alliance of Youth Movements summit. "In the campaign, we had a
relationship between Barack Obama and a whole lot of people who supported him
and his policies and his ideas and his vision for the country."
A former Illinois bank official,
now claiming whistleblower
status, says bank officials
replaced a loan reappraisal that
he prepared for a Chicago
property that was purchased by
the wife of now-convicted felon
Tony Rezko, part of which was
later sold to next-door neighbor
Barack Obama.
In a complaint filed Thursday
in the Circuit Court of Cook
County,
Kenneth J. Connor said that
his reappraisal of
Rita Rezko's property was
replaced with a higher one and
that he was fired when he
questioned the document.
Mr. Connor, a real estate and
commercial credit analyst at the
Mutual Bank Corp. in Chicago,
also noted in the complaint that
the bank received a grand jury
subpoena in October 2006
requiring it to produce
information concerning Mrs.
Rezko's purchase, including the
bank's files on the property.
The complaint also said that
the grand jury wanted
information on Mrs. Rezko's
checking account and loan file
and that the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp. (FDIC) had
audited the Rezko file -
although Mr. Connor's lower
reappraisal had been replaced
with a higher amount.
"Connor's internal
whistle-blowing activity at
Mutual Bank implicates Mutual
Bank and the potentially guilty
officers thereof to prosecution
under federal and Illinois
statutes," said the complaint,
filed by attorney Glenn R.
Gaffney.
The complaint said Mutual
Bank officials could be guilty
of making false statements,
willfully overvaluing property,
bank fraud, witness retaliation,
willful violation of a lawful
subpoena, FDIC violations, and
state banking regulations.
Mr. Gaffney, contacted at his
office, declined to elaborate
but confirmed that the complaint
had been filed.
"It says what it says," said
Mr. Gaffney of Glendale Heights,
Ill.
According to the complaint,
Mr. Connor reviewed the
appraisal of the Rezko property
by another firm, Adams
Appraisal, which had set the
value at $625,000. Mr. Connor's
complaint said that he told his
bosses in a report that the
property had been overvalued by
at least $125,000 and that a
"reasonable and fair evaluation"
should have been no greater than
$500,000.
Later, the complaint states,
Mr. Connor observed that his
lower appraisal was not in the
Rezko file and that he notified
his supervisors that it had been
replaced. He said, according to
the complaint, the new file had
been reviewed by the FBI and "if
the FBI were to ask me about
such matters, I would tell them
the truth. I never rescinded my
original findings."
Critics of Mr. Obama's
dealings with Rezko charge that
the senator may have gotten a
deal on his property purchase,
noting that Mrs. Rezko paid the
full asking price for her
property on an adjacent lot.
Both of which were sold by a
single seller. Mr. Obama bought
his house for $1.65 million -
$300,000 below the asking price.
When the property was sold,
Mr. Obama knew Rezko was under
investigation on fraud charges.
The complaint said the Rezko
loan was approved by Mutual Bank
President and CEO Amrish Mahajan
and others so that Mrs. Rezko
could buy a 9,090-square-foot
vacant parcel of real estate. It
said that in January 2006, Mrs.
Rezko and Mr. Obama, along with
his wife Michelle, signed an
agreement to sell a 10-foot
strip of the property to the
Obamas. At that point, according
to the complaint, Mr. Connor's
firm asked him to conduct the
reappraisal.
The complaint said Mr. Connor
is seeking $4.2 million for
compensatory damages, plus
unspecified punitive damages.
Rezko was a key supporter and
donor throughout Mr. Obama's
political career, with the
Illinois Democrat estimating
that Rezko raised $250,000 for
his various political campaigns,
though not for his presidential
bid. The two were friends who
talked frequently about politics
and occasionally dined out
together with their wives.
Rezko was convicted this
summer on federal charges of
using his clout with state
government to squeeze kickbacks
out of firms wanting to do
business with the state. The
charges did not involve Mr.
Obama. Rezko is now cooperating
with federal prosecutors in a
continuing probe of corruption
in Illinois government.
Mr. Obama consulted Rezko, a
real estate developer, before
buying his home in 2005.
As a state senator, Mr. Obama
wrote letters endorsing
government support of a Rezko
housing project for senior
citizens. Obama aides say he was
simply supporting a project that
would help residents of his
district, not doing a favor for
a friend.
(AP)
President-elect Barack Obama says he will try to "reboot America's
image"; among the world's Muslims and will follow
tradition by using his entire name _ Barack Hussein Obama _
in his swearing-in ceremony. The U.S. image globally has
taken a deep hit during President George W. Bush's two terms
in office. Source:
