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Bribes, Chinese Mob Ties Alleged at Casino of Gingrich Money Man | ABC News

2012-01-28T03:39:50+08:00

The casino company run by the principal financial backer of Newt Gingrich's presidential bid, Sheldon Adelson, has been under criminal investigation for the last year by the Department of Justice and the Securities Exchange Commission for alleged...

"Drop Down Mama" - Sleepy John Estes

2012-01-27T09:57:11+08:00

Chinese netizens' reactions to the New York Times story on Foxconn and Apple

2012-01-27T00:01:17+08:00

The New York Times has compiled the reaction of Chinese netizens to the its recent expose of hazardous working conditions for Foxconn employees building iPad and iPhones for Apple in China, as published on the ...

Russia has a small problem

2012-01-26T23:39:11+08:00

As reported by The Guardian: Russian police don't take kindly to opposition protesters – even if they're 5cm high and made of plastic. Police in the Siberian city of Barnaul have asked prosecutors to investigate the legality of a recent protest that...

Alison Krauss & Union Station - Foolish Heart

2012-01-26T17:56:39+08:00

Who Is Sheldon Adelson, the Newt Gingrich Super PAC Billionaire Backer?

2012-01-26T17:27:43+08:00

That's the question that The Atlantic asks today on its website. Here are a few sentences from the article that you may want to take note of: He's a union-buster. Some of Adelson's bitterest political battles have been fought in his adopted home...

The Foxconn Jungle, otherwise known as Apple in China

2012-01-26T13:37:09+08:00

Reports about Apple's behavior in China, conducted by way of its Taiwanese intermediaries at Foxconn, have been coming out for a number of years now. But perhaps none were as damning as the monster New York Times article that was just published. A...

Leonard Cohen: "Democracy" (live in London)

2012-01-26T10:47:36+08:00

Gingrich’s futile effort to deny he was a lobbyist | The Washington Post

2012-01-26T04:01:00+08:00

...Moreover, there is plenty of evidence of direct lobbying contacts by Gingrich himself. The Romney camp is going to town on Gingrich’s evasions, sending out a release that reads in part: Republican Members Of Congress Say Gingrich Was A Lobbyist:...

Han Han: My 2011 | ChinaHush

2012-01-25T18:48:31+08:00

The extreme idealist who’s escaped reality isn’t necessarily too different from the reality of an authoritarian dictator. In fact they’re from the same stock. It’s just that they’re holding different flags. It isn’t impossible to become the person...

Gingrich Used Payroll Tax Ploy Often Attacked By IRS | Forbes

2012-01-25T11:27:16+08:00

Newt Gingrich avoided tens of thousands of dollars in Medicare payroll taxes in 2010 by using a technique the Internal Revenue Service has consistently and successfully attacked. Republican Presidential candidate Gingrich and his wife, Callista,...

Newt Gingrich was not a lobbyist and other deceptions

2012-01-24T18:27:33+08:00

Newt Gingrich was not a lobbyist, but he was working on K Street. Newt Gingrich was not a lobbyist, even though the head of lobbying at Freddie Mac signed a $300,000/year retainer contract for services provided by the Gingrich Group. Newt Gingrich...