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ATHENS (Reuters) – A week of violence in Greece has taken its toll on the fragile conservative government, with opinion polls showing on Sunday that many think authorities mishandled the worst rioting in decades.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – During his final visit to Iraq Bush came under fire from a local Iraqi reporter who yelled out, “This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog!” and then the angry reporter hurled his shoes at our President. Throwing shoes in the Arab world is a supreme insult. The reporter was dragged by security agents
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Gregory and ‘MTP’ Guests Defend Blago: It’s ‘How the World Works’, by Noel Sheppard

** The media defense of disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and corruption in politics continued Sunday morning as new “Meet the Press” host David Gregory, along with his guests, actually defended Blago’s actions as “pay to play” business as usual that’s just “part of the system” and “how the world works.” Such seems an astounding about face from the press’s disgust and incessant focus on the so-called “Republican culture of corruption that surrounded the reporting of former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s travails in 2006, as well as the attention given to Jack Abramoff the same year in order to assist the Democrat takeover of both chambers of Congress that November.” NewsBusters **

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** The Versace fashion house is to create the first refrigerated beach so that hotel guests can walk comfortably across the sand on scorching days. The beach will be next to the Palazzo Versace hotel being built in Dubai, where summer temperatures average 40C and can reach 50C. The beach will have a network of pipes beneath the sand containing a coolant that will absorb heat from the surface. (Snip) The scheme has infuriated environmentalists. The Times (UK) **

by Jack Lee

Today (Sunday) on KPAY and many other affillate stations, you will have an opportunity to talk about corporate ethics and fraud. You will hear the moderator Bill Flanagan, a well known financial advisor, sitting in for the regular host, Bob Brinker with his special guest, Professor Judi S. McLean-Parks, Organizational Behavior expert from Washington University, and they will attempt to explain the meltdown of ethics that has almost overwhelmed corporate America and cost [us] trillions of dollars in the process.

Call it a symptom or a bi-product, but the lack of ethics and the resulting rampaging greed has sent CEO salaries into the stratosphere, too often without any regard to their job performance. You need to know this is happening and it’s wrong; too many of us are still in denial and we are all suffering as a result. Ms. Parks and her associates have estimated that as much as $924 billion dollars every year are diverted into the deep pockets of corrupt corporate leaders. Corporate America is in crisis, an ethical crossroads is ahead, which path we take will determine our nation’s future.

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(FOCUS ON CRIME AND PUNISHMENT) Four killers and four strange cases. Each killer has escaped the death penalty, despite mulitiple victims and a preponderance of evidence.

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Christmas Carols Origins & Trivia

** The early Christmas music compositions are regarded as chants and hymns. The original carols referred to a circle dance which did not have any singing – that came later. As the church struggled against the influences of pagan customs, the singing of carols was barred from sacred services. However, outside the church, Nativity carols were written and became popular. Nearly all were simple folk songs created by people from the countryside. *** Saint Francis of Assisi is credited with bringing carols into the formal worship of the church during a Christmas Midnight Mass in a cave in Greccio, in the province of Umbria in 1223. It’s said that the music sung that night was more akin to what we know as carols than to hymns. Carols enjoyed further development and popularity when they were used in the mystery plays of the Middle Ages. *** Wandering minstrels traveled from hamlet to castle, performing carols in the distant past. In later years, villages had their own bands of waits. *** Waits were originally watchmen who patrolled the streets and byways of the old walled cities keeping guard against fire and singing out the hours of the night. During the holiday season, they would include some carols for the people along the way, although some folks complained that they would rather get a good nights sleep than have somebody singing under their window. Eventually the term was used to describe groups of musicians who sang and played for various civic events during the Christmas season. *** Today, a look at a small-town newspaper lists dozens of caroling events, not just on Christmas Eve, but throughout the holiday. **

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When government takes a punishing stance…stuff happens!

Oil Companies Voting With Their Feet Investors Business Daily

** Another day, another oil company fleeing the country. No, this isn’t Ecuador, the banana republic that just defaulted on its debt after chasing out investors. It’s the United States, and what we’re seeing is self-defense. **
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** First there was the dotcom bust of the late 1990s, then came the real-estate bubble that’s deflating before our eyes. Next up: the green bubble. Alternative energy ventures have received a lot of great press, heavy investment and lip service from politicians in the last couple of years, but many of the nascent green industry’s balance sheets are beginning to bleed red. Among the hardest hit is T. Boone Pickens and his alternative energy hedge fund Newsweek **

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Records show no recent aid to two charities from union golf event, by Paul Pringle – LA Times

** For several years, the Service Employees International Union’s largest California local has staged a lavish golf tournament that it bills as a fundraiser for two nonprofit groups affiliated with the labor organization. *** But neither charity’s financial reports have specified any income from the annual event since 2004, Internal Revenue Service records through last year show. And the SEIU chapter itself specified no expenses or revenues from the 2006 tournament, even though costs and receipts for the summertime gala at the Four Seasons Resort in Carlsbad totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars in other years, according to financial statements the union filed with the U.S. Labor Department. *** The SEIU local, which represents 160,000 low-income workers, is the target of a federal corruption investigation, the result of Times reports on its spending practices. A spokeswoman for the union’s national office, Michelle Ringuette, said the tournament has become part of the federal probe. She declined to comment further. **