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Chinese Honey Trade Tainted by Dirty Dealings
Businessman Yan Yongxiang was trying to get around stiff US levies on imports of cheap Chinese honey.
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Chinese Honey Trade Tainted By Dirty Dealings
Businessman Yan Yongxiang was trying to get around stiff U.S. levies on imports of cheap Chinese honey.
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Debate over need for soccer helmets produces pitched battle
"I don't need the money," Skeen said. "If I ever made any money on [soccer hel mets], I would donate it to head injury research.
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Canon Communications to Launch Trade Show Series for the $214 Billion ...
Canon Communications has announced that next year it will launch a trade show series specifically for the nation's $214 billion aerospace and defense industries.
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TURKEY: Denim workers seek sandblasting compensation
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Tijuana Exhibits at MD&M East
An interesting highlight of this year's MD&M East trade show in New York was a booth featuring representatives of the Tijuana Economic Development Corp.
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Gives IMTS Exhibitors a Platform to Break News and Announce Latest Innovations
Press release date: June 28, 2010 More than 1,100 exhibitors at North America's largest manufacturing and technology event can tap ThomasNet News to announce new products New York, NY and Chicago, June 28, 2010 - ThomasNet and the International Manufacturing Technology Show today announced a partnership to help the more than 1,100 exhibitors at ...
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Colorado
Almost 25 years after the Challenger space shuttle exploded and killed the seven astronauts inside, about 200 people visited the Challenger Learning Center of Colorado Saturday for an open house in honor of those who died.
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Radio buffs ham it up
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE HELD Ham radio operator Ben Holmes of Oxford tapes conversations on his laptop while listening on earphones at the Worcester Emergency Communications Team Field Day.
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Flexiciser Inc., Awarded Innovative Achievement Award at 1st...
Bryan S.J. Mallindine, President of Flexiciser, Inc accepted the Innovative Achievement Award on behalf of Flexiciser Inc., at the first annual Tichi Wilkerson-Kassel Movement Therapy Foundation Awards dinner held at the J W Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles on April 8, 2010.
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Resolved Question: Have you been hurt by inaccurate credit bureau info?
Below is a copy of a letter sent to President Obama and each of my congressmen today.
If you have had your chances for a loan, mortgage, or job destroyed due to inaccurate credit bureau information, now is the time to speak up and ask for reform
Dear President Obama,
I am writing to ask you to focus attention on one significant aspect of the credit crunch that has not received much press - the effect of inaccurate credit bureau information on the ability of consumers to obtain credit.
Americans cannot obtain mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, or employment without a good credit score.
However, the credit bureaus have too much control over our destiny and too little control exerted over their inaccurate reporting.
Last week, I was delayed on my mortgage approval due to inaccurate credit report.
I have been working several hours each month over the last two years to clear up problems. The result - I currently have 3 bills that I know I need to pay off. These are leftovers from a period when I got divorced, lost my job in the tech downturn, had my house and everything in it destroyed by fire, and was out of work for 3 years when my son was undergoing a medical crisis. During this time, I managed to survive without going on public assistance of any kind.
My credit bureau currently shows 17 negative accounts - 14 inaccurate ones.
These may be reported past the 7 year limit for negative information.
One of the worst offenders is the US Department of Education. My loan has been rehabilitated for a year, with 20 payments made on time. However, they are still reporting me to TransUnion and to Equifax as being in collections.
I have had 8 phone numbers with Verizon, all of which have had all bills paid off. 3 of the accounts are showing different amounts for Verizon.
Comcast Cable has reported me to two different bureaus, for a total of 4 accounts, for an account which is also paid in full. Two of the collection accounts are for equipment returned at the time I moved from the house.
Progressive Insurance is reporting through a collection agency that I owe $273 on an old bill. I paid this off, and my last two checks were returned to me by the agency as overpayments, yet I cannot remove them from my credit report.
The FTC does not help.
I have sent proof to the credit bureaus of payments; however, they will not accept the proof unless it comes from collection agencies that filed the report. The agencies are extorting additional payments from Americans in order to remove bills that have already been paid.
American consumers need you to act quickly to offer them protection.
I would be taking one house off of the market now, and trading in my car, if the government took action to protect my credit rating. Multiply this by the many thousands of citizens in similar circumstances, and you could stimulate the economy with very little money spent.
moreResolved Question: Why vote McCain When There Are So Many Reasons Not?
IRAQ & MILITARY AFFAIRS*Skipped over a dozen votes on Iraq in the Senate. (source)
"Because I know that as successful as I believe we will be, and I believe that the success will be fairly easy, we will still lose some American young men or women." (source)
"We're not going to get into house-to-house fighting in Baghdad. We may have to take out buildings, but we're not going to have a bloodletting of trading American bodies for Iraqi bodies." (source)
"But the point is that, one, we will win this conflict. We will win it easily." (source)
"But I believe, Katie, that the Iraqi people will greet us as liberators." (source)
"It's clear that the end is very much in sight." (source)
Was indirectly responsible for the deaths of 21 shopkeepers in Baghdad's Shorja marketplace, after visiting and saying it was perfectly safe.(source)
"There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today." (source)
"General Petraeus goes out there [Iraq] almost everyday in an unarmored Humvee." (source)
"I meant that there are neighborhoods that are safe in Iraq, and he does go out into Baghdad, and the fact is there has been significant progress..." (source)
"I'm not say that they [VIPs] could go without protection. The president goes around America with protection. So I certainly didn't say that." (source)
Unidentified Reporter: "[On 26 Mar] You said there are areas in Baghdad that you can walk around freely." McCain: "Yeah, I just came from one." (source)
McCain's escort through Shorja was 100+ soldiers, sniper teams, 10 armored humvees, 3 blackhawk helicopters, 2 apache gunships, predator drone coverage; McCain was wearing a bulletproof vest and allowed to take off his helmet only when authorized. (source)
Says that Obama can't understand Iraq since he hasn't been there since 2006. (source)
Voted against extending troop deployment times in the USA to match deployment times in Iraq. (source)
Voted against repealing a capital gains tax cut which would have funded soldiers. (source)
Voted consistently from 2003-2007 against additional funding for Walter Reed Army Medical Center. (source 1, source 2, source 3)
Voted to table a bill that would have provided funding and equipment for Guard and Reserve units. (source)
Voted against additional funding for the mental health care of troops. (source)
Actively opposed the GI Bill that would increase education benefits to soldiers; was one of three senators who didn't vote on it; one was in the hospital and one was at a funeral; he was campaigning. (source)
When asked if he had an idea of when troops would be coming home, said "No, but that's not too important. What's important is the casualties in Iraq. (source)
*ECONOMICS*"I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated." Denied saying this in a primary debate. (source)
"The issues of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." (source)
Added Arthur Laffer and Phil Gramm to his campaign economics staff. (source 1, source 2)
"I don't have the kind of expertise to know exactly whether he has cut interest rates sufficiently or not." (source)
Debate question, are Americans better off than they were 8 years ago: "I think you could argue that Americans overall are better off, because we have had a pretty good prosperous time, with low unemployment and low inflation and a lot of good things have happened. A lot of jobs have been created." (source)
Today Show, soon after, when asked the same question: "Oh no. No." Bloomberg TV, same question: "In fact, I think Americans are not better off than they were eight years ago, when you look at what's happened to middle-income Americans." (source)
Says that he can save $100 billion by cutting earmarks; campaign later denies this claim. Has said saving $100B would not come from military; this would necessitate a 18.5% across the board cut in every other discretionary spending program, including education, veteran's health, highways. (source)
Favors repealing the alternative minimums tax, 90% of the benefits going to six-figure families; this would cost $1.6 trillion over 10 years; claim of an average of $2000/family mostly weighted by highest earners.(source)
Says that Obama and Clinton want to create the largest tax increase since WW2; it would be the fifth-largest and is not even an increase, but merely allowing Bush's cuts to expire. (source)
Opposed Bush's tax cuts, then supported Bush's tax cuts. (source)
Wants to cut capital gains taxes. (source)
Wants to remove federal gasoline taxes. (source)
Claimed that 401ks are taxed by the capital gains tax (they are not) and used this to further his point that "[Obama] obviously doesn't understand the economy." (source)
Claimed Obama wanted to double the capital gains tax; Obama said no more than double (which is what it was under Clinton) and
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