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The U.S. government says it will help Kenya get the financing it needs to build an $18 billion pipeline from the oil fields in the country's northwest to its southeastern Indian Ocean coast to help it become a net exporter of oil. The pipeline would stretch nearly 500 miles from Lokichar in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley to the coastal town of Lamu, and would be an almost impossibly expensive project for the East African nation. Yet there is enough oil there to make the plan worthwhile. The pan-African financial institution Ecobank Transnational Inc. says it has proven reserves of about...

Senator Charles Schumer, from the state of New York - the state where the Governor is proposing a "fat tax" on sugary non-diet drinks, and the daughter of an ex-President who has never been elected to anything wants to be Senator - says that his state (my state) could get up to $18 billion dollars of federal stimulus package money (there's that phrase again) during the first two years of an Obama administration.Did you catch that? Eighteen billion bucks to New York.And for what? The $800 billion economic package is expected to include $5 billion for New York as...