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  • NSW Labor MPs accused of double-dipping on salaries

    01/08/2010 4:07:10 AM PST · by myknowledge · 233+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | January 8, 2010 | Adam Walters
    STATE MPS are pocketing more than $9000 for a single meeting as they double-dip into the public purse. All but seven of the 70 Labor MPs have been handed lucrative second government posts on top of their already handsome pay packets. Among them are Coogee MP Paul Pearce who was last year paid an extra $18,276 on top of his $130,000 base salary for chairing just two meetings of the standing committee on parliamentary privilege and ethics. That works out to more than $9000 in salary and expenses for each meeting.
  • DIRTY LOUISIANA AND IT'S LAZY CITIZENS

    12/04/2005 8:31:45 PM PST · by Liberty911 · 73 replies · 3,125+ views
    Self ^ | December 4, 2005 | Self
    POLL HERE: http://www.wwltv.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25953 Please excuse the subject, this is a call to action, it was meant to get YOUR attention. Read on while witholding judgment. Citizens of Louisiana, WE THE PEOPLE need easier and more effective methods and administrative and legal procedures and remedies to remove elected, appointed and other public officials and employees, IN ALL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, from their positions of trust (GIVEN TO THEM BY THE PEOPLE of our good and historic state) when they are involved of suspected or proven undesirable activity. The endless days of graft, corruption, miscondcut, looking the other way, making perpetual excuses...
  • Director of Website Celebrating Suicide Bombing is Democratic Donor

    08/30/2003 1:27:29 PM PDT · by nwrep · 30 replies · 614+ views
    You may remember the Chicago-based Islamic website Soundvision.com which hosted messages celebrating and applauding the suicide bombing in Israel last week, such as these highlighted by Daniel Pipes: ************************************************************************** SoundVision.com Visitors Applaud Jerusalem Suicide Bombing. The murder of 18 bus-riding Israelis by a militant Islamic terrorist on August 19 met with the expected joy in the Palestinian and Lebanese street ("Several hundred young men poured into the streets of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon on Tuesday and handed out sweets to celebrate a suicide bomb attack on a Jerusalem bus," reads one account). More noteworthy is the public, English-language...