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Matt Dolan, an Ohio state senator and Senate Republican candidate, promised in June 2020 to pass police reform in “memory of George Floyd.” In the wake of the death of Floyd, Dolan posted in June 2020 on Twitter, now known as X: I saw this post on social media, it summarizes how I feel: “You keep saying — it’s horrible that an innocent black man was killed, but destroying property has to stop. Try saying — it’s horrible that property is being destroyed, but killing innocent black men has to stop.” I don’t have all the answers, but I know...

The conscripts and contract soldiers in Russia are not paid promised salaries, allowances and social benefits. According to the calculations of the news outlet, since the beginning of March 2023, the salaries of the servicemen have been delayed or not paid at all in 52 regions of Russia and in occupied Crimea. ...According to Dmytro Loboyko, the Head of the Regional Studies Centre, people from the Russian hinterland associated "the hope of qualitatively changing their lives, but they had to face reality" with payment for participation in hostilities.

Statistician Nate Silver said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that President Joe Biden had not fulfilled his promise to “return to normal.”

Then-candidate Joe Biden in 2020 promised at least ten times he would “shut down the virus.” But as fresh variants have emerged since Biden assumed office in January, the president has failed to shut down the Chinese coronavirus. The New York Times acknowledged last week the United States has suffered more coronavirus deaths under Biden than under former President Donald Trump, despite vaccine availability.

They were the royal children; the sons and daughters of the Baby Boomers who adored and spoiled them and promised them that life would be wonderful. They were designer babies with clothing and shoes that sported logos just like their parents. Their parents were on waiting lists to get them into the right pre-school, they were given lavish birthday parties and extravagant gifts. They were trained and brainwashed and made to believe that getting into the “right” college meant success or failure. They were given trophies and awards for playing sports whether they were accomplished or not. It didn’t matter...

"When there's a bill that ends up on my desk as President, you, the public, will have five days to look on-line and find out what's in it, before I sign it. So that you know what your government's doing."

Despite his pledge last year to join other Oakland elected officials in taking a 10 percent pay cut, Mayor Ron Dellums has continued to collect his full $183,000-a-year salary, a spokesman for the mayor confirms. The spokesman, Paul Rose, declined to say precisely why the mayor took the extra $18,300 in pay this past year -- but there is speculation that he needed the money to help deal with his troubled personal finances.

From a fact sheet on Obama's campaign website (PDF link): Obama’s plan will save a typical family up to $2,500 on premiums by bringing the health care system into the 21st century: cutting waste, improving technology, expanding coverage to all Americans, and paying for some high-cost cases. However, the CBO just produced this analysis of the senate health care bill (another PDF link) which concludes that the Senate health care bill will raise the average family's health care premiums by $2,300. Even Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is admitting that health care preminums aren't about to go down just because health...

Those hoping to ride the state's high-speed train next decade will have to dig much deeper into their wallets than officials originally thought, a harsh reality that will chase away millions of passengers, according to an updated business plan released Monday. The average ticket on the bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles is now estimated to cost about $105, or 83 percent of comparable airfare. Last year, the state said prices would be set at 50 percent of comparable airfare and predicted a ticket from San Francisco to Los Angeles would cost $55. As a result of the...

SACRAMENTO — When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger first expressed a desire to appoint more judges of ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds, some leaders of minority bar associations were skeptical. They expected him to appoint relatively few, the practice of previous Republican governors. But the skeptics have been proved wrong, as growing numbers of experienced lawyers who belong to minority groups are applying for judgeships — and being appointed to the bench — as part of Schwarzenegger's effort to diversify courtrooms throughout the state. About 22 percent of Schwarzenegger's judicial appointees to date identify themselves as Asian-American, Latino or African-American, up from...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Clinton on Tuesday backed her husband, Bill Clinton, for fervently refuting questions about his anti-terror strategy, even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice challenged the former president's claims that he aggressively pursued Usama bin Laden. Bill Clinton appeared on "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace" on Sunday, where he said he did more than many of his conservative critics to pursue bin Laden, and left behind for the Bush administration a comprehensive plan to fight Al Qaeda.

A Vietnamese mother, lured by the promise of a high-paying factory job, chased her dream of sending both daughters to college into a sweatshop far from home, with no exit. She fell prey to men who took her to the American territory of Samoa, where she was enslaved with about 250 other desperate women from China and Vietnam. Those who complained were beaten and starved. Freed when the garment factory closed in 2000, some of the women risked their lives to help U.S. authorities investigate and convict the kingpins of what federal authorities have called the largest human trafficking case...

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea will not rejoin nuclear arms control treaties or allow international nuclear inspections until it receives an atomic reactor for power from the United States, a top diplomat told The Associated Press on Thursday. "In order to recover relations of trust between North Korea and the U.S., the U.S. should show its intent to turn words into actions," Kim Yong Guk, section chief of the European department of North's Foreign Ministry, told Associated Press Television News. "The physical foundation of consolidating trust between our nations is a light water reactor." The North's demand for a...

SACRAMENTO - Federal authorities who arrested two men and detained three others this week in a terrorism probe say they have been investigating members of a Central Valley Pakistani community for years and expect more developments in the weeks ahead. But they aren't saying just how the men came to their attention, how far the connections extend and exactly what kind of attacks - if any - they were plotting. FBI spokesman John Cauthen on Thursday said the investigation was not triggered by an internal rift within Lodi's Pakistani community, as some members had suggested. "This specific investigation has been...

http://netwmd.com/articles/article849.html Baghdad, Iraq — Half past ten in the morning on Monday, January 3, an Iraqi National Guard unit, escorted by a dozen uniformed U.S. military, pulled up to Abdul Karim Muhammadawi's headquarters in the Hay al-Jamiah section of Baghdad. Muhammadawi, known to the Iraqis as Abu Hatem, is renowned among Iraqi Shia as "the Robin Hood of the marshes." Hailing from al-Amarah, during Saddam's rule, he led a persistent Shia resistance which harried local Baathist commanders and protected political opposition. A member of the now-defunct governing council, he has since joined the Iraqi National Alliance (al-Ittilaf al-Watani al-Iraqi), the...

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Ancient Promise v. Current Conditions Almighty God promised the Jewish people the State of Israel. There are no ifs, ands, or buts, nor any other exceptions. God promised Israel to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses, and to all future generations of Jews. The State of Israel belongs to the Jews... NOT to the Arabs... NOT to the so called Palestinians (Rome gave that area its name)... and NOT to anyone else. God said so again and again and again in Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus. Now here's the Question: When did God take that promise back? Answer: Never !!! If we...

Forecast: Record Lows Possible Overnight Beautiful Weekend In Store POSTED: 4:37 pm EDT August 6, 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Record lows are possible Friday night in Central Ohio, according to 4 Warn Storm Team chief meteorologist Jym Ganahl. Skies will be clear Friday night, and the temperature could drop to 49 degrees in Columbus and into the mid-40s in southeastern Ohio, Ganahl said. Columbus' record low is 51, set in 1994. Saturday will be sunny with a high of 76. It will be sunny again Sunday with a high of 81 and a low of 55. Clouds will increase Monday...

Dutch Center-Right Coalition Stands up to Islamism By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 22, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and his center-right coalition are standing up to Islamism, the true enemy of all civilized nations in the 21st century. Balkenende said Muslim groups “were sowing hatred, and [he] promised new anti-terror measures” in a speech to the European Parliament yesterday. On February 18 of this year, Dutch lawmakers promised to expel approximately 26,000 asylum seekers after digesting a parliamentary report which concluded … that the country's 30-year experiment in tolerant multiculturalism had been a failure, and has...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Governator is human after all. After stomping across California's political landscape with all the subtlety of one of his Hollywood action heroes, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has found himself looking short of invincible in the unruly statehouse he once vowed to bring to heel. Passage of his $103 billion budget is more than two weeks overdue, despite his vow to produce an on-time spending plan - which would have been only the third time in 10 years. Schwarzenegger's predictions of a new era of cooperation and bipartisanship have deteriorated into flinty talk of a Legislature with...