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'All for me, nothing for you' message a hit with voters A Croatian politician is close to becoming the mayor of the town Prolozac - despite promising to be corrupt and to treat the town "like our family business". Voters have flocked to the campaign, which runs under the slogan "All for me, nothing for you". Josko Risa polled 27.89 per cent of the vote in the first round of voting on Sunday, placing him second. Croatian newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija reports that he will now face Mate Lasic, the current incumbent from the Croatian Democratic Union, in a run-off on...

Much of the political news in the US for the past couple of weeks has focused on the controversy (*) over the program to allow the use of the NSA to intercept cell phone calls between the continental US and suspected Al Qaeda and their supporters overseas. First came the revelation – on the eve of the Congressional vote to renew the Patriot Act – that the program existed. Shortly after this, it was revealed that the NY Times employee pushing the story was going to be releasing a book about the program. After that, more information came to light...