The head of the US tax agency has quit after it emerged his staff singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny, President Barack Obama has announced. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had asked for and accepted the resignation of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Steve Miller, he said. “I will do everything in my power [...]
Posted in Funnies, Law, Politics, Taxation
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Tagged 501(c)4, barack obama, charity, internal revenue service, IRS, Political donations, social welfare organizations, steve miller, superPACs, US democratic party, US politics, US republican party, US tea party
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The UK may not be able to afford projected levels of spending on military equipment over the next decade, MPs are warning. The Commons Public Accounts Committee said it did not “yet have confidence” the planned £159bn equipment budget between now and 2022 could be paid for. It urged the Ministry of Defence to be [...]
The singer of Grammy-nominated US heavy metal band As I Lay Dying has pleaded not guilty to plotting the murder of his estranged wife. Prosecutors said Tim Lambesis, 32, handed $1,000 (£650) in cash to an undercover policeman with instructions on how to kill his wife Meggan. The judge set bail at $3m (£1.9m) for [...]
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Tagged america, as i lay dying, heavy metal music, jeff hanneman, metalcore, slayer, tim lambesis, USA, Westboro Baptist Church
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The Turkish government has signed a deal with a Japanese-French consortium to build a new nuclear power station. The $22bn (£14bn) contract is Japan’s first successful bid for an overseas nuclear project since a tsunami wrecked the Fukushima power station. The deal was signed by visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Turkish Prime Minister Recep [...]
Posted in Economics, Environment, Funnies, Politics, Public Policy
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Tagged fukushima disaster, japan, mitsubishi motors, nuclear power, recep tayyip erdogan, shinzo abe, Turkey
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JULIA Gillard has denounced the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement ahead of anti-Israeli protest action planned at the University of NSW today. BDS action at UNSW has turned ugly, with anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying material appearing on a Facebook page opposing the opening of a Max Brenner chocolate shop on campus. Postings on a Facebook page [...]
Posted in Australia, Economics, Education, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Media, Middle east, Politics
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Tagged anti-Semitism, BDS, boycott divestment and sanctions, chocolate, Facebook, IDS, Israel, israeli strauss group, Julia Gillard, Max Brenner, max brenner boycott, Palestine, university of new south wales, zionism
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Foreign Secretary William Hague has opened a new British embassy in Mogadishu – the first time the UK has had one in Somalia since 1991. The UK is the first European Union country to reopen an embassy in the country since the Federal Government of Somalia was established last year. Mr Hague said Somalia had [...]
Posted in Britain, Funnies, Law, Politics
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Tagged foreign and commonwealth office, foreign secretary, hassan sheikh mohamud, maritime law, mogadishu, piracy, pirates of the caribbean, somali pirates, Somalia, william hague
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April 23, 2013 – 12:10 am
A Michigan judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction. Judge Raymond Voet has a posted policy at Ionia County 64A District Court stating that electronic devices causing a disturbance during court sessions will result in the owner being cited with contempt, [...]
April 20, 2013 – 12:30 am
A giant mountain of maturing cheddar cheese is to be used as security for a pension fund. Twenty million kilos of Cathedral City cheddar will now back up pension funds of workers at Dairy Crest, one of the UK’s biggest cheesemakers. Some 20,000 pallets of the cheese, nearly half the company’s total stock, have been [...]
Posted in Britain, Economics, England, Fark!, Funnies
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Tagged business, cathedral city cheddar, dairy crest, finance, pension deficit, pensions, retirement, superannuation
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A seal has boarded a Royal Navy amphibious-assault ship as it was about to carry out military exercises near Carnoustie. HMS Bulwark was making preparations for the multinational training exercise Joint Warrior when the seal swam up the ship’s landing dock. The animal sat and watched the crew for about half an hour. It was [...]
Posted in Britain, Defence, Funnies, Popular culture, scotland
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Tagged cinema, films, HMS Bulwark, navy seal, royal navy, steven seagal, Under Siege
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