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...increasingly difficult for politicians to refrain from public speculation. That's because it's no longer just companies and their investors who stand to lose in a corporate failure. Billions of taxpayer dollars are now flowing into the equation, and voters with no direct stakes at risk can reasonably claim a right to know what company the government may be buying into at their expense...
...recent months, Stanek has been working with an independent group, BornAliveTruth.org, which has been running television ads in swing states that feature an abortion survivor, Gianna Jessen, who says that "if Barack Obama had his way, I wouldn't be here." This claim is misleading, because Jessen was deemed viable after she was born following an abortion procedure. In an interview with TIME, Stanek argued that the ad should still be seen as accurate, since it is possible that a doctor could have made a different decision. "It is more of a hypothetical," she said. "Obama would have agreed with...
...Icelandic herring, popular in Russia since Soviet times?" as Victor Tatarintsev, Russian ambassador to Iceland, noted in an interview on Russian television. More likely, this act of benevolence is being viewed as a way for Russia to help secure a bridgehead for an advance into the Arctic regions to claim the vast hydrocarbon and other mineral deposits there. Iceland also happens to possess a once vital NATO base, which has been in mothballs since 2006, and the Russians may be eyeing that as well...
...even if a company were to fail outright, consumers are protected much in the way that routine bank deposits are guaranteed by the FDIC. Under a 40-year-old system, each state has an "Insurance Guarantee Fund" to which companies contribute that guarantees property, casualty, life and health claims if a company is insolvent. The maximum amount per claim varies by state and by the type of insurance, but it is as high as New York State's $1 million on property and casualty claims...
...particularly contentious claim in both the exhibit and the DVD was that “in the past four decades, nearly twice as many Americans have died in government psychiatric hospitals than in all US wars since 1776.” Another alleged that psychiatrists are “treating people against their will...