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...forum set up by the UC Ad Hoc Ad Board Committee for students to anonymously post their experiences with the Board, the issue of secrecy pervades virtually all of the comments. “It is ludicrous that a body with so much authority over students should be secretive and accountable to no one,” one student post reads. “Actually, I am convinced that the Ad Board is a giant magic eight ball. That’s the secret they’re trying to hide.” GOING FORWARD...
...Last week details were published on the Internet of a secret report by the Parliament's own internal auditors that revealed a catalogue of scams used by some MEPs to pocket portions of their annual grant of $295,000 per member to hire office staff...
...report. Even within the Parliament, only a handful of MEPs on the budgetary control committee were able to see the report - and they were obliged to read it in a guarded room, on condition that they took no notes and signed a pledge saying they would keep its contents secret. Although the Parliament's vice presidents agreed on Monday to review the system of hiring office assistants, they spent two weeks insisting the report was either non-existent or confidential...
...Davies wants offenders named and shamed, and the worst ones to be thrown in jail. But he says the Parliament shot itself in the foot by trying to keep the report secret. "It was utterly pathetic, naïve and hypocritical. You wonder what planet they grew up on," he says. "The European Parliament is doing good work. But in terms of recognition and acceptance by the wide European public, these incidents can only harm it. And that's a shame...
...asked rhetorically why the U.N. was doing nothing about the killings of "women and children in Gaza," but wasting its time on sanctions against Iran. Coverage of Ahmadinejad moving openly around Baghdad and being feted by the Iraqi government was contrasted with images of President George W. Bush's secret visits to Iraq to suggest that Iran is eclipsing the U.S. in the region. Voting in the election is proclaimed as an Islamic duty, and as "a fist to the mouth of the enemy...