US to triple aid to Pakistan
US non-military aid to Pakistan could be tripled to $7.5 billion over five years if the US Congress clears a bill. Joseph R. Biden (D-DE), chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, introduced the bill on Tuesday, proposing US$1.5 billion annually for five years for developmental activities like building schools, roads and health clinics.
US troops pull out of Afghan base after attack U.S. troops abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan [the village of Wanat in Nuristan province] where militants killed nine American soldiers this week and 'insurgents' briefly overran the area, officials said Wednesday. Omar Sami, spokesman for the Nuristan provincial governor, said American and Afghan soldiers quit the base on Tuesday afternoon. He said they took the district mayor with them.
US non-military aid to Pakistan could be tripled to $7.5 billion over five years if the US Congress clears a bill. Joseph R. Biden (D-DE), chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, introduced the bill on Tuesday, proposing US$1.5 billion annually for five years for developmental activities like building schools, roads and health clinics.
US troops pull out of Afghan base after attack U.S. troops abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan [the village of Wanat in Nuristan province] where militants killed nine American soldiers this week and 'insurgents' briefly overran the area, officials said Wednesday. Omar Sami, spokesman for the Nuristan provincial governor, said American and Afghan soldiers quit the base on Tuesday afternoon. He said they took the district mayor with them.
Consumer Prices, Driven by Fuel, Surge 1.1% in June Almost everything that consumers spent money on last month -- from food to electricity and gasoline -- took a bigger piece of their paychecks. Inflation in June rose at the fastest rate in 17 years, the government said on Wednesday. The Consumer Price Index, which measures prices of a batch of common household products, rose 1.1 percent in June, the Labor Department said.
Phil Gramm's Porn Stash By Max Blumenthal Before Gramm joined the Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed to call for the defunding of the NEA, before he attacked an opponent for taking money from a gay rights group, and before he was interviewed by the white supremacist Southern Partisan magazine, Gramm was an avidly active investor in soft-core pornography movies. Gramm's journey into porn began in 1973, when his brother-in-law, George Caton, rushed to tell him about an exciting low-budget soft-core production called "Truck Stop Women..." Gramm contributed at least $7500 towards the sequel, a satire of the Nixon White House called "White House Madness" that featured the crazed president wandering around the White House in the nude.
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SPB, great news posting, but man-what did you use for the last ones 2 font?
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