Tuesday, July 14, 2009

SPB News for Tuesday.




Obama And Biden To Campaign Next Week For Dem Gov. Candidates
NAACP Launches Program To Receive Racism Reports Via Text

Small Airports Get Big Benefits From Stimulus Funds

CBS "60 Minutes" documentary on 1976 U.S. swine flu epidemic It aired only once and was never shown again. (Video)

Stop bombing us: Osama isn't here, says Pakistan Osama bin Laden and the top Al-Qaeda leadership are not in Pakistan [right, the latter is in Langley], making US missile attacks against them futile, according to the country’s interior minister. "If Osama was in Pakistan we would know, with all the thousands of troops we have sent into the tribal areas in recent months," Rehman Malik told The Sunday Times. "If he and all these four or five top people were in our area they would have been caught, the way we are searching."

AIG seeks to pay $235 million in bonuses American International Group (AIG), the credit insurer that received a $40 billion government bailout in March, last week requested government approval for paying out $235 million in bonuses to its top employees. When, in March of this year, AIG announced that it planned to pay over $165 million dollars in bonuses, a public outcry arose. On March 19, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a measure to tax executive bonuses at companies receiving TARP assistance. The bill stalled in the Senate after Obama came out against it.

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