Friday, September 25, 2009

SPB News for Friday



Obama Won't Seek New Legislation To Authorize Detentions

Vets Report Delays In GI Bill Benefit Checks

Treasury Official Signals WH May Extend Bailout Fund

CA Selling 11 State Office Buildings To Raise Money

$4 billion bailout for the Postal Service?
Dems move to exempt USPS from payments to cover retirement benefits.
Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper — Soft Toilet Paper's Hard on the Earth, But Will We Sit for the Alternative? — By David A. Fahrenthold, Page A01 — ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. — There is a battle for America's behinds.

Justice Ginsburg hospitalized — WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized after becoming ill in her office at the court. — A statement from the court said the 76-year-old justice was taken to Washington Hospital Center at 7:45 p.m. EDT as a precaution.
'Al-Qaeda group' escape Iraq jail Sixteen members of 'al-Qaeda' in Iraq have escaped from a prison north of Baghdad, Iraqi security officials say. Reports said five of the group, who were being held at a facility in Tikrit, had been sentenced to death for involvement in attacks. One of the men has since been caught, but the rest remain at large.
Guantanamo prisoner says he's lost hope in Obama A Guantanamo prisoner who held up a photo of President Barack Obama as a sign of hope at a war crimes court hearing last year said Wednesday he has lost faith that the American leader will be much different than his predecessor. Ahmed al-Darbi, who told the court in December he hoped Obama would "earn back the legitimacy the United States has lost in the eyes of the world," said in a note passed to his lawyer that he is disappointed the Guantanamo prison remains open and the military court still holds hearings.
Banks fight to kill proposed consumer protection agency If you doubt that U.S. banks long to return to the days of impotent regulation, you need only look at one of the financial sector's top legislative priorities: killing a proposed new agency that would be dedicated solely to protecting consumers' financial interests. The Obama administration is asking Congress to create a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency to regulate consumer financial products ranging from credit cards to mortgages, and to simplify disclosure about them all.

U.S. stock investors set to unload junk Just like the government's "cash for clunkers" program, investors are ready to cash in junk stock holdings for sounder equities, analysts say. The stock market is up 57 percent since March 9, led by so-called junk stocks -- or badly beaten names with hazy growth prospects.

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