Goldman’s Secret Greece Loan Reveals Sinners LINK.

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Judge rules against the state, calls breach of contract ‘unconstitutional taking’

“In a dramatic defeat to the Florida Legislature’s effort to close its gaping budget hole, a Leon County court judge declared Tuesday that lawmaker’s decision last year to cut state and local government worker salaries three percent was unconstitutional and ordered them to return the money with interest.
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“Lawyers for Gov. Rick Scott and the House and Senate refused to comment on the ruling although Senate President Mike Haridopolos said Monday that if Fulford ruled against the state it would be the “ultimate case of judicial activism” and predicted they would immediately appeal the ruling.”

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Paramilitary to testify Drummond paid to kill [Colombian] unionists: Victims’ lawyer

“Collingsworth, representing more than 600 victims in the civilian case against Drummond, said in a press release that Samirio, whose real name is Alcides Manuel Mattos Tabares, will testify that the U.S. coal company made payments of millions of dollars to the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). He also said he would  testify about how Drummond operatives directed the AUC to kill union leaders.
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“Drummond was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine to the U.S. Justice Department, but never compensated victims’ families. None of the company’s directors have been convicted for the coal giant’s dealings with the death squads.”

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Rahmbo is reliving his ballet days by pirouetting spinning like a top:

Mayor Rahm Emanuel was on the phone Monday evening to declare victory, just hours after President Barack Obama pulled the Group of Eight summit — and all the chaos it would bring — out of Chicago…
“It’s a win-win situation,” Mayor Emanuel told me over the phone. “Chicago gets to host all the heads of state at the NATO summit. And the president hosts the G-8 meetings at Camp David, which is essential for the kind of environment he wants.”

Sort of like the 2010 elections were a “win-win situation”.

Free Trade, Free Trade ; “The Columbia Free Trade Agreement being promoted by President Bush will open up a market for American goods in Colombia. But Barack Obama says any deal with the South American country would “make a mockery” of labor protections.”

Flip,flop Obama says of Romney, both being fish out of water.

Link @2 wasn’t working so here’s the link for others to read. ; “But, she said, a 1981 decision by the Florida Supreme Court determined that while the legislature could cut employee salaries three percent to pay for retirement benefits, it could not breach the current contract it has with existing employees.

“This court cannot set aside its constitutional obligations because a budget crisis exists in the State of Florida,” Fulford wrote. “…To find otherwise would mean that a contract with our state government has no meaning, and that the citizens of our state can place no trust in the work of our Legislature. Those are the findings this Court refuses to make.”