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POPSThe Balfour Declaration and the Mandate Under the League of Nations ........ The Jewish Connection To The Land ...... We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic, and geographical bonds." The purpose of post-World War I's League of Nations was to prepare those liberated from the Turks for independence. Once the indigenous populations demonstrated their ability to assume control, the mandates given to the war's victorious superpowers were supposed to be self-terminating. For the international community, justice for the Arabs meant guaranteeing their economic, civil, and religious rights. Awarding the Arabs any form of self-government within Palestine was precluded by British commitments to the Jews under the Balfour Declaration, which had been incorporated in the mandate of the League of Nations.
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POPSMother of missing Fla. toddler arrested again Okay I have one question -- not just to this particular case but in general to the posting of these huge bonds etc.. Who's put up the money for these people are they rich - do their parents put up there homes for their release? I don't get it -- if that were me -- I'd just be in jail awaiting my hearing period!
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POPSThe Price of Putin
when Russia defaulted, and the amount of cash leaving the country in the second week of August was the highest on record. Russia's central bank, which reported the $16.5 billion decline last week, still reckons to have $581 billion in reserves, money being stored away when the oil runs out and the gas flow starts to falter. This may come somewhat sooner than many think. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin spoke after the Cabinet approved the draft federal budget for the next three years, which assumes that Russia's main oil blend, Urals, will sell for at least $95 a barrel. (Russian government's own budget estimates, oil is expected to drop to $90 in 2010 and $88 in 2011.) At current rates of extraction combined with rising national consumption, Russia's known oil reserves will start to run out in the 2020s, and a lack of investment in maintenance and development means the two main gas fields expected to maintain Russia's export income are falling ominously behind schedule.
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POPSIllusions : As Seen Thru Our Eyes The window to our soul. When we look we see the things that we do not want to see sometimes. A deep gaze into someones eyes will tell us more than words. Are we really seeing? Or merely looking?
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POPSDo subatomic particles have free will? But physicists all the way back to Einstein have been unhappy with this idea. Einstein famously grumped, “God does not play dice.” And indeed, ever since the birth of quantum mechanics, some physicists have offered alternate interpretations of its equations that aim to get rid of this indeterminism. The most famous alternative is attributed to the physicist David Bohm, who argued in the 1950s that the behavior of subatomic particles is entirely determined by “hidden variables” that cannot be observed. Conway and Kochen say this search is hopeless, and they claim to have proven that indeterminacy is inherent in the world itself, rather than just in quantum theory. And to Bohmians and other like-minded physicists, the pair says: Give up determinism, or give up free will. Even the tiniest bit of free will.
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POPSList of weakest US banks with assets + or -
1st Centennial Bk Redlands CA D- 715,231 1st United Bk Boca Raton FL D+ 575,509 Affinity Bk Ventura CA D- 1,172,207 Alliance Bank Lake City MN D 651,634 Alliance Bk Culver City CA D- 1,111,157 Alliance Bk Corp Fairfax VA D 553,450 Amboy Bank Old Bridge NJ D- 2,695,636 Amcore Bk NA Rockford IL D+ 5,135,631 American Bk St Paul MN D 612,162 American Bk of Commerce Wolfforth TX D+ 690,847 American Founders Bk Inc Frankfort KY D- 561,375 American River Bk Sacramento CA D 585,958 Americanwest Bk Spokane WA D 2,106,351 Ameriprise Bank, FSB New York NY D 1,551,509 Amtrust Bank Cleveland OH D- 17,301,384 ANB Financial NA Rogers AR F 1,895,545 Anchorbank FSB Madison WI D+ 5,088,062 Avidia Bank Hudson MA D+ 954,640 Baltimore County Svgs Bk FSB Baltimore MD D 615,915 Banco Popular North America New York NY D+ 12,738,302 Banco Santander PR San Juan PR D 9,103,575 Bank of Blue Valley Overland Park KS D- 753,205 Bank of Choice Evans CO D- 560,922 Bank of Choice Colorado Arvada CO D- 6
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POPSSocialism for Wall Street and the Rich As for the banks that will go bankrupt, they will include community banks that finance homes, stores, downtown areas, commercial real estate and other mainstays of U.S. towns and cities, Roubini said. "Of three dozen or so medium-sized regional banks, a good third are in distress," he told Barron's, saying half of the group could go bankrupt. Some big banks could wind up insolvent, he added, but said they might be deemed too big to fail.
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POPSBuilding bridges between Jews and Latino Pentecostals In L.A., a Jewish group has been mounting outreach efforts to Latino Pentecostal congregations and organizations, including a Spanish-language 'Essence of Judaism" course. The piece suggests the outreach has been pretty successful.
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POPSPickens Gives New Meaning To Self-Government At Pickens’ behest, the Texas legislature changed state law to allow the two residents of an 8-acre parcel of land in Roberts County to vote to create a municipal water district, a government agency with eminent domain powers. Who were the voters? They were Pickens’ wife and the manager of Pickens’ nearby ranch. And who sits on the board of directors of this water district? They are the parcel’s three other non-resident landowners, all Pickens’ employees. What’s this got to do with Pickens’ wind-power plan? Just as he needs pipelines to sell his water, he also needs transmission lines to sell his wind-generated power. Rights of way for transmission lines are also acquired through eminent domain -- and, once again, the Texas legislature has come to Pickens’ aid. Earlier this year, Texas changed its law to allow renewable energy projects (like Pickens’ wind farm) to obtain rights-of-way by piggybacking on a water district’s eminent domain power.
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POPSRevamping 401(k)s Some 401(k) plans are turning to collective funds since they typically charge lower fees than mutual funds. But, not surprisingly, there are drawbacks. Learn more here.
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POPS YOU JUST GOT SCREWED and Nobody Will tell you! URGENT!! Made the Digg front page in less than 3 hrs. Thank goodness some people still care what is happening in this country! Meanwhile, last year, Freddie Mac paid chairman and CEO Richard Syron nearly $19.8 million in compensation, Fannie Mae pres. and CEO Daniel Mudd recieved $12.2 million, including a $2.2 million bonus!
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POPSHousing Tax Credit Instead Fan & Fred pass some cheap money to home buyers, but the majority of it goes to banks. Why is the U.S. government subsidizing lenders? Instead, pass along the savings directly to homeowners.
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POPSChina and Fannie Mae China has already been burned badly with its Blackstone and Morgan Stanley investments. But with the Big Macs and Maes, it's still the same old problem, the Chinese loaned them money which they can't pay back, however, much both sides want pretend that one day they can.
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