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BP accused of 'lack of integrity' by US House speaker

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BP accused of 'lack of integrity' by US House speaker   BP is working to contain the spill having failed to plug the leak US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused BP of a "lack of integrity" when making its case for deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. US President Barack Obama has met relatives of the 11 workers killed in the explosion on the BP oil platform in the Gulf. BP shares in the UK have fallen to their lowest level since 1997 amid fears of huge US penalties. The US attorney general said America would "not pay a dime" for cleaning up. BP would be held responsible for all damages, Eric Holder said. In another development, the Obama administration said BP had agreed to quickly meet the compensation claims of businesses and individuals whose livelihoods had been disrupted by the spill. Amid concerns in the UK over what some have described as growing anti-British

Van Der Sloot's Attorney Resigns

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Posted: 5:04 AM Jun 15, 2010 Van Der Sloot's Attorney Resigns  Peruvian attorney has resigned from defending the murder suspect Joran Van Der Sloot.   Maximo Altez Navarro says he didn't want to be Van Der Sloot's attorney anymore due to the problems the case has created for him. Prison authorities say Van Der Sloot was transferred to Peru's Castro Castro Prison yesterday awaiting a psychological evaluation. New transcripts from Peruvian authorities reveal Van Der Sloot elbowed victim Stephany Flores in the face before strangling then suffocating her with his own shirt.

Police: They’re Just Doing Their Jobs

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    Posted on 10 June 2010 by Adam Mueller All to often I hear a supporter of police or an actual cop say, “I’m just doing my job.”  Well for the past week I’ve been in Keene, NH along with Pete and Dr. Q , both are Cop Block contributors,  and while out in the beautiful downtown area have taken some video of the Keene Police.   After reviewing the footage we captured I decided to make this short video about Cops doing their jobs.  As seen in the video above we’ve captured footage of cops wasting tax dollars, generating revenue with victimless crimes and threatening business owners for rowdy customers.  In a weeks time I didn’t witness or hear one person state they needed, liked or asked the police to show up.  Not once?  In two of the three covered police encounters people actually thanked us for filming or shouted back at the police.   You can’t help but wonder, why?  Why are these cops, or gang members, allowed to take our money?  When I,

Developing News: UN just approved strict sanctions against Iran.

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Breaking News: UN just approved new stricter rounds of sanctions against nuclear ambitious Iran. CORRUPTION SUCKS BLOG   www.corruptionsucks.blogspot.c om  Live Coverage ONLINE: http://www.livestation.com/ UNITED NATIONS, June 9 -- A divided U.N. Security Council on Wednesday imposed a fourth round of financial and commercial sanctions on Iran's military establishment, bringing to a close more than six months of diplomatic efforts by the Obama administration to penalize Tehran for building a covert nuclear facility and accelerating its enrichment of uranium. The 15-member council adopted its fourth sanctions resolution on Iran in four years by a vote of 12-2. Brazil and Turkey voted against the resolution, citing concerns that the council had not exhausted diplomatic efforts to resolve its standoff with Iran. Lebanon abstained. The Obama administration succeeded in securing support for sanctions from the council's major powers, inc

Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain

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Brian McCrary just bought a website to complain about a $90 speeding ticket he received from the Bluff City PD — the Bluff City Police Department site. The department let its domain expire and McCrary was quick to pick it up . From the article: "Brian McCrary found the perfect venue to gripe about a $90 speeding ticket when he went to the Bluff City Police Department's website, saw that its domain name was about to expire, and bought it right out from under the city's nose. Now that McCrary is the proud owner of the site, bluffcitypd.com , the Gray, Tenn., computer network designer has been using it to post links about speed cameras — like the one on U.S. Highway 11E that caught him — and how people don't like them."