At the end of the Iraq war, it was expected that oil prices would fall close to $US20 a barrel. Instead they are close to $US30.

Pound said the US government had promised to pay $US1m this year, but that WADA was informed today by a junior White House drug office employee that the figure would be only $US800,000.

Mr Valent said if Australian agencies had any proof that Brigitte was a terrorist, they would have charged the Frenchman and jailed him instead of deporting him to France.

gore vidal:
But then, Franklin said, it will fail, as all such constitutions have in the past, because of the essential corruption of the people. He pointed his finger at all the American people. And when the people become so corrupt, he said, we will find it is not a republic that they want but rather despotism — the only form of government suitable for such a people.
So the corruption predicted by Franklin bears its terrible fruit. No one wants to do anything about it. It’s not even a campaign issue. Once you have a business community that is so corrupt in a society whose business is business, then what you have is, indeed, despotism.