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Penguin: Classic Corruption in Zambia in re Mining Taxes

A bit dated but still important.  BBC reports evidently suppressed. Refusing windfall tax is an injustice – Sardanis By Joe Kaunda and Chiwoyu Sinyangwe The Post Online, 12 November 2010 Andrew Sardanis has described the government’s refusal to reinstate the windfall tax regime in the mining sector as an injustice to the country. And economic …

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Penguin: TwitterGate – Gingrich Leads Political Corruption in Cyberspace, 92% Fake, Palin, Romney, Bachman, Pawlenty All Fake 70% of Their “Followers”

92 percent of Gingrich’s Twitter followers are fake, search firm says Newt Gringrich’s campaign denies the allegations, claiming they never used “agencies” to inflate the presidential candidate’s Twitter follower numbers. GlobalPost, 2 August 2011 A social media analytics site says that 92 percent of Newt Gingrich’s 1.3 million Twitter followers are fake. The New York-based …

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Penguin: Grand Theft USA – Details on 2004 Electoral Theft

Forget Anonymous: Evidence Suggests GOP Hacked, Stole 2004 Election By John Thorpe Benzinga Staff Writer July 21, 2011 1:07 PM EXTRACT “A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system configuration that was in use in Ohio’s 2004 presidential election when there …

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