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...Midnight Express to relieve government troops holed up in a fort in the Tamil Tiger hotbed of Jaffna, rescuing several hundred soldiers and winning commendations for his bravery. Accompanying him on the mission was Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of the President, and currently Sri Lanka's iron-fisted - and allegedly corrupt - Secretary for Defense...
...arrogance, with scorn for the U.S. There is a long legacy of Chinese distrust of the West. Today, Chinese nationalists cannot explicitly criticize Beijing, but they can indirectly attack the government by challenging the close relationship between the U.S. and China. For many in China, the U.S. is a corrupt nation that bears China no goodwill and will drag China down if Beijing doesn't find a way to distance itself from the American economic embrace...
...brave leader who stands strong against interfering Western imperialists. This further victimizes people in many ways: it provides leaders with a golden opportunity to censure the media, an opportunity to instill fear among people, a justification to arrest people on charges of conspiracy, and a reason to align with corrupt foreign governments that wait for an opportunity to exploit the situation. Mahinda Rajapakse’s government has already taken measures to block several web based news sources from people living in Sri Lanka. The government has already started to arrest newspaper editors...
...says Raymond Baker, executive director of Global Financial Integrity, the capital-flight argument is similar to the businesses' objection to the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which outlawed overseas bribery. U.S. businesses would be at a competitive disadvantage, it was warned. Over time, though, America's example set a new global standard. Argues Baker: "There would be no net loss to the U.S. economy by eliminating secrecy. On the contrary, the more we can do to make the U.S. economy transparent, the more we can strengthen [it], and the more we will attract money from overseas...
...especially liberals, waved signs against health care reform and out-of-control federal spending. The conservative protesters unfurled their banners and hoisted placards that read "Give Harry the boot" (with a real boot as a prop; and that would be Harry Mitchell, the local Democratic Congressman) and "Stop the Corrupt Health Care Bill - Drug Test Congress." (See pictures of Tea Party protest signs...