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Fox News Projects Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker Will Survive Recall Election Called by Union Leaders and Retain His Position

Fox News projects that…. Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker to become first governor in US history to survive recall election, ending months of bitter acrimony that started when Walker and the state scaled back labor unions’ rights. Wisconsin residents on Tuesday voted in favor of keeping GOP Gov. Scott Walker in a recall election organized after he eliminated collective bargain agreements for most state employees to cut a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall, Fox News projects. Fox News called the race shortly before 10 p.m. Eastern Time. Walker in surviving the recall election, beat back a challenge by Democratic Milwaukee...

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France hits back at Obama over Europe debt crisis

By Channel News Asia ROME, June 05, 2012 – French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Tuesday hit back at comments by US President Barack Obama about the threat of the European debt crisis, saying it had originated in the United States. “The crisis did not start in Europe… Lehman Brothers was not a European bank,” Fabius said after talks with his counterpart Giulio Terzi in Rome. “We should not shift responsibility. We’re all in the same boat,” he said. Obama said Saturday that Europe’s economic woes were causing trouble for the United States’ own economy, after the US unemployment...

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Book Review: Common Ground: Islam, Christianity and Religious Pluralism

Author: Paul L. Heck Publisher: Georgetown University Press – 240 pages Book Review by:  Paiso Jamakar Common ground is an uncommon book. How many books have you come across that point out the commonalities of two religions? Probably none. Paul L. Heck, author of this book, Common Ground: Islam, Christianity and Religious Pluralism, writes of a shared Christian-Muslim love of God and love of neighbor today, at a time of the ‘war on terrorism’ in Afghanistan. There was religious conflict between Muslims and Jews in another part of the Middle East – in the Gaza Strip. Through the successful...

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Book Review: The Indian Slow Cooker

Author: Anupy Singla Publisher:  Surrey Books, An Agate Imprint – 136  pages Book Review by:  Laxmi Chaandi This book contains 50 easy-to-follow recipes for delicious Indian food. It is amply illustrated with many full-page and full-color photographs of scrumptious dishes that immediately make your mouth water. These are mainly vegetarian delights, but towards the end, you get a good share of creative non-vegetarian fare – for example, Pakistani “old clothes” beef curry; lamb biryani and minced lamb with peas; and several chicken dishes, namely the old favorite butter chicken, chicken tikka masala and the traditional Indian chicken curry. At...

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Countdown to the Next Megashock! How to Profit …

by Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. Monday, June 4, 2012 at 7:30am The countdown to the next Lehman-type event has begun …May 25, 2012 — the first major shock: Bankia, one of Spain’s largest banking conglomerates, reveals it needs an additional $23.8 billion to cover massive losses — money which the Spanish government simply does not have. Result: Major bank runs, already under way in Greece and Spain, accelerate. May 29 — the last nail in Spain’s coffin: Retail sales plunge 9.8%. Result: This landmark event is expected to drive the country’s 24.4% unemployment rate to unheard-of levels. May 30...

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