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发帖数: 3464 | 1 http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/article/111828/million-dol
What do dog washing facilities, virtual golf rooms, and movie-theater-sized
screening rooms have in common?
More from CBS MoneyWatch.com:
World's Most Expensive Home
Diet Guru Selling $9 Million Mansion
12 Biggest Remodeling Trends for 2011
[Click here to check home equity rates in your area.]
For the mega-rich they are just a few of the new amenities they can choose
to put in their next million dollar dream home purchase.
But yeste... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1741 | 2 Federer, Novak Djokovic poised to become first $100 million men in tennis
No player in the history of tennis has had $100 million on-court earnings
but Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer should become the first.
Comments (1)
By: AFP | Paris | Updated: December 26, 2015 2:51 pm
Roger Federer, Federer, Novak Djokovic, Djokovic, Federer vs Djokovic,
Djokovic vs Federer, Federer earnings, Djokovic earnings, tennis earnings,
tennis news, federer news, djokovic news, tennis
Novak Djokovic (R) has ju... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10208 | 3 The Mega Millions jackpot has reached historic proportions. With no jackpot
winner in Tuesday’s drawing, the jackpot for March 30, 2012 is an estimated
$540 million. This is the largest lottery jackpot in world history,
surpassing the previous record of $390 million.
If one ticket matches all six numbers for the half-billion dollar mega-
jackpot, the winner would have the choice of receiving the full jackpot in
26 annual payments of about $20.7 million, or a cash option of approximately
$389.8 m... 阅读全帖 |
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b*x
发帖数: 5456 | 4 CPS set for $200 million in cuts; mayor floats property tax plan
CTU responds to CPS proposed cuts
Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jesse Sharkey responds to Chicago
Public Schools' proposed cuts on July 1, 2015, at CTU headquarters.
By Bill Ruthhart, Bill Ruthhart and Heather Gillers
Chicago Tribune
contact the reporters Educators Elementary Schools Pensions Rahm Emanuel
Chicago Public Schools Chicago City Hall Chicago Teachers Union
Mayor Emanuel, schools chief outline cuts to jobs, serv... 阅读全帖 |
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m*z
发帖数: 2356 | 5 Here is his story, in his own words
The Communists had attained their goal, defeating the Saigon regime. As I
prepared to get onto the boat headed for America in 1977, I glanced back at
my homeland, Vietnam, believing it to be for the last time. It had taken me
a long time to save up the seven ounces of gold for currency to pay for my
passage on the boat, but I was now getting ready for the journey, under
cover of darkness. (You were not allowed to leave Vietnam without
permission, and permis... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 6 Posted on June 7th, 2012
This week, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker made history be being the first
governor to win a recall election. The cost of the recall, including the
primary and the general election, is estimated at $18 million. (And that’s
not including the millions of dollars that were spent advertising and
campaigning.)
The recall election never should have happened. The Wisconsin law allowing
recall elections was created to allow voters to remove from office elected
officials involve... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 630 | 7 The capital of high tech is now the capital of high-priced real estate.
Silicon Valley currently leads the nation in the number of homes sold for $1
million or more, according to Realtytrac. Sales of $1 million-plus have
more than doubled in many communities in the Valley this year, toppling
longtime luxury real-estate leaders like Beverly Hills or Miami.
Topping the list is Saratoga, Calif., in Santa Clara County, which had 225
homes sold for $1 million or more. That marked a 162 percent increa... 阅读全帖 |
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D*A
发帖数: 1169 | 8 $1 Million? that normally is the prize for the champion of poker tournament,
and a big one.
but here, it is just a BUY-IN.
and... in this game, what if you got quads??
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-02/poker-1-million-buy-in
Russian businessman Mikhail Smirnov folded four eights, believing he was
beaten by a straight flush, as the first $1 million buy-in charity
tournament at the World Series of Poker began.
Poker professional Bryan Rast leads 37 players remaining in the tournament,
calle... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19398 | 9 By Diane Ravitch
Leonie Haimson tells the story about her discovery that the New York City
Department of Education was about to award a multi-million dollar contract
to a tech company that had been previously been involved in scandal. When
you read this account, you will understand the importance of citizen
vigilance. Who else but Leonie Haimson would lounge around on a lazy Sunday
afternoon reading the list of DOE contracts due to be voted on that week?
That is why you should contribute to her ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 60932 | 10 i say bet on gold
Link:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44207374/CNBC_S_MILLION_DOLLAR_PORTFOLIO
NO RISK. ALL REWARD. GRAND PRIZE: $1 MILLION
Registration for the ten-week, global fantasy stock and currency trading
competition opens today
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Aug. 22, 2011 -- What would you do if you had a
million dollars? Would you buy something? Invest it? Give it away? Starting
today, all aspiring millionaires can register to try their hand at managing
a $1 million "CNBC Bucks" stock & currency por... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16594 | 11 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made $
42.7 million over the past two years and paid $6.2 million in taxes,
according to documents released Tuesday by his campaign.
Romney and his wife, Ann, filed a joint 1040 reporting $21.7 million in 2010
income and $3 million in federal taxes. They also said their 2011 income
was $21 million and tax bill was $3.2 million.
Over the two years, Romney's effective tax rate -- the percentage of his
income that he owed in feder... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 12 I'm really struggling to work out what all the fuss is about over this one.
It seems to me to be much ado about nothing. Breaking news: Mitt Romney is
very rich. He also gave millions and millions of dollars to charity and to
the taxman.
In the early hours of this morning, some 550 pages of Mitt Romney's tax
returns and a 2011 tax summary were released by his campaign. Just after
dawn, there was a long campaign conference call for bleary-eyed reporters in
which an accountant (who sounded exactly... 阅读全帖 |
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k**********4
发帖数: 16092 | 13 Game Rules
The numbers picked for the prizes consist of 5 numbers picked at random
from a pool of 56 numbers (the White Numbers). Then a single number (the
Mega Number) is picked from a second pool that has 46 numbers. If the
results of these random number selections match one of the winning
combinations on your lottery ticket, then you win something.
In any combinatorics problem where all possible outcomes are equally
likely, the probability of a successful outcome is determined by findin... 阅读全帖 |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 14 By Lucas Grindley
ELLEN DEGENERES PEOPLES CHOICE 390x (GETTY) ADVOCATE.COM
Ellen DeGeneres at the People's Choice Awards.
When a group called One Million Moms called for Ellen DeGeneres to be fired
from her new job as spokesperson for JCPenney, the comedian used her show to
respond, and she noted in passing how their name doesn't add up.
"Not that there's anyone counting, but for a group that calls themselves the
million moms, they only have 40,000 members on their page," she mentioned
as part o... 阅读全帖 |
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K******S
发帖数: 10109 | 15 131 million voters cast their ballots in the 2008 election in which Barack
Obama defeated John McCain by a 53% to 46% margin. Obama received 69.4
million votes, while McCain received 59.9 million.
In 2012, Obama defeated Romney by a 50% to 48% margin. Obama received 59.8
million votes, and Romney received 57.1 million votes -- 2.7 million fewer
than Obama in 2012, but also 2.8 million fewer than McCain in 2008.
Surprisingly, President Obama's 2012 vote total -- 59.8 million -- was 100,
000 less ... 阅读全帖 |
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K******S
发帖数: 10109 | 16 131 million voters cast their ballots in the 2008 election in which Barack
Obama defeated John McCain by a 53% to 46% margin. Obama received 69.4
million votes, while McCain received 59.9 million.
In 2012, Obama defeated Romney by a 50% to 48% margin. Obama received 59.8
million votes, and Romney received 57.1 million votes -- 2.7 million fewer
than Obama in 2012, but also 2.8 million fewer than McCain in 2008.
Surprisingly, President Obama's 2012 vote total -- 59.8 million -- was 100,
000 less ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 17 Public 'Inauguration' Just for Show, Likely to Cost Taxpayers Over $100
Million
3:53 PM, Dec 6, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER
Stephen Dinan reports that "Because next year's inauguration falls on a
Sunday, President Obama will hold only a small, private swearing-in ceremony
on Jan. 20, and will hold a big public redo the next day. The Inaugural
Committee announced Thursday that activities will last three days: a day of
service on Saturday, the small private ceremony on Sunday, and the public
swe... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 18 Historic! 300 Million Americans Avoid Obama’s State of the Union as Ratings
Plummet
Posted by Jammie on Jan 21, 2015 at 5:15 pm
Lowest ratings in 15 years. Like the overwhelming majority of Americans, we
avoided it.
Television viewership for President Obama’s State of the Union address
fell to a 15-year low, according to numbers from Nielsen.
The hour and fiftenn minute-long speech drew an average of 31.7 million
viewers on broadcast and cable networks Tuesday, the measurement firm said.... 阅读全帖 |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 19 Toyota ordered to pay $11.4 million in fatal Camry crash
by Ben Rooney @ben_rooney
February 4, 2015: 3:22 PM ET
Koau Fong Lee spent more than two years in prison after his Toyota (TM)
unexpectedly sped up and crashed into another car, instantly killing two
people and badly injuring three others.
On Monday, a jury in Minnesota found that Toyota was 60% responsible for the
accident and ordered the automaker to pay $11.4 million to Lee, his family
and victims of the crash.
The verdict, which c... 阅读全帖 |
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f*****g
发帖数: 15860 | 20 【 以下文字转载自 WashingtonDC 讨论区 】
发信人: kap (靠谱), 信区: WashingtonDC
标 题: $640 Million Mega Millions Jackpot Hit in Maryland
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Mar 31 01:21:59 2012, 美东)
http://mdlottery.com/640-million-mega-millions-jackpot-hit-in-m
Winning Ticket Sold in Baltimore County one of several nationwide
Maryland sold one of the winning tickets for last night’s record-breaking $
640 million Mega Millions jackpot. The lucky ticket was purchased at a retai
ler in Baltimore County. Lottery officials are waitin... 阅读全帖 |
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s******g
发帖数: 466 | 21 One couple has turned their passion for home movies into a lucrative career
— banking more than $1 million from their YouTube channel that’s probably
best known for videos of their kids playing with Thomas the Tank Engine toys.
Mark and Rhea, who go by the YouTube username “ilovemaything,” are the
parents behind the popular YouTube channel Hulyan Maya. In fact, “popular”
may be an understatement: According to Tubefilter, which posts weekly
charts of the most-viewed YouTube channels, the Hulyan M... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 22 Tuesday, June 14, 2011
By Matt Cover
(CNSNews.com) – Twenty-eight months after Congress passed President Obama’
s signature economic stimulus law, and nearly one year after he declared the
summer of 2010 to be “Recovery Summer,” 1.9 million fewer people are
employed.
In February 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 141.7
million people were employed. By the end of May 2011 – the last month for
which data are available – that number had fallen to 139.8 million, a
difference of... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 23 2:40 PM, Aug 8, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER
A new chart set to be released later today by the Republican side of the
Senate Budget Committee details a startling statistic: "Over 100 Million
People in U.S. Now Receiving Some Form Of Federal Welfare."
"The federal government administers nearly 80 different overlapping federal
means-tested welfare programs," the Senate Budget Committee notes. However,
the committee states, the figures used in the chart do not include those who
are only benefiting... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 24 by Kerry Sheridan
Hyundai and Kia agreed to pay 0 million on November 3, 2014, to settle a US
government investigation into exaggerated fuel efficiency on 2012 and 2013
car models sold in the United States
Washington (AFP) - Hyundai and Kia agreed to pay $100 million Monday to
settle a US government investigation into exaggerated fuel efficiency on
2012 and 2013 car models sold in the United States by the South Korean
automakers.
The US Department of Justice said it marked the largest civil pena... 阅读全帖 |
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m****g
发帖数: 2215 | 25 【 以下文字转载自 USChineseRight 俱乐部 】
发信人: mofang (mofang), 信区: USChineseRight
标 题: Trump goes big with $140 million ad buy
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Sep 25 00:15:10 2016, 美东)
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-goes-big-with-expected-140-million-ad-buy/article/2602764
Donald Trump's campaign is expected to drop an estimated $140 million on ads
through Election Day, AP reported late Friday.
The buy would include $100 million in television airtime and $40 million in
digital ads, according to senior commu... 阅读全帖 |
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W********s
发帖数: 2256 | 26 http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/12/30/sports-fbc-cost-of-bowling_8230139.html
1. Ohio State
2. Alabama
3. Notre Dame
4. Auburn
5. LSU
The numbers grow every year: 35 bowl games, 70 teams - the morphing of what
was once a New Year's
Day tradition into one that kicks off in mid-December and finishes closer to
Martin Luther King Day than
Jan. 1.
And if those bowl-season stats seem bloated, try this: Ohio State and
Alabama each spend more than $31
million a year to run their football programs, w... 阅读全帖 |
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j**n
发帖数: 13789 | 27 【 以下文字转载自 astrology 讨论区 】
发信人: jnyn (天上的星星不说话 闪闪的泪光鲁冰花), 信区: astrology
标 题: Millions of Starts in the sky, there is only One sprit
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jan 22 18:09:18 2014, 美东)
找到首好听的歌：
Only One
Only one lyrics:
Millions of stars in the sky
The universe beams with it's endless display
Millions of galaxies bright
Suns, planets, and moons, like our own Milky Way
Millions of creatures below
The creation explodes with its species and kinds
Millions of types in the sea
The earth, and the air, great ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 311 | 28 ID:
Clairdelune
歌名:
One In A Million
创作说明:
第一耳朵听到NE YO唱这首歌，就被它的节奏所吸引，很酷。
这是首男人唱的歌，歌词外向，女人唱有点不好意思，但由于喜欢，就决定翻唱了。
宅在家中小屋整整一个晚上，这首歌完成了。
由于这首歌有很多重叠的旋律和和声，开了12轨来录所有的VOICES。
从唱到录制都是自己一人操纵，虽然家庭录音质量不高，但是唱完开心不已。
快乐就是这么简单。 谢谢。 ：））
歌曲链接:
词曲作者:
Ne-Yo and Chuck Harmony
原唱:
Ne-Yo
歌词:
One In A Million
Jet setter / Go getter / Nothing better
Call me Ms. been there done that
Top model chick to your every day hood rat
Less than all but more than a few
But I\'ve never met one like you
Been all over the world
Done a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3464 | 29 Amazon.com has just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire
Quidsi, which operates ecommerce sites Diapers.com, Soap.com and BeautyBar.
com. The acquisition news first broke over the weekend by Fortune抯 Dan
Primack, who pegged the purchase price at $540 million.
Primack wasn抰 that far off Amazon says it will acquire all of the
outstanding shares of Quidsi for approximately $500 million in cash.
The ecommerce juggernaut will also assume approximately $45 million in debt
and similar ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 30 Posted on Advocate.com March 08, 2012 05:45:45 PM ET
Ellen Wins: One Million Moms Group Concedes JCPenney Fight
By Lucas Grindley
ELLE DEGENERES 201201 X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
The group pushing to get Ellen DeGeneres fired from her job as a spokeswoman
for JCPenney is giving up, according to an interview with a conservative
website.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation sent a celebratory news
release today with the headline, "You did it! 'One Million Moms' abandons
call for Ellen ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 31 President Obama’s highly-touted green jobs program -- born out of his 2009
stimulus package -- has spent more than $111 million to train 18,000 people
who still haven't landed a job.
Elliot P. Lewis, the assistant inspector general of the Labor Department,
laid out his findings Wednesday at a House Oversight and Government Reform
subcommittee hearing entitled "The Green Energy Debacle: Where Has All the
Taxpayer Money Gone?"
The Labor Department awarded $490.1 million of the $500 million it rece... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 32 Economy Lost 2.84 Million Jobs in Jan., Yet Press Pretends Seasonally
Adjusted 157K Jobs Added Represents What Actually Happened
By Tom Blumer | February 02, 2013
Following the governmemt's Employment Situation Summary yesterday, two words
were noticeably absent at the Associated Press (here, here, and here),
Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, and the New York Times: "seasonally adjusted."
While they told their readers of the number of jobs supposedly added in
total (157,000) and in other sectors, the f... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 33 Awesome: Cost of ObamaCare’s Failed Massachusetts Site Now Tops $500
Million
by Jammie via Jammie Wearing Fools
Government efficiency! Remember not too long ago when Obama told us how much
money this boondoggle would save? Yeah, about that:
The total cost to implement Obamacare in Massachusetts surpassed a half-
billion dollars yesterday, as the Health Connector board agreed to seek an
additional $121 million in federal funds to try to rescue the money-
hemorrhaging health exchange.
“Thi... 阅读全帖 |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 34 FBI Files Say Hedge Fund Analyst Made Millions on Tips From Dell Insider
By Neil Weinberg, David Glovin and Patricia Hurtado Nov 25, 2014 4:00 AM CT
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Jan. 7, “Part of our job is to
make sure... Read More
The FBI files spell it out: An analyst at Citadel LLC, the hedge fund with $
23 billion in capital invested globally, told agents he made millions of
dollars trading on information from a company insider.
It was December 2011, and the Justice Department ... 阅读全帖 |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 35 The next Powerball winner could get $400 million.
More than 2 million players took home smaller prizes on Saturday. Three
contestants took home $1 million apiece. Someone in Pennsylvania also won $2
million.
But no one claimed the grand prize, which keeps growing.
The next drawing is on Wednesday. Powerball estimates the chances of someone
picking the jackpot-winning numbers are about 1 in 300 million.
A $400 million win would be one of the biggest Powerball jackpots of all
time.
An 84-year-old ... 阅读全帖 |
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R**********n
发帖数: 523 | 36 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: RichardBiton (Richard), 信区: USANews
标 题: Millions of Broken American Dreams zzz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 13 16:11:58 2013, 美东)
http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerles... 阅读全帖 |
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z****n
发帖数: 5870 | 37 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: RichardBiton (Richard), 信区: USANews
标 题: Millions of Broken American Dreams zzz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 13 16:11:58 2013, 美东)
http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerles... 阅读全帖 |
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d*2
发帖数: 2053 | 38 http://www.detnews.com/article/20110224/AUTO01/102240436/1361/T
Last Updated: February 24. 2011 12:52PM
Toyota recalling 2 million vehicles in U.S.
David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau
Washington— Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling nearly 2.2 million vehicles in
the United States to address trapped accelerator pedals as the government
ended an investigation into the automaker.
The massive recalls announced today resolve a yearlong government
investigation into whether it recalled enoug... 阅读全帖 |
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R**********n
发帖数: 523 | 39 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: RichardBiton (Richard), 信区: USANews
标 题: Millions of Broken American Dreams zzz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 13 16:11:58 2013, 美东)
http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerles... 阅读全帖 |
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z****n
发帖数: 5870 | 40 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: RichardBiton (Richard), 信区: USANews
标 题: Millions of Broken American Dreams zzz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 13 16:11:58 2013, 美东)
http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerles... 阅读全帖 |
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z****n
发帖数: 5870 | 41 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: RichardBiton (Richard), 信区: USANews
标 题: Millions of Broken American Dreams zzz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 13 16:11:58 2013, 美东)
http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerles... 阅读全帖 |
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k*p
发帖数: 1526 | 42 http://mdlottery.com/640-million-mega-millions-jackpot-hit-in-m
Winning Ticket Sold in Baltimore County one of several nationwide
Maryland sold one of the winning tickets for last night’s record-breaking $
640 million Mega Millions jackpot. The lucky ticket was purchased at a retai
ler in Baltimore County. Lottery officials are waiting for information on ja
ckpot winners from other Mega Millions states. The multi-state Mega Millions
game is played in 44 states and jurisdictions – including Maryl... 阅读全帖 |
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r***6
发帖数: 401 | 43 US Govt betters Civilians, buys additional 21 million rounds of Ammo
Thursday, 07 February 2013
The US Government seems to have find a good way to spend tax payers dollars.
But it isn't new roads or hospitals... it's Guns and Ammo!
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The US Department of Homeland Security is set to purchase a further 21.6
million rounds of ammunition to add to the 1.6 billion bullets it has
already obtained over the course of the last 10 months alone, figures which
have stoked conc... 阅读全帖 |
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j**n
发帖数: 13789 | 44 找到首好听的歌：
Only One
Only one lyrics:
Millions of stars in the sky
The universe beams with it's endless display
Millions of galaxies bright
Suns, planets, and moons, like our own Milky Way
Millions of creatures below
The creation explodes with its species and kinds
Millions of types in the sea
The earth, and the air, great abundance to find
In all of creation there's more
One reason, One power, One source
Chorus:
There's only One Father
There's only One Son
There's only One Spirit by which we are w... 阅读全帖 |
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e*****a
发帖数: 1334 | 45 MIAMI (AP) -- Federal authorities charged more than 100 doctors, nurses and
physical therapists in nine cities with Medicare fraud Thursday, part of a
massive nationwide bust that snared more suspects than any other in history.
More than 700 law enforcement agents fanned out to arrest 111 people accused
of illegally billing Medicare more than $225 million. The arrests are the
latest in a string of major busts in the past two years as authorities have
struggled to pare the fraud that's believed t... 阅读全帖 |
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h**********i
发帖数: 183 | 46 (New York) -- A hedge-fund company has filed a lawsuit against controversial
Chinese businessman Guo Wengui in New York, claiming that the elusive real
estate tycoon owes it $88 million due to a “straightforward breach of
contract case.”
Guo, also known as Miles Kwok, fled China in 2014 soon before the Communist
Party’s graft fighters detained his close associate Ma Jian, a former
national security official who remains under investigation for suspected
corruption. Interpol recently issued a “red... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 454 | 47 LONDON As treasure-in-the attic stories go, the 18th-century Chinese vase
sold at a suburban auction house in outer London on Thursday night will be
hard to beat.
The delicate, decorative 16-inch vase started at a not-inconsequential $800,
000, but after a half-hour of unexpectedly spirited bidding, the gavel fell
at $69.5 million. It was the highest price ever paid at auction for a
Chinese antiquity.
Adding in the 20 percent buyer抯 premium levied by the auction house and
Britain抯 value-added ta... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 523 | 48 http://www.weidb.com/voice/index.php?title=Millions_of_Broken_A
Millions of Broken American Dreams -- An Open Letter to the World
November 12, 2013
Dear Fair and Righteous Citizens of the World,
We don't know who you are, but we know you are out there. We are
asking for your urgent help. We have been rendered voiceless, powerless, and
hopeless by the American mass media and many Americans. The American mass
media have lost journalistic ethics and objectivity and have been blatantly... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 by Jammie
Let’s just go and round it up to a cool billion since anything Obama
touches winds up costing us far more than is ever originally reported. Now
we have a trifling discrepancy of a few hundred million from earlier
reports about the mess that is Solyndra.
The cost to taxpayers for the failure of solar panel company Solyndra
may be much higher than the $535 million dollar federal loan guarantee the
company received. After the company went bankrupt in last August, 2011, the
Energy Dep... 阅读全帖 |
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