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Mitt Romney Hid Swiss Bank Account!
And Paid Less Tax Than A Peanut Vendor!
Mitt The Reaper
By Steve Holland and Kim Dixon
TAMPA, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters)
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released tax records on Tuesday indicating he will pay $6.2 million in taxes on a total of $42.5 million in income over the years 2010 and 2011.
Bowing to increasing political pressure to provide more detail about his vast wealth, the former private equity executive released tax returns indicating he and his wife, Ann, paid an effective tax rate of 13.9 percent in 2010. They expect to pay a 15.4 percent rate when they file their returns for 2011.
Romney's tax rate is below that of most wage-earning Americans because most of his income, as outlined in more than 500 pages of tax documents, flows from capital gains on investments.
Far less expected was Obama’s use of the bin Laden episode to present a community-minded worldview that contrasts so sharply with the highly individualistic and anti-government message that has been heard over and over from the Republicans seeking to replace him.
At the very beginning of his speech, the president pivoted from “the courage, selflessness and teamwork of America’s armed forces” to the post-World War II nation of his Kansas grandparents. If the war against fascism was followed by “a story of success that every American had a chance to share,” surely we can find our way again to “an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules.”
Or the National Review. Or the American Spectator. OrAnn Coulter. If they do, Gingrich comes off looking like a dangerous, anti-Reagan, Clintonian fraud.
It’s as if the conservative media over the past 24 hours decided Gingrich is for real, and they need to come clean about the man they really know before it’s too late. This is just a sampling of what’s hitting Newt: Bob Dole issued a scathing statement Thursday that the Romney campaignprovided to the National Reviewin which he said “it is now time” to rally to stop Gingrich, blamed the former Speaker for losing House Republican seats in 1996, and warned that it could happen again, at all levels of government.
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Kobe Bryant’s Latina Wife Gets His Three Mansions!
Kobe Bryant’s soon-to-be ex wife is winning big these days. The Mexican basketball wife, who filed for divorce from the L.A. Lakers star last month after he reportedly stepped out of the marriage, just got all three of Bryant’s mansions worth close to $18.8 million, the Los Angeles Times reports. Celebrities Who Had Affairs With Employees And this is only the beginning of what Mrs. Bryant is expected to get, as the divorce with Kobe Bryant is finalized. The Los Angeles Times says experts believe Vanessa Bryant will get around $75 million and additional funds in child support. The properties that Mrs. Bryant has transferred to her name include the mansion inside the Pelican Hill Resort which is still under construction worth $ 11.2 million, their other Newport Beach home which was co-owned, worth $2.9 million, and the home which was under Kobe Bryant’s trust worth $4.7 million. Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2012/01/23/kobe-bryants-latina-wife-gets-his-three-mansions-report-says.
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Dudley Thompson, Icon of Ja's and African Independence Struggle, Gaan to Myal!
Hon. Dudley Thompson, Q.C.Commander of the Order of Jamaica
THE Hon Dudley Thompson OJ, QC who died on Friday in New York at the age of 95 was a genuine Jamaican hero whose important contributions extend beyond this island to the Third World, Africa and the African diaspora.
Indeed, his years of service and advocacy on behalf of the African people influenced the Organisation of African Unity to name him an ‘African Legend’.
War veteran, lawyer, politician, government minister and Ambassador, his stature is not fully appreciated because he was a controversial politician associated with the Green Bay operation in which he said “no angles died”. However, he later issued a public apology, a precedent which others who have far more to apologise for should follow.
He was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force during World War II, a rare distinction for a black man from the colonies. After his war service he returned to Jamaica, joined the People’s National Party and was among the leaders who championed the cause of the disgruntled returning servicemen.
He was a graduate of Mico College and his academic brilliance won him the coveted Rhodes Scholarship which he took up at Oxford University, graduating with an MA in Jurisprudence and was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in London in 1950.
While in England, Mr Thompson was a colleague of Messrs George Padmore, CLR James and Kwame Nkrumah.
Ambassador Thompson, who was president of the Jamaican Bar Association and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1963, established his early legal practice in Tanganyika (later renamed Tanzania) and Kenya where he defended Messrs Jomo Kenyatta during the trials for leading the Mau Mau rebellion and Julius Nyerere.
