Obama and AIG profits taxation

I can only agree with the decision of the President Obama to control the profits of AIG imposing a  tax/rate of 90% of the profits for shareholders of this economic colossus. I await with some anxiety social measures promised by Obama. I think above all this decision shows dignity and commitment to their voters that needs to be done in stages. It seems that the era of capitalism for Obama is a social democracy that pleases me

House votes to recoup bonuses from bailed-out firms

WASHINGTON. Moving with unusual speed, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation to recoup most of the $165 million in bonuses paid to American International Group Inc employees.

Responding to public and political outrage to the bonuses after the insurer received a government bailout up to $180 billion, lawmakers voted 328-93 for a bill to impose a 90 percent tax on bonuses for executives whose incomes exceed $250,000.

The tax would apply to executives of any company that received at least $5 billion in government bailout money. A different measure to recover the bonus money was expected to be considered by the Senate.

(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky and Susan Cornwell, editing by Neil Stempleman and David Storey)

Reuter

That's my comment

I do not feel like talking about it... it's horrible ... and it always bring a deterministic spiral that deeply irritates me

Fritzl changes his plea

ST. POELTEN, AUSTRIA. Josef Fritzl reversed his plea and admitted guilt on all charges yesterday after watching the daughter he locked up and raped for 24 years describe her ordeal in 11 hours of video testimony.

His defense lawyer later said he thought the sight of his daughter Elisabeth giving shocking testimony had forced Fritzl to change his plea.
The 73-year-old Austrian, who fathered seven children with his daughter in a purpose-built cellar under his house, admitted enslaving her and murdering one of their babies by neglecting to seek medical treatment for the infant. Defense lawyer Rudolf Mayer said:  “He saw his daughter on the video for the first time and I think that this could have brought about the change.” 
He is likely to face the rest of his life behind bars.
 

Mumbai businessman arrested for 'raping' daughters

NEW DELHI: In a case which is similar to that of the Joseph Fritzl's case, a 60-year-old businessman was arrested on Wednesday by the Mira Road Police for allegedly raping his daughters over an extended span of time, according to Times Now.

His elder daughter (21), who suffered in silence for nine long years, finally mustered courage and blew the lid on the crime after her father turned on her 15-yr-old younger sister. 

The mother of the girls has also been arrested for abetting the crime. The case bears a sinister resemblance to that of Josef Fritzl in Austria, who confined his daughter to a cellar in his house for 24 years and repeatedly raped her, even as he fathered seven children. 

According to police the couple were under the influence of a 'tantrik', who told them in July 2000 that the family would prosper if the father were to have a sexual relationship with his daughter, who was then 12 years. The 'tantrik' too has been arrested after the daughters filed a complaint.

Senior inspector Mukund Mahajan said the matter is being investigated and the trio would be produced in court on Thursday. 

The businessman, who hails from Gujarat, owns a manufacturing unit of radium plates and automobiles in Andheri.

Irresponsible and insensitive

Benedict XVI believes that "an action intended to prevent procreation means to deny the intimate truth of conjugal love." 

Inadvisable to use the condom the Pope is complicit in the spread of AIDS. 
Inadvisable to use the condoms, the Pope is also responsible for the increase in the recourse to abortion but it is also against abortion

 the Pope contributes to the increase in family numbers of the poorest people, especially in countries where the population explosion is one of the factors that most contributes to hunger and poverty . 

If you love life, the Catholic priests are required to be at the forefront of the awareness of all for the use of condoms. If you are part of the suffering of the poor can not fail to be outraged with this crap. There is no doctrine to justify such irresponsibility. There is no obedience to justify such insesibilidade. There is faith that justifies so many dead.

Pope Benedict's Expected Stance Against Condoms To Prevent HIV 'Fights Human Nature,' Opinion Piece Says

  Pope Benedict XVI likely "will not depart one iota from John Paul II's fervent opposition to anything other than the most rudimentary forms of birth control -- abstinence in one form or another -- including, of course, opposition to the use of condoms as a method" of HIV prevention, a position in which "we all have a stake," columnist Richard Cohen writes in aWashington Post opinion piece. Condoms are the "cheapest and most effective" method of preventing the spread of HIV, which is "particularly meaningful" in resource-poor settings, where often there are "no medical facilities to speak of," Cohen writes. The "catastrophe" of HIV/AIDS and population growth in areas of the world "that can least afford it are matters that concern us all," Cohen says, adding that the HIV/AIDS pandemic will result in the "death of so many people and the orphaning of children -- misery upon misery for people whose lives are already miserable enough." The pandemic also is contributing to the "near collapse of the African middle class," which "will cost us all money ... and it may result in a war or two," he says. The Catholic Church's promotion of abstinence and instruction against condom use in Catholic regions of the developing world "fights human nature itself," Cohen says (Cohen, Washington Post, 4/21).

Condoms are the "cheapest and most effective" method of preventing the spread of HIV, which is "particularly meaningful" in resource-poor settings