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• Illicit money flows grow in China, Iraq-report
• Syria "genuinely worried" extremists could get chemical weapons
• Senior al Qaeda man reported arrested in Algeria
• Bin Laden movie "Zero Dark Thirty" arrives, mired in controversy
• Wave of bombings kills 25 across Iraq
• US-Iraq ties still evolving a year after war's end
• Manhattan College Honors CBS Television Host Julie Chen at 2013 De La Salle Dinner
• AP: Workers say charity gave little money to vets
• Tea Party the Fuel Behind GOP Diversity
• U.S. National Guard Awarded GSN 2012 Most Notable Emergency Response Implementation for Usage of the Desktop Alert Mass Notification System Nationwide
• Brigadier General Paul L. Wentz To Join True North Logistics
• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey Brings Cheer to Troops Abroad on Second Annual USO Holiday Tour
• Jihadis bankroll aid efforts in Syria to win followers
• Republican Diversity Fueled by Tea Party
• Rutgers Partners with Pearson to Expand Access and Offer Greater Variety of Fully Online Graduate Degree Programs
• Wave of bombings kills 19 across Iraq
• Bombers, gunmen attack disputed Iraqi-Kurd areas
• 10 things you need to know today: December 17, 2012
• The Solution to Pain is Now Available Online by BecomePainFree.com
• Blast kills 5 in disputed area in northern Iraq
• Former New Mexico Secretary of Corrections Adolph B. Saenz Shares a No Holds Barred Account of Hell in a Santa Fe Prison

Illicit money flows grow in China, Iraq-report Posted: 17 Dec 2012 04:09 PM PST (Reuters) - Some 150 developing countries, led by China, have been the source of flows of tainted money totaling $5.9 trillion over 10 years through 2010, Global Financial Integrity, a research and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., said on Monday. Flows of illicit money from tax evasion, crime and corruption in the developing world have roared back to pre-financial crisis levels, topping nearly $859 billion in 2010, near the all-time high of $871 billion in 2008, it said. In 2009, following the global financial crisis, the figure dropped to $776 billion. ...

Syria "genuinely worried" extremists could get chemical weapons Posted: 17 Dec 2012 03:09 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria is "genuinely worried" that some countries might equip extremist groups with chemical weapons and then claim they were used by the Syrian government, the country's U.N. envoy said in a letter to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council. Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari also accused the U.S. government of supporting "terrorists" in Syria and waging a campaign that claims Syria could use chemical weapons in the 20-month-old civil war that has killed at least 40,000 people. ...

Senior al Qaeda man reported arrested in Algeria Posted: 17 Dec 2012 02:32 PM PST LONDON (Reuters) - The number two in the militant Islamist organization Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has been arrested in northern Algeria, an Algerian news website reported on Monday. The website of Tout Sur l'Algerie (TSA), an electronic daily, quoted security sources as saying that Salah Gasmi had been arrested on Sunday in front of a restaurant in the town of Cheurfa, about 90 miles southeast of Algiers. It was not possible to confirm the report immediately. AQIM is a pan-Maghreb jihadist organization that has taken responsibility for a number of attacks, particularly in Algeria. ...

Bin Laden movie "Zero Dark Thirty" arrives, mired in controversy Posted: 17 Dec 2012 11:13 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow could have made a testosterone-fueled shoot-'em-up Hollywood version of the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. Instead, she and screenwriter Mark Boal turned "Zero Dark Thirty" into a more complex look at the decade-long hunt for the al Qaeda leader, including a frank presentation of U.S. torture and previously undisclosed details of the mission to hunt down the man behind the September 11 attacks. When the film opens in limited U.S. ...

Wave of bombings kills 25 across Iraq Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:53 AM PST A wave of bombings hit ethnically disputed northern areas and other parts of Iraq on Monday, killing 25 people and wounding dozens.

US-Iraq ties still evolving a year after war's end Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:12 AM PST A year after the last American troops rumbled out of Iraq, the two countries are still trying to get comfortable with a looser, more nuanced relationship as the young democracy struggles to cope with political upheaval and the legacy of war.

Manhattan College Honors CBS Television Host Julie Chen at 2013 De La Salle Dinner Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:02 AM PST Chen, host of The Talk and Big Brother to receive medal.Riverdale, NY (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 Television personality Julie Chen, host of CBS' The Talk and Big Brother, will receive the 2013 De La Salle medal at Manhattan College's annual fundraising dinner on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. The event will be held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. As co-host and moderator of The Talk, network television's fastest growing daytime talk show, Chen works alongside Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood and Aisha Tyler. ...

AP: Workers say charity gave little money to vets Posted: 17 Dec 2012 08:40 AM PST A veterans charity already under scrutiny for how it raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in Tennessee handed out only a fraction of the money in the form of gift cards and threatened to fire workers ...

Tea Party the Fuel Behind GOP Diversity Posted: 17 Dec 2012 08:35 AM PST For Republicans who believe the tea party is responsible for the GOP's struggles, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's decision to choose Rep. Tim Scott to replace Jim DeMint in the Senate would have come as a stunner. The nation's second Indian-American governor appointed the only African-American who will be serving in the Senate come 2013. And not only are they both Republicans, they are tea party-aligned conservatives who took on the party establishment and won.

U.S. National Guard Awarded GSN 2012 Most Notable Emergency Response Implementation for Usage of the Desktop Alert Mass Notification System Nationwide Posted: 17 Dec 2012 08:34 AM PST Award reflective of the Desktop Alert Emergency Notification Platform Selection for nationwide deployments to the U.S. Air National Guard and The U.S. Army National Guard enterprise-wide computerized networks. Key award criteria was based on highly positive past performance reports provided to Desktop Alert by the National Guard. ...

Brigadier General Paul L. Wentz To Join True North Logistics Posted: 17 Dec 2012 08:26 AM PST Brigadier General Paul L. Wentz To Join True North LogisticsDowners Grove, IL (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 True North Logistics (TNL) announces that Brigadier General (U.S. Army Retired) Paul L. Wentz will join TNL as Vice President for Army Programs. BG Wentz brings extensive experience in logistics operations and management to TNL and his addition emphasizes TNL's recent decision to increase its expertise and capability to provide maintenance, repair and other related support services to the Army and other DoD organizations. He will be based in the True North Logistics Huntsville, AL. ...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey Brings Cheer to Troops Abroad on Second Annual USO Holiday Tour Posted: 17 Dec 2012 07:42 AM PST Continuing a time honored tradition of taking celebrity sports figures and entertainers overseas to visit and uplift troops over the holidays, General Dempsey just wrapped up the first leg of his seven-day, four-country USO tour. Along for the spirit lifting journey abroad are: Washington Capitals forward Matt Hendricks, Washington Nationals pitchers Ross Detwiler and Craig Stammen, critically-acclaimed country music singer Kellie Pickler and comedian/CBS "Excused" host Iliza Shlesinger. ...

Jihadis bankroll aid efforts in Syria to win followers Posted: 17 Dec 2012 07:40 AM PST To keep his small charity afloat in Aleppo where the cost of supplies have doubled and tripled in recent months, Abu Ahmad must cobble together funding from a range of donors that includes everyone from wealthy Syrian expatriates to charities in Europe.

Republican Diversity Fueled by Tea Party Posted: 17 Dec 2012 06:50 AM PST For Republicans who believe the tea party is responsible for the GOP's struggles, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's decision to choose Rep. Tim Scott to replace Jim DeMint in the Senate would have come as a stunner. The nation's second Indian-American governor appointed the only African-American who will be serving in the Senate come 2013. And not only are they both Republicans, they are tea party-aligned conservatives who took on the party establishment and won.

Rutgers Partners with Pearson to Expand Access and Offer Greater Variety of Fully Online Graduate Degree Programs Posted: 17 Dec 2012 06:36 AM PST Partnership offers new services, technology and content.New Brunswick, NJ (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 For more than a decade, thousands of Rutgers University students have been able to broaden their educations by taking a wide range of online courses offered by the university.Now Rutgers is preparing to significantly expand the reach of the university's online curriculum to even more students across New Jersey and beyond. ...

Wave of bombings kills 19 across Iraq Posted: 17 Dec 2012 05:58 AM PST A wave of bombings across Iraq on Monday targeted residents of ethnically disputed areas and Shiite pilgrims, killing 19 people and wounding dozens.

Bombers, gunmen attack disputed Iraqi-Kurd areas Posted: 17 Dec 2012 04:55 AM PST KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Bombers and gunmen killed at least 26 people in attacks mostly in northern Iraqi towns and villages on Monday in the second consecutive day of violence in areas at the center of a bitter feud between Baghdad and autonomous Kurdistan. The ethnically mixed "Disputed Territories" - the swathe of land marking Iraq from the area administered by Kurds in the north - have been a potential flashpoint for conflict since the buffer of the last American troops left a year ago. ...

10 things you need to know today: December 17, 2012 Posted: 17 Dec 2012 12:22 AM PST Obama vows action on gun violence, Syria's vice president wants unity, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion

The Solution to Pain is Now Available Online by BecomePainFree.com Posted: 17 Dec 2012 12:14 AM PST A New Website – BecomePainFree.com – Helps Those in Pain to HealDallas, Texas (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 Become Pain Free, a subsidiary of ACO America, an accountable care organization that tracks and organizes patient outcomes - has launched a new web site, BecomePainFree.com. Become Pain Free is a consumer friendly site for and provides information regarding the most innovative, advanced, minimally invasive procedures available to assist patients in their efforts to find solutions to their acute or chronic pain. ...

Blast kills 5 in disputed area in northern Iraq Posted: 16 Dec 2012 11:56 PM PST Iraqi authorities say a car bomb has killed five people and wounded eleven others in the country's north, the second day in a row in which blasts have targeted disputed regions there.

Former New Mexico Secretary of Corrections Adolph B. Saenz Shares a No Holds Barred Account of Hell in a Santa Fe Prison Posted: 16 Dec 2012 09:02 PM PST New book delves into the bloodiest prison uprising in U.S. penal history.Albuquerque, NM (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 On February 2, 1980, the Santa Fe Penitentiary erupted into the bloodiest, most savage prison riot in U.S. history… What caused the 1980 nightmare and was there nothing that could have been done to stop the inmates' savagery?Many books have been written about the murderous rampage that happened at the New Mexico State Penitentiary in 1980. However, only Adolph B. Saenz's book is the only one that offers a political perspective on this tragic event. ...

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