The HinzSight Report

A quick look at news you might have missed from around the world for Friday, July 3, 2009.

Washington Post Cancels lobbyist event amid flap over access
Cynthia McKinney imprisoned in Israel
Goldman-Sachs The Great American Bubble Machine
Swine Flu unstoppable according to World Health Organization

Washington, DC

The planned "salon" at the home of Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth, at which the WaPo was going to charge attendees up to $250,000 to put them together with Obama administration officials, lobbyists and Washington Post reporters, has been canceled.

Originally advertised on a flier distributed by health care lobbyists, widespread reporting of the event led to controversy surrounding the symbiotic relationship between the newspaper, its reporters, and the Obama Administration.

A quick look at news you might have missed from around the world for Thursday, July 2, 2009.

Fuel tax could be replaced with by-the-mile road tax
Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza
Opposition leaders defy Iranian regime -- face imprisonment or death
Honduras defies pressure from dictators, UN and Obama

Kansas City, KS

As the CAFE standards for vehicles rise, and as drivers drive more miles between fueling, the federal government finds that its revenue for the fuel tax is going down. Good news for consumers? Not so fast -- enter the By-the-Mile tax.

New technologies being tried out by the University of Iowa will allow the federal government to track the number of miles you drive each month using GPS tracking devices in your vehicle, and send you a bill at the end of each month.

Government officials say this will be necessary to stem the rising cost of maintaining the nation's highways even as mileage improvements in vehicles occur.

What if, on January 21, 2001 instead of accompanying Vice President-Elect Dick Cheney to the Inauguration, Vice President Al Gore had led a large, angry mob in a march on Florida’s State Capitol building in Tallahassee to hand out Presidential survey election ballots ruled illegal by the Supreme Court? What if either of our impeached Presidents, Andrew Johnson or Bill Clinton, had lost their respective removal trials in the U.S. Senate but refused to vacate the White House and relinquish power?

A quick look at news you might have missed from around the world for Wednesday, July 1, 2009.

New York, NY

Obama, Clinton, Chavez, Castro and United Nations all agree on Honduras

The Obama Administration finds itself in agreement with Marxists leaders in Venezuela and Cuba -- and with a United Nations resolution that calls for the return of ousted Socialist president Manuel Zelaya to power in Honduras.

Speaking before the United Nations, Zelaya promised this time to follow the Honduran constitution and to leave office in November after the next election. Zelaya was removed because he was attempting to change the national constitution to allow himself to remain in office beyond the mandated four year term of office.

A quick look at news you might have missed from around the world for Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

Washington, DC

Giant General Electric biggest winner of government money

General Electric, one of the worlds largest, and most successful corporations is fast becoming one of the top beneficiaries of government money through various Obama Administration programs. All the while, loopholes placed in the rules governing those programs allow GE to avoid the same restrictions that have hindered other companies in the programs.

A quick look at news you might have missed from around the world for Monday, June 29, 2009.

Tehran, Iran

Iranians take eight hostages at UK embassy

The Iranian government has arrested eight employees of the United Kingdom embassy in Tehran, accusing them of playing "a significant role in the country's post-election unrest."

Since the disputed Iranian election of June 12, a number of embassies, including the British embassy have been administering aid and providing shelter to injured protesters.

Reminiscent of the US embassy hostages in Tehran in 1979, the British government has expressed grave concern over the taking of their people and demands a safe and immediate return.

UPDATE

It appears that the Honduran military did not overthrow the elected president Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales in a democratically instigated coup, but by the direct orders of the Honduran Supreme Court. According to La Prensa, the Honduran newspaper. The new president, pending an election at the end of the year will be Roberto Micheletti.

Translation courtesy of Google Translation

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The people of Honduras have overthrown the former president Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, and his attempt to amend the Constitution of Honduras to allow him to remain as president for life.

Zelaya, with his close ties to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Fidel Castro in Cuba, was seeking a national referendum Sunday that would have removed the single term limit mandated by the Honduran Constitution. That article is one of only 8 out of 375 articles that cannot be amended.

The American mainstream media, taking its cue from the Obama Administration, is portraying Zelaya as the victim as he was forced into exile in Costa Rico.

"The defendant now stands convicted."

Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, wife of John Conyers, (Democrat-MI) has pleaded guilty in federal court to a single count of conspiracy to commit bribery, a charge that could carry a five year prison term.

The subject of an ongoing federal probe into illegal bribery by the owners of Synagro Technologies, the guilty plea was the result of a plea agreement worked out with federal prosecutors.

A quick look at news you might have missed from around the world for Friday, June 26, 2009.

Washington, DC

House Ethics Committee widens probe into Rangel wrongdoings

After more than 10 months investigation into allegations that Rep Charlie Rangel, D-NY, has violated a number of laws, from his rent controlled homes in New York to his unreported income and unpaid mortgages in the Caribbean, the House Ethics Committee has launched another subcommittee to look into additional wrongdoings by Rangel and four other representatives.

A quick look at news you might have missed from around the world for Thursday, June 25, 2009.

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Detroit, MI

FBI probe uncovers $50 million medicare fraud

Indictments against more than 53 people accused of medicare fraud were announced in Detroit, Michigan and Miami, Florida. This probe comes on the heals of anothoer crackdown announced earlier in the week that amounted to another $100 million fraud.

According to the indictments the government run healthcare program was billed for services never performed, while the patients were paid in cash for their involvement. These new revelations of massive fraud come even as the President was making his case for a nationalized healthcare program to insure all Americans.