After nearly a year of studying the generous salaries the United Nations pays its professional and managerial employees, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that it still doesn’t know exactly how that U.N. pay is calculated, but that the U.N. staffers make considerably more than their U.S. civil service counterparts.
The nonpartisan watchdog arm of Congress estimates that U.N. salaries, which are theoretically supposed to rise roughly in tandem with U.S. federal civil servants, are as much as 30 percent higher than their U.S. equivalents, depending on the assumptions used to calculate the ratio. That is without a variety of allowances, extra vacation time and other perks that U.N. civil servants enjoy — not to mention that their salaries, unlike their U.S. counterparts, are tax free.
BERLIN – An Associated Press investigation has found that a commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of atrocities has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II. Records obtained by the AP through a Freedom of Information Act request show that Michael Karkoc lied to American authorities to get into the country.
Homeland Insecurity: The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it won’t snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are.
That’s right, the government’s sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized.
Spell god backwards and you get dog.
But if you spin a dog backwards, do you get God? Redditor Feature_Creature posted this photo of his pug’s rear end.
“It’s a Miracle!” he wrote on the site. “Take that….Jesus toast.” It’s not the first time the Christian deity has been spotted in an unlikely place.
By Sean Poulter, Consumer Affairs Editor
When a woman looks ‘thoughtfully sad or angry for no reason,’ she could be suffering from Bitchy Resting Face.
In a new skit produced by the YouTube channel, Broken People, Bitchy Resting Face is laid out as an incurable syndrome in a hilarious PSA parody that has touched a familiar female chord.
A production company has filed a class action suit in Manhattan Federal Court aimed at striking down
“When President Obama makes his first extended trip to sub-Saharan Africa later this month, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe won’t be taking any chances. Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of emergency,” reports the Post.
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