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Club Junkets Curtailed for Jersey Shore Cast; Narcotics-Stuffed ... [#]
MTV seeks to limit its stars' appearances and Washington jail officials find forbidden fruit.
Grub Street Los Angeles (Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:39:38 GMT) |
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Junkets are a good thing « Ric's Rulez [#]
The conclusion is clear: Congresscritters on junket cost almost a hundred thousand times less than Congresscritters “on the job”. What we need, badly, is more junkets, not fewer. Reducing the cost of Government by even half that — a ...
Ric's Rulez (Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:59:52 GMT) |
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Sands' Singapore Project to Run Without VIP Junkets, Post Says ... [#]
Sands' Singapore Project to Run Without VIP Junkets, Post Says (BusinessWeek). Saturday, January 30, 2010 | NEWS. Las Vegas Sands Corp. will not use VIP junket operators to bring business to its new $6 billion Singapore casino, ...
The SingaporeBIZZ.COM (Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:10:48 GMT) |
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No more junkets for Central Bank wives [#]
THE new governor of the Central Bank last night banned the practice of using taxpayers' money to pay for trips abroad by the spouses of staff members.
ireland (Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT) |
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Pelosi on Copenhagen junkets : Truth is Contagious [#]
Pelosi on Copenhagen junkets. Reposted from: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=A6_xgKWzhRw. January 28, 2010 @ 11:58 pm. WRH permalink. Contributor: What Really Happened. Advertisement. Latest Headlines ...
Truth is Contagious (Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:58:50 GMT) |
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Tech writer defends junkets Boing Boing [#]
NYT tech writer David Pogue writes that junkets are OK because it's pre-approved by his editors. NYTPick contends that his appearances nonetheless contradict New York Times ethics rules which see others fired for lesser infractions. ...
Boing Boing (Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:53:04 GMT) |
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Clint Heine and Friends: When good junkets go bad.... [#]
When good junkets go bad.... Cactus Kate has a warning for Labour MP/Self professed disaster tourist Chris Carter - that perhaps he should calm down on the bragging about his latest trip to St Kitts & Nevis. ...
Clint Heine and Friends (Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:49:00 GMT) |
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Amanda Seyfried Source :: Uncategorized :: Dear John Press Junkets [#]
Dear John Press Junkets. January 25, 2010 | Comments | Uncategorized | Posted by Mycah. Amanda has been doing press for Dear John and below you can watch a couple of new interviews. ...
Amanda Seyfried Source (Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:39:10 GMT) |
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Green Change : US military buys booze for congressional junkets [#]
Military officials bought thousands of dollars worth of alcohol, food and other amenities for the US lawmakers they accompanied on trips overseas, travel records viewed by The Wall Street Journal show.
News (Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:23:48 GMT) |
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Primal Sneeze » Blog Archive » Kildare County Councillor's Junkets ... [#]
UPDATES: 09:05 15 Jan – News coming in that the figures quoted by Donal and the media are lower by €15k than the actual cost of junkets. 10:00 KFM radio crediting the Leinster Leader as the original source, not Donal Corcoran. ...
Primal Sneeze (Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:48:16 GMT) |
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NEOCON ISRAELI JUNKETS INCLUDE RAIDING PALESTINIAN TOWNS AND HOMES.. [#]
Neocon junket: 'live penetration raids in Arab territory' by Philip Weiss on January 31, 2010 · 51 comments Below is an ad that was in Haaretz lately for the Ultimate Mission to Israel. The trip is a red-meat propaganda trip of a ...
Argue With Everyone Political Forums (Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:28:16 GMT) |
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iPods and laptops and junkets, oh my!: Local schools swimming in cash [#]
Here is a financial breakdown of the Charlottesville City School Board junket: Meeting pkg for 16 ppl, incl. meals, lodging, facility use, snacks & beverages $3808. Room taxes $179.20. AV services, setup, equpt. $405.08 ...
The Schilling Show Blog (Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:27:29 GMT) |
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Sands' Singapore Project to Run Without VIP Junkets, Post Says [#]
30 (Bloomberg) -- Las Vegas Sands Corp. will not use VIP junket operators to bring business to its new $6 billion Singapore casino, the South China Morning Post reported, citing chief operating officer Michael Leven. ...
Singapore News Alternative (Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:55:00 GMT) |
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Sunday Travel Times - Blackcomb Whistling Past Foreclosure, Free ... [#]
Whistler Blackcomb, Canada Winter Olympics Games host resort Whistler Blackcomb could be up for auction on Feb 19. The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC, Canada is scheduled to be held between Feb 12-28, 2010, right in the middle of ...
triphow.com (Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:32:51 GMT) |
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LV Sands Says No Junkets In Singapore [#]
Casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corp is not banking on using any VIP gambling junket operators at its US$6 billion Singapore casino resort because of the strictness of licensing requirements in the city state.
Go Business Travel (Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:53:54 GMT) |
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KILDARE COUNTY COUNCIL JUNKETS 2009 « Donal Corcoran's Naas Blog [#]
We are all forgetting that the same Councillors are also members of Town Councils and Co. Kildare VEC. Their deliberations on Junkets/Conferences are done in secret. Will have to investigate. Any help will be gratefully received. ...
Donal Corcoran's Naas Blog (Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:51:28 GMT) |
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KILDARE JUNKETS 2009 AMENDED LIST « Donal Corcoran's Naas Blog [#]
KILDARE JUNKETS 2009 AMENDED LIST. January 15, 2010. Name, Surname, Party, Electoral Area, Conference Allocation, Percentage, Number, Average, Old/ New Council. Martin, Miley Jnr, FF, Athy, €8551.22, 9.4%, 11, €777.38, Both ...
Donal Corcoran's Naas Blog (Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:58:22 GMT) |
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Salisbury News: WCBOE Uses Tax Dollars for Hooter's and Vegas Junkets [#]
WCBOE Uses Tax Dollars for Hooter's and Vegas Junkets. Wicomico Councilman Joe Holloway NO – this is not a joke. I wish it were. Speaking at a meeting of the Wicomico chapter of Americans for Prosperity, Wicomico Councilman Joe Holloway ...
Salisbury News (Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:48:00 GMT) |
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Federal Judges Accepting All-Expense Paid Junkets to Right-Wing ... [#]
One of the reasons antitrust is now of such little value in the US is that the judiciary has adopted views taught at the right wing conferences.
The LA Progressive (Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:00:12 GMT) |
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January junkets [#]
If you start at Crow Hill and go up the CBJ trail to the Treadwell Ditch, you then have three choices: sharp right on the ditch trail to Lawson Creek, which may be hard to cross in the absence of a bridge; left on the ditch trail, ...
The Juneau Vampire (Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:45:00 GMT) |
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Editorial: 'Bon voyage' to junkets [#]
It's bad enough when they pass laws to tell you how to live your life and worse when they tax you to make it harder to live your life. But when the members of Congress run up a tab at your expense for their global, jet-setting junkets ...
The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Editorials (Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:47:00 GMT) |
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Junkets: New from Junkets! [#]
New from Junkets! Yes, I am! writing by South African gay men compiled by Robin Malan and Ashraf Johaardien Taking its cue from 'the first time', this is a collage of what it's like to be South African, and male, and gay. ...
Junkets (Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:59:00 GMT) |
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GORMLEY GOING SOFT ON JUNKETS « Donal Corcoran's Naas Blog [#]
GORMLEY GOING SOFT ON JUNKETS. January 15, 2010. Gormley to limit junkets for Councillors. Green Party leader John Gormley says he is determined to end the “abuse” of Councillors attending too many conferences. ...
Donal Corcoran's Naas Blog (Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:57:28 GMT) |
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las vegas gambling junkets [#]
Which unites God and Satan, with all expenses paid trip to Las Vegas? Before happily parrot "Yessss!" in response, by considered for employment, Humans of the past, to take part in just such an inadvertent excursion gambling … ...
thegamblingfiles.com (Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:36:42 GMT) |
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BIG IDEAS » The Great Travel Writing Debate: Junkets or No Junkets? [#]
So the New York Times, in its infinite wisdom, has put the hammer down on freelancers who take free junkets from hotels and destinations to write about travel. In Sunday's ombudsman column, they named names and publicly dismissed those ...
BIG IDEAS (Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:50:20 GMT) |
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Liberals MPs and senators don't think their junkets should end as well [#]
Funny how Liberal MPs and senators have been screaming from the rooftops how Canada's parliament screeched to a halt when Harper prorogued but it doesn't stop them from going on cushy international trips paid for by the taxpayer. ...
BC Blue: One BC Conservative's view on it all... (Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:36:25 GMT) |
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Operators Pin High Hopes on Singapore Casinos (New York Times) [#]
“In any other casino markets outside Macao, casino operators do not rely on junkets,” he said, adding that direct V.I.P. is probably 70 percent to 80 percent of the V.I.P. business in Malaysia or Australia. ...
Support Site for The Unemployed (Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:18:02 GMT) |
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Nothing Says “Love” like Tentacles and Chocolate | Stardust Asylum [#]
Jet · John Barleycorn · Kit the Kindle · Ko-ax · Linkies · Lis · Lord Ashbury · Maddy · Marquis · Meh. meme-age · Movies · Need
Stardust Asylum (Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:56:00 GMT) |
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Geeked out [#]
So yesterday I attended a movie junket for the first time in over 20 years. I'm not gonna tell you the movie I was covering, or the outlet I was covering it for, until this information is actually pertinent (although you can probably ...
Some Came Running (Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:31:08 GMT) |
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Open-hand… Singapore Junkets Control Measure [#]
The above two clauses could potentially “Kill” the junket business. We have not come across any junket player who wishes to be monitored so closely with personal identity and movements being tracked by the authority. So, will they come? ...
PROFESSIONAL GROUND ^ Asian Gaming (Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:03:48 GMT) |
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Of Freelance Writers and Junkets | Miss Adventures [#]
There was a debate about travel writing ethics today on Twitter (#twethics), which started with a story on Gawker called New York Times Travel Writer Broke.
Miss Adventures (Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:06:44 GMT) |
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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Baucus took girlfriend on taxpayer-funded ... [#]
Baucus took girlfriend on taxpayer-funded junkets in 2008.
Hot Air » Top Picks (Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:55:38 GMT) |
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Press Junkets November 6, 2009 [#]
Okay here is another Kristen look from the New Moon promotion time. Here she wears her Recession Skinny Ink Denim Jeans with a Aviator Nation "Tree" Tee, some Vans Authentic Sneakers in All Black and a gorgeous Kova & T Audrey Blazer to ...
Kristen Stewart Fashion (Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:19:00 GMT) |
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Jack Cafferty now blasts Nancy Pelosi over the Copehagen Junkets ... [#]
Wow! First liberal CNN hack Jack Cafferty blasted Obama with his HOW DARE YOU rant over the CSPAN/ObamaCARE debacle, now Cafferty is going after Nancy Pelosi!
Fire Andrea Mitchell! (Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:26:08 GMT) |
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Scottish Daily Express: NHS BOSSES RUN UP GIANT JUNKETS BILL AS ... [#]
SCOTTISH health officials were condemned yesterday for squandering thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money on foreign junkets. Despite being forced to slash budgets by almost £200million over the next year, NHS boards have sent staff to ...
The TaxPayers' Alliance - Media Coverage (Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:58:33 GMT) |
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Getting down and dirty at media cafeterias … G'Day journo junkets ... [#]
Crikey Getting down and dirty at media cafeterias … G'Day journo junkets Crikey NPR has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to using social media to do great reporting. So when we saw that they'd created a Twitter list of ...
Search Engine Strategies (Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:24:32 GMT) |
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Feels like Tuesday [#]
So…I pretty much figured I'd get bored and lazy about the 30 day meme. My answers weren't so interesting anyway, but I am really loving seeing everyone else who's sticking with it. Everyone is so fascinating! People always are. ...
Stardust Asylum (Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:01:08 GMT) |
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Rand Paul pledges he won't take Junkets at Taxpayers Expense ... [#]
The Wall Street Journal reports on some of the expenses incurred by a few of our congressman at the recent conference in Scotland. Dr. Rand Paul pledges not to take junkets at taxpayers expense!
Rand Paul 2010 | US Senate (Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:42:52 GMT) |
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iPods and laptops and junkets, oh my!: Local schools swimming in… [#]
Fluvanna County School Board unloading a spare $44 “large,” community observers have documented broken plumbing fixtures and exposed pipes...
Seattle Plumbing Service - 206-452-5217 (Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:27:00 GMT) |
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Salisbury News: WCBOE Uses Tax Dollars for Hooter's and Vegas Junkets [#]
I believe Mr Holloway needs to take Ricks job as wico executive. He is there for the tax payers! 4:19 PM.
Job Fair News (Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:39:22 GMT) |
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Junkets, jaunts and getting to grips with free radicals | Otago ... [#]
The closest I ever came to a junket was the promise of an air trip to Stewart Island in the bad old days when I was the Otago Daily Times city council reporter. I, and a photographer, were to accompany the then mayor Cliff Skeggs on a ...
Otago Daily Times: Opinion (Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:57:00 GMT) |
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Singapore News Alternative: Casino junkets could give Singapore ... [#]
Oh yes the old Junkets! Reminds me of my time in Hong Kong! With gambling so large in that area of the world, and apparently now larger than Las Vegas it was always going to be the case that after the handover, more and more ...
Singapore News Alternative (Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:04:00 GMT) |
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Pithy Advice for the Person Who Ends Up Running San Francisco's ... [#]
Junkets, junkets, junkets! Try to get in as many “fact-finding missions” as possible early on. You're the CEO, right? So, first thing you do is jet off to France, or D.C. or Montreal, bidness-class. Start a blog to post vacation photos ...
San Francisco Citizen (Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:42:32 GMT) |
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NHS bosses run up giant junkets bill as cuts loom [#]
SCOTTISH health officials were condemned yesterday for squandering thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money on foreign junkets.(read article…)
::: Inno Press ::: Up to date. Up to future. (Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:43:56 GMT) |
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Junkets have significant role: RWS [#]
(SINGAPORE) Genting Group chairman Lim Kok Thay has acknowledged the significant role junket promoters play in casinos and said that they are 'an important part of gaming'.
Business Times Online - All The Headlines (Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT) |
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About Face: Buyer Admits Ties To Questionable Foundation, Posh ... [#]
Minus that $4500, the Frontier Foundation has given out just $6000, including $1450 to the NRA Foundation. Buyer tells the Star the activities of the foundation are under review and there may be no more golf junkets, meaning "students ...
TPMMuckraker (Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:52:24 GMT) |
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What is happening to the fashion industry? | Best Western [#]
They wont take responsibility for the decline in profit, they will blame the creative types and budgets will be cut, R & D will get slashed, junkets will be stopped, travel will be impeded. Fashion is not the industry where a company ...
Best Western (Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:57:52 GMT) |
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FP's exclusive guide to Congress's summer junkets | The Cable [#]
I don't know who they're meeting or where they're going...or where that puts the trip on the "war zone - junket" spectrum. GRASSISGREENER. 8:15 AM ET. August 8, 2009. This was on ABC news the. This was on ABC news the other night. ...
The Cable (Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:21:36 GMT) |
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Guarino: Miami Beach Junket for Hagan With Pharm Lobbyists [#]
We were all so proud when Greensboro's own Kay Hagan was elected to the United States Senate. We were told it portended a time when we would get active, responsive, visible, conscientious representation. Of course, Hagan voted in favor ...
Guarino (Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:09:30 GMT) |
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Dario Minieri Dominates PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller ... [#]
Dario Minieri Dominates PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller EventPoker News DailyOne of the final eliminations of the evening at the Atlantis Resort and.
Costa Rica Casino Junkets (Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:40:02 GMT) |
