Without such governments, aid will do nothing but build roads to nowhere and pad the Swiss bank accounts of the ruling kleptocrats.

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But others in the ruling establishment may treasure their overseas bank accounts and the loot they regularly extract from the Iranian economy more than their president's deadly ideological fervor.

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Earlier this month, a US Federal Court in Virginia ordered Twitter to grant the Justice Department access to private data from the accounts of three suspected Wikileaks supporters, ruling that they had a "lessened expectation" of privacy after signing up to the micro blogging site.

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They are also a bit fed up with perusing Kenya's national accounts in order to detect hidden plans by the ruling elite to advance its own political cause.

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The price of domestic sugar is going up, thanks to a recent federal district court ruling that threatens to severely limit the supply of genetically modified beet sugar, which accounts for some 95% of all planted sugar in the United States.

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Under the FINRA ruling, which was issued last Thursday, Schwab is now permitted to require investors opening accounts to waive their right to bring these class actions.

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In June the U.S. Treasury Department issued a ruling that removes one of the last major hurdles to the widespread use of tax-free Health Savings Accounts.

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