Saudi gets 5 years, 1,000 lashes

Saudi Arabia religious totalitarian state. 5 years prison, 1000 lashes for a man publicly speaking about sex and prostitution.

Pre-marital sex is illegal, and unrelated men and women are not permitted to mingle.

~Looks they are a bit more conservative than USA. Speaking about promiscuous acts "is a violation of the sharia regulations on the one hand and against Saudi customs on the other."

Man arrested and charged with violating Saudi Arabia's crime of publicizing vice

Saudi sex braggart gets 5 years, 1,000 lashes - CNN.com:

Goldman to be paid $1bn if CIT fails, US will lose $2.3 billion

Goldman Sachs to be paid more than $1bn if CIT fails, and US taxpayers would lose $2.3bn. Republican robber barons. Welfare for the bankrupt banks, for a war machine. The agreement with Goldman states that if CIT defaults or goes bankrupt, it “would be required to pay a make-whole amount” that totals $1bn, .. Goldman extended to CIT $3 bn, US gov $2.3 billion. Goldman will get $1 billion back, US gov nothing. good deals between good boys. lets milk the US Treasury.

FT.com / Companies / Financial Services - Goldman to be paid $1bn if CIT fails: