Bank of America Corp.'s decision to embark on an $8.4 billion home-loan-modification program to settle charges brought by state attorneys general against Countrywide Financial Corp. was hailed as a milestone when the deal was announced this fall. But apparently nobody...
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" delivery records,” there were “only two failures to deliver.” So Deutsche Bank systematically failed to even locate the stock that it sold, but the NYSE isn’t calling it “naked short selling,” and...
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$ 700 bn how to invest ? Bailout Nation USA, what could $700bn do to remake the planet and create jobs. To refill or fix the Ozone layer by Laser Satellites would cost only $50 bn. What could the program Lighting...
A friend of mine put this new one dollar bill together. Another friend says that if we don't act and get involved soon we will be paying $15 for a container of milk. This is serious folks. Everybody needs to spread...
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"A powerful Nasa space telescope launched in June has unveiled its first results - including an image of the sky viewed through "gamma-ray glasses". Nasa also revealed a new name; the Gamma-ray Large Area Space...
Leading United Kingdom biofuel producer Argent Energy is shelving plans to invest more than $100 million in New Zealand. " Dickon Posnett, managing director of Argent Energy's NZ subsidiary, says New Zealand's proposed legislation in the Biofuels Bill makes...
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This story cracks me up. I’ve always wanted to go on the Price is Right and play Plinko. The popular game show made a commercial featuring Plinko, so they rigged the game so the Pinko chip would always...
Could growing fresh vegetables help save crumbling inner cities around the world and tackle hunger? Putting in the spade-work at one of the charity's gardens That is the ambitious aim of a charity called Urban Farming, which has...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly alleged in Saudi Arabia can get you beheaded or flogged when the sole Rulers of that country control every aspect of Saudi's lives."Saudi Arabia arrests alleged...
"06/01/2008 - Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small...
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"A second eruption occurred on the evening of 13 May from a fissure that opened NE of the SE crater, about 800m long. Catania airport had to be closed because of ash emission from Etna. Apart from the emission of...
In a move that could change the rules for internet providers and the way big corporations like Bell and Rogers' handle their data.The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission announced yesterday it has launched two major reviews of internet technologies,...
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You know all those painkillers, prescription drugs and antibiotics we all take throughout the year? Turns out we're getting some of it back in the same water we're drinking. So far no one seems very concerned, nor are there any plans to deal with the drugs as they are...
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After the previous protest a month ago by thousands of people across the world, a second, much larger protest is planned by protest group Anonymous on Saturday, March 15.The group came to came after leaking documents that allege Scientology's involvement with fraud,...
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