July, 2010

Wikileaks documents paint a grim picture of the Afghanistan war

Wikileaks, the controversial news site founded by Julian Assange, released 92,000 classified documents containing sensitive details about the war in Afghanistan. These documents were given by Wikileaks to the Times, the Guardian, and Der Spiegel, three of the largest newspapers in the world. July 25 was when reports were given by the newspapers on the ...

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Seven banks can’t meet capital needs in Euro stress tests

After the Greek debt crisis started to wreak havoc in European financial markets, a series of stress tests were devised to see whether European banks could manage any further shocks. Seven major European banks were tested and failed showing they wouldn't be able to manage any more problems with the economy. The European Union bloc ...

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Senate Ethics Committee investigates VIP loans

Several Washington D.C. lawmakers are caught up in an ethics investigation over VIP cash loans given to their staffs. Bank of The United States bought all of these "Sweetheart" or "VIP" loans that Countrywide made. Senators might have legal issues because of the VIP cash advances being given out. Countrywide creates VIP loans Bank of America documents ...

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Inception reviews are mostly exceptional

The new Christopher Nolan film Inception is hitting theaters Friday, July 16, and also the Inception reviews are beginning to pour in. The reviews are mostly good. In fairness, the Batman films Nolan directed were excellent. Also, Leonardo DiCaprio is a good actor, and that means some automatically good reviews will happen. Some critics ...

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Federal agents raid huge Medicare fraud operations in five states

The Justice Department struck a major blow for Medicare fraud prevention Friday. The feds prepared out raids which were to show no-nonsense health care reform to all nurses, doctors, medical billers, and health care company owners in five different states involved. Authorities announced charges against 94 individuals in what is being called the largest coordinated ...

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