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The Institute for Works of Religion, commonly known as “the Vatican Bank,” with a long history of implication in money laundering scandals involving funds from the Italian Fascist government of Mussolini, the looting of the Croatian treasury at the end of World War II, the smuggling and laundering of funds belonging to concentration camp victims [...]
How about nutty enough to claim — as Tea Party darling Christine O’Donnell did on Fox News in 2007 — that “American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains”? That’s a real live quote from the real live GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate in [...]
I don’t normally read local crime news, so I didn’t see this story until it had already blown up in the principal’s face. But it’s a real doozy. The upshot is this: Bethany Storro, a self-professed advocate for Jesus, claimed two weeks ago that she had been attacked — acid thrown in her face — [...]
Since California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has run on her record as a businessperson, it’s interesting to look at a poll of her former ‘business partners’ — the sellers who helped make eBay the groundbreaking success it became. According to that AuctionBytes.com poll, 61% of eBay sellers favored Democratic Party rival, Jerry Brown, as [...]
It appears that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency couldn’t even see through discredited security contractor Blackwater’s use of front companies in order to bid on jobs that were not open to them or that they would have been highly unlikely to get, hiring the disgraced firm for a number of contracts. According to James Risen [...]
Ping punked… Apple’s social media/music site near collapse from spam & other probs Quote: Apple’s foray into social music is not going well as its Ping service is experiencing a multitude of problems, including comment spam, a lack of promised functionality, and generally inconsistent user experience. Security researcher Chet Wisniewski at Sophos said Apple is [...]
