The Pope and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were on the same stage in front of a huge crowd. The Pope turned to Pelosi and said, “Did you know that with just one little wave of my hand I can make every person in the crowd go crazy with joy? This joy will not be a [...]

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—Goldman Sachs’ profits for the period were $3.19bn, a four-fold increase from the same period in 2008.— They profited from the bailout not just from the money they were given but from the AIG money and mostly from friends in the right places. By Michelle Fleury, BBC business reporter, New York Goldman Sachs is the [...]

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The headline from CNET: “Feds: Top e-tailers profit from billion-dollar Web scam” Words like “scam,” “fraud,” and “arrest” filled the air during a Senate hearing on Tuesday that focused on the controversial marketing companies that allegedly dupe consumers into paying monthly fees to join online loyalty programs. Vertrue, Webloyalty, and Affinion generated more than $1.4 [...]

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China is so afraid of the internet that they have announced a plan to register all domain names. Those that aren’t registered will presumably not be accessible to Chinese web surfers. BEIJING (Reuters) – China has issued new Internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a “whitelist” of approved websites that [...]

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