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Iran Bankers Get Death Penalty After $2.6 Billion Fraud
The outcome of the biggest banking fraud case in Iran’s history was made official on February 18. According to Associated Press, four bankers have been sentenced to death in Iran for their role in a $2.6B scandal, while two more bankers were given life sentences, and 33 more accomplices will spend up to 25 years in jail, the chief prosecutor was quoted as saying. This is the biggest banking fraud...
Bolivia nationalizes Spanish company
Bolivian President Evo Morales
Bolivian President Evo Morales has nationalized (stole) a Spanish company that operates the country’s three main airports.
Morales said on Monday he had instructed the country’s ministry of public works, services and housing to take “full operational control” of SABSA, a joint venture of Spanish Abertis and airport authority Aena.
He also ordered the military...
Nigerian criminal deported 8 years ago from UK returnes to run 2.7 mil scam
Jailed: Osas Odia, who returned to Britain after being deported, has been jailed for two years for his role in a £2.7million lottery scam
A Nigerian who returned to Britain after being deported has been jailed for his role in a £2.7million lottery scam.
Osas Odia, 33, was booted out of the UK in 2005 after immigration officials discovered he was using a forged stamp in his passport to work.
However,...
UK hate preacher calls on fanatics to live off the state and plan holy war
Anjem Choudary has been recorded telling followers to claim benefits as part of their struggle to bring Sharia law to the UK.
A controversial Muslim cleric who lives off benefits is urging his followers to also sponge off UK taxpayers by claiming their ‘Jihad seeker’s allowance’.
Anjem Choudary, who in the past has planned to disrupt the minute’s silence on Remembrance Sunday,...
California Gun Grabbers Plan Semi-auto Gun Confiscation
In a move that can be seen as a clear sign of things to come, California Democrats recently unveiled a ten point plan to “curb gun violence,” after the horrific Sandy Hook mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
The ten proposals would make California the most restrictive state in the country when it comes to private firearm ownership and, much like the New York law is driving this gun grab push...
Obamacare to hit smokers with huge penalties
Smokers, beware: tobacco penalties under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act could subject millions of smokers to fees costing thousands of dollars, making healthcare more expensive for them than Americans with other unhealthy habits.
The Affordable Care Act, which critics have also called “Obamacare”, could subject smokers to premiums that are 50 percent higher than usual, starting next Jan...
US banks agree an $8.5 billion foreclosure settlement
Owners of wrongfully repossessed houses could now get up to $125,000 as ten major US banks agree to settle federal complaints. This will end a foreclosure review process begun by a 2011 enforcement action.
Under the new agreement, those people who had their homes seized and then sold would get the biggest pay offs, while banks who failed to modify people’s loans in light of a change of income would...
Russian cannibal eats 11 people to impress his girlfriend
The police of the Volga region are about to complete the investigation of the criminal case, the materials of which can shock even those with nerves of steel. Twenty-three-year-old cannibal Alexander Bychkov is accused of killing at least nine people. The perpetrator was gutting corpses and eating the insides to impress his girlfriend.
The cannibal was killing homeless people. According to investigation,...
World pays lip service to climate change, while Europe pays the price
Despite a flurry of grand initiatives, Doha 2012 has yielded few specifics – with Europe the only major carbon emitter prepared to set clear emissions targets. Its zeal is likely to hamper growth, while doing little to lower worldwide CO2 levels.
The two-week UN climate change conference in the oil-funded opulence of Qatar had to be extended by a day to produce an agreement that is only as much...
Argentina loses court battle in Ghana against US hedge fund
A sailor from the Argentinean frigate Libertad seized in a port in Ghana in connection with a debt dispute, runs pas the frigate at Tema Port near Accra. Argentina prepared, October 21, 2012
Argentina has lost its international court battle against a US hedge fund over an impounded navy ship in Accra after a judge blocked an attempt to challenge the authority of Ghanaian courts.
Accra’s Commercial...
US Government Website For Immigrants: Come To America And Take Advantage Of Our Free Stuff
A website run by the federal government (“WelcomeToUSA.gov“) encourages new immigrants to the United States to apply for welfare benefits. This website is run by the Department of Homeland Security and it says that it “is the U.S. Government’s official web portal for new immigrants.” So your tax dollars were used to build and maintain a website that teaches immigrants how to come...
Argentina warns Ghana over detained ship
A sailor from the Argentinian frigate Libertad seized in a port in Ghana in connection with a debt dispute, runs pas the frigate at Tema Port near Accra. Argentina prepared, October 21, 2012
Argentina has warned Ghana that it will take legal action in an international court if it refuses to release a naval vessel it has seized.
“The Ghanaian government has until tomorrow, Tuesday 13, to sort out...
Germany accuses Cyprus of "suspicious ties" with Russian oligarchs
Cyprus may lose financial support from the EU due to “suspicious ties” with Russian oligarchs. According to information published in Spiegel magazine, the German Federal Intelligence Service suspects that the loan, which the EU and the IMF may give the country, will only sweeten the life of Russian businessmen who keep their money in Cyprus.
It was written in Monday’s issue of Spiegel...
Germany to give Holocaust Survivors 245 million Euros Compensation
The payment of compensations to Holocaust survivors in the former Soviet Republics, which have not integrated into the European Union (EU), begins on November 1.
The total sum of compensations will be around 245 million euros, and the receivers are 80,000 Jewish people living in the countries of the post-Soviet space.
This decision was made as a result of talks between representatives of the German...
Voting machines in Kansas, Ohio reportedly changing Romney votes to Obama
An election official goes through the steps to check voting machines for accuracy.
Voters in Ohio and Kansas have said that some voting machines used in early voting are changing Romney votes for Obama, two separate reports said Wednesday.
According to the Marion Star, early voter Joan Stevens tried to cast her ballot for Mitt Romney, but the machine kept defaulting to Barack Obama.
“Upon selecting...