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Militarism is Distorting and Bankrupting America »
Posted by: Tumultuous 3 weeks, 3 days ago in Political Opinion
General McChrystal, U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has been publicly pressuring President Obama to send between 40 and 80 thousand more troops there. His unjustifiable ...
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Criminals Bilk Medicare of Billions Each Year - AARP Bulletin Today »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 3 weeks, 5 days ago in Health & Fitness
They indulge their wildest whims—a private helicopter, Lamborghini sports cars, thoroughbred horses, even a “Pirates of the Caribbean” water theme park. For the schemers ...
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Brothers Living in a Cave in Hungary Inherit Billions From a Long-Lost Grandmother »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 days, 3 hours ago in Family
Brothers living in a cave in Hungary stand to inherit $7 billion from a grandmother they never met. Zsolt and Geza Peladi, who feed themselves ...
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Obama seeks $83.4 billion in special war money »
Posted by: STONERS 8 months ago in News
President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday for $83.4 billion for U.S. military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pressing for special ...
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Spoil them rotten - Haaretz - Israel News »
Posted by: dissent 5 months, 1 week ago in News
The $2 billion promised with much ceremony at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit about six months ago - of it $900 million from the new America under ...
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Who got AIG's bailout billions? »
Posted by: engineer 9 months ago in Business & Finance
Where, oh where, did AIG's bailout billions go? That question may reverberate even louder through the halls of government in the week ahead now ...
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So You Just Squandered Billions--Take Another Whack at It »
Posted by: Progressive 3 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
You'd think the men who hyped and traded the financial instruments responsible for the recession wouldn't be allowed to touch another dollar. Instead ...
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Despite The E-mail Exposure of Junk Science Research - 'Scientists' Scream Warming Will 'Wipe Out Billions'. »
Posted by: Inactive 1 week, 3 days ago in Science & Technology
Warming will 'wipe out billions' - MOST of the world's population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping ...
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Chrysler drops three electric vehicles despite having touted them to get billions in government bailout cash »
Posted by: ameliog 1 month ago in Business & Finance
If you believed all the talk from Chrysler about how our tax dollars would help finance its fast-track electric-vehicle future, you're in for a ...
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Credit Card, Bank Fee Hikes Spark Outrage Banks Hike Fees Despite Bailout Billions; Consumers and Congressional Panel Ask Why »
Posted by: engineer 7 months, 4 weeks ago in News
The billions of dollars that banks have received in taxpayer funds since last year have been a growing source of outrage for American consumers. And ...
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Felon shares inside story of Oregon prison food scandal | Oregon Local News - OregonLive.com »
Posted by: gbudavid 3 weeks, 4 days ago in Political News
But the man at the core of the case -- Farhad "Fred" Monem -- lives free, beyond the reach of prosecutors in his native Iran. He is ...
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Stimulus steers billions to 'weatherizing' homes »
Posted by: engineer 7 months, 4 weeks ago in News
$5 billion set aside for caulking windows, insulating attics and walls of nation's poor
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Virginia gets more than 22 times its current funding for ...Read (186) | Share | Discuss (1) | Read Full Story at cnn.com
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Tracking Your Taxes: Sending Billions in Aid to Despots and Wealthy Nations »
Posted by: BronxBomber 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The U.S. spends billions in taxpayer money on foreign assistance each year, but large pieces of the $36.7 billion aid budget will be ...
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DROWNING IN NUMBERS »
Posted by: ELISHEVA1 8 months, 1 week ago in News
And that means - hold on tight - that last year, sixty-three percent of this entire world's profit disappeared, disintegrated, lost. No one benefited from it ...
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$30 Billion For Israel's Military »
Posted by: tehranchik 9 months ago in Political News
U.S. President Barack Obama will not cut the billions of dollars in military aid promised to Israel, a senior U.S. administration official said ...
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