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2011-03-31T16:41:00.000-07:00

Why are there 1500 tonnes of explosives sitting at the bottom of the Thames River?

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2011-03-22T23:35:00.000-07:00

Why did AT&T install a fiberoptic splitter at its facility in San Francisco to make copies of all emails, web browsing, and other Internet traffic to and from AT&T customers, and provide those copies to the NSA?

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2011-03-22T20:43:00.000-07:00

Why were 30 people, including children, found chained up at a factory on the outskirts of the capital in Bangladesh?

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2011-03-03T12:31:00.001-08:00

Why did Citibank launder $100 million in funds for a Mexican drug cartel?

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2011-03-03T12:26:00.000-08:00

Why did Credit Suisse process over $700 million in payments that violated U.S. sanctions for Iran and process over $1.1 billion in payments that were manipulated to hide their Iranian origin?

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2011-03-03T12:07:00.000-08:00

Why did Riggs bank hide millions of dollars in assets from international prosecutors for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, while he was under house arrest in Britain?

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2011-03-03T12:03:00.000-08:00

Why did JP Morgan make unlawful payments to friends of Jefferson County’s commissioners in a scheme to win lucrative business from the county to sell bonds and trade in derivatives?

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2011-03-03T11:54:00.000-08:00

Why did John Paulson put together CDO packages composed of subrpime mortgages with the help of Goldman Sachs, and then bet against those packages to make record profits ($5B)for his hedge fund?

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2011-02-24T15:52:00.000-08:00

Why is the Libyan government hiring mercenaries for $2000 a day to shoot civilians?

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2011-02-24T07:37:00.000-08:00

Why did Hugo Boss make Nazi uniforms?

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2011-02-19T14:55:00.001-08:00

Why was Ernest Withers, a famous civil rights photographer who took many iconic pictures of Martin Luther King Jr. also a paid FBI informant?

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2011-02-14T10:08:00.000-08:00

Why are Members of Congress exempt from insider trading laws?

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2011-02-10T07:09:00.000-08:00

Why was Bradley Birkenfield, a former UBS banker, jailed for giving the US govenment evidence that about 19, 000 Americans were circumventing the United States tax system with the help of the Department of Justice?

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2011-02-03T07:06:00.000-08:00

Why did Nick Leeson, a rogue trader accumulate billions of dollar in losses in few weeks, then collude with his colleagues to conceal the losses, leading to the disbanding of the 233 year old Barings Bank?

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2010-12-05T10:48:00.000-08:00

Why did the FBI send an informant to a California mosque to incite terrorism, only to have the same informant reported to the FBI by the mosque for his increasingly hostile terrorist rhetoric?

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2010-11-15T10:18:00.000-08:00

Why did the CIA set up a program called Operation Paperclip, which brought Nazi scientists to America after WWII, helping over 100 of them among other Nazi war criminals get residence in the United States?

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2010-11-09T16:10:00.000-08:00

Why did CFTC Judge George Painter say that his counterpart Bruce Levine made a vow 20 years ago to never rule in the favour of a claimant?

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2010-11-07T18:51:00.000-08:00

Why do the top 1% of earners in America now take home 24% of all wages?

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2010-10-20T11:03:00.000-07:00

Why did the soda 7-up contain Lithium until 1950, the drug that is used to treat bi-polarism and other mental disorders?

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2010-10-16T12:15:00.000-07:00

Why is the CIA allowed to place tracking devices in cars without getting a warrant, even if the car is parked in a private driveway?

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2010-10-11T21:06:00.000-07:00

Why is most fast food chicken made from Mechanically Separated Chicken (seen above) that has been dyed to make the meat appear white?

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2010-10-11T20:56:00.000-07:00

Why are all commercially sold turkeys in North America unable to reproduce naturally?

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2010-09-21T22:56:00.000-07:00

Why did the executives at Lernout & Haupsie, a global leader in speech-recognition technology, commit a major accounting fraud which included fraudulent booking of $175 million in revenue from its South Korean operation and various other schemes to inflate revenue and income?

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2010-09-12T22:05:00.000-07:00

Why did financial adviser Kenneth Starr steal between $20 million to $50 million from his clients, which included the likes of Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese, and Sylvester Stallone, to use for his own purposes?

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2010-09-10T23:09:00.000-07:00

Why did the CIA believe the testimony of an Iraqi defector and well known con-artist codenamed "Curveball" on Iraq's WMD, which was completely fabricated, that lead to the invasion of Iraq in 2003?

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2010-09-01T00:42:00.000-07:00

Why did the Israeli government officially recognize the organization that was the precursor to Hamas called Mujama Al-Islamiya in the 1980's, by registering the group as a charity and later allowing the Mujama members to set up an Islamic university and build mosques, clubs and schools?

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2010-09-01T00:30:00.001-07:00

Why does Facebook keep track of the websites you visit while logged in to their site?

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2010-08-30T16:21:00.000-07:00

Why were wealthy people during the Civil War in America allowed to pay $500 and dodge the draft?

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2010-08-22T00:52:00.000-07:00

Why was Greg Taylor wrongfully convicted of killing a prostitute in 1991 after crime lab technicians reported traces of blood on his SUV, then later buried the results of additional testing that showed there was never any blood?

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2010-08-22T00:35:00.000-07:00

Why was Banele Nxumalo, a 11-year old girl from Swaziland, shot and later beheaded in a ritual killing because she was an albino?

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2010-08-08T22:04:00.000-07:00

Why did Newt Gingrich lead the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton for allegations of perjury involving the Paula Jones sexual harassment civil case and the president's affair with Monica Lewinsky while he himself was cheating on his then wife Marianne Ginther?

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2010-07-28T00:01:00.000-07:00

Why did Idi Amin order the killing of nearly 300 000 people in his eight year reign as President of Uganda?

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2010-07-27T23:39:00.000-07:00

Why did the CIA arrest and assassinate Ngo Dinh Diem, the President of South Vietnam, as part of a coup d'etat in 1963?

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2010-07-27T13:45:00.000-07:00

Why does the United States Air Force make their pilots take the drug dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine), more commonly known by the street name 'speed'?

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2010-05-25T22:44:00.000-07:00

Why did the Mineral Management Service give BP's lease at Deepwater Horizon a "categorical exclusion" from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)?

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2010-05-16T22:22:00.000-07:00

Why did the Detroit Police fatally shoot 7-year-old Aiyana Jones during a house search?

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2010-05-13T00:32:00.000-07:00

Why did a drug ring use a convent outside Milan to smuggle cocaine?

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2010-05-03T18:06:00.000-07:00

Why did the Chisso Corporation of Japan release industrial wastewater with high levels of mercury into the sea around the city of Minamata, causing thousands of residents to became ill and leading to the discovery of a new neurological condition called Chisso-Minamata Disease?

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2010-05-02T23:12:00.000-07:00

Why did GM repay their TARP loan with money from a taxpayer-financed escrow account held for the automaker at the Treasury?

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2010-04-25T23:03:00.000-07:00

Why do United States passports contain RFID chips?

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2010-04-20T12:21:00.000-07:00

Why did WTC 7 collapse without being hit by a plane, taking with it the offices of American Express, the IRS, the SEC, Federal Home Loan Bank, the Department of Defense, and the CIA?

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2010-04-16T18:21:00.000-07:00

Why did PETA euthanize 2,301 dogs and cats in 2009, 97 percent of those brought in?

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2010-04-16T12:32:00.000-07:00

Why have insurance companies Prudential Financial, Northwestern Mutual, Massachusetts Mutual, and ING invested over $2 billion in fast food companies like Mcdonalds and Pizza Hut?

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2010-04-13T18:17:00.000-07:00

Why did Lehman Brothers use Hudson Castle Holdings to transfer debt and toxic assets between the businesses balance sheets, which enabled Lehman to misrepresent it's financial standing?

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2010-04-13T17:12:00.000-07:00

Why did popular 50's quiz show 'Twenty-One' script the outcomes of the games to boost ratings?

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2010-04-13T12:19:00.000-07:00

Why did six men gang rape of a 7-year-old girl who was sold for sex by her 15-year-old stepsister at a party in a high-rise New Jersey building?

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2010-04-07T19:30:00.000-07:00

Why was the Vow of Celibacy for priests instated because the Church didn't want heirs making claims on their money and land?

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2010-04-06T23:16:00.000-07:00

Why did Richard Whitney, the president of the New York Stock Exchange from 1930-1935, obtain loans from as many people as he could, then to cover his losses, he stole $150,200 worth of bonds belonging to the New York Yacht Club at which he was treasurer, then he stole $667,000 from the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund, which had been set up to aid the widows and orphans of brokers?

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2010-04-01T14:13:00.000-07:00

Why is India carrying out a biometric census, in which they will fingerprint and photograph anyone over 15?

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2010-04-01T00:32:00.000-07:00

Why does China execute three times more people per year than the rest of the world combined?

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2010-03-31T01:38:00.000-07:00

Why was an unarmed Sean Bell shot to death in a barrage of 50 bullets by 5 New York Police officers on his wedding day, all of whom have been acquitted of any wrong doing?

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2010-03-28T14:46:00.001-07:00

Why are police departments allowed to turn away applicants that score too high on the I.Q test?

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2010-03-28T02:04:00.000-07:00

Why did Father Lawrence Murphy sexually abuse deaf boys at St. John's boarding school for 24 years before finally getting caught in 1974?

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2010-03-25T23:40:00.000-07:00

Why did Sanjay Gandhi order the Indian Health Ministry to carry out the forced vasectomies of men and sterilization of women as a part of the initiative to control population growth?

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2010-03-24T19:43:00.000-07:00

Why did Sholam Weiss and his associates loot National Heritage Life Insurance in the largest insurance fraud in history, resulting in him stealing over $450 million from the company?

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2010-03-23T01:53:00.000-07:00

Why did former UK ministers, Geoff Hoon, Stephen Byers, and Patricia Hewitt get caught selling access to ministers, secret government information, and advice on influencing policy to undercover journalists posing as lobbyists?

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2010-03-21T15:17:00.000-07:00

Why did E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent, confess on his deathbed that CIA operatives and Lyndon B. Johnson plotted JFK's death?

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2010-03-17T01:15:00.001-07:00

Why did the American government conduct nuclear radiation tests on its own citizens which included but were not limited to; feeding radioactive material to mentally disabled children, exposing U.S. soldiers and prisoners to high levels of radiation, and irradiating the testicles of prisoners causing severe birth defects?

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2010-03-17T00:48:00.000-07:00

Why did the United States government order the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the country during the Prohibition era, which killed at least 10,000 people?

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2010-03-11T14:25:00.000-08:00

Why did Raffaello Follieri spend upwards of $6 million of investors money, which was supposed to be used to buy church properties from Vatican, spending much of it on a lavish lifestyle, including privately chartered jet travel with his girlfriend and others, expensive meals and clothing and a posh Manhattan apartment?

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2010-03-10T01:44:00.000-08:00

Why did Saddam Hussein recieve the Key to the city of Detroit in 1980?

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2010-03-10T01:14:00.000-08:00

Why is the age of consent in Vatican City 12?

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2010-03-07T20:27:00.000-08:00

Why were Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers, as well as a member of the Vatican choir, involved in soliciting male prostitutes?

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2010-03-07T20:22:00.000-08:00

Why isn't Penal labour considered slavery in America?

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2010-03-04T23:33:00.000-08:00

Why did Turkish forces kill 1.5 million Armenian people between 1915-1923 in what is now known as the "Armenian Genocide"?

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2010-03-02T23:12:00.000-08:00

Why did Charles Rangel, a 40-year member of the House of Representatives and head of the House Ways and Means Committee accept rent-controlled apartments from a campaign donor, one of which was used for campaign activities; use a House letterhead to raise funds for an educational center named in his honor; and fail to pay taxes on gains from an investment property in the Dominican Republic?

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2010-03-02T22:08:00.000-08:00

Why did NYPD officer Adil Polanco have the following to say on the subject of quotas in the police force "I'm not going to keep arresting innocent people, I'm not going to keep searching people for no reason, I'm not going to keep writing people for no reason, I'm tired of this," going on to say that New York police officers are obligated to hand out 20 summonses and have at least one arrest in a month?

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2010-02-20T15:53:00.000-08:00

Why did Nero, then Emperor of Rome, debase the Roman currency in 64 BC, by taking 0.2 grams of silver from each coin and replacing it with bronze, using the stolen funds to build a palace for himself?

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2010-02-20T13:50:00.000-08:00

Why did GlaxoSmithKline executives try to intimidate independent physicians and misrepresent findings that the diabetes drug Avandia increases cardiovascular risk, and sought ways to downplay findings that a competing drug might reduce cardiovascular risk?

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2010-02-19T00:59:00.000-08:00

Why did an accounting scandal and various other frauds at Enron Corp. cost it's shareholders $74 billion?

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2010-02-13T15:13:00.000-08:00

Why did United States soldiers kill 504 unarmed civilians after sexually abusing and torturing many of the victims in My Lai, Vietnam on March 16th, 1968?

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2010-02-09T23:52:00.000-08:00

Why was Alan Turing, the father of the programmable computer and the man who cracked the most complex German codes during WWII that saved thousands of lives, prosecuted for being a homosexual and forced to be chemically castrated & take hormonal injections?

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2010-02-09T01:06:00.000-08:00

Why did troops from the British Army, under the command of General Dyer, open fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children in Punjab, resulting in 1,526 causalities in an incident called the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre on April 13, 1919?

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2010-02-05T12:22:00.000-08:00

Why did BAE Systems make bribery payments to the governments of Saudi Arabia and Tanzania to help win contracts?

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2010-02-05T00:18:00.000-08:00

Why was a 16-year-old Turkish girl buried alive by her relatives in an "honour" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys?

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2010-02-04T02:00:00.000-08:00

Why did Samuel Israel, the founder of the Bayou hedge fund steal $400 million dollars in a Ponzi scheme he ran for years at the investment firm?

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2010-02-01T14:30:00.000-08:00

Why did the Colorado National Guard attack a tent colony of striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado at the orders of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, which was owned by the Rockefellers on April 20th 1914, killing 20 people, including 11 children?

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2010-02-01T00:24:00.000-08:00

Why were the launch codes for all Minuteman silos in America, which housed nuclear missiles at the height of the Cold War, the same eight digits (00000000) from 1962-1977?

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2010-01-29T00:08:00.000-08:00

Why did the U.S. government conduct experiments on American and Canadian citizens in the 1950's which included the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methods, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function, in a project dubbed MK-ULTRA?

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2010-01-28T22:01:00.000-08:00

Why did John F Kennedy order the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in 1961?

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2010-01-25T01:13:00.000-08:00

Why did the freed slaves from America take advantage of the Native Liberian people when they returned to Africa?

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2010-01-22T12:23:00.000-08:00

Why are corporations now free to directly contribute to political campaigns in America, allowing them to spend as much money as they want to elect and defeat candidates, thanks to a recent Supreme Court ruling?

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2010-01-19T12:50:00.000-08:00

Why didn't the Exxon Shipping Company make efforts to stop and clean up the oil slick after the Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels of crude oil into the water off the coast of Prince William Sound, until the FBI opened a criminal investigation into the spill?

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2010-01-16T11:24:00.000-08:00

Why did more U.S. military personnel take their own lives in 2009 than were killed in either the Afghanistan or Iraq wars that year, according to a Congressional Quarterly compilation of the latest statistics from the armed services?

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2010-01-14T21:38:00.000-08:00

Why did Thomas Jefferson have the following to say about corporations in 1812, "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."?

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2010-01-14T11:38:00.000-08:00

Why did Epiphanius, a high ranking Church official from the 4th century destroy all copies of the Gospel of Eve, a book from the New Testament that encourages free love, by practicing coitus interruptus and eating semen as a religious act?

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2010-01-14T00:18:00.000-08:00

Why did Barton Watson, the co-founder of Cybernet, cook the companies books with the help of top level executives, stealing a startling $100 million from outside investors?

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2010-01-11T22:01:00.000-08:00

Why did First International Bank of Grenada promote fraudulent investments, which resulted in a $170 million investment scheme?

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2010-01-08T13:14:00.000-08:00

Why did the The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then led by Timothy Geithner, tell American International Group Inc to withhold details from the public about the bailed-out insurer’s payments to banks during the depths of the financial crisis?

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2010-01-05T10:28:00.000-08:00

Why has the Japanese government allowed Japanese Nuclear Fuels Limited to build a nuclear reprocessing plant on an earthquake fault line?

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2009-12-30T11:26:00.000-08:00

Why would you pay to go to University or College when you can purchase a diploma for a fraction of the cost?

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2009-12-24T22:43:00.000-08:00

Why are the heads of US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each receiving pay packages of up to $6m for 2009, after the government has put $111bn of public money into the companies this year?

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2009-12-24T12:43:00.000-08:00

Why did two aides of recently elected Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama misreport millions of dollars of political donations?

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2009-12-24T00:00:00.000-08:00

Why did a Florida doctor run a $40 million home health care scheme that falsely listed patients as blind diabetics so that he could bill Medicare for twice-daily nurse visits?

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2009-12-19T13:17:00.000-08:00

Why was a young doctor named Ramin Pourandarjani found dead on Nov. 10, in the military clinic where he lived and worked after defied his superiors and refused to sign death certificates at a Tehran prison that were falsified to cover up murder?

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2009-12-13T23:49:00.000-08:00

Why was Stalin responsible for the NKVD (Soviet Secret police) detaining 1,548,367 victims, of whom 681,692 were shot, averaging 1,000 executions a day between 1937 and 1938, labelled the Great Purge?

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2009-12-13T23:33:00.000-08:00

Why did Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime kill approximately 2 million Cambodians over a four year period through political executions, starvation, and forced labour?

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2009-12-12T14:44:00.000-08:00

Why are children covered by Medicaid given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance?

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2009-12-10T11:13:00.000-08:00

Why was a Edinburgh man wrongfully jailed for rape after going to the aid of a drunken teenager in 2002?

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2009-12-09T22:05:00.000-08:00

Why did Lou Pearlman, the former manager of the Backstreet Boys and N'sync, spend 20 years enticing individuals and banks to invest in Trans Continental Airlines Travel Services Inc. and Trans Continental Airlines Inc. both of which existed only on paper, which defrauded investors out of $300 million?