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Could There Be War Over Water Rights?

Posted on November 1, 2010 by in Business, Environment, Finance

Could There Be War Over Water Rights?

It is believed that just under a billion people, almost one-fifth of the world’s population, lack access to safe drinking water. Water has long been quoted as being the source of the world’s most serious health issue. Waterborne diseases and the absence of sanitary domestic water are known as the leading causes of death world-wide. [...]

New Credit Card Fraud

Posted on September 30, 2010 by in Business, Finance

New Credit Card Fraud

Credit cards are much easier to carry than mountains of cash, however, they can be scary things when misused It’s terrifying to read some of the abuses of credit cards…

Wickendy Operation Backs Off

Posted on September 6, 2010 by in Business, Finance

Wickendy Operation Backs Off

A laptop computer, belonging to Philip Egglishaw of Strachans, a Swiss accounting firm, which organized off shore tax, was accidentally picked up, in February 2004, during a raid on a Melbourne hotel room. Read how the VTO has a $112 million black hole…

Top Unknown companies And Fortune Global 500 List

Posted on July 27, 2010 by in Business, Finance

Top Unknown companies And Fortune Global 500 List

Top of the Fortune Global 500 list this year is Wal-Mart Stores, Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil, BP, Toyota Motor, Japan Post Holdings, Sinopec, State Grid, AXA and China National Petroleum. Oil companies were the highest revenue earners. Read about other unknown companies who are big income earners…

Why Did Bp Photoshop?

Posted on July 20, 2010 by in Business, Environment, Finance

Why Did Bp Photoshop?

American Blogger, John Aravosis, says a photograph on BP’s website is a fake and was Photoshopped. The photo shows BP’s ‘Command Centre’ in Houston, where ever-watchful BP employees supposedly sit in a dark room, monitoring a ten-screen display of oil-spill footage. Read how an old photograph was used to Photoshop the image…

Ex Contractor BP Whistle Bower

Posted on July 12, 2010 by in Environment, Finance, Society

Ex Contractor BP Whistle Bower

As the fullness of the Gulf Impact continues to grow, more and more stories are emerging that show BP in a very poor light. Read more…

Only Limited Information On Gulf Oil Spill

Posted on July 7, 2010 by in Business, Environment, Finance

Only Limited Information On Gulf Oil Spill

Frustrated and dumbfounded by the continued lack of the most basic data concerning the 77-day-old BP Gulf oil disaster, a group of independent scientists are left twiddling their thumbs. They have produced a crash project intended to definitively measure how much oil has spilled and where and how it is spreading throughout the waters of [...]

Toyota Recalls Again

Posted on July 1, 2010 by in Business, Finance

Toyota Recalls Again

The giant Japanese Toyota Motor Corporation has now recalled its Lexus HS 205h hybrid luxury vehicle, as well as halting all sales of the vehicle. Government tests showed that the vehicle could leak fuel in a rear-end collision, the company said. Chrysler and General Motors were also involved in vehicle recalls in the month of [...]

Ritz Hotel Sale A Scam

Posted on June 13, 2010 by in Business, Finance

Ritz Hotel Sale A Scam

Three men are on trial, who allegedly tried to sell the famous Ritz Hotel, London, for $250 million,. The men allegedly had the Terence Collins, a property investor and developer and one of his financial backers, hand over $2m as a deposit, for a prime property worth twice the alleged asking price. Read what happens [...]

High Speed Traders

Posted on May 19, 2010 by in Business, Finance

High Speed Traders

Dressed in T-shirts and jeans, aged in their 20’s and 30’s, Tradeworx workers, in the small trading firm, tend high-speed computers. They buy and sell around 80 million shares a day. On May 6, as stock markets began to plunge in the “flash crash,” someone typed the command ‘HF STOP’ into the computers, sending a [...]