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Osama bin Laden was within the grasp of US forces in late 2001 and could have been caught if then-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld hadn’t rejected calls for reinforcements, a hard-hitting US Senate report says. The report indicates this happened about Dec. 2001, after 9/11, but before the start of the Iraq War. With bin [...] What if accounting data was presented in a uniform, standardized way in an open XML format that everyone understood. Why, that would be “radical transparency,” and that’s precisely what we need now, an eXtensible Markup Reporting Language (XBRL) Wired says let’s use XBRL on all financial data, public company or not. This could help [...] A Scottish startup has tested a prototype wind turbine where the blades connect directly to the generator via an axle. This drastically cuts down the weight of the generator and makes installation simpler. Plus, with fewer parts, the turbines would require less maintenance in the harsh offshore environment. Judge erases $525g mortgage for NY couple, citing ‘repulsive’ acts by bank This is getting to be a trend. What is not a trend yet though is criminal prosecutions of the banks involved. Dubai is well-known for being a world hub of money-laundering while construction is notorious among fraud investigators as a way to make dirty money clean, make gray money vanish, and siphon off money for use elsewhere. Any attempt to draw similarities between the irresponsible greedhead behavior of Dubai and that of New York City [...] Iceland stills live off geothermal. At least their economic crash didn’t affect the geothermal. The US has huge amounts of untapped geothermal, we just have to use it. Gosh, who could guess Goldman would be deceptive instead, pretending to be charitable when they actually weren’t. The Epicurean Dealmaker explains. The Independent Organised piracy syndicates operating in Dubai and other Gulf states are laundering vast sums of money taken in ransom from vessels hijacked off the Horn of Africa. “What we can say is that these people are not just fishermen who have taken up a bit of piracy as a hobby. The people [...] |  | ||||
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