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| GR developer at center of Detroit corruption probe | | 2008-07-04 12:37:00 | | An Alpine Township man at the center of an investigation into alleged Detroit City Hall corruption was working for a company that holds a $3 million sludge-hauling contract with the city of Grand Rapids, as well as contracts with other West Michigan communities.However, Grand Rapids city officials say they don't expect the Detroit case, which involves local developer James Rosendall Jr., to have an impact on their contract."It's of interest to us," said Grand Rapids Assistant Director of Environmental Services Mike Lunn. "I don't see how it would impact us at all."
| | By: Detroit Real Estate News | | |
| | Kuwait to probe women ministers over headscarf | | 2008-06-03 05:34:00 | | Kuwait's new conservative-controlled parliament voted on Sunday to refer the case of two women ministers not wearing the hijab headscarf to its legal committee to establish if they broke the law.The vote followed a token walkout by nine Islamist and tribal MPs in protest at the two women's failure to wear the hijab. More... | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| | | Send a Probe to the Sun | | 2008-05-04 11:10:10 | | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone -- and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar wind that influences everything in our solar system.
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| | Shannon mother in new probe about McCann fund | | 2008-04-08 10:01:33 | | What a task the police have in unravelling the complicated life of Karen Matthews, the mother of the schoolgirl Shannon, who disappeared for three weeks. Ms Matthews is now seemingly involved in a request for cash from the Madeleine McCann fund. It may be rash to jump to conclusions, but all the latest twists and turns would indicate that the police have always thought that this was not a normal kidnapping.It should not be forgotten that a nine-year girl has been removed from what is at best a dysfunctional family. I don't know how many families are like this one, but just by keeping my eyes open, I don't find it hard to come across similar situations. As a society, I think we should be trying to revert to raising children within stable families and not encouraging such "freedom" to flourish. | | By: A View from Middle England by Arden Forester | | |
| | EU to probe Northern Rock lifeline! | | 2008-04-02 05:29:10 | | Those snout-nosed number-crunchers from Brussels have been drawn into sniffing around the emergency government funding given to Northern Rock last year, after it was hard hit by the credit crunch. Some Danish bankers have complained to these bureaucrats that the British government is not playing fair.All I'd say is that before these guys pick up their pens they start to look at the appalling accounting system within the confines of the Brussels Bureaucracy. Otherwise they'll look a bit like Robert Mugabe probing the London Mayoral election results, should there be a complaint.The EU is in a mess financially, no accounts signed off for 13 years, and a simpering President, Jose Manuel Barroso, who no doubt knows how the brown envelope culture works, in complete denial.Whatever the Northern Rock fiasco has created, it pales into insignificance compared to the collossal corruption emanating from Brussels! | | By: A View from Middle England by Arden Forester | | |
| | EU Regulators Probe Nokia-Navteq Deal | | 2008-03-31 06:25:02 | | European Union regulators said Friday they are extending an antitust probe into Nokia Corp.’s proposed $8.1 billion acquisition of U.S.-based digital mapmaker Navteq Corp.
The European Commission said an initial investigation found a combination of the companies could pose serious concerns about competition in the market for navigable digital maps.
Chicago-based Navteq is one of only two [...]
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| | “Land improprieties” under probe | | 2008-03-29 10:38:00 | | Land fraud cases took place in 2003, says CM
(The Star) - PENANG: The “land improprieties” involving “tens and tens of millions of ringgit” here which is under probe by a special state exco committee occurred back in 2003, said Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.
He said although the previous state administration and the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) had completed investigation into the matter, the | | By: No2umnO | | |
| | FCC chief Martin asked to produce extensive documents in probe | | 2008-03-14 02:56:46 | | The House Commerce Committee’s probe of the Federal Communications Commission moved to a new level, with key lawmakers asking FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to produce extensive documentation on a wide array of agency activities that appear to impact some wireless policy-making.The document request was made in a bipartisan letter signed by House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.), ranking member Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), oversight and investigations subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and ranking subcommittee member Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.).The letter was a follow-up to one sent Jan. 28 to Martin in connection with allegations made by former and present FCC employees and others regarding the operation of the telecom regulatory agency.“These allegations relate to management practices that may adversely affect the commission’s ability both to discharge effectively its statutory duties and to guard against waste, fraud, and abuse,” the lawmakers stated. “Wh | | By: Indonesia Type Approval/homologation/Compliance ce | | |
| | Offshore havens face fresh probe | | 2008-03-12 03:37:00 | | WEALTHY investors who have salted their cash away in offshore investments to escape the British tax authorities have been warned they face another broadside, this time from the European Union.Germany is lobbying the EU to extend the 2005 savings tax directive which forced tax authorities to reveal information about those who earned savings income in offshore bank accounts in the wake of a dispute with Liechtenstein over anonymous trust holdings.The savings directive affected only interest from bank accounts, however, and not dividends from shares, discretionary trusts, structured products and offshore insurance bonds.This led to billions of pounds pouring out of Jersey bank accounts into complicated products that were outside the rules.
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| | Liechtenstein fights back against tax probe | | 2008-02-28 03:08:00 | | Liechtenstein is fighting back against the global scrutiny into its banking procedures, after a number of countries - including Ireland - began probing citizens who may be evading tax through Liechtenstein accounts.Foreigners are allowed to invest money in accounts wherever they choose but they are obliged to inform the authorities in the country where they pay tax. However Liechtenstein, as well as Andorra and Monaco, are considered uncooperative in terms of operating tax havens, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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| | Spanish Tax Authorities to Probe Real Estate Fraud | | 2008-02-14 17:19:00 | | Spanish tax authorities have started inspecting 82,000 real estate developments for signs of fraud, reported the Spanish daily El Pais. If prices declared for the sale of properties are about the same or lower than the costs incurred by developers, that could indicate fraud, the newspaper said, citing Luis Pedroche, director of Spain's tax agency.
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| | Congress continues to probe CIA | | 2007-12-17 08:47:00 | | U.S. Congress members vowed on Sunday to investigate the CIA's destruction of videotapes depicting harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, despite Justice Department advice that the agency not cooperate. The top Republican member of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee and a leading Democratic voice on security joined in a blistering attack on the CIA and on the complex network | | By: News Alert | | |
| | Sunshine Empire under CAD probe | | 2007-11-13 11:08:00 | | By Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 13 November 2007 1813 hrs SINGAPORE: The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) has launched investigations into multi-level marketing (MLM) firm, Sunshine Empire.The probe by the white collar crime buster comes just over a month after the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) placed the firm on an investor-alert list which zooms in on those who may be conducting activities regulated by the MAS without authority.Sunshine was also put on a similar list by Malaysian authorities a few months ago. MLM firms, which are legal in Singapore, typically invite people to pay cash for the right to market goods to other people. They also get cash for recruiting other MLM marketeers.Sunshine has been in the news on concerns over its business practices. It is supposed to be doing networking marketing but its mode of operation appears more like a financial investment scheme for which it is not licensed.Sunshine is believed to have a few thousand members. When | | By: How to be Rich, Happy and Free from Scams | | |
| | Israel joins U.S. probe of Gilad Sharon over alleged $1.8M fraud | | 2007-11-05 01:11:00 | | Gilad Sharon allegedly received the money from the Canadian projects through two companies that he controled: Sycamore Ranch Ltd. and Lerner Manor Trusteeships. The fraud squad on Sunday confirmed the existence of the investigation, but police sources said it is merely another link in a long chain of investigations into the financial dealings of the Sharon family.
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| | Facebook caught up in sex offender probe | | 2007-08-02 17:48:21 | | If things were not bad enough for social networking sites, Facebook is now caught up in the sex offender using social networking row that has plagued MySpace. Authorities are reporting that they have found inappropriate content and images on Facebook.
NEW YORK - Connecticut investigators are looking into “three or more” cases of convicted sex offenders who had registered on Facebook, a fast-growing social networking Web site, the New York Times reported on Monday. State investigators had “also found inappropriate images and content” on the service, the Times reported, citing Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. Source: MSNBC
Times are getting hard for social networking sites, and their users. It is bad enough that you can stumble over content that is not what you were looking for, and stuff that can get you thrown in jail. Or download the Simpsons movie only to find out it is not really the Simpsons movie, or anything else that relies on a user uploading content | | By: techwag | | |
| | GOCE- Another Gravity Probe | | 2007-07-28 07:57:00 | | In my earlier post we talked about NASA's Gravity Probe B, not to be left behind European Space Agency (ESA) is getting ready to launch their gravity probe-- The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) scheduled for launch in spring 2008.GOCE is dedicated to measuring the Earth’s gravity field and modelling the geoid with extremely high accuracy and spatial resolution.GOCE data will also be used for probing hazardous volcanic regions and bringing new insight into ocean behaviour. By combining the gravity data with information about sea-surface height gathered by other spacecraft, scientists will be able to track the direction and speed of ocean currents.What will it do?Most of us know that the acceleration due to gravity on Earth's surface is 9.8m per second squared - but, in truth, this figure varies around the planet depending on the nature of the material underneath the earth's surface.The figure varies from 9.78 (minimum) at the equator to 9.83 (maximu | | By: Science & Technology Today | | |
| | Usama Bin Laden appears in new video, officials probe authenticity | | 2007-07-15 20:41:00 | | He himself said ‘By Him in Whose Hands my life is!I would love to attack and be martyred, then attack again and be martyred, then attack again and be martyred.’Those are the words of Osama Bin Laden in a short clip from a longer As Sahab video obtained by LauraMansfield.com. In the clip, 50 seconds long, Bin Laden says:The seal of the prophets and all messengers (reference to Prophet Mohammed), prayers and peace be upon him, wished this status. So be alert, be wise and think.What is this status that the best of mankind wished for himself? He wished to be a martyr. He wished upon himself this status. Happy is the one who was chosen by god as a martyr.The remainder of the video includes various clips showing jihadist fighters reading their final wills, as well as statements from new Al Qaeda in Afghanistan commander Abu Yazid. | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
| | | GRAVITY PROBE B & EINSTEIN'S PREDICTIONS ABOUT GRAVITY | | 2007-07-08 09:34:00 | | While theoretical physicist have come up with new theories to explain the phenomena of gravity, scientists have not given up on Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, or theory of gravitation.Everybody knows about the Albert Einstein's well established theory of relativity we now call special relativity which leads to E = mc2 (energy equals mass times the speed of light squared), and is a very well established experimentally.Einstein's also established the general theory of relativity to explain the gravitation and unlike special relativity, surprisingly few tests have been made quantitatively of the results of this theory. But that was until NASA launched Gravity Probe B in April 2004.The data collected by Gravity Probe B during 17 months orbiting around the Earth is putting general theory of relativity to the test.Since October 2005, scientists have conducted painstaking data analysis and validation.The preliminary results were announced in April 2007 for the geodetic eff | | By: Science & Technology Today | | |
| | | Jury Indicts Rep. Jefferson in Bribery Probe | | 2007-06-04 21:28:58 | | By Jerry Markon and Allan LengelWashington Post Staff WritersMonday, June 4, 2007; 2:40 PMRep. William J. Jefferson was indicted today in a longstanding FBI corruption probe centering on allegations that he took bribes to promote high-tech business ventures in Africa.The Louisiana Democrat faces charges that include racketeering, money laundering, wire fraud and conspiracy to solicit bribes by a public official. The 16-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Alexandria.Federal officials have scheduled a 3:30 p.m. news conference to discuss the 94-page indictment, which could land Jefferson in prison for life if he is convicted on all counts. The charges cap a long and tumultuous investigation that was stalled for months because of a legal battle over the constitutionality of an FBI raid on Jefferson's office last May. The raid came after the FBI found $90,000 in the freezer of his Capitol Hill home.A political and legal maelstrom followed the raid, prompting President | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
| | Blair says won't quit before funding probe ends | | 2007-02-02 08:38:00 | | British Prime Minister Tony Blair today said it would be wrong for him to leave office before a police investigation into political party funding ends. ''I don't think that's the right way to do it and I think it would be particularly wrong to do it before the inquiry has even run its course and come to any conclusions. So you'll have to put up with me for a bit longer,'' he told BBC Radio.Blair has been questioned twice as a witness in his Downing Street office by police probing allegations that titles were granted by political parties in exchange for funding in an investigation overshadowing the premier's last months in the office. | | By: World News, News Updates, Current Events, News Art | | |
| | CBI probe and Forensic tests for Noida killing | | 2007-01-08 07:30:00 | | Stating that Uttar Pradesh government had ultimately bowed to public pressure by agreeing on a CBI probe into the killing of innumerable children at Nithari village in Noida, the BJP today said the investigation should start immediately.The two accused of Nithari killings, Moninder Singh Pandher and Surinder Koli were put through various psychological tests today at the Forensic Science Laboratory here.Noida Deputy SP Dinesh Yadav, who accompanied the accused from Delhi, told newspersons near the FSL that they had requested the officials here to conduct three tests -- narco-analysis, lie-detector and brain mapping -- in order to probe the missing gaps.''The tests are part of the investigations, and are being done on court orders,'' Mr Yadav said.Asked about the possibility of a link to organ trade, the DSP said, ''The case would be probed from every possible angle.'' Refusing to to give a time-frame for completion of the tests, the FSL Director said it could take at least three to four days. ''It depends on the personality and the mental status of the accused.They are human beings, nothing can be fixed. But it might take three to four days,'' he added.He said the FSL here was recognized as number one in the country and declared as the national resource centre by the Centre.''The laboratory has various facilities in narco-analysis, psychological profiling, and lie-detection, among others, of international standards,'' the Director said.Several important cases like the Madhumita murder case, Anara CD analysis, Telgi case, and others were brought here for investigations. | | By: World News, News Updates, Current Events, News Art | | |
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